At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

The number of soldiers in the Wei army is indeed large. The garrison in Jingzhou used to be [-], and Yangzhou reached [-]. After the disarmament, there were only [-] left in Jingzhou, and only [-] left in Yangzhou. It is said that these troops were prepared for the future south to Jiaozhou.

The two states abolished [-] troops in one go, and then let them disperse to the people in Jingzhou and Yangzhou. This is probably the future model.

At that time, the [-] troops of Yizhou Chengdu Camp, the [-] troops of Hanyang Camp, the [-] troops of Yuyang Camp, and the [-] troops of Xuantu Camp may also face the situation of disarmament.

Because maintaining an army size of about 50 is indeed too expensive.

The imperial court can only support the military expenditure of 50 soldiers under full operation, not to mention the auxiliary soldiers.

Added together, the military strength of the entire Wei Empire exceeds one million, which is very stressful for the Wei Empire with a population of only 6000 million.

Guo Peng took pity on the power of the people, and considering the possibility of redundant troops in the future, he decided to streamline the troops and implement militarized training of the rural militia.

According to the exact gossip obtained by Guan Yu, Guo Peng intends to reduce the number of troops to 20 after the world is pacified.

The Wei Empire only retained 20 professional soldiers, striving to ensure their elite standards.

The remaining soldiers were all sent back to their hometowns to farm and produce, or served as village officials or militia instructors.

The most elite 20 people will be retained to become the standing army of the Wei army, and then Guo Peng may also implement a system called military service, which seems to be related to the new recruitment plan.

Coming and going will become the normal state of the army. The Wei army will have a large mobile force, but the standing army is only 20. The main force is concentrated in the Luoyang area.

For local security, the current county soldiers or the abolished soldiers will be transferred to other jobs. It is said that they will also change their names after that, such as policemen or something.

The meaning of the police is vigilance and supervision. Those who do this work are responsible for law and order, and even some criminal cases are tied to the local law.

It seems that His Majesty the Emperor wants to completely separate the army from local law and order, so that the police and the army in charge of law and order are no longer soldiers in the same sense.

Then the power of the Fa Cao will increase.

What is the reason for this?

Guan Yu is not clear about this aspect, and he doesn't need to know that much, as long as he knows the future.

Naturally, there is no need to worry about his status, but not necessarily those of his subordinates, those who followed him all the way.

There are not so many soldiers, so naturally there is no need for so many officers. When the soldiers are dismissed, the officers may also be dismissed, or may be demoted and retained. The number of officers in the army will become very limited, and the competition among them will also change. It was quite intense.

Under such a situation, what kind of changes will the Wei army face in the future?

no one knows.

"Yide, have you ever thought about what you should do after the war is over?"

"The battle is over?"

Zhang Fei looked at Guan Yu strangely: "Brother Zhong, what are you talking about? How could the war end? There are no more battles in the interior of the country, so I will go to the border. There will always be wars at the border, right? The world is so big, With so many enemies, how can there be no battles to fight?"

Guan Yu expressed helplessness to Zhang Fei's optimism.

"Don't you know about disarmament?"

"I know, so what?"

Zhang Fei shook his head: "Brother Zhong, you just think too much. There are some things that you don't need to think about at all. You don't even know who His Majesty is? If we can figure it out, then But it is really strange.

But you have to know that His Majesty will never do anything harmful to the Wei State. No matter how much you disarm the army, some elites will stay. do not worry about it. "

Guan Yu has always been envious of Zhang Fei's optimism. Guan Yu has always felt that Zhang Fei's happiness is due to his optimism.

He is very optimistic, can always find positive things, and work hard to live for them, such a person, if he is with him, he will never feel dull.

Guan Yu can hardly remember what Liu Bei looked like.

But Zhang Fei is still alive, and he is still playing with him, which is something he feels extremely grateful for.

It is a good thing for him to have Zhang Fei active in the same era as him.

In the future, the two brothers may still be able to gallop across the land of a foreign country together, and maybe continue to sweep thousands of troops.

The news that the Wei army's pursuit troops successfully caught up with the Xianbei fleeing north quickly reached the ears of Guo Peng, who was marching northward. Guo Peng was overjoyed and led his troops north to Huihe pursuit troops.

The generals of the chasing troops were very excited when they learned that the emperor had personally led troops to the north to meet them. They hurriedly rushed, and finally joined forces with the emperor in victory in mid-August.

Looking at the dejected and dejected Xianbei prisoners who were marching southward in columns, Guo Peng was in a great mood. He met Cao Chun, Cao Hong, Li Dian, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, and commended them. feats made.

"The feats you have done for me and the country of Wei will not be forgotten. Your names and achievements will always be recorded in the history books and be admired by future generations."

Guo Peng helped the five generals one by one.

They used their bravery and tenacity to achieve the greatest results for the Wei army.

This wave of extermination of Xianbei, according to preliminary statistics, has a population of 43, more than 120 million cattle and sheep, and more than [-] horses, which is equivalent to making up for all the materials and materials that Wei State spent for this Northern Expedition. , and then still have to earn.

The surplus value that the 43 population can extract for the Wei Empire alone exceeds the price that the 20 army needs to pay for this expedition.

Chapter 1113 One thousand and one hundred and twenty three

After learning the preliminary statistics of the results of this war, Guo Peng understood how those military lunatics who crazily expanded their borders were cultivated.

It's really too much money, it's a lot of money.

Destroying a powerful enemy can actually get such a rich return. Not counting the livestock, but these captured people, the value they can create can't be eaten up for at least five years.

After all, people are the most valuable spoils, and there are so many things that can be done.

As for whether he can lead the people of the Wei Empire through the Little Ice Age, Guo now has a lot of confidence.

As long as you turn into a capitalist and squeeze out the surplus value of these 43 people, it really won't be a problem to get through this little ice river.

The establishment of the Desert Animal Husbandry Economic Zone also received the initial start-up funds. Relying on these cattle, sheep and horses, the foundation of the Desert Animal Husbandry Economic Zone was pulled up, the skeleton was built, and then it was filled with flesh and blood to make it better self-development.

Foreseeing such a future, Guo Peng felt that just these Xianbei people were really enough?

Little Ice River is a long and harsh era. In order to survive in this era and feed so many people, more preparations need to be made.

We need better traffic conditions, better transportation methods, better cities to keep out the cold, and more houses to live in.

The burden on the people of Wei State is already very heavy. Major projects across the country have been launched one after another. Whether it is people's strength or finances, they are almost reaching their limits.

It is of course a good thing for Xianbei people to join at this time.

This means that the Wei government only needs to spend a small amount of money to use this huge amount of labor to do things, greatly reducing costs.

The canal project can be launched, and part of the manpower can be allocated to the four counties in Hexi to assist Cao Ren's army in building roads and open up the major transportation lines in the Western Regions as soon as possible.

These are things that Guo Peng really wants to do but doesn't have enough manpower to do them now.

In addition to these, Mr. Guo still has many, many things he wants to do. Just these 43 people are not enough.

Canals, Western Regions traffic lines, Shu roads, Jiangnan traffic lines, Liaodong traffic lines...

No matter where you need a lot of manpower.

Could it be a little more?

Where else can a little more people use it?

If you want the kind of low-cost and high-return, you can squeeze it arbitrarily, even if it causes chaos, you don’t have to worry about moral condemnation, and you can continue to use it after the suppression.

While meditating, Guo Peng heard laughter like a barbell, turned his head, and saw Nanlou who was getting close to Zhang Fei.

Nanlou seemed to say something that made Zhang Fei happy, and Zhang Fei laughed out loud like a barbell.

Mr. Guo smiled, the kind that didn't smile on the surface.

That's right, I said it a long time ago, so why did I forget it?

This wave is not 43 people, but more than one million people. Of course, not all of the manpower of more than one million are young and strong men, but other groups of people can also be used as labor to squeeze.

There is no need to talk about humanistic care for them, they are just a group of rebels anyway.

Guys labeled as rebels still want humanistic care?

What a joke.

There are more than 100 million rebels who can be used by Guo Peng to squeeze the surplus value. Presumably someone in Guo can squeeze out the future belonging to the Wei Empire from their blood and tears.

Originally, relying on the scissors difference between the natives for this kind of thing is a helpless choice.

Eating yourself will undoubtedly cause serious involution. There is a limit. If you don't want to eat others, how can you further develop and grow in this cruel world?

It's just that the world is not yet connected, and the mode of eating one's own is a common choice of all countries in the world. Until the advent of the age of great navigation, a new mode was launched.

European countries ate themselves while eating others, and ate from both ends, and developed and strengthened the bourgeoisie.

Then they came to power, and intensified the way of eating themselves while eating others.

Until the development and growth reached a certain level, the resistance of the native people became more and more intense, and this group of people slightly weakened the degree of eating themselves and increased the degree of eating others.

Later, when the times progressed and new doctrines were born and influenced an era, they quickly learned to use freedom as a cover, calling themselves a free world.

They have never given up on eating themselves, but the mode of eating themselves is more mature, looks more free, and eats better, while eating others is worse.

At the same time, when they eat others, they will also wipe the corners of their mouths and drop a little meat crumbs to the eaten groups in their own country.

So people are envious of the way they eat outsiders, but forget that they are also eating themselves.

This kind of shameless technology makes Guo always admire it.

Someone in Guo thinks it is a very regretful thing that China failed to rush into the embrace of the world in the first wave and get out of the mode of eating its own. It is very regrettable.

Rigid Confucian thinking makes it politically correct to eat oneself, and it is politically wrong to eat others, which is against the principle of benevolence and righteousness.

But there are not many people who teach the way of benevolence and righteousness, and there are many people who don't. If you don't eat it, someone will naturally eat it.

It means that ancient China blocked its own way out of involution. By the time people with lofty ideals want to change, the era is a foregone conclusion, and they can't get out, so they can only wait for the next opportunity.

So this kind of thing is really to seize the opportunity, and it is good to leave a tradition.

At least let people turn their eyes to the outside world a little bit, weaken the moral shackles brought by Confucian thinking, and form a sustainable development path.

It’s not enough to just eat yourself, you have to eat, but people outside also have to eat, you have a limit, the vast world has no limit.

So the targets of this first wave of attacks are naturally the foreign regimes around the Wei Empire.

The Southern Huns were finished, and the Qiang Hu was finished. The Wei Empire built the Shu Road by eating them, increased the population, expanded the cultivated land, and benefited a lot.

Now that the Xianbei people are finished, the Nanzhong barbarians are also in the next step to attack the target. When the time is right, who else is left besides the fat and strong Karasuma?

With a population of 60 to [-], Karasuma is quite large, and there are already some signs of Sinicization inside.

Speaking Chinese and learning Chinese characters is already a relatively popular thing among them.

What's more interesting is that Nan Lou didn't know whose advice he followed, and actually began to try out the political system of the Wei Empire in Karasuma, and even recruited some Han people from Youzhou to help him do things.

For example, the Shangshutai, the staff desk, and the Yushitai are set up, and the officials are assigned to perform their duties. The names of the officials are the same as those of the Wei State.

I also went down to learn that the Wei Empire had established eight departments, and completely copied the three-stage eight-part system in the past. A group of people started political reforms in a decent way, and set up the Karasuma Royal Court in a decent way.

There are Han people in it, and there are Han people who work in the Karasuma court, and they give them advice, and they also accept it.

It's very interesting, really interesting. When he heard the news, Guo couldn't stop laughing, and then suddenly became murderous.

Everything else is okay. It doesn’t matter if you learn some technology. The size and model of the two sides are too different. You can’t change anything if you learn some technology.

Guo Peng was not at all afraid of them learning some non-essential technologies and languages ​​of the Han people.

But if you have learned the essence, the level of the political system, and even understood the foundation and stability of the Han empire, if you try to establish the same stable political system and take a long-term development path, you will not be able to stay.

No one understands the mystery of the rise and fall of a country better than someone like Guo.

And it seems that Karasuma is following in the footsteps of Wei Empire intentionally or unintentionally, moving forward bit by bit.

chapter 1114 one thousand 120

Since ancient times, barbarians are not to be feared, and it is not worth fearing to learn a little technology.

What is frightening is the barbarians who have learned the ideas of the Han people in governing the country, and what is frightening is the transformation of the nomadic system into feudalism, thus establishing a barbarian country ruled by feudalism.

The Han people were able to establish a strong and stable political system and a relatively stable country. Such a country has a certain ability to resist risks and integrate capabilities.

A powerful nomadic country is like a rootless duckweed, wandering around and fleeing as soon as you hit it, it is very simple to prosper, and it is as simple to decline.

The national system established by the Han people is stable, able to take root in the place of construction, produce various products, invent various technologies, integrate everything in the local area, and develop into a strong comprehensive national strength.