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There are three main reasons for this: first, not every country is at war every year; Second, the small population of Shu Han made it difficult to support the Northern Expeditionary Army; Third, the nature of the soldiers is different, and the utilization rate of the population is different.

The Warring States period was known for its constant fierce wars between the major vassal states, but this does not mean that each of the Seven Warlords of the Warring States was at war every year.

Therefore, it seems that the Seven Heroes of the Warring States have been fighting for hundreds of years, but each vassal state has a time to recuperate and recuperate, which avoids the situation of running out of food.

Moreover, wars are also divided into different scales, and the battle for a small region generally does not suppress the strength of the whole country here, and there are not many decisive wars like the Battle of Changping.

Therefore, in the conquest of the Seven Heroes of the Warring States, the food problem was not as stretched as Zhuge Liang's Northern Expedition.

After the illness and war in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, when the Three Kingdoms situation appeared, the population was already very small.

Among the three forces, Shu Han had the smallest population. Liu Bei made great efforts to capture Hanzhong, but did not get the population of Hanzhong, and Cao Cao moved most of the population of Hanzhong to Guanzhong when he retreated.

Immediately afterwards, Shu Han suffered the defeat of Guan Yu and Liu Bei Yiling one after another, and his vitality was greatly damaged, and Shu Han lost a large number of young and middle-aged people.

From then on, although Shu Han controlled Hanzhong and Sichuan Shu, all the labor needed for production and war could only be provided by Shu.

The population of Shu Han is small, and a large number of young and middle-aged people were lost in the war, Zhuge Liang went on the Northern Expedition, and the only remaining population of Shu Han had to send soldiers and pay attention to production, and human resources were stretched.

During the Warring States Seven Heroes period, soldiers served as soldiers during wartime and worked as farmers in peacetime, and once the war ended, most of them were disarmed and returned to the fields, which promoted economic production and recovery.

The Zhuge Liang period was different, most of the soldiers were in a state of war readiness all the year round, and they would not go home to farm even after the battle, which made Shu Han's manpower not be used more fully than in the Warring States period.

Shu Han, which had a small population, could not withstand Zhuge Liang's continuous northern expedition, and the food problem always troubled Zhuge Liang, the commander of the three armies.

This is why the Seven Heroes of the Warring States period are short of food, and Zhuge Liang is often plagued by food problems.

What do you think about this?

This question is not difficult: the war in the Warring States Period, and the war in the Three Kingdoms Period, its background is completely different, the war in the Warring States Period, it was the Zhou Dynasty that divided the candidate states to become bigger and stronger, and produced the Seven Heroes, these Seven Heroes did not accept the rule of the Zhou Dynasty, which caused the war, although there was chaos on the surface, but the candidate countries were very strong, and there was no problem with food, but they all wanted to be the boss; The war during the Three Kingdoms period was caused by the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, after the rebellion of the party, the people's livelihood was not good, the country was in chaos, can there be no shortage of food, the world needs to reshuffle the rules, and the truth is like this

In that era, there was often a shortage of food. The most famous is that during the Battle of Changping, Zhao was short of food, and King Zhao had no choice but to replace Lian Po with Zhao Kuo. It is not so much that Zhao Kuo, who talked on paper, led to the fiasco of Zhao, but that it was the lack of national strength that led to the fiasco of Zhao.

Lian Po seems to be holding on to it, but in fact, he starves to death when the food runs out. Zhao Kuo's initiative to attack itself was the intention of King Zhao, in order to achieve a quick victory.

As for Kong Ming's lack of grain, it was indeed because the social and economic centers of China were all in the north at that time, and although there was a land of abundance, the economic foundation was weak and the population was sparse. In addition, there are frequent wars in Qishan Mountain, and the young people are killed in battle, how can there be enough food to eat.

The Warring States also lacked food, okay Look at the Battle of Changping Both countries are national movements Everyone feels that the Warring States are not short of food That's because many of the Warring States are offensive wars, not wars of annihilation The intensity of general wars is not so great And most of the soldiers of the Warring States are not professional soldiers, they are half-soldiers and half-civilians The consumption is not so great Unlike the later wars, the intensity is high, and most of them are wars of annihilation, and the purpose is to destroy the country, unlike the Warring States, where everyone competes for land and cities with each other There is also the Kongming period, except that the soldiers are professional soldiers, and the intensity of the war is high Another big reason is the terrain and transportation, so there are wooden oxen and flowing horses in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and it is very expensive to transport grain in ancient times, otherwise it would not be popular to eat anything to the enemy.

This may be because the background of Kong Ming's era is not very good, and the land on their side is barren, and it is not easy to grow food.

As a result of Kong Ming's policy, there was a shortage of talents, food, soldiers, and opportunities. In essence, there is a lack of cultivation, a lack of solid foundation, a lack of interest, and a lack of strategy.

The main reason is that his country actually does not produce food, and then the land in his country is also very unsuitable for growing food, so there is always a shortage of food.

During the Warring States Period, the productive forces were backward and the equipment was poor, so all the people were soldiers. Moreover, the area of the Warring States is not large, so the transportation distance is relatively short, and the cost is low. During the Three Kingdoms period, Shu was not short of food, but difficult to transport.

The different military policies of the Seven Heroes of the Warring States Period and the Kong Ming Period, during the Warring States Period, all the people were soldiers, and all the things that fought were brought by the soldiers themselves, including bows and arrows, swords and food. In wartime, they are ordinary peasants, and there are no professional soldiers, and every family must send people to the battlefield to protect their families and country. In the Confucian period, it was different, the army was mercenaries, became professional soldiers, farming and fighting were separated, and grain was paid by peasants in taxes.

During the Warring States period, the basic battlefields were in the Central Plains, and the transportation was convenient, Zhuge Liang's Northern Expedition, there was grain but transportation was difficult, and the longer the battle line, the longer the transportation line.

According to the Book of the Later Han Dynasty, the Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms, and the Romance, the population of Ji Han could not be so small, and its territory could support eight million people at that time, and Ji Han maintained more than one million people from its establishment to its destructionThe main areas of war between the Han and Jin dynasties were from North China to the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River and Guanzhong, and Shu County did not have a long-term war. There may also be immigrants from Guanlongwanjing.

In the late Eastern Han Dynasty, the population of Shu County exceeded 6 million, and after Liu Bei entered Sichuan, there was only 1 million left, which could feed the land of 7 million people, and there would be no food to feed more than 1 million people to fight?

First, the Warring States Zhao State lacked food, which also led to the defeat of Changping as a result. Second, there is no shortage of food in Shudi. It's just that the attack on the Central Plains is difficult to travel, and the grain delivery is inconvenient.

It is difficult to go to Shu and it is difficult to go to the sky. The roads in Sichuan are relatively difficult to walk, long-term transportation consumes a lot, and it is difficult to transport grain, and a shortage of grain is inevitable.

Because the population of the three countries is declining, labor is scarce, and there are wars and farming, it is too difficult for men and women.

Because their geographical location is not very good, the production of things is not particularly large, and the population is relatively small.

The shortage of grain in Shu is a shortage that cannot be transported to the front line, after all, think about the current Sichuan and then think about the road at that time, seventy or eighty percent will be consumed on the road.

Nonsense, why did Bai Qi kill 400,000 Zhao army prisoners It's not mainly because of lack of food, can't afford to feed them, and don't want to release them.

Mainly because Kong Ming often went on expeditions to the north, it can be said that he was reckless, so he would naturally be short of food.

This is because when he took office, he was not prepared for this aspect, but felt that he had never been short of food, so she would not be short of food this time, so he did this.

I think this is because there was a military priority system at that time, and there was no focus on food hoarding, so there was always a shortage of food.

Because during the Warring States period at that time, the various vassal states were relatively stable, and they all worked hard to develop their own country's agriculture to stabilize their own foundation, so in the later period, the development of the various vassal states was relatively mature, so they began to encroach on each other, because the agricultural foundation of each vassal state was relatively stable, so they fought for hundreds of years, and they were not short of food. Then in the Three Kingdoms era, Liu Bei was not long after he got Hanzhong, and Hanzhong had a very small labor force after years of war. On the other hand, Cao Cao was also relatively bad, and he also took away a lot of labor in Hanzhong at that time, because Cao Cao knew that as long as there was a population, then he could continue to strengthen his national strength.

During the Warring States Period, the vassal states before Qin destroyed the Six Kingdoms were relatively peaceful in the early days, because the Zhou Dynasty at that time did not fall, so it still had a certain strength to control the various vassal states. At that time, the vassal states were also relatively obedient, of course, they were also working hard to plan for the future, so they were constantly secretly developing their national strength, they knew that in ancient times, the strength of the national strength completely depended on the population, so each vassal state was working hard to develop the population, develop agriculture, as long as the peasants were well fed and grew food, then the national strength was naturally strong. In the middle and late periods, the basic development of the vassal states was relatively stable, especially in agriculture, which was relatively mature, so the problem of food and fedness in each country had been completely solved.

At this time, they wanted to expand their territory, so there was always some small friction between the various vassal states. At that time, the state of Chu was a relatively powerful country, and the location of the state of Chu was Jingzhou during the Three Kingdoms period, so the land in this place was fertile, so the food was relatively sufficient. Later, due to the construction of the Zhengguo Canal, and Qin Shi Huang also paid more attention to the development of agriculture and the envelopment of talents, so in the end the Qin State became very powerful and annexed the Six Kingdoms, so at that time, there was no shortage of food in various countries.

In the Three Kingdoms period, Kong Ming was always short of food because the Shu State at that time was actually not very strong, because the perennial war caused many farmers to go to the battlefield, so not many people went to grow food, which would lead to the feeling of food. The reason is that when this place in Hanzhong was occupied by Liu Bei, it had been almost looted by Cao Cao, and the population of Hanzhong was also very small, so Liu Bei had always been relatively short of food at that time. Another reason is that because the roads in the land of Bashu are very difficult to walk, the frequent long-distance transportation of grain is also relatively expensive.

Later, Zhuge Liang finally thought of a way to solve the problem of grain and grass transportation, and he used the army to grow grain to solve the lack of grain, but due to his advanced age, there was no return to heaven. <>

Because Kong Ming went to a long distance to fight, and the road out of Shu was particularly difficult, and the grain was not easy to transport; In addition, many young people in Shu have gone to the battlefield, and there are relatively few people doing farm work, and the grain output is relatively low.

Because Kong Ming always used grain and grass as bait to fight, he was always short of food.

Because Kong Ming is always fighting everywhere, the production volume is not large. So his logistics are not available. So there is always a shortage of food.

Because the ** of the Seven Heroes of the Warring States Period were mainly farmers, and if they went out, they were soldiers and they were people, so they had sufficient grain and grass, and Zhuge Liang's Northern Expedition was short of food, mainly because of transportation difficulties.

Because it was a Northern Expedition, it was more difficult to raise grain, and the transportation in Shu was not good, and it was difficult to transport grain and grass.

Because of the defeat of Liu Beiyiling, the population of Shuzhong decreased, and not many people went to grow grain and grass.

First of all, the military system of the Warring States period and the Three Kingdoms period was different. During the Warring States period, all the people were soldiers, which meant that as long as men could go to war, they would be recruited into the ranks. After the war is over, these militiamen are released back to work in the fields, continuing to store food for the next war.

This kind of system has a sense of desperateness, because all the peasants in the fields have been transferred, the main labor force in the family is vacant, and if the war lasts for a long time, it is fighting for the grain stocks of various countries, so there are also the practice of the army and the army are short of military food and do not care whether the people live or die to grab food, such as in vain.

Was there no shortage of food for hundreds of years during the Warring States period? Not necessarily. At that time, Qin Shi Huang burned books and destroyed many historical materials, which made our modern people's judgment of the historical facts at that time biased.

During the period of the Seven Heroes' struggle for hegemony, it was not that there was no shortage of food, but it was relatively rare to see records of food shortage in the history books. There are many materials left in the history of the Three Kingdoms, especially Chen Shou, the author of the Three Kingdoms, who is a Shu person, so the records of Shu are relatively detailed, and the details are very clear about the lack of food and why there is a shortage of food.

During the Three Kingdoms period, Zhuge Liang reformed the military system of Shu, and Shu claimed to be the orthodox Liu Han clan, and they were very concerned about the reputation among the people, so they couldn't do such a thing as grabbing food. Zhuge Liang only laid a large rear for his army, and raised an elite soldier for an average of several people, which led to the emergence of professional soldiers, whose combat effectiveness was much stronger than that of the militia. But Zhuge Liang still had to face the difficulty of requisitioning grain, which was also the main reason for his lack of food.

The most important thing is that the road of Shu is too difficult to walk, there are high mountains and mountains along the way, and under the circumstances at that time, it was a very difficult thing to transport grain and grass. Not to mention the time consumed to go over the mountains and mountains, it also consumes manpower, and the soldiers who transport military rations still have to eat, and they have to consume a lot on the road. The supply line is too long, coupled with the influence of sudden weather reasons and other factors, the delivery of military rations is delayed day by day, and when they arrive at the barracks, the soldiers who deliver the grain have to stay part of the rations to make back.

Zhuge Liang's Wen Tao Wu strategy, in several classic battles, is indeed like a god in the world, but it is still not as far-sighted as Cao Cao in the matter of military rations. Zhuge Liang did not realize the lack of the system until he faced the same problem of lack of military food in several Northern Expeditions. And Cao Cao realized the problem of grain and grass early, so he tuned the fields in advance, and the problem of lack of food in Cao Ying's camp was solved in this way.

Zhuge Liang finally realized that he should Tuntian and began to work on it, but he died, and it can be said that the lack of food became a major reason for the defeat of Shu.