Liao Hua's five hundred chariots were not food, but five thousand large iron pots and five thousand pieces of cloth. These cloths were purchased by the Xuzhou people's little textiles and commercial banks. In addition, they were some daily necessities with needles, threads and brains.

Liao Hua's troops are temporarily resting. Not to mention people, even mules are exhausted.

After the war, Jizhou was in a mess. Zhang Liao and others were busy recovering after the war. The destroyed wheat fields were distributed to the people with some soybeans and grain. It is just summer now, and you can still harvest it after planting in autumn.

The team leader had two thousand people filling the pits. Ju Yijun dug so many trenches, and all the individual pits needed to be filled.

After Lu Bu's order, the materials were transported to Shunkou, and Lu Bu waited for Liao Hua and others in Shunkou.

Lu Bu, Tian Yu, and Tawu welcomed Liao Hua in the Shunkou market.

Liao Hua took the token and came over and said, "Lord, Feng Military Advisor General, the material transportation is here, please verify it."

Lu Bu took the order and arranged for his subordinates to verify it, saying, "Thank you brother Liao Hua, thank you Vice General Pan, and thank you brother Gao Lan."

Gao Lan felt a little embarrassed. Lu Bu caught him for the first time and released him, but the second time he was caught by someone's baggage team. This was a bit of a big deal.

Gao Lan said to him: "I am willing to join the Xuzhou army and contribute to the lord's hegemony."

"Brother Gao Lan, please get up quickly. I will be more powerful than Yuan Bo. However, our Xuzhou army is not for hegemony. We just hope that the world will be pacified as soon as possible and that the earth will no longer be stained with blood."

Liao Hua always brings surprises. Gao Lan's martial arts skills are very high, so why did he catch it? It's rare.

All the supplies brought by Liao Hua were sold for trading and were sold for 10,000 horses and several sheep.

Lu Bu held a banquet to entertain Tian Yu, Liao Hua, Gao Lan, Pan Lin and others. Everyone talked about drinking and talking, eating mutton and drinking seaweed soup. This little life was not too beautiful.

Through this period of understanding, Tian Yu was very heart-wrenching about Lu Bu. He originally thought that Lu Bu was just a master of martial arts and strong military strength. Later, he found that the material support of the Xuzhou army was too strong. More than 30,000 people could eat three meals a day, and Tian Yu's casual soldiers also had three meals a day.

The entire army provided the helmets, kettles, cloth shoes, and summer clothes, and said that the equipment was to be reorganized, which showed that the logistics of the Xuzhou army was very strong.

After dinner, the servant cleaned up and pulled over the huge map.

Lu Bu looked at Liao Hua, Gao Lan, and Tian Yu: "People, what do you think about the current situation and how will the general trend of the world develop?"

Tian Yu is a scholar, and he still has a vision of the problem. He pondered for a moment: "The ten counties of Youzhou, from the northeast to Goryeo, we only occupy the three southernmost counties. However, it is no longer suitable for expansion. First, the troops are insufficient, and second, the other seven counties are sparsely populated, mainly Hu people. The Hu people respect strength, which is difficult to subdue in the short term, and it is easy to fall into the quagmire. What we urgently need to do now is to manage the things we have. As long as there is food, we will not have to worry about not being able to recruit people. Resuming production, training and strengthening the army, resisting Yuan Shao in the south, and substituting Wuhuan in the north."

Lu Bu nodded: "Mr. Tian said it is reasonable. Xuzhou is more than a thousand miles away from here, and it is very difficult to transport back and forth. He can only transport important materials, and food and grass must be solved on the spot."

Gao Lan proposed: "If Jizhou is expected to be unable to counterattack in the short term, it will lose at least 30,000 or 40,000 troops from last year to this year. If the elite soldiers lose, they will not be able to recover the number of troops."

Gao Lan didn't talk much, but this information was very important. He was the magistrate of Bohai County and the core figure in Yuan Shao's army. He still has a good understanding of Yuan Shao's strength and has high reference value.

"Yuan Jian, what do you think?" Lu Bu asked Liao Hua.

Liao Hua has always been responsible for material transfer and station operation, and still has a say in many issues.

"Actually, it's nothing. The main roads and bridges are problematic. If the roads and bridges in Jinan County and Bohai County can be unobstructed, we can quickly turn over materials with iron horses, and there's no problem with 400 miles a day. It would be great if we could build a bridge from the Yellow River."

Except for Lu Bu, others almost got angry after hearing this. Build a bridge on the Yellow River? Let’s play, the Yellow River is not a ditch, so it’s not that easy.

Lu Bu was also happy: "Hehe, Yuanjian's idea is very good, but it cannot be realized in the short term. However, it is still necessary to repair the road. Moreover, the river ferry must be strengthened and perfected, and the ferry must be complete."

Lu Bu's army of bridge repairs is in Guangling and Danyang, but they are all bridges on the small rivers. Lu Bu has no idea yet to build bridges on the Yellow River.

Liao Hua was a life of rushing. After a few days of rest, the supplies and their carriages and crossbows were left and returned, transporting tens of thousands of cattle, sheep, fur and ginseng, deer antlers and other medicinal materials collected by the Wuhuan people.

In the next half month, Lu Bu made important personnel adjustments.

Tian Yu was transferred to the position of the magistrate of Bohai County, with 1,000 cavalry and 4,000 infantry. Five thousand people were enough to protect Bohai County, which was enough to deal with Yuan Shao's attack. Moreover, Bohai County's land was fertile and the benefits of fish and salt were needed to manage it with all the civil and military talents like Tian Yu.

Gao Lan was the magistrate of Shunkou County, and the Shunkou small town did not use too many soldiers and horses. Two thousand infantry and five hundred cavalry.

Gao Lan was very moved. Lu Bu treated him well and gave him a rating transfer. He gave a lot of land and land. Lu Bu said that when Youzhou stabilized, he would transfer Gao Lan back to Xuzhou as the main force. Shunkou government affairs were relatively easy, and there was no handicrafts, mainly agriculture, mulberry and animal husbandry, which was relatively simple.

Hao Meng led 5,000 cavalry and 10,000 infantry to garrison Youzhou City, which is Yuyang County. Yuyang County is the center of Youzhou. It originally had more than ten counties under its jurisdiction, with a population of 600,000 to 700,000. After so many years of war, the entire county has a population of 200,000. Youzhou is very large in area, and it needs to build water conservancy and be willing to farmland. Another important task is to breed horse farms, where stallions purchased from the north are bred and trained.

Zhao Yun and Zhao Xin were stationed in Jizhou City, with 3,000 cavalry and 10,000 infantry. Jizhou has complete fortifications and a very small population.

As for Lu Bu's cavalry with three thousand tall horses, he was directly under 5,000 cavalry. Zhang Liao's troops added 3,000 Hun horse cavalry, totaling 6,000 people.

Lu Bu and Zhang Liao's two troops returned to Xuzhou by more than 11,000 people.

Why did Lu Bu leave so reassuringly? Because Yuan Shao took advantage of Cao Cao's troops to fight Yuan Shu and sent general Wen Chou to attack Cao Cao, which made Cao Cao angry. The two sides fought a war, but no one got a good advantage.

Before returning, Lu Bu prepared enough supplies for Jizhou, more than 3,000 sheep and more than 1,000 cattle. Of course, this was used for breeding, but Lu Bu secretly arranged for Zhao Yun that if the supplies could not keep up, it would be eaten as food. Usually, it was prepared in the city to prevent emergencies.

Lu Bu was filled with emotion all the way. In a few months, he had built up thousands of miles of land. Unfortunately, the land of thousands of miles was sparsely populated, nine out of ten households were empty. The five counties combined have no more than 700,000 people.

Lu Bu and Zhang Liao walked together and sighed: "I originally wanted to keep you to guard Youzhou, but unfortunately you must fight against Hefei. Fortunately, Hao Meng is experienced and should be able to bear the overall situation. Zhao Yun is a powerful general, and as long as Jizhou is guarded well, Youzhou will be very safe. As for the Wuhuan people, there is no threat for the time being. When the Wuhuan people grow stronger, Youzhou will be stable. The road is too far, otherwise Youzhou will be quite good. In Youzhou, we will have no problem with horses."
Chapter completed!