In addition to enriching the population of Xuzhou by sending land to attract a large number of displaced people, Xiao Yao also dispersed the soldiers under his command and established a military household village in the villages near Xuzhou City!

And the soldiers who live in Jinhu Village are actually the more than 10,000 ordinary infantry left after Xiao Yao selected the elite of the 10,000 elites from the 20,000 infantry in Lu Guangda's hands! Because Xiao Yao is taking the route of elite soldiers, and what he wants to build is an elite army that has always used firearms, so he doesn't need an army that only has quantity but no quality!

And these ordinary soldiers who were screened out, Xiao Yao did not let them demobilize, but turned them into production soldiers, and gave them a happy and arduous task, that is, they were in the military village, organized families, and had children as soon as possible!

Because the war led to more men and fewer women in Xuzhou, and there were a large number of widows, these more than 10,000 soldiers were directly turned into production soldiers by Xiao Yao, not only building villages for them, distributing houses, but also distributing land to them, and finally assigning wives to them, so that they could produce food during the day and children at night!

Although being eliminated from the main force means that there is basically no chance to change their fate by making meritorious contributions on the battlefield, these soldiers ran to be soldiers at that time, in fact, it was to make a living, but I didn't expect that after being incorporated into Xiao Yao's command, not only did they not need to fight on the battlefield, they lived a life of fear and death, and now they have given themselves so many benefits, not only have a house and a land, but also a wife! This made these soldiers all grateful to Xiao Yao, bowed their heads, and called Xiao Yao the reincarnation of the gods, a great benevolent person who saved the suffering!

These soldiers were very satisfied with Xiao Yao's decree, but Lu Guangda was dissatisfied with Xiao Yao's decree that deprived him of military power in disguise, and then directly found Xiao Yao to ask for an explanation!

"General Xiao, why do you want to let all these soldiers be disrupted, and then assign them to different villages to become farmers? Although Tuntian is indeed very helpful to the people of Xuzhou, it will also make the soldiers focus on farming, so that they neglect to train, and how will they go into battle when the time comes! Lu Guangda said dissatisfiedly.

"I'm not going to let them fight!" Xiao Yao replied directly, making Lu Guangda speechless for a while!

"I know that General Lu is worried that we are not strong enough, and if we encounter an enemy attack, we may not be able to deal with it, but haven't I already picked out 10,000 elite soldiers and incorporated them into the forward brigade? General Lu, don't underestimate my expanded forward brigade, I only had 5,000 people at the beginning, and I could take the initiative to attack and defeat the Qi army with tens of thousands of people! Now it has been tripled, and I dare say that even if an army of 100,000 comes to attack Xuzhou, my forward brigade will still be able to defeat them! Xiao Yao said proudly, not caring at all about Lu Guangda, who had already suffocated his face into the color of pork liver.

"But they are soldiers recruited by our Chen State, and General Xiao directly sent them to be peasants, wasted their training, and did not report this matter to His Majesty at all, which is not good!" Lu Guangda moved out of Chen Xu to put pressure on Xiao Yao.

"Will be outside, the king's order will not be affected! If you have to consult Your Majesty for everything, then Your Majesty will not be annoyed to death by these little things? Xiao Yao continued to scare Lu Guangda and said.

"General Ben will tell General Lu a secret by the way, in fact, because of the relationship between the general firm, the more than 5,000 soldiers of my forward brigade have never received military salaries from His Majesty! But I don't blame Your Majesty for this, because he mobilized Chen Guo's resources to support me in producing and manufacturing various firearms for the Forward Brigade, in fact, this cost is already more than the military salary! However, General Lu knows that since General Lu and more than 20,000 infantry were incorporated into my Xuzhou army, His Majesty still has not given me a copper coin salary, but in the past few months, General Lu and other soldiers have been able to get their salaries as scheduled! Xiao Yao looked like I was the boss and I was in charge, and said domineeringly.

"What does General Xiao mean is that we have more than 20,000 soldiers, and most of the military salaries for half a year are all given to us by you, General Xiao?" Lu Guangda said in surprise, if he said this, then he would not become Xiao Yao's personal soldier!

"No way, who told me that I have become the assassin of Xuzhou, and our general firm has also been returned by His Majesty, and you have also been incorporated into my command, so Your Majesty will naturally no longer pay your military salary!" Xiao Yao said with a helpless expression.

In fact, of course Chen Xu knew that he didn't give Xiao Yao a penny, and now he wanted Xiao Yao to pay the salaries of his soldiers himself, which would not only discourage Xiao Yao's enthusiasm, but also lead to the danger of these soldiers becoming Xiao Yao's private soldiers!

But because Chen Xu had already returned the General Merchant Bank to Xiao Yao, and no longer collected the huge profits of the General Merchant Bank to the treasury, and had also mobilized the resources of the entire Chen State to cooperate with Xiao Yao to manufacture various artillery weapons, and finally appointed Xiao Yao as the Assassin of Xuzhou, so Chen Xu calculated the accounts and found that he had really lost a lot!

So Chen Xu was angry and decided to let Xiao Yao bleed, so he would no longer pay the salaries of all the soldiers under Xiao Yao's command, even the salaries of the tens of thousands of infantry officers and soldiers of Lu Guangda who had just been transferred, Xiao Yao wanted to feed such a large army as the forward brigade, so he had to pay for it himself, and finally Chen Xu even told Xiao Yao that the imperial court would not give Xuzhou another penny, even if Xiao Yao wanted to vigorously develop Xuzhou, resume production, and let the people live a good life, but all these government affairs are also to be paid by Xiao Yao himself!

However, Xiao Yao didn't care so much about Chen Xu, and felt that if Chen Xu didn't give him money, then he would not be too constrained by the imperial court, and in this way, it would be more beneficial to his plan, so Xiao Yao also pretended to be dumb in front of Chen Xu, and reluctantly accepted the reality of self-reliance!

So now when Xiao Yao moved out of this reason for military salary, Lu Guangda, a veteran general with deep qualifications, instantly lost his spirit: it turned out that his military salary was all issued by Xiao Yao, so even if he moved out of the emperor, Xiao Yao could completely ignore it with confidence!

So Lu Guangda stopped going around in circles with Xiao Yao, and asked directly: "General Xiao, now you have only picked out 10,000 elite soldiers and incorporated them into the three battalions in the forward brigade, but these three battalions already have their own commanders, and the infantry battalion in the hands of the old man has also existed in name only, so how is General Xiao going to arrange for me, a veteran?" Shouldn't you want the old man to be disarmed and return to the field? ”

"Does General Naru want to be disarmed and returned to the field? I can let you be the commander of the 10,000 production troops, after all, they are still in the military, although they usually focus on production and farming, but they still have to receive regular military training, even if the main force of combat is not them, but it is still very important to maintain the surrounding law and order, or to exterminate some robbers and bandits! Said half seriously and half jokingly.

"General Xiao, do you really want me to be the commander of these farmers? If that's the case, then General Xiao should transfer me back to Governor Wu!" Lu Guangda said unwillingly.

"Haha, General Lu, don't be nervous or angry, I just asked for your opinion just now, if you don't like it, then we'll change it! What about the deputy commander of the Xuzhou army? Xiao Yao asked with a smile.