"Ahem, everyone, my Pingzhou Army has returned from the Xianbei expedition, and I first represent all my colleagues in Pingzhou to congratulate my mighty Pingzhou Army officers and soldiers!"

At the plenary military and political conference, as the host, Deng Yan got up first and said.

"The Pingzhou Army was able to achieve such brilliant results, which is inseparable from the wise leadership of the lord, and it is also inseparable from the countless Pingzhou people who have silently paid for Pingzhou. On behalf of all the officers and men, I would like to express my gratitude to Deng Beijia and all my colleagues who supported them in the rear! ”

As a military leader, Liu Yi naturally needs to respond.

After the two exchanged polite words, the conference was officially convened.

"This time, our army returned victoriously thanks to all the soldiers who fought bloodily and all the people worked together." As soon as Shang Ji's voice changed, his voice began to be cold: "However, there are a very small number of stubborn people who turned their backs on Pingzhou at the critical moment of the Battle of Huayi, in a vain attempt to disturb Pingzhou's hard-won peace. Such disloyal and unrighteous people, not killing is not enough to anger the people, and not killing is not enough to lift the morale of the army! ”

Before Shang Ji's words fell, Gongsun Du next to him came out in a cold sweat!

In yesterday's purge, the military, the government, the family, the powerful, the alien, and the players were all affected, and hundreds of officers and officers of all sizes were arrested in the military. Among them, the highest official positions are the two school captains, and these two school captains happen to be the old department of Gongsun Du!

If it weren't for his good daughter Gongsun Ting who hinted to him, Gongsun Du would have planned to take the blame.

In fact, according to Qianhuan's information, Gongsun Du really didn't have any big fault in this matter. His two old ministries have long since stopped contacting him.

Of course, if you insist on climbing, it will definitely involve him, but Shang Ji didn't plan to expand the purge, and for the more innocent Gongsun Du, Shang Ji just beat him a little.

Deng Yan took over Shang Ji's words very timely: "The lord is reasonable, according to accurate information, a total of 2,200 people are suspected of rebellion. These include aliens, powerful families, aliens who have surrendered, etc., and even some tentacles extend into our army. The evidence of this group of people is conclusive, and the punishment will be corrected on the day of tomorrow, please take this as a warning, and don't mislead others and yourself! ”

Deng Yan's words can be regarded as the curtain on this matter, and it also shows that Shang Ji has no trend of expanding the purge, which greatly relieved Gongsun Du and other non-descendants.

In fact, this purge was originally a stronger sense of sounding the alarm bell, although some unlucky people had some abnormal movements during the "serious injury" of Shang Ji, but many of them belonged to the subconscious actions of the time of turmoil, and it was a bit far-fetched to say that the chaos was chaotic.

However, in order to clear the hidden dangers, Shang Ji still decisively arrested all these people, including several big families in Xiangping City that have been inherited for a long time and some player forces who have always refused to be honest.

And this purge also provided Pingzhou with tens of millions of financial gains and more than 20 directly subordinate territories, large and small, thousands of high-level equipment and props, which can be regarded as a small profit.

The purge is over, and the main content of the real Pingzhou military and political conference is next.

"In the Battle of Xianbei, our army fought bloodily and won the final victory, but because of the stubborn resistance of Kebineng, our army also suffered heavy losses. Among them, a total of 1.96 million soldiers have been killed, and some of the main battle arms, such as giant shield soldiers, have almost been wiped out, and they urgently need to be replenished and restored. As for the material losses, the losses of armor, weapons, arrows, shields, bows and crossbows and other equipment are innumerable, and the loss of equipment such as the bursting torch stone cart and the large bed crossbow is more than 30%. It will take at least two months for the Pingzhou Army to return to its pre-war size. ”

Liu Yi got up first, and made a simple summary of this war on behalf of the military, and ended it in two sentences - the whole army has suffered heavy losses, and the lord should hurry up and pay money!

Shang Ji smiled slightly, ignored Liu Yi's crying, and turned to look at Deng Yan.

Deng Yan understood, got up and continued: "According to the statistics after the fact, our army has harvested a total of 4 million war horses, 5 million horses, 20 million cattle, and 400 million sheep in this war (only counting the original war revenue, not counting the livestock in the hands of those Xianbei civilians who did not participate in the war). Capture 500,000 high-ranking enemy troops, occupy a king-level city, destroy a king-level city, and harvest a large amount of building materials.

More than 500,000 high-level Xianbei troops were captured, and more than 200 first-class generals or above were captured by the enemy, including 12 super-first-class generals. There are six historical generals, but they are all B- and C-level historical generals, so I won't focus on them.

In addition, after this battle, seventy percent of the original Xianbei territory was controlled by our army. More than 400 tribes, large and small, surrendered to our army. After a brief discussion, we divided the Xianbei tribes with less than 100,000 people into small tribes, 100,000 to 500,000 people into medium-sized tribes, 500,000 to 2 million people as large tribes, and more than 2 million tribes as super large tribes. Among the more than 400 tribes, there are six super-large tribes, seventeen large tribes, one hundred and three medium-sized tribes, and more than three hundred small tribes.

According to preliminary statistics, the total population of Xianbei within the sphere of influence of our army reached 160 million, which is roughly half of the total population of our Pingzhou (excluding Xianbei)! ”

After a pause, Deng Yan continued: "Before the outbreak of the Xianbei Civil War, some data showed that the total number of tribes in Xianbei exceeded seven hundred, with a total population of five hundred million! In other words, in less than two years of civil war, plus our Northern Expedition, the total population of Xianbei has been reduced by nearly seventy percent! ”

"Shhh

There was an immediate sound of inhalation in the hall, such a terrifying population attrition was unimaginable even for a battle-hardened general.

"How could the casualties be so high?"

Yang Cheng couldn't help but ask the doubts in everyone's hearts.

"Soldiers, man-made disasters, plagues, snowstorms, famines!" Deng Yan coldly spit out ten words!

In fact, only a small percentage of them died directly in the war. The prolonged war led to food shortages, and the large-scale fighting of the army further exacerbated the food shortages by the rampant disease and the mass deaths of livestock.

In order to alleviate the food crisis, Kebineng and Budugen chose to beggar-thy-neighbor very tacitly, trying to get through the difficulties by plundering each other, which in turn exacerbated the intensity of the war and the epidemic, making famine the norm.

And the Xianbei people were very unlucky, and it coincided with the snow disaster. After a snow disaster, some small tribes that are not strong in resistance were directly wiped out!

And the plague does not only refer to the plague in Longcheng created by Shang Ji, the plague on the grassland has hardly been interrupted before this, but the scale and harm are not as good as the plague in Longcheng.

"In other words, Xianbei has no ability and does not dare to leave Pingzhou in a short period of time, but accordingly, we need to provide food, cloth and other materials to help Xianbei tide over the difficulties."

Deng Yan made a final summary, and at the same time found a barely explainable reason for Shang Ji's withdrawal.

Deng Yan, as the core management of Pingzhou, naturally knows that the War Spirit Legion is about things, but the cover that should be done still has to be done.

"According to the output of previous years and the current Xianbei population situation, under normal circumstances, the grassland can provide us with 50 million horses, 200 million cattle, and 4 billion sheep every year, including a large number of horses (most of these need to be bought or exchanged, which is equivalent to the grain produced by ordinary people in the Han region, you can't forcibly collect all of them, and the livestock data refer to Mongolia next door).

This is only a conservative estimate, if we can increase the amount of input, for example, to provide more food and medicine to Xianbei, the number of livestock that can be produced will be even more! ”

The eyes of the crowd couldn't help but widen, and from time to time they imagined what kind of shocking scene hundreds of millions of horses, cattle and sheep ran in front of them.

"This ...... So much, how can I finish eating! Dian Wei smashed his mouth, a little unable to imagine how to digest so much output.

Everyone suddenly let out a burst of good-natured laughter, Deng Yan was also amused by Dian Wei, shook his head and smiled, and waved his hand to signal everyone to calm down first: "What General Evil Lai said also makes some sense, whether it is cattle and sheep or war horses, it is impossible to digest them all with the size of our Pingzhou." Therefore, we have to start large-scale trade with the mainland! ”

Shang Ji knocked on the table and attracted everyone's attention to himself: "I have already discussed with Bai Shou, Wen Ruo and others, and we in Pingzhou will come forward to purchase the livestock in the hands of the Xianbei people at a suitable price, and at the same time sell them grain, tea, medicine, cloth, salt and other necessary daily necessities. Make sure that the Xianbei people who are truly willing to return to our army will not starve! ”

As soon as Shang Ji's voice fell, the nimble-brained person had already seen the huge benefits in this.

The method of the merchant is similar to that of the monopoly of later generations. Relying on the unified purchase of livestock in the hands of the Xianbei people by force, and then selling them to the princes in the interior at a high price, because of the monopoly, there is a high room for maneuver in price. On the other hand, Xianbei people can only buy grain, cloth and other materials through official channels in Pingzhou, which not only chokes the lifeline of Xianbei people to a certain extent, but also makes a lot of money.

Historically, this is how the Mongols were played to death by the Qing Dynasty. In the middle and late periods, the Mongols' livestock were sold to the Jin merchants at a very low price, and then they had to buy daily necessities from the Jin merchants at a high price, which made the whole Mongolia burdened with extremely high debts!

In line with the Qing government's policy of supporting Lamaism and reducing Ding, the fierce Mongols were gradually domesticated.

Of course, in order to consider the long-term, Shang Ji will not excessively squeeze Xianbei people, at least to ensure their basic life. And with the War Spirit Legion in charge, Shang Ji is not afraid of the Xianbei people becoming bigger, and there is no need to implement any policy of reducing the number of soldiers. Even the other way around, Shang Ji also needed to encourage Xianbei people to have children.

After all, the grasslands are so large that 160 million people are unable to use them effectively. Increasing the grassland population to a certain extent can greatly increase the output of animal husbandry.

The goal of the Shang Dynasty was to restore the total population of Xianbei to the pre-war level and increase the production of livestock by a factor of five!

Of course, this goal is a bit far away for the time being, but in the foreseeable future, animal husbandry trade will be one of the pillar industries in Pingzhou, and it can even surpass the most prosperous processing and sales of pills.

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