169. A catastrophe is coming
Of course, Wang Yuan's words were not to scare himself.
The land of the Southern Barbarians is vast, with dozens of large tribes with a population of more than one million, and even more small tribes, with a total population of hundreds of millions.
Especially in the difficult place, life is difficult, crises are everywhere, there are wild beasts and birds of prey everywhere, which makes the people extremely strong, and the combat effectiveness is far away in the hinterland of Dashu to govern the people, everyone is a soldier, and the potential for war is extremely terrible.
Even if Meng Shu couldn't get all the barbarians to follow him against Shu, as long as there were three or five big tribes and cave masters to support him, he could easily mobilize an army of millions.
In the turbulent situation of Dashu now, the Southern Barbarian Land against Shu, once the victory is repeated, it will even cause a chain reaction, so that countless tribes join them, plus the threat of Great Wei and Great Wu, it is not impossible for one to deal with it well, and the entire Shu Kingdom will be destroyed by Meng.
When everyone heard Wang Yuan and the others say this, their faces also changed suddenly, and they were all frightened, and their eyes all looked towards Guo Pu and Zuo Zhongzheng.
Seeing everyone's frightened looks, Guo Pu's heart sank slightly, but his face did not show anything, and he said in a deep voice: "Don't panic, the southern barbarians are against Shu, and it is difficult to resist with our state." ”
"However, Your Majesty and Zhuge Wenxiang have already calculated that Meng is against him, and he has already prepared that the imperial army will be able to go south in a few days. ”
"Zhuge Wenxiang personally led the army south to quell the rebellion, and when the tens of millions of troops of our Shu Kingdom arrived, only one Meng was won, and it would be easy to suppress it. ”
Chu He's heart sank slightly when he heard this.
He already knew that this world was far larger than the three kingdoms of the earth, and the population was also many times larger, but when he heard that Pu casually said that there were tens of millions of troops, no one in the audience felt surprised, so it can be seen that this tens of millions of troops are not boasting.
The army of Dashu will not all be dispatched to the southern region to quell the rebellion, and the other states and counties will have to stay behind to guard the soldiers and horses.
The border with the Great Wei and Great Wu also had to be guarded by heavy troops. Great Wei and Wu are the real henchmen of Shu, but they are not comparable to the two forces of Meng Shu and Yonghong, and the soldiers and horses stationed at the border must far surpass the army that went south to quell the rebellion.
In this way, the soldiers and horses of Dashu are afraid that there are no 50 million giants!
In the most extreme case, ten people can raise one soldier, but now Shu has not come to this point, I am afraid that the population of Shu will not be less than one billion.
You must know that this is not the era of the great rise in productivity in the future generations of the earth, the real estate here is barren, one acre of land produces only two or three hundred catties of grain, to feed a billion people, the amount of arable land needed is an astonishing number, so you know the size of Shu!
Chu He really trained soldiers and horses to counterattack the Three Kingdoms and restore the glory of Chu State, I am afraid that it will be a hundred times more difficult than imagined!
Guo Pu's words did not reassure everyone, Li Quanxue still looked worried: "Lord Zhou Mu, having said that, it is not easy for the imperial court to mobilize tens of millions of troops, soldiers, horses, food and grass, logistics support, etc., it will take a long time, and I don't know when I can go south to quell the rebellion." ”
"Our Qinzhou City is the largest city on the border of the south, and Meng was against Shu, so he must be the first to send troops to Qinzhou, capture Qinzhou, and use Qinzhou as a barrier to fight against the imperial army. ”
The more he spoke, the more ugly his face became, and the experience of the head of the Li family was naturally not comparable to that of ordinary people: "Even if we in Qinzhou have all our troops, I am afraid that we can only gather 200,000 troops, and the army that is really good at fighting is less than 50,000, how can we resist Meng Huo's army outside Qinzhou City?"
"Not to mention that there are still remnants of the Yellow Turban in the west now. ”
The lower officials even suspected that Huang Jin Yu could sit big in an instant and mobilize tens of thousands of bandits, for fear that he would not be able to get rid of Meng Shu. ”
In fact, there is no need for him to say, other people also think of this problem, Jing Xiong had told Chu He before, once Meng Shu rebelled against Shu, he would immediately go down to Qinzhou City, and finally occupy Yizhou, relying on the momentum of the Tongtian River, and confronting the Shu army across the river.
Chu He even knew that Meng Huo did not only join forces with the Yellow Turban Army, in fact, the wealthy Yonghong on the Yizhou side joined forces with Meng Huo to oppose Shu, even if the Shu army went south, it would definitely deal with Yizhou Yonghong first, and then he could free up his hands to deal with Meng Huo.
In this way, I don't know how many times Meng Shu ploughed this land in the southern region of the empire.
Zuo Zhongzheng suddenly bowed his hand to the north at this time, and said in a deep voice: "I am waiting for the Lu of the king and the matter of loyalty to the king, even if Meng is powerful, why be afraid of it!"
"The remnants of the Yellow Turbans, in collusion with Meng Huo's rebellion, no matter what, we must first get rid of the scourge of the remnants of the Yellow Turbans, before we can concentrate on dealing with the attack of the Southern Barbarian rebels!"
Even if Qian Sheng, Wang Yuan and the others were not willing to confront Meng Shu's army, they didn't dare to say anything at this time.
Under such circumstances, as long as they show the slightest intention of slacking off, I am afraid that Guo Pu and Zuo Zhongzheng will use thunderous means against them.
This is by no means a joke, these noble families are deeply rooted in Qinzhou, if they really have different intentions and cooperate with Meng Huo, Qinzhou has no hope at all, and if they don't wait for the arrival of the imperial army, they will have to be wiped out under Meng Huo's soldiers.
Wang Yuan pondered for a moment before nodding and saying: "Keeping the remnants of Huang Jin will become a big problem sooner or later, and it should indeed be eradicated by thunderous means, I don't know what the plan is for Lord Zhou Mu and Lord Zhongzheng?"
Guo Pu glanced at everyone with a calm gaze, and he didn't know if it was because of the momentum of the state pastor's authority, which made everyone's hearts sink.
"This state has decided to implement the policy of all soldiers from now on, gather 200,000 troops in a short time, unite the following counties and counties, and raise 300,000 troops to protect Qinzhou City with 100,000 soldiers and horses, and all the other 200,000 soldiers and horses will be dispatched to completely eradicate the remnants of the Yellow Turban!"
"In addition, this state will ask other states and counties to help and work together to fight against Bangladesh!"
The situation made everyone shocked, and then said: "Benzhou hopes that all of you here will make a strong contribution and have money to contribute, as long as you get through the crisis, Benzhou will definitely go to the imperial court and not forget your efforts to quell the rebellion!"
Chu He's heart moved, no wonder he even invited himself, obviously wanting the students of Qinzhou Academy to join the army.
Don't look at the Qinzhou Academy, there are only 2,000 people, but there are dozens of students in the Blood Coagulation Realm, and hundreds or thousands of students who strengthen bones and draw qi, this is already a force that cannot be ignored.
I think that at the beginning, if the tiger rebelled, if he didn't hide his strength, he would be in the realm of three grades, plus three or more subordinates of three grades, he could easily capture Ji County, and the strength of Qinzhou Academy, even if Qin Shengnan was not counted, I am afraid that it could be worth the strength of two or three counties.
Zuo Zhongzheng is the head of the Zuo family, and he is the second person in Qinzhou, so he will not drag the situation back, and immediately said: "Our Zuo family has a hundred children, and five thousand will serve the court!"
"In addition, the Zuo family decided to donate 500,000 taels of silver, 30,000 stone of grain, and 5,000 pieces of cloth to help Qinzhou fight against the rebels!"
When the other three families heard this, they immediately gasped, they couldn't imagine that Zuo Zhongzheng was bleeding so heavily, I am afraid that this is already half of the Zuo family's family background.
Don't look at the big business of the four families, but Qinzhou is a barren state in the end, and the wealthy families are far from being able to compare with the big families in other states and counties, and each family has huge expenses, especially to support the generals, which is an amazing expense.
The Zuo family, the seven thousand soldiers on the bright side, will consume 200,000 silver taels every year!
Wealthy families can support their generals, as long as the number does not exceed 10,000, for these wealthy families in Qinzhou, it is basically impossible to reach the upper limit of 10,000, such as the Li family, there are only more than 3,000 generals.
They also know that Qinzhou is their foundation, and if Qinzhou is lost, even if they can leave here with their family wealth, most of the industry will still be lost.
They didn't have the prevarication that Chu He imagined, and would rather lose Qinzhou than donate their own money and silver, Li persuaded Xue to ponder for a while, and then said: "Our Li family is willing to send fifty soldiers and two thousand generals to help the state pastor." ”
"In addition, the Li family is willing to donate 300,000 silver taels and 30,000 stone grain!"
Guo Pu nodded slightly, he had some understanding of the situation of the Li family, and Li Quanxue's decision made him quite satisfied, and his eyes fell on Qian Sheng and Wang Yuan.
Wang Yuan smiled bitterly, "Lord Zhongzheng and Master Quanxue are trying their best to help Qinzhou, and Wang can't fall behind. Our Wang family is not much, so we can only send 30 children and 2,000 soldiers, in addition, Wang is willing to donate 300,000 silver taels, plus 10,000 sets of armor!"
Chu He was also greatly surprised, he didn't expect Wang Yuan's handwriting to be so big.
These 5,000 sets of armor, although it is impossible to be a steel soldier, but now the price of iron is getting higher and higher, a set of armor, even if it is a simple iron knife, shield, bow and arrow, leather armor, etc., I am afraid that it will cost 500 taels of silver, and these armor alone will cost at least 500,000 taels of silver.
Qian Sheng wiped the sweat on his forehead, hesitated for a moment, and then said, "Our Qian family ......"
He stopped again, and saw that Zuo Zhongzheng and Guo Pu were both looking at him with deep eyes, so he had to grit his teeth: "Our Qian family is mainly engaged in grain and horses, and we are willing to take out 70,000 stone of grain and 5,000 war horses!"
The four of them all started at the beginning, and other families with slightly smaller strength also spoke one after another, Chu He secretly calculated, and at this time, it added almost two million silver taels to Qinzhou, more than 200,000 stone grains, and other armor and horses were all over 10,000.
He finally knew the essence of Qinzhou City now, and he also understood why Jing Xiong didn't let him kill Li Mo.
Jing Xiong is really for his good!
Compared with the four families, Chu He's family background of 30,000 or 20,000 silver is not even a rich family, let alone people can send thousands of soldiers and generals casually.
The soldiers and generals of the Qinzhou family alone add up to more than 10,000, these are all real elites, more powerful than the regular army, and they are by no means comparable to those soldiers and horses in Datong County.
The 200,000 grains donated by everyone is also an extremely staggering number, according to the calculation of one stone and one hundred catties, this is 20 million catties, enough for the consumption of 300,000 troops for half a year!
Waiting for the major families to show their support one after another, Qinzhou Academy is an official school, needless to say, and finally it was Jing Xiong and Chu He's turn to express their attitude.
Jing Xiong looked at Chu He, and said in a deep voice: "The country is in trouble, Qinzhou is in danger, our students of Shuangxi Academy should serve the imperial court, Jing will mobilize the students when he goes back, if they are willing to join the army, Jing will not stop them." ”
Chu He saw that everyone's eyes fell on him, so he had to smile bitterly and said: "Chu He is young, it is difficult to make decisions about such a big matter, and I also ask Lord Zhou Mu and Lord Zhongzheng to forgive me, Chu He has to go back to report to the master." ”
"However, the students of our Tianyang Academy, who are also the people of Qinzhou, will definitely work hard to protect their homeland from the destruction of the traitors!"
Guo Pu and Zuo Zhongzheng frowned slightly, obviously a little dissatisfied with Jing Xiong and Chu He's statement.
However, they also know that Jing Xiong and Chu He can't really call the shots, Shuangxi Academy and Tianyang Academy are not as cohesive as the wealthy families of the scholar clan, and it is not the dean and the head of the mansion who have the final say, but they can't say anything about the two.
In fact, even if the Zuo family waits, such a big matter, it is not the head of the family who has the final say, and he has to go back and discuss it with the clan elder.
But in such a situation, the clan elders did not dare to disagree, and Wang Yuan and the others knew the severity of the matter, so they immediately made a promise.
The purpose of summoning everyone to come has been achieved, and they have not kept everyone, they all know that when such a news comes out, the wealthy families of Qinzhou must be prepared to transfer the money and wealth of their heirs, and then let everyone leave.
Wang Yuan and the others didn't have the heart to stay for a long time, they all hurriedly said goodbye with solemn expressions, and there was nothing to talk to each other.
Jing Xiong and Chu He naturally came together, and when they left the Prefecture Pastoral Mansion, Jing Xiong looked at the situation around him, and then lowered his voice and said, "Qianyuan, do you know why I went to Yizhou and returned for two months?"
Although Qinzhou and Yizhou are thousands of miles apart, normally speaking, if you ride a fast horse, you can go back and forth in half a month, and Chu He really doesn't know why Jingxiong has been delayed for so long.
Chu He saw Jing Xiong's ugly face, and he also lowered his voice and asked, "Could it be that something happened?"
Jing Xiong sighed: "Zheng is the teacher...... I really took the words of the abyss as my own, but I couldn't argue for my brother, and I had broken away from his master-apprentice relationship. ”
"I wanted to go back to Qinzhou quickly, but I knew that I overheard the news that the Yongjia family of Yizhou was intending to rebel, and I also found that the situation in Yizhou was a little inappropriate, so I stayed, but the news was not found, Yizhou has been closed, and it took me a lot of time to get out and leave. ”
Chu He really couldn't imagine that Jing Xiong would turn against Zheng Wei for himself, even if he was only a registered disciple of Zheng Wei, the relationship was very deep.
However, at this time, it was not the time to ask Zheng Wei about the situation, he took a breath and said in a low voice: "The Yong family in Yizhou, is it against Shu at the same time as Meng Shu?"
In the romance, Chu He can't believe it 100%, after all, the Three Kingdoms world is very different from the Three Kingdoms of the earth, and now when I hear Jing Xiong say this, I know that Yonghong in Yizhou really raised an army against Shu.
Jing Xiong whispered, "It should be." Yizhou is one of the most important states in our Shu Kingdom, with a population of tens of millions, and the powerful Hao clan is strong, headed by the Yong family, if Yizhou rebels, the threat is even greater than that of the Nanban tribes!"
Chu He's face was a little strange, and he looked at Jing Xiong for a moment before asking, "Then why didn't Brother Jing talk to the Guzhou Mu before?"
Jing Xiong smiled bitterly: "Lord Zhou Mu is afraid that he will know the news earlier, if he doesn't say it, how dare he say more for his brother, in case he shakes the heart of the army, I'm afraid that Lord Zhou Mu will be the first to take the knife for his brother!"
Chu He also smiled bitterly: "Even if Yizhou is the opposite, for Qinzhou, I'm afraid it doesn't make any sense, does Brother Jing think that Qinzhou can resist Meng Shu's army?"
Brother Jing shook his head: "If Yizhou doesn't rebel, it may not be easy for Meng Shu to capture Qinzhou City." Other states and counties will definitely not watch Qinzhou fall to Meng, as long as they get their assistance, Qinzhou may not be able to hold out until the arrival of the imperial army. ”
He let out a long sigh: "If Yizhou is reversed, in the states and counties between Qinzhou and Yizhou, everyone must be in danger, and how dare they send troops to fight against Meng Huo's army at will." ”
Chu He pondered for a moment: "In that case, what are the plans of Brother Jing?"
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