In 185 AD, the second year of Emperor Ling of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the first day of the first month, the New Year.

When all parts of the Han Dynasty were in dire straits, Liaodong County had a jubilant year.

In the New Year, Zhuang Shaoyou attended the wedding of Qinling and Xing'er, and Wang Lao Wu, the first to say goodbye to singles in the cavalry battalion, was born.

On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, at the suggestion of Guoyuan, a lantern festival was held in the county town of Yuqi.

Zhuang Shaoyou was dragged by Momei to visit the lamp market, but in Zhuang Shaoyou's eyes, the lively lantern festival was miserable, but Momei watched it with relish, and the people of the lamp market were also happy.

Zhuang Shaoyou set off another five hundred taels of silver fireworks, and there was a burst of flesh pain, it was too loser!

After the fifteenth day of the first month, Zhuang Shaoyou convened his subordinates to discuss the development plan for the new year:

Zhuang Shaoyou sat at the top of the reception room of the administrative hall, with Guo Yuan and Wu Liang on the left below, and Qin Ling, Li Le and other generals on the right.

Zhuang Shaoyou looked at the sparse subordinates below, and sighed in his heart, the road is long!

Except for Guoyuan, who may be regarded as a senior talent, the others are all made up temporarily, and there is no famous general, and there is a lack of talent!

said that it was a meeting, but in fact, Zhuang Shaoyou issued orders alone, Guo Yuan occasionally put forward some suggestions on civil affairs, and Wu Liang provided some information for reference

Qin Ling and other generals were silent, and they didn't understand it anyway, just listen to the orders from above.

Finally, after a full day of research and discussion, the development policy of the county in the coming year was formulated:

1. Guoyuan is fully responsible for the civil affairs of the county, including food, clothing, housing and transportation, and is committed to solving various food and clothing problems.

2. Wu Liang was in charge of criminal proceedings and set up an intelligence department to be responsible for probing all kinds of intelligence, and in one year's time, the intelligence system was covered by the entire Liaodong County.

3. The existing army was reorganized and the original 400-odd cavalry, 80 people in Liujia Village, 100 county city defense troops under Li Le, 1,200 people in the newly recruited, and bandits in Yang Rong Surrender were turned into three battalions with Qin Ling, Li Le, and Zhang Sanmen as captains.

The captain of the first battalion, Qin Ling, has more than 400 cavalry, 80 people in Liujia Village and Yang Rong's Toucheng bandits, a total of 560 people, each of whom is equipped with a crossbow machine and a set of swords and shields

Li Le, the captain of the second battalion, has 100 officers and soldiers of the original Yudi County, plus 500 new strong men, each of whom is equipped with a crossbow machine and a set of swords and shields

Zhang San, the captain of the third battalion, had 700 newly recruited strong men, each of whom was equipped with a bow and arrow and a spear

In general, the soldiers of the first battalion are the most elite, most of them are old people who have followed Zhuang Shaoyou to fight thousands of miles, and there are villagers of the Liu family who have a good foundation.

In addition, Yang Rong's sixty bandits also have a certain combat effectiveness, and the rest is the mutual familiarity and mutual cooperation between recruits and veterans.

The combat effectiveness of the second battalion was slightly inferior, it was not well equipped, and it used all crossbow machines, focusing on developing into a long-range strike force.

The combat effectiveness of the three battalions is at the bottom, and all of them are newly recruited people, but they don't have any old habits, and everything starts from scratch.

Zhang San only brought a veteran to take office, and originally wanted to bring the original team of 100 people over, but Qin Ling was dead or alive.

How to settle these recruits so that they can get a good grasp of training and catch up with the combat effectiveness of their fraternal units as soon as possible is not a small problem.

Zhuang Shaoyou's previous soldiers were all cavalry, supplemented by swords and shields to cooperate in combat, and rarely used spears.

However, considering the mountainous terrain of Liaodong, pikemen will be the main force in future battles, and they will also have a certain defensive ability in the face of large groups of cavalry.

The most important thing is that it is cost-effective, the weapons are simple, and the physical fitness requirements of individual soldiers are not so harsh, as long as they are honest and obedient and train seriously, the number of gunmen is useless, what is needed is a large number of gunmen to cooperate with each other.

After formulating the above-mentioned military policy strategy, there are two important things that need to be done urgently.

One is the relocation of the Mo family, and the other is spring ploughing.

On the seventeenth day of the first lunar month, Moshi came to Yudi by boat.

Zhuang Shaoyou and Mo Mei welcomed Moshi into the county government meeting room, and sat down as guests.

Mo Shi smiled and said, "Brother Zhuang, Mo Mei didn't cause you trouble here, right?" ”

Hearing this, Mo Mei lowered his head with a blushing face and said nothing.

Zhuang Shaoyou was a little embarrassed, coughed dryly and said, "Brother Mo, Mo Mei is very good here, you can rest assured!" Is it time for Brother Mo to discuss the relocation of the Mo family this time? ”

Hearing Zhuang Shaoyou talking about business, Moshi also restrained his smile, and said: "It's this matter, Brother Zhuang needs to worry a lot!" ”

Zhuang Shaoyou waved his hand and said: "I came from Jizhou to Liaodong last year, and I don't know how much trouble I caused to Brother Mo, and the Mo family taught me the art of fishing, but it was a big trouble to solve my food shortage!" Today, the Mo family moved, and I should do my best to help! ”

"I just don't know if Brother Zhuang has a good place to recommend?"

"There are currently three places to choose from, each with its own advantages and disadvantages."

"I want to hear about it!"

"The first place is a bay fifty miles south-west of Yuqi County, where there is a hill in the west, the sea in the east and south, and a plain in the north, and the land is fertile enough to feed the food needs of the Mo family.

The advantage is that the geographical location is important, the transportation is convenient, and the distance from the county seat is moderate, but it will be a necessary place for merchants to come and go in the future, which is not conducive to seclusion.

The second place is at the end of the Liaonan Peninsula one hundred and twenty miles southwest of Qiqi County, which is very quiet, and there are mountains and rivers, and it is near the sea, and there is a fertile plain in the northwest direction that can grow grain. It is also convenient for transportation, and the only disadvantage is that it is too far away from the county seat, which is not conducive to travel.

The third place is in the big black mountain in the east ten miles of this Yuqi County, which was originally a place where bandits gathered, and the bandits were exterminated by me at the end of last year, so now few people come.

There are high mountains and dense forests, the terrain is dangerous, there are rivers and lakes in the mountains, and there is a small river valley in the northern valley, where grain can be grown.

The advantage of this place is that it is very close to the county seat, convenient to come and go, although there is not enough land to grow grain, but Shannan is a large plain, there are thousands of hectares of fertile land, enough to make up for the food shortage, and the winter is warm and the summer is cool, and the climate is pleasant.

Mo Shi listened carefully, pondering in his mind, and said with a smile: "Brother Zhuang doesn't want my Mo family to move to that big black mountain?" ”

Zhuang Shaoyou smiled slightly and said without hesitation: "That's right! Although I have some selfish intentions, the good does outweigh the disadvantages!

In the future, the land of southern Liaoning will be a place where ships are densely populated and merchants gather, so if the Mo family wants to find a suitable place to live in seclusion, they can only live in the big black mountain in the east, as long as they guard the pass, they can form their own system.

The place that I can control in my county is only within a radius of 100 miles, and the Great Black Mountain is the best choice within this range!

If the Mo family moves there, I will carve a piece of fertile land for the Mo family in the Shannan Plain, and the Mo family's shipyard can be built on the seaside in the northwest of the county, and the county will send people to help protect it! ”

Mo Shi was a little moved after hearing this, but he was still a little undecided, and after pondering for a long time, he finally sighed and said, "Okay, just according to what Brother Zhuang said!" ”

But in his heart, he thought: From now on, this Mo family will be tied to the battlefield of Zhuang Shaoyou, and there will be both glory and loss, but this is also the meaning of the master, so I don't have to worry about it.

Zhuang Shaoyou saw Moshi nodding in agreement, and he was overjoyed, and he and the Mo family would be close at hand in the future, and he could ask them for help at any time

The most important thing is that he is now short of troops, and he is unable to divide his troops to garrison important places

Now there is a Mo family guarding the mountains east of the county, which can prevent the bandits from taking root there again, and secondly, they can be used as foreign aid to the county.

With the Mo family's tricks, coupled with the dangerous terrain of the Great Black Mountain, it must be possible to create an impregnable fortress.

As for whether the Mo family will become a threat to himself, it is not in Zhuang Shaoyou's consideration at all, first of all, the Mo family is not a combative school, and secondly, the strength of the Mo family depends on the machine technique, and there are very few soldiers who can fight, and it will not be too strong in the future, and when he can dominate the world in the future, the Mo family will not be able to threaten his position.

After agreeing on the relocation of the Mo family, Zhuang Shaoyou asked people to take Moshi to investigate the terrain of the Great Black Mountain.

Then he came to Guoyuan to discuss the matter,

First, 500 strong men were requisitioned to help the Mo family to carry out the construction, and the cost was paid by the county finance, and the initial construction part was completed before the spring ploughing, so that more than 2,000 people on Mojia Island could be relocated smoothly, and the remaining high technology was slowly tinkered with by the Mo family themselves.

2. Guoyuan demarcated an area on the northern seashore of the county, and requisitioned Minzhuang to help the Mo family build a new shipyard and build a new wharf next to the shipyard

3. Demarcate two hundred hectares of unowned land to the Mo family in the plains at the southern foot of the Great Black Mountain

After discussing the results, Guoyuan raised a question: the county did not have enough money.

Zhuang Shaoyou has been in charge of the county for two months, and his financial revenue is only 13,000 taels of silver seized, and at the end of last year, he spent nearly 1,500 taels of silver on the sale of seafood, the Lantern Festival, and poverty alleviation work.

Now there are 11,500 taels left, and 2,500 taels are left for administrative expenses, and there are 9,000 taels to spend, and the 500 people to be requisitioned to help the Mo family build will need 1,000 taels of silver according to three months' time;

It costs another thousand taels of silver to help build the shipyard, and five thousand taels of silver to help build the shipyard;

If you want to build a new wharf, you will need at least three thousand taels of silver for various expenses.

Moreover, when the spring season begins, the new field reclamation plan will be carried out, and it will not be able to stop without three or five thousand taels of silver.

Zhuang Shaoyou's head immediately grew when he heard this, and he thought that he could spend a year or two with more than 10,000 taels of silver in his hand, but he didn't expect that this investment would disappear immediately!

Moreover, it is very likely that there will be a war after the beginning of spring, and when the soldiers have made meritorious contributions but will not receive the promised reward, the consequences will be very serious.

Thinking of this, Zhuang Shaoyou couldn't help but admire Zhou Wenlai, this is really a talent!

In such a poor place, he can even scavenge so much silver, it is estimated that he has not done anything good except to make money!

Otherwise, a casual construction will wipe out his 10,000 taels of silver.

If you want to get rich, build roads first, if you want to develop, first throw money, no money no development, no development without money, this is an infinite dead loop!