The main task of the war against Miao has been accomplished, and as long as the border areas are held, there will not be any big chaos in the newly occupied areas.

A large area of land in the north of the Yangtze River needs to be managed by a new administrative unit.

For the division of administrative regions, Yang Hao did not scribble on the map, but out of many considerations.

The first is to rely on the geography of mountains and rivers as a natural dividing line, and the second is to use it for political purposes, mainly to achieve the effect of divide and rule.

As for the Jiangbei region, Yang Hao added four new states, Guizhou, Jiangzhou, Suzhou, and Yangzhou.

This time, Yang Hao once again exerted his spirit of take-it-or-leave-it.

In later generations, several provinces and cities in the south were directly used by him in his own country.

With the new state capital, it was necessary to send a large number of officials, and the young officials, together with the old ministers who were in danger, embarked on the road to the south in the early spring of the thirteenth year of Hongwu.

Although the new administrative region was divided, the Qi State did not know much about the local geography of the Miao people.

In order to set up an administrative center and build a city, these officials must personally choose a good place.

As a city where the government is located, two conditions must be met, one is transportation, and the other is the terrain that is conducive to defense.

As for the rest of the local institutions at the county and town level, Yang Hao was not in a hurry to set them up.

Only when the Qi State has a firm foothold on the side of the Miao people, and the characteristics of human beings living in groups, they will spontaneously choose the location suitable for building a city, which Yang Hao does not care.

After the war in the south was calmed down, Yang Zhi, who stayed in Lingzhou City, almost celebrated with a crown, and in a good mood, he broke the drinking ring for the first time and got drunk.

Soon after, Yang Zhi and his entourage embarked on the road to the north.

In the past year or so, he has experienced a lot and seen a lot.

The difficult life of the people at the bottom made him understand that Qi Country was not as beautiful as it seemed.

The prosperity of Chang'an City is like a castle in the sky, which seems a little flashy.

On the way north, Yang Zhi often took out the records of his journey and looked through them, and when he was ready to go back, he would suggest to his father and tell him what he thought.

And this small team, when it returned, there was one more person than when it came, and that was the east gate of the merchant recommended by Lingzhou Mansion Yin.

For this person, Yang Zhi took a fancy to it, and during this period of conversation, he found that this person was extremely smart, especially about craftsmen, and could almost draw inferences from what Yang Hao said.

Yang Zhi, as the successor handed over by Yang Hao, although he did not put all his energy on research, his talent is also one of the best in Qi State, but even so, in the face of Dongmen, who does not know a single big character, he has gradually evolved from the beginning of his teaching to a person who discusses some technical difficulties with each other, which really makes Yang Zhi eat it.

On the way back, Yang Zhi also asked several literate guards to take turns teaching Dongmen literacy and simple arithmetic.

Yang Zhi felt that if this person had a certain amount of cultural knowledge, coupled with this person's intelligence, he might really be able to bring unexpected surprises to Daqi.

In Jiangbei, the Miao people who stayed behind did not live a solid life during this time, and they didn't know how the Qi people would treat themselves as the vanquished.

The Miao people are very numerous, and they may be the largest ethnic group in East Asia in this era, except for the Huaxia and Dongyi peoples.

Although a large number of people is also a good thing, it is very inconvenient to manage.

Especially at this time, Jiangbei is basically maintained by military generals, basically in the stage of military control, although the Qi people did not make any radical moves, but the existence of soldiers will make this Jiangbei extremely depressed.

Some simple human settlements have already begun to be built, but these places are basically built around the local military camps, and the officers, who have little experience in governing the local areas, can only choose the simplest and crude methods to manage these Hmong.

The military stipulated that the Miao tribe near the barracks must come to the barracks every three days to report, and those who did not come would be regarded as rebels, and the Qi army would send a large army to exterminate them.

In front of the steel knife and spear of the Qi people, the Miao people had to choose to give in.

The existence of Miao traitors makes Miao people more and more distrustful of each other.

After Nuo Da Jiuli, it became falling apart, but this kind of result is what the Qi people are most willing to see.

They don't want to see a united Miao group, if the Miao people are united, let alone 60,000 troops, it will be difficult to occupy this place if they come with 60,000 troops.

Along the Yangtze River, although Shixi did not receive the news of the end of the war, with his analysis of the war, he knew that the day of his departure was approaching.

His ideal was to lead a fleet of ships to explore the oceans in the future, and for this purpose, he raced against time to accumulate capital for himself to sail in the future.

And the source of this capital is the hundred off-road people in Jiangnan.

When the Jiangbei Army was chasing the Miao people everywhere in the mountains, the naval army led by Shi Xi was having a good time.

Except for occasionally intercepting some Miao tribes who wanted to cross the Yangtze River to the south, most of the rest of the time was busy trading with the Jiangnan Yue people.

For the Yue people, who were still in an extremely primitive state, anything in the Qi Kingdom was an incomparably precious existence.

Often a small piece of cloth can be exchanged for a large amount of goods for these natives, especially those precious furs and some unique fruits.

In addition to the normal trade of goods, Shixi also started a human trade, and through extremely low prices, the Yue people were brought to Jiangbei.

A large part of these sold savages were sent to work as coolies, and some women who looked a little beautiful were naturally bought by the low-ranking officers of the military at extremely low prices.

The law of Qi stipulates that it is forbidden to sell the people of Daqi in any form, but the law does not stipulate the sale of wild people outside the Qi country.

Under the law, although the trade of people along the Yangtze River was not booming, it had already formed an industry.

And those who tasted the sweetness of the Yue, after having this more efficient means of survival than hunting, took the lead in growing stronger, and became more and more happy to capture their southern kindred.

Although the savages in the south of the Yangtze River are collectively called the Yue people by the Miao people, they are different from the Miao people, these Yue people do not have a unified ethnic concept, and all the tribes are in the most primitive female society.

In a tribe, the status of women is high, and important positions such as some sacrifices can only be filled by older women.

And the appearance of the Qi people seems to be breaking this tradition little by little, and the men who are armed with the improvised weapons of the Qi country will inevitably have some bold ideas in their hearts after seeing that the men of the Qi army can have such rights.

It can even be said that the originally simple Yue people have gradually been polluted by the Qi people.