The experience of the Five Barbarians invading China told Guo Peng that these guys are all hidden enemies and surrender for a moment. Once they have the chance, they will definitely jump up and rebel, which is not credible.

Within the Great Wall defense line, Guo Peng cannot allow people with ulterior motives to exist, otherwise he will be irresponsible to the Han people behind him.

Since they are obediently working as their toolmakers, their leaders think that they create a relatively comfortable working environment and cannot make them sweat, bleeding and cry.

Sweat is inevitable, and blood and tears can be controlled.

Guo Peng then made a plan to attack the Southern Xiongnu in the north, and to fight a tough battle with the Southern Xiongnu cavalry, destroy all of them and restore the entire Bingzhou.

This battle is the time for the major generals and staff who have just received the reward to work hard, and it is also a new round of conquest after half a year of cultivation.

Jizhou will become the logistics base for the entire operation, and will take on the plan to attack the Southern Xiongnu and conquer Wuhuan and Zahu in Youzhou. Jizhou, which has been recuperating for more than two years, has a population of 1.1 million, and a population of 5.5 million is enough to assume this responsibility.

The population of ancient dynasties has always been a confusing account that is unclear. The population recorded in the dynasty household registration is often the open taxpayer population, but this is by no means the total.

The population of the garrison households, military households, officials households, hidden households, tenants, tribes and subjugated ethnic minorities has not been recorded in the dynasty household registration.

When Shu Han fell, there were 280,000 household registrations, 940,000 citizens, 102,000 soldiers and 40,000 officials.

What this one million people refer to is the population directly controlled by the Shu Han government. The number of people who can be taxed and conscription based on them is in place, not the total number.

Modern scholars consider the number of people who are not included in the statistics of military, official, missed household registration, households, tenants and ethnic minorities, and other people who are not included in the statistics. They believe that there were about four million people living in Yizhou during the Shu Han period, and the Shu Han government only controlled about one-quarter of them.

The remaining three-quarters are either ethnic minorities such as the Southern Barbarians, tenants and tribes from powerful landlords and gentry families, or slaves from officials and officials' homes, etc.

These populations cannot be counted as national household registration, and they cannot become the national strength of Shu Han.

The same situation happened to Cao Wei and Sun Wu.

In the year when Shu Han was destroyed, the population of Cao Wei was about 4.43 million. Modern scholars considered the unincorporated groups of people such as the garrison, military household, official household, hidden household, tenant, and tribe. It is estimated that there were about 13 million people living in Cao Wei.

The household registration that the Cao Wei government can turn into national power is only one-third.

The population of the year when the Sun Wu government was destroyed was about 2.56 million. Including those household registrations that cannot be counted and the young people such as the Shanyue and Wuxi barbarians, it is generally believed that there were more than 5.5 million people living in the Eastern Wu territory.

The total population and the country have different population control. The population hidden by officials, gentry, powerful landlords, and the minority people living in the country have not been recorded in the total population of the country. Of course, it is not the power of the country.

The national government cannot even take the absolute initiative to become the leader. In the later stages of the development of the Three Kingdoms, it will be that the three countries will be worse.

Three 60-year-olds covered in illness can compete for a longer life.

Both Shu Han and Eastern Wu died of illness, and Sima Jin, who was parasitized in Cao Wei, was a sixty-year-old man since his birth.

There is no doubt that the Shu Han government, which had lost Zhuge Liang and his successors, completely degenerated into a small government with no sense of existence in the later period. It could not even resist, and was abandoned under the internal and external cooperation of the internal and external enemies.

The Cao Wei government also followed suit later, and Sun Wu was a little better because the regime had been deeply localized since the Sun Quan period, and after the demise of Shu Han, it survived for nearly twenty years.

This incident was discovered when Guo Peng counted his household registration after he pacified his residence in Qingzhou.

It is very interesting to compare the number of local household registrations found in the Qingzhou governor's mansion with the population obtained from the subsequent census.

The last count of the population was about 600,000 households and more than 3 million people, but the number that Guo Peng counted after the war at the end of Chuping was relatively the same as this number.

The world has been in chaos for several years, and after the Yellow Turban Rebellion, your population has not decreased. Where did the bones everywhere come from?

The truth here goes without saying.

The hidden household registration was accidentally liberated by violence during the war. After Guo Peng came, he grabbed the grass and beat the rabbits with a spoonful of them and accepted them all with a smile, and ended up getting a Qingzhou with a large population.

The same was true in Yanzhou after that, with 800,000 households and more than 4 million people. After quelling the Yellow Turbans and pacifying Lu Bu, Guo Peng made a demographic statistics respectively. After comparing the situation, he also obtained a population of 3.8 million, which means that more than 200,000 people were lost after so many years of war.

This is not normal.

The only explanation is that there are many dead people, but the hidden household registration of the destroyed powerful landlords was liberated and re-included in the statistics, allowing Guo Peng to take a big advantage.

How terrible is the population occupied by the powerful landlords’ house?

Give two examples.

First, Mi Zhu, Mi family, private soldiers, servants and tenants, with a total of more than 10,000 people. Liu Bei got two thousand private soldiers from Mi family.

The second is Li Dian, and the Li Dian family has 3,000 households and 13,000 households.

Two families, with more than 20,000 people and more than 5,000 households, do not pay taxes or include them in statistics. Just like the air, living is the same as not living.

This is just the tip of the iceberg.

A wealthy family, or a wealthy family that is even bigger than the Mi family and Li family, is entrenched on this land, splitting the complete country into small manors one by one.

The body of the Eastern Han Empire was like this, with pus flowing all over the body, which was extremely terrifying.

War and Hidden House are really terrible.

That is, Guo Peng took action early and pacified these places as soon as possible, and then set up strong government agencies to control civilians, which also gave them safety guarantees, and did not let them starve to death in large quantities, but died in large quantities in large quantities in war.

So some of the vitality left by the Eastern Han Dynasty was obtained by Guo Peng.

The population loss in Jizhou is actually quite large, especially in Bohai County and Qinghe Kingdom. After wars, the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the local wars between Guo Peng and Yuan Shao, the local wars between Gongsun Zan and Yuan Shao, and the wars between Guo Peng and Yuan Shao, the wars between Guo Peng and Yuan Shao, the wars between Guo Peng to eliminate Yuan Shao, did lose a lot of population.

However, Guo Peng later used Yuan Shu's banner to destroy the powerful landlords' homes on a large scale, liberate the hidden households, and included them in the statistics, and obtained tens of thousands of fugitives from the mountains brought by Zhang Yan. After statistics, he obtained data such as 1.1 million households and 5.5 million people.
Chapter completed!