Dahan first prince

Chapter 296 Erchen!Please fight! ! !
After Chen Ping, Shaofu Yang Chengyan finally had the courage to stand up belatedly.

"Since the first year of the Han Dynasty, Emperor Taizu Gao also established the Three Qin Dynasty, and then went east to Hangu, and when Pengcheng was defeated, he retreated to Xingyang."

"In the fifth year of the Han Dynasty, Xiang Ji died in Wujiang, Chu died in Gaixia, and even princes with different surnames caused chaos in Kanto for years..."

"Gongwei, Zang Tu, Han Wangxin, Chu Wangxin..."

"Even the year before, Chen Xi rebelled against Zhao; last year, Peng Yue rebelled against Suiyang, and Yingbu disrupted Huainan."

"In the 12 years since the beginning of the Han Dynasty, Emperor Gao has been in power, and the court has devoted all his energy to eliminating princes with different surnames as a matter of chaos in the Guandong."

"Fortunately, I was blessed by my ancestors, and the god Taiyi's family Fu, Your Majesty went out as a prince to fight against the army and wiped out Yingbu; and this year, Emperor Taizu Gao cut off a white horse, and made a blood oath to Gonghou Gongqing: not Liu, No king..."

Briefly summarizing the dire situation faced by the Han family in the past ten years, Yang Chengyan's face could not help showing a look of haggard mentality.

"Kandong has been plagued by wars for years, and every time taxes and taxes are paid into the treasury, it will be taken away for the war;"

"When wars broke out frequently and the treasury was weak, Emperor Taizu Gao had no choice but to order Xiao Xiangguo to temporarily pay half of the salary with the officials and eunuchs in Guanzhong to use in the war..."

"Although the Guandong has been flattened today, and Emperor Taizu Gao made an oath on the white horse to eradicate the disadvantages of the princes with different surnames in the country, the emptiness of the treasury, the suffering of the people in Guanzhong, and the exhaustion of the officers and soldiers have not been relieved."

"Emperor Taizu Gao died, and His Majesty followed the filial piety and mourned the whole country. The funeral cost a lot of money and food;"

"If at this time, there is another war on the north wall, the treasury, it may be unsustainable..."

Hearing this, the anger on the faces of everyone in the hall finally eased, but after the anger receded, it was replaced by a lingering depression and anger.

For everyone gathered in the Changxin Hall at this moment, what Yang Chengyan said was a fact that could not find the slightest loophole.

In the eyes of most discerning people, what Yang Chengyan said was even conservative!
Years of wars in Kanto, the treasury is empty, and the army and civilians in Guanzhong are exhausted?

The real situation is far more than that! ! ! ! ! !

Just how bad the state of the treasury is, one sentence is enough to explain:
—— Counting from the first year of the Han Dynasty, when Liu Bang, the emperor of the Gao Dynasty, reestablished the Three Qin Dynasty, to the current 12th year of the Han Dynasty, Chang'an, the imperial capital of Liu Han Sheji, has not touched a brick or a tile!
For a full 12 years, a city of Chang'an has not been able to wait for an order to start construction!

Even counting from the fifth year of the Han Dynasty when Xiang Yu killed himself in Wujiang and Liu Bang succeeded to the throne, Liu Han, as a unified regime in China, still failed to build even a piece of land for his capital, the imperial city, in seven years. boundary marker!
And the reason is nothing more than the word 'the treasury is empty'...
Even if the imperial capital Chang'an is like this, let alone the three baht coins issued by the former emperor Liu Bang in order to quell the military expenses of the rebellion of the princes with different surnames, and the "official half salary" repeatedly implemented by the prime minister Xiao He.

It is no exaggeration to say that if it were not for Liu Ying's coincidence to launch the government-operated grain policy in advance, which greatly increased the fiscal revenue of the government treasury, then the Han Dynasty would never have " The ability and confidence to abolish the three baht coins and unify the currency system!
It is even very possible that even the funeral of the late emperor Liu Bang had to be paid for by the entire court in order to barely reach the level of "not so shabby"...
As for the Guanzhong army and the people's physical and mental exhaustion, that's not an accurate description of the phrase "consecutive years of fighting".

——The year before last, that is, in the autumn of the tenth year of the Han Dynasty, Chen Xi, the prime minister, rebelled against him.

In order to quell Chen Xi's rebellion, the first emperor Liu Bang mobilized more than 20 troops from Guanzhong in order to quickly quell the war.

In the autumn of the 20th year of the Han Dynasty, the more than 11 young men in the Guanzhong who followed the rebellion of the former emperor Liu Bangping first fought in Zhao State until last year, which was the summer of the [-]th year of the Han Dynasty;
After that, the more than [-] soldiers and horses were divided into two groups, one continued to fight against Chen Xi in the Dai and Zhao areas, and the other went south to Huaiyang for Liu Ying, who was the crown prince, to pacify Huainan King. It was used for the Yingbo rebellion.

Later, at the end of the 11th year of the Han Dynasty, Yingbo was defeated, and these soldiers and horses returned to the same route as soon as possible, went north to Handan, followed Fan Kuai and Zhou Bo, and continued to put down the Chen Xi Rebellion;

This year, that is, at the beginning of the 12th year of the Han Dynasty, Chen Xi was defeated, but these hundreds of thousands of Guanzhong children still could not rest for a while, and they went north to Yanji without stopping to pacify Yan Wang Luwan...

It was not until the last month after Liu Bang's death, that is, at the end of May of the 12th year of the Han Dynasty, that the hundreds of thousands of Guanzhong children who left the customs in the autumn of the [-]th year of the Han Dynasty to suppress the rebellion finally returned home.

And this flash, it is two years...
The handsome young man two years ago has become the rough man of today; the young man two years ago has also become a man.

This is what Yang Chengyan really wanted to express in the phrase 'Guanzhong's army and the people are exhausted'.

——If there is another war in a short period of time, then in order to ensure the combat effectiveness of the army, the men transferred by the court must be the same group who left the customs with Liu Bang the year before last!
And this group of people have been away from home for two years and fought hard for two years. Even if most of them returned home safely, it has only been more than a month...
Perhaps it was because of Yang Chengyan's reminder that he realized the seriousness of the problem, and Lu Zhi, who originally had a somewhat domineering face, suddenly became a little shaken.

After scanning all the people in the hall for a week, and then at Fan Kuai who was still kneeling on the ground, Lu Zhi finally gritted his teeth and raised his head.

"Please also speak frankly, Shaofu."

"—If Marquis Xu Wuyang has [-] soldiers, go north to Daidi, and fight Hu Qi, how long can he last with a small amount of money in the mansion?"

After saying that, Lu Zhi turned his head to the side with a serious expression, and looked at Xiao He who was not far away.

"How much grain can be released from the treasury of the Prime Minister's Mansion to be used by Marquis Wuyang?"

Hearing Lu Zhi's question, Yang Chengyan took a deep breath with a stern expression, and then asked Xiao He for instructions.

After Xiao He nodded slowly to himself, Yang Chengyan bowed again.

"To the Empress Dowager."

"Last year, Your Majesty, under the order of Emperor Taizu Gao, administered grain and rice official management in Guanzhong, and entrusted the matter of storing grain on behalf of the people to the Shaofu, so as to prepare for this year. There are no grain merchants in Guanzhong, Mijia, Min The disadvantage of having nowhere to buy grain.”

"For this matter, the Shaofu used all the copper coins stored in the internal funds, and searched for all kinds of bronze wares to cast five baht of Han coins."

"It's the beginning of spring this year, and the money in the Shaofu is only available to merchants to buy food, which is only tens of millions;"

"Since the autumn of the [-]th year of the Han Dynasty, the war in the Kanto region has continued endlessly, and the vinegar cloth, dry food, sauced vegetables, etc. that Shaofu originally had were all exhausted."

"More weapons such as bows, crossbows and arrows, spears, swords and halberds, the arsenal has less than a million arrows and less than [-] weapons each..."

Hearing Yang Chengyan's words, even though they had expected the resource investment of the Chang'an court in the war in the past few years, all the officials in the palace couldn't help but gasp, looking at each other, they all looked at each other. On the horror.

——Vinegar cloth, dry food, sauce, vegetables and other items were all consumed, which was still expected by everyone, and it was barely acceptable, and if necessary, the Shaofu was fully capable of replenishing these supplies in a short period of time.

However, the consumption of weapons and ordnance far exceeded the expectations of the entire Chang'an court, and even Liu Ying himself!
Needless to say, the fact that "the inventory of crossbows and arrows is less than one million" alone has made it impossible for the Han Dynasty to support any scale of war within two years!

In later generations, the legend that Zhuge Wuhou borrowed money from grass boats and got [-] arrows from Cao Jun is well-known far and wide;

But the situation of the Han Dynasty today is quite different from that at that time.

——Nowadays, the Han Dynasty is almost entirely composed of heavy infantry, bow and crossbow troops, and various chariots as the main combat forces!

And since the siege of Baideng five years ago, "chariots were severely restrained by cavalry" has become the consensus of the entire Han military!
Under this premise, when the Han Dynasty faced the Xiongnu army composed almost entirely of cavalry, the only way of fighting was the simple and crude "heavy infantry phalanx resists damage, and the bow and crossbow shoot from the rear to cause damage."

In other words: Bows and crossbows are the only means of attack that the Han Dynasty can use when facing the Huns!

The lack of bows, feathers and arrows means that even if they fight, the Han army can't attack at all. They can only let the heavy infantry carry huge shields and endure round after round of loitering shots from the Huns and light cavalry, as well as the brutality of the cannon fodder troops. collision
"Less than a million..."

"A bow and crossbow cluster of 10 people can't even share ten arrows per capita..."

Involuntarily let out a murmur, Liu Ying's face also became a little serious.

——This problem is very serious!
Even if the Han-Hungarian War cannot be fought this time, the problem of less than one million bows, feathers and arrows in the center is still serious for the Han Dynasty!
Liu Ying clearly remembers: Last year, when she set out to quell the Yingbo rebellion, Liu Ying alone took away nearly 200 million bows, feathers and arrows from Chang'an!

Later, the main force of the Guanzhong army who went south from Handan also slack off the individual reserve that had been issued earlier, the total number was at least one million!
In addition, during the war, the Qi and Chu countries equipped their own troops, allocated for Liu Ying's troops, and sent bows, feathers and arrows from Chang'an one after another...

——Just for the Huainan Wang Yingbu Rebellion, which lasted only a few months, the Han Dynasty put in at least 500 million bows, feathers and arrows!
That's it, the Huainan rebels who were also infantry were fighting!
If it is against the Huns cavalry group?

——You must know the customs of the Huns, but even the remains of the dead are taken away, and the Han army is not even given the chance to cut off the head!

Liu Ying is very sure: in front of such a group of barbarians who can't wait to eat even a bowl, there are less than a million bows, feathers and arrows, and they will become Huns if they don't even use them for ten days 'Replenishment of armaments'!
This also means that if this battle really starts, within ten days after the start of the war, the Han army will completely lose its offensive ability, or the ability to strike...
"Bow Feather Arrow..."

"Um······"

"After the court is over, I have to go to the Shaofu..."

While Liu Ying was thinking with a gloomy face, Prime Minister Xiao He finally gave his answer humming.

——Thanks to the government-operated food policy, the national treasury can fully afford the military rations needed by the army!

But after this sentence, Xiao He added a sentence almost without thinking: But I don't suggest that the Queen Mother grant Fan Kuai's request.

As for the reason, Xiao He also said it very straightforwardly.

It is true that only 10 people are given, and Fan Kui will not be able to achieve any results in any way; at least about 30 troops are needed for Fan Kui to guarantee the completion of the strategic goal of "revenge on the Huns".

But today's Han Dynasty does not have the ability to recruit 30 people into the army, nor does it have enough weapons and ordnance to arm these 30 people.

——Same as Ji Bu, Xiao He objected to Fan Kui's proposal, and still did not mention 'Fan Kui should die', but discussed the matter on a case-by-case basis, presenting the current situation of the Han Dynasty objectively and truthfully in front of Lu Zhi, a hundred officials and courtiers in the palace .

And after Xiao He made it clear that 'it is indeed not a good time to start a war', the entire Changxin Palace fell into a long silence again.

"Since that's the case..."

I don't know how long it took, and finally saw Lu Zhi lowered his head with a wry smile, and lightly patted the Hun's credential in front of him.

"I, I will lower myself and personally write a letter begging for mercy from Shan Yu, so as to temporarily stop the war..."

Lu Zhi's words immediately made everyone in the hall angry again, but the anger still couldn't be vented in the Changxin Hall.

——The fact is so, the current situation is so...
Even if it is grief and anger, these pillars and pillars of Liu Han Sheji can only crush all the humiliation with their teeth, and then swallow them together.

Just as the officials in the palace were full of tears and bowed their heads in humiliation, they saw Ji Bu's loud and clear sound under the imperial steps again inappropriately.

"I think that the queen mother may not need to be like this."

"—Yi Dibi is like a beast, and good words are not enough to be happy, and bad words are not enough to be angry."

"The empress dowager can be vain and entrusted to her, and then learn a little bit about the old policies of Emperor Taizu Gao, and resume her marriage..."

"presumptuous!!!"

Almost as soon as the word "marriage" came out of Ji Bu's mouth, all the people in the hall cast their eyes of resentment on Ji Bu standing in the center of the hall!
And the emperor Liu Ying, who had never said the same thing from the beginning to the end, finally got up from the imperial couch angrily with this roar!
"The country is ashamed, the queen mother is ashamed, and as a son of man, I have lost my filial piety!!!"

"The Empress Dowager is humiliated, the country is humiliated, and when I lose my filial piety, how dare you talk about peace even if you don't want to serve the country?!!!!"

Letting out another growl with extreme resentment, Liu Ying used all her strength to widen her eyes, and her fierce eyes swept over everyone in the hall!
"If you don't avenge this revenge, I will be a son of man in vain!!!"

"If you don't avenge this revenge, wait! All of you are in vain!!!!!"

After saying that, Liu Ying sullenly, flicked her sleeves coldly, and suddenly knelt down towards Lu Zhi beside her!
"Di Chief Mao Dun insulted his biological mother, his son and minister, and his shame and anger are unbearable!"

"The prestige of the Han family is underestimated by the barbarians. My son, I have no face to face my ancestors of the Liu family!"

"My son! Please fight!!!"

"Your son will be your own driver!"

"When the horse steps to the south of the curtain!"

"Slaughter all the barbarians with hair on the left lap!!!"

"My son, this country's hatred and family hatred will be bloody!!!!!!"

(End of this chapter)