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"Lack of food and grass?!" Above the main hall of Shouchun, a grain official is reporting to the two masters above the main hall, one is the lord, the other is the young lord, one is the nominal lord of Yangzhou Lujiang, and the other is the actual master of Yangzhou.

"There's not enough food and grass again!" Lu Bu is really a headache, originally he took a land of Lujiang, but he sat on hundreds of thousands of grain and grass, these grains and grass were all Lu Bu first copied a part of the Lujiang Shi clan, and then his baby son-in-law killed the remaining Shi clan one by one, and robbed the other part, it can be said that the entire Lujiang Shi clan has almost been in the hands of his Lu Bu army for almost ten years, these Shi clan are not ordinary people, they have eaten the last meal and have not eaten the next meal, even if there is a few catties of grain, and these Shi clans, Tens of thousands of stones at every turn, so Lu Bu was really rich at that time, and the grain and grass in his hands were enough for his Lujiang army to eat for a few years, but since his precious son-in-law issued a conscription order, this originally rich man finally became an iron rooster who had to eat a pound of rice. Not even the salary is coming out! The reason for this is that Liu Mang was put on the spot by Jiangdong Sun Ce, and he directly pressed a population of one million.

Originally, it was only enough for hundreds of thousands of people to eat, but now it is necessary to supply more than ten times as many people, of course, this grain and grass is not enough, although Lu Bu is a little annoyed, why didn't Liu Mang say hello to him when he implemented this conscription order, but the thought that this can be regarded as a kind of tempering for Liu Mang also made Lu Bu feel a little better, and Sun Ce also brought vitality to Yangzhou while calculating Liu Mang!

Just get past to reach the arrival of new grain. Then Lu Bujun will really be sunny after the rain, with a population of one million plus Yangzhou Banzhou. The Shouchun generation is the gateway of the Jianghuai River, the land is very fertile, enough to feed a million people, with this million people, then whether it is Lu Bu's army expansion or others are very convenient, with Yangzhou in hand, Lu Bu can re-enter the ranks of first-class princes.

What were the ancient wars fought! Isn't it just money, food and population! Now the population has a deficit of money and food.

"The 100,000 grains and grass sent by Cao Cao are about to be exhausted!" Liu Mang learned from Xu Shu that Cao Cao in Yanzhou had sent 100,000 grains and grass, and when Shouchun saw that he was about to be subject to civil strife, he stabilized the hearts of the people.

"Lord, although there are a lot of 100,000 stones of grain and grass, it is not enough to be eaten by millions of people. Now it will be more than four months before the output of new grain, but our grain and grass can only last for more than a month! Xu Shu on the side said to Liu Mang with a fist.

Xu Shu is called Liu Mang's lord, and Lu Bu has no opinion, because Xu Shu belongs to Liu Mang's retainers, and Liu Mang and Lu Bu regard him as the heir of the great cause!

"More than a month! , four months! "These two numbers are a headache, and the difference between them is not one day or two. It's more than two months, even if it's an iron body, it can't bear it for more than two months without eating or drinking!

Such a big problem appeared in front of Liu Mang, Liu Mang's original joy of defeating Liu Bei and Zhang Xiu's coalition was suddenly dispersed, this Sun Ce's strategy is still playing a role in Yangzhou, if this grain and grass problem is not solved well, then Yangzhou will riot immediately. The common people don't care who rules you. If you don't let the people eat enough and don't let the people have a way to live, he will definitely turn against you without saying a word.

"Han Yang, I'll let Gongtai transfer a batch of grain and grass from Lujiang first!" Lu Bu looked at Liu Mang's frown, he also knew the urgency of Yangzhou. It just so happened that a new batch of grain and grass arrived in the Lujiang River, and this batch of grain and grass came from the Jingzhou Navy Battalion, Lu Bu was able to dispatch so quickly, and the wolf cavalry in the state fell into the camp, as well as the Taishan Army, in addition to the fact that Liu Biao in Jingzhou contained Sun Ce in Jiangdong. Another reason is the 10,000 stone grain and grass sent from the Jingzhou Navy Battalion.

"Not enough, not enough! It's just a drop in the bucket! Liu Mang shook his head and said, Lujiang's disciples are about to be hollowed out by Liu Mang, where is there still how much grain and grass! Even if there is Wanshi allocated by the Jingzhou Navy Battalion, it is just a drop in the bucket! The current Shouchun doesn't even have enough grain and grass for 100,000 stones, so you care about those 10,000 stones! Besides, the Lujiang River is not close to Yangzhou, and the ten thousand stones are transported, and a lot of them are consumed. So Liu Mang directly refused.

"Lord, for today's plan, I can only rely on three ways to get grain and grass!" Liu Ye on the side also spoke, Liu Ye was the military advisor of Liu Mang's army when Liu Mang went out to Yuzhou, and now that the army has returned to Shouchun, it is natural to put down the position of this military advisor, Xu Shu is Liu Mang's military advisor, after all, his Liu Ye's main business is in charge of Liu Mang's army's industrial park, but now the industrial park has been destroyed, and it may take a lot of time to rebuild, so Liu Ye is in the main hall.

"Ziyang, it's all right!" Liu Mang looked at Liu Ye and said, Lu Bu looked at the two strategists under Liu Mang and couldn't help nodding, now Liu Mang is no longer a commander who relies on one person's light pole, and now Liu Mang has Xu Shu and Liu Ye in terms of strategy.

Xu Shu and Liu Ye have not heard of the names of these two people, but these two people have used their achievements to tell Lu Bu that they can take responsibility, Xu Shu relied on tens of thousands of miscellaneous soldiers, but he stubbornly guarded the last fortress of Yangzhou, Shouchun, if it were not for the last Pang Tong to deceive, maybe the gate of Shouchun City would not be opened. Yangzhou was even more orderly in Xu Shu's hands before, and millions of people in Shouchun also lived and worked in peace and contentment.

And Liu Ye followed Liu Mang to conquer Yuzhou, and he also made great achievements, such as encircling and annihilating half of the men and horses of Xiliang Tie's cavalry, which was a heavy armored cavalry with 7,000! In the end, he, Lu Bujun, got 3,000 cavalry and nearly 5,000 war horses! How could this not make Lu Bu happy!

In addition to Cheng Yu, the main general of the Chengguan Army, the other Xu Sheng, Wang Wei Huang Xu and others are personally promoted by Liu Mang, and now there is a small white horse Congyi, in the hands of Zhao Yun under Liu Mang, there is still an impression of the white horse Congyi, and the white horse general Gongsun Zhan Youzhou and Bingzhou are not far away. Gan Ning can also be regarded as Liu Mang's subordinate, and it can be said that Yangzhou has become the temperament of a prince. Lü Bu gave full autonomy. These talents under Liu Mang's command, Lu Bu will not covet them. In terms of strategists, it is enough for him to have Chen Gong. Military generals, Zang Ba, Zhang Liao, and Gao Shun are not generals. Not to mention him, Lu Bu, the god of war himself. Lu Bu looked at Liu Mang, just like an elder looking at the younger generation in the family.

"Lord, if you want to get grain and grass, one of them is to rob it!" Liu Ye said to Liu Mang.

"Rob?!" Liu Mang thought for a while and said, "There is a place to grab grain around here!" Although Cao Cao won the battle of Guandu and got most of Yuan Shao's grain and grass, those grains and grasses are far away in Jizhou, not in Xuzhou, Yanzhou, which borders Yangzhou. Even if Liu Mang sends troops, he can only attack Yanzhou and Xuzhou, and the grain and grass grabbed in these two states are not enough to consume! What's more, Lao Cao sent 100,000 stones of grain and grass at the critical time of Shouchun, at least remember this from others. There is also a neighbor who is Liu Bei, although it is a good idea to beat Liu Bei, but Liu Mang is really afraid that Liu Beijun will be ruthless, so even if he takes Runan, he may gain nothing. And now Liu Bei's oil and water are almost the same, and it is difficult to support the consumption of Yangzhou after taking Yuzhou, not to mention that the expedition also requires a large amount of grain and grass, and it is difficult to get this large amount of grain and grass consumption in Yangzhou. So Liu Mang vetoed the first article.

"Then my lord, the second thing is to borrow grain and grass from our good neighbors!" Liu Ye said the second method.

"Borrowed food?!" Borrow grain and grass from Cao Cao? Liu Mang still shook his head with a wry smile, it's not that he doesn't want to borrow it. But I can't borrow it, when Lao Cao sent 100,000 stones of grain and grass, he once asked someone to send a messenger, and what he wanted was the bed crossbow in Liu Mang's army, and Liu Mang could sell the bed crossbow to Jiangdong and Jingzhou. But it just can't be sold to Cao Cao, because Cao Cao has now defeated Yuan Shao. The overlord of the north is about to be decided, and there is not much time left for the princes of the Central Plains, once the bed crossbow is given to Cao Cao, the Yuan brothers, who are not Cao Cao's opponents, can hold on for a long time! What Cao Cao wanted to unify the north was to pacify the Central Plains first, and then go south to take the Yangtze River Valley, and he Lu Bujun was the brunt of it, Liu Mang sold Cao Cao's bed crossbow, he was crazy! Therefore, it was completely impossible to succeed in borrowing grain from Lao Cao, and it was still vetoed by Liu Mang.

"Then the lord is left with only one last way! That's to go buy! Liu Ye could only shake his head helplessly, now he can't grab a gun, and he can't borrow it, so take the money to buy it!

"Can you buy it?!" Liu Mang is a little unconfident, you must know that now is a troubled time, and grain and grass are strategic materials in troubled times, and they are rarely bought and sold.

"My lord, besides Ziyang's method, do you have other methods!" Xu Shu also spoke.

Listening to Xu Shu's words, Liu Mang really realized that he really had no other way than to buy grain and grass.

"Who should we buy grain and grass like?!" Liu Mang looked at Liu Ye, Liu Ye proposed this method and must know who to buy.

"There are more people who buy, we can be like Cao Cao in Yanzhou, we can be like the Yuan brothers in Hebei, Liu Biao in Jingzhou, and even Sun Ce in Jiangdong, we can send envoys to buy and sell grain and grass" What Liu Ye wants is to cast a wide net, so that it is more likely to buy grain and grass. "But lord, be prepared to spend a lot of money!" Liu Ye is right, now is the troubled times, grain and grass are expensive, and almost everyone knows that you Liu Mang has been calculated, and you need grain and grass to save your life, so grain and grass will definitely be sold very expensive, there is such a Kaizi who is sorry for not slaughtering people.

Liu Mang sighed, there is no way to be slaughtered, as long as it is not too much, Liu Mang can still accept it, even if it is three to four times the usual amount, as long as he gets through this difficult time in front of him.

"My lord, not only is there not enough food and grass, but we don't have much gold in our stock!" Xu Shu is the old housekeeper of the entire Liu Mangjun, and the problem of money and food is in charge of Xu Shu. Naturally, it takes a lot of money to buy grain and grass, but now there is not much money.

Liu Mang was a little puzzled, "Yuan Zhi, don't we still have tens of thousands of gold!" Liu Mang remembered that he had just come to Yangzhou, but he brought tens of thousands of gold, and these gold were not worse than the heritage of some century-old families. But now it's not enough! It's only been a few months.

"Lord, Yuan Zhi doesn't dare to expire the lord, this money is indeed insufficient," Xu Shu explained to Liu Mang, the industrial zone, as well as the shipbuilders, and the salaries of those craftsmen, and even built these cement houses in the city. There is also the casting of the Hall of Heroes in Shouchun, which all require money! The money is gone. Now Shouchun is in ruins, the industrial zone needs to be rebuilt, the shipbuilder has to start work again, where is there still a lot of spare money.

"If you lack money, you can take it from Lujiang!" Lu Bu said to Liu Mang, although there is not much grain and grass in Lujiang, there is a lot of money, all of which are obtained from the robbery, and these have been for decades. The family of hundreds of years is very considerable, and you can't put more grain and grass, but this gold and silver can.

"No!" Liu Mang refused without even thinking about it. This crisp appearance made Liu Mang frown, isn't it Yangzhou's! Although he is in charge of Yangzhou, he is still in charge of Liu Mang, but the nominal master is still him Lu Bu, Liu Mang is Lu Bu's son-in-law, and now he wants to split up! Lu Bu's face was a little unsightly, and the generals of Zang Ba Zhang Liao who was standing next to Lu Bu were also gloomy.

"Father-in-law, don't get me wrong1!" Liu Mang hurriedly waved his hand. Get rid of Lu Bujun and stand on your own? Even if Liu Mang has that heart and doesn't have that strength, if it weren't for Lu Bu's army in this battle of Yangzhou, maybe Liu Mang's Shouchun would have been captured long ago, "Father-in-law, you have to give me the coins there!"

"Huh?!" Liu Mang's words confused Lu Bu, what do you want to do if you want this and don't want to use it to buy grain and grass.

"Used to expand the army!" Liu Mang said to Lu Bu. The reason why Yangzhou was pressed and beaten this time, Liu Mang saw that in addition to being calculated, there was a shortage of food and grass, and there was another reason, that is, the lack of troops, if Liu Mang had tens of thousands of elite soldiers and horses in his hands, why did he need to besiege Wei to save Zhao, and why did he need to cut off Liu Beijun's grain route. Come and force Liu Bei's army to retreat! This time he was able to beat Liu Bei so badly, and the main force of Liu Bei's army was annihilated by his cheap father-in-law. If Liu Mang's Yangzhou had tens of thousands of troops, he would have been able to fight Liu Bei directly, and Xu Shu would not have been trapped in Shouchun, and he would have been able to fight with Pang Tong with the soldiers and horses in his hand, so Liu Mang was eager to expand the army.

"Expansion? You have to think about it! Lu Bu asked Liu Mang uneasily, this army expansion is not child's play, because the army expansion will inevitably require more commanders and officers at all levels to be in place, otherwise they are all recruits! There is also the expansion of the army, which must be in the direction of the elite, otherwise the ordinary ragtag army will have no other role except for wasting military rations.

"Wu Chang, even a hundred people will be a thousand people, I am ready!" Liu Mang said to everyone in the hall, Liu Mang asked those capable people to challenge the soldiers of the Black Chess Army and the Chengguan Army in the previous Hefei recruitment order! Those who can beat the captain of the army are the captains, and those who have lost directly abdicate to make way for the sages, of course, they will not directly remove their positions, but add a deputy word in front of their positions, so that most of Liu Mang's black chess army and urban management army are the so-called deputy army commanders, deputy chiefs, deputy hundred generals, and deputy thousand generals, and he has completely regarded these two parts as officer training camps and training camps.

As for the elite of the tribe, it is no problem, Liu Mang is ready to expand the army out of three large battalions, the first is the white horse Congyi in Zhao Yun's hands, Zhao Yun's white horse Congyi is too unworthy of the name, the entire battalion of Baima Congyi should have 5,000 soldiers and horses, how can it be that there are less than 200 people now! This is a cavalry battalion, but it is not a real cavalry unit, so Liu Mang has to set up the white horse for endless use!

Originally, there were no war horses, war horses were too expensive, Liu Mang needed to be careful to be able to rely on Ganning's navy to get the sea and then import war horses from Liaodong to Baima Congyi, so that it was difficult to form an army without a year or two, but now it is different, outside Guangzhou, he ate Hu Che'er, Xiliang Tie rode 7,000 horses, got 5,000 war horses, and 3,000 Xiliang cavalry, these cavalrymen can directly get on the horses and form an army after direct training.

But Liu Mang didn't want all of them, he only needed to select 1,500 people from them, and then gather 2,000 recruits to make 3,000 people and teach them all to Zhao Yun, he asked Zhao Yun to select more than 2,000 people out of these 3,500 people, and form a white horse Congyi with 2,500 people, and one person and two horses to form a light cavalry.

The remaining more than 1,500 Xiliang Iron Cavalry, Liu Mang was ready to pack it and send it to Lu Bu, and trained with the Xiliang Iron Cavalry captured by Lu Bu to replenish and the wolf rode Lu Bu to ambush Zhang Xiu, and there were many war horses that were more than 6,800 heads, because he was an ambush war, so many Xiliang Iron Cavalry didn't know what was going on, and after they were left off the war horses, Zhang Xiu also lost a lot of war horses when they fled. Therefore, the war horses ridden by the wolves in the state are absolutely sufficient.

The second army of soldiers and horses Liu Mang wants to form is the Yiyang warriors in Wei Yan's hands, Wei Yan got good news in the Yiyang generation, he took dozens of Yiyang veterans, after arriving in Yiyang, the Jingzhou army there didn't even dare to let go of the fart and handed over Yiyang, because Wei Yan has too much prestige in Yiyang, and this person's martial arts are still strong, if the Jingzhou defenders don't know the image, they may be picked up by the Yiyang people.

Wei Yan also lived up to Liu Mang's appreciation, and even took Zaoyang down, and now Wei Yan is gathering soldiers and horses in Zaoyang, Yiyang, to reorganize the Yiyang soldiers, and the Yiyang soldiers are also an elite foot soldier.

The last battalion is for Hao Shao, Hao Shao's talent table is there, Liu Mang can't kill it at all, if such a talent is not used, it will be a tyrannical thing, so Liu Mang simply gave Hao Shao the title of a miscellaneous general, and gave him a battalion of 5,000 soldiers and horses to be stationed in Guangzhou and connected with Yiyang Zaoyang, like a nail nailed to the border of Yangzhou, with Hao Shao guarding the city, Liu Mang will be relieved a lot.

Although the three battalions of soldiers and horses are less than fifteen, but the consumption is a lot, the soldiers' swords and armor, all kinds of weapons need money, and the money and food for training are not a place to use money, so Liu Mang needs to get a horse from Lujiang to support it.

But once it is used, then there is no money to buy grain and grass! It's really a difficult multiple-choice question.

Fortunately, Yang Hong, Liu Mang's private housekeeper on the side, spoke, "Wen Hou, the head of the family!" Although Hong has no grain and grass, there is gold and silver in this Shouchun City! It is enough to relieve the predicament of Yangzhou! ”