During Zilong's inspection around, the construction work of this Tumochuan fell on Wan'er's head!

Although it is inconvenient for her to see Zilong, but now this Hetao is also Zilong's jurisdiction, and the construction of Tumochuan is like building her own home in her heart.

In addition, Wan'er also knew a little about civil engineering, so she began to be responsible for design and guidance. It's just that on the grassland, stone is scarce, like the Tianwang Palace, Tianlei Hall and many other palaces of the Tianwang faction, all of which took more than ten years to exhaust the grassland people's power, and can only be built far from the Central Plains Palace.

Zilong is now in charge of the Hetao, and Wan'er naturally knows that with Zilong as a human being, she will not oppress the people of the grassland like the Heavenly King faction. So she put out the idea of building a fortified city in the steppe, and only brought in some wood, which was matched with the current tent, and made the camp like a military camp.

From a distance, Zilong is also quite satisfied, along the way, the working grassland people saw the arrival of the new leader, they all took off their hats one by one to salute, Zilong sat on the horse, and also returned the salute one by one. The guards originally wanted to separate Zilong from these people, after all, Zilong can't use martial arts now, which is very dangerous.

It's just that Zilong didn't want to be separated from the people, so he stopped the behavior of Yao Mingqiang and others.

In the past, when the Heavenly King Sect ruled, not to mention such approachability, he was an ordinary disciple, and he was arrogant and domineering.

At this time, Zilong did this, but the people of the grassland felt refreshed, and felt that this new leader was really very different from the Heavenly King faction! At the moment, the people of the grassland, who were originally a little suspicious, all let go of their worries and did their own things well.

Zilong walked through the people all the way and came to his big tent.

After sitting for a short time, Yao Mingqiang reported outside, Dai Qin, Wu Langzi, Jiang Yunsong and others asked to see him, and Zilong naturally ordered Yao Mingqiang to quickly let a few people in.

When a few people came in, they found that Wan'er, Ren Bufan and other beggars who had not seen each other for many days, Miao Ling and Elder Ma, Jiang Tiezhu and Liuzi all followed, Zilong happily beckoned everyone to sit down one by one, and then talked about what he had seen and heard in the past five days.

When everyone heard that the people of the grassland not only had to be exploited by their own tribes, but also had to pay a huge amount of taxes to the Heavenly King faction, causing the people to be extremely miserable, everyone couldn't help but fall into silence.

After everyone digested what they said, Zilong asked: "Everyone, now the grassland is our master, but we are just the leader of everyone, but we can't be like the Heavenly King faction, and then be powerful and blessed to the people of the grassland!"

Wulangzi is from the lowest background, and he is a low-level citizen of the grassland, so he knows the difficulties of the grassland people best. Although the Beji people did not have much exploitation because of Hu Dulu's commander, it did not prevent Goroko from understanding the suffering of the grassland people.

Hearing Zilong say this, Gorouzi was also very happy, and said loudly: "The leader is right! If we are still like the Heavenly King Sect, we will indeed make no difference!"

"But if we don't levy conscription and collect taxes, how can we build an army, defend the Hetao, and govern the vast grassland?" Dai Qin couldn't help but object. He is now the person in charge of government affairs on the grassland, and this grassland tax is really closely related to him.

"I didn't say that I wanted to cut it all!" Zilong was naturally not the stunned young man at the beginning, he already knew what the tax was, and immediately said, "It's just that the people of this grassland have been suffering from the Heavenly King faction for a long time, and now that we have replaced the Heavenly King faction, we must do something different from the Heavenly King faction! I suggest that this tax be reduced by 30%, and after this war is over, we will assign manpower to investigate various places, and then thoroughly formulate a tax policy, how about it?"

"Thirty percent of the tax!" Dai Qin was shocked when he heard this, he naturally knew how many silver taels the tax of these three layers was. Although the grassland is poor, and trade mostly relies on the Ming Dynasty, the tax of 30% is at least a few hundred thousand taels of silver a year, which is really a huge amount!

"Well, if we are thirty percent, at least the people don't have to work too hard, and when we come back from the victory in Ningxia, we will formulate a feasible tax policy according to the situation in various places!" Zilong saw that in order to survive, the people from the elderly in their sixties to the children of ten years old all went out to work, but they still gained very little, and they only felt unbearable, so they directly plummeted by thirty percent, just to reduce the burden on the people under his rule.

Although Gorouzi has taken over as the leader of the Beji people and has also become the deputy leader of the tribal alliance, after all, he has just ascended to the throne and has limited knowledge, so when he heard Zilong say this, he only nodded in praise.

However, Dai Qin admonished: "Your Excellency, if we pay less than 30,000 percent of the tax, we will have to reduce the army of at least 20,000! Now we have a total of only 40,000 or 50,000 men, which is far inferior to the Heavenly King Sect in the past, if there are 20,000 less troops, how can we protect the grassland?"

"Well, I have my own plan! There is no need to abolish the people and horses for the time being, everything will wait for us to come back from Ningxia, and now let's try to reduce the tax policy by 30%!" Zilong heard what Dai Qin said, and he hesitated for a while before he said.

"Okay! Subordinates obey orders!" Dai Qin nodded when he heard this, and gave the order. After all, Zilong is the leader, and since he wants to make such a decision, Dai Qin has no choice but to agree. And Zilong has always been good at doing things, since he has decided so, he thinks that there is indeed a way to solve this tax shortage.

"Hmm!" Zilong was also very happy to see Dai Qin's agreement, and turned his head to look at Jiang Yunsong again, and said, "Yunsong! Now that the five-day period has passed, how is the unit you trained?"

"In five days, 20,000 light horsemen have been trained, and they can go to Ningxia to fight!" Jiang Yunsong had already wanted to come forward to report, and at this time Zilong asked, he immediately came out and hugged his fists and said.

"Twenty thousand light horsemen?" Wu Langzi couldn't help frowning when he heard this, and said to Zilong, "Lord Chief, listen to Dai Qin, there are at least nearly 10,000 Heavenly King factions led by this Ashige, and there are also 20,000 grassland warriors who are coerced! With such an army of nearly 30,000 and 20,000 light cavalry, how can we win in battle?"

"War is not something that can be won with a large number of people, but if there are few people, you will definitely lose!" Jiang Yunsong said loudly, "There are 20,000 elite horsemen, and I will break Ahige!"

"Haha! Yun Song is so good!" Zilong couldn't help but give Jiang Yunsong a thumbs up when he heard this, and then said to Wu Langzi, "Wu Langzi, this training of 20,000 elite cavalry, in fact, I ordered Jiang Yunsong to do so! In this battle, we are only responding to the Ningxia Ming army, not the main force! Moreover, 20,000 elites, breaking the 30,000 rabble of Ahige, it is indeed not a difficult task!"

"My lord is reasonable!" Gorouzi nodded and said, "It's just that Ashige has his back to Ordos, although now we don't know how many troops are coming from Ordos, but if we can fight more than 100,000 Ming troops can't hold on, this Ordos is only afraid that no less than 50,000 elite cavalry will be dispatched!"

"No matter how many people there are, if we are cruising on their flanks, they will not dare to attack the Great Wall with all their might. Besides, we also have to garrison Daqing Mountain and Tumochuan to prevent other forces from taking advantage of the situation, and we can't bring all the men and horses back!" Zilong said directly.

"I understand!" Gorouzi nodded at this time, and brought out 20,000 elite horsemen to the south, which was indeed the upper limit of the troops that the newly established grassland ruling organization could send.

Seeing that Wulangzi was no longer confused, Zilong asked Jiang Yunsong again, "Then when can I set off?"

"Your Excellency gives an order, and the 20,000-strong army can be drawn immediately!" Jiang Yunsong said loudly.

"Then how is the food and grass prepared for the expeditionary force?" Zilong asked again, looking at Dai Qin again.

"Don't worry, my lord, I have prepared an army of 30,000 and the food and grass needed for a month! I think if you can really win this battle, it won't take less than a month!" Dai Qin said immediately.

"Okay! Dai Qin, this grassland will be handed over to you for the time being, I hope you can guard the retreat for all of us!" Zilong couldn't help but be overjoyed when he heard this, he was able to raise 30,000 troops for a month's grain and grass in five days, and Dai Qin's level of governance was really good. Now that Dai Qin is in charge of government affairs, this task of staying in the rear can only be handed over to him!

"Your Excellency, be relieved!" said Dai Qin with a chuckle.

Zilong nodded when he heard this, and knew that today's deliberation had reached the final topic, and immediately said: "Originally, I wanted to hold a swearing-in ceremony! But now that time is pressing, the Great Wall of Daming is about to be broken, and we can only go to the rescue in the starry night to keep the Great Wall from losing! So I will exempt myself from this swearing-in ceremony! Where is Jiang Yunsong!"

This is the beginning of the battle order, when Jiang Yunsong heard this, he immediately went out to receive the order: "You have five thousand elite cavalry, drive the army forward, find out the enemy's movements for me, and by the way, contain them and prevent them from attacking the Great Wall with all their might!"

Jiang Yunsong was greatly relieved when he heard this, and this was the first time he had accepted this vanguard position since he joined the army. immediately received the order loudly, with a happy face: "Subordinate Jiang Yunsong received the order, and he is bound to complete the order of the adult!"

"Okay! Go now, there must be no mistakes!" Zilong also likes Jiang Yunsong, a favorite general, although he was born a bandit, but he is loyal and courageous, and his combat quality is very good, he is really a rare tiger general.

"Order!" Jiang Yunsong clenched his fists with both hands, and then turned around and walked down directly.

"Wulangzi!" Seeing that Jiang Yun was relieved, Zilong began to give a second order.

When Gorouzi heard this, he went out directly to receive the order, hugged his fists and said, "Gorouzi is here!"

"I order you to unite the 13,000 Chinese army, follow the vanguard, and march with me!"