Three Kingdoms

  Chapter 73 Night talk

  After seeing Fei Qian's arithmetic skills, the post chief became much more honest and didn't dare to do anything else, so he asked someone to lead Fei Qian back to the room to rest respectfully.

   Feiqian washed up casually, lay down on the couch, tossed and turned, but couldn't fall asleep.

  What the old farmer said during the day still troubled him a lot. The yield per mu in the Han Dynasty was too small. How could such productivity support the needs of the army?

In the Han Dynasty, there were few vegetable oils and scarce animal oils. Everyone’s daily energy consumption basically depended on the supply of carbohydrates. As a result, there was a large demand for ordinary food. Even if it was two meals a day, it would be too expensive to feed a standing army. It's amazing.

For example, the price of food today is a bit more expensive, but if it comes to the next year when the spring is green and yellow, the price will be almost the same. If there is another disaster year, the price of the food will be doubled. , the huge expenditure is an astonishing value...

   This is still bare food, as well as consumables such as weapons, armor, bows and arrows, as well as the monthly salary of each soldier...

   In this way, it is impossible to describe the money needed to feed the army...

   During the Three Kingdoms period, how many troops were constantly fighting? Counting from next year, until the end belongs to Sima, at least 30 years of fighting...

   During this period of time, not only soldiers died, but how many common people died innocently?

   Not to mention other things, how many innocent people did Cao Cao kill in Xuzhou? two hundred thousand? Three hundred thousand? How many field grains have been directly caused to fail?

  In addition to the abnormal weather changes in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, natural disasters were frequent...

  Fei Qian felt cold all over and couldn't sleep, so he simply got up and put on his clothes, opened the door and went out for a walk.

   Unexpectedly, I ran into Zhang Zhao after walking not far, and asked, "Zhang Shichang, why haven't you fallen asleep yet?"

  Zhang Zhao said: "It's a habit developed in the army to go around at night, but why didn't Mr. Fei Lang sleep? But did it disturb you?"

   Fei Qian shook his head and said, "It's just that I'm a little bored and can't sleep, so I came out for a walk." After Fei Qian finished speaking, he asked Zhang Zhao to go to rest first, but Zhang Zhao said that he was worried about Fei Qian's safety and must accompany him.

  Fei Qian couldn't resist, so he asked Zhang Zhao to follow him to the lobby of the inn, and gave the man on duty a few five baht to boil some water for drinking.

   Zhang Zhao looked at the buddy with the unexpected money happily going to boil the water, and muttered softly: "I really need money..."

   Fei Qian smiled, and called Zhang Zhao to sit down together.

  At first, Zhang Zhao didn’t dare to sit, saying that standing is fine, but Fei Qian repeatedly asked him to sit down.

   Fei Qian asked: "By the way, Zhang Shichang, how much is your monthly salary?"

   "My monthly salary?" Zhang Zhao wondered why Fei Qian would ask this question, but answered honestly, "Now I can get 450 Wen a month! Thanks to the promotion of Captain Zhang, otherwise it would be less than 100 Wen..."

   When it comes to salary increases, there is no difference between the ancients and modern people, they are all happy...

  Fei Qian nodded after listening, this is the case, after a little calculation in his mind, he found that the army is really a money-eating tiger...

   "Can the military salary be paid in time?" Fei Qian asked again.

  Zhang Zhao laughed and said, "Well! Thanks to Captain Zhang, two corrupt scribes were found out a while ago, otherwise our money would be swallowed up by these guys and we wouldn't know where to cry."

   "Hehe, Zhang Shichang, what do you think of being a soldier?"

   Zhang Zhao looked up, obviously recalling something, and then said: "I don't think there is anything good or bad, at least I have a meal..."

  At this moment, the postman who was boiling the water brought the water, poured it for Fei Qian and Zhang Zhao, and then went back to the corner to curl up and take a nap.

  Zhang Zhao gave a slight signal to the buddy, and continued: "...For example, like him, he is just living on food and clothing, and usually there is not much money left throughout the year..."

The chatterbox was opened, and it was not easy to put it back. Zhang Zhao continued, "That year when Xianbei went south, many people's homes, including Captain Zhang's, were destroyed...so Captain Zhang was going to serve as a soldier to kill Xianbei. For revenge, the rest of us followed suit..."

   "What about Xianbei? I mean, what about fighting with Xianbei people? How about winning or losing?"

   Zhang Zhao talked about Xianbei, with a contemptuous expression on his face, "The group of barbarians, just relying on the speed of their horses, really want to go to the ground, I can beat at least three of them..."

   "Aren't Xianbei people fierce?"

"Fierce is quite fierce, but they are not good at weapons," Zhang Zhao patted the ring-shoulders equipped beside him, "Our knives are good and sharp, and they will almost fall if they are cut with one knife. It's not bad, if you really want to fight in close quarters, Xianbei is not an opponent, but it's not easy to catch, keep running..."

  Although what Zhang Zhao said was a bit confused, Fei Qian understood the meaning. It turns out that the combat power of the Xianbei in this era has not yet reached the level of the later Mongolian or Manchu Qing, and is still at the low-level stage of nomads, and the metallurgical technology of the Han nationality is currently in a state of crushing for the Hu people...

  The current tactic of the nomadic barbarians against the soldiers of the Han Dynasty is to walk, relying on the high mobility of their horses, to harass them non-stop until they seize the opening and swarm up.

   No wonder Baima Yicong beat the barbarians in the north to the point of crying. The mobility is the same, and the equipment is obviously better than a large one. Are these barbarians facing the front, not just, running, and it’s not easy to get away...

  So war horses are very important, but they are scarce resources.

   "That Zhang Zhang, do you know how much food your horses spend a month?"

"That's a lot." Speaking of war horses, Zhang Zhao is also very proud, like a treasure, "A horse like mine belongs to the Northland horse. It is not fast, but it has good stamina. It is okay to eat a little worse, but it can't be too bad. , easy to lose weight... If I use my monthly money to raise it, I guess it will be almost the same, there should not be much money left..."

  Fei Qian calculated that in this way, one war horse would consume the money and food of three to four ordinary soldiers...

   Fei Qian couldn’t help but sigh in his heart, what do you think later generations will see so many tens of thousands of cavalry can be summoned immediately after calling, let’s not talk about where those war horses come from, just talk about raising them? This man eats horse chews, and feeds himself by touching the saliva from the upper lip to the lower lip?

  Thinking of this, Fei Qian felt very sorry for the innocent people who died in the war. Why did he massacre civilians at every turn? If these people rebel against the rule and become mobs, like the Yellow Turban Rebellion, there is some reason to kill them more or less, but why should those people who obviously will not resist be killed?

   Killing and standing up?

   Murder and robbery?

   Is it to completely attack the hostile forces?

  The so-called human nature is destroyed and only knows how to kill?

  Even the Hu people knew how to plunder some people and take them away, didn’t they kill them completely, and they were even worse than the Hu people?

Fei Qian really didn't understand, he was just a pity, and only realized now that he was in the Han Dynasty. It turned out that the Wuhu chaos in the late Three Kingdoms was not because of the strength of the Hu people, but because the Han people's own civil wars had stabbed thousands of people's bodies for so many years. It was full of holes, which gave those nomads an opportunity...

   The killings in the Three Kingdoms are too heavy... My own people have always stabbed their own people ruthlessly... Not to mention that, I wish you all a new atmosphere, new development, and new harvest in the new year! There is also a recommendation ticket, please vote for the author, and collect it by the way...

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