Sima Yi first intimidated the vulture bone, saying that the little emperor took this battle very seriously, and originally expected to kill Cao Xiu as quickly as possible and capture Runan City, but now the vulture bone was caused heavy losses by a small miscellaneous fish-like urn city, and His Majesty was furious and was losing his temper.

Naturally, the vulture began to worry when he heard this, although in such a situation, the victory and defeat really could not be controlled by himself, but there was no guarantee that the emperor would be angry with himself because of the setback. You must know that the emperor is the most unreasonable creature.

The vulture bone has read very little, otherwise he would have come up with the idiom "accompanying the king as accompanying the tiger" to describe his current situation. However, although he does not know how to use an idiom, he still has a deep understanding of the meaning expressed in that idiom. So, he no longer hesitated and asked Sima Yi for help.

Sima Yi saw that the goal of intimidation was achieved, so he began to teach him what to do and how to speak after seeing the emperor, and asked him to memorize what he was going to say, and practiced several times to ensure that there were no mistakes or omissions before going to see the little emperor.

Sima Yi asked him to pretend to be pitiful as soon as he saw the emperor, and he had to take the initiative to ask for guilt, he felt very reasonable, because the little emperor was a soft-hearted person after all, if he looked miserable, maybe he wouldn't be able to get angry, plus he took the initiative to ask for guilt, and he had a good attitude of admitting his mistakes, he would definitely not hold himself accountable.

I have to say that although the vulture bone is a little rude, he has been with Liu Hou for a long time, and he has also figured out some of Liu Hou's personality characteristics. So, the vulture bone simply didn't bathe and change clothes, and went directly to see Liu Hou with his face full of soot and tattered clothes. Liu Hou saw his miserable appearance, and really didn't blame him.

As for Sima Yi teaching him to fight for pensions, he also said them one by one, in fact, he didn't understand why Sima Yi wanted him to ask the little emperor for more pensions, in his opinion, the original pension standard couldn't be higher, and he changed his previous army, where is there such a good thing?

Sima Yi made up a reason to fool him, he didn't understand Sima Yi's reason very well, but he felt that since a smart person like Sima Yi said that he wanted to do this, he must have his reason, and since it was related to his own life, then listen to him once. This is also the purpose that Sima Yi needs to achieve by intimidating the vulture bones at the beginning.

Because he was worried about his own danger, the vulture was confused, so without understanding the reason, he unconditionally obeyed Sima Yi's arrangement, unaware that Sima Yi was actually helping him at the same time, mixed with private goods.

After listening to the narratives of Sima Yi and Wu Tugu, Liu Hou finally understood the truth of the facts. Liu Hou was puzzled, so he asked Sima Yi directly: "Why did Sima Aiqing do this?" ”

Sima Yi said: "Your Majesty, Weichen is here to offer you a strategy." ”

"Oh? What strategy? Liu Hou asked.

"Careful measures." Sima Yi said.

"What heart? Isn't the current treatment of our army not enough to win the hearts of the soldiers? Our army's salary, food, and clothing in peacetime, as well as support and resettlement after being disabled and discharged from the army, as well as the bereavement pensions for sacrificed soldiers are the best in the whole world. With such a generous treatment, will they all have a second heart? Liu Hou was a little angry when he heard Sima Yi's words.

Sima Yi heard that the little emperor was angry, and he no longer sold Guanzi, and hurriedly explained: "No, no, no, Weichen is not referring to the hearts of active soldiers. His Majesty is the immortal Son of Heaven, and he is too good to say anything to the soldiers. Now there are still people in the whole army who are not dead set on His Majesty.

Wechen refers to those who are subordinate and the strong men among the people. The territory occupied by His Majesty is getting bigger and bigger, and it will inevitably be bigger in the future. At that time, more soldiers will be needed to guard the world for His Majesty. As a result, it is necessary to increase the number of soldiers. And it is a huge increase, and it even needs to be several times more than the current number of troops to be sufficient.

Then the source of the soldiers will become a problem. Now we continue to receive soldiers from Wei and Wu, all of whom are young and middle-aged people who have also received a certain amount of military training, and are an ideal source of soldiers. Another source is the strong men among the people, and in the future, it will definitely be necessary to select young and strong people from the people to enrich the army, especially after those soldiers are digested, they are the only choice. ”

Liu Hou has always taken the route of elite soldiers, so the size and number of the Hong army have always been small. Although the number of the Hong army was small, its combat effectiveness was amazing, and it was not a problem for tens of thousands of troops to defeat hundreds of thousands of old-fashioned troops head-on. However, unlike the nature of the enemy's field warfare and garrisoning in various places, sometimes it is not entirely about attack power, and sometimes it is about whether there are more or fewer people.

When the land area of Shu Han was several times larger, the shortcomings of the small number of the Hong army were exposed. Every time the Shu army occupies a place, it must divide troops to garrison, although those places where peace has been restored, only a very small number of soldiers need to be stationed is enough, but it cannot be too small, the number is too small to suppress those who are young.

Therefore, although each place only needs to send a small amount of manpower to garrison, but there are many places, and now the Shu army is advancing all the way, and the territory occupied is increasing by an order of magnitude, so that the Hong army, which is small in number, will soon be divided.

Seeing that the emperor was unhappy, Sima Yi first gave him a sycophant, and then began to analyze it again. Liu Hou frowned, obviously not caring about his sycophants, and said, "So what? ”

However, whether it is a soldier or a young man among the people, there is a problem, they may not be willing to give up their family and business to come out to become soldiers. After all, when a soldier fights, he has to face death, and most of those young people who have a family are the pillars of the family, and they themselves have worries in their hearts, worried that once something happens to them, the family will collapse.

Weichen's construction is to completely eliminate their worries. Weichen has calculated that there are 100 acres of tax-free land, which is enough to feed a large family. In this way, even if they do sacrifice, they don't have to worry about what happens after death. A soldier who has no worries will not hesitate to shed his blood for His Majesty. Sima Yi said.

Liu Hou knew that what Sima Yi said was a bit exaggerated, and he always believed that it was necessary to make a lot of profits, but the idea of arming soldiers was more important. So he formed an army organization a long time ago, and after this period of development, now all the way to the company has joined the army. These soldiers are good at ideological education and are responsible for instilling in the soldiers the idea of defending the homeland and the country and being loyal to the monarch and patriotism.

Just by luring them with interests, it is likely to cultivate some white-eyed wolves who forget their righteousness, and soldiers who are armed with righteousness are truly strong men who are not afraid of death. However, Sima Yi is not wrong, if there is enough pension so that the soldiers have no worries, then the people and soldiers will definitely be more willing to join the army, and this is also an incentive for these soldiers on active duty.