From Propulsion City To Multiverse

As time went by, the newly liberated areas gradually entered a stable state.

And Baiyulou built five bastions in Zhenjiang City, which formed a defensive system with the old city before. Coupled with the deterrence of the Yangtze River Squadron, the hostile forces in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River dared not come to provoke the Revolutionary League.

With the stability of the defense line of the Yangtze River, the development of Daliuqiu is gradually deepening.

In particular, the people who moved out from Songjiang Mansion and were rescued from the north quickly poured into Daliuqiu, which gave Jianan County a large population and accelerated the progress of development.

Currently, there are 3 prefectures and 12 counties in Liuqiu Prefecture.

They are Tamsui Prefecture, which has jurisdiction over 4 counties: Tamsui, Keelung, Hsinchu, and Yilan;

Jianan Prefecture, under the jurisdiction of Lukang, Chiayi, Anping, Penghu 4 counties;

Southeast Prefecture, under the jurisdiction of Pingtung, Donggang, Qingshui, Hualien 4 counties.

Among them, Tamsui Prefecture has a population of 87,000 people, with mining, heavy industry, agriculture, and port transportation as its pillar industries, and it is also the core of Liuqiu Prefecture.

As for Jianan Prefecture, the current population is 56,200 (including 14,000 aborigines). The pillar industry is agriculture, and the cash crops are mainly Champa rice, sugarcane, and bananas. In addition, there is the largest sun-dried salt factory in the south, and Penghu Seafood Company.

The last Southeast Province has the lowest degree of development, with a population of only about 17,000, of whom there are more than 8,000 aborigines.

Its pillar industries are agriculture, fishery, and mining, with agriculture in the Pingtung Plain, the east coast coastal plain, and the canyon plain as the core.

Zheng Sen in Wuzhou City, after reading the reports from various places, the current situation in each region is good and bad.

For example, in the census of Jiangdong Prefecture, after careful investigation, except for the fleeing landlords, the total population of the four prefectures in Jiangdong is initially determined to be 957,221 people, which is much better than the previous estimate.

This population includes Zhoushan Islands and Hudouzhou. .

Add the population of 162,300 in Liuqiu Prefecture and the population of 13,000 in Tianheng Island.

The total population in the area under the control of the Human Revolutionary Federation has unknowingly skyrocketed to 1.133 million.

In the five years of the Sui Dynasty, there were about 8.9 million households in the official household registration in the Central Plains, and the actual population was about 52 to 55 million, which is only 2% of the 1.13 million.

According to Hao Jian's investigations in various places,

At present, the actual total population of the Sui Dynasty is still about 42 million.

This year is the 13th year of Daye (617 AD), and 8 years before the Tang Dynasty wiped out the heroes of the Central Plains (624 years). The official statistics of the Central Plains population in the Takede period of the Tang Dynasty were only about 2 million households, with a population of about 15 million.

It looks very scary. Within 8 years of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the population died of 25 million people. In addition to the previous 8 years from the 5th year of Daye to the 13th year of Daye, 12-15 million people died.

In just 16 years, the total population of the Central Plains actually died 37-40 million?

Is it really so scary?

It's horrific, but not entirely accurate.

As I said before, even if Yang Jian and Yang Guang’s father and son kept suppressing the aristocratic families and digging out the hidden population from them, when the Sui Dynasty was at its peak, the aristocratic families and powerful landlords still hid a population of 6 to 9 million .

But when the Sui Dynasty fell and the heroes of the Central Plains rose, the hidden households and lowly households that had been suppressed before increased rapidly again.

You must know that in the household registration statistics of the Tang Dynasty, hidden households will not be included, and humble households are slaves, serfs, etc., and will not be included in the same.

In other words, the population data of the early Tang Dynasty is actually extremely inaccurate. There are at least 15-20 million people in the state of black households.

Most of them were hidden by aristocratic families and powerful landlords, and some of them hid in deep mountains and old forests, or immigrated to Jiangnan and Lingnan to escape the war.

You must know that in the early Tang Dynasty, Lingnan was not directly under the central government, but was managed similarly to the chieftain in the Ming Dynasty. The population of that area was only an approximate figure.

Zheng Sen knew the real population situation of the current Sui Dynasty. For example, the population of the four Jiangdong prefectures is a typical example. The official statistics are only more than 500,000, but the actual number is more than 900,000.

Of course, even with the hidden population, the population of the Central Plains still suffered heavy losses during the Sui and Tang Dynasties.

This was intolerable to Zheng Sen. In order to shorten the training time for recruits, he asked Bai Yulou and Tang Feilin to prepare a strategy for going south.

This southward campaign is not only to expand the strategic depth, but also to train troops.

The navy and land armies will mobilize half of their forces to attack the Sui Dynasty-controlled areas in the south, including Dongyang County (now Dongyang), Suian County (now Qiandao Lake) and Xin'an County (now Shexian County) in the upper reaches of the Zhejiang River.

Yongjia County (now Lishui) in the upper reaches of the Oujiang River.

Jian'an County (now Fuzhou) in the Minjiang Delta.

Ngee'an County (now Chaozhou) in the Han River Delta.

Although Yi'an County is in the east of Guangdong, it is actually not under the control of the Lingnan Song Clan at this time. Instead, it is one of the advancing bases set up by the Sui Dynasty for the opposing Song Clan.

At this time, the core area of ​​the Song clan was in Nanhai County (now Yangcheng).

The areas controlled by the Song Clan include Nanhai County, Longchuan County, Yongxi County, and Gaoliang County;

Cangwu County, Yongping County, Yulin County, Hepu County, Ningyue County;

Jiaozhi County, Jiuzhen County, Rinan County;

Dan'er County, Zhuya County, Linzhen County;

Shi'an County, Xiping County, Guiyang County.

There are 18 counties in total, the economic center is in Nanhai County, the population center is in Yulin County, the official number of households is 310,000, and the registered population is 2.2 million.

The actual number of households is about 550,000 to 600,000, and the actual population is 3.9 to 4.5 million.

It's not that Song Que couldn't track down the hermits, but the Lingnan area, including the current Red River Delta and Qiongzhou Island, among which there are huge aborigines.

With such a huge population, coupled with the climate and hilly terrain in south of the Five Ridges, it is no wonder that they were able to stay outside the control of the Central Plains Dynasty for a long time.

However, the Lingnan region is not without weaknesses.

For example, in the eyes of Bai Yulou, there is a huge defensive loophole in the Lingnan of the Song Dynasty, and that is the sea.

If the Song Dynasty can control the east coast of the Indochina Peninsula, plus the Minyue area, Da Liuqiu, Luzon Islands, and Nanyang Islands, the South China Sea will be completely turned into an inland sea.

From the previous land power to the sea power, the Song clan was qualified to wrestle with the Sui and Tang dynasties.

Originally thought that after rectifying the internal situation, the Human Revolutionary Federation would quickly move northward to attack Yangzhou and other places, but the fact is exactly the opposite.

Along the river and along the coast, the land and sea armies were like a broken bamboo. In less than half a month, they successively captured Dongyang County, Suian County, Xin'an County, Yongjia County, Jian'an County, and Yi'an County.

Among them, Dongyang County, Suian County and Xin'an County were merged into Jiangdong Prefecture.

Yongjia County, Jian'an County, and Ngee'an County merged into Southeast State.

These are poor and remote places. From the perspective of other forces, if the NRG captures these places, it is better to go directly to Yangzhou City and capture Yang Guang.

But Zheng Sen had no intention of attacking Yang Guang.

Because the existence of Yang Guang is conducive to the stability of the Central Plains, the situation in the Central Plains and Jiangnan has not completely deteriorated.

Once Yang Guang dies, the remaining forces of the Sui Dynasty will be completely disintegrated and swallowed by various princes, which will cause more casualties instead.

Therefore, Yang Guang cannot die now.

What's more, these poor rural areas in the south are just the unilateral ideas of other princes. In terms of the alliance of the Human Revolution, these areas are rich places.

We must know that the estuary delta plain is the best developed area.

Oujiang delta plain, Minjiang delta plain, and Hanjiang delta plain have very good rainfall and heat conditions, and are located in coastal areas, so the transportation is very convenient.

And Liuqiu Prefecture is on the opposite side, and the transportation of cement, steel, explosives, and industrial products produced by Liuqiu can be solved nearby.

In addition, the development of these areas can further absorb the population of the Central Plains.

Valley picking

Now all parties in the Central Plains are in chaos. In fact, many people were not killed, but starved to death or died of illness.

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Just in the 13th year of Daye, October 5th.

Yang Guang issued a canonization edict, the content of which was to designate Baiyulou as the king of Yue, and command the entire area south of the Yangtze River.

Apparently, Yang Guang was breaking the jar, not only to disgust Song Que, but also to split the RUU.

According to the intelligence from the outside world, the model of the Human Revolutionary Federation is very strange. Not only are the policies very strange, but there is also a weakness in the internal management organization.

In a region like East Asia where the idea of ​​great unification is strong, in the Governor's Mansion of the Human Revolutionary League, the status of the five giants is almost equal, which is a situation that is difficult for other princes to imagine.

That's why Yang Guang canonized Bai Yulou as King of Yue under Pei Ju's suggestion.

From the perspective of the outside world, Zheng Sen is in charge of government affairs and is the governor in name, while Bai Yulou controls both the navy and the army, with strong troops.

As long as they can successfully alienate the relationship between the two, then they can fish in troubled waters.

But they were disappointed.

When Bai Yulou heard the so-called canonization, he scoffed directly, and Zheng Sen didn't take it seriously.

Distance meter?

This kind of strategy is ineffective for the members of the Human Revolutionary Union. They came to this world, on the one hand, to obtain the rules of the different universe, and on the other hand, to save the human beings in this world.

What does it mean to them to be emperor or something?

Is it possible that if you become an emperor, you can live forever? Zheng Sen and others are very clear that no matter how powerful an individual's wisdom is, it cannot compete with the group.

The Human Revolutionary Federation follows the route of civilization promotion, and is destined to give up some personal interests.

What's more, they are no longer fledgling young people, and they have a very clear direction for their cognition of the whole world.

Princes, generals, gold, silver and jewellery, beauties and the like are not what they pursue.

In the Sims game in the virtual world, you can have anything you want, and the degree of realism is almost as real as it is real.

Only such people can carry out the belief of world unity and strive for the greatest cause of mankind for life.

Yang Guang and the major princes in the south of the Yangtze River saw that the divorce plan had no effect, so they unanimously adopted another method to deal with the Rengelian.

That is to prohibit the ships of the Human Revolutionary League from docking and transporting refugees from their territory. They would rather these refugees starve to death in their own territory than allow them to flee.

After completing the Southward Campaign.

Zheng Sen received information from Hao Jian that Yang Guang, Li Zitong, Le Botong, Du Fuwei, Zhang Zilu, Lin Shihong, Xiao Xian, and more than a dozen Jiangnan forces were obstructing the transportation of the People's Revolutionary Union, openly or secretly. refugees.

Who gave them courage? Zheng Sen's eyes were filled with cold killing intent.

Hao Jian shrugged: The aristocratic families and powerful landlords behind them, as well as monks, are secretly contributing to the flames.

It's very good, they want to court death, and I will help them. Zheng Sen looked at the map:

Pass me an order to let the navy and land armies fight together, kill Li Zitong for me, and if I am not allowed to emigrate, I will kill them directly.

As ordered.

In Baiyulou, where Zhenjiang sits, after receiving Zheng Sen's order, he immediately mobilized an army corps, plus half of the warships of the Yangtze River Squadron.

Li Zitong in Hailing, before he could react, was sent to the city by soldiers.

Li Zitong's face turned pale as he watched the cannon carts rushing down the city, Hurry up! Hurry up and go to Beishou Gaoyou...

Half an hour later, Li Zitong quickly fled through the north city gate with several thousand elites, a large amount of gold, silver and jewelry, and some food and grass.

Hailing City fell without a fight.

Standing on the north wall of Hailing City, Bai Yulou looked at the dust raised by Li Zitong, who was pissed off, and complained contemptuously:

I thought he was so brave, but I didn't expect to run away without fighting.

General! Are we going to occupy Hailing? Huang Dabiao asked with a headache.

Bai Yulou waved his hand: The aristocratic families and landlords are all confiscated, and the civilians are temporarily resettled, but don't divide the land yet.

Why? Many people will be disappointed. Huang Dabiao was a little worried.

This is the front line, and Hailing has no danger to defend. No matter how powerful our guns are, there is no way we can defend such a vast plain. That old boy Li Zitong will definitely send troops to plunder once he sees us dividing the land.

If you look at the fire in Baiyulou Cave, Hailing City is easy to occupy, but this area is not easy to manage.

Instead of fighting Li Zitong and Yang Guang here, it is better to directly relocate the population.

Anyway, the population near Hailing, after the scourge of Li Zitong, is only about 130,000 people left.

It just happened that the three estuary delta plains in the south were captured recently. It is still easy to resettle hundreds of thousands of people in these places.

Now the Human Revolutionary League's transport fleet is getting bigger and bigger. If it goes all out, it can transfer hundreds of thousands of people to the three estuary deltas in the south and the Jianan Plain in Daliuqiu within a month.

If these places are not enough to migrate, there are Luzon Islands and Nanyang Islands.

In Hailing City, there are still 70,000 shi of grain left by Li Zitong, which he plundered and forced big households to donate.

In addition, after checking the big households, you can get about 150,000 shi of grain, plus the little grain left by the common people, and there is no problem in supporting them until June next year.

The southern areas controlled by the Human Revolutionary Federation are very suitable for planting Champa rice. As long as the arrangements are made properly, there will be no serious shortage of food in various places.

However, Bai Yulou was not idle, and arranged for Huang Dabiao and a dozen secretaries to take charge of Hailing's work.

He took the 5th Regiment of the Army who had just been transferred from Liuqiu, together with the Yangtze River Squadron, and marched westward along the Yangtze River waterway.

October 13.

The Yangtze River Squadron bombarded Jinling City in Danyang County.

The army set out from Zhenjiang and went straight to the southeast of Jinling City.

Le Botong appeared on the city wall in a panic, and was fired upon by more than 20 cannons, and was blown to pieces on the spot.

Jinling City couldn't hold out for even 20 minutes, and was captured by troops led by Baiyulou.

Since Danyang County is located on the south bank of the Yangtze River and is next to Zhenjiang Mansion, Baiyulou did not give up here, and directly renamed Danyang County to Jinling Mansion, intending to manage it for a long time.

For a while, the rebels in the Jiangnan, Jianghuai, and Huguang areas were frightened by the stormy offensive of the PLRA.

Du Fuwei quickly teamed up with Lin Shihong and others to strengthen the defense in the direction of Jinling Mansion, and at the same time he did not dare to block the navigation of the ships of the Human Revolutionary League.

This time, the horrific combat power erupted by the Human Revolutionary Federation made many forces realize the reality.

At the same time, they were also afraid, feeling that time was getting tighter. At this time, the princes in the south of the Yangtze River were deeply aware of the threat of the Human Revolutionary League, and that the opponent would sooner or later attack the entire Jiangnan area.

And this time in the Battle of Jinling, the power of artillery and firearms was displayed to the fullest. All forces are frantically investing in it, hoping to crack the secret of firearms, and then imitate firearms on a large scale to realize their ambition to dominate the world.

It's just that the manufacture of firearms involves too much new knowledge. They haven't even successfully developed black powder, let alone modern safe explosives.

While the Jiangnan heroes were tremblingly wary of the Human Revolutionary Union, Bai Yulou temporarily stopped in order to avoid eating too much territory at once and causing indigestion.