Early in the morning, Ling Yun convened his shogunate staff at the White Tiger Terrace. Since the eradication of Zhang Sheng and the house arrest of the Ten Taibao, Ling Yun has withdrawn from the cottage and divided the hall during this time, dismantling the old structure of the Tiger League, although on the surface the Tiger League is still there, but now the power center in Huaihuang City is no longer the Tiger League Council, nor the Council of Elders, but Ling Yun's Yitong Shogunate. Although the positions of the left and right envoys, the four protectors, the five chiefs, and the eight hall masters are still there, and the hall masters of the thirteen rudders have also been newly appointed, but now it is Ling Yun and his staff members who are really in charge. The new hall master of the thirteen rudders, Ling Yun directly transferred thirteen old subordinates from his Yanyun eighteen cavalry, but at the same time, Ling Yun selected thirteen people from the men and horses brought from the south to serve as the garrison of each rudder. The old subordinates of the original White Horse Hall were in charge of the rudder and civil, and the people from the south were in charge of the soldiers and horses. In Ling Yun's plan, the Tiger Alliance was eventually to be replaced by the Huaihuang Military Town.

"Our grain can only last for another two months." Ling Yun had a headache now, although he had successfully controlled the power of the Tiger Alliance, but he was immediately facing the crisis of food shortage. If we can't prepare as much food as possible, then the 100,000-strong LTTE will face collapse. "I have asked Third Brother Xu and them to find a way to mobilize grain and grass, and I also went to Yangzhou to ask for help from the Jin Palace. However, Brother Xu and the others were able to raise a large amount of food for a while. As for Yangzhou, thousands of miles away, even if there is grain transported, it is difficult to quench the thirst of the near water. ”

With more than 100,000 people, how much food do you have to consume in a day? If you are young and strong, you will be given two liters of grain a day, and it will be six buckets a month. Even women have to get at least one liter a day. Among the 100,000 or so people of the Tiger League, the proportion of young and strong people is beyond the normal level. Especially now that Ling Yun has incorporated one-sixth of the population into several armies and is undergoing high-intensity training, food consumption is even faster. Nowadays, each soldier is given at least three liters of food a day, not counting salt vegetables. What's more, there are thousands of war horses, and one horse is equivalent to the food consumption of five people.

"Maybe the number of soldiers and horses we have trained now is a little too much, should we reduce some of them?" Gao Bo said on the side, "The soldiers are not expensive, and there are 15 garrisons at the moment." There were 6,000 garrison soldiers, 8,000 soldiers from outside towns, and 3,000 soldiers from outside battalions. There were 3,000 pro-troops in the tent, and the total number was 22,000. The total population of Huaihuang is less than 150,000, and the militia ratio has reached six to one. "For Lingyun's large-scale training of soldiers and horses. In fact, Gao Bo still has some objections. There are too many soldiers. Although Huaihuang Town occupies a territory as large as seven or eight counties, it is equivalent to the size of two or three states. But the key thing is that although the grassland they occupy on the dam is rich in water and grass, this is outside the plug after all. Now everyone no longer robs according to Lingyun's order, and eats every day, and has trained so many soldiers and horses, training troops all day long, this person eats horses and chews. The consumption is huge. And what made Gao Bo object the most was that what was the use of making so many soldiers. Although most of the people are said to be born in cottages, there are very few people with actual combat experience, especially after so many soldiers and horses, there are still many people who can't even complete their equipment. Most of the recruits had no armor, no bows and arrows, and even swords, only a large wooden spear with an iron head. Is it really useful for such a recruit?

But Ling Yun still insisted: "The soldiers and horses cannot be reduced, and now the Turks may attack at any time, so we have to hurry up and train the men and horses." We don't have many soldiers to fight in, and we can only rely on the number of borrowings at this time, if we don't hurry up and train, when the Eastern Turks arrive, how can we stop them. ”

This is a superficial reason, and the training of the young and strong is of course to guard against the Turks. But there is another deep reason, that is, to strengthen the control of the Tiger Alliance. The Tigers are not good people, they used to be bandits and bandits, and what they lacked most was discipline. The grassland on this dam is not suitable for tuntian, after Lingyun issued a new order prohibiting further looting, so many heroes, if they are allowed to be idle like this, they will definitely have an accident. Organizing them into an army, conducting military training, and using military discipline to carry out militarized management is also a helpless move by Ling Yun, who has just taken control of power through a series of internal struggles. Besides, training soldiers and horses in this way at this time is also a long-term preparation. The place on the dam is not suitable for farming, and it is impossible to farm, and it will definitely not be able to go in the direction of farming in the future. Lingyun's positioning of Huaihuang is still to take advantage of the excellent position between several major forces to engage in a trade market, use the money from the trade market to raise troops, and at the same time use elite soldiers to protect this multilateral market.

It is impossible to train soldiers all at once, Lingyun has trained 22,000 people, but most of them are only young and strong auxiliary soldiers, and the elite that really wants to be built is only the army in the tent for the time being, and even the soldiers in the outer battalion can only be sparring for the time being.

"What does Saburo mean, how to solve this food problem?" Gao Bo really couldn't think of how to solve this food problem, although the market was under construction, Lingyun also sent many horses to send letters to the Central Plains and the tribes of the grassland, informing them of the establishment of the barren border city, and inviting the merchants of Middle Earth and the tribes of the grassland to come and trade. But this is even more difficult to quench the thirst of the near water, a market can not be said to rise, if you want the market to flourish, it takes a long time to cultivate, maybe two or three years, or even ten years.

Ling Yun had been thinking about the issue of food these days, and at this time he already had some preliminary plans in his heart, so he immediately said: "Third Brother Xu and Young Master Yuwen will go south in the near future to find a way to help raise food." However, it is difficult to quench the thirst of the near near by far water, and there may be a shortage of food for a period of time before the grain arrives in the south, and we have to solve it ourselves. I have an idea on how to hold on to the grain in the south, and I would like you to discuss it. ”

His plan is not too complicated, first of all, it is better to find a way to exchange grain through the guò trade, Ling Yun plans to trade with Xi and Khitan in the east first, and trade with them the tea, silk cloth, porcelain and some iron tools they brought when they go north, these are some grassland people who are in great need of materials, and exchange them for cattle and sheep. You can even exchange some simple weapons with them, although many garrisons and soldiers from other towns in Huaihuang Town are not fully equipped now, but Huaihuang City actually still has some weapons, and if you don't immediately equip the whole army, it is also to strengthen the control of the recruits, and you don't dare to arm them too well before you completely control some of the new troops. Sell weapons to the steppe people. Ling Yun wasn't too worried about them turning against him, after all, Xi and Khitan were not strong at this time, and they were squeezed by the Sui, Turkic, and Goguryeo. It is very difficult to survive, although they have a large population, but there are not many real warriors, often a large tribe only has three or five thousand warriors. Doing business with them, you are not afraid of being bullied, and you don't have to worry about the opposition of these tribes to deal with Ling Yun. Moreover, this time he took the initiative to go to Xi and Khitan grasslands to trade, and he also spread the news of Huaihuang Border City. Invite them to come south to trade.

In addition to sending people to the east to trade with the Xi, Khitan, and Xia tribes in exchange for cattle and sheep, Lingyun's second problem to solve was to grab grain.

It's not robbing the Turks, it's not robbing Xi and Khitan, it's not robbing the Sui Dynasty. Lingyun's target is positioned at other peers on the front line of Yanshan Daqingshan. Inside and outside the Great Wall, there are countless copycat horse bandits on the border line, thinking that back then, when Murong Ke was the most powerful. There are more than 1,000 copycat forces in the Tiger League. For the LTTE. These people are peers, competitors, and even enemies. Ling Yun aimed at them at this time, one was to pick up soft persimmons and pinch them, since the last infighting in the Tiger Alliance, there are no more powerful forces in the north, although there are many bandits and horse gangs, but they are basically in a state of scattered sand. Usually they do not belong to each other. They all occupy the mountains as kings, and plunder for a living. Now Ling Yun has an establishment of 22,000 people. Although it's actually just a scary number, there are few real combatable soldiers, but if you pull out a team of people, it's much stronger than those cottages.

At this time, it is naturally no problem to sweep the cottage. Sweep the cottages, rob them of their stockpiles, their money, and their population. Of course, this is also a kind of actual combat training for the new army by Ling Yun. In order to train an elite army, it is impossible to train a real elite soldier just by practicing every day, and only through actual combat can a real elite soldier be trained. Ling Yun didn't dare to take the initiative to provoke the Turks now, so these cottages just used it to practice. What's more, many of the cottages were actually members of the LTTE back then, and later broke away. Lingyun's expedition to the cottage also has the momentum of reviving the Tiger Alliance.

"The cottage is actually like a rat hole, every winter, you go to the field to dig a rat hole, you can always dig a hole of food." Ling Yun said with a smile, "These cottages betrayed the oath back then, and now we will kill them one by one, not only can we teach them a lesson, but also get food, and we can also train soldiers in actual combat, killing three birds with one stone, why not." ”

Lingyun's plan was agreed by the vast majority of people. Dead friends don't die poor, since everyone is short of food, then find the rest of the cottages to open the knife, both training soldiers and taking food, why not.

The next day, Ling Yun convened another meeting of the Gathering Hall, at which Ling Yun had already made sure that both the Gathering Hall and the Council of Elders had already communicated his plan to send merchant groups to the grassland to trade and send troops to sweep the various cottages. Especially for the plan to send troops to the rest of the cottages, it was unanimously approved. When the Tigers League was first established, it was also prosperous for a while, but unfortunately it soon became infighting and dispersed. Pei Zeng and other old people in the alliance miss the scenery at that time, they don't have any idea of morality, those people betrayed the alliance at the beginning, and now they have the opportunity to get it back.

Pei Zeng and several Dharma protectors even took the initiative to ask Ying to lead the troops into battle.

However, Ling Yun did not agree, and sent troops to attack other cottages, although it was a double action, but it could not be careless. Moreover, he also intends to train his own people to take the position. Those old men in the alliance, he didn't want them to hold real power anymore.

At the meeting, Lingyun invited Pei Zeng and Tuoba Hengdao to lead the team, and sent two Dharma protectors and three chief managers to escort them, and then sent Su Yong, Cheng Lou, Luo Yi and a group of people from the south to form a large business group of more than 3,000 people, and brought most of the goods in the warehouse.

As for the operation of sweeping the cottages, Ling Yun also planned to use the army in the tent as the main force, supplemented by the soldiers from other towns, to carry out a round battle and sweep.

There are so many bandits and horse bandits on the border of northern Xinjiang, which are the targets of a warehouse of grain waiting to be taken away and sparring partners. First take the cottage to practice your hands, just to prepare for the preparation of the Turks.

Ps: It's the first day of the month again, brothers have a guaranteed monthly ticket in their hands to vote for Muzi! (To be continued......)