Chapter 641: Settling the Descendants of the Qin People
Everyone stood up and left after hearing this, and went to do their own things. Zhou Tai and the other two followed Tian Feng to the government office like a tail.
Seeing everyone leave, Huangfu Chaobo was about to breathe a sigh of relief, but found that Shi A walked in again and said, "My lord, according to the plan, we need to go to Gucheng and Henan City today to check on the resettlement of the clansmen of Meng Lao and Wang Lao. Should we leave now and still have this trip?"
Huangfu Chaobo looked at Shi A with a face full of resentment. This chief disciple of the first hero of Shenzhou, in addition to being the head of his own shadow guard, basically also served as a part-time personal bodyguard and secretary. I wanted to take a break, but it seems that I will miss it again. Huangfu Chaobo sighed and finally stood up and said, "Old Dian, let's go and try to see the resettlement of the two counties today."
"Yes, my lord, I will arrange it immediately." Dian Wei responded on the side;
A quarter of an hour later, Dian Wei and Shi A led the Iron Wall Guard and Shadow Guard, as well as 1,500 Iron Eagle Warriors, to escort Huangfu Chaobo out of Luoyang City and headed to the two counties of Gucheng in Henan to the west.
Luoyang City is only a few dozen miles away from Henan County. In one morning, Huangfu Chaobo and his party arrived outside Henan County. At this time, the magistrate of Henan County was the magistrate of Yangwu County when Zhao Yun captured the county east of Hulao Pass. When the Luoyang Taishou Mansion was asked to adjust the officials of various counties, he was transferred to Henan County as the county magistrate. Huangfu Chaobo really didn't have much impression of this guy named Zhong Ze. After receiving the news that Huangfu Chaobo came to inspect the resettlement of immigrants, he immediately led Huangfu Chaobo to the resettlement area in the east of the city.
Nearly 10,000 immigrants headed by the Meng family were resettled in Henan County. After receiving the decree from the state governor's office, the county magistrates of the two county towns began to plan and arrange the resettlement area. Fortunately, the population of the cities around Luoyang was far from full, so the resettlement area was quickly arranged. After the arrival of more than 20,000 immigrants from Bingzhou, they were quickly divided into two parts and resettled in two county towns.
According to the discussion between Huangfu Chaobo and Tian Feng and others, resettling immigrants separately is only the first step. The second step is to gradually divert and relocate some of the excellent qualifications to Luoyang City, which is equivalent to separating these immigrants again. Of course, immigrants entering Luoyang will be allocated to various suitable places according to their conditions.
Under the leadership of the Henan County Magistrate, Huangfu Chaobo soon came to Meng Ping's home. As a former patriarch, Meng Ping's yard is also the best among the immigrants, with four courtyards and dozens of rooms.
However, there are not many people living inside, because the two brothers Meng Gang and Meng Yi and their wives and children did not move in with them. As the deputy general of the Iron Eagle Warriors, Meng Gang and his wife and children are now settled in Luoyang City, while Meng Yi's wife stayed with him in Xi'an.
After learning that Huangfu Chaobo was coming in person, Meng Ping hurriedly led his family to the door to greet him. After leading everyone into the courtyard, Huangfu Chaobo carefully inquired about the resettlement of the immigrants. Although Meng Ping and others knew that Huangfu Chaobo meant to resettle tens of thousands of them separately, they did not object. No matter who it was, putting tens of thousands of people together would have some precautions, so such an arrangement made Meng Ping and others feel more at ease.
Meng Ping and others were quite satisfied with the resettlement of the clansmen, and answered Huangfu Chaobo's questions one by one. After learning about the resettlement situation in Henan County in detail, Huangfu Chaobo did not stay any longer, but led his troops to the next resettlement point, Gucheng.
The leader of the Gucheng resettlement office is Wang Ding. Under his leadership, Huangfu Chaobo inspected the resettlement site in Gucheng and led his troops back to Luoyang City overnight. Of course, before leaving, Huangfu Chaobo revealed a little news to the two old men, that is, in the later stage, the talents with higher qualifications among these people will be recruited to Luoyang and assigned to various suitable positions.
The implication is to tell the two old men that their people will be further dispersed, and the two old men also know that they support the decision of the general's mansion.
For the two counties where he specially went to resettle,
Huangfu Chaobo has his own considerations. They do have many generals and soldiers under his command. It is reasonable that he should come forward to appease them.
The purpose of coming forward in person is also to make them truly return to their hearts, and there will be no problems on this. You know, from the resettlement list submitted by the two counties, Huangfu Chaobo did find a lot of talents with excellent qualifications, and they almost included all kinds of talents needed by a force. This alone is worth Huangfu Chaobo's great efforts to appease.
So another purpose of this trip is to tell the two old men that they hope these talents can enter their suitable positions as soon as possible. Fortunately, although they are in a hurry, they still achieve their goals.
After returning to Luoyang, Huangfu Chaobo handled official business while discussing with Pang Tong and others a matter that he had planned to do in Bingzhou, that is, to send troops to Nanyang.
Of course, the purpose of sending troops to Nanyang is not to occupy as many cities as possible, but for the safety of the south of Sizhou. In terms of Huangfu Chaobo's current situation, there is really no need to expand blindly. The existing territory of the four counties of Sizhou has not been fully controlled. If the territory is expanded, in the words of the people of the time, it is a big step and a big egg.
But Yuan Shu in Nanyang is too aggressive. It is unknown when Brother Gonglu will do something weird again. Moreover, according to the historical plot, Yuan Shu is estimated to not stay in Nanyang for long. You know, Zhang Ji has been eyeing Wuguan for a long time.
Although Yuan Shu fled to Nanyang because of Cao Cao's attack in history, he now controls several counties in Yangzhou. If this guy goes crazy someday and abandons Nanyang and runs directly to Yangzhou like in history, then Nanyang will definitely fall into Zhang Ji's hands.
At that time, Zhang Ji has Dong Zhuo's back, soldiers and generals in his hands, and Nanyang's prosperity will be a big threat to his own Sizhou.
Here we have to talk about a general under Dong Zhuo, that is Xu Rong, who was once captured by Huangfu Chaobo. Although he had been persuaded to surrender for half a year, Xu Rong remained unmoved. In desperation, Huangfu Chaobo had to quietly release him and then escort him out of Sizhou.
However, according to the news from Chang'an, Xu Rong was hidden by Dong Zhuo after returning to Chang'an. As for the reason, Huangfu Chaobo also knew a little bit.
It is said that where there are people, there is the world of martial arts. Xu Rong, although not a Xiliang general, was quite trusted by Dong Zhuo and had long been envied by the Xiliang faction. Therefore, his return after being captured for more than half a year must have had an impact.