When Xiao Xuan led the team to the land of the old frontier, he soon discovered some problems. Since the Tang Dynasty lost the Western Regions, the Han civilization in the Western Regions has gradually disappeared, but in less than ten years since the Western Expedition, the entire old frontier has rarely seen the Yarkand people or even the Oirats, from the south to the north of Xinjiang, the size of the Han people is as much as about two million people and has become the absolute dominance of the Hezhong area.

According to some of the information that Xiao Xuan had learned before, the more than 7 million people who had immigrated in the past ten years, and even the tens of millions of people, including reproduction and digestion, had about 2 million people in the old frontier alone. Another 3 million people were located in the middle of the river, 3 million in Eastern Europe such as Russia and Poland, and nearly 2 million people arrived in distant Tessie. To a large extent, this is also an inevitable choice to strengthen domestic influence and even reduce the cost of migration.

At the same time, the migration of about one million people every year also means that the entire old Xinjiang will have to bear the burden of providing for two or three hundred thousand migrants at the same time, and the livelihood of the people in the old Xinjiang area is not easy is also what Xiao Xuan once thought, but in Xiao Xuan's opinion, the most tense days should be the first few years, and now how to calculate it should be a lot more comfortable. You must know that even in modern China and even in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the old Xinjiang is now the later Xinjiang with a population of about 4 million, and the economic situation is still much better than that of the mainland. Supporting an army of 100,000 is probably comparable to the ratio of soldiers and civilians under normal circumstances in the Soviet era, and it can also make Sheng Shicai and others more comfortable. But now that Xiao Xuan's expatriate detectives are fifty miles away on the line, there are some destitute people everywhere who can only be seen in the area of Huangzhuang in Beizhili, and their hair seems to have a kind of beggars in later generations, and it is difficult to see dryness on their bodies. Xiao Xuan also unceremoniously launched a concentrated inquiry.

"Roughly calculated, not counting labor and even goods, only counting the burden of agriculture, the average per population is as much as three stones, even if it is only calculated according to the book population of about 1.8 million, there is a grain burden of five or six hundred stones per year. . . ." The staff officers around Xiao Xuan quickly figured out the general situation through statistical investigations.

At this time, Xiao Xuan also roughly estimated: "If it is to maintain 200,000 standing troops, calculating various costs, perhaps the average officer and soldier may need such a cost, but just the migrating population and even related burdens cannot occupy so many resources at all." There is no doubt that there must be various human costs in the local area! ”

In this way, when the army arrived in the area of the old land of Ili, through extensive investigation and evidence collection, the team carried out a thorough purge in the entire area of the old Xinjiang, not only the upper-level officials, but even the original tens of thousands of garrisons that had become interest groups to a certain extent were completely rebuilt to a large extent, and left hundreds of personnel of the new guard battalion and independent artillery battalion to serve as temporary positions, and a new army was temporarily formed by selecting personnel from the migrants, and a thorough exchange of blood was carried out in the entire area of the old Xinjiang. The order in this area has been restored to a level close to that of the sea.

Of course, perhaps it was the influence of the previous counterinsurgency in the Lanzhou area and the prestige of the new guard battalion that made Xiao Xuan not have the expected rebellion when he underwent surgery in the old Xinjiang.

After such a rectification, there is no doubt that the huge amount of capital saved has made the passage in the old Xinjiang area seem to have become much wider. It seems that it can not only accommodate migrants, but also have the conditions to bring back a lot of goods by land.

When the team crossed the mountains and valleys and came to the area of the river, it was already the summer of the eighteenth year of Chongzhen. What made Xiao Xuan a little helpless was that many of the drawbacks in the old Xinjiang area also existed in the Hezhong area at this time. The collusion of local middle- and lower-level officers, military households and military families who first occupied a lot of land, have begun to form many new interest groups in the local area, which makes Xiao Xuan have to make up his mind to thoroughly clean up and rectify these places that were taken at a greater or lesser cost than they spent back then, and then start their westward journey.

Originally, according to the original plan, the purpose of this expedition was not similar to the previous expedition, and to a large extent, it was an expedition to avoid all kinds of drawbacks in unexpected places in the sea.

In the area of Samarkand in the past, and later in Midtown, Xiao Xuan also gathered many former military merit group personnel who had not been purged for the time being because of too serious problems and said: "The meritorious deeds you made back then have given you enough benefits to repay. When someone is insatiable and wants to be their own soil emperor and stretches out their hand where it shouldn't, then it doesn't matter how far away you are from Ying Tianfu. Whether it is in the old Xinjiang or Taixi, there is no such thing as the so-called mountain high emperor far away... ”

After carrying out a thorough rectification of the area from the old Xinjiang to the middle of the river, Xiao Xuan also determined a new plan for the entire old Xinjiang and even the middle of the river. According to what Xiao Xuan learned about this place and some of the previous situation in the shipbuilding industry in China, after a maximum of three years, the population migration in the Western Regions can gradually decrease. 10 million people of reproductive age or even 20 million or 30 million core population groups that can evolve in a short period of time are enough for assimilation in many places, from Hezhong to Taixi, especially in the next few years, the focus will be on expansion and developers in the northeast. About five years later. With a certain scale of shipbuilding, population migration can be carried out in the direction of Central and South America.

In this way, the entire area from Hezhong to Jiujiang, which had borne huge transportation costs in the past, could have a lot of surplus agricultural and financial space for the development of raw material supply in cotton and wool. Let the area of the river become the second economic and financial source outside the central governor's district. With a clear mandate for development, many of the ills of the past can be alleviated to a large extent, if not completely eradicated.

In this way, when the winter of the eighteenth year of Chongzhen was approaching, the team that had completed a large scale of local rectification continued to move westward, crossed the vast grassland, approached from the middle of the river to the grassland in the southern Russian area, and stayed in the estuary area to carry out a centralized investigation of the local area, and excluded many scouts who were randomly selected in various places.

Therefore, the team also stayed in the Black Sea coast for a long time, there is no doubt that from the old Xinjiang area in the river, the climate is not particularly bad in southern Russia and even Ukraine, is a new place with a relatively concentrated population, and from this area can be directly reached by waterway directly to the west of Taixi, saving a lot of unnecessary land time and costs.