At the end of Qin, I became a son of the plane

Chapter 129, Ideological Conflict and Financial Crisis

After Jing Tao returned to his residence, Jing Yi immediately sent someone to light firecrackers and announced to the surroundings: "Today my son comes home, and my Jing family will hold a flowing banquet for three days. Everyone come over, you're welcome.

When the people around heard this, they all smiled and said congratulations: "I wish Master Jing may you be a noble prince forever!"

Jing Yi laughed heartily when he heard this. His family was originally the descendant of the Chu Kingdom. However, after the Chu Kingdom was destroyed, his family suddenly fell into the world. Now his son has made progress and occupied an important position in the rebel army. The family's revival has been seen. Hope he's unhappy.

The Jing family's running-water banquet has been set up for three days, but not many people actually came to eat, because at this time, Jing Tao was not the only one returning home in Yang County.

Yang County is considered the land of Longxing. Many of the soldiers who followed Xu Fan in the uprising became officers. They had holidays and naturally had to return to their hometowns. Therefore, during this period, the entire Yang County was a bit like the Spring Festival in later generations, with the sound of firecrackers. It has not been broken, nor has the running water mat been broken. Situations like the Jing family's are too common.

The Jing family was busy for three days, and Jing Yi had time to get along well with his eldest son.

Jing Tao complained a little: "Father, it's just a song commander who is only in charge of 500 cavalry, why is it like this?"

There are three major aristocrats in the Chu State, namely Qu, Jing and Zhao. The ancestor of the Jing family is Zixi (Gongzi Shen), the eldest concubine of King Ping of Chu. Shangmi and Xiyi of Danxi's hometown are Jing. His family's hometown, the Jing family is considered a clan member of the Chu State. Of course, the Jingyi branch was just a side branch, and the real main branch had long been moved to Xianyang by the First Emperor.

But after all, the Jing family is related to the king, and Jing Tao feels that his father is making a fuss out of a molehill, which makes him feel a little embarrassed.

Jing Yi smiled and said: "Being in charge of 500 cavalry is not a big official. My father will find a way to make it work and let you serve as the county magistrate. With the rapid development of the rebel army, it won't be long before the entire Chu Kingdom can be restored. My son If I have the opportunity to become a county guard with a salary of 2000 shi, then my Jing family will be revived."

Even in the Chu State back then, it was a great thing to become the governor of a county. After all, there were too many clans, and it was extremely difficult for side branches like them to climb to their current position. But now that he has had a relationship with Zhou Zhang for more than ten years, it wouldn't be too much to promote his son.

But Jing Tao refused: "Now is a troubled time, and achievements can only be made on horses. How can we revive the family by becoming a civil servant? And my father doesn't know yet that the rebel cavalry will expand again. The child may have the opportunity to become a military commander and command thousands of cavalry. The general of the country attaches great importance to the cavalry, and if he can serve again and become a captain of the cavalry, he will be on the top of the rebel army."

Jing Yi said worriedly: "The higher you go up, the fewer positions there are. It's not easy to become a captain. Yingbu first conquered the city, fell into battle and beheaded the generals, and then he became the core of the rebel army with an outsider's identity. All high-ranking positions in the army are life-threatening." The problem is that there is a lack of political talents among the rebels, making it easier for them to stand out."

Jing Yi didn't want his son to take risks, so he prepared a safe track for him.

Jing Tao refused: "The rebel army doesn't have many cavalry generals, and cavalry officers are promoted faster. Moreover, Chen Xiao is already one of the top five generals in the rebel army. Back then, the Xiang family was not as good as my Jing family, but now the children are far behind Chen Xiao. Children who don’t want to fall behind have no choice but to work hard.”

Jing Tao's words made Jing Yi extremely apologetic. He was the first person the rebels approached during the uprising, but he didn't think highly of Xu Fan and rejected Zhou Zhang's invitation, but he didn't expect that the rebels would really prosper. But he made one mistake at a time, so that his eldest son was not as good as the Xiang family son. Thinking of this, he felt that he could not delay his child's future, so he stopped interfering with Jing Tao's decision.
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Chenjun, Chenfu.

Unlike Jing Yi, Xiang Biao lived directly in his son's home. He can also understand the movements of the rebels faster.

What the rebels did in Yingchuan County made Xiang Biao a little worried about his family's land. So when Chen Xiao returned home, Xiang Biao went to Chen Xiao and asked, "Will your rebel army's forced land equalization also spread in Chen County?"

Xiang Biao didn't care about the victory of the rebel army, but the policy implemented by the rebel army in Yingchuan County really scared him. The land of the powerful was given to the common people. This was not for the lives of people like them. Now he was afraid that the rebel army would also spread in Chen County. Such a policy.

"Forced land equalization?" Chen Xiao, who had just come back, was full of questions, but he quickly understood and ridiculed: "This is the general punishing the ungrateful Koreans. They have no merit, but they actually want to dominate Yingchuan County, and the general is not The forced equalization of land was due to the fact that there were too many family members of the soldiers who moved here, and the official land was not enough to be divided, and the Korean fields could not be cultivated, so the general bought the Korean land and gave it to the families of the rebel soldiers. We, the rebels, are Paid.”

For Chen Xiao, which one is his own, the family members of the rebels or the powerful Koreans? Naturally it is the former, so not only is he not afraid of Xu Fan's policy, he also supports it with both hands. After all, only after the land is equalized will the number of rebel soldiers increase and the power in their hands will become stronger.

"I paid less than one-tenth of the land price, and it doesn't matter whether they are willing to accept it or not!" Xiang Biao said.

But Chen Xiao said: "It's not enough to pay for 10 consecutive years. It's not fair enough. Did the Qin people pay when they plundered their land! Father, if you compare it like this, do our rebels Very fair and just!”

Xiang Biao thought to himself, "How can this be fair? It's just a robbery." '

Chen Xiao ridiculed: "The general said it right, we rebels cannot suffer from our own people, then we can only suffer from the tyranny of Yingchuan County."

After saying this, Chen Xiao laughed. Thinking of the general saying this with a serious face, he felt that the atmosphere was so funny. Chen Xiao, a Chu native, would not sympathize with the Koreans. Instead, he would be like the later Chinese people who laughed at the third brother, thinking that Xu Fan taught him a good lesson.

This may be the benefit of the Warring States Period. The upper echelons were also divided into seven or eight groups. In addition to jointly dealing with the Qin State, they also plundered and killed each other. This made it difficult for these upper echelons to empathize. A visionary like Xiang Biao, on the contrary, It's an outlier.

Xiang Biao found that his eldest son had been completely assimilated by the rebels. He did not realize the seriousness of the problem and could only secretly get angry.

But he quickly said: "Uncle Qi has written. They killed Yin Tong, the governor of Kuaiji County, and officially launched an army to fight against the Qin Dynasty. Now they have 8000 soldiers in their hands, and they want us, the descendants of the Xiang family, to support them."

"Of course we must support it." Chen Xiao's eyes lit up when he heard this. He immediately found a map and said: "Our army plans to attack Jiujiang County, Hengshan County, Nan County, Nanyang County and other places. If my uncle goes north to attack the East China Sea, County, Sishui County, and then our two armies will be merged into one place, and the entire Chu Kingdom will be revived, and then the uncle will be able to obtain the position of general."

Although there are also Qianzhong County and Changsha County on the territory of Chu State. However, these places are sparsely populated and undeveloped, and most of them are barbarians. They do not occupy much position on the political map of Chu State, and they are places that can be transferred and handed over.

Xiang Biao said, "Your uncle is arrogant and comes from a famous family. I'm afraid he may not be willing to serve under the general."

Xiang Biao's words immediately woke Chen Xiao up and made him understand that the Xiang family is the Xiang family and the rebel army is the rebel army.

Chen Xiao smiled and said: "Uncle's little strength cannot be the opponent of our rebel army."

Chen Xiao smiled and his face became serious and said: "The Xiang family belongs to me, and the Chu State belongs to our rebel army. No one can take it away."

Xiang Biao looked at his strange eldest son in shock.
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The next day.

All the senior leaders of the rebel army gathered together to discuss their strategy for going south. Because of his great achievements in recruiting talents, Kong Yu became the new senior leader of the rebel army and attended the rebel meeting for the first time.

Xu Fan was the first to speak: "Rebels must be rewarded for their deeds and punished for their deeds. Previously in Yingchuan County, the general had rewarded the lower-level soldiers and middle-level officers. Chang Shi also rewarded the soldiers and officers of Chen County. Today, we will reward Promote senior officers above the military commander level."

The rebel army expanded too fast. When Xu Fan defeated Wang Li, there were only 2.3 soldiers. However, after defeating Li You, the standing army alone expanded to 8 people. Now the middle and lower-level officers of the rebel army can still use soldiers captured by the Qin army. Instead, high-ranking officers above the Army Sima level must be controlled by rebel confidants. This time, it is the senior generals of the rebel army who will be promoted.

Deng Zong, the supervisor of the army, came out and said: "The records of my subordinates include the great meritorious captain, the army Sima, the Sima supervisor of the army, seventeen people, Qu Chang, and the Qu supervisor of the army, fifty-five people. Please check it, general."

Recording military achievements and summarizing meritorious officers and soldiers was the main task of Deng Zong, the supervisor of the army.

And this time there were so many meritorious officials. The results of the rebel army were indeed brilliant. 2.3 people annihilated 8 elite Qin troops. As long as the army commanders and horses were alive, almost all of them were great meritorious officials. They were the kind who could be promoted first, and they were You can be promoted up to two levels, from a military commander in charge of a thousand people to a captain in charge of ten thousand people, and become one of the top leaders of the rebel army.

The previous captains of the rebel army were Ji Bu, Yingbu, Chen Lin, and Ge Ying. When the army expanded to 5 people after Wu Sheng, the five of them were directly promoted to captains, and at the same time, Lu Chen, a veteran of the rebel army, was added. , Chen Xiaojixin, the two soldiers who joined the army, were also promoted to the rank of captains. But now that the rebel standing army wants to expand to 10 people, they want to promote 5 more captains to lead the army.

Xu Fan looked at the list and said: "Captains Deng Zhong, Tian Zang, Song Liu, Zhang He, and Wu Xu were promoted to captains of the rebel army and commanded the first army."

Then Xu Fan looked at Deng Zong and said: "The remaining names will be promoted according to their merit."

"No!" Deng Zong bowed. Xu Fan said: "Bring over five desks."

Five soldiers carried five desks and were placed behind the general area. Because of the special nature of the cavalry, Wu Sheng was already a high-ranking member of the rebel army when he was the commander of the camp.

Then he said to Deng Zhong and others: "You just sit there and discuss matters."

Deng Zhong and the others excitedly saluted Xu Fan and said, "Thank you, General, for the promotion."

Sitting in the meeting hall, they were also high-ranking members of the rebel army.

Xu Fan said: "Let's discuss the strategy of the southern expedition."

Chen Xiao, who joined the army, stood up and walked to a map of Chu State and said: "After annihilating 5 people from Li You's tribe, our rebel army has 10 standing troops. Yingchuan County and Chen County can also recruit 10 rural soldiers. It can be said that the army is strong.

The subordinates believe that this southern expedition will be divided into two groups. An army of 5 will go south from Yingchuan County to attack Nanyang County and Nan County. Another army will be led by another group and will go south to attack Jiujiang County and Hengshan County to completely control the Jianghuai region. . Jianghuai, Nanyang and other places are all the hometown of the Chu State. The local people are deeply oppressed by the Qin officials and are in dire straits. When our army arrives, the local people will definitely gain food and scenery. "

Xu Fan said: "The Yingchuan Army Corps will be led by me, with Yingbu, Chen Lin, Deng Zhong, Tian Zang, Song Liu, Ji Xin and others as generals. The Chenjun Army Corps will be led by brother Ji Bu, with Wu Sheng, Ge Ying, Lu Chen, Deng said, Zhang He, Wu Xu, Chen Xiao who joined the army, etc. are the generals."

Zhou Zhang frowned and said: "If we want to send 10 troops, it is best to win a quick victory. Our army does not have enough food and grass to support the army stationed outside for a long time. Moreover, the army cannot go too deep south of the river. Otherwise, the Qin army will go south. We will It will be too late for the main force of the army to return."

Zhou Zhangti's opinion not to go deep into the south is recognized by all the top leaders of the rebel army. The real essence of the Chu State is in the Han River and Jianghuai areas. If their goals can be achieved in this battle, the rebel army will occupy the best territory of the Chu State. They just want them to The quick solution made them a little confused.

Chen Xiao asked: "How can there be insufficient food and grass? General, do you remember that before our rebel army left, there were 500 million stones of food in the warehouse?"

Zhou Zhang looked at Xu Fan complainingly and said: "Although we have a lot of food in stock, the cost of the rebel army is also high. The price of the rebel army's strict military discipline is high treatment. Although the army went out for only two months, it spent a lot of food and supplies, and also placed Hundreds of thousands of rebel family members were stationed in Chen County and Yingchuan County. This not only required dividing the land, but also preparing food for these families to settle down. It cost 100 million shi of food just to resettle these refugee families.

The military ministers of Dang County suddenly entered Sishui County for some unknown reason. There was a raging war there, and a large number of refugees poured in. We took them in, and it cost hundreds of thousands of grains to resettle these refugees. The official fields of Chen County It was almost all divided, but it happened that our coach distributed grain and cloth farm tools in Yingchuan some time ago. We Chenjun had no choice but to follow suit. The 50 shi of grain was gone again, and now there are only 200 million shi of grain in the warehouse. Craftsmen spend hundreds of thousands of stones on salary every month, so we really don't have much food reserves now. "

Xu Fan could hear Zhou Zhang complaining about his lavish spending, but he didn't regret it either. High demands would naturally lead to high treatment. If the requirements are high but the soldiers are forced to eat dirt, wouldn't this be a sinister boss?

Yingbu said with a smile: "If you don't have enough money and food, you won't have anything to worry about. If you fight them out, you won't have anything to worry about. The counties in Qin are the granary of our rebel army. Important towns like Xingyang are difficult to fight, but other counties are much easier to fight."

Zhou Zhang's expression was extremely ugly when he heard this. Although he was right, the rebel army was no longer what it used to be. It was undesirable to risk his life like this again.

However, Ji Bu understood Zhou Zhang's worries and said: "Judging from the rebel battle reports in other places, the local rebel forces of Qin officials are already under the control of the Six Kingdoms of Guandong. As long as there are rebel forces to oppose Qin, the local powerful will support Qin's rule." It will fall apart, and our army's southward strategy will not encounter too many obstacles.

Zhou Zhang said: "The expenses of our rebel army are getting bigger and bigger. Hundreds of disciples come to our rebel army and arranging their positions is a huge expense. However, the income of our rebel army does not increase as fast as the expenditure. The rebel army does not want to If you cannot make ends meet, you must control your expenditure. If it is true as Yingbu said, if you have insufficient money and food, fight out, then the rebel army will become like the Qin army, but all the fertile land in the world will be captured by our rebel army, leaving only barren Land, where are we heading?”

Xu Fan also followed: "I have been telling you that our rebel army will not only destroy the old world of Qin, but also build a new world. What is a new world? It is a world where everyone can eat and drink without worrying. Hungry, a new world where you can live with dignity."

“If you want to have enough food and drink, you need to have enough food, cloth and other tools. This requires increasing productivity. How to increase productivity?

For example, in the past, only one stone of food could be grown from one acre of land. We have found a way to grow two stones, so that each family can get 50 more stones of food, and the people can have enough to eat and even live a better life. "

"How is this possible? Even in the most abundant harvest time, it is impossible to double the production capacity?" Ge Ying said in disbelief. He had also farmed, so he naturally understood the difficulty of doubling the production. He could do it just by carrying water. People choose death.

Xu Fan said: "It can be done. As long as the dry fields are replaced by irrigated fields, the grain production capacity can reach 3 tons, which is already more than twice. This requires new water conservancy facilities. Our water truck can do this. point.

Although the First Emperor was a tyrant, he also did some good things. Before unifying the world, the First Emperor ordered Zheng Guo to build the Zheng Guo Canal, which added millions of acres of fertile land to Guanzhong. The Zheng Guo Canal was a self-retained canal, and there was no shortage of water for every acre. The yield of the land is six stones and four dou, so Qin was able to dispatch hundreds of thousands of troops to fight for more than 6 years, but there was no shortage of food. "

"Six stones and four buckets, is this true?" Many people couldn't believe it. In their impression, every acre of grain costs a little more than one stone, and anything with three stones is considered the best land. But such high-quality fields are rare, and it is impossible to achieve such a high yield of food with 6 shi and 4 buckets of grain. At least in their impression, it is impossible to have such a high yield of grain.

Only Zhou Zhang nodded bitterly and said: "This is true. When I was in General Xiang Yan's army, I personally witnessed General Xiang Yan and Wang Jian leading a 60-strong Qin army to confront each other. At that time, our Chu State's army was in Chu, and the supply line was extremely short. , but Qin's army marched thousands of miles away, and it was 20 more than our Chu state. Qin's food consumption was five times that of our Chu state.

It was because of the great consumption of the Qin army that General Xiang Yan's original strategy was to compete with the Qin army and exhaust the Qin army's food and grass, forcing Wang Jian to withdraw.

But in the end, our Chu State was consumed. The armies of the two sides were in a stalemate for more than a year. All the food in the Chu State was consumed. King Chu could only continue to urge General Xiang Yan to take the initiative.

General Xiang Yan lacked enough food, so he could only attack the Qin army's camp. Wang Jian defended the camp, and the Chu army suffered heavy casualties. General Xiang Yan saw that he could not break the Qin camp, so he had to retreat. As a result, the entire army was defeated by Wang Jian. After the defeat, Chu State was destroyed. "

"Back then, I investigated the inside story of the Qin army and learned about Zheng Guoqu's intelligence. God was helping the emperor to kill the evil thief. During the years when the Qin army attacked Chu, Zheng Guoqu could provide Qin with 2 million shi of food every year. , our country of Chu was completely crushed to death by these grains."

Recalling the past, Zhou Zhang's face was filled with pain. The pain of losing his country and his family would not diminish with time.

The generals were also shocked by the war that year. The Battle of Qin and Chu was the largest battle in the world after the Battle of Changping. This battle lasted for more than a year.

The generals and counselors of both sides tried all kinds of methods but could not do anything to the other side. However, Xiang Yan was defeated by Wang Jian due to food shortage. In less than half a year, the huge Chu State disappeared in the face of the Qin army's powerful offensive. This It's the thing that makes Chu people feel the most helpless.

Xu Fan said: "I won't talk about what happened back then. Now we have the powerful tool of waterwheels. We can turn dry land into irrigated land to increase production capacity without building huge canals.

When I returned to Chen County, I had already seen dozens of water trucks. These water trucks gave our rebels thousands of acres of more irrigated land. These fields have also been transformed from dry fields into high-quality irrigated fields. This autumn harvest After that, our rebel army will have 1 more stones of food. This is the change that comes with increased productivity. One water tanker can increase the production capacity of hundreds of acres of land. If our rebel army has 1 water tankers, it is equivalent to building a small Zhengguo Canal in Chen County, which can produce more than 200 million shi of food every year. "

The big hammer immediately said: "General, please don't be ridiculous. One such waterwheel costs 1 yuan, which is equivalent to spending 300 shi of food. 1 waterwheels, not to mention whether there are enough manpower to build them, the cost alone is It’s equivalent to 300 million stones of grain, and Chen County doesn’t have so many rivers to accommodate it.”

Xu Fan smiled and said: "I am just giving an example, not necessarily a waterwheel. Zhou Changshi complained that I spent a lot of money, so I will find another profitable industry and earn back the money I spent. Improving food Production capacity is one method, but manufacturing other products is another method. Is 100 million stones a lot of food?

Of course, there is a lot of farming, which requires the output of almost 100 million acres of land, but it is not a lot to produce using another method. 1 long arrow is worth 1 bucket of grain, and a spear is worth 10 shi of grain. 100 million Stone grains are nothing more than 1000 million long arrows and 10 spears. This is not much for our rebels. It is only the production capacity of several hundred craftsmen for several months.

Xu Fan's self-confidence is now the highest in the world.

Just kidding, everyone from the uncle's family, the Mo family, came under his command. They are the strongest engineers and scientists of this era. With their help, how difficult will it be to make money.

Although Xu Fan was full of self-confidence, Zhou Zhang had a wry smile on his face. Where does the money come from these days is always the most difficult question to answer. The way Qin officials found was to turn the people into prisoners to help the empire solve the financial crisis.

The rebels obviously couldn't use this method. Xu Fan proposed another method, making equipment to make money, but he didn't know whether this method would work. But he knew that this crisis must be resolved at this time.

After the combat mission was issued, the entire rebel army began preparations to go south. This time, 100,000 troops were dispatched. Because most of the soldiers were still reunited with their families, and it took time for the officers to adjust their positions, the dispatch was scheduled for one month later.

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