In the hall, Yuan Dachang was holding a document in his hand, which was the Changning Town document he had just taken, and this quaint document had existed for I don't know how long it had existed. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

"My lord, the Dingkou military households inside and outside the fort, the money and grain in the warehouse, the ordnance and clothing, etc., are all recorded here!"

Looking at this middle-aged official who was not smiling and dull, Xiao Yi smiled and said, "It's hard work, Lord Yuan, please take a seat!" Xiao Yi knew that this Yuan Dachang was dull, but he still had the ability, so he asked Yuan Dachang to sit down and then looked at the book carefully.

The more I look at Xiao Yi's expression, the more serious it becomes, according to the statistics of the booklet, there should have been one hundred and two soldiers in Changning Town, more than five or three military households, and more than a thousand mouths. However, after the last time, Wang Changliang and Li Zhen arbitrarily dispatched most of the military households to participate in the war to compete for the first success, and suffered a disastrous defeat in wartime, so that now there are less than 20 soldiers left, and all of them are old, weak, sick and disabled.

The military households also fled to less than 200 households, and there were only more than 700 left, which was not much more than Yong'an Fort.

As for the armaments and uniforms, there are more than 30 pairs of bows, including 12 pairs of bows, more than 2,300 arrows, more than 50 mandarin duck coats, more than 10 pieces of leather armor, more than 20 standard spears, rattan cards, waist knives, and other things scattered together, and more than 230 felt hats and coarse clothes.

In addition, there were 11 rods of three-eyed guns, 39 catties and 4 taels of lead, 40 catties and 6 taels of gunpowder, 470 catties of wrought iron, 354 catties of pig iron, and 123 grains of pig iron.

As for the tuntian, there is not a single grain stored in the storehouse, there are more than 2,000 wheat and other seeds, 32 ploughing cattle, and 10 lean sheep. What's worse is that the entire Changning Fort Tuntian is even less than 2,000 acres, and Yong'an Fort has been reclaimed nearly 2,000 acres of wasteland when Xiao Yi leaves.

In all aspects, it is not as good as Yong'an Fort, which has just been built for three months, and who knows if these are just written statistics, or the real situation, if it is written perfunctory, I am afraid that the situation will be worse.

Xiao Yi shook his head, the small amount of material reserves in Changning Fort was much beyond Xiao Yi's expectations. And the existing materials should not be very easy to use, and I am afraid that there will be fewer to pick and choose.

Yuan Dachang looked at Xiao Yi's expression, and when he saw Xiao Yi's changing expression, he also sighed in his heart. He has been in Changning Town for more than 20 years, so he naturally knows the difficulties of this Changning Town, and he has worked very hard, but the situation is still deteriorating, but I don't know if Xiao Yi, who is rumored to have managed Yong'an Fort in an orderly manner, can improve all this.

After a long time, Xiao Yi raised his head and said lightly to Yuan Dachang: "Lord Yuan, immediately gather all the generals, I want to inspect the fort!" ”

Yuan Dachang said yes and got up to call someone, about a stick of incense. Everyone in the fort arrived, accompanied by the only twenty or so soldiers in leather armor left in the fort, although these people saw Xiao Yilai a little different, but they were still like the ruffians.

Xiao Yi was too lazy to care, and directly began to patrol the castle with everyone, and he had to figure out the situation in the town first, and he had a bottom in his heart.

The streets of Changning Town are not as complicated as Yong'an Fort. There are forage yards, granaries, warehouses and horse shops in the south, and armories and barracks on the west side, and there are Changning towns in Taohuabao, but the scale and number of people are much less.

Xiao Yi and his entourage walked to the south first, and the more they looked at Xiao Yi, the more they sighed. The forage field horse fodder is scarce, and there are only a few skinny and unattended horses in the huge horse shop, and Xiao Yi also went to see the granary, and there is really no grain of rice, which is quite true in the book.

There are a lot of things such as mandarin duck coats, plough rakes, hoes, small axes, rattan baskets, etc., all piled up in the warehouse, Xiao Yiyi entered the warehouse but saw the dust all over the warehouse, and there was nowhere to put his feet, even the wooden door fell to the ground with a 'creak' sound, stirring up dust on the ground, causing Shi Gang and a few people to choke for a while.

Xiao Yi and the others walked around, this Changning Town was unreservedly exposed to Xiao Yi's eyes for the first time, but what was hidden under the former appearance was so unbearable.

I went to the armory on the west side, and there were spears, rattan cards, and waist knives piled up in the warehouse, all of which had not been taken out for an unknown number of years, and they were all covered with dust. Xiao Yi picked up a three-eyed gun and handed it to Zhong Yang behind him to see.

Zhong Yang picked up the three-eyed gun and watched it carefully, looked at this and looked at that, and finally finished reading all the eleven three-eyed guns, but none of them could be used. This was not unexpected, and he took another look at the rusty weapons and left the armory.

When I came to the barracks, the barracks had almost become an ornament, and there were only a dozen old, weak, sick and disabled people lying weakly in the barracks in the huge barracks, and walked into the school yard of the barracks.

Red flags fluttering in the wind could be seen everywhere in the school grounds, but there was no one. Walked up to the point platform and touched the waist knife on the shelf next to him, the dust in his hand.

Xiao Yi spent an hour almost all over the ordnance sites and warehouses in Changning Town, all he saw was a dilapidated and desolate scene, and he felt disappointed, and was about to go to the workshop to have a look, passing through the east gate and seeing a small post station, but when he walked in, he only saw three old soldiers chatting idly, and walked out of the post station again disappointed.

The group walked into the workshop and saw that some craftsmen were lazily making weapons in their hands, and some craftsmen were still chatting about making weapons, which was completely inappropriate. It can't be compared with the hot production scene in the Yong'an Fort workshop, and the weapons produced can be imagined, how can the quality be passed.

Most of the craftsmen in Yong'an Fort are also from Changning Town, and they are all very enthusiastic after they arrive at Yong'an Fort, and the quality of their weapons has also doubled several times, which can be said to be one in the sky and one underground.

When the craftsmen saw Xiao Yilai coming, they quickly knelt on the ground, their faces were extremely pale, and they kept kowtowing and begging for mercy. There are rules for this early Ming morning, and if you don't pass the weapon, you have to behead the whole family and implement joint sitting.

It's just that the original Wang Changliang never cared about the matter of making weapons, and he has always ignored it, of course, the salary is also deducted a lot, and everyone no longer works seriously, and they don't want to be caught by the new Shangguan this time.

Looking at the frightened appearance of these craftsmen, Xiao Yi knew that the root cause was above and not these craftsmen, that is, he had no intention of punishing them, but he just reprimanded them harshly, and then left the workshop. Yuan Dachang also suggested that Xiao Yi go to the people's places of residence, but Xiao Yi refused without hesitation.

Xiao Yi could see from the people on both sides of the road when he came, what the people there were like. Directly went up to the city wall with a waist knife in his hand, looking at the people looking at him below, Xiao Yi said in a deep voice, "Lord Yuan, inform Lord Qi." When today's banquet is over, tomorrow all the soldiers, grooms, and servants in the fort will be summoned, and the reserve soldiers will also come, and I will review the sergeants. ”

Yuan Dachang looked at Xiao Yi's gloomy face and said yes.