readx;???? Compared with several grain-producing areas where Zhang Jiashi took a relatively longer time to recover and gradually began to restore production capacity, such as the Shandong Plain in the hometown of Qi, the Jianghan Plain in Chu and the Jiangdong Plain, which were also the main grain-producing areas in the Warring States Period, the help that can be brought to Zhang Jiashi is certainly equal to nothing, and even needs to contain the governance pressure of Zhang Jiashi and a considerable part of the Great Qin Empire. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Such a question is not a simple question for Zhang Jiashi himself. It is even said that the restoration of these areas requires him to invest more than many regions, such as the area of the Heluo Plain located in Sanchuan County, which recovered from the influence of the plague, so that this place can restore the corresponding grain production capacity and carry out the corresponding political system arrangement, which can be regarded as restraining a considerable part of Zhang Jiashi's energy in those years and a considerable part of the resources of the Great Qin Empire.

If it weren't for the fact that Zhang Jiashi himself was very resistant to the way of fishing with all his might, Zhang Jiashi didn't think that he would have been pacifying the world for a longer time than now, and maybe if Zhang Jiashi didn't care about anything, the troubled times might have ended in 204 BC.

It's just that Zhang Jiashi doesn't like to be ruthless, and for Zhang Jiashi himself, he must avoid the fate of being ruthless.

The first, naturally, is the problem of the Huns.

In the history of Zhang Jiashi's original world, after Liu Bang unified the world and established the Han Empire, he encountered the siege of Baishan Mountain, although it was because of the premise of rebellion, but the national strength of the Han Dynasty in the early days was compared with the Great Qin Empire, and the difference was also an important factor.

If the strength in Liu Bang's hands at that time had the comprehensive level initially established by the Great Qin Empire, whether Han Wangxin dared to collude with the Huns to rebel was still a question.

Second, of course, the reckless use of military force is a serious obstacle to the recovery of national strength.

The source of the reckless military force is "The Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms, Wu Shu, and the Biography of Lu Kang": "And listening to the generals' fame, the reckless soldiers, the tens of thousands of dollars, the soldiers are depleted, and Kou is not declining, and I am seriously ill." ”

The explanation of this allusion is as follows:

In 272 AD, Wu General Buyan, who was guarding Xiling, surrendered to the Jin Dynasty. When Lu Kang learned about it, he immediately led the army to conquer the march. He knew that the Jin army would definitely come to meet Bu Yan, so he ordered the army and civilians to build a strong wall around Xiling. General Wu repeatedly asked to attack Xiling, but Lu Kang always refused to allow it. When the fortifications were completed, the Jin army had rushed to Xiling to meet Bu Yan, Lu Kang led the army to repel the Jin army that came to help, and then launched a fierce attack on Xiling, and soon attacked the city, killing the rebel general Bu Yan.

At that time, Yanghu, the general of the Jin Dynasty, guarded Xiangyang. Seeing that Lu Kang could attack and defend well, he knew that it would not be easy to defeat Eastern Wu, so he adopted a conciliatory strategy against Eastern Wu: his subordinates plundered the children of Eastern Wu, and he ordered them to be released; marched to the border of Eastern Wu, harvested the crops of Eastern Wu, and sent silk silk to Eastern Wu as compensation, and the hunted birds and beasts had been injured by the Wu people, so they were returned to Eastern Wu. Lu Kang understood Yanghu's intentions and treated Jin Shang with the same attitude. The two also often sent envoys to and fro to express friendship with each other. As a result, a situation of reconciliation appeared in some border areas between Wu and Jin for a while.

When Sun Hao heard that the border there was reconciled, he was very unhappy and sent someone to question Lu Kang.

Lu Kang replied: "A township and a county cannot be without faith, let alone a big country! If I don't do this, I will show that Yanghu is very virtuous, and there will be no harm to him." Sun Hao heard this and had nothing to say, but he still wanted to send troops to attack Jin.

Lu Kang saw that the army was constantly dispatched and the people were exhausted, so he said to Sun Hao. "At present, the imperial court does not engage in enriching the country and strengthening the army, but intensifies agricultural production, reserves grain, and allows talented people to play a role, so that officials at all levels do not neglect their duties, strictly enforce the promotion system to motivate hundreds of officials, prudently implement punishments to warn the people, teach officials with morality, and appease the people with benevolence and righteousness, but instead allow the people to pursue fame, exhaust all troops, and be warlike, and spend tens of thousands of dollars and money, and the soldiers are tired. In this way, the enemy is not weakened, and we ourselves are like a serious disease. ”

Lu Kang also solemnly pointed out that Wu and Jin have different strengths, and even if they send troops to win today, the gains outweigh the losses. Therefore, it is necessary to stop using troops and accumulate strength for the right time. However, Sun Hao couldn't listen to Lu Kang's advice. Later, Lu Kang died, and the Jin army crusaded against Eastern Wu, and went down the Yangtze River to the east, and the Wu State was finally destroyed by the Jin.

Zhang Jiashi knew that although there was no explanation for the allusion of the reckless military force at the moment, because the deeds of Lu Kang only happened during the Three Kingdoms period, and in the current world, whether there was a Three Kingdoms period is still a problem, because the history of the Qin Dynasty and the Han Dynasty has been changed beyond recognition by him. With Liu Bang's self-slaughter in Wujiang, the original Han Dynasty has become a god and a horse.

Of course, it cannot be denied that Zhang Jiashi, who knows such an allusion, does not want to have more messes that need to be cleaned up and rebuilt.

However, Zhang Jiashi really has to think that one sentence is really very reasonable, that is, the difficulty of destruction is far less than the difficulty of construction.

Many times, all that is needed to destroy a lot of things is to put them on fire, but it is very difficult or even impossible to build something that has been burned or destroyed.

At the very least, Zhang Jiashi really can't resurrect the dead again.

......

After Zhang Jiashi launched the Second Eastern Crusade and achieved relatively satisfactory results, forcing Liu Bang, the king of Jiujiang, to death, he was very helpless in the face of the relatively rich Jianghan Plain, which was originally relatively rich, in less than three or four years, he was abandoned and even unable to replenish the population.

He was well aware that the Jiangshui and Hanshui were relatively poor in governance at this time, but he had to admit that during the Warring States Period, the main target of the Battle of Yanying was not the two places of Yan and Ying at all, but the large fertile plains between the two places.

It is true that some time after Bai Qi attacked the capital of Yingdu and forced the state of Chu to move its capital to Chendi, the state of Qin also put a lot of effort into the restoration of the two places of Yan and Ying, or the restoration of the large plain area between the two places, so that this area could become another powerful guarantee for the Qin state to compete for the world.

However, after losing a large area of fertile plains between Yan and Ying, Chu lost an important bargaining chip in the competition with the Qin army.

Because after the loss of the Jianghan Plain, the grain production of the Chu State was quite scarce, and it could only urgently open up the plains around Jiangdong and Huaishui to restore the lost grain production capacity.

However, it is a pity that even during the period of Wang Jian's destruction of Chu, the grain output of Chu could not be restored to the amount before the loss of the Jianghan Plain.

This can be seen from the fact that the number of Chu troops led by Xiang Yan at that time was less than that of the Battle of Yanying, and the Chu army moved back and forth to intercept the hundreds of thousands of troops of the Qin army under Bai Qi, and the number of troops was much smaller.

Under such a premise, Zhang Jiashi is very clear about one thing, that is, the area of Nanjun, as the granary of China, has actually begun to develop from the Chu State.

In the world where Zhang Jiashi was originally located, there is a famous sentence in history. That is, "the lake is wide and ripe, and the world is full".

Although this sentence is exaggerated to a certain extent, it is undeniable that this area has favorable factors for the natural development of a grain production base.

The rivers and Han waters, which may occasionally flood due to climate change, may turn the region into a flooded country, but this situation is a little insignificant compared to the overall advantages.

......

However, Zhang Jiashi certainly attaches more and more importance to the relative advantages of the Jianghan Plain and intends to develop it into a large-scale grain production base. But Zhang Jiashi thought of the situation in the corresponding areas of the original Nan County, Hengshan County, Changsha County and Jiujiang County, so he really wanted to find out Liu Bang's body, and then follow Wu Zixu's example, grinding the other party's bones into pieces.

Although it is really true, many things really cannot be completely blamed on Liu Bang, but in any case, Liu Bang's perverse actions can be said to have caused serious difficulties in the recovery of these areas.

The population of these areas displaced or even killed due to war and expropriation is very large, and in Jiujiang County, an area where the population base itself is not too large, it can even be described as almost ten rooms and nine emptiness.

Such a situation made Zhang Jiashi so depressed that he wanted to vomit out a mouthful of blood.

Because many times, even if he really intends to develop the place, there are not enough people to cultivate it and maintain the corresponding system, and this idea lacks a basis for implementation.

Because of the protracted war, population loss and corresponding losses of the Great Qin Empire, Zhang Jiashi was not a shortcoming that Zhang Jiashi could solve or even make up for all at once.

Although there seems to be some improvement in the research of hybrid grains, these products cannot be completely ignored by farming. The current farming system has not lagged behind to the point of slash-and-burn farming, as in the Stone Age.

But even if Zhang Jiashi could really take full advantage of the advantages of hybrid crops, what would he do?

Although the current population of the Great Qin Empire has not been counted accordingly, according to Chen Ping's guess, the current population of the Great Qin Empire is about 12 million. This population base is more than 20 million before the Great Qin Empire's turmoil, and it is almost half of the loss.

This means that, on average, many areas have between one-and-three fewer people.

Such a result is really due to Liu Bang, Xiang Yu and those remnants who intend to restore the Six Kingdoms.

Of course, if it weren't for Zhao Gao and Hu Hai's own problems, it would still be a question whether these people would be able to flock to the crowd, but one thing that cannot be denied is that the development trend of the Great Qin Empire for more than ten years, with this years-long war, has basically come to naught.

Such a result is really not something that Zhang Jiashi can change by himself.

Even if Zhang Jiashi recuperates, I am afraid that there is no possibility of completely changing this predicament until the new generation of the Great Qin Empire grows up in twenty years. And this complete change must have a premise, that is, to compare the situation with the heyday of the Great Qin Empire.

......

Zhang Jiashi did not make too many mistakes in this speculation, and in a census conducted in 189 BC in the third year after Yingxun's proscency, the population of the Great Qin Empire recovered to 19 million, which is still a little short of the 223 million population of the Great Qin Empire at the height of the reign of the First Emperor.

This is also the result of Zhang Jiashi's efforts for more than ten years.

However, until that time, Zhang Jiashi had not yet fully begun to further develop the Jianghan Plain and the Jiangdong Plain, and was only able to relocate part of the population from the north every year, promising considerable concessions to attract them to develop Xintian in the corresponding area and settle down.

This situation was not officially carried out until 195 BC.

In 197 BC, Zhang Jiashi personally led an army of 80,000 and joined forces with other three routes, totaling about 250,000 officers and soldiers to the grassland.

In 199 BC, Mao Dun, who was defeated again by Zhang Jiashi in the land of Donghu, had to lead some large tribes to move north to avoid the edge of Zhang Jiashi's army. It's just that after more than a month later, Zhang Jiashi didn't have too many ideas after knowing that Mao Dun didn't plan to have a decisive battle with him, but ordered the four armies to march to Longcheng respectively.

Zhang Jiashi's plan was obviously to force Mao Dun to fight to the death. After knowing Zhang Jiashi's plan, Mao Dun could only personally lead 150,000 Huns to get up and go south, and the two armies under Zhang Jiashi's command first fought fiercely on a grassland south of Longcheng.

Mao Dun's plan at that time was very simple, that is, he planned to use the main force under his command to eat the two Qin troops that arrived in advance, and then weaken the combat effectiveness of the Qin army's Northern Expedition troops.

I have to say that Mao Dun's idea is very beautiful, but the reality is very cruel, that is, in the three-day melee, the 150,000 Hun knights under Mao Dun's command suffered no casualties, and there was no way to completely defeat the two Qin army forces with a total number of only 100,000 people, and finally let the main force led by Zhang Jiashi rush to the battle area, forcing Mao Dun to lead the remnants of the army to retreat.

However, what Mao Dun didn't expect was that on the way they retreated to Longcheng, they encountered an ambush by the last Qin army that had occupied Longcheng, and the 20,000 remnants of the Huns who entered Longcheng were all wiped out.

Although this is a later story, it is obvious that under the premise that the threat of the Xiongnu is still quite huge, Zhang Jiashi himself is also subject to the problem of the population base that he can mobilize, and in the end, he can only inject more energy into the development of national strength after solving the threat of the Xiongnu. To read the latest chapter of this book, please go to [Wind and Rain Novels]