Chapter 283 The overall situation has been decided
"In the future, the two forces of Japan, Longxia and Xia will occupy the surrounding areas. Why does Brother Chen want to disarm?"
Everyone couldn't understand what Chen Mu was thinking. As far as the current situation was concerned, the army was definitely the top priority. Otherwise, the situation would be very dangerous.
But Chen Mu said: "I think when we faced the Jingzhou Army, although these armies were large in number, they began to collapse as soon as the battle began. And now that we have these people participating in our own team, if one day we let them
Isn’t it dangerous for them to be stationed at the border?”
Chen Mu had been paying attention to these prisoners of war before. Among them were children aged 12 or 13 and old men in their 60s or 70s. When talking about an army, it is better to say they are a group of ordinary people.
Obviously, they were all people Zhang Long had hastily recruited from among the people in order to deal with the enemy. This wave of people had almost no combat effectiveness. Leaving these people in the military camp would not have any effect except a waste of money.
"I would rather have 100,000 soldiers as elite as the Shu army than these 300,000 miscellaneous troops. In this way, Han Xiner, I will give you a standard to select all prisoners of war who meet the requirements."
The soldiers are more elite than numerous, and all those who are tall and tall and aged between eighteen and thirty will continue to stay in the military camp.
In the future, Chen Mu will also abolish the imperial army system followed by the Longxia imperial court in previous dynasties and replace it with a recruitment system.
Give high military pay, everyone gets paid to fight, and treat military service as a profession. As long as you have the ability, you can come and make a fortune by fighting.
It is not an obligation. The shortcomings of the government army system are very serious, that is, soldiers not only have to fight, but also have to collect their own food in their spare time. When fighting, they have to be self-sufficient in food. How can such an army have combat effectiveness?
Chen Mu already has an excellent policy to strengthen the army, but he has not yet had the chance to fully implement it.
After receiving the order, Han Xiner went to the prisoner of war gathering place and began to select people who met Chen Mu's requirements.
After the entire afternoon, only close to 20,000 people were left among the more than 50,000 people, and there was also the Jiaozhou Army gathered by the Shi Army. The composition of these armies was also uneven. Chen Mu also made a big attack for them.
After cleaning, only more than 20,000 people were left in the end.
He did not consider the people from the south of the Yangtze River. Now, including Qi Zeguang's direct troops, there were a total of 110,000.
Although most of them were cut off, these 110,000 people are all young and strong in their prime, and will become elites in the army in the future, so it is enough.
The entire Jingzhou, except for a small part of the land in Jiangbei, Wuling, Lingling, Changsha, Guiyang and other areas were all in Chen Mu's hands.
"Now that Jingzhou has been captured, the situation is not stable. Many people among the people have opinions about you."
Chen Mu and Zhang Bowen were walking on the bank of the river, looking at the Yangtze River passing by in the east. Chen Mu just smiled and said: "Don't be afraid, I will directly proclaim Liu Ruonan as emperor when I go back this time, and then draft a letter to the current Xia Emperor.
The crime of brother killing his father... Anyway, if you have a shit basin, put it on his head. Although this will not convince those who understand, it will make them speechless."
Zhang Bowen nodded: "This is a way, but there is one more thing. Brother Chen still has to move the capital to Jingzhou. After all, after many years of management, the situation in Yizhou has become as stable as Mount Tai, so the political center has to be moved to Jingzhou.
, This can better control Jingzhou and prevent some people from having evil intentions."
"Okay, you can take care of these things. The next country name, the location of the capital, etc. will be implemented one by one according to your wishes. When the affairs here are almost settled, I should go back.
It’s Yizhou.”
Chen Mu was making great progress here, but when he looked at Long Xia's court at this time, everyone had a dead and serious look on his face.
In this battle, both Shangying and Chenmu were the winners. One occupied Jingzhou and the other occupied Yangzhou. Only the Longxia Dynasty suffered a complete defeat.
It can be said that the entire north of the Yangtze River has nothing to do with his Longxia court.
Liu Yuan sat quietly on the dragon chair, thought for a long time, and finally said calmly: "Why did we lose? There are 75,000 people, and we were beaten by the tens of thousands of exhausted Japanese troops and fled in embarrassment. Obviously we
He also has a flintlock gun in his hand."
Now that he is on the throne and has military power, he has truly secured this position. However, these recent events have made his hair gray a lot.
But then, an official suddenly jumped out from the crowd: "Report to your majesty, I think this is all Prime Minister Zhang's problem. If he hadn't actively instigated the army to fall out with Chen Mu, Chen Mu might not have rebelled."
, after the Japanese are wiped out, there won’t be so many things.”
Many people don't like the help of this boss. Now that there are such big flaws in the strategy, how can they not add insult to injury?
As for Zhang Guozhong who was in front of Baiguan, he did not say anything because he did miscalculate a little, that is, Long Xia's army was too weak.
When fighting the Japanese, tens of thousands of people either ran away or hid behind and did not dare to charge. In this way, there was nothing that could be done against the Japanese. The top priority of the country was still the military.
Starting from the generation of the ancestor emperor, the policy of weakening the military and strengthening the civil society began. By the time it extended to this generation, the military was already extremely weak. After all, the military was the top priority.
But nowadays, he doesn't bother to explain anything. After all, he lost, so what's the point of talking more?
But just when everyone was waiting for the emperor to reprimand Zhang Guozhong, Liu Yuan suddenly asked about the minister.
"Then what do you have in mind?"
The minister obviously did not expect that the emperor would suddenly ask these questions. After a long silence, he said: "Wei minister believes that we had trade relations with Japan before. As for Chen Mu, let alone Chen Mu, instead of wasting the people and money by fighting, it is better to give them some
money."
Hearing this, most of the courtiers present nodded their heads, agreeing very much with what this person said.
"Yes, it would be best if we could avoid fighting."
"Just spending some money is much more cost-effective than fighting for years."
“Isn’t it a beautiful thing to live in peace with each other?”
Of course, there are a small number of people who advocate resistance to war, but they are only a small number.
Liu Yuan watched all this indifferently, but he thought that a few years ago, he was also part of this team, stating what a perfect decision it was to pay tribute and seek peace.
But when he actually sat on the throne, hearing these voices only made him feel sick.
However, he still calmly said to the crowd: "In this way, we have decided to vote, those who advocate resistance to war will stand on the left, and those who advocate peace will stand on the right."
Under Liu Yuan's order, a large number of officials hurriedly stood on the right side, but there were only a few dozen people on the left side.
But while everyone was waiting for the emperor to issue a new decree, another sentence suddenly came from Liu Yuan's mouth.
"Come here, let me take down these bastards on the right who are causing harm to the country and the people!"