At this moment, there were about five or six blacksmith workshops the size of shops on the street, and a dozen blacksmiths and apprentices were busy. The sound of clanging kept coming, and from time to time a puff of white gas came out of the big water tank outside the shop, making a stinging sound, and I didn't know what it was building.

Bai Tianfu recruited people to invite all those with a slightly lower status to rest, and asked people to take care of the war horses, Dong Ce quietly instructed Shi Jin and the others, and the war horses took care of themselves, and they only needed to provide forage.

Horses and armor soldiers, these three things are the most important things that Dong Ce values. To put it mildly, he would rather all the outcasts under him die than let anything go wrong with these three things.

These horses are even more like treasures.

This garrison yamen looks quite glamorous from the outside, but when I entered the mansion, I knew that it was end.

It looks like a very large and magnificent yard, but inside it is a simple and dilapidated house, and in some places there are only broken walls and ruins, which have not yet been renovated.

It's really a golden jade, and it's ruined in it.

Bai Tianfu said a little embarrassed: "This is simple, but it makes the adults and colleagues laugh, all the grass construction and reconstruction of Hongci Fort is really not able to come up with money, this yamen is a face after all, the outside is more magnificent, to repair the inside, but the last general feels that there is no need." There were no civil disputes, but the lower officials and more than a dozen family members lived in it, and they didn't even bring their families. ”。 One. Root. Read. Dong Ce read the novel xstxt and listened to it, and became more and more able to conclude that this Lord Bai Tianfu is a person who can work hard and do practical things. It's just that I can see that this person is quite scheming, and when he says these words at this time, he can't help but cry poor in his mind.

Liu Ruozai has always been diligent and thrifty, Bai Tianfu's style is quite his appetite, and his face, which has been gloomy since entering the city, is slightly better: "You do this, it is the truth." Rest assured, if you can come to Hongci Fort to take office, you will work hard, and this official will not wronged you. ”

As soon as he heard this, Bai Tianfu's heart was settled, and he quickly knelt on the ground and kowtowed to thank him.

Officialdom has always paid attention to leaving seven points for words and only saying three points, and with Liu Ruozai's status, it is not easy to be able to speak to this point.

Dong Ce's eyes flickered.

He felt Liu Ruozai's support for Bai Tianfu, and it seemed that this Bai Shoubei Bai had left a very good impression on Liu Ruozai.

If you change to a shallow and narrow-minded person, you must be very unhappy in your heart, and you can't say that you want to exclude this Bai Tianfu, and it is impossible to get along well. If the city government is shallower, it will be revealed. After all, many times, subordinates compete for the trust of their bosses, just like a few women compete for a man's favor. It's hard to share, it's hard to coexist.

A while ago, Liu Ruozai has been vigorously supporting Dong Ce, and now he shows his intention to support Bai Tianfu, Dong Ce's displeasure is natural, human nature, but if it is placed in the eyes of Shangguan, it is very unbearable, and he doesn't know how to advance or retreat.

Dong Ce is very comparable, one is that he can see it - Liu Ruozai wants to integrate all the forces in North Hebei Province, and wants to make this North Hebei Province his hall of words, so that it is convenient to command the army and soldiers like a finger, so it is also necessary to win over some people and cultivate a group of henchmen while suppressing certain people. And why do people value you?

Dong Ce has never been the kind of person who doesn't know how to advance or retreat.

Besides, he also understands that compared with the new army he wants to train, compared with other people, in Liu Ruozai's eyes, they are different after all.

To use an inappropriate analogy, it's like the seven or eight-year-old son of the adoptive family and the son raised by himself, even if they are the same relatives on the outside, their hearts are different.

Of course, with Dong Ce's scheming, even if he is dissatisfied, he will never show it.

Thinking of this, Dong Ce nodded slightly in his heart, and secretly made up his mind to have more dealings with this white guard. Not to mention Liu Ruozai's valuation, this person's heart is also worth befriending.

And Dong Ce thought deeper, although he has risen at a speed that Datong Town has not seen for decades, but the shallow foundation is also unprecedented, I am afraid that there are many guards and military forts in Datong Town, and any of the thousands of officials who carry it out will be much deeper than his own feet, and his network in various fields is much larger than his own. This is something that I can't make up for in a short period of time. And Bai Tianfu was born in the family for generations, and has been operating here for more than 200 years, which can be said to be a big tree with deep roots, and the relationship network is dense, how many people can you get to know through him?

The benefits are self-explanatory.

When Liu Ruozai said those words, he seemed to inadvertently turn his head and glance at Dong Ce lightly, and seeing that Dong Ce's face was not abnormal, he nodded secretly in his heart.

In addition to paying attention to Dong Ce, he is also investigating at any time. If Dong Ce behaved in any way at this time, he would naturally lose a lot of points in his heart.

The group entered the only decent building in the house, which was a fairly well-preserved wing room in the second entrance, which may have been forgotten when the slaves burned down the house.

If it is according to the order of the dignitaries, they should take a bath and incense before eating, and then enter the table. It's just that there is nothing at this time, everything is simple, and naturally there is no such cumbersome etiquette.

Everyone entered the wing room, sat down according to their status, at this time there was already a way to eat around the table in the Daming market, but a little more particular, or the table.

Liu Ruozai sat on the top seat, and the second noble place on the left was accompanied by Bai Tianfu, and Xie Dingkun's official position was higher than Dong Ce, so he sat at the top, and Dong Ce admired the last seat.

Xie Dingkun finally won back a city and glanced at Dong Ce proudly.

Dong Ce just smiled faintly, and didn't take it to heart at all, he was a human being in two lives, and his scheming city government had long been extremely deep, and he didn't pay much attention to these vain things, what he wanted was real benefits.

The dishes are very simple, there are only three dishes and one soup in front of everyone, which is not much worse than Hou Jiawei's banquet for Dong Ce that day, it can be seen that it is the garrison officer, and the difference in value is also very large. The dishes are all taken from the nearby mountains, and the taste is very delicious, and everyone who eats it is quite enjoyable. served a jar of wine, but Liu Ruozai waved his hand to signal not to drink, and everyone didn't dare to drink it.

After eating, it was getting dark, and in this era, in this realm, there was nothing to pastime. Everyone dispersed, and when they left, Liu Ruozai instructed to gather at the school early the next morning.

Dong Ce and his subordinates were settled in a small-scale barracks, a small courtyard, which could accommodate more than 100 people, and it was more than enough to accommodate Dong Ce. Dong Ce arranged a candidate for the vigil as usual, but he did not arrange anyone to go out on patrol, after all, this was someone else's territory, and if he still acted like that, he would inevitably be suspected of disrespecting others.

Early in the morning of the second day, as soon as the sky was bright, the entire Hongci Fort was already alive.

People neighed and shouted, adding some life to this once dead city.

In many places, the castle school grounds were placed outside the city - for example, Zhenqiang Fort, and the inner territory of Hongci Fort was large enough, so a school field was set up in the east of the city.

At this time, after the school ground, it was already full of people.

On the stage, Liu Ruozai sat on a chair, Dong Ce and others stood behind him, and Bai Tianfu stood under the stage, loudly commanding the soldiers in front of him.

Offstage, there were about 100 men standing in five rows. Most of them were ragged, the best of all was a fat jacket, and they were all very old, and most of their weapons were spears. They all looked a little malnourished, and like most people of this age, they had a vegetable-looking face and a weak body. The line of them is sparse, not neat, but it is more or less the same, and they don't speak, they don't mess up, which is already rare.

Bai Tianfu made arrangements, got on the stage, and smiled bitterly: "The officers and soldiers of Hongci Fort are full of six hundred and eight officers and soldiers, and ninety-two horses and mules. It's just that there are only 500 military households here, and the general has been selected among them for a long time, and these are the only ones that can be used. I have been training them every day for these days, but they still don't look the same, and I ask the adults to punish them. ”

Liu Ruozai waved his hand: "It's good to be able to do this with these days, and you don't have to blame yourself." ”

Looking at these soldiers, in fact, it is just a passing scene, after all, let the officials see that we have soldiers here, and our officials here are doing things.

Then Bai Tianfu sent the roster of officers and soldiers, Liu Ruozai took it in his hand, looked at it very carefully, and only raised his head after a long time.

"You guys are really hard here!" He let out a rare sigh: "Nothing, everything is over." ”

"In that case, the official can't treat you badly."

As soon as Liu Ruozai beckoned, a waiting servant came up quickly and knelt on the ground. On his head was a tray with snow-white rice paper, and on one side there were brushes, inkstones, and printing boxes. He held both sides of the tray with both hands, and when Liu Ruozai was writing, the tray was as steady as a rock, and he didn't even shake it.

This young man named Dexin Dong Ce has seen him a few times, but he is thirteen or fourteen years old, wearing a blue satin dress, with neat behavior, long eyebrows and clear eyes, and he also knows etiquette and gentleness, and at a glance he knows that he is raised by a family. He is Liu Ruozai's scholar, and he brought it out this time, which shows that he is also favored. Dong Ce didn't expect that there would be such a unique skill.

Liu Ruozai was writing there, what was written, Dong Strategy looked at it clearly behind him as soon as he poked his neck.

Fifty pairs of green cloth iron armor, fifty pairs of iron helmets, fifty pairs of iron arm guards, three hundred pairs of fat jackets, three hundred spears, three hundred waist knives, three hundred foot bows, three hundred eight-petal helmets, three hundred sacks, fifty cards, five thousand arrows, thirty Kaiyuan bows, and one hundred stones of folded rice.

Dong Ce's eyes were hot when he saw these materials, but thinking that his five thousand taels of silver was still a large benefit from these days, his heart was much more balanced.