This is a good thing. If Chutian wants to win Xuzhou, he must first get the support of the Xuzhou families.

Disobedience is also a difficult thing for aristocratic families.

It is basically unrealistic to eliminate the family.

As long as there is a bureaucratic class, aristocratic families will exist. When old aristocratic families fall into ruin, new aristocratic families will be born.

The imperial examination system has accelerated the turnover of aristocratic families to a certain extent.

Chu Tian didn't think about the problem of defending the world, and now he is still conquering the world.

When conquering the world, as long as the interests of aristocratic families are tied together with their own interests, they will try their best to assist their expansion.

Fang Xuanling accepted the drawings of the Confucius Temple and immediately went down to make arrangements.

If Xia City had a seventh-level cultural building, coupled with the cultural influence bonus brought by Du Fu, Chu Tian thought that one day he might be able to conquer the world through culture.

Promote Chinese culture as mainstream culture, retain the culture of other civilizations, and reduce them to minority cultures...

This is probably what Chu Tian was thinking.

He swears he has great respect for cultural diversity.

Chu Tian realized that he was thinking too far away again and quickly brought his thoughts back.

There are still many chores waiting for him to deal with in the Lord's Mansion.

Now his territory is in some chaos. Each town recruited a large number of soldiers when launching a war. As a result, the coalition forces were never able to reach Xia City. There were many more professional soldiers in each town.

"Disband the redundant professional soldiers in each town and reorganize the army."

Chutian didn't want to raise too many idle soldiers, which would place too much burden on the finances.

"Xia City recruited 3,000 new soldiers during this period, and Langya City recruited 5,000 new soldiers. In addition to the original 8,000 defenders of the two cities, there are a total of 16,000 people. You brought back 7,000 people, and Zhou Yafu's 10,000 people. Xue

With 5,000 soldiers in the month, the number of soldiers in the territory has reached 38,000. Among them, Xiliu Camp and Shesheng Camp have very high salaries. They need to pay as much as 80,000 taels of military salary every month. This does not include the replacement of weapons.

, the cost of raising war horses.”

Xia Liang made the simplest calculation for Chu Tian.

When Chu Tian heard the astonishing figures, he couldn't help but be secretly surprised.

The explosion of troops was a moment of joy, but if we really had to maintain such a large army, our finances would be overwhelmed.

The army needs money and food, and it also needs to equip war horses. After the separation of soldiers and peasants, they will not engage in production, and money will be lost.

The cost of high-level arms is several times, or even more than ten times, that of low-level arms.

Chutian also plans to recruit more high-level troops.

"Based on the current population size and financial revenue and expenditure, I propose to maintain the size of the army at 5,000 high-level arms and 20,000 low-level arms. Or, 3,000 high-level arms and 30,000 low-level arms."

Chutian had to make a choice.

This time he couldn't take them all. Taking the route of elite soldiers meant laying off some redundant low-level soldiers.

"Five thousand high-level troops and 20,000 low-level troops, I will reorganize the army within three days."

Chu Tian limited time for himself.

"Well. A lot of things have happened in Donghan District during this period. I think you should pay attention to these things."

"The lord of Hanzhong County, Zhang Dao, openly launched the Yellow Turban Uprising. At the same time, he extended kindness in the name of five measures of rice. The refugees in Hanzhong County came to seek refuge one after another, gathering hundreds of thousands of people, including more than 100,000 young men. Now he has captured Nanzheng City.

, everyone thinks that he is the lord with the largest number of troops. As for the combat effectiveness, since it is a peasant army, it may not be satisfactory."

"More than 100,000 peasant troops are already quite a lot, and if he dares to launch a peasant uprising, there must be special bonuses."

Chutian met Zhang Dao during the national war, a very silent and low-key lord.

"The prefect of Hanzhong and the governor of Yizhou are trying to encircle and suppress him. His uprising seems to be huge, but in fact it is in danger of being suppressed at any time. The cities in Yangzhou currently captured by the lords include Juchao, Haiyan, Ganxian... Jingzhou is captured by the lords

The cities captured include Xiangnan, Qujiang, Chaling..."

Chu Tian heard the report that almost every county in every state had been attacked by the player lord, and there were many cities that had been captured.

The reasons for conquering these cities are also all kinds of strange.

Chutian occupied Kaiyang County and Yangdu County, and claimed to be attacking the Taishan bandits.

Zhang Dao was more direct, launching a peasant uprising with the goal of overthrowing the imperial court.

Other lords used the banners of fighting against bandits, upholding justice for heaven, and fighting against rebellious ministers.

The imperial court has lost control over the local area. As long as it has soldiers and food, it can separatist rule. The prerequisite is that it must handle the relationship with the surrounding governors and governors.

Chu Tian had some understanding of the general situation in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and powerful lords would basically try to capture a county town as a stronghold.
Chapter completed!