Xu Jie is anxious here, and Lu Peng is still sending messengers to urge the grain to be transported here, otherwise the salt farm will be cut off, affecting the people's hearts and affecting the salt production. [Full text reading. 】

There was no way, Xu Jie gritted his teeth and took out his small amount of funds to prepare to buy food from major retailers for emergency purposes.

As a result, another scene appeared, and those grain merchants used the excuse that they had no food at all, and did not sell it! In order to prove themselves, some grain merchants also sincerely took Xu Jie to their warehouses for field inspections, but the warehouses were indeed empty, which also made Xu Jie really helpless.

The grain merchants did not sell grain, and the original warehouse of their county government had long been sold out by the previous county order, and they could not get the grain.

But this time Zhang Yan refused: "This situation is definitely not a good phenomenon, I already have a premonition of a kind of conspiracy, now, the grain in the hands of my army will definitely not exceed half a month, and half a month later, if the grain merchants still do not sell our grain, my army will have no food available, and at that time, if the situation changes, we will lose everything." ”

This is the drawbacks of Lü Peng's use of relying on merchants in the army, although the method of buying along the way with money saves the people's manpower and transportation losses, but once the merchants strike the market, then the army's gòng yīng will have a huge crisis.

The army has no food and grass and panics.

At this time, Xu Jie was already urged by Lu Peng, and he couldn't take care of it so much, and finally forced Zhang Yan to allocate half of the army's grain and transport it to the salt field for emergency response.

Since the military division moved out of the military order, Zhang Yan had to obey the order, allocated half of the grain out, for the safety along the way, but also specially sent Yang Feng with his 800 soldiers to escort, when the convoy set off, Zhang Yan was a thousand instructions, must ask Yang Feng to ensure the safety of this batch of food.

Yang Feng did not understand Zhang Yan's excessive caution, because after the previous period of purge, there were almost no Liukou bandits in the Luxian area, and even if there were, they were only some small shares, and they were no longer in the climate, and they had 800 soldiers to escort this batch of grain and grass to the salt field, which was only a hundred miles away, and it would arrive in two days at the slower, so there should not be any danger at all.

But seeing Zhang Yan's cautious look, he could only nod perfunctorily to ensure that the food was foolproof.

Yang Feng escorted the grain away, Zhang Yan and Xu Jie immediately returned to the barracks, Zhang Yan ordered the army who managed the logistics: "From now on, our barracks will be on full alert, but in order to save food, in peacetime, the total amount of food will be halved." ”

As soon as this military regulation was issued, the soldier in charge of logistics immediately argued with a bitter face: "The whole army is on alert, according to our original rules, the food will be increased, general, you will not only increase but halve it now, which will inevitably make the brothers complain." ”

Zhang Yan could only shake his head helplessly, this is all the problem that his lord is used to, other people's soldiers are usually half hungry and half full, and their own soldiers at this tense moment, suddenly halve the rations, so that they are half hungry and half full, they will complain, this really responds to that sentence, from thrift to luxury, from luxury to thrift.

However, Zhang Yan thinks that this is a time of crisis, and now in order to save food, it is helpless to grieve his brothers.

At this time, the soldier whispered: 'How about we use force to force those merchants to sell us food?' ”

Looking at this pig-headed joining the army, Zhang Yan explained to him: "The businessman's strike is organized against us, and now the situation is weird, everything is based on stability, waiting for the main public salt farm to solve the matter, and at the same time waiting for those behind the scenes to jump out, we are killing them all in one go, solving the stubborn problems of Lu County at one time, and making Lu County truly our foundation." ”

Xu Jie's treatment of Zhang Yan was just to see, but he was noncommittal.

Zhang Yan said to his army again: "Now I order, the army is divided into two teams, two teams in rotation, one team goes to the city to guard the city walls on all sides, and the other team is on guard in the barracks and can respond at any time." At the same time, it was ordered that the whole army should be separated from the people as much as possible to avoid unnecessary incidents, and then ordered the whole army to be punished without mercy if there were those who complained and twenty lashes during the period when the rations were halved. ”

Joining the army was solemn, and the military orders were carried out one by one.

After giving these orders, Zhang Yan turned around and gave Xu Jie a salute: "How does Mr. Military Master think Yan handled it?" ”

Now Xu Jie really sees this Zhang Yan's ability, in just a few military orders, it shows that he thinks things carefully and thoroughly, and is decisive in handling things, decisive in killing, his ability is far above Xi Zhen, he is really a rare talent, he can stand alone, it seems that he brought this talent to the lord at the beginning, which is the greatest contribution to the lord.

With an appreciative gaze, Xu Jie pinched his beardless chin and said: "General Zhang's arrangement is very appropriate, just look at the general's meaning, it is like facing a great enemy, is this too much?" ”

The reason why Xu Jie made such a careless judgment was because when he was in the salt field, he saw that although the Ding family was very powerful, but in the face of his and Lu Peng's decisiveness, the Ding family finally retreated, so he thought that the Ding family was nothing more than that, and it was not a big deal.

"Sir, don't be careless." Zhang Yan directly denied Xu Jie's optimism this time, the reason why he dared to treat Xu Jie like this is that the first people to be together were the two of them, emotionally, Zhang Yan was closer to Xu Jie, so there was less life of superiors and subordinates.

Now that Lu Peng's team has grown, under the premise that everyone is loyal to Lu Peng, slowly and unconsciously, his subordinates have also formed factions.

One faction is Wu Tao and Zhao Quan of the Savage Valley, who have worked together for many years and are psychologically close.

One faction is Xu Jie and Zhang Yan, the original gang.

And Xi Zhen and Zhao Yun are always by Lu Peng's side, the two of them are more intimate, plus Xi Zhen has the grace of recommending Yang Feng, and the three of them are closer.

But fortunately, these so-called factions have not really been formed, and these people only have the right to command the army, not the right to own, and it is not harmful to Lu Peng's career.

Because of this relationship, Xu Jie didn't care about Zhang Yan's rebuttal, so he asked with a smile: "Then what do you mean?" ”

Zhang Yan said frankly: "As far as the last general knows, the Ding family has the support of Ding Yuan to settle down in Lu County to become bigger, and at the same time, the Ding family also holds the lifeline of Ding Yuan's salt, salt not only brings a steady stream of wealth to Ding Yuan, but also the foundation of Ding Yuan's connection with the grassland Xianbei, this time we occupy the salt field, which is equivalent to cutting off Ding Yuan's lifeline, how can Ding Yuan easily let go?" Therefore, the last general thinks that now is just a short calm before the big storm, and the Ding family's counterattack will start soon, so the last general thinks that the military adviser still has to report this situation to the lord to know in order to be safe. ”

Xu Jie is a human spirit, but he is just a fan of the authorities, and he was reminded by Zhang Yan and immediately realized, so after giving Zhang Yan a salute, he hurried to his own county office and wrote a warning letter to Lu Peng.

(End of chapter)