Huang Quan's trip to Hanoi was a complete help to the nobles in the Chang'an court and see the difficulties ahead.

The world has not yet been peaceful, and Chang'an City can enjoy it, but in fact, where is the quiet time coming from? Including Liu Bei himself, when the New Year was just around the corner, because of the constant good news, auspicious prophecies and divination appeared one after another, and they were a little drifting.

After Huang Quan came back to report his life, Liu Bei finally restrained himself a little, feeling that he should pick up the ethics that he had shared the joys and sorrows with his brothers for those years.

The battlefield on the northern front cannot be urged. If the generals can do so, but the king will not control it, they must fully delegate power to let the generals in the front decide. Liu Bei also thought the plan to further expand the army suggested by Guan Yu and Zhuge Liang was quite reasonable.

Moreover, after the expansion of the army, we can cooperate with confidentiality measures and the discharge of smoke bombs to lure the enemy, and there is a lot of room for subsequent operations.

However, before implementing this military expansion plan, Liu Bei finally asked Huang Quan about some doubts in detail, mainly because Liu Bei still felt that it was unreasonable and unthinkable after listening to Huang Quan's retelling of the battle situation ahead.

Liu Bei asked with shameless questions: "Gongheng, you said that Yun Chang was on the front line and was entangled by Ju Zuo with several lines of defense. Although it is easy to break through the wall, it is difficult to defend and make breakthroughs steadily. Is this a mistake?

If Chief Yun cannot capture a long chassis, he will send troops to defend it, and then work together for a while, and then attack the second one? After capturing, repair it and stabilize it, and deal with the third one. And where did Jushu get the manpower to build so many fortifications in winter?"

Among Liu Bei’s questions, some of them were asked by Huang Quan to ask Zhuge Liang at the beginning, so they would just repost them and quickly explain the doubts. However, some details were not asked by Huang Quan at the beginning. Fortunately, Zhuge Liang wrote them in detail, so Huang Quan helped interpret them:

"Your Majesty, Ju Su's counterattack is different than we had imagined before. He just wanted the Taiwei's divine arm crossbow and the catapult to temporarily get out of touch with the infantry. While the infantry was not yet firmly on the foot, he immediately launched a counterattack and strangled our army into a regiment.

The key essence of Ju Shuneng doing this is that he has more soldiers than us, but he still adopts a defensive force, so he can defend this way. His long tunnel is also extremely cheap and simple, which is to limit our army's concentrated investment and deployment of troops.

The Taiwei is not unable to fight to the death with the enemy, but this kind of fighting method of fighting to exchange lives is not tactical, and it is just a hard camp to fight a stupid battle to exchange lives. The Taiwei’s idea of ​​‘fighting a field battle’ is not OK for any field battle. He hopes to be polite and have the opportunity to fight a siege and annihilation battle like in November last year.”

Even if it is a later generation, if it is just a player in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", it is probably impossible to understand this. But the four cute players of the P Society can definitely understand this, because high-simulation strategy games such as "European Storm", "Victoria", and "Big Bearded Ambition" restored the "Team stacking logistics punishment" and "Team stacking combat efficiency punishment".

Because there are too many people, they are piled in a map grid. Because "the road transport conditions of this map are insufficient," the troops will starve part of them to death on their own when they stand there, and people will die in each round. And games like "The Three Kingdoms" will definitely not restore this point.

Because there are too many people, they are piled up in one map grid and attacking another piece of land. As a result, because the logistics conditions are not enough to pass the road and the front width of the attack is not enough, stacking and punishing countless troops to stand in stakes and stand in stakes but cannot be output. This is also something that cannot be seen in the simplified world of non-P society.

Jushu's elastic defense line is not something that makes people unable to break, but is used to block the attacking side's movements, forcing the attacking side's movements, and limiting the attacking side's troop investment speed and efficiency.

Liu Bei couldn't understand it. To put it bluntly, he never fought a battle in his life that commanded more than 100,000 people to export on a single battlefield. At that time, the total strength of the Northern Expedition to Guanzhong was 120,000, and it was divided into three groups.

It is also possible to not deny that Liu Bei personally led his troops to fight. But in history, he commanded medium-sized troops all his life, and his ability categories must be limited. With a super-large-scale battle with a large number of troops on his side, Liu Bei's historical record was one victory and one defeat, Hanzhong won and Yiling lost.

Therefore, Liu Bei did not understand the difference between Han Xin's "only 100,000 soldiers" and "the more they are better". Now that Huang Quan showed him the summary of Zhuge Liang's military strategy, Liu Bei made some progress.

After thoroughly explaining it, Liu Bei finally fully understood Guan Yu's detailed demands: what he asked was not to be attributable to the fight with hand-to-hand combat. Guan Yu also wanted to fight mobile wars and annihilation wars, and had to have roundabout and interlacing, and to form a system to divide and eliminate the enemy's operation space.

If you don’t let the operation in these fields be displayed and you will be able to change your life, Guan Yu would rather continue to cherish the lives of the soldiers and find opportunities.

Ju Su knew that his equipment was too poor, and his individual combat power and quality were far inferior to Guan Yu. If Guan Yu was pulled to beat Ju Su, he would definitely be harvested. Ju Su only had a large number of people, so although his choice could not help Yuan Shao win, it was the most suitable for Yuan Shao's situation and could help Yuan Shao to hold back and consume the enemy.

It is Ju Su's extraordinary thing to force Guan Yu to stop him from operating, and forcibly pressing the other party to fight a stupid battle.

Don’t think this is easy. If it were a “Confucian general” like Zeng Guofan in history today, he might not be able to force the other party to fight a stupid battle. He would not be able to force him to do so. He would not be able to pick him up at all. He would continue to pull you up until you were disconnected and then turn around to pick him up.

Maybe the depth of the elastic defense line is not enough, and it is still surrounded by the enemy, and then it is interspersed in a large depth to wrap your entire elastic defense range.

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After unifying internal thoughts, Liu Bei naturally fully supported the stalemate expansion plan, hoping that the time will be ripe in a few months, and he will be fully prepared, and there will be another decisive operation space.

With Liu Bei's personal support, from the Ministry of War, Ministry of Revenue, Ministry of Civil Affairs and other central departments of the imperial court, to local relevant military sources, they naturally responded quickly. (Note: Nine Ministers changed the Nine Ministers to Chapter 554, after Liu Bei became emperor, you can go back and take a look, so as not to understand the division of the Ministry of Revenue's powers)

Liu Bei's camp is still relatively large in size, with many mountainous areas, and is much more sparse in population than the Kanto princes, and information transmission is slow. Therefore, the disadvantage of mobilization speed is still obvious.

It was the eighth day of the March 19th, and it was the 11th day that Liu Bei decided to expand his army. It was already fifteenth when he passed the news of the conscription and tax reduction to Hanzhong and Wancheng, and it was already late March when he arrived in Sanba. As for Li Su, who was far away in Xiakou, he would have known it at that time. Of course, the conscription and expansion of the army had nothing to do with him, and there was no need to recruit soldiers in the newly occupied areas.

Although the mobilization is relatively slow in transportation, fortunately, March is the busy spring farming season, and the recruitment will not be so early. Now, the double-season rice-producing areas in the south are unable to get free in summer because they have to harvest summer grain to replant and transplant rice. However, the north is a single-season production area, and it is still slack in summer.

Ba County is densely populated, with more mountainous areas and less arable land, and there are a large number of landless farmers to recruit. Nanyang is a wheat production area, and there is no problem of double-season rice. It is obviously a thoughtful way to pick these two dense areas to raise troops.

With the current national strength and civilian strength of the Kansai camp, expanding the total size of the army to 400,000 or 500,000 is still healthy and will not significantly increase the pressure on the people.

It can even be done without additional taxes, just by scheduling the tax burden of the current rent and mediocre method. Starting from early April, all related work was promoted in an orderly manner and did not arouse civil unrest or resistance.

On Liu Bei's side, the entire value provided by an adult male citizen to the country every year is equivalent to 1,800 copper coins, and there is no need to add it. Yuan Shao's plundering force is higher than Liu Bei, but it is still on the same order of magnitude, so the war potential of both sides is clear at a glance.

For those landless people in densely populated areas, I heard that joining the army can exempt the four regular men from their families from corvee and food taxes. If they win battles in the future, they can also give priority to immigrating and dividing land, and the popularity of joining the army is still relatively enthusiastic.

(The "division" here includes going to Shanyue and the south to pioneer. At that time, the development level in the south was relatively low. In history, the development efforts of the Eastern Wu regime were very strong. During the Eastern Han Dynasty, there were no people in southern Zhejiang, northern Fujian and Jiangxi.)

By the end of April, at least 20,000 new soldiers had been reorganized and training began. It is expected that the remaining 20,000 people would be recruited in place within May. The prisoners of Yuan and Sun's army captured had finished their hard labor before the end of March and were transferred to Gao Shun for reorganization and brainwashing and transformation.

If such a speed of military expansion and rectification is transmitted to the Guandong princes, it may make people sigh that it will be difficult to support.

For example, among the remaining princes today, Cao Cao's mobilization efficiency is significantly higher than that of Liu Bei and Yuan Shao, but it is not obvious. He also abused the people. After all, Cao Cao also implemented the farming for more than four years. His strength in the past few years was not good, but it was simply because his territory was in the four battles and his productivity was damaged relatively greatly.

In the early years, Cao Cao actually had a total population of three to four million. No matter how much the proportion of exploitation was increased, the absolute value would not be too high. Now he completely destroyed Yuan Shu and accepted the application of Sun Quan in Jiangbei and Huainan. Cao Cao's total population has more than doubled compared to four years ago. At this time, the high expropriation ratio and mobilization efficiency of Cao's military farms were truly exerted.

The military farm system under Cao Cao's rule is now a 55-5 tax collection ratio, which is much higher than the "30 tax one". In theory, each male student has 100 acres of land. The official annual tax collection should be 120 hu, and 55-5 tax is to pay 60 hu.

(But the means of production are provided by the government, and farmers only provide labor. Under the military farming system, Cao Cao harvests 60 hu of seeds and grains. Before spring plowing, he should give farmers five hu of seeds and grains, give farmers iron farm tools, and lend cattle to farmers to plow the fields.

If it is a mature military farming area that has been stationed for many years, the government will no longer give seeds and let the people keep their own seeds. If the seeds are still needed, the accounts will be divided according to the six public and four citizens. In addition, if the people in some areas do not use official cattle, they can be reduced to four public and six citizens)

Therefore, taking out the investment costs for farmers in the early stage, Cao Cao's military farming was more than enough to collect property worth 40 hu of grain every year (the people do not escape and owe taxes, and they are levied in full)

Under the military farming system, the tax on the tax will be gone, and corvee labor can also be deducted and the amount of grain paid. Therefore, based on a hu of 300 coins, a male man under Cao Cao's rule is not allowed to provide the country with materials and labor worth 12,000 coins every year?

Without tax increases on Liu Bei, a male child is only worth about 2,000 yuan a year. Cao Cao's comprehensive crushing force is six times greater (but the government also organizes production, ensures sales, and provides means of production, so farmers only work hard and don't have to worry about anything else)

Liu Bei is based on the land tax of thirty taxes, and the tax on taxes and corvee service is essentially "fifteen taxes" and Cao Cao is "five taxes two (fifteen taxes six)"

Now, Liu Bei wants to expand his army from 320,000 to 400,000. The fact that the 15th tax is not completely unsustainable, but it is definitely not enough to rely on the money of the treasury alone. If you don’t increase the tax, you have to open a private or internal treasury, that is, let Liu Bei take out the profits of the industrial and commercial operations of the royal family and fight, and at the same time, let the three rich men such as the Zhen family, Mi family, Zhuge family, pledge to showdown.

After all, the economic structure of Liu Bei's camp is there. So many years of farming and industrial and commercial technology development have not increased the traditional agricultural tax. That thing is only related to the base of agricultural labor force.

Those farming and scientific and technological achievements are expressed by industrial and commercial gains, and are not within the scope of thirty taxes, fifteen taxes, and one tax. In the past few years, it was at least for "at the northern expedition of Guanzhong, eliminate evil spirits, restore the Han Dynasty, and return to the old capital." Everyone could do it by sharing the same hatred and donation.

Now it is to fight Yuan Shao, Cao Cao, Yuan Shao is not as guilty as Dong Zhuo, Li Jue, Guo Si. Many people in the court have gradually developed a slack heart, thinking that both sides have become emperors. This is a battle between two countries and two separatist regimes. They are not as passionate as they were willing to donate money when they fought Li Jue in their early years.

Although Liu Bei wants to fight, everyone will still fight hard, but this level of effort is within the legal scope, and it is rarely as high as Zhuge Jin's "destroying his family to relieve difficulties" back then.

For this matter, Liu Bei currently chooses to take the lead in opening the Royal Inner Treasury and subsidize the industrial and commercial profits of the Royal Operations to military expenses and equipment.

But in the long run, he felt it was necessary to organize a set of common laws to incorporate taxes from industrial and commercial taxes and labor service system with the tax and labor system of renting and mediocre transfer.
Chapter completed!