In the army staff in Dengzhou, Xu Shiyang was discussing with several military officers the construction of a port and settlement in the north to threaten the Jurchen Tartars from the north.

Some of the officers present at the meeting had little interest in this strategy, because they thought that it would be the right way to speed up the construction of themselves and then directly fight the Tartars on the Liaozhong Plain.

They felt that they couldn't turn the Tartars head-on, and that the hatred of the previous decades would not be considered a free and dripping revenge.

But another part of the people, led by Xu Shiyang, firmly believed that before the war, the combat effectiveness of the Tartars should be weakened as much as possible - if they can win more easily, why give the enemy a chance?

It would be better if the Tartars could be starved to death.

As long as it can be victorious, the Jurchen nation will be completely erased from history, and all revenge will be avenged - the dead will not argue.

What's more, killing all the men and fusing their women is the greatest humiliation for the vanquished.

Those officers who insisted on hoping for a decisive battle could not argue with Xu Shiyang, after all, the current Qi army was formed by Xu Shiyang, and he could completely say anything in the military department and the army.

As a result, the goal of building an advance base at the mouth of the Heilongjiang River was adopted.

The detailed question of how to build this base is the specific work of the General Staff.

Eventually, the General Staff intended to draw some soldiers from the field army to form an independent combat unit based in the local area:

There is no need for a lot of troops, one company is enough, but it must be a field army, because it is far from the mainland and cannot be supported in time, so there must be a backbone.

In addition, of course, a large number of militia are needed, Zhang Shun said that the land on both sides of the mouth of the Molong River is suitable for farming, where there are traces of Jurchen farming, but most of the land has been abandoned.

Therefore, it seems that there is not much of a problem for the land there to support a thousand families on its own.

It's just that in the bitter cold land of the Molong River, who can want to leave their warm hometown and run there to open up the wasteland?

So we can only give better policies:

Anyone who goes to open up the wasteland will be given 50 acres of land to each household first, which is completely their own, and then exempted from tax for five years, five and a half years of tax, and will pay the tax normally after ten years, and they can open up the land at will and enjoy the normal land reclamation policy (three exemptions and two halves).

In addition to the land, the banks of Qi will give preferential loans to civilians who voluntarily go to open up wasteland, and the first year's rations, seeds, cattle and farm tools can be loaned without interest for five years - not to mention that most of the current civilians in Qi have some savings, and there is at least no economic problem in living there.

The plan of the General Staff, above the civilian population, to go to the mouth of the Molong River (named Pingyu) is estimated to be 300 households.

Then, 300 households will be directly transferred from among the common people - these people will not need such a good policy, but they still need to give each household 50 acres of land and tax incentives of three exemptions and two halves.

In the end, he tried to find a way to attract 400 families from Goryeo to Pyongju and enjoy the same policies as the common people.

If you can gather enough 1,000 militia and add a field army company, then not only the local Jurchens, but even if the real Jurchens come, they will not be able to please - the logistical self-sustaining capacity over there is quite low, and the Tartars will not be able to maintain a large army there for a long time now.

In addition to the 1,000 permanent residents, the Pingyu side also has to recruit as much as possible (recruit if you can, recruit if you can, and arrest the local Jurchens if you can't), the more the better.

Civilians and above immigrants have the right to keep their own slaves, and the raw Jurchens they catch can keep them as long as they pay taxes according to the regulations, and this policy is good news for the common people to open up the wasteland - the labor of Qi has always been scarce, and private individuals are usually not allowed to keep slaves.

The common people and the Koreans were not allowed to keep slaves, but they could capture or buy women who had real women as wives, although they could only have one before they were promoted to commoners, but this was the best opportunity for most of the low-level people who could not afford to marry a daughter-in-law.

Finally, several whale product processing plants will be built on the Pingyu side, so that whaling ships in the whale sea can process their prey nearby at an intermediate level, so as to minimize the loss of whale meat due to decay.

It can also bring additional supplies to the permanent residents of Pingyu, and the non-resident population will also be of great help to the defense of Pingyu City in the early days.

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In fact, now, the external threat of Qi is very low, especially after the 100,000 field army gradually takes shape.

Therefore, not only Pingyu City near the Molong River, but also the initial layout of other places is also gradually proceeding.

In Fuso, for example, four new ships of the Qi navy forcibly entered the Seto Inland Sea through the Bungo Channel, sinking all the Fuso ships they saw, capturing sailors and fishermen, and then forcibly entering the Tsushima Strait by passing through the Zhoufang Beach.

The Qi army's trip was equivalent to a circle around the island of Kyushu in Fuso, and several Fuso daimyo in the vicinity: the Otomo family, the Ryuzoji family, the Mori family, and the Shimazu family, which was a little farther away, were greatly shocked.

In particular, the main force of the Fuso Wakos, which was based in the Seto Inland Sea, was beaten by the Qi army when they tried to stop the Qi fleet, losing more than 20 large and small sea ships and more than 300 dead, while the Qi army itself was not injured.

This fact eloquently proves that the so-called strongest naval army of Fusang is completely vulnerable in front of the Qi Navy.

As a result, all the Fuso daimyo in the southern part of Honshu and Kyushu were mobilized, ready to deal with the invasion of Qi at any time.

However, the Qi people did not land and attack, they only sent envoys to Nagasaki Port, asking to fight against the strong Qi army with the head of the Ryuzoji family who controlled the Nagasaki Port, and finally agreed to the Qi people's request to open Nagasaki as a free trade port.

However, Ryuzoji Shin soon discovered that the opening of the port of Nagasaki was not a bad thing, because the Qi people were not Li pirates and would not directly land and loot (of course, if the trade did not work, it would not be necessarily), and they seemed to prefer fairer trade activities.

Ryuzoji Temple agreed that the Qi people should have their own houses and the Qi National Assembly Hall in Nagasaki, and that they would retain the right to arms.

To this end, the merchants of Qi agreed to export shotguns, gunpowder, and lead to the Longzao temple family.

Today, in Fuso, Oda Nobunaga, who has a large number of shotguns (both imported and home-made by the Qi Kingdom), is conquering the city with an astonishing speed, and many of those once seemingly invincible opponents have been swallowed up by the Oda family.

Oda has grown to become the most powerful daimyo in Fuso.

And the other Fuso daimyo who were paying attention to all this were very envious of the Oda family's exceptionally powerful shotgun team, but they had neither the technology nor the production to produce these things, and now that the Qi country was willing to export, the Ryuzoji family was naturally ecstatic.

It was the willingness to export weapons that dispelled the doubts of Ryuzoji Shin, after all, in the eyes of the Fuso people, the shotgun could be described as a real militaristic weapon.