Mobilization is difficult to obtain.

But once you master the mobilization power of a certain place, even if you truly take root in that place and rule enters the hearts of the people, you will no longer be rootless duckweed.

In addition to Mr. Guo, most of the warlords nowadays still recruited troops to join the army according to the usual old thinking of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and were terminated and abolished after the war.

This is a strategy that began in the reign of Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu.

When Liu Xiu was conquering the world in his early days, he lacked military pay, and could not recruit enough troops and could not do anything, which was a headache.

So a subordinate gave him a plan.

It means recruiting troops without paying military salaries, but giving them the right to loot the local area after victory and driving them to fight. After the war, they will be abolished and returned to their hometowns, which is very cost-effective.

Liu Xiu adopted this strategy and indeed recruited many people to join the army and accomplished many major events. However, it also set a precedent for the army to rob the place after the army defeated, with a far-reaching impact.

The army truly becomes a military disaster from this time.

Burning, killing, looting is the reward they deserve after winning the battle. This is what the emperor allows. The emperor wants the result, but the process does not ask.

The emperor and the big head soldiers both tasted the sweetness, so they turned this expedient strategy into a rule.

Therefore, the number of professional troops in the Eastern Han Dynasty was far inferior to that in the Western Han Dynasty. In the Kyoto Luoyang, the permanent professional troops were only more than 10,000.

From then on until Guo Peng was in the present, the military thinking of major local powerhouses was the same.

Except for a very small number of elite confidant troops who pay for their own money to support them, most of the troops are temporarily recruited.

Of course, there are practical factors.

Because they are not as far-reaching as Mr. Guo, who plays farming on a large scale to accumulate food and have enough confidence to raise soldiers, they don’t have that much food and money, so they can only recruit temporarily.

The temporary recruitment of troops is not very reliable, and they must have their own basic foundation when marching and fighting, so there are generals who spend money to support private soldiers.

Private soldiers are often the most elite army, with the best food, clothing, and training. They are the decisive aces in the war period, and the others are all soy sauce.

People at that time had no concept of a country and nation.

The neighboring counties are not their own people, and different states are not their own people. They belong to plunder, fight and even massacre of cities within different spheres of influence, without moral pressure, and are completely different from the next family today.

You want to tell people at that time that we are all great men and family, so don’t kill me, and make sure that the other party will give you a knife and spit on you.

Bah! Who is your family?

Because of this tradition, the major warlords seem to be very capable of fighting, with a large number of people, but there are really not many elites.

When the warlords were fighting in the early stage, they were just eating each other to see who could be more accomplicated. In the later stage, when the warlords had great business, they began to gradually develop the army towards full-time and professionalization.

At present, everyone has no such concept at all, and they are still the same rules.

Once a war is fought, you can quickly pull up troops of tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands, fight each other, grab them after the battle, and then lay off the troops without paying military pay. Isn’t it beautiful?

This is true for Yuan Shao, this is true for Yuan Shu, this is true for Gongsun Zan, and this is true for Dong Zhuo.

This is true in the world.

Anyway, the unlucky one is basically the common people.

Only Mr. Guo carried out such a large-scale military farming operation in Qingyan and other prefectures.

Therefore, the military rations and reserved grains that support the 100,000 army were harvested. When the summer and autumn grains were harvested this year, Guo Peng could accumulate the rations that the 100,000 army needed for four years.

In the chaotic times, I feel unhappy with food in my hands.

Mr. Guo is now building granaries in various places and stockpiling food in case of emergency needs.

Because there are granaries everywhere, military operations within the Qing and Yan prefectures do not require too many auxiliary soldiers.

Even so, Guo Peng organized the officials with digital computing capabilities to organize collective calculations and deduce them. It was not difficult to calculate based on the current transportation capabilities, if it really leaves Qingyan and Yanzhou to fight a large-scale invasion war, it is not difficult to dispatch an army of 100,000 at one time.

However, there were only 30,000 to 40,000 real soldiers, and the rest were auxiliary soldiers. More civilians needed to ensure that there was enough food for the front line to consume.

Although Guo Peng trained these high-quality soldiers, with the current civil power and transportation capabilities, if he wanted to fight hundreds of miles away from Qingyan Prefectures, he would only use 30,000 to 40,000 soldiers in one breath.

If there are too many, there will be difficulties in transportation and supply.

Therefore, in order to increase transportation capacity as much as possible, Guo Peng mobilized slack farmers to build roads and open roads within the Qingyan Prefectures, and also united the roads and rivers to increase transportation capacity, etc.

This is a big project and takes time.

But to be honest, with these professional warriors under Guo Peng who have experienced strict training, they are not afraid of any warlord.

The earliest backbones who were pulled up from Shanggu County are now officers, and each has hard skills. More than 90% of the soldiers have war experience. It is definitely not comparable to the new recruits who are pulled up casually.

The most important thing is to be disciplined, understand military rules, and know how to cooperate in battle formations.

If you are really a new recruit, Guo Peng will not rashly put you on an important battlefield, but will send you out to suppress bandits, see blood, and then come back to participate in the real war.

Once the other party fought, he pulled up a 100,000 army. It seemed that there were many people and powerful people, and Guo Peng was even more powerful than Guo Peng, but Guo Peng could also use the same method to pull the army.

Moreover, my 70,000 people are professional troops, with guaranteed food, clothing and supplies, well-equipped and well-trained. How do you compare the militia that you put together temporarily with my elite professional troops?

On a certain battlefield, the number of troops on both sides who fought at the same time was only 10,000 or 20,000, and it was impossible for a hundred thousand troops to be pushed forward together.

Guo Peng has never relaxed his training in the army, and he trained more strictly when he was not fighting.

So Guo Peng is really unhappy to have to mobilize troops everywhere to expand his territory now.

Now he wants to spend more time laying a solid foundation, strengthening his rule, managing grassroots townships and villages well, arranging military farming, building water conservancy, and preventing locust plagues.

Especially when it comes to preventing and controlling locust plagues, Guo Peng is particularly concerned about this matter.

Since he was the governor of Qingzhou, he has attached great importance to the construction of water conservancy and the prevention and control of locust plagues.

He knew quite well that a locust plague could waste hundreds of thousands of people's efforts for a whole year, and then large-scale starvation and refugees appeared.

When he took over Qingzhou, Qingzhou was really in a mess. Guo Peng invested a lot of resources and money to renovate Qingzhou's rectification, establish rural areas, widely cultivate farmland, build water conservancy, and promote the use of ducks to prevent and control locust plagues.

Guo Peng is more familiar with this technology.

When locusts do not grow wings and are still locusts, they drive ducks into the fields. Ducks like to eat locusts, and one is accurate. One duck can eliminate several kilograms of locusts a day.

During the growth period of locusts, using ducks to eliminate locusts can not only eliminate locusts, but also the meat of ducks grown up with eating locusts is very delicious and tastes better than those who eat feed.
Chapter completed!