Reinforcement of troops?

Qingji's heart was still quite hesitant about this.

You must know that before the battle to destroy Shu, the scale of Wu's standing army had reached an unprecedented 300,000 people.

After Wu started the battle to destroy Shu and Qin, his army soared for a while.

In the land of Bashu, the garrison of Hanzhong County, plus the main army led by Sun Wu and Gongzixi, there were already 300,000 horses.

In order to deal with the invasion of the alliance of the princes, Qingji formed a new army of 150,000 people, and transferred 100,000 people from various vassal states to form an army as a reserve.

There are also the garrisons of the original Sanchuan County, the garrisons of the nine southern counties, and the standing armies of each county......

Qingji's heart calculated that at this time, the state of Wu had nearly 700,000 troops!

This is not the greatest war potential of the state of Wu right now.

After all, as a country where all the people are soldiers, Qingji can choose to be like the Qin State, even the old man with gray temples and the young man who has not yet shed his childishness are conscripted into the army.

As a result, the army that Wu was able to mobilize, including auxiliaries, exceeded one million.

However, Qingji can't do that.

There's no need either!

After pondering for a long time, Qingji finally said: "Increase the forced labor." ”

"Send another 200,000 Kunlun slaves to act as people's husbands, responsible for transporting grain and baggage to Qindi."

"Also, Wu Hong."

"Erchen is here!"

Qingji stared at Gongzihong, who was becoming more and more calm, and said in a deep voice: "The widow appointed you as the governor of the five counties, set up the governor's palace in Nanzheng, and supervised the government affairs of Ba County, Shu County, Hanzhong County, Nanjun County and Nanyang County. ”

"Within the five counties, all officials whose rank is less than 2,000 stone shall be controlled by you, and if anyone violates the prohibition, you may cut it down first and then play."

"The grain, cloth and other materials of the five counties shall be supervised by you, and the taxes shall not be handed over to the national treasury, but shall only be used for front-line warfare. How to arrange it, the widow doesn't care, the widow only needs the result, regardless of the process! ”

"Son, obey the king's orders!"

Gongzihong solemnly agreed.

Governor of the Five Counties?

This is a high-powered official position!

Although it was established temporarily, Gongzihong's authority was definitely big enough.

The officials of Ba County, Shu County, Hanzhong County, Nan County and Nanyang County, including the county guards, must obey Gongzihong's orders, and if they do not obey, Gongzihong can even execute the other party......

In fact, as early as before the war of exterminating Shu, Sun Wu had proposed to Qingji that he should be crowned with the title of Metropolitan Governor, who would supervise the military affairs of Bashu, Nanjun, Nanyang County, and Hanzhong County, and have the right to control the civil and military affairs of the counties.

All officials with a rank of 2,000 stone and below, if they violate the law, which is not conducive to the plan to destroy Qin, Sun Wu can cut it first and then play it at that time.

If the war falls into a stalemate, Sun Wu can freely dispatch taxes, grain, cloth, etc.

After thinking about it, Qing Ji still didn't grant Sun Wu such a big power.

In case Sun Wu has a heart of disobedience, the huge Wu Kingdom may fall apart.

Even if Sun Wu is still loyal to Qingji, it is difficult to guarantee that others will not stage a drama of "yellow robes and body" and push Sun Wu to the throne.

Of course, the possibility of such a thing is very small, but Qingji has to be cautious.

For Gongzihong, Qingji is still quite relieved.

Gongzihong's virtue is impeccable, and his personality is the same as Qingji's uncle Ji Za.

Now that the battle to destroy Qin is in a stalemate, and there is not much progress, Qingji has made up his mind to fight a tug-of-war, so the logistics supply of the army has become the biggest problem.

Although Wu has hundreds of thousands of Kunlun slaves, they can be used as people's husbands to continuously deliver grain and straw to the army on the front line.

However, there is too much grain and grass lost on the way, and it is an astronomical amount for people to eat and chew every day!

Can Wu Guo afford it?

Yes!

It's just that the situation is changing rapidly, and Qingji doesn't dare to guarantee that the originally piled up warehouses will not be completely consumed.

As the saying goes, before the soldiers and horses move, the grain and grass go first.

Without enough food and grass, the war cannot continue.

For so many years, the scale of Wu's foreign expansion war was not too much, at most more than 100,000 people, and it was not counted as an expedition of laborers.

The farthest time before, the Wu army only entered the Central Plains to attack the Jin Dynasty, and in that battle, the Wu State only lost 70,000 horses.

Now that's an army of two or three hundred thousand!

It is still an expedition to the Qin State thousands of miles away, which is too far away from the Wu State itself, and the whip is beyond the reach of the whip.

In order to ensure that there was no problem with the grain and grass of the army at the front, Qingji had to choose to collect grain nearby.

That is, in addition to the distribution of grain and straw from the Wu state, the taxes, grain, cloth, etc. of Ba County, Shu County, Hanzhong County, Nan County and Nanyang County were all used to defeat Qin's army.

With such a "lifeline", Qingji chose to let Gongzihong control it, not Sun Wu, or someone else.

"Wu Hong, after you arrive in Nanzheng, with the order of the widow, recruit 50,000 soldiers from the land of the five counties, and after you are organized into an army, you will immediately put them into the front line without delay."

"No!"

Qingji set his eyes on Prime Minister Zuo's body again, and said in a deep voice: "Wengen." ”

"The minister is here!"

"You are responsible for organizing the Kunlun slaves, and at the same time allocating chariots, horses, boats, grain, grass, baggage, etc., must be reasonably arranged to ensure that the army's grain flow is endless."

"No!"

Grain can be requisitioned from Ba County, Shu County, Hanzhong County, Nanjun and Nanyang County, but it may not be enough for the army on the front line, so the local side of Wu still has to support it.

As for the military baggage such as bows, arrows, spears, swords, trebuchets, and ladders, they were uniformly deployed by Wu itself.

Qingji let the literature supervise the transportation of grain and straw, which is considered overkill.

"Great King, the minister heard that Qin Bo Yingning has died, and the Qin State is now Yingpan's successor?"

Imperial Doctor Fan Li asked curiously.

"Not bad."

Qingji said with emotion: "According to the Black Ice Terrace, after Ying Ning repelled my Wu army in Yongcheng, he died and was nicknamed 'Hui'. ”

"He can be said to have died young, and the succession is only fifteen years old."

For Qingji, this can be described as a generation of new people replacing the old.

The monarchs who were in the same period as Qingji generally did not live too long, except for the Marquis of Qi, that is, the old immortal of Qi Jinggong.

During Qingji's reign, three generations of the two monarchs of Qin were killed, one was Qin Aigong and the other was Qin Huigong.

It is worth mentioning that Qin Huigong is the grandson of Qin Aigong, and there is a Qin Yigong in the middle.

It's a pity that Qin Aigong is too alive, and he reigned for thirty-six years, so that the crown prince Qin Yigong died early and could not be established.

Speaking of which, Qingji's concubine Meng Huan turned out to be the wife of Chu and the daughter of Qin Aigong.

If you want to talk about seniority, Qingji is Qin Aigong's son-in-law, Qin Huigong's uncle, and now Qin Boyingpan's aunt and grandfather......

"The king, the Qin State is now, the monarch is newly mourned, the lord Shaoguo is suspicious, and the minister thinks that it is not appropriate to continue the stalemate with it, but should increase the offensive, strive to defeat the Qin army and the Xirong coalition army in Weishui, and then smash Yongcheng in a battle and completely destroy Qin."

Fan Li said loudly.