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Chapter 702: Recruiting Xu Huang

After taking Liu Xie for a tour around Chang'an City, Lu Cheng let him see with his own eyes how chaotic this troubled time was. Then he sent him back to the palace.

Afterwards, Lu Cheng found a captain of the Flying Eagle Guard stationed in Chang'an and began to look up some intelligence.

At the beginning, long before Dong Zhuo's death, his first counselor Li Ru left Chang'an in advance and disappeared without a trace. It is thought that he was either completely disappointed with Dong Zhuo and retired to the mountains, or died in some unknown place.

In this chaotic world, many people die every day, without any clear reason or name.

Among Dong Zhuo's generals, Xu Rong, who had defeated Cao Cao and Sun Jian, surrendered to Wang Yun after Dong Zhuo's death. When Li Jue and Guo Si came to attack Chang'an, Wang Yun sent Xu Rong out of the city to meet the enemy, and Xu Rong died in the chaos.

After reading the information about Chang'an City, Lu Cheng looked at last night's battle report.

Because the Xiliang army committed many evil things in Chang'an City and harmed too many civilians, it aroused the murderous intentions of the Liaodong army, which had always cared for the people.

In the first half of last night, Zhao Yun, Huang Zhong and others led the Liaodong troops in the city and almost killed people to death. Countless Xiliang troops were blocked and killed in the camp before they could even leave.

Fortunately, Zhao Yun and Huang Zhong still remembered Lu Cheng's orders, and left behind many Xiliang army prisoners, confiscated their weapons, armor and horses, and demoted them to slaves and laborers, responsible for cleaning up the city of Chang'an.

It is already summer now. If the corpses and bones are not dealt with in a timely manner, plague may easily arise.

Although Lu Cheng did not plan to stay in Chang'an forever, he would not let such an ancient city be abandoned.

While the cleanup work was going on, the military medical staff also conducted a simple physical examination of the people in the city and provided timely treatment to those who showed signs of typhoid fever.

In order to ensure public order, military control was implemented throughout the city of Chang'an, and people's outings and movements were strictly controlled.

At the same time, Zhao Yun, Huang Zhong, Hua Xiong, Dian Wei and other generals each led a troop out of Chang'an City to eliminate the remnants of Li Jue and Guo Si in the surrounding cities.

After three days of distributing porridge, Lu Cheng ordered a census of the entire Chang'an city to find out how many households there were in the city and how many people were in each household.

After understanding the situation in Chang'an, Lu Cheng asked the grassroots officials to implement the Lijia system in Chang'an and surrounding cities according to the old Liaodong rules, and redivided the people into one Li for every 110 households, which was convenient for management.

Moreover, the government no longer distributed porridge throughout the city, but instead distributed basic food rations every three to five days according to the situation of each household. Only a few days of food were distributed each time, and the food was only enough to maintain basic survival.

Afterwards, officials at all levels began to organize the people to work in exchange for relief and earn food.

When Li Jue, Guo Si and others were wreaking havoc in Chang'an, they did not pay attention to spring ploughing, resulting in a lot of land that should have been cultivated being abandoned.

Therefore, Lu Cheng organized people to plow the farmland, dig ditches and canals, and rebuild water conservancy projects to prepare for summer farming in advance.

Providing porridge and grain is only a temporary solution. We still need to restore order in Guanzhong as soon as possible, resume production and farming, and achieve self-sufficiency.

In order to complete these tasks, Lu Cheng transferred Lu Su and Ju Su over in advance to take charge of the overall situation.

A few days later, early in the morning, after Lu Cheng had breakfast, he was inspecting the reconstruction work in the city when suddenly a group of people entered Chang'an City.

Soon, a small group of cavalrymen came to Lu Cheng, escorting a man.

"My lord, the day before yesterday, General Huang Zhong killed Yang Feng, a general under Li Jue, when he was attacking a city. Later, he met this man, who was good at using a mountain-splitting axe and was extremely brave. After General Huang captured him, he couldn't bear to kill him, so he brought him to see my lord."

Lu Cheng looked at the general with his hands tied behind his back, with a strong figure and a resolute face, and asked, "Are you Xu Huang, Xu Gongming?"

"I am Xu Huang from Hedong, and I would like to greet General Zhengbei."

"Yang Feng, along with Li Jue, Guo Si and others, disrupted the government and has been executed. This general sees that you are also a brave general. Are you willing to surrender?"

Xu Huang did not hesitate and nodded his head in agreement: "Xu Huang is willing to surrender."

In fact, most of the generals captured alive these days would be willing to surrender. After all, there are only a few who are stubborn and fearless.

Unless the lord has done a great favor to the general, or there is a brotherly relationship like that between Guan Yu and Liu Bei.

Xu Huang was a county official in Hedong County in his early years, and later followed Yang Feng. Yang Feng was a remnant of the Yellow Turban Army, and later followed Li Jue to deal with Guo Si. Xu Huang naturally followed Li Jue as well.

Before this, Yang Feng was arranged by Li Jue to guard the city outside, and Xu Huang naturally always followed Yang Feng.

After being captured by Huang Zhong, Xu Huang was mentally prepared to surrender.

Therefore, as soon as he saw Lu Cheng, he surrendered decisively.

Lu Cheng immediately gave orders to untie Xu Huang and return his long-handled axe to him.

Xu Huang took his weapon and knelt down in front of Lu Cheng: "Xu Huang, I pay my respects to you, my lord!"

Lu Cheng reached out his hand and helped Xu Huang up: "Gongming, please stand up. You stay with Dian Wei for now, and we will make arrangements for you later."

"I will obey your orders!"

Xu Huang was one of the five best generals of Cao Wei. He participated in almost all the wars that Cao Cao later fought to unify the north. He was brave and resourceful, and was a rare talent as a general.

Xu Huang was extremely strict in leading his troops and was praised by Cao Cao many times, saying that he had the style of Zhou Yafu. Whenever Cao's army encountered some tough battles, Cao Cao would send Xu Huang as the vanguard general.

Xu Huang always fulfilled his mission, led his soldiers to advance straight into the enemy's territory, bravely took the lead and opened up a path for the army.

When Guan Yu flooded seven armies, captured Yu Jin, killed Pang De, and shocked the whole of China, even Boss Cao had the idea of ​​moving the capital.

It was Xu Huang who stepped forward and led a group of newly recruited soldiers to rescue Cao Ren who was besieged by Guan Yu. Xu Huang knew that his new soldiers were not enough to resist Guan Yu's army, so he avoided Guan Yu's army and used the method of making a feint to the east and attacking in the west to lure Guan Yu to send troops.

In the end, Guan Yu fell into the trap and was defeated. Xu Huang took the opportunity to lead his troops to attack Guan Yu's camp, completely defeating the Shu Han army, causing Shu Han to lose its only chance to advance into the Central Plains.

In terms of military strength, there are many generals under Lu Cheng who can beat Xu Huang today. But when it comes to commanding troops and fighting independently, not every general can do it.

Therefore, Lu Cheng first placed Xu Huang in Dian Wei's army, intending to keep him by his side, teach him well, and then let him go out to act on his own.

After arranging all matters in Guanzhong and winning over a great general, Lu Cheng was ready to take Liu Xie back to Jizhou.

With Emperor Liu Xie in his hands, Yanzhou, Sili, Xuzhou and other places could be said to be within his reach.

By then, I can sit in Luoyang and unify the north.

Before leaving, Lu Cheng left Huang Zhong and Hua Xiong in Guanzhong to guard Guanzhong together with Lu Su and Ju Shou.

Lu Su was an all-round talent who could give advice, govern internal affairs, conduct diplomacy with foreign princes, and go on expeditions with the army.

The most important thing is that no matter who Lu Su is with, as long as there is no conflict of principle, they can cooperate very well.

Although Ju Shou is a man of great talent, he has only been a member of the Lu Group for a relatively short time and his prestige is somewhat insufficient.

With Lu Su cooperating with Ju Su, plus Huang Zhong, Hua Xiong, as well as 50,000 elite soldiers from Liaodong and more than 30,000 Xiliang cavalry subdued by Hua Xiong, it is enough to guard the Guanzhong area.

Even if Ma Teng, Han Sui and others from Xiliang led their troops to attack, they would only be able to serve as food.