Just as capitalism will inevitably move towards greedy exploitation without bottom line, the military lord class will inevitably move towards a bottom line war and continue to expand the war.

In history, the civil officials came up with a way to deal with such a bottomless war, which was to suppress the martial arts and plunder the descendants of those military lords like raising pigs, which naturally solved the hidden dangers. And there was no need to let the emperor take action on his own, causing shock to the military like killing Bai Qi, so that the military generals in the late Qin Dynasty gradually became disconnected from the court.

The reason why Fei Qian chose to let Zhang Liao serve as the commander of the Central Plains this time is not other military generals who are more powerful than Zhang Liao or more famous than Zhang Liao because Zhang Liao has more advantages than other military generals.

On the one hand, Zhang Liao and Fei Qian have known each other for a long time. Although they are not a friend, at least they will have less suspicion and doubts between each other. For example, Fei Qian and Pang Tong are telling Zhang Liao indirectly that they want to control the rhythm of the war, and Zhang Liao will not think that Fei Qian and Pang Tong are restricting his military power.

On the other hand, Zhang Liao is more inclined to Confucian generals than other military generals, and is willing to study and understand some things outside of military affairs...

This is very good and rare.

After all, most military generals kill and kill as soon as they go to the battlefield, and then leave a bunch of messes for subsequent civil servants to deal with. If civil servants handle it well, that is what civil servants should do. If problems occur if they cannot handle it well, they are also a problem with civil servants' abilities.

Just like the record of Qin mobilizing men over 15 years old to participate in the war, it has exposed the critical point of human resources under the Qin farming and war system. The food and grass consumed in the Battle of Handan is equivalent to the Qin Dynasty's three-year reserve. This overload operation indicates that the Qin State's civil affairs system has reached its limit, but Bai Qi's reason for refusing to fight was not within Qin State, and he did not even mention these serious civil affairs issues. He wanted this and that when he was on the battlefield, he had to refuse to give it to the King of Qin. Before he even went to the battlefield, he had to negotiate conditions with the King of Qin...

Moreover, although Bai Qi's killing of Zhao's soldiers was successful in tactics, it was also a catalyst for the six countries to unite against Qin.

This decision-making under the leadership of military thinking exposed the shortcomings of Qin's failure to establish post-war political integration capabilities. Of course, Fei Qian was unwilling to see this situation, but the control of the front-line military academy, temporary battlefield discipline, etc. were in the hands of Zhang Liao again.

In Luoyang, Fei Qian can still control it on the spot, but once it enters the Central Plains, Fei Qian will definitely not be present in every battle. In addition, Fei Qian has also restored an incentive mechanism similar to the Qin Dynasty's "State of the First and First Prize Award" which objectively also promotes the possibility of large-scale killing of prisoners.

This requires the front-line commanders to be clear enough. Otherwise, with Shandong's current population density, let alone 400,000, if it really starts a big killing, it will not be able to stop it if it increases ten times!

Bai Qi's problem reveals the prototype of the conflict between the professional officer group and the civilian government. This conflict between civil and military officials still exists in the subsequent feudal dynasty military system, and most of the time, the emperors of the feudal dynasty did not balance political control.

Fei Qian looked at Zhang Liao, "Wen Yuan, do you have any confusion? You should say it bluntly."

Pang Tong was also on the side, looking at Zhang Liao.

Compared with simple task-style instructions for Jiang Jie and Zhu Ling, Zhang Liao is much more complicated, which will be related to the development of the entire grand strategy in the future. Fei Qian and Pang Tong are not careful.
Chapter completed!