After the banquet was over, Tietou arranged for his subordinates to make room for the soldiers from Jianchang to rest. Xu Liang took a group of cronies and subordinates into his study, unfolded a map of Shaanxi Province on the desk, pointed to a few points in Pingliang Mansion and said: "You are tired of carriages and horses, first rest in the mansion for three days, and after three days, each of you will go to recruit soldiers on your own." First of all, each brought 3,000 taels of silver, and 50 soldiers went, in order to avoid too much alarm to the Shaanxi government, the recruitment location was limited to the territory of Pingliang Mansion, except for the territory directly under the jurisdiction of Pingliang Mansion, there was an Andong Zhong guard post in that place, and it was inconvenient to act. Other states and counties, Huating, Jingzhou, Zhenyuan, Chongxin, Lingtai, Guyuan and so on can be visited. The recruited manpower was sent to the camp of Jitou Mountain in batches. ”

Everyone nodded, and Huang Ziren added: "Don't recruit directly in the name of recruitment, just recruit in the name of recruitment, now the drought in Pingliang Mansion is strict, and many people can't eat, you can bring more rice when you go, and give them a full meal in the local area first, so as to ensure that you get twice the result with half the effort." ”

"Speaking of rice and grain, my lord, all the grain stores in Zhenyuan City have closed their doors right now." Wan Wenshan said: "There is not much food in the camp, and if we increase the number of people, I am afraid that there will not be enough food." ”

"Zhenyuan doesn't have it, then go to Huating and Jingzhou to buy grain." Xu Liang said.

"My subordinates have sent people to investigate, but none of the surrounding county grain stores sell to people from Zhenyuan County." Wanwen Mountain Road.

"Hey!" Huang Ziren was happy, "A few small merchants and hawkers also dare to show our Zhenyuan County's face?" If the small county town doesn't sell it, then let's go to Pingliang and Chang'an Mansion to buy it. If you have money, you can't buy food? ”

"It's just that in this way, the cost of purchasing grain will increase a lot." Luo Baiguan said.

Xu Liang looked at them and said in surprise: "We want money and money now, we want people, what are we going to do with food?" If people don't sell it to us, we can't open our own grain store? Without him Zheng Butcher, would it be difficult to eat hairy pigs? ”

When the subordinates heard this, they pondered for a while and suddenly realized. Luo Baiguan stroked his palms and smiled: "My lord is right, no one sells grain in Zhenyuan City, so it is just convenient for our grain store to open." ”

"It's just," Wan Wenshan reminded: "There has been a great drought in Shaanxi for many years, and most of the grain is transferred from other provinces, and the way to buy grain is far away, and the thieves in Shaanxi are frequent, and it is not uncommon for businessmen to be robbed and robbed in the middle of the road. ”

Xu Liang listened, pointed his finger at Wan Zhang's forehead and scolded: "You are really a pig's brain!" What do the thousands of people in the inspection department do to eat? Escort grain and grass will always be there, right? Thousands of soldiers escorted the grain convoy all the way, and I want to see which unsightly thief dares to rob it! ”

Wan Wenshan shrank his head when he was scolded, scratching his head and smirking. Everyone gathered around Xu Liang and discussed some details, and then went back to rest.

Xu Liang left Huang Ziren alone, considered the choice of words, and said: "I heard what Feng Min'er said. In fact, the place where Huang Ziren and Feng Min'er were talking was some distance away from the main hall, but in the end, when Feng Min'er shouted, the voice reached the hall, and others only heard a loud shout, but Xu Liang heard the whole sentence clearly because of the practice of Great Prajna Gong.

"Does Feng Min'er have an opinion about me?"

Huang Ziren's face was slightly red, and he shook his head again and again: "Min'er, he is a child, talking nonsense, nonsense, eldest brother doesn't have to be like her." ”

Xu Liang stared at Huang Ziren and said, "Honestly? ”

Huang Ziren patted his chest and said loudly: "Absolutely sincere!" ”

After speaking, he lowered his voice, slowed down his tone, looked at Xu Liang and said solemnly: "Xu Liang, our brothers are fortunate to come to this era together, I really hope that there will be no mustard between the two of us, and we will do a great career vigorously." I know that I am inferior to you in terms of ability and prestige, and you have saved my life, so I sincerely recognize you as a big brother. ”

"Okay." Xu Liang could see that Huang Ziren was telling the truth, and he was very moved at the moment, stretched out his right hand and said, "Then let the two of us work together to do a great cause!" ”

Seeing this, Huang Ziren also stretched out his right hand, and the two hands were tightly clasped together.

For a moment, both of them were a little excited, until there was a faint feeling of sweat in their palms, and the two of them invariably withdrew their hands.

After being embarrassed for a while, the two sat down, and Xu Liang said, "There were a lot of people just now, and I can't say some things." Now for you and me, some things have to be settled. ”

"Big brother, you say."

"If we do what we did before Jianchang and Zhenyuan, even if we pull up a team of tens of thousands of people, there is no guarantee that the army will listen to us." Xu Liang's eyes were scorching, and he said faintly: "If we have been in the army and really control the army, then maybe nothing will happen, but once you or I leave the army for some reason, it is difficult to guarantee that the army will be controlled by the government or others." At that time, our brothers worked hard and cheapened outsiders for nothing. ”

"How's that going to work!" Huang Ziren shouted, "I won't do this kind of thing of making wedding dresses for people." ”

"So, we have to have our own control measures." Xu Liang said.

"Ah, big brother, you must have thought of a good idea, come and hear it." Huang Ziren was pleasantly surprised.

Xu Liang nodded and said, "The so-called people die for money, and birds die for food." To firmly control an army, it is nothing more than to control people, money, and things. I have three points in mind, and I want you to hear them. First, the newly recruited army will become an army of its own, and it will be made into a seal of the chief and deputy commanders, I will take the main seal, you will take the deputy seal, and the appointment and dismissal of generals above the general level must be signed by the commander seal to be effective, and the transfer of the army can only be transferred by seeing the commander seal. Second, the army has a fixed post, generals and soldiers have an established number, the number is made into a chest mark, fastened on the chest of the military uniform, if there is a war dead or leaving office, the number is replaced by a newcomer. Third, the salaries, grains and grass in the army are all allocated by the army, and must not be handed over to the government for distribution, and the generals in the army, except for you and me, are not allowed to accept official rewards from the court. Uh, I've got that in mind for now, what do you think? ”

"Wonderful." Huang Ziren applauded his palm, although he was not good at controlling the army and managing the army, but in his previous life, he was a person who had mixed with the company, and he could see the benefits and disadvantages of Xu Liang's three points, so he naturally applauded. In fact, these three items mentioned by Xu Liang also somewhat learn from the practice of managing things in the production workshop in the previous life. In the production workshop before, the workshop director Lao Fang firmly grasped the personnel and financial rights of the workshop so firmly that Xu Liang, a technician who begged for a living under his hands, had no temper at all, but he couldn't toss the waves if he wanted to make a ghost.

Huang Ziren immediately thought of a question and asked: "Big brother, you just said that the newly recruited people form an army of their own, so this army must have a number, right?" Just like Qi Jiguang's army is called the Qi family's army, what should our army be called? Xu Jiajun? Huang Jiajun? ”

Xu Liang covered his mouth and chuckled, and said, "What kind of family army sounds too vulgar." I want to name Liang Jun like Liang Ji soap cream, of course, call your name, Zijun or Renjun also become. ”

Huang Ziren listened, recited it silently twice, frowned, and said: "It's better to call it Liang Jun, Zijun, Renjun are too ugly." ”

Xu Liang was in full swing about recruiting soldiers and opening a store, but Cheng Huangdaozhou of Zhenyuan County and Yali County was so worried about the food that his hair fell down one by one.

More than a dozen grain stores in Zhenyuan City have been closed for more than half a month, and most of the people have already eaten all the grain they had bought from the grain stores, and a small number of people who have eaten up their grain are already planning to move out of Zhenyuan City again.

In the morning, Mao Yujie, the head of the household, reported bad news to Huang Xiancheng again, and the county government was running out of money, and within five days, the government officials and scribes who ran errands in the county government would not be able to eat.

Huang Xiancheng had no choice, so he pulled up the canon Shi He Cheng and the two went to Pingliang Mansion again, wanting to complain to the prefect Hong Chengchou and borrow some food first.

However, Governor Hong was worried about the fact that the DPRK and China were vigorously reporting and exposing the remnants of the eunuch party, because he was also sued. In the second year of the Apocalypse, Governor Hong wanted to go out on an errand when he was in the capital, but because his family was not rich and had no money, he had no choice but to give a set of crystal chess pieces handed down by his ancestors to Father-in-law Wei. In fact, at that time, as long as he was an official in the capital, he basically gave gifts to Father-in-law Wei, and Governor Hong did not directly send money at that time, but gave inconspicuous crystal chess pieces. At that time, it was not a problem for Governor Hong to send a box of chess pieces.

However, the current shape is not right, in order to clear themselves from the eunuchs, some officials in the DPRK and the central government who have a bad mentality have nothing to do with the eunuch party and have nothing to do with Gonggong Wei like mad dogs.

When Cheng Huangdao Zhou and Dian Shi He Cheng arrived in Zhenyuan County, Governor Hong was facing the wall in the backyard to reflect on it. The black veil on Governor Hong's head may be taken off at any time, how can he still care about the affairs of your small town and original county, so he sent Huang He and the others back in a daze.

Huang Daozhou and He Cheng returned to Zhenyuan County dejectedly, He Cheng saw the soldiers of the Inspection Division standing guard at the gate of the city, and thought of Xu Liang, the former county magistrate who was dismissed at home, his eyes lit up, and he asked Huang Daozhou to find Xu Liang to think of a way.

Huang Dao thought on Monday, anyway, at the moment, he is a clever woman and it is difficult to cook without rice, although it may not work to find Xu Liang, but he should be a dead horse and a live horse doctor. The two came to the Xu Mansion at the east end of the city.

After the two entered the mansion, they didn't see Xu Liang, and after inquiry, they learned that Xu Liang had gone to the Jitoushan military camp on the edge of Pingyuan Town two days ago. After Feng Suqin, the wife of Xu Liang who was in charge of the reception, asked about the intention of the two, she covered her mouth and smiled lightly and comforted: "The two adults don't need to worry, in a few days, our Liang Ji rice shop will also open, and we will be able to pick up the trip in time, so that no one will starve to death in Zhenyuan City." ”

Huang Daozhou, He Cheng and the two were startled when they heard this, and looked at Feng Suqin in disbelief, and when Feng Suqin told Xu Liang the reason why he planned to open his own rice shop, the two were greatly impressed by Xu Liang's generosity.

On the way back to the county office, He Cheng suddenly woke up as he walked, he had heard that Lord Xu had found a treasure in the Hanwang Courtyard, but now it seems that it is true, otherwise, where did he get the money to buy a house and open a rice shop in Zhenyuan? Thinking of the elegant and chic little garden of the Xu Mansion, He Cheng swallowed his saliva secretly.