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Chapter 1170: Continuing the Past and Forging the Future (60) The Dead End in Tan Feng's Heart

Tan Feng wore casual clothes and only brought two guards, wandering around Yingchuan City at will. Compared to when he first took office, Yingchuan has gradually recovered its vitality. At that time, the fleeing people gradually returned to their former residence. There are nearly 100,000 people in Yingchuan City. In Tan Feng's view, this is a miracle that is not big or small.

However, he had to admit bitterly that Yingchuan's magical recovery to the pre-war period was even more prosperous than before the war. His roots were not in him, but in the Han people confronting him, in Yingshui City, the prosperity there was at least twice as good as that in his place.

After the two countries' armistice, more and more merchants flocked here, most of which were Han merchants. They brought countless domestic goods produced in Han countries and flocked to Qin through Yingchuan. The merchants in Qin used Yingchuan as their base and transferred them from Han merchants at low prices and then shipped them to the domestic high prices for sale.

Tan Feng is a person with a strong learning spirit. He is never stingy with learning from his opponents about things that can strengthen himself. Just like after he was defeated by Gao Yuan, he returned to Jicheng and immediately began to reorganize a new army and formed a new army completely according to Gao Yuan's army building model. The high salary, strict discipline, excellent equipment, and strict training, the army back then did give Tan Feng some hope.

However, in the battle of Yuyang, the new Yan State army, which had not yet become a climate, was once again defeated by Gao Yuan's men. This battle completely broke the backbone of Yan State, and laid the consequences for the later attack of Qi people into Jicheng.

Over the years, Tan Feng has been focusing on opposing Gao Yuan. Of course, he is more attentive to study Gao Yuan's policies. Whenever a new policy is issued in the Han Dynasty, Tan Feng will use it carefully to judge the impact of this policy on the Han Dynasty.

After years of research, Tan Feng has discovered painfully that the strength of the Han army's combat effectiveness is not only based on the combat effectiveness of the army. It is a systemic system with an overall system, logistics supply, efficient command system, post-war pensions and domestic people's livelihood. In the Qin State, he was unable to change these.

For example, the post-war pension is the most intuitive and easiest to learn. But Qin did not do this. The Han Dynasty's pension for soldiers who died in battle was extremely amazing. There is a complete system for soldiers who were disabled due to injuries to allow them to live a decent life after retirement. This alone, Tan Feng believed that it was enough to allow soldiers to fight for the Han Dynasty on the battlefield without any worries. On the other hand, Qin State, most of the beggars begging along the street were retired soldiers who were disabled due to injuries. The existence of these people not only hurts the decency of Qin State, but also makes the active soldiers feel disappointed. Who is not worried that they will become like this?

However, the Qin court was not willing to make more changes in this. They were only willing to spend a lot of money to those who made military achievements and survived. The 19th level military achievements were treated with three changes at each level, and they would be treated with a considerable amount of treatment when they reached the first level. However, such people were a very small number after all, while more ordinary soldiers lived in dire straits.

Even this is not satisfied, and I even talk about other things.

The Han Dynasty had completely handed over its logistics system to merchants. In Tan Feng's initial view, this was a total chaos in politics. Merchants were profit-seeking and despicable. In order to gain benefits, they dared to do anything. However, it had been almost two years since the Han army implemented this policy, but the result was that the Han army's logistics transportation capacity was greatly improved. In order to get this job, merchants in the Han country did not hesitate to invest big capital to improve their transportation and distribution capabilities. A large number of new carriages were put into use, and the storage and transportation stations stood on both sides of the transportation line. They could deliver the materials needed by the Han army to the hands of the army in the shortest time.

The Han government conducts public bidding every three years. All merchants registered in the Han country and whose assets reach a certain level are qualified to bid. This also allows all merchants to make money and continue to improve their service level and transportation speed, so as to look forward to the next bidding and bidding, they will still get this task.

Now Tan Feng has fully understood all the links here, and the implementation of this policy is not just as simple as it seems. It is because of this policy that the Han government completely got rid of a war and needed to mobilize a large number of civilians to escort the baggage. All of these tasks were implemented by merchants. Merchants needed to pay for hiring civilians. The people had wages to get, and their enthusiasm was extremely high.

More importantly, the Han government invested heavily in infrastructure construction, and the roads would be built wherever the Han army fought. The perfect transportation network greatly improved their transportation capabilities. The use of new carriages saved great material resources. The new carriages that used iron wheels and wrapped in rubber outside could hold more and have fewer livestock.

What is more important is that the perfect road, new carriages, and scientific transportation have enabled the Han army to mobilize the least manpower no matter what level of war it faces. They will not abandon domestic fields because of a war, and will not have a fatal impact on the domestic economy and people.

But in Qin, this is not possible. For example, in the war with the Han two years ago, Li Xin's 100,000 troops mobilized nearly 200,000 civilians to escort grain and supplies, which caused the domestic grain production to drop by 20% that year, and there was a grain shortage in most places.

Tan Feng wrote all his research over the past two years into a detailed report and submitted it to the King of Qin. He hoped that his research would attract the attention of the King of Qin and the court, and thus carry out some changes to Qin from the root. Otherwise, in the long run, the advantages of Han will become more and more obvious. At that time, even if Qin and Chu join forces, it will be difficult to compete with Han.

This is an unsolvable dead end, and it is finally in the game.

The confrontation between countries is only one part of the military, and more of the confrontation of the overall strength of the country. Just by the army, even if the victory is achieved to a certain extent, it is difficult to change the general trend. Just like this battle between Chu and Han in Pengcheng, Qin and Chu worked hard for some time and planned it for a long time. In the end, although they successfully made dumplings for the Han army, the Chu people did not kill all the new army. Huang Xie and Qu Chong were quite sober. They were unwilling to make a mortal enemy with the Han country at this time, thus becoming a barrier for Qin. After they made the request and were satisfied, they released all the remaining troops of the New Army back.

It’s a pity that Chu State has Huang Xie and Qu Chong, who is sober. If the Chu people massacred all the new army, then Gao Yuan will inevitably have to use force against Chu State due to domestic pressure. The two countries will fight and fight, which is the most beneficial situation to Qin State.

Thinking of this, Tan Feng couldn't help but think of the big parliament that Gao Yuan set up. This is a yamen that Tan Feng has not seen clearly until now. He said that he has power and they have no power to govern, but said that he has no power. Even they dared to reject the resolution of the Supreme Political Affairs Hall of the Han Dynasty. What did Gao Yuan want to do with this thing?

Does he want to establish a system that existed in ancient times? If this is the case, is it considered a blessing for Qin?

Shaking his head, Tan Feng no longer thought about this problem. Now he understood that Gao Yuan's head was not a normal head, but what he made could make his Han country fly higher and higher as if it had wings.

In the Maowei incident, he lost his most capable subordinate Tan Kang. The last group of people left in Yan State were also wiped out in this action. One out of ten had basically lost the ability to operate in the Han State. For those who survived, Tan Feng let them hide deeply. Without his own orders, he would never have any activities. These last nails are precious and must not be used unless they have to.

What comforted him was that Tan Kang did not die in vain. He successfully hijacked Mao Wei and caused this to severely damage the new army of the Han Dynasty. Tan Kang was posthumously named General because of his contribution this time, which was considered an explanation for his family. He was also named Yingchuan Hou by the King of Qin because of this time, which made him proud enough. As an outsider, Tan Feng was conferred a marquis earlier than Lu Chao. You must know that Lu Chao's background is much deeper than himself.

Mao Wei, who also defected to Qin, was also named Hou Ye. According to the agreement with Chu, a workshop for producing explosives was established in Sui County. Zhou Yu sent an army of 5,000 people to guard the workshop. The strict protection of the workshop there was even more than that of the royal palace in Xianyang. He didn't know how much sand was mixed into the Black Ice Platform and monitored it day and night.

Tan Feng also divided the first batch of products to several dozen kilograms. Tan Feng tried several times. The power was indeed amazing, but it also had fatal weaknesses in use, and there were huge hidden dangers in storage. Tan Feng heard that Lu Chao placed these amazing things in his general's mansion, and he was unwilling to do this. If he accidentally exploded, it would be enough to collapse himself into heaven.

Just walk into a warehouse. It is a shop selling daily necessities. The items inside are basically from the Han Dynasty, with a wide range of items, and you can find almost everything you need in your daily life here. Tan Feng's eyes swept over the items on the shelves. Without exception, the labels on those goods indicate that they are from the Han Dynasty. This is also a new invention by the Han Dynasty. Any product is covered with workshops that are exclusively produced. There is also an Industrial and Commercial Bureau in the Han Dynasty that specializes in doing this. After a name is registered by a workshop, other similar products are not allowed to use this name.

Seeing Tan Feng come in, the guy quickly came over, "Young master is here. The boss has just purchased the goods today and is at the back!"
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