The second day of the second month of the fourth year of Longdao.

Quancheng, Xu Shiyang's temporary official residence.

After sending Zhang Mingyi to board the ship back to Jiangnan, Xu Shiyang spread a piece of paper in his study, and took a brush to splash ink on it:

The first is to survive, the second is to have food and clothing, and the third is to develop. Those who hinder the future, whether it is ancient or modern, people or ghosts, "Three Tombs", "Five Classics", "Tianqiu River Map", "Golden Man Jade Buddha", ancestral pills, and secret anointing pills, all fell to the ground.

"What did Daddy write?"

Xu Shiyang's second son, Xu Daixuan, held his chin with both hands, lay on the edge of the table, and asked in a milky voice.

The eldest son, Xu Daizhuo, stood honestly next to Xu Shiyang's desk, although he didn't ask questions like his younger brother, the expression on his face still revealed his curiosity.

Xu Shiyang gently rubbed the little guy's head, read it to him, and then explained:

"Survival, food, development, this is a nation, in fact, it is also the most basic needs of a person, you must remember that these three points are the core of the core, for these three points, we can do any attempt, can also abandon anything that hinders these three things."

The little ones didn't seem to understand, and Xu Shiyang didn't say anything more.

The children are still young, and they don't understand their father's thoughts, but that's okay, they'll understand in the future.

"Dai Zhuo."

"Father."

"School starts this year, so you should go to the Cadet Soldier School." Xu Shiyang said: "The education pattern and level over there are more in line with my father's wishes. ”

After speaking, he pointed to the words on the table: "Bring this with you for the gift that the Father has given you." ”

Unlike the other plane, the beginning of the school season in Qi Province is in the spring, and Xu Shiyang's eldest son, Xu Daizhuo, is 7 years old this year, just at the age of entering school, so he needs his son to set an example.

In this regard, Zhao Shan originally hoped to invite a private school to be enlightened at home, but was vetoed by Xu Shiyang, he didn't want his son to be too special, which was not conducive to the child's growth.

It is also for this reason that Xu Shiyang chose a military school instead of a high school.

Because military schools belong to the military system, the new army at this time does not look at the origin of soldiers, but only at rank and ability.

Xu Daizhuo entered the military academy, and in the eyes of the veteran instructors, he was just an ordinary student who was a little unusual.

This is also Xu Shiyang's way of education, in fact, he has planned to send all his children to the military school when he reaches school age, regardless of his grandchildren.

He was even ready to make it his own family tradition.

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In February of the fourth year of Longdao, Xu Muhe, the former governor of Qi Province, established himself as king in Quancheng.

Well, in fact, it is a little wrong to say this, because the King of Qi did not directly turn his face with the Great Zhou court, after all, the imperial court had previously issued a decree to give Qi Province two kings.

It's just that Xu Mujiang and Xu Shiyang both gave up the title of king, and Xu Muhe, who did not have the qualification to be crowned king, just became the king.

If you really want to talk about it, exchanging two kings for one king doesn't seem to be a loss for ......the imperial court.

That's weird!

This practice, in anyone's eyes, was a declaration that the local power of Qi Province was against the authority of the imperial court.

Therefore, it is only natural that Da Zhou ordered all the officials previously sent to Qi Province to withdraw from Qi Province's sphere of influence by the end of February, and at the same time, no more officials were sent to Qi Province to officially announce the recognition of the status of Qi king.

The imperial court has made its attitude towards the king very clear.

However, the attitude of the Great Zhou court did not represent the attitude of the people, nor even the attitude of the Great Zhou's own officials.

Whether it is reluctant to have a position in Jiangbei, or greedy for the stock dividends of the factories in Qi Province, although they received a retreat order, there are actually very few officials who are really determined to give up everything in Jiangbei and return to Jiangnan with Zhang Mingyi.

From the beginning of Zhang Mingyi's arrival in the Qi Provincial Supervision Army to the present, the imperial court has dispatched more than 300 officials at all levels to Qi Province in the name of supervision, responsible for monitoring various localities and troops in Qi Province.

After the retreat order, there were less than 50 people who returned to Jiangnan.

What's more serious is that these petty officials who returned home returned to Jiangnan with the profits of the Qi provincial factory and the news that King Qi sold the factory's stake to the outside world.

After learning of this news, some Jiangnan gentry who were more flexible and easy to accept new things immediately sent their sons and nephews or trusted spokespersons to Qi Province to discuss the specific matters of purchasing equity with the King of Qi.

Some of these people who came to Jiangbei were purely for money.

Qi Province communicates the north and the south, and various specialties of Qi Province, Liaodong, and Goryeo can only be obtained through the channels of King Qi's subordinates, and there is no problem in buying the equity of the factory in Qi Province, at least to make money.

It is better to be able to make money out of it than to bury gold, silver and copper coins in a cellar and get moldy.

As for the other part, they are optimistic about the future of King Qi's regime.

They thought that the Qi army could beat the Tartars all over the ground, and they did not dare to enter the customs in Liaodong for several years, so the Great Zhou court probably did not have the ability to recover Jiangbei.

Even if the King of Qi can't take all the world in the future, I'm afraid there will be no problem with the Great Zhou to divide the river and rule.

The lord of the country has won countless victories.

Many people understand this truth.

In addition to the gentry and landlords, the king of Qi also increased his efforts to attract immigrants from the south of the Yangtze River.

Because Jiangbei is ten! Very!! Very!!! Lack of population!

Attracting Han people to live in the territory was more important to the king of Qi than absorbing a little money.

Jiangnan is not short of population, the land of fish and rice there was very prosperous in the past, after the imperial court moved south, a large number of Jiangbei refugees poured into Jiangnan, not to mention anything else, Qi Wangfu estimates that there are still 7 or 80 million people in Jiangnan.

These people are the treasures that King Qi most hopes to obtain from Jiangnan.

However, the Qi king did not want to be saddled with the infamy of buying and selling human beings, so the immigration must be carried out on a completely voluntary basis.

If the low-level refugees and tenants wanted to immigrate to the territory of the king of Qi, the province of Qi would give them a certain amount of loans, and if they had debts or crimes in Jiangnan (in this era, many small crimes, such as stealing some food, were actually forced to do so), the king of Qi would negotiate with the local gentry and the creditors or the government.

King Qi will give some financial compensation to the creditor - capital and a small amount of interest, but don't think about rolling interest, so as to redeem the debt.

These debts will also be counted in the immigrant's loans, which will be repaid annually at the interest rate set by King Qi.

Although Jiangnan is prosperous, it has nothing to do with the small people, on the contrary, the cheap labor provided by a large number of displaced people makes the life of the people at the bottom very difficult.

However, the king of Qi can provide a better environment and future, so Xu Shiyang hopes that in the next five years, an average of 50 to 1 million immigrants will be attracted from Jiangnan every year, filling the tired land of Jiangbei.

If this can be done, the Qi royal palace will have sufficient strength to recover several other traditional Han provinces in Jiangbei—Henan, Jin, Shaanxi, and so on—as well as the whole of Liaodong.

To achieve this goal, it is worth it no matter how much money you spend on immigration!