Collecting the Tibetan tribe is just a casual matter for the Chu State.

There are only 1.3 million people, and the household registration is not as simple as that of Dachu County, so it is not too simple to settle them.

It is now the twenty-fifth year of Shenwu, and it has been 13 years since Lu Yuan unified Yangzhou and became the emperor.

Thirteen years of peace allowed the state of Chu to completely get rid of the influence of the original troubled times, and not only did the household registration flourish, but also the money and grain were abundant.

With the deepening of local development, countless products and commodities have emerged one after another.

According to the latest statistics of the Ministry of Households, as of this autumn, the registered population of the 10 counties directly under the jurisdiction of Chu State has exceeded 45 million.

Among them, there are 4 million people in Xichuan County, 4 million people in Hanzhong County, 1.1 million people in Hegu County, 1.6 million people in Qianzhong County, 6 million people in Xiangyang County, 7 million people in Dongting County, 8 million people in Yuzhang County, 6 million people in Linhai County, 4 million people in Guangling County, and 2.6 million people in Jian'an County.

From these figures alone, it can be seen that in the past ten years, the population of those counties and counties in the north of Chu near Zhongzhou has basically made a leap.

The population of Dongting and Hanzhong counties has doubled, Xiangyang County has tripled, and the population of other counties such as Xichuan, Yuzhang, Linhai, and Guangling has also increased by more than one million each.

The reason why the population can be increased so much is naturally due to the unswerving immigration project of the Chu State in the past ten years.

The four counties of Jiuzhen, Tonghai, Yulin, and Nanhai in Lingnan were abolished, and the Chu State migrated six million people to the counties along the Yangtze River in the north.

Conquered the Xiliang Kingdom, and migrated three million people to the counties along the river.

During this time, the Tibetan people were attached and migrated more than 1.3 billion people.

Combined, these migrants alone represent more than 10 million people.

Coupled with more than ten years of recuperation, the people gathered, and the counties and counties also ushered in a population explosion.

As a result, after the unification of Yangzhou, in the past 13 years, the number of people in Chu has increased by nearly 10 million.

Therefore, compared with the population of more than 45 million people in Chu State, there are really not many people with more than 1 million people.

This point is broken up and sprinkled in various prefectures and counties of Chu State, and it can't even turn over a wave, and it won't take ten years to digest it.

As for the money and grain needed to support these immigrants, after the counties along the Yangtze River were fully developed, the grain-producing areas such as Xichuan, Jianghan, Dongting, and Pengli completely burst into potential.

Nowadays, there are more than 500 million mu of fertile land cultivated by Chu State, and the annual grain output is as high as 400 million stones.

Even if the army rations that were consumed more in the past, as well as the consumption of various livestock and war horses, the surplus grain of the Chu State could feed 70 million people.

At present, there are only 45 million people in the Chu State, and the share of rations is 25 million more.

Not to mention raising more than one million immigrants, even if there are another 10 million, the Chu State can also afford it.

In fact, with the in-depth development of the major grain-producing plains, after the grain output of Chu increased sharply year by year, the granaries built in various places have all been full.

In order to solve these surplus grains, Lu Yuan first ordered each county to build a standing flat at the beginning, and each warehouse could store 5 million stones of grain, but it was full within two years.

Then he ordered the construction of a prefecture-level permanent closing warehouse, each warehouse could store millions of stones, and the result was full in a few years.

Later, county-level granaries were built, and 200,000 stone of grain were hoarded in each warehouse, and as a result, in the past few years, these county-level granaries were also full.

So far, the grain hoarding has reached 350 million stones, which is enough to supply the needs of tens of millions of troops for three years.

But even so, there is still a large amount of new grain harvested every year that cannot be digested.

In the regular liquidation of warehouses in various places, the old grain hoarded is often not eaten yet, and the new grain has been piled up outside the warehouse and rotted.

In the past two years, in order to solve these problems of grain overproduction, Lu Yuan even had to take the initiative to send envoys to Wei and Liang to discuss with them about the grain trade.

Yes, it is the two countries of Wei and Liang, and the state of Zhou no longer exists.

After the continuous invasion and attack of the Wei State, as well as the perennial harassment of the Chu State in the southern border area, the Zhou State was finally overwhelmed by the war that lasted for nearly twenty years.

After losing Guannei, Nanyang, and Xiangyang counties one after another, Zhou Guomin, who was left in only one Henan county, was exhausted, and even with the help and support of Liang State, it was difficult to maintain the war.

Five years ago, the Wei soldiers entered Heyin, broke through the capital after moving east, and completely destroyed Guozuo.

At the time of their demise, there were only more than 100,000 people left in the Zhou people, less than 50,000 soldiers and horses, and only three innate grandmasters, so it can be said that the blood was exhausted.

And in this war to destroy the Zhou, the Wei people also gained greatly.

not only took the original capital of Zhou, Guannei County, but also captured Henan and Nanyang counties belonging to Zhongzhou in one fell swoop, and it can be said that he has got the ticket to get on the ship in this Kyushu catastrophe.

No matter what, in the future, as long as these two counties can be kept, the country will still be able to stay.

On the Chu side, it only seized the three prefectures of Xiangyang County of Zhou, which was located in the north of the Han River, and completely perfected the territory of one county and ten prefectures of Xiangyang.

The reason why he gained so little was mainly because Lu Yuan considered that the future changes in Zhongzhou would inevitably become more and more violent and cruel.

Entering the country rashly at this time will only arouse the vigilance of Wei and Liang, attract the attention of the two countries, and drag the state of Chu into the whirlpool of war.

In that case, it would be a disaster.

Don't you see that Yongzhou overlords like Zhou Guo were exhausted by continuous wars and were wiped out in just twenty years?

This is the second overlord country in Kyushu to be out after Ningguo.

The war in Jiangbei was so cruel and the casualties were so heavy that Lu Yuan was naturally jealous, and he was unwilling to enter so early and put his precious forces into the meaningless war in the early stage.

Yangzhou, which has just been reunified now, needs to recuperate and restore the people's strength.

Instead of sending the army to the battlefield and food to the front line, let the people run back and forth in hunger and fatigue, and consume the last bit of heritage left in Yangzhou after experiencing the troubled times.

The above scenes, just thinking about it, make people's hearts chill.

Therefore, for long-term considerations, after Lu Yuan cooperated with Wei to send troops, he only captured the three prefectures of Xiangyang County and occupied a foothold in Zhongzhou, so he stopped.

As for the real fat, the two counties of Henan and Nanyang were ceded to Wei.

It is planned that this overlord of the northern land will act as a target to attract the Liang State and other northern states to attract firepower for the Chu State.

The results have been remarkable.

After destroying the Zhou State and occupying the two counties of Henan and Nanyang.

Almost in that year, the Wei State and the Liang State fought.

The two sides were on the front line of Henan and Nanyang, each with a million troops, and launched a fierce battle.

In the end, hundreds of thousands of people were killed and injured on each other, and they lost a few people to each other, and no one could bargain, so they had to stop the army and truce.

But this truce is only temporary.

By the following year, the two countries began to fight on a larger scale, and the mobilized soldiers and horses on both sides added up to almost three million people, and almost filled the 2,000-mile border between the two countries.

In order to maintain this war, Wei and Liang can be said to have done their best.

But both countries are one-state hegemons.

The Liang State occupied the entire Qingzhou, with sixteen counties, and the population had reached 80 million after years of multiplication.

The number of soldiers and horses remained at about three million.

Although Wei originally only had ten counties, with his successive southern expeditions and the destruction of Zhou, he seized four more counties, and now has the land of fourteen counties in Yan and Yong.

Although the population was smaller, after the annexation of the Zhou State, it also reached 50 million.

In recent years, the number of troops has increased to 2.4 million.

From the perspective of national strength alone, although Wei is thinner than Liang, the gap is not too big, and the two are still at the same level.

As for the external environment, there are grassland barbarians in the north of Wei State, and 600,000 soldiers and horses need to be stationed in the north for a long time to protect the northern frontier.

The Liang State needed to garrison troops and horses along the Yangtze River and along the Great River to defend against the three kingdoms of Chu, Zhao, and Xu, and the two defense lines also needed about 1.2 million troops.

In addition to border defense and local garrisons in China, the two countries can almost maintain an army of about 1.2 million to 1.5 million on the frontline battlefield, and can support it for a long time.

As for the innate grandmaster, Liang Guo has grown a lot over the years.

First of all, when the Zhou State was destroyed, he got the refuge of the three innate grandmasters of the Zhou State and got a wave of Zhou State dividends.

In recent years, he has cultivated and recruited some more, so that the number of Liang Guo's innate numbers has reached fifty-one, and the number has exceeded half a hundred.

On the Wei side, although it did not eat the innate dividends of the Zhou State, it was after its destruction of the Zhou State and its dominance in Yongdong.

Yuhua Mountain Yuchandao, who had been withdrawing and had not entered the bet for a long time, finally made up his mind and chose to take refuge in Wei.

So with the help of this Yongzhou Immortal Sect, the innate heritage of the Wei State increased dramatically in an instant.

Jade Toad Dao not only directly sent five innate masters to the Wei State, but also contributed thousands of elixirs to the other party, cultivating two new innate grandmasters for the Wei State.

Just a jade toad Dao contributed seven innate beings to the Wei State.

In recent years, Wei has also defeated many barbarian tribes who migrated southward in the north, and many of them chose to take refuge in Wei after being defeated.

From the barbarians, the Wei State also absorbed a lot of people and soldiers, and there were several innate grandmasters, which can be said to have greatly enriched its war potential.

Plus some of the people in the country, who have cultivated and recruited themselves.

Now the number of innate grandmasters in the Wei State has also reached as many as thirty-seven.

Although it is still not as good as the Liang State, there are few places that need to be defended if it can't stand the Wei State.

In addition to the necessary innate grandmasters who defended the northern border and guarded the country, Wei was still able to mobilize about twenty innate masters to go to the front line to compete with the Liang State.

In addition to the three borders and domestic defenses, the Liang State can only mobilize almost only this number of innate grandmasters to participate in the war.

Therefore, such a large-scale border war is destined to be just a bad war.

The two sides have been fighting for several years, with more than one million casualties on each other, and they still have not been able to distinguish the winner.

The battlefield on the front line of Henan and Nanyang has become a whirlpool of meat grinding, and the two countries of Wei and Liang continue to invest soldiers and horses there, slowly consuming their own potential and being in a state of continuous blood loss.

And these are just the soldiers and horses used by the two countries to participate in the war.

In fact, in order to maintain the army of more than one million people, the two countries also mobilized two or three times the number of civilians in the rear to transport military rations and supplies to supply the consumption of the army at the front.

The two countries, which had five million adult males in each other, were used in the first-line wars in Henan and Nanyang, and became pure consumption units and could not be engaged in production.

With such a huge war, such a large number of people who are not engaged in production, and so many local production units, the pressure on the two countries can be imagined.

Among them, Liang Guo is a little better.

The battlefield is in Zhongzhou, which is very close to it, and it is convenient to transport grain, so there is less pressure on supply logistics.

And a population of 80 million is enough for him to sustain 5 million non-productive military units.

But it was difficult on the Wei side.

The Wei State came from Yanzhou in the north, and the core of the country was in Yanzhou, thousands of miles away from the front line.

If you want to transfer grain and grass and military materials to the front line from such a distant rear, the difficulty and loss of it can be imagined.

And if it is not transferred from the rear, the land of the Zhou State that has just been occupied will not be able to maintain the consumption of the front-line army.

Because of the previous ten-year war, the counties in the heart of the entire Zhou State had already been destroyed.

Shuofang, Guannei, Henan, Nanyang and other counties, not to mention providing grain and grass for the army on the front line of Wei, the millions of victims who were waiting to be fed in the four places still needed relief from Wei.

In the entire old land of the Zhou State, counting the front-line soldiers and horses, there were seven or eight million people who wanted to eat the Wei State.

And that's not all.

In recent years, the impact of the cold wave in the north has been increasing.

Originally, Da Maotian, which had been circulating in the grassland, had approached the border between the northern border of Yanzhou and the grassland in the past two years.

According to this trend, it may be another three or five years, and the big hairy heaven, which is said to devour all life, will come to the land of Yanzhou.

Although the territory of Wei did not touch the northern part of Yanzhou, those northern counties had already been occupied by barbarians who had migrated from the grasslands at this time.

But Da Maotian is approaching Yanzhou, which is still an extremely terrible signal.

Because this means that there may not be much time left before the cold wave completely floods Yanzhou.

Perhaps in another twenty or thirty years, Yanzhou will follow in the footsteps of the grassland and completely become a country of ice and snow.

This terrible disaster is approaching, so how can the whole Wei country be at ease?

Even those barbarians who moved south, under the threat of Da Maotian, began to frantically attack the northern frontier of Wei.

It was almost a determination to break the blockade of the north and move south, at almost the cost of human lives.

The Wei State may have to wait twenty or thirty years before it will be swallowed by Da Maotian.

They are on the southern border of the grassland and the barbarians in the north of Yanzhou, and they have already been devoured by Da Maotian!

Staying in the north is death, and breaking through to the south is still a glimmer of life.

How to choose this, don't think much about it.

As a result, it was shrouded in a heavy crisis, and even the Wei State knew that now was not the time, and it was difficult for the national strength to hold on, but they still had to promote the project of immigrants going south.

Today, every year, millions of people from the northern border of Wei migrate south from the land of Yanzhou to the second county of Nanyang in Henan, which was occupied by Wei, where they take root and sprout again to build production.

And this is a huge expenditure of money and food.

And this expenditure is still expanding rapidly every month.

Because the population of Wei moving south every year is also increasing rapidly.

Yanzhou in Wei, there are more than 30 million people.

The above people, want to move to Yongzhou and Zhongzhou within twenty or thirty years, which is a huge scale and extremely compact project.

It is not so easy to complete it within the stipulated time and evacuate before the cold wave falls.

What's even more difficult is that with the national strength of 50 million people in Wei, it can't support the food consumption of tens of millions of people today.

This means that Wei has to feed 10 million non-productive population units with 40 million people, which is a desperate number.

Relying on Wei alone, it was simply not able to support it, and the war and immigration were hugely consumed.

If the other party does not want to starve his army and civilians to death, he can only ask for help.

Therefore, based on this demand, the surplus and inexhaustible food in the Chu State every year has an excellent place to go.

Even the Liang State has begun to import grain from the Chu State in the past two years, and the scale of imports is rapidly expanding year by year.

The reason is also very simple.

Wei felt threatened by Da Maotian, and under the persecution of this natural disaster, he desperately moved south.

And Jizhou, where Zhao is located, and Xuzhou, where Xu is located, are at the same latitude as Wei, and at the same time, in the north of the two countries, there are also barbarians from the northern grasslands and the Xuanyu snow forest.

Affected by the cold plague, the barbarians of these two regions also began to migrate on a large scale, and the population of tens of millions went south.

This huge pressure naturally prompted Zhao and Xu to consider the plan to break through to the south and seize Zhongzhou to settle down.

Therefore, in the past two years, small and medium-scale conflicts have also begun to break out on the border between Zhao and Xu and Liang.

On the border of the Great River, the Three Kingdoms hoarded more and more soldiers and horses, and at any time there were signs of misfire, once again detonating two wars on a scale no less than those of Weiliang Henan and Nanyang.

In this case, Liang Guo is naturally under great pressure.

For the sake of the security of the country, it was necessary to strengthen the defense of the northern border and send grain and grass materials to the front line of the great river.

At the same time, he also ordered that a million new troops be recruited again in the country, and that they should conduct drills and training in the rear battalions as reserve soldiers for the three fronts.

There are three battlefields to be fought at once, and each battlefield is still a million soldiers and horses, and the people who need to be mobilized in the rear also need millions of people.

Such a large consumption naturally affected the production in the rear of the Liang State.

Therefore, in order to reduce the pressure on their own food and grass, they are also to hoard more materials.

Like Wei, Liang also chose to buy grain, grass and various materials from Chu, an outsider, to supply its own war consumption.

As a result, the annual surplus rations of more than 20 million people in the Chu State instantly had a place to go.

The crisis of overproduction in the country was quickly resolved under the strong demand of Liang and Wei.