Chapter 20: The Ideal of the Three Generations (5)
The younger brothers below "cough cough ......" have expressed various feelings, and now it is time for the leader to summarize his statement.
"In his early years, Yi, like you, was ignorant of the dangerous situation of the Han Dynasty. Moreover, Yi was a concubine in the past, and there was an eldest brother above, so there was no idea of giving up on himself and waiting for death. ”
This guy is so hypocritical that he wants to vomit, but he can't help it, just now the court newspaper contained a rebuke from Shang Shutai, which he couldn't accept. At this time, it is necessary to unify the ideas of the following people, so that they can form a real community of interests with themselves. So, although the hypocrisy is disgusting, you have to keep acting.
"Last year, my brother died in a heroic battle in Duangu, and Yi had an epiphany all of a sudden. The responsibility of the Guan family must be shouldered without shirk. However, if you want my Guan family to prosper, the only way out is to ensure that my Han family prospers. Because, since the ancestors followed the first emperor to raise troops in the Zhongping period, the fate of my Guan family has been forever linked with the Han Dynasty. ”
"In Yi's opinion, the gap in strength between my Han and the puppet Wei is indeed very large, and it has been getting bigger and bigger in the last twenty or thirty years. The key point is population – the population. ”
"People are the most precious thing in this world. When there are people, there are soldiers, there are weapons, there are armor, there are food...... The more people the state effectively controls, the more robust the army will become, and the more abundant the money and food will become. ”
"Speaking of which, the population under the control of my Han is less than one million, less than one-fifth of that of the pseudo-Wei. But is the actual population of my Han really only so small? Let's just say that this Fuling County, the population on the books is a little more than 20,000, and this Fuling County has only 5,000 people. But everyone has been here for more than two months, and the population in this Fuling County, roughly calculated, is at least no less than 30,000! Why were so many people not included in the civil register of the imperial court? If these people are all controlled by the imperial court, how much money and grain does Fuling County pay to the imperial court every year? And how many more soldiers and horses can you help the imperial court raise? ”
"Why can't these populations be brought under the control of the imperial court? On the one hand, it is true that most of these people are Wuxi barbarians and do not accept the king. But the most critical point is: there is too little arable land and too little output in Fuling County, which cannot feed so many people! It is better to let it be under the command of the local commander and let it fend for itself, and the court can have a lot less burden. ”
"Yi made a ten-year covenant with His Majesty, which was to work hard to develop production, get more food, feed more people, and then attract people from all the tribes of Wuxi to come and defect. The new manpower is then used to produce more food, open up new arable land, and absorb more people – a virtuous circle is formed. To tell the truth, Yi did not have enough awareness of the urgency of the current situation, and now it seems that the goal of ten years of Fuling County Dazhi is still too late, because the pseudo-Wei will not give us this time. Sima Zhao will not give us this time. Within ten years, our Han will inevitably face a war of annihilation launched by the pseudo-Wei. So we have to adjust our time and goals. Yi's new goal is to double the registered population of Fuling County within three years. Two years later, it doubled again. The supplies to the imperial court will be doubled within five years. ”
"Ling Xing, national prestige, peerless, and Dinglie, the four of you have prominent family backgrounds. After all, he won't live in this Fuling County with Yi for a long time. After two or three years, it may be necessary to release other lower or middle counties. Even Ling Bo, Cheng Zuo and others will have to take charge of the ruling side sooner or later in the future. When the time comes, you should act with this goal as well. Compared with the pseudo-Wei and Eastern Wu, the best thing about my Han is that although there are also some so-called celebrities who make trouble for no reason with empty mouths and white teeth. But the political style of hard work is really the best. It is precisely because of this that although our Han Dynasty has the smallest land and the smallest population in the Three Kingdoms, the political situation is also the most clear. Don't say that my Guan family and Dahan have long been inseparable. Even if you can choose by yourself, Yi only wants to be born as a Han man and die as a Han ghost! ”
"What my brother said is true. After more than 20 years, I didn't know that the country was in danger. At this time, it is the time for those of us to rise up from the descendants and contribute to the country! If the pseudo-Wei really comes to the country within ten years, it will only be death! ”
"Yi is willing to follow his brother and do his best for the governance of Fuling County."
"I Wish to Follow My Brother......"
"Just willing to follow my brother......"
"We are willing to follow Taishou and seek the great governance of Fuling County in three years. This experience was then replicated throughout the country. Prepare for the upcoming attack of the puppet Wei Dynasty. ”
"Good, with your help, how easy it is to govern Fuling County! Well, let's talk about the following things. ”
After making so much foreshadowing and wasting so many expressions, Guan Yi finally revealed his true purpose.
"Shang Shutai has clearly issued an order: private individuals are not allowed to contribute to the support of the state's soldiers. Therefore, the size of the army cannot be maintained at 500 people. I mean, layoffs. Each private soldier took it back. Except for the necessary slaves and maids, the rest of the private soldiers let them all return to the CD. ”
"Taishou! No! Let's not talk about the problem that the number of hunters in this outing will inevitably be greatly reduced. The Wuxi barbarians in this Fuling County are not all tribes with good intentions towards our Han! A few days ago, several leaders of the Bizka tribe came to the Taishou Mansion to complain, saying that the Menzihei tribe had come to loot the fern root powder they had made with great difficulty. Killed fifteen people and robbed about thirty stone fern root powder...... In addition, the increasing number of local hunts has attracted the attention of some of the Lika and Nanke tribes. Sooner or later, these guys will unite to attack my Fuling County...... It's just that there are more soldiers in Fuling County than ever before, so that they don't dare to attack easily. If the soldiers are abolished......"
Bizka, Menzihei, Lika, and Nanke are all self-names given to themselves by different Tujia tribes (Tujia is the name given to this ethnic group by the Han Chinese). The origin and composition of this ethnic group, which is mainly active in the Wuling Mountains, is quite complex, and the languages of different tribes within the group are not necessarily compatible. Of course, in the Three Kingdoms era at the end of the Han Dynasty, the Han people did not give this ethnic group the name of "Tujia", but unified the name of Wuxi Man or Wuling Man.
The various tribes that live in this area, in general, Bizka mainly live in Fuling County, and Nanke mainly live in Qianwei County. This is all within the scope of Shu Han's rule. Menzihei and Lika lived mainly in Wuling County in Eastern Wu. Of course, for these tribes, the borders of Han and Wu are useless, and as long as necessary, it is common to cross the border to attack other tribes. As for this kind of inter-tribal attack, the governments of Han and Wu will not consider it to be the other government's behavior, and basically do not care.
Fuling County in Shu Han could not afford to raise many soldiers because of its low output. So there is basically no military force. These cards are so black, they fight and kill each other, and the Shu Han government generally doesn't care. As long as they don't come to plunder the Han people in the valley area, it doesn't matter if the various tribes kill each other and shed a river of blood. Of course, if they dared to attack the Han Chinese, the Shu Han government would have to fight back. The Yong'an Corps, which is close at hand, is an elite professional corps of Shu Han to defend against the invasion of Eastern Wu: get on the ship on the Yangtze River and complete the deployment of troops along the Wujiang River in less than 15 days.
During the reign of Jiang Wan and Fei Yi, there were still a lot of troubles in Wuxi Man, and Deng Zhi, the general of the Shu Han chariot cavalry at that time, led the Yongan Army into Fuling County and killed a person's head, and then the various tribes of Wuxi Man were honest for about ten years.
Now, the new generation of barbarian kings has grown up, and the memories of the older generation of beatings have begun to fade. The various tribes of Wuximan, who lacked food and clothing, once again set their sights on the Han people who were relatively well-fed and clothed in the river valley. The various tribes of Bizka, which are closest to the Han people in Fuling County and are also the most friendly to the Han people, have been attacked, so will they be far from the Han people being attacked?
"Yes! Brother, we have managed to get a little more food in the past two months, how can we let it out so easily? So our ideals are just beginning and are about to die? This county soldier can't be cut! I wrote a letter to my father and asked him to speak to us at Shangshutai. ”
Guan Yi waved his hand lightly: "Ling Xing, don't embarrass the second uncle." I have a way to deal with this. ”