A Will Eternal Chapter 706

Of course, the control of the grassland is not only about this, but also includes strict division of pastoral areas, limiting the number of troops, and so on. Without the permission of the Protectorate, no tribe is allowed to cross the border without permission; every tribe on the grassland can retain appropriate force (after all, it is not realistic to keep an army at all in the grassland environment), but the number is strictly limited, and when necessary He had to accept Pingzhou's call-up unconditionally.

Small tribes should not exceed 3,000, medium-sized tribes can be up to 10,000, large tribes can be 30,000, and super-large tribes can be 50,000. The total army strength of the entire Xianbei must not exceed 2 million. In addition, all centurions and above need to be registered in the major guards. The leaders and commanders of all tribes need to go to Xiangping in person to accept the canonization of the merchants.

The next thing is some regular rewards and encouragement, the real core policy and secrets will not be said on this occasion. It's not that Shang Ji doesn't trust them, but that there are hundreds of people present, big and small, and there are too many people talking. Some things are really not suitable for too many people to know, such as the real gains of the Pingzhou Army in this battle!

Most of the people were sent away, leaving only the core high-level officials in Pingzhou. The real high-level meeting had just begun.

Shang Ji gave a glance, and Xi Zhicai got up immediately, and said with a smile: "Everyone, our army has gained a lot in this battle!"

"Just one item of funds, our army has accumulatively harvested 5.2 billion gold!"

Even though they had already made general psychological preparations, when they really heard so much money, everyone couldn't help but exclaimed in unison.

"5.2 billion gold!"

The military generals headed by Liu Yi couldn't help but catch their breath, and all set their sights on Shang Ji. In order to persuade everyone to support his plan, one of the baits proposed by Shang Ji was to double the military expenditure next year. Now it seems that doubling seems to be a bit of a loss!

Deng Yan saw that the situation was not good, so he quickly interjected: "Everyone, although the harvest in this battle is rich, the price is also high!"

Facing the stares of all the generals wanting to eat people, Deng Yan hurriedly said: "According to the loss and consumption of ordnance reported by Liu Zong, our army needs about 80 million gold just to replenish the ordnance. In addition, the compensation for the soldiers who died in battle is also a large amount. The sum of expenses, including the consumption of materials during the war, medicines to help Xianbei control the plague, and food to relieve the famine, will definitely not be less than 400 million gold!"

After a pause, Deng Yan probably felt that the difference between 400 million and 5.2 billion was too big, so he quickly turned his attention to Zhang Xin, who had a very low sense of existence.

Although Zhang Xin has a low sense of existence, he is in charge of the operation of the entire Pingzhou meritorious service system. It is not an exaggeration to say that he has a high position and weight. At this time, he coughed lightly, and said slowly: "My lord, during this war, because the lord started a large-scale regional task [War to destroy Hu], foreigners and rangers actively participated, which provided favorable conditions for the destruction of Xianbei." , but correspondingly, the merit points are also being consumed at a very high speed."

"From the lord's expedition to the present, a total of 760 million worth of meritorious service has been spent. In order to ensure that our Pingzhou meritorious value will not collapse like the great man's meritorious service, we must provide at least 300 million in reserve and a large number of weapons, equipment, and pills. Medicines and other items are used to exchange for meritorious service!"

"Hiss, 760 million merit points??"

Even Shang Ji was taken aback when he heard this figure. According to the initial setting that one meritorious service is worth one gold, if the 400 million gold reported by Deng Yan was included, the total expenditure of Pingzhou during the entire war was as high as 1.1 billion gold. ? It is roughly equivalent to the total taxation of Pingzhou for five years!

"How can such a high merit point be consumed??"

Shang Ji couldn't help frowning and asked, he felt that he didn't spend much meritorious service!

Zhang Xin did not speak, and directly handed over a thick bill, which clearly listed the total consumption of merit points from the beginning of the war to the present.

Shang Ji took it and flipped through it roughly, looking at the consumption records recorded on it, and suddenly felt like looking at the Huabei bill. I usually spend money happily, but I don't feel heartache until I can't breathe until I calculate the general account.

With 760 million merit points, if it weren't for the fact that Longcheng's harvest far exceeded expectations, it is estimated that the entire Pingzhou's finances would have collapsed! Of course, if it wasn't for the fact that Dragon City's harvest exceeded imagination,

Shang Ji will not spend money extravagantly in the middle and late stages of the war.

Fortunately for Shang Ji, he didn't really have to pay 700 million gold for 760 million feats. A large part of these meritorious deeds were obtained internally by the Pingzhou Army, and only a small part of the meritorious service received by the soldiers would be directly converted into money. Others are mainly used for advanced official positions, or to obtain some unplanned supplies of elixir, or to replace some non-standard equipment.

These will greatly reduce the real consumption of merchants. After all, there is still a big difference between the cost price of a pill and the market price, especially for Pingzhou!

The same is true for players. Although they cannot exchange for official positions, they can exchange for a thing called "Pingzhou Force Intimacy". The increase in intimacy can give priority to receiving various tasks with higher rewards. If the intimacy is enough, they can even enter the intranet Exchange some high-end goods supplied internally, or have the right to rent the high-level military barracks in Pingzhou to train soldiers.

In short, it is to fully learn from a certain boss surnamed Ma, and try to squeeze out the last bit of merit points from the players at the smallest cost!

By the way, increasing intimacy is not only dependent on meritorious service, it can also be improved through "free donations", in other words, just throwing money at it!

Calculated in this way, there are more than 700 million merit points, and the cash that actually needs to be paid by the merchant may be about 100 million in the end. The rest are equipment, medicine pills, cheat books, props and other items. The 300 million reserve fund that Zhang Xin said was completely the most conservative estimate, and it also meant to help Deng Yan increase the consumption.

However, the generals of the Pingzhou Army are not easy to fool. Zhao Yun got up and coughed lightly: "As Bie Jia said, Pingzhou has consumed a total of 1.2 billion gold before and after this battle, so we have 4 billion gold left... "

As soon as Deng Yan said this, he was speechless. The harvest was so great that Deng Yan couldn't help it if he wanted to open his eyes and talk nonsense!

"Okay, let's not discuss the financial division for the time being. I already know how to use this batch of money. The topic will continue to return to the Battle of Xianbei!"

Shang Ji's words interrupted the debate between the two parties.

"My lord, what should we do with the 500,000 high-ranking Xianbei troops captured by our army in this battle? Should we continue to form a separate army in the form of the Xiongnu Wanqi, or disperse them?"

Liu Yi brought up a topic that interested the generals.

"Split! Scatter them all!"

Shang Ji waved his big hand and gave the order directly. Although Shang Ji had six Huns Wanqi's training cheats in his hands, Shang Ji didn't intend to use them.

The strongest Baiyang Wanqi is also a prefecture-level middle-rank special unit, and the Pingzhou Army does not lack prefecture-level mid-rank special cavalry units. Not to mention the black-armored Xuanqi led by Shang Ji, after a decisive battle with Ke Bineng, Zhao Yun's Silver Dragon Cavalry took the lead in advancing to the mid-level prefecture level. And Tai Shici's Lieyang Cavalry and Liu Meng's Tanlang Cavalry also touched the threshold of promotion.

In addition, Liu Yi's ghost cavalry and Xu Huang's split ax cavalry were also successfully promoted to prefecture-level special units.

In terms of infantry, giant shield soldiers, heavy armored knives, giant axemen, heavy armored sharp spears, etc., which have suffered extremely heavy losses, have also been promoted to Xuan-level top-rank special units. But the overall combat power is not inferior to the Xiongnu Wanqi too much.

There are enough high-level special arms in Pingzhou, ranging from infantry to cavalry, from offense to defense, from long-range to close combat, and they have established a relatively mature combat method based on these arms. If there are no special circumstances, Shang Ji does not intend to easily change the general structure of the Pingzhou Army.

The 500,000 Xianbei surrendered troops, instead of forming five Xiongnu Wanqi Geying people, it is better to disrupt the establishment and fill them in the armies after being naturalized in the Yanhuang Temple.

With the addition of these 500,000 high-quality soldiers, the recovery speed of the severely damaged main forces of the Pingzhou Army will be greatly improved.

"In addition, according to the latest rules and regulations, the number of troops in the Eastern Xianbei has greatly exceeded the limit. Send them a message, and there are two options, either disband the excess army, or transfer the excess to Xiangping, and break up the establishment as a reserve Supplement to the Pingzhou Army."

After finishing speaking, a cold light flashed in Shang Ji's eyes: "The four eastern Xianbei nobles, Suli, Mijia, Jueji, and Samad Khan (the only surviving historical generals in the eastern Xianbei) came to Pingzhou to serve. The various tribes of the eastern Xianbei All the heirs are sent to Xiangping to receive instruction from Xiangping. The Xianbei tribes in the east will be strictly monitored, and anyone who crosses the border will be punished immediately!"

With the deaths of Ke Bineng and Bu Dugen successively, the Xianbei in China and the West basically withdrew from the stage of history, but not the Xianbei in the east. Because it was too early to surrender, the eastern Xianbei was the one that suffered the least damage. The entire eastern Xianbei still retains more than 2 million troops, which greatly exceeds the upper limit stipulated by the Shang Dynasty.

In addition, according to the historical process, the eastern Xianbei is very unusual. The well-known tribes of Tuoba, Yuwen, Tufa, Murong, and Duan all came from the eastern Xianbei.

During the period of the Sixteen Kingdoms, the tribes split from the eastern Xianbei successively established ten national regimes, as well as a hegemonic country such as the Northern Wei Dynasty. In addition, Yuwen, the founder of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, can also be traced back to Yuwen Xianbei.

For such a tribe, although it seems very cowardly now, Shang Ji dare not relax his vigilance. From another perspective, it may be because of the current cowardice that the foundation was preserved, and it was able to expand rapidly after the Eight Kings Rebellion in the Western Jin Dynasty.

What Shang Ji has to do is to continuously split up the Eastern Xianbei, weaken its influence, and even intervene by force when necessary. As long as Xianbei in the east is still hanging around on the grassland, he will not be able to escape the control of the War Soul Legion. In the flames of war, Xianbei's hope of recreating the glory in history is extremely slim.

"Brother, go back and discuss with the generals, and make a supplementary army charter, so as to restore the size of our army to the pre-war level as soon as possible."

After finishing speaking, without waiting for Liu Yi to agree, Shang Ji looked back at Deng Yan: "Hongzhu, you also make a new budget, estimate what preparations are needed to promote Xiangping to the king city, and also count our first [three] Year Plan] for achievements.”

"Yes, my lord!"

Hearing what Shang Ji said, Deng Yan and Liu Yi realized what Shang Ji was going to do, and hurriedly responded solemnly. This statistical plan is bound to be related to the division of the huge 5.2 billion funds. Whoever has the better plan and who can attract the attention of merchants will get more resources!