At the end of the banquet, the atmosphere deliberately created did not face the tension of danger. Some were just a review of past victories. Except for Sima Zhen, who was too small, all the other prisoners were arranged for a performance. They could be funny and funny, or timid and didn't know what to do. They were only used to highlight the victory of the Han country.
The Central Plains Dynasty defeated the enemy and had many prisoners. Those who were dignified enough were put under house arrest. Whenever there were festivals or the king simply wanted to have fun, the prisoners would be pulled out for exhibition to show off their martial arts.
Liu Yan did it quite simply, amused himself in the shame and anger of the prisoners, and forced Li Nong, who felt that it was useless to live, to jump from the high platform.
Li Nong didn't fall to death on the high platform almost two feet high. He broke his legs and turned an arm. Some people laughed loudly. Some people who were born in the begging army couldn't bear it.
Anyway, Liu Yan's goal was achieved. He eliminated the fear of central officials facing danger and gave more confidence to some people who didn't know where to go.
Although it was a big banquet, the central senior management didn't really get drunk. Many people didn't go home after midnight. They stayed in Miyagi overnight to discuss countermeasures with Liu Yan.
Conscription has become the first thing that must be done. How to recruit, which states and counties account for the majority, where the training point is, and where the assembly point should be placed, we will soon discuss a feasible plan.
At present, there are more than 13 million people registered in the Han Dynasty. The detailed registration method to the age group can effectively calculate the number of troops. The prime minister's office and the Taiwei office verified it for a while. They were stunned by the data.
"If you really want to call up troops regardless of everything, you can call up 4.3 million people!" Xu Zheng was so frightened that his eyes were about to fall out. He said impatiently, "the prime minister will increase his strength and calculate the ultimate source of troops that can be collected within three months."
More than 13 million people can recruit 4.3 million, which has an absolute relationship with being in troubled times. In the era of war, the survival rate of young people was relatively high because of their physical quality. After a series of cruel elimination, some adapted survivors survived. Those old, weak, women and children and those with poor physical quality were killed by disease even if they were not starved to death.
Ji Chang was unwilling to attack Xu Zheng's excitement, but had to say: "with the current conditions, at most 300000 more people will be recruited, no more..."
"No food?" Xu Zheng shouted a little recklessly: "rob, rob Linyi and Funan, rob the enemy country, and then collect from the dependent country!"
"I've counted everything I can do." Ji Chang shook his head: "40000 forbidden guards, 8000 Huben troops, 20000 Yulin troops, 200000 standing troops, 400000 County soldiers, 150000 civilian men, plus 300000 new conscripts, and even civilian men who need to be added... There can be no more."
Xu Zheng was stunned. Although he was a Taiwei, because of his character, he really didn't seriously calculate the total number of military personnel, not counting the 300000 and more civilian men who had not been recruited. Suddenly he knew that there were already more than 800000 people.
"We haven't counted the adapted tuntian soldiers yet. Chen's opinion is that the old tuntian soldiers are reorganized into combat troops, and the newly recruited troops replace the tuntian soldiers while practicing and producing." Ji Chang almost faced Liu Yan with a pleading expression: "if there is no food, I'm afraid it should be a collapse."
The next war will be different from the previous one. The standing army was the main force in the previous war. Although the county soldiers were close to the battlefield, the task was not heavy, and the military affairs would consume different things. For example, swimming often must consume more than staying somewhere for a long time. It was not only the additional consumption of transportation, but also some accidental losses.
"It's already......" Ji Chang hesitated for a moment, paused and said: "it's the king who can reduce road consumption."
The current war situation is very obvious. There will be a series of wars in Guanzhong, northwest, Northern Xinjiang and Northeast China. Only 200000 standing troops are too scarce, and they need to be joined by county and county soldiers as fighting troops. That is, at least 600000 troops will be used on all fronts, and the number of people participating in the war will only increase rather than decrease in the future.
When a large number of soldiers are recruited, one more soldier is tantamount to the loss of a civilian labor force. One increase and one decrease is not as simple as one increase and one decrease. There will also be other ancillary effects, such as military equipment used to arm soldiers and pensions after death.
"Recently, some restless guys around the world jump very badly..." Xu Zheng said with a grim smile, "if they want to die, let them die."
Everyone present can understand Xu Zheng's words, and even some extra meanings are noticed. It's nothing more than staring at those at home if there's not enough. The soft ones can of course be the best, but not the hard ones directly.
"Wrong!" Sang Yu didn't want to talk. He raised his hand angrily and pointed to Xu Zheng: "Taiwei, who gave you so much courage!"
Xu Zheng squinted at sang Yu, hummed a few times and said, "can the imperial doctor think of a better way?"
"Guilt must be punished, and innocence cannot be unnecessary!" Sang Yu saluted Liu Yan directly with a loud voice: "Your Majesty, no matter how difficult it is, you can't ignore the laws of the Han Dynasty. This time you can break your family and destroy your family in the name of difficulty to obtain food and wealth. Can you find a reason to do so next time? Once a big man is such a big man, is he still a big man!?"
"Indeed." Ji Chang didn't choose to stand in line and said, "don't tease the Taiwei."
Xu Zheng smashed his lips and saw that Liu Yan was looking at himself with stern eyes, which was an embarrassing laugh.
Local tyrants can obtain a large number of materials in an instant, but they must not do it when the local tyrants do not make mistakes. That is forcing more people to rise up and fight against the flames of war, even if they do not subjugate the country in the midst of domestic and foreign troubles. Who dares to create wealth in the future? Is it to be plundered wantonly by the rulers overhead?
That is, Xu Zheng, as a representative of a military general, was only severely criticized for what he said. It would be inevitable for any executive to lose his official position, and it would not be unjust to be killed.
Liu Yan thought of some things. In history, whether in the east or the west, it is true that some rulers did wantonly plunder the rich in China. After robbing the rich, even the middle class continued to rob. As a result, people with a little property in the country scrambled to flee. Then the country perished in anger and resentment and was replaced by other rulers in a very short time.
Many countries want to unite to denounce the state of Han. Liu Yan is very clear that stability should be the main factor in this situation. If he gets angry and resentful internally, even if he has a system for internal and external attacks, this golden finger can never withstand it.
"Gentlemen." As soon as Liu Yan spoke, everyone closed their mouths and listened: "today is the time for a great man to stand tall in the world. Whether he can withstand the test and sweep across the countries smoothly after that, or whether he can hold it, so that it will become a long-term war in the future, become arrogant or fail, fall into a dilemma and even perish, depends on the discussion between Zhu Qing and me today."
Nothing else. Liu Yan just told everyone to put away those careful thoughts in his heart. When they are like this, he still wants to find embarrassment for each other. He is not so kind as not to kill acquaintances.
"Minister... Will supervise all officials, but officials who make mistakes will be severely punished by law." Sang Yu finished his duty, paused a little, and then said, "minister, on behalf of the Sang family, offered 300000 grains, fodder and stones, and all kinds of wealth and silk totaled 200000 gold. I also asked the king to allow me to move around to raise money."
"Minister, offer grain and fodder 30000 stones, and the total amount of wealth and silk is 10000 gold." Ji Chang was not ashamed or embarrassed because of the small number.
Then Xu zhengnei made similar donations. In some cases, they were basically the limit they could do.
Normally, Liu Yan should feel happy, but he raised an angry mood, not because those who donated, but simply felt that he was not strong enough.
Cui Yue, a member of the Cui family of Boling, was qualified to be present. After the donation, his face changed constantly. At the last moment, he clenched his teeth: "minister, on behalf of the Cui family of Boling, he offered 700000 grains and stones, with a total of 800000 gold."
Cui Yue hesitated because she didn't seem to be qualified to represent the whole family, but the atmosphere at the scene was like this. Could the Queen's family be quiet and shut up?
Xun Xian, as a secretary, Lang should not have taken the initiative to speak, but he opened his mouth after Cui Yue: "minister, I have something to start."
Everyone's eyes were originally on Cui Yue. When they heard Xun Xian's words, they all looked over.
With Liu Yan's permission, Xun Xian said in a very stable voice: "ministers, representing the Xun family in Yingchuan, the Chen family in Yingchuan, the Zhong family in Yingchuan, the Yang family in Taishan, the Wang family in Linchuan, the Lu family in Fanyang and the Yang family in Hongnong, offered grain and fodder in total of 3.21 million stones and 1.4 million gold."
Liu Yan was stunned by the string of what surnames. After hearing the amount, he reacted slightly. Instead of being shocked or happy because of the large number, he showed a sudden expression.
None of the surnames mentioned by Xun Xian had their own glorious past. Some of them were full of ten Millennium aristocratic families. One of them went to the south of the Yangtze River after "crossing the south in clothes".
Ji Chang looked at Xun Xian with deep meaning in his eyes. The corners of his mouth slowly hooked up and smiled a little playfully.
No one asked Xun Xian, saying which family was different. What they thought was that those families made a decision in advance, perhaps with all their strength or with room for donation. Such a move was to bet that the Han country could survive this time and pay fees for their family to set foot on the broad stage again.
When everyone was thinking, Liu Shen, who had just learned to walk, trotted and appeared. He even fell when crossing the threshold. "Wow" cried, got up and continued to walk, came to Liu Yan and rushed directly to him.
Liu Yan's appearance made everyone, including Liu Yan, look out the door. There stood Xie Daoyu. Some sharp people even found that Liu Yan was holding a rolled up note in his small hand.
The child was only crying and making trouble. No matter who taught him before, he couldn't care. After Liu Yan comforted him, he took the roll of paper and didn't look at it. He asked the palace woman to hold Liu Shen down.
"Tai'an, read it." Liu Yan said that someone would transfer the note to Ji Chang. He turned his eyes back when he saw Xie Daokai's figure disappear at the door.
Ji Chang opened the paper and read it first. There was no obvious change in the expression on his face. He said expressionless: "the Xie family of Yangxia, the Wang family of Langxie, the Huan family of Longkang, the Lu family of Wujun, the Liang family of Panyang and the Chen family of Jiangxia offered grain and fodder of 3.7 million stones and 2.3 million gold."
Yu Yi had just opened his mouth and said that Yu donated 800000 stones of grain and fodder and 270000 gold. He knew what families were on the note, including the families of Huan Wen and Xie an who were not present. Even Wang Xizhi's family was brought in, and the rest were local aristocratic families in the south.
So far, in terms of a single donation amount, Yu Yi's family has the largest amount of food and fodder, and the Cui family in Boling has the largest amount of money and wealth. In fact, we can tell from donations that families in the South really have more food, while families in the north can't feel at ease and produce less because of the repeated violence of the Hu people.
Liu Yan asked Ji Chang, "how much?"
"The total amount of grain and fodder is 10.21 million stones, and the total amount of gold is 573." Ji Chang was still the dead man's expressionless face. The next sentence came out: "the aristocratic family is indeed an aristocratic family."
"Ha ha." Liu Yan nodded: "it is indeed worthy of the name of the aristocratic family."
A word almost made some people faint. If they hadn't tried their best to control it, they should have scolded their homes for their country and were afraid of it.
"This is the aristocratic family!" Liu Yan must state his position, Otherwise, a good thing will become a bad thing: "Most aristocratic families have been handed down for hundreds of thousands of years. Surnames are not just simple surnames, but are used to pioneering and bleeding for ethnic groups as ancestors. I often think that ancient aristocratic families should be respected and naturally should enjoy dignity. If aristocratic families can emulate ancient ancestors, why should I worry? It is the luck of the country, the aristocratic family and the leader of Guizhou Lucky! "
Sang Yu almost glared at Ji Chang with his murderous eyes, and took the lead in standing up and saluting Liu Yan: "it's the blessing of the king!"
Ji Chang smiled a few times and saluted without speaking.
Xu regular is a burst of "ha ha ha" laughter, and what meat words in his mouth is also a salute.
Sangong took the lead, Jiuqing followed, and then all saluted to Liu Yan.
There are no special groups in any dynasty. The struggle in life is not only for themselves, but also for future generations. No one will refuse to enjoy prosperity and wealth. They salute because Liu Yan's attitude is not that he can't accept the existence of an aristocratic family. This is really important to too many people.
Liu Yan made it quite clear that a good family is one that benefits the country. Such an attitude will definitely lead to the next donation frenzy. After all, every family should think about whether the Han country will be accounted for if they don't donate in this wave.
In fact... Liu Yan really doesn't want to do this, and he will make compensation later.