"Okay, no more nonsense, I know what you think. But big brother, who do you think is better than you and Brother Dian? Tang Zheng asked Dian Wei.

"Isn't this nonsense? Of course, Brother Dian is more powerful, and I'm still far behind Brother Dian! ”

"Even if you still have self-knowledge, do you know that Big Brother Dian almost folded in Linyu this time?"

"Ah, there is such a powerful master in Linyu? Even Brother Dian is not an opponent? ”

"Well, it's Linyu's guard Xu Ji, I heard Brother Dian say that he fought with Xu Ji for at least two hundred rounds, and in the end he still had the advantage of weapons and injured Xu Ji's hand to distract him, so Brother Dian can take Xu Ji, otherwise the final result is that the deer is dead, and who doesn't know." Tang Zheng said.

"Is there really such a powerful person on the battlefield?" Cheng Pu said with a twinkle in his eyes.

"What? Do you still want to go? Brother Dian, even if you don't think about your grandfather, you have to think about your sister-in-law and your unborn child! If you have something that you have and what do you call them orphans and widows? ”

"Isn't there still a virtuous brother, if I have any accident at that time, I believe that the virtuous brother will not let go!"

"Get out, I still have a big family to take care of myself, and I have to fight my own responsibility, so I don't bother to care about your mess!" Tang Zheng scolded with a smile. "Big brother, now we are short of manpower everywhere, and even the county orders in several counties are still vacant."

"By the way, I almost forgot, our personnel in Luoyang came with news that Zhang Rang said bad things about you by the side of the saint, which has made the saint suspicious of you." Cheng Pu said to Tang Zheng.

"Oh, so quickly our intelligence network in Luoyang was established? What did Zhang Rang say? What did Liu Hong say? Tang Zheng asked.

"Of course, Zhao Zhong's secret care is indispensable! It's just that Zhang Rang said that in the future, you will betray the Han like Zhang Chun, but the saint does not have full faith, and Zhao Zhong is circling in it, and Liu Hong is now not pursuing the matter of the virtuous brother's private dispatch of troops this time. ”

"Hehe, even if we rebel against the Han and Liu Hong now, we can't do anything, now Zhang Xian in Bashu and Shu is raising the banner and rebelling vigorously, he Liu Hong has the energy to take care of us?"

"Someone in Bashu has rebelled? How do you know that at present, our intelligence network only has a stronghold in Luoyang. Cheng Pu asked curiously.

"As early as the Yellow Turban Uprising, Zhang Xiu rebelled in Shudi, I remember I told you, but it didn't reach such a big point at that time. I think after two years of development, Zhang Xiu has grown I don't know how many times. ”

"Now the big man is like driving on the stormy sea, and if you don't pay attention to it, there will be a danger of capsizing, not to mention far away, even the Montenegrin bandits who are now operating in the valleys at the junction of Jizhou, Bingzhou and Sili have a headache for Liu Hong."

"Black Mountain Bandits? What kind of people is this? Cheng Pu asked.

"The Montenegrin thieves are a group of rebels led by Zhang Yan who occupy Montenegro and openly oppose the imperial court, but don't underestimate this group of rebels, I heard that they are millions in number, and there are hundreds of thousands of soldiers who can fight."

"Ah, why haven't our intelligence agents heard about it?"

"How long has our Intelligence Unit been in existence? But as soon as we inquire about these things, it seems that our intelligence officers need to strengthen their training! ”

"According to you, now the Han is in danger of capsizing at any time?"

"Well, if it weren't for those chaotic people who were still afraid of the aftermath of the Han Dynasty, I'm afraid that there would already be wars in the world, but these are none of our business, the most important thing for us now is to bury our heads in development."

"Well, you're right! Now our strength is still very weak compared to those big families, but I believe that in a few years we will be not far behind those big families! Cheng Pu said confidently slowly.

Tang Zheng shook his head, Cheng Pu dared to say these words, he didn't know the heritage of those big families, just take the Yuan family in Runan, in the history of Tang Zheng's previous life, Yuan Shao once occupied Sanzhou, if you want to say that there is no support from the family, who will believe it? It shows the heritage of his family!

"What, am I not right?" Seeing Tang Zheng shaking his head, Cheng Pu asked him.

"No disbelief, eldest brother, we can't be blindly proud and arrogant, the heritage accumulated by those families after hundreds or even thousands of years of inheritance is not something that we can surpass in just a few years in Rinshan, not to mention, let's take the Yuan family in Runan as an example, the starting point of the Yuan family's concubine Yuan Shao's family is the county magistrate of a county, although it is a little worse than the county order, but it is also a county, isn't it? Look at us again, if we hadn't encountered the Yellow Turban Rebellion, maybe we would not have been as good as others. ”

Cheng Pu nodded, deeply impressed by Tang Zheng's words, those families that had been inherited for hundreds or even thousands of years had already become behemoths. "Brother Xian, don't worry, I know what our Rin Mountain is like now!"

"Yes, that's good! By the way, big brother, I have an idea in my heart, now that we have almost enough soldiers, if we are recruiting, it will put a lot of pressure on our money and food. It's okay to say that the money is okay, but now the grain is getting harder and harder to buy, and in the past few days, natural and man-made disasters have continued, and grain production has been reduced in various places, and careerists in various places have also begun to stock up on grain. So I'm going to maintain our current strength and not recruit new soldiers, what do you think? ”

"With our current strength, I'm afraid we won't be able to maintain this many places!" Cheng Pu said.

"That's the big brother, I think there are some counties that don't actually need to garrison troops, as long as we harden all the main roads in Youbeiping, no matter where they are attacked, we can quickly send troops, and now the roads in the four counties before Youbeiping have basically been hardened, but the roads in the four counties taken from Liaoxi have not been hardened, I want to take advantage of the free time now that I plan to harden the roads connected to these four counties, what do you think?"

"In any way, road hardening has only benefits and no harm, but are we stockpiling enough cement now? And if the four counties are all carried out, I'm afraid there won't be enough manpower! Cheng Pu said.

"Don't worry, I've already agreed with the county magistrates of the four counties, they will give some labor in the county, and we will give another part so that it's basically okay. In addition, I only plan to station troops in Rinshan, Wuzhong, Junmi, Feiru and Shanhaiguan, that is, Linyu. In the other counties, all you need to do is keep the officials who maintain local law and order, what do you think? ”

"Well, except for Wuzhong and Linyu, these places are the first line of defense against the invasion of the Hu people, and they should indeed be stationed. It's just that now our troops are complicated, and how to arrange them is still up for debate. ”

"Well, I plan to reorganize the army, now this kind of organization is too chaotic, I don't think it is when there are few personnel, and now it is very inconvenient to command when there are more personnel!"

"I've had this idea for a long time, but I haven't had time to tell you yet, since you have mentioned this topic today, then I'll go back tonight and think about it, and we'll discuss it tomorrow."

"Okay, the meal will be ready soon, we won't talk about it today! Tomorrow we'll both be thinking about it! ”