Iron Dynasty

The blood-colored twilight reflected the land of Qingzhou, making everything covered with a bright red coat.

After a brief silence in the royal study, Fiji asked worriedly, If that's the case, what should Cubat do? The lower official thought he would not accept this condition.

He didn't need to accept this condition in the first place, because I still need him to take care of the grassland. Xiao Ming said lightly: This decree is only for the barbarian captives who went to Siberia and Australia. As for Cubat, no matter how much he tossed, a broken tribe will not be able to raise any storms, the era of cavalry is over after all.”

Fiji and Pang Yukun immediately understood, and they both said in unison; Your Majesty is wise.

With a smile on the corner of his mouth, Xiao Ming said: The scourge on the steppe has been eliminated, but this does not mean that the threat to the north has been eliminated. On the contrary, we will face a more powerful enemy - Tsarist Russia, the future empire and the Tsar Conflict between Russia will be inevitable.

Pang Yukun now gradually understood Xiao Ming's thinking, and he said, So the emperor kept Gubbat in order to prevent the Tsarist Russia from seizing the power blank area left after the demise of the barbarians.

Positive solution, the Cossack cavalry that Qi Guangyi destroyed this time has been able to explain the problem, but even so, I am afraid that some of the forces left by the barbarians have already been occupied by Tsarist Russia.

On the other hand, before Xiao Ming came to the world map, he drew a circle in the area between the west side of the Tianshan Mountains and the Caspian Sea. This area is the land of the later Kazakh country, and it has always been the sphere of influence of Russia in contemporary times, because it is far from Moscow. It is very close to St. Petersburg, and both the former Muscovite Principality and its successors will use this place as their traditional scope.

According to the information obtained by the Secret Guard, after Dolgo surrendered, Tsarist Russia took over the place, representing the Golden Horde to rule the countries in the Western Regions on this land.

The emperor is going to compete with Tsarist Russia here? Fiji realized something.

Nodding lightly, Xiao Ming said: This is the necessary place of the Silk Road, and now it is occupied by Tsarist Russia, which means that they have cut off our trade route from land to Europe. I will not let my neck be taken by others. pinch.

Pang Yukun frowned and said, It's just that this place is too far away from Qingzhou. Even if we defeat the Tsarist Russian army on the land, it is difficult for us to control this place, and the emperor said that to completely control a piece of land requires a large number of immigrants. reproduce.

And after immigration from Kanto, Siberia, and Ryukyu, seven million people have moved out of the country. According to the emperor's plan, we have to emigrate to Australia and North America, and the population in the empire will be less and less. The lack of population will seriously affect the development of industry and commerce. Fiji echoed.

Old Fei Ge is now more and more aware of the demographic dividend. That's right, with the expansion of the empire's industrial scale and the increase in the types of industries, if you want to achieve a complete industrial system, you need a sufficient number of people, otherwise the empire It is impossible to break through the bottleneck of the whole system. Xiao Ming said.

In fact, he has always attached great importance to the population issue, which is why he issued the decree to stimulate fertility, but the population growth cannot be increased on a large scale in one or two days. It is estimated that up to 20 million people could be added.

But even so, the population of the empire is second to none in the current world. Fiji's worries are right, but it is a bit redundant, because he is not going to eat a big fat man.

The reason why he migrated so many people in Kanto is to expand the land area of ​​the empire in Asia and actually control it, because the threat of Tsarist Russia is at hand, and if he does not occupy it, he will be occupied by Tsarist Russia, which is related to territorial issues.

However, the problems in Australia, North America, and Southeast Asia are different. He has no urgent need to forcibly relocate people to settle down, because what he wants in these areas is economic interests. He only needs the army to control the local indigenous people, and at the same time use economic interests to guide people to migrate and settle down. .

In this way, it only takes decades of reproduction, and the people who come here to find a new life will form a scale, and gradually take advantage of the population to actually occupy these places.

Thinking of this, he told the two of his thoughts.

When Fiji and Pang Yukun heard the words, they nodded at the same time, and Pang Yukun said, It turns out that the emperor had a plan, it's so wonderful.

The most important issue for the empire at the moment is the development of industry and commerce. We will not destroy the Great Wall by ourselves. Now that the barbarians are gone, the threats around us are gone. Although Tsarist Russia is eyeing, it is unable to cross the line of defense of the empire. Therefore, now I give You have created an unprecedented stable environment, and your cabinet must seize the present opportunity and make every effort to build the industrial system of the empire.

After all, Xiao Ming picked up a thick document from the table. This document was the development plan of the empire that he asked Yang Chengye to compile and he finally confirmed.

In this plan, he listed a series of projects that currently need to be built. In terms of energy, he approved the construction of thermal power stations in various states, large coal companies in the coal-rich Chang'an city, and also included oil exploration plans.

In terms of transportation, he approved the nationwide construction of bridges, railways, and ordinary roads in various states and counties. In industry, areas with rich resources were selected to establish heavy industrial zones, while coastal areas focused on building light industries.

In addition, in terms of education, he approved the construction of key universities in Jinling City, Chang'an, Jinzhou, Bozhou, Lin'an, Songjiang, Suzhou and other prefectures, focusing on popularizing science and technology.

In terms of shipbuilding, in addition to the previous Dengzhou and Jinling shipyards, he once again approved 30 large shipyards including Beishacheng Shipyard, Songjiang Shipyard, Lin'an Shipyard and Guangzhou Shipyard.

These shipyards are all government-run shipyards, capable of building warships as well as civilian ships. After the threat on the grasslands has been dealt with, the empire will spend more energy on the ocean in the future, so Xiao Ming focused on taking care of it this time. Go to the shipyard.

Pang Yukun took over the development plan, just glanced at it and knew that he would be busy again.

After discussing the government affairs, the two were about to go back. At this time, Qian Dafu came in from the side hall and handed a battle report to Xiao Ming.

Your Majesty, the commander of the Southwest Army, Luo Xin, reported that their cavalry hunters outside Songzhou found that the Tubo cavalry suddenly went north. Qian Dafu said.

Tubo? Xiao Ming frowned. The barbarians had just been wiped out, and he didn't expect that the Tubo would suffer again, but this time the Tubo did not attack Songzhou, but the purpose of heading north was too obvious.

He didn't expect that Tsarist Russia hadn't done it yet, but the Tibetans hurriedly wanted to steal the fruit of victory from him.

PS: Some things have been delayed. There will be one shift tonight and three shifts tomorrow.