Chapter 1238

But in the end, he has always relied on the imperial court, so once he breaks away from the imperial court, his strength will also drop a lot. And at that time, the imperial court will definitely kill him.

Therefore, regardless of whether Cao Cao is loyal to the imperial court, he does not dare to have the heart of independence.

After all, in the Central Plains, the Taiping Dao and the Liu Han Imperial Court are the main ones, dividing nearly twenty provinces and commanderies in the Central Plains.

Among them, the Taiping Dao occupies 50-60%, the imperial court occupies 30-40%, and the remaining little bit is controlled by other places.

And those places are not enough for a great warlord to rise.

Thus, Cao Cao can only be the Town-East General of the imperial court; he still has no road to rise on his own.

The north and the Central Plains have no chance, unless he can make up his mind to take his confidants away from the Central Plains and go to the south.

There are several major warlords in the south today, but the south is also relatively sparsely populated; with his ability, before the south is completely unified, he can also build a certain foundation.

It's just that compared to the north and the Central Plains, the potential of the south is much worse.

Whether it is the Prince Chen Mansion or the Jingzhou Inspector, the territory they occupy is not small, but in terms of the army, it is much worse than the north and the Central Plains.

Especially there is no cavalry in the south.

Even if cannons have appeared now, making the strategic position of cavalry drop a bit, without the Taiping Dao's industrialization results, warlords in various places, even if they have also begun to build guns and cannons and formed firearm battalions.

However, facing the true elite cavalry, they still only have the effect of side weakening and cannot achieve upright confrontation with them.

Except for the Taiping Dao, which can rely on the artillery army to threaten the cavalry, other warlords, facing the northern iron cavalry, only have iron cavalry to confront.

The true elite iron cavalry are all formed by transcendent martial artists; the war horses they sit on are also very fierce, comparable to wild beasts, and with heavy armor cavalry equipped with men and horses, it is truly unstoppable in the south.

The advantage of the south is only bows and arrows, but unfortunately, the construction of archers is not so easy.

So the potential of the south is far from comparable to the north; although there are horse farms in the south, compared to the war horses raised in the northern grasslands, the south is relatively worse.

This is a geographical defect that cannot be changed.

Unless the industrialization process of warlords in various places reaches the Taiping Dao, or reaches one-third of the Taiping Dao, it is enough to smooth out the gap.

But unfortunately, this is not so simple.

Cavalry has always been the king in ancient history, and it was not until the 19th century that cavalry slowly retired.

And China has always unified the world from the north; it is not just the physical quality of the north and the traditional grain producing areas.

It is more that the north has the ability to form cavalry, while the south does not.

Later, Ming Taizu was able to unify the world from the south; first, the south was developed for hundreds of years by the Great Song, and in terms of grain and population, it was not worse than the south.

Secondly, because of the collapse of the northern horse administration in the late Great Yuan, even the Great Yuan Imperial Court was very difficult to form cavalry and needed to rely on other places.

In this way, there was an opportunity for Ming Taizu to defeat them.

As for the late Qing Dynasty, foreign powers opened their dream of a great country with guns and cannons, and a few thousand people collapsed their tens of thousands of iron cavalry.

Up to this point, the kingly power of cavalry also completely disappeared in history.

In this mythical era, cavalry is still an unstoppable divine power; in the Great Qin era, the Golden Fire Cavalry built by the Meng family, those war horses were all tempered by the essence blood of monster beasts, and each one was comparable to a monster beast.

So the Golden Fire Cavalry was so terrifying.

Every cavalryman was stronger than an Internal Strengthening martial artist by several times, at least a martial artist at the Yuan Gang level.

One can imagine how powerful such cavalry was; even the Taiping Dao's artillery could hardly pose much threat to them.

After all, such cavalry, at a distance of three kilometers, probably doesn't need twenty breaths to rush over.

Now many of the Taiping Dao's cannons have a range of tens of kilometers, but in fact, the lethality is mostly around ten kilometers.

But the cavalry is fast, at least scattered impact, which can maximize the deterrence of the artillery.

Of course, that was in the Great Qin era.

Today's cavalry cannot reach that level.

As long as this grows and that wanes, the Taiping Dao's advantage will only become larger and larger; after all, the Taiping Dao occupies a powerful technological advantage.

The Taiping Dao's technological knowledge cannot be hidden; even if those people don't reveal it, those high-level cultivators who want to get their hands on it can do so easily.

Especially for those ordinary people, a Qi Refiner can easily achieve it.

But the Taiping Dao is not afraid at all.

Because of the policies between the two sides, the Taiping Dao faces all ordinary people, and those scientific knowledge can be learned by ordinary people, and they are the main force.

Even if ordinary people are not at an advantage in scientific research compared to those cultivators, ordinary people have an advantage that cultivators cannot compare to.

That is the huge number; if one person can't compare, then hundreds or thousands of people will compare.

Cultivators can do high-level scientific research work, and ordinary people research those simple and basic ones.

And other warlords, after obtaining this knowledge, the first thing they think of is their own family, and it is impossible to let those mud-legged peasants learn.

In this way, the gap caused is very obvious.

In terms of the number of cultivators, the Taiping Dao alone certainly cannot compare to the world, but adding ordinary people, it is not something other warlords can compare to.

Especially the guns and cannons required for army construction, which require a huge number of workers; relying only on cultivators, unless the cultivators under those warlords don't sleep or eat to build them, they might not be able to compare to the Taiping Dao's military factories.

After all, those Qi Refiners, unless they have cultivated to the Golden Core True Person realm, will be faster when refining artillery.

Others, compared to the assembly line machine factories of mortals, are not necessarily better, even Golden Core True Persons are not necessarily better than factories.

As for other martial arts and civil arts, they are even more useless.

Comparing the two, how can they compare to the industrialized Taiping Dao?

As for other warlords also learning from the Taiping Dao and starting comprehensive education, then the Taiping Dao absolutely welcomes it with both hands.

Once mortals learn, their thinking opens up, and then wanting to control them will be very difficult.

This has always been the reason for the Legalist's policy of weakening the people.

Once people learn, their thinking expands, and then wanting to make them like before is impossible.

Need to give up part of the interests.

And the Taiping Dao is not afraid, because they gave up part of the rights and interests, which is to open up the upward channel; as long as you have the ability, you have the opportunity to be an official.

This is something other warlord aristocratic families absolutely do not want.