The ancients sat on the ground, and the meal was also a single case, so the dishes were relatively simple, of course, in the homes of wealthy families, there would be different scenes. However, there are really not many delicacies that Han Lie can get his hands on at the moment, a bowl of boiled white-cut mutton, about half a catty, a bowl of braised tofu, a bowl of roast chicken, a bowl of bread, plus a pot of wine for one person, which is already the specification of a banquet for VIPs for Han Lie.

"It's not a secret, at the moment, the expenses of Licheng are heavy, and the hospitality is really inconsiderate, which makes you laugh." Han Lie poured himself a glass of wine and raised it to apologize to everyone.

After this reception banquet, it is enough for a hundred civilians to eat for a day, although it is a little shabby, but in fact, it is Han Lie's heart, you must know that after this meal, in the next month, Han Lie himself will have to eat rice porridge and noodles every day to live, and the meat will not be seen.

Don't look at Han Lie, who is now the chief general of thousands of people, and holds the two positions of Donghai County Lieutenant Licheng Commander, but Han Lieke's own food is three meals a day, and he can only eat half a catty of meat, this is still because of the need to practice martial arts, after all, as a martial artist, if there is no meat, he will not be able to support his high-intensity physical expenditure, otherwise he is afraid that the meat will be broken.

Secondly, in Han Lie's mansion, except for a cook and a maid, there are no extra servants, and they should do what they can, which is Han Lie's requirement for himself and the mansion.

Cai Yan is usually in the house, in addition to helping the cook, he also works as a female worker, accepts insoles, embroiders and sews clothes, these guys are also part of Cai Yan's daily life.

Han Lie did this, firstly, because it is really difficult for Licheng at the moment, and secondly, Han Lie also has the heart to start from himself and establish a thrifty atmosphere.

For example, 'self-reliance, abundant food and clothing', 'unity, unity, land reclamation, and construction of homes', 'hard work to get rich, love labor, improve production, speed up the construction of homes', 'abide by discipline and law, respect the old and love the young, live in harmony with neighbors, and get rich together'.

These slogans in this era, is undoubtedly a kind of progress across the era, for morale, improve efficiency, undoubtedly have a significant effect, now in the streets and alleys of the city, or the reclaimed wasteland, these slogans can be seen everywhere.

Originally, some scholars still had some pimples in their hearts about Han Lie's shabby banquet, but under Han Lie's honesty, everyone's mustard was swept away, although there were only three dishes and one staple food, but the taste was actually a little different.

Naturally, Han Lie also has the credit of this, although Han Lie usually has no time to cook, but in his free time, in addition to chatting with Cai Yan, he will also chat with Cai Yan about how to cook delicious food, and the smart Cai Yan will also go to the kitchen to study with the chef afterwards, so that the originally bland and tasteless dishes will naturally have a bit of color and fragrance.

Let's just say that this braised tofu, when the chef was originally cooking, it was put into an iron pot and put salt to boil, that is, it was served on the table, and it was not only tasteless but also very lacking, but Han Lie proposed to add pepper and leeks and other condiments to add mutton soup to hang the soup, boil it over a fierce fire, put the tofu cut into small pieces, and then quickly fry it on the table, the taste of this braised tofu has changed greatly, not only full of fragrance, but also smooth and refreshing taste.

When everyone put down the wine cup and began to eat the dishes, their expressions suddenly became richer, and at first everyone thought that they had a wrong taste and seemed a little reserved, but when Zheng Xuan opened his mouth to praise, everyone realized that their taste was real.

"Ziyang, the old man has passed the age of six, and he has tasted a lot of all kinds of delicacies, but none of his tofu can be so delicious, and this delicacy is not at all compromised compared to any delicacies." Zheng Xuan put down the bamboo chopsticks in his hand, nodded again and again, and praised: "Just from a small dish, it is enough to see that Zi Ziyang's actions can be described as another way, acting uniquely, Zi Yang's talent, and it is not as good as being an old scholar for fifty years." ”

"Mr. Kang Cheng praised." Han Lie smiled humbly and said, "If you like it, come, I'm saluting you, today you are all my guests, no need to be formal, just have fun." ”

"General, please." Guoyuan, Sun Qian and others raised their cups one after another.

Although it was only a simple banquet, it was a pleasure for the guests and hosts to eat.

After the meal, Han Lie asked Xu Sheng, who served as the commander of the pro-soldier team, to arrange for everyone to live in the county government, and as for the rest of Zheng Xuan's disciples, Wang Bao sent someone to the academy to settle down.

In order to welcome Zheng Xuan's arrival, Wang Bao has already expropriated the largest mansion in the south of Licheng City a few days ago and used it as the address of the academy, covering an area of 100 acres, the college is enough to accommodate 3,000 students, divided into three courtyards.

The first is the primary class, which is not only the enlightenment education, but also the children aged 8 to 12, and the intermediate class is the juvenile class, which enrolls teenagers from 12 to 16 years old.

Regardless of age, as long as the disciples who have passed the test can enter the study for more than one year, they can be hired as good talents, from literature to martial arts.

Han Lie's plan is to recruit 3,000 students in the early stage, but in the early stage, it is obvious that they are mainly children and young disciples, but he believes that in three or five years, a large number of useful grassroots or middle-level talents can be born.

But the expenses are also very huge, Wang Ling calculated the account for Han Lie, saying that the cost of 3,000 students even exceeded 3,000 soldiers and horses, for Han Lie's move, Wang Bao and Wang Ling were a little disagreeable at first.

Both of them are disciples of the family, especially Wang Ling is a child of the family, and it is obviously a matter of harming himself and others to spend a lot of money to cultivate the children of commoners.

However, after some persuasion by Han Lie, the two also realized that although this academy had a huge investment in the early stage, it was likely to become the cradle depicted by Han Lie in the future.

In the afternoon, Han Lie took Guoyuan and other cadres to inspect the people's situation in various parts of the city, so that these scholars could personally feel the current atmosphere of Licheng.

At the moment, the city is overcrowded, but there are not many idlers on the streets, and it is the spring and summer season, and the immigrants are either busy clearing the wasteland, planting crops, or building their own houses, and there is a busy scene everywhere anyway.

"'Unite as one, unite as one, reclaim the land, and build the homeland'" Sun Qian, who was riding on horseback on a construction site, couldn't help but read the slogan written on the newly built wall.

"Safety is more important than Mount Tai, and hidden dangers start from carelessness." On the other side, Guoyuan also hesitantly read another slogan.

"General, what does this mean?" Zheng Yi looked around, only to find that there were such slogans on many construction sites, and he asked with a puzzled face when he was surprised.

"Actually, it's nothing, at the moment Licheng is in the stage where everything is difficult at the beginning, and the people's hearts are not attached, these slogans can play a role in encouraging and calming people's hearts, and it can be regarded as a measure for the people of Wu'an." As a latecomer, Han Lie knew very well that when the people's hearts were first decided, these slogans had great magic, and this was something that had been tested by reality, so naturally it couldn't be wrong.

In the fifties and sixties of the twentieth century, such slogans could be seen everywhere in every village, which played a key role in raising the awareness and cognition of the people.

"Just a few slogans, simple and easy to understand, but contain truth, the general is really talented." Cheng Bing tasted it carefully, but he felt that these slogans were becoming more and more flavorful, and they really had quite demagogic power.

"Deshu is overrated." Han Lie waved his hand and smiled, and said in a deep voice: "Since ancient times, if you are poor, you will think about change, and if you change, this is also a helpless thing, now that Licheng is renewed, if you still stick to the rules, sooner or later it will cause a popular uprising because of famine, and then it will fall apart." ”

Although Zheng Yi and others were difficult to understand for a while about Han Lie's endless fresh words, they couldn't help but think deeply after careful consideration.

Although they have only known each other for a few hours, Xiang Guoyuan, who has learned from the negative talent, has already developed a kind of awe of Han Lie's knowledge and gaze, and many times he can't keep up with Han Lie's thinking at all, and at this time he realized that what he had thought and learned before was too one-sided.

One afternoon, Han Lie took everyone around the city and sent everyone a copy of the current development plan of Licheng, so that they could have a preliminary understanding of the future development of Licheng.

In the evening, Han Lie still warmly entertained everyone to have a dinner party, which was a little more shabby than at noon, but everyone ate the deliciousness of the dishes with relish, but ignored the dishes themselves.

At night, Han Lie convened everyone to hold a small symposium in the study, and gathered all the generals under his tent.

Zhao Yun, Dian Wei, Xu Huang, and Xu Rong are majestic, but anyone with a little eyesight can see their extraordinary momentum. Although Wang Bao and Wang Ling are younger, they have been polished by affairs over the years, and they have a little more sharpness as officials. Even Li Yang, who had been cowardly before, now has a bit of courage on his body, and his gestures give people a sense of calmness.

The study room is not big, the left is headed by Xu Rong, and the right is headed by Guo Yuan, after the two sides sat down, Han Lie got up and introduced each other to everyone, which can be regarded as letting everyone have an understanding.

Although Guoyuan is upright, he is not an arrogant person, Sun Qian is humble and respectful, Cheng Bing is old and respectful, Zheng Yi is young, but under Zheng Xuan's teaching, he has always abided by etiquette and fulfilled his duties.

"Since ancient times, the literati Anbang, the warriors guarded the frontier, this is like the alternation of the sun and the moon, it is the people's ethics, these days due to the lack of talents like Zini, Gongyou, I have to use Zilong Gongming, these fierce generals as literati, to be honest, but also hard for you." After Han Lie sat down, he opened his mouth to express his appreciation for the recent exploits of Zhao Yun and the others.

"As a private minister, I should be the Lord and share my worries." Zhao Yun and the others made a fuss.

"I know your loyalty. But now with the help of Zini and other gentlemen, you still need to spend your energy on training soldiers in the future, because generals and sergeants are used to defend their homes, how can they work all day long between the fields and acres. Han Lie smiled faintly, turned his gaze to Guo Yuan and the others, and said, "Zini, reclamation of tuntian is a great plan for the survival of Licheng, if I leave this matter to you to be responsible, I don't know if you dare to bear it?" ”

"Please rest assured, I will definitely do my best to do a good job in Tuntian for the lord." Guoyuan responded solemnly.

"Okay, from today onwards, Zi Ni will serve as the captain of the pawn farmer, Deshu will be the chief of the pawn farmer, Yien will be the pawn farmer Gongcao, and Zhang Li and others will be engaged." Han Lie read in one breath that Guo Yuan and the other nine people were the heads of the Yamen of the Diannong Division, and this appointment was enough to see how much Han Lie attached importance to the matter of Diannong.