Qi Guo's pacification of the Miao people is already a sure thing, and after the Miao land settles down, what the next move of the imperial court will be, Shi Xi is not clear.

But in the land south of the Yangtze River, he didn't believe that the bigwigs in the court were not moved, and it was so backward that there could be no particularly powerful forces, and he even felt that he could level this place with his own people.

However, as a soldier, he did not dare to provoke lightly without the order of the imperial court, and he was impeached, but he couldn't eat and walk around.

Since it can't be solved by powerlessness, it is a good choice to treat these stupid natives as cheap labor.

If the imperial court wants to rule the south, it is impossible to abuse some Miao people who have surrendered too much.

Although those Miao people consume less money than the Qi people, if they use these native people, they will definitely save a large part of their expenses.

Shi Xi did this not for the sake of the imperial court, but for the sake of these brothers under him.

After all, whether it is their army or the captives of the Miao people, they have a total of so much food, and if they eat more, their brothers will eat less.

The best way is to let those Miao people find food to eat on their own, and it is definitely very merciful for Qi to give these natives food that can fill their stomachs.

Stony Brook thought it was a good deal.

It's just that he didn't know that his idea would be of great help to Qi Guo in the future.

For the natives who have not even appeared in civilization, the impact of the advanced Qi civilization on these people can be imagined.

Even if the Qi State does not take the initiative to assimilate them, the natives will accept the civilization of the Qi State intentionally or unintentionally.

For them with a blank sheet of paper, it is far easier to accept the indoctrination of advanced civilization than the forces with a certain civilization foundation.

In the Spring Festival of the thirteenth year of Hongwu, in the days when every household in the Qi country stayed up late to watch the New Year, the soldiers of the Qi army in the far south were the dens of the armed elements who crossed the mountains and mountains.

It's just that most of the time, the Qi army meets empty-handed.

As the Miao people gradually adapted to the sweeping behavior of the Qi army, the two sides began a game of cat and mouse.

The Qi army carpeted the past from east to west, and the Miao people, who were unwilling to become prisoners of war, began a strategic transfer.

The Miao people are not an agrarian civilization, nor do they have an agrarian civilization's attachment to the land, and under the pressure of the Qi people step by step, the Miao people began to think about the transfer of the West on a large scale.

Until the beginning of February of the thirteenth year of Hongwu, Yang Hao of Chang'an City received the latest military information from the south, and the Qi army had advanced to the southern border of Qingzhou.

The Miao people hid in the mountains and mountains in the west, and the Qi army could not pursue, so Liyang asked Yang Hao to collect his troops and only garrison a small number of troops in the key places of the western mountains for defense.

Because if the pursuit continues, the Qi army is afraid that there will be no food and grass, and although most of the Miao resistance forces have fled into the southwest mountains and forests, there are still small resistance forces in the Miao land from time to time to make trouble.

Liyang feels that the top priority now is to stabilize the seedlings as soon as possible.

Yang Hao put down the official document, and the current results of the battle are still within the scope of his acceptance, although a large part of the resistance elements of the Miao people ran away, which is likely to cause a certain degree of hidden danger to the future Great Qi, but he is familiar with the terrain of East Asia, and he knows very well what the situation is in the southwest.

Since ancient times, it has been said that it is difficult for Shu Dao to go to the blue sky, and it is not easy to enter Sichuan on a large scale with the ability of this era.

Moreover, the land of Bashu in this era is not an empty and barbaric area, where according to the information Yang Hao has, there is a powerful force that is not weaker than the original Xia Dynasty.

In the memory of his previous life, Sanxingdui was probably made by these guys.

This force has a highly developed bronze smelting process, and it has the national treasure land of Tianfu, and it is far more time-consuming and laborious to conquer this place than this southern expedition.

Yang Hao knew that there were only two ways to enter Sichuan, one of which was to start from Qinzhou, cross the vast Qinling Mountains and occupy the land of Hanzhong in later generations.

The premise is that the people of Shu in this era do not understand the importance of setting up passes.

If the Shu people have already set up passes in strategic places and want to capture Sichuan, the difficulty will increase several times.

The other direction is the waterway, which runs upriver along the Yangtze River.

But this is also extremely difficult, compared to the gentle water potential in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, the water potential in the upper reaches is not so mild, and if you want to enter the river, you have to use a large number of slender men to pull boats along the coast.

This would be much more expensive than attacking from the north.

Yang Hao finally agreed to Liyang's suggestion, and the most important thing now is to develop the land of Jiangbei.

In this era, there has been small-scale rice cultivation in Jiangbei, which is what Yang Hao values the most.

Compared with the millet of one season a year, if there is rice with two or three crops a year, the days of Qi are different.

There is food in the storehouse, and there is no panic in the heart, this is the eternal truth.

More than ten years of development, although the agricultural level of Qi has made great progress, but limited by low-yield crops, it is impossible to make the people of Daqi worry-free.

Sitting on a territory of one million kilometers, but not even the problem of food and clothing for millions of people cannot be solved, this is something he cannot accept no matter what.

The population is growing rapidly, but the food output cannot keep up, how strong is the Qi country.

Yang Hao muttered: "Sichuan! Great place! ”

Although he is greedy, he is still very sensible, although he is extremely eager for the land, but he also knows that it is easy to pull the egg if the step is too big.

Although there were some twists and turns in the campaign, on the whole it was relatively smooth, and the cost of the war was less than expected.

Since the war would soon be over, Yang Hao began to look for candidates to be sent to the south.

Compared with the Central Plains, which has been developed to a certain extent, the conditions in Jiangbei are still relatively difficult, and in order to ensure that officials will not burp due to physical reasons, Yang Hao decided that this batch of officials will be selected from among the alternate officials who were admitted to the imperial examination last year.

It is said that it is the king who shares worries and hones his ability to manage the place.

And for those young officials who were doing chores in the imperial court, they were in favor of this.

Although the conditions in the south are a little worse, at least they can show their ambitions.

These high-spirited young people, all pretentious, always feel that they are capable of higher positions.

Going to the new territory that has just been conquered as an official is just right to let those old guys in the imperial court see how powerful they are.

If you want to quickly stabilize the new territory, only officials can't do it, and the Miao people already have a certain degree of their own culture, and if they don't step up the pace of assimilation, it will be a big trouble in the long run.

Yang Hao knew this, so when he selected officials, he had already decided to emigrate from Qi to the south, and this immigration plan, he planned to immigrate more than 200,000 people within five years.

Only when enough Qi people go can they assimilate those Miao people as quickly as possible, and only when everyone becomes Qi people can the problem of national contradictions like a powder keg be completely solved.