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Jiaozhou has a hot and humid climate, abundant sunshine and abundant precipitation, and as early as the middle of the 19th century, Taiwan began to cultivate three-crop rice, and introduced it to some areas south of the Nanling Mountains of the mainland. It can be seen that compared with the dry and four-season climate in the north, the growth of plants in the south of the Yangtze River, especially in the Lingnan region, is more rapid, and the corresponding growth cycle of crops is shorter.

Thanks to the favorable climatic conditions here, when planting crops in Lingnan, there is basically no need for intensive cultivation as in the north, and even after the seeds are planted, they don't need to care about it, but this extensive business model can catch up with the yield of corn per mu in the north. Of course, the yield per mu is completely the same as that of 800 kilograms or even tons of hybrid rice in later generations.

The so-called economic foundation determines the superstructure, and it is precisely this kind of favorable natural conditions that makes the survival pressure of the people of Lingnan much better than that of the north. Historically, it is often heard that there has been a great drought in the north for many years, but Liangjiang has always been the granary of the world, accounting for half of the imperial court's taxes. This is still the case in Liangjiang, and only more so in Liangguang.

It's just that although Jiangnan is good, it is not the original historical source of the Chinese in history. Compared with the hot and humid Jiangnan, the Central Plains region has large rivers flowing through it, is a long-lasting grain producing area in history, and is also the most densely populated and culturally developed area of Chinese at that time, and it has long been the political center of China.

Humans are social creatures, they are extremely intelligent, but they need tools for production, they need to work together with other people, otherwise they are useless. With the emergence of surplus products and classes, cities began to emerge to protect people's lives and property. The construction of the city is not completed by people relying on their own consciousness, and a leader is inevitably needed to supervise and lead the people to build the city. Therefore, Guo Bin believes that the emergence of tribal leaders and classes precedes the emergence of cities with tall walls and a range of functions.

With the increase of human productivity, people have gradually shaken off ignorance and stood at the top of the earth's food chain, and the infestation of predators has gradually weakened the problem of human security. However, as the threat to human security from the beast weakened, the walls of the city were not removed, but were built higher and higher. From simple fence walls to low earthen walls to brick and stone walls, there is no doubt that their role was to deal with foreign invasions. The greatest threat to the survival of mankind has become its own kind.

In the history of the development of human society, man himself has always been the most important means of production, because he can not only participate in production and labor and produce economic benefits, but also join the army and participate in the war to defend his homeland. Therefore, in general, the larger and more populous the city, the more developed the economy and the safer it is. Although the soldiers are not expensive, when the population reaches a certain level, this sentence can basically be ignored. Especially in the era of cold weapons, the lethality of weapons is limited, even no matter how powerful people are, they can't beat dozens of people who rush up, and the so-called one fight ten only exists in movies, which basically does not appear on the battlefield. Of course, in the era of hot weapons, a heavy machine gun can even kill thousands of people in a few minutes, but that is beyond the scope of our discussion.

Although the humid and hot environment is conducive to the production of crops, it is also a breeding ground for microorganisms, especially in the dense jungles of the south, where miasma is everywhere, and various diseases caused by various microorganisms that cannot be seen or touched make the population of the south much smaller than that of the north. With a small population, the economy and culture will naturally be backward, so ancient China formed the status quo of taking the Central Plains as the economic, political, cultural and military center.

In Guo Bin's view, it is precisely because of this historical evolution that the development level of the southern region, which has more favorable climatic conditions, is far behind that of the north. Later, due to the war in the north and other reasons, there were three large-scale population migration to the south. They are the period of the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, after the Anshi Rebellion of the Tang Dynasty, and after the Jingkang Rebellion of the Song Dynasty.

In the blank space of history, although these three large-scale population migrations were inevitably accompanied by the death of an extremely large number of migrants, they really stimulated the economic development of the south, making the miasma-ridden south a land of fish and rice. Among the people who moved south, in addition to starvation, the largest number of people probably died of disease. With the influx of people in the Central Plains, people reclaimed the land by burning wasteland, not only the snakes, insects, rats and ants in the grass and trees were driven away, but the environment on which viruses, bacteria and parasites depended was also destroyed. In this way, mankind finally gained a foothold in southern China through this method of direct confrontation with great casualties, and after paying the precious lives of thousands of ordinary people.

Therefore, the southward migration of people is a difficult, complex and dangerous project, which requires the unremitting efforts of several generations. Guo Bin thought of relocating the Yellow Turban captives to the sparsely populated south, taking advantage of the favorable climatic conditions in the south to reclaim wasteland, turning the south into a big granary, and fundamentally solving the food problem. But after thinking about it and thinking about the above questions clearly, he could only give up in the end.

As a literature lover who still understands the Three Kingdoms at the end of the Han Dynasty, Guo Bin knows that those who can dominate the north may not be able to get the south. The reason why the three-legged situation was formed at the end of the Han Dynasty was largely caused by the regional differences between the north and the south. The famous Battle of Chibi in history is undoubtedly the most comprehensive display of this situation.

The defeat of Cao Wei in the Battle of Chibi was, from the perspective of the history of the development of the war, a defeat of the old mode of war against the new mode of war. This is because up to now, the vast majority of the voluminous military books and tactics, the methods for training troops, the methods for arranging troops, and the experience have been for land warfare.

Most of the experience of these large-scale wars came from the Spring and Autumn Warring States period and the Chu and Han wars, and the vast majority of the countless wars during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period took place in northern China. The southernmost state of Wu or Chu is only near the Yangtze River valley. Therefore, in the Battle of Chibi, the war experience of the land army accumulated by the ancestors for hundreds or nearly a thousand years not only did not help Cao Cao in the slightest, but imprisoned his mind like a mantra.

Therefore, when Cao Cao, who knew nothing about water warfare, faced Zhou Yu, a native of Lujiang, he still wanted to rely on the "million heroes" under his command to level Jiangdong, which was already a fool's dream.

It is precisely because of a superficial understanding of the Battle of Chibi that Guo Bin at this time has realized that in order to meet the needs of the future, in order to maintain the unity of the world and avoid the invasion of the northern horse-riding peoples, he must start to cultivate his own naval talents from this time, and to talk about the naval army, of course, the first place is the Jiaozhou people who have been dealing with the sea for many years.

Years of war have brought chaos to China, not only has the central government lost its legitimacy, but the wealthy families in various places have also been crushed to the point of exhaustion in the changing military banners at the head of the city. For the sake of political correctness, they had to stand in line again and again, and not only the property in the warehouse, but also the children of the clan would be lost in the team again and again.

It is precisely because it is difficult to form a powerful military bloc that can quickly unify the whole world that the south can rely on the natural dangers of the Huaishui River and the Yangtze River to block the pace of unification of the northern forces. And it is precisely because of the perennial confrontation between the north and the south, coupled with the so-called unification wars such as the six out of Qishan, that the national strength of the north and the south has gradually been dragged down, so that the nomads in the north can take advantage of the situation to enter, and the Han nation is facing the crisis of extinction for the first time.

This is not to belittle Zhuge Liang or Jiang Wei's behavior of going north to resist the war, nor is it to explain the impropriety of Sun Wu in the Battle of Chibi. In the face of the war imposed on them by others, everyone has the right to rise up and fight. For their own survival and power, for the sake of hegemony, or for the orthodox continuation of the Han court, Zhuge Liang and Zhou Yu had 10,000 reasons to resist Cao Wei's military campaign to the south. In the face of the threat of death, for the sake of the reputation of future generations and the position of this life, whether it is Sun Quan or Liu Biao, or Liu Bei, no one will be caught before the road is exhausted, and the vast majority of people will rise up to resist, which is the most logical choice of human nature.

It's just that no matter how good they are, they are always people who live in that era, and they can never jump out of the shackles of that era, and they can't see the huge threat to the Han people from the far north a hundred years later, or even if they think of it, they are forced to do so. No one wants to be a loser, in the heart of any normal person, even if he has to face the pressure of the horseback riding people outside the Saiwai, this national hero should be taken by himself, and no one will be caught with his hands tied.

Guo Bin wants to avoid the tremendous harm caused to the Chinese nation by the Wuhu Rebellion, and wants to minimize the tremendous damage to China's productive forces and knowledge and culture, so that the Chinese nation can escape the curse of a major turmoil that will occur in more than 200 years. He believed that as long as it avoided this cycle and avoided this nightmare that would surely destroy many of the technological and civilizational achievements of the Central Plains in the flames of war, China would be able to jump over the curse of wave-like advance.

Since Qin Shi Huang unified the Six Kingdoms, China has gone through many dynasties, and Chinese civilization has also had its ups and downs. Although this makes the Chinese say such compelling words as "Chinese civilization is the only ancient civilization in the world that has survived without interruption" when they advertise themselves. However, in Guo Bin's view, in the ups and downs of Chinese civilization in the past two thousand years, although there has been cultural brilliance and technological progress, of course, there is also institutional soundness and innovation, leaving an extremely rich and colorful cultural accumulation for future generations, but it has always been unable to escape the fate of standing still.

The wars in the last years of each dynasty made the Central Plains civilization suffer a brutal castration every two hundred years. The wealth and technology that the predecessors had worked so hard to accumulate would always lose a large part of it in this castration. This may be some kind of invisible but tangible powerful force, in order to maintain the balance on the earth, in order to reduce the limited resources of the population to take a means, but Guo Bin can not accept it. He wants to help this ancient and kind people get out of this cycle and embark on the high-speed train of civilization development as soon as possible.

Guo Bin has never denied that although he is not very fanatical, he is actually a nationalist.

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