As for Ma Long, who made a righteous act on impulse in his early years, he was refrigerated for more than ten years. His political IQ is very high. If Sima Yan hadn't personally asked him, he wouldn't have taken the initiative to write a letter to His Majesty the Emperor.

During the month of repentance in the Taimiao, Sima Yan did not do nothing. In addition to his own profound review and reflection, he also solicited opinions from front-line commanders such as Ma Long, Du Pre, Wei Guan, Chen Qian, Yanghu, and Meng Guan with a very sincere attitude. It was precisely because of the effective synthesis of the opinions of the major front-line commanders that Sima Yan really had a clear understanding of this failure.

In the reports of these people. Ma Long and Du Pre's report clearly aroused Sima Yan's interest.

Ma Long's report was not long: Your Majesty, the battle situation on the Tongguan side has stabilized. The minister was unable to counterattack the newly built Hua ** city of Shu thieves. But the Shu thieves could not break through the defense of the ministers. At present, there are 50,000 troops here in Tongguan, but in fact, there is no need for so many at all, 10,000 people are enough. You can take the rest back. By the way, the combat effectiveness of these 40,000 people is really bad, and Your Majesty should replace the generals of the Chinese army and reorganize the Chinese army.

As for the new commander of the Chinese army, Chen had many long talks with Du Yuankai in Tongguan, and he greatly admired this person's military strategy. I think that this person's talent is far above the minister. This is a rare handsome talent, and it was really a waste to be used by everyone as a logistics civilian official because of physical reasons. Therefore, although the minister is humble and light, for the rejuvenation of the country and the re-strengthening of the Chinese army. Solemnly recommend Du Yuankai to His Majesty to rebuild the Chinese army.

Because there was a counterattack on Jiang Wei in Tongguan, he played the only exchange ratio that was beneficial to his side. Now Sima Yan is very fond of Ma Long. As a result, Malone actually admired Du Yu so much in the letter. This aroused Sima Yan's interest. Then His Majesty the Emperor gave Du a proposition composition: try to talk about the root cause of Yongliang's defeat.

Du Pre's special report is very well written.

Du pre-told Sima Yan clearly. The defeat of Yongliang this time is divided into two major plates: external factors and internal factors. The external factors include the enhancement of the national strength of the Shu Han Dynasty, the time of day, the alien race, the geographical environment, and the containment of the Wu State. Among the internal factors are the degeneration of the Chinese army, the confusion of personnel, the wrong distribution of troops, and the temporary factors of the battlefield.

To put it simply, there are two fundamental reasons, one is that Shu Han is indeed much stronger than before. Second, there have been extremely serious failures in the country's response. In the end, Du said that this defeat was due to both accidental and inevitable factors. But on the whole, chance is superfluous: if we face up to the reality that Shu Han has become powerful from the beginning. Based on this reality, if we set out to deploy defense in Yongliang, this war would not have been fought like this.

If this report is handed over to Guan Yi to see, then Guan Yi must feel that Du Wuku is very unqualified. But from Sima Yan's point of view, this report is very comfortable to watch.

It turns out that we were just stolen by Shu thieves, it was accidental. As long as we rise up, there is still a lot of hope.

It's not that Du Yu can't see the real problems of this war, but in order to get to the top, he can't understand some words.

"Ladies and gentlemen, have you read Du Yuankai's report? What do you think? ”

Without waiting for the six people to speak, Sima Yan said categorically: "Du Yuankai is really talented, I will wait for the replacement of the prince to be completed." He was appointed as the crown prince and young master and the leader of the army. While teaching the crown prince, he was responsible for rebuilding the Luoyang Chinese army. ”

"Your Majesty Shengming, the ministers have no objections." Today's emperor is completely different from before. At this time, we should follow his wishes and not provoke him.

"Good, Shang Shuling, after my Great Jin lost Yongliang, how many people are still on the national civil register? How many grain fields? ”

"Your Majesty, when I was in the second year of the beginning of Tai (266 in this book), I had a registered population of 3.35 million and about 90 million acres of registered land. After the first three and four years of Thailand, the household tax was cleared, and the land occupation system was promoted. Before August of the fourth year of the beginning of Thailand, there were 4.05 million registered populations and 123 million acres of registered land. After August, Yongliang was completely lost. The eight prefectures in Kanto have a population of 3.3 million on the books and 89 million acres of registered land. This year's income is 20 million stone grain and 13 billion money. Since the King of Qi took the lead this year, all clans and nobles responded, and did not ask the court for money. In addition, after the loss of Guanzhong, the imperial court no longer needs to go inside for disaster relief. Therefore, after the completion of this year's autumn harvest, even if the pensions of the fallen soldiers of this war are counted...... There should be 12 million stone of grain and 4 billion coins in the treasury. ”

Now, the Jin Kingdom, which controls the eight states of Kwantung (Si, Henan, Yan, Xu, Qing, And, Hebei, and You), is still the most powerful and powerful country. The population on the country's books exceeds 3 million, and it is able to get more than 20 million stone of grain and more than 10 billion yuan of money from the peasants every year.

Next is Shu Han, who won Yongliang. At present, the registered population of Yizhou in Shuhan exceeds 1.5 million, and after winning Yongliang, the book has risen by 750,000. Reached two million two hundred and fifty thousand. Moreover, with the attributes of the public enemy of the Guan Da Sima family, as long as he is given enough time, it is not a problem for him to change another five or six hundred thousand or even millions on this basis.

Finally, there is Soochow. Strictly speaking, at this time, the population on the books of Dongwu was slightly more than that of Shu Han: 2.3 million. But what about the potential of Soochow as a country......

In short, among the strength of the Three Kingdoms, the Jin State is still the strongest. But in any case, this strength has been greatly weakened. The Jin State had lost the strength that Cao Wei had in the past, which was still capable of dealing with the two southern countries at the same time

It can be said that after Shu Han won Yongliang, the situation of the Three Kingdoms was worthy of its name.

"Well, less than five years after the founding of the country, the country suffered such a painful defeat...... I really ......" After a long sigh again, Sima Yan said to the six people below: "I think that next I Dajin must cheer up, to cheer up, it is nothing more than a rich country and a strong army." The most effective way to enrich the country and strengthen the army is to grasp every ounce of strength into the hands of the state! ”

That's right, it's almost like saying that the family is going under the knife. Of course, Sima Yan is not an idiot, and in the current situation of the fiasco of the Jin Kingdom, the eight states of Kanto still remain stable. Isn't it because the Kanto family hates Shu Han who adheres to the Han Dynasty system? If the country treats the Kwantung clan bloodily at this time, I am afraid that there is no need for Han and Wu to fight. I'm going to collapse.

So Sima Yan has another sentence below: "Emperor Wen created the fifth-class lord system in the past, just to set a rule for the world's families. Whatever title you have, you are entitled to as much land and tax-exempt population as you want. Therefore, if a family wants to develop and grow, the best way is to serve the country, be recognized by the state, and improve the title, so as to make the family business bigger. For such a family, whether it is 10,000 or 100,000 households, I recognize it! But for those families who embezzle the country's households without permission and use various illegal means to hide the population. I'm not welcome! ”

In a word, what I sealed is legitimate. Anything that I don't approve of is not legitimate. And I'm not stingy when it comes to rewards. All I need is your loyalty. Therefore, everyone still has to be loyal to my Sima family and to the Great Jin.

"Your Majesty understands. Immediately after the minister's resignation, he began to work on a new plan for the tax clearance. In the fifth year of the reign of Tai (269), the ministers worked hard to increase the number of households controlled by the state by half. ”

"Good, Shang Shuling is loyal to the king, and I am very comforted. But when it comes to the era name of Taishi, I think it can be changed. ”

"Changing the name of the era is an inevitable refreshment, and the ministers have no objection. But I don't know what kind of era your majesty prefers? Do you need to be consulted by the courtiers? ”

"No need, next year, let's change the first year of the Yuan Jianwu."

“…… Ministers obey orders. ”

"Well, ladies and gentlemen, Wei Boyu wrote to me some time ago. It is said that although Wu Guo has been newly defeated, it still has a lot of spare strength. And after the Shu thieves took Yongliang, the puppet emperor of Wu State would not be at ease. Therefore, Bo Yu asked me if it was possible to contact Wu to form an alliance with him? In this matter, you will discuss it and decide on the candidate to send the envoy to Wu as soon as possible. ”