According to the information transmitted from the southern front, Sima Yi was constantly expanding his troops, not only requisitioning the troops of Yanzhou, Qingzhou, Yuzhou, and Xuzhou, but also recruiting a large number of reserve soldiers, so that the number of troops in the Yanzhou battalion increased to nearly 200,000. → Eight +++ Eight ** Read == Book ^^≥

There are many recruits, although the camp is spectacular, but in terms of its combat effectiveness, it is really not flattering. Sima Yi was not in a hurry to march, obviously because he was concerned about this aspect, so his top priority was to train the army well.

Now Sima Yi controls most of the prefectures and counties and population of Wei State, so in terms of soldiers, there is no need to worry too much, Wei did not raise so many standing armies before, not that it does not have that ability, but that it does not need to, because maintaining a large standing army is a huge burden on the national finances.

And now forced by the situation, Sima Yi can't care about whether the financial resources of the imperial court can afford it, and recruit a large number of troops to deal with the immediate crisis first. What to do when the treasury is empty? Then increase the tax, and apportionment a little more to each person's head, which is more than enough to feed two or three hundred thousand troops.

As for the popular uprising provoked by the increase in taxes, it is not difficult to deal with, because ordinary people are slow to react most of the time, and it is impossible to say that as soon as the tax is raised, there will be a civil uprising, this requires a subtle process, and only by forcing the common people to the point that they cannot survive by selling their children and daughters, will they rise up to resist.

As long as Sima Yi can quell the rebellions in various places as soon as possible, and then carry out a general amnesty to the world, reduce taxes and taxes, the people will be grateful to Dade again, and long live the mountain.

This kind of political trick, Sima Yi played with it, it was perfect and handy. In order to blockade and annex the state⊥, he left most of the army of the Northern Expedition behind, and rushed to Yanzhou with only a small part of the army, because it was true that there was not much need for Linghu Yu and Cao Biao to clean up Yanzhou.

But Wang Ling in Huainan is different, he has the elite soldiers and horses on the southeast defense line of Wei in his hands, and it is difficult to pose a threat to Wang Ling with the soldiers and horses in Sima Yi's hands now, so Sima Yi is not in a hurry to go south to Huainan, but to raise troops in Yanzhou.

The army with a large number of personnel naturally needs drills before it can be put into battle, so Sima Yi has been committed to the reorganization and training of the army for the past six months.

Sima Yi has been in charge of the army for many years, and he has rich experience in managing the army, and he knows very well how to build a new army into a strong army, which of course requires good training methods, but also requires enough time.

On the other hand, Sima Yi also took a wait-and-see attitude, there is intelligence that Wang Ling was afraid of Sima Yi's attack, so he befriended Dongwu, if Sima Yi's army pressed the border, Wang Ling was likely to surrender to Dongwu, leading Dongwu's soldiers and horses to rescue, Sima Yi naturally had to guard against Wang Ling's hand.

Sima Yitun was stationed in Yanzhou, and he did not march for a long time, which made Wang Ling hesitate to move, swaying left and right on the issue of surrendering Wu, and without being persecuted, Wang Ling was definitely unwilling to surrender his land, unless Huainan was attacked and could not support it, Wang Ling could surrender to Wu in order to save his life.

At this moment, Sima Yi did not move for a long time, Wang Ling would definitely not easily agree to the Wu army going north and entering Huainan, which naturally made Zhuge Ke, who had already made all preparations in Niuzhu, very angry, daring Wang Ling to treat them as a shield, surrender when encountering danger, refuse to surrender if there is no danger, purely to use the army of Eastern Wu to work for him, how can Zhuge Ke swallow this breath.

The longer the time dragged on, the more stiff the relationship between Wang Ling and Eastern Wu naturally became, and Sima Yi was scheming, and of course he would not rush to march and give them a chance to unite.

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In the midst of the heavy snowfall, Cao Liang returned to Jinyang.

Since Luoyang was annexed to the state, Cao Liang has not had time to return to Jinyang for nearly a year, although he has placed his mother, wife and children in Jinyang, but he really can't spare a little time to visit them.

When it was time for the end of his life, seeing that the end of the year was approaching, Cao Liang hurriedly returned to Jinyang, ready to reunite with his family and live a good year.

Although it is in the era of war, the Chinese New Year has always been a sentiment of the Chinese people, and it seems that it has never changed in the past year.

Cao Liang returned to Jinyang, did not rush home, but first met with the state thorn Shi Wangji, next year will be a critical year, after the success of the intensive cultivation pilot, will be promoted to the whole state, according to Cao Liang's requirements, as long as the qualified areas, basically have to be promoted, in the first year, basically one-third of the cultivated land in the state should be added to the scope of intensive cultivation, the second year to reach more than half, and strive to achieve intensive cultivation in three to five years, more than eighty percent of the cultivated land in the state will be intensively cultivated.

Intensive cultivation is related to the well-being and people's livelihood of the state, and it is also related to Cao Liang's purpose of competing for the world, so this task can be called the top priority, in the pilot stage, Cao Liang almost invested considerable time and energy, but when it comes to the promotion stage, it is naturally impossible to do it himself, so Cao Liang met Wang Ji, is ready to hand over the promotion of intensive cultivation to Wang Ji to deal with.

Although Wang Ji did not participate in the pilot of intensive farming, he still maintained an unusual interest in the rise and fall of this state, and when he learned the good news that intensive farming had doubled the yield in the experimental fields, he was excited and stayed up all night.

The output of grain has been a headache for local officials for many years, an adult strong laborer has worked hard for a year, the income is not enough to feed a family of three, and the annual tax collection is difficult, if it is really like Cao Liang's method, most of the arable land in the state can be doubled, then it is no longer an empty word.

Therefore, Wang Ji fully agreed to Cao Liang's promotion of intensive cultivation, and Cao Liang handed over this matter, so that he could save a lot of heart and concentrate on military affairs.

Back to the Gaoling Marquis Mansion - of course this is not the Gaoling Marquis Mansion in Luoyang, but a new Marquis Mansion built by Wang Ji for Cao Liang in Jinyang, the size and appearance are completely the same as the mansion in Luoyang - Cao Liang This is the first time Cao Liang has stepped here, and it feels like returning to Luoyang.

Cao Liang couldn't help but sigh secretly, Wang Ji really had a heart.

As soon as he entered the mansion, Cao Liang heard a baby's cry, which couldn't help but make him wonder, just wanted to ask what was going on, Cao Fu greeted him with a smile and said, "Congratulations to the prince for adding another ding." "11...Friends who read books, you can search for "Blue Chinese Network", you can find this site as soon as possible.