The pork butcher is smoother than a pig butcher!

Chapter 224 The Rabbit Raising Plan
Of the 200,000 or so refugees, only about 30,000 border troops could be selected who met the three criteria of age, height, and physical fitness.

The remaining ordinary people needed to be dispersed to various villages.

How should it be allocated?
We also need to consider the village's population structure and arable land area, among other things.

It's no small project.

Whether these people are human or ghosts remains to be seen.

You asked whether the imperial court managed the military household registration system?
Who can the imperial court control nowadays?
The displaced people who gathered near the capital city have launched several small-scale sieges of the imperial city.

Fortunately, the 3,000-strong guard of the imperial city were not idle; they cooperated with the Divine Machine Battalion to deliver precise blows to these refugees.

However, the number of refugees was simply too great!

This gradually blocked the various official roads and side streets leading out of the capital.

Local news could no longer reach the highest levels of government.

Imperial edicts could occasionally be issued through the secret passage.

The Great Northwest, especially the border towns, are more than 3,000 li away from the capital.

Military power is everything.

The biggest problem facing General Zhao Muyun is how to feed the extra 200,000 or so people!

It's late spring and early summer now, and the wheat in the fields hasn't even sprouted ears yet!

Of the population in his jurisdiction, besides the 90,000 soldiers remaining from the five major garrisons after this round of war, there were also more than 40,000 military households.

With the addition of the refugees who have arrived this time, the population base has now clearly exceeded 500,000!
The 600,000 shi of grain that we managed to get at the beginning of the year wasn't even enough to last a month.

Although this battle to suppress the bandits also yielded a considerable amount of spoils.

The only problem was the lack of food; at most, it was enough to cover the amount of military rations they had taken with them before the battle.

The problem now is that even if we have silver, where can we find extra grain to sell to them?

Zhao Muyun was so worried on his way back that he couldn't sleep.

Upon returning to the main camp, he hastily summoned all the generals to discuss important matters.

Well, now they've successfully spread anxiety to everyone.

The generals left behind, led by Xiong Zhen, were so anxious they were scratching their heads in frustration:
"When it comes to suppressing bandits, we'd be ready to go into battle even with our fists clenched, but when it comes to securing grain, we're really no good at it!"

"If I find out which grain merchants dare to hoard grain and wait to make a fortune, I'll definitely take some men and wipe them out!"

The officers who accompanied General Zhao on the expedition shook their heads.

"Do you think we didn't intend to do this? We've been asking around as we've gone, and it seems like overnight, all the wealthy merchants and rich families have vanished! The refugee army has been looting and plundering their warehouses!"

"Robbing the rich to help the poor is the best medicine these displaced people's leaders use to manipulate ordinary people. It seems that the money on the surface has returned to the people. But as they travel back and forth, the civil unrest becomes more serious than before."

"Yes, so what if the Po Jun who occupied Xijing City, and the main leaders of the Po Jun, were killed by the Ang Men? If the court did not station troops here and send powerful officials, it would fall into the hands of refugees or other local forces sooner or later."

"What can we do besides follow orders? We can't do anything else! And during the process of carrying out these orders, many military intelligence reports sent to Shangdu have disappeared without a trace!"

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When the topic of the civil unrest outside the Great Wall came up, everyone fell silent.

half an hour.

The general of the Right Guard Battalion broke the silence of the camp:
"Why don't we go to the grasslands and rob the Tatar tribes? Captain Gan recently brought back these 20,000 sheep, and they've caused quite a stir among the military households. If we don't have enough food, we'll eat meat and dairy products!"

"What? Where did these sheep come from?" General Zhao asked in surprise.

He clearly hasn't received the intelligence from the past few days.

The generals who stayed behind recounted, one after another, how Gan Minglan had stolen sheep while riding a horse. Who wouldn't want something for free?
They immediately offered over ten thousand top-quality Mongolian warhorses and over ten thousand sheep.

Even the generals who went with him to suppress the bandits were delighted and applauded.

"This Captain Gan is truly a savior sent by God to us!"

"The leaders of the various Tatar tribes in the northern desert probably never imagined that they would come here to deliver sheep to the Angmen."

"When we received news of the attack by 200,000 Tatar cavalry from the northern desert, we had not yet captured Xijing City. We almost wanted to set off immediately to return and provide reinforcements."

Fortunately, things stabilized for a few days.

In just a few days, the war was won in its entirety.

Battle reports could not be written in such detail; the generals, who were not in the border city, just wanted to know the whole story.

The more he listened, the wider his eyes widened.

The more I listened, the more I felt that the small-scale battles with the Tatars in the past had been fought in vain!

"Captain Gan, she's a born killer! How is her brain made? The killing power of the Frightened Horse Formation and the Trapped Horse Formation is so strong!"

"Captain Gan alone is stronger than an entire cavalry battalion!"

Deputy Commander Xiong proudly led everyone into the main camp room:

"Come, come, let me show you something good! Captain Gan isn't just strong on her own, her whole family is amazing!"

The microscopic model of the sand table was presented.

Which military general isn't confused?
"This, this is?"

"Hehe, this is a map drawn by Captain Gan after he led his team to conduct reconnaissance deep into the grassland. Centurion Gan, oh, that is, Captain Gan's younger brother, spent half a month creating a realistic topographic map based on the map, using a scale of 1:15000."

"So realistic, it's incredibly realistic! With this picture, I'm even thinking of taking my men to the grasslands to pull off a big heist."

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Just as they were talking animatedly, Gan Minglan was invited over by Zhao Muyun's bearded personal guard.

The generals stared intently at her: "Captain Gan, what do you think about going to the Tatar tribe to steal sheep?"

How to see!
Gan Minglan did not think this was a good idea.

"The sheep I casually brought back must have been collected by many Tatar tribes! The temperature on the grasslands should be much colder than in the border town, so they will only suffer more from the snow disaster!"

With just one sentence, she extinguished the illusions of several generals.

"However, I think there are many good things on the grassland besides sheep! Take the most common wild rabbit, for example. I raised two baby wild rabbits when I was a child. They would grow up in about three or four months. Rabbit meat is delicious, and hats made from rabbit skin are very warm."

"Ah! A rabbit has only bones and no meat left."

"I've tried it, but it's not as good as mutton or pork! It has a strong gamey smell!"

Captain Gan was speechless.

In its past life, not a single rabbit could leave Sichuan Province.

It is said that people in Sichuan Province eat 300 million rabbits every year!

What does this mean?
This proves that there is no such thing as bad rabbit meat, only cooks who don't know how to cook it!
She spread her hands:
"Even if it doesn't taste good, it's still meat! The problem now is how to feed the refugees, isn't it?"

An adult female rabbit can give birth to about twenty baby rabbits a year, and they can grow into a litter in three months.

If every household could raise ten female rabbits, how much grain could be saved from the meat of two hundred or so rabbits a year?

The main advantage is that these little creatures don't consume much food; they're purely herbivores! They love to eat wild grasses, leaves, roots, bark, and lichens.

(End of this chapter)