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Lu Qing knew the worries of Gongsun Zan and the others, but he did not expect to rely on ancient times to support the army.
"You don't have to worry about food.”
Lu Qing smiled. Gongsun Zan, who had just arrived, did not know anything. His face was full of doubt.
However, Zhao Yun, who had experienced Lu Qing's miraculous ability, suddenly realized that her lord should be a god who could create food out of nothing.
What happened next shocked Gongsun Zan, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei, who had just arrived.
It was because Lu Qing had obtained a large amount of grain from God knows where and had filled the granary of the Provincial Governor's Estate.
There were also many vegetables, meat, and so on. Just this batch of food could feed an army of 200,000 for a year.
They didn't know that Lu Qing had bought this batch of food from the modern world. During the Three Kingdoms period, there were abundant resources. The ores and wood produced here were expensive in the modern world!
Therefore, after the modern trading company converted these into money, Lu Qing sent people to buy a large amount of food and other things he needed.
After seeing so much food, Gongsun Zan and the others were shocked by Lu Qing, but then they became excited.
With enough food, the army could be recruited. In this day and age, as long as one could eat their fill, there was no problem with as many soldiers as one wanted.
Hence, after the recruitment order was issued, in just a short month, the number of soldiers had reached a total of 100,000!
It was estimated that they would be able to recruit 200,000 soldiers in three months at most, mainly because Lu Qing's requirements were high.
He didn't want the only son in the family, and he didn't want those under the age of 16.
If they had gone all out, they would have already recruited enough soldiers.
As the army was gradually recruited, Lu Qing began to classify the army.
They were mainly divided into infantry, cavalry, archers, and so on.
Because they were located in Youzhou, their main opponents in the future would be the Outsiders. Therefore, Lu Qing had set up most of his troops as cavalry.
Moreover, in this era of cold weapons, the cavalry was the army at the top of the food chain.
Although it was very expensive to raise cavalry, Lu Qing could afford it.
Therefore, 100,000 of the 200,000 soldiers were cavalrymen. There was a huge shortage of warhorses. Lu Qing found many merchants and let them enter the grasslands to trade.
As for the goods used for trading, they were naturally the good things he brought from the modern era.
After all, no matter where it was, there would always be people who betrayed them. It was the same for the nobles on the grasslands. In order to obtain the things they enjoyed, they would also become traitors and sell horses.
As time passed, as Lu Qing completely controlled Youzhou Province, the entire Youzhou Province started a vigorous construction.
He left the military to Zhao Yun and the others. As for the people's livelihood, Lu Qing came personally.
At present, he did not have any capable officials or generals under him, so he could only do many things himself. However, this was his own territory, and it was also the place where he would rise up in the future. Therefore, Lu Qing was still very serious.
The first was the construction of the city. Although it wasn't the autumn harvest yet, the Outsiders would definitely invade by then. Therefore, building the city first would give them a better defense.
Next were various factories, such as paper factories, textile factories, printing factories, steel factories, and so on.
Because there was no modern power system, they used traditional methods. However, even so, it was the crystallization of thousands of years of culture, and its effects were countless times better than the current era.
Lu Qing had established a complete salary system. Because he had the support of the entire modern world, these factories and constructions were built in an instant, and countless workers were needed.
Therefore, almost all the men in Youzhou had participated in the construction. Even the women could work in the textile mill.
In only a few months, although Lu Qing hadn't fulfilled his ambition of having every household in Youzhou Province eat meat every day, he had already achieved the abundant food and clothing in the eyes of the commoners.
It could be said that with Lu Qing's various constructions and the welfare of the people, he had gained an unimaginable reputation in Youzhou Province in just a few months.
In fact, the commoners in Youzhou might not recognize the emperor, but they would definitely listen to Lu Qing.
The people lived and worked in peace and contentment. At the same time, the 200,000-strong army was well-trained. Although Youzhou was not famous in the world, it was already a hidden dragon.
Unfortunately, because Lu Qing didn't have any foundation, no one came to Youzhou Province to seek refuge.
However, Lu Qing was not worried because he knew that his chance was coming, because the Yellow Turban Rebellion was coming.
In this war that swept through the Great Han Dynasty, he would become famous.
At that time, it would bring a lot of benefits to Youzhou, such as homeless refugees and ambitious people.
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