Lu Bu's people have been away for a long time, but his words have been inspiring in his heart. It would be a pity to kill the enemy if he doesn't have such martial arts skills!

Yes, if I don’t go into battle, I will be able to win the heroes of the world, and I will leave so many regrets in my life!

Liu Xie secretly decided in his heart that I would go into battle. My personal battle was the opportunity to fight to the death with you, Liu Bei.

The war did not come soon, and both sides were equally strong, and no one dared to launch a final decisive battle easily. There was still a Qingzhou between the two, and everyone realized the importance of Qingzhou now.

Liu Xie was fearless, and Liu Bei seemed to be prepared. Neither of them launched an attack on Qingzhou, and they were all waiting for Qingzhou to surrender to him.

As a generation of heroes, Liu Bei also knew that fighting with Liu Xie, who was still strong in the country, might not be easy to win. He invited two planners, Zhuge Liang and Chen Gong, who were both good at planning, to solve this problem for him.

Like Yang Xiu, Chen Gong was also responsible for collecting Liu Xie's intelligence. He told Liu Bei: "The biggest threat to the Chu army now is Xu Shu and Zhou Yu. One of them is both hard and soft, and the other is cruel and ruthless. They are both masters of military strategy in the world."

Zhuge Liang slapped the feather fan and said with a smile: "Why should Lord Chen increase his aura and destroy his own power? Xu Shu may have some concerns. He led his troops for six years and attacked three states for Liu Xie in a row. He was the first hero of the Chu army. However, his great achievements shocked the master and may not be highly valued. If he was not his position as a general, he would not be afraid, because Liu Xie was more afraid than us. As for Zhou Yu, he was only a child. Although he had flooded 300,000 Southern Barbarians, he was actually just learning the strategies of Jia Gong that year, and it was not worth fearing."

Liu Bei smiled and said, "Kong Ming said very much, but if he wants to win, it is not easy. I wonder if the two of you can formulate a long-term plan with Liu Xie and swallow it step by step. After all, the land of Chu is too big and it is difficult to win in one battle."

Zhuge Liang smiled and said, "What's the difficulty? The richest place today is Jingzhou. If Jingzhou is destroyed, the King of Chu will be defeated. I see that although the Chu army has strong military strength, it is actually scattered everywhere. Our army only needs to gather heavy troops to capture Nanyang County, and he will be in a panic. Is Your Highness important to Chang'an to the lord, or Nanyang of Jingzhou to Liu Xie's son?"

Liu Bei smiled and said, "Of course, Nanyang, Jingzhou, is more important to him. If I lose Chang'an, I can retreat to the north of the Yellow River. I have not much strength. Since he has to retreat to the Yangtze River, he has been more than half of his strength. But Nanyang is so important, how can he not stay with him?"

Zhuge Liang smiled and said, "I know that the lord wants to set up three armies to compete with Liu Xie, but his strength is not as strong as him. If he does not win quickly, the situation will be in danger!"

Liu Bei said: "Kong Ming's words are not as good as his. Although our national strength is not as good as his, it is just a cause of war. If he has been together for ten years, his national strength will naturally be higher than him. Looking at the past and present, the strength of the south is all below the north."

Chen Gong nodded and said, "What the lord said is very true!"

Zhuge Liang laughed and said, "Since the lord intends to fight against national strength with him, then Kong Ming has something to watch for the lord!"

Liu Bei was surprised and asked, "What should I see with me!"

Zhuge Liang clapped his hands gently and sent someone to send him twenty-four volumes of bamboo slips, saying, "Liang, from a friend's place, got a complete set of "Xiangyang Rules". The details of the above contain many wonderful techniques for governing the country, but there are too many flaws and are not suitable for the common use of the world. Therefore, I wrote this volume of "Twenty-four National Policy" in three years. If I can use "Twenty-four National Policy" to govern the land under the jurisdiction of the lord, I can guarantee that the country will be stronger than the south after ten years."

Although Liu Bei knew his ability well, he still couldn't help but look through it carefully. The more he looked, the more he was amazed, and said, "It turns out that they are all good strategies for governing the country. Kong Ming was a genius in governing the world. Xiao He, who was like Emperor Gaozu, and Kong Ming was like Zhang Liang!"

Chen Gong hurriedly said, "The lord has been awarded too much!"

Zhuge Liang smiled loudly and said, "Liang will never let down the lord's entrustedness."

Liu Bei grabbed the two and laughed, saying, "Since you have two help, how can Liu Xie be with me!"

"National Policy Chapter 24" launched a huge reform, and encountered resistance, but the resistance did not really stop the reform in the north. Like "Xiangyang Rule", it cleverly avoided the power of wealthy families and hoped to give farmers more benefits.

The system of troops implemented by Cao Cao in Yanzhou has also begun to be promoted. Due to the serious loss of war in the north, among the states obtained by Liu Bei, among the Sili of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the current population of Yongzhou is only 1.8 million; after years of recruitment, Bingzhou has a population of only 550,000, of which 300,000 are Taiyuan; Jizhou has a population of more than 3 million, which is almost the largest population in the north; Youzhou has maintained its best in the war, and there is still 1.8 million people. Gongsun Zan has completely obtained the rule of Youzhou with the help of Liu Bei.

However, it still belongs to the jurisdiction of Liu Bei, and the relationship between him and Liu Bei is also the main reason why this jurisdiction can barely be maintained; Liu Bei and Liu Xie each account for half of the area, and Liu Bei has less than one million people. Liu Xie took over earlier than Liu Bei. During the battle, a large number of people went south. In fact, Runan alone has a population of two million. There were originally more, but Liu Xie had already begun to immigrate the population south to Huainan and Lujiang; Yanzhou had only two million, and about one million people flowed to the south.

Zhuge Liang felt a sensation in his heart. He was born too late for too many years. Over the years, Liu Xie has been working hard for this north-south duel. From the late Yellow Turban Rebellion, the Dong Zhuo Rebellion, the Kanto Alliance Battle, the Battle of the Princes, and the last three-year battle, Liu Xie has always chosen to absorb refugees as his primary choice.

Today's south is no longer the same as before. Jingzhou alone has a population of nearly 8 million. This is the number of people that Liu Xie transferred a large number of Nanyang to Yuzhang, Changsha and other two lakes to prevent Nanyang from becoming a war zone.

After Yangzhou absorbed the three million refugees in Xuzhou, the population measured only exceeded 4.6 million, mainly concentrated in Lujiang, Guangling and Jiangdong, which are far away from the north-south battle line.

Yizhou, which Liu Xiexin won, was the only place without any war since the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty. Its current population is 3.8 million.

Zhuge Liang even stared at Yizhou with greed eyes. The once remote place was even more populated than Jizhou, the first state in the Central Plains. The 8.6 million population of Jingzhou almost scared Zhuge Liang.

The population of Yangzhou is 6 million, 900,000 in Jiaozhou, and the population of Xiliang has increased by more than 500,000 after repeatedly plundering Yongzhou. Only these 500,000 people do not include the population of the Western Regions that Liu Xie has gradually begun to control. The population of Jingzhou is 8.6 million, Yizhou is 3.8 million, Hanzhong is 700,000, and Runan County, Yuzhou and nearby 200 people. This is still a rough estimate. In fact, the population that Xuzhou was left in Huai'an and Guangling is basically the south, and it can be said that there are more than 22 million people.

When he got these data from Liu Bei's military aircraft department, Zhuge Liang even felt that there was almost no need to fight the war. Chen Gong comforted: After all, the south is temporarily stable, so there is so many people. As long as the north is stable, they can be absorbed back.

Zhuge Liang sighed softly. His brother Zhuge Jin had gradually entered the core part of Liu Xie's camp. According to the information revealed on his uncle Zhuge Xuanxin, the brother seemed to be one of the candidates to take over Xun Yu. The uncle and nephew both replied to him and advised him to go to Xiangyang to serve. The words of praise for Liu Xie and the Chu King's Mansion were all extravagant words. Uncle and brother, who have always been strictly prohibited, would not appreciate this without reason. The only reason was that the people in the south were indeed willing to stay in the south.

Liu Xie currently has very low taxes on farmers in various places and almost no collections are collected. Liu Bei can only maintain the local tax level in the early Eastern Han Dynasty. Even so, the tax revenue in the north is still far less than that in the south.

Like Liu Xie, will you develop the business path that leads to the chaos of the country? Zhuge Liang said viciously, you will be rewarded, how can merchants be trusted? They will be in chaos in the south. They only have money in their eyes, and there is no one like you who wants to be an emperor.

Liu Xie, people like you who think about being in trouble will not have good results!

What about Liu Bei? Don’t you want to be emperor? Zhuge Liang shook his head. Who has reached the current power and doesn’t want to take another step forward?

Zhuge Liang, didn’t you become an official in order to end the troubled times and revive the Han Dynasty?

Uncle Liu, do you really want to do what Huo Guang is doing as you said?

Zhuge Liang couldn't help but ask himself gently, while burying the answer deeply in his heart. He had to admit that human goals are always changing constantly. From the initial purpose of the world to repaying Liu Bei's kindness for his kindness, he seemed to have changed too quickly.

He also has to admit that Liu Bei does have many ways to repay you with kindness, provided that he has a broader mind than ordinary people.

In terms of tolerance and trust, Liu Bei is indeed more charming and broader than Liu Xie and Cao Cao.

"National Policy Chapter 24" can only be regarded as trying to recover the disadvantages of the north, restore the population, develop national strength, and promote the planting of wasteland. A large number of soldiers began to plant wasteland. This is a way out. Once the war begins in the north and the south, they will fall into a very long war of attrition. This is exactly what Liu Xie hopes. His current eighth army of the Chu army is nearly 400,000 and nearly 100,000 people and the 16th Battalion of the Imperial Guard. These 500,000 troops can be completely separated from production. In the north, it seems that Liu Bei has nearly one million troops, but the total population is only 10 million. How can he support it for a long time with such support?

Among the 500,000 horses of Liu Xie, there were 150,000 cavalrymen, but there were 100,000 Liangzhou Youma, only 50,000 were Bingzhou good horses and Liangzhou ordinary war horses. What about Liu Bei? It was known as 200,000 cavalrymen, and the 50,000 elite horses were Liangzhou horses, and the rest were Youzhou horses and Bingzhou horses.

The gap between the aura and weapons is also huge. Now Liu Xie owns five cast iron centers, Xiangyang, Chengdu, Jiangxia, Jinling and Huai'an. The four gathering places of Luoyang, Taiyuan, Yecheng and Puyang that Liu Bei had in his hands. Luoyang, the most concentrated gathering places was withdrawn by merchants before Liu Bei closed the city. Now it is almost the same as Taiyuan. The gap is too big than Liu Xie's Xiangyang, and it is even much behind the newly built Jinling.

As for training, Liu Xie's 500,000 army has been trained for nearly six years. Liu Bei's million army has almost been stolen from others. There are not many generals who are good at training troops under the tent. If they win, they will win a great victory, and if they lose, they will lose a miserable defeat.

Zhuge Liang and Chen Gong analyzed several times, and the most basic judgment was that the decisive battle had to be delayed for ten years, but Liu Xie should not give himself so long.

If Liu Xie had only one state in territory, he could still attack, but the lower half of the country was his. Suddenly entering the army alone would only lead to his siege.

Jia Xu and Sima Yi, who were commanding the troops outside, had basically this idea. They had to delay time and slowly retreated the population of the land that might be involved in the battle between the north and the south. The north, which had no more population, could no longer lose its population.

Zhuge Liang clearly stipulated in the "Twenty-fourth National Policy" that the population of Yuzhou, Yongzhou and Yanzhou moved to the north, while the soldiers marched here.
Chapter completed!