Time travel rebellion, I'm serious

This data is actually too exaggerated. In just two or three months, the population of Xuzhou has dropped by more than 400 million. It is unrealistic no matter how you look at it.

What's more, the current population of Xuzhou people is only more than 700 million, which is equivalent to Xuzhou losing almost half of its population.

Unrealistic, too unrealistic.

However, the intelligence agency still gave a rough explanation for Liu Wu's disbelief. This explanation included using simple data to simulate the population.

"The population of Xuzhou Prefecture was unknown before the war, but according to estimates by commercial banks, the actual population was more than 200 million."

"A great chaos, a plague, and the current population is less than [-]."

"Some of these disappeared people died in chaos, some died in counterinsurgency, some died in plague, and some were forced to migrate."

"Afterwards, the war spread throughout Xuzhou, and the plague also spread, causing some counties and towns in Xuzhou to disappear overnight."

"It can be said that there are more than 700 million people in Xuzhou. This is calculated by commercial banks based on supplies. The actual situation may be more."

"But these populations may have been reduced sharply by the Daqian court. At least the current intelligence from the Daqian court shows that there are only more than 50 households left in Xuzhou, which is more than half the number before the chaos. .”

"It is precisely for this reason that the massive reduction in population freed up a lot of land. Now Xuzhou has not lost too many people in the war."

"Of course, this also has something to do with the propaganda of our intelligence department."

In the intelligence personnel's report, Liu Wu roughly figured out the specific matters.

It's just that this data is too shocking. The sudden decrease of so many people in one state can be said to be completely beyond his imagination.

Of course, the most serious problem in Xuzhou is where the state capital is located, which is where everything starts.

It's just that, this so-called state capital is probably going to be abolished.

In fact, Liu Wu's guess was correct. Yanhan merchants were traveling in Xuzhou and other places, especially Xuzhou Mansion, which gave them a shocking feeling.

"There is a village ahead, let's go explore it!"

The group of people quickly arrived at the village. The village was deserted and overgrown with weeds, except for an occasional stray dog.

"Everyone in the village is dead!"

Everyone carefully opened the doors of each house. Some houses were empty, and in some houses there was only a skeleton left. In some houses, the corpses were in a state of decay, and in some houses, the bones were scattered all over the floor.

"Ugh.........."

The team leader let out a long sigh. They had seen this scene too many times and were already numb. Only a sigh remained.

"There is no need to collect the bones, just set them on fire!"

Soon, as the sky filled with fire, the merchants took out a stick of incense, lit it and stuck it on the ground, bowed three times and turned around to leave.

As for where the fire will spread, they don't care too much. For no other reason, there is almost no human activity here.

And this is just one scene in Xuzhou Mansion.

Liu Wu, who was in Changsha at this time, looked at the information comprehensively.

"By the way, what did these guys think that they came up with the fighting general model?"

Lu Shu and Shi Deshou shook their heads and estimated: "Perhaps this is because the population has been reduced too seriously!"

Of course, this isn't funny because it's the result of millions of deaths.

Everyone is afraid of the plague, everyone is afraid of death and the loss of incense.

That's how these people calmed down.

The powerful gentry relaxed their oppression of the people, and the officials did not dare to be too greedy and gave the people a little way to survive, for fear of leading them to hell.

In fact, the situation here in Xuzhou is not the same as when many countries in history were founding and governing.

A significant reduction in population freed up a large amount of land, bringing stability and prosperity to a country.

Liu Wu naturally understood, so he did not struggle with this issue, but smiled and said:

"There are so many generals, leaders, and officials who come to our Yanhan Commercial Bank as shopkeepers. Do we have so many branches?"

Shi Deshou smiled and replied: "We don't have that many branches, so in order to avoid the problem from getting worse in the future, our intelligence department formulated a plan."

"To put it simply, once these people are defeated and enter the trading company, they need to go to other places to work."

"And their position is actually that of honorary shopkeeper. It is similar to the shareholder dividend system, which allows them to participate but does not allow them to manage."

"Of course this is not very good, so when the dividends are distributed, these people will conduct detailed leadership and let them face those officials."

Everywhere the Yanhan Commercial Bank went, it would give some shares to powerful people, and then set up a share in the official position, so as to ensure that it could operate unimpeded in the local area.

Not only that, many lower-level industries will also take care of the officials, dragging many people into trouble.

It’s just that the profit of a branch is limited, so the money distributed is also limited. Some people are not satisfied and want more, so that the dividend stall has become the object of competition among these covered people.

So that the trading houses in a certain place exercised part of the government's powers to a certain extent.

As a result, the people who were in charge of the dividends would occasionally offend powerful people or officials, causing some troubles in the business.

But now the intelligence department's tricks are coming. Since these people are so unified in arranging the defeated people to enter Yanhan Trading Company, they naturally have to come up with something.

Not only that, Yanhan Commercial Bank also aimed at this point and made these people responsible for dividends. Among other things, one dividend was distributed every quarter.

It was just held a few days ago, and the scene was quite lively, with some branches getting into fights.

Forget it if this is the case, Yanhan Trading Bank also used this system to put enemies of each other in the same branch.

Therefore, this branch is quite lively in many cases.

In addition, Yanhan Commercial Bank will also work hard on thinking. There are many books and articles that need to be studied and read, but of course this is not mandatory.

Anyway, for those who can study and learn well, the local business houses will definitely provide a little funding and help when they come out to resume their studies.

So at this time, the honorary shopkeepers of these branches may not be studying hard.

"You here?"

Liu Wu shook his head and smiled, this is really yours.

Then, Liu Wu discussed some intelligence, business development, and internal government affairs with Lu Shu and Shi Deshou, and that was over.

As for the Daqian court, after many quarrels, the royal forces finally won and ordered the Jiangbei camp to go to Xuzhou to suppress the bandits, and appointed Prince Yizhou as the imperial envoy to suppress the bandits.

As for whether sending troops now will affect the summer harvest, no one cares.