"Yihao, out of 700,000 registered citizens, how many tens of thousands of soldiers do you have?"

Facing Xun Yu's question, Lu Ren just shook his head slowly and smiled again: "Forty thousand, at most fifty thousand, let's count it as fifty thousand." Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info but among the 50,000, the army is 20,000 and the navy is 30,000...... Xun Gong, I know what you want to say, but I have to tell you that my governance strategy is far from what you know, so this 50,000 is a limit that I can reach at present. Once this number is exceeded, there will be problems in the economic system up and down the state of Yizhou. ”

"Fifty thousand? But what do you really mean is actually 40,000? ”

Xun Yu looked at Lu Ren's somewhat overgrown battle line on the map, and shook his head with a wry smile. The land is vast and sparsely populated, which is a big problem, and Xun Yu has been Lao Cao's housekeeper for so many years, where is this kind of thing less encountered? It's just that Lao Cao's luck is good, when he just took over Bao Xin's territory, he encountered the entry of millions of yellow turbans into Qingzhou, which provided Lao Cao with sufficient soldiers and labor. After that, the implementation of the tuntian system made Lao Cao pick up a lot of cheapness, not to mention that there was such an outlier as Lu Ren at that time, which made Lao Cao's tuntian system efficiency rise a lot?

Therefore, although Lu Ren's territory, as an overseas land, can save a lot of things in many places, it has always been a big weakness in the absorption of the displaced population. This is Lu Ren's more than ten years to make Yizhou impressive, and the residents' small lives are very nourishing, otherwise...... Otherwise, do you want to reach the current 700,000? Maybe it will be possible in the next four or five years, right?

40,000 troops may sound good, but Lu Ren's battle line is too long, so such a small number of troops is not enough, and this is the main reason why Lu Ren has not directly intervened in Jiaozhou, Yunnan and other regions. However, even if the three key areas of Yizhou, Quanzhou, and Guangzhou are guaranteed, 20,000 of the 40,000 troops will be left in Guangzhou and Quanzhou, and 10,000 will be left in Yizhou itself, which makes people feel that it is too little. It may be reasonable to defend a city or something, but I want to use it outside...... By the way, there are only about 7,000 people left in Yizhou itself, and the other 3,000 mobile troops have been taken to Wadao by Lu Xun.

Of course, in Lu Ren's defense system, the navy is more important, and the shortcomings of the army can be completely compensated for by the superiority of the navy. But to tell the truth, this also caused a situation where Lu Ren's territory was more than enough to defend and not enough to attack.

It is precisely because Lu Ren is aware of these shortcomings of his own that he has always adopted a soft knife strategy of supporting and developing friendly forces while encroaching on the economy and culture on foreign issues. This is true for Jiaoju, for Nanjung, and for Wajima and Samhan.

In general, Lu Ren's core idea is to work steadily and steadily, and many times he would rather slow down his pace in order to lay his foundation as solid as possible. Anyway, when facing peerless heroes like Lao Cao and Liu Bei, Lu Ren also has a huge advantage, that is, Lu Ren can afford to drag on time and play on the way back.

Whether it's Lao Cao or Liu Bei, whose life is longer than that of Lu Ren? Of course, there is still a Sun Quan, but Sun Quan is also quite alive, and he lived to be seventy-one years old before he "bombed" it. But if you really compare it with Lu Ren, the guy who opened the cheat, Sun Quan's lifespan is not enough.

Of course, Lu Ren can't say this kind of thing to Xun Yu, and although Lu Ren has his own long-term plans, he needs someone to help him plan well in terms of strategic direction. Although Liu Ye's ability and vision are good, if you want to compare with Xun Yu, it is still a little worse after all. And in contrast, Liu Ye is more suitable to be the chief of staff by Lu Ren's side, but Xun Yu is a person who can help Lu Ren sit in the base camp. Lu Ren will be interested in Xun Yu, which is also one of the important reasons.

After looking at Xun Yu and asking Lu Ren a lot of relevant information, he frowned and fell into contemplation. After a long time, Xun Yu said to Lu Ren in a deep voice: "Yihao, with your current strength, or you can roughly calculate your strength in a few years, if you want Cao Mengde to be afraid of you, I'm afraid it's impossible, right?" ”

Lu Ren rubbed his hands: "I know this. If I continue to develop according to the current situation, then in a few years, at most, I will be able to be a pirate in the coastal area, so that Lao Cao's coastal counties will not be at peace. But there is nothing I can do about the inland counties. ”

There are still a few words that Lu Ren didn't say, that is, if nothing else, Lao Cao's promotion to the prince will be in the nineteenth year of Jian'an, then Lu Ren will only have less than two years. With these two years alone, Lu Ren may not be able to play anything. And Lao Cao's core areas are all inland, how can Lu Ren have the corresponding ability to threaten Lao Cao's inland towns in a short period of time?

Here, Xun Yu's brows furrowed a little more, and he didn't know what Xun Yu was imagining. And Lu Ren pointed to the area outside the Shanhaiguan on the map and said: "So Xun Gong, I am ready to start with this area, and I plan that as long as we take care of it, we can take down this large piece of territory in about two years." And after this piece of land is taken down by us, combined with my strength on the sea, do you think it is enough to worry Lao Cao? ”

What is the area that Lu Ren is referring to? To be exact, it is roughly Liaoning and Jilin in later generations. And Liucheng, where Cao Zheng, the twelfth year old of Jian'an, once arrived, was actually near Jinzhou City in later generations.

Xun Yu: Who is that? As soon as he looked at the places Lu Ren was pointing to, he understood Lu Ren's intentions, but he still couldn't help but be surprised: "You want to take these places down?" However, if you can really take down this area, then you can coerce Ji and Youbeiping and threaten Cao Mengde's Hebei counties, and it can indeed make Cao Mengde worry more when he wants to go further.

"It's just Yihao, with your strength, can you take these places down? This area was originally a mixed place of northern Hu and Dongyi such as Karasuma and Xianbei, and it was not easy to settle them, and the Liaodong Gongsun clan in the east was not a fuel-efficient lamp. Besides, if you have any movement there, will Cao Mengde ignore it? ”

Lu Ren smiled: "I didn't say I wanted to go over by myself." Actually, I have the right person to send over. ”

Seeing the incomprehension on Xun Yu's face, Lu Ren didn't explain immediately, but called the attendant and commanded again: "Go!" Go and help me invite Murong Ziying and Tuoba Yu here, and say that I have something important to discuss with them. ”

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Murong Ziying and Tuoba Yu, these two goods came to Yizhou under the guidance of Tian Chou long before the Battle of Chibi, that is, in the twelfth year of Jian'an. And at that time, Lu Ren had already saved a certain idea, but Murong Ziying and Tuoba Yu were already quite depressed at that time, and the people of the two tribes added up to just that, where could they achieve what climate?

Moreover, Murong Ziying and Tuoba Yu were too young at that time, Murong Ziying was only twenty-one years old, and Tuoba Yu was only seventeen years old. Even the ancients were precocious, but they still lacked personal abilities. Therefore, Lu Ren arranged for them to take some of the people from the tribe to study in the academy in Yizhou. In this regard, Lu Ren also has a purpose, which is to assimilate and integrate their ideological patterns as much as possible.

Five years have passed in a blink of an eye, and in the seventeenth year of Jian'an, Murong Ziying is already twenty-six years old, and Tuoba Yu is already a twenty-two-year-old girl. When they first went to school, the two chose different disciplines, Murong Ziying took the art of war, and Tuoba Yu took art, so after graduating last summer, Murong Ziying interned in the army unit in Yizhou as a trainee non-commissioned officer, and Tuoba Yu opened a small back door to Lu Ren, and became an artist in Lu Lan's song and dance troupe, and his singing and dancing level is also quite good, and he is also well-known in Yizhou today.

When Lu Ren called these two goods, these two goods were a little inexplicable, and I didn't know what Lu Ren was suddenly looking for them for. After meeting Lu Ren and greeting Xun Yu again, after all the politeness was finished, Lu Ren smiled and asked the two goods: "Ziying, Yu'er, have you been in Yizhou for five years?" In the past five years, how have you lived in Yizhou? ”

Murong Ziying and Tuoba Yu each said yes, and then expressed their gratitude to Lu Ren. But before they could finish speaking, Lu Ren waved his hand at them and said, "Don't say these kind words." I'm here for you today mainly to ask you a question...... Are you homesick? ”

One sentence silenced both of them. Although these two goods are nomadic people, they also have the concept of home and hometown. If they hadn't been able to get along at the beginning, they wouldn't have come to Yizhou after several twists and turns. And at this moment, when Lu Ren asked like this, these two goods lowered their heads, and after being silent for a long time, they raised their heads and nodded to Lu Ren again.

Xun Yu on the side had already understood something at this time, so he squinted silently and played with his beard, watching Lu Ren do the next thing, and Lu Ren naturally would not let Xun Yu down, and slowly said to the two goods: "In the blink of an eye, you have all learned a lot of things in my Yizhou, and your clan strength has also recovered." So I thought about it very carefully and decided to fund to help you return to your homeland. ”

Among the two goods, Tuoba Yu's reaction was good, but Murong Ziying's eyes immediately lit up, and he asked urgently, "Lu Yizhou decided to help my clan return to his homeland?" ”

Lu Ren nodded: "Yes, I decided to fund to help you." But you have heard me clearly, I am only contributing, that is, I will help you as much as possible with the money, food and equipment you need, but you have to figure out your own way in terms of soldiers and horses. Ziying, you have been in my Yizhou for so long, you should understand that it is not that I Lu Ren is stingy and refuses to lend you soldiers and horses, but that my own soldiers and horses are a little insufficient......" (To be continued.) )