Since the establishment of the Northwest, Yang Yuanzhao has brought statistics into the Northwest, not only in his daily work, but even in some special military plans, which are inseparable from statistics.

Scientifically analyze the capabilities of both sides, give a certain margin and flexible space, and determine the strength of the other party in a relatively narrow magnitude, which will have an excellent effect most of the time.

Although this can sometimes be very mechanical, but come up with necessary, scientific alternatives and let the generals choose, which can reduce unnecessary losses, and when the order of magnitude of science reaches a certain level, it can reduce all kinds of accidents.

After taking Jiaozhou Bay, when Germany had not yet completely exchanged it, when it reached a monthly agreement with the Northwest, that is, two or three months ago, the Northwest had already taken the lead in the civilian aspects of Jiaozhou Bay, and the statistics and survey work were also in progress.

The more than 3,000 staff officers were divided into 12 groups, and on the basis of the 12 possibilities listed by the staff department, a series of deductions and calculations were carried out.

Shandong, as a place with more strategies in the northwest, has built more than 2,000 kilometers of railway lines, and the hub cities on these railway lines are all new cities built in the northwest, and the north is different from the south. The South focuses on the economy and transportation, while the North focuses more on protection. The new city in the north is relatively large, and the colleagues who take into account the economy also take into account the relationship between the future war, and the whole city, about 3 kilometers long, is a square with a side length, all made of reinforced concrete, after the war comes. Make the necessary arrangements, and you can travel one by one to a strong fortress.

According to the information obtained by the northwest, Shandong has a total of 12 such new cities. It currently houses a population of 6 million people.

Shandong at the end of the Qing Dynasty can be said to be a province with a large population, according to the first census of the late Qing Dynasty from 1909 to 1910. There are more than 370 million people in Dingkou in the country. Sichuan is the first in China, with a population of more than 50 million, and Shandong ranks second, with a total population of 31 million.

But there aren't that many people in Shandong now. After the rise from the Northwest, strong industry. The gap in population is almost endless, from the Baotou Industrial Zone, to the three provinces and one special zone in the west, to the entire northwest half of the country, and even Mongolia, Qinghai, and Xinjiang that have just been occupied, these vast and sparsely populated places have become places that can be developed in the face of the strong industry in the northwest, and in terms of land, it has increased several times compared with the statistics at the end of the Qing Dynasty.

There is a shortage of people everywhere, lack of industry, lack of agriculture, and even some management, tertiary industry, and even the daughter-in-law of the workers.

In just a few years, the northwest has changed from a barren edge corner to a world-class metropolis, a large city, a super city, and even a huge metropolis with a population of more than 30 million, all of which have been established in the northwest, almost in the jurisdiction, including 7 percent of China's population, these people are not changed from the northwest, or born, these people, all from the land of China.

The economic base determines the superstructure, and the peasants cannot get rid of the land, even if the land exploits him, but in the hearts of the simple peasants, seeing is believing, and when they can't eat enough to eat in the fields all year round, and there are clear examples around them, they naturally make changes.

The Northwest has always expected this change, and for this change to provide the necessary security, transportation, railways, high settling-in expenses, these from the first recruitment of workers in the Northwest, has become the ability to look after the family, perhaps elsewhere, people see these mud legs as a burden, locusts, the Northwest has realized the importance of manpower, with people, only organic qì, only production, only profit, compared to facing the loess with its back to the sky, hard work in the field of agriculture, industrial added value part-time is incomparable.

From light industry, to heavy industry, from population density to capital and technology intensive, in just 5 years, the northwest has gone through the developed countries, may not be hundreds of years, or even longer has not walked the road, relying on the advantages of technology and products, firmly control the made in China, and high wages and treatment, continue to attract the population of all parts of China, especially the north.

China's north and south are absolutely unbalanced, the north because it is the land of the Central Plains, developed for a long time, once fertile soil has become the current frontier wasteland, from the Qin and Han dynasties, Guanzhong is a fertile soil, is an important cornerstone of the struggle for hegemony in the world, but to the Tang Dynasty abruptly stopped, the Song Dynasty is here is a fiercely contested borderland, until now, thousands of years, here has been unable to support the people, go to the west is the tradition of Shanxi, created the legend of the Jin merchants, but this is precisely the sorrow of Shanxi and the northwest.

Whether it is from the road, or the attraction, the northwest has a very strong attraction to the north, 7 percent of the national population, the north occupies more than 6 percent, which also makes the entire north, except for the northwest provinces, the permanent population greatly reduced.

Take the statistics at the end of the Qing Dynasty, Shandong is close to more than 5.4 million households and 31 million people, but now, according to the number of people in the northwest, the entire Shandong has a population of about 12 million, a decrease of 19 million.

The population of 12 million, and then put aside the 12 new cities, 6 million people under absolute protection, in addition to the 2 million population of the big cities of Jinan and Jining, and the vicinity of Qingdao and Jiaozhou Bay, there are 1.2 million people, these populations are basically not a problem, even if they are given to Xuzhou, Jinan These big cities are scattered all over Shandong about 2.8 million people.

Such statistical results made Jiang Baili and Cai Yi slightly glad that if Shandong was still 31 million, and some larger counties had a population of more than 500,000, this battle would be difficult to fight, and the Northwest Army must carry out comprehensive protection, and now the scale of this protection has been greatly reduced.

This is a war that broke out on its own territory, and I am afraid that only China can bear any losses for the time being, and the Japanese can attack unscrupulously, and even seize the positions of the Northwest Army that the people are attacking, which the Japanese and Russians have already done in the northeast.

After taking Qingdao civilian facilities, the northwest has increased the attraction of local labor, the small Jiaozhou Bay, concentrated 1.2 million people, is the proof, the key is that in addition to these places, at least on the way to Japan, to clean up a part, but everyone knows, this is not very likely, after all, Shandong is not in the northwest control of the range, that is the control of Beiyang, because it is too close to Zhili, at least 4 new towns, stationed in Shandong.

The staff officers also thought about a lot of possibilities, but they were vetoed one by one, the most important thing is to kill the Japanese landing force regardless of the three-seven-twenty-one, this point, the northwest has this strength, more than 3,000 long-range bombers, can cover the entire Bohai Sea and the Yellow Sea, if it is really lighter, it can even directly threaten Japan, if it really breaks the cauldron and sinks the boat, with a cluster of aircraft troops, in the exercise to show the strength of Xiàn, in the era when air defense has not yet appeared, It's a nightmare for a fleet of ships transported by sea, not to mention an army of 400,000, an army of 4 million, it is enough to blow them back.

Bombing and sinking is a method once and for all, but it is unrealistic, because not only all the ships are British, French and American, and even they have escorted them, in this case, once there is a problem, a declaration of war is inevitable, and the time to the northwest is too short, with the help of the magic of the all-in-one machine and his vision, he has created a world-class miracle, but has not yet confronted the British, French and American powers that have completed industrialization and occupied the entire world for hundreds of years.

We have to wait patiently, there are still a few more years, as long as the foundation of a few years is laid, and the strength of technology and weapons is pushed a little higher, when the dockyard, the larger fleet is put into service, and the combat effectiveness is formed, they will recover all the losses.

After careful consideration, the staff officers finally formed a plan that was to intensify the propaganda offensive, and Yang Yuanzhao knew very well what the effect of the Red Party's propaganda offensive in those years was, and it can be said that the Red Party was able to take power, and propaganda occupied an absolutely important field.

The brutality of the Japanese, that is not made up by the Northwest, that is the fact, under the situation that there is everywhere, there is no need to splash it in the Northwest, in the Northwest Intelligence Bureau, there are some ready-made, Japanese massacres in the Northeast, these are not only text messages, but also some victim complaints, the most important thing is that from the German channels, I got some photos taken by German journalists, and they were even published in German newspapers and magazines at that time, which caused a lot of repercussions among the Germans.

The propaganda offensive is on the one hand, on the other hand, it is to attract workers, Qingdao's large-scale construction, although only close to the urban area of Qingdao, the most dense area of the fort, is enough to accommodate more than 3 million laborers, with the wage level in the northwest, there is no problem for a family to come, in this way, maybe it can attract millions of people, so that under the two-pronged situation, it is possible to reduce the danger to the minimum this time.

No matter how brutal the Japanese were, when the population density decreased, especially in the direction of their march, the casualties and killings caused would be reduced to a more acceptable level. (To be continued......)