Weird Three Kingdoms

Chapter 73
After seeing Fei Qian's arithmetic skills, the postmaster of the inn became much more honest and did not dare to do anything, so he respectfully let people lead Fei Qian back to his room to rest.

Fei Qian took a shower at will, lay down on the couch, tossed and turned repeatedly, but couldn't fall asleep.

What the old peasants said in the daytime still bothered him a lot. The production per mu in the Han Dynasty was too small. How could such productivity support the needs of the army?
In the Han Dynasty, vegetable oil was scarce, and animal oil was scarce. The energy consumed by everyone in daily life basically depended on the supply of carbohydrates. As a result, the demand for ordinary food was very large. Even if it was two meals a day, it would take a long time to support a standing army. Amazing.

For example, the price of food today is a bit more expensive, but if it comes next year when the spring is green and yellow, the price will be about the same. If there is another disaster year, the price of this meal will double again. , the huge expenditure is an astonishing value...

This is still just eating, as well as consumables such as weapons, armor, bows and arrows, and the monthly salary of each soldier...

In this way, spending money like running water can't describe the money needed to feed the army all the time...

During the Three Kingdoms period, how many troops were constantly fighting?Counting from next year, until the end belongs to Sima, he has played for at least 30 years...

During this period of time, not only soldiers died, but how many ordinary people died innocently?

Not to mention other things, how many innocent people did Cao Cao kill at least in Xuzhou? 200,000? 300,000?How many field grains have been directly caused to fail?
Coupled with the abnormal weather changes in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, natural disasters were frequent...

Fei Qian only felt chills all over and couldn't sleep, so he simply got up and put on his clothes, opened the door and walked out.

Unexpectedly, he ran into Zhang Zhao not long after walking, so he asked, "Zhang Shichang, why haven't you fallen asleep yet?"

Zhang Zhao said, "It's a habit developed in the army to patrol at night, but why didn't Fei Lang Jun sleep? But it disturbed you?"

Fei Qian shook his head and said, "It's just that I was a little bored and couldn't sleep, so I went out for a walk." After Fei Qian finished speaking, he asked Zhang Zhao to rest first, but Zhang Zhao said he was worried about Fei Qian's safety and must accompany him.

Fei Qian couldn't resist, so he asked Zhang Zhao to follow him to the lobby of the inn, and gave a few five baht to the man on duty at night, and asked him to boil some boiled water to drink.

Zhang Zhao watched Le Dian Dian, the guy with the windfall, go to boil water, and whispered: "I really want money..."

Fei Qian smiled and greeted Zhang Zhao to sit down together.

At first, Zhang Zhao didn't dare to sit, he said that standing is fine, but Feiqian asked him to sit again and again.

Fei Qian asked, "By the way, Zhang Shichang, how much is your monthly salary?"

"My monthly salary?" Zhang Zhao wondered why Feiqian asked this question, but he answered honestly, "Now I can get 450 wen per month! Thanks to Zhang Xiaowei's promotion, otherwise it would have been less than [-] wen... "

When it comes to raising wages, there is no difference between the ancients and the modern people, they are all happy...

After listening, Fei Qian nodded, this is what, after a little calculation in his heart, he found that the army is really a money-eating tiger...

"Can military pay be paid in time?" Fei Qian asked again.

Zhang Zhao smiled and said, "Yeah! Thanks to Zhang Xiaowei, two corrupt scribes were found out some time ago. Otherwise, we wouldn't know where to cry if these guys swallowed our money."

"Hehe, Zhang Shichang, what do you think of being a soldier?"

Zhang Zhao looked up, obviously thinking about something, and then said: "I don't think it's good or bad, at least eat it..."

At this time, the staff at the station who boiled the water brought the water and poured the water for Fei Qian and Zhang Zhao, and then went back to the corner to curl up and take a nap.

Zhang Zhao gestured slightly to the man, and continued: "...For example, he is just getting enough food and clothing, and generally there is not much money left at the end of the year..."

The chatterbox was opened, and it was not easy to hold back, Zhang Zhao continued, "That year when Xianbei went south, many people's homes, including Zhang Xiaowei's, were destroyed... So at that time Zhang Xiaowei was going to be a soldier to kill. Xianbei took revenge, and a few of us followed..."

"What about Xianbei? I mean how is it with the Xianbei people? How about winning or losing?"

Speaking of Xianbei, Zhang Zhao said with a contemptuous expression, "Those gangsters, just relying on the speed of horses, really want to go to the ground, I can hit at least three of them..."

"Aren't Xianbei people fierce?"

"Ferocious is quite fierce, but their weapons are not good," Zhang Zhao patted the ring-sheaded knife he was equipped with, "Our knife is good and sharp, and it basically falls down when you cut it down with one knife. It's not bad, if I really want to fight in close combat, Xianbei is not an opponent, but it's not easy to catch, always running..."

Although Zhang Zhao was a little confused, Fei Qian understood the meaning.It turns out that the combat power of Xianbei in this era has not yet reached the level of later Mongolia or Manchu, and is still in the low-level stage of nomads, and the metallurgical technology of the Han nationality is currently in a state of crushing for the Hu people...

The nomadic Hu people's current tactic against the Han soldiers is to walk. With the high mobility of their horses, they keep harassing them until they catch a flaw and swarm up.

No wonder Baima Yicong beat the barbarians in the north into crying and screaming. The mobility is the same, and the equipment is obviously better than a large piece. Are these barbarians just facing, just can't, run, and it's not easy to escape... …

So war horses are very important, but this thing is a scarce resource.

"Zhang Shichang, do you know how much food your horses cost a month?"

"That's a lot." Speaking of the horses, Zhang Zhao was also quite proud, as he said, "A horse like me belongs to the Northern Territory, it is not fast, but it has good endurance and poor food, but it can't be too bad. , it is easy to lose fat... If I use my monthly money to support it, it is estimated that it is almost the same, and there should be not a few cents left..."

Fei Qian calculated that a warhorse would consume three to four ordinary soldiers' rations...

Fei Qian couldn't help but sighed in his heart, you said, how can later generations see so many tens of thousands of cavalry can be summoned immediately when they are summoned, let's not talk about where those horses come from, can you just talk about raising them?This person eats horse chews and feeds on the saliva from the upper lip touching the lower lip?

Thinking of this, Fei Qian felt even more sorry for the civilians who died innocently in the war. Why did he slaughter civilians at every turn?If these people resisted the rule and became a mob, like the Yellow Turban Rebellion, there would be some reasons to kill them, but why would those people who obviously wouldn't resist should be killed?

Murder Liwei?
Murder and rob?
Is it to completely strike down the hostile forces?
Also the so-called destruction of human nature only know how to kill?
Even the Hu people know that they robbed some people and took them away, not completely killing them, but even the Hu people are inferior?

Fei Qian really didn't understand. He was just a pity. Now that he was in the Han Dynasty, he knew that the Wuhu chaos in the late Three Kingdoms period was not because of the strength of the Hu people, but because of the Han people's own civil war for so many years. The scars gave those nomads a chance...

　The killing of the Three Kingdoms is too heavy... My own people are always ruthless when they stab my own people... Not to mention that, I wish you all a great new atmosphere, new development, and new harvest in the new year!There are also recommended tickets, so please vote for the author, and collect them by the way...

　　


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