Chapter 2305 Liu Yu''s plot, Yang Guang''s conquest to the Western Regions
Chapter 2302: Liu Yu''s plot, Yang Guang''s campaign against the Western Regions
Cao Cao actually wanted to disarmament more than Ying Hao, but he just couldn''t find a suitable opportunity, and now this opportunity has finally come.
The total population of Wei State is only three million, but the army expanded to arm the army with an army of 300,000. What a waste of money.
What does Cao Cao want to do this? Of course he didn''t want to do so, but he had no choice. In order to protect himself, he had to expand his army at the limit.
This also made the Wei State''s finances collapse very tightly, and if there is a slight mistake, it may go bankrupt directly.
Under Cao Cao''s high-pressure policy, even if the people of Wei were allocated land after land reform, their lives were still very hard. After all, the tax was high, and most of the labor income was levied by the government.
No matter how hard the people work, they can only stay to the point where they cannot starve. Over time, the people will naturally suffer.
The Wei Kingdom is now like a tight string, and it has been tensed for a long time. As long as you put in a little force, it may be broken.
Cao Cao knew very well that even people could not keep tense, let alone the country? What he has to do now is to relax this and the strings. This will not only relieve the pressure on the whole country, but also liberate the financial resources from the military.
If Cao Cao dares to do this, he will naturally have some support.
The situation in Wei State was too bad before. Once he implemented a disarmament and did not have enough troops to defend, the neighbors on all sides would rush up like hungry wolves and divide and eat Wei Gong.
But now it is different. Wei State has married the Qin Dynasty. The international environment will be relatively stable in the next few years and there will be no more large-scale wars.
This is the best time for Wei State to develop its internal affairs and strengthen its national strength. Cao Cao cannot miss it no matter what.
For Wei State, the benefits of disarmament are no less smaller than those of the Great Qin Dynasty, and are even more urgent.
After the disarmament, Wei State not only could obtain valuable development funds, but the comprehensive quality of the army would also be greatly improved.
Wei State was too poor, so poor that it was used to support the army and could not provide any development funds for development, so there was no opportunity for development without disarmament.
In addition, although Wei has a large number of troops, which are among the 300,000, in fact, except for a small number of elite troops, most of the Wei troops are not strong enough, or even weak.
From Cao Cao''s repeated attacks on Ming Dynasty and tried all his skills, but he only grabbed a county land, it can be seen that the Wei army was not strong in combat, and the main reason was that the quality of soldiers was uneven.
Disarmament, disarmament of the elderly and the weak, and retaining elites are the fastest and most obvious ways to improve the comprehensive quality and combat power of the army.
In addition, Wei State has many industries, which are still controlled by the Qin Dynasty. If it does not develop internal affairs and strengthen national strength, it will never be able to escape the control of the Qin Dynasty.
In summary, if Wei does not disarmament, it will undoubtedly die. Only by disarmament can we find a way out.
Cao Cao''s determination to disarmament this time surprised the princes such as Zhao Kuangyin and Liu Xiu, but they did not follow suit. After all, the financial situation of their country is far less than that of Wei, and they would not have fallen to the point of disarmament to liberate their financial resources.
The five major princes, Zhu Di, Zhao Kuangyin, Sun Jian, Liu Xiu and Liu Yu, were among the five major princes, such as Liu Yu, who directly dismissed 100,000 troops, and the few were like Zhu Di, who had all joined the ranks of disarmament one after another.
The four people including Zhu Di, Liu Xiu and others were all disarmament to liberate financial resources, develop their internal affairs, and accumulate national strength. However, Liu Yu''s disarmament was to suppress dissidents, and the target of suppression was naturally the Shu Wang Party headed by Chen Ping.
The domestic struggle in Shu has reached an extremely fierce level. Liu Yu has been looking for various opportunities to constantly weaken the power and influence of the Shu King Party, thereby strengthening the position of the Chengdu King''s faction in the court, so naturally he will not miss the good opportunity of disarmament.
After all, all countries are disarmament now. In order to develop, it is impossible for our Shu Kingdom to fall behind, right?
The Shu Kingdom had just repelled the invasion of the southern barbarian Chiyou, and Chiyou was unable to invade several years later.
As for the threat of the Qin Dynasty, there was the Tang Kingdom as a barrier in the north and the Chu Kingdom as a barrier in the east. It was impossible for the Qin army to attack the mainland of Shu Kingdom, not to mention that the Qin Dynasty also carried out disarmament.
In other words, in addition to internal contradictions, Shu is the most stable country among all countries, so naturally there is no need to retain so many troops.
In addition, disarmament has also many benefits for Shu Kingdom, which can not only accelerate the recovery of the trauma of Jingbei''s defeat, but also improve the combat effectiveness of the army... It can be said that it can be said that it will kill multiple goals in one fell swoop.
To sum up, Shu Kingdom also needs to disarmament, and it must be disarmament.
Liu Yu''s high-sounding words seemed to be for the good of Shu, but in fact they were for himself. After all, since he proposed disarmament, it would definitely not be detrimental to him.
Although disarmament is nationwide, both the Shu King Party and the Chengdu King Party must be disarmament, the Chengdu King Party has initially controlled the power of the government and is gradually controlling the economic lifeline of Shu.
Before the disarmament, those armies obeyed the Shu King Party. After they were summoned again, they might not be obeying the Shu King Party''s orders.
For the Shu King Party headed by Chen Ping, Liu Yu''s move was simply a way to remove the firewood from the bottom of the pot. He hit everyone with a deafening but unable to fight back. It was simply miserable.
Liu Yu is a naked plot. Even though Chen Ping and others knew that this was a trap, they could only jump in.
First, disarmament is indeed of great benefit to Shu.
Second, the Chengdu royal party has taken the lead in disarmament. If your Shu royal party does not disarmament, it will be a waste of national interests. Do you still want to take advantage of this to seize power? Destroy the peace of Shu?
If there is no disarmament, the civil war in Shu will break out immediately, and the Shu King Party, as the provocative party, will completely lose the support of the Shu people and will be labeled as a treason by Liu Yu, so naturally there will be no chance of winning.
If the army is disarmament, the power of the Shu King Party will be further weakened and will be even more powerless to resist Liu Yu, and will sooner or later be gradually eroded.
From this we can also see that the form of Shu has been reversed.
Before, Liu Ji wanted to force Liu Yu to rebel, but now Liu Yu wanted to force the rebel against the Shu royal party.
Once one side takes the lead and provokes the civil war in Shu, the side will be defeated and the other side will completely control Shu.
Chen Ping naturally would not let Liu Yu be so happy. Compared to provoking a civil war, he would rather be eroded by Liu Yu. After all, there is still a process. Perhaps in this process, he might think of other ways to crack it?
Chen Ping also tried his best to appease the excited generals of the Shu Wang Party, so that they put the overall situation first and cooperated with policies to carry out disarmament.
Liu Yu actually hoped that the Shu royal party would resist the disarmament so that he could control the Shu Kingdom openly, but Chen Ping could not help him. After all, he did not want to take the blame for taking the initiative to provoke internal struggle.
However, Liu Yu did not suffer any losses, but instead took a big advantage. The time to control Shu Kingdom was delayed later.
Liu Yu is not in a hurry, he can still afford to wait.
The seven countries of Qin, Wei, Song, Ming, Wu, Chu and Shu were all prepared to disarmament, but only the Sui and Tang Dynasties did not dare to disarmament.
The reason why the Tang State did not dare to disarmament was because the Qin army was stationed in Guanzhong. The Tang State had no sense of security and felt that the existing military strength was not enough. If it was still disarmament, it would be a seeking death.
The Sui State did not disarmament because of the threat of the Qin army. After all, the Sui Army was the real overlord in Liangzhou, and even the Qin army in Liangzhou could only protect itself.
The reason why the Sui State did not disarmament was because the Sui army had a new direction of expansion, and Yang Guang was preparing to send troops to attack the countries in the Western Regions. After all, expanding territory is the fastest way to develop.
Among all countries, only the Sui Kingdom can expand abroad, and the strength of the Western Regions is not very strong, so Yang Guang has no reason not to eat the fat meat on his mouth. Sui capital, Daxing City, and within the Sui Palace.
King Yang Guang of Sui and his subordinates were discussing the issue of sending troops to the Western Regions.
Yang Guang set up the capital of the Sui Kingdom in Jincheng County, and renamed the original capital Yunwu County to Daxing City, which means that the Sui Kingdom will surely rise. This is enough to show Yang Guang''s ambition.
The civil and military officials of the Sui Dynasty were also divided into two columns. On the left was a camp of military generals led by Yang Su, including Wu Yunzhao, Shi Wansui, Li Huanzhang, Gao Huan, Gao Ang, Gao Changgong, Dou Tai, He Ruobi, Jin Xu, Sima Xin, Dong Yi and many other generals.
On the right is a camp of civil officials led by Gao Yang, with many ministers including Cheng Gongying, Dugu Xin, Dugu Ce, Zu Yi, Ximen Bao, Fei Zhong, You Hun and other ministers.
Ximen Bao was a hidden figure of random Baizhao and was implanted into a civilian student in Liangzhou and the first top student in the liberal arts in the Sui Dynasty.
Cheng Gongying was the first to stand up and said, "Lord, the spies sent to the Western Regions have discovered the information of the thirty-six countries in the Western Regions.
The thirty-six Western Regions are: Pishan, Xiye, Puli, Yinai, Shache, Shule, Weitou, Wensu, Yuli, Gumo, Beilu, Wutanzi, Beiluhouguo, Shanhuan, Pule, Pulihouguo, Xiqimi, Jieguo, Huhu, Shanguo, Cheshiqianguo, Cheshihouguo, Cheshihouguo, Cheshihouwangguo, Cheshihouchengguo, Beiluhouguo, Weitouguo...
The strength of the countries in the Western Regions is not strong. Even the strongest country has only 30,000 troops. The weak country and even the whole country have only 1,000 soldiers, and the overall combat power is much inferior to the Central Plains.
With the combat power of our Great Sui and Western Liang Iron Cavalry, conquering the Western Regions will definitely be no problem. ”
"good."
Yang Guang was overjoyed when he heard this. He looked at the ministers below and said in a deep voice: "I have decided to send troops to the Western Regions."
"The last general Yang Su asked for a fight."
"The last general Gao Huan asked for his order to go to the battle."
"The last general Sima Xin asked for the order to go to the battle."
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All the generals of the Sui Kingdom asked for their appointments, all wanting to become the main generals of this battle.
Yang Guang actually wanted to lead the army himself, but he also knew that he should be more in charge of Liangzhou and consolidated the rear. After thinking for a while, his eyes still fell on Yang Su and ordered: "Yang Su, I will be the general of the Western Expedition to command 30,000 Western Liang cavalry to attack the Western Regions."
"Thank you for your trust, lord, Yang Su will definitely return victoriously." Yang Su said in a deep voice with his fist.
"Remember, the key to sending troops to the Western Regions is to be quick and separate the countries and not give them the chance to join forces."
"No."
Yang Guang didn''t expect Yang Su to fight against the Western Regions. His goal of sending troops this time was to destroy a few small countries and regain a large amount of wealth and alleviate the financial crisis of the Sui State. After all, with the current national strength and military strength of the Sui State, it is impossible to occupy the Western Regions.
What Yang Guang didn''t know was that his plan to send troops to the Western Regions had been learned and reported to the countries in the Western Regions by spies from the Black Ice Platform, and the Qin Dynasty also promoted the joint resistance of the Western Regions to the Sui Dynasty.
Yang Guang''s plan to conquer the Western Regions easily was destined to be impossible to achieve his plan to conquer the Western Regions.
Just as the Sui State sent troops to the Western Regions, the Qin State also officially launched a disarmament plan.
According to statistics from General Bai Qi, the Qin State now has a regular army + new army + reorganized army + surrendered army, with a total of 1.1 million troops in the country.
Wang Meng''s disarmament plan was to lay off 800,000 (excluding the naval army), which means that the Qin army would lay off 300,000 troops at one time, which was equivalent to directly cutting off a Wei State.
Although the number of 300,000 is huge, in fact, there are more than 100,000 surrendered troops in Guanzhong alone.
They were all new troops who were temporarily forced to conquer by Li Shimin, and then surrendered to the Qin Dynasty with the flow.
This type of surrendered army was just a peasant before. After only simple training, he was forced to enlist in the army and could only be used to defend the city and had almost no field combat ability. Therefore, it was naturally necessary to be laid off as soon as possible, because every day delay was equivalent to wasting military spending.
Yongzhou, Jingbei, Jizhou, Qingzhou, Youzhou and Liangzhou have many such surrendered troops, and the total number is almost two-thirds of the total disarmament.
After learning about it, Ying Hao directly ordered the 200,000 people to be sent home and let them continue to be farmers to restore local production.
After the 200,000 troops were laid off, the subsequent disarmament plan became much simpler.
Just set standards according to the training of the regular army. If you fail to meet the standards, you will be promoted and transferred to county soldiers or reserve forces.
After a half-month-long military competition, of the 100,000 people finally laid off, 60,000 came from the reorganized army and surrendered army, while the other 40,000 came from the regular army of the Qin army.
Even in the regular army of the Qin army, there are also many borers, which is inevitable.
What Ying Hao had to do was to remove insects regularly to ensure that the Qin army was in a healthy state, rather than being hollowed out by borers.
Since then, the Qin Dynasty''s disarmament plan has ended. Except for the Qingzhou Navy, basically all the Qin army has participated.
The reason why the Qingzhou navy did not participate in disarmament is that the navy was the only branch of military expansion in the Qin Dynasty, so naturally there was no need to participate in disarmament.
After the disarmament is over, the troops in the Jiuzhou of Daqin are distributed as follows:
Sizhou, 150,000 troops were stationed, including 20,000 iron cavalry
Yongzhou, 70,000 troops were stationed, including 20,000 iron cavalry
Liangzhou, 60,000 troops were stationed, including 20,000 iron cavalry
Jingbei, 100,000 troops were stationed, including 10,000 iron cavalry
Youzhou, 100,000 troops were stationed, including 30,000 iron cavalry
Bingzhou, 100,000 troops were stationed, including 30,000 iron cavalry
Jizhou, 100,000 troops were stationed, including 10,000 iron cavalry
Qingbei, 100,000 troops were stationed, including 50,000 navy troops (not yet reached)
Hetao, 70,000 troops were stationed, including 30,000 iron cavalry
According to statistics, the regular army within the Qin Dynasty had a total of 630,000 light and heavy infantry, 170,000 light and heavy cavalry, 50,000 navy, and a total of 850,000 troops.
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