Foreign Minister Wu Ruxiao was also very happy, and said to Feng Yunshan: "Congratulations to Your Majesty, my Chinese Empire has become the largest empire in the world, and there has never been an empire with such a vast territory.

However, because of the large increase in the size of the territory, it will be extremely difficult for the imperial court to govern those places. Your Majesty, Weichen suggested that the immigration policy should be implemented immediately, and a certain number of people should be forcibly relocated to settle and develop those territories that have become our Chinese Empire, especially the important parts of the geographical location, otherwise, it will slowly be occupied by those Cossacks, etc., if the imperial court does not pay attention to it, once something happens, it is likely that it will be reoccupied by those local Russian Cossacks, split or merged into Tsarist Russia. ”

Feng Yunshan felt a little embarrassed, the immigration policy has always been carried out by the imperial court, but now those who are willing to emigrate have almost moved, and those who are unwilling to immigrate, the imperial court has tried to forcibly relocate some, but the resistance is also very strong, and the people have almost changed. And, to be honest, within a few years of the founding of the empire, the empire expanded its territory to such an extent that there are now too many areas that need to be settled, such as the Northeast and the Outer Northeast, the Mekong Delta in Vietnam, Xinjiang and Kokand, Bukhara, etc., the South Seas, Ceylon and Australia, as well as the Hexi region of North America, Alaska, northern Mexico, etc., and even many of these places that were originally occupied are almost no man's land, even if some troops are stationed, but there are no real immigrants who have lived in the past. It was never really the territory of the Chinese Empire. And if all of them want to emigrate, there are not that many people willing to do so.

It's a big headache. At the beginning just now, when Feng Yunshan immigrated from Liangguang and Huguang to Taiwan and Qiongzhou Island, many people were eager to emigrate, especially those Hakka people who had no land and little land. At that time, Feng Yunshan also thought that the matter of immigration was a matter of one sentence, and as soon as the emperor gave an order, there was a huge army to set off, but with the increase of immigrants in the coastal provinces, fewer and fewer people were willing to migrate. In particular, the national strength of the Chinese Empire is constantly strengthened, the country is stable, the imperial court governance is quite decent, and the people in the countryside almost have a field to live in, even if the area is very small, but under the effect of holy fertilizer, it is not too difficult to barely make a living, even if some barren places can also be planted in the mountains through the cultivation of other cash crops and sold for money in exchange for rations, and the local government's treatment is also quite effective, so that the entire Chinese Empire has almost no people who can not live.

In the land of China, these people have always been accustomed to being submissive and seeking perfection, no matter how difficult life is, as long as they have something to eat, they can grit their teeth and persevere. What's more, now that life is slowly improving a little, and it is getting better and better year by year, these people of the Chinese Empire have hope, and a few people are willing to leave their hometown. What's more, according to the Chinese tradition, the so-called parents are not far away, the golden nest and silver nest are not as good as their own kennels, and so on, the common people only recognize their hometown, and have always been reluctant to leave their homeland, especially in some provinces in the interior. Not to mention leaving to go to a strange place thousands of miles away, even if it is the same prefecture and county, I am not very willing. Even if the imperial court and the government use many benefits to lure them now, they are still indifferent. After all, Feng Yunshan was still ruthless to his compatriots, and was unwilling to forcibly drive them out of their hometowns and send them to various immigration stations. As a result, the immigration issue has been a bit of a stalemate, and there has been no major improvement.

Therefore, after listening to Wu Ruxiao's words, Feng Yunshan was both happy and a little worried. Happily, the territory of the Chinese Empire is now so vast, and all this has been done in his own hands, which undoubtedly gives him a strong sense of accomplishment. The worry is that, as Wu Ruxiao said, such a vast territory must have a sufficient number of Chinese people to move to the local area to govern, and now no one is willing to emigrate, this problem is really a headache.

Helpless, Feng Yunshan could only reply: "The immigration problem will be difficult to solve for a while. Moreover, even if you want to immigrate, it is also a priority to those strategic places and important areas of economy and foreign trade, such as Siberia, as well as the entire Outer Northeast and Alaska, except for a few places that are very suitable for development, the rest of the places are all frozen, and some troops will be sent to inspect them regularly for the time being, and now the technology is not developed enough, and it is very difficult to immigrate and develop, so don't do anything for the time being, the whole of Siberia, except for military garrisons, railway construction and special mineral development, Except for the fishermen on the other side of Lake Baikal, all the rest will stop resettlement and development, and they will be developed again when they have the ability to do so in the future! However, there is one thing, the Ural Mountains and the Ural River line such as Yekaterinburg and Orenburg, as the frontiers of the empire, must be held to the death to prevent those Cossack Russians from sneaking into our Siberia!

I want to use my limited resources and immigrants where they are most needed, where they are most urgent, where they are most exploitable! ”

Zuo Zongtang echoed: "Your Majesty is wise! Indeed it should be. After all, the territory occupied by the empire today is too large! The territory of more than 40 million square kilometers is several times that of our original core area of China, and the population has only increased by tens of millions. In other words, if our original population of more than 400 million suddenly wants to develop a land several times larger, it will naturally feel a little vast and sparsely populated, even if the Chinese Empire is already the most populous country in the world.

Your Majesty, Weichen suggested that, on the one hand, the development of some places must be carried out as soon as possible, so it is still necessary to carry out forced immigration, and subsidies will be made afterwards; On the other hand, it is necessary to find ways to increase the population of the empire, encourage the people of the empire to have a large number of children, increase the proportion and number of the Chinese population as much as possible, and at the same time as soon as possible to sinicize those Miao people who can be annexed, such as the Koreans, the Vietnamese Nanjing, the Mongols, and the Vultures, etc., as soon as possible, and completely integrate them into the Chinese blood and culture, so as to increase the proportion of the Chinese within the empire and let the Chinese control any part of the empire. ”

Feng Yunshan nodded and said, "I will let the cabinet make arrangements." Now that our Chinese empire is so large, those Western countries will definitely be uneasy in their hearts, and they will link up against us at the first opportunity. Although we are the world's first power militarily, but the industrial aspect is far from enough, and the first priority now is to develop the industry as quickly as possible! ”