After the victory in the Battle of Hetao, the three counties of Hetao were in dire straits and were waiting to be revitalized. However, since the Jin army welcomed Qin Hao, its new master, it also showed a trend of prosperity, and all counties were very busy.
After taking control of the Jin army's military formation and basically controlling the Black Ice Platform, Qin Hao began to coordinate the resource allocation of the entire Bingzhou.
The grain and grass reserves in Hetao accounted for 60% of the entire Jin army's grain and grass reserves. After a year and a half of the Battle of Hetao, the grain reserves in Hetao had been exhausted a few months ago. Since then, they have been relying on
Bingzhou's grain reserves will be used to supply it.
After the battle, most of Lian Bingzhou's grain reserves were consumed, but there were still a large number of refugees in Hetao who needed food supplies, and the army and prisoners of war had the same food supplies, so Qin Hao had to integrate all the resources, and next
He has been ready to tighten his belt for a long time.
"Young, um, my lord."
Xi Zhi had just called him Young Master Qin Hao, but now he suddenly changed his tune, which was really a bit unaccustomed to him.
Qin Hao naturally didn't care about this and signaled Xi Zhicai to continue, don't stop.
"With the joint efforts of Governor Wang Meng and Military Advisor Kong Ming, the situation in Hetao has been basically stabilized. According to statistics, there are only 18 county towns left in the three counties of Hetao, 12 counties were destroyed by the war, and 70 people are left.
There are more than 168,000 people, including 350,000 refugees from five families..."
In the early days of the war, the soldiers and civilians in Hetao worked together and beat Yuanmeng painfully, which indeed forced Temujin to order not to attack civilians. But in the later stages of the war, even Temujin was dead, who could care?
Those ones?
After Temujin's death, the Yuan-Meng army made several crazy moves. It was considered a light thing to drive the people and burn the city, but it was too much and even massacred the city directly to vent their anger on the civilians.
According to statistics, approximately 100,000 Hetao people died as a result of Yuan Meng's acts of revenge and anger after Temujin's death, while many more people became homeless and became refugees.
Naturally, the dead people do not need the Qin army to take care of them, but the surviving refugees must be resettled by the Qin army. The Qin army is responsible for providing disaster relief and helping them rebuild their homes. The manpower, material and financial resources required are not a small amount.
number.
Xi Zhicai kept reporting, and behind the strings of cold numbers, there were living lives hidden.
"That's enough, no more talking."
Qin Hao's face was livid, and he directly interrupted Xi Zhicai's report, and then said in a deep voice: "If the grain reserves in Bingzhou are not enough, then they will be transferred from Sizhou and Jingbei. In short, they must be provided to us in the shortest possible time.
I will rebuild the Hetao."
Although Sizhou was occupied by Qin Hao not long ago, the promotion of new grain varieties was very successful. It led to a bumper harvest in the first year. The land in Jingbei was only a local war and did not affect the overall development. Therefore, today's
Instead, these two places can provide blood transfusions to Bingzhou.
"We have captured 320,000 Yuan and Meng prisoners of war. We cannot touch them yet until the army returns from the fortress, but it is too cheap to keep them like this. It is their fault that the Hetao was smashed, so they must be rebuilt.
make an effort."
A cold light flashed in Qin Hao's eyes, and he said coldly: "Rebuilding the Hetao requires a lot of manpower and material resources. These people are the best laborers. Let them do all the heavy and dangerous work until they can't do it anymore and die from exhaustion."
until."
"This...No."
Xi Zhicai stepped back. After Qin Hao looked around at everyone, he asked, "Is there anything else that needs to be done?"
"Lord, regarding the payment of pensions, my subordinates need to report back."
Sima Fang stood up and said in a deep voice: "In this battle, we lost 100,000 main force and 190,000 militiamen. Although the militia's pension was one-third of the main force, the pension of 190,000 people was
It is also a large number.
If this pension continues to be paid out like this, I'm afraid it won't be enough to spend all the money we've saved over the years in Bingzhou all at once.
Therefore, my subordinates suggested that the payment of pensions to the militiamen should be suspended and the main force should be sent first..."
"no."
Before Sima Fang finished speaking, he was directly interrupted by Qin Hao.
"Lord Sima, do you know how many families in Hetao are represented behind these 190,000 militiamen?"
Although Sima Fang, who was in charge of finance, didn't know much about it, he had a general idea, but he also had his own difficulties.
"But my lord...has no money."
Qin Hao sighed helplessly and said: "You don't have to worry about the money. I will handle it. The pension will be paid out according to regulations. This must not let the families of the martyrs feel cold."
Sima Fang frowned slightly and asked: "My lord, as far as I know, Jingbei and Sizhou are not wealthy financially. Where do you plan to transfer this money from?"
Although the military strength during the Bingzhou War was maintained at an astonishing level of 500,000, after the war the militia was disbanded, and there was no further recruitment after the main force of 100,000 was lost, so the number of troops that needed to be supported was only 200,000.
However, Jingbei and Sizhou also supported more than 300,000 Qin troops, so the financial pressure was naturally greater than that of Bingzhou.
As soon as Sima Fang said this, all the officials couldn't help but look at Qin Hao. They were also curious about how the new lord planned to solve this financial pressure.
Qin Hao smiled slightly when he saw this and said, "Have you ever heard of the 'Tiangong Treasure'?"
"Tiangong's treasure?"
Fa Yan frowned and said: "According to rumors, the Yellow Turbans massacred the Guandong family and robbed a large amount of wealth. Only a part of it was used to expand the army to millions, while the rest was sealed by Zhang Jiao in the 'Tiangong Treasure'.
"
"But lord, isn't that a rumor? How could the imperial court and Dong Zhuo let it go? If it really existed, it wouldn't be our turn." Hao Tong said.
"Yes, yes..." All the ministers agreed.
Qin Hao smiled calmly and said: "The rumors of Tiangong's treasure are true, and both keys have been obtained by our army. Not long ago, I sent an order back to Luoyang, ordering Jia Xu to take out the wealth in Tiangong's treasure.
With this wealth, not to mention providing pensions for 290,000 troops, even 600,000 is more than enough."
"Really?"
"Very good."
After hearing the news, all the ministers were excited.
What was the war about? It was nothing more than money, food, and population.
In the Battle of Hetao, the Qin Army and the Yuan Army fought hard and both sides suffered losses. It can be said that all the wealth accumulated over the years was squandered, and a lot of debts were also incurred.
Therefore, all the princes in the world must have thought that the Qin army would need five or six years of training before it could fully recover.
But in fact, with the huge wealth in Tiangong's treasure, it means that the Qin army's training time will be infinitely shortened, and it only takes one or two years to recover.
Even the Hetao that was completely destroyed could be rebuilt in the shortest time, and then continue to supply a large amount of food and grass to the Qin army in conquering the world.
Qin Hao's vision of looking at the problem was extremely precise, and he immediately saw the biggest problem facing the Qin army to dominate the world, which was the reconstruction of the Hetao.
The grain production of the three states of Bing and Jingsi alone can support the Qin army to raise an army of 500,000 people at most. It can only support small-scale wars when conducting foreign wars. It cannot support a major war involving more than 100,000 people.
Therefore, only after the Hetao is rebuilt, and with this vast supply of food and grass, can the hundreds of thousands of elite Qin troops be "moved" and exert their due power.
It is precisely because the Hetao Granary is so important that Temujin wants to get him at all costs, and Qin Hao will do whatever it takes to keep him, and then the Battle of Hetao finally breaks out.