Chu State, aiming to sustain long-term confrontation with various countries in the world, must make adjustments, actively reduce its troops and horses to lessen its own burden.
However, with the reduction of troops and horses, the strength of the Chu army would naturally decrease as well.
Therefore, to compensate for this, refining the troops and replacing the large and disorganized civilian workers with a more regular and powerful standing army became a more economically viable method.
Doing this, the expenditure in terms of silver may not decrease much.
But by replacing ten million civilian workers with eight million standing troops, the consumption of grain can be nearly halved.
And after cutting the grain consumption by half, Chu State could sustain this war for three to five times longer on the existing basis.
