Volume 6 Respective Calculations] Chapter 305 Six Years of Truce and Strike-

A sudden plague wiped out nearly one million people in the four northern states of the Han Dynasty, among which Youzhou was the most tragic and Bingzhou was the slightest. As if to prove that he is more powerful than the living immortal Zhao Xing, Lord Plague Jun's temper this time is extremely violent, and he has not been bothered for a long time, and he has been tossing and turning north of the Yellow River for six years!

For six years, Zhao Xing could only curl up in Bingzhou and do nothing, watching the states south of the Yellow River develop and grow themselves. Because whenever Bingzhou was about to raise his sword and gun and attack Yuan Shao in Jizhou, the plague monarch would run out and smash Lu-N.

The Zhenbei Army is hiding in the state, and there is no doubt that it is safe. But once you go out of the state to fight, if you are infected with the plague, it will be very dangerous, and it may even lead to the annihilation of the entire army.

Zhao Xing sometimes wondered if Yuan Shao had deliberately arranged for people to spread plague in various places near Jizhou. If you want to cast the plague, as long as your heart is black enough and your courage is big enough, it is not impossible.

For example, instead of burning the corpse according to Zhao Xing's practice, it was sealed and buried, and when it was necessary to use it, it quietly dug up the seal, and smashed some messy things from it and threw it everywhere! Now the gas masks of the state have been sold to all counties in the state, although a large amount of food and benefits have been exchanged for the state, so that other states and counties are no longer afraid of the plague. With proper protection, artificially controlling the location and scope of a plague outbreak is really not a complicated matter.

Many years later, a large number of clues proved that Yuan Shao of Jizhou, Dong Zhuo of Liangzhou, and even Gongsun Zan of Youzhou, in order to prevent being annexed by the powerful annexation state, did hint that some of his subordinates had done something against the way of heaven......

Since he couldn't expand outward, Zhao Xing had no choice but to bury his head and practice his internal skills. In six years, Zhao Xing repeatedly practiced the 80,000 soldiers of the Zhenbei Army and the 20,000 soldiers of the Xiongwu Army and the Dingyuan Army many times. Although the number of standing armies has not increased, the combat strength of the various armies today is definitely not what it used to be: the standard equipment of the Qing Dynasty, the complete and smooth command system, and the efficient and reasonable logistical support. If properly commanded, with this 100,000-strong army, it is enough to resist the siege of at least 400,000 troops and stand still.

In addition to the 100,000 standing army, there are 50,000 reservists and 20,000 mercenaries. The so-called reserve force began to be tried out when Zhao Xing was in charge of the party, that is, the government officials and street patrols who were responsible for maintaining internal security and stability in various localities. After training the 100,000-strong army twice, Gao Shun, the head of the training regiment, saw that he was about to lose his job, so he volunteered to pull these people into the training group for regular rotation training. As long as these officials and street patrols are equipped with standard weapons, they can definitely be used to guard the city and passes, of course, if they are used as an attacker, it will be a bit out of the eyes of Zhao Xing and the army commanders.

The 20,000 mercenaries refer to the Xianbei people who brought the plague south to the state that year, and these tribes, who thought they were going to die, stubbornly survived the great plague after losing more than forty percent of their people. Of course, without the generosity and kindness of General Zhenbei, they would not have survived, and if they did not die at the hands of the plague, they would have been burned to ashes by the strong army of Bingzhou.

The Xianbei people were a typical people who admired force, and when the Han army was weak, they were accustomed to acting as a prestige, and when they found that the Han army was strong enough to sweep through the north, the spirit of rebellion in their hearts had been completely occupied by the heart of submission. Zhao Xing's ethnic integration strategy is not covered, it only took six years, and these Xianbei people have been digested and absorbed by the Huangxuan and Southern Xiongnu tribes, and there is not even a little scum left.

These original Xianbei people, after learning that the tribesmen who fled north with Kuitou had been completely annexed by other tribes, naturally burned with anger in their hearts, and hated Kuitou more than the Han people. Even if you treat them as guns, you can treat your own people like this, this kind of betrayal is even more painful than being stabbed in the back.

At that time, when Lu Xiang on Fertile City was the first to take the lead in rescuing the Xianbei people, he definitely did not expect that he would not only harvest a tribe that swore allegiance to Fertile Ye, but also laid such a favorable foreshadowing for provoking a civil war among the Xianbei people in the future.

For six years, the imperial court adopted an economic blockade and military defense of the annexed states, intending to trap Zhao Xing. The result, of course, was undoubtedly a failure.

The common people can definitely live if they don't drink the Changhe Daqu for six years, and the descendants of the Hao M-N clan in Luoyang City, if they don't drink the top-level Changhe Daqu for six days, they can make their parents and mothers die, not to mention that there are some other commodities in the state, and it will be difficult to give up after using them. Since ancient times, "from thrift to luxury, from luxury to thrift", the princes and nobles who are accustomed to the life of brocade clothes and food have been inseparable from many commodities provided by the state in their lives.

As a result, the illegal trade was born, which Zhao Xing called "walking sī". Of course, Bingzhou welcomed other states to come and "walk the sī", and after the trade routes on the surface were cut off by the imperial court, the merge states could only rely on the sī to strengthen themselves.

In the process of jiāo, the state never accepted anything such as gold, silver, and jewelry, except grain, cotton, y-o, and ore. The main products exported by Bingzhou are Changhe Daqu, rǔ products, slaughtered cattle and sheep r-u, anti-gas masks, disease-proof y-o pills, sheep m-o products, furniture, and some of Zhao Xing's so-called luxury goods.

The main items that are strictly prohibited from being sold in the state are: horses, iron and steel products, coal and stone, production equipment, and books and paper. The commercial banks and Yam-N offices that dare to disobey the order, once investigated, the relevant persons involved in the case will be sentenced to death!

Horses and steel products could be used to arm potential enemies, coal and stone and advanced production equipment were strategic goods in the state, and books and paper could be used to build public opinion, so they were included in the list of prohibited jiāo yi.

In order to prevent the emergence of unbalanced economic development, the economic structure of the prefecture is still to adhere to agriculture and animal husbandry, supplemented by handicraft manufacturing. At all levels, Zhao Xing's instructions of "digging deep and accumulating grain" were strictly implemented, and the grain was placed in large urns and sealed and hidden in the treasury of the government and the cellars of the common people.

It's not enough to just produce food by yourself, and the state is like a bottomless d-ng devouring the excess grain in the states, and it's just a matter of harvesting as much as you want. Anyway, the grain here is transported into the winery, and the liquor over there will be out of the pot, and more grain can continue to be exchanged for more. The coal and stone used in the entire state are used for steelmaking, brewing wine and heating, and it is estimated that it will not be a problem to use hundreds or thousands of years, as long as the grain reserves are sufficient, the long river Daqu can be opened up to supply the world.

In terms of animal husbandry, Zhao Xing set a target for the Huangxuan and Southern Xiongnu tribes every year to prevent the overabundance of war horses, which would lead to a decrease in the number of cattle and sheep. In order to improve the utilization rate, various animal husbandry processing workshops have emerged, such as the M-O spinning factory specializing in making sheep M-O threads, the canning factory for pickling cattle r-u dry, the nǎi field for producing cattle and raising nǎi, and the tannery for nitrate leather goods, etc. With these handicraft workshops, the horses, cattle and sheep raised by the two tribes have economic benefits from head to toe, without even a little L-NG fee.

For example, in the workshop of slaughtering cattle and sheep, there is a large amount of beef offal and haggis left every day, so Zhao Xing promoted a way of eating it called hot pot, and there is also a dietary practice called haggis soup. As soon as the hot pot and haggis soup were introduced, they became popular throughout the state and spread to the surrounding states.

In the cold season of winter, all yurts, restaurants, streets and alleys are filled with the strong smell of Y-U people, which makes passers-by salivate. Drink a sip of the sweet and sweet river Daqu, and drink a bowl of haggis soup with flatbread, which is really a comfort!