After sacrifice to the ancestral temple, the dynasty at the beginning of the year will be followed!

At the beginning of the year, the grand ceremony was unprecedented. All the county magistrates and magistrates of the five counties and 68 counties under the rule of Jiangdong must participate in the court meeting, and all military officers above the county magistrates must also attend. In the hall of the Chu Palace, except for more than 20 important civil and military officials with seats, the remaining 200 civil and military officials could only stand in the court meeting in the left and right squads.

There were many new faces among the civil servants and generals on the left and right squads.

However, there were also several familiar faces missing. Following Ya's father Fan Zeng, Wu County Prefect Shusun Guan, Danyang Prefect Qu Yi and Kuaiji Prefect Wu Qi also died of illness one after another. Until now, all the prefects of each county are young students from the Imperial Academy. They are all beneficiaries of the new law and firm supporters of the new law.

The ministers symbolically reported a few auspicious signs, and the dynasty ended at the beginning of the year, and then a grand state banquet was grand.

This is actually similar to the annual meetings of later enterprises. The civil servants and generals who participated in the dynasty at the beginning of the year were corporate employees. They worked hard for a whole year and achieved a lot of achievements for the Great Chu State. The boss of Xiangzhuang should spend some money to invite everyone to gather and have a good meal, so as to encourage these employees to work harder next year.

When the banquet came up like flowing water, civil officials and generals couldn't help but shout "good" loudly.

Over the past ten years, the population of Chu State has been more than one year, the grain harvest has exceeded one year, and the country's power has been stronger every year, and the national banquet has become more and more abundant every year. As of this year, even small officials like county magistrates and county magistrates can eat delicacies and drink the five-year-old white wine collected by the palace.

In the past ten years, although the overall situation of Chu State was stable, it was not calm.

On two occasions, both Chu and Liang almost reached the brink of war due to border frictions. Behind these two incidents were all driven by the Han army. Considering that Chu was in a critical period of reform and the government troops were not trained, if a full-scale conflict broke out with Liang at this time, it would inevitably affect the reform process, so Xiang Zhuang chose to compromise.

For this matter, Huan Chu, Ji Bu, Gao Chu, Pang Yu and other generals were very upset for a while, because the incident was obviously caused by Liang Jun. The Chu army was also at the loss. But the final result was that the Shangdao Wu She came forward and brought thousands of good horses and five hundred jars of wine to Dingtao to apologize to Liang Wang Peng Yue.

Of course, Xiangzhuang has not been idle for the past ten years. Before waiting for the reform to come to fruition, Xiangzhuang also used the ebony cliff to create "auspicious signs" in Qi twice. The purple air came from the east and the green dragon roamed the beam for three days, trying to instigate Han Xin to become emperor. Han Xin was indeed a little moved, but in the end, under Lou Jing's persuasion, he gave up the idea of ​​becoming emperor.

With Qu Bucai's efforts, Ebony also successfully achieved infiltration into the South Vietnam Kingdom.

After careful preparation, Qu Bucai instigated the Qin soldiers of the Nanyue Kingdom to launch a mutiny. Although he was unable to overthrow Yue Tuo's rule in the end, it was not without gain. More than 200,000 strong men in Chu State broke the Hengpu Pass and returned to Jiangdong. The return of more than 200,000 strong men greatly alleviated the strong men in Jiangdong.

You should know that due to the years of wars at the end of the Qin Dynasty, the ratio of men and women in Jiangdong had exceeded one to two. With the return of these 200,000 strong men, and the Chu State imitated the Han State to implement the national policy of Jun Yao and calculating the tuition, the burden on the general public had been greatly reduced, and women of childbearing age in Jiangdong soon had childbirth**.

In ten years, nearly one million women of childbearing age in Jiangdong gave birth to at least three million young infants, and in the end, more than two million young infants survived. In addition, more than two hundred thousand strong men suddenly returned, the total population of Chu State has surged from more than two and six million ten years ago to nearly five million now, but there are still only one million strong men.

Millions of strong men have to support five million people, so the pressure on Chu State is quite high.

The only thing that is thankful is that the handicrafts and trade industries of Chu State are already quite developed, so they can plunder grain from the Central Plains and the South Vietnamese countries through trade to make up for the food shortage in Jiangdong. So far, more than one million stones of rice and grain have been stored in Taicang, located in the outskirts of Ziling City, which is enough to support a large-scale war!

In addition, Xiang Zhuang successfully provoked a war between South Korea and Zhao. However, after Liu Bang intervened, the two countries quickly ceased to fight. This shows that Liu Bang was still extremely prestigious in the minds of various princes and kings. Even Han Xin did not dare to rashly proclaim himself emperor before Liu Bang passed away.

Due to Xiangzhuang's time travel, history has undergone a series of changes.

In history, Liu Bang lived only 62 years old, but Liu Bang was already 69 years old in this time and space. Moreover, according to the information provided by Ebony Cliff, Liu Bang is now healthy and can eat and drink, but he is not old at all. It seems that Liu Bang's old man has at least ten years to live!

During these ten years, the Han Dynasty was also in a critical period of reform.

Therefore, Liu Bang didn't care about the bad luck of looking for Xiang Zhuang for the time being. He just followed Zhang Liang's advice and became the behind-the-scenes driver twice, trying to provoke a war between Liang and Chu, but he failed in the end.

In addition, during the past decade, the Han Dynasty was constantly invaded by the Huns, and there were deep resentment between the Han and the Huns.

Last winter, Jiuyuan and Mobei suffered a once-in-a-century heavy snow disaster, and countless cattle, sheep and livestock of the Huns were frozen to death.

The news was just heard from Eumu Cliff yesterday that Liu Bang had listened to Zhang Liang's suggestion and decided to use troops to Jiuyuan this spring when the Huns were in great decline. The Han general Zhou Bo had already gathered a large army near Fushi, and the cavalry general Lu Tai also recruited Hu cavalry from the tribes such as Yuezhi, Xiutu, and Hunxie in Hexi.

It seems that Liu Bang is preparing to recover Jiuyuan and completely eliminate the threat from the Huns.

This gave the Chu State an opportunity to take advantage of the situation. Once the Han army starts a war with the Huns, the scale of the battle will be very small, and it will probably not be over in a short period of time. In this way, the Han army will not have much spare time to take into account other directions. Now that the Chu State's reform has come to an end, the soldiers of the county government have basically been trained, and it is time to launch troops to the outside world!

At this critical moment, Xiang Zhuang had to make a good decision with several trusted ministers.

Therefore, Xiang Zhuang only showed his face at the state banquet and disappeared. Xiang Zhuang was tactful. He knew that with him, these civil servants and generals could not let go at all, and how many ministers dared to lose their composure in front of him, Xiang Zhuang? It would be better to leave and let these civil servants and generals who had worked hard for a whole year openly drink and have fun.

You should know that these civil servants and generals are really hard. Reforms cannot be achieved by talking nonsense. A large number of officials have to go to the grassroots to do a lot of specific work, including important officials like Xiang Ha and Bailixian, who also have a lot of official duties to deal with every day. Especially the guardian general Che Shi, who lost two laps, was so sad that his wife was very distressed.

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The palace hall and the square in front of the hall were crowded with people. More than 200 officials were drinking happily.

The atmosphere in the side hall on the west side seemed solemn. Whether it was Xiang Zhuang, who was in the chief position, Xiang Da, Xiang Tuo, Baili Xian, Bi Shu, Wu She and other important officials, all had solemn expressions.

Xiang Zhuang's eyes suddenly fell on Bi Shu and said, "Have you practiced the soldiers in the palace by learning swords?"

The so-called government troops are to set up a Zhechong Prefecture in each county, and the Zhechong Prefecture selects strong men from the strong men of each county, and then divides them into four divisions to take turns to train in quarterly manner.

During the training of the government soldiers, all the rations were provided by the national treasury, but the weapons and armor of the government soldiers had to be prepared by themselves. Although the selected government soldiers had to spend an additional sum of money to purchase weapons and armor, they had to spend three months every year to train, few government soldiers complained, and no one was willing to quit voluntarily.

The reason is very simple, that is, reward military homework.

The reward military work clearly stipulates that killing a soldier can get a first-level title!

Under the temptation of military merits and titles, the soldiers in the palace were all eagerly looking forward to the war.

As early as ten years ago, Bi Shu had already begun to reform the military system and fully implemented the military system in Chu. Until now, the military system of Chu has basically taken shape!

Bi Shu bowed to Xiang Zhuang and replied: "Report to the king, all the soldiers of the county governments have been trained. The five camps have more than 200,000 infantry soldiers, including 100,000 shield and armor soldiers, 60,000 spearmen, 20,000 flying spearmen, and 20,000 archers; there are 40,000 cavalry soldiers, more than 60,000 war horses; 20,000 navy soldiers, and more than 500 large and small warships!"

Among them, the Spear Flying Soldier is a unique branch of the Chu army, and is actually the Western spearhead.

When facing cavalry, the spearheads cannot play a big role, but when the main force of both sides of the war are infantry and the battle situation is already in a stalemate, the spearheads can play an unexpected role. In any case, the javelin's close-range lethality is far better than the longbow and hard crossbow.

Xiang Zhuang calculated that the 30,000 imperial guards plus 260,000 government soldiers would be almost 300,000 troops.

In addition to the necessary garrisons in each county, they can mobilize about 250,000 people. The 250,000 army said that it is not too much, but it is not too little. You must know that this is a regular army with 250,000 well-trained, not Xiang Yu, and the civilians who were temporarily recruited during the battle for hegemony. The combat effectiveness of both sides is not at the same level at all.

As soon as Bi Shu finished speaking, Xiang said worriedly: "King, even if more than 200,000 soldiers in the palace have been trained, even if the doctors can really convince King Linjiang and King Huainan to send troops together, but the Shu road is difficult, the army is not easy to move, and the transportation of food, fodder and supplies is even more difficult. The battle to expedition to Bashu is really difficult to fight."

Judging from what Xiang said, Xiang Zhuang seemed to intend to use troops against Bashu?

Xiang Zhuang pondered for a moment, then asked Baili Xian again, "Ziliang, what do you think?"

Bailixian shook his feather fan and said lightly: "If the Han army really wanted to start a full war with the Huns, I think this would be an excellent opportunity for our Great Chu to seek Bashu." After saying this, Bailixian said again, "Bashu is a thousand miles in a radius, with ditches and fertile land. It can be called a country of Tianfu. When will it take longer to take it?"

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ps: Recently, there are many people in the book review area saying strange things and don’t want to pay attention to it, but then I think about it. In order to prevent readers who have just read this book from being misled by these ulterior motives, I would like to say a few words.

Indeed, the time span between Volume 5 and Volume 6 is very large, but this is originally in the outline.

Because the reform of the fifth volume has been basically explained clearly, and it is impossible to achieve results without ten or eight years. For such a long time, it would be too boring to write about the South Vietnamese country poaching people, then looking for cotton in the South Ocean, and looking for Arab horses in the Middle East, so I skipped it directly and jumped to the completion of the Chu country's reform and the completion of the military system reform. At this time, the Han country also completed the reform, and the Central Plains countries basically completed rest and recuperation. In this way, the war will be fierce and more conducive to the development of swordsmen. Next, there will be continuous war dramas. (To be continued)
Chapter completed!