If you want to control Julu, you need to inventory all the fields, jungles, rivers, ponds and other regional resources in Julu, as well as the population. In fact, there is a more accurate method, which is to check the court files directly.

In ancient times, land acres and population were the sources of taxation for the court, and verification and registration of land and population were basic government affairs.

Although by the end of the Han Dynasty, there were many major problems such as hidden populations in various places, the land-related records should be of great reference value.

When the fielding begins in the spring, the fielding teams will be sent directly to various places, and then the land will be re-measured and re-divided. This will definitely be time-consuming and labor-intensive. However, if we rely on the government's original political foundation, we can get twice the result with half the effort.

And here is the problem. The government affairs of the imperial court were all based on officials, and all the officials had been killed by the Yellow Turbans. The land and population records had been completely destroyed in the war.

In Julu, the government power was in a vacuum. On the one hand, this allowed the rebels to control the land without resistance. On the other hand, it also allowed Zhuozhou Military Supplies to build a government structure from scratch. It can be said that there are gains and losses.

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In addition to farming, there is another thing that happens with farming.

There are always more than 150,000 people in the army. It is impossible for all of these 150,000 people to go to work in the fields. Excluding women and children who do not have much ability to work, and excluding all kinds of craftsmen. If the various craftsmen who were finally collected are scattered to farm, what will happen?

It's such a loss.

No matter now or in the future, the army has a large number of production tasks to complete, such as large weapons, armor, various vehicles, curved plows, small hoes and sickles, etc., as well as wine making, dyeing, weaving, and paper making.

category, these handmade productions are also extremely important.

Therefore, it is absolutely impossible for the various craftsmen in the army, who number in their early 1,000s, to be sent to work in the fields.

The most important part of the non-garrison population, the combat soldiers, Li Mengxi felt that it was necessary to retain some of the elite retired soldiers. That is, when the garrison began and the soldiers and civilians were separated, the garrison was half soldiers and half civilians, while the rebels had to have a

A dedicated army.

The question lies here, with the current scale and foundation of the rebel army, how many combat troops are appropriate to maintain.

After a discussion with Guan and Zhang, everyone agreed. First of all, the elite soldiers must be selected first, and the strong and young must be carefully selected, and the old and weak among them must be eliminated.

Li Mengxi agrees with this. This is the best way to use manpower.

Both the young and the old can farm, but if the old is a soldier, he will fall behind within a short distance, which seriously affects the army's combat effectiveness.

Therefore, there is a division of labor and cooperation, each performing his own duties. The old man works the fields, and the young man serves as a soldier to protect the people. This is the best of both worlds.

Since it was necessary to reduce the number of troops without further delay, Guan Zhang and Li Mengxi set out outside the city to gather all the soldiers. After half a day of selection, they eliminated about 2,000 old soldiers.

Calculating the number carefully, there are about 6,000 soldiers left in Julu City, plus reserve soldiers. Reserve soldiers refer to those cavalry reserve cavalry who are proficient in riding skills, as well as archers and crossbowmen who have hunted in reserve, and strong and healthy soldiers.

The number of these reserve soldiers is quite large. The number of cavalry reserve soldiers alone is nearly 3,000. Together with the crossbowmen, sword and shield warriors, the total number is more than 4,000.

Several hundred more troops were taken away by Liu Bei, which meant that the elite combat strength of the army exceeded 10,000.

The total manpower of the entire army is 150,000, minus 8,000 for the elderly, weak, women and children, 2,000 for various types of craftsmen, and a few hundred scholars reserved for education and literacy. This brings us to 10,000, plus one for the retired soldiers.

Of the 150,000 and 150,000, 20,000 were gone, leaving 130,000 for farming.

Li Mengxi thought of a question. In ancient times, ten people should be able to support a retired soldier. I think it should be affordable.

It doesn't matter if 130,000 people cannot support 20,000 people, because Julu still has a large amount of land and a large number of scattered people. After integrating Julu's population, at least 30 people can support one soldier, which is more than enough.

The number of soldiers was determined. There were 12,000 soldiers in the whole army, including 3,000 cavalry, 3,000 crossbows, more than 4,000 soldiers with swords, shields and spears. The logistics section included a strongman camp, a military medical camp, and the accompanying troops.

Armorers, craftsmen, etc., all in their early 1000s.

Among these troops, there are 3,000 cavalry, only 1,000 with horses, 2,000 with good riding skills but no horses. There are probably more than 4,000 bows and crossbows in the army, but considering that when farming, it is necessary to send ordnance to the farming team so that they can have soldiers.

Self-defense, therefore, two thousand crossbows and crossbows are left in the field. War soldiers only have two thousand crossbowmen. If they lose all their bows, they are strong and suitable for firing hard bows and strong crossbows. They are suitable for being crossbowmen, but there are no equipped crossbowmen.

There are about one thousand people; there are about 4,000 swordsmen, shield warriors and young spearmen. The rest are special battalions such as [Rikishi Battalion], more than 300 people from the old Yellow Turban Rikishi Department, and [Huitian Camp] 200 military doctors.

In addition, plus the supporting manpower, the military medical battalion always has more than 500 people, and there are also a number of ordnance craftsmen accompanying the army. The number is uncertain. The craftsman battalion is currently separated from the war barracks, and will be merged when necessary.

Most of the 12,000 soldiers after the extraction are young and strong, and the soldiers are of good quality. They are the most elite manpower in the army. Each of these 12,000 people can be equipped with at least one iron weapon.

Blade, and the important armor is not enough for ten thousand people, only eight thousand armor collars.

In other words, the rebel army now has more than 8,000 soldiers.

In the future, with these 8,000 off-the-job combat soldiers as the main force, and the 100,000 half-soldier, half-peasant field soldiers as the wings, a 100,000 combat force can be formed day and night. These 100,000 people can stick to one side and be able to protect themselves.

After the soldiers were withdrawn, Guan Yu proposed to camp separately, so the camp was immediately divided into two. The civilians were still at the old place, while the soldiers moved to the north of the city.

Guan Yu made this arrangement, and Li Mengxi probably knew what he meant. The important military camp areas should be kept away from disturbances, otherwise it would not be possible to maintain military discipline.

During the Yellow Turban campaign, we were in such a hurry that we couldn't separate the soldiers and civilians so thoroughly, but now everything is stable and should be on track.

According to the current logistics and rationing situation in the army, the rations of the entire army are the same for both soldiers and civilians. Soldiers also receive only one bowl of gruel and one meal of broth every day, with no additional preferential treatment.

After the soldiers and civilians were divided into camps, the soldiers still had to go to each civilian camp to patrol and maintain order as usual. Everything in the civilian camp remained unchanged, but the military camp began to become serious.

Guan Yu reorganized the camp that day. There were no walls or wooden fences in the camp. There were not even enough tents and they had to sleep in batches. However, Guan Yu first counted big flags at the four corners of the camp and tied ropes around the camp.

The boundary drawn by big flags and ropes is completely unstoppable if someone wants to cross the boundary, but the law is there, and those who dare to cross the boundary and violate the law will be severely punished. This is the so-called "drawing ground as a prison" strategy.

Just like when an army is marching and setting up camp, there is not time to set up the camp every day. However, if the camp is not arranged, it will be in the wilderness with nothing to rely on, and the soldiers will wander around without knowing it, so the camp will be in a mess.
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