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

Chapter 491 Leading the way, new ideas
In the twelfth lunar month of the first year of Ding'an, Yuan Tan's life can be said to be extremely comfortable.

Since Runan is conquered, the way for soldiers to enter Xuchang can be said to be flat, without any obstacles. This is the first, and the second is due to the wooden furniture such as the grand master's chair that he has been thinking about these days. Xuzhou has opened up a market.

Xuzhou is now, after more than a year of rest and recuperation, all production work has been on the right track, and it is no longer like before, using work for relief, as long as it is given food, everything is easy to say.

When the common people had surplus food, they began to want to wear good clothes and live in good houses, and these could not be solved by simple food.

However, the severe drought in the Central Plains during the Jian'an period has not dissipated the psychological shadow on the people, so the people will not immediately transition from bartering to money bartering.

But as a ruler, we must take precautions. Although Xuzhou has attracted many merchants through the various preferential policies promoted by Yuan Tan, even with the influence of the Second Central Plains War that ended in Yuan Tan's victory, Xuzhou gradually It has the momentum to become the hub of merchants in the Central Plains.

But just by collecting the taxes generated from various transactions and being a middleman, the money that can be earned is far less than Yuan Tan's expenses.

If you want to stimulate the development of technology, you must invest as much money as mountains and seas. Not only do you need to use money to stimulate the craftsmen to work hard on research and development, but at the same time, the huge amount of materials consumed by repeated experiments also require a large amount of money. able to support.

Although Xuzhou has a lot of grain and fodder in stock, 1000 to 400 million shi, even if the first taxation next year is deducted, there will still be a balance of about [-] million shi.

But the 400 million shi of grain and fodder will be used to support the Sili war next year. Once the 20 new troops step on the battlefield, plus Yuan Tan's own Futu personal guards, the grain and fodder expenditure in January will be around [-] shi .

This is just a calculation on paper. In order to be safe, all kinds of extreme situations have to be taken into account. The 400 million stones, grain and fodder can last for more than half a year at most.

And to capture Sili, even if Yuan Tan was optimistic, he didn't think that Cao Cao could be wiped out within half a year.

This is not the previous war in the Central Plains. Cao Cao has a way out and a basic base. Even if he loses Yanzhou, he still has Xuzhou, Qingzhou, Yuzhou, and Sili. Even if he loses Xuzhou and Qingzhou, he still has Yuzhou and Sili.

As long as there is a way to retreat, Cao Cao will not be willing to fight head-on with himself, consuming his precious mobile power in unnecessary battles again and again.

But things are different now.

Although the world is big, Cao Cao has nowhere to retreat. If he retreats further, he will be Chang'an, but Chang'an is also a part of Sili. How could Yuan Tan let it go?

Behind Chang'an is Xichuan, and to the north is Yongzhou. The only supply channels that Chang'an can rely on are Luoyang and Xuchang.

To put it simply, Cao Cao is still able to support his power now, relying on the circulation of supplies between Chang'an-Hongnong-Luoyang-Xuchang-Chenliu, these five counties.

Commodities from Chang'an can be shipped to Luoyang, Xuchang, Chenliu and other places for sale, and they can also be exchanged for high prices. This is a very stable internal circulation structure.

But once this structure is broken, it doesn't take much, even if the two counties of Xuchang and Chenliu are taken away, the internal cycle that Cao Cao has been struggling to support will completely collapse.

Therefore, Cao Cao will definitely guard Chenliu and Xuchang, not to mention, after losing the tiger and leopard cavalry, Yuan Tan can guess without sending spies to inquire about the news.

Cao Cao must be frantically building defense lines. Just thinking about the fortified camps that Cao Cao built at the Yellow River ferry before, Yuan Tan feels a headache.

The last time I was able to successfully break through the Yellow River defense line and attack Xuzhou, it was due to the help of the weather. The severe drought in the Central Plains plunged the entire Xuzhou and even Qingzhou into a state of chaos and disorder. .

This allowed Yuan Tan to successfully break through the Yellow River ferry and sneak into the heart of Xuzhou.

Secondly, it was Cao Cao's own mistake. He let Che Zhou and Yu Jin guard Xuzhou together, and repeatedly urged him to save troops, forcing Yu Jin to go out of the city to "loot" everywhere, leaving Xuzhou's defense extremely empty. .

Under the combined influence of all these factors, he had his own brilliant record of surprise attack on Xuzhou.

But now, Xuchang and Chenliu are on the front line. First, the distance between the two counties is not far away. Second, the counties in front of the two counties have been reinforced by Cao Cao several times during the Jian'an period. .

Cao Cao even suffered from "surprise PTSD" and built Xuchang City like an iron barrel.

Even if Chen Liu guarded by Xiahoudun is not as good as Xu Chang, he is probably not far behind. If he wants to win by surprise attack, it can only be a daydream, and he must be prepared for a bloody battle to attack the city.

As a result, the pension for the new army needs to be put on the agenda. With the military pension system in place, the death of a soldier in battle will cost Yuan Tan a lot of blood.

Gao Lan from the Ministry of War has already done a calculation for Yuan Tan. According to the provisions of the military merit pension system, almost everyone in the new army has at least three levels of meritorious service, and many even have five or six levels. According to this standard Go to pension.

Even if a soldier dies in battle, Yuan Tan will have to spend at least [-] yuan to be able to pay the soldier's death pension, and even tens of thousands of yuan will be needed to survive.

But although Yuan Tan felt distressed about spending this money, he spent it without hesitation. First of all, every New Army soldier was made by him with money. Such soldiers who died on the battlefield should have deserved it. Honor, both, are the combat strength of his new army under Yuan Tan. A large part of it is maintained by the military merit pension system.

Don't say [-] yuan, even [-] yuan, this money will still need to be spent.

Yuan Tan is now busy with raising money.

Xuzhou currently has 1000 to [-] million shi of grain stored in the government treasury. If it is really sold, even in Jiangdong, which is rich in food, it can be exchanged for hundreds of millions of dollars, but the grain stored must not be used.

Therefore, Yuan Tan had no choice but to think of another way. Xuzhou's business tax was not raised, largely because Xuzhou did not have a commodity that could be exported on a large scale.

I won't mention Xuzhou Kai. Exporting too much of this stuff is purely an expedient measure. Exporting too much is purely to cause trouble for oneself, but exporting it to Hebei is a good idea.

The problem is that the cheap father can't open his mouth, and in the end, he might be accepted by the cheap father. There is no money for the goods, just a light edict to add an official to himself One wave and it's over.

Speaking of being promoted to the rank, Yuan Tan resigned from the official position of General Wei before. After Chen Zhen went back, he didn’t know how he told Dad Cheap, and he actually got Dad Cheap to agree with his idea. In the end, his current status It can be regarded as a step up from General Zhengdong, and he did not directly become the General of the Guard, but became the leader of the Central Army, which is the so-called "leading general".

The status of this general may sound very imposing, but in fact he is very powerful. In a word, this is the greatest official position that generals who are fighting abroad can receive.

Before the decline of the Han Dynasty, the leader of the Central Army had always been the number one general of the central government, whether it was a chariot general or a general, it was just an honorary title and could not hold much military power. At most, he was in charge of guarding the palace. of the Guards.

However, the leader of the Central Committee is directly in charge of all the troops in the vicinity of Sili Jinchen. When he has the most in his hands, he directly controls hundreds of thousands of troops. He has the power to control generals from all directions, which shows how powerful he is.

(End of this chapter)