sweeping the world

Chapter 226

Everyone is intensively preparing for the battle or speeding up the progress of the war as much as possible. The atmosphere of the war is particularly obvious on Liu Yan's side, especially the small-scale wars in the six counties of Qingzhou are intensive, which can almost be said to be in a situation where the smoke of war is everywhere.

"We lack administrative officials." Liu Yan frowned deeply: "The situation is not obvious now, but this will become a shortcoming that restricts our future development."

Everyone knows the seriousness of this situation, but not knowing can solve it.Although it is difficult to find people who walk on four legs, and officials want to crawl all over the ground, but in the era when 90.00% of nines and countless nines are illiterate, it is not that simple to become an administrator.

Qingzhou is corrupt, and the shortcomings of officials are just like that for the time being, but Qingzhou will not be corrupt forever.

Liu Yan ordered the normal development of Changguang County and Dongmou County, adopting the traditional county government, coupled with the cooperative village model.

According to the normal situation, there are at least six counties in a county, and such a county is considered a small county.A large county can only be called a large county if it has at least twenty counties.

Under the system of prefectures and counties, a county is composed of several townships, a township is composed of several li, and a li is divided into several pavilions.

Although it has been destroyed for a long time since the pre-Qin period, the system of prefectures and counties adopted since the pre-Qin period has really not changed much.In addition, the system of prefectures and counties did not exist in the period of the first emperor. It was a product of Shang Yang's reform, which mainly robbed land and resources from the public (royal family) and nobles.

The population of the Han Dynasty is not large, and counties are divided according to the population of at least 28 in small counties and more than [-] in large counties, and then look at the territory according to the actual terrain, such as the most basic grain output and mountain resources. There are [-] counties, four of which have a population of more than [-].

28 counties need at least 28 county magistrates, accompanied by 28 county magistrates, and there are six Cao Caos under them, which are Bing Cao, Xing Cao, Gong Cao, Li Cao, Hu Cao, and Li Cao. degree of support".

Duzhi is actually an official position of statistics and branching, which is a product of the Cao Wei period.

Except for the pre-Qin management who went down to the township, the rest of the dynasties basically reached the county level, and there was a vacuum down there, but Liu Yan obviously didn't want any vacuum to exist.Therefore, in addition to those officials and officials in the county, there must be any township chiefs, village chiefs, and pavilion chiefs, and there are supporting husbands and tours. How many qualified administrative personnel are needed to fill them in? (The Qiang husband is in charge of the administration of a township, and also collects taxes, travels to pay and catch thieves, and maintains order.)
It is not a simple matter not to want "power not transferred to the county" to happen, especially as the more territory there is, the more officials are needed.But isn't it possible to change the angle, during the pioneering period, there were many retired soldiers due to injuries, and those posts in the countryside were used to accommodate them?
"This is a strategy to stabilize the morale of the army, and it will surely make the soldiers die." Sang Yu's eyes were wide open. During the war, nothing is more important than buying the morale of the army.

It's still an old problem, Liu Yan likes to climb high, and he will gain experience after being blown by the wind a lot. He can pull up the cloth wall or put a screen in the direction of the wind, so as not to hinder the viewing of the scenery in other directions.

Xiami is still being built as an extremely important town. In addition to the fortifications, there will be a lot of troops as a command hub, which leads to the fact that the surrounding area is full of camps.

The number of troops gathered here was [-], and bursts of slogans came from some playgrounds, that is, the troops were conducting drills.

In the period of cold weapons, too much attention was paid to the military formation than to the individual martial skills of the soldiers. That was because collective cooperation on the battlefield was more important than individual martial skills.Unless one's personal strength is high enough, one's fists are often outmatched by four hands on the battlefield. The battlefield is a crowded state, and there is not much room for masters to display their skills.

The battlefield is head-to-head, and which side has the stronger will to fight, then you need to use more methods to improve morale on the basis of clear rewards and punishments.

What they were talking about was how to further make the soldiers have a sense of war. The treatment they should have before has been determined.

In the past, some people thought that Liu Yan treated the military too generously, which would lead to the appearance of veteran soldiers, but after the new round of recruitment was announced, seeing the high morale of the troops coming from the rear and their eagerness to fight, obviously the worrying things did not appear. .

"We have a twentieth-class noble system, measures to treat the wounded and patients kindly, and arrangements for the aftermath." Sang Yu admired this whole system very much: "The morale of the soldiers is not a problem, and we also have no shortage of supplies. Can we It’s a matter of strategy to tide over difficulties.”

Knowing that a war would break out, the Han Dynasty paid a lot of attention to the several states around Qingzhou.The gathering of manpower is already in full swing.

In fact, Shijie Zhao State is a deformed country, where wars and chaos have caused the farming system to collapse long ago.

How can farmers farm without a safe environment?Sowing hard in spring, the sowers don't know if they can live to harvest in autumn.

Shi Hu didn't know what it meant, but he was so crazy that he didn't care about the production system. Autumn was the busiest season, but he dared to conscript before the autumn harvest was completed, and he didn't even care that some nomadic tribes needed a lot of manpower to fatten up their livestock in autumn.

Shijie Zhao Guo's madness played a certain role. As the small~chao~ting of the Eastern Jin Dynasty who was told to go to war, he was a little panicked, and he recruited a large number of civilians before the autumn harvest was completed. , How short of labor force should there be in the south of the Yangtze River this year.

The other country that was affected was naturally Murong Yan State. They were still playing happily with the Fuyu people in the forested area, but when the news of Shijie Zhao State arrived, Murong Hao dared to procrastinate and leave some troops behind Continuing to entangle with the Fuyu people, the large troops retreated to a certain extent, and after a short rest, the troops pointed at Yuwen Xianbei.

In the face of Shihu's madness, who dares to take it lightly?At the same time, of course, the Han tribe was also affected.

"Feiyan has already started to march into Yanzhou, and encountered stubborn resistance at the beginning. Now she is blocked in Fenggao." Sang Yu said this is a key issue, which proves that Shijie Zhao Guo has already reacted.He said: "The leader of the Zhao army in Yanzhou is named Deng Heng, and he is a mighty general."

Deng Heng is the general who conquered the east of Zhao State in Shijie, and his rank is really very high.

The intelligence system of the Han Ministry also spied on the news about the direction of Jizhou. Sun Fudu had already arrived in Xipingchang, and as soon as he arrived, he built camps and gathered troops from all over southern Jizhou.

Sun Fudu was General Longxiang of the Shijie State of Zhao. According to the division of the Eastern Jin Xiao~chao~ting, he was a third-rank military general.

Another piece of news is that General Wang Luan of the Left Guard was appointed as the chief general in the direction of Xuzhou, which means that Guo Xiang, the governor of Xuzhou, was deprived of his military power, and the system at the center of Xiangguo should have the final say in Xuzhou.

Looking at the movement around Qingzhou, no matter how you look at it, they are adopting a siege posture, and their rank is still extremely high. It is absolutely impossible to say that Shi Hu has no intention of attacking the Han.

Liu Yan has lost contact with Zhang Shi who is in Xiangguo. He checked the map in his mind and found that the "green dot" in Xiangguo has been staying in one place for a long time. He guessed that Zhang Shi and others should be hiding up?
Everything can explain the problem, especially that Zhang Li has become a little talkative for a while, and he is no longer as arrogant as before, so Liu Yan has to be alerted.

"After the autumn harvest, there will be a big battle." Ji Chang squinted his eyes slightly, and said, "Zhou insists that we should take the initiative to attack before then."

"The medicinal materials are still being collected, but it is really time to take the initiative." Sang Yu said a little fanatically: "We didn't have iron cavalry before, but now we have thousands of iron cavalry, and there are almost the same number of light cavalry. The disadvantage in field battles is no longer a problem. question."

In many wars, the logistics materials are not simply food, fodder or ordnance, the proportion of medicinal materials is also very important.

Many people may not know that disease is the biggest cause of casualties in the army. In every war of tens of thousands of people, only about 10% actually die on the battlefield, but disease can often take away [-]% or even More lives were lost, and it would be even worse if a disease broke out.

It is by no means alarmist. For example, last time Yao Jing only lost 2 people in the epidemic, which was handled properly. The outbreak of contagious influenza often wiped out the entire army, and even spread to other places, forming the kind of looting at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty. A plague of millions of lives.

So speaking of it, Yao Jing's brutal treatment of those who are sick may be a kind of kindness to others in some respects?
To put it bluntly, there is no shortage of horses in the Central Plains today, but the number of horses in the south of the Yangtze River is scarce, but there is at least one iron cavalry with nearly [-] people in the small~chao~court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty?
The war horses in Liu Yan's hands are not surplus, but the hundreds of thousands of horses including the war horses can be obtained. This time the army has been rectified and some cavalry units have been added, and the number of non-systematic cavalry has been increased to [-]. There are tens of thousands of auxiliary riders, and the cavalry is fifteen thousand.

"The mobility of the cavalry is relatively speaking, and it is most appropriate to advance on foot and cavalry." Ji Chang is not trying to save Sang Yu's face, he has a specialization in art, and it is clear that Sang Yu's understanding of the cavalry is biased: "There is no infantry from the side Help, the cavalry will be very troublesome to feed the fodder."

Sang Yu really showed a dazed expression: "Really? But Huren..."

"Hu people are all light cavalry, and the war horses are pony horses (Mongolian horses). This kind of war horses are not delicate. Our mounts... pony horses are used to carry loads." Ji Chang showed a proud expression: " Otherwise, how can you become a cavalry?"

In fact, there are not many iron cavalry in the Han Dynasty. How can cavalry without a vest be counted as an iron cavalry?The number of real armored cavalry is only [-], that is, the group of tiger and cardinal troops trained by Ran Min's command.

No one talked about the nonsense that dispatching an attack would provoke Shijie and Zhao Guo to attack aggressively. Looking at Shihu's transfer of generals, they all put on a high-pressure encirclement of Qingzhou, just go straight to it.

(End of this chapter)