With Wanyan Yinshu being executed in Goryeo Wangjing, Xu Shiyang's envisioned siege of the Jurchens finally came to fruition.

After the Qi army occupied Phoenix at the end of June, Goryeo once again bordered the Jin State, and Xu Shiyang did not know what the three Jurchen princes in power in the Jin State planned to do when they learned the news, but they could not afford to build a scorched earth area similar to Gaizhou-Fuzhou again to organize Xu Shiyang's offensive.

The countdown to the life of Kim as a threatening regime has begun.

After the Goryeo direction stabilized, the Governor's Office began to try to continue its expansion in the direction of Qi Province, first of course, occupying the west of the Yellow River, and the old parts of Qi Province that the United States had previously occupied for security reasons: including Quanseong, Yanzhou, and Dongchang.

The plan of the Grand Governor Xu Muhe was to transfer 200,000 civilians and 200,000 Goryeo Nu to these newly acquired lands, and to carry out the pioneering work in combination with the local population that could be obtained.

Civilians will receive a portion of the land ownership to motivate them to work.

The Governor's Office announced that the Goryeo would complete the work of the agricultural company on time and in good quantity, and would give one merit every year—that is, even if he did not participate in the war and had no special merit, a slave could obtain the status of a commoner after twenty years of labor, and become a commoner after another ten years.

Of course, in terms of the average life expectancy of people in this era, 30 years is already a lifetime for most people.

But even slaves have descendants, don't they? There are still many people who are willing to fight for 30 years for their children and grandchildren to gain a civilian identity.

In addition to the expansion within the old Qi Province, the Governor's Office planned to develop along the canal line to Ji Province.

Even in the war years, the banks of the canal were still peaceful, there were still many people in some canal dock forts here, and there were also a lot of familiar land around, and more importantly, the Qi Province could use the Grand Canal to quickly reinforce the front, so the security was guaranteed.

Combined with the opinions of the General Staff, the Governor's Office believed that the time was ripe, and planned that this time, by the end of next year, the sphere of influence of Qi Province would be expanded along the canal all the way to Yanjing.

To this end, Xu Shiyang specially dispatched a total of four field brigades from Wupingyuan, Jiyuan, Weiyuan, and Yuyuan to support the expansion work here.

In addition to the field army, the expanding militia also had considerable self-defense capabilities: it was still a 100-household cantonment, and each cantonment had about 100 to 300 strong men and 1 or 200 young women (adult women who were physically healthy and had undergone a certain amount of military training could also participate in attacks with smaller-caliber shotguns), the Ministry of War planned to provide rifles for the militia, the Ministry of Industry to provide new caravans, and the Ministry of Household to provide loans for rifles and caravans.

It was proposed that the militia should be equipped with shotguns, because shotguns were cheaper.

It was only at Xu Shiyang's insistence that the plan given by the Ministry of War in the end was to let the immigrants choose for themselves: a 10 mm caliber shotgun worth 300 catties of food stamps, 500 catties of 15 mm standard arquebuses, and 800 catties of flintlock pistols.

The internal price is fixed, and immigrants can choose according to their own situation - even if they choose to be equipped with cold weapons such as bows, arrows, knives and guns.

The new caravan was a four-wheeled cart with shock-absorbing springs, each of which could carry a few hundred pounds of cargo or 15 to 20 adult males, pulled by four horses or oxen.

This kind of cart looks very similar to another plane, the Huss cart that has appeared in European history, and the actual use effect is similar.

The detachable carriage baffle is very thick, with anti-arrow function (even to defend against shotguns), like a moving wooden fortification, for the militia, the biggest flaw of this thing is that the price is too high, immigrants generally raise funds for each canton down payment, plus bank loans to buy one or two, and then several cantons work together to make a complete car formation.

Such a car formation, as long as the defenders are determined, the Tartar iron cavalry lacking heavy firepower cannot easily break through, and then the militia can release a fireworks signal to attract mobile support from the field army.

In order to attract the active participation of the people, Qi Province offered many preferential treatment to all militias expanding into new areas, in addition to land rights, immigrants who took out loans to buy horses, mules, cattle and other draft animals, as well as weapons and carts, could enjoy a half-price discount on the loan interest.

In addition, newly acquired land can enjoy three exemptions and two halves of the field tax, and if you fight against thieves or alien Tartars (regardless of which Tartar is the way, not limited to the Jurchens), all the legal booty of the militia can be retained by themselves.

This kind of immigrant army, armed with a gun and a plough in the other, with a strong military color, will become the main form of the Han people's expansion of the scope of existence for a long time to come—not limited to the original traditional Han land.

In order to support this expansion, the emigrant team will develop and improve some weapons and tools suitable for their location in the future, and form new professions - such as gunsmiths who design and manufacture their own guns, caravans who improve caravans, and so on.

Of course, that's all for later, so let's turn our attention back to China.

Traveling along the canal to Yanjing is the focus of Qi Province's future expansion efforts, but it is not the only one.

The Governor's Office still had the strength to support the expansion of the people in southern Liaoning along the coast of the Bohai Sea from Fuzhou to Gaizhou.

This area is all mountainous, which is not conducive to the Jurchen cavalry, and this side is advancing along the coastline, with naval support around it, and the security is relatively high, so Xu Shiyang hopes that this side can reach Gaizhou by the end of this year.

At that time, he can use Gaizhou as a starting point and pose a threat to the Liaozhong Plain, the core territory of the Jin State.

Xu Shiyang concentrated the four field brigades of Dingyuan, Zhenyuan, Zhiyuan, and Jingyuan in southern Liaoning, his own Chinese army guards, and the main cavalry troops.

The field force even surpassed the route along the canal, because Gaizhou was the gate of the Liaozhong Plain, and the Tartars would not let the Qi army easily control this place, and the two sides would inevitably have several fierce battles to fight.

The last two field brigades of the New Army, Jingyuan and Laiyuan, were stationed on the front line of Phoenix and Zhenjiang Fort, which were close to Goryeo, respectively.

Due to the lack of a reliable Han population, there was no need to expand into the Liaozhong Plain for the time being, but the two field brigades still maintained strong combat effectiveness and could put strong pressure on the Jin state with the economic support of the Goryeo side, so that they could not concentrate on threatening the other two strategic directions.

In order to support the expansion in both directions, Xu Shiyang set up three new arsenals in Laiwu in Quancheng Prefecture, Pingdu in Laizhou Prefecture and Jining in Yanzhou Prefecture, plus the original Qingzhou No. 1 and Dengzhou No. 2, a total of five arsenals, which are expected to produce 2,000 shotguns, 2,000 standard arquebuses, and 2,000 flintlock pistols of various types (including rifles, carbines, and pistols) per month.

In addition to supplying these weapons to the military and armed immigrants, cheaper shotguns can also be exported.