The year 1795 was a new beginning for the Chinese Empire.

On the one hand, the empire basically completed its unification and became a well-deserved "Chinese" empire.

Military victories, on the other hand, were only the beginning of the Empire's work to bring the South under its rule.

In the past, the Chinese Empire ruled over areas to be recovered during war, where the people were impoverished and had low expectations of the benefits that the state could bring—basically, as long as they could provide the people with a more or less stable environment, and then collect a little less tax, they would basically be able to meet the needs of the people.

As for whether this regime is Huaxia, Da Zhou, or some other name, or even Tatar, it doesn't really matter to the tired people.

Beyond this standard, any additional work done by the Imperial government would be a surprise to the people, which is why the people of the north supported the Empire so much, and those Dock Castle Lords who lost some of their privileges did not hinder the Empire too much.

However, unlike the south of the Yangtze River, Zhejiang Province and southern Jiangsu have always been the most prosperous and prosperous areas in the world, and the people's lives are rich and stable, and they are basically based on the small-scale peasant economy, which is very different from the situation in China where a large number of collective farms and processing factories are the pillars.

If the practice of Jiangbei is directly copied to Jiangnan, I am afraid that it will cause great disgust among the people of Jiangnan, and I am afraid that the killing of the people in the previous war will be meaningless.

How to economically unify Jiangbei and Jiangnan is a new problem that is more challenging for China than military conquest.

Of course, this was actually a happy annoyance, after all, the empire's territory had expanded by fifty percent (the empire's control area in eastern and northwest Liaodong was too large), and unlike the large number of frontier areas, these new lands were very fertile and rich.

Due to the small damage caused to the local area during the attack, the Chinese army even collected as much as 60% of the autumn tax in Jiangnan in 1795 on time (according to the Great Zhou's own yellow book, their annual tax revenue was only as efficient as this), which probably also had something to do with the fact that the empire did not have a ding tax, and the state and individuals could concentrate on dealing with the field tax.

This year, the land collected in Jiangnan was basically used on the spot to supply the local garrison, the transformation of the power structure, and the relief of people who had suffered losses due to wars and natural disasters.

Economically, the current unification of Jiangnan has not brought much gain, because the empire does not regard Jiangnan as a newly conquered territory, but as an inherent territory that it has just recovered, which not only cannot be squeezed, but also needs some subsidies for the time being.

However, for Huaxia, the great increase in land and population is the biggest gain.

In particular, the population, with a minimum of 50 million and a high core population of 65 million, if it could be utilized, the empire would no longer have to worry about underpopulation - with industry without the steam engine now, the empire could even maintain the production of industry and large farm agriculture while maintaining a small peasant economy.

With Jiangnan, the empire can really make up for the last shortcoming, and has the foundation to become the world's first power.

Of course, having a foundation does not mean that it has succeeded, and the empire still needs some time to digest Jiangnan.

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The Reich was very boring during the 1795 meeting season of the Republic.

Because the situation of the vast new territory cannot be counted at all, how much capital investment will be needed next year, and how much output can be produced, are very unrealistic, and the empire cannot rely on the statistics of the Great Zhou to formulate its own plans, which is too unreliable.

As a result, the economic budget for the year is much larger than in the past (because some investment in Gangnam is needed), but the income is not known exactly how much.

Another problem was that many of the main officials of the empire were not in Springs that year, and they were not able to attend the meeting at all.

For example, Xu Shiyang had already taken a navy ship to the waters near Jiaozhi, and most of the officials of the Sixth Department had already gone south to Jiangnan to take charge of all aspects of work.

In the absence of most of the chiefs, it seems a bit unlikely that a reasonable plan will be made.

The Empire's solution to this is that this year's conference season will be a full year!

In other words, while counting new economic figures, a new budget plan is drawn up, and at the same time, it is necessary to conduct audits, and use a whole year to first statistically merge Jiangnan and Jiangbei into the same track.

The rest of the work can be done slowly, bit by bit.

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In addition to the officials, at this time, the rulers of the empire also had their own tasks.

For example, Xu Shiyang also had to solve the problem of Jiaozhi's invasion of Gui Province, and Xu Shiliu had already entered Sichuan Province, and he would be responsible for repelling the attack of Tubo on Sichuan Province with the direct support of the empire - at the same time, the emperor canonized Xu Shiliu as the king of Jin, and allowed him to take all the land of Tubo as a feudal state.

Therefore, the Jin State became the second prince feudal state after the Qin State.

As for Emperor Xu Muhe himself, the next most important task he gave himself was to prepare for the Taishan Zen Ceremony.

Xu Shiyang did not have too deep feelings about this kind of pure ceremonial work, but Xu Muhe very much needed this ceremony to sing praises for himself in order to leave his name in history.

Since his father insisted, Xu Shiyang had no objection - anyway, as long as Feng Chan did not affect his military action against Jiaozhi.

The plan was to be carried out in March 1796, when a large number of representatives of Waibo, Jiangbei officials, Jiangnan Confucian scholars, and the Great Zhou clan would accompany him—the empire did not want the orders of the Great Zhou clan, so it was only natural for them to express their loyalty in these respects.

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The year is slightly retraced to December 1795.

Yongzhou, Gui Province, this small city has been besieged by more than 100,000 Yue and Dongman coalition troops for more than two months.

At the beginning of the war, there were only 2,700 defenders in the city, but because the enemy had carried out frenzied killing and looting in Qinzhou and Lianzhou, which had surrendered before, there was a lesson from the previous experience, and the 60,000 soldiers and civilians in the city swore not to surrender and resisted desperately under the command of Zhizhou Su Mian.

The army and the people were united, and the enemy lacked experience in attacking the city, so the two sides were in a stalemate.

When Xu Shiyang learned the news, he immediately boarded the naval warship and led a fleet consisting of six sail battleships, six sail cruisers, 22 sail gunboats, and 15 sail transport ships to sail directly to the vicinity of the mouth of the Fuliang River (Red River), making a posture of directly going upstream and attacking Thang Long Province, in order to force the Vietnamese army to return to the division.

On the other hand, Feng Sanhu, a lieutenant general of the Chinese army, personally selected 3,000 cavalry, one person and three horses, and galloped wildly to Yongzhou in order to change horses but not people.

The three horses were all gone, so they marched forward on foot and gave full play to the strategic marching advantage of the Chinese army's iron feet.

Xu Shiyang demanded that the reinforcements must rush to the battlefield before the city of Yongzhou was broken, and the tragedy of Quan, Qin, and Lian must not be repeated in Yongzhou.