As the saying goes, if you don’t be a leader, you don’t know that your food, rice, oil and salt are expensive. The Crown Prince Yuwen Weicheng usually sees the treasury full of national treasury, but only says that the Great Zhou has strong national strength. Now that you personally supervise the transfer of food and grass, you can truly see what it means to "spend money like flowing water".

When the army fights on the front line, it consumes a lot of food and grass every day. In order to transport the food and grass to the front line, it has to mobilize a large number of civilians and horses to transport food. These people and horses also consume a lot of food and grass.

The grain and grass transported from Chang'an, Guanzhong, cross the Yellow River through Puban, then head north, and pass through Jinyang to Shuozhou. After the journey of more than a thousand miles, only about one hu of grain left when leaving was delivered to the frontline soldiers.

Such high transportation costs make the treasury that Yuwen Weicheng imagined is not actually full.

Although such a large-scale military use in grassland areas seems exciting, it is actually impossible to do so every year, otherwise the finances will go bankrupt.

War is very expensive, which is Yuwen Weicheng's conclusion. The basis is the various "data" he recorded when supervising the transfer of food and grass during this period. When he thought that the army would consume a lot of food and grass every day, the young crown prince felt so distressed that he couldn't sleep well.

This time, the people who supervised the transfer of food and grass are not only the Crown Prince Yuwen Weicheng, the Prince Yuwen Weihan and Yuwen Weining were also involved. They really realized how much the price it would cost to maintain the front-line army.

Yuwen Wen was very happy to see that his sons knew that it was not easy to be in charge, because he gave this question to his three sons, but he not only wanted his sons to know that "the firewood, rice, oil and salt are expensive", but also wanted the other party to know what is expensive.

"There is an idiom called 'Buy a Box and Return a Pearl'. This idiom is a metaphor for making misprofits. What my father wants you to know is that the army is the most expensive than the food and grass consumed every day!"

Yuwen Wen looked at his three sons and said earnestly: "The food and grass are gone, and there will be one the next year, but if a large army is gone, I'm afraid it won't be able to get it for several years!"

"You must never force the frontline generals to fight and decide quickly in order to save money. The consequences of doing so are basically quick defeat!"

"If an army wants to have strong combat effectiveness, it takes years to accumulate experience. If the army is wiped out, there may not be a second such army."

"There are also ten thousand people, ten thousand new soldiers and ten thousand veterans. The combat power is very different. A strong soldier with a hundred battles is so expensive than food and supplies."

"The army is gone, the foundation of the country is shaken, and the foreign enemies are ready to move, and internal troubles will follow. Therefore, that sentence is well said." Yuwen Wen paused and continued: "Weapon is a major event of the country, a place of life and death, and a way of survival and death. We must observe it."

"A large army consumes countless food and supplies when moving troops, so you have to think clearly. Once you start fighting, don't think about winning quickly to save money, because war is not a joke."

"A king of a country should not raise troops with anger, and a general of a army should not attack with anger."

War is not a joke. Yuwen Wen wants his sons to know how to make a decision correctly and to know that the army is the foundation. Although food and grass are important, they cannot buy boxes and return pearls. Don’t force the generals in front to fight quickly because of too much logistical pressure.

He has many sons, but there is only one throne. No matter who becomes the emperor in the future, he may not necessarily need to be in charge of the emperor when encountering wars. However, when he is in the rear, he is easily frightened by huge logistical pressure.

Yuwen Wen was afraid that his son would force the frontline generals to fight quickly and die quickly in order to save food and supplies, and ended up ruining the army.

Emperor Chongzhen in the late Ming Dynasty could not sit still in the face of the stormy country. He forced Hong Chengchou to fight and be defeated, and filled in a large army; forced Sun Chuanting to fight and be defeated, and filled in the last army.

When the army is gone, people's hearts will disperse. What's the use of having food and grass in your hands?

The army is the basis of imperial power. In order to save money, the army is ruined. Isn’t this buying a box and returning a bead?

As the saying goes, the more you want to save money, the less you can save money. Emperor Chongzhen Zhu Youjian became emperor because his brother Zhu Youxiao died unexpectedly. He did not receive serious "vocational training" before assuming the throne, so Yuwen Wen thought that this person was too small and had a stingy spirit.

Because of the great logistical pressure, in order to save money, Chongzhen forced the frontline generals to fight quickly, and finally ruined the army and destroyed the country and the family.

Yuwen Wen could not use the examples from the late Ming Dynasty to educate his sons, but he wanted all his sons to receive "vocational training". No matter who becomes emperor in the future, he should not "repeat the same mistakes".

"If the food and grass are not good enough, you can save money and save some money and transport it to the front line. But if the army is over, where do you want to save a capable army from?"

"If you can't get a fever, you can easily let the army attack. As a result, after attacking, you feel sorry for the consumption of food and supplies, so you force the generals to win quickly. This will probably be a bad thing. You must remember it in the future!"

Seeing the sons nodding and saying yes, Yuwen Wen looked at Yuwen Weihan: "The first question is over, the second question... Dalang said, what is your answer?"

Yuwen Weihan, who was a military commander who went out to "work business" for more than half a year last year, had seen a lot more experience. He immediately replied: "Father, the threat of the grassland has been constantly since ancient times, but it cannot be cured. The child's idea is that since the grassland tribes are unruly and fear power but do not have virtue, it is better to kill them all!"

Hearing his son's murderous words, Yuwen Wen asked back: "Kill them all? Can you kill them all? Even if you kill the grassland this year, in a few years, other tribes will settle in the grassland. Can you kill them all?"

"Father, then kill again!" Yuwen Weihan said firmly, "Every year, we will send troops to the grassland, and kill people as long as we see them. If you kill them a few more times, there will be no one!"

"I'm not a fool. I know you have bad intentions and run away when I hear the wind. When your army withdraws, I run back to herd sheep. What if I do?"

"Then we will wait for the rabbits in places with abundant water and grass. We can first check the main water sources on the grassland clearly. Then the army will attack from time to time every year, and take a walk to these places to wipe out all the tribes. How many are there and how many are there?"

Seeing that the eldest son was "decisive in killing", Yuwen Wen didn't know whether to be happy or angry. If the problem on the grassland was so easy to solve, why did all dynasties have such a headache?

He looked at his son and asked, "Your army has horses, and those tribes have horses. When you come, they can't defeat them and leave. When you leave, they are back. You send troops once, and they consume a lot of food and grass. They are living on the grasslands by pursuing water and grass. There is no cost. If this continues, can you stand it?"

"Besides, marching on the grassland is very easy to get lost. You have killed everyone. Where can I take the lead?"

Seeing his father constantly asking questions, Yuwen Weihan argued vigorously: "What my father said is that the best defense is offense. Instead of spending manpower and material resources to build the Great Wall, it is better to send troops to attack every year, plow the courtyard and sweep the caves, so as not to give the forces on the grassland a chance to gather strength."

"Look, isn't the problem?" Yuwen Wen then said, "If you treat the tribes on the grassland as pigs and sheep, and do an indiscriminate massacre, then no one will give you the ears and ears. Without the ears and ears, how do you know what the specific situation on the grassland is?"

"Only you know yourself and your enemy can you be defeated in a hundred battles. The lifestyle and language of each tribe in the grassland are very different from that of the Central Plains. You must be able to "know your enemy" to take targeted activities, and the massacre will be unmanned land without any difference. What will happen in the future?"

"If you want to build a no-man's land, yes, the problem is that you can't do it at all. If you can't win, you can run on a horse. Just like in this battle in Qifubo, Dulan Khan was attacked by three official troops and was defeated and still ran on a horse."

"And Nada Tou Khan, who was defeated and ran away in a row. If you want to kill someone, you have to catch up!"

Yuwen Weihan was speechless when he heard this. He really couldn't think of any other way to solve the grassland problem. The overlords on the grassland appeared one after another, as if there was no end forever.

Seeing his son scratching his head, Yuwen Wen smiled and said, "Even the father cannot give the correct answer to this question, so don't be anxious, but there is one thing you are right, that is, you must take the initiative and not defend passively."

"War is expensive, taking the initiative to attack, consuming countless money and food, but in fact defense is more expensive. It costs money to build the Great Wall, and it costs even more to improve the entire line of defense."

"From Youyan to Hexi, there are three to four thousand miles long defense lines, and there are troops everywhere, repairing forts and strengthening city defenses. In this way, the money and food required will be much more expensive than maintaining several elite soldiers from time to time to go out of the frontier and plowing the courtyard and sweeping the caves!"

"If the money spent on several elite soldiers to attack from time to time is ten cents, the money spent on comprehensive defense and defense everywhere is likely to be one hundred cents! If you want to save money, you have to save it to the point!"
Chapter completed!