Below, the workers strive once again, finally reselecting and choosing fifty thousand outstanding individuals.
The selectors privately say that these people, with some training, can directly serve as regular soldiers.
Even among those eliminated, there are many talented individuals; unfortunately, they can't be used.
Chen Jie has no choice; recruiting soldiers requires distributing food and salary, but there's not enough money in hand.
Moreover, soldiers consume more food than ordinary civilians. With no choice, Chen Jie painfully cuts three thousand reservists.
However, he gives them a way to survive.
Chen Jie has two million stones of grain, enough for the entire Huangzhou Prefecture populace to eat and drink sufficiently for more than six months, or even a year's ration if saved.
And in about six months, the summer grain will be harvested, and by then Huangzhou Prefecture will have enough to eat.
Therefore, Chen Jie has formulated a rigorous disaster relief plan.
