On the first day, the court tore each other apart, on the second day, the morning was calm, and on the third, fourth, and fifth days...... It wasn't until Xiong Jing couldn't remember that it was the first few days, and the aftermath of Mi Xuan's pregnancy gradually faded.

The war between the two countries is a war in the whole world, and the contradictions between the two countries are also the contradictions in the whole world. Zhao Zheng has been married for eight years, and there are not eight heirs under his knees, but also five; Xiong Jing only got married this year, and there is no doubt that he gave birth to many heirs, but who expected that the result would be that he did not live in the palace and lived in a military tent, and did not love the queen and loved his wild wife.

There was a lot of public opinion in the market, but it was limited to the market, especially the market in Qi and Wei. In the Chu State, there are only discussions in the land of Lusong, but most of them are discussed in private, and how can the private affairs of the royal court be discussed by the common people?

Xiong Jing didn't care about or attach importance to the public opinion of the people, he only cared about the public opinion of the army, and the propaganda and refutation of rumors led by the Great Sima Mansion were concentrated in the army.

It is true that the Mi family is from the Qin State, but the surname of the Mi family is Mi, and in the final analysis, they are still Chu people. As for Qi Rong as a Qin general to attack the Chu State and kill the Chu people, this involves the difference between public enmity and private grudge.

It is understandable that Qi Rong eats the Lu of the King of Qin to relieve the worries of the King of Qin, and leads the upright teacher to fight Chu, which is the obligation that should be fulfilled as a courtier; This is true of Qi Rong, and so is Bai Qi. Bai Qi was cruel, Bai Qi attacked Yan Ying and drowned hundreds of thousands of Chu people, but this is a war, and if someone else is a general, he will still flood the city under the advice of the strategist. Crimes committed in accordance with the customs of war are public crimes and are also the common enmity of the Chu people. Public revenge should be a communiqué, and the object of revenge should not be Qi Rong or Bai Qi, but the entire Qin State.

On the contrary, like Jing Hua, although he did not slaughter hundreds of thousands of Chu people, he did rebellious things when he ate the Lu of the first king, which was disloyal and unjust; did not eat the Lu of the King of Qin, but helped the King of Qin get out of trouble, this is either a thief or a thief. This is the personal grudge of the Chu people, he will destroy Qin in the future, the Bai family is not guilty, and the surname may be pardoned, but the Jing family of the Qin State will never be forgiven. The ancestors of the Qi clan had a public enmity with the Chu State, and the Chu army broke the Qin army to attack Xianyang, and they have avenged this revenge, and there is no hatred for each other.

The son of the girl is a Chu girl, and it is understandable that the king loves the Chu girl. Besides, the king met the princess first, not the wedding later; The fact that husband and wife are married is before the wedding, not after the wedding. Now the king has not violated the righteousness of husband and wife, and he respects each other like a guest.

-- Most of the lieutenant generals in the army are literate, so they are so promoted; Most of the scholars below the honor scholar did not know a word, so they did not make a literary explanation, and simply and rudely said that the son of the girl was a Chu girl, and the king promised to marry her as the queen, but the villain made trouble and deceived the queen mother......

Propaganda is a technical job, and a lie told a thousand times is the truth. The Dachu News presided over by Song Yu has continued to publish implicit articles to stir up public opinion, while the military has been refuting rumors in order to clarify the truth.

If someone is really obsessed, he has to take what Da Chu News says as the standard, and the commander and the honorable man will directly draw their swords and duel with this person. This kind of person is literate and delicate, and the literati will refuse to fight nine times out of ten, and as a result, they will be ridiculed by all the armor.

The Ludi Division Brigade, which has always been guided by Dachu News, has no choice. Xiong Jing felt that the Lu people were becoming more and more like flies in the food, and he really wanted to remove this fly from the pot of soup in the Chu State, but this was obviously impossible. The State of Qi is already in danger, if the State of Qi is really dead, the Eastern Front can only rely on the Lu people to defend, and the Lu people should be eliminated after Chu and Qin divide the victory and defeat.

In addition to paying attention to public opinion in the army, Xiong Jing also pays attention to logistics in the army, especially supplies. At this time, the main bedtime was holding a financial meeting related to supplies.

The uniforms, boots, bedding, food, and medicine of the Chu army were different from those of the Zhao army and the Wei army. Originally, the Chu army was the same as the Zhao and Wei armies, and these things were all prepared by the soldiers. However, the Great Sima Mansion almost deliberated, and finally decided that military uniforms, military boots, bedding, bags, military tents, cooking utensils and ...... were all uniformly customized.

It's not for the sake of beauty, but that the non-commissioned officers don't meet the standards of the Operations Division. For example, the simplest cooking utensils have a carriage for an average of twenty people, and the cooking utensils are carried by the non-commissioned officers of the Woods during short marches, and of course placed on the carriage for long marches. If the size and shape of the cooking utensils are exactly the same, they can be stacked together like wine cups, and they don't occupy much space.

Space can be saved, and weight can be determined. Bedding made of wadding, cotton bedding, and leather bedding, these bedding bedding of different weights are transported by the baggage convoy. The weight of the carriage is customized, and the bedding of different weights is either overweight or causes a certain degree of empty load, resulting in a waste of capacity.

The benefits of standardization, such as space, capacity, and soldiers, are numerous, but these benefits cost money.

From head to toe, a summer uniform costs about 800 yuan, and a winter military uniform costs 3,000 yuan. If one person has one gold, 200,000 people are 200,000 gold, and if they are only equipped with military uniforms, the finances will go bankrupt.

When the more than 200,000 Chu troops uniformly customized the logistics equipment, the counties and towns contributed no more than one-third of the money according to the difference between rich and poor, and the soldiers contributed one-third of the money, and the rest was all settled by the royal court. Although the supplies for more than 200,000 soldiers are not once a year -- winter clothes, bedding, raincoats, and bags are issued once every two or even three years, and cooking utensils and military tents are issued once every five years, the finances are still overwhelming.

The equipment of the Chu army was already a burden, and the 100,000 Zhao troops who moved south were another burden. After years of war, the property of the Zhao people who moved south was extremely limited, and they had been able to maintain it by the funding of the three kingdoms, especially after the southward migration.

With such an embarrassing livelihood, the soldiers of Zhao still hoped to have the equipment and equipment of the Chu army. If all the 100,000 people are fully equipped, it will cost more than tens of thousands of gold, and then 10,000 gold will be replenished every year. Although the money was lent to Zhao in the form of low-interest, interest-free loans, it still had to be paid by the royal court.

At the wartime financial meeting, the Grand Sima Mansion presented a summary of wartime military expenditures, which had cost a total of 1,673.2 million yuan, or 174,291 gold, since the war began in May last year. (1 gold = 9600 gold)

These expenses do not include pre-requisite expenses, but only expenses incurred during wartime, including military food, clothing, armor, ammunition, horses, sickness and wounded, battle equipment, transportation and freight, construction costs, diplomatic (purchase) expenses, ship and vehicle purchase costs, sacrificial expenses, reward expenses, relatives and miscellaneous expenses, and other items.

Among them, military food expenses accounted for 60% of the total military expenditure, which was 1,12.5 million yuan; The freight accounted for half of the total, or 257.17 million yuan; The cost of service is 158.14 million yuan, close to 10%; The rest is other expenses, which account for half of the total.

The military expenditure is as much as 1.6 billion, and in fact, the main ones to pay for gold and silver are the clothes and horses, which will not add up to more than 30,000 gold. However, this is only the wartime military expenditure from last year to this year, and the pre-war purchase expenses are not included, and as the war continues, the military expenditure will increase year by year due to the damage to military uniforms and equipment, the consumption of armor and ammunition, and the death of war horses.

If the Zhao army wants to purchase the same logistical equipment as the Chu army, this year's military expenditure will increase by at least 30,000 gold. This money was extrabudgetary, and now it has to be included in the wartime budget, and the financial pressure is enormous.

A thin piece of Chu paper, Xiong Jing looked at it for a long time before putting it down. He looked at Jing Xue of the Armaments Department and was puzzled: "Why do the Zhao people want my military uniforms?" Sergeant Zhao originally had a battle robe and was served. ”

"The king doesn't know." Jing Xue had long known that Xiong Jing would ask this. "After the 100,000 Wei troops were exhausted, the Wei army was all like our army, only the color of the military uniforms was different, and the rest were the same. Sergeant Zhao couldn't help but be envious when he saw that our army and the Wei army were all new-style equipment. After moving south, the soldiers of Zhao were all homeless, and the Qin people and Hou spies were not punished for the rumors of belonging to Zhao in Daliang, in order to stabilize the army's heart, General Sima had to ask King Zhao to purchase equipment according to the style of our army......"

Zhao Jun's stay in Daliang can help Wei defend the territory, but in the long run, it is not appropriate for Zhao Jun to stay in Daliang. The beam is too close to Zhao Guo, and it is difficult for the homesick Zhao people to restrain the idea of going home to have a look. As for the purchase of equipment, Zhao Ren is most afraid of being despised by others. Although their equipment was better than that of the soldiers of the Qi State, it was still inferior to the soldiers of Chu and Wei. Changing clothes must be wanted, but to change clothes to stabilize the morale of the army, only Zhao people can come up with this way.

"Last year, I had a bad relationship with the Seleucids, and I won less than ten thousand gold in trade. The previous wins were also beyond their means, if it weren't for the gold of Xianyang last year, the government would have no money. Shi Yan, the iron rooster, looked disgusted, if it wasn't for Xiong Jing's urgent summons, he wouldn't have participated in this meeting at all.

Through the Bank of the Four Kingdoms, Chu has been lending money to Zhao State. Of course, it's worth the money. Although the Zhao State died, the Zhao people defeated the Qin army twice, exhausting the Qin State from torture. Exhaustion is not the most important, the most important rhythm of attack.

The state of Qin is a war for three years, the year before last, last year, this year, this year is the third year, with the latest intelligence analysis, the state of Qin will have to stop the war until next year at most, and it must recuperate for one to two years before it can fight again, and the state of Chu only entered the war last year, and it can support two years and eight months without Dongzhou Valley.

In the past, the Qin State could fight whoever it wanted, and it could fight whenever it wanted, completely grasping the strategic initiative, and the entire state apparatus operated at the smoothest rhythm under the management of officials. After the restoration of the state of Chu, he was able to challenge the state of Qin, and the sacrifice of the Zhao people contributed to such an opportunity. It is impossible for the Qin state to want an armistice, and the state of Chu will continue to attack in order to disrupt the inherent rhythm of the Qin war machine, so that agricultural production, animal husbandry production, and weapon production cannot keep up with the needs of the war.

Such a Qin state was very weak, without sufficient grain, cloth, armor, arrows, vehicles, ships, and horses, the Qin army's military resources could not be guaranteed, and its combat effectiveness became weak; At the same time, it is easy for the water to dry up and catch fish, once this happens, the next year's production will be less, the military resources will be even more insufficient, the combat effectiveness will be even weaker, and the situation will affect production again after the loss of the city and land......