When Wang Ge learned about the situation in Yizhou, he said coldly: "The powerful nobles in Shu are shameless when they are in power. They really think that this is the period of the Han Dynasty. If they do this, we will surrender. It is simply a wishful thinking!"
Xu Wei thought for a while and said: "It is still the reason why our Dagan army has not established its credibility in Yizhou. The people do not want to believe our Dagan army, but believe in the words of the powerful nobles in the middle of Shu. That's why there is the current turmoil!"
Wang Gewei said: "This is not something that can be solved in a short time. The noble families in Shu have been here for hundreds of years and are out-and-out local snakes. But we used to be enemies of Yizhou. In the past two years, the war There should be tens of thousands of people in Shu who died in our hands. Compared with us, the people in Shu believe in what the nobles and nobles say more!"
Xu Wei thought for a while and said: "Then let the people in Shu become our own!"
"One of our own?" Wang Ge didn't understand what Xu Wei meant.
Xu Wei explained: "Our large army has few locals in Shu, so the people in Shu naturally cannot have any trust in us outsiders. Especially since we have been fighting with them for two years. In the past two years, all the young people in Shu have been either on the battlefield or on the road transporting grain and grass. Under this situation, in addition to hating the big man, the people in Shu also hate us. These hatreds cannot be so fast. It has melted, so now the people in Shu naturally trust the local noble families more!"
"I plan to transfer 3,000 Shu warriors from Guan Hai to train and generalize our grassroots officials. At the same time, in order to make the people in Shu feel a sense of belonging to our cadres, I plan to let Zhang Baiqi recruit 10 soldiers in Shu Thousands of soldiers!"
Wang Ge hesitated and said: "It would be a waste to recruit 100,000 people from Shu. Now that the Han Dynasty has been defeated thousands of miles away, it won't be long before the whole world will be unified by our cadres. I'm afraid that the war will be over before these 100,000 people finish training." Already."
But Xu Wei said: "The war is over, but our governance of the world has just begun, and the power of the army is indispensable! In the future, the army will also join in the construction of Daqian, building railways, cement roads, ports and cities, etc. Our army is indispensable! Not only must we be able to fight, we must also be able to build!”
Even after the war is over, Xu Wei does not intend to reduce the number of soldiers in the army. It should be said that he is changing the proportion. The standing army will continue to decrease, but the compulsory soldiers will increase significantly. There are also primitive steam trains. The railway soldiers must be prepared. If they really want to build a railway network that connects the whole world, hundreds of thousands of railway soldiers may not be enough. Instead, they can test it in Yizhou first, so Xu Wei wants to recruit 100,000 railway soldiers in Yizhou. Railway soldiers!
After hearing Xu Wei's words, Wang Ge looked at him with a strange expression. Did the ruler want to pick up the corvee again?
There is no free corvee in Daqian. It should not be said that there is no corvee. After all, the 30% tax has already guaranteed all taxes and corvees. There are only a few types of taxes in Dagan. Ordinary people will only encounter One way, this makes it easier for the people to pay taxes and reduces exploitation by local officials.
Therefore, if the local government wants to mobilize the people to build infrastructure, they have to pay money! But now Wang Ge discovered that Xu Wei wanted to use military service to create a variant of corvee. Daqian's financial income could not afford the large-scale corvee. In terms of construction costs, I’m afraid the project the government wants to build is not that big!
Xu Wei's order was quickly conveyed to Zhang Baiqi. Zhang Baiqi was overjoyed to see this method and immediately began to recruit soldiers near Chengdu! At the same time, he also began to find some local Yizhou soldiers in his own army and began to train them. Let them learn to become pavilion chiefs, township chiefs, and county officials.
Of course, they were all soldiers born from ordinary people. Zhang Baiqi did not reuse any soldiers who were related to the noble families.
What the powerful nobles in central Sichuan did made Zhang Baiqi deeply aware of Xu Wei's foresight in pulling out the powerful nobles in the Central Plains. Otherwise, these powerful nobles would not be able to carry out their policies at the local level! If I had known it would be possible. It would be better to break into Chengdu than this! Kill them all and bleed like rivers of blood.
On the other side, Xu Wei divided his 50,000 troops into five groups and stationed them respectively in Bajun, Guanghan, Shujun, Qianwei, and Yuexi. These five counties are also the richest and most populous counties in Yizhou. As long as there are no problems in these counties, there will be no major turmoil in the entire Shu! And Xu Wei led 10,000 troops towards Chengdu!
Half a month later.
As soon as Xu Wei led his army to Chengdu, the first thing he saw was the scaffolding standing in the distance, completely surrounding the city wall of Chengdu. There were also several tracks extending from Chengdu. Obviously, Zhang Baiqi had nothing in Chengdu. made.
As we approached Chengdu, Zhang Baiqi and others were already greeting Xu Wei at the city gate.
"In power, I was too naive. I thought that these noble families in Shu could still be saved, but I didn't expect that they still put their own family's interests first, and any policies that harmed their interests were blocked by them. Although our military They have an advantage in Shu, but most of the local governments are still under their control, so it is difficult for my orders to go out of Chengdu! The number of people killed is still too few!" Zhang Baiqi admitted his mistake frankly.
Shuzhong was captured by Zhang Baiqi without attacking and killing. Even in order to deal with Liu Bei, Zhang Baiqi also let a large number of private soldiers from noble families join his army. It can be said that Zhang Baiqi's army became the entire army. It is the kind of army with the worst control ability. Although Xu Wei disbanded a large number of this army when chasing Liu Bei, he still left 30,000 people for Zhang Baiqi.
But problems arose when Zhang Baiqi took these 30,000 people to Chengdu to take office. Zhang Baiqi wanted the wealthy nobles in Shu to move out of Shu. The nobles did not dare to object openly, but they were all passive. Treat, no action at all.
The people in Shu also had a bad feeling towards Da Gan's army. Under the rumors spread by these elite nobles, the people in Shu thought that Zhang Baiqi was going to drive all the people in Shu out of their homes, so they also resisted Da Gan. The rule of the army, but there are still many members of the noble family in the army, this is why Zhang Baiqi is now passive.
Xu Wei smiled and said: "If they don't do this, how can we recognize the true face of these noble families! They are not the same as us, and now it is not a bad thing to see them clearly. Even Liu Bei can't resist it. How can we still be afraid of these scattered nobles and nobles? As long as we make the people believe that the army is beneficial to them, they will not follow the nobles and fight against us. After all, the eyes of the people are sharp, and they Know who is good to you!"