Deng Ji's expansion of the number of troops was to fight for hegemony and prepare for the needs of future wars, but when it was really implemented at the bottom, he carefully looked through the thick military merit roster of the soldiers at the bottom and found new problems.

From last year's relocation of the General's Mansion to Chang'an, and then to Ma Tengchu's surrender to the General's Mansion and the relocation back to Luoyang, until the war on three sides, after two years of continuous wars, there are a lot of meritorious soldiers in each army, although the military merit roster can be seen more in the fierce battle of the Sizhou Army, it also shows the fatigue of the armies, and there is a bad consequence - even if the army is expanded according to the full number, the position of the lowest level of the military rank of 100 generals is far from rewarding.

In order to persuade the young men under his command not to waste their studies, Deng Ji once said that those who are illiterate in the army will not be allowed to serve as officers above the team leader, but it is completely impossible to implement it now, because the illiterate people in the army account for the majority. In the Sizhou army, the smallest officer is a hundred generals, according to the past practice, beheading, breaking the formation of military merits enough, whether it is a brave soldier or an auxiliary soldier, you can be rewarded as a hundred generals, unified tun people.

All soldiers in the army are paid, and there is naturally a gap between the salaries of ordinary soldiers and officers.

If they cut off their hope of getting ahead, even twenty acres of Xuntian is not enough to completely calm the resentment, and Xuntian cannot be lightly rewarded, and it cannot be awarded unless it is a great merit.

I have never had such troubles before, after the two years of war, although there are many soldiers lost, and the number of accumulated military merits is also terrifying, Deng Ji's army is only about 100 generals at full strength, plus the original 100 generals, the positions after the new Pingliang, Hengye, and water armies are still far from enough.

This may be just a small problem, but if you don't pay attention to it, it may become a big problem, Deng Ji and Tian Feng, Jia Xu, and Xu Shu discussed, and felt that it was necessary to reset the position of the team leader who had been abolished by the previous army, and it was different from the chief and the commander. The team rate is the lowest-ranking officer, below the hundred generals.

Although the individual team rate is only a small amount of extra salary, the cumulative number of squadron rates of each army is not a small number, and the government has to spend a lot of money every year.

There will be some financial impacts, but not just for this reward. In small-scale conflict wars, the team rate is also very good at connecting the upper and lower levels.

Therefore, there are three teams in one tun, and each team has three tithes, and the extra tithes can be led by hundreds of people. After this change, the expansion plan was continued.

The navy is very important, but it will not be built overnight. At present, the most important thing can only be to change the tiger teeth and return the second army to Henan to view the upcoming Yuan Cao war, and prepare to intervene in the outcome of the war.

Therefore. The Pingliang Army had to be formed first, and it couldn't wait for the new recruits to join the army in the spring.

The soldiers selected from the Cao army, the Black Mountain thieves, and the Liangzhou rebel army were added to Yan Xing, and the number of recruits was sufficient, and then the number of new troops was sufficient, but with this new army to guard the vast territory of Liangzhou, Liangzhou was initially peaceful, and there was no room for accidents.

General Wei's Mansion finally made a decision, and the Henan teenager turned eighteen years old. Because the Cao army invaded the junior military group and had already passed the soldier selection test in advance, there was no need to wait for the beginning of spring. First, two or three thousand people were selected to join the Pingliang army.

The youth army temporarily formed to defeat Cao Cao was actually composed of teenagers of the 16 and 17 age groups this year, and after the beginning of spring, only half of them were of appropriate age to join the army.

However, in addition to the young people of one county in Henan, there are still six counties in Sizhou, including Hongnong, Hedong, Hanoi, and Sanfu, and Liangzhou also has seven counties such as Tianshui, Anding, and Wudu. Although they are far inferior to Henan, there will be some soldiers of appropriate age every year.

Counting the newly arrived Nanyang County, Deng Ji already has fifteen counties, and by the spring election of the fifth year of Jian'an, General Wei's Mansion is expected to get more than 13,000 new soldiers in the fifteen counties of the two states.

The climate is getting colder and colder in all kinds of military and political affairs. Cao Cao of Yanzhou received Zhong Xuan's reply, and finally made up his mind, regardless of the fierce opposition of Mrs. Ding, sent his eldest son Cao Ang to Luoyang as a hostage, and at the same time made a big rope in Beihai and Donglai, looking for the home of the captive shipwright.

In the winter, Cao Cao exchanged 22 boatmen, 11 keels, and more than 30,000 catties of ship sheets for Xun You, Zhu Ling, and Lu Qian, as well as 3,000 sets of armor and 8,000 spears that could not be used in Sizhou.

Beihai, Donglai is the most serious place of the Yellow Turban Rebellion, after all these years, all walks of life have been hit hard, Cao Cao has been looting for a long time, but also only 22 boatwrights and shipwrights, not enough to exchange for three people, helpless, in the end only to send people to Luoyang to beg for a number of shipbuilding timber to finally pass.

In terms of exchanging shipbuilding timber for armor, Deng Ji naturally suffered a big loss, but the transaction in the world is a loss for the party with more urgent needs, if not, how could Cao Cao send you wood all the way? As long as there are princes who have the heart to fight for hegemony, the naval army will be built sooner or later, and Cao Mengde also needs it, but now he is at a life-and-death juncture, and he can't take care of anything else for the time being, so he has to satisfy Deng Ji first.

Of course, Cao Cao was not a good man, and the shipwright's timber had not yet been sent to Luoyang, and he secretly sent an envoy to inform Liu Biao of the matter.

Deng Ji started Nanyang, in order to prevent Liu Biao and take the waterway into Hanzhong, he began to build a water army in a hurry, and he would rather suffer some losses in the transaction, but also strive to change it as soon as possible, so that his shipbuilding industry began to take off. Cao Cao's materials for exchanging prisoners and armor soldiers were all hardwood, extremely heavy, with a total of eleven keels, the lightest of which was more than 1,800 catties, and the heavy ones were more than 5,000 catties (Han catties).

Fortunately, although the wood used for the mast is also hardwood, it does not need to be left for several years, and it can be used locally, saving Deng Mu'an.

It's just that Beihai and Liaodong don't build big war ships, and the preparation is also very tight, and Deng Ji doesn't accept the keels that are too small, and finally agrees to accept only eleven large keels.

The shipwright is not optimistic. Among the 22 Beihai shipwrights, only two have a little knowledge of building large war ships, one family is surnamed Chen, whose ancestors were recruited into the dock to participate in the construction of ships, and the family has some oral experience; Another family surnamed Liao, when he was young, personally participated in the construction of a shipwreck, which is rare and has practical experience, but he was only working at that time.

The two boatwrights surnamed Chen and Liao can only be regarded as barely usable, and the other twenty households are even worse, and they can only build ferries and fishing boats before.

In Jingzhou, Liu Biao moved all the shipwrights in his rule to the dock of Baishazhou, Jiangxia, which was in the middle of the Yangtze River, with Huang Zu stationed nearby, and there were horizontal locks on the river to block the exchanges, and the Ailan sent by Deng Ji was completely helpless about this.

The shipbuilding industry is currently struggling, and Deng Ji has no choice but to appease the shipwrights with good words, and then hire a number of carpenters and servants from Henan, and follow the shipwrights to transport wood, glue paint, iron nails and hoops and other shipbuilding materials, and rush to Wancheng first, and try to make a ship on the shore of the river.

According to the instructions of the boatman, Zhang Liao was ordered to find a variety of thick straight and large hardwoods that are suitable for more than 100 years to be cut down and cooled for the future, which is not difficult to find, fir wood, elm, nanmu, cypress, teak and other hardwood materials can be used.

After Deng Ji met with him, he ordered all the Cao guards who came with him to return to Yanzhou, so he lived in Luoyang City, usually only two black iron guards took turns to escort and monitor, and did not restrict him to freedom.

This winter, Liu Bei consolidated his territory in Hanzhong and constantly sent ships to Shunyang to pick up people. Sun Ce was busy digesting Jiujiang and Guangling, and Zhang Jin of Jiaozhou and Liu Zhang of Yizhou also suspended the attack on Liu Biao, and on the eve of the Great War of Yuan Cao and Erxiong, the world seemed to be unexpectedly peaceful.

At this time, it is also time to mention the current situation in the southern part of Nanyang County controlled by Liu Biao. Liu Biao is now on the north bank of the Han River, in fact, he only attaches importance to Fancheng, a city across the river from Xiangyang, and the army will lead 15,000 troops to garrison here, and there are no soldiers in the rest of the places, but Cai Mao, Zhang Yun and other sailors can carry Xiangyang military materials across the Han River to aid Fancheng at any time, and they are not afraid of Deng Jijun's southward movement.

Even if Deng Ji could use the army to capture Fancheng, Liu Biao could at least use the army to attack him more than three times a day.

Relying on Fancheng, Liu Biao's forces radiated and controlled the surrounding Caiyang, Dengxian, Zhuyang, Chaoyang, Xiangxiang, Zhangling and other counties, and Deng Ji's forces only went to Xinye in the south.

The military and political affairs were handled almost equally, taking advantage of the tranquility before the war of Yuan Cao, Deng Ji wanted to go to Nanyang to inspect it, to appease the elders of the same county who survived the plague, war, and relocation, and to see how Han Degao was governed; Second, come to watch the shipwright make the boat, and try if your elm head from later generations can suddenly be inspired to help improve.

There is also a reason that is not enough for outsiders, the previous Deng Zhong proposed to erect a tomb for the deceased relatives, Deng Ji was also reminded of his homesickness, and then he couldn't help but feel ashamed - his father Deng Bo died in Wancheng in this life, and his family led the army into Nanyang several times, all of them came and went in a hurry, and he never thought of mourning and worshipping - although he came from later generations, he was a rural person, and he still attached great importance to worship and the like, and he was taking care of both public and private affairs.

In later generations in the township, I have heard the old man talk about worship, erecting monuments are particular, sacrificing to the fathers, erecting the monument of the fathers, before the need to sacrifice the grandparents, the grandparents monument. Although Deng County takes the surname Deng as the county name, the Deng family is distributed in the entire Nanyang County, which is not unique to Deng County, Deng Ji's home is from Anzhong County instead of Deng County, and Anzhong is now under his own rule, and by the way, he can also go back to his former residence with little memory. Many relatives have died, and after many years of chaos, the houses of the hometown must have been destroyed and the fields were deserted, but there are also tombs of grandfathers, grandmothers and others who have never been seen in this life near the old house.

Deng Ji made up his mind, and after Tian Feng agreed, he went to inform Deng Zhong, and Deng Zhong was also happy to go with him.

The two brothers want to go south to the former residence to worship their ancestors and erect a monument, Wu Yao and Zhou Zhao naturally want to go together, plus Deng She, Deng Zhang, Deng Qing The three older boys, Jiao Qin and Wu Ai, the female doctor Wu Ai, who gave birth to the eldest son, and Deng Wei, who was noisy and had to accompany him, the number was considerable.

Dian Wei led five hundred black iron guards to escort him, but the team had not yet left Luoyang, and news came from Wancheng first - Jiangxia Huangzu General Gan Ning led hundreds of guests and took more than 20 small boats to go upstream, just past Xinye.

Hearing this news, Deng Ji couldn't wait to fly to Wancheng immediately, but there were so many women and children in the team, how could they get up quickly? (To be continued.) )