“...... Now that we have completely mastered Pizhou, the wealthy merchants and landlords in the city and the Zhuangbao outside the city have also surrendered, and all the fields that can be cleared have been cleared, and by next year, the harvested grain will be enough for us to train 30,000 horses!"

Tan Youdao is now the master of the palace, holding a booklet in his hand, and he is reporting to Feng Yuan the harvest of this period of time.

Nowadays, Pizhou has undergone great changes.

The thieves in the mountains and forests outside the city, under the strangulation of Jiang Yingjie, Huang Shouzheng and others, were either destroyed or escaped from Pizhou.

There are also displaced people who have entered Pizhou, and they have also been trained, among which the strong are organized into soldiers, and the soldiers are trained in Tuntian, and the old and weak women and children do some miscellaneous work of sewing military uniforms.

Without the homeless people and robbers, Pizhou suddenly became a lot safer.

Nowadays, there are many people who are officials, but people who can really do practical things are very rare, although Tan Youdao was born in a green forest cottage, but his ability far exceeds those prefects and county orders.

With him coordinating the overall situation, coupled with the assistance of many newly recruited clerks, the entire Pizhou affairs are well organized.

Feng Yuan's power can develop so rapidly, and Tan Youdao has contributed a lot.

"Master Tan has worked hard!"

Feng Yuan nodded, a look of appreciation on his face. His gaze turned and fell on Jiang Yingjie.

"Jiang Qianhu, how many of the princes' troops are there now, and how many of them are elite soldiers who can go into battle?"

Jiang Yingjie stood up, arched his hand, and replied: "Little prince, now there are 4,500 people in the royal army, and there are 2,300 young and strong homeless people who have just been recruited. The total strength was 6,800 men. ”

"Among them, there are only 2,000 elite soldiers who can go into battle! The other more than 4,000 recruits can also go into battle as long as they train for two months!"

These days, Feng Yuan is sitting in the city and rectifying internal affairs with Tan Youdao, while Jiang Yingjie and Huang Shouzheng are constantly training recruits in accordance with the new book of discipline and the method of training soldiers.

During the training, the two took turns to lead people to attack and clean up the bandits and bandits in Pizhou.

After constantly going into battle to see blood, the soldiers who were originally just forming combat effectiveness continued to increase, and their strength at least doubled.

Therefore, don't look at Feng Yuan's command of only 2,000 elite soldiers who can go into battle, and when it comes to real battles, they can be equal to tens of thousands of officers or thieves.

"But ......"

Jiang Yingjie's tone paused slightly, and he glanced at Feng Yuan and Tan Youdao.

"Although we have a lot of troops, but there is a shortage of weapons and armor, as well as bows, arrows and shields, now we can only ensure the integrity of the pro-army weapons, and the recruits are now training with wooden sticks, if there are no weapons, no matter how good the training is, they can't go into battle!"

Jiang Yingjie said that Feng Yuan certainly knew it.

He occupied Pizhou and recruited troops on a large scale, and he couldn't completely hide it from others.

Now Zhao Zhilong, the commander of the battalion in Jinling, Han Zanzhou, the garrison eunuch, and Shi Kefa, the secretary of the military department, should already know what Feng Yuan did in Pizhou.

Even Lu Zhenfei, the governor of Cao Yun and the governor of Huaiyang, regarded Feng Yuan as an ambitious vassal king.

If it weren't for the fact that the situation in the north was very bad for the imperial court, Lu Zhenfei would have mobilized troops and horses to exterminate Pizhou.

At this time, the Qin soldiers led by Sun Chuanting were fighting against Li Zicheng.

In addition to Sun Chuanting's soldiers and horses, there was no elite in the Ming court.

In the absence of elite soldiers in their hands, whether it was the three high-ranking officials of Jinling or Lu Zhenfei, they could only block the road and set up many obstacles in the direction of Huaiyang.

made Feng Yuan unable to obtain weapons, materials, and grain and grass, so that he could not expand and grow rapidly.

"Don't worry, it won't be long before food and ordnance can be delivered!"

Feng Yuan said casually.

Gu Rujin has received the news that Min Zihua of the Xiandu faction has arrived in Jinling.

Along with him are the Ten Forces Master of Qingliang Temple in Wutai Mountain, Shanxi, Zheng Qiyun, the leader of the Seventy-two Islands Alliance of Zhejiang and Fujian Pirates, Taibai Sanying of the Taibai faction of Taibai Mountain in Shaanxi, and Wanli Feng of the Kunlun faction.

There are also the three apprentices of the Huashan Sect's Divine Fist Invincible Return to Xin Shu.

These people are all first-class players on the rivers and lakes, and each of them is similar to Jiao Gongli's martial arts.

Now that Yuan Chengzhi is nowhere to be seen, if Feng Yuan doesn't make a move, the Golden Dragon Gang will not be able to escape this catastrophe.

"These first-class masters, except for Taibai Sanying and the people of the Huashan faction, everyone else has some chivalrous hearts and can distinguish between right and wrong, as long as they can suppress the people of the Huashan faction, they can help the Golden Dragon Gang solve this grievance!"

Feng Yuan silently pondered.

As long as you can resolve grievances for the Golden Dragon Gang, you can accept Jiao Gongli. The Golden Dragon Gang in the south is the wings, and the food and ordnance can be purchased in large quantities through the manpower of the Golden Dragon Gang.

"It would be nice if we could go by sea! Using the canal to transport grain and ordnance would be easily intercepted by the governor of Caoyun and the people of Jinling!"

It's a pity that Feng Yuan's men don't have boats, so they can't take this shortcut.

By the time the deliberations were over, more than two hours had passed.

When everyone dispersed, Feng Yuan rubbed his eyebrows and soothed his nerves.

"The power is just starting, and there are really a lot of things!"

For more than a month, Feng Yuan has spent a lot of time every day dealing with the affairs of Pizhou, and the time spent on practicing has been greatly shortened.

Often after cultivating internal strength, there is not enough time to temper the fist and foot knife skills.

Tan Youdao and the seven or eight scribes who had just been recruited, although they were capable, were limited by their backgrounds and their vision was not high.

As the saying goes, these people are just the talents of the prefecture and county. There is no greater strategic vision. Even Tan Youdao lacks some talents, and he can't compare with Gu Junen and Li Yan under Li Zicheng.

The plan for the development of the forces, as well as the strategy for the future, Feng Yuan can only think alone.

The sky is clear and the breeze is blowing.

The constant heat has finally dropped.

On this day, Feng Yuan asked Jiang Yingjie and Tan Youdao to stay behind, and he took Gu Rujin and Sun Qi and others to Jinling quietly. Prepare to follow the plan and subdue the Golden Dragon Gang.

Along the way, nothing happened, and everyone boarded the ferry smoothly and prepared to set off by water.

"Childe, the villain feels a little wrong, we seem to be being targeted!"

After boarding a ferry, Sun Qi's gaze swept left and right of the ferry, his expression solemn.

He quietly came to Feng Yuan's side and whispered.

"Could it be that you have encountered a water thief?" Gu Rujin frowned.

Feng Yuan's expression remained unchanged, and after getting on the ship, he also sensed that someone was peeping in the shadows through his powerful five senses, and it seemed to be the sailor on the ship.

Among these sailors, there are many strong and strong fighters, and they also look like people in the rivers and lakes.

However, with Feng Yuan's current strength, no one can threaten his safety.

So he can sit firmly on the Diaoyu Tai, observe coldly, and wait for the enemy in the shadows to jump out.

"The biggest force in the river, apart from the Wenxiang Sect, is the strongest in the Longyou Gang! The Longyou Gang has dozens of boats and ships, and often plunders merchant ships...... Based on the villain's calculations, it should be the Longyou Gang who is eyeing us!" Sun Qi said.

Rong Cai, the leader of the Longyou Gang, acts in the same style as those thieves who occupy the mountains on the green forest road.

The difference may be that when the bandits robbed, they shouted, "I opened this mountain, and I planted this tree." And when he hijacked the ship on the water, he shouted, "The guest officer wants to eat pandao noodles or wonton noodles." ”