The Six Arts of the Gentleman in the Bright Moon of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 547 Li Ren can't stand it anymore [Please subscribe*Please vote]

What people fear most is comparison.

If Li Ren had not made the promise, the status of the shepherds and horse herders in the royal court would actually be higher than that of the lowest-level people in the grassland tribes.

It is like although they are all tenant farmers, the tenant farmers who farm the royal fiefdom have better status and living conditions than ordinary tenant farmers, and even live a more affluent life than most people in Guizhou.

Especially as tenants of the royal court, other tenants have taxes from the imperial court and local nobles behind them, while the tenants of the royal court and the royal family have no one above them. They only need to pay taxes to the royal family and do not even need to pay it to the national treasury.

But a tenant farmer is a tenant farmer after all, and his status is ultimately a slave, not the owner of the land.

It was also because of this that Li Ren's manifesto directly caused those tribes that had originally submitted to King Hunxie and Dayuezhi and had some strength to choose to wait and see.

For these large tribes, this war was not a war of national destruction or extinction, but a pure fight between four kings.

It is equivalent to the replacement of the old king with the new king. They only need to wait for the four kings to decide the winner and then surrender.

As for seeking wealth and honor through danger and following the dragon, that is a leap for a small tribe and is not suitable for a powerful tribe like theirs, and they don't need to take risks.

“The tribes of Ayinafa, Temur, Hulunbuir, and Baogetu did not arrive as scheduled.”

Outside the only remaining southwestern lake of Juyan Lake, the new King of Dayuezhi and King Hunxie looked at the reports from their subordinates with grim expressions.

As a royal court of a tribal alliance, although they claimed to have 300,000 or 100,000 soldiers and horses, in fact only half or even one-third of them truly belonged to the royal court. They relied on their own power to suppress other tribes to become the royal court and the Chanyu.

When facing foreign invasion and there is a chance of victory, or when invading other countries and there are benefits, these tribes will obey their orders. However, once the wind is not right and there is a loss of interests, these powerful tribes will choose to wait and see.

As for the sense of crisis of national extinction, there is no such sense in the grasslands and deserts. As a tribal people who live by following the water and grass, the worst that can happen is that they will run away. They don't have any feelings of being reluctant to leave their homeland.

When the new king is born, the first thing he will do is to appease them and recruit them, rather than destroy them.

Therefore, the tribe is permanent, but the Chanyu is ever-changing.

June, full moon.

Li Ren led an army of 200,000 from Bingzhou, plus nearly 100,000 people from Ruoshui and Juyanze who had risen up, and launched a fierce attack on the camps of Dayuezhi and King Hunxie.

Because of the wait-and-see attitude of various major tribes, the alliance of Dayuezhi and Xiongnu, which was supposed to have an army of 400,000, now has less than 250,000 troops.

It’s almost half less.

"Is two hundred thousand my limit?" Li Ren was a little distressed.

Although he was Li Mu's eldest son, he failed to inherit Li Mu's ability to command a large army. Two hundred thousand men were the limit of the troops he could command, and he could only leave the extra hundred thousand behind as a reserve force.

In fact, what made Li Ren feel most pressured was that as the Grand Coachman of Bingzhou, he actually had to lead the 150,000 troops brought by Meng Tian in this battle.

Adding all these up, the number of troops he actually had to command was close to 500,000.

This made him and his staff feel even more exhausted.

"Having too many people is sometimes not a good thing!" Li Ren rubbed his eyebrows.

The war had been going on for nearly half a month, but Bingzhou's military advantage did not allow him to make full use of it.

On the other side of the battlefield, the brothers Meng Tian and Meng Yi also discovered that the army was unable to fully utilize its military strength advantage.

"General Li Ren seems unable to command our nearly 500,000 troops very well!" Meng Yi whispered to Meng Tian when no one was around.

This is to belittle Shangguan, and people with emotional intelligence will not say it in front of too many people. It must be that Meng Tian is his brother, otherwise he would just keep it in his heart.

Doubting your boss's ability is a big taboo in the officialdom.

The simplest question is, why are others your superiors?
If you refute, you will not only offend your boss, but also all the senior leaders in the entire officialdom.

Because it also means that you are doubting the superiors’ ability to judge people!

"This is an army of nearly 500,000. Has anyone else been able to do this in all these years except Wu'an Jun?" Meng Tian was also very solemn.

He could feel Li Ren's weakness and difficulties more than Meng Yi.

But when he replaced himself in Li Ren's position, he also doubted whether he could command an army of nearly 500,000 at will.

The answer is obvious, he can't do it, at least he can't do it now.

It's not just because he is still young, but also because commanding such a large-scale force requires a dedicated military shogunate.

Obviously, Bingzhou did not provide Li Ren with a military shogunate capable of commanding an army of 500,000 for this expedition.

It is impossible to say that Bingzhou cannot form such a large-scale military shogunate, but there will only be one such large military shogunate, and that is the current Kuramatsu County Shogunate, the Kokuufu exclusive to Bingjun.

The command of a large army group has never relied solely on the commander-in-chief. It is more often decided by the military shogunate, and the commander-in-chief is only responsible for making the final decision.

A good cook cannot cook without rice. Without a supporting military headquarters, even if top generals such as Lu Shang, Wu Qi, Sun Wu and Bai Qi were brought in, they would be unable to command the 500,000-strong army alone.

The huge amount of calculation and budget would kill a person.

"Not only General Li Ren can't do it, even if his father, General Li Mu was here, he wouldn't be able to take advantage of the military strength." Meng Tian continued to add.

Li Ren's shogunate is already overloaded.

Therefore, Li Rencai ordered them to act according to the circumstances instead of letting them rashly join the army.

Once the troops are gathered together, the amount of calculation required will be far greater than when they are separated.

"When I go back, I must petition the emperor to establish a department of mathematics, otherwise the shogunate will be too short of manpower!" Li Ren lay on the couch like a salted fish.

In just half a month, half of his hair turned white and the other half fell out.

"I really envy Luo Bing. He only needs to manage a few thousand people and all he needs is his hands!"

Li Ren suddenly envied Luo Bing.

He became balder, but also stronger.

Before this, he needed to use his brain to command 50,000 or 60,000 troops. It would be a headache if he had to command 100,000 troops. He could hold on for a few months with 200,000 troops even if he gritted his teeth.

But now he has nearly 500,000 in his pocket. Looking back, is 200,000 still a big deal?

However, half a month had almost exhausted all his energy.

Therefore, Li Ren could only send an eagle to Cangsong County to ask Yan Yan to replace him with someone else, as he really couldn't hold on any longer.

(End of this chapter)