Chapter 164: Determined to Expand

This time I met with the soldiers and grassland people on the school field, mainly to calm people's hearts, this time King Qin's rescue trip, the allied army easily completed the pre-war goal, the mentality of all the soldiers was a little floating, Su Shang wanted to pour cold water on them, let them calm down from the state of fanatical pride!

In addition, the more than 30,000 newly joined grassland people are also lacking in confidence and panicking, and they need Su Shang, the new chief, to come forward to comfort them and reassure them, so that they can adapt to the new life in the future faster!

Su Shang didn't stay on the school field for long, and after making a heart-warming and inspiring speech to the grassland people, he gave some instructions and encouragement to the officers and soldiers of the Allied Army, and then took Du Ruhui and others into the Chinese army commander's tent!

After entering the big tent, Su Shang's face became a little sad, he now had a sweet big trouble, and he didn't know how to place those cattle and sheep booty?

In this rescue trip of King Qin, the allied soldiers participated in every battle and obtained a large amount of booty, especially in the battle of attacking Yangma City, a key logistics place for Turkic logistics, Su Shang led the four-party coalition army to achieve a great victory, capturing more than one million heads of cattle, horses, sheep and other livestock booty!

Although after the end of the battle, the participating armies distributed the spoils according to their work, among which the Ma Yi army led by Wang Rengong took away 300,000 fat sheep, and the other Yin Hongzhi's Lou Fu army and Li Shimin's Taiyuan Righteous Army also shared 50,000 fat sheep, and later Su Shang paid tribute to Emperor Yang Guang of Sui 300,000 fat sheep, but the number of cattle, horses and sheep accumulated by Su Shang still exceeded 400,000, plus the more than 100,000 livestock booty brought back by Li Jing's expedition to the grassland tribes later, Now Su Shang has almost 600,000 cattle, horses and sheep in his hands!

"What is the Marshal bothering about?" The senior generals followed Su Shang into the tent, and Su Dingfang was a little puzzled when he found out that the marshal had entered the tent, and couldn't help but ask!

"I'm worried about the loot!"

Why is that? We don't have a lot of booty, hundreds of thousands of cattle and sheep and other livestock alone, and we are not short of food and grass now! ”

"It's just that there are too many cattle and sheep, so I'm bothered!"

"Why is that?" Su Dingfang was very puzzled!

Su Shang glanced at the generals in the tent and found that except for Li Jing and Du Ruhui, the other generals were all looking at him suspiciously, obviously they didn't understand either, they were all waiting for their answers!

Su Shang shook his head and smiled bitterly at Du Ruhui: "Brother Ruhui, you can tell them!"

Du Ruhui nodded and said with a smile: "This is actually a sweet trouble, Donglai County is too small, and there is no pasture, these hundreds of thousands of cattle, horses and sheep are transported back, and it is okay to graze them to the mountains in a short time, but if it takes a long time, sooner or later Donglai County will be eaten into a dry and bare appearance!"

Everyone suddenly realized that Donglai County was small and short of materials, and if it weren't for the plundering of all kinds of materials, grain and grass from outside, Donglai County would be able to feed the current population! The number of these cattle and sheep is already comparable to the current population of Donglai County, and it is really difficult to feed them!

"Brother Ruhan, do you have any good ideas?"

"Expand!"

Du Ruhui stroked the goatee on his chin, "Marshal, our Donglai County is too small, and now it has somewhat hindered the development of the Allied Army, no matter what aspect it is, we can only promote the further development of the Allied Army by expanding outward!" ”

Du Ruhui paused and continued: "Marshal, I now have two expansion plans. The first plan is to directly take Beihai County and Gaomi County, the advantage is that these two counties are close to Donglai County and can be directly included in our governance! The second plan, we have a strong fleet of naval vessels, we can occupy the counties near the mouth of the three rivers, and then expand to the south with the estuary, and finally connect with Donglai County, the advantage of this plan is that it is low-key, it can temporarily hide part of our strength, and our warships can also reach more places through several major rivers, and this place is close to the grassland, we can also get war horses more easily! ”

"Brother Ru Hui is right, it's time for the expansion of the alliance!"

Su Shang nodded in agreement, "After the Yanmen Pass incident this time, the officials of the counties and counties in various places will slowly break away from the actual governance of the court, and the world will inevitably be turbulent because of this, and we must also accelerate our development!" However, Brother Ruhan's two plans have their own advantages, and I am a little hesitant! ”

Su Shang thought for a while, turned his eyes to look at Li Jing, and asked with a smile, "Brother Jing, what do you think?"

Li Jing pondered for a moment, "I think the first plan is better!" Sanhehuikou is too far away from Donglai County, and it is difficult to open up the official road by land, and it is inconvenient to come and go, and it is difficult to govern, unless the marshal intends to convert the foundation land to the area of Youzhou in Zhuo County! ”

Hearing this, Su Shang did not hesitate any longer and decided: "Then use the first plan!"

Li Jing's analysis reminded him that transportation is inconvenient and difficult to govern, this is a big problem, in the current environment, if the generals are leading the army, if they can't supervise well, it is easy to breed undue ambitions!

The plan was decided, and then the generals put forward their own action proposals, and more than half an hour later, a detailed expansion plan for the alliance was born in the camp!

The generals left, and only Su Shang was still pondering in the camp, this expansion plan, Su Shang will lead the army to enter Beihai County directly from the sea when returning by warship, and then swallow Beihai County and Gaomi County from north to south, and Du Ruhui will return to Donglai County, preside over the affairs of the alliance army, and send troops from the direction of Donglai County to cooperate!

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At noon on this day, the streets of Donglai City seem to be particularly prosperous, and the pedestrians on the street are bustling, but there are very few vendors doing business on the street, and the pedestrians are also a little colorful, they are all rushing in the same direction!

At this time, two men dressed in special clothes appeared on the street, and their strange costumes attracted the attention of passers-by as soon as they appeared!

They are a monk, about eight feet tall, among them, the Taoist looks about thirty-one or twelve years old, a little thin, elegant appearance, but the monk is strong and mighty, about twenty-five or sixteen years old! The two walked along the way, talking, looking around, as if they were visiting Donglai City!

Suddenly, the Taoist called out to a young passer-by who was looking at them sideways, and asked with a smile: "This brother, I see that there are a lot of pedestrians on this street, but there are very few vendors doing business, not even vendors selling tea and snacks, why is this?"

The young passer-by looked at the two of them and said with a smile, "You two just came from out of town, right?"

"Yes! Yes! Brother Tai is really wise! ”

The young passer-by laughed, "It's not that I'm as wise as a torch!" It's the question you ask, and the locals know the answer! ”

Is the overlord of the late Sui Dynasty good-looking?