After the autumn harvest in 1798, new grain was put into storage, and the Qin State began preparations for a decisive battle with Pars.

According to the order of the Qin Palace, including armed civilian officials, all young men and women of Han people over the age of 15 and under the age of 50 in the Qin State must prepare for war.

This will be a real general mobilization, and the number of Han Chinese troops participating in the war will reach 30,000, of which 20,000 will be on the front line and transportation lines alone, and there will be many female soldiers with guns to fight, even female cavalry.

Pioneering in this place far from the core of the native civilization, I have to say that the Qin State is indeed rich in martial virtues.

In addition to the Han people of the Qin State, Xu Daixuan also asked for support from the mainland and the neighboring Jin State, and the local people were not polite, and directly issued a list to recruit volunteers across the country, and it was expected that 5,000 people would be recruited to go to the Qin State.

In addition, there were more than 1,000 reinforcements sent by the King of Jin.

These 6,000 reinforcements will bring their own weapons and horses, but the king of Qin will pay for the salaries and rations of these people. Those who did not marry a wife were given a female slave to keep their bloodline, just in case, their booty could be kept by themselves (but they had to pay taxes), and if they planned to stay in Qin after the war, they could also get the land, land, livestock and other materials issued by the king of Qin, so as to settle down in Qin.

While the Han soldiers were mobilized to the limit, the troops of other nationalities naturally would not be idle.

Other ethnic groups brought by the Han Chinese from east of Yumen Pass, such as Sauron, Mengwu, Tubo, Dangxiang, Goryeo, and Fusang, were also fully mobilized.

In the past two years, with the help of the Empire's abolition of many foreign households, the Qin State has greatly replenished these populations, and with the mobilization of all their men over the age of 14 and under the age of 60, the Qin army has been able to dispatch 60,000 soldiers.

Then there are the reinforcements from the countries of the Western Regions and the troops of the natives.

The eight countries of the Western Regions, which had attained great development in the west of the Green Ridge and were dependent on the Qin State, could mobilize more than 10,000 troops.

The Tiele people, who originally lived west of the Green Ridge, were ordered to mobilize 20,000 soldiers, and the Khorezm people under the pressure of Zuo Helin mobilized another 20,000 soldiers.

The total strength of the Qin army was about 146,000, and there were 100,000 slaves of various tribes who served as coolies and auxiliaries.

As the so-called soldiers and horses have not moved, grain and grass go first.

The man who maintained an army of nearly two hundred and fifty thousand men ate horses, and it was not an easy job for any country of this era.

In order to maintain the front-line operations, Xu Daixuan ordered the mobilization of large livestock across the country to maintain the transportation capacity of the large army.

The military cadets who came to support the local area formulated a detailed transportation plan for the King of Qin:

Three desert convoys were formed with 2,400 camels and took the desert route.

With 18,000 horses and 3,000 cattle, six general convoys were formed to transport non-desert areas.

Using the mobilized labor of slaves, roads and post stations to the front were built throughout the country, each of which stocked up on some food for emergencies.

After the grain arrives at the destination, the grain transport team can obtain the corresponding calculations, and can go to the rear to exchange the scarce materials from the country, or directly exchange it for money.

Many large enterprises in China found that this is a profitable business, they can set aside a part of the capacity when transporting to the front line, transport goods to the front line to make a profit, and when they return, they can also transport the goods from afar back and sell them to earn a sum of money, plus the high freight of the Qin King's settlement, one fish and three eats, and this kind of wartime transportation, as well as preferential tax policies, is simply beautiful.

For the sake of profit, the nascent capitalists each formed their own convoys, hired staff, guards, and purchased horses, weapons, and vehicles, and prepared to provide logistics services for the Qin king.

The specially formed transport team, the commercial transport team from the home country, and some of the logistics that each unit was responsible for (for example, the Tiele and Khorezmian people brought their own military rations, and the Mughuls drove large flocks of sheep to the battlefield), which together constituted the logistics supply force of the Qin army's expedition.

With the transportation capacity, there must be enough grain and grass to be transported to the front line.

The broken leaves and rivers of the Qin State, as well as the Jade Dragon Jiechi controlled by the Khorezm people, are all well-known places with abundant water and grass, but no matter how abundant the water and grass are, they cannot supply such a large army and an unusually large number of cattle, horses and camels.

According to the calculations of the General Staff of the Qin Army, if the war time was controlled within half a year, the Qin State itself could only guarantee 39 percent of the grain and grass needed by the whole army (including the cheese needed by the nomads and the sheep they rushed in), and the remaining 61 percent of the grain and grass and more than 95 percent of the guns and ammunition needed to be transported from China.

If the war lasts longer than half a year, the proportion of self-sufficient food and grass will be halved. If the war lasted for more than a year, then the Qin State would effectively lose a whole year's harvest, and most of the grain and grass would have to be supplied by the mother country until the end of the war.

The Qin King's staff refused to include the Pars grain that might have been captured at the front, because they felt that this source was too unreliable, and if it was counted, it would easily cause problems, and the security redundancy was too low.

In order to make up for this supply shortfall, which was as high as more than sixty percent, the King of Qin and his team had to do everything they could.

Fortunately, there is enough grain in the home country, as long as you can get money, or make the bank believe that the Qin state has the ability to repay, then the food itself is not a problem.

Qin's large-scale cotton planting has already yielded results, and the cotton harvested this year can be transported to China, which can solve part of the financial problem.

An additional piece of good news for Xu Daixuan was that the Qin state did not need to take the difficult northwest route to connect with the mainland, but could use Monan to directly detour to the Qin state—a route that was longer in a straight line, but without the series of geographical obstacles in the northwest, it was actually a little better.

The rest will have to rely on domestic borrowing and loans.

To this end, the king of Qin borrowed 30 million taels of new dollars from the major banks of the empire as collateral for large territories and mines.

In addition, the Qin State Treasury bonds were issued in Huaxia, and the interest rate was much higher than that of the imperial treasury bonds, with 10 million in the first phase, 30 million in the second phase, and 50 million in the third phase, totaling 90 million taels.

If all goes well, these funds will be enough to cover all the shortfalls, and there will be a lot of money left.

But this aspect requires the Qin army to continue to win, and the territory is getting bigger and bigger as the foundation, if the war is lost and new territory cannot be obtained, then such a large amount of money, just the interest is enough for Xu Daixuan to drink a pot.

After all, it was the emperor's grandson, and it was impossible for the imperial family to let Xu Daixuan fall so far, so in order to strengthen the confidence of investors, the cabinet sent 4,000 regular field troops to Qin at the end of 1798.

Han Qian is invincible, this has become a kind of consensus. Just hearing that the 4,000 field army was about to go to Qin to help in the war was enough to make people believe that Great Qin would win, so they flocked to Qin's national debt.