Huaxia's support for Qin was not limited to direct military and economic assistance, but also some hidden but very important aspects.

For example, after the opening of Monan Road, the local road to the Western Regions was much easier, which allowed the local grain to arrive at Qin with a relatively small consumption ratio.

Huaxia was even willing to bear the cost of transporting supplies within the country (from the place of departure of the grain to the Qin state, and then the Qin state itself would bear the freight costs).

In addition, the empire allowed the military factories to give priority to the Qin army with all kinds of new weapons.

This included the provision of new breech guns, field guns, and machine guns (montini) to the regular army heading to the Qin state.

In return, in addition to fully opening the market for the capital of the home country and positioning itself as an industrial dumping market and a supplier of raw materials, Qin also needs to dismantle itself more in pieces after the victory.

For example, the two cores of the current Qin State, Broken Leaf City and Hezhong Mansion, will be established separately.

Among them, Broken Leaf City will be divided into Ju State, Hezhong Mansion will be Lu State, and Yulong Jiechi will also be divided into Wei Kingdom.

As for the Qin state itself, after the conquest of Taixifeng, a new Qin state will be established there.

And Xu Shizhen will be crowned the king of Wei, and his feudal state is also there, and he will continue to explore westward side by side with Qin in the future.

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Xu Shiyang felt that there was no need to wait for three hundred years, and now the old Xu family had already begun to demonstrate to the empire and the cabinet what a Malthusian trap was.

His father's generation, Xu Muhe's generation, has about 20 male relatives who are still alive.

In terms of relatives only, Xu Muhe also has an elder brother (Xu Mujiang) and a younger brother (Xu Muhai).

In the Shizi generation, as the Xu family evolved from the local tyrant Wubao lord to the royal family of the great unified empire, there were more and more people.

When Xu Muhe was the envoy of the festival, there were only six heirs of the three brothers of their Muzi generation, who were Changfang: pine, cypress, and zhen; two-room poplar and willow; and Xu Shizi, who had just been born at the time.

From then to now, the three brothers, especially Xu Shiyang's father, have become more and more powerful, and he has the ability and mood to accept more and more beauties of all kinds over the years.

He thinks the palace maid of the previous week is very good, and he is very welcome to the folk beauties who have the heart to enter the emperor's harem, and the beauties sent by the Huaxia noble heroes and the Jiangnan family to please him are also not afraid.

A few times, Xu Shiyang felt that it was too much, and directly ordered the guards to stop the girl outside the palace and send her home, and then he simply ordered that the palace was not allowed to recruit new Han palace maids (eunuchs are not allowed), and the existing Han women in the palace were all named female officials, and they received the money of the inner house, and after serving for five years, if they did not give birth to the emperor's heir, they could go out of the palace and go home to marry.

Only then did he stop his father's philatelic hobby of collecting beauties from all over the country.

However, stopping the Han girl from entering the palace does not mean that Xu Muhe can stop collecting other beauties, the palace needs eunuchs and palace maids to undertake a lot of daily work, after all, such a large palace, just cleaning is a huge project.

Therefore, Xu Shiyang must not acquiesce to the castration of alien teenagers (most of them are alien royal families or nobles) and young girls.

Xu Shiyang never lived in the palace for a long time, whether it was Meiquan Palace in Quancheng or Changle Palace in Jinling.

And the guards can only stop people in a few outer halls of the palace, and the girls who have entered the harem, whether the emperor accepts it or not depends on whether the emperor wants to or not, and no one can stop it.

Therefore, in the past ten years, Xu Shiyang has had many younger brothers, and a large number of them are mixed-race children.

Xu Shiyang's uncle and uncle are not much better in this regard.

So far, not counting the collateral lineage, only the heirs of the three brothers of the Xu Jiamu generation have more than forty people, and several of them are about the same age as Xu Shiyang's grandson!

The six brothers of the Xu family who have become adults (that is, the six people who were born before becoming the envoy of the festival) are now full of children and grandchildren.

Xu Shiyang himself has six sons and two daughters, and Xu Shiliu has more.

And Xu Daixuan became a prince, after the overseas division of feudal states, in order to win over his vassals, he couldn't refuse the exotic beauties sent from all over the country, and now Xu Daixuan has only established a legitimate queen not long ago, but there are already several sons.

Xu Shiyang estimates that from now on, the population of the old Xu family will rise by a large margin in each generation, and hundreds of thousands of clan relatives in the Ming Dynasty in the previous life in three hundred years are not a problem at all, and millions are possible.

How are these people settled?

In addition to the clan relatives, those heroes who fought the world with Xu Shiyang, gave them titles, official positions, and status, all of which deserved it.

But when pampered, will their descendants be able to contribute to the country and the nation? Or does it become a laggard?

I'm afraid the vast majority of people will become the latter, right?

Therefore, Xu Shiyang designed the merit system as a means of spurring, combined with the tradition of reducing the number of lords from generation to generation, to give all the kings and nobles a reason and goal to fight for (the heirs of the nobles can not reduce the title if they have enough merits), instead of letting them lie on the merit book as soon as they are born and be raised as pigs.

But there is a new contradiction - with the power of the empire now, where can we find so many merits for everyone?

Also, Xu Shiyang's universal education, now it's better, in a few generations, so many educated people need a better life, a higher political status, where to find these things to satisfy their appetite?

The only way Xu Shiyang could think of was to expand externally.

The princes of the clan took the lead, and the nobles followed, guiding all those who were interested in improving their status to ascend together.

When the empire expanded to the limit of the natural boundary, it divided the outside lands into Qi, Chuyan, Han, Zhao, Wei, Qin, Jinwei, Zheng Xu, Ju, and Lusong.

Wherever you expand, you can seal it wherever you want, with the economy as the link, with blood and culture as the hub, and closely link the mother country and the subject country until you occupy the whole world and there is no longer any place to expand!

Because the current China is such a country, once it stops expanding, involution will not stop, and decline is inevitable.

Expansion, hegemony, this is the life of the empire, which cannot and cannot be stopped.

Therefore, Xu Shiyang will support his son to continue to expand westward, leaving the land to conquer and slowly develop it for future generations.

Now these lands do not mean much to the economy of the empire, and may even be a burden, but they are the safety valve of the empire, and with these lands, the empire has a future.

It is for the same reason that, after a mere year of recuperation (a quiet year in which hundreds of foreign powers were banned, and in fact expanded), the empire will launch a new offensive of expansion.

The target is the remaining countries on the Southeastern Peninsula.

Then, in a few years, the empire would continue to launch the conquest of Tianzhu, and then expand from Tianzhu all the way west, in parallel with Qin, until the end of the world.