Feng Yunshan looked at Wu Ruxiao and asked, "Wu Aiqing, you have been to the United States, tell me, why can the United States develop so fast?" If it weren't for our Chinese Empire forcibly interrupting it and occupying the Hexi region, what would have happened after they integrated the north and the south, according to Aiqing's speculation? ”

Wu Ruxiao didn't expect the emperor to suddenly ask this question, thinking of the immigration issue he had just talked to the emperor about, Wu Ruxiao replied: "Your Majesty, Weichen has indeed been to the United States, and he has specially done a careful investigation of it. This country is a new country that is constantly expanding, the whole country has been established less than 100 years ago, but it has expanded from the original small thirteen states to more than 30 states, and the territory has expanded tenfold! Their industrial base is much more solid than ours in the Chinese Empire. According to their development inertia, it will not be long before they rise to become a world power. Fortunately, first of all, they had a war between the north and the south, and then His Majesty wisely decided to forcibly enter, and our Chinese empire supported the Hexi Kingdom to occupy the entire North American region west of the Mississippi River, forcing the north and south to recognize each other's independence from Hexi, and forcibly turning a unified America into three independent regions, interrupting the process of the rise of this country.

If there is no intervention of our Chinese Empire, their northern industrial base is strong, and their strength is also thick, as long as the war lasts for a few years, the South will inevitably be weak, and when the time comes, the North will finally win the victory and integrate the entire North and South America, according to Wei Chen's speculation, they will definitely continue to move westward, and even take advantage of the time when our Chinese Empire attacked Britain, to buy or even send troops to expand the Canadian colonies in British North America, and continue to expand. Eventually, it will grow into a super-large power like Britain and France, and even in a few decades, it will surpass France and Britain and become the world's largest power. ”

Feng Yunshan nodded, he was amazed at Wu Ruxiao's judgment. In fact, without its own intervention, the United States would have developed in this way.

And now, the fortune of the entire American continent that the United States has seized from the Indians has been snatched away by itself under the occupation of the Hexi region by its own force. Today, the United States is divided into North and South America, and its power has been greatly weakened. Even the Commonwealth of America in the north, which has a strong industrial base, has declined due to the great reduction in territory and the corresponding decrease in population. Even if they want to develop at the same speed as in history, they will not be able to do so because of the narrowing of their territory and the serious lack of resources and markets.

The current world has become the era of the Chinese Empire!

Britain was defeated, and France was to be held back by the rising Prussia, Tsarist Russia was also divided into pieces, most of the territory became the new territory of the Chinese Empire, plus the Ottoman Empire, which they bothered to support, the entire European powers rose one after another, but their strength was equal, entangled and restrained with each other, and it was difficult for them to grow alone.

And its own Chinese empire is different. It can be said that today's Chinese Empire is actually equivalent to the original United States, with all the conditions of the United States in history, the beginning of industrial development, the vast territory and rich resources, these do not belong to the United States, and, in other respects, the conditions for the rise of the United States are more abundant!

Zuo Zongtang suggested on the side: "Your Majesty, Weichen thinks that as long as the empire continues to follow His Majesty's established development line and focus on industrial development, it will not take long for the empire to become stronger." After all, the world's largest market and the richest resources are in our Chinese Empire, and we still have the largest population. Moreover, His Majesty has laid a good industrial foundation for the empire and pushed the basic industry forward.

Wechen's suggestion is to stabilize agriculture and further develop the newly occupied territory! As His Majesty said earlier, immigration policy. But immigration is becoming less and less effective, and forced migration is not too desirable. Weichen thought that he might as well follow the example of the United States just mentioned, I heard that they absorbed European immigrants and continued to develop the western region, and then the state could intervene in taxation. Wechen thought that the imperial court could follow suit.

Since it is difficult to immigrate, the root may be that there is no development there, if the railway is successfully built, it will be possible to return to his hometown from the distant border area to visit relatives in ten days, plus some attractive conditions, Wechen believes that many people will be willing to emigrate.

It really doesn't work, and it can also be open to those foreigners, on the condition that they must join the nationality of the Chinese Empire, be loyal to Your Majesty, be loyal to the Chinese, and learn the language of our Han people! As long as they are willing to speak the words of our Han people, I believe that it will not be long before they can assimilate those foreigners with the strong appeal of our Chinese culture, even if they have different skin colors and faces, as long as they speak, culture and customs are slowly assimilated, they can be regarded as official citizens of the empire, and they are no different from those Koreans, Wa and Jing. ”

Feng Yunshan's face became a little solemn, what Zuo Zongtang said, he understood a little, it was indeed a good way to solve the problem of the development of the newly occupied land. But Feng Yunshan always felt that the territory of the Chinese Empire wanted to be occupied by the Han Chinese. Now it seems that I have always thought that Zuo Zongtang was conservative, but I didn't expect that a few years later, but I was a little too conservative.

"Perhaps, what Zuo Aiqing said, you can't give it a try! Anyway, as long as the troops of our Chinese Empire are stationed in those territories, as long as those foreigners are scattered and isolated from each other, they are not afraid of any trouble. But how? Feng Yunshan asked.

"Your Majesty, Wei Chen hasn't thought about it yet, but he was inspired by the reminder of His Majesty and Minister Wu just now, and he thought of it temporarily.

Wechen roughly thinks that land should be used as bait! Anyway, a place like Siberia, which is too vast and almost completely populated, is a bitter cold place, and a place like the Kazakh Khanate, not to mention those pastures, just let the Mongols and Kazakhs graze their herds. For those river valleys, which can be reclaimed into cultivated crops and have excellent irrigation conditions, they can be sold to those foreigners in the name of the imperial court, and of course, if they are our Han compatriots, they are even more welcome. If those foreigners are poor and cannot afford to buy land for a while, the imperial court can pay them on credit first, and pay for the land in installments, as long as they rush to the local area to develop and cultivate the land, they can take out some of the annual harvest and sell it to the imperial court or merchants, and use the remuneration as installment loan repayment. More policies could be introduced to attract them, such as helping immigrants, providing rations and seeds, farming tools, etc., and even tax exemptions in previous years. Anyway, the land is deserted and wasted, so it is better to let them develop it and grow something, and in the end, the food and materials created are still within the territory of the Chinese Empire.

Perhaps, because of the participation of foreigners, our own Han compatriots will also be attracted to the past. Of course, for the Chinese compatriots, the land sold on credit can be larger, and they can also be appointed as local grassroots village officials, responsible for managing and guiding those foreigners, so that those foreigners can feel the nobility of the Chinese, feel the importance of the Chinese language, and guide them to yearn for and learn Chinese culture. In this way, after a generation or even a few decades, it must be easy for our Chinese empire and the entire imperial court to control these newly occupied territories. ”

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