Chapter 1169: The Beginning of Hegemony

In a year's time, the pattern of princes in the world has also undergone new changes.

First of all, Sun Ce completely gained a firm foothold in Yangzhou, and with an extremely strong style, he occupied the entire territory of Yuzhang and Huiji counties, and cut off all the claws that Liu Biao stretched out.

After a year of rectification and conditioning, Sun Ce fully digested and absorbed the remaining forces of Yuan Shu, and his soldiers were well fed, and he had the posture to replace Yuan Shu's position.

On the other hand, with the passage of time, Nanyang, Runan, Jiujiang and other places are about to end the period of luck reversal, and the frequency of natural disasters in the disaster areas has decreased significantly.

To the relief of several people, Pingzhou has always focused on immigration, and has no plans to enter Yangzhou, Nanyang and other places in a big way.

Shang Ji and the others discussed the possibility of directly sending troops to occupy Jiujiang, Nanyang and other places after the period of luck backlash, and finally found that it was easy to send troops to occupy these places, but it was difficult to hold them!

These places have been plagued for a long time and have long been in ruins. Even if the disaster completely subsides, it will not be self-sufficient within a year, and on the premise of meeting the needs of immigrants, the Shang army will no longer be able to transport materials to ensure the occupation of Jiujiang and other places!

The grain production of the merchant forces is high, but it is also numerous. Being able to complete the relief of the victims is already the result of the Shang Army's best efforts, and no matter how much it is, it is really powerless.

In addition, Jiujiang and other places are far from the actual ruling area of Shang Ji, which is a veritable enclave, and once Shang Ji intervenes in the southern battlefield, it will inevitably usher in the full counterattack of Sun Ce, Liu Biao, Liu Bei, and Cao Cao.

Eventually, Shang Ji had to abandon his intention to occupy the territory and instead concentrate on relocating the victims.

However, Shang Ji's harvest this year is also very rich, with a total of 1.3 billion immigrants.

After a long period of immigration and encouragement of childbirth, the current Ping, Chen, Qing, and Youzhou prefectures plus the grassland capital of the protectorate, the cumulative population of the five places is 4.97 billion, according to the current natural population growth rate of the Shang forces, even if there are no more additional immigrants moving in before the end of the year, the total population will definitely be able to break through the 5 billion mark!

According to incomplete statistics, the cumulative population (including players) in the entire Huaxia District is only about 24 billion, which means that Shang Ji accounts for about one-fifth of the total population under the rule of Shangji!

It is worth mentioning that since the Yellow Turban Uprising, up to now, Huaxia District has basically not stopped the war, and the ten-year war has led to a sharp decrease in the total population of Huaxia District, and when players first enter the game, the total population of the whole district is about 50 billion!

However, after this decade of frequent wars and natural disasters, more than half of the country's population has disappeared.

This also includes the population that migrated from the National War Continent and the Chenzhou part, otherwise the population would be even less.

After a year of great migration, the population under the rule of Shang Ji increased sharply again, so far, whether it is the area of the control area or the total population in the jurisdiction, Shang Ji is firmly ranked first in the world, is a well-deserved first prince, and the comprehensive combat effectiveness can even be comparable to the sum of the northern princes (Diao Chan, Cao Cao, Lu Bu, Yuan Shao, Liu Bei).

Shang Ji's power was already eye-catching, and his next move directly detonated public opinion, so that the eyes of the whole world were focused on Xiangping!

In the seventh year of the first peace, the Marquis of Yan, the general of the Che Cavalry, and the Pingzhou Mu played the imperial court, please set up Mu and Yong Erzhou.

One stone stirred up a thousand waves, and Shang Ji's movement caused a strong response throughout the world, even overshadowing the war between Sun Ce and Liu Biao in the south.

According to Shang Ji's recital, the so-called Muzhou is actually the grassland protectorate.

Since the beginning of the Xianbei War, the grassland has basically fallen into the control of Shang Ji, he as a general of the cavalry and the governor of the grassland Protectorate, in the rule of nearly ten years, Shang Ji has been consolidating the rule of the grassland area for a moment, and has completed the organization of households and people early.

With the passage of time, the rule of the Shang Dynasty over the grassland has become more and more stable, and the time is ripe for the Grassland Protectorate to withdraw from the prefecture and establish a state, so according to the plan, the Grassland Protectorate will be the main body, supplemented by some other regions, to form Muzhou.

As for Yongzhou, it is part of Pingzhou.

In order to expand his sphere of influence, he incorporated all the three counties he had obtained after the destruction of Goguryeo into Pingzhou, and later continued to expand to the north and east, and established five counties one after another; After the destruction of Lee's Joseon, a part of Lee's Joseon was assigned to Pyongju, and a county was also established, plus the original six counties, Pyeongju directly became a super state with fifteen counties under its jurisdiction!

In contrast, there are only six counties in Qingzhou, there are even only five counties in Xuzhou, and there are too many counties below Pingzhou.

Moreover, the area under the jurisdiction of Pingzhou is also super large, according to the comparison of the display map, it is equivalent to the entire territory of Liaoning, Jilin and Heilongjiang, plus the outer Xing'an Mountains and parts of Inner and Outer Mongolia.

Originally, although the jurisdiction of Pingzhou was wide, in fact, most of the area was sparsely populated, and even hundreds of miles were uninhabited, and most of them were territories on the map, so there was no need for fine management.

However, with the entry of 1.3 billion immigrants into Pingzhou, the population density of Pingzhou has increased greatly in a short period of time, and various parts of Pingzhou have prospered, which has directly increased the difficulty of management.

With such a large area and such a large population, it would be too bloated to use the establishment of one state. Moreover, Shang Ji had long passed the stage where he needed to use the name of Pingzhou Mu to stabilize his rule, so after studying it, the Government Council formally proposed a plan to split Pingzhou.

According to the research of the Government Council, the three counties of the former Goguryeo, one county carved from Korea, and three new pioneer counties were listed separately, and the seven counties together formed Yongju (mainly all of Heilongjiang, Jilin, Outer Khinganling, and Inner and Outer Mongolia).

Another new development was assigned to Muzhou, so in Shangji's planning, there were only seven counties left in Pingzhou, and a super slimming was completed.

Shang Ji only cared about the convenience of his own rule, and happily adjusted the division of jurisdictions, without paying the slightest attention to the fragile hearts of the princes.

At this time, in addition to Shangji, the strongest prince should be Cao Cao, occupying the Yanzhou part, the Yuzhou part and the Sili part east of Hangu Pass, claiming to have a power across the three states.

However, Cao Cao is only a claim, and Shang Ji is a real land across the six states (Qing, Chen, Ping, You, Mu, and Yong)!

And for so many years, the people under the rule of Shang Ji lived and worked in peace and contentment, and other places continued to war, under the advantages of the other, although the six states are nominally border states, but in fact the degree of prosperity is no worse than that of inland states and counties!

Shang Ji's recital caused a big uproar, but the imperial court controlled by Diao Chan still approved Shang Ji's request quite simply, and from now on, the world will increase harmony and Yongzhou.

At the same time, at the same time as the new administrative division was released, Shang Ji also asked himself to resign from the identity of the grassland capital protector and Pingzhou pastor, Diao Chan was very eye-catching, and in the name of Shang Ji's meritorious service in opening up the territory and expanding the territory, he was promoted to the general, the prince of Zhenbei, and nominally commanded the soldiers and horses of the world.