The Maojin knife from the late Jin Dynasty

Chapter 195 Liu Tai’s Strategic Concept

Liu Tai looked at everyone and said, "We can successfully defeat Wang Jun, so it is naturally a good thing to win Youzhou.

But it is easy to defeat Youzhou, but it is not easy to secure Youzhou, especially when others attack Youzhou and Qingzhou at the same time.

Then we will be attacked from both ends, making the overall strategy passive! "

"It's better to attack Shile and seize Yecheng. I have long wanted to kill this slave of the Jie tribe!" Wang Sang shouted decisively.

"General Wang, don't be anxious. Now that Duke Ming and Shi Leju are officials of the Han Dynasty, how can we raise troops without an order?" Chu Hui quickly came forward to persuade.

"The emperor sang and sang every night. I heard that even the queens changed six times. How can he look like the original Emperor Guangwen?" Wang Sang said disdainfully, "Do you think that because he hangs out with women every day, the world will automatically fall to him? I can’t get my hands on it!”

"Ahem!" Liu Tai coughed a few times and said, "Now he is the emperor of my Han Dynasty, so you can't talk about it unreasonably!"

After hearing Liu Tai's words, everyone understood to some extent that Liu Tai had no intention of rebelling, but looking at Liu Tai's unkind tone, everyone knew that it was not necessarily true how much Liu Tai respected the current emperor Liu Cong.

Liu Tai waved his hand and said: "Okay, nothing happened to the Xiongnu and Han Dynasties, and it is impossible for us to fight Shi Le directly.

After all, I don’t want my uncle to be known as a rebel because of this, so I just want to let Shi Le live for a few years first! "

Seeing Liu Tai's words, everyone understood that Wang Sang's plan to directly attack Shi Le was over.

"Ming Gong called us here, but you already have a plan in mind?" Chu Hui opened his mouth to elicit Liu Tai's words.

Liu Tai nodded when he heard this and said: "It's actually simple. We want to guard against Shi Le, but we can't invest too many resources into it. So my suggestion is to further expand the government in Jizhou and several counties in Youzhou." The number of soldiers.

Arm the people in the border areas and form a civilian defense system from household to protector and from protector to village.

Our soldiers will also conduct regular training for these border villages to familiarize them with the battlefield.

If one day Shi Le really fights us, they can cooperate with the soldiers to become a force of resistance on the front line and buy us time to dispatch! "

"It would be easier to say if they were just government soldiers!" Chu Hui breathed a sigh of relief after hearing Liu Tai's words.

Because the soldiers are basically responsible for their own armor or food, even if they are dispatched, they are basically dispatched in local counties. Even if they are dispatched to distant places, at least they are within one state.

Therefore, relatively speaking, the cost of raising Fu soldiers is not high, and Fu soldiers themselves have fifty acres of land and various hidden benefits. They are also happy to accept these professions.

Liu Tai heard the implication of Chu Hui's words and continued: "The number of soldiers must be increased!

However, to determine how many soldiers to increase, we first need to conduct a census and land survey in Youzhou and Jizhou before making a decision!

Uncle Zhang, Daozheng, one of you will be responsible for the census and land survey of our land boundary.

Of course, you may not have enough manpower. If Xi joins the army, he needs your military commanders to go and support them.

Let us first find out the population situation and land situation within our territory. Only with this foundation can we further carry out governance and recruit troops. Otherwise, all words will be just talk on paper. "

"We obey the order!" Zhang Song, Gou Chun and Xi Canjun quickly saluted Liu Tai.

Liu Tai nodded when he saw everyone responding and continued:

"By the way, when you go down to investigate, you can tell the local nobles frankly.

From now on, as long as I, Liu Tai, am still in charge of Youji, a population and land census will be conducted every five years.

If they fail to report an accurate number, the next inventory will be based on the number they reported this time.

The next time the land was inspected, there were discrepancies, and the ins and outs of the land could not be explained clearly.

The extra land will be recovered by the court, and they need to make up for the missing land. "

Liu Tai looked at Zhang Song and Gou Chun and said, "The land you two investigated this time is the basis for our governance of Youzhou."

"I'll understand later!" Zhang Song answered repeatedly after hearing Liu Tai's words.

Anyway, I am definitely responsible for checking the population. As for what matters on the land have to do with me, I will agree first.

When Gou Chun heard the shameless response from Zhang Song next to him, he could only bite the bullet and agree first.

Liu Tai knew very well that if they went to investigate, they would not be able to find out the reason. They could only say that they would try their best to get some results.

I really want to know how much land these aristocratic families have in their hands. I am afraid that when the industry produced can feed back agriculture, then when I subsidize the land controlled by the court instead of collecting taxes, I believe that a lot of land will jump out. Need food supplements.

Just like the policy of allocating children to acres, the real power of adding children to acres is to liberate the shackles of taxation on people. Similarly, when the productivity of industry feeds back to agriculture, it will also liberate the shackles of taxation on agricultural taxes.

After all, compared with such a small amount of agricultural tax, it is really more cost-effective to produce more agricultural grain and trade it as commercial grain.

Liu Tai continued, "Continuing to return to agriculture itself, our agricultural technology in Qingzhou can be tried out in Youzhou.

In particular, there is really no end to pig iron, which can be used to make farm tools for the people. As for steelmaking that wants to go further, let the people do it slowly.

At the same time, Youzhou is relatively sparsely populated, so many grains can be managed intensively to maximize grain production!
The second step is to build roads. I will find a way to build the entire main road from Youzhou, Jizhou, and Qingzhou first.

With the expansion of these infrastructures, it can also absorb as many people as possible throughout Youzhou, especially those deserters from Wang Jun.

I don't believe it. How can they eat chaff and drink water every day as deserters? But here, as long as they are willing to work, they can at least have three meals a day! "

"Isn't three meals too much..." Listening to the words constantly coming out of Liu Tai's mouth, Yang Yu's eyes were a little dazed, as if he were listening to a book from heaven. It wasn't that he didn't understand, but that he couldn't believe it.

Do you work in this world and give food to the corvees?And he also had three meals a day. This kind of thing is simply unheard of, unheard of!
"Three meals! If the working guy eats two meals and has no strength, then the work will be very slow!" Liu Tai waved his hand.

To be honest, even in modern society, people who do manual labor must be fed.

And sometimes not only three meals, but also during tea time, the host might invite them to have another meal.

Well, when Yang Yu heard Liu Tai's categorical words, he felt that if those defeated troops could last for two months, not to mention a year, he would admire them. After all, who would want to rebel if they had food to eat?
If Liu Tairuo knew Yang Yu's thoughts, he would also express his agreement with Yang Yu's thoughts.

The reason is very simple. The contradiction of this era is the contradiction between insufficient productivity and the people's growing material needs.

Basically, as long as you can eat, it is actually not difficult to settle the world.Of course, being able to eat can not only deal with people, but also wolves.

So Liu Tai understood that if he wanted to deal with the defeated troops, he had to find a way to work for them and give them food.

For Jizhou Youzhou, this means one more laborer and one less rebel. Otherwise, relying solely on massacre will only lead to more killings.

At this point, Liu Tai continued:

"From the aspects of transportation and agriculture, and for the convenience of dispatching our soldiers, we need to dispatch our soldiers to the Youji and Qingsanzhou we currently control within half a month.

Therefore, in addition to establishing the first fleet in Jiaozhou Bay, we also need to establish a second fleet in Bohai Bay. "

"We still want to build a fleet?!" Hearing this, even Chu Hui found it difficult to accept this time.

After all, the main goal of the fleet is to deal with Wang Jun. Now that Wang Jun has been dealt with, especially if the world already knows this trick, it is unrealistic to think of any sudden changes.

What's more, the Soochow region where Sima Rui is located has sufficient shipping heritage and has experience in contacting Gongsun Du. It is not difficult for them to create a cross-sea ship.

Under such circumstances, to be honest, Chu Hui felt that having an army in Jiaozhou Bay was enough, and building another fleet would be a complete waste!

"We must form a second maritime army!" Liu Tai said in an unquestionable tone,

“However, the nature of this army is mainly defensive, and their biggest role is to maintain the smooth flow of the entire Bohai Sea channel.

They can dispatch our soldiers from the waterway to Youzhou and Qingzhou in a few days.

Especially if the enemy plans to attack Youzhou, it will be too long for us from Qingzhou to get there by land.

When the river from Guanggu City to the Bohai Bay becomes smooth, it will not even take three days to get on the boat from Guanggu City to the Youzhou area. If we build a canal directly to the Bohai Sea, then we will be able to completely control the three states of Youji and Qing Dynasty! "

"We need to build a canal?!" When Chu Hui heard Liu Tai's words, he suppressed his desire to roar and said,
"Ming Gong, you have to think clearly, if we release Manan Mountain, Shi Le will not rest!"

"I know!" Liu Tai said calmly, "But let's not talk about the distance, only this year and next year. Will he dare to attack us?!"

Hearing Liu Tai's words, everyone present looked at each other, but they had to admit that Shi Lezhen took the initiative to attack at this time, unless he was crazy.

Needless to say, after he lost his moral protection, Liu Tai was afraid that he would be so excited that he directly led his troops to kill Shi Le, and he had to kill Shi Le completely.

Therefore, Shi Le would never dare to take the initiative to attack Liu Tai.

Liu Taize said: “So, we will have stable development for a long period of time, and what we need to do during this period is to develop ourselves as much as possible.

Through large-scale projects, we will absorb all kinds of people, give them food and work, and stabilize the entire society.

At the same time, we also need to develop the marine resources of the Bohai Bay.

Some military shipyards are open to civilians, allowing them to build large ships for fishing throughout the Bohai Sea.

And we can use these large ships to go to the Liaodong area and trade with them.

Whether it's horses, furs, medicinal materials, or jade, we trade with them in salt, brocade, and books.

Wang Jun was defeated and we became the strongest in the north. As long as we don't act first, the entire force in the north will stabilize.

What we need to do is to tap every potential of ourselves to make ourselves stronger! "

Liu Tai spoke his thoughts to everyone, giving everyone enough time to think.

To be honest, for Liu Tai, there is really no need to worry. He is only a few years old now and he has not married Wang Wei yet!
I am also prepared to wait until the conflict between the Xiongnu and the Han people breaks out, then hold high the banner of the Han people and participate in the world hegemony in the name of Han.

Unlike now, no matter what I do, I need to follow Liu Cong's decree, so that my every move needs to be restricted.

Needless to say, when he broke free from the shackles, he would immediately go to trouble Shi Le.

After all, without Liu Cong over his head, it would be reasonable for him to attack Shi Le in the name of revenge for Wang Mi.

Therefore, after he killed Wang Jun, Liu Tai decisively chose to recuperate.

Compared to Shi Le who didn't know how to develop his own potential, Liu Kun had no development potential at all, and Murong was now an immature nascent civilization. It could be said that time was on his side.

Needless to say, all of my soldiers have not yet been replaced with hundred-grade steel-making armor!

Moreover, he did not want to build the entire Yongji Canal, but only wanted to build the current section of the North Canal from Tianjin to Beijing.

That is to say, it is a canal with a total length of about 148 kilometers from Lushui to Baihe to Bohai Bay.

Because this is a canal that history has proven can really be repaired. If this canal can be successfully completed, for me, as long as this waterway is successfully opened up and all the dangers on the waterway are removed, then I will be able to do it within a week. Time sent his troops from Qingzhou directly to the hinterland of Youzhou!

What is this concept in ancient times? You must know that the ultimate range of an empire is the range that soldiers can reach within a hundred days.

For Liu Tai, even if there was someone under Shi Le who could persuade Liu Kun from the north and Sima Rui from the south to attack him together.

Liu Tai is also confident that after defeating one party, he will complete the deployment of his troops within a week.

But in this case, Liu Tai's biggest weakness is Murong Xianbei.

Because with the completion of Liu Tai's Bohai Bay strategic concept, the only weakness left now is to cross the sea at Murong Xianbei in Pingzhou to attack Liu Tai's hinterland.

Just as he could use the Bohai Sea, a bathtub belonging to China, to complete the easy military dispatch of the three states of Hebei and Qing Dynasty, similarly, Murong Xianbei could attack Liu Tai's hinterland at any time through the ocean.

To a certain extent, once this big bathtub strategy is started, there cannot be any gaps in the bathtub.

Otherwise, regardless of the fall of Rome or the Spain that Justinian I has always been thinking about, they will tell you what price such a big bathtub will pay after a gap appears.

But as long as the strategic closed loop is completed and the entire big bathtub is occupied by oneself, the transportation cost of the entire organization will drop to an incredible level.

The most important thing is that the ocean, a strategic resource that is somewhat unfamiliar to China, has truly appeared in China's strategic vision for the first time.

(End of this chapter)