"Miss Xiaoyu, since you are in charge of the Department of Civil Affairs, do you have any good solutions for grain and grass?" Zhou Bo sank his breath, and suddenly looked at Li Xiaoyu and asked.

Although he didn't expect Li Xiaoyu to solve the problem if he could ask questions, he invited Li Xiaoyu to be his staff, and he always hoped that he could come out at a critical time to share the pressure for himself.

Li Xiaoyu originally wanted to say, "I'm not a god, how can I conjure up grain and grass", but when she saw Zhou Bo's gaze at her, she suddenly found that Zhou Bo had really given herself an important task today. Although she has just taken office not long ago, and she has dealt with a lot of civil affairs in the past few days, in retrospect, they are just some trivial things.

Today, she learned about the heavy responsibility of the yamen, and it was time for her to share this responsibility.

"This ...... I'm not sure, but Zhou Yuanjun you should give me a diǎn time to think of a way, maybe it is still possible to solve the problem of grain and grass. Li Xiaoyu didn't dare to accept it openly, and he was unwilling to say that he couldn't do it like this, so he said such vague words.

Zhou Bo knew that this matter couldn't be too urgent, he sighed and said, "Okay, you think about the grain and grass first." Then we will start discussing the plan of how to recruit the Anshan bandits. Li Xuzhong, you give Xiaoyu Niangzi more help, why don't you think of a solution with her. ”

Li Xuzhong was originally a scholar, and he didn't understand the matter of marching and fighting, so he naturally couldn't participate in the deliberations of these generals.

Immediately, Li Xuzhong and Li Xiaoyu retreated again. He took Li Xiaoyu to take a look at the government's statistics and predictions of the current grain and grass in the city, as well as how much official silver was left in the treasury. So that Li Xiaoyu can refer to it.

After Li Xuzhong and Li Xiaoyu left. Li Shuping couldn't help but ask Zhou Bo: "Zhou Envoy Jun." Do you want to continue to recruit these mountain bandits?"

"Right now, it's not a question of recruiting An. The first step is how we can establish some kind of relationship with the bandits, that is, get in touch. Whether it is encirclement and suppression, or sending people to negotiate, we must first find out the truth of the mountain bandits, and try our best to deal with those hostages first. Zhou Bo showed the courage of a leader and emphatically said the things that everyone didn't figure out.

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After thinking about it, Yue Yun said, "It's better for me to send scout troops to search the terrain around the iron mine at noon, on the one hand, to survey the geographical situation, and on the other hand, to reconnoiter the nest of the mountain bandits, so that we can take the next step." ”

Zhou Bo diǎn diǎn head, said with a smile: "Brother Yue, you have a lot of ideas, and you are not as impulsive as yesterday." ”

Yue Yun said with a smile: "It's not that Zhou Yuanjun reminded me!"

Li Shuping interjected: "In that case, why don't I go with the scout team too." Yesterday, only I know best where I was ambushed. I can help too. ”

Yue Yun looked at Zhou Bo and waited for his decision.

Zhou Bo took a deep breath and said, "Since this is the case, then let's decide so." Brother Yue, you and Li Shuping, together led the scout team to find the mountain bandits, and I diǎn, have already surveyed the terrain. But don't rush into conflict with the bandits, after all, we don't know their details yet, and if you get hurt or have some other accident, it will be bad. ”

Yue Yun and Li Shuping immediately said, "Don't worry. ”

After that, Yue Yun and Li Shuping immediately went out to prepare, although it was still early at the moment, the road to the iron mine was not easy to walk, so they still had to act in advance.

Li Xuzhong and Wang Kui didn't know what to do, and they both looked at Zhou Bo with blank eyes.

Zhou Bo pondered for a moment and said, "Brother Gao, you have withdrawn with all the recruits who entered the city last night, and continue to let them go to training." Wang Kui, cooperate with Li Xiaoyu and Li Xuzhong and start preparing some war materials. ”

Hearing this, Li Xuzhong and Wang Kui were stunned.

"Zhou Envoy, are you really going to fight? Didn't we say we were going to recruit An?" Li Xuzhong asked with some confusion.

"Zhao'an has a method of recruiting An, in case Zhao'an is not successful, or it is inevitable to kill the mountain bandits before Zhao'an, this battle will be won sooner or later. Therefore, we must prepare accordingly in advance. Zhou Bo said.

"I see. Li Xuzhong diǎn diǎn head said that he understood.

"I know, I'll go and finish it right away. Wang Kui said again and again.

Finally finished explaining these things, Li Xuzhong and Wang Kui both retreated-

In the evening of the same day, Zhou Bo thought that Yue Yun was the first to report the situation. Because Yue Yun was still in a hurry, he sent scouts to the iron mine to investigate the situation of the mountain bandits, which was naturally thunderous, and with the efficiency of the Yue family's army scouts, it would almost be fruitful in half a day.

But what he never expected was that the first person to report the progress to him was Li Xiaoyu.

It turned out that Li Xiaoyu and Li Xuzhong went to the city for a whole day of research, and Li Xiaoyu personally went to the city to inspect the people's conditions, and finally formulated three different sets of grain and grass maintenance plans.

Although she was happy that she had completed the task so quickly, she could only hide this joy in her heart before she got Zhou Bo's affirmation. In order not to be disappointed when Zhou Bo rejected, she tried to keep her heart heavy at the beginning.

After returning to the yamen to meet Zhou Bo, Li Xiaoyu immediately got to the point.

"Zhou Yuanjun, because now I don't know how many bandits there are, so I can only come up with the upper, middle and lower three grain and grass plans according to estimates, and the text has been sorted out by Lord Li. Li Xiaoyu looked cautious and said slowly. While speaking, she also looked at Zhou Bo from time to time, paying attention to the changes on Zhou Bo's face.

Zhou Bo was slightly stunned, he really didn't expect Li Xiaoyu to be so efficient.

"Do you really have three solutions in mind?" he asked, incredulous.

"Yes, what's wrong? Doesn't Zhou Yuanjun believe it?" Li Xiaoyu said a little proudly.

"It's not that I don't believe it, I'm just worried that the plan isn't good enough. Of course you didn't sue me before. I'm not going to say anything. I hope your plan can get to the crux of the matter!!" Zhou Bo said his opinion very bluntly.

He is not convinced that "slow work makes fine work". I just think that Li Xiaoyu has no experience in this material. How did you come up with a solution so quickly, and when you think about it, it's still three!

Li Xiaoyu snorted a little unhappily, and his little face turned red because of anger, but whenever he looked like this, he really showed a little bit of the cute beauty of the little pepper.

Zhou Bowei smiled and said, "Okay, okay, let's talk about what the solution is first." If what you're saying is really good, it means I'm not mistaken. I even looked down on you a little bit before. ”

Li Xiaoyu stuck out his little tongue, and then said, "Then I'll go straight to the book." The first plan is to assume that this gang of bandits is less than 200 people, I don't know if it's possible, but the 200 bandits should be very powerful in terms of the scope of the bandits. ”

Zhou Bo diǎn diǎn head did not interrupt Li Xiaoyu.

Li Xiaoyu continued: "If it is less than 200 people, then our grain and grass can sustain these people, and there is no need to worry about anything at all. Of course, no, the big deal can be to reduce the supply of porridge farms. Even so, presumably the common people will not care or notice anything. ”

Zhou Bo said: "Hmm. I agree. ”

Li Xiaoyu was a little relieved, of course, the first plan was not said, because in a city of tens of thousands of people, it would not matter if there were suddenly more than 200 people.

She sank and said, "If this gang of mountain bandits is more than 200 people, less than 2000 people. In this range, it is necessary to pay attention to the supply of grain and grass. Zhou Yuanjun must have trained these mountain bandits into soldiers, and based on the daily consumption of the 1,500 recruits who have already been saved, we must prepare an extra 150,000 stone of grain and grass on the original plan to maintain it until next autumn. ”

Zhou Bo touched his chin, he felt that the number of 150,000 stone grains and grass estimated by Li Xiaoyu was still a reasonable number. You must know that although 2,000 people are not much, they have to eat for a year, and there are even some constraints on grain and grass of 150,000 stones.

150,000 stone of grain and grass to solve, this is not an easy matter!

His face looked a little solemn, and he asked Li Xiaoyu, "Then what is your solution?"

Li Xiaoyu stretched out three fingers and said, "Three aspects." First, save, second, add, third, buy. ”

Zhou Bo thought about it, the province can be understood as starting to save grain and grass now, the daily supply of food is slightly reduced, and the surplus is stored for later use; as for buying, it is not difficult to understand, it is nothing more than using the money in the official treasury to buy military rations in other places. Anyway, the capital of the 10,000 taels of silver he brought from Lin'an still has thousands of taels of silver left, although these thousands of taels can't buy much grain and grass, but if you can increase some grain and grass, it will reduce some difficulties.

But he still hasn't figured out what "plus" means.

"What an addition is. He immediately asked Li Xiaoyu.

"Plus, naturally, it is to increase the progress of collecting food at the moment. Today, the number of people who go up to the mountains every day to hunt, gather fruit and fish in the river has increased from 200 to 400. If you want to recruit Ansan bandits, then this number will increase to 600 from now on. Of course, the recruits trained by Zhou Yuanjun can also let them collect food by the way when they participate in the training, which will kill two birds with one stone. Li Xiaoyu told eloquently.

"I see. After listening to Li Xiaoyu's words, Zhou Bo only felt that the solution proposed by Li Xiaoyu was not new or unique, but at least there was Cheng Dù to solve the problem, so he didn't doubt anything.

He slowly diǎn diǎn head and said, "Okay, even if this can solve the number of recruits within 2000, then what is your third plan?"

Li Xiaoyu breathed a sigh of relief, and then said: "The third plan is to assume that the number of these mountain bandits may have exceeded 2,000, but the maximum is less than 5,000. ”

Zhou Bo thought about it carefully and felt that if the number of these mountain bandits reached 5,000, then Li Shuping was attacked by the mountain bandits yesterday, and he was afraid that it would be impossible to escape back. Therefore, he thinks that it should not reach 5,000 people. And if there are really 5,000 people, the mountain bandits don't have to be mountain bandits for a long time, and they can directly attack the city.

He motioned for Li Xiaoyu to continue.

Li Xiaoyu said: "If the number of bandits is within this range, then the problem we face will be too big. Therefore, on the basis of the second set of plans, it is not at all helpful to buy food except for saving and adding, because the money is too small. ”

Zhou Bo diǎn diǎn head, the diǎn silver of the Guanghua military officer's treasury, all of which are his own private money, how much can it be?

"And what are you going to do?" he asked.

"I think that in addition to saving and adding, we should also add a loan. That is to borrow grain. The reason why I didn't propose to borrow it in the second set of plans was because I knew that Zhou Yuanjun had borrowed a lot of grain from Yue's army for the development of the Guanghua army in the past few months. That's why I use 'borrowing' as a last resort. ”

Li Xiaoyu said methodically, she knew that the methods she said now were the most critical, and she couldn't help but prove her ability to Zhou Bo, and she also had to be able to completely solve the problem.

Zhou Bo felt that Li Xiaoyu was very thoughtful, and indeed he didn't want to borrow grain and grass from the Yue family army anymore. It is not easy for the Yuejia army itself, it never takes a stitch from the common people, and the Yuejia army originally had much more troops than itself, and there were many more towns to worry about than themselves.

I was already embarrassed to borrow grain and grass for the first time, so I still had to support myself after that.

"Well, you have a good idea. He said.

"But because of the actual situation, we have to think about borrowing grain, of course, no matter how much we borrow, it can help, after all, we have more time for more grain and grass. Li Xiaoyu said very seriously.

"More time, you don't plan to procrastinate, do you?" Zhou Bo asked suspiciously.

"Of course not. With more time, we will be more sure to raise more food and grass. The reason why I plan to use the grain and grass from the official treasury to buy grain and grass is precisely because I plan to use the money to make some transactions, so as to make money from this capital and make money again. If you make more money, you can buy grain and grass there. Li Xiaoyu explained.

Zhou Bo's eyes lit up, and he couldn't help admiring this Li Xiaoyu's head melon seeds were really bright.

Li Xiaoyu didn't wait for Zhou Bo to speak, and then said: "Because it takes a long time to do business, we must strive to store more grain and grass to maintain the cycle of trading." ”

Zhou Bo looked at his head deeply and sighed: "Very good, your idea is very bold, but it is also a good idea." So what are you going to do about it?"

Li Xiaoyu was very happy when he heard Zhou Bo's appreciation, but then Zhou Bo asked another question and suddenly became embarrassed. She had only been in a day, so naturally she hadn't thought of so many things, but she had some outlines, so she said:

"I, I didn't think about so many details, but I think that since our Guanghua military land is at the junction of the north and the south, it is better to take the silver to the north to do business, and buy goods from the north to sell in the south, and we will definitely make a lot of silver. (To be continued.) )