Ying Yi was stunned: "Why?"

Zheng Yunzhi asked him: "Where is the magistrate of Yuzhou County now?"

"Dead." Ying Yi said.

The magistrate of Yuzhou County died in military chaos last night.

Zheng Yunzhi nodded: "There is a war in Yuzhou, and the county magistrate died when he defended his territory. However, there are thirteen counties in Nanyang Prefecture. In addition to Ye County and Yuzhou, there are eleven counties left and the Wuyang is vacant, and there are ten counties left. If you send troops to seize these ten counties, what will you do if the county magistrates of ten counties? Kill them all?"

He looked straight at Ying Yi and pointed: "Now I am 'turning the tide', the emperor will definitely reward him. As you said, if you don't say the governor of Henan, the prefect of Nanyang cannot escape. At that time, it was justified, and if you use a little means, you will be able to attack or pull the entire territory of Nanyang. Now you send troops to occupy it, and if you kill someone, you will be deemed to the deed."

Speaking of this, he said earnestly: "To govern the place, you still have to rely on scholars. If you kill people without reason, is it a rioter? Do you still need a famous weapon? All the magistrates of all counties are scholars. If you kill ruthlessly, scholars in the world will fight against you. Do you still need your great cause?"

Ying Yi was silent for a moment and said, "It's time to go..."

Zheng Yunzhi laughed: "I don't know why you are so urgent, but it's easy to break, sending troops is not a good idea. In my opinion, you take Wuyang first, and don't care about the other ten counties. The thieves are in Kaifeng, and hundreds of millions of thieves will not be out of sight. If you don't care about him, they will still rely on you due to the situation of thieves. When the court appointed you, you will be justified and it will not be too late to come to the district again."

Seeing that Ying Yi had not answered, Zheng Yunzhi sighed: "Even if you send troops to kill people and seize the city, you need to sort out the ten counties, so it takes a lot of time? Since that's the case, it's better to keep it the same first - with your current size, you can't digest the entire Nanyang Prefecture."

When Ying Yi heard this, he finally sighed: "My father-in-law is very kind. Maybe I am too urgent. Forget it, let's take over the three counties of Ye County, Yuzhou and Wuyang first."

Ying Yi doesn't care about anything that is too tough and easy to break. But Ying Yi does not have the same stomach as he can swallow Nanyang in one bite - no one can use it.

This is why he changed his mind.

He really wanted it. But he also expected that even if he did it too much, the court would not be able to do anything to him. As long as he did not pull the pole and set the mountain on his own, he would turn a blind eye to him.

However, Zheng Yunzhi also made a polite statement, and there are reasons. Since no one is available, let's do it for the time being.

"in this way..."

Ying Yi pondered for a moment and said, "The governance of Ye County, Wuyang and Yuzhou will be entrusted to his father-in-law. I will ask Zhou Li to lead his troops to Wuyang for a while."

Since he changed his mind, there was no need for Ying Yi to take action himself. Wuyang has lost the county magistrate since he broke into Nanyang last year and killed the Tang King. He just took it.

He also said: "It's only June now, and I can plant another crop of food. This is the top priority. My father-in-law first calms the people's hearts and organizes the people to open up land. If the son-in-law wants to reorganize the troops, he may not have time to take care of them."

Zheng Yunzhi smiled and said, "Don't worry."

Ying Yi nodded.

Although the war in Nanyang stopped, Ying Yi could not relax. The thieves in Kaifeng in the north were the big trouble. He needed to reorganize his troops in the shortest time to wait for troops to go north.

For this reason, even the branches under the Yuan Qi plan that have been opened can not be realized for the time being.

Farming is of course good, but it requires a stable environment. If you don’t drive away the thieves, you can’t start farming.

If you can't digest Nanyang in a short period of time, some of Ying Yi's plans need to change according to the times.

Then there was the reorganization of troops.

Among the total of more than 40,000 prisoners in Yuzhou and Baihe Valley, more than 8,000 were selected. The remaining more than 32,000 prisoners were demoted to laborers and would contribute to Ying Yi's farming plan.

The more than 8,000 people selected, including Ying Yi's original 3,000 soldiers, totaling 11,500. These 1,500 people are the targets of the reorganization.

Because there was no one under his command, he could not select enough trusted officials of thousands of households for the time being, so the reorganization of the troops no longer followed the Ming army system. He dispersed the original more than 3,000 soldiers and horses, mixed with the more than 8,000 selected people, and composed 10,000 of them into four departments, each with 2,500 people.

One of them was led by Ying Yi, and the remaining three generals were Zhou Li, Zhu Bingkun and Zheng Wu.

The remaining 1,500 people were not collected at night, and the general Zhang Shi was the general.

During the reorganization process, Ying Yi organized the various troops in detail. Except for the fact that they were not collected at night, the four troops were temporarily divided into four battalions: spearmen, archers, artillery, and cavalry.

Each army and snatcher accounted for one thousand, while the other three battalions had five hundred people.

The generals of the camp were selected from the more than 3,000 troops recruited by the Crescent Valley before and promoted.

The generals and the generals of the camp are different from the Ming army system. However, under the generals of the camp, hundreds of households, general flags and small flags shall prevail.

Only the 100 households were reduced to 100 people, and twelve people were reduced.

There are 100 households and 100 people, 50 people in total, and 10 people in small banners.

Five small flags are one general flag, two general flags are one hundred households, five hundred households are one battalion, and four battalions are one unit. With the addition of 1,500 people, the 11,500 people were reorganized.

After this war, Ying Yi was not short of military equipment. He only took two days to reorganize the troops and horses, and then assemble them neatly.

In this way, Ying Yi had a total of 4,000 spearmen, archers, artillery and cavalry under his command, and two thousand each, plus one thousand five hundred people who were not taken away at night.

Then Ying Yi raised a large banner in Yuzhou and Wuyang to recruit auxiliary officials and craftsmen.

The auxiliary officer requires scholars who are literate and calculating to be mainly responsible for logistics and military merit assessment. Needless to say, craftsmen are also considered logistics, building, repairing weapons, armor, etc. for the army.

It took five days to recruit and select auxiliary officials.

Nanyang is located in the Central Plains, with many scholars. However, many scholars are not qualified, and are slick and pedantic. Sun Xiucai and Zheng Yunzhi discussed detailed methods before selecting some auxiliary officials with calculation ability, steady and not pedantic.

Although scholars in this era are privileged, scholars may not be able to be better off when the dynasty is over. Perhaps those who are like Juren disdain for military officials, but most scholars do not have the confidence.

Although Ying Yi still complained about the number and ability of the auxiliary officers recruited, there was no way to do so for the time being, so he could only set up the frame first.

As for craftsmen, it is much easier than choosing auxiliary officials. There were not many craftsmen in the Ming Dynasty who were comfortable. Ying Yi's achievements had already spread and he gave up his salary. Craftsmen from Wuyang and Yuzhou flocked to him, and even craftsmen came to apply for the recruitment in several counties such as Nanyang who heard the rumor.
Chapter completed!