At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

Mr. Guo introduced numbers that are easy to calculate, and taught the concept and meaning of 12345 to his subordinates, as well as the symbols of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, and arithmetic rules to his subordinates.

What is especially important is that the ninety-nine multiplication table was also taught by Guo Peng to the earliest batch of planners.

This method was carried forward by Wang Can, and he taught it to the accounting officials under his command, which developed and strengthened the team of accounting officials. This kind of mathematical calculation method was also widely taught in the army, and this calculation training method was also taught in the Linzi training camp.

For more than ten years, this simple calculation method has been widely used in many ways, and in the army, this is obviously a very important skill.

Cao Xiu, as one of the family generals educated by Guo Peng himself, naturally mastered the four algorithms very proficiently.

He only used a pen and a piece of paper to write some strange symbols that people could not understand.

Then there were words in his mouth.

What kind of carry and retreat plus one minus one and the like, and then a fairly accurate number is obtained.

"I calculated this number myself. I can use my identity to guarantee that there is no problem. Each of your countries will receive the spoils according to this amount. I promise not to take any money."

Cao Xiu used his identity and reputation to guarantee that there would be no problem.

People in the affairs of various countries actually felt that even if Cao Xiu had to do something, they would have nothing to do.

But looking at Cao Xiu's upright appearance, he felt that there was nothing wrong with it.

The so-called people do not suffer from scarcity but from inequality. Although the total amount is not large, if it is distributed in this way, what each country gets is what Cao Xiu obtained after averaging calculations. The countries have nothing to say about this.

So they no longer fight each other, no longer fight among themselves, but choose to take their spoils to bid farewell to Cao Xiu, and withdraw their troops to leave.

The war is over, and the Wusun Civil War has come to an end.

In the first international event in which Cao Xiu was the protector of the Western Regions of the Wei Empire, the Protectorate of the Western Regions participated in an international event. Cao Xiu fulfilled his mission very well, accomplished this matter, and maintained the peace of the Western Regions.

This incident fully reflects the strength of the Wei Empire, which can well intervene in wars in the Western Regions.

Cao Xiu also has enough leadership to lead the armies of the Western Regions.

This is the best response for those small countries that still have some doubts about the strength of the Wei Empire.

In this way, the Wei Empire's suzerainty over the countries in the Western Regions was finally confirmed and became unshakable.

Even so, there are still some dissonant voices in it.

For example, the front and rear parts of the driver are dissatisfied because of the distribution of spoils. They both feel that they get less and the other gets more, and feel that the other has taken advantage of it.

Xinlimi went back and counted what he had gained and what he had lost, and found that although he occupied a lot of pastures, both the population and livestock had decreased compared to before the war.

He was dissatisfied with this, and felt that he had been blackmailed by the Allied Forces of the Seven Nations in the Western Regions. He felt that although they came to help, it was more like taking advantage of the fire and taking away a large number of Atami's people who could have belonged to him.

The rest of the countries have nothing to say about Cao Xiu's distribution, and are quite satisfied with the Wei Empire's attitude of not taking any money, but they are very dissatisfied with other countries that compete with themselves for the spoils of war.

It can be said that they are not satisfied with each other.

This battle is over, but the aftermath of the war is not over yet, it is brewing, fermenting, waiting to erupt again at some point in the future.

"If it weren't for the Western Regions Avenue not being repaired, our food wouldn't be delivered, I really don't want them to go back like this, it would be great if they all fought!"

On the way back to Gancheng, Cao Xiu kept complaining to Ma Yuan and Zhao Yan.

"What a great opportunity, if our food and supplies can keep up, I don't have to worry about anything at all, just let them all fight, and then we will kill them all in one go! Why do we have to be a fair-handed Western Region commander now?" Protect!"

Cao Xiu was extremely displeased with the fact that he did not take any money in order to maintain the aloof situation of the Wei Empire.

He really wanted to turn into a wolf and fight with them.

Zhao Yan felt dumbfounded about this.

"Wen Lie, in this battle, our goal has been fully achieved, and it can even be said that the task has been overfulfilled. Wusun's national power has been cut in half, and it is impossible to recover in a short period of time. The biggest stumbling block in the Western Regions no longer exists.

The armies of the Seven Kingdoms in Shanbei have also suffered losses to varying degrees, and they cannot recover in a short period of time. Our prestige has greatly increased, and what we want to do in the future will become quite simple. What else can you be dissatisfied with? How good is that? "

Ma Yuan laughed.

"Cao Duhu feels that he has to maintain the order of the Western Regions, and he is very dissatisfied. If we can clean up the Western Regions now, we can directly let the armies of the seven kingdoms in the north of the mountain fight in chaos, causing the order of the Western Regions to collapse, so that we can take advantage of the fire.

But now the Western Regions Avenue has not been repaired, and the food supplies and the army cannot keep up. If the countries in the Western Regions are thrown out of order, it is not good for me. For the time being, maintaining peace and maintaining the Silk Road is important, so I have to do it. "

Zhao Yan helplessly shook his head.

"Wen Lie, you'd better stabilize yourself first. Don't be so anxious. The Western Region Avenue needs to be built, but how much manpower and material resources will it require? Your Majesty does not know how many people will be relocated to fill the four Hexi counties for this matter. It will take time. Don't worry too."

"I... I also know that it is difficult to build roads. I just think it will take several years to continue like this."

Cao Xiu shook his head.

"There is no other way to do this. If the Western Regions Avenue can be repaired so quickly, the Western Regions will really be our state of Wei."

Zhao Yan actually hopes that this matter will become a reality as soon as possible.

The Western Regions are bitterly cold, far away from his hometown, and there are many things to do. The things he has to do with the countries in the Western Regions are very complicated, so he hardly has any family leave.

He also misses his family and his hometown. If he can complete the mission as soon as possible, he can go home early, right?

Ma Yuan recalled the conversation with Cao Ren and the construction site he saw before arriving in the Western Regions.

"Now General Zixiao is stepping up road construction, offering good conditions to the local people in Hexi, so some strong women and boys have also gone to work on the construction site, and basically used everything that can be used. Working day and night, wait, it's coming soon."

Cao Xiu and Zhao Yan both sighed and nodded together.

They know that this matter can be done, and it won't be too long, but the waiting process is indeed not so easy to get through.

The population of the four Hexi counties will reach 40 after the first wave of population filling by Mr. Guo.

Each county has an average of 10 people and [-] households, which is less than the large population counties in the Central Plains, but the land is sparsely populated, so it is not conducive to development in general, and the development level is far behind the developed counties in the Central Plains.

According to the reports of the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Civil Affairs, they agreed that the four counties in Hexi can accommodate a population of more than 100 million.

A population of 100 million can almost quickly develop the four Hexi counties, build up the Hexi four counties, and let the Hexi four counties take on the important responsibility of connecting the Central Plains and the Western Regions.

Now there are 40 people, but 100 million people are needed. Where should the population quota of 60 be allocated?

Where in the whole country is there no shortage of people?

Guo did the math by himself, and suddenly felt powerless.

There are only a few well-preserved populous states.

Jizhou counts as one, but Jizhou should support Bingzhou, Youzhou and Pingzhou, especially Pingzhou.

Over the past decade or so, because of the large population of Jizhou, someone from Guo has continuously moved the population of Jizhou to Bingzhou and Youzhou to make up for the population lost due to the war in these two prefectures and to develop the frontier.

Now that Pingzhou has been established, the entire territory of Pingzhou has only 30 people who inherited the Gongsun regime.

Even if more than 40 people from Gaoguli, Sanhan, and Buyeo are added, the total is only 70. Compared with the four counties of Hexi, it is more sparsely populated, and it is more difficult to develop.

In the long run, the population of Jizhou still needs more support for Pingzhou to fill the lack of population in Pingzhou, so no matter how you look at it, the population of Jizhou is no longer able to support the four counties of Hexi.

Xuzhou is also a state with a large population. Through the influence of someone Guo, Xuzhou was spared from being poisoned by Yuan Shu and Cao Cao without losing so many people. Although Xuzhou still faced a wave of turmoil after Tao Qian's death, the number of casualties was greatly reduced.

Then the population of Xuzhou was moved out by someone Guo to fill up Jiujiang, Lujiang two counties and Yangzhou in the south of the Yangtze River.

With the victory of the Shanyue Crusade in Yangzhou, Yangzhou was opened up a large amount of land that can be used for living population and development. Zhang Liao expressed to Guo Peng several times that he had developed a lot of land to arrange population.

Therefore, Xuzhou's population has to move southward in large numbers to support the development of Yangzhou, but it is already unable to support the four counties in Hexi.

Qingyan Erzhou is a state with a large population, and its population is relatively well preserved. Therefore, Qingyan Erzhou has made great efforts to restore and rebuild Yuzhou.

Later, when the population of Kansai was restored, the two prefectures of Qingyan and Yanzhou were the main force.

These young people from Yan'er Prefecture have successively moved more than one million people to fill Kansai, and they are still migrating into Kansai to fill the population.

Therefore, there is no surplus population to fill the four counties of Hexi.

So, Mr. Guo looked around the entire empire, but found that he could no longer allocate more population to fill the population shortage of the four Hexi counties in a short period of time.

This is a very frustrating thing.

Where else can people migrate?

Jingzhou?Yizhou?

They themselves are representatives of the vast land and sparse population, so it is better to stay in the local area and continue to develop the local area. The development of Jiangnan still needs their efforts, so someone Guo will not make trouble for them.

Someone Guo conducted a wave of censuses in the second and third years of Yande.

Then he came up with a population of 130 million, which is the number of people he can control at present, and he can extract taxes from these people to run the country.

However, Guo was also very clear that this figure did not represent the actual population of the entire Wei Empire.

There are also a large number of powerful manors whose population is not included in this statistic. When counting the population, this part of the population will not be recorded.

Although they are alive, they have never appeared in the household registration system of the empire.

This part of the population, according to Guo's estimation, will generally not be less than 1000 million, and will only be more.

Don't underestimate the ability of a powerful manor to hide its population.

They will hide more, not less, and they will plunder the economy more, not less.

So this battle over the working population is far from over.

chapter 1045 one thousand and fifty-five the anti-corruption storm is about to start

As far as the moment is concerned, now, the population of Guo has been restored to the population of the Yonghe period of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

This is about the registered population of the Eastern Han Empire 60 years ago. Similarly, it does not include the hidden population in the Haoqiang Manor.

But even so, this also means that the wounds of the 20 years of troubled times at the end of Han Dynasty have been licked hard by someone Guo.

The Wei Empire has basically filled in the pits left by the Han Empire, filled up the roads, and can start to develop its own future belonging to the Wei Empire and follow the Wei Empire's own path.

But the lack of population is an important factor limiting the further development of the Wei Empire.

It takes at least 18 years for a generation to grow up to be able to forge ahead. This is an objective law and cannot be violated. How many 18 years does Guo have in his life?

According to Guo's own estimation, to complete his dream empire, the Wei Empire needs at least [-] million people.

It takes [-] million people to build this skeleton, which is only the skeleton of the future development of the Wei Empire.

Not even flesh and blood.

If you want to be full of flesh and blood, open up Jiangnan, open up Liaodong, build a grassland animal husbandry economic zone, and even open the Maritime Silk Road, you need more population, several times the population.

Over the years, in order to increase the population of the empire, Mr. Guo has successively promulgated several policies to encourage births.

Tax reduction and exemption, land rewards, cash rewards, in-kind rewards, etc., all available strategies have been used.

But childbirth is not dependent on human will. The people of the Wei Empire had a strong enthusiasm for childbearing and a strong drive to give birth, and they worked hard to give birth.

But no matter how hard you try, there is no way to let the child grow up in a blink of an eye.

It will take more than ten years for the children to be able to work in the fields.

Mr. Guo was very anxious, but he couldn't do things that would backfire. Once he showed some emotion, he would be exaggerated by the officials infinitely, causing huge chaos.

Guo has never doubted how low the integrity of officials who want to get more power from him is.

So no matter from which point of view, the Wei Empire must rest and recuperate at this time, and only rest and recuperation is the kingly way.

The war in Yangzhou is over, the war in Jingzhou is over, the war in Pingzhou is over, and the war in the Western Regions has also come to an end. The roads have not been repaired, and the conditions for continuing to wage wars do not exist.

For Guo, continuing to optimize his rule and consolidating the regime of the Wei Empire is the only thing he can do now.

The new war has been planned by someone in Guo, but it cannot be fought now, so it is necessary to optimize the rule and prepare for future wars.

Store food, store bacon, store weapons, store cloth, and store various strategic materials.

Increase the number of war horses, increase the number of trebuchets, increase the mining of fierce fire oil and the manufacture of fierce fire oil tanks, and increase the manufacture and innovation of shock thunder.

Increase the number and quality of business trips to the Western Regions and the Guishuang Empire to do business, earn more money, and reserve more gold and silver.

Strengthen and improve population statistics, so as to facilitate the mobilization of civilian husbands to transport food in the future.

Strengthen the construction of post stations and roads to facilitate the advancement of future troops.

Enhance the training of officers to facilitate the strengthening of the chain of command of the future military.

Strengthen the training of soldiers so that the army will have stronger combat effectiveness in future large-scale wars.

The temporary rest is just a rest, and the war will continue.

The system that Guo designed for the Wei Empire is a system designed for all-out war. Once there is a war, this system can respond as quickly as possible and explode with a strong mobilization force.

In the future, such a system will continue to be perfected and strengthened by Guo.