Tai Shici looked at the golden cakes in front of him, which were worth at least hundreds of thousands of dollars.

This time, Tai Shici couldn't help but glance at Yuan Yao a few more times.

Tai Shi Ci actually did not lack these hundreds of thousands of money, he was in charge of thousands of water thieves, and he begged for some tolls from merchant ships on the river every day, and he could also earn some money.

However, he has always adhered to his duty, and he does not take the initiative to kill people and sell goods, and the more he says that it is not good to ask for money, he can only barely maintain the daily expenses of his men.

But there is no problem with a surplus of hundreds of thousands of dollars.

It's just that he was a little touched by Yuan Yao's direct use of the spoils he obtained this time, taking out a part of the rewards to his brothers, and giving him dozens of gold cakes.

Yuan Yao really treats him as his own.

Those brothers who died in the war, Tai Shi Ci was worried about how to give an explanation to their families, and Yuan Yao's allocated money did him a great favor.

Tai Shi Ci is the main general, in fact, his own gains and losses are not so important, he values his men and horses more and cannot suffer losses.

This is also why, when Chen Ce killed his people, he wanted to seek justice for his subordinates.

Dozens of gold cakes can't buy Tai Shici, but they can make Tai Shici feel tears for Yuan Yao's behavior.

"Brother Yuan, thank you."

"You have given my brothers a great sum of money, and I cannot ask for it."

Tai Shi Ci, a big man, with some tears in his eyes, refused the golden cake given to him by Yuan Yao.

Yuan Yao was stunned for a moment, and indeed stretched out his hand and threw all these golden cakes into Tai Shici's hands.

"What, too little?"

"No, no, no, Brother Yuan was able to reward my brothers with a lot of money, which has touched me very much, how dare I be too little, I just think that Brother Yuan is so generous, Ziyi is ashamed of it."

"What nonsense, this is what you deserve, there is merit in exterminating Chen Ce, and meritorious deeds must be rewarded for meritorious deeds, this is my style of doing things, take it."

Saying that, and not giving Tai Shici a refusal, Yuan Yao turned his head and walked out of the house.

Tai Shici looked at Yuan Yao, and the tears in his eyes still didn't stay.

Yuan Yao was secretly proud, his trick of spending money to buy people's hearts was really tried and tested.

People in this era, which is not for promotion and wealth, and the goal is to worship the prime minister.

Since you can't give them a promotion, you can definitely get their approval by helping them get rich first.

Ji Ling is like this, and so is Tai Shici.

What's more, Yuan Yao was willing to spend his blood at the beginning, and took out half of the money from the spoils to support the water thieves under Tai Shi Ci, and his purpose was also to win the hearts of Tai Shi Ci's people.

A famous general like Tai Shici, Yuan Yao categorically would not let him run away.

Although tens of millions of dollars are a lot, compared to a Tai Shici, Yuan Yao still feels that it is worth it.

After the reward for meritorious deeds is over, the next thing is to rectify the entire first-line Tianshan Cottage.

Since Yuan Yao decided to use this cottage as his base for the time being, and secretly train soldiers and horses here, he must first deal with the bandits here.

But fortunately, most of the bandits here are just ordinary people who have no land outside and are poor and have no food to eat, and their purpose of taking refuge in Chen Ce is just to mix a mouthful of food.

Now that Chen Ce is dead, the cottage has changed owners, and for them, there is not much change.

And Yuan Yao preached here about a series of reforms that he would implement after taking over the cottage, which also made the thieves here have some expectations.

First of all, the first point is to abandon Chen Ce's original tradition, the first line of the Sky Canyon is no longer a bandit, and it is not able to raid the villages outside.

The previous way of doing things of the bandits should be completely abandoned, replaced by militarized management, and all the bandits were incorporated into the warrior camp under Yuan Yao.

According to the speed of the bandits' bodies, they are divided into first, second, and third class soldiers.

And Yuan Yao told them that the advantage of being a soldier is not only to get military salaries, but also to take care of food, and it is the kind of meat to eat.

These mountain bandits, when they heard Yuan Yao say this, they were all excited.

Most of them are just ordinary people who want to eat a full meal, and it is not their intention to be bandits.

After all, mountain bandits are still a dangerous profession, and they have to face the encirclement and suppression of the imperial court from time to time, and they will lose their lives if they are not careful.

Now that Yuan Yao can give them a chance to reform themselves, or directly become soldiers and become the army of the imperial court, why are these mountain bandits unwilling.

Besides, they don't dare to think of such a good thing.

Because Ji Ling is Yuan Shu's general, he has no direct subordinate relationship with Yuan Yao, but Yuan Yao is a military general seconded from Yuan Shu's subordinates, so it is not suitable to stay in the cottage.

After settling down these bandits, Yuan Yao directly appointed Tai Shici as the head of the new army in the cottage.

Let Tai Shici train soldiers and horses in the cottage according to his own wishes.

And because Yuan Yao is also the county commander of Qianxian County, he has to return to Qianxian County.

Half a month passed quickly.

In the past half a month, Yuan Yao did not take much action, but honestly served as his own county commander in Qianxian County, and on the other hand, he sent some personnel to investigate the movements of the surrounding mountain bandits.

However, because after the big mountain thief Chen Ce was exterminated, the wind has been very tight recently, and the surrounding mountain bandits seem to have gotten the news, but the vicinity of Qianxian County is much more peaceful, and I haven't heard of any news of the mountain bandits.

This made Yuan Yao a little crying and laughing, and he still hoped to continue to rely on bandits to make a fortune.

Unexpectedly, the mountain bandits were very knowledgeable and didn't dare to come out and jump.

Although it is said that he exterminated Chen Ce and obtained a large amount of money and food, because he had to compensate the soldiers who died in battle, half of the money was lost, and the rest of the money and food were also much larger because of the increase in the number of men and horses under his hands.

In order to provide his soldiers with meat to eat, he had to find someone to buy a large amount of pig, sheep and dog meat in the county every day.

Why not buy beef to eat?

In this era, oxen were used to plough the fields, which were more precious than human life, and it was illegal to kill cattle.

Unless the cow is old and dead of old age or disease, it can be eaten, otherwise killing the cow for no reason will be punished.

Yuan Yao wanted to buy beef, but he couldn't buy it.

Buying meat every day alone costs Yuan Yao a lot of money, which makes the money he gets unable to support a few months.

At this rate of consumption, it will be bottomed out in three or two months.

This made it difficult for Yuan Yao, he wanted to build five thousand elite soldiers, if he wanted to ensure their diet, it was just the foundation, and he had to equip them with sophisticated equipment and weapons.

Then his little money is not enough at all.

You have to find a way to make money.