The white porridge and pickled mustard is enough, why am I wearing a royal robe?

Chapter 117 The imperial court recruits soldiers
Liu Zhenhua can now harvest three war horses a day, and within two weeks, he will be able to upgrade the number of prestige meals again. The war horses he transformed today are to show Wei Wu the power of the Stove King in a small way, so that he can A clear death.

Secondly, it is for communication between Yanchuan and Yanchang. The distance between Yanchuan and Yanchang is more than 120 miles. If it is a communication between soldiers, it would take several days to go back and forth. But if it is replaced by horses, it only takes one day, which is greatly shortened. communication costs.

Of course, if Liu Zhenhua is willing to spend 20 reputation in exchange for two telegraph machines and is willing to spend time cultivating talents in related fields, he can also use that thing.

Obviously, Liu Zhenhua does not have that extra reputation and time.

Only horses and signal corps can be used.

The next goal is to accumulate reputation and upgrade the quality of the reputation meal. This time Wang Wu led the militia team to destroy the fake Stove King and promoted 50 people to heavenly soldiers. The number of heavenly soldiers has almost reached the threshold of one thousand. However, Liu Zhenhua still had plenty of time, provided that there was no war during these days.

Otherwise, if the Heavenly Soldier exceeds his limit, he will have no choice but to bear the pain and spend a large amount of reputation points to buy these subsistence meals.

Liu Zhenhua returned to Yanchuan. At this time, Yanchuan had changed drastically. From a distance, Yanchuan looked like a modern building with walls made of reinforced concrete, but in fact, it was just painted with a layer of cement. .

This made Yanchuan more majestic, and all the people who came here stood outside the gate of Yanchuan County and stared at it for a long time.

Gray-white cement is still too advanced for the people of this era.

It has quite a "city in the sky" style.

Not only does the appearance look spectacular, the height of the Yanchuan County City Wall itself is enough to shock everyone who sees it. The current Yanchuan County City Wall is two meters higher than before, reaching an astonishing [-] meters.

You must know that even the walls of Chang'an City in the Tang Dynasty were only more than six meters, and the Great Wall was only six or seven meters. As for border gates and capitals, these city walls are generally built taller than ordinary cities, and Yanchuan County, as a A small county town can actually have such a majestic city wall.

It is almost taller than the city wall of Yan'an Fucheng.

Not only that, the city walls were heavily guarded. Because there was a city, militiamen and heavenly soldiers had to take turns to defend the city.

If he didn't want to keep his reputation in exchange for a higher reputation meal limit, Liu Zhenhua even wanted to equip the two city walls with a large bed crossbow!

This kind of bed crossbow requires a full [-] reputation, which is more expensive than a war horse.

There are no invading enemies at the moment, and there is no need to build this thing on the city wall. After all, the bed crossbow can only exert its greatest power when defending the city. Although the two sides are fighting against each other, although they are still powerful, they are not as powerful as defending the city.

The sweet potatoes in the fields outside the city are still growing well, but what gives Liu Zhenhua some headaches is the influx of people in Yanchuan County.

Young and strong women from almost all the villages and towns outside are gathering here. They have all heard of the name of the Kitchen King. Although the Kitchen King divides the fields, they can't grow food at the moment, so they will just sit there and have nothing.

And like those young people who go to big cities in modern times to get involved in insurgency, these people also know that under the rule of Zao Wang in Yanchuan County, there are more opportunities and they can find more jobs.

For example, the construction of city walls, the renovation of housing areas in the city, etc., even women can find jobs and sew clothes for the Tianbing militia.

The sudden increase in population has given Liu Zhenhua a headache.

Liu Zhenhua looked at the map and even wanted to start planning an outer city, but this idea was quickly rejected by Liu Zhenhua.

Because these people only came here temporarily. After the sweet potato seedlings come down and they have planted some, they will return to the village to farm.

The expansion of the outer city will not be a temporary thing. Once the construction is completed, these people should go back to planting sweet potatoes.

Helpless, Liu Zhenhua could only part with some of his reputation in exchange for sweet potato seedlings, so that the extra common people could take them back and plant them.

This approach was also effective. The common people all saw the sweet potato seedlings growing happily outside the city. After getting these sweet potato seedlings, they were overjoyed and knelt on the ground one after another to praise the name of the Stove King.

After solving this problem, Liu Zhenhua breathed a sigh of relief. Now there are at least no major livelihood problems in the two counties of Yanchuan and Yanchang.

At present, the population of Yanchuan and Yanchang counties has exceeded 4. This is the first time that Liu Zhenhua has controlled such a large population, which is more than the students he had at the university. These people will cause trouble if they don't get it right.

"How troublesome it will be if you become emperor in the future."

Liu Zhenhua sat on a chair and rubbed his forehead. In the future, the emperor will control the people of the world. There are currently 6000 million people in the Ming Dynasty, but Liu Zhenhua knows that the actual number must be far more than that, probably 500 million more. Even 1000 million black accounts.

7000 million people.

It's scary to think about.

"Just take it one step at a time. I can learn from Liu Bang."

Liu Zhenhua secretly thought in his heart that Liu Bang was good at employing people, and he, Liu Zhenhua, could also employ people. He had to do everything personally, which would definitely exhaust him to death.

"Report to the Stove King!"

Zhang Heizi was kneeling on the ground, with a rare look of panic on his face.

Liu Zhenhua frowned. After all, Zhang Heizi was also the squad leader of the reconnaissance squad. He had experienced storms. Nothing could make him panic.

"Speak slowly."

"Yes, Kitchen King."

"There is news that the imperial court has sent people to Shaanxi with the emperor's decree to recruit the Shaanxi rebels!"

Zhang Heizi was sent out by Liu Zhenhua to inquire about the military situation and the people's situation.Yang He deliberately spread the idea that someone from the imperial court was coming to recruit people. He had no intention of killing the snake at all, so he was naturally not afraid of alerting the snake.

The spread of this news can also have a deterrent effect, so that those people can be mentally prepared to be recruited after hearing the news.

After all, Zhang Heizi was still a commoner living under the rule of the Ming Dynasty. He had never heard any news from the imperial court in the past, but now news came with the "Emperor's" decree, and he couldn't help but feel a little flustered on his face.

"Sure enough, someone from the imperial court is here."

Liu Zhenhua frowned and wanted to recruit someone.

He walked out from behind the desk and paced back and forth. He was thinking about the history of the Ming Dynasty in his mind. It seemed that there was talk of recruitment, but it shouldn't be now. The court's reaction to Shaanxi shouldn't be in the second year of Chongzhen. .

"The butterfly effect."

Liu Zhenhua sighed with emotion. He had changed so many things when he came here. For example, Monk Wang, who was supposed to be the leader of the 36th Battalion in the future, died in his hands.

Wang Zuogao, the Flying Tiger and Big Red Wolf, was also a big figure in the future. He followed Wang Jiayin to various places in Shaanxi, Shanxi and Ningxia, but he also died in the hands of Liu Zhenhua.

The history of this parallel time and space had already begun to change when Liu Zhenhua appeared.

"It's still here."

If the imperial court wants to recruit people, he will definitely not accept it. The other party's policy is to recruit people. He, who is "definitely not going to recruit people," is a thorn in his side and stands out, and he will obviously be beaten.

"Where did the news come from? Is there any movement in Yan'an Mansion recently?"

Liu Zhenhua asked.

Zhang Heizi hurriedly said: "Returning to the Kitchen King, there is no news from Yan'an Mansion. This news came from Shilou County, just east of Yanchuan."

"East of Yanchuan, it seems it's still in Shanxi?"

Liu Zhenhua raised his head. Shanxi was already very close. It would take some time for the opponent to reach Yanchuan and it would also take some time to mobilize troops. He still had time to make countermeasures.

"Call all the officials above the heavenly troop class and above, as well as the two captains of the militia."

Liu Zhenhua ordered to go down, and Zhang Liang, who was waiting outside, immediately said yes, and then gave the news to the messenger.

The latter rode to Yanchang.

There are some militiamen stationed over there, and the deputy captain of the militia is over there.

It's good to have a horse. In just one day, the messenger quickly brought the deputy captain to the Yanchuan County Government Office.

At this time, there were many people standing in the county government office. There were only three militia officials, the captain and deputy captain, and Ren Ming, while there were more heavenly soldiers, a dozen or so.

There is a map on the desk.

Yanchuan and Yanchang counties are within a red circle.

Each of the officials had serious expressions on their faces. They already knew the news. Someone from the imperial court was actually here. They met the Ming Dynasty so early.

They thought it would be at least the beginning of next year.

It seems that the Ming Dynasty attaches more importance to Shaanxi than they imagined. Thinking of this, they also laugh at themselves. The people are starving to death and displaced without anyone to care about them. If someone rebels, they will come.

What does this mean? Can a crying child be fed milk?

But unfortunately, they are already other people's children.

There is no use in recruiting people, the only option is to fight to the end, either the Kitchen King will take over the world, or the Ming Dynasty will resume its rule.

"Yanchuan, Yanchuan, the other party will definitely send troops to fight. Do you have any opinions and suggestions?"

Liu Zhenhua looked at these people and asked. He came here to brainstorm and see if these people have any ideas.

"Kitchen King, I think it's better to concentrate all our troops to guard Yanchuan."

Yang Lichao gave his opinion.

His view was recognized by most people. Although they were not afraid of the Ming Dynasty's army, they were still a little worried. This worry made them feel that they should gather all their troops to guard at one point.

Seeing that no one had any other opinions, Liu Zhenhua made his decision.

"Divide the troops, half guard Yanchuan, and half guard Yanchuan."

Liu Zhenhua placed his fingers heavily on the two counties in the red circle on the map. He had his own opinion.

(End of this chapter)