Chapter 680: Prevention
In Guanzhong, after the key agricultural activity of harvesting and planting, Tian Xin began to recruit pro-soldiers and prepare to inspect the county.
This is from Zuo Fengyi to the north, through Shangjun, Xiaoguan, Zhuanding County, walk the street pavilion into Tianshui, and then to Luomen, Weishui and then begin to return along Weishui, through Chencang back to Guanzhong.
There are many benefits to patrolling, but the cost is that it will cause unnecessary material expenses for the counties along the way.
There are fewer troops with them, and there are hidden dangers; There are more troops with them, and the profits of the counties along the way are eaten up for half a year.
How much grain can Tian Xin's men and horses eat? The key is that the local counties will urgently mobilize the people to rebuild roads, official buildings, and even city walls to enrich the scene. And in this period, the focus is on recuperation, and everything else is empty and useless.
Therefore, before leaving, people have been sent to the counties along the way to monitor, so as not to take the opportunity to disturb the people.
This kind of disturbance destroys production, as well as the waste of materials...... Far more than Tian Xin's entourage of guards.
This inspection is different from fighting a war, in which the mobilization of the army requires a process of preparation, and because there is combat readiness, the preparation link is short...... One of the most time-wasting is the collection and selection of caravans that accompany the army.
Military markets are a tradition of providing a variety of services to the military in a relatively safe way to ease tensions during war.
Now the military market in Beifu is becoming more and more formalized, and the military merchants provide all kinds of services, except for the fact that they cannot provide free services, usury, and gambling services to the officials, these military merchants can quickly turn a military market into a mobile city.
Behind these businessmen are generally the shares of the middle and high-ranking military officials of the Northern Prefecture, or the cadres of the relevant government offices.
Omit the link of mobilizing the caravan, and with the mobilization power of the current standing guard, it can be decided on the same day and completely launched the next day.
There was no shortage of horses in the Su Guard army, and the size of 500 people was the standard, and it was luxuriously equipped with 3,000 horses. 1,000 lightly armed horses, 2,000 spare horses for riding.
The end of June is also the time when the vegetation is lush and the grass seeds are produced.
Therefore, the patrol of 3,000 horses around Guanlong did not consume much grain, and the main consumption was forage.
In addition, people were sent to keep an eye on the counties along the route as early as possible to prevent county officials from wasting manpower and material resources to carry out surface projects...... So it was a very economical tour.
The more abundant the initial capital, the higher the efficiency of recuperation.
Every bit of national strength at the beginning should be cherished and dealt with.
Based on the principle of saving national strength and the relatively relaxed situation inside and outside the imperial court, Tian Xin's plan to inspect Guanlong was postponed for two months.
When Tian Xin set off, Guan Ji and Pang Feiyan saw him off together, and Pang Feiyan's abdomen was slightly erect, and she seemed to be not very emotionally stable.
She was a direct victim of the war, and every mobilization of the army and the mass migration of people caused her uneasiness and anxiety.
"In the future, after the track is repaired, the people are solid, and the road is rebuilt, I will inspect Guanlong with Qinghua."
Tian Xinrong pretended to be on his body and raised his hand to unveil Guan Ji: "Around mid-August, I will definitely be able to go home." Political affairs are supervised by Lu Boyan, and I am relieved. There is a lot going on in the family, and I am also relieved. ”
"Husband's relief is that I will take good care of the Pang family's sister."
Guan Ji replied gently, there was only some reluctance in his eyes, it was not easy to live as a husband and wife, father and son for half a year, but they still had to be separated temporarily.
This period of time seems a little fast, unlike before, there was too much suffering, hesitation, and hesitation.
The stable life of being down-to-earth and relying on is more or less intoxicating and I don't want to wake up.
There were no more words, and as for the two sons still sleeping, they didn't shout to leave with Tian Xin.
This inspection, there may be a certain scale of battle because of the bandits, if the situation suddenly changes, there will also be a tour of the Hetao to take a look at the current hegemony and control of the Hetao Dou Bin.
In July and August, when the grassland livestock were growing fat, Tian Xin also suitable for raiding the Wulu Hui Department of the Hetao in Tian Xin's eyes.
Since the Wulu Hui Department monopolized the Hetao, it has absorbed many scattered miscellaneous tribes, and it is in the digestion period, and the internal situation has not been smoothed.
In September, the nomadic tribes gather their livestock, gather together for a meeting, then celebrate, and finally migrate together to escape the winter wind and snow.
The reason why Hetao is the land of the Xiongnu is that in addition to the Yellow River, it is convenient for the nomadic tribes to spend the winter.
The winter loss is less, the cost of shepherding in the coming year will be more, and the water and grass are abundant, and it is naturally the land of the nomadic tribe.
Therefore, this year's winter is a test for the deer return department, and if it is successfully passed, the deer return department will form a cohesive force because of the beautiful life in the future.
If he is a Wei army, he will launch an invasion attack before the assembly of the Wulu Hui Department in September, destroying the cohesion of the Wulu Hui Division.
Otherwise, after the Wulu Hui Department grows up, it will only take three years to encroach on the Yunzhong region in Cao Wei's sphere of influence from outside the Saiwai.
Now the situation in Hetao, Helan Mountain, and Hexi is very simple, the largest one is Wulu Huibu, which is too close to Guanzhong, and Dou Bin turned his back on Beifu to defect to Wei...... The harvest and the risk are very disproportionate.
After weighing in all aspects, Sima Yi's Youyun Six Towns are currently being formed, and there must be many thorns to be smoothed out and pulled out in the process of formation, and war is the best whetstone.
Sima Yi has the motivation to start a war, and striking at the Wulu Hui Department is in line with the core interests of the six towns of Youyun.
Therefore, the delay in inspecting Guanlong, and inspecting it in July and August, will make the Wei army jealous and dare not act rashly, so that the Wulu Hui Department can survive the current dangerous period.
Before the decisive battle in Guanzhong, the Wulu Hui Department was only a large tribe in the Hetao and the Xianbei family in the west, and there were about 20,000 horsemen.
If we cross the hurdle of September this year, the number of cavalry that can be mobilized in the winter will be nearly doubled, and how can there be 50,000 cavalry in the autumn and winter of next year? If next year, the nomadic tribes in Mobei, Dingling, and Kunjian regions will hear that there are large vacant pastures in the remote and fertile Monan and Henan regions......
Then these tribes living in the cold region will definitely migrate south, even if they do not enter the sphere of influence of Beifu and Wei, they can greatly improve their living environment.
The Xianbei tribes in the west have run westward, and with the vacant Hexi corridor, how can 500,000 herdsmen live if the grassland is vacated.
So such a large fat ranch lacks an owner, how could those poor people in Mobei be indifferent after hearing the news?
The purpose of life is to live.
Fighting, surrendering, surrendering, betraying, migrating, it's all part of life. As long as they can live a better life, hundreds of thousands of tribal herdsmen can change their banners to Xianbei overnight; You can also lower your head in order to live.
The Wulu Hui Department has already had various factors for its rise, so in addition to the next three years, it is necessary to dismantle the Wulu Hui Department within five years, rebuild the border county system, and bring the relocated ministries into the scope of taxation and management.
The future competitors are not only the Han court, Cao Wei, but also a small Wulu Hui department.
The core goal of this visit is actually quite simple...... It is to run a lap in person, draw a detailed map along the way, whether it is leading to the Hetao or leading to Yizhou, you must take a look in person, in case of accidents.