Before the start of the campaign to recover Liaoshen last year, Xu Shiyang had revealed his plan to the King of Qi.

After solving the threat of the Jurchen Tartars, Xu Shiyang's next step was to take Shanshan into his pocket.

A long time ago, Xu Shiyang has always emphasized that the biggest shortcoming of Qi is the serious shortage of population, at first Xu Muhe didn't have much feeling about this, after all, ruling hundreds of thousands of millions of people was already something he couldn't think of before, you must know that ten years ago, His Royal Highness the King of Qi was just a dock lord who ruled thousands of castle people.

But with the expansion of Qi's territory and Xu Muhe's own ambitions, he did feel a series of troubles caused by the too small population of Jiangbei.

The simplest and most direct manifestation is that with the continuous expansion of the Qi State, the new territory does not actually have enough population to control, and even if a Jurchen Tartar is overturned at this time, it is just to vacate the land and create opportunities for other Tartars.

Xu Muhe couldn't allow this kind of thing to happen, not because he had Xu Shiyang's strong national idea, but because he knew very well that his current status and the basis for becoming emperor in the future was to recover the Central Plains from the hands of the Tartars and be recognized by the common people.

The so-called "national righteousness" is like this.

If another Tartar rises in his territory, the foundation of Qi's ruling will be shaken.

These views were actually imperceptibly instilled into him by Xu Shiyang, but Xu Muhe thought that this was very reasonable, so he couldn't allow this kind of thing to happen.

The best way to solve this problem is, of course, to increase your own core population.

And the best way to increase the core population is, of course, to bring the Han Chinese, who are not under their own rule, directly under their rule.

At present, the place with the largest Han population in the world is, of course, Jiangnan, where the General Staff of Qi estimates that there are 6,000 to 80 million people in Jiangnan, of which more than ninety percent are Han Chinese.

This figure is fifteen to twenty times the current population of the commoner class and above in the Qi country.

This is like a treasure trove of population for the Qi State, but so far the Qi State is still a nominal subordinate of the Great Zhou, and Jiangnan is also the main export area of the Qi State's industrial products, so the time is not ripe for the time to use force against the Great Zhou.

Then, the Shanshan Shihou, which has the second largest Han population, naturally became the main target of the Qi State in the next stage.

The King of Qi intends to force Shihou to make a final decision this year, wholeheartedly support the Qi State and become the enemy of the Qi State, and can only choose one path to the end.

The more than 6 million Han people in Shanxi will definitely be integrated into the Qi country this year!

……

"People, I can give it back to you, but Goryeo must be diligent in cultivating tribute, and remember not to disobey, lest you mistake yourself!"

"Your Highness the Minister, Xie Shizi."

Jin Ming respectfully kowtowed to Xu Shiyang three times.

In the past few days, the Qi army has screened more than 300 noble women from the harem of the puppet Jin Emperor and the families of nobles at all levels.

Some of these women were plundered in the previous invasion of the Jin Kingdom, and some of them were offered to the Jurchen nobles by Goryeo in order to buy a moment of stability, and now they were all returned to Jin Ming by Xu Shiyang and asked him to take them back to China.

As for whether these women are willing to be separated from their children, Xu Shiyang will not care.

The return of the Goryeo nobles was a political buy-off.

Nominally, Goryeo's mother country helped Goryeo wash away the shame caused by the Tartars, but in fact, this kind of action is also a reminder to some nobles in the Goryeo Kingdom: the Tartars are finished, and the dirty things you colluded with the Tartars in the past can be ignored, but if something similar happens in the future, ......, if they want the soldiers of the Qi Kingdom to come to Gyeonggi Province again, they can try again.

Xu Shiyang's meaning, Jin Ming naturally understood.

As a seasoned feudal politician, he already intends to strive for the task of paying tribute to Qi this year, and to increase the quantity and quality of tribute as much as possible.

Jin Ming, who watched the entire process of the Liaoshen War from the sidelines, had realized that the Qi State was different from the previous Central Plains court, and this newly rising representative of the Central Plains would definitely not be satisfied with the illusion that all countries came to the court but had no actual benefits.

Qi's grip on Goryeo will only get deeper, but they will not completely annex Goryeo either - because Goryeo is too poor to take advantage of it and lose money. It is better to keep Goryeo and let them offer their own money and food, and at the same time set an example for other tributary states.

In this case, the honor and disgrace of a family in the Goryeo court actually depends entirely on the perception of him by the monarchs and ministers of the Qi State, rather than the political inversion in the Goryeo court.

Jin Ming felt that if the prince of Qi thought that he was a good spokesperson, then the national power and the country would not be able to touch a single hair of his own hair, no matter how powerful he was!

In this regard, the return of the noble daughter of Goryeo by the State of Qi is only the first step, this is the first release of goodwill by the State of Qi to make Jin Ming earn a wave of fame in Goryeo.

Next, Jin Ming should give a satisfactory answer to the tribute of Qi and His Royal Highness.

And then ......, it should be the process of his Jin Ming's rise to prominence in the Goryeo court with the support of the Qi State!

……

Sending Jin Ming away, Xu Shiyang asked Zuo Helin, who had been watching coldly: "What do you think of Jin Ming?" ”

Zuo Helin replied honestly: "Very ambitious." ”

Xu Shiyang smiled: "I don't object to him being ambitious, but ambition can't go beyond the limits I am willing to give him." ”

This is already very straightforward, Zuo Helin understands that even if this is said by the Koreans, it is actually said to himself.

"In a few days, I'll go home." Zuo Helin said: "I will try my best to persuade the elders in the family to let them understand the general situation." ”

This is the truth, how strong the current Qi State is, everyone from Shanxi during this time, including Zuo Helin, can see it very clearly.

Moreover, Zuo Helin, who served in the General Staff, also knew that the strength shown by the Qi State was far from the limit, both militarily and economically.

In fact, not to mention the world of Shanxi, even if it is the Mugul, Jurchen, and party members, the Great Zhou and the Shanxi world are all combined, and in Zuo Helin's eyes, they are definitely not the opponents of Daqi.

Anyway, Zuo Helin couldn't find an enemy who could pose a threat to Daqi.

This seems to be some kind of general trend in the world, right?

No matter how much they look down on those people in the Zuo family, they are all Zuo Helin's family, if there is a chance, Zuo Helin still hopes that his family can conform to the destiny of heaven and not be completely abandoned by the surging and irresistible destiny.

"Zuo Helin, I'll be honest with you."

Xu Shiyang said with a smile:

"I didn't plan to give the world good fruits to eat, but they were lucky that the Zuo family could produce such a good man as you, so I changed my mind."

"Within the boundaries I have delineated, you can manage your own ambitions, as long as you don't go out of line, I will open the net."

"However, go back and tell the elders of your family, what I give them is what they can take, I don't give it, and no one can rob it!"