Vol 2 Chapter 2307: A summary of the forces of the Nine Eastern Kingdoms
Chapter 2307 Summary of the Powers of the Nine Eastern Countries
Chapter 2303: Summary of the Powers of the Nine Eastern Countries
Da Qin reduced its army by 300,000 people at once. Although the total strength dropped to 850,000, its comprehensive combat strength increased instead of falling, even stronger than the previous million-strong army.
With the reduction of 300,000 troops and the liberation of a quarter of military expenditures, Da Qin's financial situation immediately improved a lot. It was no longer so tight, and funds for the development of internal affairs were naturally available.
Great Qin is now in a state of complete waste. As long as funds are invested in development, there will be huge returns. It can be said that wealth is everywhere. It depends on the next policies of Great Qin's monarchs and ministers, whether they can successfully develop the country's power. come out.
Ying Hao naturally attached great importance to this and asked Wang Meng to draw up an internal affairs formation early on.
Prime Minister Wang Meng, the left and right deputy prime ministers, plus six ministers and many other important ministers, after a half-day meeting, discussed whether agriculture should be the main focus? Or is it mainly business?
Finally finalized the sixteen-character policy policy of "paying equal attention to agriculture and business, rectifying public security, expanding production, and optimizing official administration".
‘Pay equal attention to agriculture and business’ means not to focus on either side. After all, Daqin’s agriculture and commerce are both developed, and with abundant development funds, there is no need to focus on one, and agriculture and business can go hand in hand.
‘Rectifying public security’ is to improve the overall security level of the society and keep Daqin society as a whole in a relatively peaceful and stable state instead of constant turmoil and riots.
‘Expanding production’ means to expand the productivity of light industries such as textiles, increase Daqin’s gross national product, and increase per capita productivity.
‘Optimizing official administration’ refers to improving the overall quality, governance capabilities and efficiency of officials, which also includes combating corruption and promoting integrity.
As long as Da Qin can implement this sixteen-character square, Da Qin will be able to maintain a high-spirited development momentum.
Prime Minister Wang Meng made preliminary calculations. If the Qin Dynasty can maintain its current policy and concentrate on cultivation for three years, and no large-scale war breaks out during this period to affect the development of the country, the national power of the Qin Dynasty in three years will be 1.5 to 2 times what it is today. between.
By then, Da Qin will be able to afford an army of two million, not to mention an army of one million.
Of course, this two million army refers to infantry only.
If the Qin Dynasty wants to be strong enough to have no shortcomings, it must develop its three armies of water, cavalry and cavalry together, and both the navy and cavalry are large military spenders.
So, if you want to expand the navy and cavalry, you will have to reduce the size of the infantry accordingly.
Ying Hao has even thought about the future army expansion plan in advance. After two years of rest, Great Qin can expand its army and expand the army to 1.4 million in one year, including 950,000 light and heavy infantry and three light and heavy cavalry. One hundred thousand, navy army 150,000.
After a nationwide census, statistics show that Daqin currently has a total population of 25.1 million, of which:
Sizhou 2.9 million, Yongzhou 1.2 million, Liangzhou 200,000, Jingbei 3.1 million, Youzhou 2.8 million, Jizhou 4.8 million, Qingbei 1.9 million, Bingzhou 5.3 million, Hetao 2.9 million;
Among the nine states of the Qin Dynasty, except for the newly acquired Yongliang area, only the total population of Sizhou, Jingbei, and Hetao showed a downward trend.
This is also because the three wars all broke out in the local area and caused great trauma to the local area, so the population declined so quickly.
After Ying Hao learned about Da Qin’s medium-sized population, he immediately used the system prop, the Million Population Summoning Card, to increase Da Qin’s total population.
“System, how many tens of thousands of population summoning permissions are there currently? And how many millions of population summoning cards are there?” Ying Hao asked the system
[The current system is level 58. The permission to summon one million people is unlocked every ten levels before level 40. The permission to summon one million people is unlocked every five levels after level 40. The total number of people summoning permission is unlocked is seven million. Currently, the host has used three One million, there are still four million people left to summon authority.
As for the million-population summoning card? Currently, the host attack has 5 million population summoning cards. 】
After hearing the system’s answer, Ying Hao felt confident.
4 million population summoning authority, plus 5 million population summoning cards, that is a total of 9 million people.
At present, no state in the world has a population of 9 million. Even the most populous Yizhou does not have a total population of 6 million. The total value of the items in Ying Hao's hands is already equivalent to that of a large state.
After pondering for a while, Ying Hao ordered to the system: "Consume 4,000 summoning points to summon a population of 2 million in Youzhou."
Youzhou is vast and sparsely populated, with a large amount of unclaimed land waiting to be developed. It is also the base for Qin's future counterattack against Yuan and Meng. However, it has a total population of less than three million, so it is naturally Ying Hao's first choice to increase the population.
【Okay, please set the age level. 】
Ying Hao didn’t even think about it and said decisively: “All ages.”
After several population calls, Ying Hao discovered that it was not best to call young people. After all, youth means vigor and drive. If an area is full of young people, it will easily cause many social problems, which is very detrimental. Domination, so relatively speaking, it is the best for summoning all ages.
【Okay, the host currently has 11195 summoning points, consumed 4000 summoning points, and conducted two million-population summons...
The summoning is successful. In the next two years, these two million people will gradually arrive in Youzhou in various forms. By then, the total population of Youzhou will reach 4.8 million.
The host currently has two million remaining summoning rights, and the remaining summoning points are: 7195 summoning points. 】
“Use all five million-population summoning cards in the following locations: Sizhou, Bingzhou, Jizhou, Qingzhou, and Liangzhou.” Ying Hao continued to order the system.
【Okay, please set the age level. 】
“All ages.”
【Okay, use 5 Million Population Summoning Cards to summon 5 Million Population Summons...
The summons is successful. In the next two years, these two million people will gradually arrive in various states in various forms. By then, the total population of Sizhou will reach 3.9 million, the total population of Bingzhou will be 5.3 million, the total population of Jizhou will be 5.8 million, and the total population of Jizhou will be 5.8 million. The total population of Qingbei is 2.9 million and the total population of Liangzhou is 1.2 million;]
Da Qin originally had a total population of 25 million, and now adding 7 million, it has a total population of 32 million.
Even if it is based on the ratio of twenty people to one soldier, it can support an army of 1.6 million, let alone the 1.4 million planned by Ying Hao.
Of course, the military expansion plan of 1.4 million troops is only a rough plan, and how it will be carried out will depend on the financial situation.
If the financial situation is good, it is not impossible for Ying Hao to expand his army by 1.6 million.
Before the unification of the Qin Dynasty, the total population of Kyushu exceeded 30 million. This is almost impossible according to common sense, but Ying Hao has the system, and he can only do this if the system cheats him.
After this population call, the total population of the Great Qin Empire has exceeded half of the total population of the world. The combined population of the nine kingdoms of Wei, Song, Wuming, Qi, Shu, Chu, Sui and Tang is not as large as the population of Great Qin.
You must know that before the beginning of the Troubled Times, the total population of the Han Dynasty was about 55 million.
Yellow Turban Uprising coupled with the melee between princes, in just a dozen years, countless people died of starvation, war, and illness in various places, and the total number of deaths even reached nearly 20 million.
Although the number of dead people was large, as the suppression of the aristocratic families became a consensus, the major forces also liberated a large number of hidden people from the aristocratic families, with a total number of nearly ten million.
In addition, Ying Hao conquered Hetao, Liu Xiu conquered Baiyue, Sun Jian relied on Shanyue, and the Tang and Sui Dynasties destroyed the Qiang people, all of which absorbed a large number of foreign people, thereby alleviating their own population pressure.
In addition, Ying Hao also used the system to summon people many times, and also summoned 10 million people.
In addition, with the promotion of new grain varieties, grain production in various places has greatly increased. After productivity has increased, countries have implemented policies to encourage childbirth, which has also greatly increased the fertility rate of the population.
ˆThrough all the above measures, the current total population of the world is about 58 million, which is more than before the beginning of the troubled times, and the overall population is increasing rather than decreasing.
I have to say that this is indeed a strange phenomenon and a difficult problem that countless historians in later generations want to solve.
The total population of the world is 58 million, and the Qin Kingdom alone has 32 million. It obviously has the power to dominate the world. The only thing lacking is time to digest the power.
After summoning the population, Ying Hao clicked on the world map function of the system, and the division of power among the nine eastern countries was extremely conspicuous.
【Qin State
Monarch: Ying Hao
National level: Empire
Territory: nine counties in Jizhou, nine counties in Bingzhou, 11 counties in Youzhou, four counties in Sizhou, four counties in Jingbei, three counties in Qingbei, three counties in Hetao, one and a half counties in Yongzhou, one and a half counties in Liangzhou
Total population: 32.1 million
National military strength: 850,000 (630,000 infantry, 170,000 cavalry, 50,000 navy)
…]
【Wei Guo
Monarch: Cao Cao
National level: Kingdom
Territory: eight counties in Yanzhou, one county in Yuzhou, and one county in Xuzhou
Total population: 3.08 million
National military strength: 150,000 (140,000 infantry, 10,000 cavalry)
…]
【Song Kingdom Monarch: Zhao Kuangyin
National level: Kingdom
Territory: Five counties in Yuzhou and two counties in Jianghuai
Total population: 3.54 million
National military strength: 180,000 (160,000 infantry, 10,000 cavalry, 10,000 navy)
…]
【Ming Dynasty (Ming Dynasty and Qi Dynasty are in the process of merging, but have not yet completely merged)
Monarch: Zhu Di
National level: Kingdom
Territory: Four counties of Xuzhou and three counties of Qingnan
Total population: 4.14 million
National military strength: 210,000 (160,000 infantry, 20,000 cavalry, 30,000 navy)
…]
【Wu Guo
Monarch: Sun Jian
National level: Kingdom
Territory: Eight counties of Yangzhou
Total population: 3.24 million
National military strength: 185,000 (130,000 infantry, 5,000 cavalry, 50,000 navy)
…]
【Chu State
Monarch: Liu Xiu
National level: Kingdom
Territory: seven counties in Jiaozhou, four counties in Jingnan, two counties in Jingbei, and half of Jiangdong
Total population: 4.28 million
National military strength: 200,000 (155,000 infantry, 15,000 cavalry, 30,000 navy)
…]
【Shu State
Monarch: Liu Yu (only the most powerful one, not yet the leader)
National level: Kingdom
Territory: Nineteen Counties of Yizhou
Total population: 5.84 million
National military strength: 180,000 (160,000 infantry, 20,000 cavalry))
…]
【Tang Guo
Monarch: Li Shimin
State level: Principality
Territory: one and a half counties in Yongzhou, three counties in Hanzhong, three counties in Longxi, and three counties in Qiang District
Total population: 2.68 million
National military strength: 250,000 (210,000 infantry, 40,000 cavalry)
…]
【Sui State
Monarch: Yang Guang
National level: Kingdom
Territory: six and a half counties in Liangzhou, four counties in Qiang region
Total population: 1.87 million
National military strength: 160,000 (100,000 infantry, 60,000 cavalry)
…]
But it can be seen from this data that, except for the Sui and Tang Dynasties, which expanded their armies to the extreme, the other seven countries have carried out major disarmament, and are currently in a state of recuperation.
Although the Tang State has not disarmed for the time being, it will definitely do so when the situation stabilizes. After all, it has maintained such a large army. If it takes a long time, the Tang Army will collapse on its own without the Qin Army attacking.
After Wang Meng reported on the policy strategy, Ying Hao looked down at Xi Zhicai, the Minister of Rites, and asked him to report on the preparations for the imperial examination.
The Education Department, one of the six departments of the Ministry of Rites, is in charge of all schools in the country and the imperial examinations. Therefore, matters related to the imperial examinations are naturally under the jurisdiction of Xi Zhicai, the Minister of Rites.
“Reporting to your majesty, this imperial examination is for summer examination, and I have set the examination period in six months…”
【Ding dong, Xi Zhicai’s skill ‘Tian Jealousy’ is activated.
Jealousy of Heaven: If your talents are too outstanding, even God will be jealous, resulting in congenital diseases in your body that are extremely difficult to cure. Different people have different effects.
Effect 1. Each time it is activated, the enemy commander's intelligence will be reduced by 14 points, and the intelligence of all enemy generals will be reduced by -2.
Effect 2: When making plans, fighting wits, or scheming against others, intelligence +2. If your own intelligence is lower than the opponent's intelligence, an additional +1 will be added.
Effect 3: When dealing with government affairs, one's own politics will increase by 13 points.
Note: Heavenly Jealousy is a multi-shot skill. This skill is activated whenever you exert your mental and physical strength. Each time it is activated, the base force is permanently reduced by -2. When the base force drops below 10 points, death will result. However, if the congenital disease is cured before the basic force is reduced to 15 points, the own basic force will be permanently +20, but the effect 1 will also be relatively weakened. 】
‘Tianjealousy’ is not Guo Jia’s unique skill. There are also Xi Zhicai who are also weak, sick and resourceful. In addition, his and Guo Jia’s physical problems have been cured long ago.
【Ding dong, Xi Zhicai’s skill ‘Tianjealous’ is activated, effect 3 is activated, politics +3.
Xi Zhicai: Commander 88 (+2), Force 35 (+10), Intelligence 98, Politics 96 (+2), Charisma 95 (+3);
The current Xi Zhicai politics has risen to 99 points. 】
Xi Zhicai reported in a leisurely manner, but in just a few words, he had arranged the imperial examination matters in an orderly manner. Even Ying Hao could not help but nod secretly.
A veteran from the Yanmen Army era, he is reassuring to use!
“The Opera Minister, the first imperial examination in the empire, is of vital importance and no mistakes are allowed.”
Ying Hao gave instructions with a serious look on his face, and then added: "In addition to the imperial examinations, the Ministry of Rites must also come up with a plan as soon as possible for the construction of academic palaces in various states and counties."
What is the biggest gap between aristocratic families and common people?
Of course it is the inheritance of knowledge.
Most aristocratic families have their own collection of books, and their children can learn whatever they want. However, even if ordinary people have money, they may not be able to buy books, let alone receive education.
But times are different now.
As Ying Hao popularized papermaking and printing, the cost of books and learning was greatly reduced, which greatly affected the family's monopoly on education.
Nowadays, learning is no longer the privilege of disciples from aristocratic families, even ordinary people can learn.
I thought I had to work overtime yesterday and I didn’t finish a chapter when I got home at night. I took some time off at work today to finish it, and I’ll see if I can finish it when I get home at night.
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