Three Kingdoms Strong Army System

Soon, the last thing Liu Zhang wanted came, and that was the autumn harvest.

From the beginning of spring plowing to the autumn harvest this year, there was no fighting in the entire three counties of Guanzhong. Except for the [-] elite soldiers who served as standing soldiers, the other [-] soldiers were allowed by Liu Zhang to return home to participate in the spring plowing and autumn harvest.

The autumn harvest in the three counties of Guanzhong lasted for half a month. During this half month, there were 38 counties in the three counties. Although many county-level officials were dismissed, it did not affect the autumn harvest.

In the 38 counties, the grain harvested in autumn is much more than in previous years, and in some counties, the grain is twice as much as in previous years.

After the autumn harvest, there is a grain tax.

When Liu Zhang rectified the administration of officials, he also stipulated the standard of food tax, and the food tax was thirteen.

For every ten catties of grain harvested, the common people had to pay three catties of grain tax to the government.

This ratio can be said to be very high, because when the grain tax in the Han Dynasty was the lowest, it did not reach 31.

That is, thirty catties of grain, and one catty of grain tax is paid.

But now the imperial court is corrupt, officials are exploited, and the folk grain tax is extremely high. Because of such a high grain tax, many people hang their farmland on the aristocratic family and officials because they can't afford it.

In this way, food taxes can be evaded.

The common people found that they could live on by farming for aristocratic families, but by farming themselves, they would not be able to pay the grain tax.

As a result, more and more common people have changed from self-cultivating farmers to serfs, which is also one of the main reasons why the government's registered population is decreasing.

Liu Zhang's rectification of officials at the Guanzhong county level offended many aristocratic families.

During this autumn harvest, there were also many officials who performed well, and most of these officials came from aristocratic families.

In order to ease the relationship, Liu Zhang promoted officials who performed well to serve as county-level officials such as county magistrate, county head, county magistrate, and county lieutenant.

Anyway, there are many big families in the three counties of Guanzhong, and the military power is in the hands of Liu Zhang. Those who are obedient will be appointed as officials, and those who are disobedient will be eliminated.

Perhaps they knew that Liu Zhang was a clan member of the Han Dynasty, and that they had recently captured Tongguan and killed many Dong Zhuo's troops, so they dared not resist openly.

The results of the autumn harvest satisfied Liu Zhang, and of course the grain tax satisfied him even more.

Last year's autumn harvest grain tax was only 25 shi in Jingzhaoyin County.

This year, the three counties of Jingzhaoyin, Fufeng, and Fengyi collected a total of 60 shi in grain taxes according to the [-]th standard.

In the army, there are standards for soldiers to eat food every day.

In Liu Zhang's case, soldiers were allocated 3 catties of grain every day, and a thousand soldiers needed 3000 catties of grain every day, which was 25 shi.

Liu Zhang has 625 soldiers and needs 228125 shi of grain a day, so he only needs to consume [-] shi of grain a year.

If it is wartime, the physical exertion of soldiers increases, and the food allocated to them is 4.5 catties a day. The 60 shi of grain can be used by 160 troops for [-] days.

At the end of October, the grain tax registration in all counties was put into storage, and the big event of autumn harvest was considered to be completely completed.

From 188 to the autumn of 190, Liu Zhang has been the prefect of Jingzhao Yin for two and a half years.

It has also been a year since he controlled the three counties of Guanzhong and the part south of the Great Wall in Shangjun of Bingzhou.

The entire Jingzhaoyin basically obeyed their orders, and the remaining three counties were forced by Liu Zhang's military power to obey the government orders.

Today, he has more than [-] people under his rule and more than [-] soldiers.

Taking advantage of the autumn harvest, Liu Zhang recruited some soldiers and converted the captives into his own soldiers. His strength has reached 4.

Among the [-] soldiers, [-] of them were elites, and they were the first batch of soldiers recruited by Liu Zhang.

They have gone through previous wars, and after being edified by the flames of war, they have grown into experienced soldiers with strong combat effectiveness.

Among the 7000 soldiers, [-] have been strengthened by the strong soldier system and become the elite of the elite.

Even Dong Zhuo's ace army, the Flying Bear Army, was no match for them.

Now under Liu Zhang's rule, a series of civil officials will no longer prevent him from expanding his army.

Because now, everyone understands that troubled times are coming, and only by increasing the number of soldiers can we protect ourselves.

One day, Liu Zhang summoned his confidants to conduct temple calculations and discuss his future direction.

The current situation is very clear.

The imperial court was in the hands of Dong Zhuo, and Dong Zhuo's influence was only in three counties, namely Hedong County, Hongnong County and Henan Yin.

To the east of Hulao Pass, there are many princes, and now they have entered the era of mutual annexation.

To the west of Tongguan, there are four big princes, Liu Yan, Han Sui, Ma Teng, and Liu Zhang, among which Zhang Lu is a vassal of Liu Yan.

Unlike the chaos to the west of Hulao Pass, the princes to the east of Tongguan Pass are relatively stable.

Among the four princes, Liu Yan and Liu Zhang are father and son, Han Sui and Ma Teng are brothers of the opposite sex, and the rest of the lesser princes are huddling together in Liangzhou to keep warm.

At present, everyone is still restrained and has not done anything.

But Liu Zhang knows that time waits for no one.

After he was sent by Hanling Emperor Liu Hong to Jingzhao Yin as the prefect, he had a plan in mind, that is, when his father Liu Yan died, he would inherit his Yizhou, and then go west to station soldiers in Liangzhou.

In this way, the situation of strengthening Qin can be formed. As long as the Three Gorges, Wuguan, Tongguan and the Yellow River are guarded, the princes of Shandong will not be able to fight in at all.

This was what he had planned long ago. After he summoned his confidantes, he revealed his plan.

All the confidants were stunned by Liu Zhang's plan, and they all expressed their willingness to assist Liu Zhang to conquer the world.

Among them, Fa Yan and Fa Zheng were very excited, and they felt that this plan was very feasible.

Although Guanzhong is quite dilapidated and there are not so many people, the arable land is still there. As long as it is operated for a few decades, the population will definitely recover.

In this way, it is not a big problem to come out of Tongguan in the east and rule the world.

What is now faced is how to expand.

Liu Zhang only has a big strategy, but he hasn't planned the details yet, but Fazheng, who is more familiar with the military, has expressed his own ideas.

To the east of Tongguan, there are Yizhou and Liangzhou. There is no need to fight Yizhou. The three counties of Guanzhong and the southern part of Shangjun are also there, so only Liangzhou can be attacked.

Among the ten counties in Liangzhou, Ma Teng occupied Longxi County and Hanyang County, and Han Sui occupied Wuwei and Jincheng County.

The three counties of Zhangye, Jiji and Dunhuang are far outside the pass, with vast land and sparsely populated areas, and have long been occupied by Hu people.

The three counties of Wudu, Anding, and Beidi were occupied by the remaining dozen princes.

Some of these princes occupy one county, some occupy several counties, and their backgrounds are either local tyrants or Qiang people.

Liangzhou has a registered population of 47.

These people refer to the Han Chinese who are registered in the government ranks, the Han Chinese and Hu people who are hidden by the aristocratic families, and they are not counted in the registered population.

In fact, Liu Zhang has already figured out the situation in Liangzhou.

In the entire ten counties of Liangzhou, because of the multiple rebellions of Wang Guo, Han Sui and others, the number of Han people is no longer as large as that of Hu people.

Among them, the Qiang nationality is the largest force of Hu people in Liangzhou.

The combined population of the Qiang people in the western border of the entire empire has already surpassed that of the Southern Huns.

Fortunately, the Qiang people are divided into several tribes, and each tribe does not belong to each other, so it is considered that they have not occupied Liangzhou at all.