Three Kingdoms: Everything Can Be Gamified

Chapter 338

With the large grain harvest in Liangzhou, Guanzhong and Bingzhou, a large amount of materials began to be transported towards the front line.

Liu Bei attaches great importance to water transportation, and the number of ships on the Yellow River and Luoshui has increased a lot in the past two years.

It's not enough to fight for a hundred ships, but a large number of medium-sized transport ships can indeed reduce a lot of transportation losses.

Jizhou sent a group of outstanding scribes to serve as governors.

Their task is very important, to ensure that people's livelihood does not decline too much and to stabilize the local economy to the greatest extent.

No matter how much Liu Bei loves the people, given the current situation, it is impossible to mobilize a large amount of materials to support the local counties in Jizhou.

In Zhang He's view, Liu Bei has grown up to a certain extent and understands the priorities of things.

He gradually grew into a mature king, but his kindness to the people had to be hidden in his heart.

"The situation is very bad. Everyone likes to do things like adding insult to injury." Zhang He sneered.

After autumn, Liu Zhang was the first to declare war on Liu Bei. Probably because he heard that Ma Teng had been transferred and that the man guarding Hanzhong was a defeated general, he immediately mustered up the courage to send tens of thousands of troops to the north.

Tens of thousands is an exaggeration. The actual number of soldiers is probably about three or four thousand, and the rest are civilians.

As for the situation on the Shu Road, there are not so many civilians, and materials cannot be transported to the front line.

Probably because of Liu Bei's relationship, there were many fewer common people and scholars going to Bashu, and the Dongzhou faction could not develop. It was normal for Liu Zhang to be ignored by the wealthy families in Bashu.

If there is no guarantee that Liu Zhang will surrender, allowing the Dongzhou faction to rise will only increase the threat level.

Liu Biao was the second to declare war. Last year, Liu Biao, Yuan Shu and Sun Ce fought for Yuzhang County, and the three parties fought fiercely.

This year, Liu Biao and Yuan Shu reached an agreement and joined forces to attack Nanyang County.

Needless to say, Cao Cao maintained an alliance with Yuan Shao and officially declared war on Liu Bei.

Even Lu Bu and Gongsun Du began to join forces and declare war in Youzhou.

The eighteen princes were not able to gather together, but Liu Bei's side actually became the target of public criticism, which can't help but make people sigh.

Everyone can see that Liu Bei consumed too much in the spring, his troops began to be unable to keep up, the battle line was stretched too long, and various supply problems became apparent.

If Liu Bei had not followed the advice early and developed water transportation, there might not have been enough supplies on the front line.

All of the above are just forces on the surface.

If Wuhuan doesn't go south, if Xianbei goes south, the southern Xiongnu can't get through, so can the Qiang people fight?
After all, they are foreign forces, no one knows what they think!

Or, is there such a person who drags foreign forces into the civil war to join in the fun? There are many such people in history.

Anyway, for them, all nations and countries are fake. If they can’t get something themselves, they would rather give it to outsiders!

"Liu Bei, who loved his people like his own son and governed the country with benevolence, unexpectedly ended up like Dong Zhuo..." Zhang He lamented.

As far as Liu Bei is concerned now, he is just an enhanced version of Dong Zhuo, which makes people sigh.

The only one who is at peace is Sun Ce. Not that he is really at peace, but mainly because he is separated from Yuan Shu, Cao Cao and Liu Biao. Even if he intends to form an alliance, it is hard to say whether they will let him or not.

It's just that Liu Bei has been doing diplomacy for so many years since he became emperor, but under the current situation, it feels like diplomacy is useless.

Rather, war is like this. It involves not only tactics and strategy, but intelligence and diplomacy are also very important.

In addition to these external aspects, we also need to pay attention to the internal economy and war preparedness. Otherwise, if you are so poor that you are not even equipped with weapons, and you are hungry for six meals in three days, who will fight for you?

If the population is wiped out, it will be doomed!
In the past, it was okay to have one state and one county. As the territory became larger and larger, there were more and more things happening in all aspects.

Now Zhang He even felt that Lu Bu deliberately defeated Zhuojun and gave it away in order to hold him back here.

The only good thing is that as long as Zhuojun is held, the armies of Shanggu and Daijun will not be able to go south easily.

The prefects of these two counties are in an awkward position now.

In essence, he was appointed by Gongsun Zan, and nominally belonged to Yan and Han.

Now that Gongsun Zan is defeated, where the two of them will go is a question.

"But if you can survive this time, then your majesty will naturally be the support of the people!" Yan Pu replied.Through this declaration of war, the people who knew about it, mainly the scholars, naturally knew who was the puppet, who was the real emperor, and where the Han Dynasty's orthodoxy lay.

The biggest difference between young people is that they are more idealistic. In layman's terms, they are hot-blooded and brainless.

Not to mention the children of aristocratic families, those young people from common people do not have so many scruples in doing things.

"Then you have to hold on!" Zhang He sighed.

Not long after, there was a noise outside, and it seemed to get louder and louder.

Zhang He was a little confused. When he went out, he saw that thousands of young men had gathered outside without realizing it.

"Everyone, this is..." Zhang He looked at everyone.

The composition of this group of people is very mixed. It seems that some are heroes, some are from wealthy families, and more are ordinary people and even refugees.

"I have come here to surrender to the army, and I hope the general will take him in!" the crowd shouted.

"Tell me, why do you have this idea?" Zhang He looked at everyone.

"We can't stand that gang of gangsters adding insult to injury and bullying His Majesty!" the leader shouted, "I have nothing else to look forward to. I have only the strength to help the general kill the enemy!"

Not only did they surrender to the army, but the wealthy families in Zhuo County even used half of their hidden wealth to support the army.

They are more selfish than ordinary people.

I missed an opportunity to develop in the past, so I naturally made a big bet this time.

Just say that the children of the family who came to join the army, including those who guarded the hospital, totaled three thousand.

Coupled with the wealthy families and ordinary people who came after hearing the news, the number exceeded six to seven thousand in an instant.

Ma Chao led his troops here to maintain public order, but facing so many people and the environment in the city, it was also very stressful.

"I accept everyone's wishes!" Zhang He looked at everyone, "But our army has always been willing to be short of troops, and we have to make some selections."

As for the extent of the selection process, let's put it another way. It's hard to refuse hospitality, and it would not be a good idea to refuse people at this time.

Picking and choosing, even if the only son in the family is taken out, it will only reduce the number by more than a thousand.

During this period, people from other counties heard about this and came to seek refuge with all their belongings.

In their words, it is better to be a dog under His Majesty than to be a human being under Lu Bu.

It is not difficult to see that during the period when Lu Bu was separatist in Youzhou, he was completely different from a human being.

But having said that, once he is defeated, it will be useless no matter how much wealth he leaves behind.

Essentially, he doesn't have a son. If he doesn't recruit a wife, his life will be like this. Naturally, he will be happy on his own.

What Zhang He couldn't imagine was that not only Youzhou, but also people from all over the country heard that the princes had gathered to attack Liu Bei.

Those businessmen and wealthy families who had become wealthy also gave up more than half of their property to support the imperial court in the war.

In their words, without Liu Bei's benevolent government, there would be no development today.

It would be better to say that if other princes came over, the aristocratic families would be fine, but those big businessmen would have to be slaughtered as fat sheep.

But the people below really liked Liu Bei and took out their own grain reserves one after another.

If there are young men in the family, they are asked to go to the government and join the army.

Zou also wrote a letter saying that the general trend was inevitable, so the commercial bank used half of its deposits to produce and purchase supplies to support the war.

In just over a month, Liu Bei's army expanded by more than [-], and various supplies gathered in large quantities.

When the news came out, the world was shocked!
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