Three Kingdoms: Stealing the Tiger Talisman and forcing Yuan Shao to become a monk

Chapter 315 The Conception of Xuzhou Construction Corps
Compared with Sun Guan, Wu Dun and Yin Li, Zang Ba has more things to consider.

The so-called want to take first must first give.

No matter whether it is Yuan Tan who is very sincere in price, no matter what the future holds, at least Cao Cao Liu Biao, who coaxed the Taishan bandits into his own command first.

It's not that Zang Ba and other Taishan generals are so talented.

Instead, they took a fancy to their prestige among the Taishan bandits.

Incorporating the generals of Mount Tai is equivalent to adding tens of thousands of people out of thin air, and tens of thousands of strong men who can be trained into an army immediately.

This is where Zang Ba and others really rely.

Correspondingly, once these people and strong men are swallowed up by the princes who want to recruit them.

Then the status of Zang Ba and other Taishan generals will become precarious, and even because of their innate prestige in the hearts of the Taishan bandits.

become a source of instability.

In the end, it was not so unexpected that there was a game of killing the donkey.

Therefore, whether it is for my own future considerations, or for those refugees who defected to me.

Zang Ba, out of emotion and reason, had to ask how Yuan Tan planned to resettle those refugees.

If it is said that those refugees are to be distributed to the aristocratic families as tenant slaves, then it goes without saying.

It is clear that it is the same way as Cao Cao, using Taishan bandits as one-time consumables.

Once these refugees are swallowed by the aristocratic family, will the generals of Mount Tai be able to live a good life?
Zang Ba knew it was nonsense even after thinking about it.

Hearing Zang Ba's inquiry, Yuan Tan was already prepared, and he didn't get too entangled at the moment. He directly drew a simple map on the ground with the branch in his hand.

"Xuzhou is now sparsely populated and the aristocratic family is withered. It is a good time for the Taishan army to turn the bandits into the people. My idea is very simple."

Yuan Tan pointed to the map under his feet and talked eloquently.

In Yuan Tan's eyes, the combat power of the one hundred thousand Mount Tai army was not too far from a joke, even if it wasn't a joke.

He is not Cao Cao, he wants to pick up any crooked melons and split dates to use.

The Xuzhou Army pays well, so the threshold for entering the Xuzhou Army is set extremely high.

As long as they can enter the ranks of the Xuzhou Army, among other things, at least the family can live comfortably in troubled times.

Even a small soldier can rely on the military merit pension system to shade his son until he grows up.

Not everyone is entitled to such treatment.

In Yuan Tan's opinion, if [-] soldiers passed the assessment, it would be considered a good result.

And those 1 people who passed the assessment were not the main army of Xuzhou, but the auxiliary soldiers of the Xuzhou army.

However, even if Yuan Tan looked down on the soldiers who grew up among these rogues, he had to admit it.

Compared with ordinary refugees, the one hundred thousand Taishan army is indeed true and has merits.

First, although they are far inferior to the Xuzhou Army, they at least have a certain degree of military discipline. As long as they are slightly modified, their discipline will be improved.

It can be used as a garrison army.

That's right, Tun Tian.

When people of later generations look at the Three Kingdoms, they always think that farming is a big killer, and the princes of all walks of life are using it.

In fact, it was not the case. It was Cao Cao who really initiated the farming, and it was only after the victory in the Battle of Guandu that farming was launched in a big way.

After Cao Cao tasted the sweetness from the farmland and completely laid the foundation for Wei's hegemony.

The rest of the princes followed suit one after another, and the strategy of garrisoning the fields officially became an important method for the princes of all walks of life to increase their food income and reduce the consumption of standing army food.

But one thing to pay attention to is that the Tuntian Army, although it can farm and fight, in fact, its combat effectiveness is not to mention compared with ordinary regular troops.

Even the combat power of the auxiliary troops is somewhat inferior.

After all, they are busy cultivating fields on weekdays, so their daily training has naturally been cut down too much.

It is quite good to be able to guarantee half a month of practice.

The fighting power is naturally not much higher.

However, Yuan Tan was not prepared to use the Mount Tai army as a regular army. He went to Mount Tai to find Zang Ba, just to find a human race for those wastelands in Xuzhou.

And there is another benefit of Tuntian.

That is, the tax ratio is much higher.

The soldiers in the army station, according to Cao Cao's operation in the official history, said that they were soldiers in the army station, but they were actually similar to serfs.

However, the serfs of the aristocratic family work for the aristocratic family.

Cao Cao's army stationed troops as serfs for him, Cao Mengde, and the subsequent heirs of the Cao family.

It's good for the army to station troops. Just leave them a little ration every year so that they don't starve to death. You don't even need to leave any food for planting.

By the beginning of next spring, the government will allocate grain to grow, which is even more ruthless than Yuan Tan's most important policy of "two people and eight publics".

Although it cannot be said that there are ten citizens and zero citizens, [-]% of the output belongs to the national treasury, and only a small amount of grain is left to ensure that the serfs, ah, no, it is the army stationed soldiers who do not starve to death.

It is enough to continue to contribute to the great Wei Gong in the coming year.

In the early years when Cao Cao was there, it was okay, at least the soldiers in the army had not reached the point where they had only rations left.

After all, Cao Cao still has great ambitions and wants to pacify the world. The soldiers in the army can not only guarantee that the food they collect can support their families while paying taxes.

You can even find time to practice martial arts.

But later, as the political environment of Wei State became worse and worse.

Especially after the death of Cao Pi, the succeeding emperors of the Cao family turned their attention from the outside to the inside, and began to intrigue with the powerful officials in the court wholeheartedly, and started a political struggle.

At this time, the grain paid by the soldiers became an important source of income for the Cao family emperors.

As for the taxes paid by the soldiers, there was no definite rules and regulations from the very beginning.

Paying more and paying less depends entirely on the will of Cao Jiazi at the time.

So in the end, the military colony has been corrupted to the point where it is even inferior to the serfs under the rule of the aristocratic family.

And in order to increase income, in the end, even [-]% of the standing army of Wei State is the existence of military garrison troops.

The fighting power is not even comparable to the auxiliary soldiers, and the living conditions are so poor that even the slaves are inferior to the army.

Occupying more than half of Wei's regular army, the combat effectiveness of Wei's army has dropped so much that you don't need to think about how huge it is.

And it is self-evident how loyal the army stationed troops who grew up in such an environment are to Wei Guo, to be precise, to the Cao family.

Therefore, although Yuan Tan is determined to farm in Xuzhou, he is not going to follow Cao Cao's example and come up with a thing full of pitfalls.

And this will involve the second saving grace of the Taishan Army.

There are hundreds of thousands of Taishan refugees, not to mention the large number of them, and the various occupations are quite diverse.

There are people who tell fortunes, people who weave mats and sell shoes, people who have been masons, and people who have been cooks.

All in all, it can be said to be 360 ​​lines, except for scholars who have read books and literate, they can basically be found among hundreds of thousands of refugees.

And with the one hundred thousand Taishan army formed from the refugees, it is a big man's career fair.

From farming to cooking, from cooking to building houses, from building houses to digging ditches, in short, only you can't think of it, and nothing you can't see.

Three teachings and nine streams are mixed, and it is really thanks to Zang Ba that he can control this army.

And such an army just satisfies some of Yuan Tan's previous ideas.

(End of this chapter)