In 225 AD, four years after the establishment of the Three Kingdoms, Sun Quan and Liu Bei both adopted the national policy of attacking instead of defending to harass and attack the Wei State.

Cao Wei fought steadily, and as time went by, more and more young people were enriched into the new army, and according to Lu Rui's estimate, ten years later, Wei would be able to encroach on Wu and Han with the force of swallowing mountains and rivers. Today is the day when Wei selected the tiger and leopard horse, Cao Ang personally went to the school to select the tiger and leopard horse, and Lu Rui followed the king as a chariot general.

"Long live Your Majesty, long live, long live!" On the school ground, all the sergeants knelt down and shouted long live when they saw Cao Ang on the spot.

"All the children of the clan are exempt from courtesy, you and others are all related to the same clan as me, today we will select elite warriors to serve in the imperial court, you will not hurt the harmony until the end of your point." Cao Ang raised his hand and motioned for everyone to get up and start the competition.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" After everyone got up, they began to compete with each other, and the first round of selection of the tiger and leopard riders was a melee, that is, thousands of people shot at the same time, as long as they knocked down each other, and finally the remaining five hundred people stopped attacking. (Of course, five hundred people is just an imaginary number, and when it comes to that number, the captain in front of the palace will let everyone stop)

"Extraordinary, among the thousands of people, there are only a few people who are familiar with my face, and it seems that the real Cao clan relatives are already a little slack." Cao Ang looked at the crowd in the audience with some surprise and a little disappointed, the surprise was that there were indeed bad materials among these thousands of people, and the disappointed thing was that there were not many people Cao Ang familiar with, indicating that there were really not many brothers within the five suits.

The Haw Par Cavalry was originally an elite unit composed of the Cao clan and the Xiahou clan, and according to the selection criteria, they must be brothers within the five suits of the Cao clan and the Xiahou clan to participate in the selection. But after Cao Wei established the country. Fewer and fewer clans are willing to participate in the Tiger and Par Ride.

After the founding of Cao Wei. The first thing is, of course, the Dafeng clan, the Cao clan and the Xiahou clan are the two clans that have benefited the most, of course, everyone cannot be the general and the governor, but it is easy to mix a nine-rank official, to be a county commander or a guerrilla general, taking the tiger and leopard cavalry as an example, ordinary soldiers have been awarded the nine grades, and they can serve in the local area according to their personal talents.

Father took office. As the county commander, he is known as Baili Hou, and a radius of 100 miles is his own governing place, of course, he does not want his children to go to be a tiger and leopard to charge into battle, so that the reserve personnel of the tiger and leopard riding are getting fewer and fewer, and the clansmen of the Cao family and the Xiahou family are willing to send their children to participate in the tiger and leopard. Cao Ang originally wanted to disband the tiger and leopard riders, but under Lu Rui's strong recommendation, Cao Ang adopted Lu Rui's clan strategy, liberalized the selection criteria, and retained the tiger and leopard riders.

Since ancient times, the same clan refers to the brothers within the five suits as blood relatives, as long as the five suits are not considered relatives. can only be regarded as distant relatives of the same clan. The clansmen of the Cao family and the Xiahou clan are all relatives within the five suits, and Cao Wei was of course rewarded after the establishment of the country. However, there is no benefit to the people of the same clan outside the five suits, and Lu Rui let go of the selection criteria for the tiger and leopard riding on the basis of the same clan, and sure enough, it attracted many people from the Cao clan and the Xiahou clan in Qian County to join the army.

"Your Majesty, this is human nature, licking calves is deep, and no parent wants to put their children in danger. Rui Zhiji only wanted to keep a loyal army for the Great Wei and the Cao family. Lu Rui arched his hand and replied to Cao Ang, in the Three Kingdoms period, there was a relatively loyal army that was the foundation to defend the royal family, if Cao Chao was in power, there were tigers and leopards to kill the Sima brothers, maybe the end of Wei would be rewritten.

"It's hard work, but if the system of selecting soldiers is released, will there be people of different races mixed into the tiger and leopard cavalry?" Cao Ang glanced at Lu Rui, Cao Ang has received a lot of reports in the past few days, some people pretended to be members of the Cao family and the Xiahou clan to apply for the exam, due to the age, many people could not verify the authenticity.

"Your Majesty, whether the Cao clan and the Xiahou clan are clansmen is not the point, the point is that this army can be loyal to the Great Wei royal family!" Lu Rui pointed out the fundamental reason for the reorganization of the tiger and leopard cavalry, and the people who did not dare to participate were not just Cao and Xiahou, but what Lu Rui wanted was the loyalty of this kind of team to the Cao Wei royal family.

The newly formed Haw Par Rider has a system of rewarding officials after retirement, that is, when the soldiers of the Haw Par Rider retire, the emperor determines their merits and confers a grade, and the maximum cannot exceed five grades. This is the restriction of Lu Rui's new nine-product zhongzheng system, after all, the three kingdoms with many families, the nine-product zhongzheng system can maintain stability.

The award of officials below the fifth grade will not let the family oppose it, and at the same time have a reliable team for the emperor of the Great Wei, as long as the poor people want to enter the product, they must serve the tiger and leopard to serve the Emperor Cao Wei, and the loyal Cao Wei royal family can have the opportunity to be promoted.

"Extraordinary is really smart, came up with this method to restrain the family, I decided to reorganize the tiger guard of the original Wei Wangfu according to this law, so that the tiger and leopard rider and the tiger guard can contain each other, so as to achieve the eternal imperial power!" Cao Ang has been the emperor for a long time, and he has learned a lot of imperial techniques, so Cao Ang decided to reorganize the original Xu Chu's tiger guard and use it to contain the tiger and leopard horse.

"Your Majesty is wise!" Lu Rui smiled slightly in his heart, rebuilding the tiger and leopard riding and tiger guard is just an expedient measure, if you want the dynasty to be immortal, you can only look forward to the appearance of Ming Jun, but unfortunately all dynasties are not generations of Ming Jun, Lu Rui can only extend the life of Cao Wei as much as possible, hoping to do the best in his own hands to repay Cao Cao's kindness.

The selection of the tiger and leopard rider ended at noon, Cao Ang looked at the remaining 500 soldiers, although they had not been baptized by war, but their faces were full of fighting spirit, Cao Ang believed that as long as time was given, this tiger and leopard cavalry could be built into a new tiger and leopard rider that surpassed Cao Cao!

Cao Wei selected strong men to enrich the forbidden army, and Liu Han in the north and Sun Wu in the south were facing the crisis of depletion of troops. In the Yecheng Palace, Liu Bei was wearing a dragon robe, looking at the table and sighing, his generals and chariot generals all asked him for new soldiers.

Guan Yu led his sons to resist Cao Wei along the Yellow River, and from time to time he also sent small troops to attack Cao Wei's cities, and the final result was that the troops sent were either killed or surrendered to Cao Wei. Troops should be increased along the Yellow River to support.

Zhang Fei led his sons to defend Wuhuan in the north, although there were many gains, but he also faced the problem of soldiers. There are not many men to be requisitioned in the state. If it is forcibly expropriated. There will be no labor force in the cultivated land, and in the end it will affect the taxes of the imperial court. The northern defense line needs to be strengthened.

"Prime Minister, soldiers are being urged everywhere, what should I do?" Liu Bei looked at the statement submitted by his two brothers and had a headache, everyone wants soldiers, he is not a god or a bean thrower!

"Your Majesty, the four states of Hebei have been fighting for many years, and the people are short of soldiers. The family has a monopoly on part of the people's power. His Majesty thought that the only way to do this was to move the captive aliens to Hebei and intermarry with the local Han Chinese, so as to increase the population of our country! Zhuge Liang arched his hand and returned to Liu Bei, this is the best way at present, and it is also the most effective way, to sinicize foreign races, in order to enhance national strength.

"Foreigners? Prime Minister, I have lived in the Northland since I was a child, Wuhuan. The Xiongnu were all nomadic soldiers, scattered and chaotic. Raid the Central Plains, if the foreign tribes attack on a large scale, can our army have the power to resist? If there are sporadic raids by foreign tribes, how many people can our army accept into the country? Liu Bei shook his head, although Zhuge Liang's method was effective, it was unrealistic, and it was a bit on paper.

The foreign tribes in the north, whether Wuhuan or Xiongnu, are nomadic people, foreign tribes based on tribes, and there are many tribes within the clan, and there is no unified leader for a long time, even the so-called Xiongnu king and Wuhuan king are just the leaders of a powerful tribe. Guerrilla tactics were a sharp weapon for foreign tribes to fight against the Central Plains Dynasty in this era, and generally foreign leaders would pour their tribal strength into the Central Plains to plunder and then return to the Saiwai.

If he encounters a large number of invasions from foreign races, Liu Bei's current strength can only defend, and he has to pray that Cao Wei will not stab him in the back to resist the attacks of foreign tribes. If the foreign tribes were only sporadic and wanton, Liu Bei would not be able to get much population at all, just like Gongsun Zan back then, he exterminated a tribe of Wuhuan, got 10,000 horses, and set up a white horse to be called the white horse general from now on. At that time, Gongsun Zan did not capture much of the population at all, there was no population, and it was useless for Liu Bei to have horses.

"What Your Majesty said is very serious, it is Liang negligent. If it is only to solve the problem of population, Liang has a plan! Zhuge Liang's eyes suddenly lit up, Wuhuan and the Xiongnu couldn't move, but there was a place to supplement the strength of the Han State.

"Prime Minister, come quickly!" Liu Bei heard that Zhuge Liang had a way, so he hurriedly stepped down from the dragon chair and grabbed Zhuge Liang's hand. After solving the population problem, the strength of the four prefectures of Hebei can be slowly restored.

"I don't know if Your Majesty knows about Sanhan?" Zhuge Liang suddenly thought of the Sanhan Peninsula when he and Yuan Xi were on the Northern Expedition.

"What the prime minister is talking about is Ma Han, Chen Han and Ben Han?" Liu Bei is Lu Zhi's protégé, of course, he has heard of the name of Sanhan.

"Yes, Your Majesty, when the Japanese minister accompanied Yuan Xi's Northern Expedition, he once met a leader of the Three Hans, and they were willing to send troops to assist Yuan Xi's Northern Expedition, as far as the ministers know, the Three Koreas are all tribes, and they have lived on the Three Han Peninsula for a long time, and the subjects are probably no less than hundreds of thousands, if they are included in our dynasty, they will definitely enhance the strength of our dynasty." Zhuge Lian arched his hand and replied to Liu Bei, Sanhan is not a nomadic people, it is a primitive tribe, and the place of residence is fixed, so there is no need to look around for robbing people.

"Oh? Is the Prime Minister's information really reliable? ”

"Your Majesty rest assured, this information has been confirmed by the Gongsun clan of Liaodong, the minister believes that this information is true, Sanhan does not know that Yuan Xi has given way, and His Majesty has become the lord of Hebei, if His Majesty sends Sanhan with Yuan's old department, and then takes the opportunity to raid, he will definitely be able to exterminate Sanhan!" Zhuge Liang smiled slightly, those soldiers of Sanhan still use wooden weapons, how can they be the opponents of the Hebei cavalry?

"Good, this matter depends on the words of the prime minister!"

Liu Bei in Hebei Province encountered the problem of population shortage, and Sun Quan in Xichuan also encountered the same problem. After Sun Quan entered Shuzhong, he accepted all the power of Liu Zhang, but some of the families in Shu were unwilling to compromise with Sun Quan.

In view of the scarcity of the common people, Lu Su proposed to enrich the population of Shuzhong with foreign tribes, and obtained Sun Quan's approval, and after Sun Quan married Meng You, the son of the barbarian king, with his sister Sun Shangxiang, he formed an alliance with the southern barbarian tribes. Sun Quan moved a large number of people from various tribes of the Southern Barbarians into Shuzhong to live with the Han Chinese, expanding the population of Shuzhong, but a series of problems also appeared.

In the Chengdu Imperial Palace, Sun Quan put a mountain of expressions on the table, most of these expressions are not to discuss military affairs, but to Sun Quan to express national contradictions, the southern barbarians moved into Shuzhong in large numbers, and the customs and habits are quite different from those of the Han people, resulting in a lot of contradictions.

"Bo Yan, how can the Southern Barbarian generals of your army rob the wives of their colleagues in the army who have not passed through the door?" Sun Quan pinched his forehead, this statement made Sun Quan cry and laugh. A barbarian in Lu Xun's army robbed the fiancée who was about to marry a Han general, and forcibly entered the cave room.

"Your Majesty, this is the barbarian custom of snatching marriages, as long as a man likes an unmarried woman, he can snatch the marriage by force, this is a common thing in the Southern Barbarian Clan, and it will be difficult to stop the general." Lu Xun arched his hand back to Sun Quan, and his Han generals singled out with the barbarian generals on the wedding day, and were beaten by the barbarian generals and snatched away his wife who did not pass the door. This is purely a matter of personal ability, can Lu Xun be blamed?

"This?" Sun Quan shook his head, what Lu Xun said made sense, this is a matter of ability, and the emperor can't let his subjects marry and divorce.

"Ziming, why is it that under your rule, there are daily gladiatorial battles between the Han people and the Southern Barbarians?" Sun Quan looked at Lü Meng again, under Lü Meng's rule, there were the most mixed counties and counties where Han and barbarians lived, and there were ethnic contradictions every day.

"Your Majesty, the elder brother and the Han people under the rule of his subordinates in the marriage customs of the Southern Barbarian Clan are quite uncomfortable, please enlighten Your Majesty!" Lu Meng shook his head, he really didn't know how to solve the situation under his rule.

There is a custom in the Southern Barbarian tribe that the elder brother dies, and the sister-in-law will marry the younger brother-in-law, and so on. Of course, there is no place for men in the Han nationality, so why not have a warm bed? But the Han women have opinions, a few days ago they were still sisters-in-law, and after a while they were their sisters, and even robbed the problem of their wives, so there are more and more family contradictions among the people, all of them are the contradictions between Nanban women and Han women, the so-called family and everything is prosperous, the family is not peaceful, how do the people live? How else to serve the country?!

In addition to the customs of weddings, Nanban and Han people also have contradictions in life, different work and rest times, all of which are factors of instability for the people in Shu.

"Zijing, what can you do?" The strategy of moving from inside to the outside was offered by Lu Su, and now that there is a problem, of course Lu Su will solve it.

"Your Majesty, do you think your majesty can separate the barbarians from the Han people, set up the Han area and the barbarian area in the city, and be good at the management of our army?" Lu Su only dealt with the problem of small-scale assimilation and integration of foreigners and Han people, and this was how Dongyue was subdued in Jiangdong back then, but now with large-scale internal migration, Lu Su has not thought about many things, and he doesn't know how to deal with the problem when it comes.

"No!" As soon as Lu Su's words fell, Lu Xun and Lu Meng both opposed Lu Su's proposal.

"Your Majesty, now the people of Shuzhong are proud of marrying a southern barbarian girl, if the region is forcibly divided, I am afraid it will cause chaos!" Lu Xun arched his hand and returned to Sun Quan.

"Your Majesty, color is the great desire of people, if Your Majesty abstinence, I am afraid that there will be a civil uprising!" Lu Meng's culture is not high, so he said it more directly.

Most of the soldiers brought by Sun Quan and the soldiers in Shu are bachelors, many have never touched women, and now the Nanban has moved inward, there are more women than men, many soldiers have found wives, and the brothers of the Nanban clan and the selfish desires of the soldiers have been ignited, the brother died in battle, and the sister-in-law entered the room, what a beautiful thing!

"This?"

"This matter is postponed!" Sun Quan shook his head helplessly, it's messy, it's messy!

Wei relied on a strong territory and a stubborn strategy to grow its national strength, while Shuzhong and Hebei fell into a chaotic situation due to population problems. (To be continued......)

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