When the recruits are incorporated into Li Jiye and other generals, there are already as many as 200 first-class elite regular troops under the direct leadership of each general, which makes the total strength of the first-class army of the Jingbianbao army reach 1,000 people, plus 1,000 people of the second-class army of Wang Zuojiao's department that is about to be expanded.

Wang Zuojiao already had more than 200 subordinates under his command, and Liu Renyu selected the strong ones from the thieves captured in previous battles, gathered 800 people, and put them under Wang Zuohang's rule.

After this work was completed, Liu Renyu ordered all 1,000 members of the new army under Wang Zuohang's command to devote themselves to the barracks and start training.

In Liu Renyu's plan, the 1,000 men and horses of Wang Zuohang's department were to be used as firecrackers, and the firecrackers produced by Zhenbeibao, after a year's accumulation, already had more than 1,000 rods, which could just equip Wang's left-hanging department.

As for Li Jiye's department, which was originally engaged in the profession of firefighters, Liu Renyu found a new business for them, artillery and chariot artillery.

Li Jiye has no opinion on Liu Renyu's arrangement, after all, there are more cannons than firecrackers, and the effective range of firecrackers is only 20 to 30 steps, and they may not be accurate. This cannon is very different, the cannon has a long range, great power, and is extremely majestic. And after changing careers, you can also play with a new weapon-chariot, which is even more stylish.

When Liu Renyu saw that Li Jiye accepted his arrangement, he allocated the only 20 tiger squat guns and 10 furlong machines in Jingbian Fort to Li Jiye, so that he could train his subordinates and be responsible for training them to fight. The cannon was the artillery under Sun Mourningyun back then.

Li Jiye and they have now replaced the earthen guns with cannons, and it is of course unrealistic to train in the city, after all, the cannon is noisy and powerful, and it is fought in the city. Cannon, if the cannon is crooked, it will be a bit troublesome.

Li Jiye got such a new errand, the daily price is to take his subordinates to fire cannons outside the city, and keep drilling, sometimes because the drills are too frequent, some cannons can't bear the energy, and they are scrapped directly, and Liu Renyu has to buy new cannons to use.

Originally, Liu Renyu had a blacksmith under his hand, and it stands to reason that he could forge his own cannon, but now all the blacksmiths, whether apprentices, craftsmen, technicians, or engineers, are making every effort to build Liujiabao, where is there any kung fu to care about anything else. So Liu Renyu could only spend money to buy it from other generals.

It is said that at this time in the Ming Dynasty, most of the generals have no bottom line, as long as they have cash, even the monarch and the country can be sold, not to mention a few cannons! They say they will sell, and there is no ambiguity at all. Even when selling cannons, they don't care about the friendship of their colleagues at this price, and they sell it a little expensive!

Because artillery is an important war resource, of course, the price will not be very cheap, and Liu Renyu spent a lot of money just to buy cannons.

In addition to the cost of buying cannons, the more than 1,000 gunpowder soldiers under Wang Zuohang's subordinates had to consume a lot of gunpowder for training, and Li Jiye's cannons also used a lot of gunpowder, which had to purchase raw materials for production, which was another big expense, plus the big project of Liujiabao to eat money.

The mere 200,000 taels of silver in Liu Renyu's hand is not enough at all.

Therefore, Ma Tianjun often had a bitter face, took the financial statement, and found Liu Renyu to complain: "General, if you don't get any money, this Jingbian Fort will not be able to be managed by the students." ”

Liu Renyu has no way for the time being, the glass mirror and the carriage of his own shares can only be distributed proportionally at the end of the year, and now he can't get the money, if he wants to take out a loan, he can't find a bank, so in desperation, he simply took out a trump card.

"Desheng, Tie Niu, Wenshan, Renjie, take your men and horses, follow me to suppress the thieves."

In order to solve the problem of financial difficulties, Liu Renyu decided to take his subordinates to rob bandits and bandits. （/\）

It turned out that when Liu Renyu was still a small boss, he led his subordinates to attack everywhere and killed the bandits and bandits within a radius of 30 miles to the left of Zhenbei Fort.

Later, he became a garrison, and the left side of Jingbian Fort was close to the bandits, and the bandits and bandits within a radius of 60 miles were wiped out.

Now that his official position has been placed in the guerrilla general, it is natural that the scope of his attacks has expanded again.

From Suide Prefecture in the east, to Huamachi in Ningxia in the west, to Yan'an Mansion in the south, and to the Mu Us Desert in the north, there are traces of Liu Renyu's bandits.

It can be said that after Liu Renyu's repeated search and killing, the large area near Jingbian Fort has been defined by bandits and bandits as a place that is extremely unsuitable for their own survival, and the remaining bandits and bandits have all moved to other places.

Even the people in this area who were aspiring to rebel and become thieves did not dare to raise the anti-flag on the spot, and they all dared to burn, kill and loot generously after they went to other places.

Liu Renyu was unfazed by the collateral effect of maintaining law and order brought about by his vigorous suppression of bandits, and he was only pleased with the tremendous benefits brought by the suppression of bandits.

It can be said that every time a cottage is destroyed, Liu Renyu will harvest thousands to tens of thousands of silver taels, so the money is really fast, but sometimes he will encounter trouble.

For example, once Liu Renyu took his subordinates to Ningxia to suppress bandits, made tens of thousands of taels of silver, and when he was about to go back, he ran into a thousand generals in a place in Ningxia.

When Mr. Qian heard that Liu Renyu and others had returned from suppressing bandits, he guessed that the Yansui soldiers who crossed the border by this guy would definitely have gains, so he threatened Liu Renyu with words such as crossing the border and not conforming to the rules, meaning that he wanted some benefits.

Liu Renyu also wanted to settle things at first, so he gave a few thousand taels of silver, but the thousand always thought that Liu Renyu was a timid and afraid person, so he had to inch in and wanted to take all the spoils of Liu Renyu.

This Liu Renyu is so short-tempered, how could he agree, so Liu Renyu ordered his subordinates to attack that Qianzong.

How could the person in the hands of Mr. Qian be Liu Renyu's opponent, he was beaten to the ground, crying for his father and mother. Liu Renyu smiled and led his subordinates away.

How could Mr. Qian, who had suffered a loss, be willing to take a break, he immediately sued Yang He, saying that Liu Renyu had not been ordered to send troops across the border without authorization, and was suspected of plotting against him.

But at this time, Liu Renyu's impression in Yang He's heart was not bad, whether it was to suppress thieves or appease them, and Hong Chengchou also helped Liu Renyu speak.

In the end, the complaining Mr. Qian was punished for the fire and friendly forces, and Liu Renyu had nothing to do.

Now Liu Renyu's courage is getting bigger and bigger, it turns out that he didn't dare to blatantly enter Ningxia to suppress thieves, but now he can go if he wants, and he is very free.

In this way, under Liu Renyu's vigorous suppression of bandits, there will be a steady stream of funds flowing into Ma Tianjun's hands, so that the Liujiapu project and the Jingbianbao military and political systems can be kept running.

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In July and August of this year, the weather was as recorded in history, with a severe drought in Shaanxi and no rain.

In such weather, without the help of water conservancy facilities, the crops in the farmland will surely die.

This phenomenon was very common in other parts of Shaanxi except Jingbian Fort, because at this time the imperial court's finances collapsed, and there was no money to organize manpower to dredge water conservancy, so it was unable to resist drought.

But Jingbian Fort is different, ditches, waterwheels, ponds, deep wells, all of them are enough to ensure that the wheat seedlings in the farmland can drink enough water and not die of thirst.

In this way, by the end of August, the spring wheat was filled, and the heavy ears of wheat hung on the wheat stalks, yellow, orange and orange, which was very beautiful.

When the ears of wheat turn golden, it means that the harvest season has arrived. In the fields, people with smiling faces were harvesting.

Everyone took back the wheat in the field and dried it, and handed it over to Liu Renyu's government for 30 percent, and there were still 70 percent left in their hands. That's a lot of food.

This is because the fields of Jingbianbao have sufficient irrigation, fertilizer in place, and the output per mu is about 400 catties of fertile fields, and almost 200 catties of fields, that is, two stones or one stone, and the people generally have 10 acres of land, and the harvest ranges from 20 to 10 stones, and it is handed over to Liu Renyu's government for 30 percent, and each family can still have 15 to 7 stones left, which is enough for the people to support the wheat harvest next year.

When the people were still rejoicing at the autumn harvest and thanking Liu Renyu, Ma Tianjun allocated potato tubers that the people bought from Fujian and asked the people to plant them.

The people didn't know what potatoes were, but Liu Renyu said that if they could grow them, the people would plant them.

So, at the end of August, the people put the potatoes into the fields.

When the potatoes were planted in the fields by the people, the time came in September, when a strong wind from the northwest swept in. Potatoes are largely unaffected due to their short vegetation.

After two months of growth in September and October, when the potatoes were harvested in early November, Liu Renyu personally went to the scene to see them.

At this time, the potatoes, because of the short growth cycle, the variety is not very powerful, although there are many growths, but not very big, generally speaking, it is equivalent to three or four small steamed buns together.

In this way, potato varieties still need to be cultivated and improved, but it is better to have a harvest than nothing.

The people dug the potatoes out of the soil, but they didn't know what they were for. At this time, Liu Renyu personally cooked a pot of potatoes and ate them while they were hot.

Now the people know what potatoes are for! It's food, it's edible.

So, everyone handed over some of the potatoes they produced, and kept the rest for themselves to use in preparation for the winter.

In this way, after half a year of hard work, the people ushered in a bumper harvest.