In general, even if the influence of the existing army of the Pingzhou Army and a large number of S-level generals is excluded, only by comparing the data on revenue, population, material output, etc., Pingzhou can also rank among the best princes in the world.

Although Deng Yan repeatedly stressed that the biggest constraint to Pingzhou's current development was still the lack of population, in terms of the total population, the number of people controlled by the Shang was not significantly lower than that of the princes.

In the thirteen states of the Han Dynasty in history, Jingzhou was the most populous, and the same was true in the beacon fire.

In the flames, the total population of the seven counties of Jingzhou is approaching the 2 billion mark, almost four times that of Pingzhou!

However, don't forget that Jingzhou is not up to Liu Biao alone. Sun Jian, who is in Changsha, and Yuan Shu, who cannibalized most of Nanyang, will not be mentioned first, and even Liu Biao has a large number of warlords like Huang Zu who listen to the tune and do not listen to the propaganda!

Sitting on the world's most populous state, the population in the area controlled by Liu Biao is not necessarily more than that of Shangji, and the manpower that can be called is even worse than the boss.

There are no wealthy families in Pingzhou, and the orders of the merchants can be directly conveyed to the villages. And Liu Biao, who relies heavily on the rule of the family's gate lords, his words are sometimes not very good in Jingzhou City!

In terms of the population of the control area alone, only Dong Zhuo, Yuan Shu, Han Fu, and Liu Yan are the four people who are stable and surpassing the merchants, but only Dong Zhuo and Yuan Shu are the more threatening.

Han Fu has Yuan Shao on the outside, and Lu Yi has ill intentions inside, and his actual combat effectiveness is far less exaggerated than it appears.

Yizhou is vast and sparsely populated, but the area is there, and the comprehensive population is not a lot. Even after deducting the Qianwei County occupied by Yan Huang, the population of the area controlled by Liu Yan still exceeds 800 million!

However, the existence of Yan Huang is destined for Liu Yan to have no future at all.

After several large-scale population plunders, the total population of Pingzhou is enough to compete with the princes of the world, and what Pingzhou really lacks is population density!

The area of Pingzhou is extremely vast, if you count the grassland (only the actual control area is calculated), the total land area of Pingzhou is almost the sum of the six prefectures of Bing, Hebei, Qing, You, Liang and Yan, but the population in the jurisdiction is less than one-eighth of these states!

If the population density of Pingzhou can reach the standard of the subordinate, then Shang Ji can beat the princes of the Eighteenth Route + Dong Zhuo without pressure.

Of course, this is a dream for the time being, and now Pingzhou's population density even lags behind Yizhou's by a large margin. Finding ways and doing everything possible to increase the population will be the most urgent task for Pingzhou in the coming decades.

However, when it came to this topic, Deng Yan immediately turned bitter. As the highest civil affairs chief of Pingzhou, he has made great efforts in this regard, and although the results are remarkable, they obviously cannot meet Shang Ji's expectations.

There are only three ways to increase the population, one is to give birth, two is to immigrate, and three is to plunder.

Let's not talk about childbirth, Pingzhou has been sparing no effort to encourage childbirth, and the number of newborns is also rising every year, but the baby grows into a human resource that can pay taxes and enlist in the army, and it will take one or two decades to say the least. Shang Ji didn't have the patience to stay in Pingzhou for twenty years.

The second point is immigration, which has the fastest effect. At least one-fifth of the residents who now live in Pingzhou are immigrants.

However, as the situation of secession becomes more and more obvious, it is somewhat unrealistic for Pingzhou to want to resettle on a large scale.

Take Jizhou as an example, Jizhou is densely populated, if all restrictions are relaxed, it will not be a problem to immigrate 50 million a year, but Han Fu does not cooperate!

Pingzhou's biggest weakness is the lack of people, which Han Fu also sees clearly. In order to prevent the rapid growth of Shangji's strength, Han Fu just let the people of Jizhou die of hunger and famine, and he would not let the immigrants from Pingzhou come in!

So, the only way to solve the population problem at the moment is looting!

Plundering population is also the most critical factor in Pingzhou's previous population explosions. From the earliest plundering of the Yellow Turban Army prisoners of war, to the later annexation of Goguryeo, and even the final killing of Xianbei, with victory after victory, the total population of Pingzhou will develop by leaps and bounds.

Of course, in order to prevent the Han princes' division pattern from changing beyond their control, Shang Ji did not intend to plunder from inland states and counties. You must know that to the east of the Pyeongju Army, there is another country that has had a large-scale war with Pyeongju and has a very large population - North Korea!

Although North Korea is a small place, not as large as some counties in Dahan, it is very densely populated, with about 1.2 billion people in the whole territory.

Although the civil war between North and South Korea has led to a decline in the population, it is estimated that the total population will not fall below one billion today.

That's a billion people!

Nearly twice as much as Pingzhou!

Once all the 1 billion people can be annexed, the total population of Pingzhou will exceed 1.5 billion, and the cause of the king can be achieved!

Before the outbreak of the national war, although Shang Ji coveted Korea's abundant human resources, he did not dare to start a war lightly. Without it, North Korea is not easy to mess with.

South Korea is fortunate to say that although it often boasts that it is the largest power in the universe, it is not even a husky in the eyes of a real power.

But North Korea is not easy to mess with, and even Shang Ji does not dare to provoke an army of two million players who are not afraid of life and death, orders and prohibitions, and have their own fanatical aura.

The Shang Ji raided North Korea in order to seize the population and expand the territory, not to fight a war of attrition. Once caught in the quagmire of war, I am afraid that the size of Pingzhou may not be able to withstand it.

However, after the national war, North Korea's combat power will be directly cut in half, and the time is ripe to swallow North Korea!

On the battlefield of the National War, North Korea performed quite well, and under the aura of the theme and ideology, the North Korean army repeatedly defeated the strong with the weak with the spirit of not fearing death. In the end, when the national war was settled, there was a huge city and three large cities under the name of Joseon. Although it is completely incomparable to a national war monster like Huaxia, with the size of North Korea, it is already quite remarkable to be able to achieve such results.

However, in the five-year career of the national war, North Korean players have averaged more than two hangings per person. Of the three million active National War players, less than 150,000 were still in the National War Continent at the end of the National War, and the rest were forced to withdraw from the National War Continent in advance because the number of deaths exceeded the limit.

After the end of the National War on the Continent, the combat effectiveness of the player legion that Park Yin relied on the most was not one in ten, and a large number of soldiers turned white and became the five scum of the war.

For Shang Ji, this is a godsend!

Without the player's army to contain it, relying solely on the Korean aboriginal army will definitely not be able to stop the edge of the Pyeongju army!

Just after Shang Ji had just made up his mind to annex North Korea, something strange happened!

"Ding, the global system announces, the first national war has ended, players have completely adapted to the environment of Beacon, the initial process of Beacon is over, and the system will adjust some rules. For specific adjustment plans, please check the attachments by yourself! ”

"Ding, global system announcement,............"

"Ding, global system announcement,............"