The countryside surrounds the city, no, is the periphery surrounding the core.

Occupy the most prosperous south, and then stretch it around, occupy the surrounding land that looked barren in ancient times, and then organize manpower to vigorously develop, and the number of people used in the pioneer alone is enough for the total number of emperors who have expanded the living space of the Han people or dynasties made by the previous kings combined.

Millions of prisoners, hundreds of thousands of prisoners on death row in the hard labor camps, so that Zhang Qiang's rule of the Huaxia army on the territory of the seemingly barren land of the kings of the past generations have become vibrant, the original thousands of miles of uninhabited wasteland, now every few dozen miles there is a village of at least 100 people, and there are one or two militia patrolling on donkeys, every 100 miles there is a town of two or three thousand people, used to provide all kinds of material guarantees for the hundreds of small villages of 100 people around here.

Foreign food, groceries, wine, and even books, pen, ink, paper, inkstone, weapons, and armor were all available.

When the land in these villages exceeded the food output consumed by their numbers, a new population came, and at first a dozen people were assigned here, most of them were veterans of the militia, soldiers of the garrison battalion, and in the middle of one or two officers who had been discharged from the field brigade or the Guards Brigade, who came here to take over the rights of the former village chief, and continue to lead everyone to expand their living space and open up the wasteland.

The wasteland was opened up a lot, and then dozens of people poured in, these people were well-behaved prisoners, although they still had a few years or at least a year before they could be released, but this was not a problem, the Huaxia army directly pardoned them, the condition was to go to farming, until they were released from prison, they could choose to leave, and they could have other choices.

These men came not only to cultivate the land, but also to open roads, and they were led by retired officers to open roads to the next village, and beyond, although it was only a matter of repairing them, cutting down the trees, and bulldozing the straw, until the road was built to the mouth of the next village.

In addition, these were soldiers who had fought in battle, and they were incorporated into the militia of the villages, together with the retired militia and field brigade officers, and those who worked in peacetime, and those who had committed adultery, were gathered by the officers to go out to hunt them down, or to deal with the people and civilians of the original land, the Tusi chiefs, who were hostile to them because of the invasion of their territory by foreign intruders.

With the implementation of this method, more and more immigrants and people have entered unexplored lands, such as Qiongzhou Island, such as Annam, Laos, Myanmar and other places, and even Yunnan Guizhou, where a large number of people fled due to the war.

Zhang Qiang's first wave of immigrants did not pour into various places at once, they were all concentrated in the major towns and county towns on the route occupied by the army, and then they were scattered one by one, and it was in this way that they were dispersed.

Otherwise, how could there be so many materials transported from the distant center of China to the barren mountains and mountains.

The best fiddling should be Yunguizhou, because there are a lot of Tusi camps and villages here, and it is also the original territory of the Ming Dynasty, which was swept away by the Huaxia Army after the scourge of the Qing Dynasty and the Ming Army, and most of them, or most of the young and strong people were pulled to the battlefield by the Tusi leaders, and only the old and weak women and children were left here.

With the prosperity of the soldiers without feathers, the remaining Tusi tribes without men and strong men, the minority tribes soon gave up resistance, were changed their place of life, driven down from the mountains, and then resettled, and then they were surrounded by a large number of immigrants from other places, and annihilated in these Han people who spoke various dialects, and then they were repeatedly educated by soldiers and Xiucai who spoke Mandarin in various dialects, and scholars, and finally had to leave their clans and scattered in countless small villages. I lived with the Han Chinese people they had always hated.

Here, Zhang Qiang made full use of the model of large-scale production and big-pot rice in later generations, concentrated education and brainwashing of these people, and finally formed a farm-style village, earning centimeters to obtain living materials, children going to school for free, centralized management, and centralized education.

Facts have proved that this is the fastest way to transform a generation, and it is the best way that has been proven by later generations, when people were extremely happy in spirit, devoted themselves to the party, followed the party, and did not hesitate to sacrifice their small families for everyone.

Of course, this model also makes the production efficiency extremely low, because everyone is average, and there is no room for creativity and upward mobility.

But for the people who have been devastated by the war and yearn for stability, this is the greatest happiness, where everyone works happily, there is no exploitation by the landlords, there is no harassment of soldiers and bandits who cross the border like locusts, although the clothes are very poor, but they eat the same every day, and they are full, and they use the same, uniform clothing, no taxes, everyone works for the collective, the capable work more, the capable get more, all by hard work.

After a few months of panic, everyone has adapted to this life.

The surplus materials they produced were pulled out to subsidize the people in other places that had just entered this mode, which greatly reduced the material needs of the center of the Huaxia Army and the developed areas to subsidize these backward areas, as well as the heavy work of deployment and transportation.

Therefore, in the spring of 1662, when Yunnan Guizhou was liberated, Yunnan Guizhou took the lead in getting rid of its dependence on the center of the Huaxia army and embarked on a road to support itself.

At this time, the population of Yunnan Guizhou had reached 12 million, most of whom were immigrants, and the original 8 million people left by Wu Sangui had been dispersed to the newly liberated Henan Prefecture.

However, after some analysis of the cabinet's data, Zhang Qiang suddenly discovered that by feeding a population of 12 million people in this way, the people of a place like Yunnan Guizhou would always remain at this level of extreme poverty, which is a mistake for a mountainous and originally barren place.

Therefore, on the basis of retaining some officials and soldiers, those prisoners in Yunnan Guizhou who had reached the release period were required to voluntarily sign up to return to their hometowns, and at the same time, those who hoped for greater development were also issued to voluntarily sign up to live on the territory of the Huaxia Army where they wanted to go.

Among the people, those who have seen the world or were originally landlords, Haoqiang's family members have signed up, and after two months, this kind of people has reached as many as one million, so the population flows again, and millions of people return to the states, where they live a little better life than the life of Yunguizhou, and also return to their hometowns, although these places have actually become unrecognizable because of Zhang Qiang's policy of population disruption and dispersion, but after all, they have returned to their hometowns.

For those who actively wanted to contribute resources to the Huaxia army to open up more inhospitable Southeast Asia, Zhang Qiang also fulfilled their wishes, so another 500,000 people were shunted to the places that the armies of the three Southeast Asian countries had conquered after seven or eight months, increasing the population base.

After transferring 30,000 soldiers from the garrison battalion to various places, Zhang Qiang transferred 500,000 soldiers from the hard labor battalion and transferred them to the three most difficult Southeast Asian countries.

This includes the tens of thousands of foreigners of the Taixi coalition who were captured during the war when they helped the Southern Ming Kingdom in the war.

These people, plus the nearby pirates, the pirates, the natives, the Japanese, plus the Dutch, the Portuguese, the British, the Spaniards, were a hundred thousand, but now they have died here thirty or forty thousand.

Only a very small number of people went to become soldiers of the Huaxia Army, and a very small number of people suddenly realized that they took refuge in the Huaxia Army, and worked as translators, supervisors, and low-level porters in the prisoner camps in the Huaxia Army.

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