When the population base is huge, it is not difficult to form a large army, and the prerequisite for forming a large army is that the grain can support consumption.

After the rise of Yiling, Lü Zhe suffered from a lack of food for a period of time, at that time, because of the lack of food, he was forced to risk the loss of the whole army to launch an offensive in the south of Qianzhong, fortunately facing the weak organization of Baiyue, although in the process of attacking Qianzhong suffered heavy losses, lacked to achieve the predetermined combat objectives, and snatched the much-needed grain and grass from Ouyue and Guiyue.

Only those who have experienced difficulties will know how to cherish and attach importance to a business, and since experiencing the hardship of lack of grain and straw, Lu Zhe has never neglected grain production, and after gaining control of Nanjun and Qianzhong County, in addition to the necessary rearmament and warfare, grain production is carried out with the intensity of accomplishing strategic objectives.

For a period of time, Lu Zhe would not have more than 300,000 available manpower at most, of which 200,000 were formed into Tuntian troops to open up wasteland, and on the basis of the development of the Qianzhong Plain by the Chu and Qin states during the Warring States Period, the development of the Qianzhong Plain was further completed.

In the subsequent stage, Lü Zhe did not expand outward at all for at least a year, and the construction of production areas became the most important step, and even the training of the army did not pay much attention to the Tuntian soldiers at that time.

In one year's time, including 200,000 Tuntian troops and at least 170,000 Baiyue prisoners of war, a total of about 370,000 laborers sweated, they cut down forests to create fields, they burned the land, and used all formal or informal means to turn more than 300,000 acres of land into arable acres, which gave Lu Zhe the capital to expand his territory.

It is not enough to describe the importance of having food in hand and not panicking in your heart, and only with enough food can the army be expanded again, and only then can the army be trained. All the troops that lack the support of food and straw, not to mention whether they can carry out training, in fact, it is not even known whether the army can be obeyed.

All the training of the soldiers is based on the premise that there is enough nutrition to supplement the physical strength and physical fitness, and no soldier can eat enough. Even if a soldier can follow orders to train, it is definitely not a joke for a soldier to die of overwork when his nutrition cannot keep up, and it is the biggest joke to be able to train elite soldiers.

Repeatedly expanded, and the land and population in his hands became more and more numerous, not only did Lu Zhe find that the youth in the society should be concentrated to ensure that the people were not strong enough even if they were in turmoil, but even if the officials at that time did not find out in advance, they would inevitably find out after handling the operation.

It was found that keeping the majority of young people under control can reduce social unrest, or that even if there is unrest, it will not turn into chaos, and even chaos can be easily suppressed in a short period of time. The call for the expansion of the army has been raised repeatedly, and their only concern is whether the grain can support more troops.

How much does the army send salaries? In the era when copper was used as a monetary unit, the right to mine mountains and rivers was driven by enough labor, and the regime would be short of money? What a joke is that!

In fact, many times Lu Zhe is a little strange, the successive dynasties have actually given the answer, which one finally won the world is not the one who immediately opened the mountain to mine after mastering a place, and which one who won the world is not working hard to produce food, why don't some peers who cross not want to think about what kind of road those founding kings walked. The lack of food is excusable, but the financial difficulties seem to be a bit unbearable, right?

The reality is also like that, in the era of precious metals as currency, land ownership was a huge natural advantage. Under the premise of mastering violence and being able to drive manpower on a large scale. As long as you are willing to work hard, you can dig out "money" from the ground, the only thing you need to worry about is whether a large amount of money will be put into the people, whether it will cause the dilemma of "money is not money", and the most important thing that should not be lacking is finance!

Lu Zhe has been vigorously developing, and he has been deliberately stimulating the social economy. Even if I dream of the precious metal monetary system becoming the mainstream, the people will no longer be bartered. In doing so, he is exercising the natural "power" of the ruler, the power to control the mountains and rivers. In other words, copper, silver, and gold, which were originally inedible, were valued, and when the precious metals had value, they could buy anything they needed.

To some extent, Lü Zhe's efforts gradually succeeded, and at least the monetary status of copper coins was strengthened, and the head of the Qianqian also accepted the status of copper coins' purchasing power, and was willing to convert the grain, cloth, and anything he had on hand into copper coins.

When Lu Zhe was trying to make precious metals a trading currency, because the market was repeatedly stimulated, the most grassroots Qianshou not only produced and sold at home, but more Qianshou lived a life where they could work if they could, and their quality of life gradually improved because of the increase in the number of materials available for purchase. The industrial and commercial classes, who are in fact the more profitable part, will reap more benefits if they have enough vision to detect the intention of domination and be the first to increase their own production.

In just ten years, as long as there is enough vision and the spirit of adventure, the demand of the private sector has surged, and there is a large-scale continuous purchase of the national nature, it is not difficult for people to become rich at all, and the most direct thing is to let ordinary families, who may have collected clean and did not have a single copper coin, become at least a batch of copper coins, and some already wealthy families have become richer.

"There is no shortage of money, most of them are not short of money, in fact, many times there is money that can't buy things." Shu Dao sighed with emotion: "If I could meet this kind of appearance earlier, I would have hoarded the materials that I could hoard, not to mention that I could sell them at a better price now, even if I waited to go out, it would be a great advantage." ”

Shu Dao's so-called "earlier" is not early, at least it was six or seven years ago, Lu Zhe every time he conquered a place, he carried out indiscriminate recruitment, at that time, a large number of copper coins were invested in the people, with the state hired a large number of laborers, hired labor was to smooth the ruins left during the war, and carried out all kinds of infrastructure construction that no one had enough vision to judge the good and bad, such as road construction and water conservancy, and like building settlements. Now, the roads built at those times have become national hubs, and the benefits of water conservancy have made it rare for grain production to run out of water, and the former settlements of the people have become towns.

As a time-traveler, Lu Zhe will have a forward-looking vision even if he doesn't have enough ability, and understand that the development trend of history is actually a very virtual thing, and this thing can often only be used at a certain time.

Lu Zhe stood in the right position, and he also understood where the knowledge he mastered should be used, looking at the present and thinking about the future. There is also a plan and a plan to do things, and often people who should do what they should do, they often grasp the pulse of the times, and even create a new era as "predecessors".

Some people are ushering in a new era, some people will follow closely, and more people are chasing after the tail, such as Liu Bang, Ning Benliao, Shu Dao, and some famous and unknown people, they boldly went to gnaw on Lu Zhe's leftovers that he didn't eat, and the more timid people could only drink soup.

In many cases, even leftovers are precious. That means that it is not just a superhuman step, what Liu Bang wants to seize now is the opportunity generated by the special era, and the opportunity that he is extremely eager to appear can make himself have a better life.

"It's not just materials, in fact, people are also very important, especially if we have to go out in an unfamiliar environment, and a place that may be full of enemies, what we need most in the early stage is talents who can fight with the soldiers!" Liu Bang paused here and made a proud gesture: "I had a lot of brothers when I was in Peixian, and I also made a lot of friends when I was in Qidi. Some of them are now in the Wehrmacht and the Praetorian Army. Quite a few are idle at home......" said this, paused again, and looked meaningfully at the two future partners.

Connections, what Liu Bang wants to show is connections, regardless of whether those connections can be used or not. He saw the status crisis when he sought new nobles from Yongben Liao and Shu Dao, and wanted to further show his capital.

In fact, Yong's and Shu's are not short of friends, as long as they can develop in any year, who doesn't have a group of friends? The two families are considered to be prominent families in the local area, and there is a saying that "no one asks about the poor and noisy city." Rich in the mountains have distant relatives", as long as there is strength, there is no shortage of dependents.

The shortcomings of the social circle of the Yong clan may be more, and the southern part of Changsha County was a semi-wild area before Lu Zhe was not developed. To be honest, the people of the Yong clan used to be very high-level, at least the leader of one of the tribes of the Baiyue tribes, and the highest was even the chief of the tribal alliance, but now whether it is a tribal leader or a tribal chief, those leaders or chieftains are either bones that can be used to beat drums or low-level slaves or high-level slaves. The Yong family has relatively few friends in the imperial officialdom, even if they have a high rank, they will not be high, and they are not nobles and seek new opportunities, so they will come together with Liu Bang.

The Shu clan is much better than the Yong clan because of the relationship between the family location, but they themselves were dizzy and misjudged the general trend of the world, which actually means that Lu Zhe can only be the regional overlord even if he is powerful, and he never thought that Lu Zhe would one day become the master of the whole world, and as a result, they stupidly sought control of Jiujiang County, even if they finally took the initiative to give up the dictatorship of Jiujiang County and return the governance power to the center, what they had done was done, Lu Zhe's psychology may not matter, but Lu Zhe's ministers did not dare to have too much to do with it" Bad criminal record" of Shu Shi walked too close. What is the result? It is that as the territory ruled by Lu Zhe grows, some of Shu's friends are more estranged, and now they have more connections than Zhi Yong's, but they are not as good as Liu Bang.

Liu Bang is not the richest or powerful person among the three, his advantage is that he is a third-class baron of the empire, and because he has a good resume of seeing the development of the general trend of the world and "knowing the current affairs" in a timely manner, he is willing to work hard to make new friends, and a group of brothers in Peixian County have developed very well, so the tripartite alliance wants to go out to create a career, and he is the one who occupies the most right to speak.

"Fan Xu, Fan Xu!"

"Huh?"

"Go and call Lu Xuan."

"Oh, okay."

Liu Bang never gave up the opportunity to show his limited strength, Lu Juan was re-"dug up" by him from the Nanling Guard, before he "dug up", Lu Juan was actually the worst developed person in a group of people in Pei County, but he also climbed to the position of the tun chief.

Deliberately calling Lu Huang was just an introduction for Liu Bang to open for the next thing, and after Lu Huang was summoned, he said: "You personally go to Xiao Mansion to ask, when Xiao He promised the banquet and can come over." ”

Lu Wan smiled and said "No", turned around and left.

Yong Benliao and Shu Dao glanced at each other secretly, of course they saw that Liu Bang was showing off, and they directly shouted out the name of the imperial consul in order to show off, how could they not see such an obvious display? But I can't bear Liu Bang's qualifications to show off, even if Liu Bang shouts his name in front of Xiao He, Xiao He also looks like he is smiling and disapproving, they haven't seen that scene before.

In the final analysis, it is still a connection, although Liu Bang knows Xiao He, the imperial consul, but there are more people who know Xiao He, and Xiao He has to admit that the other party is a friend to have a practical effect.

Liu Bang's friend is not only Xiao He, but also the commander of the Zhonglang General...... Oh, now he is the general of the grassland dispatch army, and he is the co-lieutenant who guards the northwest capital of the three counties of Qindi. He is also a good friend with Gongwei's father, Gongao, and Jing Ju, one of the nine kings of the empire, can also be called a brother, such as Cao Shen, Xiahou Ying, Zhou Bo and other generals in the National Defense Army and the Forbidden Army, and some generals, captains, military marquis and other officers are also old friends.

Liu Bang is a person who dares to open a dyeing workshop with three colors, regardless of whether those connections can be used or not, he just dares to shout with a big banner.

For the Yong family and the Shu family, who are eager to find a new way out, Liu Bang, who dares to shout and really has a little capital, the mood of the two families to cooperate with them is not urgent, but more or less it is a good deal.

"The brothers have a good future, and it is not easy for Lao Liu to let them out of the army, but after they come back, they always have to give face to help train the soldiers when they come back." Liu Bang looked at Ning Benliao and Shu with a smile: "Besides, what do you say, you are also an officer of the army, and you must have an understanding of the army." The empire wants to cut auxiliaries, and their understanding of the army can always help us recruit passable auxiliaries to become the private army of the nobility, right? ”

It is a private army of nobles, and the laws of the empire stipulate that non-nobles are not allowed to have private armies, so the Yong and Shu clans are not qualified to have private armies even if they are imperial officials.

The Yong clan and the Shu clan, they are local noble clans, and in fact, there is no shortage of soldiers to form an army, but if they can recruit soldiers who have been trained by the imperial army, and those soldiers have seen the big scene, it is an excellent thing. In addition, it doesn't matter if the children of their families do not become private soldiers, as long as they fight for the share of officers, the children of the family can go out to work together as family members of the army, not to mention that Liu Bang said that there are regular officers who can help train the army, which is extremely tempting.

The three of them were intentional and intentional, and the atmosphere of talking became more enthusiastic, until Lu Xuan, who had left earlier, came back and told Xiao He that he couldn't come, Liu Bang's high-spirited posture stiffened a little, and then he didn't even feel embarrassed like a person who was fine.

"I heard some news, it seems that there is something big recently, and I will invite you in a few days." (To be continued......)