“No—No—”

Deng Ai waved his hand quickly and said, "The King of Dongchuan instigated Fuyu Kingdom to kill the cousin of Yan Kingdom to be prepared to join forces with the three major forces to fight the king's expedition. In the eyes of Weimin, it is better to give the King of Dongchuan to show his affection first, and then issue another manifesto to attack Fuyu Kingdom."

Jia Fan was puzzled: "The Fuyu Kingdom is traitorous and of course he will fight against him. It would be fine if he doesn't attack him together, so why should he give him a generous gift?"

Yang Zuo laughed out loud on the spot. He looked down on Deng Ai, and was even more rampant at this time, and he said sarcastically: "If this is true, outsiders will laugh at my country of Yan for being stupid and incompetent, and flattering to this point."

Deng Ai blushed, and he seemed a little unrighteous in speaking when he stuttered. Gongsun Xiu stopped everyone from sarcasm and said in a deep voice: "In the court, you can ask questions to each other, and don't attack each other. You might as well listen to the speech of Shi Zai first. He was just stuttering, speaking slowly, and his mind was not shown. Why can't you be more patient?"

Jia Fan and Yang Zuo immediately stopped the voice.

Deng Ai looked at Gongsun Xiu with gratitude and continued: "The three major forces are mobs and cannot be killed together. If the King of Dongchuan instigated Fuyu to rebel against Yan, then give generous gifts to the King of Dongchuan and a proclamation to Fuyu, the Lord of Fuyu would be suspicious, believing that he had secretly provoked relations and made his country a target of public criticism. If the two countries had a grudge against each other, the king would lead an army to attack and destroy the two countries in one battle. If he was in a hurry to send troops, he would join forces and concentrate on dealing with the king."

Gongsun Xiu was shocked and happy and said, "If this is the case, the two tigers will fight each other and get the benefits."

Deng Ai smiled and bowed to the ground, "King, I believe it won't take long. Goguryeo and Fuyu Kingdom will have a gap. Then you can lead another army to expedition."

"Yes, just as the teacher said."

Gongsun Xiu immediately ordered people to write a proclamation of the attack, rebuking Fuyu Kingdom for being arrogant and arrogant, beheading the messenger, disrespectful to Yan Kingdom and other crimes, stamping seals, and sending edicts to Fuyu Kingdom for thousands of miles.

At the same time, Jia Fan also ordered people to select rare treasures from the county and give them a generous gift to Goguryeo.

After doing all this, Yan State will wait for the friction between the two countries. If it changes, it can send troops to expedition.

Last year, almost one-quarter of Liaodong's savings were empty, and Jia Fan wrote to the empty treasury one after another. Gongsun Xiu also knew that Yan State still wanted to fight a big battle, and he had to wait until the tycoon's food matured in two years before he could make the next plan.

In ancient China, the population growth was a continuous curve. If a k-line chart was used to show growth and sharp decline, the prosperous times were the high point and the troubled times were the low point. However, the population began to exceed 100 million by the Song Dynasty, and the Qing Dynasty had a population of 400 million.

In general, the population in ancient China rose in fluctuations. Whenever the population declined sharply during wars, the world would also begin to increase after the initial settlement. In the words of stock market experts, it would be "bottom-down and rebound."

The factors involved are numerous, one is the problem of arable land.

China's earliest civilization originated in the Yellow River Basin. After thousands of years of development, population migration, and development of wasteland, it was possible to have the foundation to feed a large population. Insufficient arable land, insufficient grain output will be insufficient, which will suppress the growth of the population.

There was a proverb in the Ming and Qing dynasties, "Hubei is ripe, and the world is full", which means praise Hunan and Hubei as a rich grain silo for the world. But that was a saying that 1,300 years later, the result of the migration of China's economic center from north to south. Currently, Hubei is deserted and there is not much arable land. Until the Western Jin Dynasty, there was the rebellion of the Eight Kings and then the Five Barbarians invaded China. In order to avoid war, the northern gentry had to lift their clans south, which was called "the southward crossing" in history.

According to records, the population of Nandu exceeded one million at that time, which brought a large number of people to the south. This was why the economy of the south was vigorously developed. Currently, only Sun Shiwan was the only one who developed the economy of the south.

Agriculture is the foundation of a country. Even if it becomes a modern country in 1,800 years, according to statistics, it is necessary to maintain 1.8 billion mu of arable land to be self-sufficient in the dietary problem of 1.4 billion people.

This is also the reason why the ancient dynasties became more and more populated in the late period. Because of the accumulation over thousands of years, the amount of cultivated land has steadily increased. Even if there is a large area of ​​abandonment due to accidental chaos, the fields will still be picked up and continued to cultivate once the war is over.

The second problem is that agricultural technology has slightly increased, and the effect of growing seeds to increase grain yield.

Sweet potatoes introduced in the Ming Dynasty increased grain production and enriched the dining tables of the ancients.

But the effect is not extremely great.

Of course, online novels like to advocate that the high yield of sweet potatoes has brought double the population to China. Although sweet potatoes are simple to plant, the soil requirements are not so strict. The average yield per mu floats around 4,000 kilograms, and the yield is several times that of wheat. It seems that the protagonist can start to increase grain production by a spike once the protagonist introduces sweet potatoes from abroad.

In fact, from the perspective of per mu, sweet potatoes do exceed wheat, with a large fraction of rice, but the starch content of sweet potatoes is less than a quarter of that of wheat. Anyone who has eaten it knows that sweet potatoes are unbearable, easy to be hungry and bloating. Starch is the main source of energy supply to the human body and converted into glucose. If Gongsun Xiu copied the model of the male protagonist in the online article and planted the entire Liaodong with sweet potatoes, nearly a quarter of people would not eat and be hungry.

So the only idea is to farm well, open up land, and accumulate food first to prepare for strength and get a share of the pie in this era of the Three Kingdoms' hegemony.

It is an indisputable fact that Liaodong lacks population. There are only 350,000 people, 30,000 soldiers, and 30,000 newly captured prisoners, with a total of only 410,000 people. It is extremely difficult to achieve great and hegemony.

Gongsun Xiu inspected the land and people's livelihood in various places, and also inspected water conservancy, agricultural irrigation and other issues. At present, Liaodong has no military troubles. Although Sima Yi retreated to Luoyang, Qiqiu Jian was still guarding Youzhou, and the troops in his hands cannot be ignored.

Just as he was taking a nap, Jia Fan quickly rushed into the bedroom, panting, holding the door frame with one hand, his face rosy, awakening Gongsun Xiu, and quickly sat up and frowned, "Old Jia, what's the matter so panicked? Wouldn't it be better to just order a subordinate to come and report it."

"My Lord, happy event-"

Jia Fan finally recovered and sat down with the help of his personal guards. His face was filled with joy that could not be suppressed: "Prince, just now, news came from Luoyang, Cao Rui-he, he had passed away, Cao Fang ascended the throne as emperor, Sima Yi and Cao Shuang as ministers of the regent."

Gongsun Xiu was not surprised when he heard this. He thought that if Cao Rui was not dead at this time, history would have changed. He smiled faintly: "I have known that Cao Rui's life is approaching. As expected, the orphan and widowed mother who left him will be bullied. Sima Laoer, this guy, has suffered a lot."
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