At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

He was surprised when the quartermaster reported to him that there was not enough food.

According to his calculations, he can sustain it for a longer period of time.

However, he miscalculated that the food requirements of the soldiers who performed high-intensity physical work every day exceeded his calculations.

Some soldiers are responsible for fighting, some soldiers are responsible for guarding prisoners of war, some soldiers are responsible for agricultural production, and some soldiers need to maintain daily training.

It is all high-intensity physical work, and the demand for food is very large.

Moreover, after coming here, there is not as much non-staple food supplement as in Wei country, as well as the supplement of oil and water. Eating only grain and a small amount of non-staple food is not enough to fight hunger, and it digests quickly, so it is easy to get hungry.

Therefore, the ratio of food to soldiers had to be increased.

As a result, the food storage capacity is not enough.

On this point, the planner accompanying the army reported that it was very likely that there would be insufficient food if things continued like this, but he didn't take it seriously at the time, thinking that saving some food would be enough no matter what, so this was not a problem.

On the other hand, although Guo Jun won consecutive battles, the number of soldiers who arrived here in the first wave was indeed too many. Everyone went out to reclaim the land to plant food, but it was still too late to harvest.

The idea of ​​using war to support war has not been fully realized, because those tribes don't have much food, and they can't let them eat anything by catching them and making them work.

[-] to [-] prisoners of war, with [-] to [-] mouths, have to eat, although they are only given one meal a day, that is also food expenditure.

When the food crisis broke out, Guo Jun was a little flustered, but soon, he thought of a way.

He came across the sea by boat.

The so-called relying on mountains to eat mountains, relying on water to eat water, when he was studying in Taixue and lecture halls, he often heard people around him talk about the contrast between the miserable life of the past and the superior life of the present.

He remembered how those classmates described their miserable lives at that time, such as eating tree bark and grass roots, eating everything that seemed edible, but it was still not enough, catching mice and birds, hunting desperately up the mountain, etc. .

That's a miserable.

But when it’s really time to get hungry, just let him have a full stomach first.

So Guo Jun maximized the subjective initiative of people, and tried his best to send people to catch seafood by boat, and fish, shellfish, and crabs were used as rations.

The seafood around here is quite abundant, fishing by boat by boat, and you can often catch that kind of particularly large sea fish, grilled and eaten, it is burnt, crispy, and delicious.

But, although these foods are high in protein and meet the needs of soldiers, they are also low in calories and consumed quickly. Without the aid of high-calorie food, they have to eat more, otherwise soldiers with high-intensity activities will definitely not be able to eat enough.

So we stepped up our efforts to hunt wildly.

Many soldiers feel that they have become professional fishermen.

In this way, while hunting, fishing, and eating food, Guo Jun tried his best to delay the day when the food ran out.

Guo Jun racked his brains to fill the stomachs of the soldiers. He ate one meal a day and tried his best to save rations. Looking at the dwindling food reserves, a few gray hairs appeared on his worried head.

Finally, he lasted until the arrival of a new batch of rations.

Then, the good news followed.

The climate here is relatively hot, with plenty of water vapor, which is very suitable for the growth of rice and other crops. Seeing that the planted food can also be harvested.

This wave of food crisis has finally survived.

With food in hand, don’t panic. Guo Peng has been emphasizing the grain storage and grain-based financial system. He now understands the taste of hunger very deeply.

Now, no one understands the importance of food better than him!

So Guo Jun, on the one hand, expanded the area of ​​grain production, copied the farming system to this side, and set up the farming captain to take charge of the farming business. At the same time, he sent agricultural experts from Wei Guolai to bow his head to eliminate difficulties and solve crises in agricultural production here.

After the food problem was basically stabilized, Guo Jun began to take the fortification experts around to find a suitable city address.

In fact, he has almost chosen a suitable address. What he needs now is to ask the fortification experts whether this place is suitable and whether the city can be built.

Guo Jun took the fortification expert to visit the place he chose. The fortification expert walked around, squatted down to touch the ground, took a knife to hack the ground, and then knelt down and put his ears on the ground to listen. He did a lot. Actions and behaviors that Guo Jun could not understand.

The last few people got up and discussed together for a while, and gave Guo Jun an affirmative answer.

"Young master, you can build a city here."

Guo Jun made up her mind.

Just make sure that a city can be built here. He is really worried that a city cannot be built here, and he will have to change the address in the end.

In fact, there are a lot of cultivated land around here, and there are farms he planned everywhere. Basically, he decided that a city could be built here, and then built his first city around it.

After the city is built, this will be the first city of the Xishu Principality. He will use this as his residence, live and work here, and preside over daily government affairs.

With the farms around the city, a small city-state was born.

Guo Peng told him that in the early days of the founding of the Western Zhou Dynasty, those vassal states that were enfeoffed established their own countries bit by bit in such a difficult way.

From one city to two cities, from two cities to three cities, to four cities, and finally to dozens or even hundreds of cities, a great cause of the Seven Heroes of the Warring States Period has been achieved.

When Guo Peng started his business, it was only a base of a city, and then gradually expanded his sphere of influence, gradually mastering Qingzhou and Yanzhou, and then began to establish an imperial industry.

It's all a process.

He must not worry that there are not enough cities and populations, he only needs to worry about whether his determination will not be enough.

If you don't have enough determination, you really won't be able to build a powerful Xishu Principality, huh?

Guo Jun's determination does not need to be stimulated by Guo Peng, it has already been very firm.

Here is his first city.

When his subordinates asked how the city would be named, Guo Jun looked at the vast sea and sighed.

"Let's call it Wanghai City. In the future, a county will be established here, and it will be called Wanghai County. After a county is established, it will be called Wanghai County. After all of us land, we can look at the sea and bid farewell to our hometown."

When Guo Jun thinks of his hometown, which is hard to go back to, he has all kinds of melancholy in his heart, but in the end, it can't meet the ambition of building a powerful country with his own hands.

The sentry came to report, and they walked all the way north and found a large human settlement.

There were so many people, so unusually many, that the Sentinel very much suspected that they were encountering a kingdom, rather than a simple scattered tribe.

They saw small mounds similar to cities, saw flags, saw patrolling soldiers wearing uniforms, and saw existences resembling slaves walking hard.

This is interesting.

Guo Jun immediately ordered further investigations to let the scouts learn more about this large settlement and see if they were a country or a large tribe.

To be honest, Guo Jun would not be surprised even if he met the country here.

Because the northern part of the Indian continent is ruled by the Guishuang Empire, it is not surprising that there are many small countries in the south.

Moreover, the water and soil here are rich, and it is not difficult to support people. The population carrying capacity should be high, and the population should not be low.

Guo Jun made such a judgment.

Afterwards, when more specific information was in front of him, Guo Jun was sure that what he encountered should be a country, not a tribe.

A country with a stricter ruling system.

There are cities, repaired roads, armies, prisons, slaves, etc., completely unlike the primitive tribes they encountered before.

Since it is a small country, its strength is naturally stronger than that of ordinary tribes.

They can't finish a battle, and they can continue to expand their troops and continue to resist.

Guo Jun's military power is limited, and he may not be able to replenish it in time when it is exhausted. If it is not necessary or does not have an overall advantage, he does not want to rashly use troops.

Moreover, he is still not very clear about this small country. He doesn't know how many troops this small country has and what its combat effectiveness is.

But he was very greedy for the population and residence of that small country, and felt that he would be able to plunder more and more things.

If that small country is defeated, he basically has the basic conditions to establish a country.

He can establish his own country long in advance.

So what can you do to weaken their power until you can swallow them easily?

Guo Jun walked up and down, her head kept turning, thinking back and forth, thinking left and right...

Suddenly there was an idea.

He thought of what Wang Haibo had told him before, after those barbarian tribes learned of their strong force, they did not continue to attack, but exchanged weapons with them for food and money to fight other tribes and bully the weak.

Since there are small countries here, there may be other small countries not far away, but they haven't explored them yet.

Living in the same place, it is inevitable that some disputes will break out, such as grabbing food, grabbing water, grabbing land, and so on.

For example, if there is no such thing as a three-month distance, conflicts will definitely arise. Once such conflicts arise, there must be hatred between the two parties.

Once one of the parties has mastered a powerful weapon, it is hard to say that it will not immediately launch a war of aggression to invade the enemy.

In this way, they will be able to provoke their civil war and let them consume their strength in the civil war, while Guo Jun can be a bystander, watching the situation with a smile, and when they are about to fight, go down the mountain to pick peaches, killing two birds with one stone!

Well, just do it!

Chapter 1494 One thousand four hundred and four He decided to use women to win over this group of elite warriors

After having a new idea, Guo Jun immediately summoned his officers, staff officers, and Wang Haibo to speak out.

Relying on Wang Haibo's real experience, he put forward the idea of ​​peaceful contact and selling arms.

Sell ​​these small countries a certain amount of arms through peaceful contact, arouse their ambitions, promote the outbreak of war, and thus create opportunities for them to take advantage of.

The officers and staff all felt that Guo Jun's idea was very interesting, and thought it might be a plan that could be implemented.

And Wang Haibo was even more surprised, he didn't expect Guo Jun to draw inferences from one instance and draw inferences by analogy, turning his experience into a tactic.

Money can be earned twice.

After the tactics are determined, the next step is execution.

If they want to implement it, they must first figure out what kind of small country this small country is, what the specific situation is, and is there anything they don't know.

This requires a period of contact and research, and someone needs to have a deep understanding, contact, and really watch and record.

Wang Haibo volunteered.

He said that he has experience and has dealt with local people in the past. He is willing to assume the identity of this merchant and help Guo Jun get through the whole network as a merchant.

If the other party is really a country, he is willing to try to open up a communication channel with the other party's ruler.

Guo Jun happily agreed to Wang Haibo's challenge.

He felt that Wang Haibo might want to gain his appreciation and get something from him.

For him, this is certainly something to be pleased about.

He is planning now, and after a while, he will use some method to keep the hearts of the people who are fighting here with him now.

He wanted them to be willing to stay here and continue to struggle with him, instead of being homesick and clamoring to go home.

The Wei Empire sent them out to fight the world with Guo Jun, and did not tell them to let them stay here forever and never go again, it was just a military mission, Guo Jun was clear about this.

People are nostalgic for their hometowns, so I told them at the beginning that they would not come back, or that it would be difficult to go back to their hometowns to visit relatives. In fact, it is not necessarily true that some people would be willing to take risks with Guo Jun.

It is also thanks to Wei Jun's rotation garrison system that has been implemented for many years. Everyone regards this as a rotation garrison, the kind that changes every three years, so it is acceptable, but Guo Jun doesn't want them to go back.

After thinking about it, he felt that simply giving benefits was not enough. He had to give them some special treatment that they only had here, and let them enjoy the benefits that they couldn't enjoy in the country of Wei, so as to retain people. .

Otherwise, why should people stay and work hard for you?

With that in mind, his mind opened up.

The marriage system of the Wei Empire was normal, and a strict monogamy system was implemented.

A man without certain credit and status can only marry one wife, unless the wife is barren, then at the age of 40, a man can take a concubine to continue the incense.

This regulation includes not only ordinary people, but also ordinary soldiers, lower-level officers below the military Sima, and grass-roots officials must abide by it, and cannot go beyond it.

Officials with more than [-] shi and military officers above Sima can have one wife and one concubine.

The higher the status, the more women they enjoy. If the status is not high enough, then they can only live by their wives. This is the rule.

This is the case in Wei.

But in the Principality of Xishu, Guo Jun decides everything.

He watched the strong soldiers full of anger and had nowhere to vent, and felt an opportunity.

In fact, he himself was pretty much the same, it was quite uncomfortable.

But before, there was a lot of trouble for food, and it was not so easy for everyone to eat enough, so they didn't pay much attention to the desire of the lower body.

Now that the food crisis has been resolved, and my heart has settled down, the fire of desire has also started to rise. If it weren't for the strict military regulations and discipline, it would be hard to say that the army would not make trouble.