After washing up a little, he came to the place where Helan Ming was originally discussing in Shiping Village, and when Zhao Xun arrived, everyone had already arrived.

"We got it, it wasn't easy, everybody was good. Now let's summarize the gains and losses of this battle. Zhao Xun was the first to speak.

Situ Liang said: "Let me first talk about our gains and losses. This time, we harvested 20,000 quintals of grain, more than 1,000 weapons of various kinds, and more importantly, we had a population of more than 1,000. But our soldiers were seventy-seven killed, thirty seriously wounded, almost all lightly wounded, and three hundred and thirty-five enemy soldiers were captured. You may not understand why I put population at the top of the list. Because we have no people, and if there is no one, there will be no source of soldiers, and without a source of soldiers, we will not be able to keep our food and homes. ”

Zhao asked: "Situ Liang is right, we really need population. This Shiping village can accommodate 500 households, and there is no problem for more than 2,000 people. From now on, the taxes here belong to us, and they can be adjusted according to the situation, and they must be attached to us, and this is a land that belongs to Qiyan, and it can be distributed according to the population. I will summon Lin Luo and Li Chenfeng to recruit those homeless people so that they can settle down again. ”

"All the brothers who have sacrificed their lives must give their bereavements to their relatives, and in the future, I will not starve them with food. The same goes for the seriously injured, and they can't be distressed for the sake of life. You all remember one thing: heroes cannot be allowed to shed blood and tears. We can stand here safely, because they have paved the way with their lives and Yin Hong's blood. ”

"As for the losses of the ministries, we will fill in these prisoners, and we must first train them in discipline. Shanglin Village could not be left unmanned, but there were no defenses there, so they were evacuated soon after the food was brought out. But it's a place where problems can easily go wrong, so you're in charge of Ling Feng, and as for this, you're also responsible. It's easy to defend and hard to attack, so if you're careful, nothing will go wrong. ”

Li Lingfeng said: "Don't worry, my lord, my subordinates will definitely guard these two places, and there will never be another accident." ”

Zhao Xun continued: "This time, in addition to the soldiers' lives, there are two people who have contributed a lot. One person is Aoyama, and if it weren't for his words, I wouldn't have been able to think of this idea. ”

Zhao Qingshan touched his head and said innocently: "My lord, I don't dare to take this credit, I still don't know what I said?" ”

Seeing Zhao Qingshan's appearance, everyone couldn't help laughing.

"You!" For Zhao Qingshan, Zhao Xun likes it more and more, he is loyal and dares to work hard, and he doesn't say much and ask more. Zhao Xun shook his head and continued: "There is another person who is Zhou Wenju, if it weren't for his identity there, we would definitely not be able to enter the village." ”

Zhou Wenju hurriedly said: "Where do I have any credit, I just pretended to be dead and put on a pose, if you want to talk about credit, all the soldiers, which one is not in front of me." The adults praised it falsely, and their subordinates didn't dare to be ashamed. ”

Zhao Xun smiled: "What's yours is yours, if it weren't for you this time, we wouldn't be able to do it so quickly and quickly." You were originally a housekeeper, now follow Situ Liang and assist him in handling some logistics affairs, from now on, you will be our big housekeeper, and it will all depend on you for thousands of us to eat, drink, and sleep. ”

Hearing Zhao Xun say this and trust himself so much, Zhou Wenju's heart swelled with a hot current: "Don't worry, my lord, my subordinates will definitely be responsible for the logistics affairs of the armies, so that my lord has no worries." ”

Seeing Zhao Xun's expression, Situ Liang nodded secretly, although Zhao Xun is young, he has indeed become more mature recently, and he has become more and more skilled in buying people's hearts.

"If you still have any problems, just say them and see if they can be solved."

Li Lingfeng said: "My lord, our current soldiers have reached about 1,800, but there is no clear division of soldiers, all of them are spears, long knives, and some are equipped with war horses, there is no clear division of troops, I think this will have an adverse impact on us in the future." ”

Li Lingfeng said that, and several other sentinels all nodded, obviously realizing the meaning of what Li Lingfeng said.

Zhao Xun nodded and said: "That's true, now with the expansion of the team, the military structure must also be complete, otherwise it will be a very troublesome thing to adjust in the future." However, I already have a preliminary idea, and when the matter is dealt with here, I am making unified adjustments. ”

Situ Liang also expressed his opinion: "My lord, I think our stall is too big, in addition to the newly built dock fort outside Yanzhou Mansion, we also distribute more than 100 miles on all sides of Yanzhou Mansion, and the farthest distance has reached more than 200 miles, which is not good news for us, after all, we don't have an official identity yet." ”

"Brother Situ, do you mean that we give up these places?" Feng Meng asked.

Situ Liang said: "Yes." ”

"But these places have made us work so hard, and your words have wasted our hard work for seven or eight days. If we don't, why should we strike them down? Duan Yan said puzzled.

Situ Liang said with a smile: "We beat him, one is to retaliate for Qi Yan for assassinating us; Second, you can weaken his strength, after all, he is our enemy, and he is also the kind of enemy who has a big plan and lurks deeply, and the weakening of the enemy is equal to our strength. Third, there is too much food and money here, which we urgently need now. Don't adults give lectures to everyone every night? Isn't there such a saying, destroying the enemy's living force, regardless of the gains and losses of one place or one city. Without food and money, these villages are worthless. But to stay in these places has scattered our forces in various places, and if something happens, we will not have the manpower. In addition, dispersion is equivalent to weakening, and if the enemy breaks through each of us, it will be difficult for reinforcements to reach us, after all, this is not our territory, and we are subject to others in these places. Saying that, he glanced at Zhao Xun deeply, and his last meaning was that he hoped that Zhao Xun could take down a sphere of influence of his own, so that he could do what he wanted to do, and not look at people's faces everywhere.

After listening to Situ Liang's words, several sentinels fell into deep thought, and they gradually felt that what Situ Liang said was correct, but they gave up like this, and they were really unwilling.

And Zhao Xun is also reflecting on himself, does he also take the territory too seriously? Although it is possible to have a base area to become a climate, it is absolutely impossible to lose manpower because of these territories that cannot be completely controlled. For the current self, people are more important than territory.

Situ Liang looked at the pensive crowd and Zhao Xun, and said meaningfully: "The so-called improper name is not good, we don't even have an official name now, how can we manage those villages and towns?" Maybe we will have to move obediently under the orders from above, unless we don't listen to the orders of the government, can we? ”

"Don't say they can, so can we. They are strict behind their backs, and the official words are two mouths, as long as they have money, they can solve a lot of things, and they say, do we have Qi Yan's connections? Nowadays, we have such a big move, it is inevitable that we will get the attention of people with intentions. If you don't prepare in advance, you may lose both food and human resources. Well, even if we do a good job of secrecy and no one pays attention to it, how many people are there in these places, and who dares to guarantee that their hearts will be on us? In Yanzhou Mansion, although we had conflicts with Sima Yun, and even knew that he colluded with Shen Ya to assassinate Su Yun, as long as we didn't say it and didn't harm their interests, to them, we were outsiders. Once there is an entanglement between interests with them, they will definitely slap us to death without mercy. ”

"We have Su Yun behind our backs, but we only have a relationship of mutual use with him, in the past, he used us to deter Sima Yun and make him dare not take it lightly, but now it seems that Sima Yun has no intention of making another move at all. Besides, after suffering a loss and receiving a religion, after half a year, Su Yun was also followed by three or four thousand rebels from all walks of life. Although we are the strongest, we are not the essential one, so, with us, he will not give much. I still say what adults say, we can only rely on ourselves, not others. ”

Situ Liang's words, all kinds of people's thoughts were churning, and they all quietly thought about the meaning they represented.

Zhao Xun smiled: "Situ Liang, what you said is very right, I was wrong before." So what do you think we should do now? ”

Situ Liang said: "Gather your troops, concentrate all your money and food in the safest place, and at the same time develop yourself to be the strongest." ”

Zhao Xun nodded and said, "Well, now it seems that in the entire Yanzhou Mansion, there are only two places that we are familiar with and safe, one is that we are building Dewu Fort, and the other is here." The Dock Fort is too obvious, and this is the best place for us to lurk in the shadows. In this way, we will quietly transport these captured food and supplies here in a training posture. The walls here continue to be heightened and thickened, granaries can be built everywhere for more than ten miles, and the mountain walls on both sides can also be excavated into warehouses. Situ Liang, you and Zhou Wenju are responsible for the construction and arrangement here, as for the dock fort, it is almost over, and we can directly settle in when the time comes. At the same time, in addition to recruiting displaced people and disaster victims, people with special skills should also be recruited, especially blacksmiths and Kai makers. ”

"In the future, these villages of more than ten miles will be our territory, and the people here are also our people, we must not be bullied by them, violators will be severely punished!"

"My lord! I also want to say that the so-called gentleman does not stand on a dangerous wall. I have no objection to adults leading troops to fight, but in a situation like today, I still hope that adults don't do it personally, otherwise what else would we subordinates do? All the people here, including the soldiers outside, entrust the future of their families to the adults, but the adults do not take their own lives seriously, who will dare to entrust the future to the adults in the future? ”

Zhao Xun had to smile bitterly when he heard this, but the others agreed with Situ Liang's opinion.

Seeing that Zhao Xun listened to his opinion, Situ Liang couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, he was afraid that Zhao Xun was young and had a unique personality, so he would not listen to persuasion.

At night, Zhao Xun sat alone in the courtyard, quietly looking at the full moon in the sky, listening to the chirping of Zhile not far away, and couldn't help but think of the previous experience of fluttering cicadas with Li'er, Xin'er and his brothers.

"Poor child, mother! How are you guys? I will soon take you over, and I will find this place to lay a grave for my father, so that people will no longer dare to insult us. ”