This time the Zhongyuan Family acted really ruthlessly, regardless of the cost.
"Yuan Hao." Wang Xuan turned to Tian Feng and asked in a deep voice: "Are we capable of eating these three million people?"
Tian Feng's expression was stiff. He was a lord with a common mind. He was really a gentleman. All his life he insisted on was benevolence, justice, propriety, wisdom and trust. In his opinion, all the celebrities and wealthy families in the world were famous and prestigious.
He is also a gentleman, but the current practices of these wealthy families in the Central Plains have really shattered his views.
"Can't eat!" Although Tian Feng really wanted to settle these people and prevent them from being displaced, he still didn't want to lie. "We have our own five-year plan. Although all materials have unplanned surplus, they can be used to deal with emergencies.
, but does not include this kind.”
"We only have a total population of 15 million. The newly occupied Yizhou is vast and sparsely populated, with a population of just over one million. The newly occupied land in Jingzhou has not yet been stabilized, and the population we can control is still just over 17 million. How can we eat it all at once?
One-sixth is a complete proletarian."
"What's more, there have been constant major and minor wars in the past year. The farming in Guanzhong, Hanzhong, Shuzhong, and Jingzhou has all been delayed. What is now being consumed is the old grain of the famous families in these places. Otherwise, we will already have a famine now."
This is true. It seems that three million people are not many, and it should not be that difficult to feed them. In fact, they are completely different concepts.
These are complete proletarians. There is no need to worry about food, clothing, housing, and transportation. Liu Bei needs people here, but this thing comes bit by bit, and the increase suddenly increases by one-sixth, and there is not even enough food to eat.
After all, this is not just a day or two, we have to move and settle down, and it will take a year before these people can produce anything.
Today, with rapid development under Liu Bei's rule and all resources being mobilized, how is it possible that there are so many resources to feed three million people at once?
It's like a bottle filled with water. If you forcefully stuff one-sixth of it in, the only outcome will be that the bottle bursts.
What's more, these three million people didn't come from one place, but poured in from the entire contact surface. Just mobilizing supplies would cost so much!
What's more, if Wang Xuan thinks about it, since the Central Plains family can drive out three million people, they can drive out three million people again. If they eat it this time, what will they do next time?
If the Zhongyuan family can do it the first time, they won't mind doing it again. In fact, these families with long heritage are very aware of the harm caused by population expansion to the limit. After all, they have seen it too many times.
Even if they can barely feed these three million people, so what, it will inevitably significantly lower the living standards of the 1,700,000 people under their rule. It will be strange if they don't complain.
Look at Europe, it used to be quite wealthy, but what has become after the influx of refugees in large numbers, even if women do it, it is not illegal anymore...
What's more, how many resources can be saved after these three million people are driven out by the noble family? The food alone is enough for Boss Cao to summon an army of 500,000 to fight for a year.
While trying to lose weight and reduce their burden, the Zhongyuan family was really able to kill Liu Han after being pushed to the limit and completely tearing off the mask of hypocrisy.
As for the issue of public opinion, in this era where ordinary people cannot travel dozens of miles from birth to death, public opinion is not what aristocratic families say.
If you want to completely block the news, you can completely prevent irrelevant people from knowing anything about it.
The people who were so stupid that they couldn't read a word were not fooled by them. Anyway, after they were driven out, they didn't need to care about their life and death at all.
Wang Xuan sullenly tapped his fingers on the table unconsciously. This hand was so cruel that it completely caught him off guard, but for a while Wang Xuan couldn't think of any good solution.
After all, he can't conjure a large amount of supplies out of thin air.
Huh~ Wang Xuan exhaled a breath and then looked up, and found that everyone was looking at him with eager eyes, as if he could come up with a solution to the problem in the next moment. Faced with everyone's expectations, Wang Xuan only felt
My brain hurts.
I'm just pretending, so I have to keep pretending even if I cry.
When one idea is blocked, try another way. This is the experience Wang Xuan has accumulated over the past hundred years.
"Wen He, tell me about the trends of the Wu Army in the south of the Yangtze River. Didn't they unite with Cao Cao? What are they doing?" Wang Xuan said with a smile, as if he was confident.
Jia Xu was stunned and didn't understand why Wang Xuan asked Soochow what he was doing, so he said in detail: "They are normal. They are just mobilizing the army to send troops to Jingnan. They walked up the river and went straight to Jiangxia.
Starting from Yichun and heading straight to Changsha, we mobilized 100,000 troops before and after, which can be regarded as an overwhelming force."
A hundred thousand troops?
Wang Xuan raised his eyebrows. If he remembered correctly, the total population of Soochow now is less than three million, so how could he dispatch an army of one hundred thousand?
So rich?
However, it may not be impossible!
Speaking of which, although Jiangnan today has indeed not undergone much development and is still a wilderness, there is really no pressure to support a mere three million people. More than 800 years later, the population of the Southern Song Dynasty reached more than 80 million. It was really a land of plenty.
No joke.
So... Wang Xuan turned to look at the big map hanging on the wall. The solution to the problem really had to fall on Soochow. If nothing else, at least it would solve an urgent need.
As for after dealing with these three million people, Wang Xuan gritted his teeth. If he didn't succeed enough, he would still have more than enough to ruin things. He couldn't solve the family's strategy of driving the population here to create chaos. Didn't he have a way to cause damage to Cao Cao's territory?
What’s up!
Come, be happy!
Let's hurt each other and see who can survive in the end. Anyway, he has a countermeasure.
"In this case, there will be no problem." Wang Xuan stood up and glanced at everyone, "I already have countermeasures. Our biggest problem is nothing more than how to feed these three million people. We are short of food.
, but there is no shortage in Soochow, so I robbed them of this food, no, I borrowed it!"
"Everyone should first think about how to settle the people. It will definitely not work if they are allowed to cross the border like locusts."
"Does the Imperial Master have any solution to Soochow?" Guo Jia looked at Wang Xuan in surprise and disbelief. Soochow and Cao Cao had a completely quarrelsome relationship. Soochow went crazy to destroy Cao Cao?
Don’t you know that after Cao Cao is finished, it will be their turn?
Unless Wang Xuan can defeat Soochow in one fell swoop, this is simply impossible.
"Soochow and Cao Cao are different from us. Although the Sun family is the dominant family, their control is not that great. The four major families and the medium-sized families below them are relatively independent. To be honest, Jiangnan is a vast land with few people. Now
The Jiangdong Family has developed less than one-tenth of it, so it will not conflict with us at all, and there is no need for us to eliminate the Jiangnan Family."
"So, the solution to Jiangdong is very simple. First physically persuade Sun Ce, and then force the Jiangdong family to surrender."