Yuan Tianlou "Lord, is the first conference in the world held normally?" Xun Yu, who was in charge of organizing the conference, stepped forward and asked Liu Tai.

Helping Zhang Fei up, Liu Tai looked at Xun Yu, his brows furrowed deeply, this world's first conference is time-consuming and labor-intensive, if it is said in normal times, it may be able to be held, but at this time of crisis in northern Xinjiang, he can't take care of it, do you care about others?

"My lord, my subordinates feel that the conference should not be stopped, otherwise it will be a huge blow to the prestige of my northern Xinjiang, and the gains outweigh the losses!" Xun You didn't wait for Liu Tai to speak, stepped forward and said.

"Huh?" Liu Tai replied lightly, looked at Zhong Xuan, who was there and asked, "Yuan Chang thinks that the conference should be stopped or continued?" ”

Zhong Miao was stunned, glanced left and right, and thought that Liu Tai was not asking himself, but then when he saw Liu Tai staring at him, he touched his nose with a wry smile, and replied: "Shenhou, my subordinates think that if the conference is abandoned, it will definitely make the people of the world think that Shenhou does not have the confidence to win the million-dollar coalition army of the Hu people, so that all the scholars will disperse. ”

Liu Tai had a smile on the corner of his mouth, and nodded with satisfaction, Liu Tai didn't know the consequences of the cancellation of the conference, but someone had to say it, and this candidate was naturally Zhong Xuan, only by letting Zhong Xuan have more opinions could Zhong Xuan have a greater sense of belonging.

"Since Yuan Chang said so, then the conference will be held as usual, if Wen is the main and Yuan Chang is the vice, this conference will be handed over to the two of you to be responsible, and the originally selected judges will remain unchanged." Liu Tai secretly winked at Xun Yu, not knowing what he meant.

Xun Yu nodded knowingly, and said: "Lord, my subordinates suggest that in addition to the three judges of Pang Degong, Huang Chengyan, and Sima Hui, we should also add Taixue Sacrificial Wine Wang Cheng, Chang'an College Sacrificial Wine Sima Fang, Yingchuan College Sacrificial Wine Xun Shuang, Yanzhou College Sacrificial Wine Hu Mu Class, Donghai College Sacrificial Wine Zhuge Jue, Beihai University Sacrificial Wine Kong Chen, Yangzhou College Sacrificial Wine Lu Yu, Jingxiang College Sacrificial Wine Dong Kang, Sichuan Shu College Sacrificial Wine Zhang Gong, Xiliang College Sacrificial Wine Ma Ping, so that the sacrificial wine of the major colleges are in place, which can make the conference more fair and just. I don't know what happens under the Lord's will? ”

In fact, the reason why Xun Yu put forward this opinion is also thoughtful, because the judges of the original class are all members of Northern Xinjiang, and there are also Northern Xinjiang students who participated in the selection, so it is inevitable for outsiders to gossip, and even the sacrificial wine of several colleges has talked to Xun Yu in private several times, but Xun Yu has never had time to play to Liu Tai.

Liu Tai nodded, knowing that the judges were indeed unfair, so he said: "Didn't Nanyang celebrity Xu Shao also come to Northern Xinjiang?" Let him also be a judge, plus Zheng Yuan, the dean of the School of Engineering, a total of fifteen people, each of whom has a judge's vote in his hand, which can be voted for the last two in each selection competition, and the winner of the vote wins. ”

"My subordinates suggested that the sacrificial wine of each college can directly recommend one person to enter the finals directly, which can also save a lot of time, and can make these sacrificial wines have more good feelings towards my northern Xinjiang." Xun You suddenly stepped out of the queue and said to Liu Tai.

"No!" Sure enough, Tian Feng, who was expected, took a step forward and said: "In this way, wouldn't it open the back door for some students who are not worthy of the name?" In the following absolutely disagreeable. ”

Liu Tai saw Tian Feng's resolute look, touched his nose with a wry smile and said: "This matter will be done according to Gongda's intentions, of course, we must warn these sacrificial wines in advance, if you vainly recommend students who are not worthy of the name to enter the finals, not only will the judge's position be cancelled, but the number of places obtained by the students will also be invalidated." ”

Tian Feng opened his mouth, feeling that he had nothing to say, after all, Liu Tai's punishment was already very severe, if there was still sacrificial wine that dared to refuse indiscriminately, he would definitely not be able to get good fruit to eat.

A.D. 183 Yuan, the fifth year of Han Guanghe, the news of the five grassland coalition forces in early December, I don't know who deliberately revealed it, everyone in the entire Huacheng knew about it, and even exaggerated the one million grassland alliance army to two million, three million or even five million!

As a result, all the people and scholars in the entire Hwaseong were restless and asked Liu Tai to announce the true number of enemy soldiers.

On the contrary, the heroes seem to have forgotten the first conference in the world, and they are piled up outside the Shenhou Mansion one by one, hoping to go out with the army and make contributions on the battlefield.

The conference gathered the attention of all the people in the world, as long as there is a certain ability of students and heroes, have rushed to Huacheng, at this moment there are more than 400,000 students gathered in Huacheng, and the number of heroes is even more terrifying, according to preliminary statistics, at least more than 500,000.

Such a large influx of population, and among them there are restless heroes, the security situation in Huacheng can be imagined, although these heroes are a little annoyed by the siege of the house, but the hero's heart to serve the country is still commendable, the number of Liu Tai's army is insufficient, in order to meet the hero's heart of serving the country and the size of the army, Liu Tai made an exception to select 50,000 heroes with good skills from the crowd of the siege, formed a heroic army, and entered Liu Tai's army, in case of need.

Of course, Liu Tai didn't put his hope on the heroes, after all, the heroes are not regular troops, there is no military discipline of the regular army, and they can only do some small actions such as sneak attacks and poisoning on the battlefield.

Liu Tai's formation of the heroic army not only did not calm the restless mood of the people of Huacheng, but made the people even more nervous, because it can be seen from this that the number of the five coalition armies is definitely quite a lot, although it is not as exaggerated as four or five million, but one or two million may really exist, otherwise, with the number of seven or eight hundred thousand regular troops in northern Xinjiang, why do you need to recruit heroes into the army?

Haoxia's personal combat effectiveness is strong, similar to trapping the camp, but it is not trapped in the camp with discipline and standardized training, and it is impossible to form a strong combat effectiveness on the battlefield, not only Liu Tai and others can see it, but many knowledgeable students can also see that Liu Tai's move not only makes the people panic, but also makes the students' mentality nervous.

Even on the day of the formation of the heroic army, many students left Huacheng and prepared to return to the Central Plains, but unfortunately, the students were one step late, on the day of the first conference in the world, Liu Tai had already ordered the county governments of the Central Plains to go south, no one was allowed to leave the northern Xinjiang, only allowed to enter and not go out, and anyone who broke through the pass and ignored the decree will be killed!!

At the same time, an intensified report was also sent out in Huacheng, and the target was naturally the Luoyang Imperial Court, what was the content? Liu Tai is very dirty, in order to raise military rations, Liu Tai hit the idea on Emperor Ling, as long as there is Emperor Ling's edict in hand, even if those gate lords don't sell it, and they can't open a high price!

Although Zhong Xuan and Mi Zhu have four million catties of gold in their hands, they don't necessarily use it, right? Food is not sand, you can buy it if you want to, this is what those gate lords have piled up year after year, in the era of the late Han Dynasty, what is the most important? Food is the most important, only with food, even if there is a big disaster, it can be relieved, and the gate lord clan, who has always valued food very seriously, sometimes Liu Tai may not be able to buy food even if he offers a high price.

For example, in the official history, Lu Su in the name of thrift, in the early years when Zhou Yu was defeated and came to borrow grain, Lu Su had two large tuns of rice grain in his home, one tun was 3,000 hu, one hu had ten buckets, one bucket had ten liters, and one liter was one kilogram (set to one kilogram, because the two are different units, it is more troublesome to convert, but some people say that it is 500 grams), which is equivalent to saying that there are 300,000 kilograms of rice grain in one tun and 600,000 kilograms of rice grain in two tuns.

On average, if each person does not eat vegetables every day and only eats rice, it will cost about one kilogram of rice grain, while the officers and men of the army must eat about two kilograms of rice grain in order to maintain their full physical strength, so that 600,000 kilograms of rice grain can supply 600,000 people with grain and grass for a day.

(There were not so many dishes in ancient times, some people said that the north ate wheat, and the south ate rice, according to Du Niang, Lu Su gave Zhou Yu rice, not wheat or something, some people will say that there was no rice in the Han Dynasty, but according to the literature, rice was generally planted in the southern region of China in the Han Dynasty, and rice was also planted in the northern region, east of the Hexi Corridor, south of the Hetao, and north of Yanshan, that is to say, rice fields spread throughout all regions except the three northeastern provinces, Gansu, Qinghai, Xinjiang Province, and Tibetan Province, and some people proposed that it is inaccurate to go to Taiwan to find rice, I hereby declare, don't be too troublesome, thank you) And this is just the grain in Lu Su's house, Lu Su was only a small gate valve at that time, which shows how terrifying the grain stored in the other gate valve families is, not to mention the Mi family, the world's largest grain household.

Since this is the case, some people will ask, the Mi family, as the world's first rice grain household, must be very terrifying, since the Mi family is willing to donate all the grain and grass, at least there are hundreds of tons of grain and grass, right? Enough for military rations, right?

In fact, this is unrealistic, you can think about it, the number of troops mobilized by Liu Tai this time plus the heroic army is as high as 970,000, and the daily consumption of military food is 970,000 kilograms, about three tons of rice grain, and this is only one day's consumption of grain.

The formation of such a large scale of the alliance of the five clans is impossible to come to the northern Xinjiang to fight the autumn wind, right? In Liu Tai's view, even if the decisive battle is fought in the shortest time, it will take about three months, and some aftermath work will be done, which means that Santun rice grain should be multiplied by at least 90 days

Two hundred and seventy tun of grain and grass!! Astronomical figures, converted into kilograms, is 81 million kilograms of grain, a full 81,000 tons of grain, if converted to five baht money, the current price of a stone of grain and grass is equal to 100,000 yuan (frequent disasters in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, the price of a stone of grain during the period of the emperor is as high as 500,000 yuan), and 100 kilograms is equal to one stone (should be 120 catties, but the weight in ancient times is a bit light), 81 million kilograms is equal to 81,000 stones, equal to 8.1 billion yuan!! And this is only the cost of grain and grass consumed for three months, plus the soldiers' salaries, the loss of armor and weapons, and the grain and grass consumed by horses, cattle and sheep? Can't calculate astronomical numbers!!

In this way, the Han Dynasty fought against the Qiang people countless times on the battlefield of Liangzhou, and it is understandable that hundreds of millions or billions of money were at every turn, no wonder some people said that the biggest reason why the Eastern Han Dynasty perished was caused by the huge military expenditure on the Xiqiang battlefield.

(There are really a lot of resources consulted in this chapter, and I was shocked to see the huge astronomical figures I calculated with a calculator, and it seems that the finances of Northern Xinjiang are not wrong to write many times that they are about to collapse, because military spending is too exaggerated)

(To be continued)