During this war, Xu Daizhuo followed Zuo Helin and had never left the team to station in the newly occupied cities on the road.

He once ate roast mutton with Tubo tribe soldiers who came to surrender to Qinghai Lake. He followed the large army to Ganzhou, Suzhou, Guazhou, and Shazhou. He left Yumen Pass, conquered the entire Western Regions, and arrived at the Parsling Mountains. He confronted the Pars army for a long time.

If we count from the start of sending troops, Xu Daizhuo traveled tens of thousands of miles one way and twenty thousand miles back and forth.

As the saying goes, if you read thousands of books and travel thousands of miles, he will do the journey thousands of miles.

Therefore, Xu Daizhuo's insights are now completely different from those in the past - at least with the deliberate support of Zuo Helin and Xu Shizhen, he has a clear understanding of the situation in the northwest.

Therefore, Xu Daizhuo also had his own ideas about his future.

Although he was born in the royal family, there was actually not that big difference between legitimate and illegitimate, and he might not have no chance to sit in that position when he stayed in China, but Xu Daizhuo felt that he could not bet like this, because once he lost the bet, he would never have a chance again.

Moreover, what is the point of arguing with your brothers at home? That can almost only weaken the power of the empire.

It’s better to fight for an opportunity of your own - my father was just a small dockyard at the beginning, right? The starting resources he could obtain must be much better than his father’s situation at that time.

As for whether you can gain independence in the Western Regions, there is no need to worry about this.

A very intuitive understanding of Xu Daizhuo along the way is that it is very troublesome for the empire to rule the Western Regions.

In fact, he also thought of the current double-headed layout of the empire: the emperor's grandfather was in Quancheng, and the earliest control and therefore the most developed province radiated to other territories of the empire, including the domestic layout of industry, agriculture, science and technology, education, economy, etc.

His father Xu Shiyang was in Yanjing and governed the dangerous northern border and arranged various wars against the Tartars - before it was mainly the Jurchens, the just-concluded Dangxiang, and the Mengwu not long after.

This layout was originally because the information transmission speed of the empire could not keep up with the expansion of the empire, and in the end, the two capitals were forced to take part of the responsibility.

This is still a traditional Han area. In the future, the empire will complete the unification of the north and the south, and I am afraid that even two heads will not be enough.

After all, by then, the empire will at least become a super empire that will reach the southernmost end of the Sansha area, the northernmost end to the outer Xing'an Mountains, the easternmost end to Fusang, and the westernmost end to the Pamirs.

This is probably the limit of the so-called "natural boundary" that military academy instructors talked about in class.

If an emergency occurs in the corners of this empire and the news is transmitted to the capital, it will probably take at least one or two months. It will probably take a year later when the empire calls up a large army to support it.

What if the Imperial Army defeated the Pamirs?

I'm afraid I can't react for a year or two.

Therefore, the land outside the "natural boundary limit" can only be enfeoffed with the support of the imperial government, forming a series of foreign countries like Goryeo.

This is what Xu Daizhuo is interested in.

In fact, Zuo Helin, Xu Shizhen, and Wang Qinian, who did not participate in this Western Expedition, had secretly expressed this meaning to him, the eldest grandson of the imperial army, the combat power and ability to conquer anywhere they could go, but in the future that could be encountered, the empire could not directly rule the area west of the Pamir Mountains.

Therefore, Xu Daizhuo could establish his own foundation west of the Pamir Mountains, a secondary empire that relies on the local Chinese existence. Then Zuo Helin, Xu Shizhen and Wang Qinian's goal is the second first-level vassal state of this secondary empire.

Everyone wants an overseas crown and their own foundation.

"Have you ever told your father about your thoughts?" Zhao Shan asked with concern.

"This is my purpose for this time." Xu Daizhuo replied: "I can't set out empty-handedly, I must get the support of my father. In the future, I will need long-term support from the country to stand up. This is also the reason why General Zuo and Uncle Wu chose me as the leader - after all, I am the emperor's grandson, and if I don't compete with my second brother, the empire will have to pay some rewards, right?"

"Actually, General Zuo and Uncle Wu should have disclosed some news to their father about this matter, and my father probably agreed."

"That person who has no conscience!" Hearing this, Zhao Shan was a little angry: "It's obviously his biological sons, why do you have to score different points..."

"We are different. Mom. You should understand that we cannot be the same." Xu Daizhuo smiled: "I have figured out what a father is. He cannot allow our brothers to fight for the throne, so he will definitely support me, and in the future, he may also support my other brothers to establish the country overseas."

"This is enough for me." Xu Daizhuo said proudly: "I will establish a foundation with my father west of the Palacio Mountains, and I will open up new living space for the nation. History will definitely remember my name!"

...

In the last few months of the Republic of 1793, although the Fusom War did not really quell, the situation was at least calm on the surface, as everyone was preparing.

Most of the troops participating in the Western Expedition have been withdrawn, leaving only the necessary garrisons for the new territory.

The empire was rushing to immigrate to the new territory. Anyone who voluntarily traveled could share the most fertile land, bear the lowest tax rate, and receive low-interest government loans and financial compensation - oxen, rations and seeds for the first year, necessary weapons, and even get a house.

These compensation alone are already very attractive to poor civilians, so voluntary immigrants have been in constant stream.

However, the empire has never had a large population and there are also many local opportunities, so relying solely on Han immigration still seems thin.

The empire continued to carry out various demographic exchange operations - at least half of the approximately 1.8 million Dangxiang slaves were to be moved to the Great Wilderness in Northeast Liao and reclaimed them, and about 300,000 people were to be scattered and placed in the empire, working on state-owned farms, or young women were assigned to poorer imperial civilians as wives.

In addition, Xu Shiyang proposed to migrate ten to 200,000 people from Dangxiang to Fusang and use these Northwest Tartars to suppress the people from Fusang.

As a replacement, among the four million Fusang slaves this year, one million will be arranged in the Great Northern Wilderness - so the population of the Great Northern Wilderness will be nearly 1.5 million, which is already considered to have begun to take shape.

In addition, 500,000 Fusang slaves migrated to fill the original Dangxiang land (the most fertile Xingling did not go), 500,000 Fusang slaves went to the Western Regions to plant trees and mine, and 200,000 Fusang slaves went to Tai Island to explore.

These places are still bitter and cold places, but many people can be sent to transform them, so they can always achieve success. Then they will migrate the remaining slaves to the new bitter and cold places, leaving the open land to the Han people.
Chapter completed!