Chapter 4: War and Peace

Since then, Liu Hou has started a relatively stable life. The reason why it is relative is because during this period, he still followed Liu Bei to migrate between Xiakou and Jingzhou. However, because it was not an escape, the official road between the big castles was smooth, so the journey was not as hard as it used to be.

Liu Hou lived a peaceful and peaceful life, but he knew that the battle outside was inextricably linked, and in November, in the Battle of Chibi, Cao Cao was defeated by the Sun-Liu coalition army, and hundreds of thousands of soldiers were burned to death; Liu Bei Group takes Nanjun, Jingzhou, Guiyang, Changsha, Wuling and other counties; Sun Quan Group fought with Cao Ren and Zhang Liao......

Liu Hou has a general memory, and he doesn't know much about this period of history, but he probably knows the classic stories such as the tongue battle group Confucianism, the grass boat borrowing arrows, Jiang Gan stealing books, Kong Ming borrowing the east wind, Zhou Yu beating the yellow cover, and burning the red cliff. As for how many of these stories are true and how many are false, he has no way of knowing, who would talk about current affairs and politics with a yellow-mouthed child who is more than a year old.

He really wanted to participate in it, to see these famous events, to see the demeanor of these powerful people, and to see the magnificent Battle of Chibi, but he couldn't think about it, so he could only continue to nest in the backyard as a little kid and Liu Bei's family.

Fortunately, he knew that Liu Bei would lay a foundation for him, although the territory was not large, but the mountains of Shu were high and dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the country of abundance was fertile and rich in products, even if he really did nothing like Liu Chan in history in the future, he could still enjoy decades of Qingfu.

He is not like some of the protagonists of time-traveling novels, who are always compelled by the death crisis that will arise in the future to do this and that to change history and save himself. Moreover, he was confident that he had knowledge nearly 2,000 years ahead of his time, and that it would not be difficult to create a career without worries. For him, there is no pressure to survive this crossing, he just needs to add icing on the cake to the normal history, and he is leisurely every time he thinks of this.

Liu Hou has nothing to do all day long, and when he is bored and panicked, he will also think about whether he can do something meaningful, and often think about the way he should go in the future.

He remembered the time-traveling novels he had read before, where some protagonists traveled to children, or even fetuses, practiced since childhood, and became peerless masters when they grew up. I hate that I was a standard modern person in my last life, except for a few moves of military physical boxing that he learned during military training and the 24-way Taijiquan he learned in college physical education class, he didn't know any martial arts.

In desperation, I thought, I don't know martial arts, so it's okay to do some sports to exercise your body. As a result, Mrs. Gan and other relatives often saw Liu Hou running around in the backyard and making some strange movements. Even on the way to migrate, Liu Hou would run around the mountains and fields when the large army stopped to rest. Fortunately, for a one- or two-year-old child, no one cares about being active.

In fact, Liu Hou just took out the set of physical education classes, and he must practice running every day, and those weird movements are broadcast gymnastics, and sometimes he will do push-ups, frog jumps or something. Liu Hou's idea is very simple, he just wants to exercise a good physique from a young age, so that he can better enjoy life in the future, after all, the body is the capital of the revolution, and of course it is also the capital of enjoying life.

"If you don't have a good body, how will you endure the three palaces and six courtyards in the future." Liu Hou often comes up with this evil thought, and it is also the one thing he feels most anxious about the future.

Historically, Liu Chan only had a lifespan of 64 years, which was not low in the ancient times of "70 ancient times", but Liu Hou, who lived in a modern society with an average life expectancy of 70 years old, felt very unwilling.

"It's not easy to be an emperor, you can get the ultimate enjoyment in the world, why can you only enjoy it for 42 years, double is about the same, enjoy it for 80 years, and I'm almost 90 years old, that's enough." Liu Hou thought.

Of course, what Liu Hou hopes most in his heart is to live to be 101 years old like Zhang Shaoshuai, but considering that the emperor enjoys the ultimate wealth in the world, these enjoyments are not conducive to health and longevity, and it is estimated that it is a bit difficult to compare with Zhang Shaoshuai, so he lowered his psychological expectations a little.

This incident was also recorded by the royal literati, who praised him for being "quick to act" since he was a child, completely misinterpreting the meaning of this sentence.

In his spare time, Liu Hou began to think about the future path, destroying Wei and Wu, and unifying the world, which is necessary, can only be regarded as a medium-term goal. Do you want to conquer foreign races again, eliminate the hidden dangers of the nomads to the Central Plains, and even fight farther, so that the Han nation will be powerful in the world? However, that is a long-term goal, and it is too early to think about what can be done.

These ideas of Liu Hou were later praised by the royal literati as: "When the emperor was young, he had lofty ambitions and had the world in mind......"

Thinking about it, Liu Hou knew that it would not be easy to unify the world. The main reason is that the territory of Shu is too small, many places are still poor mountains and bad waters, there are many ethnic minorities living there, and ethnic problems are very prominent. In addition, the population is sparse and the talent is even more withered, so it cannot support the needs of long-term operations.

With such a remote and remote place, confronting the entire Central Plains and the rich areas in the south of the Yangtze River, even with Zhuge Liang's ability, the six out of Qishan can only return.

With Zhuge Liang, who has been recited through the ages, he has become synonymous with smart people to preside over the overall situation, but in the end, not only could not complete the great cause of unification, but also drained the vitality of Shu. It can be seen from this that Shu is actually losing in strategy, that is, Shu is not strong enough in strategic strength and lacks strategic resources. No matter how wise Zhuge Liang was and how powerful his tactics were, the lack of follow-up of the strategic forces led to the final defeat of Shu.

The most prominent thing is that the Wei State and the later Jin State occupied the Central Plains, Qingzhou, Yanzhou, Zhuzhou, and Jizhou, which were traditionally economically and culturally developed in China, so there were many talents in the past few decades, while the Shu State withered in the later years, and almost no one was available. It can be seen from the sentence "There is no general Liao in Shu as a pioneer" that has been circulated for thousands of years, and it can be seen that Shu has reached an embarrassing situation in the later stage of the lack of talents.

Liu Hou figured out this, and began to plan secretly: First, in the future, we must pay attention to the cultivation of talents, it is not enough to rely on our own training, but also to go to other countries to dig more talents. The advantage of poaching talents is that it not only reduces the cost and time of training, but also makes the opponent less helper, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone.

The immigration policies of some European and American countries in later generations fully reflected this strategy. After more than 20 years of hard work, countless expenses, and more than 20 years, you finally cultivated a talent, and people took the GRE, IELTS, TOEFL exams, and easily poached your outstanding talents.

Second, it is necessary to do a good job in economic construction. Modern people more or less understand that fighting a war is actually fighting the economy. Whoever has strong economic strength has a greater chance of winning.

The most typical example is the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, which caused the US Navy to suffer severe losses, but the United States was so strong in its economy and production capacity that it was replenished in just a few months.

On the other hand, small Japan was small and lacked resources, and although it won a brilliant victory at the beginning, it could not escape the fate of defeat in the end.

And if you want to develop the economy, you will definitely not be able to rely on traditional farming. The cultivated land of Shu is so little, although it is known as the country of abundance, thousands of miles of fertile soil, but compared with the Central Plains and Jiangnan, it is a small thing. Even if you add the export point of Shu brocade, where can you be rich? What's more, Liu Hou doesn't know if there is a product of Shu brocade now.

Relying on agriculture alone, it is estimated that it is no problem to let the people live a good life, but it is obviously far from enough to support the struggle for world domination. Some people may say that Liu Bang also relies on Shu to dominate the world, and people can succeed, why can't you?

In fact, the reason is very simple, at this time and at that time, when Liu Bang was in chaos, in the midst of a divided war, Xiang Yu could not mobilize all the forces in the ruling area to fight Liu Bang, Liu Bang at this time in the past fishing in troubled waters of course has the possibility of success.

However, the Three Kingdoms were different, and the territories of Wei and Wu were settled and placed under the strong rule of one regime, and both countries could mobilize their own forces to fight war as much as possible, which was completely different from Xiang Yu's situation.

The economic strength of Wei and Wu is far better than that of Shu, and the arable land and population are much more than that of Shu. Therefore, if we take the old road of farming, not only will we not shorten the gap with Wei and Wu, but we will be thrown farther and farther away.

However, Liu Hou is not in a hurry, he has knowledge and technology that is ahead of this era, and he can make a lot of money by throwing it out casually. To make a lot of money, of course, it is necessary to develop industry and commerce. In this era, no one knows better than Liu Hou the enormous power of industry and commerce.

There is already an era of business, but the general scale is not large, and Liu Hou plans to vigorously support it in the future. However, Liu Hou did not have a specific plan for how to do it, and generally believed that one was to standardize management, and the other was to improve the status of businessmen. How does it work? What are you anxious about, he is only a little more than a year old now, and there are still more than ten years before he ascends the throne as an emperor, and he has more than ten years to think about these issues.

As for industry, in this period, at most there were small handicrafts, cottage workshops. In Liu Hou's idea, large-scale industrial production should be organized in the future, even if there is no way to establish the kind of large-scale production in modern times, but at least the production level and management level should be advanced for a thousand years, and some assembly line operations or something will come out, and the production scale and production level of the Ming Dynasty will easily surpass.

Liu Hou already has some ideas in his heart about what to produce to make money, soap, cement, bearings, gunpowder, papermaking, and printing are all possible, of course, he only knows the general principle of many things, and the specific methods still need to organize manpower to experiment and study.

Doing these things requires an investment of time and huge human and material resources in the early stage. But it doesn't matter, he has time, when he becomes the emperor, no, there is no need to wait that long, when he becomes the crown prince, and even after Liu Bei settles down in Shu, it is not a problem to study these things.

Among them, the thing that Liu Hou wants to produce most immediately is soap. The reason is that every time Zhang's mother sees Liu Hou, she has to pinch Liu Hou's little face with her greasy, fat big hands. It's not that she pinched how painful, what Liu Hou hated the most was her greasy hands, Liu Hou felt sick when he thought that she hadn't washed her hands with soap after going to the toilet, not only pinching her face, but also milking herself to drink. Although there are soaphorns in this era, after all, the yield is low and the price is expensive, and rural women like Zhang's mother are reluctant to use it often.

Liu Hou's second thing he wants to produce is paper, and the reason is simpler - wipe his buttocks. Can you imagine the pain of shaving your ass with a piece of bamboo? As a result, Liu Hou now has a phobia of going to the toilet.

Alkali is needed for the production of soap, and lime is needed for the production of paper. Liu Hou once secretly asked Zhang's mother if there was soda ash and lime for sale outside, and Zhang's mother said that she didn't know what soda ash and lime were. Later, Liu Houyou asked the maids around Mrs. Gan, and they didn't know what these two things were.

They all thought that the little boy said these two new terms as children's nonsense, and they didn't care. Liu Hou had to give up for the time being, thinking that they were rural women who had never seen the world and did not know the outside world. He doesn't have much to do now, after all, he is so young, he spends most of his time in the backyard, and he can only contact these women, and it is impossible to ask someone of insight outside.

He didn't dare to say too many new words, let alone do too many amazing things, so as not to give people a shocking feeling. I just secretly sighed that I was reincarnated in such a small child, and I was constrained to do anything, which was really inconvenient.