Follow General Cao to mix the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 829 The Peak of War
Time flies, and in a blink of an eye, three years have passed by so quickly.

It has to be mentioned that sometimes war is not a bad thing. Just like the dark forest deterrence theory, both Shu, Wu and Wei are in danger of being wiped out. Therefore, in the entire Central Plains and China, Lin Li's regime is desperately developing itself.

The one with the most resources is the one with the most resources. Cao Pi is in Yecheng. Where there are people, there are rivers and lakes. However, there are many aristocratic families in the Central Plains, but it is the place with the most people. No matter how big or small the aristocratic families are, they are all aggressive and want to go up. Climbing, as an emperor, Cao Pi often plays the role of not a dictator, but a distributor. How to distribute the benefits and ensure that the most aristocratic families can stand on his chariot is the problem he has always faced.

In the past three years, Wang Hou's allies in the Central Plains have become his targets. The first is the fifth general Zang Ba of the Taishan Army who still has military power in Qingzhou. Through the third battle of Ruxukou, the Taishan Army was regarded as the vanguard by Cao Pi. Forcing him to invade Yangzhou for a time, he was sniped wildly by the Wu army. Tens of thousands of Taishan troops were killed and injured.

In this supply war, Cao Pi's logistical pressure was mainly on Xuzhou. fading down.

But even so, Cao Pi still did not cut off Wang Houshen's tentacles in the Central Plains, because whether it was the Central Plains family who took over the Qingzhou cotton fields, or the Central Plains gentry who took over the Xuzhou salt farms and fisheries, if they wanted to realize these resources, they still had to go through Liaodong. After the construction is completed, the intricate business network is processed and sold, so that it can be exchanged for gold, silver, copper coins, silk and jade, and turned into real property.

Still the same sentence, it is easy to go from frugal to extravagant, but difficult to go from extravagant to frugal! Before Wang Hou, the feudal manor system, the lives of the major families were actually quite simple, and they could live on their own, but now! People eat Stew vegetables in an iron pot, add Bashu rattan pepper, Western Region pepper and cinnamon, can you buy it?
They wear Shu brocade embroidery on their bodies, and Khotan jade on their waists. The incense they use is frankincense and myrrh from Tianzhu.
The people’s four-wheeled carriages are made of Nanyang mahogany, and the wine from the Western Regions in the Persian flagon is also Qingzhou molasses wine, and the Han Dynasty sour wine is used to entertain guests. Are you shabby or not?

Even Cao Pi himself was unable to completely eliminate these commercial networks densely covered in his own territory. From the Cao Cao era to the Cao Pi era, the secret of Wang Hou's tentacles being able to extend is to really pay taxes!
The cooperation of the major chambers of commerce from Liaodong to the Central Plains cannot be poured in. It is difficult for outsiders to intervene in their business network, and nearly half of the profits are turned over to the imperial court. Seventy percent of Yecheng’s income now comes from commercial taxes. Cao Pi moved One place can lead to the consequences of mobilizing the whole body. Almost all domestic chambers of commerce have gone on strike against taxes. The gentry lords have nowhere to buy tea. The revenue of the treasury has dropped by [-]%. Who can bear it?
However, I have to admit that Cao Pi's method of winning people's hearts is particularly outstanding. In three years, he completely unified the power of the Central Plains. He is in his hands, and he can command the 40 Cao Wei army like an arm, and his strength belongs to the most powerful one in the entire Three Kingdoms era.

Cao Pi's Eastern Wei Dynasty was relying on its old capital to integrate the forces within the territory, while Wang Hou and Cao Zhang's Western Wei Dynasty did their best to expand outward, with the support of Wang Hou and a large group of unscrupulous businessmen behind them. Now the Western Regions have basically been defeated by Cao Zhang, and their power is equivalent to that of the Tang Dynasty. The sum of Anxi Dufu Mansion plus Beiting Duhu Mansion.

Moreover, in foreign wars, the feeling of conquest is really addictive. Going all the way to the south, breaking a country and erecting a stone tablet, it is written in what year and month Cao Zhang broke a certain country and how many miles he opened up for the Great Wei. Fortunately, Wang Hou asked him to stop at Congling, pack up his troops and prepare to destroy Shu. Fortunately, he agreed, and the other led his troops to explore the Pamirs, contacting Dawan, Kangju and one of the four ancient countries on the Silk Road. Guishuang dried up.

If the fight continued like this, Wang Houzhen doubted whether Cao Zhang would be able to fight to Rome together.

Of course, not only Cao Wei is developing, in three years, Shu Han and Sun Wu have also been on the road of rapid development, and it is because of Wang Hou.

On the side of the Shu Han, they do business directly with Liaodong. Wang Hou also seems to be really not his own enemy. Food, cloth, medicinal materials and ointment, except for weapons, are not exported. And other strategic materials that can indirectly affect the direction of the war are also sold as soon as they are sold.

In fact, this is not good for the Shu Han. A large amount of grain is imported, and the domestic grain production will definitely be affected. If high-end cloth, spices and tea are exchanged for daily necessities, the handicraft industry in Shu will also suffer a heavy blow, especially in Liaodong. The high-ranking gentry of the Shu Han will rely on Liaodong.

This is the same reason as when Liu Bei bought people's hearts at Xiamengguan when he entered Sichuan, but Liu Bei was a little more clever, relying on selling his face and seducing people's hearts with empty gloves and white wolves, while Wang Hou actually made money.

It's a pity that even knowing that Wang Hou's little black face has no good intentions, Zhuge Liang can only drink poison to quench his thirst, because the Shu Han is really short of people.

The registered household registration is about 90, and the total population is only 150. Even if they are slaves and hermits of local aristocratic families, [-] million people can survive. The political environment of Shu Han is perilous. All men go to the army, so naturally there is not enough labor to go to the fields. to produce food.

But Zhuge Liang couldn't disband the army either. If he was self-sufficient and self-defended, his development speed would never be able to catch up with the behemoth Cao Wei. Not to mention, Sun Wu, who had a hukou of more than 400 million in the south of the Yangtze River, would be able to kill him. With the boss behind, he still had to station troops, on the one hand to defend himself and protect the regime, and on the other hand to supply military supplies and develop Nanzhong.

The plundered and conquered population is always faster than natural breeding, so even if the trade with Wang Hou is poisonous wine, Prime Minister Zhuge can only recognize it by pinching his nose. The women who stay behind pick tea and raise silkworms, and weave extraordinarily exquisite clothes. The Shu brocade was exported in exchange for military rations, and then sent troops to the south to continuously crusade against the barbarians in the South and Central China in the Dashangouzi, gathered their sturdy and warlike population, and paid taxes to Chengdu with their land.

In this era, the bonus of being the Wuhu in the Han Dynasty is still there. In three years, the seven captures of Meng Huo and Wang Hou really don’t know if it happened, but the whole Nanzhong, most of Yunnan and a part of the Guizhou Plain in later generations were conquered by Prime Minister Zhuge, and the territory of China Pushed another large block to the west.

The Wudang Flying Army compiled and trained has also added a full [-] soldiers to the Shu Army, and the combat effectiveness of these nomadic peoples has even surpassed the nomadic peoples that Wang Hou collected. Compared with three years ago, the strength of the Shu Kingdom is There has been great progress.

Compared with Wei and Shu, Wu, the second oldest country in ten thousand years, has not changed much. After all, only in terms of territorial area, Sun Quan's territory is even larger than that of the Central Plains, and going south is the sea, and there is nothing to expand Tuo! In the past few years, Sun Quan has only completely annexed the Shanyue, Minyue and other ethnic minorities in the territory to his own command, expanding the number of Wu troops from the original 20 to nearly 30.

In the military competition like a game, no matter which side of the country, the power has temporarily reached a peak.

However, this peak-level development is like a huge powder keg, brewing more and more intense battle clouds over the land of China.

Waiting for who will do it first!
(End of this chapter)