Chapter 226: Balance Between Everything
But Guo Hao didn't expect that the worst was yet to come.
The next day, the system sent a message, and the content made Guo Hao collapse on the spot.
[System prompt: No players have joined the peasant uprising camp, the camp balance is automatically activated, and the uprising army is strengthened]
Guo Hao was completely confused. Was he kidding? Why didn't Tietouwa go against him this time? He just had a brief communication with the actual leadership. The efficiency couldn't be so horrible. Was there really no traitor?
In fact, Guo Hao is also unaware of what he has. Not every player is like him and is not subject to scrutiny. The higher-ups have spoken, and that player dares to challenge the authority of Iron Fist.
As a result of this coincidence, the rebel army was strengthened.
Guo Hao was so angry that he almost vomited blood, but unfortunately he could not change the will of the system. The system was very good at playing balance.
Last time at Hulao Pass, if Guo Hao hadn't been smart and sent the Yulin Army away early and left some troops in Luoyang, who knows what kind of weird things might have happened within the allied forces.
Maybe we can give the allied generals the boundary breaking experience card on the spot. A dozen boundary breaking cards can indeed balance the strength of both sides to some extent.
In a sense, the game system is quite fair. After increasing the strength of the rebels, if Guo Hao can wipe out the rebels, then he will have another group of strong generals in his hands. It can only be said that risks and opportunities coexist.
Guo Hao quickly convened a grand court meeting and began to select his generals, just in time to send all the players to Qingzhou to build ships.
Of course, the head coach Guo Hao chose Han Shizhong, who was the head coach responsible for suppressing Fang La and Liangshan in the official history. Moreover, Guo Hao did not intend to let the old guy Huangfu Song report his safety by boasting about his military achievements. He must exile Huangfu Song to the Western Regions.
He had originally planned to let Huangfu Song go, but the old guy Huangfu Song turned out to be seeking his own death. So he would settle both the old and new accounts together and at the very least exile him to the Western Regions to be a commander-in-chief and squeeze out the last bit of value from him.
Who made Huangfu Song mess around? The original eight schools of Xiyuan were actually used to fool people. They were not finished products at all. Until now, Huangfu Song has not produced a finished product.
In other words, with the help of Zhang Su, they barely trained a group of complete shield guards for Chen Xi to defraud funds, but the remaining seven legions were nowhere to be seen.
Huangfu Song was so worried that he was jumping up and down. All the old ministers who knew how to train soldiers were harassed by him. He looked through other people's assets with the imperial edict approved by Guo Hao, but in the end he failed to organize eight new legions and could only hand over the shield guards and sharp soldiers to Guo Hao.
There were still many generals left guarding Luoyang, but only two generals, Xu Huang and Taishi Ci, were left from his direct lineage. The others had been driven away to various places by Guo Hao.
For example, Ma Chao and Pang De were exiled to Liangzhou to deal with the Qiang people; Sun Ce, Zhou Tai and others were exiled to Youzhou; and Le Jin, Li Dian, Xiahou Dun, Xiahou Yuan and others were exiled to Bingzhou.
Apart from the direct descendants, there are quite a lot of people left. The three powerful generals Yuwen Chengdu, Xue Rengui and Gao Chong are all there, as well as those like Qin Qiong and Yang Lin who can command legions. However, military strength is a big problem.
After much deliberation, Guo Hao could only choose to reinstate some of the old soldiers and then recruit a group of new soldiers.
There is really no other way. After the territory expanded, there and there are not enough people.
Although they are veterans, they are actually just a group of forty or fifty-year-old butchers who only know how to fight and kill without blinking an eye. They are the kind of crazy monsters who feel itchy all over their bodies even without using a knife.
However, Chen Xi felt that it was too absurd for them to fight in wars when their hair had turned gray, so he forced them to resign and sent them to various places to serve as urban management officers. They were basically team leaders and had no pressure in fighting a group of new recruits alone.
After this group of guys were gathered together, they fought in the military camp every day. The ones from Xiliang were the most ferocious and fierce. They didn't even use their fists or feet, but only used weapons to fight.
Xu Huang and Taishi Ci did nothing every day but squat in the military camp and watch to prevent the conflict from escalating, but no one was killed.
If it weren't for Hua Tuo and Zhang Zhongjing who raised the level of medical soldiers, leading to the rapid development of medicine in Luoyang, these crazy people who fought each other every day would have died long ago.
Now the military camp is basically a testing ground for medical students. Surgeries are performed at a rapid pace every day, and they don’t even need to look for people. People are dragged away for treatment every day.
"Wenhe, is there any way to control these murderers?" Guo Hao complained. It was too outrageous that he had to entertain himself every now and then.
Unable to bear the outrageous scene of these guys fighting every day and the overcrowded hospital, Guo Hao decisively found Jia Xu, the world's number one psychologist and master of understanding people's hearts.
"There's no hope for them. Just wait for death. The war has seeped into their bones. If you want them to stop, you might as well dismiss them all. At least when they return to the urban management team, they can still be somewhat humane."
Jia Xu activated his talent and made some deductions, then decisively gave up this stupid idea. He was almost affected by it.
Guo Hao pressed his temple. He suspected that if he continued like this, he might need a craniotomy to treat his illness. There was no way to solve this problem.
Don't we still need these old soldiers? If we let them go, who will fight the bandits? Besides, these are all mental illnesses, we need to find a way to give them psychological counseling. They are all old heroes who have contributed to the country, we can't just ignore them.
"General, if you have this idea, you might as well throw them out to kill people, such as killing the Hu people, no matter how many die." Jia Xu said helplessly. They could not understand Guo Hao and Chen Xi's train of thought at all.
It's no big deal for soldiers to cause a few deaths, so how can you tell the life of another Hu person?
Guo Hao left with a wry smile. Those were top-notch human resources. In this backward era, the demographic dividend was about to take off. How could he bear to waste such precious resources?
"Forget it, let Zichuan provide us with good wine and meat." After a long silence, Guo Hao chose the most suitable reward for this group of veterans. The veterans had no place to spend money, so it would be better to exchange it for something more practical.
"Maintaining an army is really terrible." Guo Hao sighed. Every day he looked at the expenses of the major military camps that flowed like water. He felt terrified, hoping that they would go bankrupt one day.
"We only have a million soldiers now. I get a headache when I think about the further expansion in the future." Jia Xu's mouth twitched. He still remembered how all the court officials were frightened when Chen Xi reported the expenses. The expenses were more than the annual expenses of Liu Hong when he was in power.
"You should think about how to send troops to suppress the uprising. You know nothing about economics." Chen Xi, who was originally lying on the ground, rolled his eyes, expressing his dissatisfaction with the two half-baked people discussing the issue of maintaining troops.
He has maintained his troops well and is still developing new types of troops. How much money can he afford just to maintain the troops?
