"This is the new city?" Yu Feng looked at the situation in front of him, Rao was mentally prepared, and he couldn't help but confirm it with a few subordinates around him.

After receiving an affirmative reply from his subordinates, he still looked incredulous. If this is also a city, then what is Dengzhou? Is his vision being raised by Dengzhou City, or is this thing in front of him too much to be put on the table?

Dengzhou is an important military base of the Ming Dynasty, sending grain to Ningyuan and Jinzhou, most of which set sail from here, so the defense is extremely strong. Yu Feng entered Dengzhou City for the first time, and he was not impressed, but he was still quite impressed by the city wall of Dengzhou, and according to the various city defense buildings he saw in this world, the most outstanding was undoubtedly Dengzhou. It is said that Dengzhou City was only a little stronger than the average county town back then, but when Sun Yuanhua, the governor of Denglai, took office, Leng repaired Dengzhou as an iron wall.

Who is this Sun Yuanhua? Maybe some people don't know, you must know that this Sun Daren is a great scientist of the Ming Dynasty, Xu Guangqi's student, his specialty is explosives, ballistics, in short, he is a cannon. In other words, if Lord Sun doesn't do it, if he does, the standard is very high, at least the city wall has to resist the bombardment of thirty or fifty cannons for a while before it can be called no problem. Most of the people who study science have a tendon in their brains, so it is absolutely useless to count on the construction of the Dengzhou City Wall and play the "tofu scum project". Under the supervision of Lord Sun, the city wall of Dengzhou was repaired so thick!

And this thing in front of you, these subordinates are embarrassed to call it the city wall? Not to mention a circle of adobe bricks, there are some branches and wood sandwiched in the middle, except for the range enclosed by the adobe city wall, which looks a little bigger than his own manor, Yu Feng dared to pat his chest and said, even if it is his own manor wall to prevent thieves, it is also more solid than this city wall.

"My lord, it's good that we're here, there's not even a fence here, can it be done like this, brothers don't put a lot of effort into it?" Yun Qingshan didn't make a sound, but the hundred households called Mu Shi weakly argued.

"Why don't you build this earthen wall a little higher, just this one person is tall, and still hold on to resist the Tartars? Can you stop the charge of the Tartar cavalry? Yu Feng smiled bitterly: "If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I really thought that you were talking about it to deceive the general?" ”

That Mu Shi still needs to be said, Yu Feng did wave his hand and did not allow him to distinguish: "Forget it, in three months, you can make it look like this, and it can be regarded as if you have not failed to fulfill your duties, by the way, you said that the brothers did not spend less effort, could it be that this city wall was built by the brothers themselves, and you didn't recruit some people in the local area?" ”

"It's the recruitment of some people, but the people attached to the new city, the people are not very prosperous, these people who have been recruited are cheating and cheating, lazy and lazy, and there is that extra food to support this group of waste, it is better for our own brothers to do it, not only the brothers of the camp, but also the teaching camp, every month will take turns to send people to participate in the establishment of this city wall!" Yun Qingshan finally spoke, this is not lying, in fact, the recruited people really hurt his brain, two or three hundred people work for three days, it is not as good as him for a hundred households to work for a day, where are those North Koreans who are here to be people's husbands, they are simply here to be uncles.

"Not prosperous?" Yu Feng frowned and said, "Do you have a household register?" ”

"Yes, it's just that the North Korean side handed it over to us, and I asked someone to re-record the general content, wait a minute, my lord!"

After a while, someone sent this roster up, and Yu Feng in front of him flipped it slightly, it was full of famous people's properties, so it was okay to skip it and not look at it, but behind the roster, he took a closer look at some of the overviews of Xincheng and Yuanmeng Jinpuli. In ancient times, if one party expressed submission to the other, it was generally to present a map and household register of the area controlled by his subordinates, which was the most important thing, representing the population and territory, and as for those gold and silk goods, it was all a small section.

At the moment, Yu Feng took the roster in his hand and looked at it carefully, he didn't feel anything yet, but everyone at the next station felt that Yu Feng was engrossed in browsing the roster, as if inspecting his own territory, he sat there casually, but he was surrounded by majesty.

"Only more than 1,000 households, more than 4,000 people?" Yu Feng was taken aback, this land area is almost the same as Lingshan, how can it have such a small population, this person is too rare, even if Dengzhou after the catastrophe, it is not known how many times more prosperous than this. It's no wonder that it is said that there are not many people who are recruited, and in this way, it is even one household and one ding. There are only more than a thousand people, and this Yunqing Mountain can recruit two or three hundred people, I am afraid that some means are still used, otherwise, these people are afraid that it is not so easy to work.

According to the number of people in the Shenji Battalion and the Teaching and Training Camp, if you relax the estimate a little, I am afraid that it will almost reach a thousand, so isn't it that the military-civilian ratio in this new city has reached an astonishing 1 to 4? This figure is not an exaggeration at all to describe it as a reckless force. It seems that if this copper mine had not been discovered in this new city, I am afraid that if I had to pour silver into it all the time, 4,000 people would not be able to raise a thousand soldiers.

Yu Feng suddenly realized a problem, that is, this year's harvest is poor, Dengzhou's life is not good, and this North Korea's life may not be better to go there, so many people are stationed here, silver, ordnance and military medicine and the like can be transported from Dengzhou, but this grain has never been transported by himself, and they are ordered to buy it locally, and it seems that the grain produced by these people may not be able to meet the needs of his army.

"Call your battalion quartermaster!" Yu Feng said quietly, the soldiers and horses did not move the grain and grass first, if there was a problem with the grain and grass in the army, this would immediately be a big matter of unstable military morale. Especially when the morale of the army has now been hit by the news of the Tartar attack, this is not good news.

Yun Qingshan and his subordinates glanced at each other, and finally Yun Qingshan stepped forward and replied: "My lord, there has never been a quartermaster ambassador in my battalion, and this kind of matter is generally done by subordinates!" ”

"Dragon Pay!" Yu Feng listened to Yun Qingshan's words, and groaned slightly, but did not continue to ask, but shouted to the side.

"The villain is here, what does the master command!" When Long Yuan saw Yu Feng talking to the generals in the army, he had long avoided the side, and when he saw Yu Feng calling him, he immediately came over.

"Take your people, follow this Lord Yun, go and count the inventory of ordnance, grain and grass in the city, and report back to me in detail!"

When Yun Qingshan left with a depressed face, Yu Feng asked the three hundred households in front of him: "What about Master Wei of the teaching camp, until now, I haven't seen him come to the training camp alone, didn't you inform him and wait?" ”

Of course, this Lord Wei refers to Velasco, but Yu Feng's army is indeed used to calling him Wei Yangren, and Yu Feng expands the training camp, and this Wei Yangren will naturally be automatically promoted to Wei Daren. Yu Feng has been in the city for a while, this training camp is stationed in the same city, if he doesn't know any news, it will definitely be impossible, but until now, he has not brought anyone to visit, which is a bit interesting.

"Lord Wei took people out early in the morning to collect grain, this is the resolution of Lord Qianhu and Lord Wei, saying that it is to stock up on more food!" The hundred households replied, the two hundred households have not spoken much, it seems that among the three people, this poetry is faintly the leader.

"Levy grain?" Yu Feng reacted, I'm afraid it's more accurate to grab food, since this is leased under the guise of Velasco, then, these evil things with a bad name are naturally more suitable for them to do.

"How many people did you bring?"

"More than a hundred people, all of them are familiar, there won't be any mess, those soldiers he recruited are practicing the rules?"

Mu Shi looked at the sky, "Look at this hour, it's almost just about coming back, there is no horse team on the side of the teaching camp, and the left and right are just collecting grain within ten miles of the new city, and every time it will come around Shenshi!" ”

Yu Feng put his mind at ease, and asked about the situation in the city of Mu Shi one by one, facing the inquiry of his own general, and two colleagues by his side, this Mu Shi naturally did not dare to talk nonsense, and naturally answered in a proper manner, knowing it, it was no matter how big or small, and it was poured out in detail; If you don't know, you can admit that you don't know, but you don't dare to speculate. Therefore, all the answers that Yu Feng got were objective and fair.

After this question and answer, Yu Feng can be regarded as truly understanding the current situation of this new city, whether it is looking at Yun Qingshan's report or Mu Haitao's report, it is always something on paper, no matter how accurate it is, it is just a string of numbers, a set of words, where is there this personal investigation, first-hand information to be detailed.

Since the Fengziying took over this new city, it has done a lot of things, but the main thing is the construction of the city and the port. The funds spent, but not excessive, this capital is mainly from two sources, one is the musket ordnance sent by Mu Haitao, after selling a part of the balance after paying the rent of the new city to Changyuan, the second is the tax collected by the port of the new city, in the right road of the Yellow Sea, there is also a big port Haizhou, this new city port has also been stained with a little light, many ships that originally went to Haizhou also directly entered the port to sell goods in the new city port, but brought a lot of money to the Fengzi camp.

These silver coins, except for the transfer of a part of them to the training camp for the purpose of recruiting soldiers and relocating soldiers' families in accordance with Yu Feng's order to Mu Haitao, the rest are stored in the treasury, and as for the soldiers' salaries, military rations and other expenditures, they are also spent from here, but this is also a book, and there should be nothing false in thinking. Yun Qingshan was born in the Sky Crew, although he was promoted to a military position because of his merits, but he still has an understanding of the Sky Crew, and he absolutely does not believe it if he says that the Sky Crew does not have anyone by his side. Therefore, Yu Feng believes that in him, there will be no such thing as negligence and greed.

Speaking of the problem of military rations again, this poem confirmed that in addition to the purchase of a batch of military rations in Changyuan when paying the rental fee, most of the military rations since then have been levied on the people of Xincheng, of course, the means of this levy, it can be imagined, that is, there is to give, there is no to give, whether it is the officers and soldiers of the Fengzi battalion, or the soldiers of the training battalion, this is surprisingly consistent, that is, since this territory belongs to adults, we are the soldiers of adults, how can we be superior to you people, Is there still a reason that we are hungry when you are full? There has been no problem in the supply of the army so far, but their hundreds of households have no bottom in their hearts about how much grain they still have in savings, and all of this will not be known until Long Salary returns.