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In the next half month, Ma Han transferred all the population, money, food, materials and livestock of the three cities in western Liaoning, especially the Bailang City, to Liaodong, restoring the nature of the military fortress of the three cities, while taking stock of the foundation of Liaodong, which is the legacy left by Gongsun Du.

It should be said that the legacy left by Gongsun Du is really rich, and the foundation of Liaodong is a hundred times that of Bailang City. If Ma Han did not attack and accelerate the battle, but faced Gongsun Du head-on and fought a conventional battle, the outcome would be unpredictable. If it drags on for a longer time, with such a strong foundation of Liaodong, Bailang City would not be able to play.

First of all, Ma Han is the population that is most concerned about. Liaodong County, which governs Xiangping (now Liaoyang, Liaoning), and leads eleven counties: Xiangping, Liaojiao, Xinchang, Anshi, Wenxian, Pingguo, Dashi, Xi'anping, Fanhan, Wangping, Wuyou. The population of the county reached 60,000 at the end of the Han Dynasty.

The surrounding counties include:

The vassal state of Liaodong was governed by Changli (now Yi County, Liaoning). Five counties were led: Changli, Fuli, Bintu, Tuhe, Fang County, Jiandu, with a population of 20,000.

The western Liaoning county led five counties: Yangle, Linyu, Feiru, Haiyang, and Lingzhi. Among them, Yangle was within the sphere of influence in Liaodong, and the other four counties were controlled by Gongsun Zan of Youzhou. The population was less than 20,000.

Xuantu County is governed by Goguryeo (now east of Shenyang, Liaoning, not the Goguryeo Kingdom). It leads five counties: Goguryeo, Houcheng, Xigaima, Liaoyang, and Gaoxian. The population is 43,000.

Lelang County is governed by North Korea (now south of Pyongyang, North Korea). It leads 18 counties: North Korea, occupying Chancheng, Suicheng, let Han, Hunmi, increase the land, Liwang, Jiefang, Ledu, Bashui, tunyou, tunyou, tunyou, tunyou, tunyou, tunyou, tunyou, tunyou, tunyou, tunyou, tunyou, tunyou, tunyou, tunyou, tunyou, tunyou, tunyou, tunyou, tunyou, tunyou, tunyou, tunyou, tunyou, tunyou, tunyou, tunyou, tunyou, tunyou, tunyou, tunyou, tunyou, tunyou, tunyou, tunyou, tunyou, tunyou, tunyou, tunyou, tunyou, tunyou, tunyou, tunyou, tunyou, tunyou, tunyou, tunyou, tunyou, tunyou, tunyou, tunyou, tunyou, tunyou, tunyou, tunyou, tunyou, tunyou. The population is 250,000.

Qingzhou Donglai County is governed by Huang County. It has twelve counties: Huang County, Yuguo, Qucheng, Yeguo, Dangli, Luxiang, Mouping, Dongmu, Changyang, Changguang, and Qianzuo. Except for the fact that it has not been included in the Liaodong forces, the other eleven counties have a total population of 420,000, which exceeds the total of all the above counties and counties. The Central Plains is the Central Plains, which is really not comparable to the border counties.

Zhongliao County was separated from Liaodong by Gongsun Du, so it is counted in Liaodong County.

In other words, by the end of the Han Dynasty, the total population of Liaodong and its surrounding counties was 400,000, which was less than that of the Donglai County of Qingzhou. Of course, this is a statistics at the end of the Han Dynasty. By the time the troubled times of the Three Kingdoms came, this number was reversed.

The world was in chaos. When the Central Plains was frequent, among the counties in Liaodong, except for the vassal states in western Liao and Liaodong who were repeatedly destroyed during the Erzhang Rebellion and suffered a large population loss, the rest of the counties not only did not suffer any losses, but increased slightly. On the other hand, Qingzhou, the Yellow Turban, was the most severe place with the population losses. When Gongsun Du sent Liu Yi and Gongsun Mo to cross Hainan to seize Donglai, the Donglai County, which had a population of more than 400,000, was left in less than 150,000...

The population loss in Donglai does not mean that all these Dingkou died in war. In fact, only one-third of them died in war, the other third were threatened as thieves, and one-third of them crossed the sea to Liaodong. This is the largest source of Liaodong's population - refugees.

Since Ma Han took over Liaodong, the number of refugees who were registered has reached 350,000, and half of them came from Qingzhou. In addition, the population of the Liaodong counties was 450,000, and nearly 50,000 refugees who had worked hard to introduce from the Central Plains to western Liaoning in the past two years, as well as some non-registered black households, and the population of the Liaodong counties, the total population is about one million. Among them, the two counties directly under his rule: Liaodong County has a population of 300,000 and Donglai County has a population of 150,000, accounting for about half of the total population.

This is the capital that he strives to survive and then fights for the world.

Of course, whether it is to survive or to fight for the world, the population alone is far from enough. Liu Biao's Jingzhou had a large population. At the end of the Han Dynasty, Jingzhou's population was 6.2 million, and with more than one million refugees who were traversing the south in wars, by the time of the Battle of Chibi, the total population of Jingzhou had exceeded 8 million, and hundreds of thousands of armored men were finally disintegrated under the command of Cao Wei's soldiers.

So after reading the population registration book, Ma Han felt roughly clear and focused on the army.

The Liaodong army directly under the command of Gongsun Du was distributed in two counties, namely Liaodong County (including Zhongliao) and Donglai County. Liaodong County has a total of 34,000 officers and soldiers (including the Dashi Navy), and Donglai County has 6,000 people, totaling 40,000 soldiers and horses. Because more than 4,000 people were wiped out by the Marty White Wolf Army, the number of troops in Liaodong is less than 30,000.

The number of 30,000 soldiers seems to be neither too much nor too little, but it is really too small to be divided into eleven counties in Liaodong. Is it because Liaodong is short of people and food? Yes, it is not. Liaodong has a population of 300,000, and 40,000 soldiers are prepared. The ratio of population to the army is nine to one, that is, nine Liaodong people support one soldier. This is a critical point for the stability of the regime. If the recruitment of troops is further exceeded, it will exceed the affordability of the people, and in turn will affect the Liaodong regime.

Gongsun Du was a minor official and became a prefect and a senior official who was a governor step by step. Even if Ma Han took over, he would not dare to rashly increase his troops. It is the most appropriate to maintain this ratio.

In the military, Ma Han discussed with Zhao Yun, Taishi Ci, Le Jin and other backbone members of the army, reached an agreement: to draw 3,000 elite troops from the Liaodong army and replenish the White Wolf Army, so that the total strength of the White Wolf Army reaches 12,000. The future military policy is to use the Liaodong army to guard various cities and use the White Wolf Army as mobile combat power, one defense and one offensive, one shield and one spear, both offensive and defensive, and the shield and spear combined attack.

In the military capital area, there were few wars in Liaodong. The most serious one was that in the sixth year of Zhongping, Zhang Chun and Zhang Ju joined forces with the rebellion of Wuwan Qiu Liju, and the war burned to the Liaodong vassal state. Yang, the former prefect of Liaodong, died because of this. Fortunately, Gongsun Zan, who was the chief of the Liaodong vassal state, led 3,000 cavalry to defeat the rebels. In addition to this moderately intense war, Gongsun Du only launched two large-scale wars after he came to power. One was to capture Donglai, and the other was to attack Bailang City.

In the two wars, one wins and one loses, but one thing is very similar: that is, if you win, you will win quickly, and if you lose, you will lose quickly. The short war cycle means that there is not much loss of military capital. If you are not afraid of large scale in war, a large scale means that the capture after victory is extremely abundant, which is completely enough to make up for the losses. The so-called fighting is to support the war. What you really fear in war is tug-of-war and protracted war. The military capital, money and food are like flowing water.

In the past century, Liaodong has never had a large-scale and protracted war. The military weapons in the military staff of the warehouse only increased year by year, but did not decrease. Before Gongsun Du stepped down, the inventory of swords, spears, halberds, shields, bows, crossbows, arrows, light armor, military uniforms, saddles, bridles and leather equipment was enough to equip a large army of 100,000. All of this was cheaper than the horse.

When the paper was reviewed, Ma Han couldn't help but shake his head. Gongsun Du could be said to be a treasure mountain. He had great potential, but he was hindered in a corner of the east of the sea. He did not want to make progress, and he died in three lifetimes, which was enough to be a warning. As a force in troubled times, he should be like a boat sailing in a dangerous waterfall. If he doesn't advance, he will retreat, and if he retreats, he will fall abyss!

In times of chaos, there are only three things to look at: population, army, and food.

Although the population and army of Liaodong are not as good as those of the Central Plains, it has great potential. As long as the war in the Central Plains continues for a day, the population of Liaodong will be endless, and some people will have troops. So, what about the food that is crucial to maintaining the population and the army?

Gongsun Du once had shortage of food, so he even asked the Zhen family of Zhongshan for a dowry of 200,000 shi of grain. But this does not mean that Liaodong is short of food. In fact, Liaodong is very sufficient - when the Central Plains are barren and the wars are connected, Liaodong is in good weather and peaceful, so how can there be less food?

Gongsun Du was short of food because he attacked the powerful. Many gentry families who had the means of production refused to provide money, grain and materials, which led to the lack of money and grain of Gongsun Du. If it were not for the support of Yang, Liu, Jia and other families. In addition, he got a large amount of "bianzhuang" from the Zhen family in Zhongshan, I was afraid that he would not be able to survive this level. This was also the princes in the world during the Three Kingdoms. Everyone wanted to attack the powerful and seize more means of production to gain more voice, but few people dared to do it, or it was a small fuss (such as Liu Biao and Sun Ce). There was no reason why Gongsun Du was so completely determined.

Thanks to the special geographical location and stable political and military environment of Liaodong, there were no strong neighbors peeping, no large number of rioters in chaos, and ultimately no rebellion or unrest, Gongsun Du was able to survive. He guarded the clouds and saw the bright moon. Gongsun Du plundered more than a hundred powerful families in Liaodong, and the food he received was abundant. Even Ma Han was surprised to see the specific numbers, and then his mouth became wide open, and he didn't close for half an hour.

During dinner, when he saw the meat on the table, he thought that the food in his hands was enough to support his army from Haibei to Tiannan, Ma Han couldn't help laughing and almost whispering the food. Li Ji, Gan Mei, Zhen Qin and the Nian Nu girls who were serving on the side were surprised and looked at each other inexplicably.

With money, food, food, money... Ma Han is the most in short supply. The biggest gain of the two trips to the Central Plains was this. However, compared to Gongsun Du, who plundered a wealthy family, Ma Han's wealth was a witch. However, now, no matter how big the witch or the old witch is, he is the little witch.

Compared with money and grain, Gongsun Du's most contribution is land, pastures. Land is the root of everything. Money, grain, population, army, materials, and everything is rooted in the land. Without land, everything will be consumed for a day, and only land will make all this continue and endlessly.

After Gongsun Du wiped out more than 100 powerful people in Liaodong, he became the most powerful landlord in Liaodong. Now that the title has been transferred to Ma Han, perhaps the number one rich man must be added.

But for Ma Han, Gongsun Du's most valuable legacy is an intangible asset.

Today, all the vassals and warlords were all made by local powerful families. Even a generation of outstanding people such as Yuan Shao, Cao Cao, Liu Bei, and Lu Bu could not get rid of the ills of hundreds of years. However, Ma Han got the legacy of Gongsun Du, removed the thorns for him, and made him rule in Liaodong with almost no control of powerful families - this is the best legacy.

At this time, Ma Han had a large amount of money, grain, population and land that should belong to more than 100 powerful families in Liaodong, and became the number one powerful in Liaodong.

All of this depends on Gongsun Du's bloody suppression of the powerful families in Liaodong. Gongsun Du was therefore unfair to be accused of being unwashed for life and stood opposite to the powerful scholars. Even so many famous scholars from the Central Plains who crossed the sea to Liao, but almost no one responded to it. At present, the infamous reputation belongs to Gongsun Du and the benefits belong to Ma Han.

The Marhan, who is the most powerful man in Liaodong, the prefect of Liaodong and the commander of the White Wolf Army, although he is located in the corner of the east of the sea, has become the warlord with the most control of means of production and military power in this era. This means that the Marhan has become the most powerful prince of the Three Kingdoms - no doubt.

In troubled times, the hero needs a powerful ruler, and the hero gives rise to power.

Everything is thanks to Gongsun Du. The Marquis of Liaodong will be well on the way. (To be continued)

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