It is easy to go from frugality to extravagance, but it is difficult to go from extravagance to frugality. Once the army loses its enemies and is in a stage of peaceful development, the army can easily use its own privileges to quickly degenerate. Dong Hu has reached the present by relying on force, so he naturally does not want the army to degenerate into a state of unbearable battle.

Those who should be dismissed should be dismissed, and those who should be dismissed should be dismissed. The military discussion repeatedly reiterated that it strictly followed the "Training and Exercise Code" and that all of them were scolded, including Dong Xiaoyi, Liu Sanshan and Dong Xin.

After Dong Zhuo restored the county and state lieutenant system, Dong Hu also believed that this was necessary, especially in places like Liangzhou, which had been calmed down. The lieutenant and the lieutenant were the key to ensuring local stability. It would not allow the governor and the prefect to have too much authority.

Whether the imperial court retained the position of "Guang Qiang School Captain" regardless of whether he would not agree with it anyway. The people of Qiang, Hu people, and Liangzhou are all Han people. The state has a general, the county has a lieutenant, and the left and right commanders are under the lieutenant, and the county is below the county level.

Prefectures, counties and counties are divided according to the military alert level. The tasks are heavier and the danger level is higher. The authority of generals is slightly larger. In relatively safe prefectures and counties, the authority of generals is slightly smaller.

Dong Hu attached great importance to military construction and had high requirements for the quality of soldiers. Cai Yong and Yan Zhong were also happy to rectify the army and were very satisfied with his reduction of the authority of generals in the army. Not only were the two big bosses willing to do this, but the civil servants below also gave more support.

In November, Daya sent a letter to Ji County. The letter was quite thick, but there were not many things that Dong Hu had to focus on the content. It was nothing more than a rough introduction to what she had done during this period like a work report, and talked about Dong Zhuo's return to Chang'an.

Just after the Chinese New Year, Daya sent another letter. For some reason, Han Fu, the governor of Jizhou, cut off Yuan Shao's food and supplies, and the two broke up completely. Yuan Shao was furious and returned to Bohai County with 70,000 or 80,000 troops. Then Han Fu dispersed most of the troops and only retained 50,000 troops.

Dong Hu could understand Han Fu's actions of dispersing his troops. Although Jizhou was extremely wealthy, the prefects and prime ministers of each county actually held the absolute power of a county. Han Fu took over Jizhou too short. He launched an attack on the court as soon as he became the governor of Jizhou. He needed the support of the prefects of the nine counties (country) of Jizhou. Even if the prefects did not support them, they could not object on the surface. Therefore, Han Fu had to win over the prefects of the nine counties, instead of turning against each other.

Han Fu won over the prefects of each county, and the prefects of each county still had considerable autonomy. The princes attacked Dong Zhuo for the sake of the "Han Dynasty". During the war, each county could give Han Fu more money and food in private. But now that the war has come to an end, Dong Zhuo has left Han Fu, so the prefects of each county will naturally not continue to provide Han Fu with his brainless money and food. Han Fu saved him back and use the money and food provided by each county and cut the prefects of each county to death with one knife.

This is true if it was changed to anyone. For Han Fu, if the prefects below support him in an independent kingdom, how can they support him and give him money and food, they are not the ones they can really trust. Today they can send money and food to support him. What if the prefects of each county will not support him in the future? What if they don’t give money and food? Do you need to replace them with someone they trusted?

When Han Fu had no money and food, it would be difficult for him to kill the prefects of each county, but if the troops were strong, it would be a matter of minutes to kill the prefects of each county (prime minister). The prefects of each county would really stretch their necks and wait for Han Fu to chop them? Naturally, they were unwilling to continue to supply money and food, and they were unwilling to let Han Fu support too many soldiers.

Not only Han Fu faced such a situation, but Liu Dai, the governor of Yanzhou, also faced such problems. For example, Zhang Zi, the prefect of Nanyang County, killed by Sun Jian, and Yuan Shu fled to Luyang County, Nanyang County to recruit soldiers. Can the prefect Zhang Zi not be afraid that Yuan Shu would seize his Nanyang County? Naturally, he was unwilling to supply Yuan Shu and Sun Jian's food. Later, Sun Jian killed Zhang Zi, and Yuan Shu also became the de facto prefect of Nanyang.

The death of Zhang Zi, the prefect of Nanyang, was because he was unwilling to provide food. Qiao Mao, the prefect of Dongjun who participated in the alliance, died at the hands of Liu Dai, the governor of Yanzhou, because Qiao Mao was unwilling to supply Liu Dai's money and grain.

Zhang Zi, Qiao Mao's death was because he was unwilling to provide money and grain. They could be recorded in history. It was also because they had contact with Sun Jian (Dongwu) and Liu Dai (Cao Wei), which was recorded. There were countless prefects in the world, and how could there be few people who were silently killed because of money and grain?

Since Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu dismissed the commander of the county and states, the prefect of the county and states had all the power of "military, government and civil law". It was almost like a small independent kingdom, but because the empire was too strong, there were countless families with great influence in each independent kingdom. The prefects of the county and states dared not rebel, but the county and states were de facto independent kingdoms, and this would never be wrong.

Any prince who is ambitious to fight for hegemony will never allow such a prefect. The prefects of each county and country have only three choices: either completely surrender, get out, or die.

Those who can be the prefect of a county are naturally not stupid, and naturally they will not be willing to continue to provide money, grain and support for Han Fu. What's more, the 200,000 troops are not something that countless families in each county are willing to support.

A soldier needs to consume 21 stones of grain a year, but the general's food consumption cannot be 21 stone? Five people have a squad leader, and among the 200,000 soldiers and horses, there are 50,000 squad leaders, 20,000 squad leaders, 1,000 Quhou, and 500 commanders... Just these, the annual food consumption of 200,000 soldiers and horses requires at least 5 million stones, while the entire Jizhou has only 6 million people, which is also included in the Bohai County controlled by Yuan Shao.

Five million stones of grain consumption, almost every Jizhou people have to bear one stone of grain, and every family has to bear the burden of five stones of grain. This is only the food for 200,000 soldiers. Other consumption of 200,000 soldiers does not include the cattle and horses on the road during the war, and the food transport of civilians. If these are included, 200,000 soldiers and horses will require at least 800 to 10 million stones of grain. How can countless families in the nine counties of Jizhou be willing to support such a massive amount of grain?

It is necessary to lay off troops. Unless Han Fu takes action against the prefect of the entire nine counties of Jizhou and takes action against the families with countless fields in the nine counties, he can only lay off troops immediately. Even so, Dong Hu didn't think that Han Fu had the ability to support 50,000 permanent soldiers. However, Jizhou is currently facing the threat of the Black Mountain Army, and all major families have to do so.

Han Fu wanted to attack the Black Mountain Army and wanted to recommend Liu Yu ascend the throne with Yuan Shao, but Dong Hu didn't want to deal with these nonsense. For him, the existence of the Black Mountain Army also had mixed advantages and disadvantages.

In addition to mentioning some things in Jizhou, Daya also mentioned Qingzhou and Yanzhou. Just as Yuan Shao had a conflict with Han Fu due to money and grain, Qiao Mao, the prefect of Dongjun, also had a conflict with Liu Dai, the prefect of the prefecture, because of food problems.

When the moth of Dong Hu was not there, and when the remnants of the Yellow Turban Army were making trouble in Yanzhou, Qiao Mao and Liu Dai would meet in life and death on the issue of money and food. With Dong Hu, this conflict would be even more intense, especially after the defeat of various princes in Kaifeng, 100,000 troops were stationed in Baima City near the Yellow River.

Baima City belongs to Dongjun. After the defeat in Kaifeng, if the prisoners were included, Dong Hu could use 150,000 troops, and 150,000 troops may not be a big deal. The key is that 20,000 to 30,000 Liang and Iron Cavalry in the army. Because of this huge threat, all the princes retreated from the sour jujube in Chenliu County to Baima City in Shangjun.

It is true that retreating is true. The key is that Qiao Mao, the prefect of Dongjun, could not support the consumption of 100,000 troops. After finally signing a temporary peace contract, Dong Zhuo plundered Hanoi County, which caused panic in Yanzhou, for fear that Dong Zhuo would turn around and invade Yanzhou again. Liu Dai, Zhang Miao, Yuan Yi and others led their troops into Shangjun again, and Qiao Mao, the prefect led their troops across the Yellow River and entered Wei County.

The army entered Shangjun, which was beneficial to maintaining the security of Shangjun, but the army had to eat food. When Dong Zhuo was eyeing Yanzhou, the prefect Qiao Mao might not say much, but when Dong Zhuo left Hanoi County and the crisis disappeared, Qiao Mao became a different mood and was no longer willing to provide money and food for foreign troops.

Liu Dai, Zhang Miao, and Yuan Yiquan were so angry that their stomachs were ache. They sent troops to help Qiao Mao defend Dongjun, but Qiao Mao was unwilling to take out money and food. How could he not be angry?

Han Fu, Yuan Shao, Qiao Mao, Liu Dai, and the four of them have become water and fire due to money and food, but these have nothing to do with Dong Hu. He just took a look and ignored them.

Compared with the private conflicts between various princes, the chaos in the Chang'an court had a greater impact on him, but that's the case, so what if the price of grain is high? It's amazing that it makes people deceive the people and flee within the territory. As for Hanzhong County... Xu Huang, the prefect of Hanzhong County, blocked all the roads into Shu, and prevented the Guanzhong people from fleeing into Hanzhong in large numbers.

Dong Zhuo was in trouble in Guanzhong. When Dong Hu saw the people with skinny bones and ragged clothes, he would inevitably feel a lot of mercy and unbearable, but he knew more about the importance of increasing the importance of Liang and Han people.

I couldn't bear it, but I would still maintain a considerable high price inflation in Guanzhong without hesitation, forcing the people to flee to the cold and border areas.

This is the case. Liangbing has privately accepted more than 100,000 fleeing Han people. Han people who fled to Bingzhou were placed in the three Hetao counties, and those who fled to Liangzhou were sent to the four Hexi counties to cultivate.

In the era without fertilizers, it was basically only cultivated for one season a year, and it was almost the same wherever it was cultivated. If the fields were said to be barren, it was also because of the lack of water source. The three counties of Hetao and the four counties of Hexi were not so lacking water. On the contrary, countless places with loess gullies such as Longxi County, Hanyang County, Anding County, Beidi County, and Xihe County are really lacking in water.

The three counties of Hetao, four counties of Hexi..., including Jincheng County, these eight counties are not as bad as later generations imagined. It is because of the countless Qiang and Hu in these places, and the security environment is a bit poor, which makes it seem bitter and cold and difficult to survive. In fact, these places are all in the south of the Yangtze River.

Of course, Dong Hu's purpose is to increase Han people on a large scale to these places, so as to dilute the population advantages of Qiang and Hu in the border areas and further increase the safe environment in the border areas.
Chapter completed!