After the Jizhou Army was established, its main camp was arranged near the Zhang River, and the sergeants in the camp were carefully trained by Cheng Pu, Zhao Yun, Xia Houlan and others every day.
Let’s leave aside Zhao Yun and Xia Houlan, let’s just talk about Cheng Pu.
Since he became the captain and commander-in-chief of the Jizhou Army, Cheng Pu stayed in the camp every day. Except for returning to Yecheng to report necessary matters to Liu Jian, it was as if he had lived in the Jizhou Army's camp.
According to Cheng Pu, as a general, only by eating, living and training with the three soldiers can he better control the army and at the same time gather the loyalty of the soldiers.
At the same time, Cheng Pu also advised Liu Jian, asking him to go to the military camp and stay in the camp for three days every month. Like himself, he could eat, live and train with the soldiers.
Of course, it is not necessarily necessary to eat, live and train with the same intensity as the soldiers, but at least it must be done on the surface.
Liu Jian did not hesitate and agreed to him immediately.
He understood that Cheng Pu would not make such a request of him without any reason, he was doing it for his own sake.
Liu Jian said that he would not cheat. On these three days of each month, he would eat the same food, sleep in the same tent, and do the same intensity of training as the Jizhou soldiers.
He was also a child from a border county, and the training he received since childhood was no less than others. Liu Jian was confident that he could do what others could do.
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On this day, after Liu Jian finished training, he stayed in the army. He, Xia Houlan and Zhao Yun lived in a small tent.
After a day of training, Liu Jian had a general understanding of Cheng Pu's training methods.
He asked Zhao Yun and Xiahou Lan: "What do you think of Cheng Demou's ability in training troops?"
Zhao Yun said while eating the porridge: "Captain Cheng is an upright man and calm in dealing with things. He is really a rare general."
"Why?"
Zhao Yun continued: "I am young and have read few books, but since I received "Sun Wu's Art of War" given by the envoy, I have made some progress and knowledge after studying it carefully. I watched Captain Cheng's military training and learned it, which is quite ancient.
The style of a famous general is that the soldiers do not eat until they are full, they do not rest, they do not sleep, they train and endure hardships, they lead the troops by example, they do not show off, they do not deduct military rations, and they are deeply loved by the soldiers."
Xia Houlan said: "And the captain told us last time that it is complicated for a king to govern a state, but he still has to come to this military camp. Even if he only stays for three days every month, it is good... After all, in the future
The person leading the battlefield may be him, us, or the envoy himself. If the soldiers do not know the generals, the generals will not know the soldiers, which will be detrimental to the army. Therefore, no matter what, he must persuade the envoys to come to the army three times a month.
day."
Liu Jian nodded secretly while eating porridge.
In history, Jiang Biao was the first of the Twelve Tiger Ministers, and he truly lived up to his reputation.
Moreover, he not only knows how to train soldiers, but his loyalty is also very touching.
Liu Jian commented: "Cheng Demo is extremely intelligent and courageous, and he is worthy of his respect."
Xia Houlan said anxiously: "Your Majesty, I wonder when we can send troops to conquer the bandits in Montenegro?"
Liu Jian shook his head and said: "Black Mountain cannot be conquered on a large scale in a short time, nor can it be pacified in a year or two."
Zhao Yun admonished: "Having said that, if you don't fight all the time and just train troops, it will not have the effect of training troops. You still need to participate in actual combat to have the effect of training troops."
Liu Jian thought about it carefully and felt that it did make sense.
After all, training alone cannot increase the combat experience of soldiers. Only experiencing some battles can accelerate their growth.
"In your opinion, how should we fight against the thieves in Black Mountain?"
Xia Houlan said: "In my opinion, every time the bandits in the mountains come out to attack, they attack most frequently in Wei County and several counties to the west of Julu. You may as well let the Jizhou army ambush here in advance. If they come,
By attacking, the Jizhou army can unite with the powerful disciples in the local county to jointly defend against the enemy without having to carry out a large-scale conquest. Firstly, the losses will be small, secondly, the victory can be guaranteed, and thirdly, the local people can also be protected. Isn't this a win-win situation?
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Liu Jian thought seriously for a while and said: "This method is very good. I will discuss it with De Mou in the future to see if it is feasible."
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Cheng Pu also agreed with Xiahoulan's method. Training without going into battle would not achieve the best results.
If we don't launch a large-scale attack on the Montenegrin army, we can just station outside the county towns in various places and join forces with the local powerful people to defend against the enemy. In this way, small-scale battles will not cause too many losses, and at the same time, we can increase the soldiers' battle experience.
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So, under Liu Jian's guidance, Cheng Pu started to take care of this matter.
The five thousand Jizhou Army gradually got on the right track, so Liu Jian began to study another matter.
That is farming.
Regarding the policy of farming, later generations have mixed reviews of this policy.
Some people say that farming is the best emergency measure in this era, while others say that farming is the most vicious form of slavery.
Cao Cao, Zhuge Liang, and Jiang Wei all relied on farming to solve the food problem.
The simple logic of farming is to first nationalize the land that was desolate due to war, then recruit refugees to cultivate it, and divide it equally between the government and the farmers.
Logically speaking, farming is a unique product of the war era. Because of the war, a large number of refugees were born and the amount of barren land increased. Using farming methods can effectively reduce the number of refugees and solve the problem of survival for a group of people who are on the verge of starvation.
The problem is, this is the benevolence of farming.
But in later generations, many people called farming a super-slavery system.
Mainly because with the development and stability of farming, the Cao Wei government began to impose large-scale corvee labor on farmers.
The Cao Wei government arbitrarily conscripted people from the fields to build water conservancy projects. The farmers had to work on the fields and do corvee labor at the same time, which was excessively exploited.
In order to effectively control the personal freedom of the campers, the Cao Wei government adopted a scholar-family system based on hostage coercion. As long as you became a camper, your children and grandchildren would not be free citizens, and your entire family would be under official arrest.
They controlled the work everywhere, and as long as a farmer fled, the government would kill his wife and children, or even exterminate the entire clan in serious cases.
Moreover, as time went by, the land that was ripe for cultivation by the farming people was eventually annexed again by the Cao family, wealthy military officers, and powerful nobles.
History seems to have drawn a circle. The fertile land of ordinary serfs in the Han Dynasty was annexed by the tycoons. In the troubled times, it was turned into waste land in the hands of the tycoons. The refugees became farmers and then reclaimed the waste land. The waste land became good land and was later used by the lords.
Hao merger...
Liu Jian felt that when the world was in chaos, the farming method was indeed an effective way to reduce the number of refugees and maintain social stability. Although Cao Wei's farming did gradually evolve into a slavery system, this did not mean that there was something wrong with the farming itself.
It can only be said that the Cao Wei regime oppressed the farming people too much.
Human fault cannot be attributed to the farming system.
Nowadays, the Black Mountain Army in Hebei is extremely rampant, and in a sense, there are too many refugees.
Refugees who had no food to eat entered Montenegro. The Montenegrin army grew in strength and looted. Bandits and bandits were everywhere, causing restlessness in the states. The county could not produce stably, which led to the emergence of more refugees. The refugees had no choice but to enter Montenegro again because they did not have enough to eat...
...another vicious cycle.
At present, in addition to forming the Jizhou Army, we also need to block the Black Mountain Army's troop sources.
The implementation of the field settlement, in a sense, can greatly limit the growth of the Montenegrin Army's power.