For the next six or seven days, Xiao Feng was still walking around Luoyang City and watching.

As he saw more and learned more about the world today, his mood became heavier and heavier.

Xiao Feng's ability to master this information so quickly is also related to his current presence in Luoyang City.

During the Sui Dynasty, Luoyang was the capital. Although it experienced ups and downs since then, Luoyang City never suffered military disasters, so it generally maintained an extremely prosperous situation.

Li Mi once surrounded Luoyang, but was soon recruited by the court and was immediately defeated by Wang Shichong. Then, Li Mi was equivalent to quitting the stage of history. Until finally, he defected to Li Yuan, but eventually betrayed Li Yuan and was killed by Li Yuan.

In addition to Li Mi, the only one who can pose a threat to Luoyang City is King Xia Dou Jiande.

After Li Xiaogong and Li Shimin joined forces to force Wang Shichong to sacrifice Luoyang City, Dou Jiande personally led an army of 100,000 to approach Luoyang.

At that time, facing Dou Jiande's strong pressure, Li Shimin resisted the opposition and led 8,000 elite troops to fight Dou Jiande, but was defeated by Dou Jiande and forced to retreat to Guanzhong. This should be said to be one of the more critical historical turning points in Xiao Feng's memory.

However, Dou Jiande was born in poverty and could understand the sufferings of the people. Therefore, his army did not disturb the people wherever he went. When he besieged Luoyang City, he could not capture it for a long time. Li Tang sent troops from Guanzhong to support him again. After that, Dou Jiande retreated to Shandong, Hebei, gave up his attempts to Luoyang, and called himself the Emperor of Xia, and established the Daxia regime.

After that battle, the world's general trend basically stabilized, and then Luoyang in the Tang Dynasty became one of the most prosperous cities in the Central Plains under the rule of Li Xiaogong, the Luoyang general manager.

Now, there are only two cities that can reach a population of 700,000 to 800,000 people in the entire Central Plains. One is Chang'an, the capital of the Tang Dynasty, and the second is Luoyang City. The merchants of various major forces travel from south to north, leading from Guanzhong to Shandong, all passing through Luoyang City.

Therefore, Luoyang has also become the most circulating place for information in the entire Central Plains. In addition, various Korean merchants gathered, Xiao Feng had a preliminary understanding of the situation of the entire Chinese nation and even the Goryeo dynasty in the shortest time.

After carefully analyzing various information, Xiao Feng can almost completely conclude that the current split situation in the Central Plains was planned by the Goryeo Emperor Jin Zhendong.

The only goal of Jin Zhendong's situation in this situation is to annex the Central Plains.

For Jin Zhendong, the unified Chinese nation, especially the Central Plains under Li Shimin, the Li Tang Dynasty, was the situation he least wanted to see. Compared with the Chinese nation, the foundation of the Goryeo nation is too weak. A powerful Tang Dynasty would pose the greatest threat to the Goryeo dynasty in Jin Zhendong.

Li Shimin in history is no better than the foolish Emperor Yang of Sui.

Similarly, Jin Zhendong did not want to see the situation in the Central Plains in a war.

The Central Plains, which are in a war, are difficult to control by Jin Zhendong. In the chaos, another force may arise one day to unify the Central Plains instead of Li Tang.

Even Jin Zhendong, a time traveler, felt deeply afraid of the powerful and unified Central Plains.

According to the history learned by Xiao Feng, in the seventh year of Daye in the Sui Dynasty, when the Sui Dynasty Shizu of Sui first conquered Goryeo, Jin Zhendong was still the king of Baekje, and was doing the task of swallowing the big with small and trying to annex Silla.

Later, Jin Zhendong finally got his wish and annexed Silla. Relying on the desperate efforts of Goguryeo and the Sui Dynasty, it gradually eroded Goguryeo's territory. A year later, Goguryeo was destroyed and a unified Goryeo dynasty was established on the peninsula. Since then, Jin Zhendong has been called the Emperor of Goryeo and established the capital of Seoul.

In the ninth year of Daye, Sui Shizu conquered Goryeo twice. At this time, Jin Zhendong was ambitious and attempted to use his newly trained "Koryeo New Army" to fight against the millions of troops of the Sui Dynasty. However, he still overestimated his strength, or in other words, he still overestimated the strength of the Goryeo Dynasty at that time.

In that battle, the Sui Shizu gave the Goryeo Dynasty a head-on blow. If it weren't for Yang Su's son Yang Xuangan's rebellion in the country later, the Sui Shizu was forced to return to the country to suppress the rebellion and give Jin Zhendong a breather, the situation of the Goryeo Dynasty would be really worrying.

In the tenth year of the Sui Dynasty, the Emperor Shizu of Sui Dynasty conquered Goryeo three times. This was a protracted war. In the end, even the Goryeo Emperor who traveled through time in Jin Zhendong felt that it was impossible for the Goryeo Dynasty to fight against the Sui Dynasty at that time.

Therefore, the last Jin Zhendong was forced to surrender to the Sui Dynasty Emperor Yang Guang and negotiate peace. The exhausted Yang Guang finally agreed to Jin Zhendong's request. After occupying the land of Liaodong, the army of the Great Sui Dynasty slowly retreated.

It is undeniable that the three campaigns of Sui Shizuka Goryeo caused public grievances in the country, and eventually led to the demise of the Sui Dynasty. However, he also caused the Goryeo Dynasty to suffer a heavy blow, making Jin Zhendong realize that the unified Central Plains was definitely not something the Goryeo Dynasty could compete with at this moment.

According to Xiao Feng's judgment, perhaps from that time on, it was the time when Jin Zhendong changed his strategy.

Since then, when the Central Plains were in civil strife and dynasty replacement, Jin Zhendong’s primary goal was to prevent a unified country from appearing in the Central Plains, so that it can meet the needs of the Goryeo Dynasty.

As for how to make the Central Plains fall into chaos and cannot be unified, as a time traveler, there is another Goryeo dynasty as a support, Jin Zhendong has some ways to do this.

However, Jin Zhendong and his Goryeo Dynasty also needed a stable Central Plains.

For the Goryeo Dynasty, which had a booming domestic economy, although it annexed Japan and Southeast Asian countries, they still needed a broader market and raw material production area, and a stable Central Plains was the best in line with their needs at the moment.

Just like what Xiao Feng saw now, he could judge Jin Zhendong's intentions.

All Jin Zhendong's attempts are ultimately to implement a "population policy" of "raising Goryeo with the Central Plains".

Since ancient times, the confrontation of any country and any nation has been a confrontation of population size. In that era, only people had everything.

Although the Goryeo Dynasty had a time traveler like Jin Zhendong, when facing the conquest of the Sui Dynasty, it eventually had to surrender because their foundation was too weak and their population could not withstand such consumption.

So Jin Zhendong’s plan to deal with the Central Plains is to “cut off the firewood from the bottom of the pot”.

On the one hand, Jin Zhendong used his later knowledge to continuously develop new commodities, and used means including opium to use the Central Plains countries as a place for them to dump huge profits, and seized a large amount of wealth from the Central Plains.

On the other hand, they used the Central Plains as a production site for raw materials and used the powerful merchant fleet of the Goryeo Dynasty. They could continuously transport various raw materials and living materials in the Central Plains, as well as a large amount of grain, through various waterways, including the Grand Canal of the Sui Dynasty, to the country of the Goryeo Dynasty.

What does food mean in ancient history?

The total grain output of a country only means one number, that is, the total population! As much food as you have, you can raise as many people. Some wars in history have not had a big direct impact on the population. The abandonment of farmland caused by war and protracted hunger are the main factors that cause a sharp decline in population.

Just like a couple, they can usually get married and have children at the age of thirteen or fourteen, and there are no birth control measures. If the food permit is allowed to support people, then a family can develop for 20 or 30 years, and after two generations, it can basically develop to 20 or 30 people, or even more.

This is not a joke. In that era, it was extremely normal for a couple to have seven or eight children. But when these children grow up and become second generation, it would be a very terrible number.

Jinzhendong wanted to use the agricultural output from the Central Plains to support the comprehensive and rapid development of the Goryeo dynasty.

In order to maintain their luxurious life, some landlords in the Central Plains ultimately chose not to hoard grain, but to exchange the grain for copper coins, and then buy luxurious Korean goods that can be regarded as huge profits. Over time, the Central Plains became the largest granary of the Goryeo Dynasty.

As a result, the population growth rate of the Goryeo Dynasty was far from comparable to that of the Central Plains. As grain was bought by Goryeo merchants in large quantities, the population growth rate would undoubtedly slow down.

Moreover, the merchants of the Goryeo Dynasty used the wealth seized from the Central Plains to engage in criminal slave transactions, purchased slaves from various countries in the Central Plains, and enriched the Goryeo Dynasty's mines and farms in various places, and continuously produced huge wealth for the Goryeo Dynasty, while also seriously weakening the population strength of the Central Plains.

And the most important point in this "population policy" is the role of opium.

If opium becomes popular, it will be a destruction of the entire nation and a destruction of the overall population quality. This destruction will not be seen yet, but ten years later, the evil effects of opium will gradually be reflected.

By that time, on one side, the Goryeo Dynasty with increasingly powerful national strength, and on the other side, the Central Plains countries that were gradually shrinking as a whole. The comparison of the comprehensive national strength between the two sides will be completely reversed.

In a sense, the stability and superficial prosperity of the Central Plains are basically planned by Jin Zhendong, who lives behind the scenes. The more prosperous and stable the Central Plains are, the more grain can be produced and the more abundant raw materials it can provide, the more wealth the Goryeo dynasty can seize from the Central Plains. Standing on the shoulders of the Central Plains, the development of the Goryeo dynasty will be faster.

As the Goryeo Dynasty plunders of the Central Plains intensified, the gap between the two sides will grow wider and wider. After a period of time, these negative effects will be reflected one by one.

This is a real strategy. When the Goryeo Dynasty was so powerful that the entire Central Plains could not compete with each other, and when the various forces in the Central Plains fell into civil strife again due to severe class contradictions, it would be the day when the Goryeo Dynasty entered the Central Plains.

If he is not a person who travels through time like Jin Zhendong, he would not have such a vision and could formulate such a vicious "population policy" that would almost destroy the entire Chinese nation.

And it is also difficult for time travelers like Xiao Feng to see through Jin Zhendong's vicious "population policy".

A evil wolf is not scary. What is scary is that this is still a hungry wolf. What is even more scary is that this is a cunning hungry wolf.

At this moment, Jin Zhendong was undoubtedly such a cunning hungry wolf, a cunning hungry wolf who was standing on the peninsula, staring at the Central Plains, and plotting against the Chinese nation.

Faced with such a sinister situation, what should Xiao Feng do?

This is a question that Xiao Feng has been thinking about over the past few days.

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