Hearing the opposing voice, General Li's brows couldn't help frowning, looking in the direction of the voice, and seeing that the other party was just a sixteen or seventeen-year-old boy, the disdain in his heart was even more obvious, and it was simply revealed on the surface, he said in a tone of reprimand: "The art of war is cloudy, and you must go all out to attack the enemy, but you can still have some strength to preserve?" General, who did you learn the art of war from? It's the first time I've been out of battle, and when I heard that I was going to the battlefield, I was scared! ”

The young general's face couldn't help but turn crimson, and said: "Although my Zixiao is on the battlefield for the first time, he is not afraid of battlefield fighting, but I think this is fashionable and should be cautious, a large number of villages here have been emptied, and most of the defenders have been killed and wounded, and the enemy's combat effectiveness can be seen. ”

"Okay, don't talk about it, rat generation, I don't want to go to the battlefield, I still quibble here, hmph, Fang family, in vain, your father is wise and martial, and he has also been valued by General Zheng, now it seems that it is really a tiger father and a dog, since this is the case, you will stay in the rear and wait for me to wait for the queen of the palace, and the rest of you will immediately follow me to Village B."

With the efforts of Shu Han and Lin Bida, this army has changed in quality compared to when it just left the Black Iron City, such as the march at this moment, when it left the Black Iron City, this army will be on the verge of collapse when it runs at most forty miles a day, and the entire formation is almost all scattered, unable to form an effective attack force, but now, even if it runs for eighty miles in a row, it can still maintain combat effectiveness, and if it is a mountain, it can also continue to run for more than sixty miles. This is already the standard of the modern military.

Of course, in terms of this standard, it is still much worse than the Red Army of that year, during the Long March, the Red Army ran more than 240 miles in a day in the mountains in order to cross the river, that is, 120 kilometers, and finally grabbed the front of the enemy and successfully occupied the position. The combat capability of this force can only be maintained by the loyalty of these soldiers, as well as by money and reputation.

But even so, Shu Han's troops were already much better than most of the troops in this era who could only fight with the wind and flee when they encountered a headwind, under Shu Han's order, the remaining 1,800 people under his command quickly became excited, Shu Han did not even leave a surplus force, all pressed on, and then let the logistics troops retreat five miles to avoid being discovered by the enemy, and at the same time took these Yangcheng villagers who followed them back and returned to Yeyu City.

This is also an income for Shu Han, these Yangcheng villagers in three hours, a total of more than about 2,000 people, including the elderly, that is, people over fifty years old, seventeen, and the rest of the number of more than 600 women, and more than 1,800 children, this is undoubtedly a huge resource, especially those women, most of their husbands have died under the walls of Yangcheng under the persecution of the Holy Alliance, these women will also follow their wishes after being sent to Yeyu City, Re-marry them.

This point of view, from a modern perspective, naturally looks very cruel, that is because there are more than seven billion modern human beings, even if some of them do not marry and have children, it will not have a big impact on the entire population, but for the human race at this moment, especially for the people of Black Iron City, it is impossible for them to keep these women as only children, and the fact that Black Iron City can allow them to continue to take their own children is already a very special thing, let alone an only child.

For these women, the Black Iron City side has also given a plan, will let them live in Yeyu City for two months, these two months will arrange some blind dates, let them participate, if they can get married during this time, then everyone is happy, if not, then Black Iron City will immediately assign them to some bachelors, or people whose wives have died, so as to complete the work of reproduction, of course, after marriage, in order to take care of the simple traditional habits of Yangcheng people, They will be allowed to bring their children into a new family, rather than having to hand them over to a nursing home, as the people of Blackiron do.

This is already the biggest concession that Black Iron City can make, many families oppose it, thinking that this is destroying the system of Black Iron City, but in the end Liu Sanyi and Yang Wangdi both agreed to this, in this regard, the two of them obviously have a deeper insight, and Shu Han also understands this, this, from Zhang Ruoming's eyes, the excitement that can't be hidden, Shu Han can also feel it.

Obviously, Liu Sanyi and Yang Wangdi have gradually realized that the maintenance system and the hereditary system, under a small population, are undoubtedly the best way to solve the social burden and pressure caused by the random birth of Skywalker, as well as the turmoil generated, but this method is only suitable for small societies, two or three hundred thousand people, and it can still be handled, but if the population is large, reaching one million, five million, can this maintenance system still be established?

This is a very huge problem, and in this regard, Liu Sanyi and Yang Wangdi made a judgment, that is, it is impossible to say these three words, the increase in population is not only an increase in quantity, but also a huge challenge to the management itself, the difference between two or three hundred thousand people, and five or six million people, is definitely not only a difference in population, but also a structural problem.

The first of them is how many nursing homes should be established if the whole society continues to support this set of care systems, and how much cost the society has to bear for it, which is a huge problem, you know, the operating costs of 100,000 people and 5 million people are not simply multiplied by 50 times, but multiplied by 100 times, or even 200 times?

At this point, people who have done business management must know that with the huge number of institutions and the increase of personnel, in order to manage those personnel, it is necessary to set up new departments to manage, and those personnel under the management of the subordinates will finally form a structure of stacked beds and houses, and these operating costs are doubled, just like a large company, the more people in the company, the more people in the leadership account for the entire company, which is the complex contradiction of the organization and organization.

For this, originally Black Iron City did not have to worry, because it is difficult for their population to break through 300,000, which is already a limit, but now the situation has changed, with the muskets handed over by Lin Bida are generally equipped with various troops, soon Black Iron City will usher in a huge war, as long as it is won, then the population and sphere of influence of Black Iron City will expand rapidly, this is an indisputable fact, when the scale of five or six million people is not a joke about how much money it takes. Jiujiu Chinese

The second point is that with the bloated institution, there will inevitably be another problem, that is, the emergence of loopholes, two or three hundred thousand people, every year the nursing home can cultivate one or two thousand children, and then be adopted, there are almost no loopholes, because every child, can be taken care of, it is very difficult to find loopholes, and if the scale is expanded to five or six million people, the number of children every year will exceed more than 10,000 people, by this time, the loopholes will expand, There will be huge problems with the sequencing and culture of genes, which has to be considered.

Of course, there is one of the most important problems, that is, with the increase in population, the number of Skywalkers will also increase, like the current Black Iron City, it will take about five or six years for a child to have the ability of Skywalker, and if the population reaches five or six million, then there may be two or even three Skywalkers a year, at this time, the number of families in Black Iron City will not change, and the power between the families will change very quickly, and there is also a fatal problem, that is, the maintenance system only lasts until the age of thirteen to fifteenThe system of different nursing homes is different, but the age is generally constant within this range.

Because it is easiest to awaken one's talent in this range, but there are exceptions to this, for example, Lin Bida, he is an accident, awakened at the age of eighteen, and such exceptions are actually quite a few in the history of the Black Iron City for more than three hundred years, and according to scientific inference, a person's talent awakening can be up to twenty years old, and can a nursing home raise a child to twenty years old?

Obviously, it is impossible, the fact is that most of the nursing homes for the raising of children often last until the age of thirteen or so will be abandoned, because raising a child requires a lot of money, especially the awakening of talent requires a lot of energy, so the food supplement of the nursing home is very money-consuming, especially in such an era of lack of food, it is already a very difficult thing to raise to this age, let alone twenty years old.

Because of this, there will always be some Skywalkers who are missed, and later they create new families as a balance, such as Lin Pida at this moment, and there will be some turmoil in between, because the new family will inevitably seize some rights, and the most basic thing is that when a new Skywalker is born in the future, he will also have a piece of the pie, and at the same time there are various interests, but in the current situation of Black Iron City, the distribution of these benefits can still be completed, because children like Lin Pida who have awakened outside the nursing home, I can't come out in a decade or two, and it's not a big deal to deal with it once in a while.

But what if it scales up to five or six million people? So how many people like Limbida will become Skywalkers outside the nursing home? One every two years, or one every year, this is not an impossible thing, and at that time, the growth rate of the family in Black Iron City will increase by one every year or two years, and the exchange rate of interests will be dozens of times that of now, which will seriously impact all the systems of Black Iron City.

Therefore, the maintenance system is bound to be abandoned by the times, this is a system that is only applicable to small countries, city-states, and for a vast country, his point will be lost, so a new system must be used to replace him, the biggest of which is probably the traditional family relationship system.

This kind of system in a small city-state will produce a deadly threat, and violent turmoil will make a city-state fall into a constant struggle for power and profit, but if the population reaches five or six million, the number of Skywalkers will also increase to a very terrible number, and when a Skywalker is born, its influence will naturally decrease, like Black Iron City, Skywalker is less than thirty people, and the birth of a Skywalker is enough to shake the basic sphere of influence of the entire Black Iron City, But for a force with more than three or four hundred Skywalkers, the birth of a Skywalker will not affect the changes in the entire world, so the stability of society will be re-established.

Of course, the most important point is that in the future Black Iron City, most of the new population it conquers are followers of traditional families, if they blindly change their living habits, it will be difficult to suppress them with the system of two or three hundred thousand people in Black Iron City, it is better to follow the crowd.

This is also why Zhang Ruoming is so happy, he is the person who hates the maintenance system the most, and he is also deeply dissatisfied with it, and now he sees a glimmer of light, this evil system may be overthrown, naturally his face is full of happiness, but now it is just a glimmer of light.

Because of the overthrow of this system, the result is that the vested interests of this system will be hit, that is, the families, not every family is as far-sighted as Yang Wangdi and Liu Sanyi, most of the families are more hopeful to protect their own family interests, at this point, there is no way to do it, so Liu Sanyi and Yang Wangdi did not directly propose to change the system of Black Iron City, but took this group of women in Yangcheng to remarry, as an opportunity, hoping to pass this opportunity, Slowly changing people's concepts, which is why so many children will follow their mothers into new families in this remarriage.

From a modern point of view, forcing women who have just died of their husbands to marry another man immediately is a bit inhumane, but in this world, this is already the greatest mercy, after all, it is impossible for the Black Iron City to raise this group of people for nothing, and the Black Iron City also promised them that as long as their husbands have no exact news of their death, then these women can continue to wait, and the Black Iron City will provide rations for them to live on and provide them with jobs, but the salary is only a quarter of that of the man who married the Black Iron City, And if it turns out in the future that their husbands are dead, and those who make up the lies will be exiled completely, and they will be sent to the wilderness to find their own way out of life.

This is undoubtedly the greatest mercy, if it is placed in the Holy Alliance, these people will not care about these things at all, they will only force these women to marry their soldiers, act as an outlet for their desires, and put all those children to death, so as not to avenge their fathers and mothers in the future, compared to the Black Iron City, it is undoubtedly the most benevolent and righteous.

Of course, doing so will naturally produce a lot of joys and sorrows, but Shu Han really can't care about so much, what he can do is to write to the officials of Yeyu City, asking them to treat those women well, try not to hurt and persecute them, let them rest for a while, and then think about their future.