In the end, Liu Yi didn't say anything, and after the three of them talked a lot, Shang Ji and Deng Yan left Liufu. Liu Yi personally sent the two away from Wangquan County.

After that, the three of them said goodbye, and Shang Ji and Deng Yan returned to Heishui Plug!

Although the meritorious head of the previous fire was taken away by Wang Tong and Tian Yue, in order to keep their mouths shut, Shang Ji and Liu Yi were also rewarded!

First of all, the two were officially recommended to serve as captains, and the fake word "fake captain" was successfully removed.

Secondly, in order to prevent Xianbei's recidivism, Liu Yi was appointed as the defense envoy of the northwest counties of Liaodong County, responsible for the military defense of several border counties.

To put it bluntly, the county lieutenants of several counties who were ordered to send reinforcements before were concurrently served by Liu Yi. A single round of troops is indeed enough for 50,000 people in a school, but only God knows how much the specific combat strength is! Looking at the reinforcements sent before, presumably the combat effectiveness must not be optimistic.

These counties are all lower counties like Wangquan County, and they are purely used to send Liu Yi away. According to the normal point of view, even if Xianbei is guarded, Liu Yi should be transferred to Wangping County Middle School as a captain!

There is only one word difference between Wangquan County and Wangping County, but the specific gap is huge!

Wangping is a county seat that does exist in history, and it is one of the few big city-level counties in Liaodong County, and the county guard is of course reluctant to let this fat difference fall into the hands of Liu Yi, so he came up with such a nondescript official position to fool people in the defense of the northwest counties!

However, the only good thing is that Liu Yi is still stationed in Wangquan County, and Tian Teng, the magistrate of the Central Plains County of Wangquan County, "accidentally" fell off the horse and broke his spleen bone after the news of Xianbei's entry into the Kou came out, and returned to Xiangping to recuperate!

Anyone can see that Tian Teng is finding an excuse to run away after getting the news! However, in the end, the ending was very dramatic, the problem of Xianbei's invasion was solved, but Tian Teng really had no way to return to Wangquan County to continue working.

Officials at all levels put contempt on their faces, and no matter how thick-skinned Tian Teng was, he couldn't return. Of course, there is no need to delve into why officials at all levels got the inside story of Tian Teng's "injury", and why they were unusually united and jointly resisted Tian Teng.

Anyway, a defense envoy from a certain northwest county who did not want to be named said that he had done nothing! It's caused by Tian Teng being too unpopular!

The final result was that Liu Yi temporarily acted as the defense envoy of the northwest counties with full authority to act as the military and political affairs of Wangquan County!

If Liu Yi still has a name that looks very powerful to fool people, then Shang Ji is even more miserable, he doesn't even have a name!

Shang Ji was also promoted to lieutenant, but he neither demarcated the jurisdiction nor replenished the army!

It is an empty name, the soldiers are self-recruited, the equipment is self-made, and the military expenses are self-raised!

Of course, for all this, Shang Ji has long been mentally prepared. Players have always been raised by their mothers, and Shang Ji is used to it!

It was still the righteous brother Liu Yi who took care of the younger brother, and forcibly removed 10,000 soldiers to join the Heishui Plug again on the grounds that the county guard had an order to increase the number of people in the northwest counties to join the Black Water Plug!

Therefore, as of now, there are 30,000 troops in the Black Water Plug! But in addition to the 10,000 troops of the Shang Ji headquarters, the other 20,000 troops need to undergo strict secondary training before they can be put into battle!

Then Liu Yi reported to the county with a backhand that the counties had a serious shortage of soldiers and lax armaments, and they might not be able to shoulder the heavy responsibility of resisting external troubles, so they asked the county to allocate money and grain to rectify the armament!

Who said that a bold man can't play with his heart's eye? Liu Yi used tricks to make Shang Ji bow down!

Of course, Wang Tong could not meet Liu Yi's plan to prepare for martial arts, but Liu Yi's requirements were upright, and he had just experienced a big drama of being humble and indominant, so he had to save face no matter what.

So Wang Tong was also forced to allocate a sum of money and grain to Liu Yi to reorganize the army. It's not a lot, but it's better than nothing.

Of course, Liu Yi would not expect Wang Tong to sincerely help him straighten out his armaments, he had his own way of money.

Previously, he had made many sorties in the Jiegu Department and captured a large number of war horses, cattle and sheep herdsmen, in addition to leaving 50,000 high-quality war horses for his own use.

The bits and pieces of various loot were also sold for a sky-high price of nearly two million gold! Among them, Liu Yi divided thirty percent, 600,000 gold, which is enough to re-recruit 50,000 regular soldiers, not to mention that he is just rectifying and supplementing.

Of course, Shang Ji took more, not only did 70% of 1.4 million fall into the hands of Shang Ji, but also had the heart of four towns, and it was conservatively estimated that he could sell another 2 million gold!

Coupled with the remaining two million gold from the previous transaction with Yan Huang, after deducting the recent expenses of repairing the black water plug, casting equipment, paying military salaries, purchasing grain and grass, recruiting soldiers, etc., Shang Ji currently has 1.9 million gold in his hands! (Heart of Town not counted)

In addition, Shang Ji also has millions of meritorious deeds (100,000 will be deducted for promotion to lieutenant, and 100,000 will be rewarded with a gold scepter, which will be wiped out)! You must know that at present, the value of merit value is far more than gold coins, at least merit can be exchanged for many things that gold coins cannot buy.

The amount of funds is unprecedentedly abundant, and Shang Ji also intends to do a big job.

First of all, it is necessary to fill up the 20,000 personnel that are missing to form a complete school captain's department.

It is expected that the current number of special troops will be doubled, and then 30,000 elite ordinary soldiers will be trained! It's not that Shang Ji doesn't want to train more special troops, but the training requirements for special classes are too high and the cost is too much, even if he has a huge amount of money at present, he can't afford to train.

Taking the Black Armor Xuanqi as an example, the promoted Black Armor Xuanqi needs a full hundred gold for each training one! This is still because Shang Ji can make his own equipment and provide war horses independently, if they are all purchased according to the market price, the price will have to be at least doubled!

One hundred gold each, it is estimated that another two thousand horses will be trained, and the black armor Xuan riding alone will cost a full 200,000 gold!

The army is not finished after training, and it still needs to pay military salaries every month. Or take the black armor Xuanqi as an example, each of them needs a monthly salary of hardware. Four thousand Black Armor Xuanqi need 20,000 in a month, and more than 200,000 in a year!

Coupled with the daily food consumption, the forage of the war horses, the loss of training, and the pension rewards after the war, it costs at least 300,000 gold to maintain the 4,000 Black Armor Xuan Cavalry Merchants every year!

Although the unit price of other classes is much smaller than that of the Black Armor Xuancai, the huge number base determines that the consumption is also quite a lot.

According to preliminary calculations, the 50,000 army in his mind has all been trained and trained, and the consumption of various items in a year will definitely not be less than one million gold!

That is to say, if there is no input, relying on the 1.9 million gold in the hands of the merchant alone, it can only ensure that the merchant will complete the training and recruitment of the army and maintain it for one year, and after one year, it will be financially bankrupt!

After all, the Blackwater Fortress he occupied was just a simple military fortress, and it could not provide perfect logistical support for Shangji, let alone provide tax support for Shangji's army expansion.

For Shang Ji, stagnation is a dead end, and Shang Ji must take the initiative to find a way out!