Taking advantage of the gap between negotiations, the situation in Jingzhou was temporarily stable, Zhang Xi went to Chang'an to attend his daughter's wedding.

It's human nature.

Weddings and funerals, the most important thing for people, how can a father not attend his daughter's wedding.

Besides, this time I came to Chang'an, it was not that Zhang Xi had to come, it was a letter from Zhuge Liang who called Zhang Xi to Chang'an.

Of course, in Zhuge Liang's letter, the main content is to discuss the etiquette of the marriage with Zhang Xi, as well as the scale of the wedding banquet, after all, when Zhang Xi was in charge of Yongzhou, he once said that he would continue to marry his daughter, at least let the people in Chang'an City have fun and comfort the people who were hurt by last year's war.

However, Zhang Xi always felt that Zhuge Liang was a person who couldn't write a letter to himself to discuss it for such a trivial matter, our house is my wife's house, this little thing, you directly let your wife go to my wife, and the two of them will discuss it? !

It's not that I don't know each other, the two have a good relationship.

Therefore, the focus must be on after he arrives in Chang'an.

Sure enough, Zhang Xi had just entered his own mansion in Chang'an on the front foot, and was invited by Zhuge Liang on the back foot, saying that he wanted to reminisce about the past.

It's called catching up, but in fact, it's a meeting.

Well, this time it's really a small meeting.

Don't talk nonsense, after Zhuge Liang saw Zhang Xi, he immediately told the purpose of calling Zhang Xi - he was going to the Northern Expedition.

The Northern Expedition is to attack Cao Wei, although now Cao Wei has been forced to retreat to the division, and then attack Cao Wei, not so much the Northern Expedition, but the Eastern Expedition. But this one doesn't matter.

What really matters - another Northern Expedition?!

It was just a truce last year, well, it's been less than a year, and you want to go on a northern expedition again?!

I'm really not afraid of falling into the name of "reckless soldiers", right?!

To be honest, if it is replaced by Jiang Wei, Zhang Xi can still understand, after all, except for the Northern Expedition, this product basically does not inherit any other advantages of Zhuge Liang, but this is Zhuge Liang's own deity.

In history, Zhuge Liang came out of Qishan six times, why was he able not to be complained by the court, but Jiang Wei's nine expeditions to the Central Plains, even Zhuge Zhan objected. The reason is very simple, Zhuge Liang made sufficient preparations before each Northern Expedition, not only straightened out the internal interest relationship, but also tried not to affect the normal economic development of the country.

Zhuge Liang's Northern Expedition was a confident Northern Expedition.

But now, Zhang Xi doesn't understand where Zhuge Liang's confidence comes from.

Yongzhou was beaten last year, and even if Yongzhou had a bumper harvest this year, it was just barely relieving.

Last year, the elite soldiers of Yongzhou County fought with the Wei thieves and lost both, and less than 20,000 of the more than 40,000 soldiers remained.

The financial support is not supported, the combat power of the soldiers is not supported, what are you Zhuge Liang going to the Northern Expedition.

Zhang Xi was not polite to this question, and threw it directly to Zhuge Liang.

Then, Zhuge Liang began to explain.

Finances, don't worry too much.

Last year's Northern Expedition had to be hastily stopped because of the death of the great general Guan Yu, but in fact, the various grain, grass and ordnance prepared for the Northern Expedition did not consume too much.

It was according to the previous practice of the Northern Expedition, according to the time of the Northern Expedition for one year, or even two years, to prepare grain, grass and ordnance, but in the end, the Northern Expedition only lasted a quarter of the time and ended hastily.

Half of the grain, grass and ordnance used in the Northern Expedition were hoarded in Chang'an and were used by Zhuge Liang to restore the local livelihood in Yongzhou, and the other half is still hoarded in Hanzhong.

Even if Yongzhou's autumn harvest grain and grass reserves are not used, relying on the supply of grain and grass in Hanzhong alone is enough to support a 50,000-strong army on the Northern Expedition for a year.

In terms of troops, the soldiers of Yizhou County have withdrawn their troops back to Yizhou, and these soldiers let them go north as a whole, which is indeed too laborious, and the soldiers will also have complaints.

However, the 27,000 people of the Northern Army of the Han Dynasty, after Zhuge Liang asked the Son of Heaven to agree, he still stayed in Chang'an.

At the beginning, it was used to cooperate with the Liangzhou Legion, and it was used to defend Chang'an before the Yongzhou Legion was not rebuilt, but now, it happens to be a ready-made Northern Expedition force.

Again, after nearly three years of recuperation, Qinzhou has now basically recovered its livelihood. If he was worried that the Northern Expedition would not have enough troops, Zhuge Liang could also transfer troops from Qinzhou to Yongzhou to participate in the Northern Expedition.

Yes, Qinzhou is small and barren, but it is also a state anyway, and it is not a problem to gather 10,000 county soldiers.

Moreover, if necessary, Zhuge Liang could also rely on his prestige in the northwest region to recruit the Qiang people to fight.

The name of Zhuge Ah Gong still exists in this time and space, but it is not the people of Nanzhongyi who call Zhuge Liang so, but the people of Beidi Qiang who are grateful to Zhuge Liang.

Now Zhuge Liang's reputation among most Qiang tribes is more powerful than Ma Chao's "Shenweitian General" back then.

"General Shenweitian" is just afraid of his bravery, but Zhuge Agong's title shows that the Qiang people are convinced that Zhuge Liang really has a heart, and it is not impossible to form a cavalry version of the Wudang Flying Army.

Of course, if this is just the case, Zhuge Liang will not be in a hurry to go on the Northern Expedition now.

Zhuge Liang is also a person who knows the severity, he knows very well that once a war is fought, no matter how well prepared he is, the war will eventually increase the burden on the people, but he can't continue to wait.

Cao Wei's Luoyang stayed behind Sima Yi, he is a great talent!!

Zhuge Liang and Sima Yi, the pair of fateful opponents, in fact, until a year ago, the two did not have much actual intersection.

But in the past year, where the two sides are sitting in each other's seats, one in Chang'an and the other in Luoyang, the two have fought many times openly and secretly, but they both feel how difficult each other is.

And now, with Sima Yi ruling Luoyang for a year, with the help of the Hedong family and the Yingchuan family, the people's livelihood in Luoyang is gradually recovering, and the military situation has developed by leaps and bounds.

Sima Yi was born in a Hedong family, and he has a lot of say in the Hedong family.

And Sima Yi's ascension was recommended by Chen Qun, the leading elder brother of the Yingchuan family, and at this time, Yingchuan County was even worse than Hedong County, and they were directly facing the threat of Nanyang County of the Great Han, so they had to cooperate with Sima Yi to restore the military equipment in the Sili area as soon as possible.

The power of the family in this era is very considerable, in less than a year, Sima Yi, with the help of the family family, straightened out all the government affairs of the division, and began to strengthen the army.

When Cao Rong moved back to the capital, he only took away the last 10,000 elites of the forbidden army, and none of the remaining soldiers were taken away, all of which were left to Sima Yi to be used to defend the division.

It can be said that at this point, Cao Ei still supports Sima Yi very much.

However, after repeated battles, there were only about 20,000 soldiers left in Sili County, and the troops were seriously insufficient.

But fortunately, Cao Rong also left the 100,000 Tuntian soldiers temporarily recruited to Sima Yi, and gave Sima Yi the right to recruit the Tuntian soldiers to fight again at the necessary time.

Of course, Sima Yi doesn't look down on those Tuntian soldiers who are temporarily conscripted and can only be used as cannon fodder, but the big families need it.

It's not for war, the big families need these tuntian soldiers to be used as hermits to farm.

This is also an important reason why Sima Yi was able to quickly restore the reputation and armament of the division. Sima Yi disbanded half of the Tuntian soldiers, but instead of letting these Tuntian soldiers return to the land where Tuntian was cultivated, he acquiesced in allowing the clan to embezzle this part of the Tuntian people in exchange for the family's financial and grain support for the reconstruction of the Sili region.

As for the remaining half of the Tuntian soldiers, Sima Yi selected 20,000 people, carefully drilled, and used them to supplement the gap in the soldiers of Sili County.

In this way, in just one year, Sima Yi regained 40,000 Sili soldiers, plus 10,000 Tongguan defenders, and 20,000 Yingchuan soldiers for a total of 70,000 troops.

Si Li is not short of money and food, and the only weakness now is that the combat strength of the 40,000 Si Li soldiers in Sima Yi's hands is uneven, and more than half of the soldiers are seriously undertrained, and they have no actual combat experience. But if Sima Yi continues to be in charge, these will not be too big a problem.

Therefore, after learning about Sima Yi's actual achievements in Luoyang this year, Zhuge Liang knew that he could not continue to give Sima Yi time.

The Northern Expedition must be made as soon as possible.

And this is what Zhuge Liang needs to seriously discuss with Zhang Xi when he comes to Chang'an this time - he wants to persuade Zhang Xi and support him to launch the Northern Expedition again after spring ploughing next year.

Moreover, Zhuge Liang hoped that Zhang Xi's Jingzhou soldiers could send troops to help the war at that time.

But after Zhang Xi listened to Zhuge Liang's reason, he was a little hesitant.

Listening to the meaning of Zhuge Liang's words, it seems that something is wrong.

Zhuge Liang is the prime minister, although it is not as "in the palace and in the house, all as one" in history, but his rights are actually not small, coupled with Liu Chan's attitude towards him, to a certain extent, it can also be said that he is under one person and above ten thousand people.

But such a person, if he wants to launch this Northern Expedition, he still needs to win Zhang Xi's support, and it seems that things are not so simple.

Therefore, Zhang Xi asked a very key question - what do Pang Tong and Fa Zheng think about this matter.

Then Zhuge Liang fell silent.

I'm a fool, really.

I didn't realize until now that I had made the wrong number of chapters.

(End of chapter)