After seeing Fei Qian's arithmetic skills, the post manager of the post station became much more honest, and he didn't dare to do anything more, so he respectfully led Fei Qian back to the room to rest. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Fei Qian washed up casually, lay down on the couch, tossed and turned, but couldn't sleep.

What the old peasants said during the day still bothered him very much, the yield per mu in the Han Dynasty was too small, how could such productivity support the needs of the army?

In the Han Dynasty, vegetable oil was scarce, animal oil was scarce, and everyone's daily energy consumption basically depended on carbohydrate supply, so that the demand for ordinary food was very large, even if it was two meals a day, it was very surprising to feed a standing army.

For example, the price of today's food is more expensive, but if it comes to the beginning of next year, the price will be about the same, and if there is another disaster year, the price of this meal will be doubled, so the huge expenditure is a staggering value......

This is still just food, as well as consumables such as weapons, armor, bows and arrows, and the monthly salary of each soldier......

In this way, it is impossible to describe the amount of money that needs to be consumed to feed the army all the time......

And during the Three Kingdoms period, how many armies were constantly fighting? From next year, until the final attribution to Sima, it will be at least 30 years old......

During this time, not only soldiers died, but how many ordinary people died innocently?

Not to mention anything else, how many innocent people did Cao Cao kill in Xuzhou alone? Two hundred thousand? Three hundred thousand? How many fields have not been harvested?

In addition, the weather changed abnormally in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, and natural disasters were frequent......

Fei Qian only felt cold all over his body, and he really couldn't sleep, so he simply got up and put on his clothes, opened the door and went out for a walk.

Unexpectedly, he didn't walk far but ran into Zhang Zhao, so he asked, "Zhang Shichang, why haven't you fallen asleep yet?" ”

Zhang Zhao said: "The habit developed in the army is to patrol at night, but why didn't Fei Langjun sleep?" But did it make you noisy? ”

Fei Qian shook his head and said, "It's just that I was a little bored in my heart and couldn't sleep, so I came out for a walk." After Fei Qian finished speaking, he asked Zhang Zhao to rest first, but Zhang Zhao said that he was worried about Fei Qian's safety and would definitely accompany him.

Fei couldn't help it, so he asked Zhang Zhao to follow, went to the lobby of the post station, and gave the guy on duty a few five baht to boil some boiling water to drink.

Zhang Zhao watched the guy with the windfall happily go to boil water, and muttered quietly: "It's really a ...... for money."

Fei Qian smiled and beckoned Zhang Zhao to sit down together.

At first, Zhang Zhao didn't dare to sit, saying that it was good to stand, but he was repeatedly asked by Fei Qian to sit down.

Fei Qian asked, "By the way, Zhang Shichang, how much is your monthly salary?" ”

"My monthly salary?" Zhang Zhao wondered why Fei Qian asked this question, but he still answered honestly, "Now I can get 450 Wen a month!" Thanks to Captain Zhang's promotion, otherwise it would have been less than 100 ......"

When it comes to wage increases, there is no difference between the ancients and modern people, and they are all happy......

Fei Qian nodded after listening, like this, he thought about it a little in his heart, and found that the army was really a money-eating tiger......

"Can military salaries be paid in time?" Fei Qian asked again.

Zhang Zhao smiled and said, "Hmm! Thanks to Captain Zhang, two corrupt scribes were found some time ago, otherwise these guys swallowed our money and didn't know where to cry. ”

"Hehe, Zhang Shichang, what do you think of being a soldier?"

Zhang Zhao's eyes looked upward, obviously thinking about something, and then said: "I don't think anything is good, at least I eat ...... mix."

At this time, the post man who boiled the water brought the water, poured water for Fei Qian and Zhang Zhao, and then went back to the corner and curled up to take a nap.

Zhang Zhao gestured slightly to the guy and continued: "...... For example, like him, he is just a mess of food and clothing, and he usually doesn't have a few dollars left all year round......"

The conversation box was opened, and it was not easy to hold it, Zhang Zhao continued, "That year, Xianbei went south, and many people's homes, including Captain Zhang's, were broken...... So at that time, Captain Zhang was going to be a soldier to kill Xianbei to take revenge, and a few of us followed......"

"What about Xianbei? I mean, how would it be to fight with the Xianbei people? How do you win or lose? ”

Zhang Zhao said of Xianbei with a contemptuous expression, "Those dog-bearded people, just because of the speed of the horse, if they really want to go to the ground, I can fight at least three ......."

"That Xianbei person is not fierce?"

"It's quite fierce, but their blades can't work," Zhang Zhao patted the ring head knife equipped with his side, "Our knife is good, sharp, and it will basically fall down after a knife, their knife is not good, but the bow and arrow are not bad, if you really want to fight in close combat, Xianbei is not an opponent, but it is not easy to catch, and it is always ...... running."

Although Zhang Zhao was a little confused, he understood the meaning. It turned out that the combat power of Xianbei in this era had not yet reached the level of the later Mongols or Manchus, and was still in the low stage of the nomadic people, while the metallurgical technology of the Han people was currently in a state of crushing for the Hu people......

The current tactic of the nomadic Hu people against the soldiers of the Han Dynasty is to walk, relying on the high mobility of the war horse, constantly harassing until they catch the flaw and swarm up.

No wonder Bai Ma Yi beat the Hu people in the north to cry dad and call mother, the mobility is the same, and the equipment is obviously better than a large piece, these Hu people are just in front, just can't run, and it's not easy to run away......

That's why war horses are important, but this thing is a scarce resource.

"Do you know how much your horse costs in a month?"

"That's a lot," Speaking of war horses, Zhang Zhao was also quite proud, such as a few family treasures, "like my horse, it belongs to the Northland horse, not fast, but the endurance is good, and it is okay to eat poorly, but it can't be too bad, and it is easy to lose weight...... If I use my monthly money to raise it, it is estimated that it will be about the same, and there should not be a few pennies left......"

Fei Qian calculated that in this way, a war horse would consume three to four ordinary soldiers' money and food......

Fei Qian couldn't help but sigh in his heart, how do you say that the future generations will be able to summon tens of thousands of cavalry immediately if they are convened, let alone where those war horses come from, just say that they can be raised? This man eats horses and chews, and he raises them by touching the saliva on the upper skin of his mouth?

Thinking of this, Fei Qian felt very sorry for the innocent people who died in the war, why did he massacre civilians at every turn? If these people rebelled against the rule and became a mob, like the Yellow Turban Rebellion, there was some reason to kill them, but why should those people who obviously would not resist?

Murder?

Murder and robbery?

Is it to strike at the hostile forces once and for all?

Or the so-called human nature is destroyed, and it only knows how to kill?

Even the Hu people know that they have taken some people away from them, but they are not completely killed, and they are not even as good as the Hu people?

Fei Qian really didn't understand, he was just a pity, and now he was in the Han Dynasty to know that the Wuhu chaos in the late Three Kingdoms was not because of the strength of the Hu people, but because the Han nation's own civil war had been stabbed to the ground for so many years, which gave those nomads a chance......