When it came to inspecting the fields, things started badly on the first day.

After returning to Julu City, Liu Bei hurriedly prepared Zizhong and mobilized manpower.

After more than a thousand carts of money and two hundred carts of food and grass were prepared, Liu Bei led his troops out of the city and set off immediately.

At that time, Li Mengxi and Guan Yu were still in the women's and children's camp. The baby rescued from Masheng Village arrived at the women's and children's camp. The women's helpers took care of it, fed some milk, and dissolved some maltose in warm water.

, after feeding, the baby's complexion actually improved visibly.

Maltose is really a good thing, just like milk powder. It is very suitable for seriously ill infants with weak digestion ability and so on.

Liu Bei's personal soldiers came to tell him that Liu Bei was leaving for Zhuozhou.

Li Mengxi was stunned. He had packed up so quickly and left in such a hurry. Li Mengxi and Guan Yu hurried out of the city. Outside the north gate, Liu Bei was waiting by the roadside.

When Li Mengxi and Guan Yu arrived hand in hand, Liu Bei said to them, "Xi'er, Yun Chang, I'll set off as soon as it's early.

I'll leave you two to worry about military matters."

Li Mengxi and Guan Yu solemnly agreed.

After that, Liu Bei set off with his long motorcade. In a moment, the entire team disappeared into the snow and wind.

After watching Liu Bei leave, Li Mengxi's heart did not fluctuate much. He took a breath of mist and scratched his head. There were many things to do and he had to continue to be busy.

Returning to the city, Li Mengxi immediately mobilized the caravan and military doctors. There were hundreds of military doctors in the army, and only twenty of them were left behind. Li Mengxi was ready to send out all the others.

All the stored medicinal materials and three ingredients were taken away by the military doctor when he was out.

There are also vehicles and carriages all mobilized, as well as food, pottery pots for cooking, firewood, tents for camping in the wild, bedding, etc.

Each overseas medical team has a military doctor as its core, and is equipped with two cavalry guards and two scouts. It is also equipped with two carriages, which carry food, firewood, tents and other items.

After quickly deploying personnel and materials, there was still one thing missing.

As planned before, the essential purpose of sending medical teams to the countryside is to see that the people in the countryside are in miserable conditions due to lack of food and medicine. The purpose of sending military doctors there is to provide relief to the people in Julu Township.

This was the purpose, but Li Mengxi saw an excellent publicity opportunity.

If the Zhuozhou Army wants to seize Julu, this is what they must do.

But, how to seize control? The people of Julu were deeply affected by the war. It is estimated that if they went directly to check the place, the people saw the Xiang Yong wearing armor and holding a sword, and immediately thought that another military disaster was coming, and probably fled overnight.

The common people fled when they saw the Yellow Turbans, and they also fled when they saw the officers and soldiers. Naturally, they also fled when they saw Liu Xuande's soldiers.

Liu Xuande was benevolent and righteous, not hurting the people? Who was Liu Xuande? How could the people in the countryside know what the situation was like in Julu? The Yellow Turban Rebellion had just ended, and Liu Bei's name had not yet been widely known. How could the people know who Liu Xuande was, and how could they not be afraid of Liu Xuande?

Therefore, according to the original plan, after settling hundreds of thousands of troops, they went directly to inventory the local population and fields. This plan actually had many loopholes.

The flaw is that Li Mengxi ignored the people's support and neglected that the Zhuozhou Rebel Army had not yet established its loyalty in the Julu countryside. If he directly started to sort out the area, many people would flee in disbelief, and many would rise up and fight without knowing it.

The old plan lacks foundation and is bound to cause problems.

Fortunately, he met a group of hungry people in Masheng Village who were dying of hunger and cold. Fortunately, Li Mengxi realized that there was something to be done in this.

Li Mengxi did not expect that he would encounter many obstacles in the investigation of the place. He simply thought that the powerful landlords were the resistance to the Zhuozhou Army's control of Julu County. He did not expect that the people themselves would also be xenophobic and wary of soldiers and horses.

, guard against any troops, including the Zhuozhou Army.

He failed to foresee this potential problem.

However, although he could not see the problem, Li Mengxi thought that he could take advantage of the relief to the people to build up his credibility and pave the way for a large-scale farming in the coming year. This combination of circumstances solved the big trouble in the area controlled by the Zhuozhou Army.

There is a saying, "A house that accumulates good deeds will always be blessed." It means that if you do more good deeds on a daily basis, you will be lucky enough to be rewarded.

Just like now, if Liu Xuande and Li Mengxi had not wanted to sincerely save the people of Julu, they would not have thought of sending military doctors to various places to rescue them. If they had not thought of sending military doctors in large numbers, Li Mengxi would not have thought of taking advantage of this opportunity.

Operation, you can take the opportunity to publicize it, and you will not accidentally solve the biggest problem of controlling Julu's people's hearts.

This means that a house that accumulates good deeds will surely be blessed.

If Li Mengxi had not been a kind-hearted person and was willing to put in the effort to do good things, he would not have been lucky enough to avoid major problems.

All the carriages and military medical supplies in the army were ready for use. Li Mengxi took an inventory and found that there was still one thing missing, a flag.

The most common flags in the army are the Han military flags with the word "Han" written on them. This kind of flag is the standard military flag style of the Han Dynasty.

The military doctors are going to the countryside to practice medicine, so they cannot just carry a Han military flag there.

Otherwise, when the people saw it, they would look at the banner of the Han Dynasty and ask, are the imperial troops coming?

How to answer?

This is a political issue that is not humane to outsiders. Li Mengxi deliberately used a different flag to distinguish it from the Han court as much as possible. Therefore, the Han flag must not be used. The Han flag can be abandoned and the "Liu" flag can be used.

In this way, after the military doctors went to the countryside and delivered medicine and medicine to the villagers, the people pointed to the big flag with a Liu character and asked, "Who do you belong to? Are you willing to control the life and death of my people?"

The military doctor replied, "We are under the command of Liu Xuande of Zhuozhou."

Since then, the villagers have kept it in their hearts, knowing that the person who cares about the people is Liu Xuande from Zhuozhou, not the court or the government.

Who is this Liu Xuande? The hungry and cold people, holding medicine and food in their hands, looked at the leaving military medical team and the big flag with the word "Liu" fluttering in the wind and snow, and they couldn't help but become curious.

Why does the imperial court care about the life and death of the people, and Liu Xuande from Zhuozhou is willing to take care of it, so why don't the people look forward to seeing Liu Xuande?

This is Li Mengxi's purpose.

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! You cannot carry the Han flag. Carrying the Han flag means doing things to gain prestige for the Han court; carrying the Liu Xuande flag has nothing to do with the Han court.

The problem lies here. There are many types of Han military flags captured in the army, but there is not much preparation for this big flag with the character [Liu].

In desperation, we still had to temporarily produce.

Fortunately, the army had enough knives, cuttings, needlework, and cloth, as well as women who knew how to needlework, and cloth.

Li Mengxi asked Guan Yu uncertainly, "General Guan, what is the style of Xuande Gong's handsome flag?"

Guan Yu thought for a moment, "It seems... red background, black characters?"

Li Mengxi thought about it more seriously and realized that it was true that the main color of the Han military flag was also red with black characters. Liu Xuande, a die-hard Han man, when Liu Xuande made the flag for himself, he chose the same color as the Han military flag, which was also red with black characters.

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So Li Mengxi found red cloth and black cloth and told the women to use the red cloth as the base, cut out the black cloth and sew the words on it.

Soon, many women were busy working together, and within a short period of time, a large number of large flags with the word "Liu" in red and black characters were sewn.

Once the flag is ready, it is equipped with a wooden pole and made into a flag. Then, each military medical team issues one flag.

Li Mengxi lectured a group of military doctors, "You are here to help the people of Julu Township.

What is relief? If you go to every village, you must not miss a village. But when you meet a villager, you must go and look at them. Give food to those who are in need of food, diagnose and treat those who are sick, and give medicine to those who are in need of medicine. This will surely make our army

Benevolence spreads throughout the countryside.

Remember, if someone from the countryside asks, who are you soldiers and horses? Under whose command, please remember, I don’t say they are the imperial soldiers and horses, I just say they are under the command of Liu Xuande of Zhuozhou, can you understand me?"

"Remember, we cannot say that they are imperial troops, but they are under the command of Liu Xuande of Zhuozhou, and they are the rebels of Zhuozhou!"

After Li Mengxi emphasized again and again, he looked at the convoy that was ready to go and gave the order "Let's go!"

In an instant, the convoy dispersed through four doors, left the city, and headed in all directions.

According to the military order, each military medical convoy should look for it on its own and take whatever road it wants to take. The requirement is that it enters every village and no villagers are left behind.

The reason for this order was actually that the Zhuozhou Army did not know much about Julu. It was unable to know the details of Julu's various locations and had no way to divide areas and assign manpower.

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Liu Xuande returned to Zhuozhou with Qian Caizi. After the military doctors from Julu City came out, they waited for four or five days. During these four or five days, Li Mengxi did not carry out any land inventory. He was waiting for a time lag for the military medical team to pass by first.

Once again, after the credibility of the Zhuozhou Army is established, the next step is to investigate the local affairs.

On the 15th, a military medical team arrived in front of a village in the wind and snow.

There were people in the village. They were wearing coir raincoats, carrying ropes on their backs, and holding hatchets, ready to chop wood outside.

When they met, the cavalrymen of the military medical team came forward to say hello. Unexpectedly, when the villagers saw the man on horseback and holding a knife, they thought that another military disaster was coming. The villagers who were about to chop wood were so frightened that they ran back in a puff of smoke.

When the scout saw the man running away in fright, he rode up to chase him, hoping to catch up and negotiate.

But the more the scouts chased, the more the villagers became frightened when they saw the cavalry chasing them. After all, the cavalry was much faster than people.

When the cavalry chased the people in the middle of the village, a group of villagers running out of the village with hoes, sickles, and sometimes two crossbows rushed out and surrounded the people.

The villagers did not want to commit murder, but were afraid that criminals would enter the village and rob them. The scout looked at the frightened villagers and frowned, saying, "Don't be afraid, we are under the command of Liu Xuande of Zhuozhou, and we have come to rescue the villagers on military orders."

After the scout finished speaking, the villagers looked at each other with confusion.

At this time, the military doctor from behind came. The military doctor of this team was a kind old man with a white beard and a medicine bag on his back.

Seeing an elder approaching, an old man walked out from the village. The old man asked the military doctor why he was here.

The old military doctor tightened his medicine bag, looked at the crowd of talented villagers, and said with a smile, "We are here under military orders to help the villagers."

The village elder hesitated for a moment, "...No one in my village has contracted the disease." As he spoke, the elder looked embarrassed.

"Hey, whether you are sick or not, why not let me take a look? I won't take any money from you!"

As soon as he heard that there was no need for money, the clan leader immediately let the military doctor in.

The misunderstanding was resolved. This group of soldiers who had captured several people were not villains. They only said they were here to provide medical relief. It was really strange.

After that, the old military doctor carefully diagnosed and treated the villagers one by one and checked their pulses. Among the military doctors in Zhuozhou, the medical style was simple and upright, and the same was true for the old military doctor. When he came here, the old military doctor did not treat the villagers but was a little negligent.
To be continued...