The Rise of History’s Most Powerful Empire

Chapter 21: People's hearts

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But there's no need to be afraid now. With the protection of these newly trained young soldiers, there shouldn't be much of a problem with your own safety. Their loyalty to themselves can still be trusted.

After being displaced for so long, they can stay in their own territory and live a peaceful life because of their protection. They have houses, land, wives, and no worries about food or clothing.

It can be said that such a life could not be enjoyed in the peaceful and prosperous times, let alone those who had no guarantee of life before, had no clothes on their bodies, and might starve to death at any time

Now, needless to say, they have protected themselves tightly, and anyone who tries to get close to them will be checked over and over again by them.

In order that their hard-won lives would not be destroyed and they could return to their previous lives of displacement due to war, they would spontaneously protect themselves, the person who was responsible for the safety of their territory.

As long as they are still alive and well, then this territory will not be in chaos, and their lives can be guaranteed. Therefore, anyone who wants to harm themselves is their life and death enemy, an enemy like murdering their parents.

Sitting in his seat, Zhong Yu stayed quietly in his study room. After making a cup of hot tea, the mist was rising, and he held a book in his hand. As he slowly read it, his somewhat anxious heart slowly calmed down.

The long-lost voice of the system rang in my ears, "Ding, congratulations to the host, for winning the first war with more than 100 people. Complete the side mission and get a junior gift package as a reward. Please open it yourself."

Finally here, I have worked so hard to win this war. It’s a junior gift pack. I don’t know what I can unlock this time. The last novice gift pack opened the homeless camp. I wonder what I will see this time

It’s best to have something that can greatly increase your strength and lay your foundation!

According to the system's consistent character, every time he said something, it was extremely necessary for him.

For example, I have just arrived in this continent, and there is nothing on me that can help me tide over the difficulties. I am powerless, but I have countless resources and a very luxurious and luxurious mansion, so the system seems to understand He was worried, so he fired a pair of Yellow Turbans to protect his own safety.

Then, he got the Yellow Turban Army and after sweeping away some small tribes, he found that his population was too small. He wanted to wait until the population was sufficient to upgrade his territory, but he didn't know how long it would take.

The surrounding plains for hundreds of miles have wiped out all those small tribes, and it is not known whether they can gather enough people to upgrade.

And maybe there will be someone who is far more powerful than the big tribe. When the time comes, people will feel unhappy with themselves and think that they are too arrogant, so they can gently send out some small troops, and maybe they can eliminate themselves.

After all, this is a world with extraordinary force. Denair, who has just entered the second level, is so strong, not to mention those tribes with thousands or even tens of thousands of people. There may be third-level or even fourth-level ones. Existence, how can I resist it when the time comes

So the system immediately gave him a refugee camp, allowing him to greatly replenish his population. Now, due to the refugee camps, my population has greatly increased.

And it has also developed in an extremely balanced manner. It is no longer just the army and young adults, but there are also some women, old people and children, which greatly balances the ratio of men and women, old and weak in the territory. It improves the happiness of the people in the territory and greatly enhances the sense of belonging of all people in the territory to the territory.

Excluding those troops who have died in battle, the current population in my territory is about 2,300, close to 2,400. Among them, 324 people were drawn out and formed an army.

There are only 2,000 civilians left, and the army ratio is almost 7:1. This is a very abnormal situation.

In ancient China, if it was a peaceful and prosperous time, then the proportion of his army would be relatively small. There are about 300,000 troops and a population of about 50 to 60 million. The ratio of population to army is 200:1.

Even if he is in a relatively unstable and troubled time, as long as the court has not collapsed and still maintains its most basic rule, his army will only be 700,000 to 800,000. The population may have declined due to the relatively chaotic world, and it is only about 40 to 50 million. But the ratio of their population to their army is only 60:1.

Even in completely troubled times, their army exceeds 1 million, or even 2 million, and their population is only 20 to 30 million. Then their population ratio is only 10:1 or 20:1.

With such a population ratio, it can be said that it is extremely abnormal to go to war. It has greatly damaged and set the stable development of society, which will make the people in the territory feel very unsafe, and the sense of happiness and belonging to the territory will be greatly damaged. What followed was distrust of the territory and doubts about the lord's ability.

This is a very dangerous thing. In a short period of time, relying on their own prestige and the brutal suppression in the past, they can temporarily swallow all their doubts in their stomachs and dare not show them. But if they show fatigue, Or if you suppress it for a long time, the problem will still break out.

Why was Shu the first to be destroyed during the Three Kingdoms? It was because their ratio of population to army + officials was the highest, reaching 7:1. Soochow’s population to army + officials was 8.3:1, and Cao Cao’s population to army + officials was 8.3:1. The ratio of army + officials is 9:1.

With such a heavy population burden, seven people have to support one person who eats the country's food. This is not only the boiling of public resentment, but also the continuous natural and man-made disasters at that time, including droughts, floods, plagues, riots, and ethnic minority rebellions. Living in such an unfair country With a safe social environment, all people can be said to have been looking forward to peace in the world for a long time.

Therefore, when the Wei State destroyed Shu, the country that had ruled Shu for more than forty years, spanning two or nearly three generations, was surrounded by an army that was not much larger than its own and had powerful passes and dangerous passes to rely on. The Wei generals were wiped out.

Even when the Wei army entered Shu, all the soldiers and people rushed to join him. It can be said that they were eating a pot of jelly to welcome the king's army. As a result, Deng Ai had only five thousand troops, but he easily wiped out a country with hundreds of thousands of troops, which could even reach more than two hundred thousand during emergency mobilization.

Not every place he went to, the soldiers and people there came to seek refuge. As a result, the army became larger and larger, more and more people took refuge in him, and fewer and fewer people supported him in Shu. Compared with the two generals, If the Kingdom of Shu is destroyed, what else can be said? This is his destiny!

And his current population ratio is very similar to that of the Shu Kingdom. Although those barbarians, as long as they are an adult male, they need to join the army to defend their tribe when there is a war.

They are more unsafe than their own people, but they have had to do this since ancient times in order to survive.

But most of the people in his territory are refugees. They have been civilized, and they pay more attention to these issues. Their blood and bones no longer have the barbarism and yearning for civilization. , and pay more attention to it.

If you want to maintain your most basic rule, then within the next two or three years, within the maximum endurance period of the people under your territory, you must adjust the population ratio to 10:1 or 20 as soon as possible. :1, only in this way can we ensure our most basic rule.

Otherwise, although the people in the territory do not dare to resist too obviously due to their own power, their loyalty to them will definitely not be much higher.

In a subtle state, when you are strong, I will work for you. If you are unable to do this, I will help others to kill you!

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