Heifu said eloquently: "After the last battle of Chu, I think the county lieutenant also understood that Chu is not comparable to Wei and Yan, and the Chu region is 5,000 miles, holding hundreds of thousands of halberds, and has a feud with Qin for the fourth generation. Now facing the danger of losing the country, so the nobles raise orphans and children to benefit the people, the people try their best to cultivate crops to benefit the accumulation, the soldiers to manage the armor to benefit its sharpness, and the craftsmen to increase the city and the pond to benefit its solidity. The king of Chu was responsible for his ministers below the festival, and the general Xiang Yan pushed the dead soldiers below, which can be said to be the monarch and the ministers are single-minded, and they work together from top to bottom, and they are still trapped in the Huiji......"

"Therefore, I guess that the king intends to use the old general Wang Jian as the commander to attack Chu, and if he does not send troops, he will do his best, and if he sends troops, he will go all out to empty the soldiers of the Qin State, otherwise, he will not be able to easily defeat the mourning soldiers of the Chu State!"

Li You was still puzzled: "Having said that, how can you know that the number of soldiers proposed by General Wang to the king is 600,000?" ”

Even in the Xianyang court, there are probably no more than twenty people who know this specific number.

In addition to the people present such as King Qin, Wang Qian, Li Xin, Wei Yi, Xia Wuhe, etc., they also knew about Li Si, Feng Wuxue and other important ministers who were going to participate in the plot to destroy Chu.

Li You, as the only bright spot in the first expedition to Chuli, was valued by the king of Qin and decided to let him also participate in the military council, so he knew about it. And although Feng Jing is the son of Feng Wuxuan, he does not know because he has not reached the height.

So when the two heard that Heifu had reported the figure of 600,000, they were both surprised and inexplicable.

Heifu bowed his head: "It was inferred by the subordinates." ”

"Inference?"

Feng Jing was a little unconvinced: "Zuo Bing Cao Shi is in Nanjun, far away from the temple, how can he deduce so accurately out of thin air?" ”

Heifu chuckled, "Yes." ”

The sky had gradually darkened, the anointing oil lamps in the hall of the county governor's mansion had been lit, all the subordinates had been driven out, and in front of Li You and Feng Jing, Heifu began his "deduction" in a serious manner.

"The art of war, where the army is 100,000, the expedition is thousands of miles, the people's expenses, the public service, the daily expenses are thousands of gold, internal and external disturbances, those who are neglected on the road, and cannot do things, 700,000 ......"

"When Wu Sun Tzu was in power, eight families were neighbors, and one person from one family joined the army, and seven families needed to serve him. Therefore, it is said that 100,000 teachers, and those who do not work as cultivators, 700,000 families. ”

In the spring and autumn periods, productivity is low, but the daily consumption of grain and straw will not be reduced, so the proportion of conscription is also very low. According to the calculation of 5 to 8 people in a family, 8 families range from 40 to 64 people, and the conscription rate of Wu is only 1.5%-2.5%.

"Today, the Qin State uses the law of the Shang Jun to encourage farming, and the yield per mu is much more than in ancient times, so about five families can send a soldier to thousands of miles away. A few months ago, I heard the county lieutenant say that Qin has three million households...... Therefore, after a rough calculation, it is known that the soldiers of the empty Qin State are only 600,000 people! ”

The Qin state has occupied half of the world, with more than 3 million households, each of which is a family of five to eight, with a population of between 5 million and 20 million, and if there are 600,000 people, the conscription rate is 3%-4%.

Too little? But the fact is that for two thousand years, the proportion of conscription in all dynasties will not be much higher than this figure. In his previous life, Heifu read an article saying that the conscription rate was between 11.5% and 14.7% when Germany was at its strongest in World War II, and the total population of Germany was about 80 million at that time, plus the servant national army, it was only a little over 10 million.

600,000, this is already the limit of Qin's conscription, no matter how much, it will greatly affect the production in the rear, the people's life will not be able to go on, and the soldiers on the front line will have to have dishes. When Zhao State was in the Battle of Changping, the conscription once reached the standard of 10%, and the result was that Zhao's economy collapsed, and the country's millet could not support the front-line soldiers, and it could not borrow grain from neighboring countries, so it could only fight quickly, which was a bloody lesson.

"Therefore, the state of Chu is not 600,000 and cannot be destroyed!"

After the deduction was completed, a burst of applause rang out in the room, and it was Li Youzai who exclaimed: "What a black man, your temple calculations are almost the same as the original intention of General Wang!" ”

Feng Jing also changed his disapproval, sighed at Heifu's deduction ability, and no longer dared to underestimate this ordinary-looking black-faced military man, he avoided the table and bowed:

"I've been learning the art of war, and I don't know much about the 'temple calculation' and 'knowing oneself' mentioned above. Today, when I heard the deduction of Zuo Bing Cao Shi, I knew what was 'temple calculation' and what was 'confidant'! It seems that after actual combat and non-actual combat, there is really a difference, and there are still a lot of things to learn from the kid! ”

Heifu hurriedly returned the courtesy and humility, and muttered secretly in his heart: "Knowing the result and then reversing the process, it all depends on how I blow this mouth, of course there will be no mistakes......"

Since he was told by Heifu, Li You didn't have to hide it anymore, so he told Heifu and Feng Jing what happened in Xianyang last month.

As early as last year, the king asked General Wang Jian and General Li Xin about the time, and General Wang Jian insisted that Chu could not be defeated unless there were 600,000 people, and General Li Xin said that 200,000 people were enough. So General Li Xin was appointed as the commander and attacked Chu with 200,000 men, and General Wang Jian told Lao Pinyang. ”

"As a result, two months ago, the two generals Li Xin and Meng Tian were defeated by Xiang Yan, and the Chu army entered the two walls, killed my seven captains, and our army was defeated and retreated to Shangcai and Yangcheng. Because of the first snowfall, the two countries withdrew their troops, but they did not make peace. There are still 100,000 troops on the front line, and the Chu people are also ready to move, and they may continue to march westward at any time, and the battle of Qin and Chu is not over yet! ”

Speaking of this, Li You still had lingering palpitations, if it weren't for Heifu's reliability, he would probably be the eighth lieutenant to die in battle.

"General Li Xin really lost his division and humiliated the country, after the king heard about the war, he was furious, and belittled the two generals Li and Meng, and went to Pinyang in person, saw the old general Xie Wang, and asked General Wang to be the commander......"

In the detailed dialogue, how the King of Qin invited Wang Qian, even Li You did not know, only that in the end, Wang Jian finally agreed to be the commander of the army, but the requirements remained the same: "It must be 600,000 people!" ”

Hearing this, Heifu secretly sighed, it is impossible for Wang Jian not to go out of the mountain, because he will not forget the fate of Wu Anjun more than 30 years ago......

Although the upper echelons of the Qin State had completed the "beginning" steps of the war, it was impossible for 600,000 people to be assembled at once, and the grain to feed these people had to be slowly stored in the granary. Therefore, the high-level of the Qin State decided that this time they should not rush to send troops, but wait until the autumn harvest when the grain warehouse was full before attacking Chu, and send Li You and others to the counties first, and immediately start this year's conscription work after the spring plowing and farming are over, and then go to the front line after training for five or six months!

After listening to Li You's strategy of the Qin State, Heifu put down a big stone in his heart, worthy of Wang Qian, from before the war, there was a word "stability".

Indeed, the Qin State now occupies an absolute advantage in terms of national strength, population, soldiers, and system, and blindly impatient is to give others the opportunity to fight back on the high ground, stabilize and not wave, and slowly advance the tower, Chu General Xiang Yan Even if he is a genius, he will not be able to reverse the situation.

Therefore, Li You's injuries only healed and rushed to Nanjun, just to prepare early and carry out the conscription work, after the last war, he was full of confidence in the Nanjun soldiers.

"As Heifu just calculated, five households raise one soldier, and there are 150,000 households in Nanjun, and when the farm is slack, at least 30,000 soldiers can be recruited to rush to the front line!"

In this way, each of the eighteen counties in Nanjun has to send at least 1,000 troops, and Jiangling, Yan and other counties with large populations have to send 3,500 troops.

Li You said with a smile: "The army will be conscripted after spring ploughing, and when the second son first comes, he will go to the house arranged for you to rest first." ”

Heifu and Feng Jing got up to promise, but Li You called out to Heifu again, saying that there was still something to ask him.

So Feng Jing said goodbye to Li Youzuo, nodded to Heifu, and came down to the hall.

When he walked to the door, looking at his pair of silk shoes inlaid with pearls and jade, as well as Heifu's pair of gray cloth shoes, Feng Jing couldn't help but sigh: "Before, I thought that it was really unnecessary for Li You to personally recommend a border pawn, but today I know that this person is really an ordinary person!" No wonder Li You believes in him so much! ”

"My father and uncle are right, when you go to the county, you can't underestimate the people of the state department!"

……

In the hall, Heifu asked with concern, "I didn't have time to ask, doesn't it matter if the county lieutenant's injuries are serious?" ”

"On the way to Nanjun, the wound still hurts occasionally, but it's fine." Li You said with a smile: "The king ordered the imperial doctor to order Xia Gong to treat my injuries, Xia Gong's medical skills are excellent, and the medicine is really cured." ”

As soon as he heard Xia Wuhe's name, Heifu roughly guessed what Li You was going to say to him.

Sure enough, Li You pointed at the black man with his hand and scolded with a smile: "Okay, you black man, when you were wrapping up my wounds in Chudi, you only said that you had a friendship with the doctor Chen Wuyi, and asked him to give a suggestion to the imperial doctor Ling Xia Gong!" I didn't take it seriously at the time, but do you know that on the day I entered the palace for the first time after I recovered from my injuries to meet the king, I mentioned your exploits in helping me break through, and Xia Wuhe immediately fell to the ground, confessed his guilt, and then presented a silk book to the king in person! ”

Heifu secretly scolded: "It's been almost a year since this incident, and there is no news at all, I thought it was yellow!" It turns out that Old Man Xia has been waiting for the best time! What a person! ”

Li Youyi said: "Yes, on that silk book, it is your suggestion about setting up medical and emergency personnel, so that soldiers can fight with peace of mind." After listening to it, I was so shocked that even the king praised it! Do you know what the king says about you? ”

"What does the king say?" Heifu involuntarily sat up, he actually had a little expectation in his heart, this is from Zulong's evaluation.

Li You arched his hand towards the north with reverence on his face and said, "The king said, among the thorn oaks, there are also catalpa materials?" ”