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Chapter 89 Xiang Yu and Liu Bang are very useful
Gao Wenfeng slapped his face. He had obviously turned everyone around just for fun, but everyone started talking about the Lord of Mount Tai.

No matter what people were talking about, the matter of the Lord of Mount Tai eventually came up with the matter of the Classic of Mountains and Seas. Not long after they started talking about the Classic of Mountains and Seas, the whole family attributed all these things to Qi Jiguang.

He doesn't even understand what's going on!

"Your world is really great, with a population of over 100 million. Unlike my country, where the population is only over 40 million, we can't develop externally even if we want to."

Ying Zheng also sighed. He had chosen important developments, but the population was too small. Even if he forcefully carried out a nationwide distribution, there was no way to give birth to all the children in a short period of time!

"This is already very good. You have to know that officially, the population of the Qin Dynasty was only more than 3000 million, and when the Han Dynasty was established, the population dropped to 2 million. So now you can develop the population to 000 million, which is already very good."

Gao Wenfeng's mouth twitched when he heard what Ying Zheng said, because in history, the peak population of the Qin Dynasty had just exceeded 3 million, but now it has reached more than 000 million. What a concept!
This means that when the south of the Yangtze River was not developed in ancient times, the population of a prosperous dynasty was between 4 million and 000 million. Now it is already very impressive that Ying Zheng can develop the population of his country to 6 million!

"Really? I'm planning to expand my population. It would be great if I could have hundreds of millions of people. But I don't know how to do it!"

Ying Zheng sighed and pointed out the problem on his side, which was that there were not enough people.

"Population? Have you ever tried to absorb the Baiyue? You can try Zhuge Liang's method of governing Shu and absorb the Baiyue as your own people. Think about the two countries of Wu and Yue, and then think about Wu Rui, the magistrate of Fanyang County. He is a descendant of the King of Wu and the leader of the Baiyue. The Baiyue must have a population of several million, and these people can be used."

Wu Rui, the magistrate of Fanyang County, was a big shot in the late Qin Dynasty. It can even be said that without him, the strategy of burning the boats and sinking the bridges would not have happened. He was the supporter behind Xiang Yu.

"Don't even mention Fanyang County Magistrate Wu Rui. I get a headache just thinking about this guy! He's a local tyrant!"

Ying Zheng rubbed his head. He didn't want to know anything about Wu Rui, because he was also a ruthless person who instigated chaos in the late Qin Dynasty.

"What about Xiang Yu and Liu Bang? Don't they give you a headache?"

When Gao Wenfeng heard that Ying Zheng had a headache, he directly talked about Xiang Yu and Liu Bang. These two people were really a headache.

"It's not a headache. Xiang Yu is really useful. That guy should have been a direct descendant of the Xiang family, but because of his father's early death, he became a former direct descendant. He could only pretend to be stupid and work as a thug in his own family. When my people found him, they easily absorbed him!
As for Liu Bang, he is also a very good guy!"

When Ying Zheng talked about Liu Bang and Xiang Yu, he no longer had a headache. On the contrary, he became extremely excited and talked about how useful these two people were!

"The First Emperor, are you talking about Xiang Yu and Liu Bang? Xiang Yu was suppressed in their family, and the Overlord of Western Chu was suppressed? Are you kidding! That was the Overlord of Western Chu!"

Zhu Houzhao looked at Ying Zheng and didn't believe what the other party said at all, because it was somewhat contrary to what he knew.

"He was indeed suppressed. Overlord Xiang Yu was never the heir of the Jiangdong Xiang family. This can be seen from Xiang Zhuang and Xiang Bo at the Hongmen Banquet. Moreover, after Xiang Yu's death, some members of the Xiang family were conferred titles of nobility by Liu Bang. It can be seen from all this that Xiang Yu was never the Xiang family's choice of heir. He was just the thug chosen by the Xiang family. It's a pity that this thug had brains."

Zhu Jianshen had a very thorough understanding of these things. He knew very well that Xiang Yu was definitely not the kind of person who would only learn something for three minutes. He was a very patient politician.

Even Xiang Yu and Liu Bang were both people who inherited Qin Shihuang's idea of ​​great unification, but Xiang Yu failed while Liu Bang succeeded.

"But I have another question, Qin Shi Huang, how could you possibly get Xiang Yu? According to the two years it took you to unify the world, you couldn't possibly get Xiang Yu. Xiang Yu wasn't even born during your time."

Zhu Jianshen looked at the First Emperor and asked a very important question. According to this point in time, Liu Bang existed because he was a few years younger than the First Emperor, but Xiang Yu should not exist because Xiang Yu was more than 20 years younger than them.

"Your time acceleration is wrong. It's not that you accelerated time again. It didn't take you only two years to unify the world. You spent more than ten years in that world. Now should not be the time when you just unified the world. You should have unified the world for more than ten years. Your own time is different from the time you told us."

Zhu Jianshen already knew this fact from Ying Zheng's words, that is, the First Emperor did not just accelerate the time to unify the world by two years, but waited for at least ten years, even until Xiang Yu reached adulthood. "Xiang Yu is not an adult yet, he is just a teenager, but this child is indeed very patient and capable. He knows everything about military books, battle formations, the Book of Songs and Chu Ci. He is not a madman who is half-hearted in learning anything, but an extremely patient good child. His talent is far superior to Liu Bang. If it weren't for his family holding him back, I would actually be more optimistic about him taking over the world."

Ying Zheng did not directly answer how long he had accelerated, but said that Xiang Yu was a child in his teens, and he also believed that Xiang Yu was better than Liu Bang.

"So, there is something wrong with the 20 people killed in Julu?"

Zhu Jianshen suddenly asked a question without any context, and Ying Zheng nodded, "There is indeed a problem. The people who were killed in the pit were never Zhang Han's Qin army, but the army of the royal family."

"That's what I was thinking. If Zhang Han's army had died at that time, how could Liu Bang have fought against the Three Qins for several years, and the battle only ended before Xiang Yu's death?"

Everyone says that Xiang Yu killed 20 surrendered soldiers in Julu, but in fact this is false, because if those people had been killed, Zhang Han and his men would not have been able to secure their position as the lords of the Three Qins.

"Sima Qian really used the style of the Spring and Autumn Annals. He didn't explain all these things clearly."

Zhu Houzhao was very dissatisfied at this time. He waved his hand and summoned a copy of Records of the Grand Historian. After reading a few pages, he threw it directly on the table. How do you read "The Records of Xiang Yu"?

"Sunzi, you are wrong. Sima Qian wrote everything clearly, but you didn't understand it. Just like in the Records of the Three Kingdoms, the Wei Shu said that the heroes of Cao Wei fought against Guan Yu and beat him like a dog. But in fact, if you look closely at the battle record, you will see how many things Guan Yu did in that year and how many armies of Cao Wei he fought. History books are never written by contemporary people, but by people in later generations, so naturally they will include their ideas. Sima Qian could not write these things clearly, but he wrote everything out. If you don't understand it, it means you don't understand the subtle meaning."

In fact, Zhu Jianshen was quite satisfied with Zhu Houzhao. After all, Zhu Houzhao could be regarded as an emperor raised by civil servants, and he was already very satisfied with the current situation.

This situation is better than Zhu Youjian. Zhu Youjian is still stupid and knows nothing at this time.
"That's not right. How come your population is only 4000 million in more than a decade? It should be around 5000 million, right?"

Gao Wenfeng did some calculations and found that based on the population growth rate of Ying Zheng and his group, the population should now be over 5000 million, so there must be something wrong with this population size.

"More than 4000 million is true, but as long as it's less than 5000 million, it's definitely within 4000 million. Moreover, the living environment in ancient times was extremely harsh. Take us for example. The south has never been developed. There are swamps everywhere. Even if we want to dig a spiritual canal, it will cost tens of thousands of lives."

The administrator now really understands how important population is. He wants his own population to be larger, preferably more than double. However, in the past ten years or so, he has had no way to double his population because Daqin has a small population of people of childbearing age.

Even though the Qin Dynasty had a population of over 2000 million when it unified the country, the number of usable laborers among this population was only about 2000 to million, and the number of adult women was about the same.

The rest are all young and old, so doubling the population within these ten years is already the limit for Ying Zheng. If he wants to double the population again based on this, he really can't do it.

"Indeed, the situation in the south was not good before the development of the Southern Song Dynasty. Even though the south had been developed during the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, the environment there was actually not good. Before the Southern Song Dynasty, the south was always full of smoke and miasma, and it was a place for exile."

Gao Yuliang is more familiar with these things. After all, his wife teaches history, and those who study history need to learn about the historical periods of climate change, so they are very clear about these things.

"That's right. The land of Baiyue is full of poisonous insects and wild beasts. It's very troublesome! And the people there are all covered with tattoos. They don't look like our people at all. They are all very fierce and stubborn!"

Ying Zheng really disliked the Baiyue because the people there were very troublesome.

Gao Yuliang said, "It doesn't matter whether the number of people is troublesome or not, as long as there are enough of them. You may not know that Confucianism has a strong assimilation ability. The Han Empire relied on the educational ability of Confucianists to swallow up the four barbarians bit by bit. However, this requires a prerequisite, that is, the empire's own strength is strong enough, so strong that those barbarians who kill people with knives and rob goods can become good at singing and dancing. In this way, after a few decades, the other party can be swallowed up, and then some normal treatment can be given."

Gao Yuliang said it very easily but actually it was not easy at all to do because it required sufficient military force and the ability to deploy troops to any corner of the empire within a month. Of course, this was the requirement in ancient times. If it were modern times, it would need to be possible to do all this within 48 hours.

(End of this chapter)