Unlike most government officials, Lao Huangshan was a Sicheng. Before he came to power, he dealt with data all day long.
The entire Huang family and the families of the in-laws and their families, the old master of the Huang family knew it very well.
Once the emperor made a calculation and asked what would happen if the princes really besieged the Han Dynasty.
Then only counting the book population, it seems that Hanzi Kingdom is at a disadvantage across the board, but obviously it still depends on how much effective population can be mobilized.
The nine major clans in the Song Dynasty can really be counted as the population, that is, the five in-laws of the nine major clans. As for the rural scholar class in rural areas, a family can often directly appoint no more than three people to the central government.
Most of the remaining population is not actually a population. As far as the Song Dynasty is concerned, they are just cannon fodder and consumables.
Therefore, when the people are mobilized to build river embankments, the total investment of the people in each house basically has a balance point. The maximum is 150,000 to 60,000, and the minimum is 30,000 to 40,000.
If the construction period is tight, more will be collected, but it is impossible not to set an upper limit. It is not because we cannot support so many civilians, but because there are not enough tools, and the total amount of discarded tools may be more expensive than food.
Then there is the serious shortage of management personnel. Every major project is like a war. If you are not careful, you will suffer heavy casualties.
These are all situations that traditional countries like the Song Dynasty have to face. This account, after a little calculation, makes the imperial concubine feel frightened.
But this fear seems to have disappeared when it comes to Han Ziguo.
From what he saw and heard about the Huang family’s caravan, Old Huangshan could first determine one thing. Similar to a country like Cai that existed in name only, the Hanzi Kingdom could still mobilize civilians in Cai’s territory, and it was extremely efficient.
The most typical cases are the Huai River embankment in Xincai and the several "Ru ditches" in Cai State. These ditches that cross the east and west and connect the Ru River not only made Cai State the granary of Huaishang, but also contributed to Cai State's decline.
, recovered in just two years.
The Imperial Master made some calculations. If the Song State was allowed to operate it, the consumption involved would be extremely terrifying. Several battles to force the Yang Dynasty would not be enough to fill such a huge hole.
But it happened that before the founding of the Hanzi Kingdom, it was still during the "Huaishui Bofu" period, and it was already possible to complete the mobilization of such large projects.
Therefore, Lao Huangshan did not calculate the population or population, but only calculated based on this efficiency. He roughly judged that the combat effectiveness of the Hanzi Kingdom two years ago was probably more than ten times that of the Song Kingdom.
Maybe twenty times, maybe thirty times...
In addition, the national power of the Song Dynasty was deteriorating, and the political situation was extremely unstable.
Dai Ju, the Prime Minister of the Song Dynasty, is now the person who is going to become the king of the Song Dynasty. No matter how charming his character is, he will ultimately be implemented in the word "usurping the throne".
This is the essence, it cannot be changed, and it is precisely because it cannot be changed that the turmoil will continue.
The stable period of the entire Song Dynasty may gradually disappear after ten or twenty years, when the new generation grows up and adapts to the fact that the king's surname is Dai.
But in the meantime, sorry, this influence will continue to echo like a ghost.
Old Huangshan didn't think there was anything wrong with Dai Ju's rise to power. On the contrary, compared with the prodigal Zi Lu Fei, Dai Ju at least had a high status in the world and his influence was not bad. He was compared with Wei Guo, Qi Guo and other big countries.
There are also close contacts.
Judging from the alliance called by Qi State, Song State was equivalent to the second-in-command position. In the opinion of Lao Huangshan, this was something that Zi Lu Fei could not do even if he lived again.
The Marquis of Qi united the princes in Wuyan. If things develop smoothly, it would actually be good. Unfortunately, the variables are too great.
As soon as the Han Dynasty made some noise, the frontier troops of the Song Dynasty defected. Wei Yu, a Jin national who jumped out of nowhere, easily caused a big drama.
In the battlefields of Qi, Song, and Lu, he was clearly absent, but his influence was everywhere.
But what is the essence?
It is the majesty of the Hanzi Kingdom that has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
When people think of the Han people, they will instinctively think of how the Han Dynasty was founded!
People's hearts can be deceiving, but numbers cannot.
The old emperor predicted that after the death of the Marquis of Qi, one of the two countries, Song and Lu, would surely perish. Even if the country was not destroyed directly, it would still exist in name only, similar to Cai's country.
If the scope is expanded a little further, the countries in the Jisi River Basin may all be destroyed.
As for Jiguo, Cao Guo and others, the former should be thoroughly understood politically, while the latter probably depends on how much money Cao Guo people are willing to pay to save their lives.
The possibility of Guo Zuo's survival is much lower than that of Song and Lu.
Times have changed.
This is the judgment of the old Master Huang, which is completely different from the rise of the people of Chu. The rise of Chu is completely replicating the process of Emperor Zhou's fortune.
Today's Chu State only has the name "prefectures and counties", but it is actually "feudal".
It's just a low-match Zhou Bang who developed hundreds of years late.
But the Han Dynasty was different, completely different. The difference was not just in writing, nor just in the names of official positions, but in an all-round way.
Lao Huangshan didn't feel the need to block this extremely clear general trend. The gap was too big and they were not on the same level at all.
From the perspective of the imperial family, there is no difference whether the monarch is Song Fei, Dai Ju, or Li Jie.
Unless the emperor wants to be a king, he has to work hard for the survival of the country.
He asked the emperor's children to see and ask, but it was just to let them accept the birth of a new type of overlord in advance.
Even, it may not be the overlord of the world, but the co-lord of the world!
Some of the emperor's children who were trusted by the old emperor Shan, while preparing to welcome Dai Ju to the throne, also sent manpower to Fucheng.
After all, sending Princess Nanzi to Hanjun Li Jie also requires an escort team. The imperial family has no problem bearing such an humiliating reputation.
After arriving in Fucheng first, Dong Li, who was about to grow hairy due to boredom, suddenly became energetic when he heard that the Song Dynasty's advance team escorting the princess had arrived.
"What is the origin of this Huang family?"
Director Li rubbed his hands, thinking that in the past two days, that stunning beauty from the Song Dynasty should be sent over to chat with her for a day or something.
I used to think that the people of the Song Dynasty would raise prices on the ground, but I didn't expect that the Huang family of the Song Dynasty was very popular.
Being so generous won Director Li's favor.
There is no way, Director Li's happiness comes so simply and crudely.
"Your Majesty, this imperial family originates from the Zheng State. It is the family with the surname Ji after the Zheng family."
"Aren't the Zheng and Song families unwilling to deal with each other?"
"Your Majesty, Jin and Chu even intermarried, let alone Zheng and Song?"
"That's right."
Li Jie, who was pacing back and forth with his hands behind his back, was in a very happy mood, so he asked again, "What do they want to do when they come to see me so early?"
"It's nothing more than leaving a way out."
"Well, yes, very good. Let's make arrangements and allow them to purchase 'Big Red 01' and...lacquerware, that's all."
"yes!"
Although they were not new here, the Huang family's people were still shocked by the changes in Fucheng after they arrived.
"Is this Biyang City?"
"good."
"When I came to Biyang, the city was narrow and small. Now there are ditches and criss-crossing ditches, and the houses are like forests. There are more than ten times more cars, horses and boats than there were back then!"
"It was here that all the elite members of the Dai family were wiped out by the defenders."
He talked about some past events very calmly. During the Second Biyang War, the situation was very different from now.
At that time, the king of Biyang State forced Yangzi and put everything on Li Jie.
Later, Yubao, who forced Yang Zi, readily announced his annexation to the Wu Kingdom, not because he was afraid of the old monster Gou Chen, but to give Li Jie some face.
Anyway, from Yu Bao's point of view, after Biyang Kingdom was renamed as Fucheng, Li Jie would be in charge sooner or later.
Facts have proved that Yubao’s guess was good.
The emperor's children were very excited when they saw the busy traffic. Such a big city at their doorstep could be used as the capital of the Song Dynasty.
With such inherent strength, Song State took the lead in competing with Hanzi State.
After personally visiting Fucheng, the emperor's disciples truly realized that the gap in national power between them and Hanzi Kingdom was so huge that it was unimaginable.
It can even be said that if the Huang family had a territory like Fucheng, no matter who the king or the prime minister was, they would be able to break up the land and build a country by themselves, and they would not be afraid of fighting.
Given the size of Fucheng, if the Song army was allowed to attack for ten days and a half, losing even one ditch would count as a loss.
Just as he was sighing with emotion, he heard noise coming from outside the envoy's house. Someone came in to report: "Two gentlemen, the Han envoy is here!"
"ah?!"
The bewildered emperor's children were all a little panicked. What happened? They had just arrived.