After all, the damage of the war was too great. Even if it stops now, the villagers hiding in the mountains gradually come out, and production slowly begins to recover, the results will not be very great after all!
According to the statistics of these officials, the current population of each of these eleven counties, after their efforts to collect and re-edit the records, is mostly no more than three to four thousand people per county.
Moreover, among these counties, there are mostly old and weak women and children, and only a few are young and strong.
What's more serious is that South Korea still faces a serious problem with many counties, including the Sanchuan County that has just been recovered, as well as South Korea itself. Many counties and counties have fallen into famine. People's homes have no food left, and starvation is everywhere.
These countless people have their mouths open, waiting desperately for relief from the South Korean government. If we ignore them and let them fend for themselves, then South Korea will really exist in name only.
Even if these people are all old and weak, they are at least a part of the population, a layer that is exploited and dominated. If they are gone, then South Korea will not even have a basis for rule. If the country does not lead the country, it will completely become a dead place.
The 11 counties and counties recovered had a total population of 40,000. However, the original more than 10 counties and counties in South Korea were ravaged by the Qin State and exploited by South Korea. The population was not very large, and the average population was no more than one county. Three to five thousand people.
With the dispatch of local officials again, the foundation of rule was once again established, and the population statistics was restored again. It was concluded that excluding the capital, there were only 80,000 people in 13 counties in Korea.
As for the capital city of South Korea, because it took in some refugees and had its original population base there, another group of people starved to death due to war and famine.
Therefore, the level of 250,000 people is still maintained after all. Although it is not as good as the more than 300,000 people before, in this world, it can still be said to be a powerful city, worthy of Korea's status as a kingdom.
Nowadays, according to statistics across South Korea, there are only 370,000 people left, and the land has nearly doubled, and a lot of lost land has been recovered.
However, the obtained population was only 1/3 of what it was before the war, and almost all the young men were withered. After the war subsided and stability returned to all parts of the country, both the newly recovered places and the original places.
In order to consolidate his authority and maintain his rule, King Han recruited and trained a new group of new soldiers, but he only got more than 20,000 soldiers and horses, mostly children aged fourteen or fifteen and old men in their fifties or sixties.
These new soldiers were reorganized into an army based on the more than 1,000 elite veterans left in South Korea after the previous war. We got an ordinary army of about 25,000 men, which was barely passable.
This is the basis of South Korea's rule today. 25,000 people are obviously not enough to guard more than 20 cities in South Korea and to resist the threat of enemies from all directions.
Such a small number of people is enough to maintain law and order and rule.
However, South Korea is not in dire straits. There is still a way out.
There are still twelve remaining counties in Qin's current Sanchuan County. They are all huddled within the pass and have not been affected by the war, maintaining a complete production and economic system.
And the most important thing is that because Sanchuan County belongs to the old capital of the Zhou Dynasty and the homeland of South Korea, the scope of the conscription of troops by the Qin State is not large, only a little.
Therefore, in the entire Sanchuan County Pass, among the thirteen counties, except three of the Zhou Dynasty's homeland military training, many young men were forcibly recruited. The remaining ten counties have many young people and a large population.
In the entire Sanchuan County Pass, after the intelligence from the spies came back, after analysis by all parties, it is estimated that there is still a population of about 300,000 to 400,000.
And there are a lot of young men. If you include those who are 14 to 50 or 60 years old, he should be able to recruit about 100,000 troops.
Now that the coalition forces have defeated the Qin State, as long as the Yu State sends fifty or sixty thousand troops to the central battlefield, they can then summon the armies of Zhao, Wei and Chu.
By then, there will be an army of five to six million people.
However, Qin State could not send the same number of troops.
With the current state of the Qin State, after the collapse of its own battlefield, the rear is already vaguely unstable, the barbarians from all directions are ready to move, and the remnants of the Six Kingdoms in the country also have other ideas.
Local suppression has also involved part of Qin's military strength. Now, it may not even be enough to send 300,000 troops to the battlefield to confront the coalition forces head-on.
Therefore, the current situation of Qin State was discussed with the other two countries and finally concluded that Qin State should not dare to fight head-on. Instead, it would abandon Sanchuan County and fully retreat into Hangu Pass, maintaining the basic relationship between Guanzhong and Bashu. Territory, dare not look eastward.
The abandoned Sanchuan County is the closest to South Korea. And in the early days of the war, South Korea's contribution was not small. This alliance was launched with South Korea as the starting point.
Therefore, giving all the remaining areas of Sanchuan County to South Korea as compensation should not cause much repercussions.
What's more, today's South Korea looks like it is about to collapse at any time, which has really aroused the vigilance of other countries.
With the current situation in the world, neither the Qin State, nor the Allied Forces, nor even the Qi State hiding in the rear will allow the Seven Heroes of the Warring States Period to perish South Korea, which has been with them for hundreds of years.
This is the situation. If South Korea is destroyed, then there will be a beginning and a foreshadowing of their subsequent destruction. They are extremely afraid of this outcome.
They are afraid that they will become the next South Korea, so they resolutely attack any country that dares to destroy any of the Seven Heroes of the Warring States Period. To this end, they can put aside all their prejudices and unite.
This has nothing to do with emotion or hatred, it is only a matter of life and death.
Therefore, in fact, with the current situation, even if the imperial government does not propose to support South Korea, other countries will propose that they will not perish like South Korea.
And South Korea will get Sanchuan County, plus some leftovers around it, and it will become a big country with nearly fifty cities and thousands of miles of land.
Moreover, South Korea's population will also return to more than 700,000, close to 800,000, and its soldiers and horses will also return to about 150,000, of which about 30,000 are elite young men.
Although most of them are old and weak, and their fighting ability is not very strong, they are not bad for defense and to scare others.
After all, 30,000 elite soldiers and 150,000 large troops sound different. Who is more scary? Needless to say, I understand.
Therefore, the current situation is barely maintained according to this fragile balance, and they understand each other tacitly.
(End of chapter)