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

Chapter 316 The Conception of Xuzhou Construction Corps
Auxiliary soldiers.

This arm is still a very important army component in the ancient wars of the princes, and even in the current war.

The work of the auxiliary soldiers is very complicated, such as repairing bridges and paving roads, transporting food and grass, filling trenches, using them as cannon fodder, and so on.

In short, there can be fewer auxiliary soldiers, but they must not be absent in a big battle.

After all, the soldiers are all elites who are used to fight for supremacy.

To give a simple example, a soldier ran for hundreds of miles and came to a resting place. At this moment, the soldier's physical strength was about to bottom out.

Where is the energy to set up camp?
At this time, it was the turn of the auxiliary soldiers to make their debut.

The army has not moved, the food and grass have gone first, the vanguard has not arrived, and the auxiliary troops have set up camp.

That's what it says.

During long-distance marches, the presence of auxiliary soldiers has to undertake quite a lot of heavy work.

Therefore, those ancient history books seemed to cost tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands of battles.

In fact, when it comes to the actual strength of the troops fighting on the battlefield, in a battle of tens of thousands, only 2 or [-] people may fight.

In a battle involving hundreds of thousands of people, the total number of regular troops that may be fighting is only 10,000+.

The remaining numbers of troops were all made up by the auxiliary soldiers.

The [-] main soldiers must be matched with at least [-] auxiliary soldiers to be able to undertake the various tasks that the army needs to handle when it marches.

However, Yuan Tan did not plan to train all the [-] Taishan troops as auxiliary soldiers.

His auxiliary soldiers are different from other places, not to mention the good treatment, and they can also guarantee daily drills, [-] auxiliary soldiers and [-] regular soldiers are enough.

He just found a glimmer of inspiration from the various tasks of the auxiliary soldiers.

The people in the late Han Dynasty often rose up, half of which was because of excessive land annexation, and the other half of the reason was because the taxes and labor borne by the people were too heavy.

Taxes took most of their rations.

And the heavy labor exhausted their precious physical strength in unnecessary labor.

To put it in modern terms, the aristocratic families in the late Han Dynasty regarded the common people as truly unworthy of human beings.

I can't wait to point to the people's heads and say, why can't you not eat but also be able to farm, and also be able to do the work assigned to you by Lao Tzu quickly and well? Are you not working hard?

At this point, if the people want to survive, the only way to go is to rebel.

But in fact, a lot of labor work is done by the people who are temporarily recruited, and it doesn't say how well it is done.

Instead, it was full of complaints.

So as early as when he was in Yecheng, Yuan Tan once thought that maybe he could learn from modern experience.

Come up with a special production and construction army.

The number of this legion does not need to be too many, it can be controlled at 10 people, and the jurisdiction of each legion is a state.

The function of this production and construction corps, on the one hand, is to help various states and counties to quickly resume production after the troubled times are over.

Production and construction projects including but not limited to reclaiming wasteland, dredging rivers, rebuilding canals, etc.

Correspondingly, the reclaimed wasteland will be rewarded to the soldiers of these legions according to the corresponding number of acres.

Take Xuzhou as an example.

After learning about the Taishan bandits, Yuan Tan set his sights on this Taishan army, which can be said to be tailor-made for his idea.

"One hundred thousand Taishan troops, after being reorganized, will undergo professional training and will be responsible for dredging rivers, reclaiming wasteland, leveling land, and corresponding urban construction."

Yuan Tan stretched out his finger, waved it in front of Zang Ba, and pointed out three fingers.

"For the purpose of raising the army, the Taishan Army will be renamed the Xuzhou Production and Construction Corps, and the food for raising the army will be collected from the reclaimed wasteland."

Yuan Tan's plan is simple.

The wasteland reclaimed by the Xuzhou Production and Construction Corps was not directly cultivated by them.

Instead, it was handed over to the refugees to cultivate, and the refugees cultivated. In the first three years, [-]% of the taxes paid were taken for the purpose of supporting the army.

In other words, the more wasteland the Xuzhou Production and Construction Corps reclaimed, the more rations they could get, and the higher the soldiers' income.

But this kind of income will definitely not last long. Among other things, when these wastelands are reclaimed, the output may not be much in the first few years.

But as the soil is gradually developed, the annual output will definitely increase. At that time, the income of the Xuzhou Production and Construction Corps will exceed that of the Xuzhou Zhengjun.

This naturally violated Yuan Tan's original intention of establishing the Xuzhou Production and Construction Corps.

It's not that he doesn't want to see the Xuzhou Production and Construction Corps.

It's that he didn't want to bring down the family, and created a more deformed monster in various states and counties out of thin air.

Not to mention anything else, an army of one hundred thousand occupies tens of thousands or even 10,000+ hectares of land and [-]% of the tax every year.

Yuan Tan may be able to suppress it when he was alive, but once Yuan Tan leaves, those military leaders who produce and build legions are born with the embryonic form of warlords!
They are even more terrifying than the princes who ruled in the late Han Dynasty.

After all, the princes at the end of the Han Dynasty started their careers, and all the soldiers had to be recruited by themselves, and the combat effectiveness of the recruited soldiers was not enough.

It takes a battle to hone before you can truly become an army.

But these military leaders have an army that has been trained all year round from the very beginning.

In other words, if this problem is not resolved, Yuan Tan knows it without even thinking about it, even if he can bring an early end to the troubled times of the Three Kingdoms at the end of Han Dynasty.

Undoubtedly, in the end, the situation of the separatist regime in the late Tang Dynasty will be moved to the end of the Han Dynasty in advance to stage it once.

Therefore, Yuan Tan added another rule to this preliminary plan.

The treatment of [-]% taxation to support the army only lasts for three years. After three years, only one cent of the tax paid each year will be allocated to support the army on these reclaimed wastelands.

As for where the remaining military pay of the production and construction corps comes from, it depends on its name.

From Yuan Tan's point of view, the current infrastructure construction in all states and counties of Dahan is quite insufficient.

The production and construction corps should first practice their hands on reclamation. After the reclamation work is completed one by one, they can try to carry out large-scale and large-scale infrastructure construction.

Whether it's a canal or some other timeless building.

All require a lot of labor to support.

The production and construction army can just meet Yuan Tan's needs.

And once the infrastructure construction of each state and county, such as Chidao, canals, etc., is completed.

At the end of the Han Dynasty, the central government had extremely weak control over the local area, and could only rely on the distressed situation of the local wealthy families, which would cease to exist.

"General Zang Ba, as well as generals Sun Guan and Wu Dun, will serve as the first general and deputy general of our Xuzhou Production and Construction Corps."

Yuan Tan looked at Zang Ba and said slowly:
"As for the rest of the refugees, after going down the mountain, Zhuge Langzhong will register, arrange manpower, re-establish household registration, and farm on the wasteland reclaimed by the Xuzhou Production and Construction Corps. With this arrangement, I don't know how many generals have ever done it. rest assured?"

(End of this chapter)