Liu Ye's words made everyone roll their eyes and ignored Liu Ye. Anyone who can be called a wise man is a bold person. Even a person like Jia Xu, who is famous for protecting himself and his body, is not courageous. generation.
Naturally, the reason why everyone rolled their eyes is that Liu Ye is too boring. No one here knows about this kind of thing, but there is really no one who can say it so openly. Some things are taboo, and as a member of the clan named Liu who is causing chaos in the world, saying this kind of thing basically means I want to Carrying the tripod, everyone else gets out of the way, stand aside, I want to be the new pillar!
"The Industry of Overlord, I think we have been high-profile this time. By now, others may have judged our true strength, even though I really want to hide it." Chen Xi took over the words helplessly and said, What is the Industry of Overlord? Yes, try not to be ostentatious if possible.
"With all our strength, even in a head-to-head encounter, we can defeat one and a half Yuan Shao. Surprisingly, if things go as smoothly as before, we can defeat more than two Yuan Shao. I have to say that the leader of the alliance is indeed a character." Lu Su said silently He said that they were indeed stronger than Yuan Shao, but they were not strong enough to make Yuan Shao despair. After all, their rise was too short.
"That's it." Li You also nodded, "Zichuan is unwilling to confront the tough, and has been pulling the battle line to complete his work in one battle. Overall, the advantages outweigh the disadvantages. Although this time he was exposed in front of the world, but if he will Yuan Shao's war potential has been unleashed, and Jizhou has a population of seven million..."
"After the fight, we are finished. Therefore, the purpose of this battle is not how many times we have won. It only depends on whether we killed Yuan Shao before Yuan Shao awakened. It can be said that in the previous battle, even if Tian Feng Ju Shou, Yan Liang, Chou and Ju Yi all died in the battle. As long as Yuan Shao goes back, our victory is essentially meaningless!" Guo Jia replied casually.
"That's it." Chen Xi spread his hands and said helplessly, "The most important thing in this battle is to kill Yuan Shao. As long as Yuan Shao is alive, our next war will take three to five years."
Chen Xi was not joking about this at all. The most important thing in this battle was to kill Yuan Shao. If Yuan Shao was not killed, he would be killed. The disastrous defeat in this battle can only make Yuan Shao wake up more thoroughly. Even if he cannot defeat Liu Bei, it will be enough to make Liu Bei feel sick.
More importantly, what Chen Xi needs in his heart is a strong man, not a Central Plains man with ten houses and nine empty houses, who only has the name of a strong man. But he did not have the strength to overwhelm all parties, so he had to maintain the vitality of the Central Plains.
This is why Chen Xi pushed Hua Tuo to disclose the prescription for treating typhoid fever. If Hua Tuo had only promoted it spontaneously, I am afraid that it would have spread throughout Taishan County by now. Only with the official strength can the voice of Hua Tuo be heard by everyone in the world. !
This is also the reason why Chen Xi sometimes asks Cookies to give some farming methods that can increase food production to the princes of the world!
To be honest, Chen Xi is not afraid that other princes will cause trouble to them at all. The value of the existence of people like Jia Xu, Li You, Guo Jia, Lu Su, Liu Ye, Fazheng, Xu Shu, and Zhuge Liang is to ensure that they will be safe under any circumstances. Can smoothly implement every step of the strategy!
In the age of cold weapons, how many people could die in a single battle to determine the outcome? Yuan Shao ruled a population of just over 10 million, but in the battle that decided Yuan Shao's fate, 50,000 people died, and the troops invested by both sides were only 250,000 to 60,000.
Mortality rate is less than one percent. The mortality rate of plague is as high as seventy-eight out of ten, and the mortality rate of famine is as high as one-third. Chen Xi can still distinguish the big and small. Although if the war falls into a stalemate, the number of deaths will increase exponentially, but Chen Xi Would that be allowed to happen?
It can be said that Chen Xi's definition of the battle between Yuan and Liu from the beginning is to kill Yuan Shao in one battle. Only in this way can the losses in the Central Plains be minimized!
After eradicating typhoid fever, which is currently the most serious depletion of the population, and there are no major famines in Jizhou itself, Chen Xi only needs to do one thing to avoid population losses - defeat Yuan Shao's army as quickly as possible. Kill Yuan Shao!
The people at the bottom should not be hurt the most by the unification of the world, but it is the people at the bottom who are hurt the most. This is what makes Chen Xi most helpless, so he wants to build an epic project before the unification of the world. Then population has become what Chen Xi needs to ensure most.
In other words, the population of the Han Dynasty was large enough, and there had not been any major disasters. According to Jian Yong's statistics not long ago, the population of the entire Han Dynasty is still about 50 million. Of course, if you look at the data of 184, then Compared with current data, 10 million people have actually evaporated...
But generally speaking, the population of the Han Dynasty was much larger than that of Yang Guang's period. It was more than twice that of the early Tang Dynasty. More importantly, Chen Xi never said that when the world was unified and he started those epic projects and swallowed up Hebei, Chen Xi would prepare to start the construction of water conservancy network!
The construction speed in the war years is always much faster than the construction speed in the peace stage after the unification of the world. People who are precarious will not think about too many things, but when they have leisure and money, they will think about things that are of little practical significance. things, resulting in too many troubles.
At that time, King Wu Fucha attacked Qi State and it didn't take much time to dig 300 miles of Hangou. You must know that this was the earliest beginning of the Grand Canal. Compared with Wu State, which had little war potential, it had already swallowed up Huaibei, although Liu Bei had not yet had time to absorb it. , the population under its rule has approached 15 million!
After Jizhou is swallowed up, even if there is a little indigestion, the population has steadily exceeded 20 million. At this time, dredging water conservancy and connecting canals is actually not very difficult. Although Chen Xi is not very reliable in war, he is good at construction. He is still very capable.
After all, even if he goes to the Grand Canal, Chen Xi has never said that he really wants to hook up with Chang'an, Luoyang, Yecheng, Guantao, Zhuojun, Linzi, Jianye and other places. Most of these places are not yet in Liu Bei's hands!
In other words, although there are many places to be built now, the most difficult sections are the Guangtong Canal, which connects Chang'an to the Yellow River, and the Tongji Canal, which connects Luoyang to the Yellow River and Huai River, and the East Zhejiang Grand Canal. These three sections are the most difficult. , the part that is long enough is not in Liu Bei's territory...
By then, those who have seen the original version of the Grand Canal built by Chen Xi will probably be ridiculed. It is just a big bare pole without a single branch. This is why Mi Zhu is so enthusiastic!
I have never seen the genuine Grand Canal Mi Zhu, but the small one connects the canals of the Yellow River and the Huaihe River. Calculating the distance, it seems to be a problem of tens of billions of dollars, although the money minted in the Han Dynasty in a year is probably not that much...
All in all, for Chen Xi now, after Yuan Shao fell, it became much easier to preserve the vitality of the Central Plains. All that was left was to go down step by step, first digesting Yuzhou and the soon-to-be-conquered Jizhou! (To be continued.)
