Chapter 28 Danju

There is nothing wrong with recruiting homeless people, where can a dangerous place like Danzhou recruit many homeless people, but the reclamation of wasteland makes Li Kuangshou hesitate a little. After pondering for a moment, he said: "That's fine, but I'm afraid that you will be tired, and I will hand over the burden of the iron knight to your third brother Li Yuzhong." ”

Li Cunhuan's heart jumped suddenly, and a trace of struggle flashed in his eyes, which immediately turned into flatness. replied with a smile: "This is as it should be, but I hope that my father-in-law can transfer Chen Changfeng, the capital of the Iron Cavalry Capital, to me, after all, there is a lot of cooperation, and it is difficult to find a suitable cooperation for a while, so I hope that my father-in-law will agree." ”

Li Kuangshou didn't know if it was to "cut off" Li Cunhuan's henchmen in the Iron Cavalry Capital, or for what reason. actually opened his mouth and said: "This is as it should be, you look at what those people under the Iron Cavalry City need, write a list to me, and transfer to Danzhou together." So that you can defend against the Khitans in the grass valley. ”

When Li Cunhuan heard this, he was not polite, anyway, he knew that if he didn't transfer his henchmen, sooner or later he would be slowly cleaned up by Li Yuzhong under other pretexts, or transferred to an idle post to drink tea, or even wooed. He opened his mouth and said: "Captain Duan Ziyao and Pang Kongming are good, I hope that my father-in-law can also transfer them to serve under me." ”

Li Kuangshou nodded very happily and said, "There is no problem with this. I'll have this matter done tonight. ”

"Thank you father for being here!" Li Cunhuan thanked Li Kuangshou with a smile, but compared with the previous meeting full of family affection, there is a lot more hypocrisy now.

Although it was a bit regrettable to hand over the military power, the next day Li Kuangshou announced the appointment of Li Cunhuan as the Danzhou regimental training envoy and the Danzhou assassin history, and the court Li Cunhuan was from the four products, and the military officer Mingwei was general. Li Cunhuan was also appointed as the envoy of Danzhou Tuntian, but this was a temporary official position. Li Kuangshou said that Li Cunhuan could only serve for two years at most.

Li Cunhuan naturally knew Li Kuangshou's concerns, Li Cunhuan now has the military power, if he even has the power to make Tuntian make self-supporting food and grass, he is so close to Youzhou. In case Li Cunhuan suddenly rebelled, although he didn't dare to say that he would definitely succeed, it would also be able to make Li Kuangshou anxious.

Li Cunxiao was appointed as the commander of the army to guard Danzhou. However, this broken army is too shabby, that is, Li Cunxiao's original 4,000 Flying Tiger Army. The rest of the soldiers were asked by Li Kuangshou to go to 2,000, and the rest were transferred to Danzhou. Although Li Cunxiao was very angry, he had no choice but to see that the situation was stronger than others, fortunately Li Cunhuan was comforting on the side, otherwise Li Cunxiao might have turned against Lu Long.

Li Cunhuan did not stay in Youzhou for too long, and three days later he and Li Cunxiao set off from Danzhou.

In the later generations of Danzhou (Miyun County), the population was dense, and it was simply sweating into rain and rubbing shoulders like clouds. Now Danzhou because of the chaos in the Central Plains, the Tang Emperor's decree does not go out of Guanzhong. Local warlords are selfish. As a result, there are only 13,000 households and more than 70,000 people left in Danzhou in terms of population. Among them, about 20,000 were successful.

Li Cunhuan calculated, plus the 15,000 households he was able to get from Li Kuangshou, there are about 150,000 people in the entire Danzhou now. In terms of the army, Li Cunhuan himself already has 4,000 Flying Tiger troops and 5,000 criminal state soldiers. In addition, there are 5,000 Youzhou soldiers and 3,000 Danzhou soldiers.

Among them, the 5,000 Youzhou soldiers were paid by Li Kuangshou, and this soldier was from Youzhou, but he was transferred from Youzhou to guard Danzhou for a period of time, and it generally depends on the long-term distance and will be rotated once a year to three years. And Liu Rengong's original rebel army was the Ulzhou Rong soldiers, and they did not have a rotation for a period of time before rebelling.

And Li Kuangshou was to prevent Li Cunhuan's power from becoming bigger, Li Cunhuan walked on the front foot, and he issued an order behind him, ordering that on November 1, these Youzhou soldiers must return to Youzhou.

In this way, Li Cunhuan found that he had a total of 12,000 troops on hand, but he carefully calculated that a soldier actually needed twelve and a half people to raise soldiers. This is very close to the ratio of soldiers and civilians when Zhuge Liang was in Shu Han, but Li Cunhuan is not Zhuge Liang, and he does not have such a strong administrative ability. And Danzhou is not Sichuan, which is known as the capital of heaven.

Li Cunhuan only discovered at this time that his biggest crisis now was not the Khitans' fighting in the grass valley, but his soldiers and horses. Li Kuangshou thought that Li Cunhuan's 12,000 troops were enough to hold Danzhou. However, he forgot that sixty percent of the soldiers in Danzhou were paid by Youzhou.

In this way, Danzhou, with a population of 70,000, only bears 3,000 soldiers and horses, and more than 20 people bear one soldier. However, if it were to become twelve and a half people and raise one soldier, it would undoubtedly be a very heavy burden. What's more, there are only 13,000 households in Danzhou. The 15,000 households in Li Cunhuan's hands will have to rely on Li Cunhuan to support them until the Mid-Autumn Festival harvest next year.

Li Cunhuan helplessly found that he seemed to have walked into a dead end, and there was no place for him to get out of this alley. Rebellion may be a good path, but it's just another dead end. And this dead end is still very miserable.

"Lord, Lord, why are you so troubled?" Chen Changfeng seemed to have a heart in his heart, and felt Li Cunhuan's troubles. Zema came to Li Cunhuan's side and asked.

Li Cunhuan's eyes lit up, as if he had met a savior, he grabbed Chen Changfeng's hand and said, "Changfeng, I'm afraid you can save me now!" ”

"What, what?" Chen Changfeng squinted his eyes and asked calmly.

Li Cunhuan immediately expressed the concerns in his heart, and Chen Changfeng pondered for a moment and said: "The government military system!" ”

"The government military system?" Li Cunhuan pondered for a moment, his eyes lit up. Chen Changfeng means the integration of soldiers and farmers, farmers in peacetime and soldiers in wartime.

Li Cunhuan pondered for a moment, and said with some concern: "This method is good, but I'm afraid it will have to be modified, the government military system requires soldiers to bring their own weapons, where do they get weapons?" In addition, how to survive the current crisis, the ration of 15,000 households is not a small amount, although we have seized 200,000 stone of grain in Ren County, but a month has passed, and only more than 123,000 stone remain. It can only last up to two months of consumption. ”

"North!" Chen Changfeng pointed to the north, pondered for a moment, probably felt that he was not clear enough, and added: "Go, go and rob, gun Khitan, cattle and sheep!" With cattle, you can cultivate more, more fields! ”;