The Xu family is a big family, and there are more than 50 people in the Xu family's five suits within the emperor's five suits.

These people can be considered clansmen, but the problem is that the empire does not seem to have the idea of treating clans well - not only the emperor's own brother has been exiled, but recently this year, there are clans who have been exiled and executed for misdeeds and even corruption under the influence of their clan status.

And if they don't have a specific job and don't make much contribution to the empire, these clans can't be officials, they can only manage the farms of the inner government, or simply live on the dividends of the inner government's enterprises.

I can't say it's bitter, but it's certainly far from what most people imagine to be a clan life.

These clans have not even been able to obtain the corresponding titles - although many people outside habitually call them "Your Highness", many are not even barons, let alone kings.

This makes many imperial clans very unconfident in their future, and the empire and the cabinet don't seem to want to worry about the clan, and it seems that they have to fight for their own future.

How to fight?

Xu Daixuan set a good example for them.

As the eldest grandson of the emperor, he squatted in the country to operate more and may even sit on the throne, but he chose to open up to the outside world and establish his own country in places that were difficult for the empire to directly manage.

That's a great choice, isn't it?

As long as the "Dahua Law" is the supreme law, respects the rights and interests of the mother country, respects the special status of the Han people, obeys the imperial dispatch at critical moments, and economically serves as a side branch of the overall plan of the empire, overseas founders can do whatever they want on their own one-third of an acre of land.

Isn't this much better than being kept in captivity at home like a pig by the empire?

What's more, the empire doesn't want to raise them at all.

And it's not that risky.

After all, it is now "invincible for the Han Dynasty", recruiting more than 1,000 heroes from the public and commoners of the empire as the backbone, and then bringing together some Outer Tibetan Sauron and Outer Tibetan Tubo. In addition to the dots of the party, the Mugul, and the Fusang slaves.

As soon as this was done, a very combat-ready army appeared.

There is no need for the clan itself to have any military ability, anyway, the Han soldiers and the Waifan Sauron and the like in the team are enough to fight, and some retired officers who have served in the Huaxia Field Army also like to participate in this kind of overseas expansion team - they have the possibility of sealing the country and sealing the country again.

The economy can rely on bank investment - all banks are confident in the fighting power of the Imperials, and no one thinks that an expansion with thousands of armed men will fail, so most of them are willing to take out loans for this kind of behavior.

In fact, there is also the support of Buddhism and Taoism, as long as you declare that your feudal country will take Taoism or Buddhism as the state religion - the "Dahua Law" stipulates that the Han people have freedom of belief, and any sect can be trusted or not. But the conquered local natives did not have the right to rule, and the feudal kingdom forced them to believe that they had to believe it.

Then there is always a Buddhist Taoist who will find a way to support you.

Looking at it this way, as an imperial clan, in fact, you only need to stand up and raise your arms, and there will naturally be careerists to help you get everything done.

Even better, you don't need to worry about the careerists you have taken in, because you have your mother country of Huaxia as the general backstage, and these tyrants will not be able to shake the behemoth of the empire no matter how capable they are—otherwise they will do it at home, so why go overseas to find opportunities?

This is simply a great thing with no capital and countless benefits!

Of course, no one knows what the truth is, after all, even Xu Daixuan is still preparing for the expedition.

Moreover, other clans that were not so close to the emperor did not dare to go to the northwest to grab the dishes on the plate of the emperor's eldest grandson.

They are all waiting.

Wait for the empire to unify Jiangnan and reach the limit of control, and then look for land beyond the limit.

They don't have to wait long.

At the end of March 1795, Wen Yue and Xu Daizhuo and their entourage set off to return to Jiangbei.

It stands to reason that they, or at least Wen Ji, should have mourned Wen Jifu in Jiangnan for at least three months (or longer).

But as soon as Wen Jifu left, the situation in the north and south of the river instantly became cold, and Xu Shisong even began to mobilize the Xiang army and Zhuang Ding to go to Jianghuai to deploy defenses in Lin'an.

This was naturally resisted by the large families of Lin'an, who had long since been reduced from a local garrison to a servant organization of officials at all levels and wealthy families.

No matter what miscellaneous work there is in the place, such as building cities, building roads, transporting grain, guarding officials, ushering in and sending them, etc., they are mainly completed by the Xiang army.

Xu Shisong mobilized troops from all over the country to go north, and in the eyes of the big households, he was eroding their rights and interests, which was of course impossible.

As for the folk Ding Zhuang, it is even worse.

With the gradual recovery of the economy in the north, there is even a tendency to overwhelm the south of the Yangtze River, and a large number of immigrants are attracted to the north by the economic preferences of the North Korea.

The labor market in Jiangnan, which was originally filled with a large number of displaced people, has become very scarce, and the big families already lack enough slaves to do hard work.

Xu Shisong was very helpless about this kind of "own people" dragging his feet, and he had no choice but to personally meet the saint and ask Emperor Longdao to issue a mobilization order to prepare reserve soldiers and logistics for the 250,000 soldiers of the front-line forbidden army and the new army.

However, this time only Wen Zhong supported him, and even Bao Zheng was reluctant to mobilize a large number of manpower to the front line - for the simple reason that those who were mobilized did not want to go to the front line themselves.

The newspapers were reporting on how strict the military discipline in the north was, and how they were innocent of the Han civilians, so that the common people in Jiangnan felt that it was not an unacceptable big problem for the north to go south.

But if you go to the battlefield and have no eyes, you can't expect others to show mercy.

It is rare for the gentry and the common people to be united, and when they fight against the government, at least the officials of the Great Zhou Dynasty have nothing to do, not to mention that most of the local officials themselves are also at both ends of the first rat.

Xu Shisong's mobilization plan was in a uproar but it was ineffective, in this chaotic situation, Wen Yue, Wen Ji, and Xu Daizhuo realized that it was difficult to say whether it would cause chaos if they continued to stay in Jiangnan, so Wen Xianggong immediately quietly returned north not long after the first seven days.

It was said quietly, but the eyes of all walks of life who had been staring at the Wen Mansion quickly found traces, and some wealthy families in Jiangnan who did not get the promise they wanted took advantage of this last opportunity to stuff countless expensive gifts, including a throne ...... made of white jade.

Wen Yue couldn't cry or laugh at this, all the gifts, no matter how heavy they were, were left in the Wen Mansion, so that Wen Zhong had a headache.

But there are also some "gifts" that are not good to stay in Jiangnan, that is, some young girls led by the four wealthy families.

According to them, these girls had come to do some rough work for the daughter of Wen Xianggong - it seemed that they had realized that their young lady was not worthy of the imperial grandson, so they wanted to take a detour and let these girls serve by the side of the crown princess.

In this way, at least the draft process is bypassed, and the girls will often show their faces next to the imperial grandson, which has a great chance.