Everyone gathered in the hall of the Xinxi County Ya, divided the master and slave, and let Li Sheng take the lead, and they all sat down peacefully. www.biquge.info When the report began, everyone fell silent, and no other sound could be heard except for the voice of the reporter. Although what everyone is talking about now has originally sorted out a general list of information and sent it to Li Sheng's hands by someone for Li Sheng to read, first, Li Sheng was nervous about wooing Zhao Yun at that time, and he didn't have much thought to deal with such a thing, and second, it was a bit too much to write so many things on a few pieces of paper. In order to keep Li Sheng from worrying about the situation on Xinxi's side, they only wrote some good things on the information. As for the troublesome, they have suppressed it. These were not issues that needed to be dealt with quickly, and they intended to leave that for now. After all, there are some issues that Li Sheng still needs to make his own decisions.

First of all, let's talk about the internal affairs in the Xinxi area, which is the part that Liao Li is responsible for. Although it is still a war matter at the moment, and everything should be given priority to the military, since Li Sheng went to Runan to meet with Liu Pi, Gong Du on the Anyang side also withdrew his troops and returned to the city. The two sides are now probably entrenched in their respective cities of Anyang and Xinxi, and this war will not be fought, and internal affairs will naturally be on the agenda.

It is said that it is an internal matter, but in fact there is nothing else to do. Based on the framework set for Xinxi when Li Sheng left, Xinxi's internal affairs basically revolve around two points:

The first point is to win over the hearts of the people, gather people's strength, let the people in the Xinxi County area know about Li Sheng's troops, and make them willingly make materials for Li Sheng to fight, build various war fortifications, and so on. Originally, this was also regarded as a part of the affairs of the army, but because Li Sheng strictly forbade disturbing the people, forcibly pulling strong men, looting and plundering, etc., the army did not have the time or strength to do such things when the garrison was tense. had to hand over this matter to Liao Li. Liao Li, on the other hand, learned from Li Sheng's method of ransom to deal with this matter, and he appropriately paid cloth and food to the people who helped him, so that they could not feel the danger of the army's existence to them at all. This can be regarded as an earth-shattering move, not to mention that compared with the remnants of the Yellow Turban Party that have occupied the Xinxi area for many years, even compared with the princes and armies in other parts of the world, the people feel that Li Shengjun is getting better more and more. Under the propaganda of Liao Lina's efforts to learn from Li Sheng and Cui Hao's men sent from Xiyang, the hearts of the people in Xinxi were completely tilted towards Li Sheng—they had already suffered too much, and they were very loyal to Li Shengjun.

As for the second point in the area of internal affairs, it is related to the first point, and it must even be done when the first point is more than half completed: that is, immigration.

In order to enrich the strength of the four counties in Li Sheng's hands and make the originally sparsely populated Xiyang and other places develop rapidly, he planned to transfer the people in Xinxi City to Xiyang. On the one hand, it is to make the development of its territory better, and on the other hand, it is to make the recovery of this place in Runan become far away. This was also directed at Cao Cao, because Li Sheng understood from later history that Cao Cao would become the master of the land. Due to Li Sheng's current strength, he has no way to prevent this from happening. Therefore, he can only use two means to fight Cao Cao's rule here: first, to transfer everyone and everything here to his own territory, so that Cao Cao will basically get nothing but land after occupying this place. The second point is to prepare to replace all the Yellow Turban thieves in the mountains here with his own people, and he plans to let some of his loyal soldiers and generals change jobs on the spot in Runan, and arrange them on the ground in Runan as a special army.

This may not be of much use at the moment, but Li Sheng knows that this arrangement can really come in handy one day in the near future. Although I don't have the means to explain all this to my subordinates at the moment, there are some things that I can let them do first, such as immigration.

For this matter, Liao Lizi also did an excellent job. Although Li Sheng did not have a specific idea of the series of boring figures he explained in the report, such as how many people went to Xiyang, how much time it took and how much food they consumed, he finally said with confidence: No one died on the way in the process of immigration. Li Sheng understood that he had successfully completed this task.

"That's a good job." Li Sheng praised: "Gongyuan, it seems that it is right to let you be the head of internal affairs. ”

"This is all the result of the help of Yuanzhi. If it were just me, I wouldn't have been able to do that. Liao Li said humbly. In the days when Xinxi handled government affairs independently, he learned a lot, and gradually connected the reality with what he had seen and heard by Li Sheng's side before, and slowly understood how to get along with his colleagues, how to cooperate with his colleagues, and how to use the strength of his colleagues to complete the tasks in his hands. Although he still looks so arrogant on the surface, in actual actions, his personality has also changed a little, and he understands what modesty is.

"Don't dare, don't dare, we didn't help much!" Hearing Liao Li mention himself, Xu Shu and the others hurriedly stood up and said humbly: "We are also here to complete our own tasks." ”

"Well, don't humble each other. To be too humble is hypocrisy, you know? In fact, it is necessary to help each other, we are one, and each of us must not only play his or her own role in his own position, but also play a role with others. Only when we cooperate with each other can we exert our abilities far above our own level, just like your cooperation this time. I was right to give the order, but even I don't believe you've been able to accomplish this task so quickly. Looking at the harmonious appearance of the people under him, Li Sheng said with a smile that he was happy for their unity. Although he was still a real person on the surface, he really admonished them.

"Alright, with all that said and done, we should now discuss the military issue." Seeing that Liao Li had finished his report on that aspect, Li Sheng changed the topic in a timely manner and talked about the most important aspect at the moment - the war. After all, at present, Li Shengjun's side and Runan's Liu Pi and Gong Du's side are still in a state of war. Although the great conflict between the two sides did not break out because Li Sheng went to Runan to sign the Entente with Liu Pi, the final armistice could not be signed without Li Sheng returning, so the state of war between the two sides was not resolved. Both sides were somewhat reassured of the other, so the skirmishes did not end. From time to time, Xinxi could hear the news of how many enemies so-and-so reconnaissance team had eliminated on the border. At first glance, it is exciting to hear these news, but it can also be annoying to hear too much. Of course, Li Sheng didn't want to dwell on these small things, he thought about the whole overall situation.

"It seems that the number of soldiers in this city has increased a lot. Are you conscripted? Li Sheng asked about this first, his face was too good from time to time, his brows were furrowed tightly, obviously worried about this matter: "Don't you know that we can't afford to support so many people?" ”

"No, we know that." Xu Shu, who was in charge of military affairs, nodded heavily and said.

"Know? Now that you know, why do you do it? Li Sheng didn't understand. He looked at Xu Shu suspiciously, eager to get an answer from him. "Yuan Zhi must have some reason. Otherwise, with his not-so-crazy personality, he would never do such a thing for no reason. Li Sheng thought so, he was really clear about his senior brother's temperament.

"Because of two points." Xu Shu stretched out two fingers very calmly. He was not surprised by Li Sheng's question, and he had the answer in his heart very early.

"Which two?" Li Sheng asked with concern.

"One is the need for operations, and the other is that we are fully capable of feeding more troops here at this time." Xu Shu said with a smile.

"How?" Li Sheng was still puzzled: "I can understand the problem of insufficient troops and the need for conscription, but I really don't know where to start when it comes to the fact that we have the ability to feed more troops here." ”

"Lord Qiqi, with our methods in Xiyang, we naturally can't raise more soldiers. But how many people in the whole world raise soldiers in our Xiyang way? With the sum of the four counties in the north of Jiangxia and the area around Xinxi today, it can already catch up with the territory of a county in the Central Plains, and people can use the land of a county to feed more than a few people, why can't we use the land of this county to support more than 10,000 people? Xu Shu asked the question with a smile.

"That's because we're not right now. We are still directly subordinate to Lord Liu Biao, and it is already a preferential treatment given to us by Lord Liu Biao to support thousands of soldiers with the people of the county order. If we add more people, we are afraid that it will arouse the suspicion of Lord Liu Biao. Under the roof of others, everything has to be thought about, and you can't mess around with your temperament. And I have always believed that quantity is not the key, the key is the combat power of the soldiers, and I always want to train our soldiers to be the aces of aces, the elite of the elite. Regarding Xu Shu's question, Li Sheng explained.

"That's right, of course, and we should be more careful at the moment." Xu Shu nodded in agreement with Li Sheng's words, but agreeing did not mean that he thought he had done wrong, on the contrary, he was more sure that he was right. Because what he is doing now is to make up for a mistake in the strategic arrangement of Li Sheng, the lord.

"But my lord, I have heard that you said that you would leave a group of soldiers and horses in the Runan area, I don't know if this is true?" Xu Shu suddenly asked about this. In fact, this was not what Li Sheng said himself, but something that he accidentally talked about in a conversation with Luo Zhao. Although he just said that he didn't do it immediately if he had this plan, Luo Zhao, as a subordinate, passed the matter to Xinxi and passed it on to Xu Shu and others. For such a strange idea that suddenly came out of the lord, the people who stayed behind in Xinxi were surprised, and they also carefully thought about the reason and feasibility of this matter. They were all highly intelligent and experienced people, and they quickly came up with the idea of this matter: "The lord wants to stay here for a long time." They understood Li Sheng's thoughts, and they were even more surprised by the boldness of Li Sheng's layout. They began to work on this layout, which is one of the reasons why they were conscripted.

"Well, that's the plan. This territory is too close to Cao Cao's heart, and it is not a place that we can directly control right now. After Gong Du and Liu Bi follow Liu Bei away, I'm afraid this place will fall into Cao Cao's hands. For an enemy like this that I had to fight, I didn't plan to let him get here so easily. As you have guessed, I intend to leave one here, an elite army that could cause chaos in the whole of Runan at any time. I want to plunder this place again after Cao Cao develops it, so that Cao Cao will really suffer a big loss. Li Sheng nodded and admitted Xu Shu's guess very dryly.

"Then may I ask the lord how many soldiers and horses he plans to leave here, and who will be responsible for these soldiers and horses?" Hearing Li Sheng's admission, Xu Shu asked such a question further.

"Well, this one!" Li Sheng thought about it blankly, but he didn't have any clue for a while, he felt a little embarrassed in the face of everyone's eyes, and grabbed his hair helplessly, but he was very embarrassed to admit his shortcomings: "I haven't thought about this matter yet?" Do you have any suggestions? He humbly asked Xu Shu for advice.

Xu Shu didn't answer, but smiled and gave Huang Zhong, who was sitting diagonally opposite him, and motioned for the old general to stand up and answer this question. Although this question is a bit difficult, the answer has already been thought of in the hearts of these people, and they only need to say the answer to convince Li Sheng. After research, this task fell to Huang Zhong, the oldest in the world. They knew that Li Sheng valued their master very much, so they wanted to use Huang Zhong's prestige to make it easy for Li Sheng to accept their views.

"My lord, I don't think this army of men and horses hiding behind enemy lines can be carried out by our current soldiers and horses." Huang Zhong saluted Li Sheng, and then said calmly and calmly.

"How?" Li Sheng was stunned for a moment and then asked.

"This is mainly because of two things: one is that our soldiers are easy to be found here, and the other is that it is a bit wasteful to stay here with the manpower that our army has already trained." Huang Zhongzheng retorted: "The soldiers of our army are either from Xiyang, or from Jiangxia and Xiangyang, and the accents of these two places are very different from those of Xinxi and Runan, which are easy to arouse the alarm of others, and it is easy to expose the identities of our lurkers; Moreover, our soldiers are elite men who have been trained for a long time. I think that the lord also plans to train these people to become the main force to expand the army in the future, so these people cannot lose the slightest. If we scatter them here with thousands or hundreds, won't all the work we have done for half a year be in vain? So I think it's a waste. ”

"So what are your plans for this?" Li Sheng hurriedly asked. As for what Master Huang Zhong said, he quickly thought about it, and realized that this was his thoughtless place: the idea of arranging surprise troops behind enemy lines was not wrong, but when arranging it, he did not consider the feasibility of the whole thing - his own troops were already small, how could he arrange for them to take root here? If you are desperate to arrange them, I am afraid that all your hard work will be put on this side. Thinking of this, Li Sheng couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat.

"The answer lies in these newly recruited soldiers." Huang Zhong said with a smile and stroked his beard.

"Why?" Li Sheng quickly asked.

"These people are all mountain people from the vicinity of Xinxi, and they usually live a miserable life. Now that we have gathered them here, their faithfulness can be assured if they are properly taught and given them some hope. They were originally from here, and their accents naturally didn't show any flaws. In addition to the fact that they are later people, they have nothing to do with the original establishment of our army at all, even if we send some soldiers to lead them in order to better control them, the manpower required is much easier than if we directly sent people down. Unlike regular armies, Odd Soldiers need to be more attuned to their immediate environment behind enemy lines than anything else. When it comes to adaptability to the environment, what can compare to these natives? Huang Zhong explained to Li Sheng in detail: "Although the lord has ordered that no conscription is allowed, after thinking about it, we think that it is necessary to recruit such a group of people in front of us. In order to realize the lord's plan, we have disobeyed the lord's orders without authorization, and I ask your forgiveness for this. ”

"You're doing it for my good, too!" Li Sheng sighed helplessly, and then asked with concern: "But you have recruited so many thousands of people, which is a lot of pressure on our finances." How are you going to solve this problem? This is what Li Sheng is most concerned about. When he returned from modern times, he always kept one thing in mind: what was the war fought? It's all about money. He didn't want some of his hard-earned inheritance to be dragged down by such a whimsical plan.

"Please rest assured, I have already discussed the supply problem of this army with Gongyuan and them, and I plan to settle them on the spot and solve this problem in the way of village tuntian. As long as the arrangement is appropriate, they can completely support themselves. It won't have any negative impact on our finances at all. Xu Shu smiled and said the solution to the problem.

"Isn't that going to reduce their combat effectiveness?" Li Sheng was a little noncommittal about this approach. He knew that Cao Cao had used this method to feed his hundreds of thousands of horses in troubled times, and its effect was naturally there. But is it really good? Li Sheng was suspicious, and in his opinion, Cao Cao was just raising a large group of peasants who produced food for him. The so-called soldiers of Tuntian basically can't see them fighting on the battlefield, they are only responsible for production, responsible for changing the demographic structure of a place. If they really have a strong combat effectiveness method, then at the moment when Cao Cao and Yuan Shao are in danger of confrontation in Guandu, Cao Cao should really send these people to the district, and there is no need to send a lot, as long as they send 100,000, I think it will also be very helpful to compete for Cao Cao's strength on the frontal battlefield. However, Cao Cao did not do this after all, which may show the low combat effectiveness of the Tuntian troops.

"Decreased combat effectiveness? There's no way around that. Xu Shu nodded helplessly: "However, even so, using this method does not have much impact on our plans." Anyway, these people only need to be able to lurk behind enemy lines, be able to carry out sabotage, and have a certain ability to fight in the mountains and forests. Could it be that the lord still wants to use them to fight Cao Cao's army head-on? ”

"That's too." Li Sheng smiled embarrassedly: "It's me who pretended to be a bull." He finally understood the result of Xu Shu's final discussion: training a large army does not require them to have strong combat effectiveness, but it requires them to have a certain degree of latent ability, adaptability and mountain and forest combat ability, so that they can survive in the land of Runan and prepare for the future "plan". Originally, the Xiang Yong trained by Li Sheng in Xiyang was prepared to deal with this problem, but because he had not actually investigated the situation in Runan, many of them were taken for granted, so the Xiang Yong trained by Li Sheng did not have the accent of Runan. Although it is possible to train them to change their accents, it will undoubtedly take a lot of time, and for Li Sheng, what he lacks most at the moment is time.

"So be it. Let's talk about the following things. Since there was no problem with everything going on according to this method, Li Sheng naturally changed the topic.

"Wait......" Xu Shu suddenly interjected: "Regarding the question of this strange soldier commander, does the lord have any thoughts?" This is a question that is closely related to that question, although they have also asked it before, but Li Sheng did not say it, I think he forgot.

"Well, this one!" Li Sheng pondered for a while, although he had some calculations in his heart, he refused to say it directly, but asked Xu Shu and them: "The choice of the commander of the strange army requires the ability to take charge of the situation and be able to deal with the attacks of various uncertain factors independently, which is a very high requirement, I don't know if any of you can do it." He meant to ask them to nominate themselves or to refer someone out.

Everyone was silent for a while, but it was Wei Yan, who was sitting next to Huang Zhong, who spoke: "My lord, I am willing to stay here." ”

"Master Wei Yan?" Li Sheng looked at Wei Yan for a while, thought for a while, and then nodded: "...... Good! I wonder if the chief has any other requirements for defense? He knew Wei Yan's ability, so he was naturally relieved that Wei Yan would handle this matter. In order to make the plan better implemented, he planned to cooperate with Wei Yan's actions.

"Well, I want two things." Wei Yan thought quietly for a moment and spoke.

"What's that?" Li Sheng asked.

"Power and a man." Wei Yan said calmly. After he saw that Li Sheng listened, he was at a loss for a year, and then explained in detail: "Power: I need absolute control over this area of Xinxi. Once I am lurking, whatever the Lord needs us to do here, he cannot directly order any of our troops here, only through me. In other words, I can absolutely command all the soldiers and horses here, including those recruited now and those recruited in the future. ”

"Oh?" Li Sheng nodded noncommittally, "What about people?" ”

"I hope the lord can leave Mr. Yuanzhi behind to help me." Wei Yan put forward his second request: "Mr. Yuan Zhi is an all-rounder, not only is he extremely proficient in internal affairs, but even his military strategy is several steps higher than mine. I'm a rough man, and I have a bit of confidence when I am asked to deal with military matters, but I have a headache when I am in charge of things like Tuntian. The area of Runan is vast, and it is half-mountainous and half-plain, and the traffic is somewhat inconvenient, so we cannot occupy the city now, but we must use the mountain village as a base, and if we do not have Mr. Motonao's talent, I am afraid it will be difficult for me to do anything. ”

"That's right." Li Sheng frowned slightly annoyedly: "Doesn't Master Wei Yan know that the atom is my military advisor?" I need his help with a lot of things, huh? ”

"To know is to know. But I think that we need Mr. Motonao's help more in front than in the rear where the lord will be in the future. Wei Yan insisted.

"Okay then." After thinking for a while, Li Sheng nodded and agreed: "Since you are so insistent, then please leave the matter here." I'll give you all the power and the straightness you need. Anyway, we won't have any major problems there in Jiangxia for a while in the future. ”

"Thank you, Lord." Wei Yan stood up and saluted Li Sheng with a respectful expression.

"Hmm." Li Sheng gave him a salute in return, nodded, but turned to Xu Shu and said, "Yuan Zhi, as soon as the matter of Runan here is resolved, our side will be able to settle down for a few years." Although there may be a transfer, it is generally in Jingzhou, and it will not be bad. I heard that your mother is still in the countryside and alone, so it is better to take her to Xiyang first. I asked Yun'er to help take care of her. ”

"Isn't that embarrassing?" Xu Shu was a little embarrassed when he heard Li Sheng talk about this. However, he didn't think of anything else.

"Nothing? Although you and I are classmates and go to master and slave, we are like brothers, your mother is my mother, and it is natural to take care of it. Why should Yuan Zhi be polite? Do you want your aunt to stay alone in your hometown? Li Sheng retorted: "You have a very important job in Runan, and this stay is only a few years, and basically there is no time for you to go home." ”

"Alas!" Hearing Li Sheng say this, Xu Shu seemed to remember that he had been running around for a day in the past few years and had not been happy at his mother's knees, so he couldn't help but sigh and lowered his head: "I'm really unfilial." He muttered to himself, and after a long time, he raised his head again and agreed to Li Sheng's arrangement: "Since this is the case, then everything will be up to the lord of labor." ”

"You're welcome!" Li Sheng couldn't help but smile, but his heart was overjoyed: Okay, okay, as long as I invite Old Madam Xu to my own jurisdiction and don't let Cao Cao or others snatch her away, then Xu Shu should be able to do a good job for me. Well, that's really a good thing. Although people say that Xu Shu is not as good as A Liang, I don't think he is much worse than A Liang, especially in terms of the grasp of the fighter plane and the arrangement of tactics, I think he is even better than A Liang. As long as he can play well and cooperate with Wei Yan's martial arts, I don't think I need to worry about this place in Runan.

The more he thought about it, the more excited Li Sheng became, and the smile on his face became more and more in everyone's gaze - "This is really stupid enough." Everyone didn't understand why Li Sheng was like this, so they all thought so in their hearts. They all looked at Li Sheng strangely: "Lord, are you okay?" ”

"It's okay! How could anything happen to me? Li Sheng shook his head vigorously, and then changed the topic: "Tomorrow, I will send someone to Anyang to get in touch with Gong Du." We need to hurry up and settle the matter here, sign the peace treaty, and we can't drag it on. ”

"Yes! Lord! When everyone heard Li Sheng say this, they knew that he had the intention of dispersing the meeting, and immediately stood up in unison, saluted Li Sheng and said.

Looking at the uniform behavior of everyone below, Li Sheng smiled faintly, he found some atmosphere from here that could only be seen on TV before. Although some of the people here are not used to Li Sheng's mode of saluting, such as Zhao Yun and Liao Li, everyone has done it, and they have no intention of objecting. This is undoubtedly the benefit of rights.

"As long as I have the rights, I can do what I want to do." Somehow, such an idea suddenly popped up in Li Sheng's heart.