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

Chapter 266 What Stimulated You?
a few days later.

Xuzhou ruled Xiaguangling, Langya, Pengcheng, Xiapi, Donghai, and the gates of 61 cities in five counties.

Following Qihou's order, the cavalry of the juvenile battalion split up and posted notices all over the gates of the city.

"Today, there is an order from the Marquis of Qi...all the feces of the people in Xuzhou will be collected in one place, and a composting place will be built outside the cities of the counties?"

There are literate people specially hired by Yuan Tan to explain to the common people word by word in front of the city gate.

The common people were dumbfounded.

The occupation of Ye Xianglang was not until the Southern Song Dynasty, with the gradual promotion of composting, and the effect of the fertilizer produced by composting on soil fertility was widely recognized by the world.

Only gradually rose up.

In the current Eastern Han Dynasty, there are similar professions like Ye Xianglang.

But that's really just a coolie, responsible for dumping feces.

Moreover, there is no special composting site for the feces after collection, and they are all dumped in some remote areas outside the city.

Although it has greatly damaged the environment around the county, after all, people in the world today have little awareness of this kind of thing.

So when Yuan Tan ordered to collect these raw materials for composting.

Not to mention the people of Xuzhou, even Zhuge Jin, Chen Deng, Gao Lan and a group of Yuan Tan's confidants were all in a daze.

"Your Majesty, was this stimulated by something?"

These days, Jiang Qi is urging the craftsman camp to be responsible for casting Quyuanli, and he has no time to go to the prefect's mansion to attend the meeting.

When I received this news at this moment, I was really puzzled.

The four generals Gao Lan, Zhao Yun, and Pang De Huang Zhong were all helpless.

As for Zhuge Jin and Chen Deng, let alone Zhuge Jin and Chen Deng, the two were appointed by Yuan Tan as directly subordinate officials to oversee the construction of compost disposal offices in various counties.

One is responsible for Guangling, Pengcheng and Xuzhou cities.

One is in charge of the three counties of Donghai, Langya and Xiapi.

Now it's a terrible headache.

It's not that it's so difficult to deal with composting, the main thing is that this task is too weird to mention.

It's not good to spread the word.

A dignified Xuzhou celebrity, the head of the Chen family and the eldest son of the Zhuge family.

As a result, when we arrived at Qihou's tent, the first major task we received was to collect night incense?

This is to be hung on the pillar of shame.

Unexpectedly, Yuan Tan didn't know what kind of ecstasy drug he had drunk, so he was determined to promote this matter.

Zhuge Jin and Chen Deng are both the king's salary, and they share the worries for the king.

Although they had not been under Yuan Tan's tent for a long time, their character as scholars did not allow them to resign just because of this matter.

So I can only bite the bullet and go on top.

The purpose of meeting Gao Lan and the others this time is to ask for a batch of surrendered soldiers from several of their generals.

Construction of a compost processing station, including subsequent composting work according to the plan given by Yuan Tan.

People in Xuzhou who have some land or can survive do not want to do these things.

Either refugees are recruited, or they can only be recruited from exiled prisoners.

And Xuzhou has just been recovered, where did so many criminals come from?
As for the recruitment of refugees, Xuzhou is now in a state of food crisis.

It can only be said that it is barely enough to last until the autumn harvest.

Although the recruitment of refugees is not like the recruitment of soldiers, military pay is required for settlement expenses.

But at least food must be provided to attract refugees.

It's a pity that the current situation in Xuzhou does not allow these two people to raise a large amount of food to recruit refugees.

These grains were reserved by Yuan Tan for military training.

The battle with Cao Cao has come to an end for the time being, and the Xuzhou Army is now ready for the second reorganization.

At the same time, the training camps used by Yuan Tan to train surrendered troops are also undergoing a new round of expansion.

After the expansion of these training camps, the soldiers of the Xuzhou Army who officially started training will definitely increase their food consumption.

A regular soldier, even if he does not fight every month, but only low-intensity training, needs a supply of one stone of rice every month.

And once they go to battle, this consumption will directly triple.

The current garrison in Xuzhou is close to 10, including Li Dianle's troops who surrendered in the third department of the ban, and Yuan Tan after he took over as Qihou.

It was only the [-] soldiers and horses from the headquarters that were transferred from Hebei.

Plus the original [-] Xuzhou Army.

Added up, Xuzhou's military strength has reached an astonishing number of 8.

You know, the current population of 61 cities in the five counties of Xuzhou is only [-] households.

Even counting the tenant farmers hidden by big households, the number is only 17 households at most.

In other words, the current situation in Xuzhou is almost reaching the point where two households support one soldier!

Don't think that this ratio is very low!

Even in the most prosperous era of the Han Dynasty, the ratio of the standing army to the common people was no more than five households supporting one soldier!

You must know that the combat effectiveness of soldiers is closely related to the strength of the people, or to be precise, productivity.

The lower the ratio of civilians to soldiers, the weaker the soldiers will be!
Why?

Because soldiers will be killed or injured when they go to battle, the dead and injured soldiers can only be filled from the people.

In this way, the number of people is getting smaller and smaller, and the food and fodder that can be provided is getting less and less.

Naturally, the soldiers received less and less support.

This is a vicious circle. In the end, there is no need to fight at all, and the people who can no longer support themselves will rise up on their own.

Overthrow this country!

The Three Kingdoms return to Jin, the ending sounds very sad, but in fact it is a kind of necessity!
Why?

It is because of the troubled times of nearly a hundred years that the Three Kingdoms of Wei, Shu and Wu have been destroyed!

In the end, in addition to the vast territory of Wei, it was able to support a standing army by relying on the military system called Juntun but actually serfs.

Shu and Wu no longer have the strength of the people to continue to support the army to fight abroad!

Nature can only usher in death!
The reason why the Wei State was replaced by the Jin Dynasty was essentially because Cao Cao's successors were no longer able to stabilize the huge empire built on the basis of the blood and tears of the vast army.

It can only be handed over to the Sima family who has a higher prestige in the army to take over the power.

Relying on the prestige accumulated in the army, the Sima family was able to smoothly transition from the state of Wei to the state of Jin, and supported the launch of the battle to destroy Wu.

But this is only the last glory of Jin.

A dynasty, normally speaking, should be in the period of the founding of the country, with all kinds of wastes waiting to be rebuilt, and starting from the second and third emperors, with the implementation of the policy of recuperation.

It gradually prospered and finally reached its peak in the middle of the dynasty.

But the Jin Dynasty was at the apex at the beginning, followed by a downhill all the way.

It is because, although the war of exterminating Wu unified the world, it actually completely overdrawn the power of the people of Jin and even the whole world.

It is simply not possible to restore peace in 20 years.

So... the fall of the Jin Dynasty and the tragic history of the Wuhu chaos, in fact, the foreshadowing had already been laid as early as the battle to destroy Wu.

But the root cause is that the bane has already been planted as early as when the Three Kingdoms were fighting for hegemony!
(End of this chapter)