In the middle of March, Li Mengxi and his party, who were carrying a large amount of supplies, were still more than fifty miles away from Julu County. They suddenly ran into their own ranger. The ranger reported that there was an urgent military situation. Upon hearing this, Li Mengxi and Zhang Fei did not dare to wait any longer.

, the two of them left Zi Zhong and led the army straight back to Julu.

In Julu City, Liu Bei, who looked solemn, smiled when he saw Li Mengxi and Zhang Fei suddenly coming back.

Li Mengxi went to Luoyang and almost finished leading the troops. He was worried about the lack of elite troops, and Li Mengxi happened to lead the troops back.

Military information came from Youzhou, and Liu Yu, the governor of Youzhou, sent an urgent report that Zhang Chun and Zhang Ju of Yuyang County collaborated with the Wuhuan people to rebel. The war swept through several counties in Youzhou, and the military situation was extremely urgent.

In addition, the information is gone. We only know that the war started in Yuyang County, and that tens of thousands or even more Wuhuan cavalry participated in the war. As for the current situation of the war, during the time when the news was transmitted, where did the war spread?

, don’t know at all.

After a brief exchange, everyone agreed, and soldiers were needed to help both in public and private affairs.

Li Mengxi looked at the crowd and said, "In this case, the military situation is urgent and there is no room for delay. Let's set off today."

When Liu Bei heard this, he hesitated and said, "It's not too late to wait three to five days before sending out the army."

Li Mengxi was very puzzled, "Why? It can be ready in one day to collect food, grass and weapons, so why do we have to wait three to five more days?"

Later, Liu Bei explained why he had to wait a few days before leaving.

What Liu Bei was thinking about was that he was about to go out to fight, and his life or death during this trip was uncertain, so it was reasonable to let the soldiers reunite with their families before leaving.

"Oh!" Li Mengxi suddenly realized that this was indeed the case.

Li Mengxi is still not mature enough in terms of human sophistication, so he still has to look to Liu Bei.

Three days is just three days. Anyway, Julu is far away from Yuyang and must be safe. It is unlikely that the war will burn Julu so quickly.

He conveyed the news of the impending war to all the soldiers, gave them a holiday, and asked them to reunite with their families. Unexpectedly, there would be unexpected troubles.

The next day, a large group of soldiers came to find Li Mengxi. They wanted Li Mengxi to help write a letter home and leave it to his family and friends.

After Li Mengxi asked, he found out that there were many soldiers who could not find their families.

Only then did Li Mengxi realize the problem. The current situation in Julu was that in order to ensure the thorough implementation of the equal land distribution policy and to suppress the possible rebellion of the landlord class, all the people were directly disrupted, demolished, and resettled in various places.

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This move was undoubtedly extremely successful. Even the government found it difficult to bring together the people from the original village. It was impossible for the big landlords to summon manpower to rebel. Without the possibility of organizing manpower, the big landlords whose land had been confiscated would have no choice but to rebel.

Can't make any waves.

Some of the soldiers asked Li Mengxi for help in writing letters, some wanted to leave the saved rations to their families, and some left one or two changes of clothes or clean straw sandals. Most of the soldiers had nothing to offer and looked extremely shabby.

Li Mengxi looked at the faces of the soldiers who were eager for help. Li Mengxi felt for a moment that he might have done something wrong. He tore the soldiers and civilians into pieces and made it difficult for relatives to reunite. This seemed to be against human ethics.

If we go to fight, I don't know how many people will die on the battlefield. It's really not appropriate to not be able to see their families before leaving.

But this is all that can be done, the military situation is urgent, and there is no time to let the soldiers slowly search for it again.

Due to this emergency, a post office had to be built to facilitate the management of letters and other items entrusted by the soldiers.

According to his duties, Li Mengxi placed the post office under the Ministry of Commerce. Because mailing and storing things requires warehouses, management personnel, and a fleet of vehicles for transportation. The post office has no actual output and is a purely commercial activity, so it is included in the Ministry of Commerce.

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According to the current situation, of course it is completely free and completely public welfare for soldiers to mail things.

When I was in Luoyang, I happened to need special paper utensils, such as envelope scrolls. Now that the post office is open, storage bags for mailing have become necessary.

With storage bags, stored items are easy to place and manage, which can greatly simplify the management difficulty.

Li Mengxi told the officials what he knew about the post office. Li Mengxi also didn't know why later generations would use postal codes when mailing things. He guessed that this might be to simplify information. After all, recording a number is not as easy as recording a bunch of words.

The volume of records is fundamentally different.

Julu has more than a dozen counties, with more than a hundred townships under its jurisdiction, and countless villages.

Based on the size of a giant deer, a six-digit zip code is enough.

An official raised a question: if the items are stored in the post office, if the people come to pick them up, how can they be sure whether the items belong to them.

Li Mengxi thought it was simple. He had a place of origin and a name, and just checked the name.

The official thought it was inappropriate. The official's worry was that if someone pretended to claim the item, if it was not his, he would have to say it was his, and the post office would not be able to judge. What if the item was claimed falsely?

Li Mengxi realized that this was indeed a problem. In ancient times, people without ID cards had no way to accurately verify information.

After discussing for a long time, Li Mengxi came up with a feasible method-encryption.

That is, ask the person who mails the item to add a password when mailing the item to his family. At the same time, the person who mails the item also tells the password to his family. In this way, when the family members go to the post office to claim the item, they can check the password and there will be no mistakes.

Considering that ordinary people are generally illiterate, it is best to use twelve zodiac signs, preferably multiple zodiac signs.

The Chinese zodiac is a twelve-digit system, which means that as long as a four-digit password is used, there are tens of thousands of combinations. If it is as high as eight digits, the password combination is enough for an entire man.

Considering also that the common people may not necessarily send something once a year, and many of the common people are illiterate and have never read a book. How good are the memories of people who do not read, so it is best to send something to the common people that can last for a long time.

Save the password tag so no one forgets it.

Julu has a prosperous papermaking industry. Printing large quantities of password tags using printing is the simplest method, but the durability of paper is not good. At this time, a very marginal technology comes in handy.

There used to be craftsmen who used red-hot iron awls to burn writing on wood. This method is more permanent than ink and faster than hairpin engraving. This is a special printing technology.

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! You can ask the carpenter camp to make some small wooden strips, and then ask the blacksmith camp to make some iron seals of the Chinese zodiac. When people send things, they can directly burn the iron seals red and then

Burn traces on the wood. In this way, after the code plate is completed, it also functions as a partial seal. When people mail it, they can print the mark of the code plate on the storage bag, saving the trouble of recording it.

Other details about the post office affairs include printing storage bags of uniform specifications, with the mailing address, recipient, mailed items, mailing date, etc. printed on them.

There are also regulations on classification of items, priority mailing of food and other post-posting regulations, as well as compensation regulations and compensation standards in case items are lost. Li Mengxi set a tenfold compensation. Anyway, the common people are far less rich than the government, so ten times the compensation.

If you can fully afford the compensation, a little money is not important, but if you lose people's hearts because of the money, it will be more than worth the gain.

There were only three days of leave for the soldiers. During these three days, the soldiers left no less than 5,000 letters and various items. Li Mengxi ordered a group of officials to send all kinds of letters and items to the people immediately after the army set off.

In their hands.

On March 18, more than 7,000 troops gathered outside the city. Among them were 1,500 cavalry, more than 5,000 infantry, 300 people from the carpenter camp, and 100 people from the blacksmith camp. They were responsible for taking care of the wounded and negotiating for consideration.

There are 150 female soldiers needed, 70 in the military medical battalion, a dozen skilled craftsmen in the props battalion, 300 in the special attack battalion, and other auxiliary battalions, such as the pottery camp, the fishing camp, and the slaughtering camp.

The number of people in each camp, such as the blacksmith camp and the like, is not large, with no more than thirty people in each camp.

Among the more than 7,000 manpower, all cavalry and infantry are equipped with armor, all are equipped with bows, crossbows, long soldiers, short soldiers and shields. Even the craftsmen are equipped with armor.

There are two elite warriors among the soldiers. One is the strongman battalion of more than 300 people led by Zhou Cang. The more than 300 people in this battalion are all heavily armored, carrying large axes, hooks, sickles, spears and powerful crossbows. They are all-purpose heavy armor troops.

, advance to break out of the formation, and defend to resist the enemy's heavy cavalry.

The second elite unit is the Xiliang Cavalry Camp. There are not many cavalry in this unit, less than a hundred people. The cavalry members are all prisoners of Xiliang soldiers. This cavalry unit is the most courageous and capable cavalry force in the army.

In addition to these two top elites, the secondary elites have more than a thousand strong crossbowmen. Each of these more than a thousand shield crossbowmen carries a tall shield behind them. When shooting against the enemy, the shield crossbowmen have their backs facing the enemy's uniform.

Missing the crossbow, loading the crossbow arrows, and shooting reflexively. This shooting method greatly reduces the defensive gap and will give the crossbowman an advantage in the confrontation with the enemy.

In order to coordinate the movement of turning and bending forward, the shield crossbowmen all use the extremely powerful big yellow crossbow. Only this kind of big yellow crossbow is most suitable for shield crossbow tactics. For example, those hand crossbows,

Light crossbows have a fast firing frequency, and frequent turning around seriously affects the attack efficiency. However, the large yellow crossbow fires very slowly, which minimizes the negative impact on the attack frequency of turning your back to the enemy.

Except for the shield-bearing crossbowmen, there are no other elites in similar formations.

The rest are all kinds of small-scale elites. For example, there are eight pen-shaped Chang'ao warriors. These eight Chang'ao people usually serve as the commander's bodyguard. When the terrain is complicated, the Chang'ao in the hands of these eight people

The subordinate flag responsible for guiding the flag.

In addition, there is a small team of door-breakers. The door-breakers do not occupy the establishment. They bring dozens of cast iron tools with the army to make small portable door-rammers. When attacking the city, the door-breakers bring siege towers to act as a force for breaking the door.

In addition, there are archers among the archers. The archers are appointed by the chief, one of ten. The archers are equipped with special arrows such as red feather ringing dysprosium and Wufeng ringing dysprosium. Wufeng ringing dysprosium is used for issuing orders, and red feather arrows are used for shooting.

Direct the direction of attack.

Each hundred-man infantry team is equipped with two hooks and hooks. The hooks and hooks usually serve as centurions' guards. In special battle situations, such as a battle to break out a stronghold, the hooks and hooks can drag down the enemy by throwing hooks on the walls of the enemy's stronghold.

Stronghold. When encountering a tight enemy's gun formation, hooks and ropes can also perform meritorious deeds. When encountering the enemy's horrendous warriors, the hooks and ropesmen pull long ropes to wrap left and right to block them. Even if they show unrivaled bravery, they will be killed in a matter of seconds.

Tangled to death.

There are about 200 infantry soldiers. The rifle is too long. The rifle is the longest spear. In addition to being used for combat, the rifle is also a tool. For example, when defending a city, the rifle is pressed against the enemy's tower.

You can knock over the enemy's tower, or you can hang a fire bundle on the rifle and hang it from a distance to burn the enemy's equipment. Zhang Jiao used this method.

The special units include the five Xinnu Guards who are responsible for taking the homing pigeons, the Eagle Yang Guards one person, Zhang Fei, only Zhang Fei's eagle training progress is the best, the four Xiaotian Guards, who bring four hounds, and

The night watchman was alone and brought an owl.

During my previous trip to Luoyang, I discovered at the Luoyang Ferry that during offensive and defensive operations on the ferry bridge, sometimes people had to use wooden poles to push the opponent's car away from the bridge. What I thought at the time was that the wooden poles were heavy, ineffective, and not strong enough.

, so it is best to use a mixed iron gun instead. Therefore, there is an establishment of iron gunners.

Consider that the iron gun is not only a weapon, but also a special tool. The iron gun can also be used when attacking a city. The iron gun can be erected to block the enemy's thousand-jin gate. In order to block the thousand-jin gate conveniently, the iron gun is best made

It was shaped like a clothes drying fork, and there was not enough time to build the iron gun, so we had to wait until we were on the road.

The composition of the troops is like this. In terms of armaments, in addition to the ordinary armor and stomach weapons, there are special weapons. The cold-forged armors currently made include six sets of infantry armor, one and a half sets of vests, all of which are equipped, and fifty Xuanwu chariots.

The grain truck, chariot and chariot sidecars were several hundred in size, and there were also twenty sniper crossbows, four hundred-foot-long ropes for building pontoon bridges, and sixteen pairs of giant wheels for quickly making giant siege equipment.

, the giant wheel hub is made into a multi-purpose tool and weapon. The wheel hub is one piece and is as big as a table. On weekdays, placing the wheel hub on the ground can provide an extremely flat work platform. In battle, the one piece wheel hub can be erected to look like a giant side.

Array shield.
To be continued...