Chapter 981: Jia Xu's Observations
Fei Qian moved to Pingyang with the large army, while Jia Xu accompanied the army. Although Jia Xu didn't directly say that he was willing to assist, do his best or something, but in fact, it was about the same......
After all, the matter of the Flying Bear Army is somewhat of a vote from Jia Xu?
Seems to mean something like that. Fei Qian didn't expect to get the relevant information about the Flying Bear Army from Jia Xu, and it seemed that Dong Taishi's Zhongxing Sword could play a certain role in it.
It turned out that Dong Zhuo was in the later stage, under the influence of drugs, and the time to be completely awake was getting less and less, and he himself seemed to feel a little bad, so he sent his Flying Bear Army to the Guzang area first, perhaps to ensure the back road in case of emergency, or to balance the power of Xiliang Ma Teng Han Sui and others, but no matter what it was, unfortunately, Dong Zhuo then forgot about this matter......
Fei Qian shook his head, fortunately Dong Zhuo was inexplicably confused, otherwise it would be really hard to say, but Jia Xu was able to know such a secret thing, which means that in fact, Jia Xu's status in Dong Zhuojun may not be as small as his official position, I am afraid that there are still some things that he does not understand.
Flying Bears......
Hehe, Fei Qian suddenly thought, if this Flying Bear Army is compared with Cao Cao's tiger and leopard cavalry, I don't know which one will be stronger?
Historically, there are also some strong points about the tiger and leopard riding, and it seems to be the standard commentary on it. Although there are not many records of the direct participation of the tiger and leopard cavalry in the battle, all the battles in which the tiger and leopard cavalry appear are basically hard battles.
First of all, in the ninth year of Jian'an, in the battle of Nanpi with Yuan Tan, Cao Chun "supervised the tiger and leopard to ride from the siege of Nanpi, attacked it urgently, and Tan was defeated." Chun's subordinates rode and beheaded Tan", Yuan Tan died at the hands of the tiger and leopard rider led by Cao Chun.
In the twelfth year of Jian'an, when the northern expedition to Wuhuan was carried out, it was Cao Chun who led the tiger and leopard to ride on the battlefield and cut off the head of Wuhuan Shan Yu Dun.
In the thirteenth year of Jian'an, Cao Chun conquered Jingzhou, chased Liu Bei in Changsaka, won the baggage of his second daughter, and collected his scattered pawns, which is the most classic case of a cavalry long-distance raid in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
Later, the tiger and leopard cavalry also appeared in the battle of Tongguan with Ma Chao, and the battle of Xiabian with Zhang Fei......
From the record of the tiger and leopard cavalry, almost every battle, Cao Cao is in the most critical moment into the tiger and leopard cavalry, it can be seen that the ability of this army to attack the fortification, in addition to the mobility of such a force is almost incomprehensible, the pursuit of Liu Bei is "three hundred miles a day and night", even the army of Xiliang Ma Chao, who is good at horse warfare, was also defeated, so the tiger and leopard cavalry is almost a peak model of cavalry during the Three Kingdoms.
However, Fei Qian frowned slightly, the time when this tiger and leopard rider appeared, well, it seemed to ......
Fei Qian turned his head and looked at Jia Xu, who was marching with the Chinese army, and a thought suddenly popped up in his heart, should this tiger and leopard rider have any connection with the Flying Bear Army?
There is a saying that the tiger and leopard cavalry was selected from the Wuhuan cavalry, but there are some problems with this statement, after all, Wuhuan and Cao Cao were still separated by a Yuan Shao at that time, even after Yuan Shao's death, it was too late to complete the formation in the battle of Nanpi that chased and killed Yuan Tan.
Another theory is that after Cao Cao pacified Jizhou, he transferred Jizhou cavalry training and formation. This is even less likely. Because if these tiger and leopard horses came from the Jizhou Shiclan Dock Fort, then there was no reason for Yuan Shao not to use them himself but to stay for Cao Cao to collect and use.
What is certain is that Cao Cao did not have tiger and leopard cavalry during the Battle of Wancheng, and did not even appear when he attacked LĂź Bu and confronted Yuan Shao later, and most importantly, at that point in time, Cao Cao did not have much strength to support a strong cavalry force......
You must know that a cavalry team, not only the cavalry is important, but the war horse is also important, there is no war horse origin, where did Cao Cao come from the cavalry troops?
So......
If you compare it with the current situation, it is also the step that Jia Xu prepared for himself, and suddenly it makes sense.
Of course, this matter can only be a guess by Fei Qian, and at this point in time, I can't say that I wrote a letter to Boss Cao, and asked Senior Brother, have you formed that tiger and leopard rider?
Fei Qian glanced back at Jia Xu again, this guy who had been to Pingyang in the name of Retort He, did not expect to bring Fei Qian such a surprise, of course, more importantly, Jia Xu's wisdom will definitely be more useful in the future......
Okay, I'm having fun stealing.
Jia Xu, who was in the middle of the Chinese army, lowered his head, rode a horse, and slowly followed the large army.
The Flying Bear Army is actually not something that Jia Xu can control.
However, in the area of Wuwei and Guzang, there is another person, that is, Li Ru, Dong Zhuo's housekeeper at that time. So after Jia Xu asked people to go with Fei Qian's Zhongxing Sword, Li Ru saw the Zhongxing Sword, and naturally knew what it meant.
In fact, borrowing Fei Qian's Zhongxing sword, Jia Xu also has a purpose, that is, to pass on this matter to Li Ru in Xiliang through this form, on the one hand, to let Li Ru know the current chaotic and changing situation, and on the other hand, to reassure Li Ru, after all, now Jia Xu is following a group with relative advantages......
The key is that this Fei Qian has actually made a prototype similar to the Flying Bear Army, although it is slightly different, but in Jia Xu's opinion, it is already seven or eight out of ten similarities!
The Flying Bear Army, as the name suggests, can know, in fact, this is an amphibious, well, wrong, there are heavy armored troops with strong combat effectiveness under the horse, and the horse can gallop 300 miles a day, and the horse can attack the city and pull out the village, the people are strong and the horses are strong, and they are extremely sharp.
But now......
Jia Xu shook his head slightly and exhaled lowly.
I don't know where this Fei Qian came from, and he knows too many things, right?
Look at the unit on his side, look at the heavy armor and horse armor on the baggage cart dragged in the middle of the queue, and then look at some of the heavy armored soldiers who followed Fei as escorts, as well as the strong crossbows neatly stacked in the baggage cart, according to Jia Xu's estimate, such a force of less than two thousand people, its combat effectiveness can even compete with four or five thousand ordinary soldiers in Xiliang, let alone those militia and strong troops.
Jia Xu understood almost instantly, this Fei Qian, attacking Guanzhong, didn't use all his strength, how many cards did this freshly baked general of Zhengxi hide?
Therefore, Jia Xu may be able to exchange some benefits for taking out the Flying Bear Army now, but if he hides it, in the future, he may not be as valuable as it is now......
Similarly, Jia Xu is also very interested in the current situation in Pingyang, and I don't know what Pingyang has become in these years, or what kind of war reserves Feiqian has reached now.
All the way, the sun rises, and the sun sets out. The more we move towards Binh Duong, the more prosperous we become, and the more we feel that these prosperity are not easy to come by.
In fact, the taxes of the Han Dynasty have always been not very heavy, the worst time was "ten taxes one", there were "fifteen taxes one", there were also "thirty taxes one", and there were even times when taxes were not collected.
At present, the "20 taxes and 1" are implemented in the Binh Duong area, which is a little worse than the time of Wenjingzhi, but for the farmers who cultivate the land, it is already a very good benevolent government.
During the period of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, the tax policy should also be maintained between ten taxes and one fifteen taxes, for the common people, this is not much different from the early Han Dynasty, but the same tax policy in the early Han Dynasty created the "rule of Wenjing", and now there is a huge problem, many farmers can not survive, there is the basis of the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the most fundamental reason is the land annexation.
This kind of land annexation occurs in almost every dynasty, and it is often irreversible.
During the period of the new Wang Mang, efforts were also made to implement land reform for a period of time, but it was not successful. In fact, in the Han Dynasty, although land can be bought and sold privately, it is still still state-owned, or owned by the emperor.
As a result of land annexation, many yeoman farmers have become tenants, and in addition to paying agricultural taxes to the state, they also need to pay land rent, plus temporary levies and assessments from time to time, which has led to difficulties in many peasant households' lives and even become displaced people.
Did the ruling class of the Han Dynasty know that there were so many displaced people in the Han Dynasty?
It should be said that the rulers of the Han Dynasty also took some relief measures at first, but later, this policy could not be implemented because the treasury of the Han Dynasty was empty and there was no money.
The reason for the lack of money was not the extravagance and waste of Emperor Ling of Han, but the continuous ups and downs of the rebellion of the Qiang people in Liangzhou, resulting in huge military expenditures.
The rebellion of the Qiang people is related to the attitude of the rulers of the Eastern Han Dynasty towards Liangzhou itself, so the government is very corrupt, no matter which force it is, they all regard Liangzhou as a place to make money, so it continues to be a vicious circle until the current situation.
Especially now that Hongnong is declining and Guanzhong is about to enter the footsteps, the contrarian rise of the area near Pingyang is particularly precious.
Not only in farming, but even in business, Jia Xu also felt the vitality of Binh Duong.
The closer to Pingyang, the more people came and went on the road, and even began to appear caravans, squeaky and crookedly driving a large car that was obviously overloaded, seeing Fei Qian's troops, hurriedly rushed to both sides of the road, get out of the way, and then took a few people to hold some wine and meat or something, and bowed down to the left of the road, in order to reward the army.
Jia Xu watched silently, and then saw that there were not only Han people in these caravans, but also some Huns with felt hats, or Qiang people with their heads wrapped, no longer like when they arrived in Pingyang before, there was only one Han caravan surnamed Cui.
Jia Xu thought about it, and suddenly his heart moved slightly, and he wanted to step forward as soon as he clamped the horse's belly.
But the problem is that Jia Xu is sitting on a horse, slowly following the large army, there is no problem, it has always been very stable, and he doesn't even need Jia Xu to give any instructions at all, he follows without making noise, and Jia Xu naturally didn't find anything wrong.
However, when Jia Xu suddenly decided to move forward and rushed to see a clear look, he suddenly found that the colt he was sitting on seemed to be half a beat slower......
I shook the reins a few times, but there was no movement.
What's going on, Jia Xu kicked the horse's belly a few more times, but there was still no movement......
Then just as Jia Xu was half-sideways, tilting his head to see what the horse under his ass was like, the horse suddenly moved, hula and ran forward!
Fortunately, there were not many soldiers in front of the horse, and Jia Xu hurriedly reined in the horse in a hurry, so that he did not bump into other soldiers, otherwise the crime of ramming the army was more or less indispensable.
However, in this way, the team also affected a little, and immediately attracted the military law soldiers who patrolled back and forth to come and check.
Jia Xu was sweating, all scared out, in the army, all kinds of military methods are not a joke, if this really collided with other soldiers, the light one hit the board, and the heavy one fell off the head, so he hurriedly got off the horse, and said that he was startled by the horse, and he was no longer willing to ride this horse......
Jia Xu turned his head to look at the figure of the Qiang man who bowed down on the left side of the road, looked at the dark turban wrapped around his head, and the horns of the sheep hanging diagonally on his shoulders, and the style of the decorative items on his body, Jia Xu, who was born in Xiliang, almost immediately judged that this Qiang man was the first Lingqiang!
You must know that Xian Lingqiang is now in Longyou, and even Xian Lingqiang has come to Pingyang for trade, so what extent has Pingyang's commerce and trade developed now?
You must know that although the Han Dynasty was not as unwelcoming to merchants as some feudal dynasties in later generations, it was actually not much better.
After all, highly mobile merchants did not conform to the mainstream concept of the Han Dynasty. The Han Dynasty began to suppress the power of merchants since Emperor Wu, and this national policy was also inherited by later emperors, mainly because merchants were not as easy to manage as farmers, and merchants gathered a lot of wealth, which was also prone to cause some other problems.
However, the Han Dynasty emperor's behavior of suppressing merchants promoted the strength of the powerful in various places, because commodity exchange is an irrepressible natural demand, and the excessively harsh conditions for ordinary merchants are equivalent to letting this part of the interests fall into the pockets of the local powerful and powerful, which also indirectly promotes the rise of the powerful forces.
However, what appears in front of Jia Xu now is not only the caravan of the Han people, but also the caravan of Qianghu, which not only means that Fei Qian has now extended his trade to Longxi, and may even expand to the Western Regions, but also shows that under Fei Qian's hands, the caravan surnamed Cui no longer monopolizes the trade in Pingyang......
This Fei Qian is really an anomaly!
It's just that I don't know if this is intentional or unintentional......