"Are there already so many soldiers and horses in the Han Dynasty?" Hearing this number, Ma Jian was a little surprised.

As soon as he crossed the meeting, Shu Hanman was full of 120,000 soldiers. This includes the soldiers and horses stationed in the entire Shu region, most of which cannot be moved.

At that time, there were less than 60,000 mobile troops that could really be used for foreign operations, and the number of soldiers was extremely scarce.

No, in just six years, the number of Shu Han soldiers has more than doubled. If the grain is sufficient, the troops that Shu Han can mobilize can even reach 100,000.

I have to admit that Shu Han did get rich!

"This is not counting the tens of thousands of Wei soldiers you captured in Nanyang, there are only 200,000 troops available for mobilization now." Wu Yi explained to Ma Jian with a smile, looking extremely happy.

"Now Shang Shutai is discussing sending someone to Nanyang to be responsible for rectifying and digesting this group of surrendered soldiers. After these tens of thousands of prisoners of war are absorbed and digested, the number of Han soldiers can reach 250,000. ”

"In the next Northern Expedition, we won't have to face such a big numerical disadvantage. At that time, our Han Heavenly Soldiers will come out of Qinchuan and start a decisive battle with the Wei army on the Guanzhong Plain! ”

Thinking back to the first Northern Expedition, their gang of generals were frightened during the preparation period because of their numerical inferiority. When attacking Longyou, Wu Yi even needed to attack the city with less troops than the defenders in the city.

That kind of uncomfortable and difficult feeling, Wu Yi never wanted to experience it again in his life.

"This time, our big man can let go and fight a rich battle."

"Indeed!" Ma Tan felt the same way, but he still asked uneasily,

"However, with such a large-scale mobilization of soldiers and horses, the consumption of grain and straw is not a small amount. Our Shu land has been fighting for many years, is the supply of grain and straw up? ”

Although Ma Jian had just extorted a million grains from Sun Quan, he was not a big head after all. These millions of grains and straw will have to be consumed a lot from Nanyang to Yongzhou, and it is not easy to say how long the real supply can last to the front line.

Since the beginning of the fifth year of Jianxing, Shu Han has seen the continuous northern expedition to open the border, and there are wars every year, and the grain is also consumed every year. This time, after a year of fighting in Nanyang Guanzhong, a big war was immediately and seamlessly connected, and Ma Jian began to worry about the problem of grain.

Don't run out of food before you can die.

"You have to go to Shangshutai to inquire about this, Fei Yi's answer to me just now is that it is not a big problem." Wu Yi didn't know much about this, so he simply shook his head and replied.

"Okay, I'll go find Shang Shuling and ask." Ma Tan nodded slightly, but he still couldn't put his mind at ease, and decided to ask in person.

After all, Shuzhong is not in charge of the prime minister himself now, and Ma Jian is still more worried about losing the chain.

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Since Zhuge Liang personally supervised Yongliang and took the Prime Minister's Mansion team to sit in Ji County, Chengdu's highest decision-making body has changed from the Prime Minister's Mansion to Shangshutai.

Fei Yi, the former assassin of Yongzhou, served as Shangshuling, and recorded Shangshu with Shi Jiangwan, the head of the Prime Minister's Mansion. In the two years that Zhuge Liang left Chengdu, the two were responsible for all the affairs of the rear of the Shu Han Dynasty.

Ma Jian came to Shangshutai and quickly found Jiang Wan and Fei Yi. However, what surprised Ma Tan was that there were several localists in Shangshutai, and Qian Zhou was among them!

Why is Zhou here here? Aren't the localists already beaten and unable to take care of themselves? Why are so many people able to sneak into Shangshutai now?

Obviously, this situation made Ma Jian a little suspicious, and Shuzhong didn't come back to Chengdu for two years, and he was a little rusty.

But at this moment, Fei Yi also saw Ma Jian coming, and hurriedly got up to greet him.

"Youchang, I haven't seen you for a long time, you haven't been back to Chengdu for almost two years, right?" Fei Yi stepped forward, took Ma Yan's hand and said with a smile,

"You guy, for the cause of the Northern Expedition, you really don't even care about your family. Last year, Your Majesty heard that your kid had no one to take care of at home, and he summoned him to the palace to study with the prince. ”

"The eldest husband should take it as his responsibility to save the world, and if the family and country are not prosperous, how can he take care of the love of his children." Ma Jian shook his head and covered up the topic without leaving a trace.

Fei Yi's eyesight was very good, and he obviously saw that Ma Jian had something to ask, so he said,

"With your character as a chariot general, what is the important thing to come to Shangshutai this time, right? Although he said that if he could help, I would never refuse. ”

"Ahem...... It's not a big deal, just to ask, is the grain for the next Northern Expedition ready? Ma Tan groaned for a moment and asked softly.

"There is no problem with this, the grain is definitely enough." Fei Yi immediately replied, very confident in this,

"In the past two years, the wind and rain in Shu have been smooth, and there has been a bumper harvest every year. Coupled with the cooperation and cooperation of the local faction, the preparation of grain and straw was very smooth. ”

"At the time of next year's autumn harvest, Shu can at least prepare more than 100,000 people for half a year's grain. Even if the war is protracted, the grain and straw in Shu can at least last until the autumn harvest of the second year. ”

The past two years can be said to be the smoothest time for Yizhou. Because the power of the local clan was uprooted, the decrees of the imperial court began to be implemented smoothly throughout Yizhou.

With the smooth passage of government decrees and the rule of officials, Shu has had bumper harvests year after year, and the taxes even exceeded those when the prime minister was in power. Therefore, although Ma Jian fought in the high-intensity war in Nanyang for a year, Fei Yi still dared to promise that there would never be a shortage of grain on the front line.

In addition, the prime minister put the latest research grain transportation equipment "Liuma" into use two days ago, which greatly reduced the loss of Hanzhong's transportation to the front line. Fei Yi immediately remembered something, and then found a drawing and handed it to Ma Yan.

I have said many times before that the biggest problem in the logistics of the Northern Expedition is actually Shudao logistics. Because the Shu Road is difficult and the road is extremely long, a large amount of grain is lost in vain during transportation.

However, this problem was developed after Prime Minister Zhuge sat in Yongzhou for two years and explored the flow rate and river channel of the Baochuan Road many times. This small boat, which resembles an ancient version of an assault boat, can travel unimpeded on the river, so that the waterway of the Bow Slope can finally borrow power again.

According to Fei Yi's calculations, after the Liuma is put into use, the logistics loss of Shudao can be reduced by at least three percent. In this way, the grain and straw in Shu can be transported to the front line more efficiently to supply the Han army's Northern Expedition.

After Fei Yi gave a series of ledgers and data, Ma Jian breathed a sigh of relief. Obviously, the benefits of purging the localists in the previous two years began to work, and the Shu Han tax was greatly developed.

In the local faction, the power of the faction was greatly reduced, and many of the people who had been hidden came back. After a series of land clearances and censuses, the total population of Yizhou has reached as much as 2 million.

It seems that he is overthinking, and the ability of the four phases of Shu Han is indeed worth believing.

After reluctantly worrying about the logistics of the Northern Expedition, Ma Jian frowned again, and suddenly pulled Fei Yi to the outside of Shangshutai, pointed to the officials inside and asked.

"Speaking of which, why did Qian Zhou appear in Shangshutai? I see several nativist officials in office, what is the situation? ”

"Could it be that after I went to Yongzhou with the prime minister, the local faction put pressure on you again?"

(End of chapter)