Looking at the six or seven hundred ignorant little heads on the playground and the eyes of the parents outside the school palace who didn't know whether to gloat or expectation, Liu Yi complained bitterly in his heart, and secretly scolded himself in his heart that he should not be impulsive.

"Two gentlemen, what now?"

Xi Zhicai and Cheng Yu on the side smiled bitterly while wiping the sweat on their foreheads.

Seeing that the two had not spoken, Liu Yi suddenly became a little anxious.

"Holy! You two keep calling me my lord, and now that I'm pretending to be x, you two have to want to recruit me Yuanna! ”

Cheng Yu and the others also complained bitterly when they heard this.

"Today's plan, the only way to do this is to select the best and choose 200 people to stay, and for the rest of the people, you can only break some money and send them away!"

Hearing Cheng Yu's words, Liu Yi said helplessly, "The order changes every day, I don't want this face anymore!" ”

Seeing that Liu Yi did not agree to Cheng Yu's suggestion, he thought about it and said to Liu Yi, "It's better to admit these hundreds of children in batches, divide these hundreds of children into three groups, recruit the best one first, and recruit the remaining two groups once every six months, so that we also have time to prepare!" ”

Cheng Yu also echoed when he heard this: "Brother Zhicai's suggestion is wonderful! ”

Liu Yi thought about it when he heard this, and sighed.

"Well, I can only do what you two say!"

Then Liu Yi cheekily said to the two: "Then the question of how to explain to the people outside will be left to the two of you, and I and a few teaching gentlemen will go and distribute these children first!" ”

After speaking, without waiting for the two to object, Liu Yi hurriedly ran off the high platform.

Looking at Liu Yi's escape, Cheng Yu and the two not only looked at each other and smiled bitterly.

After sending off the last group of students and parents, Liu Yi and the others sat at the gate of the school palace and began to gasp for breath.

"It seems that in the future, you can't make your own decisions!" Liu Yi secretly scolded his previous impulsiveness, and at the same time realized the importance of Cheng Yu and the others.

Before leaving, Liu Yi also went to the room of the invited teachers, it was getting late, and the oil lamp in the room was glowing dimly.

Looking at the oil lamps that made a "bang" sound from time to time, Liu Yi said to those gentlemen seriously, "What is a teacher?" Be like this oil lamp, burning itself to illuminate others, not burning others! ”

"What the adults teach us is that we should keep it in mind!"

That night, after everyone returned to the house, they had a hasty dinner and then went back to their rooms to rest.

After Liu Yi returned to the room, he went to bed to rest after a simple wash.

Wei Simeng saw Liu Yi, who used to crawl on top of him as soon as he got into bed, and he slept honestly tonight, and a slight snoring sound came from a few seconds.

Looking at Liu Yi, who was sleeping like a dead pig next to him, Wei Simeng gently stroked Liu Yi's angular cheeks with his hand in distress.

As soon as this hand was put up, Liu Yi turned over and pressed Wei Simeng under him.

"Old girl, you're playing with fire!"

After the passion, fatigue and emptiness hit again, at this time it was late, seeing that Wei Simeng was sleepy, Liu Yi rubbed his face, then put the pillow behind his back and sat at the head of the bed, while Wei Simeng was a bird snuggled in Liu Yi's arms.

"Husband, can you talk to the slave family about any troubles?"

Hearing this, Liu Yi kissed Wei Simeng's forehead dotingly, and then confided in Wei Simeng about the affairs of the school palace.

After listening to Liu Yi's story, Wei Simeng raised his head and looked at Liu Yi.

"If the husband is short of money, the slave family can sell some dowry to help the husband tide over the difficulties!"

Before Wei Simeng and Liu Yi returned to Zhuo County, Wei Shang gave Wei Simeng a lot of dowry, and at this time, he saw that Liu Yi began to work for the future

Worried about expenses, Wei Simeng sensibly proposed to sell his dowry.

Seeing Wei Simeng like this, Liu Yi was moved in his heart, although Wei Simeng's dowry was very attractive, but as a man, Liu Yi would never allow his women to be wronged because of himself.

"It's okay, Si'er still has a lot of money in his hands, and the property he got when Yide suppressed those disobedient landlords and gentry is in Si'er's hands, and I'll have some tomorrow!"

"But wasn't that money used to build wine inns in other counties?"

Seeing Wei Simeng's insistence, Liu Yi smiled and replied, "Don't worry, I can handle it, I have to believe in your man's ability!" ”

Early the next morning, Liu Yi called Cui Si, Cheng Yu and others to the room before everyone left the house.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I have called you here today for something important to discuss with you!"

Hearing Liu Yi's words, Cheng Yu and Xi Zhicai glanced at each other.

"Is it because of military resources?"

Seeing the appearance of Cheng Yu and the others, it seems that they have already guessed Liu Yi's thoughts.

Liu Yi was a little surprised when he heard this.

"Exactly, except for Si'er's wine inn at present, whether it is the Arsenal Division or Yao Lie's caravan to the Hu people, it is a money-losing business, and now I have made a money-losing school palace without my ability, we may have a very sad life in the future!"

After speaking, Liu Yi looked at everyone seriously.

"If you brothers have any good suggestions, you might as well speak them and listen to them, and see where we can save some expenses!"

When everyone heard this, they all lowered their heads and began to think.

After a while, the first to speak was Zhang Fei, who had never taken money as a gadget.

"Lord, since the fight came back, except for Lao Yao's poisonous scorpion has not entered many newcomers, our teams now have nearly 50,000 people, and the rations of the soldiers are still the same as at the beginning, every meal must have meat, at least broth, so the cost is too great, it is better for us to lower the standard of food!"

Liu Yi shook his head when he heard this, "No, the soldiers will complain if the food is reduced, and there is not enough meat supplement, and the soldiers will not be able to grow up quickly."

After speaking, Liu Yi looked at Cui Si on the side.

When Cui Si saw Liu Yi looking at him, his face changed and he began to cry.

"Lord, you know that my wine inn earns that little money a month, so you have to leave me some emergency use!"

Cui Si's words are true, Cui Si's monthly flow of water in wine inns around the country Liu Yi has a number in his heart, and Cui Si has indeed not hidden slips for more than a year, as long as he has spare money, he will hand it over to Liu Yi, so Liu Yi has praised Cui Si in public many times that Cui Si, this kid, is transgender and knows how to take care of the overall situation.

"Si'er, I want you to take out the money to set up wine inns in other counties to deal with emergencies first, and when the autumn harvest this year comes and the taxes come up, it's not too late for you to expand your power!"

Seeing that Liu Yi had this idea, Cui Si sighed.

"Okay, the lord has spoken, then I'll wait a little longer"

Seeing that Cui Si understood the righteousness so well, Liu Yi was very relieved. I don't know that the reason why Cui Si, a person with a small belly and chicken intestines, who regards money as his life, can be so "generous" to Liu Yi is not because Liu Yi was moved by the silence of his cover.

"What do you think of my decision?"

Liu Yi saw that Cui Si agreed, so he asked Cheng Yu and Xi Zhicai on the side, wanting to hear their opinions.

Cheng Yu saw Liu Yi looking at the two of them, glanced at Xi Zhicai, and motioned for him to speak.

Seeing this, Xi Zhicai glanced at Cheng Yu gratefully.

"Lord, General Cui's wine house is our main source of income now, the more wine houses are built, the faster the news of the wealth will come

The more well-informed, for the sake of the future development of the lord, I suggest not to cancel General Cui's plan to expand the wine inn! ”

Liu Yi frowned when he heard this.

"The point is, without this money, I'm afraid it will be difficult for us to maintain it until the end of autumn!"

As soon as Liu Yi's voice fell, Xi Zhicai said again, "There are not many soldiers, but the essence, General Yao's two thousand poisonous scorpions can penetrate deep into the north, and now there is no war around, is there more to raise 50,000 soldiers?" ”

Hearing Xi Zhicai's words, Liu Yi nodded in agreement, and even Zhang Fei and others on the side began to echo.

"Mr. Xi is right, when he recruited soldiers, he didn't have so many scruples, which led to many old, weak, sick and disabled people in the army now, but I can't train no matter how much I train!"

Speaking of this, Zhang Fei couldn't help but complain.

"Yun Chang is right! Some of my mother's older than my father also came to join in the fun, you said you don't want him, it's not okay, if you want it, it's a part-time job, eat dry food! ”

Seeing that Zhang Fei began to complain, Liu Yi felt ashamed. Since he came back, Liu Yi has devoted himself to the construction of the county and county, so that he rarely cares about the affairs of the army, and Liu Yi, as the lord, does not know that such a thing has happened.

"In that case, how about reducing the number of soldiers?" Liu Yi asked.

"Good!"

Seeing that everyone had no objections, Liu Yi said again, "I want to streamline 20,000 people and keep only 30,000 soldiers, what do you think?" ”

After hearing this, the crowd briefly discussed for a while, and then no one objected.

"Okay, that's it! Leave the matter of streamlining the soldiers to Mr. Cheng, Yide, Yunchang, and San'er, you assist Mr. in this matter. ”

"Yes!"

Seeing that the four of them agreed, Liu Yi suddenly remembered a word, so he said to the four of them, "I have an idea on how to streamline the army for your reference."

"Please make it clear!"

"Compete for the job!"

In the days that followed, Liu Yi instructed the housekeeper Cheng to start reducing the useless expenses in the mansion, and then according to the suggestions of Cheng Yu and Xi Zhicai, he stopped the daily construction work of the Arsenal Division, and let Li Blacksmith and others study the tasks they had assigned before, leaving only a few stoves for daily apprenticeship.

Under Liu Yi's prompting, Cheng Yu set up a series of streamlined soldier systems.

1. Those who have reached the age of 40 and have no official position will be reduced; 2. Layoffs of those who are not satisfied with the control; 3. Those who have not made significant progress in two months of training have been reduced.

As a result, after two months, under the strict assessment of Cheng Yu and others, the 50,000 soldiers were reduced to 30,000.

These 30,000 people can be said to be elite, in order not to let these people lose their sharpness, Liu Yi also ordered that in the assessment every two months, the last 200 people will also be cut, and the vacancies that have been cut will be filled by new recruits.

In this way, not only did those who stayed dare not slack off, but also provided opportunities for those who were eliminated because of slow progress.

The army was cut by nearly half, the Treasury Department and the government tightened expenses, and Cui Si's business became bigger and bigger, and Liu Yi's financial crisis was finally alleviated.

At this time, the building built to accommodate the second wave of students had been built, and Liu Yi had recruited a few more literate gentlemen from elsewhere.

Standing in front of the mansion, listening to the sound of the reading of "Zhihu Ye" from the opposite side, Liu Yi felt very relieved in his heart.

"That's all I can do, it's up to you how you go in the future."

What Liu Yi didn't expect was that it was the "impulsive" move of this day that cultivated many important talents for his future hegemony, and there was no shortage of people who died for Liu Yi's great cause.