On the Taiji Palace, Liu Wei and the civil and military ministers continued to plan the next step.
On the journey to unify the world, the Luoyang Imperial Court, with Liu Hehe as a puppet, and Cao Cao, whose strength has steadily risen, will inevitably be Liu Wei's biggest competitors in the future.
Declaring war on Cao Cao now would definitely lead to an alliance between Cao Cao and the Luoyang court, which was by no means a wise move, so this second strategy was not advisable, and it would be necessary to continue to maintain superficial harmony with Cao Cao for some time to come.
Since Cao Cao can't move for the time being, the third strategic direction is to go west to Wuguan to attack Chang'an, or Wancheng to the north to attack Hujiao Pass, capture the thief and capture the king first, and directly destroy the Luoyang court.
At present, Liu Xie's forces control Luoyang, the largest capital in the world, as well as Chang'an, Xijing, and the actual control area includes the entire Sili Prefecture, as well as most of Yongzhou.
Although the area is less than one-fifth of the area controlled by Liu Wei, the population is as high as seven or eight million.
Ten years ago, that is, in the first year of Zhongping, the imperial court counted the population on a large scale, and the number of registered people was as high as 64 million, plus the anonymous black households in the landlord Haoqiang's family, it was estimated that the population of the whole country at that time was at least 65 million, which was the highest peak of the Han Empire in 400 years.
It was also in this year that the large-scale Yellow Turban Uprising broke out, which swept through most of the country, causing a large number of casualties.
After that, the Han Dynasty entered the era of the division of princes, and no national population statistics were carried out.
But even so, Liu Wei still believes that the population of this period will not be less than 50 million, even if you add up the Yellow Turban Rebellion and the years of the princes' melee, it is estimated that the death toll will be about 10 million at most.
The basis is that Liu Wei's rule accounts for about a quarter of the country's territory, and of course this has to be done by removing the vast and sparsely populated areas such as the Western Regions, Qinghai-Tibet, and Yunnan-Guizhou, and the population under his rule is about 12 million.
Although Liu Wei was five times larger than the Luoyang court in terms of territory, he did not have much advantage in terms of population.
The city of Luoyang alone, as the capital of the Han Empire for 400 years, had one million inhabitants, which was the largest metropolis in the world during this period.
In comparison, New York, Tokyo and everything before Liu Wei crossed were weak, and the population of the entire Sili Prefecture was around five million.
As the accompanying capital of Xijing Chang'an, there are as many as 500,000 residents in the city, which is more than twice the current Jinling City, and the entire Jingzhao area, plus three-quarters of the Yongzhou area, has a population of 3 million.
In this way, although the territory under the jurisdiction of the Luoyang Imperial Court is small, the population is as high as 8 million.
Since the end of October last year, Yang Xuangan was defeated by Yue Fei in Wancheng, losing more than half of his troops and more than half of his more than 100,000 horses.
After that, the Eastern Han army swept through the princes, Li Jing swallowed Yuan Shao, Xu Huang broke the Taiping Dao and Zhou Yu coalition army, which made it difficult for the Luoyang court to sleep and eat, and it has been a large-scale conscription for half a year.
At Zhu Yuanzhang's suggestion, Huangfu Song, Yang Jian, Yang Su, Zhu Jun and other powerful figures all expressed their deep approval and adopted the strategy of five dings and one soldier under his rule, that is, if there are five adult males in a family, at least one of them will join the army, otherwise the whole family will be punished.
If the number of males in the family is less than five, a certain tax must be paid as compensation, called "military service tax".
After such a forcible conscription, the strength of the Luoyang court increased sharply, from the 150,000 people at the time of Yang Xuangan's defeat, to more than 200,000 at once, reaching nearly 400,000, and the size of the army was second only to Liu Wei's Luoyang court.
Although the newly recruited soldiers lacked combat effectiveness, with the rise of the two major families of Zhu and Yang, they continued to recommend talents to the imperial court.
In addition to Yang Su's father and son, the Yang family also has a water and fire prison dragon stick, Yang Lin, who is strong in martial arts, and is about forty years old, and Yang Jian's son Yang Guang.
In the Zhu family, in addition to Zhu Yuanzhang's son Zhu Di and nephew Li Wenzhong, they also recommended to the imperial court their old friend Xu Da, who was skilled in archery and horses, and had a good use of soldiers, who was deeply appreciated by Liu Xie, Yang Jian, Huangfu Song and others, and was worshiped as a general, as Zhu Yuanzhang's right-hand man, training the army.
If you want to ask how these people came here, the answer is that Yang Jian appeared when Lu Bu broke the table, and when he entered randomly, he brought Yang Lin, the backer king of the Great Sui, and his son Yang Guang.
And Xu Da appeared after being blown up by Zhao Yun, and the data were quite eye-catching, and he was even praised by the Luoyang Imperial Court as an all-round talent who could wrestle with Yue Fei.
With the addition of so many outstanding generals, coupled with Lu Bu, who is known as the "unparalleled flying general", and his iron triangle, Zhang Liao, Gao Shun, and Chen Gong, there is no shortage of generals in the Luoyang Imperial Court.
Under the supervision of these generals, daily drills have continuously improved the combat effectiveness of the Luoyang New Army.
Due to the abundance of horses in the Yongliang area, the Luoyang court gave full play to its geographical advantages and purchased Xiliang horses on a large scale to form cavalry.
After half a year of rapid development, the Luoyang Imperial Court purchased more than 50,000 horses from the Yongliang region, Ma Teng, Han Sui, and even from the hands of the Xiongnu Temujin through money purchases, grain, iron and other material exchanges, plus the original Dong Zhuo's old department, so that the Xiliang Iron Cavalry in the hands of the Luoyang Imperial Court expanded to 80,000, including more than 10,000 heavy cavalry.
In this case, Li Jing's army had no advantage in the westward expedition, and if it combined with Yue Fei's army, it would be equal to the Luoyang army in terms of strength, and it would have a certain advantage in terms of the number and quality of generals, but it would suffer a greater loss in cavalry.
Especially in the Yongliang Plains, the advantage of cavalry will be even more magnified.
If he forcibly marches west to Luoyang, it is still unknown who will kill the deer, but Sun Ce will definitely seize this rare opportunity to grow and grow rapidly, and even Liu Biao will resurrect.
"Since this is the case, then the next strategic goal is to aim at Sun Ce and Liu Biao, first destroy Liu and Sun, completely clear both sides of the Yangtze River, connect the nine counties of Jingxiang with the rule of this dynasty, and finally concentrate the army to attack Luoyang and fight with the puppet Han."
The Manchu civil and military affairs discussed for a morning, and finally Liu Wei decided on the next strategy, abandoned the previous three, and chose to go south to attack the nine counties of Jingxiang and completely unify the south.
Since Li Jing's army no longer carries out large-scale operations, it is time to split it next, after all, more than 200,000 troops cannot be piled together every day.
It is an inevitable trend to divide troops and implement the strategy.
With a stroke of his pen, Liu Wei ordered Xue Rengui to serve as the main general, and led Gao Chong, Tai Shici, Tian Zhen, Yue Yun, Cheng Yanjin, Zhao Kuangyin, Zhang He, Ma Zhong and other generals to lead 150,000 troops through Taishan County, and went south to Wancheng in the area of Pei County and Shouchun, and merged with Yue Fei's army, which was under the unified command of Yue Fei.
While doing a good job of defense, he marched south, attacked Jiangxia and Xiangyang in two ways, and tried to expel Sun Ce from Jingbei at the same time, and wiped out Liu Biao who was trapped in Jiangxia in one go.
As a person from Jingxiang, Xu Shu was familiar with the geography of Jingzhou, so he ordered him to follow Xue Rengui to the south, join Yue Fei's army, and give advice.
While Xue Rengui led his army south, he ordered Li Jing to lead 100,000 horses to continue to garrison Jinan, and while defending Qingzhou, he closely monitored the battle situation in Jizhou and responded to changes.
The generals under his command included Wei Yan, Lu Wenlong, Gao Gao, Guan Sheng, Xu Sheng, Hua Mulan, Yu Juluo and others, with Chen Deng as the commander of the army.
In a word, Qingzhou's military affairs were commanded by Li Jing, and government affairs were presided over by Wang Meng.
The strategy was formulated, and Kong Rong, who had the best civil and military penmanship in the Manchu Dynasty, drafted the edict, and then stamped the Huanghuang jade seal, and then sent an envoy to Qingzhou and handed it over to Li Jing.
"Where is Li Yuanfang" remembered Dai Zong, and Liu Wei summoned the commander of Jinyi Wei to make Li Yuanfang listen to the order.
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"The minister is in" Li Yuanfang came out of the queue to receive the order.
Liu Wei said in a deep voice: "There is a leader named Dai Zong in your Jinyi Guard Yamen, who has a good foot, even faster than a horse.
In the future, he will be responsible for transmitting all major resolutions and edicts."
Li Yuanfang's forehead was sweating, he didn't know about it, where did the Son of Heaven hear it, it was really like a god "The minister obeys the order, so I will go to the yamen to find Dai Zong, and let him come to see Your Majesty to restore his life."
Li Yuanfang didn't care about wiping his sweat and took the order.
After Li Yuanfang left, Liu Wei continued to discuss the situation in the world with his ministers.
On the Jingnan side, Huo Qubing led Qi Jiguang, Huang Zhong, Yuwen Chengdu, Lu Xun and others to lead 50,000 troops to follow the footsteps of Zhou Yujun into Guiyang County.
However, Zhou Yu adopted the strategy of clearing the wilderness and closing the city to contend with each other, and dragged the people in the countryside into the city, or retreated to Changsha, and then closed the door.
This made Huo Quzhi, who had no advantage in strength, take advantage of nothing, and the situation fell into a stalemate, and if he wanted to break the situation, he could only wait for Yue Fei's army to hit Sun Ce's main force in Jingbei first, and then he could usher in the fighter.
However, Xu Huang led Lu Xiangsheng, Lin Chong and Jiaozhou Assassin Wang Shouren all the way south, and successfully arrived at Jiaozhi of Jiaozhou Zhizhi, all the way unimpeded, and there was not much obstruction, but they encountered sporadic resistance from the remnants of Taiping Dao, and each time they were defeated in a battle.
It is only a matter of time to completely control Jiaozhou and let the people of Jiaozhou bathe in the emperor's grace.
In Bashu, Liu Bei led Zhang Fei, Fa Zheng, Fang Xuanling, Chen Dao, Shi Dakai and others to enter Shu since last summer, after a year of hard fighting, successfully captured Zitong, Fuling, Jiangzhou, Langzhong, along the way captured and surrendered Yan Yan, Wu Ban, Wu Yi, Lei Tong and other Bashu generals, has now advanced the front to Jiameng Pass, as long as the pass is broken, you can go straight to Chengdu, control the heart of Bashu.
In the face of Liu Bei's aggressive offensive, Liu Zhang organized a retreat to the south to temporarily avoid the edge of Liu Bei's army, and on the other hand, he sent the generals Zhang Ren and Huang Quan to increase troops to Jiameng Pass, and at the same time promoted a fierce general named Wei Wentong to help in Jiameng Pass, hoping to prevent Liu Bei from running out of food and avoid the disaster of destruction.
This early dynasty lasted until noon before it dispersed, Dai Zong saw the Son of Heaven after the joy of thanksgiving, was Liu Wei awarded an official position of Jinyi Wei liaison envoy, immediately happy thanks, with the edict and entourage out of the Qianyang Palace, left Jinling City and went straight to Qingzhou.
The excessive chapters are finally finished, and some people may not want to read them, but the swordsman actually doesn't want to write such chapters, and he needs to check the information, look at the map, turn over the previous records, and figure out who is doing what in that place is too laborious But as a historical strategy novel, such a large structure, it is not possible not to introduce the overall pattern.
It's like you're in a strategy game, it's definitely not enough to just look at the development of your own local areas, you have to pay attention to the development and future trends of other princes, in order to finally complete the great cause of unification.
In the next chapter, you will start to summon fierce generals and continue to conquer the city, and the high favor you are looking forward to is coming t1706231537: