It Starts With A Mountain

Chapter 694

There are two things that are most important in building a mountain, one is population, and the other is food. Without food, soldiers cannot be raised, and without soldiers, food cannot be protected.

After balancing these two, we can think about how to get sharper weapons and better horses. Everything else can develop slowly.

Cheng Dalei can say that he won Liangzhou City without bloodshed, but Liangzhou did not suffer any damage. After the initial chaos, the city began to slowly recover, and now it is gradually on the right track.

In fact, after winning a city, there are many things to do. The wealthy and big families in the city always have to contribute some property, and they also need to appease the small people in the city. In addition, it is necessary to maintain the normal operation of a city.

Recently, many big households have asked to meet Cheng Dalei, in order to have a good relationship with the new city lord, so that they can still remain invincible in the new round of shuffling. In order to achieve this goal, they don't hesitate to send money and goods to women.

For this group of people, Cheng Dalei was too lazy to meet them. Everything was handed over to Liu Bei. Liu Bei looked like he had nothing to do with money and was not very interested in money and women. Cheng Dalei could still rest assured.

Cheng Dalei is now thinking about how to knock out some food from these big households. It should be analyzed according to the actual situation of each household. It is a pity to knock too little. If you knock too much, they will inevitably jump over the wall. The scale of this also needs to be grasped by Cheng Dalei himself.

Cui Baiyu began to assist Cheng Dalei in completing this work. There were quite a number of large households in Liangzhou City, and the investigation materials about them had also been handed in. How much farmland and how many shops each household has... Calculate how much property they have through these calculations.

Regarding this work, Cui Baiyu is completely competent. She was also exposed to these materials for the first time, but it didn't take long to calculate them. The little deer three girls saw that the young lady had started to work, and they had no choice but to cooperate by the side.

They are already familiar with these things, and they will soon be able to take over the work of Cheng Dalei. Cheng Dalei suddenly felt a lot less pressure, thinking in his heart that he might have had an assistant long ago.

His writing is ugly. Although he has written a few poems under his name, his writing style is really bad. With such things as correspondence, I need someone to help. Of course, Cui Baiyu can do these things, and her brain can also be used, which saves Cheng Dalei a lot of energy.

Cheng Dalei stayed for a while, but felt that he had nothing to do. He stood up and said, "You guys are doing things here, I'll go around."

After all, Cheng Dalei left just like that under Xiaolu's incredible eyes. She looked left and right, and there were indeed only four of her left in the study.

"Miss, does he really trust us so much?" Xiaolu said.

"Trust?" Cui Baiyu snorted coldly and said, "We can't even get out of this yard. Even if we know more, it's useless. He doesn't trust us, but he knows that we can't hurt anything."

After that, Cui Baiyu sighed. It seemed ridiculous to speak in such a tone. Now that he has promised to surrender, he must prove his worth. Even if he wants to hurt Cheng Dalei, he has no chance now.

However, Cheng Dalei's trust in himself is indeed a little too much. There are indeed a lot of important materials in the study, which are all Cheng Dalei's secrets, but Cheng Dalei is here, and he can read it anytime he wants.

Originally, I thought whether this was Cheng Dalei's test, but thinking that Cheng Dalei could even tolerate assassination, it should be nothing to look at the so-called secret.

Through these materials, Cui Baiyu learned more about Cheng Dalei's current intelligence, and was even more shocked afterward. First of all, Cheng Dalei is probably the one who likes to use gunpowder the most among the various princes in the empire. The other princes are not without gunpowder, but it is the first time to be so obsessed with using Cheng Dalei.

Then there are horses. Cheng Dalei owns a large number of horses. In fact, a well-bred war horse is absolutely expensive in the empire, and horses are especially delicate. Raising a cavalry team requires great financial support. But obviously, Cheng Dalei has no worries in this regard.

In addition, Cheng Dalei has many powerful generals in his hands. Guan Yu, Zhao Zilong, Zhang Fei, Qin Man and others are all good players against ten thousand enemies. Many princes ask for nothing, but these people are in a trance to Cheng Dalei and don't want money, they can appear at any time as long as he needs.

I thought that by taking Cheng Dalei's secrets, I would be able to understand Cheng Dalei. But the more I got to know him, the more confused I became.

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After Cheng Dalei left the study, he took a deep breath before releasing the pressure on him. Being in the same room with a beauty like Cui Baiyu was indeed no ordinary torture.

He walked around the house and found that he had nothing to do, and no matter how bored Cheng Dalei was, he was not interested in letting Leban play and sing for him. He simply went to Su Ying to repair the relationship between the two.

Su Ying was in the accounting room, and when Cheng Dalei went, Audreyna was chatting with Su Ying. Seeing Cheng Dalei coming in, he said goodbye and left.

Seeing that Su Ying's face was a little sad, Cheng Dalei stretched out his hand and rubbed the between her eyebrows, and said, "Now that there are enough people, you don't need to work so hard. If you really feel tired, take a break."

Su Ying shook her head with a smile, and said, "If I don't do anything, I just raise flowers and feed the fish every day, and think about how to please you.

"It's okay if you are willing to do things, just don't be too tired." Cheng Dalei said, "What does this saint have to do with you, doesn't she come often?"

Su Ying pouted and said, "I have something to discuss with you. I told you, you can't be angry?"

"What, I've always been good-natured, especially to you, how dare I be angry."

Cheng Dalei only needs a little snack to win Su Ying's favor. Su Ying thought for a while and said, "It wasn't Liu Bei who asked for help, but Zhang Fei. General Zhang had a young general named Sun Xiaomao, who also came from Qingniu Mountain. After entering the city, she fell in love with a girl. Then I did some nonsense. I ruined the girl, and the girl threw it into the well that day. Although she was fished out, she was still..."

Snapped.

Cheng Dalei slapped his hand on the table heavily, snorted angrily, and said, "Is it the other way around, do you still have me in your eyes?"

Su Ying was not afraid of Cheng Dalei's anger, she said: "Then Sun Xiaomao begged to Zhang Fei, Zhang Fei begged to Audreyna, and Audreyna also begged me to ask me to say something to you. After all It was a brother fight, and I followed you very early in the uprising. From Qingniu Mountain to this place, I traveled thousands of miles and fought countless battles, both big and small.

Cheng Dalei clenched his teeth, clenched his fists, and sighed for a while.

The soldiers under his command really need to be properly rectified.