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Yan Shao's relationship with several other counties is indeed good, and Jiao He had considerable influence on several other counties in Qingzhou when he was alive. Especially Le'an and Pingyuan have reached the point of obedience, as long as it is Yan Shao's words, there is rarely time to refute. But just because people don't refute it doesn't mean they have to listen to him. This is the case this time, after Jiao He's death, no one took the initiative to contact Yan Shao, and no one proposed that Yan Shao take Jiao He's place.

Everyone seemed to be completely unaware of this matter, even the officials of Qi who were fighting inwardly, as if they were afraid of provoking Yan Shao, they pretended to be deaf and dumb one by one, and Yan Shao didn't know that Jiao He was dead, let alone that Qingzhou was now lacking a thorn history.

From this, you can see how people's hearts are back, they had a really good relationship with Yan Shao before, but this does not mean that they want to have one more person in their heads. Especially after experiencing a comfortable life without the control of the Son of Heaven and the control of the assassin history, they don't want to suddenly appear and someone to manage them, even if this person is Yan Shao.

Now they are just like the Emperor of the Soil, they have great power in the local area, and after tasting this taste for a while, there are not many people who are willing to give it up, even if this person is Yan Shao.

Since it is useless to talk about it, it is inevitable to use your fists to decide everything.

Now there are six counties in Qingzhou, except for Beihai and Donglai County, which have been pacified, there are still four left. After leaving the Dare Xianjun and Sun Guan in Donglai, Yan Shao only had more than 5,000 soldiers and horses in his hands. If you want to sweep the remaining four counties with 5,000 soldiers and horses, you dare not say that it is wishful thinking, and the difficulty is definitely not small. Yan Shao may look down on the people in the remaining four counties, but he will definitely not underestimate the enemy.

Since the soldiers and horses in the hands alone are not enough, the expansion of the army has become the most important thing at present.

Originally, Yan Shao didn't return the soldiers and horses of the Qi State, and this number was still relatively generous, but after all, it was the soldiers and horses of the Qi State. It is impossible not to let the family go home, and after Jiao He's death, there is an infighting in the Qi country, and at this time, people also need to go back to fight for power, and it is impossible to give up these games with Yan Shao. At that time, Yan Shao didn't have enough reason to force the other party, which was also what he regretted the most now. If you had forcibly left the other party behind, many things would have been much easier now.

However, this kind of thing should be left behind for the time being, and we will talk about it when the matter in front of me is resolved.

Putting aside Sun Guan, who was far away in Donglai to suppress bandits, Yan Shao had a certain division of the generals under his command, ensuring that each of the newly surrendered generals, including Huang Zhong, had a certain number of soldiers and horses, two or three thousand at the most, and a thousand at the few, and the total strength needed to reach at least 10,000.

As mentioned before, as a county with a relatively stable environment at this time, Beihai has been absorbing the people of many other states and counties to move their families. In addition, there is also the policy of tuntian, the effect is outstanding, and in a few years, the population of Beihai has increased by at least more than 100,000.

With these populations, it is not difficult to add thousands of soldiers and horses to Yan Shao.

The notice of recruiting troops was posted, and the young and strong people in the county were more enthusiastic, plus Gan Ning's 800 Jinfan army, in less than a month, counting the soldiers and horses far away in Donglai, Yan Shao's soldiers and horses had reached more than 15,000. Among them, there are more than 10,000 who can be used for field battles, and such a strong strength is quite strong even among the vast majority of the princes at this time.

It's just that...

Even if there are more soldiers and horses, can you still let your soldiers and horses compete with the enemy with their bare hands?

When Yan Shao was still strolling in the courtyard, the first person to come over and complain to him was Dong Zhao, who was in charge of recruiting soldiers.

"Lord, now that the required sergeants have been recruited, but the shortage of armaments is huge, and I am afraid it will be difficult to make up for it in a short period of time..." Walking quickly in front of Yan Shao, Dong Zhao had already spoken impatiently, and even the pleasant scenery around him did not infect him.

In fact, Dong Zhao is also a more ambitious person, which is why he abandoned Yuan Shao and ran to Yan Shao, they are all Shao, and the difference is not small at all.

During this time, Yan Shao handed over most of the government affairs in the county to Dong Zhao to be responsible, and while keeping Dong Zhao busy on all fours, he also got great satisfaction—————— he would leave Yuan Shao In addition to feeling that Yuan Shao's character flaws are relatively big, there is also a very serious factor that Yuan Shao is not short of strategists. Both Feng Ji and Xu Yu are wise and resourceful, and they have a very close relationship with Yuan Shao. No matter how much Yuan Shao admires him, it is impossible to leave the old man and not reuse him.

What's more, the personalities of these two people are flawed, but they are enough for Yuan Shao in a short period of time. Staying in Yuan Shaona, it is not easy to get ahead. In fact, this happened to Cao Cao as well, Cao Cao at that time had many strategists including Xun Yu, Xun You, Guo Jia, and Cheng Yu, although Dong Zhao was excellent, he was not top-notch in it. What's more, there were more old foxes and young talents like Jia Xu and Sima Yi later, and there was no room for Dong Zhao to play.

Even if Cao Cao values him more seriously, it is really not easy to stand out among these people.

On the other hand, Yan Shao is different, not to mention the question of his body for the time being, there are countless good generals under his command, but there is no strategist, and he is definitely not a reckless martial artist, but he lacks a person to give advice to him, which is very suitable for Dong Zhao's appetite.

Although he is a little busy now, it is much better than joining the army under Yuan Shao—————— for those who have great ambitions, but they have never worried about the many things in their hands and the heavy burden.

It's just that there are many things that Dong Zhao can't do, such as the matter of ordnance.

In the Han Dynasty, salt and iron were controlled, especially for those who built weapons without permission, and they were generally punished very severely, and they were all physical. Even so, this kind of thing was repeatedly banned in all dynasties, and it became a dead letter by the end of the Han Dynasty. However, Beihai really has no foundation, that is, after Yan Shao took up his post in Beihai, he barely got some out, and the scale was very small.

In the past, it was already very reluctant, but this time it has expanded countless times, and the pressure has been pressed up instantly.

In fact, the weapon is good to say, the key is the armor, even if it is the simplest armor, the wrought iron required for each armor piece is not a small amount, plus the series of connections, which consumes a lot of time.

The blacksmiths of these years don't know what assembly lines are, and most of them do the same weapon from beginning to end, at most they leave the little things in the corners to their apprentices to do, so it is strange that the efficiency is high.

Yan Shao didn't answer Dong Zhao immediately, but just took a look at the scenery in the courtyard.

In the past, he could not understand why the ancients liked to wander around their own courtyards, but in this day he finally realized that it was not that they liked it, but that they did not know what to do except do it.

"It's true, it's very difficult to recruit so many soldiers to gather all the armaments in a short period of time, but we have to do this...", Yan Shao looked at Dong Zhao. Gongren, don't you have any way to write here..."

Dong Zhao smiled bitterly, he is not an immortal, how can there be a way, but Yan Shao asked, he still lowered his head and groaned.

Before he came, he had a few ideas, and now he just took them out and talked about them.

"Now the newly recruited soldiers and horses are being trained by General Huang and General Zhao, and the weapons are good, but there is a big gap in the armor, and most of the soldiers can't even be satisfied with a piece of armor. Considering the amount of armor, it may be difficult to get the armor needed by these soldiers in a short period of time, so my opinion is that we can fill this gap with leather armor first, and then change it when the number of iron armor increases..."

Speaking of this, Dong Zhao was a little helpless.

Grain can be grown, and at this time, China lacked everything, except for those who could farm.

But weapons are different, casting and smelting is a technical job. In ancient times, the profession of blacksmith was considered a lowly job, but it was also relatively advanced in the lowly position, and the general blacksmith could even be regarded as a middle-class among the common people, which can be seen.

Especially the armor, which is a little more difficult. A good blade is difficult, but for ordinary blacksmiths, what they need to build is not a magic weapon, just a spear. However, the armor is not only a blade, but also needs to be slowly connected in series, which is very cumbersome and very difficult to study. Coupled with the production capacity of this era, there is no need to talk about how much iron armor is produced in a day.

Hearing Dong Zhao's words, Yan Shao thought about it and walked in the courtyard step by step.

Dong Zhao followed behind, not interfering with Yan Shao's train of thought, and after a long while, he heard Yan Shao speak. "What if the current workshop was bigger and bigger? Now it's just two counties and 10,000 soldiers and horses, and we're already stretched. In the future, when Qingzhou will be unified, there will be tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, wouldn't it be even more of a headache? ”

He has no opinion on Dong Zhao's methods.

Since there was not enough iron armor, and the soldiers could not go to the battlefield shirtless, it became inevitable to use leather armor. One piece of armor is better than nothing, and leather armor may not be as strong as iron armor, but it is still more effective against stray arrows.

However, what he values more is the production capacity of ordnance, this time it is only a few thousand expansion of the army can not hold on, what if the number of troops is expanded in the future? Those large-scale battles in the future will basically involve hundreds of thousands of people and hundreds of thousands of people, which is much more difficult than the current one. If, then, as it is now, we can't even muster enough ordnance, won't it be a joke?

"The Lord is wise..."

Dong Zhao hurriedly said.

Yan Shao didn't react to this, but he had heard this kind of thing a lot recently, and he was almost immune. Just continue to follow your train of thought. "We can get all the blacksmiths in the county together and put them close to the mines or convenient places to build a large enough blacksmith shop, so that the production capacity should increase a lot. In addition, you must have heard about Dr. Hua Tuo..."

Dong Zhao nodded. "I have indeed heard that the medical skills of Hua Shen Doctor are superb, and the doctors in the county are highly respected, and I have also heard of Hua Shen Doctor's reputation when I was in Dong County."

"The divine doctor is a divine doctor, but it's a pity that he is an official fan." Yan Shao didn't have taboos at all, and of course, he didn't hate Hua Tuo at all. After all, the kind of person who seems to ask for nothing seems to be more terrifying and less difficult to control than a person with shortcomings, because no one knows what they are asking for. "I was able to pay a lot of price for inviting him to Beihai at the beginning, one of which was to allow him to manage all the doctors in Beihai County, and at the same time asked him to open a medical clinic in the county, specializing in teaching medical skills to those who are willing to study medicine.

"The same is true now, blacksmithing is also a skilled profession, and it is a little less efficient to rely on the master to bring it by hand? Or we can also follow the way of Doctor Hua's side, and also get a similar thing in the county, and invite some experienced masters, but the body can not continue to smelt, and let them pass on their experience, so that we can get a considerable number of blacksmiths every year, and in the next year, the current predicament can be greatly alleviated..."

I have to say that Yan Shao's whimsical ideas still attracted Dong Zhao's attention.

"The lord's idea may indeed be feasible, and Rong will be thinking about it carefully after he goes back, if it is really feasible, maybe it can really solve the current problem. Especially the former, if all the craftsmen are gathered, maybe it will have a miraculous effect..."After his eyes lit up, Dong Zhao had already spoken.

Yan Shao's idea seemed to him to be a little bit fanciful, especially the idea of gathering all the craftsmen in front of him to make a super-large blacksmith shop. In fact, this is the so-called factory, and Yan Shao's idea is not just to gather all the blacksmiths, in addition to the blacksmiths, there is also a detailed division of labor, plus materials and the like, even if there is no assembly line, it can definitely greatly increase the current output.

In addition, there is also the arrangement of factories in mines or

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Yan Shao's ideas are indeed very useful, but most of them are in the future, and the current matter still needs a practical solution to be solved.

In the end, Yan Shao pondered for a long time, and could only choose the solution proposed by Dong Zhao, that is, to let the soldiers without armor use leather armor—————— many soldiers in this era have no armor, at least almost thirty percent of the soldiers have no armor, and a considerable number of them use leather armor or the simplest armor, and the number of scale armor or chain mail is very small.

For example, Yan Shao requires all soldiers to have armor on their bodies, and I am afraid that it is unique in this era.

This is also another reason why Yan Shao's soldiers and horses have strong combat effectiveness, every time there is a bloody battle, the number of soldiers who can survive is much more than that of other princes, and after a few times, they are old pawns who have survived a hundred battles, how can their combat effectiveness not be strong.

Only this time, with the influx of new recruits, the average has been greatly reduced.

Generals such as Guan Hai and Tai Shici were naturally a little dissatisfied, but they also knew that this was inevitable for the expansion of the army, and they were a little excited about the rare leaders of an army like Huang Zhong and Zhao Yun. The worst thing is to follow Gan Ning, it's not that Gan Ning is a sadist, his temper is not good, and he can't talk about this extent. The key is that the Jinfan Army under his command is self-contained, and anyone who enters it can only be regarded as an outsider. The people of the Jinfan Army are basically water thieves, and they don't have a good temper at all, how can they have a good face for the newcomers?

As for what to do? Not to mention that these are the most courageous water thieves on the river, these rookies alone can't be scared at all, how can Gan Ning face these rookies instead of his old buddies. Those soldiers who joined Gan Ning's command were miserable every day, so much so that the soldiers of other battalions secretly called luck one by one.

But then again, the soldiers under Gan Ning's command are also the most advanced.

After all, if you want not to be bullied by those water thieves, you must first have a strong foundation. Gan Ning is certainly protecting his old brother, but if the old brother is overturned, he will not be able to help retaliate. In his opinion, the strong are the right, and he will only protect those who win, rather than the new and the old. Even if he is an old brother, if he is overturned by a rookie, he will not be able to support him, but will laugh at him greatly, and even increase the amount with others.

Such a fiery move made the Beihai neighborhood a huge barracks.

However, this kind of prosperity is a scene of impending disaster in the eyes of the people of other counties, and they are in a hurry one by one.

Especially Wang Xuan, who bore the brunt of the attack, was secretly planning what to write, and even the guys in Qi who were busy with infighting also turned their attention one by one, for fear that Yan Shao would take them first.

But...

The first person to come to the door was not those from Le'an and Qi State, nor were they colleagues from Xuzhou or other states and counties, but an old man who lived in seclusion in Beihai County and only thought about teaching...

An old man who is a bit nosy in Yan Shao's opinion, but he can't afford to offend...

Mmmm, I'm sorry, I'll make up for it right away!!

Those guys who were busy fighting in the infighting also turned their eyes one by one, for fear that Yan Shao would take them first.

But...

The first person to come to the door was not those from Le'an and Qi State, nor were they colleagues from Xuzhou or other states and counties, but an old man who lived in seclusion in Beihai County and only thought about teaching...

An old man who is a bit nosy in Yan Shao's opinion, but he can't afford to offend...