As the first scholar of Liu Yanchao, Pi Longxian was not as eye-catching as Zou Feng, Qiu Yiru and Sun Kewang of the top three, and he worked in the Hanlin Academy for three years with his own unique steadfastness and hard work, and then he was discovered by Qiu Yiru in the same year, and gradually began to rise in the officialdom. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info At present, his official position is only a small household head, but he can reach the heavens to listen to Liu Yan's sparseness, which is somewhat due to Qiu Yiru's secret efforts, because his content is more consistent with Qiu Yiru's political views.

Pi Longxian's Shangshuli mainly calculated an account, which was the amount of money and food that Liu Xianzhi would spend on this expedition. He pointed out that the 300,000-strong army should be launched to march north, and needless to say, how to ensure the security of the rear, the huge expenditure of these troops alone would overwhelm the imperial court.

As far as the grain alone is concerned, it is enough to explain the problem, because the distance of the sortie target has reached more than 1,500 li, so it will take 100 days for the infantry to go back and forth, and in these 100 days, the soldiers need to consume 120 million catties of grain, and these grains must be transported by the rear, and the carts transporting these grains are calculated as 1,000 catties per cart, so the personnel and livestock transporting the grain will consume about 900 catties on the road, that is to say, to transport these 200 million catties of grain to the front line, it will take 1.2 billion catties of grain. That is, 10 million stone grain. This does not take into account the loss of the grain itself along the route, as well as the losses caused by possible attacks by the Turks. The cost of transporting the grain is even greater before it is transferred to the point of departure. Moreover, this is only the consumption of food, if the troops' baggage, military salaries, material transportation costs and the corresponding consumption of grain and grass are also taken into account, this figure will increase exponentially.

All of this adds up to the amount of troops to fight back and forth, and building a city is not something that can be completed in a day and a night, so the actual time will be longer, and more importantly, after the success of the city, a considerable number of troops must be left to defend it to make sense, considering that the location of the city is not suitable for reclamation, then it is bound to be necessary to transport food to these cities without interruption. On the basis of these figures, the amount of material required for this military operation is staggering.

Of course, it's not that the country of silk can't take these things, and from this point of view, I'm afraid that only the country of silk can have such a strong foundation. But the problem is that the country of silk is not only this military expense, Wang Hanxin in the Western Regions, tens of thousands of people there also need a large amount of food supply. Of course, he can also collect grain from the countries of the Western Regions, but in terms of the current production capacity of those countries, it is not enough to completely rely on local self-sufficiency. Even if Wang Hanxin started Tuntian there, then at least the imperial court would need to raise him for a while. The journey to the Western Regions was three times longer than that of this expedition, and the transportation of grain was also facing great difficulties. Therefore, after calculating the corresponding expenses in the treasury, Pilongxian found that if the expedition were to be started in the spring and summer, the treasury would not be able to absorb the consumption of these two places, so that the schedule of the sortie should be postponed by at least two months, so that the new grain harvest of this year could be transferred to the front after the autumn harvest of that year to meet the supply needs.

This sparseness attracted Liu Yan's attention. Of course, Liu Yan knew that the cost of this operation was huge, but he did not expect that the state treasury would be unable to make ends meet, so Liu Yan immediately sent someone to the household department to verify the situation.

After verification, Liu Yan was taken aback, although the figure said by Pi Longxian was somewhat exaggerated, but the amount of grain stored in the treasury was closer to Pi Longxian's figure, which means that there is indeed a possibility of a shortage of green and yellow.

Liu Yan, who got this result, couldn't help but feel a little disappointed, and he said to Wu Sicheng in private: "I can't imagine that such a large family business that my father has accumulated has been consumed to such a point in the past ten years!" Shouldn't I continue to use troops against the Turchem? Or maybe I'm too eager to give the world a time to recover? ”

Wu Sicheng said: "Your Majesty, things seem like this, but Wei Chen feels that Your Majesty should also see other aspects when he is worried about the national economy and people's livelihood. ”

"In what way?"

"Back to Your Majesty, that's the time of day. Because of the continuous use of troops in our country, it is true that the foundation left by the former emperor has been almost exhausted, but it is not without results. Goryeo perished because of this, and the whole country was incorporated into the territory of our country; As a result, the Tuqi has been greatly weakened, and now more than half of the Tukchi elite warriors have been killed and wounded, and their combat effectiveness is not as good as before, and their economic lifeline, the Western Regions, has fallen into our hands. This is exactly the result of your majesty's use of troops over the years. It is true that our national strength has been weakened as a result, but it should also be noted that the situation in Tuqi is far worse than that of our country, and this is a great opportunity for us to take a counteroffensive. If we had slowed down at this time, it would undoubtedly have given Turkey a precious respite. To tell the truth, the success of Wang Hanxin's expedition to the Western Regions this time was also due to the fact that the human resources of Tuqi were facing depletion and the Western Regions were very empty. Even so, Wang Hanxin was able to win Che Erlie, and there was still a lot of luck. If the Turks find an opportunity to fight back successfully, then our country does not know how much manpower, material and financial resources will be spent to reopen this road.

The expedition plan of the Zhongyi County King can not only find an opportunity to fight a decisive battle with the Tuqi, but also cut off the road from the east to the Western Regions, which is an excellent way to consolidate Wang Han's new achievements, and if successful, it can further compress the living space of the Tuqi and lay the foundation for its complete destruction in the future. His Majesty is of course right to say that he wants to restore the national strength, but at least it should be carried out after this expedition, because Wei Chen believes that after the success of this expedition, the momentum of the re-emergence of Tuqi can be fundamentally curbed. At that time, with our country's ability to recover, we will certainly be able to deal a decisive blow to the country before it recovers. ”

Liu Yan nodded when he heard this, and said: "You can also understand, but this time the grain reserves do have loopholes, if it is delayed for two months as Director Pi said, such a big military operation will definitely be detected by Tuqi, how to deal with this matter?" ”

Wu Sicheng said: "Weichen thinks that the deficit of this grain does exist, but it is not completely unthinkable, it is no problem to launch a campaign with the current grain and support it for four months, what is missing is actually a month's supply at most, and then the newly harvested grain will be able to help." As for the one-month deficit here, it is true that there is no in the treasury, but is there no one in our people? Your Majesty may not know that the country has been using troops for many years, there are many wealthy merchants, and the princes and nobles have secretly hidden a lot of grain in order to prevent the price of grain from rising. Of course, the grain in the treasury cannot be made out of nothing, but it can be purchased from these rich princes, but His Majesty has to spend more silver taels. ”

Liu Yan gritted his teeth and said, "To solve this urgent need, you must be willing to do it!" (To be continued.) )

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