Guanzhong, Dong Zhuo was very excited. Because Yuan Shao sent an order to summon. Let him send troops to Luoyang, the capital division. The news is definitely good news for him. Because he had the opportunity to enter the capital of Luoyang. This is an opportunity.

"My lord, this is a good opportunity." Guo Yan said.

"Hmm." Dong Zhuo nodded, if it weren't for Guo Yan being here, he would definitely have to wave his arms. In this way, his situation can become much more favorable. Entering Luoyang, this is a good opportunity to enter the hub from the place.

"But I'll wait for the scale of the troops to be controlled, I think, this time we can send twelve battalions." Dong Zhuo said. Dong Zhuo can't bring more troops according to the opportunity, he plans to send 6,000 troops, which is the peak. If there are too many troops, it will not be good. It will arouse suspicion in the center.

"Well, but we can also adapt the follow-up labor, and we can let them go into battle at any time, so that we can follow up strongly." Guo Yan suggested.

Dong Zhuo nodded, he thought that this trip was completely feasible.

In fact, Dong Zhuo has always done this, in the previous operations, the people were the logistics unit, and it was impossible for them to join the battle. But the use of firearms by the Republican Army completely subverted this way of supply operations, and logistics units could also participate in the operation. Because firearms are easy to operate, they can also play a role when necessary, and even, among Dong Zhuo, they have treated the people as a reserve military force, and they can be added to the firearms at any time. The new model has brought great new changes to logistics, and this change is a new development model for them. In such a situation, their situation will develop much more favorable. Obviously, that's what they should be most aware of.

"The war situation is much more favorable than we have ever been, but we still have to hand over the logistical things to the Republican Army, the replenishment of ammunition, and the medicines, etc., which they do better than us. The most important thing is transportation, which will take us too much energy. Dong Zhuo said.

The use of firearms has increased the number of infantry to a new quantitative level, which no one has discovered at present, but once the scale of the war is expanded, this quantitative level will have a completely new effect, as long as there is sufficient ammunition and firearms, they can be put into battle. Further requirements for the quality of soldiers were reduced.

But the logistical pressure will increase, which would be a large order of magnitude if it had been done the way it had been before. This is what Dong Zhuo is most worried about.

But these don't matter, they can be handed over to the Republican Army, because the logistics of the Republican Army is completely commercial, and they have a more advanced horse-drawn carriage transportation system, which is fast and has a large carrying capacity. For such a situation, the threat is not very great.

Dong Zhuo could have left these to them to do such a thing. But there are other things that can't be treated that way. Or rather. Behind the logistical supply pressure, it's something else.

"The last general is not worried about these things, lords, money. How can this money be settled? Fighting a war costs money, and we have already spent more than half of the money in the treasury. Without money, how can you drive them? Guo Yan said worriedly.

This question stopped Dong Zhuo all of a sudden. yes, what to do? This is a big, big problem for him, because there are many things that he can't solve at all.

Although gold and silver coins can solve some of the fiscal problems, there is still no fundamental improvement in finance, the old economic system has not changed completely, and fiscal revenues are still beyond their means. There are more and more places to spend money. They will definitely not be able to last for a few months, in fact, in another three months, the gold and silver in their treasury will be completely depleted, and at that time, if there is no new replenishment, Dong Zhuo may be completely bankrupt. In contrast, this is the biggest crisis.

Dong Zhuo's army will be completely bankrupt. Thinking of this, Dong Zhuo felt very uncomfortable, and the order to march into Luoyang. On the contrary, it can't boost his good mood just now.

"How's that okay?" Dong Zhuo said. Perhaps, there is another way, that is, to continue to borrow money, but if they continue to borrow money, how far can their situation be maintained? He himself doesn't know very well. Perhaps, the banks of the IRA will lend them some of this money.

And in the area of the Republican Army.

Businessmen, bankers, entrepreneurs, they all care about one thing. The significance of railways.

The benefits of building railways are clear, they consume more coal and require more iron because they need to lay quite long tracks to get to their desired destinations.

The benefits of building a railway are also very straightforward, for example, from Fenglingdu in the east of the river to Jinyang directly, if you take the fastest carriage, it will take two days and two nights to reach at the earliest. However, if you use a train, this will quickly be reduced to a single day, and if you convert it to theoretical hours, it will take about nine hours. This time reduction is very obvious, and the economic benefits will be very large, which means that Hedong and the state may form a new system.

These are all newspaper visions. Many people think that this is impossible to do, and in their understanding, perhaps only flying can understand such things.

The emergence of many new things has far exceeded people's imagination.

But on the other hand, more people think that it is already possible, but the key question is what is the direction of investment, the benefits of the future, and the direction of future development.

The amount of iron consumed to build such a railway was very large, which was probably more than twice the total amount of iron produced by the imperial court in one or even two years. So much iron paved the road. It is also necessary to build locomotives. It's a lot of money, and obviously, they're more practical.

The scale of these investments is going to be a huge number. Because no one has ever done this before, it will cost more labor, and the economic effect will be very large, in addition to food. These are all things that investors need to consider.

But the railway represents the future of economic development, and the significance it brings will be more meaningful than that of any other imperial period. How to do such a thing comes up, this is something that investors consider.

In short, the railway is a big, big thing, and this thing will have a new impact on everything for them.

Li Jiazhuang, War Department.

"The Huns are really big enough, they are willing to sell the Hetao to us, but the problem is that we can't get the Hetao at all." Jia Xu handed a telegram to Shang Wu.

The wars of the northern nomads grew on a larger scale. They need money, they need weapons, they need all sorts of supplies, but the war is endless, and they are tired of this. But there's nothing they can do, because there's no way for them to deal with this kind of thing. We can only watch things like this develop.

"The Loop is an enclave for us, and for us now. I estimate that the Huns knew that we could not take such a place, and even if it was sold to us, we would not be able to take it and hold it. In the end, they will easily take it back, and then we will buy it again. This is simply unreasonable. Shang Wu shook his head.

The Huns also seem to have learned something. They began to sell some parts of the Loop to the Republican Army, but for the Republican Army for the time being, most of their military strength remained in the area south of the DMZ, unable to expand, and if they wanted to occupy the Loop, they would need to prepare at least six infantry divisions or more to capture the Loop. And hold there, but the republican army in the land west of the river, the military force arranged, only three infantry regiments. The difference in strength is huge, and for them, this is something that simply cannot be done.

"We simply can't do anything like that. And the Huns have eaten us, which means little to us. "Shang Wu Cai will not eat such a place, enclave, which means that the Republican Army will not be able to eat it at all. This is an extremely difficult area to control. The IRA is practical.

"Well, my suggestion is to continue to capture their population, as long as they reduce their population, they will inevitably lose a lot, and when the population is rapidly reduced to an alarming point, there will be no people in those places, and there will be no military power, no strength, and our benefits will develop much more favorably. This will be a very beneficial development for us. Jia Xu said.

"Hmm." Shang Wu nodded, Jia Xu has always grasped the root of the problem, what is the root, the population. Nomads have a small population, and the war will greatly reduce their population, if they have a population demand, for example, to buy a large number of prisoners of war at a high price, and the demand is maintained continuously, what will be the result? The situation is going to be much more favorable.

Because the population of the other side will seriously affect the size of their soldiers and tribes, and eventually lead to the weakening of their military power, on the contrary, the Republican Army will be strengthened, because their economic power is increasing, which provides more labor supplements, and when a certain time, the Republican Army can use its forces on a large scale to counterattack, so as to reach the scale of their attacks, which is the best beneficial result for the Republican Army.

Controlling the other side's population is the root of all problems. Shang Wu couldn't agree more.