The discussion about the monetary system is just the beginning, and the seemingly simple Qingzhou New Deal can only be discovered by these experts after they have studied it in depth.

Dong Zhao grabbed the top spot, and the others didn't mean to be jealous, the staff members were all very careful, and at the moment of life and death, the loss of some face was negligible. If possible, they would be willing to hold a grand ceremony and invite a few heavyweight staff members and even Wang Yu from Qingzhou to come over and explain it in detail to everyone in person.

Of course, everyone knows that's delusional. Cao Cao spent a lot of effort on poaching, Tian Feng, Guo Yuan, Wang Xiu, and even Mi Zhu, who was born as a merchant he had never looked down on, tried more than once or twice, but the result was frustrating. Not to mention shaken, after hearing the intentions, the ministers of Qingzhou all sent guests directly to drive people away.

I thought that the identity was the most embarrassing, and the most promising trial match, but it was the most resolute one, if it weren't for the messenger entrusted by Cao Cao and the deep friendship with the judge, maybe he would have been arrested as a spy.

There is no way, and everyone can only spend their own energy to study.

The monetary system is followed by the tax system, and Xun You and Zhong Xuan are very experienced in this regard, and answer Cao Cao's questions one by one.

"Although the tax will become quite low after the tax reduction, if you think about it carefully, it may not affect the income of the Qingzhou General's Mansion. Those exemptions and exemptions are actually similar to those of conscription, except that they are not as onerous as conscription, and after changing the name, it is easier for the people to accept them, and those who do not participate in conscription and concentrate on making money can earn more money themselves, and the tax rate paid is also higher. It is possible to level the tax burden as a whole. ”

"The key is that Qingzhou is heavy on business, and the amount of commercial taxes is considerable, and Qingzhou's wealth mainly comes from this. Although business does not buy high and sell low, and does not create new wealth out of thin air, there is no exchange between different places. Money flows, but it can greatly promote production. Just like the strategy of sea trade, if it were not for the real wealth seen through the trade with Liaodong, how could Qingzhou's shipping be so prosperous? ”

"It's just that although the tax system in Qingzhou is good, our army can't follow suit, otherwise it will ......"

The explanation is clear. The conclusion is very helpless, and I still can't learn.

In short, Cao Cao's implementation is still the same as in the past, and no matter how he reforms the tax system, it cannot directly affect the common people, because his rule over the local area is separated by a layer. There is no way to cross the Haoqiang clan and directly squeeze or benefit the people.

If he must learn, he must be mentally prepared to shatter everything and reshape it. Of course, it was impossible to do, so although he saw the advantages of Qingzhou's new policy, Cao Cao could only just take a look.

"Is there a way to deal with it?" If you can't learn, then pull the other party's back legs. Cao Cao is also very neat in making decisions.

Everyone looked at each other, they all shook their heads, and Cheng Yu said in a deep voice: "Or can you try the method of drawing salary from the bottom of the kettle?" ”

"What is a salary draw?" Cao Cao perked up, straightened up, and looked at Cheng Yu with blazing eyes.

"The minister heard that the Qingzhou official government collects taxes, does not collect grain, silk and other physical goods, only collects treasures, if the lord unites the princes, before the war, send people to Qingzhou to secretly buy grain. When it comes to wartime, its military needs will naturally be insufficient, and its army will be naturally full of ills......"

"Zhongde's plan is very good!" Cao Cao's eyes lit up suddenly.

The decrees of Qingzhou's new policy have their profound truths, but they were rushed into action after all. It is impossible not to have any flaws. Cheng Yu's plan to draw wages from the bottom of the kettle may cost a lot, but the probability of success is not low, even if it can't destroy the logistics supply of the Qingzhou Army, it can also raise the price of grain in Qingzhou, and it can also cause trouble for the other party.

"What do you think?" Strategies sound great, but brainstorming is a must.

The staff members all showed a contemplative look, and after a while, Zhong Xuan nodded: "Or can you give it a try?" His words caused a lot of echoes, but it did not form a heated discussion, because Guo Jia was still frowning.

"Does Feng Xiao think there's something wrong?" Cao Cao relied quite heavily on his chief think tank, and when he saw Guo Jia's expression, he felt a 'chuckle' in his heart.

"It's not that there's anything wrong with ......"

Guo Jia didn't look up, and said to himself: "But the intelligence shows that Qingzhou's tax model is combined with the intelligence system, that is, the combination of insider reporting and covert investigation." This law is somewhat similar to the decree of the year, but it is a cut above the restriction level, and the minister is thinking, Wang Huqi has put so much effort into the tax system, will it show such obvious flaws? ”

Cheng Yu breathed a sigh of relief, he was actually very afraid of being picked out by Guo Jia, he knew that with Guo Jia's character, most of them were just talking about things, and there was no distraction to compete for the limelight, but the actual effect was a slap in the face. But there was no way, it was impossible for him to watch Dong Zhao and Zhong Xuan, these latecomers, continue to behave and be indifferent.

"Feng Xiao's concern is not unreasonable, but since there is no other way, I can only try it first, at least do some targeted investigation and preparation first." Cheng Yu's words left a lot of leeway, and he could change direction at any time, but fortunately, Guo Jia did not chase and fight uncharacteristically this time, so that one of his hearts fell back into his stomach.

"Since you have no objections, then the matter will be handed over to Zhongde to deal with." Cao Cao nodded, brought the topic over, then turned to Zhong Xuan, and said in a deep voice: "Yuan Chang advised Gu that day, Qingzhou has obvious advantages, don't rush forward, think about it now, it does make sense." However, after a few days of deliberation, I guess Yuan Chang's mind has also changed, right? ”

"Don't dare to deceive the lord, the minister originally thought that the new policy of Qingzhou was not out of the card, but it should always be within the framework, but he didn't want Wang Bi to ride the sky, so he jumped out of the shackles and opened up a world. If you want to learn its performance, it may not be difficult, but if you really want to follow the same trend, I am afraid that it will be the same as Dongshi. ”

Zhong Xuan shook his head, and the shame on his face gradually turned into a resolute color: "There is something wrong with the minister's advice that day, the Central Plains War, but it should be as early as possible, however, it is indeed not a good time now, first, our army has not fully digested the results of the battle of Guanzhong, and second, although most of the decrees in Qingzhou are meritorious years or even decades later, there are also two ...... that can directly affect the current war situation."

"Lone has scattered his ears and eyes all over Guanzhong, carefully searched for famous craftsmen, and rectified the prison as a prisoner. At the same time, I also informed the major families, and I think there will be good news soon. Although Qingzhou attaches great importance to the skills of craftsmen earlier, the land of Hebei is not as profound as Sanfu and the Central Plains after all. Lone does not expect to be able to overwhelm Qingzhou with new weapons on the battlefield, but it should not be difficult to equalize. ”

There is no point in blaming Zhong Xuan. Again, it doesn't make sense.

It is indeed not advisable to wait for the national strength to become stronger, and then conduct a decisive battle, which will only give Wang Yu a chance to breathe, and when the potential of the new deal is further exerted, the gap between the two sides will only widen. And not the other way around.

But a hasty decisive battle is also not advisable.

If the Xiliang army is allowed to pounce like that, it may be able to consume a certain amount of Qingzhou's troops and resources, but it is more likely that it will follow in the footsteps of the Xianbei army. There are too many new weapons emerging in the Qingzhou army, and if the gap in equipment cannot be narrowed, there is no way to turn the advantage into victory by relying on the large number of people alone.

The correct thing to do is to postpone the offensive and actively prepare. Then take advantage of the alliance to disperse Qingzhou's forces, and then target the key points and kill them with one blow.

Cao Cao realized that the gap in the technical field had to be bridged, but he didn't have any ideas for the other thing, and as he spoke, he turned his puzzled gaze to Zhong Xuan.

Zhong Xuan replied loudly: "The other is of course the martial strategy!" ”

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"This martial strategy is really ......"

Ma Dai finally decided to move on. After consulting the relevant news at the exchange point, he did not continue to mess around in the market, but went straight to Liyang City, and saw the militia drill of more than 1,000 people in the Daxiao field in the north of Liyang City as he wished. He had already been mentally prepared in advance, but the sight of him still shocked him.

The military system of the Han Dynasty adopted a five-binary system, with five people as a team, which was the smallest combat unit, and then ten people for tithes, and five tithes for a team. The two teams are one tun, the two tuns are one song, the two songs are one song, and the five parts are one battalion, and the battalion. It was the most common independent combat unit of the Han Dynasty army.

There were more than 5,000 people who were practicing on the large school field north of Liyang, and the number was very good, because they were neatly lined up in four large squares.

This kind of pure phalanx is actually not common on the battlefield, thick is thick enough, but the flexibility is relatively poor, the Han army is not the later Chongwen and military era of those Central Plains army, they advocate offense, naturally will not favor the phalanx with too low mobility.

But it is undeniable that as long as the phalanx is neatly arranged, coupled with the overall uniform action, the visual effect is quite shocking.

In a large phalanx of more than 1,000 people, the battalion officers and flag bearers, drummers, and trumpeters stood on the right side of the front row, all on foot. Moreover, the battalion officer stood at the right end of the first row, observing the enemy in front and giving orders, and the drummers, trumpeters, and standard-bearers constantly responded according to his orders, and the rows of soldiers made tactical movements according to the flags, drums, and trumpets.

There are generals on both sides of each row. They are responsible for correcting formations, maintaining the distance of the formation, as well as responding to the enemy and directing tactical details.

Because every soldier in the phalanx acted to the same drum beat, the whole phalanx was like a person, and even the trembling of the ground was extremely rhythmic, which looked extremely spectacular.

This is not an ordinary military formation, although the generals of the Han army also pay attention to taking the lead, but they often appear at the forefront of the battle line as sharp knives, relying on their own bravery, tearing apart the enemy formation, opening a breakthrough for the army behind them.

Although the battalion-level commander in this phalanx also stood at the forefront, his role was purely to suppress the formation and command the battle, rather than taking the lead in capturing the flag.

Such a formation has high requirements for the queue, and the actions are orderly and cannot be done at will, which also determines that the movement speed is relatively uniform and not too fast. But the four phalanxes of more than 1,000 people marched together, and the sense of oppression was also quite huge, as if a moving mountain was pressing over.

If this is a drill of the regular army in Qingzhou, Ma Dai will not be too shocked, the art of war throughout the ages has long been studied by the array, and it is not difficult to break through this kind of phalanx that purely relies on dense arrays to exert its power, even Ma Dai, who has not read many military books, can list four or five methods with high feasibility without thinking.

The problem is that this is just a group of militiamen, in Wang Yu's career of fighting in the south and north in the past few years, there are only one examples of relying on the militia to fight, and these people are not in the battle sequence of the Qingzhou Army at all!

A group of people who are not even in battle sequences can be trained to this extent, and the meaning contained in this is too amazing.

And Ma Dai soon found out. Some of the coping methods that I have come up with seem to be debatable.

The easiest way to break the dense formation is to attack from a distance, and to deal with this kind of purely spear-based lineup, as long as you open it up and shoot with a bow and arrow. The denser the formation, the more live targets there are.

But around the phalanx, there was a group of people running back and forth around the array, and from time to time they would burst to the front, raise the crossbow machine in their hands, or stand or squat in a posture of aiming and shooting, which was troublesome.

As everyone knows. The range of the crossbow is farther than the bow, especially the strong crossbow in the army, the maximum range is nearly twice higher than the strong bow curved shot, regardless of the cost, if the bow and crossbow are fighting, the crossbow is eighty percent to have the upper hand.

The biggest disadvantage of crossbows is that they are not easy to make. The cost is too high. But the benefits are also numerous, in addition to power and range, crossbowmen are also easier to train. An excellent archer may require more than ten years of hard training, even those in the army who lower their standards, let alone three or five years of practice, in order to ensure a certain level of accuracy.

But the crossbowman is much simpler, and he can train casually for ten days and a half months. It's barely able to go into battle, anyway, the crossbow kills rely on the huge power of the salvo, and the accuracy of the individual is not very important.

Thinking that Qingzhou even had the spare strength to equip the irregular army with crossbows, Ma Dai was shocked, and a strong bitter taste rose from his heart. In the Xiliang Army, if you want to have a qualified riding bow, you must be at least an officer-level figure, and the gap between the two sides is really not ordinarily big.

The Speargo phalanx is like a fortress made up of people, with limited attack power but strong melee defense. Crossbowmen can rely on this castle to fight in a loop, which greatly compensates for the weaknesses of both sides and forms an echo.

This is much more difficult to deal with than a simple phalanx or a strong crossbow arrow array.

Of course, these militiamen have never seen blood, don't look at what they look like on the school grounds. But when I arrived at the battlefield and saw the scene of thousands of horses galloping, I might be scared directly.

As soon as I thought of this, I only heard a sharp trumpet, and the drum beat became rapid, only to see that the advancing spear array suddenly stopped, and the spears that were originally raised vertically were all flat on top of each other.

There were sixty people in a horizontal row, and the spears in the full twenty rows were put down layer by layer, although the smoke and dust were billowing on the school field, the spear tips of the spears were shining in the sun, and they could still make people feel the murderous aura of the forest.

Almost the spears in the first five rows can reach the front of the first row, like a huge thorn bush, it is conceivable that if the enemy kills this array on the battlefield, in the face of the dense steel jungle in front, he can only fill it with flesh and blood.

Ma Dai was a little shaken, the generals were the most sensitive to the things on the military array, and if they hadn't been in battle, the soldiers who had seen blood would definitely not be considered strong. But then again, the art of war also pays attention to orders and prohibitions, and the implementation of military orders can reach this level of almost like an arm's finger, even if they are recruits who have never seen blood, they will not collapse at the touch of a finger when they go into battle.

Judging from his vision, if he wants to defeat the second-line army of Qingzhou with more than 5,000 people in front of him, it is conservatively estimated that the cavalry of the Ma family's descendants will be at least more than 3,000, and as long as the militia maintains a basic fighting spirit, the casualties of his own family are likely to be more than 1,000. If you take into account the generals, the casualties should be reduced.

If it is an ordinary Qianghu cavalry, even if it is five thousand against five thousand, it is difficult to ensure victory, those Qianghu can not have the courage to see death as home, in the face of a dense phalanx, if they dare not sacrifice to break through, the casualties will only be greater.

In other words, even if the Xiliang Army won the victory in the Bingzhou battlefield and successfully attacked the hinterland of Jizhou, the war is likely to evolve into a war of attrition, rather than a devastating sweep across Hebei.

How many people are in the Xiliang Legion? Even if you pull all the people behind, it won't exceed 500,000, and how many militias are there in Qingzhou? The bazaar at the ferry port in Yanjin alone has such popularity, Liyang is just an outpost fortress, and the population is far below the big cities of Yecheng and Gaotang, but it can casually gather more than 5,000 militia to participate in the exercise.

The significance of this is really quite amazing!

The militia has a faint appearance of elite troops, so how amazing will the regular army in Qingzhou be? In the case that Qingzhou has already taken the lead in the state, how easy is it to defeat the main force of Qingzhou in the battlefield of the state?

For the first time, Ma Dai became suspicious of his uncle's decision-making, and he no longer had the confidence he had in the future battlefield battles.

"Second brother, what's wrong with you? Why is your face so bad? ”

Ma Yunluo doesn't have as much thought as Ma Dai, she only loves to be lively, there are more than 5,000 militiamen practicing on the school ground, and there are more people watching, and there are tens of thousands of people concentrated in the north of the city.

Looking back and seeing Ma Dai's expression, she was a little worried, worried that the second brother might be scared again, what if she wanted to go back again? The little girl was very worried, and asked cautiously, while thinking about how to find a way to distract the second brother's attention.

Ma Dai turned his head to look at his cousin, barely pulling out a smile, but he also knew that the little girl was not a good person to talk about business, and she didn't plan to share her heart with the other party.

Just as he was speechless, there was a sudden commotion around the crowd, as if someone had thrown a pebble on the calm water, and the chaos spread rapidly like ripples, and soon turned into cheers full of surprise.

Ma Dai listened attentively and clearly heard the shouts of "The prince is back".

At first, the sound was a little chaotic, but soon it turned into a neat cheer, like a tidal wave that overflowed the field.

Wang Yu returned from Youzhou?