Feng Yunshan ignored everyone's surprise, and continued: "Shengjing continues to immigrate, and the Sanjiang basins of Jilin and Heilongjiang still have to move in to the people to open up the wasteland earlier, at least they still have to migrate millions from the hinterland of the Central Plains such as Shandong, Zhili, Henan, and Anhui, so as to completely develop the Northeast." ”

In a word, it is imperative to break into the eastern part of the country, even if you don't make an order, it won't be long before the people will do it spontaneously, and you just let this matter happen in advance and in a planned and organized way.

"The second place of immigration is in the northwest and other places. Where did Zuo Aiqing, Liang Litai and Luo Qiongshu lead their troops? Why hasn't there been any news lately? Feng Yunshan asked.

Last spring, Feng Yunshan appointed Liang Litai as the governor of Xinjiang in accordance with Zuo Zongtang's suggestion, assisted by Luo Qiongshu, and asked the two to return to Xinjiang in a peaceful manner and recover Tangnu, Wulianghai and other places in the northwestern frontier of the Manchu Dynasty. But now, nearly a year later, I only heard that Hami and the ancient city of Hami had been captured in the autumn of last year, and there is no news since then. Therefore, Feng Yunshan asked this question, and he also wanted to arrange an immigration strategy according to the course of the war.

Zuo Zongtang hurriedly reported: "Back to Your Majesty, last year, Division Commander Liang led the Fourth Division of the Army, and Division Commander Luo led the Fifth Division of the Army to capture Ganzhou Mansion and Suzhou Mansion one after another, and marched into Xinjiang to capture Hami and the ancient cityWhen the enemy army was pacified, it was already winter, and another year had passed. I had to wait another year, but fortunately, now Hami and Gucheng and other places are in the hands of our army and soldiers, plus the local leaders of Kashgar, Aksu and other places of the Wuer people have promised to return to the empire, and the remnants of the Manchu Qing are mainly concentrated in Suiding, Huiyuan, Taleqi, Guangren, Zhande, Gongchen, Ningyuan, Huining, Xichun and other "Ili Nine Cities" along the Ili River. Those Manchu and Mongolian lower-class soldiers and Xibe and Daur soldiers are no longer loyal to the Manchu court, and when our captive army arrives, it will inevitably collapse and surrender. ”

"Chuan Zhen ordered that the nine cities of Ili and Kashgar must be completely pacified before the end of this summer! Since the beginning of the spring, the Immigration Department has organized 300,000 people in Shaanxi, Gansu, and Sichuan to go to the nine cities of Ili and Kashgar to settle down. In the future, more than 200,000 Han people will be emigrated to return to Xinjiang every year, and I will see that in three or five years, the two places will become the residence of our Han people, and the fertile fields will be thousands of miles away, and they will be developed into the Jiangnan outside the Saiwai! Although there was some eagerness for quick success and some arbitrariness, Feng Yunshan still gave the order so eagerly.

It can't be delayed any longer. This is the best opportunity in history to enter Central Asia. Feng Yunshan knew that just two or three years ago, Tsarist Russia had established various fortresses such as Vilnyburg south of the Ili River, and had sent troops to occupy the middle reaches of the Ili River. In the years that followed, the Russians would build more castles and post stations, building a 700-kilometer line of armed fortresses east of Lake Balkhash, and later forcibly emigration to establish many Cossack villages and settlements in the area, thus completely occupying the territory. Time is running out!

At this time, the total population of the entire Huijiang was only about 1.5 million, as long as one million Han people could be relocated, it would be enough to hold the entire town of the Great Huijiang, not only the east and south of Lake Balkhash and the north and south of Jaisangzor occupied by Tsarist Russia in later generations could be preserved, but also, maybe even the three Muslim khanates of Kokand, Bukhara and Khiva could be pocketed, no matter how bad they were, they could also support them to resist the invasion from Tsarist Russia. Many tribes in the Kazakh steppe had just been occupied by Tsarist Russia, and they were very dissatisfied, if they could support them or let them take refuge, then the Chinese Empire they established could completely replace Tsarist Russia and become the most extensive empire in the world, and only in this way could it match the world's most populous ethnic group.

Feng Yunshan thought so in his heart. In fact, neither the northwestern frontier nor the millions of square kilometers of territory in the outer northeast can be defended without spending troops, and even, as long as tens of thousands of soldiers. The most important thing is the issue of supply. If all the strategic materials are transported from the hinterland of the Central Plains, not only will the cost be huge, but when they arrive, the war will be over. Therefore, the key is to immigrate to the past. Taking advantage of the fact that there are only more than one million people returning to Xinjiang today, far less than the scale of nearly 10 million people in later generations, they are limited to Kashgar, Aksu, Hotan and other places, and the rest of the places are all settled by Han immigrants. And Central Asia has also become the stage and backyard of the Han people!

These places must be occupied, even for the sake of future generations. Moreover, this is the world's largest cotton producing area in addition to the United States, the American Civil War is about to break out, and at that time, when there is no cotton in the world, if you occupy this place and monopolize cotton from Central Asia alone, you can hit those European and American powers fiercely.

Zuo Zongtang hurriedly agreed. The two main infantry divisions, capturing Huijiang, did not have much pressure, and could even fight with Russia, which had been invading the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

Feng Yunshan also instructed Zeng Guanlan, Yan Jingming, Wu Tang, He Jianji, and others to organize Shaanxi and Gansu immigrants nearby and implement their own immigration policies. He then went on to name the third place of settlement, which was the newly occupied province of North and South Korea.

Everyone thought that he was still the same as the previous two places, ready to immigrate to the past, but Feng Yunshan said: "The fourth immigration location is Jiaozhi and Rinan provinces. Why is it said together with the third settlement, North and South Korea? The main reason is that I consider that the immigrants who are mobilizing the army are all Han people, and it is not appropriate. I want to emigrate for two purposes. First, defend the territory and develop the frontier; Second, develop the country, so that our people, especially the Han people, have more land to cultivate, produce more food, and strengthen the national strength. ”

As soon as Feng Yunshan said this, everyone immediately understood why the emperor had to ask about the financial resources of the treasury and the output of grain when he first summoned him, especially the per capita field data and per capita grain output, it turned out that they were all for this immigration policy!

Wu Tang, vice minister of the Ministry of Agriculture, is even more deeply aware that the emperor does not hesitate to spend a huge amount of money on the national treasury, does not hesitate to bear the infamy of the faint monarch, but also forcibly emigrated, in the long run, the people in the hinterland of the Central Plains and the densely populated areas in the south of the Yangtze River to the vast and sparsely populated land, even if it is a short-term pain, it can indeed be exchanged for long-term peace and stability and the development of the sparsely populated land in the future.

He Jianji suddenly realized, and said directly: "Your Majesty, why don't you send more sergeants to directly reduce the population of the Koreans and Yue people, or confine them in a few places and let them fend for themselves, and then immigrate our Han people over, won't the newly occupied four provinces become the world of my Han family?" ”

Zuo Zongtang and the others hurriedly stopped: "Don't ......"

Feng Yunshan waved his hand, glared at He Jianji, and said, "Aiqing don't need to worry, I already have a plan!" ”

"I am ready to combine the immigration of these four provinces. On the one hand, a group of people from the mainland were relocated to the two places. On the other hand, it is necessary to swap the Koreans and the Yue people, and play the role of interspersing and diluting each other. Even, for sparsely populated places in Guangxi, Yunnan, Hainan and other places, it is necessary to introduce a group of Korean people to serve as laborers to develop the southwest; As for the newly occupied Shengjing and Jilin, it is also necessary to introduce a group of Yue people to settle in the wasteland. Feng Yunshan thought about it and said his thoughts: "The population of the two provinces of North and South Korea is about seven or eight million, and I plan to move 2.3 million Koreans from these two provinces within three years. 500,000 were relocated to Heilongjiang, 500,000 to Jilin, 500,000 to Yunnan and Guangxi provinces, and the remaining 800,000 were all moved to Ninan Province. The migration of 600,000 from Shandong, Shanxi, Zhili, and Henan provinces, and 100,000 from Beijing, totaling 2.5 million Han people, entered the two Korean provinces. ”

In the two provinces of Cochin and Ninan, the total population of the Yue nationality is about 6 million, and the newly annexed 3 million Khmers in Ninan Province and the rest of the Han people and Mingxiang people are close to 10 million people. I plan to move 1 million people from them to the provinces of North and South Korea, and another 500,000 Khmers to Jilin and Taiwan. In addition to the 800,000 people who moved from Korea to Ninan, I plan to emigrate 500,000 from Guangdong, Hunan, Hubei, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, and Jiangsu provinces, and 1 million from Sichuan, a total of 4 million Han people, into the two provinces of Cochin and Vietnam, and concentrate on the Red River Valley and the Mekong Delta, and concentrate on these two fertile fields to open up fertile land, so that they can have a place to live, and at the same time, let us Han people occupy these two treasured lands, and in the future, they will be the same as the land of fish and rice in the south of the Yangtze River. Become another big granary of the empire. ”

"And the last one is the Malay Peninsula. Here, simple immigration or coercion is no longer enough, what I want is to mobilize the people to raise 500,000 Han youths on a voluntary basis and develop military hoards. Of course, those who are willing to go to the Malay Peninsula are given preferential treatment by the Empire, up to a period of fifteen years, after which they can return to their hometowns and be given an allowance according to the number of years of service. For all immigrants, the Ministry of Finance and Taxation will give a settling-in subsidy of 6 Shengyuan and three stones of rice per ding, and naturally, these settling-in subsidies will be distributed in three times over three years. In addition, the Ministry of Agriculture wants to purchase a large number of cattle and phosphate fertilizer, and after the migrants have officially settled down, they will send migrant township officials to various resettlement sites to guide the migrants to open up and settle down, lend cattle and seeds, and sell farm tools. ”

"For all these kinds of immigration, Zeng Aiqing will be in the civil affairs department, and Zuo Aiqing will be in the military and political affairs, and you will take the lead in formulating a detailed strategy, and after you turn around and let me see it, it will be officially implemented before the fourth month of the lunar calendar." Feng Yunshan looked serious and added: "As for how to mobilize the people, whether it is coercion or inducement, it is up to you, the total two points, one must not make a popular uprising, and the other must complete the task of immigration." ”

Everyone knew that the emperor was determined to launch the emigrate, and they immediately attached great importance to it and hurriedly wrote it down.

Zeng Guanlan thought that after this resettlement, the land pressure in several densely populated provinces could be eased a little, at least the per capita land could be allocated. Yan Jingming, vice minister of finance and taxation, was dumbfounded, and in this way, the total number of immigrants exceeded 12 million, and the migration of Koreans, Yue, Khmer, and other foreigners could be subsidized in small amounts or even at all, but they had to be given a little food, otherwise, they would definitely starve to death halfway. As for the other native Han people, if they want to emigrate so much, and there are nearly 9 million people in total, according to the subsidy standard mentioned by His Majesty, wouldn't it cost 50 or 60 million yuan of Shengyuan and more than 20 million stone of grain? Even if women, children and children do not have to be subsidized by the 3 stone grain of the strong man, but it is thousands of miles along the way, although the route can be arranged to save time by waterway as much as possible, but it also takes a long time, and the food consumed along the way will be an astronomical amount, which is at least much more than the subsidy of 20 million stones. There are also huge expenses such as buying seeds for ploughing cattle, preparing tents and clothing for immigrants, and military rations for the sergeants who escort them along the way.

Yan Jingming thought about it for a while, and calculated that the empire would have to take out at least 80 million holy yuan and more than 50 million stone of grain.

Fortunately, this does not have to be taken out all at once, it can be paid in batches over several years. Otherwise, even the rich imperial treasury would be a heavy burden.

And only Zuo Zongtang vaguely understood that the emperor was in a hurry to stabilize these occupied places with Han people. It is easy to leave and open up territory, but it is the most difficult to completely subjugate the newly occupied territory and assimilate the foreign race. I hope that the emperor's immigration law will soon see practical results.