Chapter 2588: Expanding the army by 700,000, the boiling military


    Chapter 2585: The army expands by 700,000, the boiling military


    For Daqin, the victory of the second outbreak was actually not a very brilliant victory.


    After all, this battle only destroyed 120,000 yuan of Mongolian troops. Although it severely damaged and hit Yuan Meng''s arrogance, it was unable to harass the northern border, it did not shake the Yuan Meng''s roots.


    In the more than ten years of war history before and after the founding of the Qin Dynasty, there are many more brilliant achievements than this one.


    The reason why this battle was presented to celebrate alone was not because of how brilliant the record of this battle was, but because this battle was the first time that Daqin took the initiative to attack the grassland, which was of great significance to Daqin.


    As for the first battle to go out of the frontier, it was a helpless move that was forced to counterattack in order to repel Temujin''s invasion, so naturally it cannot be compared with the second proactive attack.


    For the Qin Dynasty, the second battle to go out of the frontier was just a small victory, but for the four countries of Wei, Song, Wu and Sui, it shows that they are about to enter the countdown to the destruction of their country, so it is naturally impossible for them to have no reaction at all.


    "Lord, according to the secret report from Hei Bingtai, Shu Prime Minister Su Qin secretly went to Shouchun three days ago to visit King Zhao Kuangyin of Song.


    Zhao Kuangyin avoided seeing him, but sent Song Prime Minister Zhao Pu to meet Su Qin. After the meeting, the two sides talked for an entire hour, but the specific content was unknown.


    Next, Su Qin will also send a mission to the Three Kingdoms of Wu, Wei and Ming one by one. Guo Jia sneered.


    Ying Hao laughed when he heard this: "Haha, Zhao Da''s situation is so low that he led Su Qin over, but he came to avoid him again. Is this a self-deception for me to show?


    And Liu Yu, I just want to restart the alliance to fight against Qin now, don’t you think it’s a bit too late? ”


    Liu Yu naturally wanted to tie the three kingdoms of Wei, Song and Wu to his own chariot, but the interests between the Three Kingdoms and the Qin Dynasty were too deeply entangled.


    The three kingdoms of Wei, Song and Wu had in-laws and relationships with the Qin Dynasty. Coupled with commercial trade, colonization of Yingzhou and other cooperation, the national strength developed extremely rapidly.


    This also leads to this. Even if the Three Kingdoms knew that the Qin Dynasty was intended to unify, they would not dare to tear up the alliance before the Qin Dynasty turned against each other. After all, the first person to break the agreement would definitely be furiously revenge by the Qin Dynasty.


    But after the second victory in the frontier, there was no longer any restraint in the rear of the Qin Dynasty, and the next step would only be to launch troops against the Central Plains and Liangzhou.


    The Wu Kingdom is not bad. After all, it is located in the south of the Yangtze River and is separated from the entire Central Plains from the Qin Dynasty. It will not be the target of the Qin Dynasty in a short period of time.


    But the Wei and Song dynasties were different. Both of them were in the Central Plains, so they naturally couldn''t sit still, so they took the initiative to explain to Shu, which led to the mission of Su Qin to various countries.


    "Where is Zhang Yi?"


    "I''m here."


    Zhang Yi stood out.


    Ying Hao said, "I will be sent to the Three Kingdoms of Song, Wei and Wu for a mission. I will be able to beat you up while comforting you. I can''t tolerate sand in my eyes."


    "No."


    Zhang Yi responded with a smile. When he learned that Su Qin was forming an anti-Qin alliance, he was determined to fight with Su Qin and destroy the Shu Kingdom''s alliance to fight against Qin.


    "Your Majesty, the Sui State has recently committed murder, violated the Public Security Regulations, etc., and has expelled a large number of Qin merchants in the Sui State for murder, violation of public security regulations, etc. It should be preparing for war in advance." Guo Jia said again.


    Although the Qin and Sui Dynasty continued to war, the business they should do still needs to be done.


    The Sui State occupied the Hexi Corridor and the eastern part of the Western Regions, which was the only way to enter the Western Regions and Central Asia. If Qin merchants and Western Regions merchants wanted to do business, they had to pass through the territory of the Sui State.


    The Sui State had a large number of troops, and Liangzhou and Haizhou were extremely barren, so it was obviously difficult to support so many troops. In addition to selling war horses, the commercial tax on passing caravans was also a major fiscal revenue of the Sui State.


    It is precisely because of this that the Sui Kingdom not only did not stop it, but also welcomed the Qin merchants to go to the Western Regions to do business. After all, this is also beneficial to the Sui Kingdom.


    But now the Sui State took the initiative to expel Qin Shang, which was obviously stimulated by the news of the second victory in the frontier. Knowing that the Qin Dynasty was likely to attack Sui State in the future, naturally he did not dare to keep Qin Shang in China.


    "Haha, Yang Guang is restless. He really remembers to eat but not beat him."


    Ying Hao chuckled, but did not care about Yang Guang''s small actions. After all, the Sui Kingdom''s middle-sized size is only so big. No matter how hard it struggles, it is destined to be unable to stop Daqin''s father''s iron fist.


    Ying Hao looked through the information about various countries and found that the surrounding countries except Wei were not very at ease.


    It’s not that Cao Cao doesn’t want to resist, but he really doesn’t have much confidence.


    Although the strength of Wei State is stronger than that of Sui State, its geographical location is too poor. Not only is it surrounded by the Qin Dynasty on three sides, but all walks of life have been penetrated. Although many have been solved, the hidden dangers are caused by it.


    Once the Wei State starts war with the Qin Dynasty, the war performance may not be as good as that of the Sui State, so unless it is absolutely necessary, they naturally dare not attack the Qin Dynasty.


    "Your Majesty, the Ming and Sui countries were reorganized and prepared for war, and the Song and Wei countries were flirting with each other. If Shu Kingdom successfully formed an anti-Qin alliance again, our current military strength will inevitably be passive, so I believe that the army can be expanded in advance." Prime Minister Wang Meng said.


    As soon as this statement was made, everyone present was shocked, especially the military representatives. After all, Wang Meng promoted the disarmament before.


    After the founding of the Qin Dynasty, all the generals were ready to do a big battle, but Wang Meng, as the prime minister, promoted a large-scale disarmament.


    Even though Wang Meng''s move was beneficial to the Qin Dynasty, it also harmed the interests of many military generals, and naturally offended many military people.


    Although Ying Hao nodded in the great disarmament, he naturally could not do such offensive things, so Ying Hao took advantage of them, and the infamy was Wang Meng and Bai Qie.


    In the past two years, the military has been clamoring to expand its military. After all, the financial resources of the Qin Dynasty have been abundant, but the civil servants led by Wang Meng have always opposed it.


    Many military members maliciously thought, thinking that Wang Meng relied on the power of the prime minister to deliberately suppress all military officers and improve his status as civil servants. However, they did not expect that Wang Meng would take the initiative to expand his army.


    Those who spread rumors and attacked Wang Meng couldn''t help but feel a little ashamed. After all, the Prime Minister was really devoted to the country, but they were maliciously attacking because of their own selfishness. It was really not true.


    Wang Meng, the leader of all officials, took the initiative to propose to expand the army. Naturally, no one opposed the civil servant group, let alone military officers. The two major civil and military groups simply supported the expansion of the army.


    Seeing that Ying Hao didn''t need his own guidance, the two major groups of civil and military in the Qin Dynasty reached an agreement and couldn''t help but smile and said, "What Prime Minister Wang said is reasonable, but how much should the army be expanded?" Jia Fu stood up with an excited look and said loudly, "With the strength of our Great Qin Dynasty, we will naturally expand our army to one million."


    Li Cunxiao stood up and retorted: "There is no future. The war of unification is destined to fight against multiple countries at the same time. The four countries of Wei, Song, Ming and Sui can reach a million troops after the extreme expansion of their troops. How can we be enough if our Qin Dynasty only has one million troops?"


    Jia Fu suddenly realized and held his chin and said to himself, "That''s right, how about that one million and one hundred thousand?"


    "Junwen, can''t your pattern be bigger? At least one hundred and twenty troops are needed."


    Hearing Li Cunxiao''s words, Jia Fu was frightened and took a deep breath and said, "Hiss, one million and two million, how much army does this cost, and how much military expenditure."


    The military generals only know how to fight wars, but they don’t know how far the Qin Dynasty has developed. They only think that expanding the army to 1.2 million is almost the limit of the Qin Dynasty. After all, the cost of supporting the army is much higher than that of other countries, so they all agree with Li Cunxiao’s proposal to expand the army to 1.2 million.


    When civil officials saw this, they all looked like they wanted to laugh and didn''t dare to laugh. After all, these generals were clamoring to expand their army every day, and they were so stingy that they didn''t dare to report it to the big deal.


    "Your Majesty, what do you think of the expansion of the army to 1.2 million?"


    Li Cunxiao said to Ying Hao in a controversial tone, "It''s really not enough."


    "Hahaha…"


    Ying Hao was amused by Li Cunxiao, looked at Wang Meng below and asked, "Prime Minister Wang, tell me, how about expanding the army to 120?"


    Wang Meng clasped his fists and said, "Your Majesty, I think what Mr. Wu said is inappropriate."


    Hearing Wang Meng''s words, Li Cunxiao was anxious and hurriedly said, "Prime Minister, what do you want to do? It was you who proposed to expand the army, and it is you who opposes now. You can''t be so capricious.


    In short, I will put it here, and the minimum expansion of this army cannot be less than 1.15 million. ”


    Wang Meng ignored Li Cunxiao and said to Ying Hao above: "Your Majesty, I think that with the current monarch of the Great Qin Dynasty, this transformation can expand the army by 600,000."


    As soon as this said, Ying Hao had not even spoken, but Li Cunxiao jumped up excitedly.


    "The army expanded to 600,000? Did this general hear it wrong, or did you, Prime Minister Wang, say it wrong?"


    "The general heard it right, he said 600,000."


    "I, Li Cunxiaochang, have been so big for the first time, and I heard that the more I expand my army, the fewer the number of people..."


    Li Cunxiao became more and more excited as he spoke, and even Jia Fula couldn''t bring him back.


    "My total military force of Qin is only 850,000, which is already a stretch, but you want to dismiss the army to 600,000? Instead of increasing the army, you will dismiss the army by 250,000?


    Is there any reason for nature? Is there any other kingly law?


    Your Majesty, you can''t listen to Wang Meng. Our military life is hard. At worst, it''s not enough to expand the army, but you must not disarmament. ”


    Seeing that Jia Fu could not hold Li Cunxiao, Jiang Song stepped forward and pulled together, and advised: "Hehe, Lao Li, you heard it wrong. What the Prime Minister said was not to expand the army to 600,000, but to expand the army to 600,000."


    "Expand army of 600,000?"


    Li Cunxiao was stunned, pretended to be decisive and shook his head and said, "Impossible, absolutely impossible. I, Daqin, have so much money and food to support so many troops."


    "How is it impossible?"


    Xun Yu said that as the Minister of Revenue, he was responsible for national taxes, salary and all financial matters, and had the most say in financial matters.


    "You are the martial artists who only know how to train troops and fight, but how can you know how earth-shaking changes have happened in the past three years of the Qin Dynasty..."


    Before Xun Yu could finish his words, Li Cunxiao ignored him directly.


    Li Cunxiao rushed forward and grabbed Wang Meng''s hand directly, and said with a hot look: "Prime Minister, what you are talking about is really expanding the army of 600,000, not expanding the army to 600,000?"


    Looking at Li Cunxiao who was so close to him, Wang Meng couldn''t help but twitch the corners of his mouth, wanting to pull his hand out, but he couldn''t pull it out at all. He could only nod helplessly and said, "It''s an expansion of 600,000 troops."


    As soon as this statement came out, the military generals who were used to hard life were collectively in trouble.


    After the disarmament of the Qin Dynasty, all its troops were 850,000, and many wars were fought, including conquering the Japanese, destroying the Tang Dynasty, attacking the Sui Dynasty, and going to the frontier. Although nearly 80,000 to 90,000 people were killed or killed in the Qin Dynasty, they were also restored by taking over the surrendered troops and reorganizing prisoners of war.


    Now the central military force of the Qin Dynasty is still 850,000, and if the army is expanded at one time, the total military force of the Qin Dynasty will reach a terrifying 1.45 million, which is comparable to the total military force of the seven countries of Shu, Chu, Wu, Wei, Song, Ming and Sui.


    Li Cunxiao was completely stunned and said with a happy expression: "Is my Daqin already so rich?"


    “This is thanks to His Majesty’s cultivation policy, and all the military expenditures spent on disarmament have been invested in infrastructure construction such as people’s livelihood, which has led to a significant increase in tax revenue across the country.


    In addition, the sea trade with the countries in South China, the gold and silver mines in Yingzhou, and the trade with the three kingdoms of Wei, Song and Wu also brought great financial income to our Great Qin. ”


    Wang Meng explained patiently, but Li Cunxiao didn''t even listen to a word, and was still immersed in the good news that the army was about to expand by 700,000.


    Seeing Li Cunxiao''s attitude, he still let go. Wang Meng smiled bitterly and said, "General Li, can you let go? Although I proposed to expand the army by 600,000, Your Majesty has not agreed yet."


    Li Cunxiao then reacted and asked quickly, "Your Majesty, do you agree to the expansion of the army of 600,000?"


    "Of course I don''t agree."


    Li Cunxiao was as if he had been poured with a basin of cold water and became depressed in an instant, but he was even more excited when he heard Ying Hao''s subsequent words.


    "Six hundred thousand is not enough, and it''s too petty. If you want to expand your army, you can expand your army of 700,000."


    Hiss...


    Everyone present took a breath, especially the generals of the military officer group, who were so happy that they didn''t know what to say.


    (This chapter ends)