Beginning on the 10th day of August, the Qi army of Jin Province moved south to take over the land previously controlled by the Shaanxi army.

On August 15, the Qi army entered Taiyuan, and before August 20, the Qi army controlled the entire Taiyuan Province, and at the same time, the first Qi army battle group entered Shaanxi Province and controlled Mizhi and Suide with the cooperation of the Shaanxi army.

By the end of August, the Qi army took over the Fenzhou and Liaozhou prefectures, and entered Pingyang Prefecture. A new contingent from Ji Province adapted to the battlefield situation of the Qi army's defeat of the Zhou army, entered Henan Province along the Yellow River, and controlled the three prefectures of Zhangde, Weihui, Huaiqing and Kaifeng Province north of the Yellow River, and from here entered the three prefectures of Lu'an, Zezhou, and Qinzhou in Jin Province.

At the beginning of September, Xu Shiyang personally led troops into Shaanxi Province and arrived in Chang'an, a historical city that once represented the supreme glory of Han civilization, via Weinan Mansion.

Under the city, Xu Shiyang dismounted and walked into the city to show his respect for the great achievements of the Chinese ancestors.

It was in the city of Chang'an that Xu Shiyang accepted the formal allegiance of the princes of Shaanxi Province as the prince of Qi.

Immediately, the Shihou army of Shaanxi Province began to be reorganized into the Qi army, and the regular Qi army troops continued to advance, completing the control of Shaanxi Province by the end of the month.

At this point, the state of Qi actually controlled all the five provinces of Qi, Hebei, Jin, Shaanxi, and Liao, as well as the three prefectures of Henan Province, and in terms of land area, the state of Qi actually controlled most of the traditional Han lands north of the Yellow River.

After taking control of Shanxi, Xu Shiyang immediately began to conduct a basic census of the two provinces.

The census focuses on population, the area of cultivated land that currently exists, the products of each region's characteristics, mineral deposits, and the main pillars of the economy.

Since the population of Shanxi is generally larger than that of other provinces in the country, the resettlement work will start after the census, and in order to avoid a large-scale backlash from the population, Xu Shiyang believes that this time the migration must cooperate with better compensation conditions and set a corresponding example.

When it comes to setting an example, the Marquis of Shaanxi Province is naturally the best target.

In Chang'an, Xu Shiyang personally held talks with representatives of the six major Shaanxi provincial marquis families, and at the end of the talks, the two sides reached an agreement that Xu Shiyang would not confiscate the land and family property of the Shaanxi provincial marquis, but would adopt more moderate means of property exchange.

Among the six princes of Shaanxi Province, the Zuo and Yang families will migrate to Liaodong as a whole; The Ding and He families will migrate to Hebei Province; The Guo family migrated to Qi Province; The Zhe family stayed in Shaanxi Province for the time being, but when the Qi state began to expand westward to deal with the Dang Xiang people, the Zhe family had to move to the new provinces to the west on the same terms.

After the migration, their land was exchanged according to the local land price, but each family had to live separately from household to household. The debts owed by the people of Shaanxi Province to the prince were jointly cleared by the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Ministry of Criminal Justice, and a reasonable part of them was taken over by the Bank of Qi paying for the exchange of grain stamps.

According to the preliminary agreement reached between Xu Shiyang and the Zuo and Zhe families before the start of the war, each family should be able to maintain a self-defense force of about 100 people, but now they live in a scattered manner, which is no longer enforceable, so the Qi government decided to give a certain compensation: that is, to grant each migrating family a hundred foreign slaves.

As for how these slaves were to be distributed when they were divided, it was up to their families to decide.

After the separation, in order to avoid concatenation, each family is not allowed to reunite for 50 years after two generations - large families are only allowed to separate and not to merge, which can be regarded as a kind of encouragement.

For ordinary people in Shanxi, Xu Shiyang intends to adopt a strategy of increasing compensation to attract active immigrants.

The first is the account taken over by the bank from Shihou, which is a large amount of money, which cannot be repaid by the Qi government for the people, nor can it be written off, but the Qi country takes over at a more reasonable interest rate, and the people still have to repay the principal and interest to the bank.

However, if the people voluntarily emigrate, the Qi government is willing to give immigrants preferential treatment for debt repayment based on the affluence of Qi Province, Hebei Province, and Liao Province.

If a poor man from Shanxi Province is willing to immigrate to Liao Province, then all the debts of this commoner can basically be offset, and then he can take out a bank loan to buy farm tools and seeds and rations for the first year, and cultivate land in Liao Province, and in a few years he can earn a household property of his own.

Houses, fields, mothers-in-law and children are all out of the question.

If the immigrant is only willing to go to the relatively wealthy province of Qi, then most of his debts will have to be retained, and the relatively small amount of uncultivated land in the Qi country will make it almost impossible for the new immigrant to become a stable homesteader.

However, Qi Province is the place where the Xu family started, with a well-developed industry and many factories, and new immigrants can find a well-paid job in the factory by participating in factory vocational skills training, so it is not particularly difficult to spend a few years to pay off their debts.

If you only want to stay in your hometown, then the debt will be relatively reduced by a small part - mainly the excess interest portion of the donkey rolling, but the principal and reasonable part of the interest on the basic debt will still have to be repaid.

This will cause greater pressure on the lives of individuals, and people living in their own townships will still have to continue to live in poverty with debts that cannot be repaid for decades, and it will be difficult for them to enjoy the continuous introduction of new industrial products in the Qi country.

Those housekeepers, family members, doormen, and descendants of the descendants of the princes of Jin Province who had worked for the family of the Marquis of Jin Province who did not commit crimes to death were all forcibly relocated.

Those who are charged the least serious crimes have the opportunity to live a stable life in a different place as civilians, while those who are more serious have to be demoted to commoners.

As for the Eight Great Marquis themselves and their adult sons and grandsons, they will be executed after being interrogated by the Criminal Department in Quancheng, and the only mercy of Qi State to them is that they will not be tortured and executed, and they are generally sentenced to death by hanging, leaving them with a whole corpse.

Xu Shiyang hopes that through these means, 800,000 households and about 4 million people will be emigrated from Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces within five years, so as to strengthen Qi's actual control over sparsely populated areas.

Of course, Shanxi's local economic recovery plan should also be put on the agenda immediately.

Both provinces have large coalfields and are close to the Mongyu, which is more suitable for the development of the coal industry and the wool textile industry nearby.

There is also the need to increase yields as soon as possible in the most basic agriculture, which requires a large number of supporting water conservancy facilities, fertilizer supplements, and large livestock support.

At the same time, security is also very important, Shaanxi Province is the territory of the Dangxiang people in the west, Sichuan Province under the control of the Great Zhou in the south, Tubo and part of the Hengshan Tibet in the southwest, and the Mengwu grassland in the north.

Therefore, each province needs at least one field division to be stationed all year round, and the reserve and militia systems of the two provinces also need to be established as soon as possible.

Even if the Qi State has no plan to fight from here in recent years, the capital to hold on must always be there, if the people of the two provinces are still worried about foreign plundering every autumn, then what is the difference between the Qi State and the Shihou?

There are a lot of things to do, and everything needs to be carefully thought out and then executed without hesitation.