Under the spread of the proverb, a large number of homeless or landless people chose to sell their inconvenient family property and migrate to Li Wenyuan in the northwest to flee. These people were escorted all the way by Li Wenyuan's night owls and bandit forces in various counties, and most of them arrived at Xue Ju's territory safely. Li Wenyuan is not afraid of exposing the bandits he finances and supports, after all, there are also a lot of heavy money among them, and the bandits and rebels hired temporarily, only people will believe the truth between the true and the false.

When these refugees arrived at Xue Ju's territory, even if they were safe, they would then pass through the two counties of Jincheng and Xiping under the escort of Xue Ju's army, and they would be able to reach Wuwei County. Xue Renyue, who had already prepared in Wuwei County, temporarily registered and resettled these refugees who had traveled thousands of miles, and then they would disperse and live in the eight counties of the Western Regions under the guidance of local officials, so as to fill the shortcomings of the vast and sparsely populated Upper Western Regions.

Suddenly, the first batch of refugees of nearly 50,000 households almost crushed the administrative system in charge of accepting refugees under Li Wenyuan, who had no relevant work experience, but after realizing this, the county guards of each county increased their investment in the system, and finally ensured the administrative efficiency. The first batch of 50,000 households and more than 200,000 refugees who arrived in the Western Regions were all settled, and in addition to those who enjoyed interest-free loans to buy land, Li Wenyuan also recruited 30,000 people from two army corps again, and all of them were left in the new barracks of various counties for training. There are no immortals in a war, and in a stalemate war, whichever side does a good job in logistics transportation and troop replenishment will be able to achieve the final victory.

"We are facing not only this war against the Western Turks, but also the long period after the defeat of the Western Turks, the suppression of those steppe nomadic tribes who were previously dependent on the Western Turks, which will consume more of our energy, if it is not for the fear of the depletion of the people, I would like to have all the people soldiers, you must know that we have gathered five legions on the Western Front, 75,000 combatants, sprinkled on the steppe will not play a role at all, we have to think about war, survival, and finally as the victor, we are qualified to think about life." Li Wenyuan said this when he was faced with the blocking of the door of the ministers of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the Ministry of Agriculture, and the Ministry of Industry to persuade Li Wenyuan to conscript.

The materials consumed in the training of recruits themselves are not much, but after Li Wenyuan came up with the concept of a professional soldier in advance in combination with some concepts of later generations, the cost of training a soldier soared. Such a high-cost investment also imperceptibly makes the officers in the army more cautious when using their troops, and will not wantonly squander their cannon fodder, after all, no matter what time the war is, it is a confrontation with a cost-effectiveness ratio.

Wars between nations are always divided as reasonably and efficiently as possible under a fixed total amount of resources. Whoever has the best utilization of the resources of the hand will be able to fight to the end and ascend to the throne of the winner. From ancient times to the present, the essence of war has never changed, whether it is the use of muskets or sticks, it is interests that drive and restrain war, and it has not changed, only that interests have become more complex and unpredictable.

The ministers of these three departments are also Li Wenyuan's descendants, all of whom have passed the imperial examination and then entered the political work school to study, and they are all from poor families, and one is a sinicized Hu person from his grandparents. The reason why they expressed their opposition to Li Wenyuan's continued expansion of the army this time was simply because of the influx of 50,000 families of refugees into the Western Regions. There were at least five to seven people in each household of 50,000 people in the Central Plains, but with the war, injuries and illnesses on the way to the west, there were only four to six people in the Western Regions.

There is no problem with the distribution of subsistence grain for 200,000 people, and Li Wenyuan has prepared it early, but the residence of these 200,000 people is a very headache, and the planned residence for these refugees has long been available, but the lack of manpower has always made the construction of these houses relatively slow, just when the minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs was preparing to arrange for the Western Regions to solve the problem of housing construction by means of cash-for-work that Li Wenyuan first proposed and used, Li Wenyuan's conscription order took away nearly one-third of the young and strong. This made the Minister of Civil Affairs directly find Li Wenyuan.

The Ministry of Agriculture asked Li Wenyuan to settle accounts because of the Ministry of Civil Affairs' worries about whether this year's total grain production could meet the issue of the next year's subsistence grain distribution, but the Ministry of Agriculture was more inclined to resettle these refugees to work in agriculture to ensure this year's grain harvest.

The reason for the Ministry of Industry is simpler, he himself is dissatisfied because Li Wenyuan has given priority to the Ministry of Civil Affairs under the limited total amount of labor, and at this time, he has long been forced to become a little angry by the lack of labor under his hands and the slow repair of the city defense, so he came to Li Wenyuan to ask for an explanation.

Seeing the three people in front of him arguing with his own reasoning, Li Wenyuan still felt a little proud in his heart, after all, a few years ago, they were still traditional officials who would only obey and obey the orders from above, but now they have dared to use the power in their hands to fight with themselves on some issues of interests. It's not that Li Wenyuan has some strange masochistic habits, it's just that in order to ensure that the power structure he created can be as honest and efficient as possible, he must ensure that the water of officialdom flows, after all, flowing water can not be corrupted. At this time, looking at the results of democracy in front of me, which I put on my neck, everything shows that things are developing in the way I hoped.

However, now is the time of war, everything is for the war, if the war is lost, then everything they argue is meaningless, so after Li Wenyuan once again emphasized the necessity of maintaining the number of troops during the war, the three of them can only go home in a huff and go to find their own ways to solve the problems they face.

However, Li Wenyuan also knew that the Western Regions was also the time to continue the labor force at this time, and although the five legions were sprinkled on the grassland, they could not even see a shadow on the grassland, but at this time, they had not yet defeated the Turks, as long as they controlled the rhythm of the war and always maintained the suppression of the Turks, they would be forced to gather their troops together as soon as possible, so that after only a few large-scale annihilation wars, the entire Western Turkic steppe would be their own. Zhang Juntai mentioned the issue of the rhythm of war for the first time in his plan to Li Wenyuan.

Zhang Juntai belonged to the very stable kind of generals under Li Wenyuan, even if he occasionally proposed some risky plans, he would arrange as many retreats as possible after failure. Therefore, Li Wenyuan was still very relieved about Zhang Juntai's plan, and after carefully reading Zhang Juntai's plan, Li Wenyuan gave the three ministers who came to discuss the law a benefit: these people could be temporarily transferred after training to carry out some other corresponding work.

(End of chapter)