Yang Bai followed Yang Ren to the city wall. He looked at the people fleeing like sheep in Guanxia. A small joy in his heart slowly climbed up on his forehead. He thought to himself that there were countless people fleeing here.

Lambs for the slaughter.

Song Jiang (Song Chen) has already set up a porridge shed in Shuzhong, and has also managed to win over Liu Bei's generals. The more people who escape from Hanzhong, the richer they will become.

According to Yang Song's deduction, if the two brothers work together and try their best to drive these lambs into Yizhou, they will eventually gain countless wealth.

Hanzhong County now has a population of more than 100,000 households. The wealth they created in Hanzhong supports the leaders of the Five Dou Rice Sect as well as Hanzhong officials and troops, numbering in the tens of thousands.

However, according to Song Chen's 'relief' method, only three of them were able to participate in the sharing of the spoils. Therefore, even if only tens of thousands of households moved to Shu, the income for Yang Song and others would be unimaginably rich.

Although the "relief" method of amassing money was shameless, after Yang Song thought about it, he felt that it was understandable. Killing one person was a crime and killing ten thousand people was a hero. Compared with Cao Cao and others, they were very benevolent and righteous.

"What are you thinking? Why don't you let me go quickly?" Yang Bai ordered nonchalantly.

Yang Ren was stunned when he heard this. It turned out that this was how Yang Bai solved the problem. He had to guess for a long time, "General, what did you say? Put so many people into the city. If there is a change in Yangpingguan, this will happen."

If you trap the public, the general will be unjust..."

Yang Bai was righteous and solemn: "General, how could you care? Nothing about our food and clothing is not produced by them? There are unarmed people in the city. Are you worried about them carrying poles to seize the gate? You only need to obey the order and let them go.

If something goes wrong, I will take full responsibility for it."

"General, think twice." Yang Ren was choked by Yang Bai and couldn't refute. He didn't expect the ordinary Yang Bai to say such a thing.

"Just execute the order." Yang Bai raised his voice.

Yang Ren swallowed, clasped his fists and refused: "General, forgive me, even if you are willing to take responsibility, I will not dare to switch and let go..."

Yang Bai shook his head: "Vice-General Yang is so confused. You only know that it will be risky for the people to enter the customs, but you don't know that if they block here, they will block the food route. Our soldiers will starve in a few days."

Yang Ren was startled when he heard this. He really looked at Yang Bai at this moment. In the past, Yangpingguan's food reserves could last for half a year, but at that time there were only 3,000 garrison troops. Now Zhang Wei leads 50,000 to 60,000 people to garrison, and the consumption of food and grass is not the same as before.

And words.

"But these are the people of Hanzhong, how can we let them escape into Shuzhong? Even if we can defeat Cao Cao this time, my lord will definitely blame him after the war. General, why don't you send more people to persuade him to return and appease him, as long as Gongze (Zhang)

If General Wei resists for a little longer, they will naturally overcome their fear and return home."

After hearing this, Yang Bai looked at Yang Ren coldly, "Persuading him to return to appease him? Hasn't Vice General Yang tried it? Now that the food road is blocked by refugees, what can you do to defeat Cao Cao?"

"Uh..." Yang Ren was speechless.

"Since Vice General Yang refuses to carry out the order, I will go down and open the city gate myself." Yang Bai said sonorously and turned around to go down to the city.

"Why don't you, general, try it? Maybe you can persuade them to come back?" Yang Ren hurriedly chased after him. Yang Bai was guilty of letting the people go without permission, and he was guilty of committing a serious crime on the battlefield.

Yang Bai walked down the city wall without looking back, and Yang Ren followed him like a tail. Yang Bai first deployed soldiers with weapons to prepare to maintain order, ordered the soldiers to guide the fleeing people to Jinniu Road, and also deployed troops to the intersection of Chencang Road.

If someone is found maliciously breaking through the gate, they will be killed without mercy.

When everything was ready, Yang Bai asked people to open the city gate and let the fleeing people enter and change their routes. Then the refugees rushed towards Jinniu Road like a torrent, and no one went towards Chencang Road.

"The general who opened the door is really a nice guy..."

"He must have many children and be blessed..."

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In addition to praising each other, the fleeing people also left too much luggage in the city, saying that they were filial to the general who opened the city gate. Yang Ren felt his face was burning when he saw everything in front of him, and he thought that Yang Bai was enlightened.

Is that so? You took the risk to do this big thing and gained fame and profit.

Yang Bai looked at the endless stream of people with a smile on his face. He looked down on the rags and rags left by the refugees and thought to himself: Keep my treasure well in Yizhou, and someone will naturally come to take it over.

"General, how long will the city gate be open?" Yang Ren saw that the refugees were like water opening a floodgate, and there was no end in sight.

Yang Bai replied sternly: "Vice General Yang has seen it. It is completely based on public opinion. As long as there are people coming, we will continue to drive. Let's do our good deeds to the end. They will remember your kindness. In this way, the food road from Nanzheng will be opened.

I am not worried that General Gongze (Zhang Wei) will have no food."

"General, it is better to set a time for the city gates to be opened and closed. If there are any evildoers among the refugees, big trouble will happen." Yang Ren reminded again.

Yang Bai thought for a while and said, "Then we will only let people go during the day, and close the city gate as soon as it gets dark. Lieutenant General Yang and we will take turns guarding it, so there shouldn't be any trouble."

Yang Ren had no choice but to obey. He was so busy that he didn't even have the chance to go to the front line to report the situation to Zhang Wei.

After the "opening of the flood gates" at Yangping Pass, refugees from all over Hanzhong took advantage of the news and continued to flee westward every day. Officials at all levels in the county and township could not and did not want to stop them. They themselves were also collecting gold and silver, and were always ready to do so.

Escape from Hanzhong.

Zhang Wei fought hard outside Yangping Pass, and Zhang Lu was transporting grain and grass for his brothers in Nanzheng. When he learned that the people in Hanzhong County were panicking and wanted to flee, Yang Song took the initiative to send troops to various places to appease the people.

The actual situation was that Yang Song added fuel to the flames under the guise, and in the end most people outside Nanzheng began to flee.

When Liu Bei received the news that Cao Cao was attacking Yangping Pass, he immediately asked Zhuge Liang and Zhao Yun to stay in Chengdu. He, Pang Tong, Fazheng, Huang Zhong and others rushed to Jiameng Pass in Zitong to prevent Cao Cao from seizing Hanzhong and gaining access to Longwang Shu.

After arriving at Jiameng Pass, Liu Bei was shocked. Countless refugees poured in from Jinniu Road. Huo Jun and Deng Ai set up porridge shacks along the way to give free gifts to the refugees in Hanzhong.

After making inquiries, Liu Bei was surprised. Thousands of people entered Shu every day. He summoned the prefect Huo Jun and asked, "Zhongmiao, there are so many refugees every day. Do you still have enough food in Zitong's treasury?"

Huo Jun replied: "The grain in Zitong's treasury has not been used yet. It has been accumulated by Shi Zai in the past few days."

"Deng Shizai only had a thousand people working in the fields. How could he accumulate so much food in two years?" Liu Bei was very surprised.

"Shizai brought new corn seeds from Jingzhou. It is said that they were cultivated by General Lan for ten years. The yield is more than two or three times that of ordinary corn." Huo Jun affirmed.

Liu Bei sighed after hearing this: "Ziyu is really Bei's Xiao Heye."

"The main reason why the Lord settled Yizhou and did not take Hanzhong was because the grain and grass originally ordered in Shuzhong were insufficient and difficult to transport. Now Zhang Lu took the initiative to send Hanzhong's people, why not let them farm here? General Lan has high-yielding millet seeds, which is perfect for stocking up on military supplies.

This will lay the foundation for later taking over Hanzhong." Fazheng suggested.
Chapter completed!