For Tian Feng's aimless blind turnaround, Lu Peng was worried everywhere at first, but then he slowly got used to it, everyone was familiar with it, without those red tape, without the kind of respectful and polite that made people estranged, they got along sincerely.

Letting Tian Feng wander around, Lu Peng was receiving a person he had been looking forward to for a long time at this time, that was Mi Zhu.

Mi Zhu did not hesitate to refuse Lu Peng's request, and directly handed over the family's affairs to his second brother Mi Fang, and then hurriedly followed Su Shuang to Youzhou, and was immediately appointed by Lu Peng to be Dongcao to take charge of his own money and grain income and expenditure.

was so reused by Lu Peng, Mi Zhu was sincerely afraid at that time and called the lord and became a member of Lu Peng's command.

Now Lu Peng can be said to be high-spirited, he owns Youzhou, although the territory that is really in his hands is only one Lu County and this Youzhou city, but it can be regarded as having a foundation.

So, after resting for a period of time, Lü Peng prepared to reorganize the army, build siege equipment, and began to compete with Zhang Chun, who colluded with Wuhuan, for the lost cities such as Yuyang and Youbeiping Liaoxi, and completely took the above counties into his own hands.

Now gather again to discuss the next big move.

This time, all the commanders of the whole base area arrived, including Tian Feng, who has always been positioned as a spectator.

Lu Penggao sat on it and said to Zhao Quan in high spirits: "Captain Zhao will first talk about our current military strength. ”

Zhao Quan straightened up, first bowed his hand to Lu Peng, and then saluted his colleagues and introduced the army under his control: "We originally had 13,000 soldiers, and although we lost nearly 3,000 in the family war, we have also made up for it, and received the 3,000 brought by the four generals, as well as the 5,000 Youzhou army left by Zou Jing, and the 3,000 cavalry. The strength of the army in our hands now is 24,000. ”

For everyone to be able to have such a huge number of teams now, all the civil and military forces are extremely excited.

"But there's a difference." Zhao Quan interrupted the heated discussion of the brothers, "The 24,000 people in Mali, after strict training and actual combat, are only 8,000, this is our elite, the cavalry of the White Horse Battalion of the four generals is okay, but the Youzhou army left by the old general Zou Jing is the worst, I have seen it, if you want the 5,000 Youzhou army to form combat effectiveness, not only to eliminate 2,000 old, weak, sick and disabled, but also to reorganize and retrain, which will take at least three months." ”

Such data is somewhat discouraging, but everyone is still full of joy to be able to develop their small group to such a situation in such a short period of time.

"To deal with Zhang Ju, Zhang Chun and the Wuhuan people, in fact, the most important thing is cavalry, and the infantry has an absolute disadvantage in attacking the cavalry." Zhao Yun followed Gongsun Zan to fight against the nomads in the border areas for many years, and he had the most say on this point, so he stood up and said in a deep voice.

"Your three thousand wolf riders have returned to their hearts, how is their combat effectiveness?"

Zhao Yun replied proudly: "Three thousand wolf riders have become the dead soldiers of the lord, and in the face of the most elite cavalry of ten thousand alien races, they can defeat it." But Zhao Yun changed his words: "But after all, three thousand is too little, and if you want to form an advantage over other races, you must have 10,000 cavalry." ”

Lu Peng was very satisfied, he was about to sell himself by the door, and finally had a huge return, but for Zhao Yun's request to reach 10,000 cavalry, Lu Peng directly vetoed it, I am about to sell myself, what else do you want me to sell.

Turning his head to look at Mi Zhu: "What is the situation of our base area, and can our financial resources support a big war?" ”

Mi Zhu straightened up and reported: "The whole base has begun to take shape, after the previous year's operation, the Luxian government treasury is rich in money and grain, this year's spring ploughing has entered the climax, now, the land directly controlled in our hands has the Zhao family Ding two families of land totaling one million mu, all distributed and contracted to the displaced people from Qingzhou and Yizhou to come over to cultivate, under the vigorous promotion of the windmill, the autumn harvest is in sight. The steel output of our Savage Valley has reached the original design expectation, producing 50,000 catties of wrought iron per day, which can not only fully meet the needs of our army, but also be distributed by Mr. Er and the Mi family, which can bring us huge income every month. ”

"How's the saltworks going?" The salt farm is the lifeblood of his economy, and Lu Peng always pays attention to it.

Wang Dong, the county commander of Luxian County, stood up and replied: "The salt field of the salt field has been expanded to 60,000 mu, and the current season is a good time to dry salt, and no less than 200,000 stone of good salt can be produced every month, even so, it is in short supply, and now our salt has been trafficked by smuggler salt dealers to Qing, Yi, Xu, and, and even Luoyang Jingshi, in which the profit and salt introduction can bring no less than 25 or 6 million yuan of income to our base area every month, and as the salt field continues to expand, this income is still increasing, and there is absolutely no problem in supporting a war." ”

Wu Tao also said: "As our place becomes more and more stable, the population is also increasing, the population of the entire base area has now reached one million, the original villages and towns in various places, as well as the emerging villages and towns, have used our war-wounded and disabled veterans as the head of Lizheng Village, their loyalty is impeccable, our government decree is no longer as in the past not to leave the city gate, but can directly reach the towns and villages." ”

After the Qin and Han dynasties, although the feudal dynasty strengthened the centralization of power, it was still based on extensive management in the locality, and the decrees of the county orders were basically not out of the city gates, and the village elders were concurrently served by the clans and big landlords in various places.

When Lu Peng was in Lu County, he rejected this method as soon as he came up, and directly sent his disabled veterans to various villages and towns to serve as village heads, and distributed them with money, no longer taking them from the people.

These disabled soldiers, who were supposed to be abandoned according to the rules, were resettled so well, not only made the army feel more at ease, but the most important thing was that their loyalty was higher, and the decree issued by the above was immediately implemented, which allowed Lu Peng to completely control his control area.

"Although there are these loyal people, intelligence and supervision must also keep up, and those former arrogant soldiers and fierce generals must not be allowed to harm the people, and once discovered, they must be severely punished." Lu Peng said to Xu Jie.

Because of Wu Tao, the chief administrative officer, Xu Jie, who was originally in charge of money and food, was shared by Mi Zhu again, at this time, Xu Jie had single-mindedly helped Lu Peng to rectify the army and give advice, and at the same time, Lu Peng also handed over the hot Jinyiwei as the head of the guard, which made him firmly in the first position of the literati.

"Don't worry, my lord, I will never let corruption breed in our place." Xu Jie swore a promise.

Everything is thriving, everything is good, all the civil and military are enthusiastic and ready to throw off their arms and do a big job, at this time, Tian Feng, who was sitting in the guest seat squinting his eyes and not saying a word, stood up, did not speak, and directly gave Lu Peng a salute, threw his sleeves, and strode out.