After the victory of the first defensive battle, Rongchang City ushered in a rare time of peace.

But this is not a good sign, more like a calm on the eve of a storm.

After this battle, the various dynasties understood that the Great Wall of Glory was not a fat piece of meat, but a bone, a bone that was very difficult to gnaw and toothy.

Therefore, the major dynasties quickly formed a combined army to attack Rongchang City under the banner of recovering the lost territory for the Yonghe Dynasty.

According to reliable sources, the combined army will be assembled within a month, and in forty days it will be ready to enter the city.

At this juncture, the most important thing is to raise enough food and grass for the people in the city to exhaust the enemy's food so that they can return in vain.

Zhang Zhao also followed Bai Xing's advice, brewed more grain and grass during this time, and handed over the matter to the Minister of Military Quartermaster Wan Sanqian to deal with it personally.

On this day, Wan Sanqian came to the palace to meet Zhang Zhao.

Seeing Wan Sanqian coming, Zhang Zhao thought there was some good news, so he asked: "How are the preparations for the grain and grass issue?"

I saw that the thirteen thousand faces did not change, and said lightly: "Enough for fifty days." ”

"What? fifty days!"

Hearing this number, Zhang Zhaowei was really frightened, the granary of Rongchang City had already prepared fifty days of grain and grass, but now it is still fifty days, doesn't that mean that there has been nothing done for so many days?

"Brother Wansanqian, you're a little immoral, aren't you? As the Minister of Munitions and the Minister of Logistics, you only prepared 50 days of food and grass when you saw that a war was about to start?"

Wan Sanqian seemed to have been prepared, and said lightly: "I have distributed grain and grass to the army, and there is not a single grain of grain in the twelve granaries in the whole city, and these fifty days of grain and grass are collected from the civilian side." ”

As soon as he heard this, Zhang Zhao suddenly had an urge to curse, which asked you to prepare food, but not only did you not prepare, but you scavenged the food of the civilians.

"No, you'll have to give me a reasonable explanation. ”

"Explanation, no explanation, but I had an idea, a very bold idea. ”

This sentence made Zhang Zhao laugh, thinking about how everyone had learned from Bai Xing, no matter what was a bold idea.

"Hehe, okay, you can talk about it. ”

Wan Sanqian nodded and said, "Now that Rongchang City is getting stronger and stronger, the army is strong and strong, so the civilians think that the army is enough, and few people are willing to join the army. Now there is no food in their hands, only the army, and when the enemy army besieges the city, they will naturally join the army when they run out of food. ”

Hearing this, Zhang Zhao couldn't help frowning, this is indeed a good way, to buy the food in the hands of civilians at a high price as military supplies, they will definitely find a way to fill their stomachs when they have no food, and at this time, the army has food, and it is free to eat, they will definitely join the army enthusiastically.

It's a bit unkind, but it's definitely a good one.

It's just that there is a fatal problem at the moment, that is, there is really very little food, even if they join the army, they have to face the relationship of food shortage.

"Have you ever thought that now the army has fifty days of food and grass, and fifty days of the granary is only enough for the existing army. The food in the hands of the civilians barely lasted until the enemy besieged the city, and if they joined the army, the food would have to be supplied to the whole city, which would be less than ten days. ”

"That's why I said I had a bold idea. ”

Wan Sanqian stepped forward and said in a solemn voice: "I'm not good at arranging troops, but I'm also a hot-blooded man, since the enemy is coming, even if it's a large army, why do we have to fight the trapped beasts, why don't we open the city gate and go out of the city to meet the enemy like before? ”

As soon as they heard this, everyone was silent, although Wan Sanqian's thoughts were one-sided, but they also had to admit that sometimes when they encountered trouble, simple and rude was the best choice.

Zhang Zhao agreed to this method without any hesitation, so he ordered: "Order the major military camps in the east, west, north and south to start recruiting troops and horses now, in addition to the high military salary, add one more, and anyone who joins the army can distribute one pound of grain to his family a day after forty days." ”

As soon as the order was issued, it reached the four major military camps within ten minutes.

The location in the eastern part of the city is the most important, so let the strongest Hua Yuerong serve as the generalissimo. The north of the city was served by Zhu Linxiao, who had a meritorious role in retreating from the enemy last time, and the south of the city was handed over to Yan Yan, but the west of the city had not yet found a suitable candidate, so Bai Xing was temporarily put in charge.

After the task was issued, the four major military camps began to post notices to recruit soldiers and horses, and according to Zhang Zhao's instructions, they began to let their families share one pound of grain a day after 40 days.

When they saw the news, the civilians in the city also had their own thoughts, some people thought that their food was still enough, and the army did not need manpower at present, so they did not join the army

Only a very small number of people can see through the current situation and think that this is a lesson from the past, so they let one of their families go to the barracks to join the army.

However, wise people are often always a minority, and in a day, there are not many people who can perceive the opportunity, and the four major military camps together have recruited less than 200 people, and many of them are several people from a family, and if you count them according to households, there are less than 80 households.

After the Purple Yang Sect went through an extreme cultivation and martial arts competition, Zhang Zhao didn't care much about it, and the elders arranged the rest of the things properly. Each peak vein, there will be a competition almost every three days, and there will be a promotion competition every twenty days, and at the end of the month, it will be the promotion competition of the entire Ziyang Sect.

Everything is developing in an orderly manner, and no one is too far behind.

As time passed, twenty days passed quickly.

The location of Rongchang City is very good, the four seasons are distinct, and it is just over half of July, and it will immediately turn into autumn.

In the days that followed, after a few autumn rains, people also put on shirts to resist the bleak autumn wind.

"Tut-tut"

There was a burst of babbling sounds, and then I heard someone say: "The dignified former city lord of Rongchang City, the current immortal king, a generation of martial gods, actually cut wheat here, if you say this, I'm afraid no one will believe it." ”

The people who came were the two prime ministers, Shang Bai and Zhu Mao.

Now it is the autumn harvest season, because I lost a bet with Zhang Zhao at the beginning of the year, this time the seeds are all in charge of Wan Sanqian, so this time it is an unprecedented harvest.

Zhang Zhao also put on a straw hat, picked up a sickle and went down to the field to collect wheat.