Lu Bu can barely bear the problem of redundant officials now, but what he can't stand is redundant soldiers now.

Lu Bu now has 40,000 troops in command of the headquarters' guard division, and there are 15 central regular troops of 15 divisions including Gao Shun, Zhang Liao, Huang Zhong, Zhao Yun, Zhang He, Xu Huang, Xu Rong, Yan Xing, Taishi Ci, Ju Yi, Zhu Ling, Wei Yan, Yan Rou, Tian Yu, plus Gan Ning's Yellow River Navy and Lu Dai's Bohai Navy, a total of 360,000 troops. In addition, Yu Jin's Qingzhou Corps, Zang Ba's Xuzhou Corps, Wei Yan's Yuzhou Corps, and Zhang Yan's Taihang. The Corps, Zhang Ren's Jingzhou Corps, each of which has more than 20,000 elite soldiers, including Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun's 40,000 troops, Ma Teng and Banrong's Western Region Protectorate Office, and Qin Yi's ocean-going navy, which has a total of 520,000 troops. Although these troops have stationed to farm, because they often have to be mobilized, the proportion of their own military rations from farming is less than 20%, which is far smaller than Lu Bu's expectation.

If we include the semi-finite construction corps and field protection soldiers of each prefecture and county, the total number of soldiers is one million. However, Lu Bu's people are only more than 30 million. Although the proportion of military-civilians in 1 to 30 is much lower than that of the Qin Dynasty, Lu Bu pursues the prosperity of the Han Dynasty forever, rather than the death of the Qin Dynasty in the second lifetime, it is impossible for him to be so impatient. If it continues like the Qin Dynasty, sooner or later, people will lose their lives and rise up. This is not the result that Lu Bu wants.

Before this, Tian Feng, Ju Su, Dong Zhao, Han Hao and others repeatedly made suggestions: "Lord, we have too many full-time soldiers now, and the military expenditure is too high. Moreover, the proportion of military and civilians is too high, and the available labor is seriously reduced, which has affected the development of local agriculture, animal husbandry, industry and commerce." At that time, Lu Bu was determined to unify the territory of the Han Dynasty as soon as possible, but he did not listen at all. Later, he went on a private visit to see the loopholes in his policy of being a soldier for the whole nation, and Lu Bu began to wake up.

When Lu Bu temporarily cleared the hidden dangers around him, and when Wang Lang and Hua Xin arrived in Yecheng, he advised Lu Bu again about this issue, Lu Bu began to seriously consider this issue: "There are many soldiers and horses, and the few soldiers and horses are not necessarily defeated, otherwise there would be no legends of the Battle of Guandu, the Battle of Chibi, and the Battle of Feishui. Otherwise, the redundant soldiers of the Northern Song Dynasty could help the royal family of Zhao Song defend Kaifeng."

The Song Dynasty learned the deepest lessons in the redundant soldiers. The Song Dynasty implemented the recruitment system, separated soldiers and peasants, and soldiers and civilians performed their duties, followed their own means and gained their own benefits. It was the same as the recruitment system in later generations. However, because the Song Dynasty often recruited hungry people, refugees joined the army, and sent criminals to serve as soldiers. It was easy for the Song people to join the army. It seemed that everyone could join the army, but it was difficult to retreat, because the law stipulated that the retreat must be at least 61 years. With such a provision, once the military gate enters deep like the sea, it is easy to retreat, and the military system that is easy to advance and difficult to retreat, the consequence is that the army is aging. The military quality is low, the replacement cycle of new and old is long, and the number of troops is very easy to expand. The military strength during the demise of the Northern Song Dynasty was five times higher than when it was founded, but its combat power was much inferior.

The lessons of the redundant soldiers of the Northern Song Dynasty not defending the country were staged one after another in the subsequent Ming, Qing and Republic of China.

Lu Bu learned similar lessons from ancient times to the present and decided not to engage in redundant soldiers. He wanted to develop elite soldiers and reduce troops.

What's more, the Central Army is now the best in the world in combat power, and a 10,000-man division is enough to resist 30,000 troops from Yuan Shao, Tao Qian and others. Lu Bu used to fight against rabbits, not only wasting troops, but also food and people's strength. If Lu Bu continued to develop like this, there would probably be a tragedy of Yang Guang's million-strong army conquering Goryeo sooner or later. In fact, Yang Guang only sent one general to a 100,000 army to fight Goryeo, and the results of the battle might be much better.

Since Lu Bu wanted to do it, he had to get it done in one step, and he decided to cut half of his troops.

First, we cut off all soldiers with disabilities from the central government, lay off all soldiers with disabilities, soldiers over 30 years old but have no military achievements, soldiers who have been enlisted for more than two years old but have no military achievements, soldiers who have been over 40 years old but have no military rank, soldiers who have no military achievements but have no military rank, and soldiers who have no military achievements at the end of their big words.

Lu Bu also considered the situation that "the family has no youth, no support for the elderly, no support for the young", and no support for the soldiers in the army. Anyone with only one young man in the family and only one young man in the family must retire from the army. However, if someone has outstanding military achievements, high military rank and capable of hiring young and strong laborers to help the servants at home, they can also continue to stay in the army.

Except for the Central Army Guard Division, the other divisions only had 10,000 people. Due to the gradual renovation of the road and the widespread use of four-wheeled carriages, the logistical pressure was reduced, and the auxiliary soldiers were no longer needed. Among the 10,000 troops, 6,000 combat soldiers and 4,000 auxiliary soldiers were maintained. Some of the most mobile troops were even cut to only 2,000 auxiliary soldiers.

The order of layoffs starts with the Guard Division, and the personnel cut by the Guard Division are placed together with the soldiers of the general Central Army team.

The personnel cut by the Central Army and the county soldiers were cut down, and the standards for layoffs were relaxed slightly than the Central Army, but the goal of cutting more than half is unchanged. The county soldiers, the field guards cut down, and the county soldiers cut down, and the county soldiers cut down, and the town soldiers cut down and then cut down.

The establishment of guerrilla corps in each state is abolished, and the elite troops are incorporated into the Central Army. Other soldiers are incorporated into local county soldiers, local county soldiers, county soldiers, and field guards of construction corps will not leave the county and the county, so they can be semi-final teams, and they all participate in training, defense, and public security tasks during the slack season. During the busy farming season, they will take turns to engage in farming or military defense tasks. All soldiers who are incorporated into local county soldiers and county soldiers have their fields in the county towns and near the county soldiers.

Local township soldiers are non-productive teams, and they also take turns participating in training, defense, public security, not to mention busy farming, and take turns to perform defense and public security tasks, and only when they are armed in wartime.

Lu Bu divided the troops under his command into several directions according to the distribution of foreign enemies.

Two armies were arranged in the direction of Jingzhou to prevent Yuan Shao and Liu Zhang, the first army, guarding Shangyong County, Nanyang County, and Jiangxia County, with 50,000 troops. General Zhang Liao of Sizhou was the commander, General Xu Huang of Jingzhou was the deputy commander, and Huang Quan of the military sect. There were two central regular troops of Zhang Liao and Xu Huang, Zhang Ren and Li Tong were the commander of Shangyong County, Jiangxia County, and 20,000 troops in the Sizhou Construction Corps; the second army. The guarding of Henan County, Luoyang, and Hongnong County, with 50,000 troops in the front line, Zhu Yen of Sizhou, Zhu Ling was the commander, Zhu Ling was the deputy commander, Zhu Ge Jin was the commander, Zhu Ling and Zhu Ling led 20,000 regular troops, Hao Zhao and Pang Shu led 20,000 troops in Sizhou, and Zao Zhi led 10,000 guards in the Sizhou Construction Corps. Zhang Liao and Zhu Ling could reinforce Nanyang County at any time.

Arrange an army to deal with Tao Qian, Liu Bei, and 40,000 troops in Qingzhou. General Yu Jin was the commander of Qingzhou, and Zang Ba, deputy general of Qingzhou, was the deputy commander of Qingzhou. There were 10,000 Central Regular Army, Zang Ba and Sun Guan led 20,000 Qingzhou County soldiers, Wang Xiu led 10,000 Qingzhou Construction Corps guards, and Wang Xiu was the military stakeholder.

Arrange an army to deal with Yuan Shu in the direction of Yuzhou, with 40,000 troops. General Wei Yan of Yuzhou was the commander and Huang Gai was the deputy commander. Wei Yan led 10,000 Central Regular Army, Huang Gai and Liao Hua led 20,000 troops in Yuzhou County. Kan Ze led 10,000 guards of Yuzhou Construction Corps, and Kan Ze was the military stakeholder.

The general Zhang He, who fought against rebellion, led 10,000 regular troops to defend the Pei Kingdom, where the three states of Yuzhou, Qingzhou and Yangzhou were intimidated by Tao Qian, Liu Bei, Xuzhou, and Yuan Shu, who was Shouchun, Yangzhou, could meet Qingzhou Yujin or Yuzhou Wei Yan at any time.

Arranged an army in the direction of Liangzhou to deal with the countries in the Western Regions, including Qiang and Hu tribes, Zhang Lu, and 60,000 troops. General Xu Rong of Liangzhou was the commander and Duan Wei was the deputy commander. Xu Rong led 10,000 Central Regular Army, Duan Wei, and Dong Yue led 20,000 Liangzhou County soldiers. Zhang Ji led 10,000 Liangzhou Construction Corps guards, Ma Teng and Ban Rong led 20,000 Western Regions Protectors, and Zhang Ji was the military officer.

In Shuozhou, an army was arranged to deal with the Xianbei in the West and supervise the Xianbei in the Central region, with 60,000 troops. There were Shuozhou Mu Huangfu Song as the commander, the Liao general Ju Yi as the deputy commander, and there were Huangfu Song, Ju Yi and Yan Rou 30,000 Central Regular Army. There were Shuozhou General Li Su leading 10,000 Shuozhou County soldiers, Bingzhou General Wu Kuang leading 10,000 Bingzhou County soldiers, Shi Tao leading 10,000 Shuozhou Construction Corps guards, and Xu Shu as the military officer.

In Youzhou, an army was arranged in Liaodong to deal with the remnants of Xianbei in the eastern region and the northeastern countries, with 50,000 troops, with Liaozhou General Taishici as the commander. General Cheng Lian of Youzhou was appointed as the deputy commander, governor of Liaozhou Liu Zheng, and general Tian Yu, the general of Wuhuan, were appointed as the military lieutenant. There were Taishici and Tian Yu 20,000 Central Regular Army, Cheng Lian led 10,000 Youzhou County soldiers, led 10,000 Liaozhou County soldiers, and Tian Choo led 10,000 Youliao Construction Corps guards.

Zhang Yan and Yang Feng led 20,000 Taihang Worry-free Army to continue to be stationed in the Taihang Mountains. While shocking local families, they participated in the manufacturing and transportation of Forget-Worry Pills and Immortal Pills. The 20,000 Taihang Army was in a semi-productive state.

Han Hao and Chang Lin led 20,000 guards of the Jizhou Construction Corps to supervise the construction of the canal, Gan Ning led 10,000 Yellow River Navy to assist in the construction of the canal, Lu Dai and Dong led 20,000 Bohai Navy to shock the three Han, Baekje, and Japan.

The Guard Division of Lu Bu's headquarters was accompanied by Gao Shun, Huang Zhong, Zhao Yun, and Yan Xing, 60,000 Central Regular Army, and Cao Xing and Chen Wei led 20,000 Jizhou County soldiers, and Ren Jun led 10,000 guards of the Jizhou Construction Corps.

In this way, there are 23 regular divisions including Lu Bu, Zhu Jun, Huang Fu Song, Gao Shun, Zhang Liao, Huang Zhong, Zhao Yun, Yan Xing, Zhang He, Xu Huang, Xu Rong, Yu Jin, Taishi Ci, Ju Yi, Zhu Ling, Wei Yan, Yan Rou, Tian Yu, Gan Ning, Lu Dai, Dong Xi, Ma Teng, Ban Rong, and other 240,000 troops.

The garrisons of the five regular divisions, Huangfu Song, Zhu Jun, Ju Yi, Yan Rou and Tian Yu, remain unchanged all year round, so they can be used as military garrisons, and the garrisons of other regular divisions will be strictly planned. In the future, only the leaders will not change troops will be replaced. The military garrisons will have basic guarantees. If you go on a war, you can hand them over to the local construction corps to help with cooking and then divide them. This can solve the problem of 80,000 rations. In this way, only 150,000 troops need to consume the people's food and grass.

Hao Zhao, Zhang Ren, Li Tong, Zang Ba, Sun Guan, Huang Gai, Liao Hua, Duan Wei, Dong Yue, Li Su, Wu Kuang, Cao Xing, Chen Wei, Cheng Lian, Qianzhao, Zhang Yan, Yang Feng, Shi Tao, Tian Chou, Zao Zhi, Kan Ze, Wang Xiu, Zhang Ji, Han Hao, Chang Lin, Ren Jun and other county soldiers and guards, a total of 260,000 troops.

Although the county soldiers are more than five times the county soldiers, about 700,000, they have a little relaxed the training requirements and have enough time to plow and grazed, and can basically be self-sufficient. The township soldiers are about five times the county soldiers, and have more than three million. They have enough time to plow and grazed the fields and can be self-sufficient. The 80,000 construction corps guards and 800,000 military farm soldiers who are ten times more relaxed in the training and combat requirements, and can be self-sufficient. However, the defense, public security and combat tasks of the county soldiers can only be half self-sufficient. Nearly 90,000 troops need foreign food and grass supplies.

In this way, Lu Bu's men now only has 240,000 people, which requires consuming the food and grass handed over by the people. Compared with the 30 million people, the military-civilian ratio is less than 100. Lu Bu's mission of streamlining troops and reducing the burden on the people was successfully completed.

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