And even this product is a bit wasteful, but it's not stupid. Originally, he was very jealous of Gongsun Zhan, and when he was so frightened and seduced, he was immediately moved by Bang Dun.

According to the current situation, Gongsun Chan will hit them in the face sooner or later, and instead of sitting and waiting to die, it is better to take the initiative to attack.

As soon as the two sides combined, they quickly reached a consensus and prepared to unite with Yuan Shao to attack Gongsun Zhan. For the sake of insurance, with the mentality of treating a dead horse as a live horse doctor, he also contacted the Southern Xiongnu of Bingzhou by the way.

Don't look at the Southern Xiongnu who are now being beaten by the family under Yuan Shao, and most of the entire state has fallen. But after all, there is still a certain background, although a lot of territory has been robbed, but the Southern Xiongnu did not damage many soldiers.

Because most of them are cavalry, and they are basically scattered, when they encounter the private soldiers of the family like wolves and tigers, they basically have no idea of fighting, and most of them directly choose to flee north. After all, Bingzhou is not their base camp in the first place, the grassland is their foundation, and occupying Bingzhou is just to facilitate raiding. The family also accepted it when it saw it, but it only occupied the four southern counties of the state, and did not exterminate the Southern Xiongnu.

Of course, this is not because the families are afraid of the Southern Huns. The madness of the families for the fiefdom is nothing more than hundreds of thousands of private soldiers, which is completely irrelevant, what is it compared to the fief?

In such troubled times, the most valuable thing is human life. Which family in Jizhou does not have nearly 10,000 private soldiers and tens of thousands of young and strong people in their hands?

Even merchant families like the Mi family and the Zhen family have tens of thousands of servants under them, and they can help Liu Bei pull up tens of thousands of troops casually, not to mention these big families in Hebei.

The family in Jizhou is not afraid of the Southern Huns, nor is it afraid of serious losses among the soldiers, but because it is not worth it.

Bingzhou itself is a bitter cold land, sparsely populated, and the land and climate are far less suitable than Jizhou, which is not suitable for farming. The four southern states basically occupy about 60 percent of the land and more than 70 percent of the population. The remaining states in the north are all bitter cold lands on the frontier, not only are they sparsely populated, but the land is not suitable for cultivation at all, which is completely chicken ribs for the families.

Bingzhou is not a good place in the first place, otherwise it would not have had no sense of existence in the history of the late Han Dynasty. This place is affected by Hulu, not to mention the fierce folk customs, and it is not suitable for farming, and if you take it, you have to always guard against the invasion of the northern aliens, which is completely harmful and unprofitable, so there has never been a decent owner. Yuan Shao and Gongsun Zhan also turned a blind eye to this place.

Most of the land in the merged states is enough for the families to eat, and the rest of the places are not very attractive to the families. And there is no need to be in such a hurry, the population they have in their hands now can't use such a large territory at all, and it makes no sense to continue fighting.

Although there is a lot of turmoil in the world, the northern families don't pay attention to it! Normally, who cares about these untouchables? The more you die, the better, so that there is less pressure on the family.

What's more, there is such a big human trafficker as Yuan Shu, with the help of the power of the southern family, I don't know how many people have been bought in the north. The families in the north were also happy to see this, and exchanged some untouchables for money and food, that is, they made money, and there was less pressure, and they no longer had to worry about these untouchables rebelling or giving them land.

With the affection of both sides, the population of the north continues to lose a large number of people. In the past, the families of Hebei didn't feel that now it was involved in the problem of their own development fiefdoms, and they suddenly found that the population was not enough!

It was only when they went back that they realized the importance of population by families who had been worried about the overpopulation and now that they were in charge of an area as if it were their own small country.

What's the use of having a lot of land and more wealth? If no one ploughs the land for you, no one creates wealth for you, you can't develop at all. Population is the core!

The Hebei families who reacted directly interrupted the transaction with the southern family for the first time, scolded each other in their hearts, and even offered to buy back the population at twice the price. Some of these Hebei families with a long-term vision took this into account as early as the first time Yuan Shu released the news of the country. has already quietly stopped human trafficking, soliciting people everywhere, and even pretending to be a southern family to buy human beings from other families. At this time, they were all secretly happy.

The Hebei family came back to their senses, but the Jiangnan family is not stupid! The importance of the population, they have been running Yizhou and Zhu Yazhou for so many years, and they know better than anyone else, let alone twice as much, even five times or ten times, they will not let go.

In the past few years, the population of the north has been reduced by countless numbers under the continuous purchase of the Jiangnan family, and it is at least five million in rough calculation, which is not counting Yuan Shu's own initial shot, it can be said that now the population under Yuan Shu can reach more than half of the entire Han Dynasty, and these families have played a very important role.

After the Jiangnan family discovered the vigilance of the Hebei family, they directly gave up the population market in Hebei for the first time, and were extremely decisive and directly turned the direction to the Central Plains. Because they know that in the base camp of this Hebei family, they can't compete at all. So they directly turned the gun, and before the Central Plains family and the Hebei family could react, they raised the price of human trafficking several times, and frantically swept the population in the hands of the Central Plains family, ready to enjoy this last feast.

And the Hebei family also reacted quickly, directly stopped the sale of its population, and used all means to buy the population in Hebei and the Central Plains.

Under the competition of the families, Hebei and the Central Plains set off a crazy population war. The population, which has always been the least valued by the Maison, is now a sought-after commodity. Even the Central Plains family, which still hasn't even touched the fiefdom of Mao, has also reflected and directly refused to sell the population.

They are not stupid, they are sold now, where will they find someone in the fief in the future? It's just that no amount of money is sold.

Similarly, the family's frenzied plundering of the population also aroused the vigilance of Yuan Shao and Cao Cao and other princes, who also began to pay attention to the importance of population, and immediately began to restrict the outflow of population and census management to ensure the number of people under their command and avoid being stolen by the red-eyed family.

This invisible war of population plunder came to an end in just over a month. In the end, the Jiangnan family, which had been prepared for a long time under the reminder of Yuan Shu, won the victory, and finally made a big profit, and nearly one million people were recorded in the account and fell to the south.

The outbreak of this population war was actually expected by Yuan Shu. Land and population are fundamental, and Yuan Shu has always believed in this. The reason why he allowed the war to break out, rather than delaying it for another year or two and waiting for a few more people from the north to lose a few percent of the population to the south, was because the population of the south was barely enough now. If you move again, it actually doesn't make much sense, anyway, in the future, the entire Han will be your own, and then you will have to move the population from the south to the north again, why bother?

These populations are left to Yuan Shao and Cao Cao, and they can't increase their combat power much, and they are still a burden in a short period of time. What's more, a family is a family, and princes are princes, and the strength of the family does not mean that the princes will become stronger. Sometimes, on the contrary, when the family under his command becomes stronger, the power of the princes will weaken.

If Yuan Shu suppresses it with great momentum and lures it with profit, it is really not necessary for these families to listen to anyone! The urine nature of the families, and Yuan Shu, who has dealt with them countless times, knows too well.