Chapter 1170: Carrying on the Past and Forging Ahead (60) The Dead End in Tan Feng's Heart
Tan Feng was dressed in civilian clothes, only brought two guards, wandering in Yingchuan City at will, compared with when he first took office, the current Yingchuan has gradually recovered its vitality, the people who fled at that time gradually returned to their former residences, and now there are nearly 100,000 people in Yingchuan City, which is not a big miracle in Tan Feng's view.
However, he also had to bitterly admit that Yingchuan's miraculous recovery to the pre-war period, even more prosperous than before the war, is not rooted in himself, but in the Han people who confronted him, in Yingshui City, where the prosperity is at least twice as good as his own.
After the armistice between the two countries, more and more merchants flocked here, most of them were Han merchants, who brought countless items produced in the Han State, through Yingchuan, flocked to the Qin State, and the merchants in the Qin State used Yingchuan as a base, transferred from the Han merchants at a low price, and then transported to the country to sell at a high price.
Tan Feng is a person with a strong learning spirit, and he never hesitates to learn from his opponents for things that can strengthen himself, just like when he was defeated by Gao Yuan, he returned to Jicheng and immediately began to reorganize the new army, and formed a new army in full accordance with the model of Gao Yuan's army. With high salaries, strict discipline, sophisticated equipment, and strict training, the army back then did give Tan Feng some hope.
However, in the first battle of Yuyang, the new army of Yan State, which had not yet become a climate, was once again defeated by Gao Yuan's men, and this battle also completely broke the backbone of Yan State, and laid the evil consequences for the later Qi people to invade Jicheng.
For many years, Tan Feng has been concentrating on fighting against Gao Yuan, of course, he is more attentive to the study of Gao Yuan's policies, whenever a new policy is introduced in the Han Kingdom, Tan Feng will take it to study it carefully to judge the impact of this policy on the Han State.
After many years of research, Tan Feng made some painful discoveries. The strength of the Han army's combat effectiveness is not only based on the combat effectiveness of the army, but also on the overall systematic system, the supply of logistics, the efficiency of the command system, the post-war pension, the domestic people's livelihood, and the implementation of economic policies, and in the Qin State, he is powerless to change these at all.
For example, the post-war pension is the most intuitive. It was also the easiest to learn, but Qin did not do it. The Han State's pension for the soldiers who died in battle is extremely amazing, and for those soldiers who are disabled due to injuries, there is a perfect system so that they can live a decent life after retirement, just this one, Tan Feng thinks that it is enough for the soldiers to fight for the Han State without worries on the battlefield, on the other hand, in the Qin State, those beggars begging along the street are retired soldiers who are disabled due to injuries, and the existence of these people is not only to hurt the dignity of the Qin State. It is even more chilling for the soldiers on active duty, who is not worried that they will become like this?
However, the court of the Qin State was not willing to make more changes in this regard, they were only willing to spend a lot of money on those who had made war exploits and survived, nineteenth-level military merits. There are three turns per level, and there is considerable treatment when you reach the first level, but such people are very few after all. And many more ordinary soldiers are living in dire straits.
Even this one cannot be satisfied, let alone anything else.
The Han Kingdom had completely handed over its logistics system to the merchants, which was initially seen by Tan Feng. It is completely a chaotic government, businessmen are profit-seeking, are despicable, in order to obtain benefits, they dare to do anything, but the Han army has been implementing this policy for almost two years, the result is that the logistics and transportation capacity of the Han army has been greatly improved, the merchants of the Han country in order to get this errand, do not hesitate to invest large capital to improve their transportation capacity and distribution capacity, a large number of new carriages have been put into use, and the material storage and transfer stations stand up on both sides of the communication line, which can be in the shortest possible time. Send the materials needed by the Han army to the hands of the army.
The Han government conducts a public bidding every three years, and all the merchants who have filed in the Han country and whose assets have reached a certain level are eligible to bid, which also allows all the businessmen to continue to improve their service levels and delivery speed after making money, so as to look forward to the next bidding, they can still get this task.
Now that Tan Feng has completely figured out all the links here, the implementation of this policy is not as simple as it seems. It was because of this policy that the Han government completely got rid of a war and needed to mobilize a large number of people to escort the baggage, and these tasks were all carried out by merchants, and merchants needed to pay for hiring people, and the people had wages to pay, and their enthusiasm was also very high.
More importantly, the Han government invested heavily in infrastructure, where the Han army fought, the roads were built, and the perfect transportation network extended in all directions, so that their transportation capacity was also greatly improved, and the use of new horse-drawn carriages saved a lot of material resources, and the new horse-drawn carriages that used iron wheels and wrapped rubber on the outside could be loaded more, and all the livestock were less.
And more importantly, the perfect roads, new carriages, and scientific transportation made the Han army mobilize the least amount of manpower no matter what level of war it faced, and they would not abandon the domestic fields because of a big war, and would not have a fatal impact on the domestic economy and people's livelihood.
And in the Qin State, this will not work. Like the great war with the Han State two years ago, Li Xin's 100,000 troops alone mobilized nearly 200,000 people to escort grain and grass and carry heavy loads, which caused the country's grain output to plummet by 20% that year, and there was a grain shortage in most places.
Tan Feng wrote a detailed report on his research in the past two years and gave it to the King of Qin, he hoped that his research could attract the attention of the King of Qin and the imperial court, so as to make some changes to the Qin State from the root, otherwise in the long run, the advantages of the Han State will become more and more obvious, and at that time, even if Qin and Chu join forces, it will be difficult to compete with the Han State.
It's a dead end that is hard to solve, going around and around, and ending up in the game.
The confrontation between countries, the military is only one part of it, it is more of the confrontation of the overall strength of the country, the army alone is the victory, even if a certain degree of victory is temporarily achieved, it is difficult to change the general trend, just like this time the battle of Pengcheng of Chu and Han, Qin Chu for some painstaking thoughts, the composition for a long time, in the end, although the new army of the Han State was successfully wrapped in dumplings, but the Chu people did not kill the new army, Huang Xie and Qu Zheng are quite sober, they are not willing to form a mortal enemy with the Han State at this time, This became a shield for the Qin state, and after they made demands and were satisfied, they put back all the remaining troops of the new army.
It's a pity that Chu has Huang Xie, Qu Zhong is such a sober person, if the Chu people slaughter the new army, then the current Gao Yuan will inevitably have to use force against Chu because of domestic pressure, and the two countries fight, and it is a big fight, that is the most beneficial situation for Qin.
Thinking of this, Tan Feng couldn't help but think of the big council that Gao Yuan had done, this is a yamen that Tan Feng has not seen clearly until now, saying that he has the right, they don't have any power to govern power, but saying that he has no power, and they dare to veto even the resolution of the highest political hall of the Han Kingdom, what do Gao Yuan want to do with this thing?
Did he want to establish a system that only existed in antiquity? If this is the case, is it the gospel of the Qin State?
Swinging his head, Tan Feng no longer thought about this problem, now he understood that Gao Yuan's head was not a normal head, but what he made could make his Han Kingdom fly higher and higher as if it had wings.
Mao Wei incident, he lost his most powerful subordinate Tan Kang, the last group of people left in the Yan State were also wiped out in this operation, there is no one in ten, basically lost the ability to operate in the Han State, for those who survived, Tan Feng let them hide deeply, without their own orders, never have any activities, these last nails are precious, unless they have to do so, they must not be used.
What comforted him was that Tan Kang did not die in vain, he successfully hijacked Mao Wei, and led to this and severely damaged the new first army of the Han State, and Tan Kang was posthumously named a general because of this merit, which is considered to be an explanation for his family, and he, because of this merit, was named Yingchuan Hou by the King of Qin, which is enough to make him proud, as an outsider, Tan Feng was sealed earlier than Lu Chao, you know, Lu Chao's background is much deeper than himself.
Mao Wei, who also took refuge in the Qin State, was also named Hou Ye, and according to the agreement with the Chu State, a workshop for the production of explosives was established in Suixian, and Zhou Yu sent an army of 5,000 people to guard where it was, and the strict protection of the workshop there was better than the palace in Xianyang, and the black ice platform did not know how much sand was mixed into it, and monitored day and night.
The first batch of products, Tan Feng also got dozens of catties here, Tan Feng experimented a few times, the power is indeed amazing, but it also has a fatal weakness in use, and there are huge hidden dangers in storage, Tan Feng heard that Lu Chao put these amazing things in his general's mansion, he is not willing to do this, one is not careful, this thing exploded, enough to collapse himself into the sky.
Feel free to walk into a store, this is a shop that sells daily necessities, the items inside are basically from the Han country, dazzling, everything, almost everything you need in your daily life can be found here, Tan Feng's eyes swept the items on the shelves, without exception, the labels on those goods indicate that they are from the Han country, this is also a new invention of the Han people, any commodity is pasted on the workshop dedicated to the production of them, and there is also an industrial and commercial bureau in the Han country, which specializes in doing this, Once a name has been registered by a workshop, it is not allowed to use that name for other similar products.
Seeing Tan Feng coming in, the guy hurriedly greeted him, "Childe is here, the boss just came back today, and he is behind at this time!" ”
"Take me!" Tan Feng said simply. (To be continued......)