The March deadline was approaching, Zeng Yu did not wait for Wu Kan to appear with the horses, except for him, Gude and others thought that Wu Kan had fled with money, but Zeng Yu insisted on believing in his vision.

Sure enough, he was not disappointed, and on the last day of March, Zeng Yu waited for the people sent by Wukan in the county office. It turned out that he went to the area controlled by the Xiongnu, and purchased enough war horses through barter, and even dozens more. It's just that when I came back, I was worried that I would be blocked when I passed through some counties, so I took the trail, so it took a lot of time.

Now that the war horse has entered the territory of Anping County, he knows that the time is today, so he hurriedly sent someone over to reply to Zeng Yu first, and at the same time, he also had the intention of asking Zeng Yu to send someone to receive the war horse.

After Zeng Yu learned the news, he did not let people inform Gude, but took the person who reported to the military camp in the county to find Gude, and asked Gude to take someone to receive the war horse with him.

Gude, who was discussing with Yang Xun whether to let the soldiers change their equipment and wait for the future to re-purchase war horses for cavalry training, saw Zeng Yu coming over, and when he learned from him that the war horse that had made him wait for more than two months and was already planning to give up was outside the county seat, the excitement in his heart could not be expressed in words.

It was Yang Xun who patted him, and he came to his senses, and then called a hundred county soldiers who could ride horses, and went to receive war horses outside the county with Zeng Yu. When he saw a group of black horses walking in his sight with steady steps, whether it was Zeng Yu or Gude, the feelings in their eyes seemed to be like seeing a beauty that was difficult to find in the world, and they were suddenly obsessed with it.

Wu Kan walked in front, he rode on the horse and also saw the oncoming county commander, dismounted and walked to Zeng Yu, bowed and said: "I have seen the county commander, the small one was ordered to purchase war horses, fortunately not disgraced, now the war horses have arrived, there are a total of three thousand and forty-seven war horses, and please count them." ”

"Okay, you've done a great job, and I'll reward you in addition to your previous promise." Zeng Yu came to his senses, laughed and thought about Wu Kan and said.

"Master Xie, this is what I should do, I don't dare to ask for a reward." Wu Kan was not a greedy and insatiable person, so he excused himself.

"Merit should be rewarded, this is my principle, and besides, you have more than forty more war horses this time, so you don't have to refuse." Zeng Yu glanced at Wu Kan deeply with appreciation, he felt that Wu Kan was very sensible, and he really wanted to reward Wu Kan in his heart.

"Then thank you for the reward, I don't know where to transport these war horses?" Wu Kan thanked him first, then looked at Zeng Yu and asked.

Zeng Yu turned to look at Gude and instructed him: "Uncle Bird, from today on, you and Yang Xun will lead three thousand county soldiers to Lingyunzhuang to station, and start the training of cavalry tactics. I have already built a paddock outside Lingyun Village, which has stables, and there are enough barracks in Lingyun Village now, and I will have people bring the grain and grass needed by soldiers and war horses, and you can move them all over as soon as possible. ”

"Yes, my lord! It's just that, in this way, the county town is empty, and I'm worried that someone will take advantage of it. Goode said worriedly.

"Well, when I decided to move the cavalry to Lingyunzhuang, the military advisor also raised this issue. But now that we have enough money and food, and a steady stream of displaced people has been accepted for several months, and we have organized the tuntian, I intend to recruit another 2,000 county soldiers to take charge of the defense of the county. It turned out that Zeng Yu and Guo Jia had discussed this issue before, but when Liu Neng reported the current population of Anping County, all the problems were solved.

When Zeng Yu first became the owner, Anping County had only more than 10,000 households and a population of more than 30,000. However, with the collapse of many bandit forces in the vicinity, the unclothed army moved all the people except Qingzhuang to Anping County at the suggestion of Zeng Yu, coupled with the defection of the displaced people from all over the world, the number of registered households in Anping County has reached an astonishing more than 21,000 households, with a population of nearly 60,000. And Zeng Yu encouraged and encouraged childbearing, but this did not have an effect in a short period of time, but just the number of people registered now is no longer worthy of Sili or some large counties in the Central Plains.

Therefore, Zeng Yu planned to recruit another 2,000 county soldiers and let Guo Yue and Gongsun Ao lead them, while Gu De was still the county lieutenant, the direct commander of the 3,000 cavalry and 2,000 foot soldiers, and Yang Xun was still the only deputy of the county lieutenant.

Knowing that his lord had a plan, Gude also ordered to drive the war horse to Lingyunzhuang first. It took a day for 3,000 county soldiers to move out of the county under the leadership of Gude and Yang Xun, and only Guo Yue and Gongsun Ao were left in the county.

It is worth mentioning here that after the recruitment of 2,000 county soldiers was completed, Guo Yue and Gongsun Ao took office, Zeng Yu removed Yang Xun as the commander of a cavalry team, and now this team of 3,000 people, almost all the grassroots commanders were favored and promoted by Zeng Yu, and there was Gude as the commander, which can be said to be the real loyalty to Zeng Yu, nominally a county soldier, but in fact his private soldier.

This was also expected by Yang Xun, after all, with a total of 5,000 soldiers and horses, it was impossible for the three brothers to lead 1,000 each. Moreover, Guo Yue and Gongsun Ao were able to become the two commanders of the newly recruited county soldiers, and their status rose, which showed Zeng Yu's trust and reuse of the three of them, so he happily accepted the order, and promised to help Gude train the cavalry as soon as possible.

At this time, Lingyunzhuang has officially become Zeng Yu's cavalry camp outside the county, and the area has almost doubled compared with before. The neighboring Lingyun Village has also been greatly expanded, and now it has become the base camp of the Tuntian troops, and the villagers of Lingyun Village in the past are now assisting He Yan in managing other Tuntian soldiers in addition to farming and clearing wasteland.

In Zeng Yu's plan, the Tuntian team will have to be more refined in the future, first of all, only the young and strong will be allowed to participate, and then they can also participate in a certain amount of training in peacetime, and the management of the people can be handed over to the soldiers who have been discharged from the army due to injuries, so that the entire Tuntian team is equivalent to a reserve system, and it can be recruited directly from here when recruiting soldiers in the future.

However, at present, he only has the territory of only one county, although the population is relatively large, in order to feed his total of 15,000 troops, so he can only do his best to carry out tuntian, in order to obtain enough food and grass.

"Lord, now that we're on the right track, I wonder what you're going to do next?" Now that everything in the county has a clue, and there are people dealing with it in all aspects, Guo Jia has become the most idle person except Zeng Yu, and he can't be idle, so he discussed with Zeng Yu.

"Haha, Feng Xiao can't be idle! Let's go out for a walk! Zeng Yu laughed and proposed.

"Lord, please spare me, we are walking around the county almost every day, and I am almost tired of it." Guo Jia smiled bitterly.

Because Zeng Yu knew that he might not be able to know the true thoughts of the people under his rule at any time, he liked to walk around the streets of the county seat when he had nothing to do, and the place he usually went to the most was the demarcated trade area.

"This time we won't go to the county seat, we'll go to Jizhou." Zeng Yu shook his head and said to Guo Jia.

"Jizhou?" Guo Jia suspected that he had misheard and asked loudly.

"That's right, with Liu Neng, it doesn't matter if we leave for a while. And there shouldn't be much going on in a short period of time, so I'm going to take a trip to Jizhou. Zeng Yu nodded and said.

"Also, my lord, are you going to Jizhou...?" Guo Jia asked curiously.

"Hehe, the secret of heaven must not be revealed!" Zeng Yu smiled and shook his head and said.

Guo Jia was confused by Zeng Yu's expression, he lowered his head and thought for a while, and said: "The lord wants to take Jizhou first, this time he went to find out the local truth in person, I don't know if Jia Ke guessed right?" ”

Zeng Yu knew Guo Jia's character, he would definitely be curious, he heard Guo Jia say that he went to Jizhou to find out the news, his heart moved, and he said: "You reminded me, we can indeed go to investigate the situation in Jizhou now, as for my real purpose, you will know." ”

In fact, Zeng Yu's real purpose is very simple, that is, to recruit talents. Now his reputation is not obvious, and he can't wait for the investment of talents, so he can only visit in person. In his impression, Jizhou has a lot of celebrities, many of which have not yet been reused, and he just relied on his foresight to recruit (suddenly) and (you) one or two. Of course, there is one of them who is the most ideal target talent in his heart, that is-Changshan Zhao Zilong.

He has now gradually confirmed that what he experienced in his dream should be the history that would have happened before there was no change, so he admired the military generals in his memory, and the most impressive one was Zhao Yun, so now that he has his own power, he is the one he wants to recruit the most.

In his opinion, Zhao Yun is not only super strong in martial arts, but also a rare light cavalry commander, brave and strategic. Wang Qing is the only one under his command now, but he is more suitable for leading infantry battles, and he is relatively weak for cavalry.

Guo Jia heard that Zeng Yu had another purpose, so he didn't continue to ask, and changed the topic and said, "Lord, who are you going to bring with you on this trip?" ”

"In addition to you, there are also Chengyong and Zirou, as well as half of the personal soldiers." Zeng Yu had already had a plan, Zhu Wen and his soldiers were definitely going to bring it, and Zhao Yi was before coming to Kaiqianlong Village, Zhao Yi's father asked him to visit his friend, Cui County Ling of Eping County, Jizhou Plain County, and he went to Jizhou this time.

Guo Jia nodded and said that he knew, but he was a little curious about why Zeng Yu only brought Zhao Yi, he knew that Zeng Yu was estimated to continue to sell Guanzi, so he asked, "When does the lord plan to leave?" ”

"It's tentatively three days later, you go and prepare first, and I'll notify everyone tomorrow."

"Yes, my lord!"