Chapter 705 Meeting

"Ahem, everyone, my Pingzhou Army has returned from the expedition to Xianbei. First of all, on behalf of all my colleagues in Pingzhou, I would like to congratulate my mighty Pingzhou Army generals!"

At the general military and political meeting, Deng Yan, as the host, got up first and said.

"The Pingzhou Army can achieve such brilliant results. It is inseparable from the wise leadership of the lord. It is also inseparable from the countless Pingzhou people who have silently paid for Pingzhou. On behalf of all the soldiers, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Deng Biejia and all the colleagues who supported him in the rear. grateful!"

As the leader of the military, Liu Yi naturally needs to respond.

After the two were polite, the meeting was officially held.

"Our army's return from victory this time is due to the bloody battle of all soldiers and the concerted efforts of all the people." Shang Ji's voice changed, and his voice began to grow cold: "However, there are very few stubborn people who have survived in Huayi. At the critical moment of the war, he turned his back on Pingzhou and tried to disturb the hard-won peace of Pingzhou. If such disloyal and unrighteous people are not killed, the civilians will not be angry, and if they are not killed, it will not be enough to boost the morale of the army!"

Before Shang Ji could finish his sentence, Gongsun Du beside him broke out in a cold sweat!

In yesterday's big purge, the military, government, aristocratic families, tyrants, alien races, and players were all affected, and hundreds of officers, large and small, were arrested in the military. Among them, the two school captains have the highest official positions, and these two school lieutenants happen to be Gongsundu's former subordinates!

If it weren't for his good daughter Gongsun Ting to send him a hint, Gongsundu would have planned to take the blame.

In fact, according to Qian Huan's information, Gongsun Du really had no major fault in this matter. His two old ministries have long since lost contact with him.

Of course, if he insisted on making a fuss, he would definitely be involved, but Shang Ji didn't intend to expand the purge. For the relatively innocent Gongsun Du, Shang Ji just beat him a little.

Deng Yan took over Shang Ji's words in a timely manner: "My lord is right. According to the exact information, a total of 2,200 people are suspected of rebellion. These include foreign people, powerful families, foreign races that have surrendered, etc., and even Some tentacles have penetrated into the interior of our army. The evidence of this group of people's rebellion is conclusive, and they will be punished tomorrow. Please take this as a warning to all colleagues, and don't mistake others or yourself!"

Deng Yan's words closed the curtain on this matter, and also showed that Shang Ji did not have a tendency to expand the purge, which greatly relieved Gongsun Du and other non-directed people.

In fact, this cleansing meant to sound the alarm more strongly. Although some unlucky people had some changes during the "serious injury" period of the businessmen, many of them were subconscious actions at the time of turmoil.

However, in order to eliminate hidden dangers, Shang Ji decisively arrested all of these people, including several long-established families in Xiangping City and some player forces who have been unwilling to be honest.

And this big cleansing also provided Pingzhou with tens of millions of gold in financial gains, more than 20 directly subordinate territories, and thousands of pieces of high-level equipment, large and small, which is considered a small profit.

The purge came to an end, and the main content of the real Pingzhou military and political conference will follow.

"In the Battle of Xianbei, our army fought bloody battles and won the final victory, but because of Ke Bineng's tenacious resistance, our army also suffered heavy losses. Among them, a total of 1.96 million soldiers were killed in battle, and some main combat arms such as giant shield soldiers, etc. Almost the entire army was wiped out, and urgently needed to be supplemented and restored. As for material losses, there were countless losses in armor, weapons, arrows, shields, bows and other equipment, and more than 30% of equipment such as explosive torch chariots and large bed crossbows. It will take at least two months for the state army to return to its pre-war size."

Liu Yi got up first, and made a brief summary of the war on behalf of the military, and concluded with two sentences - the whole army suffered heavy losses, my lord, please pay money quickly!

Shang Ji smiled slightly, ignoring Liu Yi's crying, and turned to look at Deng Yan.

Deng Yan understood, got up and continued: "According to the statistics afterwards, our army has accumulatively harvested 4 million horses, 5 million rough horses, 20 million cattle, and 400 million sheep , not counting the livestock in the hands of Xianbei civilians who did not participate in the war).

Capture 500,000 high-level enemy troops, occupy a king-level city, destroy a king-level city, and harvest massive building materials.

More than 500,000 high-level Xianbei troops were captured, and more than 200 enemy generals above the first rank were captured, including twelve super first-class generals. There are six historical military generals, but they are all B- and C-level historical generals, so I won’t focus on them.

In addition, after this battle, 70% of the original Xianbei territory was controlled by our army. More than 400 tribes, large and small, surrendered to our army. After a brief discussion, we divided the Xianbei tribes with less than 100,000 people into small tribes, 100,000 to 500,000 as medium-sized tribes, 500,000 to 2 million people as large tribes, and more than 2 million as super-large tribes. Among the more than 400 tribes, there are six super-large tribes, 17 large tribes, 103 medium-sized tribes, and more than 300 small tribes.

According to preliminary statistics, the total population of Xianbei within the sphere of influence of our army is 160 million, which is roughly half of the total population of our Pingzhou (excluding Xianbei)! "

After a pause, Deng Yan continued: "Before the civil war broke out in Xianbei, there were data showing that the total number of tribes in Xianbei exceeded 700, with a total population of 500 million! That is to say, the civil war in less than two years, plus our During the Northern Expedition, the total population of Xianbei decreased by nearly 70%!"

"hiss!"

There was a sound of breathing in the hall immediately, such a terrifying population loss, even the battle-hardened generals could hardly imagine.

"How could the casualties be so high?"

Yang Cheng couldn't help asking out everyone's doubts.

"Military disaster, man-made disaster, plague, snowstorm, famine!" Deng Yan spat out ten words coldly!

In fact, only a small part of them died directly in the war. The protracted war led to food shortages, and the large-scale massacres by the army caused the rampant disease and the deaths of livestock, which further aggravated the food shortage.

In order to alleviate the food crisis, Ke Bineng and Bu Dugen chose to beggar their neighbor in a very tacit understanding, trying to survive the difficulties by plundering each other, which in turn aggravated the intensity of the war and the epidemic, and made famine become the norm.

The Xianbei people were very unlucky, and it happened to be a snowstorm. After a snowstorm, some small tribes with weak resistance were directly wiped out!

And the plague didn't just refer to the Dragon City plague created by Shang Ji. Before that, the plague on the grassland had almost never stopped, but the scale and harm were not as good as the Dragon City plague.

"In other words, Xianbei has no ability and dare not deviate from Pingzhou in a short period of time, but accordingly we need to provide food, cloth and other materials to help Xianbei tide over the difficulties."

Deng Yan made a final summary, and at the same time found another reason that could barely explain Shang Ji's large withdrawal.

Deng Yan, as the core management of Pingzhou, naturally knew what was going on with the Battle Soul Legion, but the cover that should be done still had to be done.

"Based on the output of previous years and the current population status of Xianbei, under normal circumstances, the grassland can provide us with 50 million horses, 200 million cattle, and 4 billion sheep (most of which are You need to pay for the purchase or exchange, which is equivalent to the grain produced by ordinary people in the Han area. You cannot forcibly confiscate all of them. The livestock data refers to Mongolia next door).

This is just a conservative estimate. If we can increase the input, such as providing more food and medicine to Xianbei, the number of livestock that can be produced will be even greater! "

Everyone's eyes widened involuntarily, imagining the shocking scene of hundreds of millions of horses, cattle and sheep running in front of them from time to time.

"This... so much, how can I eat it all!" Dian Wei smacked his mouth, somewhat unable to imagine how to digest so much output.

There was a burst of good-natured laughter from the crowd, Deng Yan was also amused by Dian Wei, shook his head and smiled, and waved his hand to signal for the crowd to be quiet first: "There is some truth in what General Elai said, whether it is cattle, sheep or war horses, as we It is impossible to digest all of Pingzhou's volume. Therefore, we will start large-scale trade with the mainland!"

Shang Ji knocked on the table and drew everyone's attention to himself: "I have already discussed with Baishou, Wen Ruo and others, and we will come forward from Pingzhou to purchase the livestock in the hands of the Xianbei people at a suitable price. Also sell them food, tea, medicine, cloth, salt and other necessary living materials. Make sure that the Xianbei people who are sincerely willing to return to our army will not go hungry!"

As soon as Shang Ji finished speaking, people with flexible minds have already seen the huge benefits of this.

The method of Shangji is similar to the monopoly of later generations. Relying on force to uniformly purchase the livestock in the hands of the Xianbei people, and then sell them to the princes in the interior at a high price. Because of its monopoly, there is a high room for manipulation in price. On the other hand, Xianbei people can only purchase food, cloth and other materials through official channels in Pingzhou, which not only chokes the lifeline of Xianbei people to a certain extent, but also makes a lot of money.

Historically, the Mongols were killed by the Qing Dynasty in this way. In the middle and late stages, Mongolian livestock were sold to Shanxi merchants at extremely low prices, and then they had to buy daily necessities from Shanxi merchants at high prices, causing the entire Mongolia to bear extremely high debts!

In conjunction with the Qing government's policy of supporting Lamaism and reducing Ding, the ferocious Mongols were gradually domesticated.

Of course, for the sake of long-term consideration, Shangji will not squeeze the Xianbei people too much, at least to ensure their basic life. With the Battle Soul Legion in charge, Shang Ji is not afraid of the Xianbei people becoming bigger, and there is no need to implement any reduction policy. Even conversely, Shang Ji also needs to encourage Xianbei people to give birth.

After all, the grassland is too big, and a mere 160 million people cannot use it effectively. Increasing the grassland population to a certain extent can greatly increase the output of animal husbandry.

Shangji's goal is to restore the total population of Xianbei to pre-war levels, and increase the output of animal husbandry by five times!

Of course, this goal is a bit far away for the time being, but in the foreseeable future, animal husbandry trade will be one of the pillar industries in Pingzhou, even surpassing the processing and sales of the most prosperous elixir.

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