The governors and ministers did not immediately react to Yang Rui's words. Even Zhang Ning, Gao Shun, and Zhang Liao were surprised. Yang Rui had only had time to discuss this matter with Cheng Yu once, and in the end, they had not reached a conclusion.
"Thank you, Lord Prefecture Overseer, for your support!"
Zhang Ning and the others clasped their hands and bowed. At this time, they were in front of others, so it was not convenient for them to address Yang Rui as' Lord Prefecture Overseer '. Thus, Zhang Ning and Gao Shun changed their previous tone, joining Cheng Yu and Zhang Liao in calling him' Lord Prefecture Overseer '.
It was only at this moment that the governors and state ministers reacted. After exchanging a few glances, they did not raise any objections. They bowed to Yang Rui one after another, indicating that they were aware of this matter. They even tacitly agreed not to say a single word.
"Today, calamities have been incessant, and the provinces and counties are in chaos. This Prefecture Overseer has received the favor of the Son of Heaven, so he wishes to increase the number of soldiers to protect the stability of the country. In a little while, this Prefecture Overseer will issue a recruitment order, and I hope that the various counties and counties will give their support.
In addition, this Prefecture Overseer will continue to gather the victims of disasters and refugees to ensure the stability of the people's lives. Moreover, the number of victims and refugees gathered by the various counties and counties can still be used to offset the various taxes, and this will also be used as an assessment of the various counties and counties' achievements. Everyone must respectfully carry out this task to ensure the safety of the people …
Since everyone already knows of this Prefecture Overseer's intentions, you may all head out to supervise the investigation of population, land, and resources. You must report the results of the investigation to this Prefecture Overseer as soon as possible so that we can make decisions! "
Yang Rui's main purpose in gathering these people was to pass on a message. As for whether or not they could carefully supervise the investigation, Yang Rui did not hold out much hope. The most important matter at hand was to grasp the opportunity to strengthen his strength. As for the matters of the various provinces, Yang Rui did not plan to eat all of them in one go. He would take over everything.
After arriving in Azure Province, Yang Rui discovered something. The original upper limit of ten thousand soldiers had been increased to fifty thousand soldiers. Fifty thousand provincial soldiers was just the starting point. There was no need to pay any additional fees to recruit provincial soldiers within this number. If one wanted to recruit more than fifty thousand soldiers, they would have to pay an additional fee.
Between 50,000 and 250,000 soldiers, each soldier had to pay 10 gold coins. Between 250,000 and 500,000 soldiers, each soldier had to pay 20 gold coins. Between 500,000 and 1,000,000 soldiers, each soldier had to pay 30 gold coins. If they continued to recruit soldiers, the fee would increase accordingly!
Although the number of recruits for the provincial soldiers had been released, this was definitely something that burned through a lot of money. With Yang Rui's current net worth of close to six million gold coins, this was definitely something that would burn through a lot of money. It wasn't enough to recruit many soldiers either. Moreover, the soldiers they recruited were only able-bodied men. They weren't even First Grade militiamen. The cost of the skill books and equipment that followed was no small matter! Yang Rui was also hesitating about how many provincial soldiers he should recruit.
At the same time, Yang Rui once again mentioned the matter of recruiting refugees and refugees to replenish the population of his territory. After all, there was a huge difference between one's own territory and the land under one's control. One's own territory was the foundation. As for the land under one's control, the benefits one could reap from it would probably be very limited for a very long time.
After Yang Rui finished speaking, the governors and ministers silently bowed once more, indicating that they understood. Then, they all left with Yang Rui's permission. The first time Yang Rui implemented a policy as the Prefecture Overseer of Azure Province, he met with a soft rebuff. He didn't receive the support of a single commandery.
However, this didn't matter. Yang Rui had already expected this. He didn't intend to take full control of the entire Azure Province. The status and authority of the Prefecture Overseer restricted the authority of the commanderies in the first place. The attitude of the various commanderies was also very normal. At the very least, Yang Rui still had the Northern Sea Nation to set an example for. He had arranged for Cheng Yu to be the Northern Sea Minister precisely for this purpose.
Next, Yang Rui gathered Zhang Ning, Gao Shun, Zhang Liao, and the others. He led a hundred thousand soldiers to escort Cheng Yu to the Northern Sea Nation to take up his post and cooperate with Yang Rui in controlling the affairs of the Northern Sea Nation.
After teleporting to the Northern Sea Nation's Drama County, Yang Rui ordered Cheng Yu, Gao Shun, Zhang Ning, and Zhang Liao to lead the troops and quickly take over the city of Drama County. At the same time, Cheng Yu, as the new Northern Sea Minister, once again gathered the county magistrates of the Northern Sea County for a meeting.
The Northern Sea Nation had 18 counties under its jurisdiction. It had the most counties among all the commanderies in Azure Province. However, its population was the smallest among all the commanderies. This also provided the conditions for Yang Rui and Cheng Yu to start their operations here.
Although the name Cheng Yu was unfamiliar, the relationship between the counties was obviously much closer than that between the prefectures and counties. The news of Cheng Yu summoning the county magistrates was sent out by Minister Tian through the teleportation array. In less than two hours, all the county magistrates had arrived.
The minister surnamed Tian, who was in charge of relaying the news, was the person who had been summoned to Linzi by Yang Rui. He already had some understanding of Yang Rui's style. At this time, he chose to take the initiative to cooperate with Yang Rui and Cheng Yu's orders. The reason why the county magistrates were able to gather in Drama County so quickly was also related to his active summons.
The county magistrates of the Northern Sea County had all gathered. Cheng Yu came forward to perform his duties and conveyed a series of targeted measures by Yang Rui. He asked the county magistrates to actively recruit refugees, actively conduct population, land, and resources checks, and actively recruit able-bodied men, especially population, land, and resources checks. Cheng Yu gave the county magistrates a deadline of 15 days to find out the general situation.
This was mainly to satisfy the smooth implementation of the two measures proposed by Yang Rui. Cheng Yu was also anxious to know the specific effects of these two measures, so he highlighted it a few times.
The first measure was that Yang Rui was preparing to implement the "Army Farm System". In fact, Yang Rui asked the county magistrates to check population, land, as well as recruit disaster victims and refugees. To a large extent, it was to ensure the implementation of this measure. This was also the first measure that Yang Rui had thought of recently to be implemented on a large scale in Qingzhou.
When Yang Rui took the opportunity to mention the general situation of this measure to Cheng Yu during the interval between the county magistrates, he immediately received enthusiastic support from Cheng Yu. He almost clapped his hands and praised Cheng Yu. Therefore, Cheng Yu was so concerned about the population and land checks, especially the investigation of the waste land in each county. Cheng Yu had emphasized this to the county magistrates many times.
Yang Rui's implementation of the Army Farm System actually had prerequisites to support it. The most important point was that Dashan City had an important crop, sweet potato. Sweet potato's drought resistance, disaster resistance, and adaptability to the land were all very strong. The yield of a barren land was basically equal to or even higher than the yield of an ordinary crop. It could even reach the yield of a rich land!
The high yield of sweet potato was verified by Yang Rui through long-term planting in Dashan City. Moreover, at that time, Dashan City had not yet built the Dragon King Temple. Sweet potato was affected by the plague of locusts and drought. However, it always maintained a yield of 60-70%. It could be seen how adaptable it was.
It could be said that it was the characteristics of sweet potato that provided a good premise for Yang Rui to implement the Army Farm System. Otherwise, according to the current situation of frequent disasters and droughts, even if he implemented the Army Farm System, it would not be able to change the fact that there was a lack of harvest. The purpose of implementing the Army Farm System would be lost.
Currently, the sweet potato purchase and sales contract signed between Yang Rui and A Pint of Incense was about to reach the 10-year term. Under the negotiation of Yang Rui and Wei Xiu, the full representative of the Wei Family, the sweet potato could be promoted on a large scale a few months in advance. The price Yang Rui had to pay for this was that A Pint of Incense would still monopolize the marketing of all of Yang Rui's sweet potato products.
However, this was only a symbolic agreement. Yang Rui was very clear that once the sweet potato was promoted, other players would be attracted to it. Soon, other NPCs or players would start planting sweet potatoes. The large-scale promotion of sweet potatoes would inevitably come at the cost of sacrificing their value. The so-called monopoly was just a slogan.
Even so, Yang Rui felt that it was very worth it. If there were no accidents, the benefits of promoting sweet potato farming in the entire Qingzhou would definitely far surpass the benefits of Dashan City's monopoly on sweet potato farming …
As for the investigation of resources, Yang Rui's second move was related to the players. Currently, the game was in a state of adjustment. Other than Yang Rui, the players were not online. Yang Rui was ready to take the opportunity to take the resources in Qingzhou from the hands of other players in the name of NPCs!
For Yang Rui, he did not have the support of any forces in the real world. In the game, he completely relied on NPCs. At the same time, Yang Rui did not want to be involved with other players too much. Therefore, the forces of Qingzhou players had actually become an obstacle for Yang Rui to implement various policies.
Fortunately, Yang Rui did not find the territories of the top 10 large player organizations in Qingzhou. There were four player organizations ranked above 100. Yang Rui had already figured out this information when he cleaned up the Qingzhou Yellow Turban players.
At present, Yang Rui had no practical benefits to confront these players head-on. It would also inevitably cause public opinion to be passive. At the same time, Yang Rui's strength did not allow him to do so. Therefore, Yang Rui thought of using resources to restrict the development of players. Taking advantage of the time when all the players were not online, it was a rare opportunity!
After Cheng Yu settled the various matters in North Sea, Yang Rui sent Cheng Yu, Gao Shun, Zhang Ning, and Zhang Liao to lead the troops to the counties in turn to supervise the relevant matters. It could be said that they did not stop for a moment and did not stop for a moment.
Yang Rui, on the other hand, used the teleportation circle and storage ring to send the soldiers of the Mountain City back to Penglai to level up. At the same time, while practicing his internal strength and spear skills, he often walked to the commanderies in Qingzhou to supervise the matters that he had previously assigned.
The progress of the other commanderies was obviously not as fast as that of the North Sea. However, under Yang Rui's inspection and supervision, they began various investigations one after another. A lot of refugees and refugees were recruited, and some able-bodied men were handed over to Yang Rui.
For the disaster victims and refugees, Yang Rui first filled the gap of Liegeman in the Big Mountain City and other territories. The recruited soldiers were all converted by Yang Rui into Qingzhou state soldiers. At present, the Qingzhou state soldiers were not much different from Yang Rui's private soldiers. Of course, the more the better. Even if the number reached a certain level and required gold coins, Yang Rui was prepared to recruit more.
After Cheng Yu took office as the North Sea Prime Minister, Yang Rui also learned that the recruitment system of each county and feudal country was similar to that of the state soldiers. The starting point was 20,000 county soldiers and did not need to pay extra. Between 20,000 and 50,000 soldiers, each soldier had to pay 10 gold coins. Between 50,000 and 100,000 soldiers, each soldier had to pay 20 gold coins. Between 100,000 and 200,000 soldiers, each soldier had to pay 30 gold coins.
In contrast, the recruitment cost of the county soldiers did not increase much within a certain number. However, after the quota was exceeded, the cost was very different from that of the state soldiers. Therefore, Yang Rui also urged Cheng Yu to recruit 50,000 county soldiers as soon as possible to maintain the progress of various affairs in North Sea. Whether to continue recruiting after that would be another discussion.
At the same time, Yang Rui also decided that the number of Qingzhou state soldiers must be recruited at least 250,000. Otherwise, it would not be difficult for the combined military strength of each county to exceed the scale of the state soldiers. At that time, it would be even more difficult to order them around!
Six or seven days passed in this way. The counties of North Sea Nation worked together at all levels and found out the general number of population, land, and resources. Therefore, Cheng Yu once again gathered the county magistrates of each county and officially began to implement the policy of "Army Land System". It was only now that the county magistrates realized the purpose of the previous investigation.
After Cheng Yu explained the outline of the "Army Land System" policy, the county magistrates of each county were greatly surprised. They did not expect that Cheng Yu would make such a big move soon after taking office. However, because the county magistrates did not know much about the planting of sweet potatoes, some people could not help but ask when Cheng Yu mentioned the sweet potatoes.
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