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"How can we help you?" Meng Tian's words are very artistic, and he does not refer to the Western Corps alone, but to the entire empire.

Nan Doumi immediately showed a look of surprise, and with eager anticipation, he said: "Weapons, more weapons; Grain, more grain. ”

Meng Tian frowned without leaving a trace, he felt that it was difficult to seek assistance without paying a price, it was a fool's dream.

Since the founding of the country, even if it treats its own people, it has never given alms for no reason, and it is the kind of charity that will not be given for no reason even in the face of difficult circumstances.

What is the reason why even the subjects of the empire are in great difficulty? It's not because of the social atmosphere of the pre-Qin period!

In such an era, whether it was the Qin state, which had strict laws, or the Qin, Zhao, Yan, Qi, Chu, and Wei whose laws were not perfect, unless it was a particularly stupid king who was stupid to carry out that kind of charity, there was really no charity for no reason.

Many sociologists in later generations used countless ideas to prove one point, that is, the kings of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States were bastards, and would rather watch their people starve to death than provide disaster relief. These "brick families" are simply taken out of context, they ignore the limited national strength of each Warring States and the difficulties of social transportation at that time, and then use various facts instead of "facts" to criticize the king as a group of cold-blooded people.

The actual situation is that every era will have a social concept that belongs to the time, in the ancient pre-Qin period, it is not important to pay attention to someone who is good to himself for no reason, after all, only people with abnormal brains will have the concept of "my mother in the four seas", Sven should be called "do not eat the food that comes".

In this era of songs, it is said that "it is better to teach people to fish than to teach them to fish", but to tell a big truth, more often because of the limitations of the times. The king could only point to a mountain or river and say, "You can go and eat," that is, let the people go to those places to find food on their own.

The king told the people to go to the mountains or rivers in search of food? There's a big background premise here. Mountains and rivers belonged to the "private property of the lord" during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and opening up the mountains and rivers to allow the people to find food by themselves is actually extremely benevolent, and it does not have to be to cook the food and feed it to whose mouth is the benevolent monarch. (Let the heavens ~ open up state-owned private property and let the people try it?) ）

Of course, there are no absolutes in everything, and there is no free charity to cultivate laziness and the state to help the people when they need help, each with its own starting point. The real fact is that Lu Zhe believes that the people have fulfilled their obligations to the state. In fact, the state should help the people when they are in need, but in the end, instead of convincing a group of ministers, he was persuaded by a group of ministers.

It is not to give alms for no reason, that is not to create lazy thinking, the empire under the rule of Lü Zhe inherited the concept from the ancient pre-Qin era, but still made certain improvements under Lü Zhe's strong requirements. For example, setting up a special fund to provide low-interest loans to help those in need tide over a period of time; Another example is to start a national project when there is a need and hire groups that need to work. Give them a hands-on environment to feed and clothe themselves; or pre-disaster responsibility assistance, i.e., the provision of necessary shelter and food, but for a limited period of time.

The policy of the mud had long been established in the form of law, but the empire had no provision in the law on whether or not to finance foreign countries without compensation. Therefore, on the one hand, Meng Tian felt funny when he heard what he wanted, and on the other hand, he was also hesitant.

“…… In this way, we will be able to form an effective assistance for the Empire's attack on the mountain, and at the same time, we will be able to send troops behind Jito...... "I don't know if it's hot, or because of excitement." Said with a flushed face: "Fight with the Empire and annihilate them completely!" ”

What is the situation? It's hard to say that he made a list of those things. If the empire can provide it, it will not only be able to counterattack the chaotic coalition forces such as the Hujie people and Ding Lingren in the north, but also suppress the rebellion within Wusun, and as long as the situation in Wusun improves, it will send troops to assist the empire.

The list that is difficult to come up with is not too long, most of them are materials that the empire can get, the problem is that the quantity is very large, the ordnance alone is large enough to arm at least two empire-standard legions, the base of grain shipments is 500,000 stones, and other miscellaneous things even contain some luxury goods.

"The luxury is to give some of the chiefs and ensure that they are on the side of the royal court." Seeing Meng Tian stunned and Liu Bang dumbfounded, he explained: "We can also buy those tribes and let them turn against us and stand on our side." ”

Meng Tian was stunned, he had been "shocked" and didn't know what to say.

Liu Bang was dumbfounded, that was when he suddenly found that it was at least 10,000 times more shameless than himself.

It's not wrong that the empire needs Wusun, but in fact, it hasn't reached the level where it has to be needed. It's not just as simple as a lion opening his mouth, it's obvious that he will say such a request because he has a fever in his brain.

An elite main battle legion of the Empire includes at least 50,000 sets of standard metal armor, and the price of each set of standard metal armor is 300 pieces; At least 30,000 sets of leather armor, each set of leather armor costs 180 yuan; The number of riding spears requires 300,000 guns, and the price of each riding gun is 15 pieces; The number of chopping knives is 70,000, and the price of a chopping knife is 50; There are at least 20,000 crossbows, and the price of each is 70 pieces; 40,000 crossbows were fired continuously, and the price of each was 80 crossbows; 30,000 pairs of cavalry bows, and the price of each cavalry is fifteen yuan; Crossbow arrows and ordinary arrows are relatively cheap because of the relationship between related supporting equipment, respectively, 15 5 baht coins for crossbow arrows, 65 baht coins for ordinary arrows, and the basic carrying base of a legion in the state of battle is 2.5 million crossbow arrows and 1.8 million ordinary arrows; Other miscellaneous materials are not counted one by one.

One by one, an elite main battle corps does not count the loss and subsequent replenishment, the equipment alone needs more than 33 million guan, and 33 million guan is just a foundation, in fact, there must be a lot of continuous investment.

Of course, Wusun wanted the ordnance of the two elite legions of the empire at one time, not counting the follow-up supplements, that is, the armament alone would ask the empire to give more than 66 million yuan worth of materials free of charge.

At present, the total annual tax payment of the people's livelihood in the empire is 70 million yuan. Not...... If you count the income from foreign plunder, the income from plunder is actually more than 600 million yuan a year. In this way, it seems that the empire is still quite rich...... No, it's not "quite there", it's just that it's almost rich and flowing gold juice made of gold.

The problem is that precisely because the benefits of foreign plunder are extremely terrifying, so the emperor and the military asked for the number of twenty standing Wehrmacht regiments, and the ruling government was reluctant at first, saying that the military expenditure was too terrifying, but the emperor and the military counted the resources brought by the military's foreign plunder, and the ruling government was dumbfounded for a moment and turned to think that the number of twenty legions was a bit small. There should be more standing armies, provided that the army is spilled out continuously...... Uh, robbery! Not...... In the end, the emperor made a decision and said that there were only twenty.

Since then, the ruling government has been liquidating, not to say who to liquidate, but to liquidate plundering outside the country, for example, how much revenue will be generated this year, and then how much it can increase if it strengthens support outside the country, which is a continuous increase every year.

The efficiency of the ruling government is very fast, and they have repeatedly calculated and verified the resources they have explored. It is believed that if those non-native industries receive human, material and technical support, it is about five years from now, that the non-native territories of the empire can generate at least more than 1.5 billion yuan of income for the empire every year.

1.5 billion per year? This is undoubtedly a very scary number. Such figures are based on the unrestricted mining of silver and gold in the Japanese archipelago, as well as the mining of copper on the large islands such as Luzon. It's not just precious metals. Other resources such as spices, fragrant wood, etc. are also high-yield things.

In fact, the accounts are not calculated like that at all, because some non-renewable resources will always be plundered one day, but as the emperor, Lu Zhe did not pour cold water on the ruling government, and the military general group and the civilian official group jointly produced foreign development (plunder) Isn't it always what Lu Zhe wants? It's too late to heat up the two teams. How can you pour cold water on it!

The empire has money, but there are more places to spend it, like this year in the first decade of the imperial calendar. The expenditure of the imperial planning and construction funds will reach 500 million yuan, mainly for the construction of local transportation and the hydraulic infrastructure of the counties, and a small part of the bulk will be taken up by the encouragement of childbirth and basic education for all, and the rest will be necessary to maintain the national expenditure. In addition, it has to be mentioned that the ruling government has also preset an unprecedented amount of 50 million yuan to check and fill the gaps.

As long as the identity has reached a certain level, no one does not know the wealth of the empire, like Meng Tian and Liu Bang belong to the group that should be known, but what kind of attitude do they have in the face of the difficult lion's mouth? It's a speechless attitude plus looking at idiots.

Meng Tian is a general, but he is not a simple general. He has his own views on people's livelihood, and he is not ignorant of economic development.

The real situation is that there is no so-called simple military generals now, military generals are not brains with only muscles and no brains, and it is still an era when you can be a general on a horse and govern a place when you get off a horse.

I felt ridiculous, and there were countless words that could come and talk to Nan Doumi, but Meng Tian's current identity was General Zhengxi, and he coughed twice in the face of the eager anticipation on his face after Nan Doumi finished speaking: "You may be able to send envoys to the center of the empire." ”

He said happily, "Really? That's great! ”

Meng Tian was stunned, obviously because he had misunderstood the meaning of his words, and thought that the requests made by Wusun were very funny.

Liu Bang, who had been quietly staying on the side and being a quiet and beautiful man, couldn't help but tremble, he peeked at Meng Tian with a little schadenfreude, and thought, "This misunderstanding is really interesting." ”

"There are still some things that need the support and help of the general." It is difficult to be angry at all, he said with both sincerity and annoyance: "The dog mongrel's Xiaoyue clan instigated ~ to instigate slaves to rebel, and the Xiaoyue clan themselves launched a rebellion, and most of our current forces are involved in the northern front, can you ask the general to send a force to the northwest to suppress it?" ”

Meng Tian was a little embarrassed by Nandoumi's "affectionate" expression, he turned his face away and didn't look at Nandoumi, his tone could hear the forbearance of discomfort, and said, "Maybe it's okay......"

Obviously he is already forty or fifty years old, and he is a middle-aged man with a sloppy beard, why do you use such an expression?

"Huh?" It was difficult to look puzzled and asked, "Why maybe?" ”

"The empire is engaged in the campaign to conquer the north, and the amount of logistical supplies to the expedition to the west has decreased." Meng Tian didn't need to explain, but he couldn't stand the old face pretending to be tender and ignorant, and added: "Our material replenishment will become a little difficult in the future, and any military operation depends on the plan of the corps commander Shi. ”

The long history of the Northern Expeditionary Corps is Lu Chen, this long history is not the kind of person who belongs to the generous, he has rejected Han Xin's request for some material support before, and he ...... to his own people Especially the only apprentice of the emperor is like this, and it can be imagined that Wusun is not his own person.

"General, aren't you the first commander of the entire corps?" Nan Dou said very puzzled: "In addition to the need to obey the instructions of His Majesty the Emperor, Changshi can also be restricted?" ”

It's hard to say that, but it's heartbreaking! I just don't know if it's intentional or unintentional, so Meng Tian's cheeks twitch twice.

The Empire has always sought a balance in any aspect, at least a benign restriction, and the history of the Legion Commander is the "balance point" of the military. The long history of any legion can control materials, and also bear the control of the legion by the Taiwei Administration, that is, the division of duties and powers between the Taiwei Office and the General's Mansion.

It seems that he really doesn't know the separation of powers in the empire, and he said slightly embarrassedly: "Then you don't object, but I need Lu Changshi's support?" ”

Meng Tian only nodded in response.

The Western Expeditionary Corps came to the Western Regions to help Wusun, and Wusun is now facing another invasion from the northern Hujie, Ding Ling and other tribes, and the Western Expeditionary Corps actually has a plan to send troops to help the war, but it is difficult to ask the Western Expeditionary Corps to participate in the northern war, but instead asks to suppress the northwest.

It was when the difficulty was left that Liu Bangcai said to Meng Tian: "General, it is obvious that the Wusun people think that the threat in the north is not great, or the Wusun people think that they can defeat those tribal alliances, and they do not expect the empire to join in the war dividends produced. ”

Meng Tian naturally thought of this aspect, the seizures generated by the participation of the Western Expeditionary Corps in the northern war in Wusun belonged to him, and there were only a limited number of places to suppress the rebellion.

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