Chapter 37: Two Great Gifts

Danyang guards Zhou Shang too much, is Yuan Shu's example, and he also has a nephew who is very famous, named Zhou Yu, who is Sun Ce's sworn brother.

It is precisely because Sun Cebu is now attached to this layer of Yuan Shu's relationship, and the Zhou family is also a Jiangdong wang family, and Yuan Shu is still the Taishou of Danyang.

After Sun Jian's death, Sun Ce led his father's remnants to join Yuan Shu, which was a separate department under Yuan Shu, similar to Lu Bu's previous defection to Liu Bei, but the dependency relationship was more explicit.

And Yuan Shu accepted Sun Ce, firstly, to use his bravery and the strength of Sun Jian's relics, and secondly, for the jade seal that was said to have fallen into Sun Jian's hands, naturally it would not really make Sun Ce bigger.

The Jiujiang Taishou who originally promised Sun Ce did not fulfill it, and the Lujiang Taishou who promised later also changed his hexagram, which made Sun Ce very dissatisfied with him.

At this time, Zhou Shang's reply to Bai Tu, in addition to the military and civil affairs of the counties of Danyang County, also allocated 200,000 manpower!

What is the concept of 200,000 manpower? After the Yellow Turban Rebellion, there were less than 600,000 people in Danyang County, except for those who needed to be intercepted at all levels of the county and county, and should be handed over to the state capital for military service in winter, Zhou Shang not only did not shirk at all, but also carried out a certain overdraft!

What's more, this is Danyang's manpower - Danyang Mountain is dangerous, the people are fruitful, good at martial arts, noble strength, and a place of elite soldiers!

Bai Tu has also seen that Zhou Shang deliberately wants to block Yuan Shu, and at the same time, he is also to demonstrate to Yuan Shu.

If he really wants Zhou Shangju County to take refuge in Baitu, he really doesn't have that much appeal, maybe he will be cut off by his subordinates directly, after all, Danyang is the influence radiation area of Yuan Shu.

What's more, Zhou Shang didn't really want to put himself, as well as the Jiangdong Zhou family, on Bai Tu, and now it was nothing more than an excuse to "the state pastor has a life", taking advantage of Yuan Shu's lack of reaction, he directly transferred people to Bai Tu.

After all, everyone is still Hanchen in name, and Yuan Shu didn't have time to tell him anything about his "ear to face", and Zhou Shang couldn't shirk it.

Even if Yuan Shu was dissatisfied, at most he just found an excuse to masturbate him......

And with these 200,000 manpower, Bai Tu can quickly train 4,000 elite soldiers - the characteristics of Danyang manpower are that after training as soldiers, it has the effect of "doubling the training efficiency" and "improving tenacity".

The so-called "tenacity" refers to the soldier's ability to resist the decline in morale when dealing with defeat, decline, lack of food, defeat of the main general, etc., and "tenacity improvement" means that the army is less likely to decline morale or bomb the collapse of the battalion, which is also what recruits need most!

"Danyang elite soldiers" does not specifically refer to a certain type of troops, but refers to the source of Danyang's soldiers, who can quickly pass the recruit stage, have a certain combat effectiveness, and can grow faster.

Although 4,000 soldiers is not a lot, but after having the previous psychological expectations, Bai Tu felt that with the military service of these 4,000 soldiers, his manpower suddenly had an illusion of "abundance" - Danyang's manpower, Bai Tu was not ready to do anything else.

As for the 50,000 manpower in the three counties of Qu'a, they can also be fully invested in the process improvement and production of equipment for defending the city.

And the good news of Yuzhang is that Hua Xin sent 50,000 grains and grass to himself!

Although Yuzhang County has been controlled by Yuan Shu, it was not forcibly seized by means of war, Hua Xin did not fight with him, but to a certain extent, acquiesced to Yuan Shu's infiltration of Yuzhang.

However, at the critical moment, Hua Xin also gave Bai Tu a big gift in the name of "normal allocation of food and salary to the state pastor"!

What is the concept of 50,000 grains and grass?

The most basic grain and grass is pure grain formed by the "taxation" of the city Ji, one Hu rice, can form "1 grain and grass", 50,000 grain and grass is about 50,000 Hu rice.

Of course, there are also some grains and grasses, which are not pure grains, but also need to be mixed with other meat and vegetables, which are also different.

Bai Tu has now also discovered that the "training" and "taxation" of Cheng Ji's human and material resources can actually be regarded as a kind of quantitative synthesis, and although it seems fantastical, it also has its internal laws.

For example, 50 manpower can train 1 soldier, and at the same time, 10 people are needed to maintain it every year - it is true that without hurting the people, 10 people can send a soldier, which is already relatively extreme, and it will affect conscription.

And if this threshold is exceeded, that is, the "overdraft" of the Seonghime system, it will lead to a year-on-year population decline, that is, each citizen will not be able to provide 1 population for a few years, but 0.9, 0.8, or even less - without considering the Johime system, exceeding this limit will also hurt the people.

However, if you can win consecutive battles, you don't need to consider the problems of grain and grass and conscription, and you can maintain one to five - not considering the city Ji system, the Qin State in history, when the martial arts were at its peak, also reached the level of five million people and raising a million troops......

The establishment of these standards actually reflects reality to a certain extent, and Cheng Ji ...... Just played a role in integration!

The same is true of grain and grass, the normal state of the army is maintained, and the consumption is 1 grain and grass per soldier and every month.

1 unit of ordinary grain and grass can probably be regarded as the transformation of a Hu grain, and a Hu and a stone are the same unit, that is, ten buckets, a bucket in the Han Dynasty, about more than two liters in later generations.

In other words, one bucket of rice is the rice of two large Coke bottles, and one bucket of rice is the rice of 20 large Coke bottles - considering that the soldiers are all adult men and exercise a lot, it makes sense to eat 20 large Coke bottles of rice a month.

This number fluctuates upwards during combat and high-intensity training, but when the rations are insufficient, the morale and fitness of the soldiers can be reduced.

At the same time, the synthesis is matched with richer and more scientific grains and grasses, which can improve the strength of the soldiers faster, and some special training methods also have requirements for the synthesis formula of grains and grasses!

For example, the wolf cavalry of Bingzhou, each soldier can be regarded as a combination of cavalry, cavalry retinue, and horse herds, and the real thousand cavalry definitely exceeds two thousand, so the amount of manpower, grain and grass consumed is also more than twice as much.

50,000 grains and grass, which is already a lot of money - Lu Kang and Yuan Shu turned their faces because they refused Yuan Shu's request to allocate 30,000 grains and grass.

In order to avoid a lot of dreams at night, Hua Xin took advantage of Yuan Shu's failure to react and block the main road, so he ignored the high consumption and quickly transported the grain and grass, which was obviously not far away, and the consumption was as high as three-fifths - 50,000 grain and grass, and Bai Tu only had 20,000!

This can be regarded as an inevitable consumption, even if the normal transportation of food by manpower, the consumption of people and animals at this time, that is, the consumption of transportation, is also very large, unless the local food is eaten, it is normal for the consumption of military food to double, once the battle line is extended, it is not uncommon to consume five or six times.

In this war, the attacking side often retreated because of lack of food, but it was not because of hypocrisy, but because the consumption of the army when attacking was too great!

20,000 yuan is enough for three months......

Bai Tu also understood that now he was taking advantage of Yuan Shu who didn't know that he had arrived in Jiangdong.

Now that Yuan Shu knows Bai Tu's movements, he must be sending troops to station and block the official road, and then manpower, grain and grass will no longer be directly transferred through Chengji.

That's why Zhou Shang and Hua Xin are just a hammer deal, and they stuffed so much for themselves.

For example, Wang Lang of Huiji County, because if he wants to come to Qu'a, he must borrow the territory of Yan Baihu of Wu County, and Yan Baihu has already blocked the road, so Wang Lang only sent documents on all aspects of the military and political affairs of Huiji, and he could not directly allocate manpower and food.

With this emergency manpower, food and grass, Bai Tu also breathed a sigh of relief and chose the type of troops to be trained by these four thousand Danyang elite soldiers......