Li Yao and Li Feng walked to the gate of Yi County with a few guards, next to the city gate is the school field, where the guards of the royal capital city practice. The Yixian County Guards sat in the shade of the school yard to enjoy the coolness.

This comparison shows that it would be strange if the Yixian City Guards could be powerful, but Yixian County has not had a war for a long time, and usually soldiers look at the city gate and patrol it. Where nothing major happens, there are indeed no elite soldiers, and elite soldiers always have to go through the experience of blood and fire to grow.

Li Yao and Li Feng walked into the school field, and the deputy general of the Wangdu City Guards **** saw Li Yao coming, and immediately gathered the city guards. Li Yao announced regulations such as running, eating lunch, and listening to the sound of trumpets in the guards of the royal capital. Because there were already five hundred city guards who were already used to it, the rest of the city guards were not excluded.

The generals of the Yixian County Guard Army saw Li Yao coming, and hurriedly ran over, but they were the generals who took the initiative to welcome Li Yao into the city, so they naturally knew Li Yao. As the commander of the armed forces of Yi County, Li Yao naturally knew them, the main general was called Shao Xiangming, and the two deputy generals were called Cao You and Yan Ze.

The last general, Shao Xiangming (Cao You, Yan Ze), visited Hou Ye.

Li Yao also bowed his hand to them and asked, "General Shao, come and introduce to me the situation of the Yixian City Guard."

General Shao said: "There are 3,000 city guards in this county, including 500 cavalry and 2,000 foot soldiers, divided into three battalions, the left battalion is led by Cao You, the middle battalion is led by the last general, and the right battalion is led by Yan Ze. The soldiers' salaries were distributed by the county government. ”

Oh, Li Yao nodded in understanding, and said, "You lead the way in front, I'm going to go to the armory to have a look." ”

Yes, Shao Xiangming led the way in front.

If you want to know the logistics capability of an army, the most intuitive thing is to look at how well the reserve weapons are maintained.

Entering the armory, Li Yao picked up a knife casually, looked at it, it was not rusty, it was still very bright, and then Li Yao went to several other points to check it, and found that the bows and crossbows and arrows were relatively complete. It seems that the logistics of this city guard army is not bad, and the army has not been completely abolished. You can cultivate it.

Coming out of the arsenal, Li Yao asked Shao Xiangming to gather the city guards, except for the battalion that patrols daily, the other two battalions heard the drums, and it took about a stick of incense to assemble, and they were not dressed neatly, and they did not look like soldiers at all.

Li Yao thought psychologically: "If these soldiers want to rectify it, it doesn't seem to be easy!" ”

Later, Li Yao explained the regulations that he had originally told the Wangcheng City Guards to the Yixian City Guards again.

The extra meal made the city guards of Yi County happy, but the thought of running ten miles more every day made them miserable.

Li Yao saw that the Yixian city guards were all reluctant, and couldn't help but be angry from his heart, and shouted: "What I said just now is the army regulations, whoever wants to violate it, should be beaten with military sticks, should be beheaded and beheaded, as a soldier, you can't do it, what kind of soldier is it, go home and farm!" ”

Shao Xiangming saw that Li Yao was angry, and hurriedly said: "Master Hou, dissipate your anger, I will definitely train these soldiers for him!" ”

Shao Xiangming knows his current position very well, since Yi County was named the fief of Ninghou, these soldiers are Li Yao's private soldiers, and he is completely Li Yao's subordinate. So currying favor with Li Yao is what must be done.

Li Yao said to Shao Xiangming: "The city guards need to be put in order, I will give you a month to train these soldiers into brave divisions, let them get out, I don't need to eat soldiers waiting for death here, I will give you an indicator, I only need 2,000 people for these 3,000 city guards, and the remaining 1,000 will be re-recruited." ”

Shao Xiangming's face was a little ugly, this Hou Ye is amazing, he just came here to divide our rights, three thousand people were cut off by one thousand, wouldn't there be only seven hundred people in each battalion.

Li Yao said lightly: "My newly recruited people will be enriched into various battalions, you don't have to worry about the shortage of men and horses at all, and from the public, I am a military order, you must complete it." Personally, this is the first task I have given you, and I hope you will do it well. In a month, your 3,000 city guards will compete with the royal capital city guards, and if you win, you will be rewarded, and if you lose, you will be punished! ”

Shao Xiangming hugged his fists and said: "The last general will definitely live up to his mission and help Hou Ye train a tiger and wolf teacher!" However, Master Hou, you must support me with all your might, because there are many squires and tyrants in the county town and relatives of the people in the county government in the city guards. If I do this, I will inevitably have a stiff relationship with them! ”

Li Yao nodded: "You are my people, only at my disposal, I don't believe it, they can make waves in my fiefdom!" ”

With this guarantee, Shao Xiangming's mood is obviously much more relaxed, in the fiefdom of the Hou Ye, there is the Hou Ye cover, this is the biggest backer. As for those local tyrants and squires and people in the county government, what can they do to a person who has a Hou Ye as a backer.

Li Yao also made this in order to prevent the integration of the military and the government, and the military should be led by the soldiers, and the localities should do a good job in local construction. Don't always think about monopolizing power, a layman commands an insider, and the county order is only a scholar, although I talked to him and found that he is also a person who wants to do practical things, but it doesn't mean that he is better than Shao Xiangming in the army. In the past, the city guards had to rely on the county government to pay allowances, so it was normal for Shao Xiangming to listen to the county order, but when he came, this status quo must be changed.

After all the explanations were completed, Li Yao and Li Feng came out of the city guards, and seeing that it was getting late, Li Yao said: "Let's go back to the house, I will have something to announce to you later!" ”

Because the fat people were lazy, they didn't follow Li Yao out, and when Li Yao returned to the Hou Ye's Mansion, he happened to see that they were all at home, so Li Yao called them all to the study and said: "Brothers, I am now new to the fiefdom, and all aspects need to be built, so I need to rely on your help." ”

The fat man roared: "Big brother, let's play from childhood to adulthood, don't you know who we are, just tell us if you have anything!" ”

Well, since everyone doesn't like me beating around the bush, I just said: "This fief is too small, I need a bigger fief!" ”

"But the fief here was given to you by King Qi, and you can't change the fief!" The thin monkey said suspiciously.

"So I'm aiming for the south." Li Yao said with a smile.

"The south is Yiguo, and the border between the two countries is extremely dangerous, it is not easy to expand to Yiguo!" Skinny Monkey said.

Li Yao looked at the dog's head: "Do you have any ideas!" ”

The dog head said: "I think the big brother's idea is feasible, the danger is incomparable, this is not only for us, if we can succeed, we can occupy part of the land of Yiguo, if we can't succeed, Yiguo will not fight, because the mountains are dangerous, there is no army to come!" ”

"But Yiguo's army can't get through, and our army can't get by, besides, we have four thousand troops when we are full, and even if we defeat it, we can't hold it!" The blind man, who had been silent for a long time, interjected.

At this time, Li Yao said: "So we need a small army with special combat capabilities, blind man, I know that your martial arts are particularly strong, and I hope you can pull up this team when the time comes." ”

The blind man clenched his fists and said, "The last general will obey!" ”

Seeing that Li Yao had assigned the task, the fat man was also eager to try, after all, if this thing was done, they would definitely become famous in Qi Country.

Looking at the fat man's expression, Li Yao said: "Fat man, I want to give you a very difficult task, I hope you can help the eldest brother share his worries!" ”

The fat man said, "If there is anything big brother, you can command!" ”

I said you like to do business, and I promised you that you would let you do business, so tomorrow I want you to do business on my behalf.

The fat man was pleasantly surprised: "Big brother, what kind of business?" ”

Li Yao spit out two words: "Selling grain"

The fat man patted his chest and said, "Promise to do a good job"

Li Yao looked at the thin monkey: "Thin monkey, I also need you to help me do something!" ”

The eldest brother has something to do, just ask.

"Thin Monkey, I know you prefer to mingle in the rivers and lakes, I need you to go to Yiguo to help me make friends with some powerful people there, and help me get some information back." Li Yao turned his head to the dog head again and said, "Dog head, let's give 100,000 taels of silver to the thin monkey this time, let him take it away." ”

Thin Monkey, your intelligence organization can be built on the Cuixiang Building, but each stronghold must be separated, you can go to Yiguo to open a gambling house, a women's branch, but I have to you to get me information.

The thin monkey nodded solemnly: "Big brother, don't worry!" It's more appropriate for me to do this line of work. I won't let you down! ”

Okay, let's assign the task here for the time being, you can stay with me first, Yi County needs development the most now, if Yi County can't develop, then everything I just said is a floating cloud.

Wang Changzhu is still his big butler, in charge of all the money in the Hou Mansion, and Li Feng has to follow Li Yao to recruit the army, it seems that his manpower needs to be expanded, otherwise he will be stretched thin.