After annexing Dongping Prefecture and Yanzhou, Su Yonglin's military and power expanded to varying degrees.

His next plan to expand the army is to go to the scale of 30,000 people.

At least the core army, the Victory Jet Army must maintain a scale of 30,000 people, and use this as the seed for further expansion of the army in the future, and provide military education and political and ideological education.

Judging from the fact that there is no foundation for a large-scale expansion, with the army of such a large scale, and those landlords who followed him, Su Yonglin's confidence in the next move was stronger.

Of course, the premise is that during this stage, Zhao Kaishan should not do anything behind him.

Otherwise, it would be really not easy to deal with the Jin Kingdom while dealing with Zhao Kaishan.

Unless he also causes some trouble for him, he will slightly divert his attention, and make him busy with internal rectification and struggle without time to attack him.

If this is the case, you might even kill two birds with one stone.

Recalling Zhao Kaishan's fragile and sensitive personality and narrow mind, Su Yonglin rolled his eyes and planned to think about it.

The next morning, Su Yonglin got up with a refreshed look. She felt hungry and wanted to eat. As soon as she finished washing up, Zhao Yucheng came with breakfast.

"I heard that Uncle Yuting woke up and thought that you should want to eat, so he came with food."

Zhao Yucheng smiled silly.

Su Yonglin laughed and was very happy.

"I'm really hungry. You came in time. I really want to eat now!"

Zhao Yucheng brought a plate with a few big cakes on the plate, a dish of black sauce, and a large pottery jar.

Su Yonglin rubbed his hands and opened the pottery jar. A strong aroma of meat floated out.

"Okay, meat porridge!"

Su Yonglin couldn't help but feel the desire to eat. He immediately took a big bowl and started drinking it. After drinking one bowl, he felt very comfortable and felt his appetite had completely opened.

"I had a lot of things left at the banquet yesterday, so my uncle said not to waste it. He picked out all the remaining meat and cooked porridge together. He cooked a lot of things, and the army outside had drinks."

"Yeah, it's pretty good."

Su Yonglin picked up a big cake and dipped it in dipping sauce. Then he began to bite and swallow it in big mouthfuls. He ate two big cakes in one breath and drank another bowl of porridge. This was the foundation for his empty stomach.

Su Yonglin has been practicing martial arts since he was a child and has been very edible since he was a child. In addition, it is now marching and fighting, so he is even more edible.

When I usually eat with soldiers, I drink at least three bowls of porridge, and I start with three bowls of dry rice. They are all bowls as big as a face. Unless I have some hearty side dishes, I really eat a lot if I only eat grain.

But the food of Shengjie Army is enough to eat.

However, in this era of insufficient productivity, there is certainly insufficient side food. If there is insufficient side food, people will eat more food. At this time, the yield per mu of grain is several times lower than that in modern times.

If you produce less and eat more, you really have to eat openly, and the food is not very rich.

But this is not the main reason for starvation.

As long as the grain grown on Chinese land does not encounter some rare natural disasters, it is enough to eat, and grain production can generally keep up with the rate of population growth.

The reason why famine is accompanied by Chinese history is obviously unfair to evaluate it only by insufficient productivity.

Both people and the land have tried their best. People work hard to produce, and the total output of the land is not very large, so they will not fall to the point of starvation every year.

Attributing all problems to productivity obviously ignores human subjective initiative.

Exploitation and oppression and land annexation have prevented farmers from getting the food they should have obtained may also be one of the important reasons.

Keeping the farmers between hunger and food and clothing, and letting them wander up and down here is the most conducive to rule. At that time, the farmers were the most obedient and gentle. As long as they had a bite, they would not cause trouble.

If you are too hungry, you will rebel and be too full, you will have more pursuits. It is not a good thing for emperor rule.

Therefore, it is a natural consensus of the imperial ruling class to keep the peasants at a living standard that cannot be starved to death or eat enough.

If farmers can get the land and food they deserve, it will not be difficult to eat enough, at least they will not starve to death.

However, such a delicate balance is not always easily achieved, and greed will always cause trouble to imperial policies.

Think about Xu Jie, one of the prime ministers of the Ming Dynasty, whose family owns 200,000 to 300,000 mu of fertile land in his hometown Huating County. The land annexation reached an outrageous level. You can probably feel how much possibility that exploitation and land annexation have increased the frequent starvation of farmers.

With the productivity of the Song Dynasty, it was just the thirteen states in the traditional Han area. It was not difficult to support 100 million people, and it was not impossible to let them have enough food. The difficulty lies in the distribution.

The powerful and powerful people in the ruling class enjoyed their lives and wasted huge amounts of money, so that the remaining farmers would not be able to eat enough and starve to death frequently.

Is China's land very barren?

Why are there no idle land in the world, and only tens of millions of farmers still starve to death?

This is a question worth discussing.

Thinking of this question, Su Yonglin ate all the breakfast with the wind and the wind, and even the sauce on the plate was wiped clean with big cakes.

Zhao Yucheng saw Su Yonglin's eating behavior so fiercely, and thought he was not full.

"Uncle Yuting, if you are not full, there is still something in the Huotou Camp. I'll get it for you."

"Ah? Oh! I'm full, I'm already full."

Su Yonglin quickly patted his stomach.

I thought about something while eating, and unknowingly ate all the things. In normal times, this is indeed the limit of my own appetite.

"I just thought about something and finished eating the food without realizing it. Thank you, Ziying."

Zhao Yucheng nodded and touched his head happily.

"I'm very happy that Uncle Yuting can eat enough. Anyway, I'm just a personal captain now. If you have any needs, please tell me, I can help you!"

Su Yonglin suddenly remembered Zhao Yucheng's defeat.

"Come on, sit down."

Su Yonglin patted the chair beside him and asked Zhao Yucheng to sit down.

Zhao Yucheng nodded and sat down obediently.

"Tell me, how did you defeat that battle?"

Zhao Yucheng's face turned dark, he lowered his head, and slowly told him about the defeat of the Jin army.

After listening, Su Yonglin sighed.

"Even if I ask me to fight such a battle, I will not be able to win. There is a big gap between us and the Jin thieves in terms of cavalry, especially their number of cavalry is still large. At this time, we must fight offensive and defensive battles. How can we fight in field battles? My brother did something wrong."

"I dissuaded many times, but my father refused to listen."

Zhao Yucheng said bitterly as if he had finally found a partner to express his grievance: "I have told my father many times that I cannot fight head-on with the Jin thieves to prevent the Jin thieves from breaking my retreat with cavalry. He should lead the Jin thieves to the military camp to fight with terrain, but my father was unwilling to do so.

He was willing to listen to the opinions of others and sent people out to fight the Jin thieves. I was really worried and asked a soldier to stop the retreat of the army. But I didn't expect that there were too many Jin thieves and came directly towards me. I was surrounded and had no way to retreat. The military formation quickly collapsed..."

As he said this, Zhao Yucheng's tone became even more low-key, obviously very depressed.

Su Yonglin patted his shoulder.

"One is the army insufficient training and not tenacious enough, the two are not supported by cavalry, and the infantry cannot fight against cavalry in terms of speed. Combining the two, it is inevitable that you will be defeated. You really can't blame you, it will be as dangerous as I will."

Zhao Yucheng looked up at Su Yonglin.

"If it were you, what would you do?"

"There are not much things that the infantry can do without the cover of the cavalry. The only thing is that the battlefield is very close to the military camp, and you can move closer to the military camp, attract reinforcements to assist, and force the cavalry to retreat."

"I want to, too, but..."

Zhao Yucheng shook his head: "The army is in chaos, and it is chasing. We cannot maintain the formation and obey my orders. I will not move them. They just stayed in place. I can't do anything, so I can only watch the army collapse and then run away..."

Zhao Yucheng covered his face with both hands, as if he was unforgettable to that scene.

Su Yonglin could only pat his shoulder gently.

"I know it will be very uncomfortable to defeat a war, but for a general, defeating a war is also a valuable experience. As the saying goes, victory or defeat is common in military affairs. As long as you can continue to fight, winning or losing is not important. Whether you can learn from it and gain growth is even more important."

Zhao Yucheng raised his head.

"Really?"

"Of course, when did I deceive you? Defeating a war is of course a valuable experience."

"Uncle Yuting, have you ever lost a battle?"

"No."

“…………”

Zhao Yucheng's expression suddenly became a little bit wrong, and his eyes looked a little resentful.
Chapter completed!