The next day, the bandits under the city launched a fierce attack on the city, which made the officers and soldiers exhausted. Most of the officers and soldiers thought the bandits were going to fight the army at the city, but the offensive continued until the evening. However, the city found that except for some elite soldiers, most of the bandits were retreating.

It seems that the thief's previous strong attack made the defenders exhausted and exhausted their spirits, and they were obviously planning to retreat.

It is easy to see if an army is well-trained. When it retreats, it is very easy to see that it is about eight or nine. Most thieves are busy packing pots and pans, and can't wait to pack their luggage home, anxious about their wives and children. When retreating, they are dusty and dusty, and obviously the organizational discipline is also quite chaotic.

Many of the generals on the city were soldiers who knew each other and asked Li Chongjiu to pursue him.

Li Chongjiu observed for a while and knew that if he pursued at this time, he would have a considerable victory. A big victory was impossible, but a small victory was still possible. However, Li Chongjiu looked at it for a while and decided to give up the pursuit. If the reason could not be eliminated, even a small victory would not be very meaningful.

Seizure? Joke, what can you seize a group of robbers who are no different from beggars?

Captive? Useless, kill? Li Chongjiu asked himself that it was not Fan Zigai, Wang Shichong, who killed a group of ignorant grass-roots people and dyed his official hat red. The officials forced the people to rebel, and the court was tyrannical. However, among the thieves and rioters, heroes like Wang Xuba and Li Shanfei, with their ambitions, took advantage of the situation. As long as the thieves' heads are not destroyed, no matter how many thieves kill many thieves, it is useless. Thinking about the fact that when King Li Chuang was at his most declining, there were only eighteen cavalry around him, but a few years later, he sent a million troops to Beijing and forced Chongzhen to death.

If you let it go? That is equivalent to useless work. In the end, the thieves were captured and incorporated. Whether the current food and grass in Feihu County can not support the winter is still a problem. Taking the excess population will only aggravate the famine. Moreover, there are already five or six hundred thieves captured in the county town.

However, the thieves retreated and the county became stable. More than 3,000 soldiers and civilians in the city were overjoyed and began to celebrate, so that the city could not be poisoned by the thieves.

A few days later, the villages near the county town also heard that the bandits near the county town had retreated, and they all came out of the deep mountains, returned to their hometowns to live in peace, cleaned up their homes and lived a small life again. The originally abandoned villages had the sound of chickens and dogs coming back, and the curling smoke of cooking fires rose again, no longer the same as the previous uninhabited one hundred miles.

However, Li Chongjiu found that the Hexian County had no great enthusiasm for repelling the thieves and protecting Feihu County. According to convention, Li Chongjiu was also considered a new official. At this time, the Hexian family and the powerful should come to visit and inform Yi Er, and make a familiar face first and have a clear understanding of the family.

One of the parents and officials met these aristocratic families at one time, and they could win over the places. There were still some useful places to do business in the future, and they could also expand additional income. However, after the thief repelled, Li Chongjiu sat in the hall for several days, not to mention the aristocratic families or the powerful, but not even one of the squires who visited.

Li Chongjiu couldn't help but wonder. Although he was a time traveler, he was really not good at local government pragmatism, so he immediately asked someone to ask. At present, Feihu County was killed in battle, the county magistrate and the head of the family resigned. He was cut off by himself again.

Therefore, the most talkable thing in a county is Xi Cao. Xi Cao is the leader of the six Caos in the county, and is ranked above the five Caos, including Jin, households, military, law, and scholars. He is qualified to counsel the county affairs. Li Chongjiu immediately asked Xi Cao about this matter if it was because he cut down the family and the wealthy family in this county misunderstood the character of Li.

Xi Cao immediately replied that the Marquis misunderstood that the reason why the aristocratic family and powerful people resisted coming to the county was not because of this.

It turned out that in February this year, Yang Guang heard Pei Ji's words and ordered the county and county capital to build cities, and all the people moved to the county town, and the forts, and the fields were granted nearby. The purpose of this move was to implement a strategy of strengthening the walls and clearing the fields against the increasingly rampant bandits and chaos, so that thieves like Wang Xudiao and Wei Daoer would have no food and rice to rob, and no strong men could be pulled.

After hearing this, Li Chongjiu secretly scolded that he was really in trouble. He gave up the vast rural areas and moved the people to towns and forts. Yang Guang wanted to implement it in advance. Will Greater China be 100% urbanized? If the countryside is abandoned, how much land can be given near the county and county towns to support the tens of millions of the Sui people. You must know that after the liberation, two farmers in China would support the population of one urban area.

Yang Guang's move not only failed to fundamentally solve the cause of the civil unrest at the end of the Sui Dynasty, but instead used this stupid move, which was equivalent to blocking water and building dams during floods, rather than clearing and guiding them. In this way, the Sui Dynasty was really not far from the demise.

This is also the reason why the powerful families living outside the city did not come to visit Li Chongjiu. They are currently fighting against the imperial court's decrees. If they look for Li Chongjiu now, wouldn't they be trapped in the trap?

After hearing this, Li Chongjiu had no intention of slandering these powerful families. This would only arouse civil unrest, not to mention that Yang Guang's government orders were extremely bad. At this moment, Li Chongjiu decided to use his power to defend himself to write a document at the city gate to temporarily postpone the movement of the people into the city.

After posting the notice, Li Chongjiu still did not see anyone. He ignored the condescending and took Xi Cao to several nearby families to visit him one by one.

Li Chongjiu didn't know this, but instead made the officials of Xicao and others feel like the sun rises from the east. According to the ancient official rules, the herdsmen in each county are located within the four walls and three gates of the yamen. They are stable and do not go out easily.

The reason for this is that the higher the officials, the more the people feel that the mystery is, the more they cannot see the truth clearly. Only in this way can the foolish people be respected and dare not do anything wrong. However, Li Chongjiu was out of the ordinary and went to the countryside like a clerk to step on mud. This is not what a county government official does. At present, Li Chongjiu was born in Western Cao and was indeed a local bun from a poor family. He did not understand the rules of the officialdom and shook his head at the moment.

The next day, Li Chongjiu traveled lightly. It was already winter. The weather was cold and the clouds were covered with red clouds. After less than a few miles, it was already a storm and snowflakes were flying in the sky. Xi Cao and others all pulled their fur tightly and persuaded Li Chongjiu to return to the county town, but after being scolded by him, they did not dare to speak at the moment.
Chapter completed!