At present, there are not many troops that Li Ye can mobilize, and the army of Chengdu Prefecture cannot be mobilized, which is to stabilize the rear of Shudi. In fact, Chengdu Mansion has less than 30,000 troops, Li Ye feels a little thin, but there is the Songzhou Governor's Mansion next to it, Nanzhao's current national strength is declining, and Tubo is in civil strife, but there is no existence that can threaten Shu.

In addition to excluding the army that had to defend Guanzhong, Li Ye could mobilize less than 100,000 troops.

Although half of the army in Zhao Deyan's hands is a rabble, after all, this is an army of more than 100,000 people, and if there are too few troops, it may not be able to recover Shannan Dongdao.

Thinking of this, Li Ye made a decision in his heart.

"Let the troops change their defenses, let the Zuo Shenwu Army take over the defense of Tongguan, the Zuo Tiance Army will be transferred to Shangzhou, and the Zuo Longwu Army will be transferred to Huazhou."

"Does His Highness really plan to use troops against Shannan Dongdao?" Li Yingxu hesitated.

Li Ye's order is obviously aimed at Shannan Dongdao.

If you want to see the current wind direction of the imperial court, you can actually look at the movements of the Tiance Army.

The Youtiance army was stationed in Jingyuan and Suining, and in addition to dealing with Hexi, it did not mean to deter Li Sigong.

Zuo Tiance's army was stationed at Tongguan, mainly to guard against the strong domains of Shandong, including Zhu Wen, Qin Zongquan, and Wang Chongrong.

However, now that Chang Xingru occupies Shaanzhou, there is a buffer zone between the imperial court and the strong domain of Shandong, and the fifteen thousand people of the Zuo Shenwu army are responsible for the defense of Tongguan. In addition, the imperial court does not want to face these strong Shandong domains at present, so there is no need to deploy heavy troops in Tongguan.

And Shangzhou is close to Shannan Dongdao, and the purpose of placing the strongest Zuo Tiance army here is self-evident.

"Naturally, this king doesn't want Qin Zongquan to continue to plague Shannan Dongdao and Jingnan." Li Ye did not deny it.

In fact, there are few good things in these feudal towns, and many people are brutal by nature and have good personalities, but they can't rise in this troubled era.

The dead Yellow Nest is a personal slaughter. Qin Zongquan, Zhu Wen and others who have been with Huangchao have this problem, and of course Wang Chongrong, who has just died.

However, at present, among these feudal towns, none is more brutal than Qin Zongquan.

To describe the brutality of Qin Zongquan and his army in one sentence: west to Guannei, east to Qingqi, south to Jianghuai, north to Weili, fish rotten birds scattered, people cut off, thorns and hazel cover the wilderness.

Wherever Qin Zongquan's army passed, the people were either killed or scattered, and the people were killed when there was no food, and human flesh was used as military food.

This leads to various problems, that is, the current population of Shannan Dongdao is less than 150,000 households, which is more than half less than when Liu Jurong was in charge of Shannan Dongdao, and this 'credit' is naturally Zhao Deyun and his army.

Since Zhao Deyan occupied Shannan East Road, a large number of people fled to Xingyuan Mansion, Jinzhou or Shangzhou, which also increased the population of Shannan West Road in disguise.

Ten years ago, the actual population of the Tang Dynasty was about 60 million, and now it may be just over 40 million (estimates, including the unregistered population).

The Yellow Nest Rebellion was the most direct cause of the sharp decline in population, and the direct Yellow Nest Rebellion had a population of up to 10 million. Combined with the chaos of feudal towns in other regions and the current rebellion of Qin Zongquan, the population has been declining in recent years.

Shannan Dongdao has been reduced by more than half in three years.

At present, the population of Jingnan has also decreased dramatically, with less than 400,000 registered households, and the number of households in Jiangling Province has been reduced to 100,000.

Both of these are related to Qin Zongquan: Shannan Dongdao is currently being fought by Zhao Deyan, a subordinate of Qin Zongquan; And Jingnan was also attacked by Zhao Deyan, and in two years, the population was directly reduced by one-third.

Even the Guanzhong and Shu regions currently controlled by Li Ye have a total population of less than 2 million households.

The population of Shu has only increased in Shannan West Road, reaching 400,000 households and a population of about 2.7 million.

Sichuan Province, which is composed of the east and west rivers, had a combined population of about 800,000 households and a total population of more than 4 million when Li Ye first arrived in Chengdu. Now, however, it has not increased, but has dropped to 700,000 households, bringing the total population to between 3.6 million and 3.8 million.

The reason for this is because since the defeat of Yang Shili's army, there has been a major war in the east and west of Erchuan for three years. First, Xichuan captured Dongchuan, then Li Ye attacked Dongchuan, and then attacked Xichuan.

In the Guanzhong area, there are less than 500,000 households and a population of less than 3 million.

In fact, it can be seen from this that only the population of Shannan West Province is growing, not only the number of registered people, but also the average number of people per household.

After the expulsion of Lu Yanhong, Shannan Xidao did not experience major wars, coupled with Li Ye's concept of light punishment and mercantile governance, it developed rapidly, and the population naturally grew rapidly. Among them, there is natural growth, and there are also refugees who have fled from places such as Shannan Dongdao.

What is most important in these troubled times?

It's hard to say, but food and population are important.

has a sufficient population to arm a larger army; And the more food, the more troops will be fed.

Li Ye, who occupies the land of Shu, is actually not short of food and people, but he is not satisfied with this. After controlling Shannan Dongdao and Jingnan, the imperial court had a great initiative when it was to attack Jiangnan along the river, pacify Hunan, or intervene in the war of feudal towns in the Central Plains.

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"Damn! This Wang Ke actually dared to rob me of this festival, and he was angry with me! ”

Jinju, Assassin's Mansion, Wang Chongying is furious here.

Previously, it was Wang Chongying and Wang Ke who sent troops together to defeat Chang Xingru and other rebels, but in the end, Wang Ke suddenly attacked Wang Chongying. Wang Chongying was defeated and fled back to Jinju with thousands of remnants of his army.

But now, in the land of the river, except for Shaanzhou south of the Yellow River, which was occupied by Chang Xingru, and Yuzhou was returned to the imperial court, Wang Chongying was still the largest force in the northern region of the Yellow River.

As Wang Chongrong's mediocre talent, he also followed the other party in the river in his early years, so after Wang Chongrong's death, those who supported Wang Chongying occupied the majority and owned several states.

At present, Wang Ke only occupies the periphery of Hezhong Mansion, with only more than 10,000 troops, and his strength is not strong.

Just when Wang Chongying was about to gather an army to attack Hezhong Mansion again, a holy decree came from the imperial court and appointed Wang Ke as the envoy of the festival.

This news can be said to have taken the entire river by surprise, but he did not expect that the imperial court would appoint Wang Ke as the envoy of the river festival.

Although the imperial court is now weak, after all, it occupies the great righteousness, and the army in the river has just been defeated by the imperial court, so the appointment of the imperial court still has some weight. This made some wavering people start to lean towards Wang Ke, after all, this is the official festival envoy.

"Father, the child seems to have heard that Wang Ke used half of the profits of the salt pond to get the court to agree to him as the envoy of the river festival." Wang Chongying's eldest son, Wang Qiang, hesitated.

"What?" Wang Chongying obviously didn't know about this, and was immediately furious, "This loser." When the fourth brother was there, he would rather fall out with the court than give up the benefits of the salt pond. Who gave this Wang Ke the courage to dare to do such a rebellious thing? ”

Wang Chongying was so angry that his beard trembled.

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He didn't expect Wang Ke to be so bold. Why did Wang Chongrong prefer to fight with the imperial court rather than give up the profits of Yanchi when he was there? It is because the profits of this salt pond are huge, and the many armies in the river can only be supported by the profits of the salt pond.

In the first battle of Guanzhong, the army in Hezhong lost more than 20,000. But in a year and a half, these losses can be made up, because of the existence of salt ponds.

But now that Wang Ke has given away half of the profits of the salt pond, doesn't it mean that the profits of the entire river will drop a lot? And the salt pond is still in the hands of Wang Ke.

Without delay, what will he use to feed these tens of thousands of troops, how to let those wavering generals follow him.

"Father, it's true. The imperial court appointed Zhang Chengye as the salt envoy, and the salt ponds in Xie County and Anyi were located, and half of the profits went to the imperial court. Wang Heng, the second son on the side, said.

"Damn, if it goes on like this, the foundation laid by the fourth brother will be ruined by this loser." Wang Chongying said angrily.

"Father, the top priority is to immediately send troops to recapture Hezhong Mansion, and then drive out the imperial court's salt envoys. Otherwise, when Wang Ke's power grows, the first thing he will definitely do is to deal with his father. Wang Qian hurriedly persuaded.

"This... Thinking of sending troops, Wang Chongying hesitated a little, "What if the imperial court sends troops?" ”

Within a month, Wang Chongying could gather an army of 40,000. Dealing with Wang Ke, who only has an army of more than 10,000 people, is naturally not too much of a problem, but he is worried that the imperial court will send troops.

A few months ago, they had just been defeated at the hands of the imperial court, and Wang Ke was appointed by the imperial court as a jiedu envoy. If he overthrows the other party, will the court sit idly by?

If it's far away, maybe it's possible. However, the imperial court was on the other side of the Yellow River, Tongguan on the other side of the river had an army of the imperial court, and there was also an army of more than 20,000 people in Yanyan on the other side of the west bank of Jinju.

The imperial court, which integrated the armies of Jingyuan, Yanyan, Suining and other places, greatly increased its strength. At this time, against the imperial court, Wang Chongying had no bottom in his heart.

"Father, you can find the king of Longxi County, he definitely doesn't want to see the imperial army enter Hedong."

The king of Longxi County is Li Keyong, because the title of King of Jin was given by Yang Fugong, and the court did not issue a holy decree to recognize, so it is not counted. Although Li Keyong sent troops to attack Chang'an, afterwards, the imperial court did not remove Li Keyong from his position, so he still had the title of King of Longxi County.

"Yes, you can ask the Shatuo people for help!"

Wang Chongying's eyes lit up.

(End of chapter)