Seeing that Lin Fang had no objection, Liu An added: "Now that I have returned with my army, Xianbei should not dare to come again in a short time. Brother Shoju can order the counties to lift martial law, but the basic guards must still be retained.

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"No!" Lin Fang agreed and waited for Liu An's follow-up orders.

After that, Liu An told Lin Fang one by one the policies he had discussed with Liu Bei and others on the conflict between Xianbei and the Han people.

Afterwards, Liu An asked Lin Fang to get started immediately.

Lin Fang is the governor of Wuyuan. Liu An can make decisions on these matters, but it is Lin Fang who can issue the specific orders.

After Lin Fang left, Liu An walked out of the living room and was about to go back to the city to arrange for everyone, but he saw Cheng Ze waiting for him outside the door.

He was holding several rolls of cloth in his hand. When he saw Liu An coming out, he handed the cloth to Liu An and said:

"These are letters from Luoyang and Zhuoxian, as well as some slips, which have been sent to Ming Gong's study."

"Yes." Liu An nodded and took it, but he did not open it up and check it on the spot. Instead, he said to Cheng Ze: "Brother Shaodian, go and summon the brave men in the city to help carry things outside the city."

Shaodian is Cheng Ze's name. Like Lin Fang, Liu An has called him this since he became a dead soldier.

"No!" Cheng Ze held up his hands and retreated. Liu An put away the cloth and went outside the city first.

Arriving outside the city, Liu An immediately divided a group of people to classify various materials.

Waiting for Cheng to arrive with Xiang Yong, he asked them to send them to various warehouses in Jiuyuan City according to categories.

Food was sent to the granary, money and jewelry were sent to the treasury, weapons were sent to the military treasury, etc., Liu's Security Department had people deliver the supplies to the public warehouse in full view of the public, without keeping a penny.

Such actions also made many soldiers or officers who were not Liu An's dead soldiers more and more fond of Liu An, and their loyalty also increased a lot.

However, Liu An kept a lot of sheep, deer and other livestock. After all the materials were transported, Liu An summoned the entire Jiuyuan City people to the camp outside the city.

Then Liu An came to the place where the Han prisoners were, and told everyone his plan to deal with the Xianbei people who had committed heinous crimes, hoping that they could identify those who had committed heinous crimes.

But after all, there were too many people. Whether they were Han prisoners or Xianbei prisoners, the identification of each one was obviously not shown.

So Liu An asked the Han prisoners to nominate 200 people to identify them on behalf of everyone.

The Han prisoners deliberated for a quarter of an hour, and finally two hundred of them came out.

Liu An asked his men to escort the two hundred people into the Xianbei prisoner camp, and they would bring out whoever they pointed out.

Afterwards, Liu An brought the two hundred pointed out Xianbei prisoners one by one to the Han prisoner camp, and gave orders to the Han prisoners. If the Xianbei people who appeared in front of their camp had ever bullied them, they would be punished.

scold.

Anyway, keep quiet.

The reason why he had to choose one of the two was so laborious because Liu An was worried that among the two hundred people there would be those who wanted to take revenge. It was obvious that the Xianbei had never bullied the Han people, but he was singled out because he had a grudge against the Han prisoner.

Although this possibility is very small, it must be taken precautions against.

In this way, Liu An selected a hundred people who had been scolded the most. Then he took them to the open space outside the camp and had people count the sins of these people loudly.

After that, he blocked everyone's face and killed them all.

Liu An heard that after beheading these people, there were loud roars coming from the Han prisoner camp and from the people gathered outside Jiuyuan City.

Then, Liu An had all the animals that had been left behind be slaughtered, and a lot of good wine was brought out from the city to reward the three armies and the ordinary people who stayed outside the city.

After returning to Jiuyuan, many Han captives returned to their previous homes.

However, before these people left, Liu An had people register and record their names, place of origin and other basic information to facilitate updating of population data.

Other people whose homes are not in Jiuyuan but in Wuyuan County or other counties in Bingzhou choose to stay one more night and leave early the next morning.

There are also some people who have no family members and have great trust in Liu An, and they are ready to wait for Liu An's arrangements.

At night, after having dinner at the county government office, Liu An finally returned to his small home in Jiuyuan.

After living in the tent for more than a month, Liu An, who was sitting by the bed, had to sigh that solid housing made people feel more secure.

Taking out the cloth that Cheng Ze handed over before, Liu An opened it one by one and looked at it.

At the top is a letter from Zhuo County.

The front is a report on the manor written by Xia Houlan himself. Among them, eighty acres of cotton yield an average of seventeen dan per mu after weighing, but this is seed cotton including cotton seeds.

Seed cotton cannot be used directly to make clothes or quilts. The seeds need to be removed and seedless lint can be obtained.

However, Xia Houlan definitely did not know these later terms. He just wrote his opinion in the letter, thinking that the cotton could not be used directly, and asked Liu An how to deal with the cotton.

In addition, Liu Ming has opened trade routes between border counties and the mainland, and the net income from a round trip can reach more than one million yuan.

Others were reported on some trivial matters of the manor, such as who married whom in the manor, which family had a new son, etc.

Liu An put down the letter and prepared Xia Houlan's reply.

But after thinking about it, Liu An found that he didn't know how to extract lint. He only knew that there was a technique called cotton popping, which could manually pop out the lint.

After thinking for a quarter of an hour, Liu An couldn't come up with a good idea. He could only reply and asked Xia Houlan to dry the cotton and then find a way to remove the cotton seeds, or peel the cotton from the seeds, and then take it out.

The cotton produced is made into cotton clothes for villagers, or sold to wealthy families at high prices.

Now the time has come to the end of October and is about to enter November. The weather has begun to get cold. It is a good time to make cotton-padded clothes for everyone in the village.

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, during the Little Ice Age, especially during the Three Kingdoms period, winter temperatures became even colder.

If you don’t prepare cotton-padded clothes for villagers, they are likely to freeze to death in winter.

After writing the letter, Liu An put it aside and picked up the letter from Luoyang.

Liu An first read the letter from Qian Zhao, which told Liu An that Zhen Yi was very happy to receive the large number of rare objects sent by Liu An.

But it also showed that the market in Luoyang was about to reach saturation. He was planning to send the rare items to various wealthy counties in the Han Dynasty, and start a war on the sale of rare items there. He hoped that Liu An would agree.

In addition, Qianzhao also wrote down some news about various Luoyang aristocratic families in his mind, such as someone being promoted to Sili Xiaowei, someone being thrown into prison, and so on.

Liu An took a general look and saw no one he was interested in, so he stopped paying attention and wrote a reply to Qianzhao.

He didn't want to be involved in how Zhen Yi dealt with the rare objects. As long as he could get his due share and not expose himself as the source of the rare objects.

The last one is a letter from Cai Yan.

As usual, I wrote down the books sent this time first, which are the two volumes of "Yinfu of the Yellow Emperor" and "Han Feizi".

However, these are all the military books that Cai Yan can remember. The next time he sends them, there will be no other military books.

In her mind, Cai Yan asked Liu An if there was any book she wanted to read. If not, she would choose it herself.

Afterwards, he chased Liu An and asked if there was anything strange happening in the border county.

Liu An smiled and shook his head. Didn't this girl express in her letter last time that she didn't believe what she said?

Putting the letter away, Liu An wrote again and replied.

In the letter, he expressed his hope that Cai Yan would choose books for him. He also shamelessly talked about his great victory in the Northern Expedition to Xianbei in exaggerated terms.

He also stated in the letter that the letter of merit will be sent to Luoyang in the near future. At that time, whether what he said is true or false will be known by just asking.

After laying the three replies aside to dry, Liu An took up the pen again and began to write the merits of the Xianbei War that would be handed over to Lin Fang tomorrow.

In the merit book, Liu An truthfully reported the process of annihilating the three major Xianbei tribes. During this period, Zhang Fei killed the opponent's leader, Gao Shun sacrificed himself to lure the enemy deeper, how many supplies were seized, how many Han people were recovered, etc. were all reported truthfully.

However, Liu An hid everything about the system and the more than 3,000 warriors of the Chakshi tribe who had surrendered.

He plans to keep the three thousand warriors for his own use and will not report them to the court.

After finishing writing, Liu An also put it aside to wait for drying.

The accumulated contribution of the system has been enough, but Liu An does not plan to cash it out for the time being. He plans to see which lottery disk has greater demand after all the matters here are dealt with, and then focus on that lottery disk.

After going back and forth for a month, Liu An was really tired. After writing down his achievements, he went to bed.

Early on the next morning, Liu An had everyone send everything he had written yesterday to where he should go, and then he arrived at the camp outside the city.

After counting the number of remaining Han prisoners, Liu An discovered that there were more than two thousand people left.

Then Liu An selected a thousand more loyal young men from the Xianbei prisoners, and asked them and the two thousand Han prisoners left behind to accompany Chakshi and his warriors, led by Lu Bu, to the place they had discovered before.

Iron ore area.

As Liu An's dead soldier, Chakshi's loyalty goes without saying. The warriors under his command have been following Chakshi for a long time, and their loyalty to Chakshi is not low. Liu An still entrusts that important iron ore area to his care.

You can rest assured.

In addition, Liu An also asked Fu Zhao to find some more carpenters, bricklayers, and blacksmiths to go with Chakshi.

After arriving, a manor was built near the iron mining area to ensure their life and safety.

Although Liu An felt that it was unlikely that other Xianbei tribes would go south again in recent years, he still wanted to be just in case.

And the crisis doesn't just come from Xianbei. That iron ore area is outside the Great Wall and is surrounded by hills and grasslands. There is still a high probability of wild ferocious animals appearing at night.

With a manor, security can be further guaranteed.

On the other side, after Lin Fang read Liu An's merit book, he compiled it himself and sent it to Luoyang.

The content written in the letter is basically the same as what Liu An wrote, but the text has been polished a lot to make it look more connotative.

As a native who studied sages' books diligently, Lin Fang's writing skills must be stronger than Liu An's.

In addition, at Liu An's request, it was also stated that he was willing to exchange his merits for the Wuyuan County tax exemption.
To be continued...