In the palace, Yang Hao said to the three people: "What do you think of the Northeast?" ”

Yin said in a deep voice: "If it is indeed a good place as the two of them said, but the northeast is too cold, according to experience, the further north it is, the colder it becomes, if this world is really as the king said, the northeast is in the cold zone, it is good that it is summer now, if it is winter, I am afraid that it will be difficult for ordinary people to survive, this place is not suitable for habitation." ”

"Subordinate Will!"

Yuan Shen said.

Yang Hao said: "Yes, the land in the northeast is indeed too bitter and cold, and it will not be able to provide convenience for my Daqi in a short period of time, but such a place, if you don't take it, it is really a violent thing."

”

As he spoke, Yang Hao walked to the desk and took out the map.

Said: "You see, this is the northernmost part of my Great Qi Youzhou, and the mountains on its east side are blocked, and there is only a very narrow road to the northeast, and there is still here, according to the exploration, it is all the ocean."

Although the Tohoku region is sparsely populated, this king believes that it is a strategic place and cannot be left unwanted.

Now that the remnants of Xia Hou are resurrecting in the north, which is all grasslands, it is too difficult for me to completely eradicate them.

For these remnants of the summer queen, what our country can do now is to rely on the natural danger of the mountains for defense, the north and the west do not have to worry for the time being, but here in the northeast is different, once the barbarians are strong, this is the breakthrough point for them to invade our Qi country, and we have to guard against it.

If we can extend the scope of defense to the northeast, then we will have a huge buffer whether it is offensive or defensive.

This king believes that our Great Qi should build a pass along this corridor to the northeast and gradually occupy this place.

”

The three of them looked at the map and thought about Yang Hao's words.

"There are few people in the north, especially in the north, and they really have to be guarded against, but it is not easy to immigrate to the wild land in the northeast, and the minister feels that there is no one in the northeast, but the stone commander led them to explore for too short a time and did not find it.

If we can find the local tribes and force them to submit to our Daqi, it should also be a way.

”

As soon as Shao Yan finished speaking, Yuan immediately objected: "Then how dare you guarantee that those people will not rebel against Daqi, what is the situation of the barbarians in the northeast, I don't know, if they are allowed to grow stronger and unite with the remnants of the Xia Hou, how can there be a peaceful day on my northern border." ”

Yuan's worries are also Yang Hao's, and he doesn't trust the natives of the Northeast in this era.

Although the Central Plains people of Qi are also extremely backward natives, they belong to a member of the Chinese civilization circle, and although there are some cultural differences in language, the overall difference is not big.

The North, on the other hand, is a completely different race from Middle-earth, with a very different language and cultural habits.

The scourge of the northern barbarians to the Central Plains in later generations made Yang Hao instinctively reject their ancestors.

The atmosphere became a little dreary for a while.

After a long time, Yin said in a deep voice: "The king, the minister thinks that we can do it in two aspects at the same time, we can slowly build the city, and at the same time we can also send people to the northeast to contact the local natives, if these people get along well, we will appease them, let them be used by my Daqi, or give them an official position with no real power, for those who want to make friends with my Daqi, we can appropriately open up some trading materials, but strategic materials must not flow out of the slightest."

And for those tribes that are too barbaric, we still focus on suppression, and it is better to let those barbarians fight themselves.

Use barbarians to fight barbarians, and at the same time we assimilate them as much as possible, and cultivate people with great Qi aspirations in them, so that after more than ten years, when the Northeast is no longer barbaric, I Daqi can take it into our pockets.

”

Yang Hao thought for a while and said: "This is a solution, but more than ten years is too long." ”

Yin smiled bitterly: "Great King, compared to the north, the minister feels that the south is more important, with the warm south as the foundation, as long as you manage it carefully, the population of my Qi country will definitely increase several times."

As long as there are people, why worry about the injustice in the north.

”

"My lord, the minister thinks this is reasonable."

Shaoyan agreed.

Yang Hao touched his beard and was silent.

He also agrees with Yin's strategy, but he is still a little unwilling, thousands of years of historical experience has made him understand that those barbarians in the north pose a much greater threat to agricultural civilization than in the south.

Unless machine guns and artillery are invented, agrarian civilizations can only choose to be forced to defend in the face of the northern barbarians in great depth.

He didn't want to repeat the mistakes of the future, he longed to level the north in one fell swoop, even if he couldn't, he wanted to occupy the north by himself, especially the northeast.

It was much easier to attack the Mongolian steppe from this place than from the Central Plains.

But the reality is just as Yin said, the population of millions in Qi is really too small, not to mention immigration, even the territory of Qi is still vast and sparsely populated, and immigrants don't know where to start.

"Okay, let's follow the strategy of the left, but I will add that at the same time as the construction of the land of Youzhou, the peninsula area north of Penglai will also be built, and the northern land will be called Yandi in the future.

The city built on the Yandong Peninsula does not grow grain, and the city functions as a hunting city, which is mainly to hunt and gather local endemic things.

In particular, herbs such as ginseng are lacking in our Qi country, and it is a pity not to take them.

”

The three of them had no objection to this, and they all agreed, after all, everyone hopes that the more herbs that can cure all diseases, the better, especially people in high positions like them, who are often more like living longer than ordinary people, and to put it bluntly, they are more afraid of death.

Although Yang Hao was helpless, he had to succumb to reality.

In order to be able to give Qi a peaceful and safe development environment, Yang Hao and the three of them agreed to build passes in several strategic places in the Yanshan Mountains, and these more than a dozen passes, large and small, are all construction tasks in the next few years.

It's just that when naming, Yang Hao carried forward the spirit of his doctrine, like Jiayuguan, Juyongguan, Yanmen Pass and so on.

As long as these passes are built, the hinterland of Qi will have no worries, and although Chang'an, which is located in the hinterland, has no natural dangers to defend, but on the other hand, these passes have been breached, then Qi can be said to have reached the verge of extinction, even if it is just a matter of breathing for a while.

At this time, Yang Zhi has also started his travels in Jingzhou, and he has gained a lot from the exchange of candidates, and he has also made a good friend, but these people know that the child in front of him is actually the prince of Qi State.

Although Yang Zhi had a good conversation with these people, he was very clear about the purpose of his coming out, and being with these people could not let him really understand the real Qi country, so after staying in Shen County for more than ten days, Yang Zhi took some dry food out of the county seat.

He was going to go to the villages and towns to have a look, because the vast majority of the population of Qi was in the villages and towns, and only by understanding the civilian class that accounted for the vast majority of the population could he give Yang Hao a satisfactory answer.