Hejian County, the county seat Lecheng Lecheng is the county governor of Hejian County, but the garrison is only a few thousand people, most of them are some ruffians and hooligans, how can they resist Liu Tai's army? When Liu Tai's tens of thousands of troops approached the city, Le Cheng's rogue guards surrendered directly, and the requirements were very simple, only hoping that Liu Tai would not kill them and leave them with a surname.

"Your Highness, this is the latest information from the Goguryeo army." Guo Jia walked into the county guard hall with a solemn face, and said loudly to Liu Tai, who was discussing something with Dongfang Jue.

"Goguryeo?" Liu Tai frowned, and after motioning for Guo Jia to hand over the information, he said, "Isn't there Dian Wei on Goguryeo's side to deal with it?" With an army of 300,000 against 150,000, what tricks can Goguryeo play? ”

Guo Jia listened to Liu Tai's words, shook his head with a wry smile and said: "Goguryeo is naturally not the opponent of General Dian, according to the latest good news, the Goguryeo army has been beaten out of Xuansu County, and now in the northeast, there is no trace of the Goguryeo army, but this situation is not about the war, but the situation inside Goguryeo, the third prince of Goguryeo, Gao Yanyou, imprisoned the second king Bogu. ”

"What??" Liu Tai frowned, this Gao Yanyou has a great reputation in the Northeast, and he especially likes to provoke a war against the Han Dynasty, if Gao Yanyou is in power, the Northeast Frontier is afraid that it will be difficult to be stable.

"Although Gao Yanyou is in charge of the army, he doesn't dare to do anything to Bogu, right? After all, the domestic situation in Goguryeo is complicated, and various forces are intertwined, if Gao Yanyou does not handle it well, it is easy to cause domestic riots in Goguryeo. Dongfang Jue frowned and asked out loud, although he said that he was not in charge of intelligence, but he often stayed by Liu Tai's side, and he would naturally pay attention to the situation in the Northeast, and he would also pay a little attention to Gao Yanyou.

"En" Liu Tai nodded, and said lightly: "Since ancient times, there have been countless murders and murders for power, and Gao Yanyou is just trying to get what he wants, which is not unusual. ”

"How does Your Highness want to deal with the current situation? Is it difficult to see Goguryeo being grasped by the belligerent Goyeon-woo? This is not a good thing for my northern Xinjiang. Guo Jia frowned and asked Liu Tai, in private, Guo Jia had also thought about it many times, but he really couldn't find a good way to deal with the erosive situation of Goguryeo.

Liu Tai frowned slightly, picked up a brush on the table, took out a blank piece of paper, paused, and wrote something on it, quickly, as if it had been completed in one stroke.

"What??" Seeing the contents of the paperwork, Dongfang Jue couldn't help but exclaim in surprise and shouted: "The lord wants to ask the imperial court to crown Gao Wunan as the king of Goguryeo? ”

"En" Liu Tai responded lightly, raised his head, a strange smile hung on the corner of his mouth, and said: "Now Goguryeo is still my Han vassal country, and all the heirs to the throne are also more subject to my Han Dynasty. ”

"Guo Jia and Dongfang looked at each other, speechless, really speechless, now that the Han Dynasty is already in the midst of war, Liu Tai is still thinking about expanding the territory, is there something wrong with his brain? No matter how strong the northern Xinjiang is, after the more than 700,000 troops move south, the military budget has been very tight, so that the northeast can only be passively defended and dare not expand the war with Goguryeo.

"Lord, in fact, you can postpone Goguryeo for a few years, after all, pacifying the Yellow Turban Army is not something that can be done in a short time." A wry smile hung on the corner of Guo Jia's mouth, although he believed in Liu Tai's bold words to quell the Yellow Turban Uprising within half a year, but after all, what happened in case?

Although it is said that the Tianci army has a brilliant record, in just half a month, it has taken the entire territory of Hejian County, and the west is also full of good news, but if the army has not left Jizhou today, it is not known how much time it will take to quell the Yellow Turban Uprising in all states in the world.

"Of course it has to be slowed down, how can this king be in a hurry?" Liu Tai saw Guo Jia and Dongfang Jue's appearance, smiled faintly, and then took out a document from his arms, handed it to Guo Jia, and said, "Look, this is the tenth document played by Gao Shun's wooden pimple." ”

"Huh??" I saw that there were two big words on the paper: "Disarmament!" Guo Jia couldn't help frowning, took the paperwork, read it carefully, and Dongfang Jue on the side also poked his head and carefully checked it from top to bottom.

"Hey" sighed, unspeakably helpless, Liu Tai said with a wry smile: "Now the population of my northern Xinjiang is about to break into 20 million, but I still can't afford the military expenses of up to 1.47 million troops, some time ago, Xun Yu gave me a few secret guarantees, and reported the actual situation of the counties on two continents to the king, at first the king didn't believe it, but Huacheng went all the way south, the situation is indeed very bad, hey"

"Is it too exaggerated that the annual military expenditure is as high as 60% of tax revenue?" When Guo Jia saw the paperwork, he actually said that he would contribute 60% to the army with 10% of the annual tax revenue, and he couldn't help but say out loud.

Dongfang Jue couldn't help but nodded and said: "It's too ridiculous, all parts of Northern Xinjiang are under construction, if all taxes are smashed on military spending, forming a vicious cycle, how long can Northern Xinjiang's finances support?" Do you have to take money and food from Zhen Mi's family every time you go on an expedition? ”

Liu Tai listened to Dongfang Jue's words, his face turned red, the reason why Northern Xinjiang is like this is all because of Liu Tai's continuous expansion of the army, there would be no problem, but the frequent foreign wars in Northern Xinjiang have led to rapid deterioration, and the young and strong people below are almost faulty, and there is a serious shortage of labor, resulting in countless construction that is beneficial to the people in Northern Xinjiang, but there are not enough manpower to complete it.

"Your Highness, I don't need the Great Qin Dynasty in the past in the northern frontier, there is no strict enough law to make the northern frontier a terrifying killing machine, if it continues like this, it is easy for the lower class people to mutiny, and please make a decision as soon as possible." Guo Jia looked solemn at Liu Tai and said, the situation in front of Beijiang is imminent, and it is no longer allowed to be delayed.

In fact, from a normal point of view, the number of soldiers drawn out of ten is not scary, and it is very rare, after all, during the Qin Dynasty, there was a terrifying number of five out of one, of course, it was only for a short time, and it was not true, if you really agree with the statement of one out of ten, that is the scholar's opinion.

What is the actual situation? You must know that it is not only young and middle-aged people who constitute a society, well, it can also be said that it constitutes a country, there are the elderly, children, women, and even some disabled people, in troubled times, the number of these disabled people is very terrifying, most of them are some poor people who have been cut down from the post-war period.

The main members of the society are composed of men and women, and in ordinary times, female surnames can exceed 50 percent, or even more, but in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, there can be so many, because the ancients favored sons over women, many girls were just born, because of lack of food, there are many people who are directly strangled to death, but even so, female surnames can account for at least 30 to 35 percent, right?

Even if it's thirty-five, only sixty-five percent are left, but there are still old people among them, can old people fight? Obviously impossible, well, considering the frequent disasters at the end of the Han Dynasty, the number of old people who died was very large, even if it was ten percent, so that there would be fifty-five percent left, and then remove the children under the age of eighteen, this part accounted for a very large number, after all, Northern Xinjiang has encouraged childbirth for so many years, and the effect is still very good.

Well, it can't be too much, after all, in ancient times, children were prone to die, and there were a lot of deaths, and it was impossible to eliminate this situation in a short period of time, but no matter how you calculate, there was always 20% of the proportion of children, right? In the end, the real young adults are less than 35 percent, and may even be less than 30 percent.

Counting the whole number, what is 30 percent of a population of 20 million? That's six million! These 6 million people include those under the age of 50 and those over the age of 18, and the enlistment age of the regular army in northern Xinjiang is at least 23 years old and the highest is 40 years old.

However, in ancient times, when the medical situation was extremely bad, there were not a few young and strong people who were weak and sick, and some counties in the border areas suffered from foreign humiliation all the year round, and most of the people who survived were disabled or weak.

In this way, among the six million people, there are still many infirm, sick and disabled people, and even if he is 500,000 to 1 million, and then the people over 40 years old are removed, there will be at least about 15.6 million.

The remaining 4.5 million are in good health, but some of these people always have to take care of their families or work in the fields, right? After all, in ancient times, filial piety was the first priority, and the elderly parents could not be allowed to go to the ground.

The number of troops in northern Xinjiang is as high as 1.47 million on the surface, but the question is whether the county soldiers are not soldiers? They are also eating public food and maintaining local well-being, 169 county towns on two continents in northern Xinjiang, plus Zhenyuan County and Zhengyuan County in the north, which are equivalent to 179 county seats, and each county town, the personnel who maintain public order are counted as 500 people, how many people is this?

Nearly 100,000 people!! This is not counting the small teams of some villages and towns to maintain law and order, otherwise it will be even more terrifying, which is equivalent to saying that Liu Tai recruited more than half of the three million young men who can be recruited.

What a big place is Northern Xinjiang? All major states and counties are in full swing of construction, and each construction team needs a lot of people, which is equivalent to saying that after the remaining more than one million yuan is distributed everywhere, the northern Xinjiang will not see the youth and strength at all, and there will be a fault! The one who caused such a situation is Liu Tai himself, the actual ruler of Northern Xinjiang, and the current His Royal Highness King Yan!

Of course, this is also something that Liu Tai couldn't imagine, because Liu Tai only knew that in the Three Kingdoms, the soldiers and horses of the major princes were often based on the figure of one out of ten, so the 20 million population of Northern Xinjiang, in Liu Tai's opinion, could draw out two million troops.

But Liu Tai didn't think about it, what were the soldiers and horses of those princes like? Almost all of them are ragtag armies that can be shattered at the touch of a button, can they be compared with the regular army in northern Xinjiang that has extremely serious requirements?

Although it is said that Northern Xinjiang looks very powerful now, but these are all false, and anyone with a discerning eye can see that if Liu Tai is not restrained or disarmed, it is easy to cause a complete disconnect of the personnel in Northern Xinjiang. How can we nurture the next generation? This is a cycle of evil surnames, but Liu Tai has not yet realized it well.

"Lingyin, Xiao Jiazi, come and see, what is the best number of troops in the northern frontier?" Liu Tai frowned, his expression was very heavy, disarmament is always a bad topic, because it means that the external expansion of Northern Xinjiang will slow down again, but even so? Could it be that because of Liu Tai's ambitions, the northern Xinjiang was dragged down?

"Thirty draws one" Dongfang said out loud without thinking, thirty draws of one is equal to nearly 1.5 million troops, and if you want to rule five or six hundred thousand, it means that the Qinglin Army must all be released back to the township, and it is completely released to the township!

"Twenty-five out of one" Guo Jia's opinion is obviously different, because Guo Jia thought of the cavalry team of the Qinglin Army, which is a strong army that Liu Tai has invested a lot of money and food, if it is abolished, it is obviously not displayed, and it is absolutely impossible!

"Twenty-five draws one??" Liu Tai said with a heavy face, if you want to draw one out of twenty-five, then not only the 500,000 Qinglin Army will be abolished, but some weak people within the regular army will also be driven out, of course, this will indeed save a lot of military spending, which can make the finances of Northern Xinjiang breathe a sigh of relief.

"Whew, twenty-five draws one, but this will have to wait until after the Central Plains War" Liu Tai, who had figured it out, exhaled a breath of turbidity, with a hint of a smile on the corner of his mouth, glanced at Guo Jia and Dongfang Jue and said.

Although it is necessary to disarm, it is definitely not now, after all, all parts of the Central Plains now have to use troops, 700,000 troops, Liu Tai is still too little, if it is disarmed, how to fight Zhang Jiao? Is it possible to fight one place at a time of several decades?

(To be continued)