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However, this is hardly the case for countries that are financially poor or militaristic.

Zhang Jiashi himself understands this, but he has no way to change this matter, at least for the time being, he can't share the heavy cost of military expenses on every official and citizen of the Great Qin Empire from the situation where the Great Qin Empire is in ruins.

Because if you do this, it is obvious in a sense that you will kill the chicken and take the eggs.

And if it weren't for Zhang Jiashi's own monopoly commercial profit support, I am afraid that the current Great Qin Empire would have gradually lost its last foundation in the heavy burden of military spending.

Zhang Jiashi knew that before the war clouds brought by the Xiongnu were resolved, there was little room for military spending to be reduced, and the foreign trade mode, under the premise of being stagnant, could only rely on small-scale foreign trade to make up for the increasingly heavy expenditure pressure of the Great Qin Empire itself.

In fact, the military expenditure of the Great Qin Empire was basically maintained by the commercial profits that Zhang Jiashi had obtained at the moment, and in some areas that were not too much war, those commercial taxes that were not too much, but were better than nothing, were also considered a small part of the source of military spending.

In the tax statistics of the Great Qin Empire in recent years, the agricultural tax revenue of the Great Qin Empire has basically not improved. Not only that, Liaoning County, Dukang Region, Hebei Plain, Guanzhong Region, Heluo Region and Chengdu Plain, the six grain-producing areas that can be regarded as the foundation of the Great Qin Empire, in addition to having to store a certain amount of grain every year, most of the grain production basically has to be transferred to other regions to be used to provide relief to the victims at the corresponding time and as a basis for resuming production.

In terms of grain production in these areas, only Liaoning County, Dukang District, Guanzhong Plain and Chengdu Plain can really be relied on.

The recovery of the Heluo area is relatively good, but there is still little hope for grain production in the Heluo area for at least five years, especially until the population gap is replenished to a certain extent.

The situation in the Hebei Plain is the same, because as one of the main combat areas of large-scale civil unrest, the population attrition in the Hebei Plain is actually not below Qidi, while the population attrition in the Heluo Plain is the most serious, while the Hebei Plain and Qidi are slightly inferior.

Although Zhang Jiashi had a certain courage to exempt the Qiantou from the corresponding taxes, he was even able to issue corresponding policies to encourage childbirth. But the former won't have much effect, while the latter won't be able to see results in 20 years.

Therefore, Zhang Jiashi faced the pressure of the invasion of the Huns, and all he could think of in his heart was to curse these traitors and rebel leaders, including Xiang Yu and Liu Bang, dozens of times again.

Of course, Zhang Jiashi himself knows one thing, that is, it is actually useless to do this.

In the past few years, Zhang Jiashi has invested a lot of financial resources and resources in the construction of the military and civil affairs system in the northern Xinjiang region. Due to the shortage of population, Zhang Jiashi could only choose to build a small dock fort to hold the dangerous place and protect the soldiers and civilians in the corresponding area.

Although the Great Wall is said to be the core of the defense system in the northern region of the Great Qin Empire, if it is faced with the situation that the Xiongnu may go all out to the south, the Great Wall will not play a big role.

As the saying goes, offense is the best defense. But Zhang Jiashi's current idea of how to attack the Xiongnu is undoubtedly unrealistic.

The first point is that the Great Qin Empire could not be regarded as an easy category in the face of the military pressure of the Huns going south.

If at this time, the Northern Frontier Army, which did not have enough cavalry as a mobile army, counterattacked the Huns, and the Huns would easily divide the infantry clusters of the Great Qin Empire in their home field, that is, in the vast grasslands and wilderness.

Perhaps the Huns would not choose to attack at the beginning, but would quickly divide and destroy these Qin troops after dragging down the physical strength and spirit of these Qin troops attacking the steppe. And how many Qin officers and soldiers will be able to return to the Great Wall area alive, only God knows.

And the troops that are really capable of counterattacking the Huns, in the current Great Qin Empire, the cutting-edge mobile corps of Yingbu, Huan Suo, Wang Li, and Su Teng can barely do this. However, in terms of troops, it is in a very obvious gap.

Zhang Jiashi also did not intend to use these four painstakingly built armies as "cannon fodder troops". 、

In addition to these four troops, the one who is really capable of doing this is the Central Army of the Great Qin Empire currently stationed in the Xianyang area.

As the coach, Zhang Jiashi naturally knows very well how effective this unit is. And Han Xin, as the deputy commander, is also a source of confidence in his henchmen.

It's just that this force can't play its role at the beginning, because they also need to protect many places in Xianyang County, especially as the center of Xianyang County.

If Zhang Jiashi blindly moved this force to other regions, if the Huns had captured the Great Wall defense line opposite Shangjun from the Hetao Plain or along the straight road, then he would have no place to cry.

So in a sense, Zhang Jiashi can only comfort himself: "Is this considered a good steel, and can only be used on the blade?"

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In fact, Zhang Jiashi didn't have much feeling about this way of being the strongest in the center. Because if the strength of the center is too strong, it can effectively enhance the centralized power of the Great Qin Empire, but the military and political investment in the border areas will be significantly weakened.

Of course, Zhang Jiashi himself knows one thing very well, as long as it is a country committed to a centralized system, it will spare no effort to build and support all the strength that the center has.

Although Zhang Jiashi is not very interested in such things, he has no intention of making any changes in this kind of thing.

Because such a change is likely to lead to the division of feudal towns, Zhang Jiashi does not think that this phenomenon is a good thing for the Great Qin Empire.

In this military meeting, Zhang Jiashi understood one thing after the exchange, that is, the armament of the Northern Xinjiang Army and the other four mobile corps was not completely enough to support a possible full-scale invasion in the face of the Huns.

Zhang Jiashi knew this, and there was nothing he could do to change it, because the current Great Qin Empire had no room for improvement in terms of military production capacity.

Of course, this room for improvement is mainly because Zhang Jiashi no longer has enough financial resources to invest. And the current military industry, especially the large-scale military manufacturing system in several regions, is already a bottomless gold-swallowing beast.

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At present, the large-scale military construction system of the Great Qin Empire is mainly divided into five.

The first is naturally the Guanzhong military that has been restored the best, and even expanded in scale.

The Guanzhong Military Build, which has once again divided an area near the Ganquan Palace for expansion, has now reached an area capable of producing 500 sets of weapons and armor and 50 large military equipment of all kinds.

Don't think that this yield is low, in fact it has exceeded the peak production during the First Emperor's time.

Of course, one thing Zhang Jiashi also has to admit is that this kind of output is also based on one point, that is, the scale of military construction has expanded, but the personnel working in military construction are far less than two-thirds of the number of military construction in Guanzhong during the period of the First Emperor.

It's not that Zhang Jiashi doesn't want more people to work in the expanded military manufacturing system, but it is difficult for him to find suitable personnel to devote themselves to this aspect at the moment. This is a fact that Zhang Jiashi himself cannot change.

For Zhang Jiashi, even if it is an advanced production concept, someone has to implement it. If there is no minimum staffing, then no matter how much we are ahead in production technology, we will not be able to change the phenomenon of insufficient production capacity.

The production capacity of the military industry can be regarded as meeting the corresponding requirements in terms of the equipment of the officers and men, which can be regarded as the return that Zhang Jiashi has finally been able to achieve after investing in the past few years.

Unfortunately, the production capacity of large equipment is still quite insufficient.

This situation is not only the Guanzhong military construction system, but even the Liaodong military construction that Zhang Jiashi developed at the beginning and has now expanded into the Daqin Military Construction Branch of Liaoning County, there are also embarrassing facts in this regard.

This point cannot be changed in terms of manpower, but the production accessories and corresponding skills of large-scale equipment are very different from the equipment of officers and soldiers.

Generally speaking, if you want to produce a set of qualified large equipment, such as a large bed crossbow for defense, or a stone thrower, the corresponding equipment accessories must be stronger, and there are not many people who can do this, which leads to a lack of supply of accessories and the production capacity cannot be increased.

If Zhang Jiashi wants to solve this problem, he can only change this situation by conducting a lot of training in some senior production personnel, or through the training of some people who are not highly educated, but not too stupid.

And if you want to do this, the lack of "faculty" at the moment is the biggest constraint.

Zhang Jiashi didn't have a good way to change such a situation, so he could only choose a stupid way, that is, to use a seasoned technician to bring some "new people", and when these "new people" were familiar with how to produce, they could naturally fill the personnel gap.

It's just that Zhang Jiashi found out that this arrangement actually didn't have much effect, at least he didn't know why it was difficult to reach the expected value he envisioned.

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Along the Great Wall, except for some large ordnance for defense, which needs to be transported north from various military buildings and then assembled on the Great Wall, most of the relatively simple defense materials are mainly collected and used on the spot.

This is a matter of convention. After all, things like sasswood, rolling stones, etc., as long as they are not too demanding, cutting down trees and collecting some large rocks can be used in an emergency.

In fact, there is another benefit of this approach, which is not considered beneficial.

That is, if the Huns went south on a large scale, they would find that if there were dense forests near the Great Wall, they would basically be cut down.

This was mainly done to prevent the Huns from raiding from among the trees. Of course, this may not be entirely effective, but it is much better than doing nothing.

Moreover, in the open area, the fire on the Great Wall could shine farther north at night, which also reduced the possibility of a successful surprise attack by the Huns at night.

The most undecidable thing for Zhang Jiashi is what to do with the officers and soldiers stationed outside the Great Wall.

Outside the Great Wall, there were many places outside the Great Wall that were used to arrange fields or graze horses, and in this way, these places had to be built as living areas.

Zhang Jiashi knew that along the Great Wall, there were at least more than 100 people, with varying numbers of residents, but there were also 30,000 or 40,000 people in general, and more horses, cattle and sheep.

Even if the reclaimed wasteland is abandoned, if the people are still there, they will be able to return to this place again one day.

At that time, livestock was not so easy to arrange.

In particular, such a large number of cattle and sheep, as well as about 50,000 horses of various sizes, if all of them entered the south of the Great Wall, how to settle them would be a big problem.

At this point, if there is really no place for cattle and sheep to be placed, they can be slaughtered and then made into jerky for storage.

But horses can't do that. Because even if Zhang Jiashi was ruthless and gave this kind of order, those who were grazing horses and even the border soldiers would not be able to do so.

Because many people know the importance of horses to them and to the Great Qin Empire.

Zhang Jiashi asked Chen Ping and Zhang Cang, and they made it clear that unless these horses were placed in the Heluo area and some horse farms were urgently built, the horses could not continue to graze in the border areas because there was not enough space.

Zhang Jiashi, who heard this, had to be firm in his thoughts, that is, at the right time, to counterattack the Hetao area and bring this large and natural pasture into his sphere of influence.

Zhang Jiashi did not fail to think about one point, that is, to transport these horses to the abandoned pastures of the old Chu land in Nanjun or Hengshan County.

But even he had to give up this idea quickly, that is, because these horses were basically not fully grown, and if he went south to Nanjun and Hengshan County, he didn't know how much he would lose on the way, let alone the water and soil after arriving there.

Thinking of this, Zhang Jiashi was only able to keep most of the horses in Shanglin Yuan in the end.