After the temple was built, the commoners stayed for a few more days before leaving.
Before they left, the commoners donated all the gold, silver, and money they had brought to Sun Ce. Some rich people directly donated a hundred catties of gold, while the poor also took out the few copper coins they had.
After taking revenge, many of the commoners had nothing left to live for, so the younger ones joined Sun Ce's army, while the older ones obtained some land around Mayi.
In just a few days, more than 100,000 people had settled in this small frontier fortress city!
Sun Ce simply gathered the cattle, sheep, horses, and gold and silver artifacts he had obtained from destroying the Xianbei in Mayi. He had the idea of making Mayi his base.
The hundreds of Xianbei survivors were all children under six years old. Some of them had just been weaned. Sun Ce had hired knowledgeable elders to teach the children who were five or six years old.
The things they read were books such as the Great Learning, the Doctrine of the Middle Way, and the Analects of Confucius. They strictly prohibited them from touching other things, especially not mentioning anything about the Xianbei people.
This was what Sun Ce thought of as the art of obscuring the people, or even enslaving them.
Through this deliberate cultural awareness, these descendants of the foreign races were allowed to shed their barbaric ignorance, speak the Han language, wear Han clothes, eat Han corn, and finally become a human.
After everything was settled, Sun Ce arranged for Long Qie to lead his troops to stay in Mayi. He planned to bring Xue Rengui, Zhao Yun, and all the cavalry to Ji County to pay a visit to the governor of Youzhou, Guo Xun.
In history, this man was killed directly after the Yellow Turban Army broke through the state capital.
Fortunately, he was still alive. Otherwise, if he died, no one would help Sun Ce report his achievements and promote him.
Sun Ce was now a famous person in Youzhou.
Before Gongsun Zan left Youzhou Province, he had already greeted Guo Xun.
At that time, Guo Xun did not think much of it, so he did not send anyone to look for Sun Ce.
However, the situation had changed recently!
The rumors spread among the people, causing Sun Ce's reputation to soar, forcing Guo Xun to lower his status to look for Sun Ce!
Most importantly, the Yellow Turban Army was a force to be reckoned with. Every time they passed a city, they would massacre it. Now that the state capital had no soldiers, Guo Xun was eager to find Sun Ce and ask him to save Youzhou.
Thus, before Sun Ce could even move, a Youzhou envoy had already arrived in Mayi and invited him to Ji County.
When they arrived at Ji County, Guo Xun saw that Sun Ce was indeed majestic and had a strong physique. His actions and speech were different from ordinary people, so he immediately knew that Sun Ce was indeed a hero. He immediately held a banquet to invite Sun Ce.
During the banquet, Guo Xun naturally toasted frequently and was not stingy with his praises.
Moreover, he wrote Sun Ce's contribution into the official document on the spot and asked for a reward.
"This Guo Xun can be considered a high-ranking official with great authority. How can he be so easy to talk to? If he was trying to curry favor for no reason, he would probably be committing adultery or stealing!”
Just as Sun Ce was wondering, Guo Xun said,""General Sun, you have made great contributions. This old man would also like to make a report for you. However, although this report to the Imperial Court is well written, it is…"
"What can I do?" Long Qieyi could not help but ask.
"But now that Zhang Jiao is in chaos, a large number of refugees in Youzhou have responded, and many government offices have been destroyed. Now that the official roads are blocked, it's really difficult to claim credit for General Sun!”
Sun Ce immediately understood. This was fake, it was true that he was helping the bandits.
If they didn't exterminate the bandits, they wouldn't be able to get through. This official document was naturally a piece of paper.
Sun Ce didn't reject the idea of raiding the bandits. After all, the heads obtained from raiding the bandits were military merits!
"That's easy!" Sun Ce said. The Yellow Turban Army is disturbing the people and disrupting the country. Everyone has the right to kill them. My army happens to be here, so I should make a trip for the provincial governor!”
Guo Xun was overjoyed and immediately gave everything he had to Sun Ce, donating more than half of the grain in Ji County's treasury to his army.
Sun Ce didn't disappoint either. He immediately sent out scouts to gather information and prepare for another massacre!
The scout scouted around and soon returned to report,""Zhang Bao's General Li Le and Vice General Han Xian have fifty thousand troops and are heading towards Zhuo County. They have committed all kinds of crimes along the way and will reach Ji County in a few days.”
" The government has few soldiers now," Guo Xun frowned." The people are rebelling with Zhang Jiao. How can we defeat these fifty thousand rebel soldiers?"”
"Don't worry, Provincial Governor! I have 20,000 elite soldiers who can defeat the rebel army!”
Guo Xun was immediately overjoyed." Bo Fu killed the Xianbei people in the west of the river with 10,000 cavalrymen and fled to the grasslands. They still don't dare to go south. The 50,000 refugees in Ji County are naturally nothing!" Since that's the case, I'll leave it to you, Bofu!”
Sun Ce gathered his troops, and Guo Xun helped him with another five thousand cavalry, which he divided equally between Xue Rengui and Zhao Yun. The army quickly moved out, and in half a day, they were already close to the Yellow Turban Army.
Along the way, many large families were fleeing toward Ji County. Sun Ce pulled them over and asked them many questions. The only news he received was that the Yellow Turban Army had burned, killed, and looted along the way. They had massacred cities at every turn. No one dared to stay in the city!
"My lord, these thieves are really despicable. They have made millions of people homeless. Zilong, please be the vanguard and lead the army to defeat them!”Zhao Yun's face was full of anger. She wished she could rush out immediately and kill all the Yellow Turban soldiers.
Sun Ce knew that Li Le, Han Xian, and the others were all good-for-nothings, so he nodded and said,"In that case, let Zilong take the lead and we'll flank him from the side!”
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