The reason why the Grain Requisition Division changed in a few days after it was established, and its reputation was so bad that it even spread to Zhengtai County, was because Li Xuan wanted them to collect enough food for the new army of the Tang Dynasty and the silver needed for foreign purchases.

There was no strict restriction on their means of requisitioning grain, and theoretically they could use all means such as purchasing, owing, cheating, and robbing to collect enough grain for the new army of the Tang Dynasty and the silver needed to buy supplies.

And if this is the case, then it is nothing, and more importantly, in order to allow the grain collection department to carry out the grain collection work efficiently, and at the same time not affect the daily training and combat tasks of the regular troops, Li Xuan also specially approved the transfer of nearly 100 people from other units to supplement the grain collection department.

And who are these people who have been added to the grain collection department? Some of them are old bandits and bandits of the Ming army, and some of them are second-rate people, and the three infantry battalions in the Datang New Army will definitely not recruit recruits.

In simple and straightforward words, these nearly 100 people are all scum!

With such a group of scum gathered together, and armed with weapons such as knives and muskets, it is simply impossible to hope that they will not harm the village.

This group of people called themselves the Datang grain conscription team outside, but the generals in the Datang New Army absolutely did not admit that they were part of the Datang New Army.

Since the day such an armed grain collection team without an official name was formed, it has been determined that it will leave a great reputation in the initial history of the Tang Dynasty, and it is also infamy.

On that day, the men in this family of dozens were captured except for a few stubborn resistance and were killed, and the men will become the coolies of the new army of the Tang Dynasty in the newly established workshop of the Ministry of Industry in Liushazhuang, and their wives and daughters will be assigned to those single officers and meritorious soldiers as wives.

The great martial arts of the armed grain requisition team are enough to make the soldiers in the Datang New Army stunned, and their formation has been set up in spite of half a month, and a total of thirteen families have been wiped out, basically maintaining the rhythm of copying one family a day!

The brutality of the armed grain requisition team has also aroused the disgust of many people, especially Qian Mengjiu, who has opposed it many times, saying that this is undoubtedly a return to the past behavior, and it is easy to cause the people, especially the big families, to worry about and even oppose the Tang Dynasty, which is undoubtedly a betrayal of the Tang Dynasty's promise of 'not sparing lives and not looting'.

In order for the Tang Dynasty to be able to penetrate into this place, Qian Mengjiu repeatedly suggested that the grain collection department should be abolished, and the daily tax collection and grain collection work should be carried out by the tax department in the cabinet.

But Li Xuan never gave any opinion on the behavior of the armed grain conscription team: whether it was in favor of or against, Qian Mengjiu's recital was left behind.

Li Xuan's statement is to say: I can't hear, I can't see, I don't know!

It's as if on Li Xuan's side, the armed grain conscription team does not exist!

It's just that sometimes Li Xuan is annoyed by their questions, and he will also say: Have you solved the problem of military food shortage?

After asking a few times, I didn't ask again.

At the same time, if there are scheming people, they will guess that from the day Li Xuan established the armed grain collection team, he thought that one day he would abolish this institution, and when this institution was abolished, he would definitely detain a lot of crimes against them, such as robbing the people and killing innocents indiscriminately from Li Xuan, the glorious and righteous emperor!

One day, Li Xuan will use the blood of the armed grain requisition team to calm his anger, but after that time, when the Tang Dynasty has established effective rule in this place and can collect taxes normally!

Not now!

No matter what later generations and outsiders say about the scum of the armed grain collection team, this armed food collection team has provided sufficient rations for the increasing number of troops of the Datang New Army through actual actions at home!

It will not let the Datang New Army, which has almost broken through the 1,000 mark, fall into the embarrassing situation of having no food to eat!

However, ordinary food is available, and high-nutrient foods such as meat are still in short supply.

In these years, meat is a scarce product, even if you go outside every day to rob, to be honest, you can't grab much, many villages and a whole village are just a few pigs, there is a grab, but the second time you go there is gone.

As a result, meat has always been relatively scarce on the side of the Datang New Army, and the supply is quite unstable.

Although the logistics department of the Datang New Army will also reserve some bacon or simply live pigs, chickens and ducks and other food, it is impossible for all of this meat to be distributed and eaten in peacetime.

In fact, this meat is also part of the strategic material reserves, which are used to eat when the war is about to start, to replenish physical exertion or secondary, and more importantly, to boost morale.

Letting soldiers eat meat to fight is quite effective in boosting morale, and many people dare to sign up as death squads in order to eat an extra piece of meat.

There is a shortage of meat, and a considerable part of it is set aside as a strategic reserve, so it is naturally impossible for the Datang New Army to let the soldiers eat meat every day, and they can't even eat one meal in three days, they can only eat one meal in five days, and this kind of meat that is supplied once every five days, everyone only gets a small piece of meat that is as thin as a cicada's wings and a thin broth that can't smell meat.

If you want to eat meat, you can only get a large amount of meat occasionally, such as when a certain landlord is willing to donate a big fat pig.

Or during the big war, every time there is a big war, Li Xuan will never be stingy with food, including meat, not only meat, but even wine will be temporarily rationed to boost morale or fight or escape!

There is usually no meat to eat, but it does not mean that the soldiers of the Datang New Army have eaten it.

Even if it's just white rice, it's a great satisfaction for these soldiers, especially those who have just arrived.

I can eat a full meal every day, and I still eat white rice, which is a life that can only be enjoyed by the landlord's old wealth, and ordinary small landlords and rich peasants have to eat white rice and coarse grains.

And these soldiers from poor families, many of them have eaten white rice in their previous lives, and they have not eaten as much as in just half a month after joining the Datang New Army.

After eating enough for training, this is the daily routine of these soldiers recently, and after Li Xuan and them stayed in Liusha Village for half a month, Liu Bagou and others who came from Huangzhu Mountain finally came to Liusha Village.

And when Li Xuan saw Liu Bagou and the others who had entered Liushazhuang, his face quickly brought a look of surprise, because among these people were not only Liu Bagou and a large number of craftsmen, but also Empress Dowager Bai and Empress Dong Yunyun and Ye.