"There are so many places that want to accept these green forests."

Xu Shiyang said with emotion:

"The Qin side wants it, the Chu side also wants it, and Beihai Province (north of the Outer Xing'an Mountains), Yunnan Province, and Annan Province have also sent letters hoping to exile people to their side."

"Isn't there anyone on King Jin's side?" Li Jinghuai asked.

"Shiliu didn't want it, he didn't have a lot of people, and his fief was in Tubo, although the place was large, the population that could be carried was actually not much, and the threat of the Tubo people was very small."

Xu Shiyang stayed in Henan Province for more than a month, basically dealt with the affairs of Shaosen Temple, and after the cabinet review team, he left Henan Province and went south again to continue his inspection journey.

In early June 1798, he met Li Jinghuai, who had returned to the north, in Jianchang Mansion in Yunnan Province.

Xu Shiyang invited Li Jinghuai to dinner in Jianchang, which was counted as his personal praise for Li Jinghuai's conquest of Dali - this was enough, for Li Jinghuai, Xu Shiyang was both a commander and a teacher, and he could also be regarded as an adoptive father.

The father took the initiative to invite his son to dinner, and any credit can be worth the past, not to mention that this is only a private nature, and after Li Jinghuai returns, the cabinet, the military department, and the general staff will give him more rewards.

said that it was a father-son relationship, in fact, Li Jinghuai's actual age was a little older than Xu Shiyang, Xu Shiyang didn't put any shelves at the dinner table, and the two talked very happily, so Xu Shiyang told Li Jinghuai what he saw in Henan Province, his views on the green forest, and the letters from the frontier and subject countries to him.

"People are needed everywhere, so how does Your Highness plan to arrange those green forests? Where to exile them? Li Jinghuai asked.

"We have to see how many people will be exiled by the Ministry of Punishment in the end." Xu Shiyang replied: "I personally think that it is better for Qin to account for 60%, Nanyang for 20%, and Dali for 20%. ”

"Don't you give it to people over there?"

"There is actually no shortage of people in Chu State, Guangdong Province and Fujian Province have always had a tradition of going to Nanyang, and there are actually many Han people there, and it is really unnecessary to give people from the country." Xu Shiyang pondered and said, "And ......, I plan to transfer people to them from somewhere else." ”

"Where else can anyone adjust?"

"Prairie, Mughal people."

"Huh? Tune the Mugtures to the islands of the South Seas? Li Jinghuai was surprised and said, "Does Your Highness want to reduce the number of Muguls?" ”

The Mughurs could not adapt to the life of Nanyang, Xu Shisong set out with 300 Mughal cavalry, and recently he wrote that there was no loss on the battlefield, but most of them were killed by the epidemic, and now there are no more than 50 cavalry.

According to this ratio, the transfer of the Mugultures to Nanyang is more than the number of rounds of shooting at them a hundred paces away.

"It's not like that, although I reduce the number of Muguls, but the reduction does not mean that I want their lives." Xu Shiyang said: "I let them go to the South Seas, not to throw them on the island. ”

"Where is that going?"

"The expedition sent a fast ship to report that a large piece of land had been found on the eastern side of the Nanyang Islands, the easternmost island of the former Majapahit Kingdom."

"How big is it?"

Li Jinghuai was a little curious, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince used to dislike adjectives such as big and many, and Xu Shiyang's requirement for them was that the numbers should be as accurate as possible.

For example, if you destroy 1,000 enemies, you can only report that you have destroyed 1,000 enemies, and if you say that you have destroyed a large number of enemies, you will be criticized.

But this time, Xu Shiyang himself used a lot of such adjectives.......

"It's very big, the expedition team has sent ships to try to circle that piece of land for a week, but the two teams of ships are moving in the opposite direction, and they haven't met each other for half a month!"

Xu Shiyang said:

"The people of the Academy of Sciences have calculated that the area of this land may be much larger than the area of the twelve provinces of the Central Plains."

The so-called Twelve Provinces of the Central Plains refers to the twelve provinces where guns are banned and restricted, and these areas are now considered the most core territories of the empire, and the other provinces are relatively remote.

"Is it really that big?" This time, Li Jinghuai was really shocked.

This means that the "island" could be millions of square kilometers!

This is no longer an island, according to the current scientific association, this is a continent!

"Yes, very big! It's hard to say exactly how big it is, but there are millions of square kilometers, so the scientific association is going to name it the South Sea Continent. Xu Shiyang continued: "The expedition ships built a small port (Perth) in the northern part of the South Ocean continent as a foothold, and they landed and reconnoitred, but found no trace of human beings. ”

"Such a big place, no one?"

"There should be, after all, we don't go deep into the land, but it's certainly rare." Xu Shiyang said: "This is a good opportunity, I plan to use the Muguls to complete the occupation of the Nanyang Continent, so I want to transfer the Muguls, they can't do it on the island, it is always useful on the mainland." ”

There is no doubt that the South Sea Continent is the Australia of this plane.

In fact, it was Xu Shiyang's arbitrary decision to stuff people from the Science Association into the Chu State Expeditionary Force, and the purpose was to find Australia.

Although the Scientific Society reports that the South Sea continent is very inhospitable, it is only because they landed from the northwest, and the essence of Australia is in the southeast coastal zone.

The climate is ideal for animal husbandry – Australia's wool is famous all over the world.

Therefore, Xu Shiyang planned to let the Mughal people, who had herded sheep for generations, first occupy the territory, and when the industrial revolution broke out, he could immigrate to the Han Chinese and transform southeastern Australia into a mixed sheep/wheat agricultural belt.

If the South Seas Continent is not lost in the future, then in a few hundred years, the raw material production area of the imperial industry will be one more mineral.

"Jing Huai, are you interested in taking the troops there to have a look?" Xu Shiyang asked: "It's just a trip to broaden your horizons, even if there are natives there, it will definitely not be powerful." ”

On the other hand, there are less than a million indigenous people in a primitive society in Australia, and there is no threat to the modern Chinese army.

Xu Shiyang asked Li Jinghuai to lead the team to conquer the Nanyang Continent, mainly to broaden the horizons of the generals - half of the five-year period agreed with his father has passed, and Xu Shiyang will ascend the throne in more than two years, and at that time, it will be impossible for Xu Shiyang to focus most of his energy on the army as he does now.

Therefore, he hoped that Li Jinghuai and Feng Sanhu could change from generals to commanders and help him support the development of the army.

Li Jinghuai is now a lieutenant general and has the credit for conquering Dali, Xu Shiyang plans to promote him to general, and then conquer Australia, and after a while, he can be promoted to marshal.

As for Feng Sanhu, the route Xu Shiyang designed for him was to conquer Tianzhu with him as the commander after conquering the whole of Southeast Asia.

These two commanders trusted by Xu Shiyang, one inside and one outside, can help him bear a lot of burdens.

"Your Highness's orders, subordinates are at your disposal!"

"Don't be so serious, this task is not difficult, you still have time, go back and rest for a few months, and then go to the grassland to transfer people, and it is not too late to set off after next year."

Xu Shiyang smiled:

"I also want to go to Dali first, and then go north as soon as possible to inspect the rest of the place, and at the end of this year, I will go to Jinling to attend the annual meeting."