As a veteran, Xu Shizhen has killed two or three hundred Tartars from all walks of life in the past ten years, so when he said this, he had an unsettling aura.

The tribal chiefs, shamans, and the bravest warriors of the tribes looked at the young man with a look of fear, and although the sword was unsheathed, none of them really dared to strike at him.

Everyone knows that Xu Shizhen's sentence "If we hurt one, you will pay fifty times the compensation", as well as the declaration of "those who are higher than the wheel will kill", are true, not big words.

The country behind him could do such a thing.

"I don't have time to waste with you, make a decision quickly!" Xu Shizhen repeated: "Are you obeying the orders of the empire, or are you going to be a group of traitors?" ”

No one answered him, and it wasn't an easy burden to draw two out of three at this time.

But they don't want to be traitors, because the Chinese army has slaughtered all the tribes in the entire Jianzhou, and they themselves know that it is not a big deal to add the Hu'er Wen tribes to this list of the dead.

There is force, and there is also the heart to use force without hesitation, such a person is the most terrible, because no one dares to ignore his threats.

Naturally, she didn't dare to give birth to a girl.

"If we send troops as His Royal Highness the Crown Prince asks, what benefits can we get?" A tribal leader who was shouting about a decisive battle with the Chinese army just now suddenly asked.

"Keeping you alive is the best good." Xu Shizhen replied very politely: "It is also good for you to completely destroy the pseudo-gold, at least they will not come to plunder you again, as for more specific, you can keep half of your own booty." ”

"It's too little, in the past, when Dajin was ...... and counterfeit gold, we only needed to hand over thirty percent of our own loot!"

"You can stand on the side of the Wanyan family again and see if we can kill you all."

The tribal chiefs felt that it was a bad thing to talk about, how could this Han people not be able to do without fighting in three sentences? Can't we be peaceful and calm down and negotiate an outcome that will satisfy both parties?

Of course not.

When Xu Shizhen took over this task, he thought about it carefully.

If it is to persuade civilized people to surrender, then of course we should try our best to understand reason and induce them to benefit. But in the face of barbarians, it will be smoother to show the knife directly, otherwise if you give in slightly, the other side will think that you are not afraid of them, and they will have to inch in and want more benefits.

This is what it means to be afraid of power but not to be virtuous.

Therefore, since Xu Shizhen came to this place, he has always put on a posture that he has little interest in persuasion, and even expects the other party to really become a traitor.

This really worked, so many Jurchens were born, and even one person was killed by him on the spot, but they didn't really lose their minds.

"Are you going to obey orders or are you going to die?" Xu Shizhen continued to urge: "Procrastinate like a group of girls!" ”

"I'll count to five, and if you don't make a decision, I'll assume that you choose to rebel."

"Five!"

"Four!"

"Three!"

He really counted.

If Hu'er Wenbu really wants to resist to the end, at this time, someone should stand up and reprimand him for being too arrogant and want to kill him to sacrifice the flag.

However, no one stepped forward.

Not a single one.

……

On July 3, 1791, the Northern Expeditionary Army of the Chinese Empire defeated the Haixi Jurchen coalition army in a field battle near Huifa City.

In the afternoon of the same day, the Chinese army destroyed the wooden walls of Huifa City with heavy artillery, and a group of foreign Jurchen soldiers entered the city first and fought a street battle with the desperate defenders for an hour and a half.

When it was almost dark, the Chinese army occupied Huifa City.

In the battle that day, the Chinese army killed 2,700 Haixi Jurchens and captured 7,000 men and women.

At the cost of three dead and nineteen wounded, and four hundred casualties in Waifan, he occupied this traffic artery.

From the next day, the Chinese army launched an encirclement and suppression of the Jurchen tribes in Haixi, until the seventh day of the first month of August, when the Chinese army swept away most of the Jurchen tribes south of the Songhua River, killed 20,000 men and women, and captured 20,000.

On the tenth day of August, Xu Shiyang and Feng Sanhu met on the south bank of the Songhua River.

The place where they will be taught is called Qiqihar, which means "natural pasture" in the language of the local tiger people, and it is enough to see from this point alone that this place can be regarded as a place with abundant water and grass compared to the surrounding areas.

Standing on the fertile black soil, bending down and grabbing a handful of soil, it feels like you can pinch out oil.

This is the Songnen Plain, full of endless arable land, because of the small population, this is also the most suitable place for large-scale collective farming in the whole of China, if developed, not to mention can get a grain base with a cultivated area of millions of hectares.

Of course, it is also because there are no people, and it is not easy to develop this place.

"It's a good piece of land." Feng Sanhu stood behind Xu Shiyang and said with emotion: "It's a pity that if you want to open up the ground, you have to pull out all the reeds and grass here, drain all the swamps and ponds, and you have to eliminate mosquitoes, leeches, poisonous snakes and beasts." ”

"It's not a job that can be done in one generation."

As the earliest young soldier, a young general who once worshipped Xu Shiyang as his father-in-law, it was not difficult to read his inner thoughts from Xu Shiyang's individual unconscious movements.

Therefore, when Xu Shiyang was holding a handful of soil in a daze, Feng Sanhu already roughly knew what he was thinking.

"It's certainly not a job that can be done in one generation."

Xu Shiyang said without looking back:

"But if you do it well, you can benefit future generations."

On the other hand, the two provinces of Kyrgyzstan and Hei had little arable land 49 years ago, with only scattered peasant households cultivating a small amount of land, and the huge agricultural resources of the two provinces were completely wasted.

After the establishment of the republic, the turtle in the long half century, millions of immigrants to these two provinces, at the same time to build water conservancy, drain the swamps, level the land, by the founding of the 30 years of the founding of the People's Republic of China 79 years, Ji Province already has 70 million acres of arable land, Hei Province has reached 100 million mu, making it the country's largest commercial grain base.

Xu Shiyang is facing a similar situation now, the Nenjiang River Basin, the Molongjiang Valley, the Sanjiang Plain and other fertile areas still maintain a very primitive appearance, if he wants to develop them, Xu Shiyang expects to spend about 30 to 50 years, at least 5 million people (considering that New China has some machinery and equipment and gradually established fertilizer industry, Xu Shiyang believes that to achieve similar results, his time and manpower should be at least twice as high as TG).

However, this brings the problem back to square one: China is very short of people.

The core territory of the Central Plains like Shanxi, Hebei, Shandong, Henan, and Shaanxi cannot fill the population, how can it be possible to put millions of people into the Great Northern Wilderness?

"Perhaps, we can try to invest in slaves in the early stage." Xu Shiyang was half talking to himself, half explaining to Feng Sanhu:

"If we only put in 100,000 civilians as the core, and let each family command ten or twenty slave families to cultivate this place, we can at least do this work first."

"One or two million slaves?" Feng Sanhu was taken aback by this number.

A family of three slaves is counted as three million to six million people.

If a family of five slaves is counted, the number is even more staggering.

"How can there be so many slaves in the empire?"

"Yes, there will be." Xu Shiyang gritted his teeth and smiled: "Everything will be fine." ”