In view of this biggest problem and the biggest gain, Liu Bei held a government meeting and a military meeting respectively to discuss, summarize, and arrange the next stage of work.

"From all the information available so far, it is certain that the existence of the collective farms has greatly reduced the likelihood of a local disaster, and that it is precisely because of the timely notice of a large number of collective farms and the subsequent self-defense counterattack that a large number of rebels have not been able to inflict further local losses.

Many small groups of rebels tried to go to the countryside to loot and destroy farms and crops, but they were routed by the self-defense forces organized by collective farms, many rebels were killed, many rebel officers were captured and taken prisoners of war, and the houses, farm implements, water conservancy facilities, and crops in the collective farms were saved.

It is clear that where there were more collective farms, the scale of the rebellion was not large, and it was mainly concentrated around the county seat, while in other areas the rebellion was quickly extinguished, and the number of displaced peasants was greatly reduced, while in places where there were fewer collective farms, the situation was relatively serious.

In addition, because of the excellent performance of the collective farms, the grain harvest in most areas has been ensured, and many crops that are about to mature have also been preserved, relatively speaking, the grain fields in the areas with fewer collective farms have been relatively damaged, and many crops have been destroyed by the rebels, and this year's grain harvest will be affected to a certain extent. ”

At the council, Liu Bei summoned the senior administrators of the court, explained to them some important things that he had discovered during the past few months, and announced his determination to further advance the construction of collective farms.

"Because of the excellent performance of the collective farm organizations in this series of upheavals, we can conclude that the organized collective farms have a strong ability to resist not only natural disasters, but also man-made disasters, and that the collective farms are significantly more resistant to disasters than scattered individual peasant households.

What happened this time further highlighted the correctness of the previous imperial court to promote the construction of collective farms, so not only in the future in Jiangbei, but also in Jiangnan, especially in Jiangnan, to promote the construction of collective farms on a larger scale and in an all-round way, which is very conducive to the initial immigrants to gain a firm foothold in Jiangnan. ”

Liu Bei informed the administrative officials of his decision and let them know about it, especially the two important departments of the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Households.

Next, Liu Bei needed them to contribute money and people to widely promote the construction of collective farms in Jiangnan, and use this as the main grassroots organization to organize the peasants in the Jiangnan area.

The more they organized, the more stable the situation in the Jiangnan region would be, and the situation would be more favorable to the imperial court than to local forces.

This decision was supported by the majority of the people at the meeting, with the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Households expressing their support.

In response to this series of actions, they said that in the next few years, they will also come up with corresponding plans, with the construction of collective farms as the main task, and make every effort to promote local governance.

This decision will also be quickly sent to the local state and county offices, so that the state and county governors will be informed and will be prepared in advance.

At the military meeting, Liu Bei focused on praising the results of the Jiangnan Military Region this time, and focused on commending Guan Yu's river flow maneuver tactics, believing that this was the excellent exploration result of the imperial court's mobilization of troops in Jiangnan, and Guan Yu deserved to be vigorously commended.

Xun You made an important speech on this.

"In this Jiangnan operation, under relatively dangerous circumstances, the Jiangnan Military Region used the waterway as an important communication road to extinguish the rebels in Jiangxia County and Nanjun at a relatively fast speed, and stopped the further spread of the grim situation in Jiangxia County and Nanjun.

In the past, we all believed that it was necessary to maintain wide and transparent roads to ensure the movement of troops and logistics transportation, but the use of waterways was not comprehensive, and this was related to the actual situation in Jiangbei, but Jiangnan was completely different, Jiangnan has an extremely rich water system, and if it is not properly used, it will suffer.

General Guan discovered this important situation in time, and the above table Luoyang proposed to build a waterway tactic, using the waterway as a channel for marching and transporting logistics, and using the waterway to control the land south of the Yangtze River, we were skeptical about this before, but now it seems that this is a very feasible tactic, so next, we should set up a tactical department for the tactics of the Jiangnan waterway. ”

After Xun You finished speaking, he looked at Liu Bei.

Liu Bei nodded.

"We are accustomed to fighting on the great plains and prairies, and the 300,000 troops of the Han Dynasty have also developed on this basis, and we pay attention to the large cavalry and heavy infantry and advocate the joint operation of large corps, which is the foundation of our army's victory in a hundred battles, and I never doubt this.

However, the so-called adaptation to local conditions, different places, different climates, and different hydrological environments cannot be copied from what we are familiar with, for example, there are still many people who have proposed that a large number of roads should be built in the south of the Yangtze River or even Chi Road, I don't think this is wrong, but at least for now, it is not realistic.

General Guan walked along the waterway to many places in the south of the Yangtze River, and found that the land in the south of the Yangtze River had a sense of fragmentation, and there were few large-scale connections between each other, and there were many hills, rivers, swamps, and jungles, which were very serious obstacles to the construction of the Chi Road, and the time, energy, and money consumed would be far more than that of Jiangbei.

Therefore, General Guan proposed to build a completely different tactical system in Jiangnan, train an army that is completely suited to the combat environment in Jiangnan, and make the army in Jiangnan accustomed to using waterways and ships to fight, and even get used to this kind of life. ”

Liu Bei's face was satisfied.

And the staff officers in the Privy Council also sent Liu Bei one after another of congratulations, boasting, and patting horses in a timely manner.

Obviously, everyone knows very well that it was Liu Bei who appointed Guan Yu as the person in charge of the Jiangnan Military Region against public opinion, and it was also Liu Bei who supported Guan Yu in engaging in mobile tactics of river flow.

It is equivalent to that the main hero of this matter is Liu Bei, it is Liu Bei who supports Guan Yu, so there is Guan Yu's current initiative, praising Guan Yu is equivalent to praising Liu Bei, since this is the case, it is better for everyone to pat Liu Bei's sycophants together.

This sycophant is still the real kind, there is no moisture, because Liu Bei's vision and determination are indeed awesome.

He is indeed the most powerful general of the Han Dynasty, the most capable general, more than 700,000 prisoners of war and 6 million cattle, sheep and horses were fought in the first war that year, and the grassland was almost swept away, and the whole court was shocked and eyeballed.

What else is there to question?

So the Privy Council passed a resolution, that is, to continue to invest enough resources to vigorously support Guan Yu to build a mobile tactical system of river flows, help him build military ports, build military warehouses, build military warships, transport ships, and so on.

At the same time, Liu Bei also prepared to add some troops to the Jiangnan Military Region and two more armies to the Jiangnan Military Region.

Considering the next demand for troops in the entire Jiangnan region, especially for Jiaozhou and Yangzhou, Liu Bei believes that the strength of the three armies is not enough, even if the strength of the three independent battalions is handed over to Guan Yu, I am afraid it will not be enough.

Therefore, it would be more appropriate to increase the strength of the Jiangnan Military Region to five regular armies and three independent battalions.

Of course, this is not all the reason why Liu Bei is preparing to increase his troops in Jiangnan.

There are other personnel reasons.

It's quite important.

In the past few months, because there have not been so many wars within the responsibility of the Central Military Region, although the scale is quite large, Liu Bei arranged for Cheng Pu and Han Dang to attack, and it didn't take long for the rebels to be wiped out.

The rebels were really not a formidable opponent, and the two main armies went to fight, and it really didn't take much effort to pinn the rebels to the ground and strangle them.

The result is of course good, the Xuanjia Army and the Tianxing Army are happy, they have merit, and they are rewarded.

But the other four main armies and several new corps were quite dissenting.

Although it was the result of drawing lots, there were still some emotions in the hearts of the troops who failed to fight.

The existence of this kind of emotion is not something that can be solved with a few simple words, and the army eats and drinks well, works hard to train skills and tactics, and strives to learn cultural knowledge, mainly for the purpose of making meritorious contributions and satisfying the needs of individuals for meritorious deeds.

But if there had been no war, the mood of the army would not have been high.

Considering this sentiment of the army, Liu Bei thought that this would be a problem in the long run, so he decided to appropriately arrange some troops to areas where war would occur, and then implement a rotation system.

Some troops that have fought a lot of battles will be transferred back to Luoyang to correct, supplement, retrain, and study again, and other units will be transferred to fight.

After the troops who have been replaced have made a name for themselves and achieved meritorious deeds, they will be replaced by other troops to carry out their tasks, and so on, while training the soldiers, they will give the soldiers the opportunity to play, and no one will be bullied.

All in all, we can't always let a few troops take advantage of each other, and get rewards for various promotions, so do we want unity within the army?

For example, the military region with the greatest meritorious service this time is the Central Plains Military Region, and the main reason is that a large number of rebels appeared within the control of the Central Plains Military Region, and even the subsequent wave of rebellions of the clan kings and clans also appeared in the Central Plains Military Region.

Xu Huang and the four armies under his subordinates were soft on their military exploits, and the eyes of the hundreds of thousands of troops in the Central Military Region were green.

Then there is no way to do it, the main thing is that it appears in the Central Plains, and it is really a problem left over from history, and Liu Bei can't solve it alone.

So this time, Liu Bei plans to transfer two troops from the Central Military Region to the Jiangnan Military Region, so that they have the opportunity to fight, and if there is a need to add troops later, they can continue to send troops there.

To deal with the huge Shanyue group, as well as the barbarians in the south of Jingzhou and the barbarians in Jiaozhou, all of these require a large number of troops.

Therefore, Liu Bei decided to transfer the 23rd Army and the 24th Army to the Jiangnan Military Region and hand them over to Guan Yu's command, increase the strength of Guan Yu's command, and enhance the strength of the Jiangnan Military Region to deter Xiaoxiao.

After this dispatch order was conveyed, it could be regarded as a hornet's nest.

The 23rd Army and the 24th Army were beaming from top to bottom, and those who were happy did not want to be happy.

The officers of the other nine armies wept and asked Liu Bei to be received, and after getting permission, they came to Liu Bei one after another to cry miserably, and one after another came to Liu Bei to replace the positions of the 23rd Army and the 24th Army, indicating that they also wanted to go to the Jiangnan Military Region to make meritorious contributions.

I've been training for so long, all of them are training gods, and there are several warriors, so it's not appropriate to fight anymore, right?

Liu Bei's face darkened, and he scolded one after another.

"The Cavalry and the Leopard Cavalry are cavalry armies! Cavalry Army! Do you understand what a cavalry army is! Cavalry! Running away on a war horse! Grand Cavalry Legion! Prairie combat standard! Where do you go to Gangnam? Yun Mengze? Can your horses run on mud? Can your horses fly? Or do you have wings? Can fly? ”

Xiahou Yuan and Pang De were scolded by Liu Bei by pulling their ears, and they were kicked and kicked out of the palace, not even daring to let go of a fart, embarrassed.

Then came Cheng Pu and Han Dang.

"I just finished the war and earned military merits, is it not enough? The other armies didn't fight! Lack of greed! Get lost! ”

Liu Bei stretched out his hand and pointed to the outside of the palace, Cheng Pu and Han Dang immediately ran out with their tails between their tails and their heads down, not daring to let go of a fart.

Then came Liu Yong and Dong Huang.

"You are my old subordinates, old men in the army, and you don't have any strategic determination at all? Yes, I haven't let you fight for a long time, and your subordinates also have opinions and opinions, but fighting is a big deal, a place of death and life, and the way to survive, not just fighting!

Next time, will it be good next time? The next time there is a war somewhere, I will make proper arrangements for you, okay? Jiangnan, don't get involved, wait for the battle in Shu, when you fight in Shu, you will be in the first order! ”

Liu Yong and Dong Huang left the palace happily, just like the monkey who stole the peach.

Then there were the lieutenant generals of the twenty-five, twenty-sixth, and twenty-seventh recruit corps.

Hu Guan, Qiao Lin, Tian Tong.

The three of them are Liu Bei's veteran subordinates, who were promoted step by step in the army by relying on their military merits and cultural skills, and emerged when the recruit army was formed.

Therefore, the three of them are also very eager for military merits, eager for military achievements, eager to prove that they can not only be promoted, but also lead troops to fight, and can also lead more soldiers and fight bigger battles.

To be honest, after so many years of fighting, Liu Bei's subordinates can serve as the commander of an army, not a hundred, but also eighty, with a strong talent reserve, and each of them is an excellent talent who has been killed.

And under Liu Bei's cultural policy, these guys with somewhat book-burning and Confucian personalities all have a bit of literacy, a little ink in their stomachs, and a little talent in their heads.

When I was a child, I didn't lay much foundation, but as soon as I grew up, I could learn what Liu Bei wanted them to learn, and the grades were quite good.

What is it called?

This is called a preemptive genius, and the IQ is quite good.

It's just that the original was buried, and the dead were worthless, but now following Liu Bei, the talent has been discovered, and one after another has emerged, even if he has not entered the school system to study, he can also act as a cultural person in the army.

Looking at their pitiful expressions, Liu Bei sighed.

"I know that you all want to make contributions, and you don't want to stay in Luoyang to retire, okay, I'll give you a chance, you will prepare, there will be a series of military operations against the Western Regions in the northwest in the future, and the three armies on General Zhang's side are more than defended and not enterprising, so you will go to the northwest when the time comes."

The three of them were overjoyed, asked a lot of questions, and got the exact promise from Liu Bei, and then left the palace happily and went back to share the good news with his subordinates.

(End of chapter)