Three Kingdoms: I Am Not an Ant Thief Chapter 706, Dramatic Military Reform
After Zhao Yun helped his blind date harvest wheat, he left Changshan County. Since his people lived a prosperous life, he felt that he should not continue to disturb his family.
Then they went all the way north to Zhuojun, the hometown of Zhang Fei and Liu Bei.
Zhang Fei's arrival was warmly welcomed by the clan members. For hundreds of years, the Zhang family's greatest official was Zhang Fei, who became the Shangqing General. Although the Han Dynasty later perished, it was still considered a glorious ancestor.
You must know that although Zhang Fei's family is rich, it is not as powerful as Liu Bei's family. Although Liu Bei is poor, he can at least hire Lu Zhi as his teacher, while Zhang Fei can only become a little overlord in his hometown. This is how the two families compete. Differences in political status.
When Zhang Fei became a general, the Zhang family could be called an official family. Of course, due to the demise of the Han Dynasty, they actually did not benefit from Zhang Fei at all. But at least there was a character who could be talked about in the family.
And Zhang Fei found that his people's life was better than that in Dahan, so he decided to do so. He was really worried that Daqian's policy of suppressing the wealthy gentry would affect his family.
But in fact, this is Zhang Fei's own overthinking. Their family, not to mention aristocratic, can't even be considered powerful. They can barely be regarded as a small landlord family. They have hundreds of acres of land and run a pig-killing stall business. They share the land equally. When the order was passed, their family decisively split up. Not only did they not suffer any loss, they actually gained hundreds of acres of land. Therefore, the transformation of Daqian was not a bad thing for them, and it did not have much impact.
Even if it does, it has some positive influence after all. The Zhang family can be regarded as a family with special skills. After Daqian got rid of the powerful noble families and powerful people who squeezed them, the Zhang family actually got the opportunity to develop.
Relying on the advantages of breeding technology, the Zhang family has opened several pig farms, large and small, and now the Zhang family has become the largest pork farmer in Zhuo County. The total number of pigs raised by the family is 10,000. , and made a lot of money from this pork price increase, so they lived a very prosperous life in the Qian Dynasty.
The changes in the Zhang family make Zhang Fei feel at ease, but Liu Bei's hometown has not changed much. In fact, the Liu family has been in decline since Liu Bei. Otherwise, Liu Bei would have been weaving mats and selling shoes since he was a child, and the Liu family would have relied on the Han Dynasty. With the name of a clan member, they can barely survive in Zhuo County, and the family is not even as rich as Zhang Fei's family.
When the Han Dynasty was replaced by the Daqian Dynasty, because Xu Wei expanded the area of attack, the Han clan clan members like them were very little affected. They divided the land and families, and continued to live a life of farming, and their money was not stretched. There are many families, but life is not bad. The ordinary Liu family people even live better than those in the Han Dynasty.
After Zhang Fei learned about these situations, he finally felt relieved and went straight to Jidu.
After arriving in Jidu, he did not go to the Daqian court first, but first inquired about the residence of the two brothers Liu Xie and Liu Bian.
Fortunately, the place where the two brothers lived was not without secrets. Zhang Fei quickly took Zhao Yun to find Liu Xie!
When Liu Xie saw Zhang Fei, he even hesitated to imagine: "General Zhang?"
Zhang Fei said excitedly: "Your Majesty, I am your minister!"
Liu Xie immediately said: "There is no such thing as your Majesty now. I am just an ordinary official working for the common people. General, just call me Young Master Liu!"
Zhao Yun also bumped into Zhang Fei and asked him to pay attention. After all, this is Thunder God's lair. His behavior can easily cause Liu Xie trouble!
And Liu Xie closed his shop, pulled Zhang Fei into his small courtyard, and said guiltily: "I'm sorry to the emperor and the general. The emperor was fighting on the front line with Da Gan, but I lost my home and hurt the emperor." Uncle was completely defeated!"
Among all the Han officials, Liu Xie felt that he was most sorry for Liu Bei. The fall of Chengdu completely cut off Liu Bei's rear in Hanzhong, and the hundreds of thousands of troops completely collapsed. It can even be said that the Han territory in Jiangnan was also due to the fall of Chengdu. Then it completely collapsed.
Zhang Fei said angrily: "This is none of Mr. Liu's business. It is all about the disloyalty and unfilial piety of the Yizhou nobles and their betrayal of Your Majesty. Fortunately, they have been dealt with by Lei Gong!"
Then Liu Xie curiously asked: "If General Zhang was not in Nanzhong with the emperor's uncle, why did he come to Jidu!"
Liu Xie had always been concerned about Liu Bei's movements even in Jidu. When he learned that Liu Bei had established a new Han Dynasty in Nanzhong, he even breathed a sigh of relief in his heart. The Han Dynasty had not yet perished, so he could not be regarded as a subjugated king, although he was Daqian has seen through many things, but it is already difficult to accept his identity as a subjugated king!
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Zhang Fei said: "Now my brother has occupied most of the land in Nanzhong, but Nanzhong is poor and sparsely populated, and it is difficult to undertake the mission of reviving the Han Dynasty. My brother wants to expedition to rich Tianzhu, but Tianzhu is difficult to reach by land. My brother wants to go to Dahan Come here, borrow or buy a fleet!"
Liu Xie said solemnly: "The fleet is a powerful weapon for the military and the country. I'm afraid Lei Gong will not be able to lend it to the general!"
Zhang Fei smiled bitterly and said: "Brother also knows this, so I mainly want to see if I can buy some second-hand seagoing ships!"
Liu Xie thought for a while, took out his bankbook from his room and handed it to Zhang Fei and said: "This is a little of my savings, about more than 1 million. I hope it can help the emperor!"
Zhang Fei immediately refused and said: "Fei cannot ask for Mr. Liu's money!"
Liu Xie smiled and said: "Take it, this money is not of much use to me. If you look at my house, you will know that I am not short of money in Ji. On the contrary, the emperor needs this money to revive the Han Dynasty. This It can be regarded as my contribution to the big man!"
Liu Xie said this, so Zhang Fei could only take the passbook.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Then Liu Xie said: "Liu and uncle are now officials in the Department of Foreign Affairs of Daqian. You may need uncle's help in this matter, so I will help you right now." The general recommends my uncle!"
This was an unexpected surprise for Zhang Fei. In fact, he and Liu He were old acquaintances. Zhang Fei, Liu Bei and others were Liu Yu's generals back then, and he and Liu He had met several times.
Under the leadership of Liu Xie, the two met.
Naturally, this was indispensable, and Zhang Fei also told Liu He about Liu Bei's current situation, and finally issued a request to borrow a fleet from Da Qian for an expedition to Tianzhu.
Naturally, such a major matter was not something Liu He could handle. He immediately reported it to his superiors and asked Zhang Fei to stay in Jidu for a while and wait for news.
Finally, this news was reported to Niu Gui. Niu Gui refused without thinking. They and Liu Bei were life-and-death enemies at first, but now they are not adding insult to injury. They are already worthy of Liu Bei. They actually want to borrow the battleship without even thinking about it. think.
They didn't dare to let people like Wang Ge and Li Gang know about this news. Instead, they became interested in such things.
After Fan Xian became the governor of Yangzhou, the commander of the navy became Li Gang. He became the top leader. Naturally, he wanted to expand the strength of the navy, and now he has many interests overseas, including gold and silver from Japanese islands, timber from Crab islands, and sulfur. and human resources, sugar from Yizhou, spices and precious wood from Nanzhong Islands, and trade routes from Tianzhu. These can bring tens of billions of benefits to Daqian every year, and this territory of tens of thousands of miles requires The navy comes to maintain it.
But Niu Gui keeps cutting the navy's military funds. The reason is very simple. The war is over and they have no enemies!
"There are no enemies for us in this sea area. Why build a super battleship that weighs more than 10,000 stones and can accommodate hundreds of naval guns? Isn't it a waste of money to hunt whales?"
"With the money you spend to build one super battleship like this, you can build three medium-sized battleships worth 5,000 kilograms, and the artillery I make is unrivaled in the world. Why do you need to build thousands of giant cannons weighing nearly 100 kilograms? The 50 kilogram cannons are also invincible. Humans are invincible. You can destroy an ordinary pirate warship with just one shot. A 100-pound cannon is enough to make five 50-pound cannons."
In this way, under the influence of Niu Gui, the navy's military expenditure was cut in half, and many large ship and cannon projects were stranded. Even so, Li Gang did not even dare to lose his temper, because the army next door to them was even worse. .
After the enemy Liu Bei surrendered, the world was unified, and there were no enemies in the entire Daqian. In order to reduce debts, Niu Gui directly cut the standing army of Daqian by more than 70% and military expenditures. The military system also carried out drastic reforms. First of all, The military power was separated from the governors and governors of each county, and five war zones were established, namely the Southeast War Zone, Xiliang War Zone, Desert War Zone, Central Plains War Zone and Central War Zone. These five war zones have three systems: standing troops, compulsory soldiers, and militia. Established.
The strength of each military region is not too large. There are only 120,000 standing troops, coupled with 890,000 conscripts, forming a complete theater with 100,000 troops. This can not only maintain the combat effectiveness of the army, but also save military expenses. Moreover, retaining an army of more than 500,000 people is enough to face any enemy.
Currently, only the southeast war zone is in a special situation and has the largest number of troops. The militia and the standing army add up to more than 500,000. But most of them are field soldiers. Not to mention consuming the funds of the Daqian court, they can also provide the Daqian court with supplies every year. A lot of food and funds.
After Niu Gui's set of military reform measures, not only did local military power be completely deprived of power, but military expenditures plummeted. Now the army's military expenditures are only 30% of the original.
Thanks to Niu Gui's efforts, the Daqian Court completed the transition from military to construction in one year.
The generals in Daqian gritted their teeth as they watched Niu Gui's reforms, but they couldn't say anything because the war was indeed over. Such disarmament was a very normal thing. Xu Wei specially summoned these generals and lieutenants. , told them the importance of disarmament, and strictly prohibited them from affecting the policy system of disarmament.
At the same time, in order to accommodate these military cadres, all of them were thrown into the cadre academy in Jidu to let them learn how to transfer and become local officials.