That night, when everything was settled, Liu Feng did not say too much greetings at the wine table, and after a few glasses of wine, he said goodbye, he didn't have the heart to waste too much energy on these unnecessary entertainments, Deng Junliang and Zeng Xiangru were also brought out by Liu Feng.

In the study of the City Lord's Mansion, a cup of hot tea was down, and the wine slowly dissipated, Liu Feng smiled and said, "Forgive me for being abrupt, I called the two of you over, the current situation is really not waiting for me!" I learned about the situation in Cizhou a day earlier, and I might as well take over a moment earlier. ”

Deng Junliang and Zeng Xiangru were stunned by these words, and then they also had a sense of kinship, according to their thoughts, at least a few more days before Liu Feng would deal with the affairs of Cizhou City, but Liu Feng did so, but both of them are also pragmatic people, and they both understand that the current situation in Cizhou is very unsatisfactory, and they also admire Liu Feng's attitude in their hearts. Liu Feng said respectfully: "Please also ask Deng Tingshi to tell me about the current situation in Cizhou!" ”

Deng Junliang led the history of Cizhou for about eight years, except for military affairs, he rarely asked, most of the other affairs were managed by him, if there is anyone who knows the details of Cizhou best, it is Deng Junliang. Seeing Liu Feng like this, he also understood that Cizhou City at this time was a race against time, took a sip of tea, and said: "Let Xiangru take the archives and documents in the city first, so that you can understand some of the situations in detail." ”

Zeng Xiangru moved over after a while, and with a thick stack of papers, he arched his hand to Liu Feng and said: "Lord of the city, the account books and records of the grain and grass soldiers and soldiers in the Dingkou warehouse of Cizhou City are all here. ”

Liu Feng nodded and smiled and motioned for him to take a seat, and he was handsome, he knew that the records in the document were not so accurate, he didn't want to record the numbers, he wanted to really understand the situation in Cizhou, if Deng Junliang was not very cooperative, he would have to think of another way. He also knew that Deng Junliang, a wise man in Cizhou, was very capable in handling government affairs, and he was also quite popular in Cizhou, but if he didn't cooperate, Liu Feng would have no choice but to give up and find another assistant.

However, Deng Junliang is not a person who does not know the times, he saw Liu Feng's concentration, and slowly said: "This is the statistics of a month ago, although it is not accurate, but it is not much different, the situation in Cizhou City is probably like this, more than 32,600 Dingkou, including more than 2,300 soldiers, divided into three battalions on the left, middle and right, the first right battalion has been dispersed, and now there are only more than 1,800 soldiers, more than 350 craftsmen, and there are 168 craftsmen in Cizhou. ”

Liu Feng listened to Deng Junliang's narration and checked the statistics on the side, as Deng Junliang said, the situation in Cizhou City is indeed about the same, in terms of cultivated land, there are 350 hectares of land, but there are only more than 60 hectares of fertile land, and the rest are dry fields and mountain fields and other "and" level fields. In terms of cultivating cattle, mules and horses, the Zeng family is very wealthy, but for the real Cizhou City, there are only more than 600 horses, and the two rider teams in the city have made Liu Feng scrap one, and now there are only more than 200 riders left in the middle camp.

In terms of armor, Cizhou City is much stronger than Liujiabao, Cizhou's military manufacturing department has craftsmen who make armor, although those armor has been repaired many times, but there are still more than 2,000 pairs, more than 600 pairs of various bows, more than 100,000 arrows, spears and horizontal knives are also fully reserved, and raw wrought iron is also equipped with nearly 10,000 catties. If there was no drought, it would be difficult for Liujiabao to have a chance to take Cizhou City without blood. Liu Feng nodded with satisfaction, the weapons reserves in Cizhou City were greatly unexpected by him.

When Zeng Xiangru concluded the topic, he introduced the situation inside and outside the city, the tax granary of the people's households, and by the way, he also reported the impact of the drought to Liu Feng. Only then did Liu Feng realize how bad the situation in Cizhou City was, and he also knew in his heart that Zeng Yu had squeezed all the potential of Cizhou into armaments. In the entire Cizhou City, only the more than 60 hectares of fertile land can still be harvested, and the other fields are not much different if they are not harvested, which means that tens of thousands of villagers in Cizhou will sit on the empty mountain, and this year they will have to deal with the sacking of the Khitan wolf ride.

The situation of grain storage is even worse, there are less than 30,000 stone grain in the city, which is only enough for the villagers in the city to eat for three months, and at that time, the Khitan wolf rode just south to plunder, 60 hectares of fertile land can collect up to 25,000 stones, these grains are not enough for the villagers of Cizhou to survive the winter, but fortunately, there are more than 50,000 Dingkou in Cizhou, and now there are more than 32,000 left, so the pressure on Liu Feng is not so heavy.

In terms of taxation, as Liu Feng thought, almost all of them were invested in ordnance by Zeng Yu, and the reason why the military construction office in the city was able to gather more than 100 craftsmen was due to Zeng Yu's indispensability, and the Zeng family itself was also training the soldiers, paying a lot of price. With a pitiful number on his face, Liu Feng couldn't help but smile bitterly, no wonder Zeng Yu handed over the big seal, with a relieved expression on his face, this pit in Cizhou City is not shallow.

Deng Junliang has been beside the peak's expression, he has been working hard for Cizhou City, naturally knows the current situation of Cizhou City, and he has tried his best to do it, but the situation in the city continues to deteriorate, but fortunately, there is Liujiabao in the south of Cizhou, which takes in the villagers who fled from Cizhou, and does not gather civil disasters in places like Luzhou.

It is indeed the same, Cizhou can still maintain the current situation, Deng Junliang is hard work, without his support, the city's ordnance reserves can not reach such a point, and the Deng family has almost no reserves, the left battalion of the Cizhou soldiers, is also maintained by the Deng family, in the year of drought, the business on the grassland of the Zeng family is less affected, but as the largest landlord in Cizhou City, the Deng family has suffered the most, and now it is only barely maintained, so that the villagers do not starve to death.

Zeng Xiangru is also looking forward to what kind of changes this young city lord with many halos can bring to Cizhou.

After being silent for a long time, Liu Feng took his eyes off these account books, raised his head, and said to Deng Junliang: "Uncle Deng, I have a general understanding of the situation in the city, and some ideas are not too mature. ”

Although Deng Junliang and Zeng Xiangru would not lie to him, but until the field investigation, Liu Feng's heart was not steady, he didn't think that in the time of Cizhou's crisis, those scribes could still record the data of Cizhou City so objectively, he thought that maybe the real situation was worse than this, but some of his next actions must be based on the real situation.