The next morning, Zhang Lang sent away Wang Yi, who was disguised as a man as a caravan guard, stayed in Xiangyang for another day, and set off for Luoyang.

Zhang Lang returned to his heart like an arrow, and traveled all the way, and in only seven or eight days, the group went from Xiangyang to Luoyang. Seeing the wives and concubines who had been separated for a long time, everyone was very excited, and tears couldn't help but welling up in the eyes of the women. That day and the next few days, Zhang Lang threw everything away and devoted himself to accompanying Yan Yuyao and them, Huang Yueying and others also understood Zhang Lang's mood and didn't bother him in the past few days.

On this morning, Zhang Lang walked to the yamen of the Assassin's Mansion. The guards guarding the door suddenly saw Zhang Lang and hurriedly bowed. Zhang Lang called all the guards up and asked the leader of the guards, "Is Yueying inside?" The guard hurriedly clenched his fists and said, "Miss Huang is handling official business in the hall." Every day, Miss Huang came to the middle of the hall to order the mao, and she was busy until nightfall. ”

Zhang Lang frowned slightly and walked into the door. From a distance, I saw Huang Yueying, dressed in a red and black official robe, sitting tall in the lobby, beautiful and beautiful, but also majestic. Zhang Lang smiled and walked straight into the hall.

A staff member who was sitting behind the desk by the door to deal with official business looked up and saw Zhang Lang coming in, he was stunned, quickly got up, and said, "The lower official greets the lord!" When Huang Yueying and all the staff heard this, they all raised their heads and looked at the door, and when they saw Zhang Lang, they were all shocked, and they quickly threw away the matter at hand and left their seats to salute.

Zhang Lang said to all the staff: "You all go down." The staff members agreed, bowed and retreated.

Zhang Lang walked straight to Huang Yueying, helped her up with both hands, smelled a fragrant fragrance like an orchid musk, and couldn't help but feel a wave in his heart. But when he thought of Sun Ren, who was in danger, the thoughts in his heart disappeared in an instant.

Huang Yueying glanced at Zhang Lang with a slight blush, and asked Zhang Lang to take a seat. Zhang Lang walked over and sat down. Seeing that the bookcase in front of him was covered with official documents from all over the world, he asked, "Is there any statistics on the general situation on our territory?" ”

Huang Yueying hurriedly picked up a booklet on the desk, presented it to Zhang Lang with both hands, and said, "This is based on the routine report sent from all over the world a few days ago, and the number is counted, please take a look at it." Zhang Lang set a rule for all localities, all states, except for the Western Regions, need to update the number under their jurisdiction to Luoyang every other month, and in case of special circumstances, they also need to update it in real time. Every time the number is updated, the state government will have a report, and the supervision department will also have a report, and if the two reports are too large, Huang Yueying will immediately send personnel to investigate the state where the number of reports is too large. In addition to helping to discover potential problems, the most important role of such a set of measures is to facilitate the core leadership headed by Zhang Lang to grasp the situation under his rule in a timely manner.

Zhang Lang took the report, opened it, and looked at it carefully.

The first thing that catches your eye is the approximate estimate of the population, which has skyrocketed to about 278 million due to the inclusion of Yuzhou, Jizhou, Youzhou, and Xuchang. If this population is true, then it is very likely that it has exceeded the number of people in the Cao family's grasp.

Second, the report lists the general situation of the official operating income, the situation of money and grain reserves, and the situation of other material reserves in various localities. The income of the officially operated industries is still showing steady growth, but the money and grain reserves have been consumed very much because of the war during this period, and the vast majority of states have only 10 or 20 million dollars left, and only 100,000 quintals of grain are more, and tens of thousands of people are less, and the consumption is very huge. Fortunately, Xuchang, Jizhou, and Yuzhou were very richly seized, with a total of 78 billion yuan in money and millions of taels of grain. Although there were quite a few seizures, in addition to the expenses of rewarding the three armies and pacifying the localities, less than half of the seven or eight billion dollars and millions of loads of grain remained. Recently, there is also the cost of reorganizing the prisoners of the Cao army, and the cost of forming a naval army, which is another astronomical amount, but I am afraid that the remaining money and food will be cut by more than half!

It must be explained here that Zhang Lang asked the Zhuge sisters to train the Cao army prisoners, not only to make up for the losses of the various armies, but also to use these prisoners to expand the scale of the major legions. After Zhang Lang and the other army divisions disagreed, it was decided to expand the size of each army from the current 100,000 to 150,000, and among the additional 50,000 people, the infantry army increased by 40,000 and the cavalry increased by 10,000, with the exception of the Long Tao army, the hussar army, and the blue wolf army. The number of prisoners of the Cao army is enough to accomplish this goal, and if there are more, let them return to their hometowns to serve the people. After this reorganization is completed, the total size of Zhang Lang's army will reach 1.5 million, not including the barbarian army and the Karasuma army of Toucheng. After Zhang Lang led his army into Jizhou, Karasuma's army surrendered without resistance.

The scale of the force is unprecedented, and the financial pressure is also extremely staggering! The expenditure of 1.5 million troops is almost the same as Lu Bu's current financial expenditure, and if you add the expenses of government departments and other expenses, Lu Bu's side is already unable to make ends meet, and the deficit is very staggering. At present, the reserves of the treasury of various localities and the treasury of the General's Mansion can only be maintained for two to three years. However, Zhang Lang and the military divisions were prepared for this.

The report also talked about the situation of the reorganization of the armed forces, and it is estimated that the reorganization of the armed forces will be completed in half a year. The report also talked about the development of industry and commerce, the people's livelihood, the public security situation, the situation of various ethnic groups, and the public security situation in various localities. In terms of industry and commerce, the momentum of development is very gratifying, many new merchants are emerging every day, and the wandering merchants have extended their tentacles to remote mountain villages, and now, even the people in remote places can easily buy the most exotic goods in the city.

In terms of people's livelihood, the number of displaced people and the number of beggars has continued to decrease, and beggars are no longer seen in many places, and the displaced people have also settled down, especially in the Western Regions, where several cities in the Western Regions have gathered 6.7 million people who have moved from the mainland, and have become the largest cities in the Western Regions. The people's lives are getting better and better, and their spending power is getting higher and higher, which has further stimulated the rapid development of industry and commerce.

In terms of public security, the public security situation in various places is good, and the large-scale bandits no longer exist in other places except for Jizhou and Youzhou.

In the case of various ethnic groups, as Zhang Lang continues to promote fair measures, there are fewer and fewer conflicts between various ethnic groups.

As for the scholars, this may be the only group that does not feel the benefits under Zhang Lang's rule. They appear less and less in public, and adopt a silent confrontational attitude towards the various policies implemented by Zhang Lang, but they do not dare to really confront them. Increasingly, they seemed to be reclusive.