Jian Yong also followed up and said: "General, troops are being recruited everywhere, but there are not many qualified generals. These are new recruits, and many of them are southern barbarian soldiers recruited. Although these soldiers are strong in combat, they have not eliminated their wild nature. If there are no veterans to train them, I am afraid that they will not be able to form combat effectiveness in 3-5 years, and if Daqian releases these thousands of generals now, it will be beneficial to the restoration of the imperial court's military strength!"
Although the Xiangyang court now claims to have an army of 300,000, in fact all the real elites were brought to the Central Plains by Liu Bei this time.
Then the entire army was defeated and wiped out. Although there are still 100,000 troops in Jiangnan, most of them are new soldiers and their combat effectiveness is not strong at all. Moreover, most of the capable and capable generals were taken to the Central Plains by Liu Bei. Now these generals are not To die in battle is to be captured by the Daqian army.
This is almost the same as Liu Bei in the Battle of Yiling. It cannot be said that the country has been destroyed, but it is still in danger. If Liu Bei hadn't been strong now, he would have vomited blood and died like in history.
Yuan Ji smiled bitterly and said: "I'm afraid that it is impossible for the civil and military officials of the imperial court to agree to exchange hundreds of thousands of common people for a thousand generals. Although exchanging Yunchang and the others, the imperial court can quickly restore its strength! But the strength of Daqian grows faster. , it is extremely dangerous for the imperial court to increase the strength of the Daqian Army!"
At this time, Sun Ce said: "Lei Gong also said that if we are willing to accept it, the powerful gentry in Yanzhou can also join this transaction. They can not exile the powerful gentry in Yanzhou, but hand them over to the Great General!"
Yuan Ji said helplessly: "Lei Gong has really killed people's hearts!"
If only generals like Guan Yu were replaced, the civil and military officials of the Xiangyang court would naturally be worried that Lei Gong's increased strength would invade Jiangnan, and they would definitely not agree to this deal.
But now the main body of Lei Gong's transaction is the powerful gentry in the entire Central Plains. This is different.
During the four hundred years of the Han Dynasty, the entire world's noble families and powerful gentry could be said to have broken bones and connected their tendons. To use a saying in martial arts, they are like brothers and sisters, and everyone is related to each other.
All the civil and military officials of the Xiangyang court have relatives in Yanzhou. Maybe among the wealthy nobles whose families were confiscated and exterminated by Xu Wei, Yang Biao's cousins were among them. If they could be replaced by the wealthy family hell of Daqian, they would still be willing to help him. Relatives who escaped from misery!
Sure enough, it didn't take long for the news of this transaction to spread, and all the civil and military officials of the court, headed by Yang Biao, quickly agreed to the exchange.
From the beginning of the Yanzhou War, the noble families in the Central Plains were worried that the imperial court would be defeated and the entire Yanzhou would be occupied by Daqian. In order to preserve the continuation of their family inheritance, some of them clung to Yanzhou with the one in ten thousand hope that they could defeat Daqian and stay in their hometown. Some people fled to Jingzhou. After the defeat of Dingtao, even the noble families of Yingchuan and Yuzhou were affected, and these people fled to Jingzhou one after another.
And these people are the main force of the Guandong clan. This court has been controlled by them for hundreds of years. There are countless disciples, former officials, relatives and friends in the court.
They mobilized their influence, and even Yang Biao, Wang Yun and others had to take care of it. Xu Wei could exile hundreds of thousands of noble families without any scruples, but Yang Biao and Wang Yun did not dare to just ignore it, otherwise Shilin's The spittle and stars will drown him.
Moreover, in their view, they have made a profit by exchanging hundreds of thousands of old, weak, sick and disabled people for hundreds of thousands of pillars of the country.
Under such circumstances, Liu Bei accepted Yuan Ji as his envoy to go to Yanzhou and Xu Wei to discuss the exchange of prisoners of war!
Because Guo Jia and the others had a short distance, Guo Jia had already entered Yanzhou when Yuan Ji and the others had just set off.
At this time, Yanzhou was in dire straits, and the people of Yanzhou hastily harvested the small amount of grain and grass on their land.
Then he happily used his cattle to cultivate the fields on the land he had just been assigned, and prepared to plant winter wheat. Although this year's autumn harvest was poor, because of the arrival of the dry season, not only did the grain for the autumn harvest be exempted, but the grain for each family was also divided. Give them enough to survive this winter.
At this time, they were happily cultivating their own fields with Daqian's newly issued farm tools and the cattle they bought with loans! Each one of them was full of hope for a new life.
So when Guo Jia came to Yanzhou, he found that although Yanzhou could still see some flames of war, the place had recovered very quickly. People were everywhere rebuilding their homes, and the place was full of vitality.
In addition, the captured soldiers were also divided into more than a dozen teams by the cadres. They went to various counties in Yanzhou to either help the people dig canals, build roads, or build entire tracks to connect the track system to the entire Yanzhou.
The power of the orbit was fully revealed during the Central Plains War. The soldiers assembled by Da Gan Army were more than twice as fast as Da Han, so that they were passively beaten throughout the entire battle.
It's a pity that they also wanted to build a track in Qingzhou, but they found that the track cost a lot of money and was extremely difficult to maintain. If only Cao Cao could grit his teeth and endure it, there is not much hardwood in Qingzhou, and they couldn't find it if they wanted to build a track. Only when we got the raw materials did we have to give up!
Guo Jia was not surprised to see Dagan building tracks, but he was a little surprised to see that there were not many soldiers guarding the prisoners of war and said: "Aren't you Dagan worried about these prisoners escaping?"
Wan Shi who received Guo Jia said: "Why did they escape? Although they are prisoners of war, they are not prisoners. Now they work for us with monthly salary. They all say that the money we give is twice as high as that in Jingzhou. If they want more, they plan to make more money and go back, so why do they want to escape?"
Guo Jia was speechless for a long time after hearing Wan Shi's words. It was unprecedented for Da Gan to give money to do things. Prisoners of war could make money. Lei Gong was a master at winning people's hearts.
He could only say with envy: "You guys are really rich because of your hard work!"
Cao Cao and the others would definitely not be able to do this kind of thing. They simply do not have the finances to pay this monthly salary, and even if they had money, Cao Cao would bribe middle- and high-level generals instead of these low-level soldiers.
Then he wondered: "Are there too many cattle in Yanzhou? In the villages I passed along the way, I found that there are cattle in every village!"
It’s not surprising that this family is rebuilding their home, but they have too many cattle in their hands. Almost every village has several or even a dozen cattle. Naturally, he knows the situation in Yanzhou in Qingzhou. The common people did not have any large livestock, farm cattle, war horses or other important means of production. Basically, they were in the hands of the wealthy gentry, and the common people came to them to cultivate land and borrow them.
Wan Shi said: "Our government purchased 100,000 cattle from the desert, and then distributed them to the counties in Yanzhou. Each county in Yanzhou only received a few hundred cattle, which is not a lot."