From the world of martial arts

Chapter 256 Potential
After convincing Zhang Zhongjing, and the former also promised to invite some Taoist people with medical skills to go to the East China Sea for Su Fan, Su Fan's trip was the right one.

And on the second day, news came from An Xiao that Tai Shici, who had sent troops to Wu Jun, had beheaded Yan Baihu, and Wu Jun had taken it. ,

This can be described as double happiness.

Su Fan was still very happy.

Before the attack on Wu County, everyone had already made up their minds, but it is still very good to be able to take it so easily now.

According to the dark owl's news, Tai Shici led a group of generals to attack the city and seize territory in less than two months. Wu Jun had no resistance at all, so he was pushed down by Tai Shi Ciping.

In several battles, no soldiers were lost, and the number of casualties was less than six thousand.

These are casualties, not deaths.

There are not many doctors in Su Fan Donghai Territory, that's because most of the doctors were taken away by the army.

It can be said that each battalion is equipped with a considerable number of military doctors, so among the [-] casualties, perhaps two-thirds will survive.

As for whether they can continue to develop in the army, it depends on whether their injuries are serious, but even if they retire.

Su Fan also made arrangements early.

Almost all of these retired sergeants became village chiefs or village elders, etc., and some served as militia officers in the village to train the militia.

And another advantage of doing this is that with these people in control of the village, Su Fan's control over the place will be even tighter.

In the past, the imperial power did not go to the countryside, but it is different in the East China Sea.

Soldiers who have retired from the army, even if they are retired, it goes without saying that they will support Su Fan. It is almost impossible for a big family in your area to win them over.

Tai Shici's battle was also quite beautiful.

Winning Wu County meant that Su Fan had a place to develop again, especially since Wu County didn't have any big families, so he could continue to develop according to the outline of the East China Sea Territory and continue to gain strength.

Unfortunately, the key is population.

Su Fan also started to get greedy for Yuzhou.

Although Yuzhou is not as large as Xuzhou and Yangzhou, almost half of the essence of the Central Plains is here.

The population here is dense. In the county of Runan, during the reign of Emperor Ling, there were a full 400 million households and a population of nearly 3000 million according to official statistics.

This is only official statistics. If you add those hidden by the major families and some hidden households outside the city, the population may not be less than 4000 million.

Even after the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the population has been greatly reduced, but according to Su Fan's estimation, there are at least 2000 people in Runan County.

The entire Yuzhou should have a population of nearly 5000 million.

If these populations all become under his rule, then his strength will increase explosively.

Among the other princes in the world, he is unmatched in terms of his ability to transform the demographic dividend into strength.

No one can match it.

The larger the population, the stronger he will be, and if the soldiers explode, his mobilization power will be even more terrifying.

The other princes may explode soldiers, and those who burst out are all miscellaneous soldiers, which may be a little bit more powerful than auxiliary soldiers.

But he is different.

The population of Yuzhou made him greedy, and Xuzhou was a little bit worse. According to his estimation, the population of Xuzhou, including the hidden ones of the rich, is probably less than 2000 million.

Although Xuzhou itself is rich, its population is not too large. In addition to being ravaged by the Yellow Turban, the population is even smaller.

In addition, he has been absorbing them all these years, so apart from Donghai County, the combined population of the other counties in Xuzhou is probably at most millions more than Donghai County.

The Donghai County here naturally includes the Donghai Territory.

Donghai Territory has a population of tens of millions, and Donghai County has a population of about 300 to [-] million. This is also thanks to the development of Donghai Territory and prosperous business. Most of the rich merchant families have migrated to Donghai County.

Otherwise, it would be pretty good if Donghai County had a population of one million at the beginning.

However, most of Yuzhou is still in the hands of Yuan Shu, and Yuan Shu is still the number one prince in the South or the Central Plains.

Fighting against him is not of great benefit to Su Fan.

After all, Yuan Shu is not so easy to deal with. Yuan Shu is not Yan Baihu, crooked melons, and there are not even two or three generals. ,
Yuan Shu's top military generals are nothing, and Ji Ling can't be ranked in the top [-] in the Three Kingdoms at the end of Han Dynasty.

But to be honest, Su Fan had seen Yuan Shu's army, the army commanded by Hefei Ji Lingtong was not Yuan Shu's elite.

But the officers in the army are quite good, at least in Su Fan's opinion, Sun Jian is not necessarily better than Yuan Shu's for the same mid-level officers.

This is also the strength of Yuan's background. Maybe he can't find some top generals, but those middle-level officers, relying on their strong background, are quite attractive.

Most of these people came from reckless backgrounds, and their foresight is not high. In their eyes, the Yuan family is a noble family, and it is definitely their luck to be able to rely on Yuan's family.

This is the case with Hefei's partial teachers, and Yuan Shu's main force must also be stronger.

No matter how bad the evaluation of Yuan Shu was in history, later generations of the Internet also said that he was completely brain-dead.

But Su Fan didn't know Yuan Shu with these things.

If you really want to think of Yuan Shu like this, he is a fool.

Yuan Shu, as a direct disciple of the Yuan family, was trained according to the elite from an early age. Among Yuan Shu, even most of the clan elders recognized him, not Yuan Shao, so it can be seen that he is capable.

If it is really possible to suppress Yuan Shao only by relying on the identity of the direct line, it is impossible.

There is no one superiority, if you want to gain a foothold, it is really a joke.

The aristocratic family has existed for thousands of years and has its own promotion channels. It is an inevitable result that the capable go up and the mediocre go down.

He is really a mediocre person, who dares to let him take the position.

Fighting head-on with Yuan Shu, Su Fan is confident that he can kill him, but he will definitely lose, and the loss will definitely not be too small.

Su Fan can bear these things, but I'm afraid that in the future, the surrounding princes will be wary of him and even join forces to block him.

At that time, his development would inevitably be restrained and slowed down, which was not something Su Fan could bear.

He can accept Yuan Shu's expansion of power, but he can't accept his own development and transformation, because if he simply develops, he is confident that no one in the world can match him.

It has only been a few years since the development of the East China Sea Territory, and it has been less than ten years since its construction.

In the next ten years, he believed that the strength of the East China Sea Territory would be several times greater than it is now.

Why can Yuan Shu be compared with him, at least in this area, he can say that everyone present is younger brother.

So he can't mess with his plans.

(End of this chapter)