The blood-colored dusk reflected the land of Qingzhou, making everything clothed in red. Ｘ

After a brief silence in the Imperial Study, Fiji asked worriedly, "If so, what should Cuba do?" Xia Guan thought that 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 grasslands." Xiao Ming said lightly: "This decree is only for the barbarian captives who went to Siberia and Australia, after all, I don't want the land I have worked so hard to fight to become a place for them to multiply, as for Gubat, no matter how he tosses, a broken tribe will not be able to make any waves, and the era of cavalry has passed after all." ”

Fiji and Pang Yukun suddenly understood, and the two said in unison; "The emperor is wise."

With a smile on the corner of his mouth, Xiao Ming said: "The scourge on the grassland has been eliminated, but this does not mean that the threat from the north has been eliminated, on the contrary, we will face a more powerful enemy, Tsarist Russia, and the conflict between the Empire and Tsarist Russia will be inevitable in the future." ”

Pang Yukun now gradually figured out Xiao Ming's train of thought, and he said: "So the emperor kept Gurat to avoid the blank area left after Tsarist Russia seized the barbarian tribe and wiped out. ”

"Correct solution, the Cossack cavalry eliminated by Qi Guangyi this time can already explain the problem, but even so, I am afraid that some of the forces left by the barbarians have been occupied by Tsarist Russia."

On the one hand, before Xiao Ming came to the world map, he drew a circle in the area between the west side of the Tianshan Mountain and the Caspian Sea, which was the land of the later Kazakh state, and has always been Russia's sphere of influence in modern times, because it is very close to Moscow and St. Peterbo, and both the former Muscovy and the successors of the future have taken this place as their traditional territory.

According to the information obtained by the secret guards, after Dolgo's surrender, the Tsarist Russia took over the area and ruled the Western Regions on behalf of the Golden Horde.

"The emperor is ready to fight with Tsarist Russia for this?" Fiji realized something.

Nodding slightly, Xiao Ming said: "This is the necessary place on the Silk Road, and now it is occupied by Tsarist Russia, which means that they have cut off our trade routes from land to Europe, and I will not let my neck be choked." ”

Pang Yukun frowned, and he said; "It's just that this place is too far away from Qingzhou, even if we defeat the Tsarist army on the land, it will be difficult for us to control here, and the emperor said that to completely control a piece of land, a large number of immigrants are needed to multiply."

"And after the Kwantung immigration, Siberian immigration, and Ryukyu immigration, there have been seven million people moving out of the country, and according to the emperor's plan, we will also immigrate to Australia and North America, so that the population in the empire will only become smaller and smaller, and the population shortage caused by it will seriously affect the development of industry and commerce." Fiji echoed.

"Fei Ge Lao is now more and more aware of the demographic dividend, yes, with the expansion of the empire's industrial scale and the increase in industrial types, if you want to achieve a complete industrial system, you must need a sufficient number of people, otherwise the empire will not be able 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 a decree to stimulate fertility, but the growth of the population is not a large-scale increase in a day or two, according to the current population base of the empire of ** million people, it is estimated that the population can increase by up to 20 million in ten years.

But even so, the empire's population is second to none in the current world, and Fiji's fears are right, but they are a bit redundant, because he is not prepared to eat a big fat man in one bite.

The reason why he moved so many people in Kwantung was to expand the land area of the empire in Asia and actually control it, because the threat of Tsarist Russia was imminent, and if he did not occupy it, he would be occupied by Tsarist Russia, which was a matter of territorial issues.

But the problem of Australia, North America, and the South Seas is different, he now has no urgent need to forcibly relocate people to settle, because what he wants in these areas is economic interests, he only needs the army to control the local natives, and at the same time use economic interests to guide the people to migrate and settle.

In this way, it only takes a few decades of reproduction, and the people who come here in search of a new life will form a scale, and gradually use the demographic advantage to actually occupy these places.

Thinking of this, he told the two of them what he thought.

Fiji and Pang Yukun nodded at the same time when they heard this, and Pang Yukun said: "It turns out that the emperor has already planned, so wonderful. ”

"Now the most important issue of the empire is the development of industry and commerce, I will not destroy the Great Wall, now that the barbarians are extinct, the threat around me is gone, although Tsarist Russia is eyeing the tiger, but it cannot cross the defense line of the empire, so, now I have created an unprecedented stable environment for you, and your cabinet must seize the current opportunity to build the industrial system of the empire."

With that, Xiao Ming picked up a thick document from the table, this document was the imperial development plan that he had asked Yang Chengye to be responsible for compiling and finally confirmed by him.

In the plan, he listed a series of projects that need to be built at the moment, and on the energy side, he approved the construction of thermal power stations in various states, a large coal company in the coal-rich city of Chang'an, and also included oil extraction plans.

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

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 the popularization of science and technology.

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

These shipyards are all government-run shipyards, which can not only build warships, but also produce civilian ships, and after dealing with the threat on the grassland, the empire will spend more energy on the ocean in the future, so Xiao Ming focused on taking care of the shipyard this time.

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

After discussing the government affairs, the two were about to go back, when Qian Dafu came in from the side hall and sent a war report to Xiao Ming.

"Your Majesty, Luo Xin, commander of the Southwest Army, came to report that their chasers outside Songzhou City had discovered that the Tubo cavalry had suddenly gone north." Qian Dafu said.

"Tibet?" Xiao Ming frowned, this barbarian tribe had just been wiped out, but he didn't expect the trouble of Tubo to arise again, but this time Tubo did not attack Songzhou, but the purpose of going north directly was too obvious.

He didn't expect that Tsarist Russia hadn't done it yet,