When Chen Xi and his party came to Nanyang, they were surprised to find that Nanyang was deserted. Although the Intelligence Office had reported it before, but when they came to see it in person, they still had different feelings. The largest county in the Central Plains used to have a population of more than two million. There are basically grass growing everywhere now, it feels like...
"Tsk, tsk, tsk, it's a pity. To be honest, this place is really good. It is quite good in terms of geographical location, environment, climate, and other aspects. It is basically in the core area of the entire country." Chen Xi looked at the grass that had completely grown. The plains, even standing on tiptoe, can still see the deserted city from a distance.
It only took a year or two to say that due to the evacuation of the population in Nanyang, the once prosperous county suddenly turned into a deserted city. Even because of the lack of people, sparse growths began to grow on the walls of Wancheng, which was originally said to last for a thousand years. It is full of weeds, and it is estimated that it will be in ruins in a few years.
"It's desolate." Jia Xu put his hand on his eyebrows and looked at the ruined city in front of him and said, "These people in Nanyang have offended too many people, and everyone pushed down the wall. It is normal to end up like this, but If you think about it, it is indeed a bit cruel.”
"Speaking of which, the current situation in Nanyang is a bit like the tragedy after the real civil war. There is no rooster crow for thousands of miles! Well, but there are no bones on the roadside. At best, this place looks desolate." Chen Xi looked at the desolate land and sneered. He said, there are not many people in the entire Nanyang County now.
"That's right, the civil war in the Central Plains is indeed possible. If another plague breaks out, it will probably be the same as what you said." Li You said silently after a while, "War should not happen in China. It’s still good to the outside world.”
"I think so too." Chen Xi nodded, "Even if it will cause great damage to people's livelihood both internally and externally, relatively speaking, there are some benefits to the outside world, but internally, it really has nothing. "
"Speaking of which, a large part of the reason why Nanyang is like this is your problem. Otherwise, even if there were several large-scale wars in this place and then a plague broke out, it would not be like this. ." Jia Xu frowned and said, the largest county in the Central Plains has become like this, Jia Xu is also a little depressed.
"This place is really too troublesome. There are too many problems in the Nanyang Family. I don't want to educate them slowly, so I came up with this strategy. What's more, this place is right in the hinterland of the Central Plains. After the transportation is repaired, whether it is waterway or land, it can be considered It is a meeting point and is very suitable as a commercial center." Chen Xi did not deny this fact. This matter was indeed related to him.
"But a commercial center does not require an entire county. As a commercial center, Fenggao City in Taishan is not exaggerated to the extent that it needs to be built to such a large scale." Li You frowned and said.
"It's different." Chen Xi chuckled and shook his head, "Fenggao is at best a trading point and a commercial distribution point, not a real commercial center."
"Well, that's not right. In fact, it can barely be counted." After a while, Chen Xi felt that what he said was not quite right, and changed his words again. After so many years of development, Fenggao, although it is not possible due to the existence of many constraints, It has not achieved the crazy growth that Chen Xi thought, but it can barely reach the so-called commercial center.
Of course, in the eyes of others, Feng Gao's grass was already growing like a grass.
"Barely?" "Can it be counted?" Li You and Jia Xu looked at Chen Xi in surprise.
"Well, it's very reluctant, but it's mainly restricted by transportation and location. In Nanyang, this doesn't exist. Speaking of which, didn't I send you relevant plans before? In my plan, there should be three commercial centers in the Central Plains." Chen Xi looked sideways at Li You and Jia Xu and said.
"There is indeed such a thing, but you didn't elaborate on it at the time, and we weren't very interested." Li You thought about the materials he had handled. After all, they were already very early planning materials. At the same time, In fact, there is also a development plan south of the Huaihe River and the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River.
These are all sealed plans that date back a very long time. They are basically plans that were made when Li Youshang was not here and Chen Xi had nothing to do.
"Yes, it took a long time, but I finally embarked on this path. If you really want to say it, Taishan is actually not suitable as a commercial center." Chen Xi thought for a while and explained, "But after all, we started the business. It’s a good place, so naturally we can’t treat it badly.”
"As a commercial center, Nanyang uses the territory of a county?" Li You pressed his temples, and it was really unimaginable what kind of scene this was, even if Li You had received the information about Wang Xiu from Lu Su. There is a proposal to expand Fenggao, but the latter is too big for a city and a county. Is it necessary to do this?
"It's not just about commerce. This place is located in the hinterland of the Central Plains, and the transportation will be very convenient. As a commercial point, it is an introduction. It will be more convenient for the manufacturing and handicraft industries in this place to rely on convenient transportation and exchange of resources." Chen Xi He said with a smile, "Business is just an external manifestation. Various demands will create a complete industry here."
After so many years, Li You and Jia Xu have also understood what an industrial chain is. Of course, although they cannot understand each other very well, they at least know that as long as there is one such thing as an industrial chain, they can eat it from beginning to end, and as long as they don't mess around , money will automatically generate money.
This is very important for those who have risen to a certain height. They don’t have to worry about anything. As long as they don’t mess around, they can expand naturally. This method is really perfect. If Chen Xi hadn’t often warned this group of people not to If things get messy, even Li You might not be able to resist the idea of copying Chen Xi's model.
How important is money to a country? If you look at the current situation, you will know that morality and ideals are all nonsense. People actually have little interest in these things. They will only have time to talk about these things when they are full.
Back then, all the people on Mount Tai were bandits. They were either professional thieves or bandits, or they were busy working in the fields and part-time as thieves in their spare time. But now, all the people on Mount Tai are outstanding commoners of the Han Dynasty, whether they are conscripting soldiers, doing charity, or engaging in entertainment. First in command.
To put it bluntly, only when they are full and have spare money in their pockets can they think about doing things. Otherwise, if they are not even full, how can these people have time to think about other things? Plan your food and save yourself from starvation.
Therefore, Li You knows very well that having money is very important, especially for the country. Money is needed to raise soldiers, educate, and defend the country. As long as you have money, then these are naturally not problems.
Why did Chen Xi pull him? Why did everyone listen to Chen Xi's command in government affairs? Why did all the major families move decisively with Chen Xi's order? To put it bluntly, isn't it for profit? Isn't it simply money? Give me money, give me big money, give me so much money that I can knock you to the ground, nothing can be done.
One very clear advantage of following Chen Xi is that when you spend money to do things, whether you are doing your own things or doing other people's things, you don't have to pay attention to economy, you only need to pay attention to the final effect, as long as the final effect!
If you still can't do it this way, there's nothing left to say. The only word is ability. In the same way, it's easy to distinguish whether you have ability or not.
Therefore, after hearing that a complete industry could grow in Nanyang, Li You decisively gave up other ideas and decided to build it as soon as it was completed. If a complete industry could grow in this place, it would be worthy of making this place famous. Prosperous.
Without saying what a complete industrial chain means, Li You has a clear feeling about how profitable a commercial center is when he reads Liu Ye's statements every year.
The tax revenue of a county in Taishan ranked second under Liu Bei's rule, and probably the second in the entire Han Dynasty. As for the first place, the first is Jizhou. Comparing the tax revenue of a state with a county, it is almost capsized. It can be imagined that the business How much money does the center make?
However, the taxation of the commercial center cannot cover the industrial chain. It is just a wool textile industry. Even if Liu Ye could not fully calculate it because of many hidden things, the sum of those parts that could be calculated exceeded Taishan's taxation.
So when he heard that Nanyang could support a complete industry, Li You bowed his head decisively and had nothing to say. He decisively supported Chen Xi and just for this reason, whatever you say will be taken.
"I think if you really turn this place into a commercial center and develop a complete industry, the Nanyang family will probably vomit blood." Jia Xu said after a while.
"Unless they are destroyed collectively, they will never be able to build it." Chen Xi said angrily, "I admit the advantages of the family's current existence, but they are indeed an obstacle to certain things. Without them, it is impossible to build it here."
"Isn't there three that I remember? Where is the other one?" Li You asked, turning his head.
"In Jiangling, it is the best intersection of water transportation and land transportation." Chen Xi thought for a while and said, "Many of my plans can only be implemented after reunification. After delaying for so long, it is finally time for reunification. After reunification, It takes a lot of stuff to keep doing.”
"Not yet, Sun Boxu and Cao Mengde haven't come yet, nor have our army." Jia Xu showed a rare smile, unified, and finally started.
"After all, it is slower to mobilize troops. The fastest one is actually Sun Bofu, but he seems a little reluctant to go first." Chen Xi looked far ahead. This group of people went first on the second day after Liu Bei inspected the warehouse. Came here.
Relying on the advantages of transportation and the advantage of the cavalry moving first, Liu Bei was the last to arrive first.
However, this wave of people who came over were all cavalry. They were the kind that had never had the opportunity to participate in the military parade before. They were strong and secretive troops. They were mainly the 20,000 Youzhou cavalry under Tian Yu’s command, including 6,000 fast white horses, and the other It was Zang Hong's Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry, which numbered close to 20,000.
These two armies are both quite reliable elites. Both have spent more than two years training and tempering, and both have participated in the Battle of Northern Xinjiang.
But the difference is that the Wolf Cavalry was given to Lu Bu by Chen Gong as a back-up. As a result, Lu Bu was promoted and could not be used. Chen Gong followed Zhang Liao, Gao Shun and others out of the country, so he could only hand over Zang Hong as the commander-in-chief.
To be honest, if Zang Hong and Hu Zhao hadn't voted for Liu Bei, they would never have been able to raise 20,000 cavalry. You must know that even Chen Gong only brought 6,000 when he followed Zhang Liao and Gao Shun out of the country. Wolf Cavalry, the others are just infantry.
Lu Bu's fame in Bingzhou was no joke at the beginning. In addition, he destroyed Xianbei and sunk Langjuxu Mountain, and then he even ascended to the heavens and left behind myths to protect Bingzhou's safety. The children of Bingzhou still recognized Lu Bu. Naturally, Chen Chen The difficulty of recruiting soldiers and horses for training in the palace was reduced to the point where the soldiers had to prepare their own dry food and sign up enthusiastically.
After that time, Chen Gong was able to obtain a large number of new soldiers. However, during the Battle of Northern Xinjiang, another problem arose when Chen Gong left. That is, Chen Gong could not take all these people away, and he could not afford to raise them even if he took them away. , so most of them could only be disbanded.
However, the number of remaining recruits who had reached the standard still overwhelmed Chen Gong. After repeated calculations with Zang Ba and Hu Zhao, Chen Gong led nearly 10,000 recruits who had seen blood to the Western Regions.
This is why there was no difficulty in replenishing the wolf cavalry in the first wave, because the soldiers at that time were already veterans.
The remaining soldiers, led by Zang Ba, defected to Liu Bei. However, even so, the gap between the 20,000 Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry and the current Wolf Cavalry under Zhang Liao, Cheng Lian, and Hao Meng has also widened. , but putting on the armor and pulling it out for a walk still has that kind of momentum.
By the way, this is already the largest cavalry army at this stage except Dong Zhuo who went out to Xiliang to bring Qiang cavalry. After all, the cavalrymen consume a lot of money eating horses and chewing. However, compared to Dong Zhuo’s beggar army, Chen Xi’s version The cavalry regiment is a real piece of armor!
Naturally, the momentum of the attack all the way was very fierce. During the attack and march, Liu Bei had recognized all the dubos. For this reason, all the soldiers had returned home. Even the Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry who admired Lu Bu's force now Silently placing Liu Taiwei's position second only to Lu Bu, such a big shot actually knows me!
In short, that's it. Liu Bei really doesn't have any extra means, but so far Liu Bei has successfully reunited his cavalry. Chen Xi estimates that they will be unified by then. During the time when Cao Sun stayed in the country to unify, Liu Bei may have already The men under their command recognized it.
Based on the situation of national unification at that time, the soldiers who were nominally under Cao Sun would probably be more likely to obey Liu Bei's command than Cao Sun's command.
After all, it’s still the same sentence, oh my god, a big man like Taiwei Liu actually knows a little bastard like me. My self-esteem and self-confidence arise spontaneously. In addition, the three parties have been unified. There are no mountains, and they are all the banners of the Han Dynasty. In such a situation Next, working with Liu Bei is certainly more powerful than working with Cao Sun. At least working with Liu Bei has the feeling that Jane is in the heart of the emperor!
