In fact, you can't blame Quintu for not seeing the world.

Even Lu Jia felt that Chen Hua's boasting was a bit too much at this time.

What is the concept of a Million Soldiers?

If he let go of the brag in the Western Regions, he just dared to boast that the Han had 700,000 male soldiers.

As a result, he just gave Chen Hua a look, now it's okay, there are 780,000 field troops that can be used for combat at any time, and the miscellaneous and other armies add up to more than one million in one mouth?

"Chen Junshou, the old man remembers when he left the Han Dynasty four years ago, but there were only more than 600,000 soldiers?" Lu Jia reminded with some embarrassment on his face.

"Hey, when was that? Lu Envoy didn't know that in recent years, the Han people have been very enthusiastic about joining the army, and there will be violent quarrels every year because of the quota. Chen Hua smiled indifferently, thinking that there was a problem.

Feelings are just such a trivial matter?

Inexistent.

"Let's just say that the Sanchuan County where I served before, that is the core of the empire, can the Lu envoy know how the quota of the counties in Sanchuan County is allocated?" Chen Hua couldn't help but have a look of pride on his face.

"How?" Lu Jia thought about it, he knew a ghost.

Besides, Lao Tzu is also good for Sanchuan County, right?

"In the first two years, there weren't so many things, but later, with the improvement of production capacity, the empire has a large number of young and strong people at home, and the land at home can be cultivated casually, and there is not so much work for them to do, one by one they want to improve the family living environment, what to do? I can only sign up for the army. ”

"But Your Majesty has clearly stipulated that conscription must be based on local conditions, and the ratio is basically controlled below 30 to 1."

"What does that mean? In fact, it is very simple, the Ministry of War needs to understand how many idle endowments have been released in various places through Shangshu Province, and then calculate the proportion of idle endowments according to the total number of local populations, and finally according to this ratio, and then summarize according to the situation across the country, and then allocate quotas. ”

"That is to say, the quota of 135,000 recruits a year is fixed, and these 135,000 places will be divided into 36 counties, with an average of only 3,750 people in each county, but some counties have more people, some counties have fewer people, and the number of recruits cannot be treated equally, so that the counties with fewer people will not be able to produce agriculture in the future."

"Therefore, in counties with few people, the quota is basically only 51,000, such as Sanchuan County, Yingchuan County, Dang County, Chen County, Hedong County, Guanzhong, these places with large populations can often be allocated about 10,000 places."

"But even so, this quota is still not enough to be allocated, Xingyang Ling and Cheng Gaoling once scolded each other in the county government, accusing each other of winning too many places and not talking about martial arts."

"In the end, we have no choice but to decide on the basis of the number of people, the number of agricultural output, the number of idle young people, and the number of new population.

Chen Hua said eloquently, these are all things he has personally experienced, and even some of the original projects were personally taken by him to be assessed.

So he is very clear about some of the rules and regulations in this.

As for why the people have such high enthusiasm, it is naturally the same reason as he said earlier.

The amount of cultivated land is limited, and as a county with a large population, the amount of official land is also very limited.

The young and strong labor force released in the early years has already participated in other projects and has a fairly stable income.

And the labor force released in the past few years has nothing to do.

In the past, spring plowing needed to be busy from beginning to end, and there was no need to stop in the middle, and a slight delay of two days of work may delay this year's farm work.

What now?

Not to mention working for a day and resting for a day, working for a day and resting for half a day, in the end, you can finish your work about ten days in advance.

Especially for families with large populations, the theory that one plus one equals two is absolutely incorrect when it comes to farming.

A family of ten can farm almost 20 percent faster than a family of four.

In the past, it was necessary to have so many people, but now that there are more suitable farming tools, there is no need for so many people.

Either they choose to move out, to a county with fewer people, where they can redistribute arable land, and they can get more.

Or you can only rely on these cultivated fields to eat, and then find a way to find some other work.

Maybe it's all done and people are robbed, what can be done with the rest?

I had to go to the army.

In the past, being a soldier was compulsory labor, and there was no money to get it, but now it is a profession, and not only is there money, but it also earns more than going out to sell physical strength.

As for saying that it is not dangerous, in fact, people in this era look at it quite openly.

After all, some of the older ones had experienced the battle of the Six Kingdoms of Qin.

Even young people have experienced the two emperors of Qin Shi Huang and Qin II.

One is under a lot of pressure, and the other is simply Hu Qiu.

For them, life and death are downplayed, anyway, life is good now, since they want to improve their lives, they have to find a way.

In the past, if you don't give money, of course you don't want to go, but now that you have money, who will calmly not go?

"That, Chen Junshou, this place recruits 10,000 people a year? This...... It's unimaginable...... "The more Kuntu listened, the more confused he became, he didn't know enough about how big the Han Dynasty was.

But in Wusun, he knew that the only one who could come up with 10,000 troops was the royal court.

In the other tribes below, the stronger ones can come up with three or five thousand troops, and the weaker ones are basically one or two thousand.

No matter how small a tribe is, it can only survive under other tribes.

And the Han Dynasty was able to recruit 10,000 people a year?

And it's the people who have broken their scalps to sign up?

In order to get a few more places, the officials actually scolded each other in front of the officials?

This is completely beyond my mental cognition......

"Hehe, do you know how many people there are in Sanchuan County?" Chen Hua smiled and asked rhetorically.

Quintu subconsciously shook his head, he wanted to know that there were ghosts.

"There are now more than 2.6 million people in Sanchuan County!" Chen Hua continued.

In terms of explosive soldiers, no one can really play a big man these days.

Because it has not reached the critical juncture, and the country has not yet reached the most difficult stage, so there is no need for so many troops.

In addition, in order not to affect agricultural production, the emperor had strict requirements for the number of conscripts.

If the number of recruits suddenly increased in any given year, it was not because the emperor was going to use all his troops.

Rather, it shows that agricultural production technology has been improved, and the Han Dynasty has released a group of young and strong laborers.

And the current business development can't digest so many people.

Therefore, in order not to let so many people be idle and have nothing to do, it is natural to absorb them into the army and stay.

The first is to guard the frontier for the country, and the second is to give these people a patriotic education lesson.

Although the cost of raising troops is very high, the Han army now implements a military reclamation policy, and wherever the troops go, they either reclaim the army or graze the cattle.

Anyway, a new military camp has been established, and within three years it will be self-sufficient in supplies.

And the imperial court can save a lot of money without the long-distance transportation of grain and grass materials.

In addition, the mining of copper ore has been intensified and the smelting technology has been improved, so the annual income has skyrocketed, which fully supports this consumption.

It seemed that seeing these people frightened by what he said, Chen Hua felt very satisfied.

That's what you want.

Looking at it again, Lu Jia seemed to be very satisfied with his statement.

Of course, Chen Huake doesn't think that he is bragging, because what he says now is the truth.

But now that all has been said, if you don't brag about it, how can you be worthy of these guests from afar?

"The total population of Dahan has more than 20 million people, and it is growing at a rate of nearly one million every year, and in the future, this population will only increase!"

"It is said that Your Majesty is preparing to develop the Han army to the scale of two million within ten years, and then maintain it at this limit."

"Of course, if there is any major crisis, with the population base of the Great Han, the upper limit of the army can be increased to five million in a short period of time."

"Well, that's pretty much it, those young people who haven't been soldiers also have to spare half a month for military training every year."

"......" Quintu looked dazed, there are more than 20 million people in the Han Dynasty??

Edi Niang, my Wusun together is not as large as the population of Sanchuan County?

What are you doing?

However, if this is the case, doesn't it mean that the Han Dynasty had enough strength to move westward into the Western Regions?

Even if there is a natural barrier like Bailongdui, it is actually nothing to the Han army.

As long as they can go over, they can be allowed to herd sheep, or they can be allowed to farm, anyway, the Western Regions are vast and sparsely populated, and it is completely fine to place one or two hundred thousand Han troops.

The big deal is that Wusun can provide some cattle and sheep to help them find a suitable land for farming.

As for whether the Han Dynasty will take advantage of this opportunity to swallow the Western Regions.

What to say, King Wusun has long thought about this, otherwise why would he send his daughter?

Isn't that obvious enough?

Isn't this just telling the Emperor of Han that you can enter the Western Regions, but in any case, you are also my son-in-law, and when the time comes, just give your father-in-law some face, don't make your father-in-law unable to come to the stage.

It seems to be very sloppy and spineless, but in this time period, this seems to be the only way to save Wusun.

Anyway, no one on either side can beat them, and if they don't want to be slaves to the Huns, they can only come to the Han Dynasty to see if they can be individuals.

"Han envoy, when are we leaving? I can't wait to go to Luoyang to meet His Majesty the Emperor of Han, or let's leave tomorrow, get to Luoyang a little earlier, His Majesty the Emperor Han can also send troops to the Western Regions a day earlier to kill the Huns' gang of grandsons......" Kuntu looked at Lu Jia with an eager face and asked.

Chen Hua, who had just finished bragging about the, instantly looked confused, this Wusun Prince's Chinese is too authentic, right?

Proper Luoyang accent, needless to say, must have been learned from Lu Jia.

However, what Chen Hua didn't expect was that the Qiuzi envoy also echoed and nodded: "Han envoy, I feel that what the eldest prince said makes sense, and I also want to drive away the young and kill the group of turtle grandchildren of the Huns......."