It was only then that Xu Shu began to say that cement needs a large-scale use of personnel to extract lime, and it needs to be processed in an industrial park, and the current industrial park has not yet started to be established.
"Zi Yang, I will leave all the repairs to the industrial zone to you!" Liu Mang pointed to Liu Ye and said, Liu Ye's talent is not much lower than Xu Shu's, but the two have different emphasis, Liu Ye is more focused on the military. Strategy and mechanism skills, and Xu Shu is better at military strategy and internal affairs, so Xu Shu is in charge of the overall situation, and Liu Ye is in charge of the industrial zone. "You can find all the money that Ziyang needs in the industrial park and get it from Yuanzhi!" In Shouchun, Yang Hong said that Liu Mang's cheap father-in-law Yuan Shu's accumulated income over the years is not a problem for money.
"Liu Ye accepts the order!" Liu Ye stepped forward and cupped his fists at Liu Mang to accept the order.
"My lord, there are as many as one million people in the city. Although there are food and grass supplies, it will not be a problem in the long run!" Xu Shu said that now a big problem in Shouchun is that the basic necessities of life for those people have almost been solved. These people don’t have much to do now, and it’s not the time for farming. The time for those fields to open up wasteland has long passed. If these people have nothing to do, something will happen. The ancient rulers paid such high taxes. , in addition to allowing oneself to have more food and grass to fight for hegemony in the world, there is another thing that keeps the people busy, so as not to form refugees. Once people are too idle, they will naturally think too much, and their energy will be exhausted If you don't get vent, there will be chaos, so there have been more than a dozen fights in the city in the past few days.
"I'm going to discuss these matters with Yuan Zhi and you guys!" Liu Mang also nodded, although the common people now have land due to the household registration system. However, due to the wrong season, it was impossible to cultivate. It is no different from unemployment in modern society. These are millions of unemployed people. Except for those who are soldiers, the unemployment rate basically reaches 90%. It would be a ghost if there was no instability.
"Among the million people in Yuanzhi, there are 700,000 strong and strong people." Among the 700,000 people, there are 200,000 women of the right age, and the remaining 500,000 are strong and strong people between 15 and 40. , in troubled times. There are really far fewer old, weak, sick, and disabled people who can go to Shouchun. After all, there are families and old people who will not travel long distances. Even if it is possible, they will die on the way. ! I am preparing to raise an army!"
Liu Mang's words shocked everyone present. Stealing 300,000 troops is really terrifying, let alone 300,000 troops. Now that the entire Shouchun can support 100,000 troops, it is really the limit Well, 300,000 troops, even if Yuan Shao used the rich land of Hebei, the land of the four continents, it would be about the same number. You must know that the expansion of the army is not only the consumption of military food, but also the ordnance. With 300,000 people's ordnance, it is impossible to empty out Yangzhou. And now Liu Mang is still in the process of forming a new White Horse Congyi and Xiliang Iron Cavalry Yiyang soldiers. These soldiers and horses need armor and weapons. Now Shouchun is holding Lujiang. The treasury is adorning these soldiers and horses, where there are extra weapons and armor for other armies, and the army is expanding by 300,000, this is going to be militaristic! Even Nanyang Zhangxiu didn't dare to play like this.
And the most important point is that the people are willing to join the army! Since ancient times, there has been a saying that a good man should not be a soldier, and a good iron should not be a nail. How can you force someone to join the army with a sword
"Think twice, my lord! This matter must never be done. The use of military force has been the way to bring disaster since ancient times!" Xu Shu, the head of civil servants, was about to oppose Liu Mang's suggestion on the spot, and Liu Ye also knelt down beside him. "Three hundred thousand troops, In addition, some of them are almost 400,000 now! How many people are there to train soldiers and horses!
Although the number of people is an advantage in this battle, what would be the use of a gang of mobs without armor, just consuming food and grass for nothing! Liu Ye and Xu Shu were afraid that Liu Mang was attacked by the coalition forces of Liu Bei, Zhang Xiu, and could only passively defend due to the lack of troops, so they prepared to expand the army in a fit of anger, and they expanded so much. This is completely blinded by hatred mind.
The only one among the scribes at the scene who did not speak out to dissuade him was Jia Xu and Jia Wenhe. He was also taken aback by expanding the army by 300,000. The random expansion of the army is really a way to bring disaster. The Yellow Turban Army has millions of soldiers and horses. ! But how could it be like this in the end? In the end, it wasn’t that all the three Zhang brothers died, and the Yellow Turban Rebellion was also quelled, leaving behind only some of the former Yellow Turban district handsomes. Jia Xu didn't open his mouth because he saw that Liu Mang didn't look like the kind of shy and angry person at all. Wanting to brainstorm, Jia Xu watched the development of the situation indifferently, and he was also looking at what the new lord was up to.
Liu Mang shook his head when he listened to the persuasion of Liu Ye, Xu Shu and others. He was stunned by Liu Bei and Zhang Xiu. How could it be possible? It is true that Liu Mang also regretted because of the lack of troops in Yangzhou, but Liu Mang won this battle after all. Now, Liu Bei and Liu Daer lost their white-eared heavy armor, and the generals Chen Dao and Zhang Xiu were martyred when they died. It is not known who is more ashamed and angry. The army, then I don't need to spend money and food!" Liu Mang asked directly, Xu Shu and Liu Ye were stunned by this sentence.
As soon as they heard that Liu Mang wanted to expand the army by 300,000, their first reaction was to oppose it, but they really subconsciously forgot that even if they didn't expand the army, the 300,000 people would have to be raised by Shouchun, even compared to 300,000 people. There are more than 1.12 million people, and these are all eating Liu Mang's military rations.
"Young Master!" Another general stood up, and this person called Liu Mang, Young Master. Zhang Liao was the only one present. After all, Zhang Liao was Lu Bu's subject, and Liu Mang was just Lu Bu's son-in-law. He still obeyed Liu Mang's orders, but his address did not change.
"My lord! Where did the armaments and weapons of the 300,000 troops come from!" Since the army is going to expand, armaments and weapons are naturally needed, and these soldiers and horses must not be allowed to go to the battlefield empty-handed.
These soldiers and horses really don't need ordnance weapons! "Weapons and ordnance are available everywhere outside the city!" Liu Mang answered Zhang Liao's question very casually, but Zhang Liao didn't understand. Liu Mang pointed out, "These 300,000 soldiers and horses don't need ordnance weapons. Give them bark armor. Stick weapons are enough!"
"How can such an army win the battlefield!" Zhang Liao frowned and was about to object. Zhang Liao's position in Lu Bu's army was higher than Liu Wei's, so he didn't care if he offended Liu Wei on the spot. Just say it out, if Liu Mang listens to it, it’s okay, if he doesn’t listen, it’s best to have a conflict. You can send Zhang Liao back to Lujiang with a letter. He will stay here in Shouchun and train Xiliang cavalry. Comfortable. "My lord, don't learn from that Zhao Kuo'er!" Zhang Liao's words were no longer rude, they were completely provocative.
What is Zhao's Kuoer? Isn't it Zhao Kuo directly! Isn't it just pointing at Liu Mang's nose and scolding Liu Mang for talking on paper!
"Bold! How dare you speak to the lord like that, what?" Xu Sheng and Huang Xu couldn't bear it anymore, but they were stopped by their respective main general Cheng Yu, deputy general Wang Wei and Zhao Yun.
Although Zhao Yun was also very dissatisfied with Zhang Liao, he knew the general situation, and he could not be violent in the main hall of discussion. Cheng Yu and Zhang Liao have known each other for a long time, and Wang Wei is even more of a good guy. No matter who is right or who is wrong, once they make a move, it will be difficult to deal with.
The state of the generals under his command made Liu Mang a little helpless. Originally, there was only Liu Mang's faction. That's okay, everyone is a master, but they can take care of each other. But now there are two more factions, one is the newly joined Xiliang cavalry. That is, Ge Jun and Zhang Hu. Although they are newcomers, they don’t speak a word because they are surrendered generals, and there are no pigeons to talk. The rest is Zhang Liao. Zhang Liao is an old man of Lu Bujun. He also had to give him face, what he wanted was to return to Lu Bu's command to command his Bingzhou Wolf Riders instead of staying in Yangzhou.
"Don't be noisy!" Liu Mang pressed his hands to suppress the chatter among the gang of warriors, "General Wen Yuan, you are right, it is difficult for such soldiers and horses to go to the battlefield, but now the king wants to These soldiers and horses didn't go directly to the battlefield!" Zhang Liao lost his temper and Liu Mang knew.
After all, half of the Bingzhou wolf cavalry of his own part died, and his elder brother Zhang Fan died in battle. Now he is required to stay in Yangzhou and leave the Bingzhou wolf cavalry. Naturally, this mood will not be better. Liu Mang let him, but it doesn't mean that Zhang Liao can put his nose up and talk to himself in the main hall.
So Liu Mang called himself king in his words, this is a kind of alienation, and it is also a warning that no matter how much you Zhang Liao is Lu Bu's chief general, then you are just a spoof retainer, but he is Lu Bu's son-in-law Even with the title of King of Shu, how can you, a subject, still yell at your master!
Zhang Liao stopped talking, he also knew the dignity and inferiority, and Zhang Liao was a loyal person, he respected Lu Bu and naturally he also had a little respect for Liu Mang, he was depressed before, but now he is much better.
"These 300,000 troops! They are not used to go to the battlefield! These soldiers and horses are used as engineers and reserve forces! Wartime soldiers supplement the loss of the frontline troops. In addition to daily training during non-wartime, they also have It is necessary to build various water conservancy projects, build a city, and even maintain the law and order of the entire Yangzhou!" Liu Mang said to the civil and military people below.
"The 300,000 is just my estimate. As long as men of the right age need to enter the reserve service, 300,000 will be selected for the best! The extra will be used as a third-line trilogy!" It is impossible for Liu Mang to directly expand the army of hundreds of thousands. Once the hundreds of thousands come out, it will have no effect except to hold back the legs, and now that the whole Yangzhou is in need of manpower, how can Liu Mang be aggressive.
It's just that now that Liu Mang is concerned about the stability of Shouchun, he must organize these and use them to rebuild the entire Yangzhou system.
If it is a reserve service, or an engineering soldier, it is equivalent to a field soldier, so these Yangzhou civil and military personnel have settled down a little bit. At this time, Jia Xu finally said, "My lord, it is good for my lord to garrison the fields, and the reserve service can ensure a steady stream of soldiers in our army." "Liu Mang's strategy of farmland not only allows the people to have things to do but also allows for overall planning. Another good thing is that the soldiers are quickly replenished. Some of the troops have been disabled, and the soldiers and horses to be replenished are all farmers' children. , They have been working in the fields all their lives, and it takes a long time to train them to pick up swords and kill their lives, but this kind of reserve service is different. Although they are also recruits, they have undergone training anyway. The recovery time for disabled front-line troops will also be accelerated.
"But my lord!" Jia Xu grasped one of the flaws in Liu Mang's plan, that is, "The lord's plan to garrison troops also needs to have soldiers to garrison, but what if these common people are not willing to teach their children to enter the reserve service!" Good boy If you don't serve as a soldier, you can't beat nails. This has become the law. In ancient times there were only two kinds of people who entered the army. The first type is from a military family. If this type of person wants to gain fame and fortune, he can only be in the army, and the other type is the ordinary people who cannot survive! Because these people can’t live at home, the food at home is not enough. As the saying goes, the old and the young eat the old man to death, which means that people’s appetite increases when they are young. Such people can’t eat enough because they don’t have enough to eat. . The only way to survive is to enter the army. Although the army will die, they can still have enough to eat, right
But now the people in the city have Liu Mang's food and grass, and Liu Mang's household registration system, everyone has a field, as long as they survive this time, they will naturally have enough food and clothing, who would foolishly send their children to the army Among them, fighting would kill people.
Liu Mang frowned, this is really a problem: "Now Shouchun rations and grass are planned in a unified way, if someone refuses to join the army, there is no need to distribute his rations!" Liu Mang said to his subordinate Wenwu, he didn't want to raise money for nothing drinker. If anyone doesn't join the army prepare to starve to death.
"My lord, don't do it!" As soon as Liu Mang finished speaking, Xu Shu also stood up and objected, cutting off the rations of those people. Thanks to Liu Mang, he could figure out what it was that brought them to Shouchun. The land of Shouchun! It also provided one more way to survive. Before Xu Shu made the decision privately because of Zhao Yun, he reduced the distribution of rations and almost turned Shouchun into a mutiny. If Liu Mang did something like this again, he would die if he served as a soldier in battle, and he would die if he didn't get food. Once these people change, then Liu Bei and Sun Ce on the side may die laughing! Because they attacked Yangzhou, didn't they just let the people go and make them mutiny! What's more, there are more than 200,000 Shanyue people among the millions of people. These Shanyue people are very disgusted with joining the army. They think it is the Han people who deliberately want them to die. The problem, if Shan Yue could join the army, I am afraid that Sun Ce would have done it long ago, and it would not be now.
"Then don't do it!" Liu Mang was a little angry. It is not Liu Mang's style to raise millions of people for nothing, and Liu Mang's reserve system is to prepare for the future hegemony. His territory is small, only Yangzhou, and in the north, Lao Cao is about to unify Hebei. In the south, Jiangdong and Jingzhou on the Yangtze River are much richer than his Liu Mang army, and their background is much stronger. He doesn't have the natural danger of the Yangtze River to stop the enemy. The whole of Yangzhou can be said to be flat, and once Cao Cao is empty-handed with Xuzhou and Yanzhou, Liu Mang will be the first to be unlucky.
Liu Mang's Yangzhou is much worse than these old princes in all aspects, but Liu Mang's Yangzhou has one thing that these princes don't have, that is, there are few nobles! Without intertwined relationships, the entire Yangzhou Shouchun is nothing more than a million people! Originally, the gentry family in Shouchun either moved to Jiangdong, or was wiped out, so Shouchun is a land without an owner, and it is extremely clean. Even the gentry in Lujiang County, but a big family like the Zhou family was killed by Liu Mang. After the slaughter with a butcher knife, it can be said that Yangzhou is now at the mercy of Liu Mang.
It turns out that without these intricate interests, he can make policies more accessible, but who knows that there is still the threshold of the common people.
All the civil and military people below are silent. This thing called Minyi is big. He can have three years of clearing the magistrate and ten years of snowflake silver! It has been an official position since ancient times, so I don’t care about the righteousness of the people. Let’s say that the righteousness of the people is small. Once it becomes big, for example, if Liu Mang really threatens to cut off the rations now, the possible end will be that the government forces the people to rebel, and the entire Shouchun Yangzhou If they are all in turmoil, then Liu Mang's strategy of recruiting and Yangzhou's strategy will be over, and he may even have to catch up with his own elite. Let Liu Bei come to pick peaches, don't look at Liu Bei's cowardice now, he was beaten by Lu Bujun, but Liu Wei believes that once there is a riot in Yangzhou, Liu Bei will definitely come back from the east.
"Yuanzhi Ziyang, there is no other way!" Xu Shu and Liu Ye were also lost in thought. Conscription is really difficult. If you use force, the people may mutiny, even if you don't mutiny. Do you dare to use unwilling soldiers! Don't end up on the battlefield and stab your knife, it's fine, don't be strong, the people have land and food, why should they fight with you, so the Han people have been a docile nation since ancient times, as long as they don't go to the dead end, they will never Those who stand up to resist, they are more able to adapt to the bad environment rather than change the bad environment. This is the reason why the He Han people can be invaded by foreigners again and again but they can stand firm.
Both Xu Shu and Liu Ye were lost in thought. The people behind them had no good plans, and only Jia Xu was there calmly. Her small eyes were narrowed, as if she was taking a nap.
"Jia Xu!" Liu Mang still forgot about this old fox! This old fox has held many official positions over the years, so he must be more experienced in dealing with the common people than Xu Shu and Liu Ye, two young people.
"Mr. Wen He is discussing military and political affairs, but Mr. has already closed his eyes and rested his mind. Mr. must have already made up his mind. I don't know what good way to teach me!" Liu Mang looked at Jia Xu with twinkling eyes. Xu came out, and it was also Jia Xu who saw at a glance that the most difficult part of the conscription is not the rations or the ordnance, but the people's will. No one wants to join the army. You can do this. If Jia Xu has a way, then Liu Mang can naturally implement the strategy of farming. If not, this Jia Xu closed his eyes and looked down on the Lord when he was making military strategies. Liu Mang will definitely clean up this old fox. If you close your eyes and rest your mind, you are laughing at this military policy! Liu Mang is upset, so naturally he won't make the old fox feel better.
"Eh!" Jia Xu is completely a character who can be shot while lying down. He doesn't want to intervene in the military affairs this time. After all, he just joined Liu Mang's army. Regardless of right or wrong, he will offend people. . If you are right, it will inevitably give people a feeling of stealing the limelight, especially when Xu Shu, Liu Ye and others are around, you said that neither of them thought of it, but you Jia Xu said it, what is it? It's a provocation! You, Jia Xu, are more capable than us? If he said something wrong, he would inevitably be ridiculed for his incompetence. Jia Xu would naturally need to gain glory and wealth after he was guaranteed life. You say that this first military policy offends people anyway, right or wrong, so it's better not to say a word.
But Jia Xu seemed to run away, but Liu Wei didn't let him go! Jia Xu shook his head with a wry smile in his heart, he had no choice but to stand up, and if he didn't answer, he could really punish himself with the character of his new protagonist, who never played cards according to common sense.
Being forced and helpless, Jia Xu had no choice but to stand up. Sure enough, Jia Xu did not disappoint Liu Mang.
After hearing Jia Xu's first words, Liu Mang rolled his eyes, wondering if anyone present is a fool! Isn't this pure nonsense!
"Forcing the people can force the people to rebel, so why should our army force the people to rebel!" Jia Xu said another nonsense, if the people were not forced, the people would willingly send their sons and husbands to join the army!
"The people are not afraid of death, so why are they afraid of it?" This statement comes from Lao Tzu No. 71. It means that the people are not afraid of death, so why use death to persecute the people! Liu Mang's persecution of the people is directly forcing the people to their death. If the people survive, they will naturally rise up and resist anyway. They will die anyway, right
What did Jia Xu want to say with these few words, she was criticizing Liu Mang for his faults! Do you want to mock Liu Mang? If that's the case, Jia Xu's goal has been achieved, and when Liu Mang was a little annoyed, Jia Xu continued, "But Tai Shigong also said, Tai Shigong said that the world is prosperous and the world is prosperous! Whether it is the common people or the gentry, living in troubled times is nothing more than fighting for profit, the Lord wants the common people to actively join the army, he only needs to give the common people the benefits!" (To be continued..)