What you get is what you lose, Lu Zhe sat in the viewing hall and looked at the dense generals, their lowest position was the captain, it was just such a high-ranking and powerful person in the eyes of ordinary people, because of his arrival, he consciously silenced everyone, and this is what power brings.

Power has never been grasped at will, what kind of status you have, what kind of troubles you have to face, how can you only enjoy the power and benefits brought by power without corresponding crises?

Not all the generals and colonies under Lu Zhe who were present this time, Sima Xin and other Qin generals and some of the generals who were out of the war did not come back. And the people present today, except for Wu Rui and Huan Chu, are basically the same people who followed Lu Zhe's rise from Yiling. Most of them are at the level of 100 generals and tun chiefs of the original Qin army, and some of them are from the remnants of the Six Kingdoms. These people can be regarded as Lu Zhe's descendants in some ways.

The officers of the original Qin army, their families have basically been sent by Lu Zhe to take over Nanjun, after the new construction of Nanling City, the relatives have moved over, and there is an area in Nanling City that is temporarily divided for this kind of people to live, and their houses are all built by Lu Zhe with the help of soldiers.

Many of their relatives died when they were forcibly relocated, and it was precisely because of this hatred that Lu Zhe needed to consider their feelings many times when deciding how to get along with Qin.

"This time, I will gather everyone together, first, to celebrate our achievements and congratulate us on our victory over Chu and the new two counties of Jiujiang and Lujiang." Lu Zhe said and raised the bottle and invited everyone to drink together.

All the generals raised the wine cup in their hands and shouted in unison: "Drink to win!" ”

The bottle is actually a tripod-shaped utensil, which can only be used by characters above the marquis in these years, and Lu Zhe's identity is obviously enough. For the rest of the people, the vessel used for wine is a sake cup, which is a flat-bottomed wine vessel that resembles a scoop-shaped drinking utensil, which is also the most commonly used utensils for holding liquids.

Liquor is a local liquor in Nanling, which is divided into glutinous rice brewing and fruit brewing. Two wines, one sweet and one slightly bitter. But they all have one thing in common, and that is turbidity.

Nanling has a history of brewing fine wine, the wine of the banquet is provided by the Jia family, one of the big clans in the county, I heard that it is a valuable aged wine, but it is actually similar to drink it in Lu Zhe, after all, it is now the Qin time, and the "Nanling wine tulip" in the poem chanted during the Tang Dynasty still needs to be precipitated over time.

Sake also inevitably needs ingredients, and the method of stir-frying has not yet appeared, and it is generally boiled in water, so it is natural that there is no wide variety of dishes in such a banquet.

Until before the Ming Dynasty. Huaxia has always practiced a separate way of eating. That is, everyone has their own desk, rather than sitting together.

Now everyone has just some utensils of different sizes like urns on their desks, which are bone broth and pieces of meat. In addition to utensils such as urns, plates are actually a necessity in every banquet, knives and other knives are even more numerous, forks used to fork meat are even more essential, and chopsticks and spoons, which are inevitable in later generations, are not a necessity today. After all, cooking is to cut a large piece of meat into water and stew it, so knives and forks are the tools needed to eat.

In the moment. Nobles basically always have a dagger on their bodies, and this is not a weapon used to kill people, in fact, it is their own table knife.

There is a clear difference between the eating habits of the south and the north, and the way set up by Lu Zhe belongs to the way of eating in the north. In the south, seafood is generally the staple food. Nowadays, eating fish is generally done in the form of a gush, and the requirements for fish are quite high. Eating sashimi is a way to eat it sliced and raw, which is considered to be the most aristocratic of the way, and it takes a very skillful master to cut the sashimi in moderation.

Most of you here are northerners. In fact, most of the seafood was rejected these days, so of course Lu Zhe had to arrange a northern-style diet. There is another reason, that is, there are a lot of bacteria and parasites in seafood. The Chu people like to eat belly, so that many people who eat too much are pot-bellied, which is not a blessing, but a lot of parasites in the stomach.

With a "drink wins", they didn't drink most of it to show their heroism, and everyone took a sip of the wine in the wine cup and then looked at Lu Zhe on the main seat.

In addition to the more than 20 girls sent by Zhao Wan in the mansion, there are no other servants, tonight's discussion is about the army, the girls have already retired, and it is Lu Zhe's pro-army armor who adds wine to the generals.

Lu Zhe waited for the armor soldiers to finish adding wine to the armor soldiers before he raised the bottle again: "The second drink, congratulations for the princes for their achievements in several battles." ”

"Thank you, Lord!" The generals drank it all again.

In fact, this set of invitations is still because of an established rule at the moment, as a superior person, he always has to feast his subordinates every time he returns from an expedition, which is a reward and a kind of gratitude to his subordinates. In general, it is a necessary banquet to win people's hearts.

"This third drink," Lu Zhe glanced around at everyone, his expression became stern, and the people also stood up: "Respect the soldiers who sacrificed their lives in battle!" ”

Is it Lu Zhe's originality? No, no, no! Even if it is a king and an emperor, when they entertain the generals of the victorious army, it is also necessary to give a drink to the soldiers who died in battle.

Everyone stood with solemn faces, waiting for Lu Zhe to spill the wine on the ground, and then raised his hand to salute and then spilled the wine on the floor from left to right.

So the floor is all wet, isn't it? However, no one will come to wipe it, and it will only be cleaned up after the banquet. There is also a saying that this practice is that the toast will attract the heroic spirits who died in battle, so that the soldiers who died in battle will accompany the banquet of victory.

Really speaking, the banquet arranged by Lu Zhe is still incomplete, and a full set of drinking banquets needs to invite a wizard to sacrifice before the banquet.

There are many and complicated etiquettes in ancient times, and the people who understand these etiquettes basically belong to the princes and nobles, if Lu Zhe has to conform to today's etiquette in everything, it is almost impossible to invite such a person from the people. In the present, the ritual is a very solemn thing, such as the sacrifice is not held by anyone who wants to, if literacy is monopolized, then the people who participate in the monopoly have clans, clans and so on, but the sacrifice is more monopolized.

After the three times of drinking, Yan Sù's atmosphere eased, and the generals were actually able to talk in a low voice at this time, but they still looked at Lu Zhe.

The most important thing at this banquet was that Lu Zhehui talked about the reorganization of the army, and as lieutenant generals and colonels, they were most concerned about how the army would be reorganized and whether they would serve in the main battle unit.

The new forces, seeing that a new round of expansion should be launched again after this recuperation, and the expansion process is always full of various opportunities, and they are very aware that serving in the main battle force is related to their future.

Sure enough, Lu Zhe quickly talked about the reorganization of the army, and in the afternoon he had already said that only 150,000 soldiers would be left, and soldiers under the age of thirteen and over forty would be cut, but Lu Zhe has always had an auxiliary army system, and the army of this system is just not as intensive as the training of soldiers in some aspects, otherwise there is just no armor for soldiers in terms of weapons.

Compared with the number of troops approaching 500,000, the number of 150,000 soldiers is really too small and too small, and there are at least 20 or more people here.

At the same time, they also want to know what the requirements are for the service of the soldiers, so they are not interested in talking.

"The classification of 150,000 soldiers will be finely reorganized, and the types of soldiers of each unit will be reasonably matched according to the requirements of actual combat. These also need to be written down by the princes about their wartime experience, and then arranged. Lu Zhe was talking about the summary that the officers of each ministry would make after each war.

The captains couldn't help but wonder, the selection of captains of combat units should be related to the books submitted by each captain?

Lu Zhe did mean this, after all, what the officers wrote represented what they had learned from understanding the war. Leading troops requires a certain amount of knowledge and experience, otherwise they will not even be able to describe in words what happened during their own battles, so do you expect them to learn new tactics in the future?

"I also intend to form a new cavalry corps and a navy." Lu Zhe could see that many people were stunned for a moment and then showed different expressions, those who were surprised should be very interested in the cavalry, while some people thought of the Yangtze River troops who were fighting with the Chu State this time: "The cavalry doesn't need to say much. I believe that many people also know the establishment of the water army and understand what it means to build a water army. ”

It's strange to understand, there has been no separation between the north and the south now, and there is no overly famous water war in history, but no one said anything, only when Lu Zhe established the water army from this waterway soldier to force Huizhang County to taste the sweetness.

Lu Zhe wanted to establish a naval army for a long time, and he did not dare to hope that he could lead the army to sweep the world smoothly, so the survival of the naval army is very necessary, after all, no one can be sure whether he is in decline, and now the establishment of the naval army is to rely on the naval army to defend the Yangtze River even if he is repeatedly defeated and retreats to the south of the Yangtze River in the future, so that he can have a chance to make a comeback.

In addition, Lu Zhe has another thought about establishing a naval army, if he gains a firm foothold in the south and further takes Lingnan and even the Minyue region, will he be able to develop to the sea, such as plundering resources from the islands of the Philippines? He remembered very well that the islands of the Philippines were rich in mineral resources. Of course, this is still a little too far away, but it is absolutely feasible to transport troops from the sea to various places along the coast.

The generals and colonels are more concerned about the formation of cavalry units, and they do not think about how the war horses should come, but whether the formation of cavalry is related to the follow-up of the Central Plains of the army. And it seems that someone has thought of more, thinking that it is time to build a chariot unit on their own master. (To be continued......)