In this war, Xu Daizhuo has been following Zuo Helin and has never left the team to camp in the newly occupied city on the road.

He once ate roast mutton with the Tubo tribesmen who came to take refuge on the shore of Qinghai Lake, followed the large army to Ganzhou, Suzhou, Guazhou, and Shazhou, went out of Yumen Pass, conquered the entire Western Regions, and arrived at the Green Ridge, where he confronted the Pars army for a long time.

If you count from the beginning of the dispatch of troops, Xu Daizhuo traveled all the way to tens of thousands of miles each way, and 20,000 miles back and forth.

As the saying goes, read 10,000 books and travel 10,000 miles, and he has done it at this time.

Therefore, Xu Daizhuo's insight is completely different from the past - at least with the deliberate support of Zuo Helin and Xu Shizhen, he has a clear understanding of the situation in the northwest direction.

Therefore, Xu Daizhuo also has his own ideas about his future.

Although he was born in the royal family, there is actually not such a big difference between his concubines, and he may not have the opportunity to sit in that position if he stays in the country, but Xu Daizhuo feels that he can't gamble like this, because once he loses the bet, he will never have a chance again.

And what's the point of arguing with your brother at home? That would almost only weaken the Empire.

It's better to fight for a chance of your own - my father was just a small dock lord in the beginning, wasn't he? The starting resources that I could get were definitely much better than my father's situation at the time.

As for whether independence can be obtained in the Western Regions, there is no need to worry about this.

Xu Daizhuo has come along the way, and a very intuitive understanding is that it is very troublesome for the empire to rule the Western Regions.

In fact, he also thought of the double-headed layout of the empire today: the emperor's grandfather was in Quancheng, with the earliest control and therefore the most developed Qi Province as the core to radiate industry, agriculture, science and technology, education, economy and other domestic layouts to other territories of the empire.

His father, Xu Shiyang, was in Yanjing, the capital of the treacherous northern frontier, and arranged all kinds of wars against the Tatars—mainly the Jurchens, the just-concluded party, and soon after, the Mugyus.

This layout was originally due to the fact that the speed of information transmission in the empire could not keep up with the pace of expansion of the empire, and finally the situation that the two capitals were responsible for a part of the situation was finally formed.

This is still a traditional Han land, and when the empire completes the unification of the north and the south in the future, I am afraid that even two heads may not be enough.

After all, by that time, the empire will at least become a super empire from the southernmost point to the Sansha area, the northernmost to the Outer Khing'an Mountains, the easternmost to Fusang, and the westernmost to the Green Mountains.

This is probably the limit of the so-called "natural boundaries" that military school instructors talk about in class.

And in the corner area of this empire, once there is an emergency, it will take at least a month or two to spread the news to the capital, and it will probably take a year or two for the empire to raise a large army to come to support.

What if the Imperial army takes down beyond the Green Ridge?

I'm afraid I won't be able to react for a year or two.

Therefore, the lands outside this "limit of natural boundaries" could only be divided with the support of the imperial government, forming a series of foreign states like Goryeo.

Xu Daizhuo is interested in this opportunity.

In fact, Zuo Helin, Xu Shizhen, and Wang Qinian, who did not participate in this western expedition, have secretly expressed this meaning to him, the eldest grandson of the imperial concubine - the combat effectiveness of the imperial army and the ability to conquer any place that can go, but in the future, it is impossible for the empire to directly rule the area west of the Green Ridge.

Therefore, Xu Daizhuo could establish his own foundation west of the Green Mountains, a secondary empire that depended on the existence of Huaxia itself, and then the goal of Zuo Helin, Xu Shizhen, and Wang Qinian was to be the second subordinate state of this secondary empire.

What everyone wants is an overseas crown and their own foundation.

"Have you ever told your father about this idea?" Zhao Shan asked with concern.

"That's what I'm coming back for." Xu Daizhuo replied: "I can't set off empty-handed, I must get my father's support." In the future, to establish a country west of the Green Ridge, it will also need long-term domestic support to be able to stand, which is also the reason why General Zuo and the fifth uncle chose me as the leader of the alliance - after all, I am the emperor's grandson, and if I don't fight with my second brother, the empire will have to pay something, right? ”

"Actually, General Zuo and Fifth Uncle should have already revealed a little bit of information to their father about this matter, and my father probably agreed."

"The one who has no conscience!" Hearing this, Zhao Shan was a little angry: "Obviously they are all his biological sons, why do you have to divide different ......." ”

"We're different. Mom. You should understand that we cannot be the same. Xu Daizhuo smiled: "I have figured it out, what a character my father is, it is impossible for him to allow our brothers to fight for that throne, so he will definitely support me, and may support my other brothers to build a country overseas in the future." ”

"That's enough for me." Xu Daizhuo said proudly: "I will establish a foundation with my father in the west of the Green Ridge, I will open up a new living space for the nation, and history will definitely remember my name!" ”

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In the last months of 1793, although the Fuso War had not really subsided, the situation was calm, at least on the surface, as everyone was preparing.

Most of the troops involved in the western expedition have been withdrawn, and only the garrisons necessary for the new territory remain.

As the empire seized the time to move to the new territory, those who went voluntarily received the most fertile land, the lowest tax rates, low-interest government loans, and financial compensation—ploughing cattle, first-year rations and seeds, necessary weapons, and even a house.

These compensations alone are already attractive to poor civilians, so there has been a constant stream of voluntary immigrants.

However, the population of the empire was still small, and there were also many opportunities in the homeland, so relying only on Han Chinese immigration was still thin.

The empire continued to carry out various population swaps—at least half of the roughly 1.8 million party slaves were to be relocated to the Northeast Desert to reclaim the land, and another 300,000 or so were to be dispersed within the empire, working on state farms, or young women were assigned to poorer commoners as wives.

In addition, Xu Shiyang proposed to relocate 100,000 to 200,000 Dangxiang people to Fusang, and use these northwest Tatars to suppress the Fusang people.

As a replacement, one million of the four million Fusang slaves this year will be placed in the Great Northern Wilderness - so that the population of the Great Northern Wilderness will be nearly 1.5 million or more, which is already beginning to take shape.

In addition, 500,000 Fusang slaves were relocated to fill the original party territory (the most fertile Xingling did not go), 500,000 Fusang slaves went to the Western Regions to plant trees and mine, and 200,000 Fusang slaves went to Taiwan Island to explore.

These places are still bitter cold lands today, but if they are transformed by more people, they can always achieve results, and then the remaining slaves will be migrated to the new bitter cold land, leaving the carved land to the Han people.

In this way, Xu Shiyang hoped to gradually turn the border areas into areas under the de facto control of the Han Chinese, which, of course, would take several generations of unremitting efforts.