Last year, Chen Xian collected 9 million yuan in commercial taxes alone, which was more than three times higher than the commercial taxes collected by the entire Jingdong Road during the Northern Song Dynasty.

In addition to commercial taxes, Chen Xian's various factories and merchant fleets also brought him nearly 10 million yuan in profit income last year! Combined with the income of agricultural companies, Chen Xian's total income last year was nearly 26 million! It is less than one-third less than the annual fiscal and tax revenue of more than 30 million yuan in the heyday of the Jin State, which is equivalent to a quarter of the annual fiscal revenue of the Southern Song Dynasty!

Of course, the more you earn, the more you spend.

Last year, Chen Xian repaired castles, roads, seaports, and shipbuilding, basically, as much as he earned, he built as much as he wanted.

For Chen Xian, it is not too difficult to raise these 250,000 troops, but the difficulty is to keep them in the future.

In order to stabilize the morale of the army, Chen Xian has always been based on high land rewards in terms of pensions, which made the soldiers have no worries about the future, and while fighting bravely, it also made Chen Xian's army a big farmer.

Moreover, Chen Xian did not dare to change this kind of rule casually, for fear of making the army lose its combat effectiveness.

In addition, in order to enhance his own war potential, he has been actively guiding the Han people in the Jin Kingdom to continue to pour into Shandong East Road over the years.

The combination of these circumstances made the land in Chen Xian's hands tense.

In order to get more land and settle the recruited refugees, Chen Xian's only way out is to expand!

During this time, Chen Xian and his ministers and generals worked out a four-way expansion plan.

The first way is to continue the previous shoreline plan.

The second route is the northern route expansion. That is, from the Yidu line, to the north, just like when attacking the eastern part of Shandong, one by one to take the fortress, strengthen the original fortress, build a new castle in the right position, and push the castle line all the way to the north.

The eastern end of the northern route will converge with the castle complex of the coastline that advances from the coastline and support each other.

Ultimately, the purpose of these two lines is to occupy the northern area of the East Shandong Road from Jinan to the southern part of the Bohai Bay, as well as the entire coast of the Bohai Bay! Hundreds of thousands of people in the area are under administration.

In addition, Chen Xian intends to expand outward on both the western and southern fronts.

On the eastern front, Chen Xian's aim was to advance to the line from Dongpyeongfu to Jeju (Jinyeong), with Yangsuipo as the western boundary of his territory.

At this time, Liangshan Shuibo has lost a lot of weight because of the diversion of the Yellow River, but there is still a huge volume, and the length from north to south is still five or six hundred miles.

The northern end of the eastern line will finally be connected to Jinan Province with the southwestern end of the northern route.

The southern line advanced to the north bank of the Yellow River, across the river from the Song State, took the north bank of the Yellow River in Xuzhou to the east, and along the north bank of the Yellow River, advanced eastward to Fengxian, the northern end of the eastern line, and finally the eastern line in the southern round of Jining.

In the end, these three-line advances will expand Chen Xian's territory by half and increase the controlled population by more than one million!

Chen Xian also sent an envoy to meet the Emperor of Jin as the head of the soldiers and horses of the East Shandong Road.

After the history books said that Yan Xun was a faint monarch, the Jin Kingdom died in his hands, and moving the capital to Kaifeng was a big failure, but in Chen Xian's opinion, this person was by no means a mediocre monarch.

After Wan Yan Xun succeeded to the throne, he first poisoned Hu Shahu, who killed the previous emperor, and then there were two powerful ministers, Gao Qi, the Shuhu who killed Hu Shahu, but Wan Yan Xun killed two people successively in this unfavorable situation and took back the monarchy.

As for moving the capital to Kaifeng, in Chen Xian's view, not only is it not a failure, but it is the right choice, if Wanyan Xun does not move the capital, then there is an 80 percent chance that the Jin State will perish when the Mongols go south for the fourth time, and it will not be like now, and it will last for more than 20 years.

Of course, if you want to talk about how wise Yan Xun is, then it is not true, after this person moved the capital, he first attacked the Southern Song Dynasty, and then started a war with Western Xia, wasting the great opportunity of Genghis Khan's westward expedition, not only did not recuperate, but became weaker.

The reason why Chen Xian wanted to send someone to meet the emperor of the Jin State was to do business with the Jin people, and he planned to exchange high-quality armor and war horses for the Jin people for population.

Because of the brutality of the Mongols, when the Jin State moved south, many Jin and Han people in North China also fled southward, and at this time, a large number of fugitives were crowded in the territory of the Jin State.

The reason why Chen Xian had to introduce the population under the condition of his own land shortage was also a helpless move.

With the Mongol expedition to the west, this original nomadic khanate will evolve into a huge empire spanning Europe and Asia, and its war potential will be exponentially expanded.

If Chen Xian still only maintained a small country of millions of people before the end of the Mongol expedition to the west, then his fate would not be much stronger than the current Jin State, and the huge Mongol Empire would consume him to death.

Therefore, the Mongolian expedition to the west seems to be an opportunity for Chen Xian, but it is actually an opportunity for the Mongols.

Why didn't the seemingly powerful Mongols quickly destroy the seemingly weak Jin State before the Western Expedition? That's because, at that time, the Mongols were like a wolf, and the Jin people were like a cow, the wolf could kill the cow, but that required patience and time, if a wolf wanted to bite a cow to death, it would probably be the wolf that died.

Before the Western Expedition, the Mongols seemed to be extremely fierce, but in fact, they carefully avoided casualties, and carefully bled the weak old cow of the Jin Kingdom again and again.

After the Western Expedition, the Mongols turned from hungry wolves to fierce tigers, and they could brutally pounce the Jin Kingdom to the ground, even if they were injured.

The same is true for Chen Xian, today, he defeated Mu Huali, even if he didn't cause too many casualties to the other party, Mu Huali could only retreat, and before finding a new way, he didn't dare to come again, so as not to suffer more trauma.

But if this defeat had been placed after the Western Expedition, the Mongols would never have been so cautious, and they had enough confidence to endure defeat after defeat until the enemy died.

If Chen Xian is not crushed by the Mongols one day, then he must take advantage of the gap of the Mongols' western expedition to expand his war potential desperately, and what awaits him in the future will be a protracted war, and what awaits him will be a competition of national strength!

The business was a success.

The news that Chen Xian had just defeated the Mongolian Taishi King Mu Huali had already reached the Jin court, which naturally made the people of the Jin Kingdom look down on him and dare not look down on him as subordinates.

In addition, due to the shrinkage of the land and the loss of horse farms, the Jin Kingdom, which was once dominated by cavalry, was extremely short of horses at this time, and of course, there was also a shortage of weapons and armor.

Chen Xian's exchange of these two things for the population of Jin Guo is like exchanging gold for dung, how can it not be discussed.

At this time, the people of Jin Guo were already terminally ill, and they didn't care about selling the population to Chen Xian, whether they were drinking to quench their thirst.

In this way, Chen Xian transferred a large number of people from the old territory to the Liaodong Peninsula to consolidate the development and rule of the local area, and at the same time, the population absorbed by the Jin State was filled into the old territory and digested these imported populations.

After more than a year of successive filling and reclamation, Chen Xian's population in the Liaodong Peninsula has reached 200,000, and the newly cultivated land has reached more than one million mu.

However, at this time, the Liaodong Peninsula was not highly developed, and there was not much cooked land, and it would take at least three years for the newly opened raw land to be profitable.

And what Chen Xian lacks most is time.

Therefore, Chen Xiancai formulated a three-line expansion plan in Shandong.

However, the expansion potential of Shandong is not large.

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