People are in good spirits on happy occasions, and after leaving Taiwan, Li Tai only feels that the sky is exceptionally blue and the sunshine is also exceptionally warm.

With his retinue of subordinate officials, he galloped all the way, and soon returned to the Luoxi Executive Office, and gathered all the subordinate officials who remained in the Executive Office, and first announced the matter of the Baishui Grand Reading in the middle of next month.

When everyone heard this, they couldn't help but be overjoyed. In officialdom, what is the most worrying thing? It's not that the position is low, it's not that things are difficult, it's that your efforts and contributions can't be seen, and you lack a sense of existence.

The military parade is definitely a major event of the country, and many dignitaries and armies from all walks of life will gather on the banks of the Luoshui River, and the Metropolitan Water Administration will inevitably attract the attention of the masses inside and outside.

In such a situation, it is natural that doing well will be appreciated, and of course, doing poorly will be criticized more than usual.

But most of the people in the Metropolitan Water Administration are vigorous teenagers, and they have a little bit of the young courage and ambition of the newborn calf who is not afraid of the tiger, and they are all looking forward to an opportunity.

"Excuse me, what do we need to do in the big reading? The inferior rank must be accomplished with all his might! ”

There is no need for Li Tai to mobilize again, everyone present is already like a chicken blood one by one.

Li Tai first told the task assigned by Daxingtai, whether it was preparing 10,000 catties of fish and food before the big parade, or building a large stable along the river that was enough to accommodate thousands of war horses, it was not an easy matter.

Especially for the newly established Metropolitan Water Administration, if we do not work hard, we may not be able to complete it.

"Wu joined the army, and put aside the matter at hand, and today led the staff to travel, and told the owners of the river that before mid-September, the fish purchased by the supervision must be sent to the administrative department."

Li Taixian ordered Wu Jingyi that Wu Jingyi's character should be more stable and mature, and he had a lot to do with the villagers, and the first thing to ensure at the moment was to successfully complete the task.

However, he also knows the urine nature of the villagers, and he is used to deceiving the upper and lower levels, and eating both ends.

Although Li Tai pursued performance, he didn't want to bear the infamy of abusing the people for no reason, so he instructed Mao Shijian: "The current price of the river is fresh, and the monthly order along the river tells you that those who dare to take advantage of this chaos and extort the people will be punished!" ”

Mao Shijian personally experienced the Luochuan incident, his personality and style of action have been expressed, and no one is afraid of being ruthless, and now he worships Li Tai, the boss, very much, and when he stood up, he patted his chest and promised: "Please rest assured, such evil things will never be allowed in the eyes and ears of the lowly position!" ”

In normal times, Li Tai still has to take into account the stubbornness of his hometown, and he does not dare to be radical. But now that the big parade is about to be held, such a big tiger skin is draped on the body, naturally there is nothing to worry about, and even want to catch a few more typical examples and make an example of chickens and monkeys, not to mention that this kind of thing is really addictive.

The local resources in a larger area still need to be used in the long run, but the two sides of the Luoshui River need to be established as soon as possible.

One is that he is just using the name of Da Yue, and the other is that after Da Yue, he will start to organize the military forces under his control, and the fewer different voices in his authority, the better.

The choice of stables is also very important, in addition to cooperating with this big parade, Li Tai also intends to use it as a garrison for the future troops.

This place not only needs abundant water and grass, open terrain, which can be stationed for a long time, but also needs convenient transportation, which can be mobilized and rushed to all parties at any time. Especially when it is necessary to fight with people, the atmosphere must not be in place, and the personnel will not be able to arrive for a long time.

The lower reaches of Luoshui are convenient for supply, located in the core of the Guanzhong Plain, and there are large areas of places around the sand garden at the angle between Luoshui and Weishui for the troops to be stationed for a long time.

However, there are already a lot of garrisons in this place, and there is no shortage of veterans of the military leaders of Beizhen. No matter how much Li Tai leaned over to draw land, he couldn't find the best place to camp.

Although living next to those Beizhen soldiers can stimulate the morale of the soldiers. However, if you assume the upper hand from the beginning, it is not conducive to the accumulation and stimulation of morale.

The combat tasks of the army on both sides of Weishui are also heavy, and if it is necessary to collect and distribute them in one piece, it is natural that those veterans of Beizhen will serve as the main force, and the army that Li Tai has managed to organize may only serve as cannon fodder.

Moreover, the lower reaches of Luoshui are located in the core of Guanzhong, and the local forces of Guanlong Haoqiang are even greater, so they must try to mix sand into this new army. Although Li Tai did not resist cooperating with them, he did not want to compress his voice from the beginning.

After thinking about it, Li Tai still decided to form a new army in the nearby Baishui. Baishui is located on the northern edge of the Guanzhong Plain, and although the supply is not as convenient as the hinterland, as long as the dredging of Luoshui is strengthened and navigation is restored, the consumption of logistics can be reduced.

If there is any mobilization for war, whether it is to go south to the Guanzhong Plain or north to the northern Shaanxi Plateau, it will not be difficult to mobilize.

And there is also a manor left by He Batsheng there, which can be used to exchange resources with the local government and the powerful.

Previously, Haoqiang of Baishui County entered the office to discuss the construction of pond weirs in the territory, and Li Tai also inquired about it, and the nostalgic disputes were still relatively complicated, although the problem was not big, but it was cumbersome.

Li Tai originally wanted to put it off, but now he has the motivation.

He planned to cede part of the Baishui Manor, let the Baishui County government resettle and relocate, and start the construction of the pond weir as soon as possible, but the management of the pond weir should be handed over to the Metropolitan Water Administration.

After the conditions for white water irrigation are improved, some fertile land will inevitably be opened up along the coast. This part of the resources can be distributed by the powerful people in the territory, but they have to enter into a supply agreement with the Metropolitan Water Administration to solve a part of the future supply of the Metropolitan Water Forces.

The whitewater basin also has abundant coal resources, which can also be exploited.

Although Daxingtai only mentions the two tasks of food and stables, good subordinates need to be anxious about the needs of the Lord and share the worries of the Lord.

Therefore, while arranging for his subordinates to go to Baishui to supervise the construction of stables, Li Tai also ordered the soldiers to recruit a group of craftsmen who knew how to smelt and forge and go to Baishui to build a smelting and forging workshop.

With so many troops gathered in Baishui Dayue, of course, the damage to the armor knife needs to be repaired on the spot.

Although the army in the imperial court will be allocated with the corresponding logistics personnel, but there are still a large number of unorganized township regiments, they naturally do not have enough logistics support, if because of the ordnance problem and affect the performance of Dayue and Tian Hunting, it is also a pity.

The Luoshui Agency provides supporting services, which can not only accumulate experience, but also earn a part of the extra money. Everyone is a brother unit, we can't die to ask for money, if we really don't have enough supplies with the army, it's okay to take some broken knives, guns and ordnance to settle the account.

When he armed his own troops before, he made a fortune for the heroes of Hedong, although this account has not been written off yet, but Li Tai feels distressed when he thinks about it. If you have the chance, of course, you will set up your own armory workshop.

After the serious affairs were arranged, Li Tai still felt unfinished. The thought that he would soon have a sizable armed force made him excited.

However, Yu Wentai only promised him a qualification to recruit armor soldiers and form an armed force, and it was impossible for the Taiwan government to directly allocate the army he was organizing, nor could it be possible to spend money to raise him an army.

Therefore, in order to truly own this armed force, he still needs to solve the problem of soldiers, including a series of follow-up army training and other issues.

What Li Tai has now is only the integration of his own family and He Batsheng's troops, and the transfer of 500 strong soldiers is already a limit. If more is withdrawn, the production of its own industry will also be greatly affected.

Therefore, he is bound to open up new sources of soldiers and recruit from the countryside.

Of course, it is the quickest and most convenient way to directly reorganize the Haoqiang's trilogy, and we can see their enthusiasm just by looking at the enthusiastic donations from the township heroes last year.

However, the overlord's reorganization of Haoqiang was carried out gradually, and it did not let go all at once. Li Tai provided them with an opportunity here, and the local tycoons near the left would not refuse.

However, Li Tai did not want his armed forces to be filled with too many powerful and private songs, which would affect the upper and lower penetration of military orders too much, and was not conducive to overall control.

Therefore, he had to first determine the number of troops he could command, the shortage of materials for raising the army, etc., and then consider how many powerful private songs he recruited, so as not to dominate the guests.

In addition to the powerful private songs, the armed forces that exist in the countryside are bandits.

Some of these bandits are displaced people who have lost their land and gone bankrupt, some are scattered rebels, and some are border hus who have moved inward but have not been properly resettled, and they have no permanent property and a stable living environment, so they can only wander around and plunder to make a living.

There are not many of these armed forces, even in the city of Huazhou, and there is a circle of thieves around Chang'an, which has brought a great burden to local security. However, if they are vicious by nature, it is not true, and many of them are indeed forced to make a living.

Recruiting bandits for reorganization is also an important way to expand the army. They all lick blood on the knife edge to make a living, and sometimes the line between soldiers and bandits is not clear.

It's just that although Li Tai can't talk about moral cleanliness, he still has certain requirements for himself after all, and he doesn't want his subordinates to be all outlaws who are captives, and there must be requirements in terms of military discipline. Bandits can be recruited, but if they are not domesticated, they can only be used as military merits.

In fact, what he hopes to recruit the most are the children of local households.

However, there is also a problem with the operation of this matter, that is, the Metropolitan Water Administration is not an official local administrative office, that is, there is neither the information of the registered people, nor the qualifications for the levy of civil service.

Although the Metropolitan Water Administration Department does not compile household information, the Canal League does. Qu Meng is not only, but also more detailed than the government.

Where the Longshou Canal flows through the area, the households with land need to lose the grain to repair the canal, and the poor will be replaced by the mercenary, which is the township law formulated by Li Tai at the place where the Longshou Canal was started.

The government can only control the Juntian households, but in addition to the Juntian households, there are also shade households, tenant households, etc., as long as there are fields on both sides of the canal, their household registration information is in the hands of the Qu League.

Li Tai ordered the Metropolitan Water Administration to allocate 3,000 horses of silk to the Canal League, reward him for his efforts in using the people's power to repair the canal, and take back part of the management of the Longshou Canal, mainly for the use of mercenary power. He doesn't want to sweep the floor as a soldier, as long as he obtains this qualification, he can calmly choose the courage of the villagers.

Qu Meng used the 3,000 horses of silk to expand the production of real estate, and used its profits to bear the rent of these domestic households and reduce their family burden.

The Metropolitan Water Administration does not have the power to recruit civilian forces, and Li Tai does not have the qualifications to organize military households, but through the right and left hands of the public power of the Administration and the Township Law of the Qumeng, he can directly bypass the restrictions of the local government and obtain a relatively stable source of soldiers.

With the gradual spread of Luoshui's canal repair project, the canal alliance will continue to expand, and the source of civilian soldiers under Li Tai's control will gradually increase. One day, the hiss of Lu will resound on both sides of the Luoshui River and go straight to the Guanzhong Plain!

But sometimes, people really can't be too complacent. Driven by a beautiful vision, Li Tai is full of energy every day, and when he sleeps and dreams at night, he has a smile on his lips.

Good-looking romance

A few days later, news from the north made him feel bad.