Time flies, and in a blink of an eye, three years have flown by.

I have to mention that war is not a bad thing sometimes, just like the theory of deterrence in the dark forest, both Shu and Wu are in danger of being eliminated, so in the entire Central Plains of China, the regimes are desperately developing themselves.

The most backward progress is Cao Pi, who has the most resources and sits in Yecheng, where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, and the Central Plains is full of families, but it is the place with the most people, regardless of the size of the family, all of them are surging and want to climb up, as the emperor, many times Cao Pi plays not a dictator, but a distributor, how to distribute the benefits, to ensure that the most families can stand on their chariots is the problem he has been facing.

In the past three years, Wang Hou's allies in the Central Plains have become his target, first of all, Qingzhou still has the right to retain the Taishan army Zang Ba five generals, through the third battle of the Whiskers, the Taishan army was Cao Pi as a vanguard, forced to once invade the territory of Yangzhou, was sniped by the Wu army crazy, tens of thousands of Taishan troops were killed and wounded, and even the veteran Sun Guan died on the battlefield, Qingzhou's secession of military power was completely lifted by Cao Pi.

In this supply war, Cao Pi's logistical pressure was mainly pressed on Xuzhou, and the Chen family, as the top military and political leader in Xuzhou, was also hit particularly hard.

But even so, Cao Pi still did not cut off Wang Houshen's tentacles in the Central Plains, because whether it was the Central Plains family who took over the Qingzhou cotton field, or the Central Plains Shi clan who took over the Xuzhou salt field and the fishing ground, if they wanted to realize these resources, they still had to process and sell them through the intricate commercial network that Liaodong had built in Huaxia, so that they could be exchanged for gold, silver, copper, brocade, silk and jade, and turned into real property.

is still the same sentence, from thrift to luxury, from luxury to thrift is difficult! Before Wang Hou, the feudal manor system, the major families were actually quite simple, and they could live on self-sufficiency, but now! People are eating iron pot stew, adding Bashu rattan pepper, Western Regions pepper and cinnamon, do you want to buy it?

People are wearing Shu brocade embroidery, wearing Khotanese jade around their waists, and the incense used is frankincense myrrh from Tianzhu, dressed up brightly, fashionable and extravagant, do you use it!

The four-wheeled carriage used by the people came from the Nanyang mahogany, and the wine of the Western Regions drunk in the Persian wine pot was also Qingzhou molasses wine again, and then the Han Dynasty sour wine was used to entertain guests, you are shabby or shabby!

Even Cao Pi himself couldn't completely clear these commercial networks that were densely covered in his own territory, from the Cao Cao era to the Cao Pi era, the secret of Wang Hou's tentacles being able to extend was to really mention Mo to pay taxes!

Liaodong to the Central Plains of the major chambers of commerce with the water can not be splashed, it is difficult for outsiders to interfere in their business network, and nearly half of the profits, is handed over to the imperial court, Yecheng income is now seventy percent from commercial taxes, Cao Pi can cause the consequences of the whole body, almost all the domestic chambers of commerce to resist taxes and strike the market, the scholar has nowhere to buy a tea, the treasury income has plummeted by seventy, who can bear it?

However, I have to admit that Cao Pi's means of winning people's hearts are extraordinary, and in three years he completely unified the authority of the Central Plains, by squeezing the people at the bottom, enclosing the tuntian, and dividing the land to the domestic scholars, and now the forces in the Central Plains are basically in his hands, and he can command the 400,000 Cao Wei army like an arm, and the strength belongs to the strongest one in the entire Three Kingdoms era.

Cao Pi's Eastern Wei Dynasty was eating the old capital to integrate the domestic forces, and Wang Hou and Cao Zhang's Western Wei Dynasty was trying its best to open up outward, with the support of a large group of black-hearted businessmen such as Wang Hou, and now the Western Regions were basically defeated by Cao Zhang, and the power was equal to the sum of the Tang Dynasty Rest Capital Protectorate plus the Beiting Protectorate.

And fighting foreign wars, the feeling of conquest is really addictive, one up to the south, breaking through a country and a stone stele, on which it is written that Cao Zhangpo a certain country in what year and month, for the Great Wei to open up territory and expand the territory of how many miles, this to Cao Zhangmei, Wang Hou asked him to stop in the green ridge, pack up the rest of the soldiers and horses to prepare to destroy Shu, he is good, this head promised, that head led the army through the Pamir Plateau, contact Dawan, Kangju and one of the four ancient countries of the Silk Road Guishan dry.

If the fight continues like this, Wang Houzhen doubts that Cao Zhang, this kid, can fight to Rome together.

Of course, not only Cao Wei is developing, but in three years, Shu Han and Sun Wu have also sat on the lane of high-speed development, or because of Wang Hou.

On the side of Shu Han, he directly did business with Liaodong, and Wang Hou didn't seem to be his own enemy, grain, cloth, medicinal materials, ointment, in addition to weapons not being exported, as long as Zhuge Liang Shu Han could come up with money and goods, even strategic materials such as iron tools and livestock that could indirectly affect the direction of the war were also sold.

In fact, this is not good for Shu Han, a large amount of grain imports, the domestic grain output will be affected, with high-end cloth, spice tea in exchange for daily necessities, Shu handicraft industry will also suffer a heavy blow, especially in Liaodong here to buy handy, it is likely that the Gaomen clan of Shu Han will rely on Liaodong.

This is the same as Liu Bei's buying people's hearts at Xiameng Pass when he entered Sichuan, but Liu Bei is a little more clever, relying on selling his face and seducing people's hearts with empty gloves and white wolves, while Wang Hou is really making money.

It's a pity, even if he knew that Wang Hou's little black face was not good-hearted, Zhuge Liang could only drink to quench his thirst, because Shu Han was too short of population.

There are more than 200,000 registered households, and the total population is only 900,000, even if it is a slave and hidden household of a local wealthy family, a population of 1.5 million can survive, and the political environment of Shu Han is full of crises, and all men go to serve as soldiers, so naturally there is not enough labor to go to the field to produce food.

But Zhuge Liang can't disband the troops, if he is self-sufficient and self-sufficient to defend this one-third of an acre, the speed of development will never be able to catch up with the behemoth Cao Wei, not to mention, the division of Jiangnan, Sun Wu, who has a household registration of more than 4 million, can leave it behind the boss, he still has to garrison troops, on the one hand, to guard the safety of the regime, on the other hand, it is necessary to supply military supplies to open up Nanzhong.

The plundered and conquered population is always faster than natural breeding, so even if the trade with Wang Hou is poisonous wine, Prime Minister Zhuge can only pinch his nose and admit it, and the women who stayed behind pick tea and raise silkworms, weave a particularly exquisite Shu brocade for export, in exchange for military rations, and then wave the army south, constantly crusade against the barbarians in the big ravine, collect their fierce and warlike population, and pay taxes to Chengdu with its land and county.

In this era, the dividends of a Han Dynasty and Wuhu are still there, and in three years, the seven captures of Meng and Wang Houzhen do not know if it happened, but the entire Nanzhong, most of Yunnan and part of the Guizhou Plain in later generations were conquered by Prime Minister Zhuge Cheng, and the territory of China advanced to the west by a large grid.

The Wudang Flying Army has also increased the number of 50,000 soldiers for the Shu army, and the combat effectiveness of these nomadic peoples has even surpassed the nomads adopted by Wang Hou.

Compared with Wei Shu, the second in ten thousand years of Wu has not changed much, after all, just in terms of territorial area, Sun Quan's territory is even much larger than the Central Plains, and it is the sea to the south, and there is no extension! In the past few years, Sun Quan has only completely annexed the Shanyue, Minyue and other ethnic minorities in the territory under his command, expanding the number of Wu troops from the original 200,000 to nearly 300,000.

In the general military competition, no matter which country or side of the power has reached a peak for the time being.

However, this pinnacle-level development is also like a huge powder keg, brewing the war clouds over the land of China more and more intensely.

It's the one who will do it first!