Changan.

Yang Hao looked at the information from the border pass and pondered for a long time.

Since the disappearance of the Xiongnu king, this short-lived steppe empire in the north has been divided into more than a dozen tribes of varying strength and weakness in recent years.

Recently, a steppe tribe called the Karaqin has shown signs of rising.

Judging from the intelligence, this tribe located in the Monan grassland has successively annexed the four surrounding small tribes in the past half a year, and it can be said that it is in the limelight among the grassland tribes.

Although the Qiongguo that was canonized by itself could conduct some trade with the Qi State, and even sometimes buy some weapons, which made their strength improve to a certain extent, due to the existence of Su Shen, they were never able to completely expand.

The situation in the Northeast is in an eerie equilibrium.

The northern barbarians are on the rise again, which is not a good sign.

Today's Qi State is not like the Central Plains Dynasty in later generations, with the Great Wall as a line of defense.

Once the barbarians are powerful, they will inevitably be attacked by the north of Qi again.

Yang Hao felt that he should do something to make this restless neighbor more honest.

Therefore, Yang Hao urgently called the relevant officials to the palace to discuss the matter.

After discussions with the ministers, Qi decided to concoct a strategy for the northeast.

It was decided to prop up a tribe hostile to the Karaqin, so that the northern region could not have a monopoly situation.

Before the Qi State did not have the strength to completely solve the northern problem, maintaining the division of the north was the most beneficial thing for Great Qi.

Although the Qi State in the fifteenth year of Hongwu was much richer than a few years ago, such material reserves could not even support the consumption of tens of thousands of troops in a year's war.

The war on the grassland was different from the war in the Central Plains, where the land was vast and sparsely populated, and the transportation of materials was extremely difficult, and most of the material losses were wasted on the road.

Even if it is another time and space, the one who seals the wolf Juxu, if it is not for the accumulation of Wenjing Zhizhi, how can he achieve his legend.

Although Yang Hao became more and more dissatisfied with the situation in the north, he could only endure it temporarily when his strength did not allow it.

However, compared with the troublesome situation in the north, the situation in the south is better.

The southern regions of this era were far behind the north in terms of civilization.

Jiangnan is known as the region of Baiyue, and the savages there are much more obedient than the northern barbarians.

Due to the gradual stabilization of the four towns of Jiangbei in recent years, after the rebellion of the Miao people was completely quelled, the development of Jiangbei has entered the formal.

Although it is not as rich as the Central Plains, it barely solves the problem of food and clothing.

Coupled with the strong national strength of Qi State, and the level of civilization far beyond human beings.

The Yue people, who were close to the Qi country, were imperceptibly influenced by the Qi people.

Even some Yue people actually smuggled people, and now in the southern border towns, it can be said that it is not uncommon for Qi people and Yue people to mix.

However, these Yue people, who did not have household registration, were not recognized as their own nationals by the Qi court.

They have no right to own land at all, and their only means of survival is to be hired by the local government at an extremely low price to do the dirty and tiring work that the Qi people do not like to do.

Even so, the living conditions of these people are much better than those of their people in the south of the Yangtze River.

Because of these people, it is difficult for them to own land, but as long as they form a family and give birth to a child on the side of Qi State, they have a great chance to obtain a valuable household registration certificate because of the child.

As long as you have a household registration, you can go to the government to apply for a piece of land.

Because in the eyes of these impoverished Yue people, it is an incomparably happy thing to be called a yeoman farmer in the Qi country.

Looking at the joy of the ordinary people of Qi when they harvested, they only had envy.

Yang Hao naturally understands these things, and he is not surprised that the Yue people are so dedicated to Qi Guo.

It's just that he doesn't want to occupy the Jiangnan region that is still in the barbaric era at the moment.

Unlike Jiangbei, the cost of developing the south is too high.

Yang Hao's plan was to wait for the people in the south to be more civilized, at least until they themselves learned to reclaim the land to grow food.

At that time, he was pushing the boat down the river, meeting the demands of the majority of Yue people for a better life, and agreeing to let them join the big family of Qi State.

This situation is similar to that of the great power of the Americas in later generations, as was the case with its southern neighbor.

Countless acquiescences have to cross the border and go to the paradise they yearn for, even at the risk of being killed.

Perhaps in the hearts of ordinary people in that southern country, there is inevitably a question.

That is, why did their ancestors resist in the first place.

If you don't resist, you may be one of the "heavens".

Yang Hao is not good at commenting on this situation, all he can do is try to make his Qi country a paradise.

As for the process of infiltrating Jiangnan in the future, in the face of possible resistance, Yang Hao even automatically ignored it.

It's not that he's conceited, it's just that their combat effectiveness is so poor that they don't have the mood to look at each other at all.

April of the fifteenth year of Hongwu.

The Ministry of Engineering conducted the third artillery test.

After two improvements, the performance of the artillery this time has reached Yang Hao's expectations.

Although the power of this artillery is not enough to reach the peak of solid bullets in later generations, it also has the power of actual combat.

Although the initial development of artillery was successful, Yang Hao did not rush to large-scale production and install it in the army.

For the current situation, cold weapons can already beat the surrounding barbarians.

Until an opponent of the same level appears, he is only going to equip this new weapon with the Royal Forest Army guarding the capital.

Although Yang Hao has the soul of a modern person, he is just an ordinary person after all.

Unable to trust his subordinates 100%, artillery, a big killer weapon that can destroy the city defense, can only be temporarily in his own hands to let him sleep peacefully.

It may not be a good thing to use too advanced weapons without sufficient control over a country.

Yang Hao's suspicious character, although it has been alleviated to a certain extent over the years, as the saying goes, the nature of the country is easy to change, and it is not easy to change it completely.

Although Yang Hao is suspicious, it does not hinder his enthusiasm for weapon research and development.

Advanced weapons can not be used, but you must have the ability to make them, these two seem to be contradictory, but in fact they are not.

Studying weapons can gradually improve the military industrial system of Qi State, and in the case of future use, it can be easily produced on a large scale.

In the face of opponents of the same level, whoever has stronger comprehensive national strength will have more right to speak, and the West has always been a threat to Yang Hao.

If it were possible, he would very much like to make it a no-man's land, where only dead enemies are the best enemies.