Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 375 Shu Han (VII)
another month later

Spring of the 16th year of Marquis Yan (226)
Xinye County

"Quick, move all the supplies away!"

"All the population will be relocated!"

Xu You, Liu Bei's adviser, is directing the soldiers to move the population and supplies.

In today's world, after 50 years of wars, the population has lost nearly half, and the actual total population of the whole world is only 3000 million. If it is the statistical population of each regime, it will only add up to 2000 million.

There are only 6000 million people in total, and 3000 million people died, half of the population died. How tragic is this!

With the current productivity of the Han Dynasty, even in its heyday, it can only support 500 million people, and it will not be able to support any more, and various social crises will be accelerated.

And the population of 3000 million is too small, resulting in nearly half of the fields in the world being uncultivated, and these uncultivated fields have gradually become grasslands, which are used by the gentry to graze.

Too much or too little population is not good, it is best to adapt to the carrying capacity of the land.

For the current Central Plains, a population of between 5000 million and 500 million is the most suitable. If it is too large, it will not be able to feed, if it is too small, it will have no strength, and it will be easily invaded by foreign enemies.

Therefore, for various regimes, what they lack is not land, but population and materials.

Fifty years ago, there were refugees everywhere with no land to farm, and people had to kneel down if they wanted to be tenant farmers.

Now, the princes and the gentry are trying every means to compete for the population, and use various means to get the people to farm for themselves.

The offensive and defensive momentum is also different!
If it was 50 years ago, if someone wanted to take away 10 people, the imperial court would not care at all, because the population of the Central Plains was so large that the imperial court would like you to quickly take the population to the frontier to open up wasteland and relieve the pressure on the Central Plains.

But now, a population of 10 is a precious resource, which will attract many forces to compete for it.

Yuan Shao's army was too strong. Liu Bei only had 20 infantry and 80 cavalry, and he was powerless to stop Yuan Shao's [-] army. So when he received the news that Yuan Shao's "[-] army" was going south, his first reaction was not to resist, but Quickly pack up your things and run away.

Among them, the population is one of the most important things. If he packs it away, these 10 people will be able to open up wasteland and farm in the south in the future, and continue to generate income.

There are wastelands everywhere in the south, but there is a lack of population and tools to open up wasteland.

"Report! Ye County has been broken, and Yuan Jun is attacking Wancheng!" A messenger sent the latest information.

Liu Bei frowned, but this was all within his expectation.

But this time...

"My lord, if the gentry in Jingzhou want to take refuge with Yuan Shao, they must quickly send troops to Xiangyang to guard to prevent the local gentry from colluding with Yuan Jun." Xu Shu reminded.

Liu Bei nodded, and when he was about to do so...

"Report! - Lu Lingqi, General Yuan Zhao Da Sima Hussars, has invaded Xiangyang, and the Xiangyang gentry surrendered without a fight!" The soldiers were ordered to come back in time.

"What!" Liu Bei was shocked. Their population of 10 is still moving in Xinye. How come Xiangyang to the south has been occupied? This Lu Lingqi is too fast. How did she manage to stay behind me before? , suddenly appeared in front of me?

The development of the situation is as expected by Wang Jue for decades. As long as the strength is sufficient and the gentry is treated preferentially, then the world will be determined. A large number of gentry will surrender without a fight. It is not difficult to unify the world. If it is too rough, there is a chance of overturning the car. Once the car overturns, the consequences will be disastrous.

This is also the reason why Wang Jue advised Yuan Shao, be steady, take your time, and you can easily unify the world, and even the message depends on it, don't waste it.

"My lord, the situation is urgent. We can only abandon these 10 people and rush to Jiangling, which has not yet fallen. As long as Jiangling is still in our hands, we have the Yangtze River, so there may not be no hope!" Zhuge Liang advised Liu Bei to be more decisive. Give up these [-] people, don't be too greedy.

"This..." Liu Bei hesitated. The 10 population is quite a lot, and many of them are strong men. Thousands of militiamen can be trained in a few years of land reclamation. How can you just give up?

In the end, Liu Bei decided to divide his troops into two groups. Guan Yu took the water route and rushed to Jiangling with the main force to control Jiangling City and prevent the gentry in the city from colluding with Yuan Jun.

He himself took only 300 people to migrate the [-] people.

While Liu Bei was still migrating the people, Yuan Shao's general Han Meng had brought Yuan Zhao's cavalry to kill him from Wancheng.

"Whoever captures Liu Bei alive will be granted the title of Marquis of the county!"

"kill!"

A large number of Yuan Jun's cavalry rushed into the crowd, and one hundred thousand people were in a mess.

There are only 300 people around Liu Bei at the moment. He didn't expect Wancheng to surrender without a fight, and he didn't expect Yuan Zhao's cavalry to be so fast.

In a panic, Liu Bei finally ran away decisively, and left here with a group of advisers, generals and personal soldiers.

In the chaos, Mrs. Gan and Mrs. Mi couldn't ride a horse, and the carriage got stuck in a puddle while driving and couldn't move.

Finally, Liu Bei's family members on the carriage, including Mrs. Gan, Mrs. Mi, Liu Chan, and Liu Bei's two daughters, all got out of the carriage and fled on foot in an attempt to blend in with the crowd.

When Liu Bei ran away, Zhao Yun said: "The two ladies are in danger, I will rescue them!"

"Zilong!" Liu Bei wanted to dissuade him, but Zhao Yun had already returned to the crowd of refugees to look for Mrs. Gan and Mrs. Mi.

At this time, Zhao Yun saw that Yuan Jun was capturing the population and forcibly moving the 10 people to the Central Plains to farm fields. The scene was chaotic and crying everywhere.

"mother!--"

"Woooooo!"

"My child, my child!"

Many were separated from their loved ones, and they were at a loss as to what to do.

In order to deceive others, Zhao Yun took off his armor, dressed in ordinary clothes, and mingled among the crowd looking for the two wives.

"Hey! Boy, did you see a man named Liu Bei, that's the one in the portrait!" A Yuan Jun officer suddenly stopped the handsome Zhao Yun, holding a portrait and questioning Zhao Yun.

"Master Jun, I, I don't know this person." Zhao Yun pretended to be very scared, and disguised himself as an ordinary citizen who was afraid of rebellion.

"Yeah." The Yuan Jun officer nodded, and then said: "Follow the big troops and go to the Central Plains to farm with us. Don't run to the south. We will kill everyone who runs to the south later, understand?"

"I understand." Zhao Yun replied respectfully.

Later, the Yuan Jun officer used the same words to arrest other civilians and started questioning them, and threatened them not to run around.

Finally, Zhao Yun found Mrs. Gan in the crowd.

In order to prevent Yuan Jun soldiers from taking a fancy to her, Mrs. Gan smeared a lot of mud on her face to make herself ugly.

"Mother Gan, where is Mistress Mi?" Zhao Yun stepped forward and asked.

"You? It's you, Zhao!—"

"Shh!"

"There are Yuan Jun officers around, don't say these words!"

"Oh oh ok."

Afterwards, Zhao Yun fled to the south with Mrs. Gan and Liu Chan in Mrs. Gan's arms.

When I was about to leave the chaotic scene...

"You boy! Didn't you say you can't run to the south?!" It was the Yuan Jun officer who was patrolling Zhao Yun's escape route just now, and the other party was in charge of patrolling this area.

"General Zhao..." Mrs. Gan was a little scared. There were dozens of Yuan Jun soldiers around that Yuan Jun officer.

"Mistress, don't be afraid!" Zhao Yun protected Mrs. Gan behind him, and then deliberately showed a look of fear on his face, thereby reducing the vigilance of Yuan Jun's officer, and then begged: "My old mother is still in the south, please let me go Bring the old mother to reunite."

"No, no, you! Eh!—"

The officer was ruthlessly refusing, but he saw that Zhao Yun was as fast as a flying arrow, and suddenly rushed in front of him, pinched his neck with his fingers, and threatened the dozens of Yuan Jun soldiers: "Get out of the way!"

"Why are you still standing there? Hurry up and get out of the way!" Officer Yuan Jun knew that he had offended the master, so he was also very scared.

In the end, Zhao Yun successfully took Mrs. Gan and Liu Chan away, and at the same time let go of the Yuan Jun officer.

After Zhao Yun returned to Liu Bei's side, Liu Bei was overjoyed: "Zilong, it's good that you are fine!"

(End of this chapter)