Seeing Sima Fan's depressed expression, Jia You quickly said: "Your Majesty, you don't have to be so depressed. Isn't it just a delicious bite? Let's just let the cook figure out how to cook with an iron pot. What's the difficulty?"

Sima Fan became more and more frustrated: "Do you think I didn't let the cooks learn? I did let them learn, but the dishes they cooked were tastier than shit!"

Well, cooking is really a technical job. If you want to fry a dish well, it is many times more difficult than boiling a dish in boiling water. Boiling it in boiling water will at best boil the dish, which is not inedible, but

If it is fried in a pan, it will be inedible if the heat is too high! His team of cooks worked very hard to figure out how to stir-fry, but it was useless. This was not something they could figure out in a short time.

Jia You gritted his teeth and said, "The worst I can do is grab a portion for the prince while he is eating! The prince is the queen of Emperor Wu and has a noble status, so I don't dare not give it to him!"

Sima Fan sighed: "He really dares..."

Thinking of Li Rui's attitude towards Sima Dang these days, Jia You choked and became depressed. That guy didn't take Sima Fan's status as the Tangtang Prince and Emperor Wu at all, which pissed him off.

He really dared not to give Sima Fan food. The most hateful thing is that Sima Fan can't do anything to him. The identity of the prince can't scare him. Force? Come on, those 800 Wuhuan cavalry are so fierce. Who will win in a fight?

It’s hard to say yet.

He couldn't be beaten again and again, and he couldn't be frightened by his status, so Sima Fan felt depressed in front of Li Rui.

Jia You sorted out his thoughts and said: "Now is not the time to talk about this! Our army captured Wancheng with lightning speed, beheaded thousands of people, and captured nearly 10,000 enemies. The whole Wancheng must have been shaken, and the prince should immediately

He released the list to calm the people, appease the local powerful, collect household registrations and count the population. Nanyang and Luoyang are only a stone's throw away, and are surrounded by Qinling Mountains, Funiu Mountain, Daba Mountain and Tongbai Mountain. It is easy to defend but difficult to attack. Emperor Guangwu raised troops here to restore the Han Dynasty. Liu Bei

I met Zhuge Liang here, and finally crossed the two states of Jing and Yi, saying that I was alone and had few people. This is the asset of a king and hegemon, and should not be taken lightly! Manage Nanyang well, and even if Luoyang cannot be defended, you can still continue along the way.

The mountain road retreats to Nanyang. When the time comes, whether it is time to recharge and wait for the northern expedition or to retreat to the south of the Yangtze River, we can make arrangements calmly without facing catastrophe!"

Sima Fan thought it made sense and said: "That makes sense, Zichong, hurry up and collect the household registration information!"

Jia You took the order and quickly looked for household registration information.

After a while, he came back dejectedly and said to Sima Fan: "Colonel Li took away the household registration information."

Sima Fan frowned: "He is a martial artist, so what's the point of asking for household registration information?"

Jia You said: "He said he wanted to find out how many people there are in Nanyang so that he can take the next step. If the prince wants to see this information, he can go to his place and look at it together!"

Sima Fan: "..."

This guy actually dared to let his majestic prince run over to him to ask for information. He was so crazy!

Jia You added: "He also said that he had prepared snacks and you could eat them while watching."

Sima Fan snorted angrily and waved his long sleeves: "Lead the way!"

Jia You vomited blood directly... After a few plates of snacks, you were beaten to the ground? My lord, can you live up to your expectations!

Li Rui's movements were indeed very fast. In just a moment, he moved the land and household registration information that had been thrown aside to eat dust to his temporary residence, then took out a few plates of snacks and brewed a

A pot of tea, and he looked at it leisurely. He was not surprised at all that Sima Fan came over obediently. This prince probably had not eaten anything good in his eight lives, so he relied on him, even if he directly expressed his intention to exclude people many times.

Unable to drive him away from his dining table, he said with a smile: "Here you come?"

Sima Fan walked up to him drooling: "What snacks have you prepared?"

Li Rui said: "There is nothing good, just almond cake, walnut cake and the like."

Sima Fan looked at the snacks, swallowed, and stretched out his paws to get them. Li Rui threw a volume of paperwork in front of him: "Read it to me, or you won't be allowed to eat it!"

Sima Fan was very dissatisfied: "Why do you want me to read it to you? You can't read it yourself?"

Li Rui said confidently: "I can't read!"

To be precise, he doesn't know documents written in official script or regular script. He doesn't know more than 20% of the characters in the entire document, so that's nothing to read.

Sima Fan grabbed an almond pastry and stuffed it into his mouth, chewed it while unfolding the document, and began to read to Li Rui. Li Rui took out the quill he made, listened carefully, and at the same time wrote quickly on the paper, using

A kind of writing that was difficult to understand recorded the information he thought was important. Sima Fan discovered that this guy's writing speed was really unusually fast, and he could almost keep up with his dictation.

Writing with a brush is definitely not that fast.

From these data that have been gathering dust in the warehouse for who knows how long, we can know that Nanyang County had a population of 2.4 million in its heyday, and was the largest county in the world. The economy was very developed. However, it was only after natural disasters and plagues that the county had a population of 2.4 million.

The population dropped sharply due to the attack. Coupled with Zhang Chang's Rebellion and Wang Ru's Rebellion, Nanyang became a battlefield, and the population losses were even more severe. A large number of people either became souls killed by the sword or fled to the Jianghan area, trying to stay away from this right and wrong.

Land. Before the Wang Ru Rebellion broke out, the total population of Nanyang County may have been 500,000. Now that Wang Ru and Shi Le are ravaging it, God knows how many people there are.

In such a large county, there is only such a small population left, which shows how terrible the war is.

Li Rui sighed: "Nanyang was once the largest county in the world, right? It has been reduced to such a horrible state in just over ten years. It really makes people wonder what to say."

Sima Fan said: "The most troublesome thing is that there are a large number of refugees in places with high mountains and dense forests such as Funiu Mountain, Daba Mountain, and Tongbai Mountain. They are fierce and ignorant people who gather in the mountains and forests and come down from time to time to rob their homes. The government is slightly unable to deal with them. They

Immediately, they gathered tens of thousands of people and rushed to the state to attack the government. They committed all kinds of evil! If we can't defeat them one by one, Nanyang will never live in peace!"

Li Rui said: "Don't think about how to pacify the refugees who are entrenched in the mountains. Which one, Wang Ru or Shi Le, is not more deadly than those refugees? Let's deal with these two later."

Sima Fan said: "Shi Le is still in Xuchang now and will not be able to come back in a short time. Wang Ru, on the other hand, is in Xiangyang. When he learns that Wancheng is attacked, he will definitely rush back day and night. He can return in just a few days.

.In other words, the time left for us is only a few days. If we cannot calm down the forces around Wancheng within a few days, and then concentrate all our efforts on fighting Wang Ru, then our army will definitely be defeated!"

Li Rui pinched his chin and said: "What you said makes sense... Let's take a rest today. You stay in Wancheng tomorrow. I will take people out to attack the surrounding area and defeat them all. Then

How about concentrating all our efforts to fight Wang Ru's main force?"

Sima Fan knew that he was not good at military affairs, and the only one he could use was his identity as a prince. He said readily: "Okay, leave five hundred people to guard Wancheng, and take the rest out to kill those who were killed by the rebels and Jiehu."

Take down all the captured towns!”

Jia You interjected: "Most of the essence of Nanyang County is in Jiyang and Rangcheng. Captain, please concentrate your efforts to win these two places."

Li Rui asked: "What's special about these two places?"

Jia You said: "Jiyang (today's Tanghe County) is a major grain-producing county. It has convenient irrigation and fertile land. With a little effort, you can get a bumper harvest. The annual grain production accounts for more than 20% of Nanyang County. Nanyang can become the world's leader."

The largest county is inseparable from the fertility of Jiyang. Today, Nanyang is in ruins, but the wheat in Jiyang is well preserved. It will be a good harvest in a while. If these wheats can be obtained, the famine in Luoyang can be greatly alleviated.

.”

Li Rui nodded: "Well, food is the most important thing for the people, so let's get rid of this wheat. This Jiyang must be taken down as soon as possible."

Jia You said: "As for Rangcheng (today's Dengzhou County), although it is not as fertile as Jiyang, it controls the throat of water transportation and the shipping is smooth. The Tuanhe River passes through the Xinye Huibai River and then enters the Han River and then connects to the Yangtze River. Regardless of whether it is Nanyang's

It is very convenient to transport wheat and millet to Xiangfan or transport rice from Xiangfan to Nanyang. A hundred years ago, Wei Taizu dug a grain transport river here and used Rangcheng as a large granary to supply frontline military supplies and support the Chibi War. If our army wants to

If the grain from Jingzhou is successfully delivered to Luoyang, then Rangcheng must be in your own hands!"

Li Rui pinched his chin and said: "What you said makes sense... Okay, let's focus on taking down these two counties first. Now let's discuss how to deal with those prisoners of war and trophies. I plan to take them out from the granary.

Ten thousand hu of grain will be used to house these prisoners of war, and at the same time, another 10,000 hu of grain will be transported back to Luoyang. What do you think?"

Sima Fan was dissatisfied: "I agree with transporting 10,000 grains back to Luoyang. After all, we are going south this time to recruit troops and grain. But why should we use so much grain to settle the rebels? They are rebels! They died in

They have countless court officials and countless civilians in their hands. Do these extremely vicious people deserve such a lenient treatment?"

Li Rui twisted his fingers: "Then what do you think we should do?"

Sima Fan said: "According to me, we should kill them all to avoid future troubles forever!"

Li Rui's expression became strange: "Kill them all? Did I hear you right? That's nearly 10,000 lives!"

Sima Fan said: "These unscrupulous people should be killed every time they see them! Let alone nearly ten thousand, so what if they are tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands or even hundreds of thousands? Just kill them and save some food!"

Li Rui looked at him and let out a long sigh: "You can't be saved, and even your Sima family can't be saved. Forget it, I won't bother you to deal with those prisoners of war, Your Majesty, I'll come here myself!"

Sima Fan shouted: "Captain Li, you have to remember that we don't have much food! Do you really think that 40,000 dendrobium is a lot of food!?"

Li Rui said: "Forty thousand hu of grain is indeed not much, but I would like to ask your noble prince, how many people are there in the Central Plains?"
Chapter completed!