In fact, Zhang Xi and Wei Yan are not fools, of course they know how outrageous the plan they proposed to defend the border is.

But the reality of the situation makes them not have a good way.

It stands to reason that the military tun in Guanzhong should be mobilized in Guanzhong to carry out the military tun, what does it have to do with the county soldiers of Jingzhou, Yizhou, and Liangzhou? !

It's okay to be on the side, but it's not like that.

But the actual situation in Guanzhong, everyone knows that it is not suitable for full favor.

Originally, there were more than 200,000 households in the Guanguan and more than 900,000 Dingkou, but Manzhong moved away more than 400,000 at once, isn't it equivalent to vacating a whole Zuo Fengyi.

What's even worse is that among the nearly 500,000 people who have not been relocated by full favor, not all of them have returned to Guanzhong Sanfu, some people have fled into the mountains and forests to survive, and some families with a way have moved to Liangzhou, Yizhou and other places to avoid disasters, and they will not be able to come back for a while.

If you don't use the way of garrisoning, even if you recruit county soldiers at the limit ratio of ten ding and one soldier, at most you will only have 40,000 soldiers, how can you build a military camp in such a large area as Zuo Fengyi?!

There's really no way, so that's why I made this decision.

Moreover, according to the joint estimate of Zhang Xi and Jiang Wan, if the method of rotational cultivation is adopted in Zuo Fengyi, then the number of people needed for the military camp is probably enough to be kept at about seventy or eighty thousand.

The number of people required in the early stage may be a little more, but that is mainly to restore production, and when production is restored, there will not be so many regular military troops needed.

At that time, all the soldiers of the three counties will not need to come to Zuo Fengyi's borders, and they will come once every two or three years on average, which can basically ensure the sustainable development of Zuo Fengyi's military tun.

As for the Northern Army, to be honest, before the population of Yongzhou is not restored, I am afraid that the Northern Army really has to stay in Chang'an.

On the one hand, the elite of the Northern Army itself was a force to deter Cao Wei, and it was difficult to face the attack of the elite of Cao Wei's Central Forbidden Army by relying on the county soldiers alone.

On the other hand, in such a large area as Guanzhong, the elite of the Northern Army does not look at it, can it really reassure the Son of Heaven? !

Some things, it depends on how you interpret them, with Zhang Xi's shrewdness and Wei Yan's loyalty, these two really never thought about interfering in the issue of military power in the Northern Army from beginning to end.

Of course, even if Liu Bei later figured this out, he was still a little hesitant.

The 30,000 Northern Army is a knife in his hand, and this knife also needs to be taken just in case. The situation in Chengdu is still unclear, if necessary, these 30,000 northern troops are a sharp blade for him to go south to quell the rebellion, and they cannot be easily placed on Zuo Fengyi.

Although judging from the current situation, Zhuge Liang is in charge of Chengdu, and things are going very smoothly, and there will be no large-scale rebellion. But Liu Bei couldn't help but leave his own backhand.

But the same is true of Chang'an's situation.

If Yongzhou is governed in a conventional way, it will not be possible to quickly resume production in a short period of time, because the lack of Dingkou is too great.

The reason why Liu Bei always refused to lead the army back to Chengdu and did not immediately dismiss the Northern Expeditionary Army was that Liu Bei knew that in such a large pass, it was difficult to ensure the safety of the pass without a force of about 100,000 guards.

To a certain extent, Cao Pi's strategy of moving people into the customs did directly hit the weakness of Liu Bei's group, so that even if Liu Bei Group could occupy Guanzhong, it might not necessarily hold Guanzhong in a short time.

At this time, Liu Bei didn't have any good way, so he could only wait first, wait for Pang Tong and Huang Quan to arrive, and ask their opinions.

And Pang Tong's opinion on this. Well, I gave Zhang Xiliang a roll of his eyes.

"Yuan Chang is also a wise and resourceful person in the world, how can he come up with such a bad plan?!" Pang Tongyi didn't give Zhang Xi face and said, "With the soldiers of Sanzhou County to garrison the border army, the chief is not afraid of the shaking of Sanzhou, and the soldiers are all resentful?!" ”

Zhang Xi was not happy when he heard this, and asked, "Why did Brother Shiyuan say this?!" The soldiers and soldiers on the border are the regulations of the two Han Dynasty, and they are on the border for the country, how can they be resentful? ! ”

When Pang Tong heard this, he sneered and said, "For the country, there is naturally no resentment, but so often, the chief is not afraid to reproduce the old things of Chen Sheng and Wu Guang?!" ”

This is a bit heavy, but it also shows that in this era, there is an attitude towards the border.

How many of the county soldiers in these years are willing to go to the border?! How many of them can return to the countryside safely after the border mission is over?!

Not to mention that it is a time of war, that is, in a time of peace, the march road of nearly a thousand miles on this road is a Huangquan Road.

Of course, if Zhang Xi has to mess around, accuse Pang Tong of giving improper examples, and compare today's son to Qin II, it is not impossible, but that is not the solution to the problem.

And Liu Bei is not the kind of person who has no brains, it is impossible not to know where the point of what Pang Tong said is.

The point is that no county soldier is willing to undertake such a border task.

And Pang Tong continued, "The family is in turmoil, so there is nothing to worry about. The family seeks, but Lear, with the temptation of profit, the chaos is peaceful. The chaos of the army is very harmful, from the invasion of states and counties to the destruction of the foundation of the country. ”

Once the county soldiers choose to rebel because they don't want to fight on the border, it is not as simple as a rebellion instigated by ordinary families.

The family pursues profits, and as long as you are willing to compromise your interests, they can start a rebellion, and naturally they can quickly quell the rebellion.

But the rebellion of the county soldiers, that is, the rebellion of the low-level soldiers and the people, if this is a big trouble, it is not so easy to quell.

At that time, it will be okay if the state and county are in the flames of war, and you must not forget what is the foundation of our lord.

It's people-oriented!!

If the people rebelled, then the foundation of the lord would become a joke, and the consequences could not be afforded.

This was said, Liu Bei pondered, and Zhang Xi was speechless.

Pang Tong smiled and continued, "Besides, the plan of the Yuan Chang is indeed a clever move, but for some reason, he is in such a hurry?!" ”

As he spoke, Pang Tongyi walked to Liu Bei's desk, found out the map of Guanzhong, asked the Huangmen squire to hang it up, and said to the map, "The land of Guanzhong is new, and the safety of Guanzhong should be the first priority." Zuo Fengyi is close to the Tongguan-Yellow River line, and chooses its dangerous places to deploy along the line, and sets up military cantonments to fund military rations as the first priority, and other places can be suspended. According to the general estimate, there are 30,000 to 50,000 county soldiers to deploy enough defenses, why should Zuo Fengyi's entire territory use military camps, and use 100,000 soldiers? ! ”

Pang Tong's meaning is that the focus is mainly on defense, and there is no need to spread the stall so big in other areas, you can take your time in the future, and you don't have to rush for a while.

Of course, there is another sentence that Pang Tong did not say.

That is, since it has been decided to build a military zone in Zuo Fengyi, then don't use the thinking of governing the place to think about things Those areas that cannot be taken into account immediately, even if the cultivated land is wasted, there is no way to do it.

Even if it is abandoned for ten years, it can be reclaimed in the future, so why do you have to use all the cultivated land as a military camp from the beginning?!

This is probably the core of Pang Tong's opinion - it can be a military cantonment, but there is no need to carry out a military cantonment in the entire Zuo Fengyi at once, and it is enough to have a military cantonment of 350,000 county soldiers.

But Zhang Xi disagreed with this again.

What you said before is somewhat reasonable, although Zhang Xi does not completely agree, it is difficult to refute after all.

But when you say this, Zhang Xi suddenly found room for rebuttal.

"Brother Shiyuan has such a big breath!" Zhang Xi looked at Pang Tongyi's eyes angrily, the kind of eyes that were no different from looking at the loser.

Then, Zhang Xi paused for a moment and continued, "One mu of cultivated land, if you don't plant it for three years, it will be wasted, and if you don't plant it for five years, hundreds of thousands of hectares of cultivated land in Guanzhong will be wasted. ”

"Chief, it's !! to say it" Pang Tong's face was not good-looking.

Who's a loser?!

Zhang Xi didn't care, and continued, "In the troubled times, it is not possible for the people to ask for an acre of arable land, and it is not easy for the country to ask for a hundred hectares of fertile land, but Brother Shiyuan wants to propose to waste hundreds of thousands of acres of fertile land. Such a thing, I dare not do it in the Yongzhou Thorn History Department! ”

When he said this, Pang Tong was a little angry.

Yes, he Pang Tong was born in a family, but he is not such an idiot, he wastes hundreds of thousands of acres of fertile land, and Pang Tong can't catch such a big hat.

Therefore, Pang Tong hurriedly defended, "Yuan Chang don't say such nonsense. Although the fertile land is expensive, it can still be remedied for a while, and it is unstable in Guanzhong, and it is lost and lost, how to remedy it?! ”

After saying this to Zhang Xi, Pang Tong did not wait for Zhang Xi's response, and immediately gave up his hand and said to Liu Bei, "Your Majesty, the minister also knows that the minister's strategy is not a complete strategy, but there is always a trade-off. Although the land in the middle of the pass is obtained, the Tongguan in the northeast, the Yellow River, and the Wuguan in the southeast are not in our hands, and there is a danger of military disasters in the pass at any time. Zuo Feng Yi Juntun is indeed a good policy, but if according to the plan of the Yuan Chief, it is just to protect Guanzhong in the land of Sanzhou, and there are many disasters, according to the plan of the system, although the land has been abandoned for several years, but a small number of soldiers can defend Guanzhong, leaving no residual poison in the local Majesty, the land can be reclaimed, and Guanzhong should be recovered, but it is not easy, please think twice, please think twice. ”

After Liu Bei heard Pang Tong's words, he was also a little shaken, and then looked at Zhang Xi on the side, as if Zhang Xi didn't know what to say.

Indeed, as Pang Tong said, his strategy is not a perfect strategy, but Zhang Xi's strategy is also not a good strategy.

It is true that Zhang Xi can make up for the problems in the Guanzhong region in a short period of time, but Zhang Xi's practice is equivalent to transferring the crises and contradictions that originally belonged to Guanzhong to other prefectures and counties.

Not to mention anything else, you can't always let the elite of the Northern Army and the soldiers of Sanzhou County defend Guanzhong before the population of Guanzhong recovers, right?!

Then does Jingzhou still want to use soldiers?! Does Yizhou still want to govern the place?! What if the Qiang or Xianbei people invade Liangzhou?!

Can't every state in the country keep you a Yongzhou Thorn History Department, right?!

The biggest problem in Guanzhong is the lack of personnel, not the lack of soldiers, and the contradiction between the main and secondary must be clarified; otherwise, even if we follow Zhang Xi's method, it will only be a matter of demolishing the east wall and making up for the west wall, and it will not be a fundamental solution to the problem.

Liu Bei is also embarrassed now, use Zhang Xi's strategy, Liu Bei is also worried about the instability of the people and soldiers in Jingzhou, Yizhou, and Liangzhou, you can use Pang Tong's strategy, Liu Bei is distressed about the abandonment of those lands. That's not dozens of acres of land, it's hundreds of thousands of hectares!!

Liu Bei is pondering how to choose. Huang Quan, who was standing aside, suddenly coughed.

Huang Quan's cough immediately attracted the attention of the other three people present.

Also, since this guy came in, he hasn't said a word, is it possible that he has any good ideas?!

Huang Quan looked at the three of them, especially Liu Bei, the great son of heaven who looked at him hopefully, was a little embarrassed, and smiled a little hesitantly, before he said slowly, "The old man has a strategy, but this strategy is some."

Huang Quan's stumbling appearance, Zhang Xi and Pang Tong suddenly chuckled in their hearts. This old guy probably can't come up with any good ideas.

But now, Zhang Xi and Pang Tong can't convince anyone, if Huang Quan really has a way, it doesn't hurt to listen to it.

"Gongheng can have a good strategy to deal with today's predicament in Guanzhong?!" Liu Bei smiled and took the initiative to ask.

As soon as Huang Quan heard this, Liu Bei spoke, although he was still a little weak-hearted, but he finally spoke.

"Back to Your Majesty, according to your subordinates' opinion, the root of Guanzhong's predicament lies in the lack of Dingkou, and in the land of Shuzhong, there are many Dingkou and few lands." When Huang Quan said this, he raised his head slightly and looked at Liu Bei, and then he thought about it a little more in his heart, gritted his teeth, and said, "If the Son of Heaven can issue an edict, he will allow the Shuzhong family to go north to Guanzhong, and report to Dingkou to enrich Guanzhong in order to obtain the land in Guanzhong."

Yes, I know that this Huang Quan can't come up with any serious ideas!!

(End of chapter)