Chapter 76 Ji Hao’s Ambition That year, Huang Zhong stood like a minion!
Ji Hao did not get carried away just because he had conquered Yuzhou. Although he had an absolute advantage in military strength and his equipment was already ahead of the times, he still deployed his defenses carefully.

Even Zhao Yun and Guo Jia were transferred over to let the civil and military men join forces to guard the city.

"My lord, are you being too cautious?" Zhou Cang asked.

In this regard, Ji Hao shook his head and said, "There is nothing wrong with being cautious. Too many major defeats were caused by people who thought they had an absolute advantage and underestimated their enemies. In the end, the advantage was not as great as they thought!"

In his previous life, Xiao Dezi thought he could definitely defeat the Russian bear, but in the end Xiao Dezi fell on his knees.

Xiao Ri thought he could definitely take over the Central Plains, but he was defeated.

Before the fight, Xiao Zi believed that he could defeat the Eagle Sauce. Before the fight, the five-star general would never believe that there was anyone on earth who could defeat him.

To take a more recent example, before Cao Cao was defeated at the Battle of Red Cliffs, he did not see any possibility that Zhou Yu could defeat him.

Before burning his camps, Liu Bei also felt that he had conquered Jiangdong!
In short, when a lion fights a rabbit, it will do its best.

Ji Hao would not let his guard down at this time. Even if his own foundation would not be shaken, if he took Yuzhou and then it was taken back by others, it would also be a blow to the Datong Army.

"Aren't there too few people in Yuzhou?" Zhao Yun said.

He found that something seemed to be wrong with Yuzhou. In the true sense of the word, nine out of ten houses were empty. Large tracts of houses were uninhabited and most of the arable land was abandoned.

It was as if I had experienced a massacre.

But has Yuzhou ever been massacred?

No!

Not to mention the massacre, there has been no war in these years. When Yuan Shu took over Yuzhou, there was no fighting at all. It was Liu Bei who voluntarily gave up this place that was not easy for him to defend in order to take Xichuan.

"They were moved away!" Ji Hao said.

It was only after he arrived in Yuzhou that he realized Yuan Shu's situation was truly embarrassing: not only had Yangzhou been taken away by the Jiangdong rebels, but all the territory in Yuzhou that originally belonged to Liu Bei had also been taken away.

What is early taxation?
Liu Bei just led the people to migrate and emptied most of Yuzhou!
The overlords of the Three Kingdoms of Wei, Shu and Wu, leaving aside Sun Quan, who was the perennial runner-up, Cao Cao and Liu Bei, were both trendsetters of this era. The former invented the "military farming system", opening up opportunities for people regardless of their background, while the latter invented the "reservation of land for people".

Every time Liu Bei fled, he would take the common people with him.

In those days when the land was vast and the population was sparse, losing land was not considered lost at all. As long as the people were taken away, the city was still there - as long as the people survived and the land was lost, both the people and the land remained. This truth was verified by the King of Qin as early as the Warring States Period.

However, this trick can indeed be used to deal with other princes and even Yuan Shu.

The Skeleton King will go crazy, and no Liu Bei is innocent.

But if you want to deal with Ji Hao, you're overthinking it.

After Hua Tuo joined, he founded the "Ministry of Medicine" and vigorously promoted anesthesia and surgical operations. Together with alcohol, penicillin and other things, the neonatal mortality rate has been greatly reduced to the level of the 1970s and 1980s.

Population is no longer a problem!
He even had an ambition: If the Han people did not implement family planning, but instead tried every possible way to increase the population, then in a few years, would they be able to turn 1.3 billion into 13 billion?
In the previous life, I was restricted by territory and bound by the concept of "per capita" and could not let go.

But now it is the Three Kingdoms period, Ji Hao has become king, and nothing can restrain him or the growth of the population!

"The facts have proven that Genghis Khan was a man who only knew how to shoot eagles with a bow. Conquering the world is not something that can be achieved by relying on military strength alone. The root of everything is still people!"

Thinking of this, Ji Hao took out a pen and paper and wrote down the four big words "Northern Folk Southern Dialogue"!
"All the people who migrated from Qingzhou and Xuzhou will be given 100 acres of good farmland, a working ox, and a three-story building?"

He pondered for a moment and shook his head.

It was finally decided that all the people who came to Yuzhou to settle down would be given good farmland and oxen, as well as a small Western-style house. If the people from Qingzhou and Xuzhou came, they would be given additional "Datong Treasure Notes".

Seeing this, Guo Jia was completely shocked. "My lord, if you do this, the surrounding princes will probably go crazy!"

"It's okay to be crazy! It would be nice to have more crazy people to keep Yuan Shu company!" Ji Hao said.

"The Art of Slaying Dragons" says: We should take the enemy seriously tactically and despise the enemy strategically. All reactionaries are paper tigers, and we should boldly do things that are beneficial to our side!
Don't worry about the enemy's obstruction!
……

The battle of Yuzhou shocked the world!

Although it came suddenly and ended quickly, the sensation it caused was no less than the Battle of Xuzhou: before, everyone only knew that Ji Hao was strong, the only person in the world who could suppress Lu Bu, but they never knew how strong he was.

Although in the eyes of the princes, a peerless general is better than an army of 100,000, and a top-notch one is even known as "a match for ten thousand men."

But it's just a description after all.

But now, Ji Hao fought alone against ten thousand people and defeated Yuan Shu's army, which gave people all over the world an idea of ​​his strength: one person can beat ten thousand people!

Ip Man can only fight ten people at once, so what does it mean that he can fight ten thousand people at once?
There is already a hint of "mysterious powerful man" in his mind!
In addition, people of this era were superstitious, and the emperor called himself the "Son of Heaven". People no longer had any doubts about his identity as the descendant of the Queen of Humanity. In fact, in many places, people gradually began to call him the "Human Emperor".

The strongest people in the world have also become "two top ones and one emperor".

The saying "The king is no higher than Xiang, and the one above him is the Emperor of Man" which was once circulated only in a small circle has gradually spread.

In terms of personal strength, he has reached the pinnacle of this era.

However, some careful people still discovered the key to that battle. For example, the "War Eagle Squad" mobilized by Ji Hao at the end actually descended from the sky and used thunder to directly destroy Yuan Shu's mechanical city.

"Find skilled craftsmen. I must know what is going on!" said Liu Bei.

Upon hearing this, someone immediately spoke up: "I've heard that there is something called a 'Kongming Lantern', which was invented by a child named Zhuge Kongming. Could it be related to Ji Hao's divine weapon?"

This man is not very old, his name is Xu Shu, and his courtesy name is Yuanzhi!

……

As soon as the migration order was issued, due to Ji Hao's credibility, people from surrounding areas immediately began to gather in Yuzhou.

There was even a man named Zhang Xiu who brought thousands of people to make connections and became a vanguard general - of course, this was just a rumor in the market. In fact, Zhang Xiu was actually Ji Hao's "senior brother" in name, so it wasn't really making connections, but they were related.

This was recognized in ancient times.

As a disciple of Tong Yuan, Zhang Xiu is also qualified to be a vanguard general.

However, although people from all over the surrounding areas poured in, Dongwu was not affected much because it was blocked by the Yangtze River. Yanzhou was not affected much either because it bordered Qingzhou and Xuzhou, so those who could escape had already fled.

The people have all been purified.

But Jingzhou was greatly affected. The people who were exploited by the aristocratic families originally had nothing, but when they arrived in Yuzhou, they could turn their lives around and sing. How could they not yearn for it?

They fled one after another, making Liu Biao furious.

He ordered Huang Zu, who was already on his way to Yuzhou, to speed up his advance.

Soon we arrived at the border between the two states.

But Ji Hao's attention was not on Huang Zu. Instead, he looked at a young general and compared it with the portrait and said, "The one standing like a minion is Huang Zhong? He is actually holding Huang Zu's horse. Liu Biao must not think that the 'Huang' in 'Huang Xu Sun Tai Liang Xia Hou' refers to his general Huang Zu, right?"

(End of this chapter)