Chapter 336 Yuan Shao: Three hundred thousand troops? If it's not enough, continue to expand the army!
“Oh, you said this warship was converted into a fishing boat.” Liu Bei, who was sitting on the edge of the living water tank, patted the fishing net nailed to it, “This is Zichuan sailing on the sea. Suddenly I thought of a way to add meat to people's tables."
"The sea is extremely rich in various fish resources," Chen Xi sighed from the side.
Even ocean fishing in later generations can develop to that extent, let alone this era when there is no ocean fishing industry at all.
“But compared to the meat produced by chickens and ducks, fish meat is less durable for storage, right?” Zhao Yun certainly knows that the fish resources in the ocean are extremely abundant, but fish meat is also the least durable for storage. one of the meats.
"We can open a salted fish production factory in Donglai, which can just consume a wave of sea salt that we are about to burst out of." Chen Xi said with a smile. Chen Xi is a professional in logistics and production.
"Salted fish?" Zhao Yun was stunned for a moment, "But, can the people afford salted fish?" Zhao Yun is not worried about whether Chen Xi's salted fish production factory can be opened. There is no Chen Xi in this world The venue cannot be opened unless Chen Xi doesn't want to open it.
Furthermore, as mentioned just now, if you open a salted fish factory, you can add a meat dish to the people's dining table, and you can also consume their already almost exhausted sea salt.
However, Zhao Yun is not worried about these. What he is worried about is whether the people can afford it.
Salted fish, although not an expensive item in this era, is not something that ordinary people can buy at will.
[Xuanyu Taishou] is a story about salted fish, and the protagonist Yang Xu has only passed away two or three years ago.
Salted fish that can be used by people below to bribe the Nanyang Prefect, even if its value is not very high, is not very low either.
In Zhao Yun's impression, salted fish is still at a point where ordinary people cannot afford it.
Hearing Zhao Yun's question, Chen Xi was stunned for a moment before realizing what Zhao Yun was worried about.
“Don’t worry, ordinary people can definitely afford finished salted fish.
After all, the sea salt used to pickle salted fish is produced by ourselves, and the maximum cost is almost zero. "Chen Xi didn't mention the salted fish used for pickling. After all, if you go around the sea, there are at least a dozen tons of salted fish.
"Forget it, if you don't believe it, then the salted fish factory will be built. Then you will know if what I said is true. "
Chen Xi saw that Zhao Yun and Li Youfazheng still looked a little unconvinced, so he simply waved his hand and let time prove that he was right.
Zhao Yun and others did not continue to dwell on it. After all, it was They have no intention of blocking the project that Chen Xi takes the initiative to promote.
"By the way, Zichuan, you called me on board, do you have something to say? "Zhao Yun asked about another thing. He didn't really come to the boat to eat fish.
"If I have nothing to do, I can't ask you to come over for a meal?" Liu Bei teased from the side.
"Uh..." Zhao Yun's expression was awkward. He really didn't expect Liu Bei to ask him to get on the boat. Is it really just to have a good time?
"Look, I personally caught this from the sea. Zichuan said that this kind of fish is very delicious." Liu Bei pointed at the blue flag tuna floating up and down in the living water tank.
"A living big fish with inner energy separated from the body?" Zhao Yun looked in the direction pointed by Liu Bei's finger, and then realized that it was a big fish with inner energy separated from the body.
However, it has been sealed now, and it is just a fish waiting to be slaughtered with the quality of internal energy leaving the body.
Hearing Zhao Yun's exclamation, Li Youfazheng looked at where Liu Bei was pointing, and sure enough he found a big fish that looked a little abnormal.
"Yes, I caught this." Liu Bei said with great pride.
Although he struggled with this big fish whose internal air was separated from his body for a long time, even his fishing line and fishing rod were taken away by this fish.
But who is Liu Bei? He has retained the strength of his inner energy and refined his inner energy to leave the body, so Liu Bei went directly to the sea to catch fish.
“Come, try the big fish I caught with internal energy separated from the body.” Liu Bei was very excited and reached out to fish out the big fish in the living water tank. He said hello to everyone. Of course, we want to share it together at this time. That's the most delicious thing.
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"Xuan Degong has already returned from Jiangdong, but Jizhou is not ready yet?" Yang Ji looked at the information in his hand and said with considerable resentment.
"After all, the Black Mountain Army occupies many valleys in the southern section of Taihang Mountain. Even if Yuan Shao of Jizhou wants to attack, it will take a long time to prepare." Xu Shu said beside him.
"What are the preparations for this? Let me see. I can directly mobilize and come up first to wash the ground with a wave of clouds and arrows. I don't believe that the Black Mountain Army will not collapse." Yang Ji said disdainfully.
That guy Yuan Shao is afraid that after he transfers Ju Yi and Xian Deng, Gongsun Zan will lead Baima Yi to kill them. After all, apart from Xian Deng and the Euphorbia Soldiers, there is no legion in Jizhou that can stop the White Horse Yi Cong.
"I guess they are following the example of how we surrendered the Qingzhou Yellow Turbans and surrendered the Black Mountain Army entrenched in the southern section of Taihang.
After all, the Black Mountain Army entrenched here exceeds one million people, and is even larger than the original Qingzhou Yellow Turbans. Huge.
Furthermore, Yuan Benchu should have taken a liking to the dozens of Qi Chenggang generals in the Black Mountain Army.
The pressure we and Gongsun Bogui put on him was too great. Even Yuan Benchu, who cares about family background, has to use military commanders from lower-class backgrounds." Xu Shu shook his head and said.
In addition to the millions of ordinary Montenegrin troops who can supplement the population of Jizhou and the number of soldiers in the army, those Yellow Turban Qushuai are also very good grassroots generals.
After all, as long as the grassroots generals can fight, it's enough, not to mention that most of the Yellow Turban Qushuai who have survived to this day have some commanding ability.
Although the families of Jizhou and Yuan Shao are very strong, the number of middle and low-level generals should be among the best among the Han princes.
However, when Jizhou was about to face Liu Bei and Gongsun Zan's outflanking from the north and south, Yuan Shao had to turn on the explosive mode.
Based on the ancient mobilization rate of 3% to 5%, Jizhou, with a population of about 5.7 million, can only mobilize 300,000 troops at most. Any more than that will trigger an attack in Jizhou There was turmoil.
An army of 300,000 people would be more than enough to face only one Gongsun Zan. After all, Jizhou can only produce 300,000 troops, and Youzhou has even less.
Of course, if there is a certain risk of local unrest, Jizhou's strength can still lead to an army of hundreds or tens of thousands more.
However, Yuan Shao faced not only Gongsun Zan, but also Liu Bei, who was more powerful than Gongsun Zan.
The strength under Liu Bei's rule, no matter in every aspect, is much stronger than Gongsun Zan, and even much stronger than Yuan Shao. Although according to Yuan Shao's advisers, Liu Bei is unlikely to send troops on a large scale to cooperate with Gongsun Zan.
Because the main tone has been set in recent years under Liu Bei's rule, developing people's livelihood has a higher priority than sending troops to Jizhou.
Even if Fenggao wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to send troops to Jizhou to weaken Yuan Shao's strength, they would at most send a partial army to assist Gongsun Zan's army.
Jizhou, which has a strong HP, is different from Cao Cao's Yanzhou before. It will not be defeated after one or two failures.
Under the premise that there is no way to quickly defeat Yuan Shao's forces in a short period of time, even if Liu Bei wants to send troops, he has to carefully consider whether it is worth it.
On the contrary, Gongsun Zan, although he had Liu Bei's blood transfusion support behind him, even Liu Bei, who had many soldiers and generals, would not send his own troops to support Gongsun Zan's battlefield.
If the troops under Liu Bei's account enter the battlefield, they will definitely choose to open the battlefield alone. This is the pride of being a prince.
Gongsun Zan can accept Liu Bei's material support, but it does not mean that Gongsun Zan can accept Liu Bei's military support. That is a distrust of his military strength.
The counselors under Yuan Shao's account are almost certain that during the battle between Yuan Shao and Gongsun Zan, Liu Bei will definitely find an opportunity to raid the territory under Yuan Shao's rule.
This also determines that when Yuan Shao is fighting Gongsun Zan, he has to guard against a surprise attack from Liu Bei.
With an army of three hundred thousand, Yuan Shao seemed to be able to easily win the victory between him and Gongsun Zan.
However, if Liu Bei sends a partial army to raid Jizhou, the 300,000 troops will not be enough.
What's more, the main theme of Fenggao is to develop people's livelihood, and the news also shows that the territories under Liu Bei's rule, except Xuzhou, have indeed entered a period of major construction.
However, Yuan Shao did not dare to bet that Liu Bei would not send troops on a large scale. Even Chen Xi and Liu Bei were not sure about this.
If there is a flaw in Yuan Shao's side, do you think Yang Ji stationed in Licheng will send troops immediately?
Not only would Yang Ji immediately mobilize his army to send troops to Jizhou, he would even mobilize Guan Yu's troops stationed on the front line of Yanzhou to directly raid Yecheng. After all, Chenliu, where Guan Yu was stationed, was not far from Yecheng.
When he thought that Yang Ji and Guan Yu were likely to divide into two groups and lead an army of more than 50,000 troops to Yecheng, Yuan Shao felt wind on his neck and had to touch his neck from time to time. Are you still there?
Although Yang Ji would not necessarily choose to attack Yecheng directly, he would choose to directly insert into the battlefield and disrupt Yuan Shaojun's battle line formation.
Yang Ji can do it. As early as at Jieqiao, Yuan Shao had seen Yang Ji's ability to break through the front line and capture fighter planes.
"The 300,000 troops that have recently emerged in Jizhou cannot completely prevent us and Gongsun Bogui from outflanking us from the north and the south." Yang Ji shook his head.
With Xu Shu sorting out relevant information beside him, Yang Ji finally knew why Yuan Shao in Jizhou had been preparing for so long.
“Three hundred thousand?” Xu Shu’s brows jumped as he listened to the number reported by Yang Ji, “Has Jizhou already formed an army of three hundred thousand?”
You must know that the troops under Liu Bei's account were only a regular army of just over 300,000, but Yuan Shao turned around and pulled out an army of 300,000. It can only be said that the combination of Yuan Shao and Jizhou is indeed a wealthy family.
“Oh, I calculated this number, and I don’t know whether it is accurate or not.
But since Yuan Shao has the idea of a million Yellow Turbans in Montenegro, Jizhou must be able to The mobilization of troops has already reached its maximum." Yang Ji thought for a while and explained to Xu Shu.
“How did you calculate this number?” Xu Shu asked Yang Ji. He was still curious about how Yang Ji estimated the total number of troops that could be mobilized in a region without specific information. .
“Generally speaking, based on the productivity estimates of this era, the mobilization rate in a region is about three to five percent.”
In fact, Yang Ji himself didn't know very well what this mobilization rate was, and he was just using it as a doctrine. As to how to calculate it specifically, in this era, Chen Xi probably only knows how to calculate it.
“Three to five percent?” Xu Shu made a rough estimate based on the known information. “Three hundred thousand troops should be the largest number that can be mobilized without causing unrest in Jizhou. Have you got enough troops?”
“You can just use this number as a reference, because I don’t know whether this number is purely military mobilization, or whether it includes businessmen, craftsmen, officials and a series of unemployed people who are not engaged in production. It's included," Yang Ji spread his hands to Xu Shu and said.
"Or you can go to Chen Zichuan. He should have specific data and calculation formulas." Yang Ji saw that Xu Shu was very interested in this and recommended someone to him who knew about it.
"Zichuan? If I have a chance, I will go to him to ask about the specific situation." Xu Shu nodded and said that he would go to Chen Xi to ask for relevant data.
"Now that the situation in Jizhou has been roughly determined, what are you going to do next?" After putting aside the matter of the unemployed, Xu Shu asked again how to plan for Jizhou next.
After all, whatever Yuan Shao wants to do, as long as it does not affect the people of Jizhou, it is necessary for them to disrupt it and make Yuan Shao's plan abort.
Yang Ji thought for a while and said: "Under the pressure of Yuan Shao's army, that guy Zhang Yan should become the commander of the Black Mountain Army."
"Zhang Yan?" Xu Shu frowned. Frowning, he rummaged through the information in his mind.
“Although the Black Mountain Army in the Taihang Mountains appears to be a whole, it is divided into more than twenty hills.
Even if Zhang Yan's ability to command troops is great, Zhang Yan alone cannot unify the Black Mountain Army into a whole similar to the Qingzhou Yellow Turban. "Xu Shu shook his head and said.
"Don't ignore the premise of my judgment just now. Yuan Shao's army cannot be stopped by a scattered Black Mountain army. "Yang Ji reminded Xu Shu not to forget Yuan Shaojun outside the Taihang Mountains.
Xu Shu pondered for a while and said: "If there is a threat from Yuan Shaojun outside, the Black Mountain Army can be unified under Zhang Yan. "
"However, will Yuan Benchu really let the Montenegrin army unite against them?
You know, Yuan Benchu’s goal is the Yellow Turban soldiers of the Black Mountain Army and Commander Qu. "Xu Shu also had his own reasons for not taking into account the pressure Yuan Shaojun brought to the Black Mountain Army.
"Oh, you are underestimating the bond between Huang Jinqushuai." Yang Ji shook his head.
"Moreover, Yuan Zhi, have you forgotten why those Yellow Turban soldiers followed Zhang Jiao in the uprising?"
(End of this chapter)