The Governor himself was extremely angry at the orders of the imperial court.

However, after Xu Mujiang received the news, he immediately realized that the situation was not good, and the former head of the Xu family immediately gave up all the work at hand, went to Qi Province in person, and lived in the Governor's Mansion.

In fact, it is equivalent to putting himself under house arrest in disguise, as a way to prove that he does not have any wrong thoughts, and hopes that the anger of the second brother will not be poured out on his head.

The brother's obedience did make the Metropolitan Governor feel a little more at ease, but only a little.

After all, his eldest son Xu Shiyang now actually controls the military power of the province, and his actual status is especially above himself, if he must accept the title of king from the imperial court, then the son will run to Lao Tzu's head, which makes the face of the governor of the capital where to rest?

What's more, the son is the king and the father is just a big governor, even if the rebellion succeeds in the future, the new court will also use his son as the founding emperor, right?

For the current Xu Muhe, anything can be done, but this is not the case!

He must be the emperor! Even if it's only for a year! Because he really became the emperor, he had the opportunity to appear in the history books as the honor of the Ninety-Five.

He doesn't want history to record that his throne was posthumously sealed by his son!

Fortunately, after Xu Shiyang returned to Quancheng, he quickly dispelled the doubts of the Grand Duke.

"I'm too lazy to be the king of Liao."

In the Dadu Governor's Mansion, Xu Shiyang said to his father indifferently:

"If the imperial court crowns me King Yan, maybe I will consider it, King Liao? We Han people don't have this prince, right? ”

On the other hand, only the Ming Dynasty in the Han Dynasty had the title of King of Liao. Now in this plane, the Han Dynasty has never said such a thing as a Liao king, not to mention that there is a great Liao kingdom that was destroyed by the Jurchen Tartars.

For Xu Shiyang, the King of Liao was not a knight, but a deliberate insult.

"None of you accept the title of king from the imperial court?" Xu Muhe asked seriously.

"Never!" Xu Mujiang hurriedly replied.

"This kind of caution by the imperial court will only make people laugh." Xu Shiyang also said: "That's it, my uncle and I have a special book, please crown the king of Qi for my father, and the two of us will forget it." ”

"What if the court doesn't agree?"

"What do you do with so much?" Xu Shiyang sneered: "Whoever recovers Yanyun Liaodong can be the king, my father is the governor of the capital, I am just a subordinate, the recovery of Yanyun should be counted as the credit of the governor's mansion, if you want to be crowned the king, you will be crowned the governor of the capital, how can you go beyond the leader and only seal the subordinates?" ”

Xu Shiyang thought for a while, and then said: "Also, one king is enough, King Qi and King Yan are all right, isn't Liaodong still completely recovered?" ”

Qi Province's current economy has gradually been able to self-sufficient, and after recovering Hebei Province and southern Liaoning, as long as it develops with peace of mind for a few years, the economic situation will only get better and better.

Xu Shiyang believes that Qi Province currently only needs the imperial court to endorse the rights of the metropolitan governor's office, and not let him worry about the threat from the rear court when dealing with the Tartars, which is enough.

King Feng is such an endorsement, but Qi Province itself must strictly refuse the imperial court to sow discord - at present, Jiangbei only needs one king, and this king is and can only be Xu Muhe.

"If my father is still not at ease, you can start changing the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion to the Qi Palace." Xu Shiyang said with a smile: "Even if the court disagrees in the end, let's change it, just to warn the Son of Heaven and the adults in Jiangnan to play less of this kind of trick in the future and make people laugh in vain." ”

"That's a provocation to the authority of the imperial court." Xu Mujiang asked uneasily: "Our family has this kind of strength now?" ”

"It just so happens that my father and uncle are here, so I'll give you a breath about the future arrangements and plans."

Xu Muhe, as the governor of the capital, is also in charge of the household department and the official department of Qi Province, Xu Shiyang is in charge of the military department and the Ministry of Industry, and Xu Mujiang is in charge of the Ministry of Rites.

First of all, let's talk about the current state of national strength in Qi Province:

The territory is already equivalent to the land of three provinces, and there is another Goryeo as a valuary.

In terms of population, Qi Province had 1.5 million registered civilians, 100,000 common people, and 300,000 slaves before it began to expand.

After arriving in Yanjing along the Grand Canal, most of the population of the canal docks on both sides of the Grand Canal was pocketed, and with the population obtained from other parts of Hebei Province, the current statistics are about 300,000.

According to the estimation of the Ministry of Households, although Ji Province is very dilapidated, but if you really have to search carefully, you can probably find out more than 500,000 people, but it will take a long time to obtain these populations, at least restore the production of Ji Province, and then eliminate most of the bandits, these hidden households can become the registered population of Qi Province.

In one year, Xu Shiyang plans to spend a year swallowing up all the 800,000 possible populations in Ji Province, and then immigrating some of the population from other enemies, so that Ji Province can recover to one million people.

In addition to the new territory of Ji Province, the Governorate also had three important population inputs:

One is the Jiangbei displaced people.

After repeated victories over the Tartars, the security situation in Jiangbei has actually improved a lot, especially the sphere of influence of the Governor's Mansion, which has naturally become a migration direction for displaced people to survive when it is very difficult to travel to Jiangnan.

Today, according to household statistics, there are about 5,000 displaced people every month.

The second is from the Jianghuai-Jinghu area, which was newly opened up by the Jiangnan Imperial Court.

Especially Xu Shiliu of Jinghu, while Qi Province was developing, Xu Shiliu led the Jinghu army to exterminate the Jinghu cave barbarians, beheaded 30,000, gained a population of 200,000, and returned to the land on thousands of miles of land.

Putting aside what evaluation this military action will get from the imperial court for the time being, it is a fact that Xu Shiliu has a lot of barbarian population in his hands, and he can't use so many people.

So Xu Shiliu quietly contacted the metropolitan governor Xu Muhe and Xu Shiyang, and exchanged the 100,000 cave barbarian population for weapons in Qi Province.

Xu Muhe had already promised his son 5,000 cuirasses, 5,000 muskets, and 50 divine cannons.

Xu Shiyang did not object too much to this, but simply replaced the arquebus in Xu Muhe's plan with a shotgun that was easier to produce.

The last source of population is Qi Province's own fertility.

The Governor's Office, which controlled the earliest Qingzhou generation, has now been peaceful for more than five years.

The rest of Qi province, north of the Yellow River, has also been given three to five years of recuperation.

Coupled with the fact that the Metropolitan Government attaches great importance to the population and has always encouraged childbearing (Xu Muhe has even awarded the "Heroic Mother" award), combined with the large number of cheap female resources obtained from Goryeo, Liaodong and other places, the fertility rate in Qi Province has always been relatively high.

According to the statistics of the Ministry of Households, in the past five years, excluding the population directly obtained from other places, the fertility rate of the original population of Qi Province has remained at about 6.11 (refer to the fertility rate of TG1950-1955).

These children are not able to participate in production and life for the time being, but these children born under the wing of the Governor's Mansion will definitely become the core of the Governor's Mansion in the future!