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Chapter 955: Chapter 398 Northern Territory Deliberations_2 Chapter 955: Chapter 398 Northern Territory Deliberations_2 But this situation can also be changed.

Between the four kingdoms, reconciliation is not impossible.

The prerequisite for change is for Liang to lose its current absolute advantage, to lose its position of dominance over Qingzhou.

If Wei, Zhao, and Xu successfully enter Central State and are willing to share the future “cake” equally with another country, all sides would be on the same footing.

Qingzhou has sixteen prefectures; add to that the two prefectures of Henan and Nanyang in Yong State, and just looking at the nearby region, the chessboard already has half of Central State, with a total of eighteen prefectures’ worth of “cake.”

Out of these eighteen prefectures, Wei Country managed to eat two, barely acquiring a ticket to the game.

Liang ate sixteen, almost monopolizing all the benefits.

Zhao and Xu, on the other hand, are kept on the outside, typical of those who wish to join the feast but are blocked at the door by Liang, the holder of vested interests.

At first glance, the shares of the eighteen prefectures are being contested by four players, or even five if you include Chu State, making the quotas seem scarce and insufficient.

But is this really the case?

Based on the topic that Lu Yuan and Sun Siwen discussed recently, Chu State’s population is expected to quickly rise above one hundred million, and, at that time, an average prefecture in Chu would have a population of over ten million.

Even the richer and well-developed major prefectures that produce more grain can support twenty to thirty million people without difficulty.

Central State, as the longest-developed region of the human race in the Nine Provinces, not only has the best local infrastructure, but the land is mostly plains crisscrossed by a network of waterways, making it an absolute grain-producing area.

With such terrain, it’s no trouble supporting twenty or thirty million people in a prefecture, let alone ten million.

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Theoretically, considering the limit of development, the eighteen prefectures in western Central State currently contested by the five kingdoms could be evenly divided, with each country getting three to four prefectures on average.

Taking the median estimate of supporting twenty million people per prefecture, even with only three prefectures, a nation could sustain a population of over sixty million, or possibly even seventy or eighty million with a bit more.

And if allocated four prefectures, it might be possible to sustain a population of over one hundred million.

The carrying capacity of the lands of the Nine Provinces is actually very strong today.

The main reason for the sparse population of the countries is still due to the continuous wars, various natural disasters and epidemics, and the undeveloped production techniques of the past.

Today, after thousands of years of war in the Nine Provinces, numerous small countries have been annexed by each other, gradually giving rise to the current situation with major powers side by side.

Within each state, partial unification has been achieved, and a large number of technologies have been invented and adopted because of the wars, allowing the common people a stable living environment, thus population growth has slowly started to explode.

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However, this explosion is just the beginning; it has not yet exceeded the carrying capacity of Central State.

So, there’s still plenty of “cake” to go around.

So what are the current population figures of each country?

The latest population of Chu State is forty-five million.

And Liang, with its population data from more than a decade ago, was sixty million.

After more than a decade of development, its population has reached eighty million.

The population of Wei was over thirty million more than a decade ago.

After annexing Zhou Country, it gained ten million more people.

Subsequently, by absorbing some Barbarian people migrating south from the north, its population gradually reached around fifty million.

Zhao originally had only over twenty million people.

In the last decade or so, with recuperation and by accepting some southward-migrating Barbarians, its population has now reached thirty million.

Xu, the weakest in strength, had a baseline population of twenty million previously.

Through its own reproduction and the incorporation of Barbarians, its population also reached around twenty-five million.

Hmm, according to the above population data, three prefectures in Central State would suffice to accommodate Chu State.

Liang would only need four prefectures.

Wei would also need just three prefectures.

Zhao and Xu would be content with two prefectures each.

Together, all five kingdoms would only take fourteen prefectures, leaving four more available for those with the strength to take an extra share of the “cake.”

Thus, even with just eighteen prefectures, as long as the five kingdoms can reach a consensus, it’s enough for them to share.

So in the end, if the plan does go through and each kingdom manages to occupy three to four prefectures each, the sharp conflicts between the countries could be instantly relieved.

At that time,

everyone would stay within their own territory, guarding the land of three to four prefectures, living their peaceful lives.

The strengths of all would be quite similar, and any country wishing to annihilate another wouldn’t be able to do so easily.

Even if they could, the other neighboring countries would not stand by and watch.

It creates a situation where if you dare to annihilate a country, I dare to join forces to beat you up.

Just like the Warring States era in Lu Yuan’s previous life.

With the strengths and foundations of the nations, and by forming alliances and counter-alliances, they would be able to check and balance each other, maintaining a new equilibrium.

Eventually, when the strength of one side accumulates to a level capable of breaking the balance, they can sweep through the six states and unify Central State.

This kind of situation seems quite good at a glance, taking into consideration the interests of all parties.

But does this really serve the interests of Chu State?

Does it truly conform to Lu Yuan’s wishes?

To confine oneself to the small territory of three to four prefectures, and with the other countries, enduring the long wait for the situation’s balance to be broken.

Although this endurance is definitely in his favor.

After all, when it comes to longevity, no one can surpass himself.

When the time comes, wait a hundred years or at most, a few hundred years.

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