Liu Ye's words made everyone roll their eyes, lazy to pay attention to Liu Ye, who can be called a wise man is a bold person, even a person like Jia Xu who is known for his self-preservation is not a courageless person.

Naturally, the reason why everyone rolled their eyes was that Liu Ye was too boring, who didn't know about this kind of thing, but it was really not said so openly, some things were taboo, and as a clan surnamed Liu said this kind of thing in the world, it almost means that I want to carry the ding, and everyone else will dodge away, stand aside, I want to become the new pillar!

"Wang Ba's business, I think we have been high-profile this time, and now it is estimated that others have also judged our true strength, although I want to hide it." Chen Xi reluctantly took over the conversation and said, Wang Ba's business or something, try not to be swaggering if you can.

"With all our strength, even if it is a hard match, we can beat Yuan Shao for one and a half, and we can beat Yuan Shao who is more than two when it is as smooth as before, I have to say that the alliance leader is indeed a character." Lu Su said silently, they are indeed stronger than Yuan Shao, but they are not strong enough to make Yuan Shao desperate, after all, the time to rise is too short.

"That's it." Li You also nodded, "Zichuan is unwilling to fight hard, and has been pulling the front towards the operation of the battle, the overall advantages outweigh the disadvantages, although this time it is exposed in front of the world, but if Yuan Shao's war potential is played out, the population of seven million in Jizhou alone ......"

"After the fight, we are finished, so the purpose of this battle is not how many times we have won, but only one point, whether we killed Yuan Shao before Yuan Shao came to his senses. The previous war, so to speak. Even if Tian Feng was frustrated, Yan Liangwen and Juyi all died in battle. As long as Yuan Shao goes back, our victory is meaningless in essence! Guo Jia replied casually.

"That's it." Chen Xi spread his hands and said helplessly, "The most important point in this battle is to kill Yuan Shao, as long as Yuan Shao is alive, our subsequent war will be fought for three to five years." ”

Chen Xi is not joking at all, the most important thing in this battle is to kill Yuan Shao, if Yuan Shao is not killed, the fiasco of this battle can only make Yuan Shao wake up more thoroughly, so that he can't beat Liu Bei. It was enough to drag Liu Bei to a feeling of nausea.

More importantly, what Chen Xi needs in his heart is a strong man, not a ten-room and nine-empty Central Plains, who has the name of a strong man, but has no strength to subdue the Quartet, so he must maintain the vitality of the Central Plains.

This is also why Chen Xi will promote Hua Tuo's public prescription for the treatment of typhoid fever, if it is just Hua Tuo's spontaneous promotion, I am afraid that it will spread throughout Taishan County by now, and only with the official strength can everyone in the world hear Hua Tuo's voice!

This is also the reason why Chen Xi sometimes asks cookies to put some farming methods that can increase grain production to the princes of the world!

To be honest, Chen Xi was not afraid of their other princes causing them trouble at all. The value of the existence of Jia Xu, Li You, Guo Jia, Lu Su, Liu Ye, Fa Zheng, Xu Shu, and Zhuge Liang is to ensure that they can smoothly implement every step of the strategy in any situation!

How many people can die in a war in the era of cold weapons? Yuan Shao ruled a population of more than 10 million, and in the battle that decided Yuan Shao's fate, 50,000 people died in the battle, and the troops invested by both sides were only 2560,000 in the end.

Less than 1 in 200 mortality. And the mortality rate of the plague is as high as seven or eight out of ten, and the mortality rate of the famine is as high as one-third, and Chen Xi can still distinguish the size. Although if the war is in some kind of stalemate, the death toll will increase exponentially. But will Chen Xi allow that to happen?

It can be said that Chen Xi's definition of the battle of Yuan Liu from the beginning was to kill Yuan Shao in a battle, and only in this way would the loss of the Central Plains be minimized!

Pinch out typhoid fever, which is currently the most severe degrading of the population. In addition, there is no major famine in Jizhou itself, and Chen Xi only needs to do one thing if he wants to avoid population loss - defeat Yuan Shao's army and kill Yuan Shao as quickly as possible!

The most important thing that should not be hurt by the unification of the world is the people at the bottom, but it is the people at the bottom who hurt the most, which is the most helpless place for Chen Xi, so if he wants to go to the epic project before the world is unified, then the population has become the point that Chen Xi needs to guarantee the most.

In the statistics of Jian Yong not long ago, there are still about 50 million people in the entire Han Dynasty, of course, if you look at the data of 184 years, and then compare the current data with 10 million people......

However, in general, the population of the Han dynasty is much larger than that of the Yang Guang period, and it is more than twice that of the early Tang Dynasty.

The speed of construction during the war years is always much faster than the speed of construction in the peaceful stage after the unification of the world, and people who are precarious do not think too much about things, but when they have leisure and money, they will think about things that are of little substance, and thus too many incidents will arise.

At that time, Wu Wangfu did not spend much time digging a ditch for 300 miles in Qi State, you must know that this is the earliest beginning of the Grand Canal, compared to Wu State's war potential, it has swallowed Huaibei, although Liu Bei, who has not had time to absorb it, has approached 15 million people under his rule!

Wait to swallow Jizhou, even if it is a little indigestion, it will steadily cross the population of 20 million, at this time to dredge the water conservancy, on the canal, in fact, the difficulty is not very great, although Chen Xi is not very reliable in the war, but he is still very capable in construction.

After all, even if it is on the Grand Canal, Chen Xi has never said that he really wants to hook up Chang'an, Luoyang, Yecheng, Guantao, Zhuojun, Linzi, Jianye and other places, most of these places are not in Liu Bei's hands!

That is to say, although there are many places to be repaired now, the most difficult Guangtong Canal, that is, connecting Chang'an and the Yellow River, and the Tongji Canal, that is, Luoyang connecting the Yellow River and Huaishui, as well as the East Zhejiang Grand Canal, these three sections are the most difficult, and the part that is long enough is not directly in Liu Bei's territory......

At that time, the Grand Canal built by Chen Xi, if people who have seen the original version see it, they will probably be ridiculed, a smooth big pole, without a branch, which is why Mi Zhu is so enthusiastic!

I have never seen the genuine Grand Canal Mizhu, but the canal that connects the Yellow River and the Huai River, counting the distance, seems to be a matter of tens of billions of dollars, although the money minted in the Han Dynasty in a year is estimated not to be so much......

All in all, for the current Chen Xi, after Yuan Shao fell, it became much easier to preserve the vitality of the Central Plains, and the rest was to go down step by step, first digest Yuzhou and Jizhou, which is about to arrive! (To be continued......)