Shu Han Confucian General of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 55
Yuan Shu was wiped out, Cao Cao, Liu Bei, and Sun Ce almost all got what they wanted. The summer of 198 AD was exceptionally beautiful.Of course, after the spoils are divided, all parties are still in a mess.

Take Xuzhou as an example. After recruiting Yuan Shu's surrendered army and taking Huainan, they faced a lot of problems. "At present, there are a total of 220 counties under the lord's rule, namely the six counties of Xuzhou, the six counties of Yuzhou and the Three Kingdoms, and the Taishan County of Yanzhou, as well as the Shouchun County and Nantong County just won. Among them, the population of Xuzhou is about 90 million, and the population of Yuzhou is about 10 million. About 80, the population of Taishan County in Yanzhou is less than 400, the total population of Nantong and Shouchun County is more than [-], and the total population definitely exceeds [-] million!" In Xuzhou City, the long history Chen Qun reported to Liu Beihui one by one.

"400 million people?" Hearing this, all the high-level officials in Xuzhou also exclaimed: I didn't expect to gather so many people all at once.Zhao Feng knew that during the Three Kingdoms period, the population dropped dramatically, from 5000 million at the beginning to less than 2000 million when the Three Kingdoms returned to Jin.Of course there are factors of natural disasters, but man-made disasters are also one of the important factors leading to the sharp decline in population.Thinking about how I came from a later life, how should I avoid such a terrible tragedy.So I did everything possible to improve the method of growing grain, and let Lu Hao tinker with the waterwheel 20 years in advance, in order to prevent problems before they happen.

Regarding the current population, Zhao Feng does not know the exact number.However, it is estimated that Lao Cao's Yanzhou, Yongzhou, and Sizhou together may be at most 400 million.As for Yuan Shao, he occupies Youzhou, Bingzhou, Qingzhou, and Jizhou. Among them, Bingzhou has a population of less than one million. 300 million people.Among the remaining princes from all walks of life, Liangzhou has always been desolate. It is estimated that Ma Teng and Han Sui together have only about 700 Han people.Of course, including the Qiang tribe living there, it should be able to make up 60 million.The population of Liu Biao in Jingzhou was the largest among all the prefectures, with about 100 million. Sun Ce's Yangzhou had just over 400 million, and Yizhou's Liu Zhang had nearly 100 million, but a small half of them were southern barbarians.In the remaining Jiaozhou, it is estimated that the combined population of various ethnic groups is only about one million.After all the calculations, the thirteen prefectures of the Han Dynasty have a population of just over 300 million.

And now there are 400 million people under Liu Bei's rule, accounting for nearly one-fifth of them, which is not easy. "How's the situation of the army?" Liu Bei asked again, after all, the army is the most important thing in troubled times.

"Excluding the county soldiers and field soldiers stationed in various places, there are 22 troops in Xuzhou, 12 in Yuzhou, and 1 horses in Taishan County. Of the 20 troops in Xuzhou, 10 are the foundation of old Xuzhou, and the other 12 are It is Yuan Shu's army that was collected this time, and many of them can only be used as county soldiers and field soldiers. As for the 12 troops in Yuzhou, only 5 of them are elite soldiers, and the rest are the yellow scarves or Yuan Shu's soldiers that were collected. .” Chen Qun said carefully.

"It's not bad!" After listening to Liu Bei, he had a general understanding of his current situation, and the focus of his work was easy to arrange.The first is military training. Although there are many troops in Xuzhou, after repeated battles, the old foundation is also seriously depleted.Although the Huainan soldiers who have captured Yuan Shu can fill in the vacancies and even strengthen them, their combat effectiveness is really not optimistic. For this reason, Liu Bei even sent nearly 10,000 of the 4+ prisoners to farmland.

What's more, the princes from all walks of life nearby are not good enemies. Sun Ce in the south is now busy pacifying Jiaozhou, so he doesn't care about this side; To the north of Xuzhou, a general needs to be in charge to deal with it.

"Who is willing to garrison Dongguan to prevent the jaws from opening up?" Liu Bei asked slowly, looking around at the generals under the tent.After they had known each other for a long time, Zhang Fei came out and said, "Brother, let me go!"

"Zhang Jagao Lan is known as the Four Courts of Hebei, and he must wait for the enemy. The third brother is willing to go, but he needs someone to assist him." Liu Bei mused. "My lord, Gong is willing to help the three generals to garrison Dongguan to prevent jaw opening." Chen Gong also volunteered, and now Liu Bei made a decision that the two of them would lead [-] elite soldiers to garrison Dongguan to prevent jaw opening.

"My lord, why don't you take the opportunity to take down Qingzhou, so that we don't have to be so worried?" Song Xian said suddenly at this time, and everyone looked at him with idiot expressions when they heard the words. "Qingzhou is Yuan Shao's territory. Yuan Shao's army is no less than 70. It is unwise to fight him." Liu Bei also smiled wryly.As for the proposer, Song Xian, he was already bluffed by 70.

So in the following days, everyone began to be busy on their own.Now Zhao Feng seldom intervenes in civil affairs. After all, all he knows is how to farm scientifically, and he has already told Chen Qun about this. All he can do is to design more advanced waterwheels and other agricultural tools with Lu Hao.What Zhao Feng is mainly in charge of now is to train the army.Zhang Fei, Guan Yu, and Chen Dao were not there, so Zhao Feng and Gao Shun were basically in charge of the military training, while Zhao Yun only cared about cavalry training.

"General Gao, your 800 camp should be expanded, right?" Zhao Feng also suggested, looking at the new army who was training more and more interestingly. "If it's true, I'll make a decision after I report to the lord." Gao Shun didn't object either.There were only 2000 people in his camp that day. Of course, it was because the camp had high requirements on the combat effectiveness of soldiers, but it was more because Lu Bu was not willing to give him military power.Gao Shun raised this matter with Liu Bei the next day, and Liu Bei agreed, and allowed him to go to the various armies to select suitable candidates.So Gao Shun picked out more than [-] people for several days, and finally made up the camp of [-] traps.Now that Chen Dao is not here, the elite soldiers of Baier are also being trained by Gao Shun.Gao Shun is not as good as Zhao Feng when it comes to the training of a large army; but Zhao Feng is not as good as a good soldier, after all, he was not a professional soldier in his previous life, so it is not easy to understand it during the military training.Sometimes Zhao Feng even sighed: If I knew I would travel through time, I should have been a special soldier of the Marine Corps in my previous life!
Day by day, Zhao Feng, the prefect of Pengcheng, was enjoying himself.However, he was training the army that day, and suddenly a servant at home came to report that someone had brought him a gift.

"It's all about giving gifts, why do you still have to come to the school grounds to tell me? Isn't Madam at home?" Zhao Feng was a little amused at the servant's mobilization, but he handed him a gift list when he didn't want to come. Seeing this, Zhao Feng was stunned.

"Three hundred good horses, 5000 taels of gold, [-] pieces of silk and satin, and [-] catties of high-quality iron!" Zhao Feng stared blankly at the gift list, and finally understood why the servant came to him.Gold and silk are all right, but there is no place to put the iron and horses in my own home.

"Who sent it?" Zhao Feng was more than surprised. The gold, silver, silk and satin were nothing, but iron and horses were beyond the reach of ordinary businessmen.

"The visitor only said that he was an old friend of the general, and he came here to repay his kindness. If the general wants to find out, he only needs to go to Zuixian Tower in Pengcheng." The servant replied honestly.

"So it is like this!" Zhao Feng vaguely guessed who was so generous, but a few hundred horses is not a small number, Zhao Feng asked Gao Shun to be in charge of today's training, and ordered people to bring the horses and iron to the army, but he himself Go and explain to Liu Bei first.After all, these hundreds of horses and tens of thousands of catties of iron are no joke, don't let people think that they want to rebel.

"So that's how it is. Bo Tao really met a rich man." Liu Bei was also taken aback when he heard such a generous gesture. Back then when he raised his army, he was funded by two horse dealers. .But the support from those two people pales in comparison to today's generous gift.After a pause, Liu Bei also sighed: "The Zhen family is known as the richest man, and it really deserves its reputation. But since it was given to you, Bo Tao can't donate all of it to the military. How about this, you bring all the iron, You keep the silk and gold and silver for yourself. As for the horses, you pick some good ones and keep them, and send the rest to the army!"

"Thank you, my lord!" Zhao Feng secretly heaved a sigh of relief.But he didn't know that after this incident, Liu Bei felt a lot more at ease with him.Originally, Zhao Feng was always a fan of money, but this time he didn't care about iron and horses, but accepted gold, silver and silk with ease, which is enough to show that he is a person with no ambitions.Although such a person's character is not very good, the leader is more at ease with this kind of person.

Back home, Zhao Feng and Diao Chan checked the generous gift, and it actually filled up an empty house in the backyard.As for the horses, the stables in Zhao Feng's house were full and there were more than 50 horses left, and the rest were all sent to the army.

"Husband, who gave this generous gift?" Diao Chan asked in surprise.She has seen the world, but such a generous gift is rare. "Who else could it be, the Miss Zhen we met last time?" Zhao Feng waved his hands.

"It's her?" Diao Chan couldn't help being a little stunned.

"A rich man!" Zhao Feng also exclaimed.My cheap brother, Zhao Yu, has made a lot of money since he followed his advice to sell salt.But in terms of family property, it can only be regarded as the wealth of a state, and there is still a gap compared with the national-level rich like the Zhen family.

"How is my husband going to respond?" Diao Chan asked while putting a blouse on Zhao Feng.

"What else can we do, let's talk about it when we meet." Zhao Feng replied noncommittally.Thinking of the encounter outside Guangling City that day, I couldn't help but feel agitated.

"Since that's the case, Husband, you should go and come back early!" Diao Chan said a little sourly. "Huh?" Zhao Feng sensed that Diao Chan's tone was not right, and quickly asked, "Ma'am, won't you go with me?"

"It's not good for me to show my face, husband, you should go by yourself." Diao Chan forced a smile. "I thought you were so generous, woman, alas!" Zhao Feng couldn't help feeling a little headache, so he had to pat her on the shoulder to comfort her before going out.

Along the way, he brought several guards to the agreed Drunken Immortal Building. As soon as Zhao Feng got off his horse, two servants came up to guide him.When he came to a relatively secluded small room on the second floor, the guide opened the door for him, Zhao Feng walked in, but saw a woman in pink was already waiting for him, and the table in front of him was actually set with wine and food.

With a dry laugh, Zhao Feng said, "Miss Zhen, it's been a few months since we left Guangling, so it's a great honor to meet you today!"

(End of this chapter)