Chapter 224: Large-scale production, large-scale military training, and large-scale expansion
Not long after the second chapter of The Romance of the Three Kingdoms appeared, Pan Yin, a military commander, died, and his death was not the end, but just the beginning!
Just the beginning!
General He Jin and the scholar group were not a close group at first. They were a loose group temporarily united to fight against the emperor.
And Yuan Shao is the bridge between the scholar group and He Jin. On the surface, He Jin seems to trust Yuan Shao, and on the surface, Yuan Shao seems to be He Jin's mastermind. Everyone is very happy to cooperate.
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But everything should not be taken at face value. Xun Yu can collect existing information and make simple logical deductions, and other counselors can do the same. The only difference is that their heads may not turn as fast as Xun Yu, but that is only a matter of time.
This is very embarrassing!
He Jin's real idea was not to help the scholars to eliminate all the eunuchs, but to use the scholars to fight against the emperor first, and wait until the Ling Emperor died. After using the scholars to suppress the eunuchs, make the eunuchs surrender unconditionally, and then completely absorb the eunuchs' power,
Then in turn, they suppressed the scholars.
Regarding He Jin's true thoughts, Yuan Shao laughed and said, "I know what you are thinking, but I pretend not to know what you are thinking!"
He Jin said: I also know what Yuan Shao is thinking, but I also pretend not to know what he is thinking.
There are not many politicians who are conscientious. Everyone is cheating and cajoling. They all feel that they are the final winners, so they are all performing to their heart's content.
But at this moment, the second episode of The Romance of the Three Kingdoms puts this kind of full-hearted performance on the stage!
There are some things that everyone knows in their hearts, and many people take them for granted. They are called unspoken rules, but they must not be said on the table. They cannot be seen in the light. Once they are exposed to the light, they will be dead.
The reason why the unspoken rules have a hidden word is because they themselves cannot be seen in the light!
As for He Jin and Yuan Shao's mutual acting skills, they are essentially similar. Everyone knows what the other is thinking, but everyone pretends not to know what the other is thinking.
Judging from the results of the second episode of The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, He Jin has won so far, because He Jin successfully intimidated Zhang Rang and others into unconditional surrender. It was just a matter of a thought.
So He Jin was like a fool, turning a blind eye to the simplest method proposed by the scholars to eliminate eunuchs.
According to the novel, the development of things is like this:
At first Yuan Shao said, General, hurry up and take action. Now take the opportunity to kill the eunuchs and destroy them physically. It will be easy.
He Jin said: I'll think about it again!
Then the scholars became impatient, so He Jin entered the palace in a swaggering manner. After He said a few words to him, He Jin left in a swaggering manner again.
Then he pushed to Yuan Shao: It's not that I don't want to kill the eunuch, it's the Queen Mother who stopped me from doing so. I was willing to kill him, but the Queen Mother wouldn't let him kill him, so don't blame me!
He Jin was obviously pretending to be stupid and wanted to break his original promise to the scholar group. Then Yuan Shao said: You can send foreign soldiers into the city. The foreign soldiers are not experienced soldiers. They don't listen to the Queen Mother, only the general.
The Queen Mother was helpless at that time.
(The Central Army is a skilled soldier. They pay attention to procedural justice and will never participate in any rebellion. Even if a general wants to rebel, the soldiers will not respond and will join forces to capture the general and send him to receive a reward.
These are experienced soldiers. They are familiar with the rules of political struggle in the Han Dynasty, know how to protect themselves, and know how to be absolutely safe.
Therefore, experienced soldiers are afraid of the emperor, the court, officials, and scholars. They are afraid of everyone, and they always use procedural justice to protect themselves.
The raw soldiers are Dong Zhuo's subordinates. The soldiers are private soldiers of the generals. In the eyes of these private soldiers, there is no king's law, no emperor, and no officials. In their eyes, there is only Shangguan. If Shangguan asks them to rebel, they will not do anything.
Hesitant rebellion.
Without an imperial edict, you asked the Central Army to attack the Yuan family and the Yang family, and they didn't take any chances with you. But you asked the Qiang army under Dong Zhuo to attack the Yuan family and the Yang family, and they were extremely happy.
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At that time, Chen Lin had already made it very clear: General, please do not send foreign troops into the city. Just let the central army take action and kill all the eunuchs.
He Jin: I don’t! I don’t want it!
Although the second chapter of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms ends here, it is obvious that this is just the scene above the water. Under the water, the scholars and generals have already started a game. Otherwise, He Jin would not agree to mobilize foreign troops.
Enter the city.
From this moment on, the game between He Jin and the scholars entered the second stage.
At this moment, Emperor Ling is dead, and He Jin is the most powerful official in the world. His sister is the queen mother, and his nephew is the emperor. As long as he does not rebel, who can do anything to He Jin?
Therefore, even if he defaults on his debt openly, the scholar group can only make small moves under the water.
He Jin has been pretending to be stupid, and his purpose is to master the power of eunuchs instead of destroying them. From this, we can see how unreliable King Xin, who had not received the education of the emperor at the end of the Dameng Dynasty, was!
In the general's palace, He Jin summoned many staff and disciples, and in his hands was the second chapter of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. After watching it repeatedly, deep down in his heart, he felt a little bit embarrassed.
I can pretend to be stupid, I can be shameless, but you can't say it directly. If you say it directly, how can I pretend to be stupid?
However, thinking about how powerful the scholars were, He Jin could only continue to play dumb: "Hahaha, these are villains who want to alienate us, they are not worth mentioning."
Yuan Shao echoed loudly: "Indeed, it is just a villain's heart to judge a gentleman's belly. Eunuchs are really a serious problem for the world. Only by killing eunuchs can the world be brought into order."
He Jin also nodded approvingly: "Yes, if I can be a minister in the future, the first thing I will do is to kill the eunuchs."
Anyway, regardless of whether Yuan Shao believes it or not, I, He Jin, believe it myself!
As for the content of the second chapter of The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, it is nothing more than a villain’s prophecy. It has no credibility and is pure nonsense. We are all true gentlemen, how could we fall into the villain’s tricks?
"Meng De, what do you think you would say if it were you?"
Hearing this, Cao Cao, who had been trying to reduce his presence, reluctantly stood up and bowed his hands to everyone.
There is no way, who made the second chapter of Romance of the Three Kingdoms end with a chapter?
But he still decided to stick to Cao Mengde. Isn't this putting Cao Cao on the fire? Have I offended you? How dare you arrange this for me, Cao Mengde?
"Cao might say: The group of eunuchs has existed since ancient times, but the hero can effectively use the eunuchs without losing control."
Grain
This is based on the long history of eunuchs, which proves that the existence of eunuchs is very necessary, and it is not advisable to kill all this group.
"If you want to deal with them, just attack the chief culprit. If you want to deal with the chief culprit, you don't need to call in foreign soldiers at all, just a small official."
This is a further point of view. There is no need to summon so many foreign soldiers. It only takes a small official and an edict to kill ten regular servants. It is a very simple matter, and there is no need to make it so complicated.
"If you want to kill all the eunuchs and their minions at once, then the news will definitely be leaked, and you will eventually fail."
This is a negative argument, telling everyone that it is impossible to kill the eunuchs at once! The news will definitely be leaked, and the eunuchs will definitely fight back when the time comes, and they will definitely fail!
Do what Cao Cao said make sense?
There must be some!
The eunuch group is essentially a derivative of the imperial power. The emperor used the eunuch as a chamber pot to fight against the aristocratic family group.
As long as the emperor is still there, and as long as the dispute between the emperor and the aristocratic family is still there, the group of eunuchs will never be exhausted.
But in this world, many times, if you are not right, others will listen to you. Just like at this moment, He Jin slapped the table angrily: "Mengde, you have selfish motives!"
Where is the selfishness?
You, Cao Cao, were the eunuchs, so you spoke for the eunuchs, saying that they could never be killed. You also said that eunuchs had a long history and were necessary. You also said that this time only the chief villain would be killed, and the entire group of eunuchs would not be affected.
What was originally very reasonable, but after it came out of Cao Cao's mouth, it turned into selfishness in the eyes of others.
Cao Cao felt a little numb at this moment, so he had no choice but to sit down and continue drinking, and soon fell down.
In Luoyang City, He Jin and the scholars continued to act. Although everyone knew that the other party was acting again, and although everyone knew that they were competing with each other's acting skills, He Jin and Yuan Shao had to pretend to know nothing.
appearance.
Cao Cao thought it would be interesting to watch Yuan Shao and He Jin play with each other from an outsider's perspective.
Just when He Jin and Yuan Shao were competing for Best Actor and Best Actor, the descendants under Xiong Yan from Xinye County, Nanyang County finally started taking action.
Xiong Yan left Xinye County seven days ago, and Huo Tianyan was ready to take action seven days later. Before he took action, Guan Ming convened a small meeting with senior officials to explain the current situation.
"We have taken in all the refugees in Xinye County who are still alive and moving. There are about 16,237 people in total, of whom there are more than 5,300 strong men and five healthy women.
There are more than a thousand people, and the remaining more than 5,000 people are young and old."
"More than five thousand healthy women have now arranged their jobs and have entered water conservancy workshops and the Ministry of Agriculture, transforming themselves into industrial workers and agricultural workers."
"With the workshops built by these workers and descendants, there is no problem with productivity for the time being, but raw materials are starting to be in short supply."
Industrialization is of course very powerful, but its demand for raw materials is also infinite. At least at this moment, the raw materials in the small Xinye County, or in the territory under Xiong Yan's command, are not enough to meet the needs.
With that said, Guan Ming took out a document: "This time, I took my colleagues from the academy and took an abacus to simply formulate a three-month development plan."
"This plan uses mathematical knowledge to integrate every manpower under our command as much as possible. The current plan is relatively rough. According to this plan, in about half a month, more than half of the raw materials we have accumulated will be used up, and at that time there will be no need for new raw materials.
Development efforts are still relatively limited..."
"In about seven days, our development speed will reach an inflection point. Before then, our development speed is getting faster and faster, and our daily steel production growth rate is getting higher and higher."
"In half a month, our steel production growth rate will drop to zero. At that time, daily steel production will reach its peak, which is about 50,000 kilograms a day."
Are there iron mines in Nanyang County?
Of course there is!
But these iron ores, which are easy to develop, are in the hands of powerful families. Originally, Guan Ming wanted to develop quietly and keep a low profile, but he still wanted to make deals with them.
Use new industrial products, such as large amounts of high-quality paper, to exchange them for iron ore, and then use blast furnaces to smelt the iron ore.
But Guan Ming soon discovered that the output of these powerful and aristocratic families was too slow. Their development of iron ore was still very primitive and they did not even have explosives.
They are also unwilling to invest their extraordinary power in production and life. Most of the extraordinary people in the Han Dynasty have a feeling that they are superior to others. It is okay to let them fight and enjoy, but if they are allowed to compete with ordinary people,
Just go and farm the fields and mine, but that's your fault.
Therefore, Guan Ming knew with a little calculation that in seven days, the iron ore accumulated by the nearby powerful people would be quickly digested.
After half a month, most of the iron ore accumulated by the powerful will be digested.
Then, production efficiency will inevitably decline. This is almost inevitable, unless the powerful people suddenly adopt new high-efficiency production methods, but this is impossible.
Not to mention that in Guan Ming's deduction, these powerful families will most likely raise prices, join forces to monopolize the price of iron ore, and further increase the price of raw materials, just waiting for Zai Guan Ming to kill them.
Therefore, after discovering such a future, Guan Ming did not hesitate to summon everyone and start a meeting.
"Currently, out of the original population of 15,000, another 2,000 people have been transferred to the military camp. Among the 5,000 newly recruited men, 3,000 have joined the military camp. Currently, there are 5,000 new recruits in the military camp."
"And through our efforts, there are now a total of 100 qualified commanders, 1,000 unqualified commanders, and 5,000 recruits, for a total of 6,000 people."
"These 6,000 soldiers are all new recruits. They have never seen blood. The training time is short. It can even be said that some of them have not returned home yet, but we do not have too much time to slowly train."
"The next step will be an era of mass production, mass training, and mass expansion."
"My idea is to produce, train troops, and expand at the same time. Today's Han Dynasty, the most indispensable thing is refugees, and the most indispensable thing is people who can't survive."
"As long as we have food in our hands, we can continuously absorb people from the refugees, and then send the strong men among them to the new military camps for training."
"As for food, production alone is not enough in a short period of time. We can only rob it from other powerful people and other aristocratic families. I have calculated that the total food output of Nanyang County is enough to feed all the people of Nanyang County.
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"The reason why there are so many refugees all over the place is because the powerful families are too greedy and have robbed the farmers of the food that originally belonged to them. Therefore, we only need to help the farmers and take back the harvest that originally belonged to them."