The experience of Wuhu Chaohua tells Guo Peng that these guys are all hidden enemies, and if they surrender for a while, once they have the opportunity, they will definitely jump up and rebel impatiently, and they are all untrustworthy.

Within the defense line of the Great Wall, Guo Peng could not allow people with ill intentions to exist, otherwise, he would be irresponsible to the Han people behind him.

Since they are obediently doing their own tools, then their own leaders think that they create a relatively comfortable working environment, and they can't let them sweat, blood and tears.

Sweating is unavoidable, bleeding and tears can still be controlled to some extent.

Guo Peng then set a plan for the northern expedition against the Southern Xiongnu, to fight a tough battle with the Southern Xiongnu cavalry, destroy it all, and restore the entire annexed state.

This battle is the time for the major generals and staff officers who have just been rewarded to gear up and contribute, and it is also a new round of conquest after more than half a year of cultivation.

Jizhou will become the logistics base for the entire operation, and it will undertake the plan of the Northern Expedition to the Southern Xiongnu and the conquest of Youzhou Karasuma Zahu, and the 1.1 million households and 5.5 million people in Jizhou, who have been recuperating for more than two years, will be enough to undertake this responsibility.

The population of ancient dynasties has always been a confused account, and the population recorded in the household registration of the dynasty is often the taxpayer population on the surface, but this is by no means the total.

The number of people such as tunhu, soldier, official, hermitage, tenants, tribals, and subjugated ethnic minorities was not recorded in the household register of the dynasty.

At the time of the death of Shu Han, there were 280,000 well-known data accounts, 940,000 registered citizens, 102,000 armored soldiers and 40,000 officials.

This 1.08 million population refers to the population directly controlled by the Shu Han government, and the number of people who can be taxed and conscripted from them, not the total number.

Modern scholars consider the exclusion of soldiers, officials, omitted households, shade households, tenants, and ethnic minorities who are not included in the household statistics, and believe that there were about 4 million people living in Yizhou during the Shu Han period, and the Shu Han government only controlled about a quarter of them.

The remaining three-quarters were either ethnic minorities such as the Nanban, tenants and tribes in the families of powerful landlords and scholars, or servants in the families of officials and officials.

These populations cannot be counted in the national household registration, and they cannot become the national strength of Shu Han.

The same happened to Cao Wei and Sun Wu.

In the year of the fall of Shu Han, the registered population of Cao Wei was about 4.43 million, and modern scholars estimate that about 13 million people were living in Cao Wei's territory, taking into account the unincluded tunhu, soldier's household, official household, hidden household, tenant household, and tribe tribe.

The Cao Wei government had one-third of the household registration that could be turned into state power.

The population of the year of the fall of the Sun-Wu government was about 2.56 million, and it is generally believed that there were more than 5.5 million people living in the territory of Soochow, including those who could not be counted as hukou and the few people such as the Shanyue and Wuxi barbarians.

The total population is not the same as the population controlled by the state, and the population hidden by officials, nobles, and powerful landlords, as well as the young people living in the north and south living in the territory, have not been recorded in the total population of the state, and certainly not the power of the state.

The national government cannot even take the absolute initiative to become the dominant player, and the development of the three countries in the later stage is just a bad comparison between the three countries.

Three sixty-year-old men covered in sickness compete to see who can live longer.

Shu Han and Eastern Wu both fell ill and died, and Sima Jin, who was parasitic on Cao Wei, was a sixty-year-old man from the beginning of his birth.

There is no doubt that the Shu Han government, which lost Zhuge Liang and his successors, completely degenerated into a small government with no sense of existence in the later period, and could not even resist, and was abandoned under the internal and external enemies.

The Cao Wei government also followed in the footsteps, and Sun Wu was slightly better, because the regime began to be deeply localized during the Sun Quan period, and after the fall of Shu Han, it survived for nearly two decades.

This matter was discovered when Guo Peng counted his household registration after the pacification of Qingzhou.

It is interesting to compare the number of local hukou found in the Qingzhou Thorn Mansion with the number of people obtained from the subsequent census.

The last count of the population was about 600,000 households, more than 3 million people, but at the end of the second year of the first peace, Guo Peng's statistics after the war were relatively the same as this number.

After several years of chaos in the world, and even after the Yellow Turban Rebellion, your population has not decreased? Where did all this white bones come from?

The truth in this is self-evident.

The concealed hukou was inadvertently liberated by violence during the war, and after Guo Peng came, he picked up the grass and beat the rabbit with a spoonful of stew, and all laughed at it, and as a result, he got a Qingzhou with a small population.

The same is true of Yanzhou after that, 800,000 households, more than 4 million people, Guo Peng made a population count after pacifying the Yellow Turban and flattening Lu Bu, and then made a comprehensive comparison, and also got 3.8 million people, which is equivalent to the loss of more than 200,000 people after so many years of war.

This is not normal.

The only explanation is that there were a lot of dead people, but the hidden household registration of the destroyed powerful landlord's family was liberated and re-included in the statistics, allowing Guo Peng to take advantage of it.

How terrible is the number of people occupied by the houses of powerful landlords?

Here are two examples.

The first is Mi Zhu, the Mi family, private soldiers, servants and tenants, the total number of people is more than 10,000, and Liu Bei got 2,000 private soldiers from the Mi family.

The second is Li Dian, the Li Dian family has 3,000 households and 13,000 people.

Two families, more than 20,000 people, more than 5,000 households, do not pay taxes, are not included in the statistics, and are the same as the air, and being alive is the same as not being alive.

And that's just the tip of the iceberg.

The wealthy clans that are larger than the Mi clan and the Li clan, or the wealthy clans that are even smaller, are entrenched in this land, dividing the entire country into small estates one by one.

The body of the Eastern Han Empire was like this, full of pus, which was extremely terrifying.

War and recluse, it's really terrible.

That is, Guo Peng started early, pacified these places as soon as possible, and then set up strong government agencies to control the civilians, and also gave them a guarantee of safety, so that they did not starve to death in large quantities and die in large numbers in the war.

So the little vitality left by the Eastern Han Dynasty was obtained by Guo Peng.

The population loss in Jizhou is actually quite large, especially in Bohai County and Qinghe Country, which have experienced wars, experienced the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the local war between Guo Peng and Yuan Shao, the local war between Gongsun Zan and Yuan Shao, and the war between Guo Peng to eliminate Yuan Shao, and indeed lost a lot of population.

However, after Guo Peng used the banner of Yuan Shu to destroy the homes of powerful landlords on a large scale, liberate the hidden households, and included them in the statistics, and obtained the hundreds of thousands of fugitive households in the mountains brought by Zhang Yan, after statistics, he got 1.1 million households and 5.5 million people.

This is still based on the fact that Jizhou has a group of powerful landlords, Guo Peng has not had time to get a black hand, if he has a black hand, this number can be improved.