At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

Xun's letter made it very clear that Xun Yu stood in the wrong team and offended Guo Peng. made an enemy.

Facts have proved that being Guo Peng's enemy is a very uncomfortable thing.

Those who have an official position, status, salary, and work are just marginal people who don't matter.

Xun Yu was driven out from the core of power by Guo Peng without hesitation.

Guo Peng did not hesitate to drive out the representatives of the Xun family, and the Xun family was in danger for a while.

Xun You came here not only for himself, but also for the Xun family, and for the ambition of a large number of Yingchuan scholars.

So Xun You understood that he seemed to have caught up with a special period, a very bad special period.

Come by yourself to stop the loss.

That uncle who was seven years younger than him would make such a political mistake, it really shouldn't be.

If you were Xun You, you would definitely not make such a mistake. This kind of mistake can even be said to be stupid. With the current situation at this point, can you still not see the future direction clearly?

But I have to say that Xun You admired this little uncle very much.

Because his words and deeds are the same, his appearance is the same, he is a true gentleman, he never speaks lies or does things against his will, he does what he says, and he is exactly the same in private and public, he is not a two-faced person.

Xun You has always thought that it is quite interesting that someone like Xun Yu appeared in this world.

And it just happened to appear in the Xun family, to appear in this family of noble families for many generations, and to become a part of it.

After learning enough skills, I devoted myself to the official career with my duty as a human being, and I have always insisted on certain things. Facing the passage of time and the changes in the general trend, I remained unmoved and insisted on my heart.

The world has come to this point, the general trend has come to this point, it is impossible to return to the past, and everyone has started to work hard to survive, but Xun Yu is still living for his own heart, living as himself.

There's no shame in how many people are trying to survive wearing masks, really, there's no shame in that.

Xun Yu, you are really extravagant.

Xun You shook his head helplessly.

On August [-]th of the third year of Xingping, Xun You arrived in Yecheng, the new capital of the Wei State.

The first time he arrived, Xun You didn't go anywhere, he went straight to Duke Wei's mansion to hand over the greeting card, and then stood at the gate of Duke Wei's mansion, ignoring the officials, generals and soldiers coming and going, as well as the craftsmen in charge of building the palace. people.

Guo Peng was convening the staff at the staff desk to jointly discuss the strategic plan for the next stage of the Northern Expedition to the Southern Huns.

For the Southern Huns, Guo Peng is bound to win. He must destroy the Southern Huns, reoccupy Bingzhou, and restore the Great Wall defense line in Bingzhou.

Then there is Youzhou, who cleans up the various tribes in Youzhou, and even the Liaodong prince Sundu who stands on his own in Liaodong.

Completely flatten the north side, and then the south side.

The strategic plan of first going north and then going south will not change, which is unanimously agreed by everyone.

If necessary, they could even send troops to the north to attack the grasslands, severely attack Xianbei, and wipe out a large number of their vital forces, so that Xianbei can't make trouble from behind when Guo Peng goes south to expand his power.

What Guo hates the most is fighting on two fronts. It is very difficult. Now we must take advantage of this good opportunity to eradicate all the troubles in the north.

"The Royal Court of the Southern Xiongnu is in Meiji, which is far from the front line of Bingzhou that we have. If we rush to attack, it will only take three to five days. After the people left the royal court, civil strife broke out in the Southern Huns.

If we hadn't killed Fuluo and others, the Southern Huns would not be able to recover. Now that the Southern Huns have a new Chanyu and a unified leader, this is not a good thing. We need to take action against the Southern Huns as soon as possible. I think , using [-] troops is enough to do this. "

Xi Zhong expounded his opinion, which was agreed by many people.

Guo Jia did not object, but Guo Jia put forward another opinion.

"Sooner or later, Karasuma will be a scourge. Now that Karasuma is under my command, why not use Karasuma's strength to join forces with our army to attack the Southern Huns. The chances of winning will be greatly increased, and you can even kill people with a knife."

There was a cunning light in Guo Jia's eyes, Guo Peng laughed and nodded in agreement.

"It's all a scourge, and it will be eliminated sooner or later, but if I don't squeeze out the final use value, I really can't bear to part with those capable Karasuma cavalry, hahahaha!"

A group of staff officers laughed unscrupulously, and they didn't seem to take the lives of these Karasuma people and the Huns seriously in their words. Guo Peng was very satisfied with this attitude.

It is this kind of attitude, this kind of behavior, and this kind of awareness. Only in this way can we kill all the enemies.

Chapter 483 The Three Wars and the Hidden House

Wuhu Luanhua's experience told Guo Peng that these guys are all hidden enemies. They surrender for a while, and if they have the opportunity, they will jump up and rebel impatiently. They are all unbelievable.

Within the Great Wall defense line, Guo Peng could not allow people with ulterior motives to exist, otherwise, he would be irresponsible to the Han people behind him.

Since they are obediently being their own tool people, then the leader himself thinks that they create a relatively comfortable working environment, and they must not be allowed to sweat, bleed and cry.

Sweating is unavoidable, and bleeding and tears can be controlled to some extent.

Guo Peng then made a plan for the Northern Expedition to the Southern Huns, to fight a tough battle with the Southern Huns cavalry, destroy them all, and restore the entire Bingzhou.

This battle is the time for the generals and staff officers who have just been rewarded to gear up and do their best. It is also a new round of conquest after more than half a year of cultivation.

Jizhou will become the logistics base of the entire operation, and it will undertake the plan of the Northern Expedition to the Southern Xiongnu and the conquest of Youzhou Karasuma. Jizhou, which has more than two years of recuperation, has 110 million households and a population of 550 million, which is sufficient to undertake this responsibility.

The population of ancient dynasties has always been an unclear and confusing account. The population recorded in the dynasty's household registration is often the taxpaying population on the surface, but this is by no means the total number.

The populations of Tuen households, military households, official households, hermit households, tenants, tribes, and subdued ethnic minorities were never recorded in the dynasty household registration.

When the Shu Han subjugated the country, the well-known data accounted for 28 households, 94 registered citizens, [-] armed officers and soldiers, and [-] officials.

The 8 million population refers to the population directly controlled by the Shu Han government, and the number of people that can be collected from them for taxation and conscription, not the total number.

Modern scholars consider the population not included in the statistics such as military registration, official registration, missing registration, shady households, tenants, and ethnic minorities who are not included in the household registration statistics, and believe that there were about 400 million people living in Yizhou during the Shu-Han period, while The Shu Han government only controlled about a quarter of them.

The remaining three-quarters were either ethnic minorities such as the Nanmans, or tenants and tribes in the families of powerful landlords and gentry families, or officials and servants in their families.

These populations cannot be counted in the national household registration, and they cannot become the national power of the Shu Han.

The same situation happened to Cao Wei and Sun Wu.

In the year when the Shu Han perished, the registered population of Cao Wei was about 440 million. However, modern scholars have estimated that there were about 300 people in the territory of Cao Wei, taking into account the unincorporated households, military households, official households, hidden households, tenants, trilogy and other groups. [-] million people are living.

The household registration held by the Cao Wei government that can be turned into national power is only one-third.

In the year when the Sun Wu government fell, the population was about 250 million, and counting the household registrations that could not be counted, as well as the Shanyue and Wuxi barbarians and other minorities, it is generally believed that there were more than 550 million people living in Soochow.

The total population and the population controlled by the state are not the same number. The population hidden by officials, gentry, and powerful landlords, as well as the minorities living in the north and south, have not been recorded in the total population of the state, and of course they are not the state. the power of.

The national government can't even take the absolute initiative to become the dominant player. The development of the Three Kingdoms to the later stage means that the three countries are inferior to each other.

Three 60-year-olds who are full of ailments compete who can live longer.

Both Shu Han and Eastern Wu died of illness, and Sima Jin, who was parasitic on Cao Wei, was a 60-year-old man from the beginning of his birth.

There is no doubt that the Shu Han government that lost Zhuge Liang and his successors completely degenerated into a small government with no sense of existence in the later period. It could not even resist, and was abandoned under the cooperation of internal and external enemies. .

The Cao Wei government also followed in the footsteps, and Sun Wu was a little bit better, because the regime had been deeply localized since the time of Sun Quan, and it lingered on for nearly 20 years after the demise of the Shu Han.

This matter was discovered when Guo Peng counted household registrations after Qingzhou was pacified.

It is very interesting to compare the number of local household registrations found from the governor's mansion in Qingzhou with the population obtained from the subsequent census.

The last count of the population was about 60 households, more than three million people. However, the number after the war that Guo Peng calculated at the end of the second year of Chuping was relatively equal to this number.

The world has been in chaos for several years, and after the Yellow Turban Rebellion, your population has not decreased in the end?Where did all these bones come from?

The reason here is self-evident.

The concealed household registration was unintentionally liberated by violence during the war. After Guo Peng came, he beat the rabbits with a spoonful of grass, and accepted them all with a smile. As a result, he got a Qingzhou with a large population.

The same is true for Yanzhou after that, with 80 households and a population of more than 380 million. Guo Peng made a census after the suppression of the Yellow Turban and Lu Bu, and then made a comprehensive comparison, and got a population of 20 million. More than [-] people were lost.

This is not normal.

The only explanation is that many people died, but the hidden household registrations of the destroyed powerful landlords were liberated and included in the statistics again, which gave Guo Peng a big advantage.

How terrible is the population occupied by the powerful landlord's family?

Give two examples.

One is Mi Zhu, the Mi family, the total number of private soldiers, servants and tenants exceeds [-], and Liu Bei got [-] private soldiers from the Mi family.

The second is Li Dian. Li Dian's family has [-] households and [-] people.

Two families, more than 2 people, more than 5000 households, do not pay taxes, are not included in the statistics, and are the same as the air, alive is the same as not alive.

This is just the tip of the iceberg.

Aristocratic families larger than the Mi family and the Li family, or even smaller, occupy this land, splitting the complete country into small manors one by one.

The body of the Eastern Han Empire was like this, it was covered with pus, it was extremely terrifying.

War and hidden households are really terrible.

That is to say, Guo Peng acted early, pacified these places as soon as possible, and then set up a strong government agency to control the civilians, and also gave them a guarantee of safety, so that they did not let a large number of them starve to death or die in large numbers due to the war.

So the little vitality left by the Eastern Han Dynasty was obtained by Guo Peng.

The population loss in Jizhou is actually quite large, especially in Bohai County and Qinghe Kingdom. After wars, the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the local war between Guo Peng and Yuan Shao, the local war between Gongsun Zan and Yuan Shao, and the war where Guo Peng eliminated Yuan Shao , indeed lost a lot of people.

However, Guo Peng then used Yuan Shu's banner to destroy the houses of powerful landlords on a large scale, liberated the hermits, and included them in the statistics, and obtained tens of thousands of escaped households in the mountains brought by Zhang Yan. After the statistics, he got 110 million households. The data of 550 million population.

This is still based on the fact that Jizhou has retained a group of powerful landlords. Guo Peng has not had time to do something wrong. If he does, this number can increase.

Chapter 484. 480 Four Xun You Are Here

In these three places, Guo Peng has a population of more than 1000 to two million.

This figure is basically the same as the statistics of the Eastern Han government before the war, which shows the impact of the war and the hidden household registration.

But if there had been no war, and if those reclusive households and fleeing households were liberated, this number should continue to rise by a large margin.

Unfortunately, if there is no war, it is really inconvenient to seize the population from these guys.

Now Guo Peng is not worried. He has enough population and enough mobilization force. With the 550 million tool workers in Jizhou as his confidence, Guo Peng has enough confidence to launch a war against Bingzhou and Youzhou and fully control these two states. .

The plan for this war was determined in this way. Guo Peng continued to discuss some details with everyone. While discussing and discussing, a guard came to report that a person who claimed to be Yingchuan Xunyou Gongda was outside asking to see Guo Peng.

"Xun Gongda?"

The staff members all looked outside with strange eyes, and then looked at Guo Peng.

Everyone knows that Xun Yu had a problem in politics and was sanctioned by Guo Peng, but no one will mention it at this time, no matter whether it is speaking for Xun Yu or defaming Xun Yu, no one go talk.

At this sensitive moment, no one knows what will touch Guo Peng's sensitive nerves.

The treatment of Xun Yu was the first time that Guo Peng punished the scholars under his subordinates. The most severe punishment before that was Cao Hong who was beaten to the end. It was an economic issue, not a political issue, so no one took it seriously. .

But this time, Xun Yu's problem is really a political issue. As an old man who has followed Guo Peng for five years, only second to Yuan Cong Group, Xun Yu should not have made such a mistake.

Now that Guo Peng has ascended to Duke Wei, established the Duke of Wei, and started to rule, it is a done deal. At this time, you, Duke Xun, have come here, what are your thoughts and plans?

Guo Peng took the greeting card from the guard, flipped through it for a while, paused, and said, "Tell him to come in."

"Yes!"

The guards ran out to call for someone, and after a while, a middle-aged man wearing ordinary Confucian uniforms appeared in front of Guo Peng.

"Yingchuan Xunyou Gongda, pay homage to Wei Gong."

Xun You made a salute.

Guo Peng stared at Xun You for a long time without speaking, and the other counselors around him also did not speak. Everyone just stood like this, and the scene was strangely quiet.

Xun You's waist looks good, maintaining such a posture does not complain of suffering or tiredness at all.

"Xun You, Xun Gongda."

Guo Peng grinned, and stretched out his hand to help: "I have heard about the name for a long time, but I have never seen it before. When I saw it today, it is really extraordinary. Please get up."

"Thank you, Duke Wei."

Only then did Xun You straighten his waist, with a calm face, he nodded slightly, and did not look directly at Guo Peng.

Guo Peng paced slowly beside Xun You, looking at Xun You, but Xun You didn't say a word, just like a statue, his face remained unchanged.

"From Jingzhou?"

"Yes."

"How long did it take?"