"In other words, not only do we have an army that can deal with the Qi State this time, but also defend against Nan Chen's sudden surprise attack on us at the same time?" Wang Ze leaned over the desk and asked Cheng Chong cautiously.

Sure enough, Cheng Chong slapped the table and shouted: "That's it, otherwise how can 100,000 soldiers and horses not be enough?" In previous years, when Chen Ba was there first, the border between us and Nan Chen didn't need so many troops at all, so we could concentrate our troops on a par with the Northern Qi army, but now that Nan Chen is so concerned, there is too much lack of troops! ”

Wang Ze thought about it carefully, and felt that there didn't seem to be much place to use troops in the East China Sea now, although Nanyang had to face the pressure of the three major powers, but at present, it mainly relied on the navy to protect it, so it was enough to have Sun Xing's first fleet go there.

Although the land of Beji is now in the process of development, there have been many conflicts with some of the surrounding indigenous tribes, but relying on the vast waters of the Tongjiang River, Zhao Qin's naval army is enough to deter many Beji savage tribes.

In addition, there are more than 20,000 people stationed on the shore by Jiang Chuan and Yu Feng of the First Army of the East China Sea Infantry Army, which is enough at present, and the Tongmen River is garrisoned by Xu Ning and Li Shun of the Second Army to defend against the offensive of Goguryeo, while Zhenhai is guarded by Han Wen and Zhou Qiang.

Thinking about it now, that is, the blue wolf army currently stationed on the islands in the East China Sea is a little idle and bored, and the islands in the East China Sea now only need to be guarded by the national guards of each county, so Wang Ze thought of this and made a decision in his heart.

He smiled and said to Cheng Chong: "Second uncle, since this is the case, I will send Zhang Hang, Cao An, Chu Honghang and Meng Xian's troops of the Blue Wolf Army to Sanqi to assist my father in fighting, they have not fought well in the counties of the East China Sea all these years, and now it is time to practice well!" ”

However, at present, because the four divisions of the Blue Wolf Army are not fully staffed, and each division is only 5,000 people, Wang Ze must complete its establishment before setting out on the expedition, so that the whole army of the Blue Wolf Army will have a total of 40,000 people, and it will also have the ability to fight alone.

What Cheng Chong thought in his heart was that the more than 20,000 Blue Wolf Army were elite, and after arriving in Sanqi, they could be mixed with some recruits, so that there would be more than 60,000 people, plus Wang Yong's 100,000 army and some other newly formed troops, there were nearly 200,000 troops in the entire eastern part of Qizhou, so they could do a lot of work.

Thinking of this mileage, Chong was a little happy, if it went well this time, at least he would be able to restore the territory that occupied Sanqi at the beginning, if it was better, it was not impossible to directly seize Yecheng, the more he thought about Cheng Chong, the more he couldn't stop laughing in his heart.

Wang Ze looked at Cheng Chong, who was smiling so much that his eyes narrowed into a slit, and shook his head helplessly and said: "Second uncle, you listen to my advice, this time let's not be the first to rush to the front, they shouted that we will hunt Beiqi, how can we have such a good heart!" ”

"If you want me to say, let's wait until they all move, and then we will move!" Wang Zeke strongly persuaded Cheng Chong, "At the beginning, we fought against hundreds of thousands of Qi troops alone, but I didn't see them help a little, so don't give them a fire this time!" ”

Cheng Chongle smiled and said: "Don't worry, we are not fools, I have discussed it with you, isn't it summer now, we will take Qu Liulang's boat along the Jishui and take down Jinan City, so that the Qi army east of Jinan City will not become our turtle in the urn again?" ”

Cheng Chong was very proud of this plan, although he didn't come up with this plan by himself, but the third brother Zhu Rui came up with it, but the third brother Zhu Rui also said that if he didn't see that he bought an old turtle and put it in the pottery urn, he wouldn't have come up with this idea.

Therefore, Cheng Chong is very proud, this is also called crooked, it seems that he still has some talent, although he can't come up with these ideas on weekdays, but he can help others come up with these at critical moments, this is also a genius!

Wang Ze ignored his second uncle's pride, he thought about this strategy carefully, and had to agree that this was a good idea, when the Qi army faced the full siege of the Northern Zhou, Turkic, Khitan, and Southern Chen, it would inevitably transfer some troops from the inland to the front line.

In this way, Wang Yong and others took the opportunity to use the advantage of the water army to enter Jishui and seize Jinan City again, so that as long as they did not make the last mistake, Wang Yong could at least hold this large piece of land east of Jinan City.

When Wang Yong, Wang Ze and his son seized the land of Sanqi, there were at least more than 2 million people living in this large land, and if you add the large number of people who fled from other warring states and counties, this figure is even nearly 3 million.

However, when Wang Yong's army was defeated, the land west of Weishui was also occupied by the Qi army, and a small part of the people living here retreated to the east of Weishui with Wang Yong, and then most of them were moved to the East China Sea by Wang Ze, and now the population of the six counties in Qidong has returned to normal, and all add up to about one million. Hot search

A small part of the remaining people west of Weishui fled to relatives further inland to escape the war, and a considerable number of people who did not want to flee died at the hands of the Qi army who came to encircle and suppress the 'thieves', which became one of their so-called great exploits in exterminating Wang Yong's army.

To the west of Weishui in Sanqi, the people of all the states and counties add up to only hundreds of thousands, if Wang Yong occupies the current Sanqi land, it is estimated that the strength will not increase too much, which is exactly what Wang Ze is worried about Wang Yong.

At present, the only more favorable factor is that once Wang Yong launches an attack on the Northern Qi, then the Northern Qi will once again be full of wolves, and one by one the heroes will jump out again, such as the remnants of the Zhangwu Volunteer Army that is currently cowering in Zhangwu Daze is one of them.

It's just that in this way, a large number of people will inevitably suffer disasters, of course, this is a good thing for Wang Ze, because in this way, he can carry out a new round of immigration.

Today, the total population under Wang Ze's rule has reached 3 million, but more than 600,000 of them are children under the age of 10.

And this staggering proportion is still increasing in an even more alarming statistic, and now the Xia Kingdom spends a large amount of money and food on these children every year, and even surpassed the military expenditure of the entire East China Sea last year, becoming the largest expenditure of the government this year.

It is conceivable that if the number of these children increases rapidly as time continues to develop, this expenditure will further increase, if it is not for the establishment of the two sides of the Tongjiang River and Zhenhai County and Sanjiang County, the East China Sea is extremely rich, otherwise Wang Ze's pressure will be even greater.

In this way, the huge pressure brought by the increasing number of young children made Wang Ze choose to relax the previous restrictions on the number of immigrants and prepare to continue to increase the number of immigrants from Sanqi and other places, after all, only with enough working population can these increasing children be fed.

Wang Ze also knows that when these children grow up and enter the society, the benefits will be great, and then the strength of the entire East China Sea Xia Kingdom will be unmatched, but if you want to wait for these children to grow up and get the corresponding demographic dividend, you will need to wait for at least another seven or eight years.

"By the way, Da Lang, you must have accumulated a lot of war horses here! The cavalry in the second uncle's hands has not increased much in the past two years, or you will give me another 20,000 or 30,000 war horses! Cheng Chong whistled for a long time and saw that no one paid attention to him, and finally couldn't sit still and began to make his request to Wang Ze.

But Wang Ze was almost not frightened by Cheng Chong's cheekiness, and the family wealth he had accumulated over the years was only seventy or eighty thousand fine war horses, but now Cheng Chong was going to ask for half of it as soon as he opened his mouth, how could this work?

Of course, these 70,000 or 80,000 horses specifically refer to the excellent war horses that Wang Ze is currently grazing in the major pastures, and do not include the 25,000 war horses equipped by Hu Bingchang's army, nor do they include Yu Linwei, the middle guard army, and some other war horses equipped with a small number of horses.

If you add up the war horses, flat horses, horses, and horses owned by all the armies and civilians in the entire East China Sea, there are at least three or four hundred thousand, but the number of all the war horses in it will not exceed 110,000, and most of the others are flat horses used for pulling carts, plowing land, and grazing.

In recent years, Wang Ze has made a lot of efforts to increase the number of horses in the East China Sea, and by encouraging the development of animal husbandry and farming, most of the people in the East China Sea have learned to ride horses, and they have continuously selected some suitable war horses in animal husbandry to Sakhalin Island, Whale Island, Taizhou County, and Jeju Island, which are very suitable for grazing.

At present, these places are the most concentrated places for grazing war horses in the East China Sea pastures, especially the largest number of grazing war horses in the major pastoral areas of Whale Island, because the grassland here is vast, the climate is warm and humid, and it is most suitable for grazing Khitan horses purchased from the Khitan.

Followed by Whale Island is Taizhou County in the north of Changzhou Island, where there are many mountains in addition to the Taizhou Plain, especially the gently sloping mountains and hilly terrain, so a large part of the war horses grazing here are traded from the ground bean horses.

This kind of war horse is the iron hoof horse in the legend of the Huns in the past, very good at climbing the mountains and suitable for mountain warfare, the number of war horses stocked on Sakhalin Island is about the same as Taizhou County, but most of the war horses here are suitable for the cold climate of the land of Beji.

Jeju Island, which is ranked last, is mainly used as a base for the cultivation of fine war horses, and over the years, based on the ten sweat and blood horses and twenty Western Regions BMWs provided by the Northern Zhou Dynasty, thousands of excellent war horses have been cultivated, so although the number of war horses here is not too much, the quality is the highest.

Because not all horses can be used as war horses, now Hu Bingchang and other cavalry troops have been controlled at more than 10,000 people, just to save horses and let them breed more, and now it is not easy to breed so many tens of thousands of war horses, Cheng Chong will take nearly half of them, how could Wang Ze agree!