Chapter 508: Pros and cons
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In the magnificent palace compound, the potter is lying on the couch, watching the beauties in front of the palace dance and play.
Among the beauties, there are Diao Chan and Daji, who are extremely beautiful, dancing together, extremely charming.
Concubine Hua Mulan sat on the side, peeling grapes from the Western Regions for the potter, and fed them into his mouth one by one with her slender hands.
The side concubines Mi Zhen and Gan Mei were accompanied by the side, one beat the legs of the pottery merchant, and the other rubbed his shoulders.
The two concubines, Lu Lingji and Zhen Mi, were tightly attached to the left and right of the potter, one of them served wine to him, and the other wiped the wine stains from the corners of his mouth for him.
As for Zhang Chunhua, because he is newly married to a potter, he has not completely let go of his hands and feet, and serves his husband with so many sisters, just caressing the qin for the potter.
Today is the fifth day after the potter returned to Yejing, and he spent five days in this way among the flowers.
The battle of the southern conquest of Chu took half a year, and for such a long time, these beautiful concubines were left in Yejing, and the potters returned to Beijing this time, so they naturally wanted to soothe their lonely hearts and let these proud flowers bloom again.
Of course, the potter himself has been holding back for a long time, how can he satisfy his exuberant energy with just one Zhang Chunhua, only so many beautiful concubines can make him vent his anger.
So, in the past few days since returning to Beijing, the potters have been soaking in the gentle countryside all day long, enjoying the happiness that the emperor should have.
As for government affairs, the pottery merchant has a political wizard like Xiao He Shangying, and he doesn't need to worry about waste power at all, he just needs to do it vertically.
However, although the potter likes to enjoy, it does not mean that he will indulge in wine, in fact, the situation of the entire Great Wei and the surrounding countries is under his insight.
In the domestic side of the Great Wei Dynasty, because the Chu State was destroyed, most of the powerful people of the world were cut off from the way to flee, and the country was closed, and these powerful people of the world could only be slaughtered by the pottery merchants.
Moreover, because the pottery merchants destroyed the Chu State, the military power was great, and in the hearts of the subjects of the Great Wei, the prestige had reached an unprecedented peak.
With such unprecedented prestige, coupled with the strong military guarantee of the Great Wei, although those powerful people of the world were dissatisfied with the Shang Dynasty reform, they only dared to be angry but did not dare to speak, so they could only be helpless and let the reform be carried out.
As for the law change, due to the full support of the potters, the implementation has been smooth, and the implementation has been effective for half a year.
First of all, there is Dingkou, the labor of young and strong people.
Shang Ying adopted strict measures and inventory methods, and in just half a year, nearly one million Dingkou were found from the names of the powerful people of the world.
In the past, these millions of Dingkou were all private tenants who were powerful in the world, and they did not need to pay food, did not need to serve in the army, and all the fruits of their labor were only owned by the powerful people of the world.
And now, all these millions of Dingkou have been cleared up, and they have been compiled into national households by Shang Ying, and have become registered homesteaders.
It is precisely because of this inventory of millions of households that the labor force in the hands of the Great Wei government has greatly increased, and with the efforts of Fan Sui and other state assassins and Taishou, tens of thousands of acres of wasteland in various states have been reclaimed, and the new cultivated land area in the entire Great Wei has reached millions of mu.
That's millions of acres of new cultivated land, which means that after the autumn harvest this year, the country's grain output will increase by nearly 10 million hu, and the grain tax collected by the imperial court will increase by as much as two or three million hu.
If the original cultivated land is added, the amount of grain levied by the Great Wei this autumn will reach tens of millions of hundreds.
This figure means that the potter's grain and grass will be so abundant that they can't eat enough, even if they are in a fierce war with all the countries in the world, the grain and grass alone will consume them to dry up.
Moreover, according to the Shang Dynasty Reform Law, the more grain farmers grow, the more they can get the state reward, the highest reward, and even reach the point of being a feudal marquis.
Under this heavy reward, the enthusiasm of farmers in all parts of Dawei to grow grain has reached an unprecedented high, and if this continues, the final autumn grain harvest will even exceed the previous expectations of the potters.
In addition to military rations, another is the increase in the number of troops.
Due to the investigation of one million Dingkou, the available source of young and strong soldiers in the Great Wei Dynasty has greatly increased, coupled with the new destruction of Jingzhou by the pottery merchants, not to mention the new million households, the surrender army alone has absorbed nearly 30,000 people.
Once these 30,000 troops are reorganized, plus the newly recruited soldiers, the number of regular troops in the whole country of Great Wei will reach 400,000.
Moreover, this number is only the Chinese army under the direct command of the imperial court, and if you add the state soldiers and county soldiers of each state and county, the number is even more.
Before the potter left Jingzhou, he had left all the tens of thousands of Jingzhou troops to Wu Zixu, and ordered him to step up the formation and training of the naval army in Jingzhou, and at the same time mobilized a large number of shipwrights and shipwrights to build warships in Jiangling in preparation for the battle of Wu in Japan.
According to the original idea of the pottery merchants, the destruction of Chu and the destruction of Wu should be linked, otherwise, if there is a residual Wu country in the south of the Yangtze River, the pottery merchants will have to set aside nearly 100,000 soldiers and horses to guard.
First of all, on the front line of Shouchun in Huainan, the pottery merchant had to stay with Leyi, a handsome man, to guard it, and the number of troops was at least about 20,000 or 30,000.
Then there is the first line of Xuzhou, because it is necessary to prevent Wu from dispatching from the sea, bypassing the Shouchun defense line, and directly attacking the rear of Xuzhou, so although the Xuzhou line is far away from the front-line battlefield, the pottery merchants have to leave one or two thousand people to garrison.
Therefore, just Xu Yang's line, the potters had to leave nearly 50,000 troops!
Moreover, these 50,000 soldiers and horses are idle most of the time, but they are indispensable.
In addition to the Xu Yang area, followed by Jingzhou.
In order to guard against Sun Ce's attack by Chaisang, Tao Shangguang left nearly 20,000 sailors on the line from Xiakou to Lukou.
In addition, in order to prevent Wu from attacking Changsha County from land, he also had to stay in Changsha with nearly 10,000 soldiers and horses.
Jingxu Yang Sanzhou, just to prevent the Wu State, the pottery merchants spent nearly 90,000 troops.
In fact, the state of Wu is only strong in water warfare, and its comprehensive national strength is not strong, weaker than the state of Qin and Yan, and even inferior to the state of Shu in Goujian.
Among the four countries, Wu was the weakest, but the potters had to take out nearly a quarter of the strength of the Great Wei to prevent it, which was a great burden in terms of troops and the supply of grain and grass.
If the state of Wu can be destroyed first, the pottery merchants can draw out nearly 100,000 troops at once to deal with the three kingdoms of Qin, Yanshu and Shu, and they will immediately have an absolute advantage in terms of troops.
It's just that at present, Liu Bei pacified Liaodong and invaded the south on a large scale, in order to deal with Liu Bei's invasion first, the pottery merchants had to temporarily shelve the plan to attack Wu and concentrate their efforts and troops to deal with Yan.
Although the pottery merchants enjoyed the wind and snow in Yejing, but the army of the Great Wei was not idle, all the soldiers and horses were assembling in Jizhou and Bingzhou, as of the seventh day of the pottery merchants' return to Beijing, the number of soldiers and horses gathered in Jinyang and Yejing had reached 120,000, and the number was still increasing.
Footsteps sounded, Zhang Liang and Su Qin hurriedly walked into the main hall, looking at the expressions and eyes, there must be an urgent military situation.
"Go down first, and at night, the husband will come and clean up your ......."
The potter motioned for the concubines to retreat, and when he left, he didn't forget to grab a handful of them wantonly on the fat buttocks of Hua Mulan and Mi Zhen, and grabbed the concubines with a shy smile, and retreated with a red face.
The beauty has dispersed, the music has sunk, and the solemn atmosphere has been restored to the main hall.
"The ovary, Su Qing, looking at your expressions, it must not be good news for this king." The potter smiled faintly and drank the last sip of wine from his glass.
Zhang Liang arched his hand and said: "I said it to the king, the princes of the south have already taken the lead in attacking us." ”
Tao Shangjian's eyebrows moved slightly, and he said to Su Qin: "Su Qing, tell me, what is the situation." ”
After the invasion of the Jin Dynasty, the pottery merchant merged and reorganized his intelligence network and pro-army team into the "Jinyi Guard", which was led by Jingzhou, Su Qin and Zhang Yi respectively.
Among them, Jing Ke is under the command of 7,000 "brocade clothes and dragon guards", which is the descendant of the pottery merchant, who is responsible for the security of the palace and is always in the presence of the pottery merchant.
Zhang Yi and Su Qin were under the command of the Jinyi Beiwei and Jinyi Nanwei, who were responsible for the detailed intelligence work in the north and the south, respectively, and secretly monitored the loyalty of officials in various states and counties.
These three guards are directly responsible to the potter, the king of the Great Wei, and even a strategist like Zhang Liang only has the power to ask, but not the power to intervene.
Su Qin was in charge of the Jinyi Southern Guard, including the intelligence reconnaissance and collection of Wu, Shu and part of Qin, and of course the potters had to ask him.
"Your Majesty, a few days ago, the three kingdoms of Qin, Shu and Wu had joined forces to launch a siege on my newly acquired Jingzhou region." Su Qin said in a deep voice.
The Three Kingdoms besiege Jingzhou!
The potter's brow froze slightly, and he waved his hand, motioning for him to continue.
Su Qin told the specific information.
In Shu, Liu Zhang, the king of Shu, personally commanded 60,000 Shu troops and more than 500 warships, and went east along the Yangtze River, aiming directly at the important town of Jiangling.
On the Wu side, Sun Ce once again assembled 40,000 sailors, which had been launched from Jianye and traced the river upstream, with the goal obviously pointing to Xiakou.
As for the Qin side, this time the Qin king Cao Cao did not invade Luoyang again, but led 50,000 Qin troops from Wuguan to the south and entered the Nanyang Basin, with the goal of Nanyang County to govern Wancheng.
The three kingdoms of Qin, Shu and Wu, with a total of 150,000 troops, attacked Jingzhou in three ways!
"It seems that Jingzhou is really the land of four wars, and getting this state, as this king thinks, there are advantages and disadvantages."
The pottery merchant nodded slightly, as if he was mentally prepared, but said strangely: "Wu Shu joined forces to carve up Jingzhou, this is reasonable, but this Cao Cao, he spent so much effort to attack Nanyang, obviously he didn't get much benefit, and in the end he could only help Liu Zhang, when did he become a living Lei Feng?" ”
"Lei Feng? Who is Lei Feng, the minister doesn't quite understand, and please ask the king to make it clear? Zhang Liang and Su Qin glanced at each other, and they were immediately confused.