PS: Chapter 2 at 12 o'clock

"Five people have to eat 90 stone of millet a year, counting the loss from Chaoge to the front line, even if it is 100 stone. Pen, Qu, Pavilion www.biquge.info Wei provided 200,000, Han provided 100,000, 300,000 stone grain, enough for 15,000 people to eat for a year......"

After Wei Manduo finished calculating this account, he sneered: "In this way, half of the Zhao clan's troops this time are equivalent to Wei Han's support. However, it is not a loss for the Wei clan to recuperate for a whole year and prepare for the battle of Qin, and continue to hoard food, train soldiers well, and have enough food and enough soldiers to do. ”

The head of the Wei family was sitting in Anyi City at this time, drinking wine with a horn cup inlaid with pearls, while admiring the "Wei Warrior" newly rehearsed by his son Wei Ju.

Although Wei Ju had been training them for several years, he had only been used as personal guards before, and there were fewer of them. After defeating the Zhi clan and obtaining a lot of loot and copper and tin reserves, he was able to expand the organization and create a sophisticated individual soldier equipment for this professional recruit.

I saw a column of samurai rushing in, all of them were hoplites, all wearing heavy armor, holding swords, carrying bows and crossbows, and crossing arrows, and they were murderous.

"Drink!" They shouted in unison and lined up in a phalanx, which was five small formations that covered each other, which could be combined into one large array, which was also the difference between them and "Zhao Wushu", and the Wei clan followed the traditional Wei Xianzi phalanx to reduce the time needed to train. What's more, Wei Ju felt that this kind of "five formations" could be directly expanded from a marching formation to a combat formation on narrow terrain, reducing the lengthy formation time, and to some extent it was superior to Zhao's dense large phalanx.

Wei Ju introduced on the side: "The selection of these newly recruited warriors is extremely strict, everyone must wear the armor of the three genera, operate the crossbow of two stones, carry fifty arrows, put them on top, crown with a sword, only carry three days' food, set off when the sun is high, and must go back and forth a hundred miles in two days. If he passes the selection, he will be included in the army, exempted from taxes for his family, and will be given the benefits of land and housing......"

In his opinion, by updating the equipment and copying the Zhao family's method of selecting and training soldiers, Wei Wushu will soon be able to become a rare elite in the world and establish meritorious service in next year's battle against Qin.

"How many people were selected?"

"There are already three thousand!"

"It's not enough, it's far from enough, before next year, you have to practice five thousand, no...... Seven thousand to practice! ”

"Seven thousand ......" Wei Ju's face changed slightly, with the strength of the Zhao clan and the population of millions, he could only maintain three armies, almost one million people, to support 10,000 elite recruits, and what he didn't know was that Zhao Wushu had already extensively tuned fields on the border and achieved self-sufficiency.

He said with embarrassment: "If that's the case, even if the Wei clan now owns three-quarters of Hedong and has a population of hundreds of thousands, it will also reduce the tax and labor because of the tax exemption and land grant to the warriors' families......

Wemando's brown-black eyes looked at his son with a coldness that made him tremble. This son is still too young, and he was excited by Zhao Wuxian's bold words in Tongjiao, forgetting that Wei's difficult situation and the person who caused this situation was Zhao Wuxian, who knows what conspiracy is contained in the "great cause" of the three families to expand their territory together?

But he also had to admit that even if he knew that the incense bait thrown by Zhao Wuxian was poisonous, Wei would not hesitate to swallow it. Wei is too eager to solve the enemy on his side, and this **** feels too bad to be stared at every night.

"Then increase the taxes in Jiang, Quwo and other places, and then increase the proportion of salt taxes, the Wei family has salt ponds, which are inexhaustible and inexhaustible, and the money to feed the soldiers can be obtained from here."

Nowadays in the Jin Kingdom, there are two main salt-producing areas, one is the Anyi Salt Pond, and the other is the Da Luze of Jinyang. However, because Jinyang is secluded in the north, the traffic turnover is inconvenient, the manpower of large brine salt mining is small, and the output is not high, so Anyi salt is actually supplying the entire Hedong, Han's, and Zhao's Hanoi area with salt, which can make a profit of one million every year!

Seeing that his son was still hesitant, Wei Man said to him earnestly: "On the other side of the river is the unwilling Zhi clan of the immortal Wei clan, and Qin is also a country of two thousand times, which should not be underestimated. Although the three families agreed on an alliance, when it came to the battlefield, Zhao Han was not enough to rely on, and they had to rely on the Wei clan to attack the fortifications themselves, so it was necessary to let the Wei clan have enough combat power before attacking Qin, do you understand? As for the doctors and the people...... They'll understand. To the west of the river are the loess siltated fields, the soil is fertile for hundreds of miles, and the people have good crops, crop grains, and have the benefits of animal husbandry in the north......

After Wei Ju received the order, Wei Manduo drank the wine down, his face was expressionless, and he turned sideways to Ling Hubo and asked, "Is there any news from the Chen clan of Qi State?" ”

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"Just as I was about to inform my uncle, Chen Zi had already replied......," Ling Hu Bo replied respectfully.

Chen father and son united with Bao five years ago to launch a coup d'état, after expelling Guo, Gao, and Yan, Chen Qi became the secretary of state, took over power, and in internal affairs, he and Bao divided the country and Gao's territory, and reached a harmonious relationship. He rewarded his meritorious deeds and was close to the people, so the state of Qi, which had been severely damaged in the Battle of Wenshui and the coup, gradually began to settle down again.

Diplomatically, because Zhao had won the Jin Civil War, Chen feared that Zhao Wuxian would unite with Wei, Han, Song, Lu, and other princes to attack Qi. While begging for peace with the Zhao family, Nainan communicated with the Chu State and the Wu State, and the west made friendly alliances with the Zheng State and the Qin State, and secretly contacted Han, Wei, Zhongshan, and Northern Yan, preparing to weave a network of encirclement against Zhao again, although he did not seek to counterattack the Zhao family, but at least the Zhao family could not spare time to attack the Qi State.

However, before this encirclement network was formed, Han Wei was attracted by the "great cause" promised by Zhao Wuxian, and it was obviously more advantageous to follow the Zhao clan to fight Qin and Zheng seize the land than to accompany the empty Qi State against the powerful Zhao clan.

Having said that, the scheming Wei Manduo did not cut off contact with the Chen family, both sides knew that the other party was far away from themselves, and both faced the threat of the Zhao family, and their interests were the same in some matters, so they would exchange news from time to time and exchange ideas.

So Zhao Wuxian's plan to attack the Hejian Land of Qi after spring ploughing was quietly revealed by the Wei family, and the Chen family of Qi State was shocked, but also bound to be prepared and not be caught off guard.

"The Zhao clan attacked the river this time, for as little as ten months, and as many as two months, and they will definitely be able to return to the west, and maybe they will hit other aspects. But if we give the Chen clan a thorough understanding and let them resist for a while, maybe we will be able to drag out the war until the autumn, so that the Zhao clan will be tired and will have no time to take care of him......"

Wei Manduo's abacus was full, and in addition to cooperating on the surface, he didn't mind secretly stumbling on the Zhao family.

However, his pride soon came to an abrupt end.

In the middle of January, two bad news came over, first the Han clan did not know what to smoke, and without knowing the Wei clan, he unilaterally offered to send troops to help Zhao attack Qi, and also actively transferred troops to Yewang and Zhou counties to prepare for the Eastern Expedition. This sudden change made the Wei family scramble for a while, and they suspiciously guessed whether the Han family had reached a secret agreement with the Zhao family against the Wei family again, and whether they would also send troops to express their feelings?

The second news caught Wei even more off guard, in January, when all parts of Jinqi were still busy with spring ploughing and farming, theoretically, this month should be "no gathering of the public, no city", to avoid all kinds of large-scale conscription, especially not to send troops to fight, the first to use the sword soldiers of the country will be killed!

Generally speaking, no one will openly violate this kind of "heavenly way" that the farming people believe in, after all, if the agricultural time is delayed, it is still themselves who suffer in the autumn.

However, Zhao Wuxian, who has 30,000 professional recruits, does not play according to the routine, he is still holding a hoe in the suburbs of Yecheng, driving the cattle to "plough pro-plough", after washing his hands, he suddenly put on armor and held a sword, and solemnly announced one thing to his subjects.

"I just got the news that the day before yesterday, the Zhao army was exercising in the field of giant deer on the edge of the West River (the western tributary of the Yellow River), and suddenly heard the sound of drums coming from the other side, and immediately collected the team and found that there was a lack of soldiers, and the suspected drummer was the Dahe Boat Division of the Qi State, and the missing soldiers of our army were also taken away by him. The commander of the Zhao army immediately asked to go on the ship for inspection, but was rejected by the Qi people, not only that, but the Qi army also shot arrows and killed and injured dozens of our soldiers......"

"Therefore, my Zhao clan's Dongyang garrison had no choice but to cross the West River to attack, and now it has reached the foot of Dongwu City."

Everyone couldn't believe their ears, it would be good if the princes weren't busy beware of the Zhao clan going to fight them, and there were still people who dared to take the initiative to provoke this side? Without waiting for them to digest the news, Zhao Wuxian announced quite heavily: "Qi people are rampant, and they must not be tolerated!" The second and third sons, the war, has begun! (To be continued.) )