The two palace people outside the main hall couldn't help but glance quietly into the door, and then quickly returned to their rightful position.

Then one of them couldn't help but sigh quietly: "Today is really the master of Weng." Young and promising, young and promising. ”。

"The lord's thinking is still so strange, let a milky little ghost prison the country, I'm afraid I'm going to make jokes. The other was momentarily carried away and muttered a little gloatingly.

"Don't say that, although Lord Weng is not very old, he is smart and clever, and the lord is not a stupid faint king. When you say this, you are saying that the lord is stupid and stupid. The ghost who spoke first hurriedly slapped the back of the other party's hand, and said with a slight face: "If you want him to listen to what you just said, you must not be dragged out and beaten half to death." ”。

"Oh, my foul mouth. When the other heard this, he also reacted suddenly, and hurriedly raised his hand and slapped himself hard.

Just when the two palace people outside the hall were muttering and chatting enthusiastically, Xiao Lingling in the main hall also ushered in the backfire; as Chen Ruo's words landed, and the aftermath was still echoing around the beam in the main hall, a clear cough came out of the mouth of Lu Wu, who was standing at the front of the civil official team.

Xiao Fuling's heart beat with the cough, Xiao Shizhu and the ghost mother had told her that this was the rule of the performance, but all the ministers would cough first.

Immediately after Lu Wu came out, he stood in the middle of the hundred officials, and after being in the middle of the high platform, he bowed slowly to Xiao Fuling and said: "The minister Dazai Lu Wu started to play the lord of Weng, and the Taishou of Fujixian County was impermanent, Xie Bi'an asked the court to allocate 200,000 taels of silver to build a bridge across the Guixu trench, please decide on it." ”。 After speaking, he bowed down again.

After Xiao Fuling listened to this seriously, she thought about it carefully. According to the knowledge she learned in the school palace in the past, as well as her long-term experience in watching the ghost mother and Xiao Shizhu's review of the notebook, this bridge building matter belongs to the scope of the camp city and the ditch, as well as the repair of the tomb defense.

But at present, Julong is presiding over the construction of water canals in Nanban, and the official roads lead to all cities, so Xiao Fuling plucked up the courage and said loudly after a little thought: "First hand over this matter to the Winter Palace, which is in charge of water conservancy and civil engineering construction, and the Winter Palace will send ghost officials to the local area to make the actual budget, and then allocate funds to Fujixian County according to the budget amount." ”。

"No. Lu Wu bowed, a little admiration appeared on his face, this is indeed the best way to deal with it, not only to ensure that the county guard does not fill his own pockets, but also to spend every penny just right.

Not only Lu Wu, but even some of the officials present were surprised for a short time, and they didn't dare to doubt Xiao Fuling's ability;

They also completely believed the rumors in the past that Xiao Fuling's grades in the Academy Palace had improved rapidly, which was by no means groundless.

Xiao Fuling looked around the audience, and after seeing that many ghost officials and ministers had cast admiring glances at her, the tension in her heart was instantly replaced by joy.

Lu Wu retreated for a while, and another cough came from among the officials, and then Chunyun came out of the ranks, stood in the position where Lu Wu stood before, and after bowing to Xiao Fuling, he said slowly: "Danshui County (Dantou County) is too guarded by the winter moon, and 30,000 new recruits are recruited as reserve soldiers. ”。

With the previous answer, Xiao Fuling was no longer nervous, and after hearing the words, she just groaned slightly, and then asked rhetorically: "How many soldiers are there in Danshui County now, and how much wasteland is there?" The reason why she asked this question was to calculate whether the number of troops in the county was overstaffed, and whether the new recruits had military land?

In addition to defending local law and order, the soldiers also have to cultivate wasteland together with the local ghost people who are engaged in farming; that is, the ghost people are trained when the soldiers are farming, and the soldiers are trained when the ghost people are farming, so as to obtain military supplies and tax grains at the same time, so that all localities can form all the soldiers.

But there is only so much land, and it is impossible to grow any more. But the ghost people are born almost every day, so under normal circumstances, the Nine Shadows will first meet the farming needs of the local people, and the expansion of the army will only be carried out when there is a shortage of troops after the Great War.

From this point of view, the Nine Shadows Army naturally also pays attention to the truth that one soldier is not too many but fine. There is a fixed range of soldiers for each county and city, based on the amount of land available in the area.

Therefore, Xiao Fuling had to listen to these values first, and then calculate whether she could recruit troops before replying.

"Back to Lord Weng, there are now 100,000 infantry and flying troops in the county, a total of 60,000 air cavalry and road cavalry, a total of more than 30 large and small warships of the naval division, the strength of the naval division is only 70,000, and the Qubu soldiers are only about 40,000, a total of 270,000. After a little recollection, Chunyun said: "The remaining wasteland is all mountainous, and there are still 1.13 million acres of ownerless wasteland left in the county. ”。

Xiao Fuling silently calculated in her heart, it would not hurt to expand the 30,000 soldiers of so many wastelands, so she nodded and said: "Zun Song, considering that the remaining wasteland is mostly mountainous, the local army should be mainly infantry and flying army when recruiting troops. After recruiting, Tai Shou should make a register for the recruits as soon as possible and send it to the summer palace in charge of military administration and military endowment for the record. ”。

Because the wasteland is mountainous, recruiting soldiers as infantry can also be trained in the infantry's ability to pull mountains and cross the country during farming, which is also the knowledge that Xiao Fuling learned in the school palace.

"No. Chunyun didn't see anything wrong with this kind of treatment when he heard this, so he bowed and retreated.

In Xiao Fuling's opinion today, she just did a small thing, and there was not much to be happy about, but what she never expected was that it was her small move that made the Nine Shadows Kingdom in the subsequent battle against Dongyi Continent in a state of abundant troops......

The setting sun gradually set in the east, dyeing the heaven and earth in Chutian County into an orange red, Xiao Shizhu's Luan drove under the support of the mighty honor guard and guards, and came to the outside of the crow city south of Yuque City in the evening.

It is a hill facing the river to the north, and the other three sides are surrounded by hills that are not too high or steep, and because of the military cantonment system, the side of the hill near the city has been reclaimed into fields.

The mountains are all bent or concave or convex, large or small, long or short terraced rice fields along the mountain, with ups and downs between layers of overlapping, like fine and delicate ripples, and like pieces of clear ripples like scales.

Xiao Shizhu's Luan drove to a stop by the river in the north of the city, and Qinglan boarded the shrine, stood outside the door of the bedroom and asked aloud: "King, the crow city has arrived, do you notify the prefect and officials in the city to go out of the city to pick up the driver?"

"No need. Xiao Shizhu, who was in the bedroom, said casually while wearing clothes: "We don't go into the city, and we don't have to alarm the officials and ghost people in the city, you let the sergeants go to the nearby mountains and forests and wilderness, hunt a few beast souls and come back, get a few nets to catch some fish in the river, and then set up tents, and the whole army starts camping." ”。

"No. Qing Lan replied without hesitation, then turned to leave.

Xiao Shizhu, who had dressed with the help of the ghost mother, jumped off the bed, took the moon-destroying sword on the sword shelf and hung it on his waist, hugged and changed into a white silk skirt with pipa sleeves, and put on a water blue brocade skirt on the outside, and walked towards the outside of the room.

As soon as he walked out of the shrine, he saw that the soldiers had begun to camp on the bank of the river, and the archers were ready to go, carrying quivers and longbows in their arms, heading towards the nearby hills.

On the Chutian Plain in the Mid-Autumn Festival, the faint fragrance of osmanthus wafts everywhere. It is intertwined with the aroma of rice wafting from the yellow rice fields, creating an intoxicating taste.

As far as the eye can see, the maple trees around the horizon are gradually dyed yellow, exuding a faint fragrance in the twilight. On both sides of the river with its golden water, the reeds swaying in the wind are filled with the smell of wild grass. The wild geese flying south are roaring in the air, and their mourning is moving.

Heaven and earth appear to be vast, empty and beautiful.

The ghost mother was as happy as a child, she couldn't stop laughing and groaning, and after looking around for a long time, she said to Xiao Shizhu: "I like this place, this place is so beautiful." Fang Fang smiled lightly when he spoke, and two dimples immediately appeared on his cheeks.

"If you like it, you can see more. Xiao Shizhu took her to the coals that Qinglan had arranged for them and sat down, and then the maid brought them hot tea.

"My lord. Qing Lan, who was on the side, turned her head to look at the cyan city wall of Raven City on the other side of the river, and asked again, "Aren't we really going into the city?"

"I'm here to play, what are you going to play after you enter the city?" Xiao Shizhu smiled indifferently, waved his hand and said: "Pass on my order, no one is allowed to disturb the people, eat and drink from the mountain wilderness to be self-sufficient, hunt more game, pick some wild fruits or something." Moreover, it was the Mid-Autumn Festival at this time, and there were abundant harvests and fertile fields everywhere, and the sergeant's every move was not allowed to trample on any crops, and those who dared to violate the order were dealt with according to military law. ”。

"No. Qing Lan answered and left again.

After Qinglan left, Xiao Shizhu beckoned to the tiger-headed humanoid demon soul on the side of Hou who was wearing a round-necked robe embroidered with silver silk threads on the cuffs and neckline, with two sword handles hanging from his waist and a single spike of two swords each, and two swords in the same sheath.

This tiger demon is the captain of the Xuanjiao in his patrol team this time, named Hu Biao. It turned out to be an ink man, and now he is loyal to Xiao Shizhu.

When Hu Biao walked to his side and stood still, before he bent down, Xiao Shizhu whispered in his ear: "You sent a few capable men to change into civilian clothes, and quietly went to the fields under the Crow City overnight, and quietly reported back to me after recording everything you saw and saw." ”。

Hu Biao nodded, straightened up and left.

The ghost mother turned her head to look at Xiao Shizhu, who was smiling lightly, and said softly, "I know what 'bad water' you think." ”。

"Tell me about it. Xiao Shizhu took a sip of tea.

"You have used yourself as a medicine to attract the attention of the ghost officials in the city to the inside and outside of Raven City. But secretly send people to the wilderness outside the city, which is easy to be ignored by them, to see the people's feelings that you can't see. After looking around and seeing that there were no ghosts paying attention to this side, and there were no other ghosts within a zhang of her side, the ghost mother leaned her mouth to Xiao Shizhu's ear and whispered a few words, and then winked her right eye twice at Xiao Shizhu.

"Clever. Xiao Shizhu smiled, and continued to blow the heat rising from the cup.

Another purpose of his trip this time was to see what he couldn't hear or see in the palace in the past. But Xiao Shizhu, who came from the human world, knows too much what surface work is, and firmly believes that among the ghosts in the underworld, there must be ghosts who are good at having policies and countermeasures. Moreover, he went out on patrol with great fanfare this time, and the huge honor guard and escort team could be clearly seen four or five miles away. In such a situation, if you want to know the people's feelings that you can't hear and can't see in the past, you have to put in some effort.

So Xiao Shizhu brought carefully selected Xuanjiao disciples this time, these ghosts who are good at tracking eavesdropping, stealing intelligence and making up for reconnaissance, are obviously his guards are actually his eyes and ears.