The old Lu family is now stuck in a kind of dead loop.

If you want to do more, you need more labor.

The labor force has increased, but there is not enough food.

This is the situation where the steps are so big that they almost reach the egg.

Unless he is willing to enter a slow tempo, Lu Wu can only plan a balance.

Which thing is more important, set aside the corresponding labor force to do that thing.

The lesser things are slow.

So, for the old Lu family, what is the urgency to do well first?

Hardly on top of it, what they need most is food.

There is a saying that "when you have food in your hands, you don't panic in your heart".

I can guarantee that I won't go hungry, and I still have the desire to do the rest, and once there is a food crisis, people should be so panicked that they don't want to do anything.

"Visible?" Lu Wu took a roll call and asked, "How many people do you need?" ”

Of course, Yu Xian thinks that more is better, but he knows very well that it is impossible.

He thought for a moment and said cautiously, "Lord, it must not be less than twenty thousand. ”

Lu Wu, who had already checked the documents, knew that Yu Xian had mobilized 10,000 men to reclaim the wasteland when he set out on his expedition.

In this way, 80,000 acres were reclaimed in four months, is the efficiency fast or slow?

It depends on the terrain in which the reclamation is carried out.

Therefore, it is difficult to judge the efficiency value of the effort.

Lü Wu remembered the content of the document presented by Yu Xian, and the suggestion in it was to reorganize the cultivated land that had been reclaimed.

The so-called cultivated land that has been cultivated refers to the arable land that was previously developed by the nobles and later abandoned.

After all, the "yin" land is not uninhabited since ancient times, and there were many nobles who were divided here, and they had to work if they wanted to eat, which was equivalent to the need to cultivate the land.

Later, for various reasons, the aristocracy disappeared, and the population was so drastically reduced that no one took care of it, and the cultivated land inevitably returned to the ecology of the wasteland.

This type of wasteland is far less important than the rest of the land, and generally only needs to be burned once and then processed with plant roots.

Unlike cutting down trees, it takes a lot of effort to remove the stems and roots, and you have to deal with stones.

Even if you are cultivating an area without trees, there is just as much debris to dispose of.

Serving the land is a delicate job, and there is no such thing as rough work, and it can be imagined that it is time-consuming.

"Yes." Lu Wu's heart ached faintly, but he knew that he couldn't refuse, so he looked at Song Bin and asked, "How many people do you need to recruit?" ”

Song Bin already had a case in his abdomen, and said: "The lord is already a 'middle doctor', the military position is 'handsome', and he needs to bring 7,500 'soldiers' to pay for the endowment, and the fief must be garrisoned without ......."

Lu Wu cut off and said, "Within five years, I will not be able to pay the amount." ”

After becoming a "lower doctor" before, Lü Wu became a "brigade commander", and when he went to Nafu, he did not bring the 1,500 soldiers needed by a "brigade".

This was a kind of "protection period" for new nobles in the Jin state, allowing them to pay less than the amount for a period of five years.

Lü Wu knew that there were many nobles who had passed the "protection period" this year, and they did not bring a full number of soldiers to Nafu.

They were warned once, and the next time they begged their grandfather to tell their grandmother, no matter what method they used, they would definitely find a way to carry the full amount of soldiers.

Just because one warning is the limit, and if it doesn't meet the amount required for status, the fief will be reduced.

Song Bin was a little disappointed by Lu Wu's negativity, and said: "The Lord is the doctor of the Jin Kingdom, and only the strong can be Hengqiang." ”

Several other retainers said the same thing.

The old Lu family is not a slave now, with a population of about 50,000?

Lü Wu has been increasing the number of samurai, repeatedly promoting it to three thousand.

It is equivalent to saying that there are 3,000 households under his rule that do not need to pay taxes, and everything they produce is counted as their own family.

Of course, Lü Wu carved out the land to the samurai.

In this way, the samurai needed to reclaim the cultivated land on their own, and it was no longer a burden for Lü Wu to face directly.

According to Song Bin's opinion, the old Lu family needs at least 13,000 warriors in five years, which is equivalent to increasing the number of warriors year by year.

"Four thousand?" Song Bin said from a very direct point of view: "'Shi' is not a day. If you don't become a 'scholar' as soon as possible, how can you go out to collect taxes? ”

Lu Wu hesitated.

Of course, he knows that with the improvement of his status, it is not whether he can do something or not, but that he must reach that height.

Once you can't form the strength that matches your status, the higher you climb, the more painful it will be.

It's not even strong anymore, and there is not even a chance to be weak again.

The strong are always strong, that's what we're talking about.

Lu Wu thought to himself: "This is forcing me to rob again and again!" ”

Just for business, no matter how hard you put your heart, it is impossible to achieve "quantitative change" in a short period of time.

Just like "open source and reduce expenditure", if there is no "source" itself, the "flow" will be exhausted, and no amount of "saving" will be able to change the "quantity" held.

By increasing the number of samurai, the topic turned back to the labor force.

Lü Wu pondered that foreign conquests could target the Di and Rong people, and domestic wars needed to capture savages.

When there is a shortage of food, the Hu people can be used as a consumable.

It's not racial hatred, it's just out of necessity.

Moreover, Lu Wu knew too well that after the Hu people developed and grew stronger, they would be a threat to Zhuxia.

can consume Hu people, how can he be soft-hearted.

In other words, knowing what the footbasin chicken did, there is a chance to destroy the footbasin chicken, do you do it?

If you want to be a good person, first understand the harm done to Zhuxia by the Hu people of all dynasties.

The Hu people merged into Zhuxia, not because they took the initiative, but because they were beaten to the point that they had to integrate.

With some double standards, the savages need to integrate into the old Lu family to achieve rapid population growth.

This is not particularly kind to savages, but purely because of the similarity and fit in terms of culture and thought.

They worked out for a while.

20,000 laborers will be responsible for the cultivation of cultivated land.

A thousand samurai will be added in the short term.

The addition of samurai is not only the loss of a free labor force for Lü Wu.

Each samurai had his own immediate family members, and all of a sudden, Lu Wu was deprived of thousands of people who could be assigned labor at will.

The manpower required for the first step of building the city was calculated according to the 20,000 people required by Lü Wu.

The others were all distributed, and there were almost no idlers left in the old Lu family's capable manpower.

Lu Wu had the idea of choosing to "concentrate people to do big things".

That is, to concentrate manpower and material resources to complete something in a short time.

When you think about it, it's an impractical thing.

It's not that you can't accomplish something in a short time, it's that doing so will inevitably have an impact on the rest, even fatal.

To put it bluntly, the "quantity" of the old Lu family is there, not obviously how much "volume" there is, but the utilization rate is too low.

In later generations, the Celestial Empire was able to repeatedly accomplish "concentrating on doing great things", mainly because the "quantity" was placed there.

End of meeting.

Lu Wu called out to Song Bin and said, "You can discuss with the warriors and practice with my skills." ”

Song Bin was at a loss for a while.

The samurai of each noble family usually trained themselves.

If you need to pay for the expedition, that's it.

If there is no need to go on an expedition, three months of the year are concentrated for discipline and military training.

This is the reason why after the army is assembled, the Jin army can always be as one person and move neatly.

Lu Wu knew that the soldiers were now the mainstream of Zhuxia, but it was difficult for the old Lu family to catch up with the big nobles by taking the "ordinary road", and it was impossible to fight the number.

He took Song Bin to an arsenal.

Many of the chests were moved out, and when they were opened, they revealed a short sword with a handle.

The length of the blade of these swords is about fifty centimeters, and the width of the blade is relatively large, and the blade is also thick.

Some shields were also lifted out.

The shield is wooden, semicircular when viewed from above, and rectangular when viewed from the front; It is one meter six high, eighty centimeters wide, and about five centimeters thick.

The samurai in the ring armor picked up the short sword and then the shield.

Those who know how to see it will know what it is.

will definitely scold Lu Wu Jingluo.

He can't help it!

Simply engaged in spearmen, and found that the role was too limited after a few times.

The spearmen on Zhuxia's side are not the same thing as the Greek spearmen.

The poles of the Zhuxia spearmen were a little thicker, and the poles of the Greek spearmen were thinner.

The longer the object, the more difficult it is to use, and the weight of the object makes it really difficult to use without a certain amount of strength.

Lü Wu picked and chosen, and he formed three hundred spearmen.

A hundred samurai were mobilized.

They put on ring armor, held short swords, and carried shields.

Under the command of Lü Wu, a hundred samurai formed a formation of "tortoiseshell formation".

He explained again and again, and gave one order after another.

The "tortoiseshell formation" of the samurai began to move forward, looking a little like that.

When it comes to the simulated engagement, the samurai in the front row finishes the attack, that is, they neatly slam their shields forward, and then stab their swords from top to bottom; After the first row of attacks, the second row goes up one after another, doing the same actions as the previous comrades; Layer after layer, it is pushed in turns.

At first, there were no problems, but later the first samurai made a mistake, which caused one of the queues to be out of order, which in turn affected the rest of the queues.

Just analog can do this?

If it's really at war, you can imagine how bad it is.

So, it's clear.

If an army does not have a good Phalanx tradition and cannot provide the best training and support for its soldiers, it will not be able to use the demanding tortoiseshell formations.

"This ......" Song Bin was shocked even though he saw the bad side. He thought for a moment and asked, "Lord, but do you want to echo the spearmen with this 'array'?" ”

Is there a multi-class cooperation?

Of course, Lu Wu had this expectation.

"As far as Bin knows, the Wei clan has this kind of 'formation' technique." Song Bin didn't understand whether Lu Wu specifically wanted to distinguish himself from the Wei clan, so he made an innovation, and said, "There is indeed a need for intensive training. ”

Do you think you have a future for development?

In addition, Lü Wu knew that the Wei clan had been researching and developing heavy infantry.

That's the satellite TV built on the research and production volume of armor!

Lu Wu doesn't know when "Wei Wushu" developed, but he became famous after the Warring States period.

It's the middle of spring and autumn, and even if he knows Wei's training methods, he can't imitate them exactly the same, or he's provoking.

The same goes for other families.

Therefore, Lu Wu can only engage in "new tricks".