When Luo Cheng sat down, the hall suddenly fell silent.

Although many of these people who came today were also his friends, they also had a common identity, that is, Luo Cheng's subordinates.

"Ladies and gentlemen, there are still a few days before the New Year, I summoned everyone at this time, and it is estimated that many people are scolding their mothers in their hearts. However, there is no way, now Henan is not quiet, there are bandits everywhere, which has seriously affected the local order, and we as local officials, if we don't think of a way to deal with it, then there will be more people who will have a bad year, and then we will all be scolded by jumping feet. ”

Everyone put away their relaxed expressions, thinking that they came here to celebrate Luo Cheng's promotion to the rank of knight, but now it seems that this young boss is obviously not here to show off his official position.

"In view of the current situation in Henan, I have two plans. The first is to let the 12 counties open warehouses to release grain, not only to help the people affected by the disaster, but also to stabilize the high price of grain. In order to prevent profiteers from taking advantage of the opportunity to hoard and hoard, the official warehouses took out grain to stabilize grain prices, uniformly implemented the distribution system, and supplied it in a limited amount according to the time limit of the registered population, and it was forbidden to take advantage of the opportunity to rush to buy and hoard, and if anyone dared to disobey, he was severely punished. ”

The purpose of opening warehouses and releasing grain is to provide disaster relief and curb grain prices, both for the purpose of stabilizing the locality. Only when the people can fill their stomachs, then everyone will not rebel and rob desperately, after all, as long as most people can stutter, they will not rebel desperately, this is a plan to draw wages from the bottom of the kettle.

"The first plan is to fu, and the second plan is to suppress. It's not okay to caress alone, there are still some arrogant and bold people who dare to do anything evil. Therefore, I have issued a conscription order to recruit 5,000 soldiers in the twelve counties of Henan to form a standing army to fight thieves and catch thieves.

In addition, next I will work with Deputy Envoy Zhang to reorganize the county soldiers and townsmen in each county, and each county must be mobilized to form a standing county barracks of 500 people, which can be on standby at any time, and can be pulled out at any time, and the troops that can fight hard battles can be pulled out at any time. ”

Luo Cheng took out the plan of joint defense of the counties when he was just Sima of Changbai Mansion, and the counties integrated intelligence resources, shared intelligence, and jointly defended soldiers and horses.

There are police in one county, and they can support from all directions.

In order to ensure combat effectiveness, Luo Cheng asked the commanders of each county to pull out a government army of about 500 to 1,000 people, keep it standing in the battalion, and be ready to dispatch at any time.

And the county commanders of each county should also pull up a county camp of 500 men and keep it ready to send troops at any time.

As for the counties and townships, they are also required to be able to inspect and defend themselves at any time.

In short, he wants to pull up a big net in the twelve counties of Henan, set up checkpoints on every road, and set up inspections for each mountain pass, and every person who enters and exits the county must be guided by the local village head Li Zheng and the county government, without which he must not leave his home for hundreds of miles.

First of all, people are crucified in the counties and townships, so that they cannot move, and as for saying that there is no food due to the disaster, then the grain will be pulled out first. Henan is not short of grain, after all, there are several large warehouses in Henan, and there are transshipment warehouses and righteous warehouses in all counties and counties, and there is no shortage of grain, but the officials did not dare to open warehouses without getting orders before.

As long as you are willing to open a position, then the victims can be appeased.

"Duke Qi, the county wants to pull up a standing battalion of 500 county soldiers, but there is no problem, but our county soldiers generally lack equipment and equipment, and the equipment is old and damaged, and most of the county soldiers are still recruited by the people. Zhai Rang raised a practical problem, if these are not solved, even if the county barracks pull up the team, it will be useless. Today, 500 people are brought in, but those who lack soldiers and weapons may be called again tomorrow to transport grain and repair the river and repair the city.

"In this regard, I will issue an official document that all the people who are selected to join the standing camp of the county soldiers can be exempted from their own Yao service and miscellaneous service, and the government shall no longer send them to be recruited. In addition, I will unplug the weapons and equipment you need, including armor and horses, and I will also arrange for you to train the soldiers. ”

Luo Cheng dared to say this because although the Donglai Sailor Division was disbanded, there were still eight sailor camps in Donglai County, and there were still a large number of ships and equipment there, all of which were prepared for the Eastern Expedition and are still stored there.

Anyway, if you put it away, Luo Cheng was unceremoniously ready to pull it out below.

In the twelve counties of Henan, each county has a government barracks and a county barracks, and even if each battalion has five to eight hundred people, the total number can reach about 15,000 people.

And Luo Cheng, as the ambassador of the arrest, will also recruit 5,000 soldiers to form his direct battalion.

In this way, Luo Chengcheng can have 20,000 horses, as long as he is fully equipped and then trained, then the combat effectiveness of such a standing soldier is not ordinarily strong.

Wei Zheng was thinking in his heart, if Luo Cheng only wanted to deal with bandits from all over Henan, in fact, there was no need to make so many soldiers and horses, especially these soldiers would also be standing soldiers, and in addition to these standing soldiers in each county, there were many government soldiers and county soldiers who could be recruited at any time, and there were more of them.

He always felt that Luo Cheng's actions had become more and more bold since he came back from Liaodong.

A standing army of 20,000 people, isn't this just like the Xiaoguo Army that the emperor is building?

Why did Luo Cheng think the same as the emperor, and dislike the government soldiers and county soldiers who were also farmers and soldiers?

What are they planning?

Even Wei Zheng, who has always been smart, couldn't guess Luo Cheng's thoughts for a while.

Luo Cheng also knew that he was a little urgent, but he didn't have so much time to wait.

Now he is sitting in this advantageous position, Donglai has ships, ordnance and food, and there are also many grains and soldiers in various parts of Henan, as long as he is bolder, then he can form an army with combat effectiveness before Yang Xuangan.

It's a pity that he may have to go east next year, otherwise Luo Cheng doesn't need to be so urgent, if he is given two years, he has the confidence to operate slowly, and in this Henan, at least this Shandong region in the future, to establish his own stable power.

It's a pity that the time doesn't treat people.

In fact, if he could, Luo Cheng would even more want to gather all his 25,000 old headquarters of the Fifth Left Army, but he knew that even if he had the special status of the Liaodong God of War now, the court and the emperor would not easily allow him to do so.

Being able to recruit 5,000 old troops in the twelve counties of Henan is already very remarkable.

This is already a crazy test of the bottom line of the imperial court, and may even attract the joint suppression of those guys in the court who have always looked down on him, but Luo Cheng can't care about it.

The opportunity is current, and it would be a pity not to fight it.

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