After opening the treasure chest, Bai Xiaowen assigned the next tasks.
"Cecilia and I will stay in Youzhou. We still have twenty to thirty thousand strings of cash in the funds and provisions we've gathered. Besides distributing compensation, Cecilia needs to keep training the Winged Cavalry and bring them up to their full strength of eight hundred as soon as possible."
Cecilia said, "We lost more than a hundred men. I plan to compensate their families at the most generous rate, which will cost about four thousand strings. The remaining funds and provisions should be enough. I'll finish training the next group of Winged Cavalry as soon as I can."
Bai Xiaowen nodded. "Sister Qiao, go to the Zhen Clan in Ji Province and continue surveying the terrain and planning the route. You can draw on the Zhen Clan Caravan for help... I'll write a letter for you to give to my dear brother-in-law, Zhen Yan. He should make things easier for you."
Qiao Rui asked, "When do you plan to launch the Raid on Xudu?"
"Once Cecilia has trained the Winged Cavalry to full strength, I'll submit the first main quest," Bai Xiaowen said. "Then I'll look at the second main quest and the battle reports from Guandu before deciding on the exact plan for the raid."
Han Xu needed to start training in the special technique Astral Qi as soon as possible. He could not let this opportunity slip by.
Bai Xiaowen wrote another letter to Guandu Camp. It gave a broad account of the campaign against the Yellow Turbans, but he worded much of it carefully. He revealed nothing Yuan Shao had no business knowing.
Zhao Rong, Jiao Chu, Zhang Nan, and the others signed the letter as well. These former followers of Yuan Shao had now