Several of Bai Tianfu's family members wanted to stay here to keep vigil, Dong Ce naturally didn't need to, and after saying a few words, he took someone to say goodbye and leave.

Back at the station, it was already night.

After eating, Dong Ce asked people to bring all the silver they got from Yang's Mansion today, opened the boxes one by one, and looked at them carefully, Dong Ce summoned Wang Tong and asked him to take people to hide the silver carefully, so as not to let others find out. The silver, which he had taken out as he was about to leave the land.

Then, Dong Ce led people to inspect the city wall.

Today, on a day's day, these family members who were in charge of guarding the south city gate were teaching the selected elite men how to kill people and how to fight. In fact, what kind of effect can such a temporary teaching have, Dong Ce is not at a loss, he can only do his best. These people are people after all, and if it is a field battle, I am afraid that it will be bad if we have them - maybe the enemy will make a gesture of charging, and they will collapse and flee, and then they will scatter their own formation. But for defending the city, the requirements for courage are much lower, and it should be able to play some role. If you can kill a few intruders, you will not be a civilian, but a veteran.

Veterans who have seen blood.

Dong Ce didn't expect much from them, and only hoped that when the manpower was really insufficient, it could come in handy.

It was night, and there were only soldiers on the walls, while the men slept in the garrisons prepared for them under the city. These people, who had just begun to receive training, were easily flustered and collapsed at night when something happened, so they could not be allowed to go up the city wall.

After going around for a while, Dong Ce came back and fell asleep.

On the second day, Li Keshou really sent the people over, but not the two hundred he said yesterday, but the whole five hundred.

Among these 500 people, there are 80 people from Yang's mansion. The other big families in the city heard that the Yang Mansion had sent out people, and there were eighty people, although they didn't know what the situation was, they didn't dare to slack off, and they also began to send out people, and there were quite a few.

And so there are the five hundred men today.

Coupled with the people who were sent yesterday, there are already thousands of strong people gathered now. Dong Ce simply asked Liu Ruozai to show that he had set aside a special boundary in the city, and then arranged some soldiers to carry out high-intensity training for these people. It's just that in this way, the people who have been trained will not only supply the south city gate, but the four city gates will be assigned some.

After these things were done, it was already noon, and Li Keshou came to Dong Ce, saying that he wanted to invite him to dinner, and Dong Ce was naturally happy to go to the banquet.

During the banquet, Li Keshou asked Dong Ce how he dealt with the Yang family, but Dong Ce just smiled and said nothing. There are some things that Li Keshou doesn't know about for his good.

And so the five days passed.

During these five days, there was no movement in the army, and there was silence outside the city.

Dong Ce didn't know what kind of abacus Guo Rupan had in his stomach, but if they didn't move, it would only be good for the city and no harm. Now that the people in the city have settled down, the market has returned to a certain prosperity. The training of the people is also good. Many of the instructors are Dong Ce's subordinates, and many of them have been instructors, and they have a good set of how to train recruits.

How to practice? It's confusing for someone else, but they are confident and organized. In fact, to put it bluntly, it's just to move the set in the Rock Fort recruit camp, the difference is that there is not enough time now, so it is necessary to streamline it, remove some of the things that take a long time to get results, remove some details, and generally be able to practice a look.

Dong Ce accompanied Liu Ruozai to see it once, and he felt pretty good, his spirit was much better than at the beginning, and his combat effectiveness had also improved a lot.

Liu Ruozai also nodded again and again, and praised Dong Ce again.

On the whole, the garrison strength in the city is growing, but what Li Keshou said today made Dong Ce's good mood disappear without a trace.

Li Keshou came to Dong Ce today, his face was gloomy, and he stopped talking.

"Hey, if you have anything to say, you can just say it, it's too unpleasant!" Now the relationship between the two is becoming more stable and close, so they have to talk more casually.

"Originally, this matter was not your business, it should be my share, but now I really can't make up my mind, so I have to discuss it with you." Li Keshou sighed, and said with a gloomy face: "We have no food!" ”

"What? Out of food? Dong Ce's face also changed.

Food is almost one of the most important materials now, but there must be no problems!

"What the hell is going on?" Dong Ce asked with a frown.

Li Keshou explained in detail, and Dong Ce understood the truth of the matter.

Over the years, the grain harvest has failed every year, the price of grain has been extremely high, not only the common people have not been able to eat, many have starved to death, but there is not much grain in the granary of the government. Take Changping as an example, this kind of warehouse was set up at the beginning of the founding of the country, and basically all over the country was built, and a lot of grain was stored in it all year round. The purpose of setting up a standing position is to purchase grain in a good year, and to take out the grain in a bad year to stabilize grain prices, so that the common people will not be able to afford to buy grain. The existence of this kind of granary is very necessary and meaningful, but in the year of Chongzhen, the standing positions in various places have already existed in name only, and they cannot be counted on at all.

There was originally some grain in the county, to be honest, this grain was more than enough to supply Zhu Dong's department and Liu Ruozai brought these people, and later Zhu Dong and others rebelled and defeated the county government, but the granary located next to the county government was safe and sound. Zhu Dong and the others joined the army, and the rest of Dong Ce and these people, even if they ate it with an open stomach, they would be supplied in this warehouse, and there would be no problem in supporting it for at least a month.

But when I first calculated, I didn't include these people.

The first batch was five hundred, and the second was another five, adding up to a thousand, more than four times the regular garrison.

These people are still training, and their combat effectiveness is naturally far inferior to that of the soldiers, but the amount of food is not inferior in the slightest. The amount of training is quite large, and he is tired to death every day, Dong Ce is not stingy, he speaks in person, and he is full of food!

Although these people are tired and tired of practicing every day, they are all in high spirits - in this era, it is already a great happiness to be able to eat a full stomach, and it is a very happy thing.

But in this way, the consumption of food has also increased. Originally, when Li Ke was recruited to recruit people's husbands, he told them that they would only take care of one lunch a day, and the rest would be solved by themselves, but now, they have to take care of three meals a day. Originally, in order to save money, these people only ate two meals a day at home, but after coming here, they also ate three meals a day, and they ate a lot.

So by this time, the food had run out.

Dong Ce listened, shook his head and smiled bitterly: "It's because I didn't think it through, I didn't expect this step." ”

"It's not your fault, it's my business." Li Keshou was ashamed and said: "This was originally an errand under my hands, so I shouldn't have bothered you." ”

"Say that and you will see the outside." Dong Ce said: "But I don't regret training these people, if the army comes to attack with all its might, we will definitely not be able to resist these people in the city, and we will use them when the time comes." Even if they can play a small role, what we have paid now will be worth it. ”

"That's the truth!" Li Ke nodded and said. "Now, where can we get food in the city?" Dong Ce asked. "Two realms." Li Keshou stretched out two fingers and said: "One is a big family, these big families basically have storefronts in the city and Zhuangzi outside the city. Their Zhuangzi are all good ground, most of them are watered ground, and the fields outside the city facing the river and the ditch are basically occupied by these big households. Besides, many of their land is contiguous, and in order to make it easier for them to water their own land, they are also willing to dig some canals, because you don't look at the drought over the years, many people's land has no harvest, but most of the people who have no harvest are small people. Although it is not good to defend the city of these large households, it is not bad. ”

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