"It's not allowed to light a fire overnight, and the forest in early winter is really not for people." A Jin soldier rubbed his hands and nibbled on the dry food in his hand.

"Who said no, you can't eat hot food without a fire, alas, I didn't think I would suffer this kind of hardship when I was a soldier." A Jin soldier took over and said.

Three or two jackdaws croaked in the lonely sky, and the Jin soldiers in the woods closed their eyes and snored as they looked at the remnant star Leng Yue overhead.

Even the young master Zhiyu, who has been pampered since childhood, has endured this hardship and is ready to win back a city through this surprise attack. For the sake of concealment, no one was allowed to light a fire, so they could only eat dry food made in the army, and the poor taste and dry bread could only be drunk with cold water.

All of this is for the sake of a goal, maybe his father has sent someone south to prepare to depose himself. All of this must be changed before tragedy strikes.

After losing the position of the young master, what awaits Zhiyu is endless darkness. After the original successor was deposed, there were very few who could live a good death.

The struggles for power are all bloody, and every person in power is directly or indirectly stained with countless blood, and under every throne is a lot of white bones.

"Young Master, judging from the current situation, we should still have about four days to go to our destination." The military advisor looked at the mountains and ravines on the map by candlelight.

Zhiyu let out a long sigh, "There are still nearly four days to go, and I really can't stand the days of trekking through mountains and rivers in the deep mountains and old forests." ”

"Young master, you are patient, whoever achieves great things must be able to endure the pain that ordinary people can't bear."

When the Jin army was camping in the field, the Yanzhou soldiers huddled in the warm quilt and waited for the arrival of the Jin army. At the intersections where the Jin army might appear, there were soldiers guarded, and more than 800 soldiers were stationed at each exit, of which less than 300 soldiers were soldiers, most of whom were auxiliaries.

Their task is to keep an early warning at the exit and hold out until reinforcements arrive, if necessary. Small fortresses with wood and stone as the main body, plus a ditch wide enough to prevent cavalry raids.

The soldiers of the night vigil walked on the city wall with torches, and the white breath exhaled from their mouths faintly glowed with white and yellow colors under the light of the fire.

"You said that we should stay here to watch out for the Jin people, and those Jin people are still not giving up on Yanzhou." The soldiers standing at the sentry and their companions who were on the vigil beside them chattered.

"I heard that there are three or four thousand people from the other side, so we brothers have to wait for reinforcements to come."

"You said that our lord is really a martial artist, not to mention the defeat of the Jin army under the city of Yanzhou, which is close to a seven-to-one disadvantage. Looking at the current Jin army, they thought that their sneak attack was unaware, but they didn't know that all this was under the plan of the lord. ”

While the two soldiers stood on the watchtower and chatted for the night, two or three pairs of eyes were fixed on the small fortress in the distant jungle.

As the midwinter approaches, many families have begun to buy coal for the winter, and many families are looking at their family savings to buy a new dress for their children.

Lu Zhan's policy of exempting small goods from taxation has benefited these small people. There are more and more merchants coming to Yanzhou, and the shops recruit men, and the workshops need workers. The problem of some unemployed people has also been well resolved.

In terms of justice, Lu Zhan changed a lot of legal provisions with modern wisdom, and reappointed and dismissed a number of officials in charge of justice, but these officials are basically from noble backgrounds, after all, the people who can read and read numerology at this age are all children of official eunuchs.

To a certain extent, elite education is indeed an indispensable scope for social development. The implementation of compulsory education is a long-term investment, and it took decades for the Hans in Germany to complete compulsory education, and the first book to realize compulsory education in Asia was also completed after the Meiji Restoration with the reparations of the late Qing government.

Now only a small number of free schools can be opened, and if you want to enter, you can only take the selection exam, which is really not Lu Zhan's door, but there are too many places to spend money at the moment.

"At present, General Chen is leading troops outside, this Yanzhou is really real on the outside and empty on the inside, and the second conscription is carried out according to the eyes of his subordinates. This time, it is necessary to carry out selection and promotion at different levels, and the first-class high-quality soldiers will be selected according to the initial standard and salary standards, and the second-class soldiers will have to be lowered in terms of natural standards and treatment. Bing Cao Shangguan Yi made a suggestion to the landing exhibition.

This second wave of recruitment is indeed imperative, and it is indeed not a problem to recruit another batch according to the current financial situation in Yanzhou. After the autumn harvest, taxes are collected.

With the addition of the commercial tax and the agricultural tax, the financial pressure can be resolved. Winter is now over, and we can only wait until next spring to start recruiting.

"Lord Shangguan, you are solely responsible for this matter, and after the beginning of spring, the officers and instructors of the recruits will be drawn from the veterans."

After seeing Lu Zhan's agreement, Shangguan Cao found an excuse and retreated.

If you really want to wear a crown, you will accept it. Cao, an officer and soldier in charge of military affairs, and other departments in charge of agriculture, commerce, and water conservancy came one after another to report various problems.

No wonder the emperor liked to use the prime minister in the past, these things were too draining to pile up in one go, even if the prime minister was abolished in the early Ming Dynasty, the later cabinet scholars and the first assistant took on the duties of the prime minister in disguise.

In the future, I have to find some consultants to handle government affairs for me, and with the help of a think tank, it should be much easier to handle things on my own.

After sending these people away one by one, Lu Zhan looked at the direction marked with the exit on the sand table, and the most urgent thing at the moment was how to deal with Zhiyu, who didn't know where he would come out.

In the cold and windy mountains and forests, Zhiyu heard the news from the scouts under his hands, where is the camp at the original expected exit, and it is estimated that there can be seven or eight hundred people.

"Someone, get the map."

As soon as the words fell, the two guards unfolded the map, and Zhiyu and the military advisor looked at it again.

"There are still several exits in this mountain, do you think it is feasible for us to turn to other exits and sneak attack Yanzhou?"

"Young master, our dry food can only be carried by individual soldiers because of walking on mountain roads, if we turn to other exits now, if we don't get supplies there, then our elites will starve to death." The military advisor pointed worriedly to the shriveled grain bag.

"What the military advisor said is very true, not to mention that it will take a lot of time to turn to other exits, just with so many of our elites, we will definitely be able to catch the other side by surprise, and it shouldn't be a big problem for seven or eight hundred people." Ji-woo tapped on the map where the exit was marked.