After solving the problem of skills, the Donghai team still needs to stay in the power dream realm for seven days, because of the life and death of Huang Zhi, so everyone has no time to pay attention to other affairs in Donghai Town, and the elders who have always had something to say are put aside. At this moment, he finally had leisure, Sima Fuqiang hurriedly took Huang Zhi to the Council of Elders together, and the rest continued to go to the town guard to be the head of the martial arts.

The elders naturally knew that the people in the dream had a connection with each other, and they did not care, and waited patiently in the presbyterian meeting. At this moment, seeing Sima Fuqiang and Huang Zhi coming in, he first congratulated him, and then began to talk about business. All they want to say is some good news, which can be regarded as a joy with Huang Zhi's recovery.

First of all, the first trip of the Donghai Commercial Bank to sell illicit salt was a great success. All the forty stone salt shipped by Zhu Gui were successfully sold, and Donghai Town could levy a salt tax of about 200 taels of silver according to the agreement. After this successful attempt, they have set up a relatively safe sales channel in Xin County, and it is basically not a problem to run back and forth every month.

This salt tax of 200 taels of silver per month is not much, but together with the taxes of the subjects of the East China Sea Territory, it is enough to feed an army of about 500 people, of which there can even be a hundred cavalry. Zhao Meng, the commander of the town guard, already knew the news, and was anxiously waiting for the decision of the East China Sea team and the Council of Elders.

Speaking of cavalry, there are already single digits of horses left in the stables of Donghai Town, which is only enough for the dream of the Donghai team and Zhao Meng of the town guard. The remaining fifty or so horses were far away in the hands of Wu Qiang, the general of Dongwei Pass. This is also a problem that must be solved, Sima Fuqiang asked Elder Shui Xuan to inform Zhu Gui to leave the state capital and sell some horses to come back.

At the same time, the other good news is that the number of displaced people from the East China Sea is increasing, and the trend is now moving towards more than 1,000 people. This news undoubtedly made Sima Fuqiang and Huang Zhi greatly relieved, in their eyes, the scarce population of the East China Sea Territory was definitely a strategic resource more important than real money.

With the increase of population resources, the expansion of the East China Sea territory is no longer empty words, and finally has a surname to be used as. The original population of the East China Sea Territory was 5,000, and with the addition of the new arrivals, the population was 6,000 at this time. According to the calculation of six people in one household, it finally reached 1,000 households. According to the calculation of one ding per household in wartime, an army of 1,000 people can be quickly raised.

On the one hand, the East China Sea Territory cannot afford an army of 1,000 people, and on the other hand, the military does not produce and will not provide poll tax to the East China Sea team, so the more the better. Therefore, the establishment of 500 troops is a compromise number, which not only ensures the necessary standing military strength, but also does not affect the long-term development of the East China Sea territory.

As for the reserve force of the other 500 men, it was managed in the form of a military cantonment in accordance with the established policy. Farming in busy times and training in leisure time can not only ensure production and tax revenue, but also provide a reliable source of troops in wartime.

And once the East China Sea territory is really attacked by the rebels from Weixian, it will not be able to care about any development and economy at that time, and it will not be easy to survive. Therefore, although the temporary increase in troops hurts the muscles and bones, it is also an act of last resort, and everyone can understand it.

After confirming the feasible surname of the expansion army, Sima Fuqiang authorized Zhao Meng to deal with the matter. The new soldiers will temporarily receive short-term training from the people of their dreams in Donghai Town, and stay until a month later, that is, on the fourth night of next week in the real world, after these recruits have a certain combat effectiveness, most of them will be sent to the front line of Dongwei Pass to increase the defense force of Wuqiang.

At that time, the defenders of Dongwei Pass will be expanded to 400 people, which can be regarded as having a certain defensive force, even if it is attacked by the rebels of Weixian County, it will also have a short-term defense capability, providing a buffer time for Donghai Town to temporarily recruit reserve troops. As for whether the rebels in Weixian County will discover the empty city plan of Dongweiguan and launch an attack during this period, it can only be left to fate.

However, Sima Fuqiang is still very confident in Zhang Wei's empty city plan, if this doesn't work, the dream world is intent on killing people and destroying his mouth, and the person in the dream simply washes his neck and sits in Donghai Town and waits for death.

Based on such reasons, Sima Fuqiang still decided to follow the situation step by step, and never disrupted the pace of the rear because of the unstable factors in the front, otherwise in the end, it may be a wrong step.

Taking a step back, if the rebels in Weixian really came in advance, they still had a second line of defense newly built in Donghai Town to defend, and they would not be able to die without help when they left the state capital. Taking a step back, if Donghai Town is really abandoned by the imperial court, the Donghai team can simply surrender the city to the rebels. In a word, there is no endless road, unless you give up first.

In addition, the elders of Donghai Town have their own decisions on other small matters, and people in their dreams don't have so much energy to deal with trivial matters.

Seven days passed quickly, and at dusk on the last day, the Tokai team returned to the town guard mansion from their new residence outside the town, ready to return to the real world, but saw the elusive Dong'er at the gate of the town guard mansion.

Dong'er's appearance made people a little uneasy in the dream, this woman is basically a cat pretending to help the elders in the Council of Elders "council", in the eyes of the Donghai team members, it is actually no different from laziness, and it can be said that it is the most idle person in Donghai Town.

Of course, her two poker-faced colleagues in the town office are not counted, those two have basically been classified as "robots" by everyone, sitting behind the counter with a blank face every day, rain or shine, day and night, although there is no wind and rain in Donghai Town, and there is no night difference, but they did this.

"Something?" Sima Fuqiang asked anxiously.

"Nonsense, of course there's something." Dong'er glanced at him, very charming, and everyone was shocked.

Sima Fuqiang was speechless for a moment, and after waiting for her for a while, he couldn't help but ask again, "Why don't you say anything about it?" ”

Dong'er looked around the crowd for a while before speaking, "I'm not here to find you. What about Zhang Wei? Why don't you see him? ”

"Looking for him?" Huang Zhi was a little surprised. Dong'er and Zhang Wei have never crossed paths, and they haven't even said a word to each other.

"I've got a crush on him, can't I?" Dong'er jokingly replied.

At this time, Zhang Wei happened to come over, looking at these people standing at the gate and not going in a little confused, "What's wrong?" ”

"You've come just in time, here's a letter from you." Dong'er turned her head to see him, smiled and took out a letter from her arms, and carried her body temperature.

Zhang Wei took the letter suspiciously and read it, "Call me quickly after returning to reality!" Signed: Tiger Girl. ”

It's a very simple sentence, I don't know what the hell that stupid girl is doing, there is a faint fragrance on the letter, and I don't know if it comes from Tiger Niu or Dong'er, so Zhang Wei doesn't know what to do with this letter for a while. Throw it away, it's a little rude, keep it, it seems a little ambiguous. After thinking about it, he simply stuffed it to his brother, pretending to show it to Huang Zhi, but in fact he played a "disaster to the east".

On the one hand, Huang Zhi was curious, but on the other hand, he didn't expect his brother to "cheat", so he took it. When he finished reading, he wanted to return it to Zhang Wei, but the guy had disappeared and hid in the room of the town guard's mansion. Unaware of this, he casually stuffed the letter to the curious baby Xiaofeng in the team.

What is the purpose of Tiger Girl's letter, I can't guess it anyway now, and there is no need to waste brain cells to guess the stupid girl's weird behavior. It's just an inconsequential vignette, whatever it is, and a phone call will be left to reality.

What really interested Sima Fuqiang and Huang Zhi was the information transmission process of the power dream. When was Tiger Girl's letter sent? How long has it been on the road?

For these two questions, Dong'er's answer is that he doesn't know anything. She was only responsible for heralding and delivering letters, and she was not interested in knowing when, where, and how they came, and had no way of knowing.

"So can we send a letter to each other like Tianshan Town?" Huang Zhi first thought of this.

Dong'er shrugged, "Of course you can, just leave it to me." ”

Sima Fuqiang casually wrote a letter with no content to Hu Niu, as long as he woke up every morning and gave the girl a phone call, once he confirmed that the other party received this letter, he could calculate the flow of this letter in the dream realm of the Dongzhou forces, maybe it was a good opportunity to explore the secrets of the dream world.

After dealing with this little episode, the Tokai team withdrew from the power dream.

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