Chapter 921 Target - North Korea

Overall, even excluding the influence of the Pingzhou Army's existing army and a large number of S-level generals, and only comparing the data on annual revenue, population, and property output, Pingzhou can still rank among the best in the world.

Although Deng Yan has repeatedly emphasized that the biggest constraint on Pingzhou's current development is still underpopulation, but in terms of total population, the population controlled by Shangji is not significantly lower than that of other princes.

In the history of the thirteen prefectures of the Han Dynasty, Jingzhou was the most populous, and it was the same in Fenghuo.

During the war, the total population of the seven counties in Jingzhou approached the two billion mark, almost four times that of Pingzhou!

However, don't forget that Liu Biao is not alone in Jingzhou. Let’s not mention Sun Jian, who is in Changsha, and Yuan Shu, who cannibalized most of Nanyang. Even Liu Biao has a large number of obedient warlords like Huang Zu!

Sitting in the most populous state in the world, the population of Liu Biao's control area is not necessarily larger than that of Shangji, and the manpower available is even worse.

In Pingzhou, there are no well-known aristocratic families on the stage, and Shang Ji's orders can be directly conveyed to various villages. As for Liu Biao, who relies heavily on the rule of the aristocratic family, his words sometimes do not work well in Jingzhou City!

Based on the population of the control area alone, only Dong Zhuo, Yuan Shu, Han Fu, and Liu Yan are the only ones who are more stable than the merchants, but only Dong Zhuo and Yuan Shu are the ones who are more threatening.

Han Fu has Yuan Shao staring at him on the outside, and Qu Yi has evil intentions on the inside, and his actual combat power is far less exaggerated than what he shows.

Yizhou is vast and sparsely populated, but given the area, the overall population is quite large. Even if Qianwei County occupied by Yanhuang is deducted, the population of Liu Yan's control area still exceeds 800 million!

However, the existence of Yanhuang doomed Liu Yan to have no future at all.

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

The area of ​​Pingzhou is extremely vast. If other parts of the grassland are counted (only the actual control area is counted), the total land area of ​​Pingzhou is almost the sum of the six states 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 Si Li, then Shang Ji can beat the eighteen princes + Dong Zhuo without any pressure.

Of course, this is a dream for the time being, and the population density of Pingzhou is even far behind that of Yizhou. Finding ways and doing everything possible to increase the population will be the most urgent task in Pingzhou in the next few decades.

But on this subject,

Deng Yan immediately turned bitter. As the highest civil affairs officer in Pingzhou, he has worked hard in this area. Although the results are remarkable, they obviously cannot meet Shang Ji's expectations.

There are no more than three ways to increase population, one is birth, two is immigration, and three is plunder.

Not to mention childbirth, Pingzhou has been sparing no effort to encourage childbirth, and the number of newborns is also rising every year. However, it takes at least a decade or two for babies to grow into human resources capable of paying taxes and enlisting in the army. Shang Ji didn't have the patience to spend twenty years in Pingzhou.

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

However, as the separatist situation became more and more obvious, it would be unrealistic for Pingzhou to want to immigrate on a large scale.

Take Jizhou as an example. Jizhou is densely populated. If all restrictions are lifted, 50 million immigrants a year will not be a problem, but Han Fu is not cooperative!

Pingzhou's biggest weakness is the lack of people, and Han Fu can see this clearly. In order to prevent Shang Ji from rapidly increasing his strength, Han Fu would not let the immigration team from Pingzhou come in even if the people of Jizhou were allowed to die of famine, freezing and starvation!

Therefore, the only way to solve the population problem right now is to plunder!

The looting of the population is also the most critical factor in the previous population explosions in Pingzhou. From the earliest plundering of the Yellow Turban prisoners of war, to the annexation of Goguryeo, and even the final elimination of Xianbei, with victories one after another, the total population of Pingzhou will develop by leaps and bounds.

Of course, in order to prevent changes beyond the control of the vassal regime of the Han Dynasty, Shang Ji did not intend to plunder from the inland states and counties. You know, to the east of the Pingzhou Army, there is another country that has had a large-scale war with Pingzhou and has a very abundant population-North Korea!

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

Although the civil war between North and South Korea resulted in a decrease in the population, it is estimated that the current total population cannot be less than one billion.

That's a billion people!

Nearly twice that of Pingzhou!

Once the one billion population can be annexed, the total population of Pingzhou will exceed 1.5 billion, and the king's career can be achieved!

If it was before the outbreak of the national war, although Shang Ji was envious of North Korea's abundant human resources, he did not dare to take the war lightly. Without it, North Korea is not easy to mess with.

Fortunately, South Korea, although it often boasts that it is the most powerful country in the universe, in the eyes of a real big country, even a husky is not even considered as a Pekingese.

But North Korea is not easy to mess with. The 2 million player army who is not afraid of life and death, prohibits orders, and has a fanatical halo, even Shang Ji dare not easily provoke it.

Shang Ji's attack on North Korea was to seize the territory for population expansion, not to fight a war of attrition. Once caught in the quagmire of war, I am afraid that with the size of Pingzhou, it may not be able to bear it.

But after the national war, North Korea's combat power was 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. Under the halo of the theme, the North Korean army has repeatedly defeated the strong with the spirit of fearlessness. At the end of the final settlement of the national war, North Korea had one giant city and three big cities under its name. Although it can't be compared with a national war monster like Huaxia, but with North Korea's size, it is already quite impressive to achieve such results.

However, in the five-year national war career, North Korean players were hanged more than twice per person on average. Of the three million active players in the national war, when the national war ended, less than 150,000 remained in the national war continent, 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 Continental War, Pu Yin's most important player corps had no combat effectiveness, and a large number of soldiers became the five slags of the war in turn.

For Shangji, this is a godsend opportunity!

Without the containment of the player's army, relying solely on the Korean aborigines' army will definitely not be able to stop the Pingzhou army's edge!

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

"Ding, the global system is announcing that the first national war has ended, and players have fully adapted to the environment of Beacon Fire. The initial process of Beacon Fire is over, and the system will adjust some rules. Please refer to the attachment for the specific adjustment plan!"

"Ding, Global System Announcement,..."

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