Chapter 69: Population Strategy

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  "Master Xianshi, sending out a fairy officer directly like this, won't there be any problems?"

  Li Ming hesitated for a moment, although he had great respect and admiration for Zhang Xu, but still expressed his own thoughts, with an expectant look on his face.

  "It's okay, never mind!"

  Zhang Xu smiled and praised him, saying: "No need to be restrained, any ideas or suggestions can be spoken out!"

  Li Ming's expression relaxed immediately upon hearing this, after all Zhang Xu was the revered Master Xian, the being he respected the most. For Li Ming, Master Xian's words were like imperial decrees. To express a different opinion would be to bear enormous pressure, the weight of his own guilty conscience!

  "Now that Kong Rong's army has just been defeated, it is inevitable that a series of problems will arise. He himself can hardly protect himself, let alone care about the loss of a small number of people. Moreover, going deep into Beihai can lay the foundation for our next announcement and spread the policies of Donglai County!"

  Zhang Xu's eyes sparkled with a hint of light, although he still had some concerns. Now was not the time to attack Beihai, but plundering Beihai's population and formally declaring his power to the world was acceptable. Moreover, only by going out could he recruit a large number of refugees to come and take charge of them. Although they had enough food, the refugees didn't know that it was also a waste of resources.

  Taking advantage of the current situation where all the major lords have not yet realized the importance of population, seizing more people is the best opportunity. Although Zhang Xu is not a particularly kind-hearted person, being able to save some more people in this era is still good.

  During the Three Kingdoms period, this was a time of severe loss for the Han nation, and it was also because the war lasted too long, leading to a lack of talented people, and the Han people suffered greatly. This laid the foundation for the troubles that would come later with the Five Barbarians' invasion of China. Although Zhang Heng was selfish, his ultimate goal was to seek immortality and ask about the Tao, but in this process, he still did some things that were beneficial to the nation, which made him very happy.

  Moreover, the most important reason is that he had previously mentioned that there are abundant food resources, and Donglai County is so vast, but the population is too sparse. One Donglai County is equivalent to two and a half cities in later generations, such a vast territory, even with the productive forces he currently controls, it would be extremely simple to support a population of one million.

  In order to develop Donglai County, it is necessary to have a large population. Now it's just taking a step forward. His heart is extremely urgent. Now is the period of full development for all vassals. Soon, Cao Cao will also implement the Tuntian policy. Yuan Shao defeated Gongsun Zan and eliminated him, which is also an inevitable thing. Sun Ce, the little overlord of Jiangdong, has also started preparing to take a branch of troops from Yuan Shu's hands and sweep across Jiangdong.

  During the Three Kingdoms period, those dazzling vassals were beginning to gain momentum. Zhang Xu currently does not have enough great generals, so he must necessarily solidify his foundation, and population is the most fundamental root. Only with sufficient population can we guarantee the future and have ample strategic buffer space!

  "Master Xianshi is wise!"

  Li Ming clasped his hands together and a hint of excitement appeared on his face. Although this meant that the Immortal Officers who had infiltrated enemy territory would likely suffer heavy losses, as long as it wasn't a meaningless sacrifice, for Li Ming and his fellow believers, it was an honor to fight for their Master's great cause and for their home, and they wouldn't hesitate to make sacrifices.

  "Alright, let's start preparing with all our might! The upcoming tasks are quite heavy, everyone must work hard and strive to build Donglai County into a home like Chang County and Qinglin Town as soon as possible!"

  Zhang Xu smiled and nodded his head, indicating that Li Ming could leave now.

  Looking at Li Ming's high morale and extreme excitement, a smile appeared in Zhang Xu's eyes: "This is the power of incense faith. Although Li Ming and others are not very talented, they can manage a county at most. However, with their efforts and the management of these deeply rooted believers, it should be no problem to control Donglai County. And when the foundation of Donglai County is solidified, I believe that those little guys in Tongzi Camp will also be able to hold their own."

  Zhang Xu was relieved to think that his subordinates were indeed not many talents, and this system based on faith decided that those who took family as the main talent would not surrender under his command. However, what's wrong with that? His incense faith way is the best solution, as long as there is time, it is enough to cultivate a steady stream of talents.

  Zhang Yao, Zhang Liu, these two little guys who are good enough to have the level of modern high school students, and those more than a dozen secondary and tertiary talents, are also about the same. The rest of the Tongzi Camp also has a large number of people with junior high school level talent, and these are just the first batch of usable people.

  The scale of Tongziying is constantly expanding, which gives Zhang Xu a base for cultivating his own talents, making him more confident than recruiting talents.

  Moreover, with the development of papermaking techniques, the printing technique that defies the heavens has also been restored. It can be said that under his command, there is a treasure trove of future talents, after all, they are reading and recognizing characters every night!

  "This is the foundation, unfortunately, it's just a matter of time, otherwise..."

  Shaking his head, Zhang Xu no longer thought too much and focused on restoring the production and construction of Donglai County as the top priority. Although he had completely controlled Guangwen County and Chang County for now, the rest of the places still hadn't cleared out local tyrants and evil gentry, consolidated faith, but this was a matter of time, it would naturally start with full-scale construction, so when killing those unrecognizable local tyrants and evil gentry, there wouldn't be too much obstruction.

  "Now the only thing left to solve is the problem of military expansion afterwards, but this matter doesn't need to be rushed, let's consider it after stabilizing for a year. Hopefully, after sealing off Donglai County at the first opportunity, I can get that person!"

  Zhang Xu let out a sigh in his heart, but when he saw that after unifying Donglai County, the Benming aura on top of his head had become even more intense, and the ancient earth seal was also beginning to transform into a golden seal. This made Zhang Xu extremely proud. In just over three years, he had risen from nothing to establish Qinglin Town and become the lord of a county, which was a kind of success.

  "Haha, I'm afraid that after the cultivation is completed, it will be the time to officially break through and become a golden seal. At that time, the Great Seal can become a Golden Seal, which means having the true capital of a vassal state. And my incense faith will also be greatly improved!"

  A flash of light in his eyes, thinking of what he had been looking forward to for a long time, his mood was surging!