Chapter 374 Benefiting the People

Xu Shu said that cement needs large-scale mobilization of personnel to take lime, and it also needs to be processed in the industrial park, and the current industrial zone has not yet begun to be formed.

"Ziyang, the repair of the industrial zone will be handed over to you as soon as it is ready!" Liu Mang pointed at Liu Ye and said, Liu Ye's talent is not much lower than Xu Shu, but the two have different emphasis, Liu Ye focuses more on military strategy and organ skills, and Xu Shu is better at military policy and internal affairs, so Xu Shu is in command of the overall situation, and Liu Ye is in charge of the industrial zone, "You can find Yuan Zhi to get the money you need in Ziyang Yiqiē Industrial Park!" "There is Yang Hong in Shouchun, Liu Mang's cheap father-in-law Yuan Shu has accumulated over the years, and it is not a problem for money.

"Liu Ye takes the order!" Liu Ye stepped forward and hugged his fist at Liu Mang to receive his life.

"My lord, there are as many as one million people in the city, although there is a supply of grain and grass, but it will not be a matter for a long time!" Xu Shu said that there is a big problem in Shouchun now, the people's food, clothing, housing and transportation are almost solved, and there is another problem that these people have nothing to do now, and now is not the time to be busy with farming, the time for those fields to open up the wasteland has long passed, if these people have nothing to do, then something will happen, the ancient rulers paid such a high tax, in addition to allowing themselves to have more food and grass to compete for the world, there is also a way to make the people busy, so that they will not form homeless, Once people are too idle, they will naturally think more, and their energy will not be discharged, so there will be chaos, so there have been more than a dozen fights in the city in the past few days.

"These things, I'm about to discuss with Yuan Zhi and you!" Liu Mang also nodded, although the current people have land because of the household registration system, they cannot cultivate it because of the wrong season, which is no different from unemployment in modern society. This is a million unemployed people, except for those who are soldiers, the unemployment rate is basically 90 percent, and this is a ghost if there is no turmoil.

"Among the millions of people in Yuanzhi, there are 700,000 who are strong." Among the 700,000, there are 200,000 school-age women, and the remaining 500,000 are around fifteen to forty strong. "Draw 300,000 strong! I'm ready to form an army! ”

Liu Mang's words made everyone present stunned and stole 300,000 strong, this expansion of the army is really terrifying, not to mention 300,000 troops, now the entire Shouchun can feed 100,000 troops, that is really to the limit, 300,000 troops, even if Yuan Shao uses the land of four continents, the rich land of Hebei is about the same number, you must know that the expansion of the army is not only the consumption of military food. Another point is ordnance, 300,000 people of ordnance, this is impossible to hollow out Yangzhou, and now Liu Mang is still forming a new white horse Congyi and Xiliang Iron Cavalry Yiyang soldiers need to be formed, these soldiers and horses need armor and weapons, and now Shouchun is holding the treasury of Lujiang to dress up these soldiers and horses, where is there any excess weapons and armor for other armies. also expanded the army by 300,000, this is to use all kinds of force! Even Nanyang Zhang Xiu didn't dare to play like this.

And the most important thing is that the people are willing to join the army! Since ancient times, there have been sayings that good men are not soldiers, and good iron is not nails, can you still use a sword to force people to join the army!

"Think twice! This matter must not be done, reckless military force has been the way to take trouble since ancient times! As a civil official, Xu Shu was about to oppose Liu Mang's construction on the spot, and Liu Ye also knelt down on the side, "300,000 troops, plus some of them are almost 400,000 now!" Where how many people go to train soldiers and horses!

Although the number of people in this battle is a battle advantage, what can it do if a group of rabble without armor can do it, just consume grain and grass for nothing! Liu Ye and Xu Shu were afraid that Liu Mang would be attacked by Liu Bei and Zhang Xiu's three coalition forces, and they could only defend passively because of the small number of troops, so they prepared to expand the army in anger. It's so much more, it's completely carried away by hatred.

The only one among the scribes on the scene who did not open his mouth to dissuade was Jia Xu Jia Wenhe, who expanded the army by 300,000, and he was also taken aback, and the indiscriminate expansion of the army was really the way to cause trouble. The Yellow Turban Army has millions of soldiers and horses! But in the end, what can be like this, in the end, it is not that all the three Zhang brothers are dead, the Yellow Turban Rebellion has also been quelled, and what is left is just some of the former Yellow Turban community marshals. Jia Xu didn't open his mouth, first, he saw that Liu Mang didn't look like that kind of angry person at all, his demeanor looked normal, it couldn't be a whim, and since Liu Mang took it out, he naturally wanted to brainstorm, Jia Xu looked at the exhibition of the situation very indifferently, and he was also looking at what the new lord had in mind.

Liu Mang shook his head listening to the persuasion of Liu Ye, Xu Shu and others, and was dizzy by Liu Bei and Zhang Xiu, how could it be, it is true that Liu Mang also regretted it because of the small number of troops in Yangzhou, but after all, this battle was won by Liu Mang, Liu Bei Liu Da'er lost his white-eared heavy armor, and the general Chen Zhi died, Zhang Xiu was martyred, and it is not known who is more ashamed and angry. Liu Mang asked directly, this sentence made Xu Shu and Liu Ye stunned for a moment.

As soon as they heard that Liu Mang was going to expand the army by 300,000, their first reaction was to oppose it, but they really subconsciously forgot about it, even if they didn't expand the army, these 300,000 people would have to live in the spring, even more than 300,000, with a population of 1.12 million, and these were all eating Liu Mang's military rations.

"Young master!" Another battle general stood up, this person called Liu Mang Young Lord, and there was only Zhang Liao present, Zhang Liao was Lu Bu's courtier after all, and Liu Mang was just Lu Bu's son-in-law, although he still obeyed Liu Mang's orders, but the title did not change.

"Young master! Where did the ordnance and weapons of these 300,000 troops come from! "Since we want to expand the army, we naturally need ordnance and weapons, and we can't let these soldiers and horses go to the battlefield empty-handed.

These soldiers really don't need ordnance weapons! "Weapons and ordnance, everywhere outside the city!" Liu Mang answered Zhang Liao's question very casually, Zhang Liao was a little puzzled, Liu Mang cured it and said, "These 300,000 soldiers and horses don't need ordnance and weapons, give them bark as armor." Wooden sticks are just a weapon! ”

"How can such an army go to the battlefield!" Zhang Liao frowned and was about to speak out against it, his Zhang Liao's words on the position were higher than Liu Mang in Lu Bujun, so he didn't care about offending Liu Mang and said it on the spot, if Liu Mang listened, it was okay, if he didn't listen, it was best to make a conflict, and he could transfer Zhang Liao back to Lujiang with a letter. He stayed here, Shouchun still had to train Xiliang Tieqi, he was not comfortable for a day. "Young master, don't learn from that Zhao Kuo'er!" Zhang Liao's words are no longer polite, they are completely provocative.

What is called Zhao Kuo'er, isn't it Zhao Kuo directly! Isn't he just pointing at Liu Mang's nose and scolding Liu Mang for talking on paper!

"Bold! Dare to speak to the lord like this, what is it" Xu Sheng and Huang Xu on the side couldn't help it, but they were stopped by their respective main generals Cheng Yu and deputy generals Wang Wei and Zhao Yun.

Although Zhao Yun was also very dissatisfied with Zhang Liao. But he knew that in general, he could not be rough in the main hall of the council. Cheng Yu and Zhang Liao already knew each other, and Wang Wei was a good man, no matter who was right or wrong, once he made a move, it would be difficult to do.

The state of the generals under his command made Liu Mang a little helpless, originally there was only Liu Mang's faction, so it was okay. Everyone is a lord and can take care of each other, and now there are two more factions, one is the new Xiliang Iron Cavalry, that is, Ge Jun and Zhang Hu, although these two are new to join, but they don't say anything because they are generals, and there are no pigeons to talk to. The rest is Zhang Liao, Zhang Liao is the old man of Lu Bujun, even Liu Mang has to give him face, what he wants is to return to Lu Bu's command to command his wolf cavalry in Bingzhou instead of staying in Yangzhou.

"Don't make any noise!" Liu Mang pressed his hand and pulled and pulled between the group of martial artists under the town, "General Wenyuan, you are right, it is difficult for such soldiers and horses to go to the battlefield, but now these soldiers and horses that this king wants are not directly on the battlefield!" Zhang Liao's temper Liu Mang knew.

After all, half of his troops and the state wolf rider died, and his brother Zhang Fan died in battle, and now he wants him to stay in Yangzhou and leave the wolf rider in the state, and he is still in the Xiliang Iron Cavalry, which is almost equivalent to the stupid bear enemy, as the main general, naturally this mood will not be good, Liu Mang let him, but it does not mean that Zhang Liao can kick his nose and face in the main hall and talk to himself like this.

So Liu Mang called himself the king in his words. This is a kind of estrangement, and it is also a warning, that is, no matter how you Zhang Liao are Lu Bu's generals, then you are just a spoof retainer, but he is Lu Bu's son-in-law and has the title of King of Shu, can you still yell at your master!

Zhang Liao stopped talking. He also knows respect and humility, and Zhang Liao can be regarded as a loyal person, his respect for Lu Bu will naturally have a trace of respect for Liu Mang, he was depressed before, but now it is much better.

"This army of 300,000! It's not for the battlefield! These soldiers and horses are used as engineering troops, as reserves! In addition to daily training, they also need to build various water conservancy, build cities, and even maintain the security of the entire Yangzhou in addition to daily training! Liu Mang said to the group of civil and military forces below.

"This 300,000 is just an estimate of mine, as long as it is a man of appropriate age, he needs to enter the reserve, and 300,000 will be recruited on the basis of merit! The extra is a three-line part! "It is impossible for Liu Mang to directly expand the army of hundreds of thousands, once these hundreds of thousands come out, they will have no effect except for delaying their feet, and now the entire Yangzhou is in need of manpower, how can Liu Mang be reckless.

It's just that now Liu Mang has to organize these for the sake of Shouchun's stability and use them to rebuild the entire Yangzhou system.

If it is a reserve, or an engineer is equivalent to a Tuntian soldier, so these Yangzhou civil and military forces have settled down a little, and at this time Jia Xu finally spoke, "The lord, the lord Tuntian is good, and the reserve can ensure a steady stream of soldiers in my army!" "Liu Mang's Tuntian strategy not only allows the people to have something to do and can be planned as a whole, but also has a good place that is to replenish the soldiers quickly, some of the troops have been disabled, and the supplementary soldiers and horses are all peasant children, they have been working in the fields all their lives, let them pick up the sword and play with their lives, it will take a long time to train, and this kind of reserve is different, although they are also recruits, but they have been trained so that the time for the disabled front-line troops to recover their combat strength will also be accelerated.

"But my lord!" Jia Xu grasped a shortcoming in Liu Mang's plan, that is, "The lord's strategy of deploying troops also needs to have soldiers to be stationed, but what if these people are unwilling to teach their own heirs to enter the reserve!" "It has become a law that a good man is not a soldier and a good iron is not a nail, and in ancient times there were only two kinds of people who entered the army. The first kind is a military family itself, this kind of person can only be in the army if he wants to achieve fame and fortune, and the other is the people who can't get by! Because these people can't live at home, the food at home is not enough, and as the saying goes, the big man eats Lao Tzu to death. That is to say, the amount of food that people eat increases when they are young, and such people can't eat enough because they can't eat enough, so they have to enter the army in order to survive.

And now the people in the city have the grain and grass supplied by Liu Mang. Coupled with Liu Mang's household registration system, everyone has a field, as long as they survive this time, they will naturally have enough food and clothing, who would be stupid to send their children to the army, and they will die if they fight.

Liu Mang frowned, this is really a problem: "Now the grain and grass of Shouchun are planned in a unified manner." If someone refuses to join the army, there is no need to release his rations! Liu Mang said to his subordinate Wenwu, he didn't want to raise people who ate and drank for nothing, if someone didn't join the army, then prepare to starve to death.

"My lord!" As soon as Liu Mang's words fell, Xu Shu also stood up, objected, and cut off the rations of those people. Liu Mang figured out what they came to Shouchun for, wasn't it just those Shouchun lands! is also for more ways to live, before Xu Shu because Zhao Yun was in charge of his own private affairs, he reduced the rations and almost made Shouchun into a mutiny. If Liu Mang comes out like this again, it is death to be a soldier to fight, and it is death to not get food, once these people change, then Liu Bei and Sun Ce on the side may die of laughter! Because they attacked Yangzhou, didn't they let the people mutiny! What's more, there are more than 200,000 Shanyue people among these millions of people. These Shanyue people were originally very disgusted with joining the army, they thought that this was the Han people deliberately wanted to send them to death, these Shanyue was a big problem for Sun Ce, if he could let Shanyue join the army, I am afraid that Sun Ce would have done it a long time ago.

"Then don't you do anything!" Liu Mang was a little angry, raising millions of people for nothing is not Liu Mang's style. And Liu Mang's reserve system is to prepare for the hegemony of the world in the future, he occupies a small territory, only Yangzhou, and in the north Lao Cao is about to unify Hebei, and Jiangdong and Jingzhou on the Yangtze River in the south are also much richer than his Liu Mang's army, and the background is much stronger. He also did not have the Yangtze River to stop the enemy. The whole Yangzhou can be described as a flat river, and once Cao Cao has a free hand with Xuzhou Yanzhou, the first unlucky one is Liu Mang.

Liu Mang's Yangzhou is much worse than these old princes in all aspects, but Liu Mang's Yangzhou has one thing that these princes don't have, that is, there are few scholars! Without an intricate relationship, the entire Yangzhou Shouchun is just a million people! Originally, Shouchun's scholar family either moved to Jiangdong, or was wiped out, so Shouchun is a borderless land, extremely clean, even Lujiang County has a scholar family, but a big family like the Zhou family has been slaughtered by Liu Mang with a butcher's knife, it can be said that the current Yangzhou can be regarded as at the mercy of Liu Mang.

Originally, he thought that without these intricate interests he would be able to make the policy more accessible, but who knew that there was still a threshold for the people.

The civil and military forces below all stopped talking, this thing of Minyi said that he was big, he could have three years of Qing Governor's Mansion and ten years of snowflake silver! Since ancient times, it has been the official standard, where do you care about the people's righteousness, say that the people's righteousness is small, once it is big, for example, once Liu Mang really threatens with the cut off rations now, it may lead to the end of the official forcing the people to rebel, and the entire Shouchun Yangzhou is in turmoil, so the recruitment strategy used by Liu Mang, as well as the strategy of Yangzhou, will be over, and he may even have to catch up with the elite under his command. Let Liu Bei come to pick peaches, don't look at Liu Bei now, he was crushed by Lu Bujun, but Liu Mang believed that once Yangzhou rioted, Liu Bei would definitely come from the new army to the east.

"Yuan Zhizi Yang, is there no way!" Xu Shu and Liu Ye also fell into contemplation, the matter of conscription is really difficult to do, if you use the strong, maybe the people will mutiny, even if you don't mutiny, do you dare to use this kind of reluctant soldier! Don't go to the battlefield and stab you in the end, it's good, don't be strong, the people have land and food supplies, why should they fight with you, so since ancient times, the Han people have been a docile people, as long as they are not on the top of the road, they will never rise up to resist, they will adapt to the bad environment rather than change the bad environment, which is why the Han people can be invaded by foreign people again and again but can hold on.

Xu Shu and Liu Ye both fell into contemplation, and the people behind them had no good plans, only Jia Xu was calm there. The little eyes narrowed, as if they were pretending to sleep.

"Jia Xu!" Liu Mang still forgot about this old fox! This old fox has held a lot of official positions over the years, and he must be much more experienced in dealing with the people than Xu Shu and Liu Ye, the two young people.

"Mr. Wenhe's military and political affairs, but Mr. has already closed his eyes and recuperated, Mr. must have already made a bamboo in his chest, I don't know if there is any good way to teach me!" Liu Mang looked at Jia Xu with glittering eyes, you must know that this question was raised by Jia Xu, and Jia Xu saw at a glance that the most difficult thing in this conscription is not the food or ordnance, but the people's will, everyone is unwilling to join the army, you can do this. If Jia Xu has a way, then Liu Mang can naturally implement the policy of Tuntian, if not, this Jia Xu's military strategy when he closes his eyes and recuperates, it is regarded as contempt for the Lord, Liu Mang will definitely clean up this old fox, and the military and political deliberations can still close his eyes and recuperate, this is laughing at this military strategy! Liu Mang is unhappy, and naturally he will not make the old fox feel comfortable.

"Huh!" Jia Xu completely belongs to the character who was shot while lying down, he didn't want to intervene in the military and politics this time, after all, he had just joined Liu Mang's army, and whether it was right or wrong in the military and politics, it would offend people. If it's right, then it will inevitably give people a feeling of stealing the limelight, especially when Xu Shu and Liu Ye and others are there, you said that these two didn't come up with it, you Jia Xu said it, what is it? It's a provocation! Your ability is stronger than ours? If he is wrong, he will inevitably be ridiculed for his inability, and he Jia Xu naturally needs to be prosperous and rich after he gets his life guaranteed. You said that this first military strategy is right or wrong anyway, so it's better not to say anything.

But Jia Xu seemed to escape the past, but Liu Mang didn't let him go! Jia Xu shook his head with a wry smile in his heart, he could only stand up, and then he couldn't answer that he could really punish himself with his new lord's character, but this lord has never played cards according to common sense.

was forced to be helpless, Jia Xu could only stand up, and sure enough, Jia Xu did not disappoint Liu Mang, "Lord, the lord's strategy of stationing troops is feasible, but it is not advisable to force the people!" “

After listening to Jia Xu's first sentence, Liu Mang rolled his eyes, and the people present don't know if they are stupid! Isn't that pure nonsense!

"If you force the people to rebel, then why should our army force the people to rebel!" Jia Xu said another nonsense, if he didn't persecute the people, the people would willingly send their sons and husbands to join the army!

"The people are not afraid of death, so why should they be afraid of death" This sentence comes from the seventy-first chapter of Lao Tzu, which means that the people are not afraid of death, so why use death to persecute the people! Liu Mang's persecution of the people is directly persecuting the people towards death, and the people will naturally rise up to resist in order to survive, anyway, they will die, right.

What do you want to do with these few words, counting Liu Mang's faults! Do you want to mock Liu Mang? If that's the case, Jia Xu's goal was achieved, and when Liu Mang was a little annoyed, Jia Xu continued: "But Tai Shi Gong also said that Tai Shi Gong said that the hustle and bustle of the world is all for profit!" Whether it is the common people or the scholars, living in troubled times, it is nothing more than fighting for profit, and the lord only needs to give the people benefits if he wants the people to join the army enthusiastically! ”