Chapter 116 Eat a full meal, eat a good meal is benevolence
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Fazheng was not an idiot. Before, he had only been thinking about ways to defeat the Yellow Turbans and didn't pay attention to anything else. When Chen Xi mentioned it, he instantly understood what the biggest problem at the moment was.
Right now, there are more than a million Yellow Turbans eating out of Qingzhou, and once they enter Qingzhou, there will be even more Yellow Turbans. It can be said that with the addition of more than two million women, children, old and weak, there is really no pressure. It was once one of the five grain-producing areas.
, if it were not dilapidated, the population might be much larger.
Fazheng's face was extremely ugly. He already understood the disadvantages of continuing to think about the best solution, because there was not enough time. Once the danger line of mid-May was crossed, even if Chen Xi had all the means, he would not be able to start farming before the end of June.
Once there is no time to farm, the captives brought by the Yellow Turbans will directly become a burden. Once the people have no food, then rebellion is just a matter of words. As for killing them all to relieve the burden, you have to do this in the name of benevolence.
No, do you still want to take off? All of Chen Xi's plans revolve around Liu Bei's reputation for benevolence and his population.
No matter whether Liu Bei was cheating or not, there was no difference between pretending to be benevolent and righteous all his life and being true.
"So let's use your previous method. The bigger the loss, the bigger it will be. This time, we will occupy about 20% of Qingzhou. We can basically swallow the entire Qingzhou next year. In this way, my grand strategy will be able to
If we reluctantly implement it, if we implement it earlier, we can save one more life." Chen Xi patted Fazheng on the shoulder, "As a counselor, you should not just focus on the battle situation, the situation outside the field is also very important."
Just as Chen Xi expected, the three Xiaoqushuai of the Yellow Turbans themselves could not get together. After all, there was insufficient food and they had too many men. If Liu Dai had not crossed the state to attack the Yellow Turbans, these three people would not have been able to get together before leaving Qingzhou.
All divided.
In addition, the Yellow Turbans themselves are equivalent to an unorganized refugee group. The entire team is extremely scattered and often has internal conflicts. Moreover, soldiers often cannot find generals and generals cannot find soldiers. Therefore, it is better to say that the Yellow Turbans are thieves than bandits.
Beggars plundering everywhere, but these beggars are huge in number...
After Chen defeated Fuyun and Qian and the others, they each led hundreds of thousands of men to plunder everywhere. However, Yanzhou was poor and did not have much food at all. Soon they set their sights on Mount Tai, and then headed towards Mount Tai in unison.
However, since their respective teams are too large to control, the so-called advance is actually done in waves.
It can be said that except for Fuyun, Chen Bai, and Hou Qian, who have tens of thousands of weapons or elite infantry with armors that they consider themselves elite, the others are actually completely trapped refugees, or they follow the trend because they have no food.
Refugees who came to grab some food.
To deal with such unorganized, undisciplined, and unarmed bandits, Guan Yu led the Chinese army to crush all the Yellow Turbans. Of course, there were also some who saw that Guan Yu was not very vicious and directly asked to surrender.
Regarding this, Chen Xi didn't care whether the other party was a spy or not, and handed everything to Sun Guan in the rear. Anyway, everything behind was under military control. Anyone who caused trouble would be killed regardless of whether there was a reason or not. In Qingzhou, Chen Xi asked Zhao Yun and Tai Shici to take at least 30,000 farmland.
Soldiers, these field soldiers cannot go to the battlefield, but militarized management is still possible, and Chen Xi doesn't mind a lot of deaths. At this time, we want stability. Anyone who causes trouble does not need to be tried and will be sentenced to death directly.
It's not like Chen Xi can't come up with things like the Code of Troubled Times. If necessary, Chen Xi thinks he can do it with eleven kills. As long as the situation can be stabilized, Chen Xi won't mind using some extreme means.
"Yun Chang, how many refugees have we gathered?" Chen Xi felt like he was fighting a smooth battle to pick up prisoners now.
"There are about 200,000 refugees, and most of them are young and strong women!" Guan Yu said with some excitement. Although this kind of battle does not involve many big battles, it is the best way to gain military merit.
"Set up camp and rest, make steamed buns with meat soup in the evening, and send orders to Yide, Zilong, Ziyi, and Zhongtai to return to camp to discuss matters!" Chen Xi ordered to Guan Yu.
"Yes, set up camp on the spot, bury pots to make rice, make meat soup at night, and patrol the camp with personal guards!" Guan Yu ordered to the messenger.
Speaking of meat soup, don’t think about beef. Mutton is too expensive and pork is not enough, but there is still some chicken and duck meat. Anyway, chickens hatched from eggs can be slaughtered after being raised for a few months.
The flocks of chickens were given to Chen Xi's servants to raise outside the city. After a while, they were slaughtered and used as military rations to improve the food. Therefore, for this group of soldiers who had never seen meat, it was really good to have meat to eat.
Lu Su and Liu Ye also complained about the improvement of food. After all, being a soldier in this era is considered good if you can have enough to eat. How much money will it cost to supplement meat after a while?
As a result, after Chen Xi settled the accounts, Lu Su and Liu Ye decided that it would be better to provide the big soldiers with meat on time. It didn't cost much. They could feed them more and they would grow stronger. If they had a sense of identity with the food, they would not be deserters.
Well, even if you become a deserter and go to other princes, you are used to eating meat every ten days, and you eat pig food from other princes, you might be able to trick a few soldiers from other princes back.
The cost of turning a new soldier into a veteran is far higher than giving the veteran good food and training so that he doesn't die. Moreover, the veteran's combat effectiveness is several times that of the new soldier. Therefore, it is better to train new soldiers than to find ways to prevent the veteran from fleeing and dying.
Okay, well, Chen Xi doesn't believe it anymore. Which prince can give a big soldier meat twice a month? Not to mention that chickens and ducks are worthless. Whether you have them or not is a question.
After this idea was studied by Lu Su and Liu Ye, they could only say, "Zichuan, how is your brain structured?" This kind of thing is too unscientific compared to the previous soldiers who had an iron-clad camp and flowing water, but it is
very effective.
In this era, soldiers were just for a living, and the good ones could get some military pay. As for where to serve as soldiers, there was nothing to say, so it was not impossible to win over the soldiers under them with one or two mouthfuls of meat.
On the contrary, it is very possible!
Every time there is meat to eat, it is the most exciting time in the military camp. The smell of meat not only fills the camp, but also arouses greed among the refugees outside.
A large number of refugees gathered outside the military camp. Although there was a dense crowd, no one dared to attack the military camp. They could only wait outside silently. Some people had attacked the military camp a few days ago. Every time, they were attacked by the opponent.
Grind into minced meat.
After that, the refugees learned to be smart. After all, at this time every day, someone would come out to gather the refugees, and then take away those who were willing to go with the officers and soldiers, saying that they were going to the rear to divide the fields and seeds.
Of course, the vast majority of refugees do not believe these words, but every day some people succumb to hunger because they cannot bear it. They surrender to the officers and soldiers with the idea that even if they are pulled to the rear and made into dried meat, they will at least be a dead ghost. Of course,
There were also some refugees who had heard about the situation in Mount Tai and surrendered when they saw the banner of Mount Tai. There were also some hidden people who promoted Xuande, justice, justice, and justice and brought a large number of young men to surrender. In short, there were all kinds of things.