Early in the morning, Ling Yun summoned his shogunate staff to discuss matters at the White Tiger Platform. Since he eliminated Zhang Sheng and put the Ten Grandma Guards under house arrest, Ling Yun has withdrawn the parcel and divided the church during this period, and demolished the old structure of the Tiger Alliance. Although the Tiger Alliance is still on the surface, the power center in Huaihuang City is no longer the Tiger Alliance Council or the Presbyterian Council, but Ling Yun's Yitong Shogunate. Although the four major guardians and the five general managers of the left and right envoys are still there, the thirteenth branch hall is still in the hall.

The masters also selected new people, but now the real person in charge was Ling Yun and his staff members. The new leader of the Thirteenth Branch, Ling Yun directly transferred thirteen old subordinates from his 18 cavalry of Yanyun to serve as the garrison troops of each branch. The former Baima Hall was in charge of civil affairs, and the people from the south were in charge of the troops. In Ling Yun's plan, the Tiger Alliance was eventually replaced by Huaihuang Army Town.

"Our food can only last for another two months." Ling Yun had a headache now. Although he had successfully controlled the power of the Tiger Alliance, he was facing a crisis of food shortage. If food cannot be prepared as soon as possible, the Tiger Alliance of more than 100,000 people would face collapse. "I have asked Brother Xu and others to find a way to mobilize food and grass, and also go to Yangzhou to ask for help from the Prince of Jin's Mansion. However, Brother Xu and others can also raise a large amount of food for a while. As for Yangzhou, thousands of miles away, even if food is transported, it is difficult to quench near thirst."

How much food should I consume for a population of more than 100,000? If I am young and strong, I will give two liters of grain every day, and six dou of grain per month. Even women have to have at least one liter a day. Among the 100,000 people in the Tiger League, the proportion of young and strong is beyond the normal level. Especially now, Ling Yun has organized one-sixth of the population into several armies and conducted high-intensity training, the food consumption is faster. Now each soldier gives at least three liters of grain a day, not counting as salt and vegetables. What's more, there are thousands of war horses, and one horse is equivalent to the food consumption of five people.

"Maybe the number of soldiers we trained now is a bit too much. Will we cut some?" Gao Bo said on the side, "Soldiers are more expensive than elites. Now there are 1,55 guards. The guards are 6,500 soldiers, 8,000 soldiers outside the town, and 3,000 soldiers outside the camp. The personal troops in the tent are 3,000. The total number is 22,000. The total number of people in Huaihuang is less than 150,000, and the militia ratio has reached 6 to 1." In fact, Gao Bo still has some objections to Lingyun's training of soldiers and horses. There are too many soldiers. Although Huaihuang Town occupies seven or eight counties, which is equivalent to two or three states. But the key is that the dam grass they occupied

Although the water and grass were abundant, this was outside the border. Now everyone stopped robbing according to Lingyun's orders. They sat in the empty house every day, and trained so many soldiers and horses all day long. This man ate horses and chewed. The consumption was huge. What made Gao Bo most objected was that what was the use of engaging so many soldiers. Although most people were born in a copycat, there were very few people with practical experience, especially after practicing so many soldiers and horses, many people still couldn't even have complete equipment. Most of the recruits did not have armor, no bows and arrows, or even horizontal knives, and only had a big wooden spear with an iron spear tip. How could such recruits really be useful?

But Ling Yun still insisted: "The troops cannot be cut down. The Turks may invade at any time. We have to hurry up and train our troops. We don't have many soldiers to fight at first, so we can only borrow the number at this time. If we don't hurry up and train, how can we stop the Eastern Turks when they arrive?"

This is a superficial reason. The compilation of young and strong people is certainly to prevent the Turks. But there is another deep reason, that is, to strengthen the control of the Tiger Alliance. The Tiger Alliance is not a good person. They were all bandits and horse bandits in the past, and the most lacking was discipline. The grassland on the dam was not suitable for farming. Ling Yun issued a new order to prohibit the plundering again, so many heroes, if they were left idle, they would definitely have something to do. They trained them into an army and carried out the

Military training, using military discipline to carry out militarized management, was also a helpless move by Ling Yun, who had just taken control of power through a series of internal struggles. Besides, training troops like this at this time is also a preparation for long-term preparation. The place in Bashang is not suitable for farming and cannot farm, so it will definitely not be able to go to the direction of farming in the future. Ling Yun's positioning of Huaihuang is still to use the excellent position among several major forces to build a trade market, use the money from the trade market to raise soldiers, and at the same time use elite soldiers to protect this multilateral market.

It is impossible to train soldiers at once. Ling Yun trained 22,000 troops, but most of them were just young and strong auxiliary soldiers. The elite soldiers who really wanted to build were just inside the tent, and even the foreign battalions could only be trained for the time being.

"Why Sanlang meant how to solve this grain problem?" Gao Bo couldn't think of how to solve this grain problem. Although the market was under construction, Ling Yun also sent many people to send letters to various parts of the Central Plains and tribes of the grassland to tell them about the establishment of Huaihuangbian City and invited merchants from Zhongdi and tribes of the grassland to trade. But this is even more difficult to quench near thirst. A market cannot be raised just by talking. If the market is prosperous, it will take a long time to cultivate, which may be two or three years, or even ten years.

Ling Yun has been considering the issue of food these days. At this time, he had some preliminary plans in his mind. He said: "Brother Xu and Mr. Yuwen will go south in the near future to find ways to help raise food. But far water cannot quench near thirst. Before the food transport in the south, there may be a period of time in the shortage of food, so we have to solve it ourselves. I have an idea to support the food in the south. Please discuss it."

His plan is not complicated. First of all, he still wanted to find a way to exchange grain through trading methods. Ling Yun planned to trade with Xi and Khitan in the east, and traded them with the tea, silk cloth, porcelain and some iron tools they brought when they went north. These were all supplies that the grassland people needed a lot, and they could even exchange them for cattle and sheep. They could even exchange them for some simple weapons. Although many of the garrison troops and foreign soldiers in Huaihuang Town are not fully equipped, Huaihuang City actually has some weapons. If they do not equip the entire army immediately, they are also in order to strengthen the control of the new recruits, and they dare not take full control.

Before controlling some new troops, they were armed very well and sold their weapons to the grassland people. Ling Yun was not very worried that they would deal with him in turn. After all, Xi and Khitan were not strong at this time. Under the pressure of Sui, Turks, and Goguryeo, they survived very hard. Although they had a large population, there were not many real soldiers. Often, a large tribe had only three or five thousand soldiers. They did business with them, and they were not afraid of customers bullying their masters, nor were they worried that these tribes would oppose to deal with Ling Yun. Moreover, this time they took the initiative to trade in the Xi and Khitan grasslands, which was also spreading the news of Huaihuang border city. Inviting them to come south to trade.

In addition to sending people to the East, Xi and Khitans and several tribes traded for cattle and sheep, Lingyun's second problem of food was to grab it.

It was not a robbery of the Turks, nor a robbery of Xi, Khitan, nor a robbery of the Sui Dynasty. Ling Yun's target was on the other peers on the Daqingshan Mountains of Yanshan. Inside and outside the Great Wall, there were countless counterfeit horse bandits on the border. Back then, when Murong Ke was the most powerful, the Tiger Alliance had more than a thousand counterfeit forces. For the Tiger Alliance, these people were not only peers, competitors, and even enemies. Ling Yun aimed at them at this time, first of all, picking up soft persimmons and pinching them. Since the last internal strife in the Tiger Alliance, there was no powerful force in the north. Although there were so many bandits and horse gangs, they were basically in a mess. They were not in charge of each other. They occupied the mountains as kings and robbed them for a living. Now Ling Yun has a 22,000 organization in his hands. Although it is actually just a scary number, there are not many real war-capable soldiers, but they can easily pull out their troops, which is much stronger than those counterfeits.

At this time, there is no problem in sweeping the parish. Sweeping the parish, snatching their food and money, and seizing their population. Of course, this is also a kind of practical training for Ling Yun for the new army. To train a team of elite soldiers, you cannot train real elite soldiers just by practicing every day. Only through actual combat can you train real elite soldiers. Ling Yun dare not take the initiative to provoke the Turks now, so these parishes are just for practice. What's more, many parishes were actually members of the Tiger Alliance back then, but later they left. Ling Yun went to fight for the parish and also had the intention of revitalizing the Tiger Alliance.

"The parcels are actually like rat holes. Every winter, when you dig a rat hole in the fields, you can always dig a hole of food." Ling Yun said with a smile, "The past these parcels betrayed the swearing, but now we will fight back one by one. We can not only teach them a lesson, but also get food, and practice troops in actual combat. We can win three goals at one time, why not do it?"

Ling Yun's plan was approved by the vast majority of people. I will die. Since everyone is short of food, then I will find other counterfeit villages to train troops and seize food. Why not do it?

The next day, Ling Yun held a meeting of Juyi Hall. At the meeting, Ling Yun had no effort to let Juyi Hall and the Presbyterian Church pass his plan to send merchant groups to the grassland trade and send troops to sweep various parcels. In particular, the plan to send troops to the rest of the parcels was unanimously agreed. When the Tiger Alliance was first established, it was also a glorious, but unfortunately it soon became internal strife and dispersed. Pei Zeng and other old people in the alliance missed the scenery at that time. They had no idea of ​​morality. Those people betrayed the covenant, and now they have the chance to get it back.

Pei Zeng and several guardians even volunteered to lead troops to fight.

However, Ling Yun did not agree. Although it was a one-stop action, he could not be careless. Moreover, he also intended to train his own people to take power. He did not want them to take real power in the alliance.

At the meeting, Lingyun invited Pei Zeng and Tuoba Hengdao to lead the team on the grounds that entering the grassland trade was easy to be a mature and experienced person, and sent two guardians and three general managers to take people to guard them. Then, Su Yong, Cheng Lou, Luo Yi and other groups of people from the south formed a large merchant group of more than 3,000 people, and brought most of the goods in the warehouse. They not only had to go deep into Xi, Wu and Khitan trade, but also had the important task of promoting Huaihuang border city, and invited the tribes they met along the way to go south to Huaihuang for trading.

As for the operation to sweep away the mountain villages, Ling Yun also planned to carry out rotational wars and sweeps with the army inside the tent as the auxiliary, with the troops outside the tent as the auxiliary.

There are so many bandits and horse bandits on the northern border, just a warehouse of grain waiting to be taken away and a target for training. First, practice your skills with a copycat, just to prepare for warm-up to prevent the Turks.
Chapter completed!