Cui Zhixin developed extremely rapidly in Bingcheng on the Cuijiagou side.
Of course, he mainly focuses on plunder, so his development is naturally rapid.
The territory he controls is getting bigger and bigger.
He has conquered less than half of the entire Eastern Slavic territory.
In fact, the entire territory of the Eastern Slavs may have to succumb to his despotic power.
At the same time, opposite Cuijiagou, the stronghold established by the Family Alliance is also developing rapidly.
There is a steady stream of support from the Family Alliance behind me.
Last year, the Family Alliance made suggestions to the emperor in order to open up the road to the north.
Their excuse was to discover a large number of minerals in the far north and apply for development.
In this matter, Emperor Li Ke really made things difficult for them.
They must provide enough land to allow the Family Alliance to develop minerals.
The emperor's order made the people in the Family Alliance almost turn their noses off with anger.
This is a mineral we discovered ourselves. It is not within the territory of Datang at all. Why should we exchange it for land?
However, the emperor did not reason with them at all.
If they don't allocate enough land, they won't be able to transport a large amount of supplies.
Then, there is no need to talk about developing overseas forces and strongholds.
In the end, the Family Alliance had no choice but to hold their noses and recognize it.
They gave up almost all of their remaining land in exchange for the minerals they discovered overseas.
Well, with this excuse, they opened the passage to the north.
At this point, the emperor obtained almost all the land in the hands of the family.
Now the emperor owns a lot of land.
These lands are all state-owned.
In the future, these lands can be cultivated by the people, but the ownership will always be in the hands of the state.
Of course, private ownership of land was not abolished all at once.
Because now it is not just the wealthy families who have land, but even the common people also have private land.
In this case, how to cancel it?
Once private ownership of land is abolished, people all over the world will stand up to oppose it.
But now Emperor Li Ke already owns a large amount of land.
Moreover, the land can be reclaimed slowly in the future.
As long as the imperial court holds enough land, it is not afraid of big problems arising from the land.
As for an empire, as long as it doesn't cause big problems on the land, it's really difficult to perish.
Well, of course, except for dynasties like the Song Dynasty.
As for the aristocratic family, they finally opened the passage to the north.
This made it a reality for them to establish countries overseas.
In fact, they can build a very large country, not even smaller than the Tang Dynasty.
After a few generations, they could even turn around and attack the Tang Dynasty, turning the fertile land of the Central Plains into their back garden.
Having accomplished this was of great significance to them.
It's a win-win situation.
Of course, everything has pros and cons.
In fact, both sides are dissatisfied.
For Tang Emperor Li Ke, although he recovered a large amount of land from the aristocratic family.
But next, the aristocratic family will ship all the wealth they have accumulated over hundreds of years overseas.
And these wealth originally belonged to the Tang Dynasty.
Now it is tantamount to transferring the wealth of the Tang Dynasty outwards.
In Li Ke's heart, it would be absolutely impossible if he didn't mind at all.
However, it's the lesser of two evils.
Compared to the harm done to the family, this small amount of wealth is nothing.
For the aristocratic family, they lost almost all their land in the Tang Dynasty.
For them, this is an unbearable loss.
But for overseas development, all this is considered worthwhile.
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The overseas bases of the Saga Alliance are developing extremely rapidly.
The transportation channel was opened.
Although the route here is long, the road is smooth.
The family alliance's fleet can continuously transport supplies.
The speed of transportation is actually more convenient than taking the sea route.
Because, the transportation channel here not only shortens the transportation time.
And, you don’t have to be controlled by others.
As for the queens, the Family Alliance already has a huge foundation, and there is naturally no shortage of technical talents.
As for the labor, those Eastern Slavs were directly used.
Therefore, in just one year, they established a huge base in the northern part of Golden State, opposite Cuijiagou.
At present, the base's tolerance has reached 500,000 people.
Among so many people, there are actually only a few hundred thousand people in the Family Alliance.
There were over 300,000 East Slavs who were forcibly relocated by them.
In just one year, their development speed has been explosive.
Of course, because it develops so fast, there are still side effects.
For example, the population of East Slavs now far exceeds theirs.
Once the East Slavs riot, it may trigger a huge turmoil.
Therefore, recently, they have had to slow down their plundering momentum.
At the same time, the two major ethnic groups are constantly being integrated and integrated.
They tried their best to treat East Slavs and Tang people equally.
It is estimated that they intermarried with each other.
This is already being implemented. Of course, more men from the Tang Dynasty are marrying East Slavic women.
It is probably because of the constant wars between the East Slavic tribes that they have few men and many women.
And those East Slavic women did not object to marrying men from the Tang Dynasty.
Also, when making these East Slavs do hard work, we should also work hard to give them the rewards they deserve.
People in the Family Alliance are not stupid.
The Eastern Slavs they plundered were not a one-time deal.
They are not used as cannon fodder in a war.
These people will all be their people in the future.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, of course they must try their best to win over them.
But now, for them, the East Slavs are still a bit too much.
It is already more than twice their number. This number is already very dangerous.
In the later period, their number is unlikely to increase significantly in a short period of time.
A large part of their manpower in the Tang Dynasty was in the first batch to support the earliest stronghold in the Golden State.
Their population can only grow through natural reproduction.
But such growth takes time.
Even if a person has three or four children in a year, of course, they are born to multiple wives, not three or four to one wife.
It can cause the population to explode in a short period of time.
But it will take time for the children to grow up.
Distant water cannot quench the near thirst.
Therefore, these people in the Family Alliance are thinking of introducing third-party forces.
That is, the indigenous people here in the Golden State.
These people have a pretty good impression of the Golden State's aborigines.
Which aborigines of the Golden State are smart, optimistic, and kind-hearted.
After being in contact with them for a long time, everyone likes them very much and becomes friends with them.
Moreover, the model of Huaxia City is enough to prove it.
These aborigines are actually very easy to win over.
As long as you give them enough respect and benefits, you can draw them into your camp.
If there were hundreds of thousands more aborigines in their stronghold.
At that time, you can continue to plunder the Eastern Slavs.
In this way, their stronghold will continue to snowball and continue to grow and develop.
This is what they planned and what they did.
And, in the early days, they achieved very good results.
They set fire to Huaxia City and recruited indigenous people to come and work for them.
In the early stage, they require a lot of construction and a lot of labor.
These can provide them with many jobs.
And the welfare benefits they provide are the same as those in Huaxia City.
After all, this area is still somewhat remote from Huaxia City.
Of course, some of the people here work in Huaxia City, but they are in the minority after all.
After all, the distance is too far and it takes too long to come and go.
But now, they have job opportunities at their doorstep, and the benefits are not bad.
For those aborigines, this is definitely an unexpected surprise.
Therefore, in a short period of time, hundreds of thousands of indigenous people joined in.
This development made the people in the Family Alliance overjoyed.
It turns out that things are that simple.
Their territory is constantly expanding.
Subsequent resources are also being transported continuously.
Less than half of these supplies came from the Tang Family Alliance.
The rest were basically looted from the Eastern Slavs.
Otherwise, it would be really difficult to support such a snowballing construction with the resources of the Family Alliance alone.
Of course, they will also transport some local specialties and some minerals back to Datang in exchange for certain resources.
Even if it is construction, it is impossible to invest only without any output.
If this is the case, how can sustainable development be ensured?
They deeply studied the founding philosophy of Huaxia City.
When paying wages to the East Slavs and aborigines, factories and shopping malls were built.
Try every means to get their money back.
In this way, money can be circulated and the economy can be revitalized.
And practice has proven that this method is really feasible.
I have to say that Li Min, the king of Shu, is a genius.
However, recently, the development of the Family Alliance has also encountered a bottleneck.
They developed extremely quickly and occupied large areas of land.
Their territory has expanded to a radius of five hundred miles.
Currently, they are continuing to expand.
When they expand to thousands of miles away, they can open a passage to their original stronghold.
By then, a perfect circulation will be formed here, with their originally designed stronghold, and with Datang in the past few days.
At that time, their development will be further accelerated.
But right now, they are running into some trouble.
That is, in front of them, an aboriginal tribe appeared.
They will encounter this kind of problem sooner or later.
After all, this was originally the territory of the indigenous people.
These aboriginal tribes are divided very unevenly.
There will be a big gap between tribes.
Both them and Huaxia City were built in this gap.
Currently, for Huaxia City, their development is also stuck in this dilemma.
If we expand further, we will inevitably have conflicts with some indigenous tribes.
In the past, Huaxia City always appeared with a kind face.
When this happened, Huaxia City actually stopped their expansion.
They would rather slowly digest and absorb the territory they already have than continue to expand outward.
While Huaxia City can wait, the Family Alliance cannot wait any longer.
First, Huaxia City occupied the central position.
Not only can it attract aboriginal people from all over the country, but it has also established tourist attractions, attracting a large number of tourists.
And now, I heard that it has established trade relations with Eastern Rome in the east.
Even if Huaxia City stops expanding, it will continue to build on its original territory.
In ten years, they can turn their existing territory into a monolithic one.
When the time comes, we won’t eat anything if we continue to expand outward.
But for the Family Alliance, their current stronghold is only in a corner of the northernmost part of the Golden State.
There is simply no value in spending a lot of effort to create it.
What they want to do now is to expand rapidly.
They must open the middle passage as soon as possible in order to compete with the stronghold they originally established.
Of course, in fact, their original intention was not to go against the indigenous people so quickly.
After all, there are many indigenous people on this land.
If you become enemies with them, it will be difficult to carry out all kinds of things in the future.
If this kind of matter could be resolved peacefully, it would be the best thing.
Next, they began to negotiate with the indigenous peoples.
They tried to bring the indigenous people under their rule in a peaceful way.
At this time, the Family Alliance really wanted to resolve the problem peacefully.
This is their first attack. If they can solve it smoothly, things will go much easier in the future.
Therefore, they only need those indigenous people to recognize their rule and obey their orders on major matters.
Only a small amount of tax needs to be paid each year, and they will also receive some privileges.
From the perspective of the Family Alliance, such an offer is already very sincere.
However, in the end they were rejected by some indigenous people.
If Li Min were here, he would probably laugh at them because he really doesn't understand these aborigines.
If the aborigines were so easy to succumb to others, they would have expanded outwards long ago. Why would they need to wait until now?
The first step actually failed, which made the Family Alliance very angry.
But for their great cause, they had to take the second step of the plan.
The second plan is to decide to give these indigenous people some compensation and let them give up their territory and move to other places.
As a result, they are bound to increase consumption.
But as long as the problem can be solved peacefully, they are not willing to start a war lightly.
But in the end, their proposal was flatly rejected by the indigenous people.
Their ancestors have lived here for generations, you are just outsiders, and we are showing the greatest kindness by not driving you away.
Now you are actually thinking of driving us away?
Why on earth?
Which aboriginal people flatly rejected the proposal of the Family Alliance.
At this time, the Family Alliance finally couldn't bear it anymore.
Do these aboriginal people have water in their heads?
Can’t you see the situation clearly?
Now that you are blocking our way, we will definitely occupy this place.
The situation is not as good as human beings, so we can just accept it when things get better.
In the end, aren't you the ones who suffer the consequences?
These aboriginal people seem to be quite smart, how could they be so stupid?
Well, this is exactly the information that the Family Alliance does not know.
These indigenous people will never compromise on issues of principle.
Otherwise, they would not have been brutally exterminated in the original historical trajectory.
Naturally, the Family Alliance will not stop their pace of expansion.
In the following time, they launched a surprise attack on the indigenous people.
Of course, it was in their initial planning.
I didn't think too much about committing murder.
It's not that they are very kind, but if they kill too much, they are worried about arousing resistance from all the indigenous people.
At that time, it will really not be conducive to their expansion here.
However, what they never expected was that they encountered stubborn resistance from the indigenous people.
These indigenous people have excellent physical fitness, are extremely tenacious in combat, and are not afraid of death.
This caused those armies of the Family Alliance to suffer heavy losses due to underestimating the enemy.
They were met with a crazy counterattack, resulting in heavy casualties among their troops.
In the end, the troops of the Family Alliance were completely angered.
They have the advantage in weapons and the absolute advantage in numbers.
They carried out a bloody suppression against the indigenous people.
The entire tribe of indigenous people and all the men were slaughtered by them.
No elderly people are immune.
The women and children were all escorted back.
These women will be sent to the market to be sold.
They will be bought as slaves and used as reproductive machines.
Naturally, all the wealth of this tribe fell into the hands of the Aristocratic Family Alliance.
Although they lost some men in this battle, the gains were extremely huge.
They captured this place, gained many women and children, and also gained a fortune.
However, the faces of those in the Family Alliance did not look happy.
This kind of thing is actually the last thing they want to see.
This massacre meant that the relationship between them and the indigenous people had completely deteriorated.
It will be extremely detrimental to their future expansion.
However, this is also a last resort for them.
Which indigenous people are so stupid and stubborn? What should they do?
The impact of this incident is far-reaching.
The aborigines who originally worked for the Family Alliance left with extremely hateful eyes.
Suddenly, hundreds of thousands of people were missing.
Their construction speed immediately slowed down sharply.
And, what is even more frightening is that, next, the aboriginal people cut off all business relations with them.
The Family Alliance has only been here for a short year.
Although they also sorted out some land.
But in the first year, their harvest was not very good.
They have too many people here again.
This also resulted in a serious shortage of food for them.
Prior to this, they purchased a large amount of grain from the indigenous people.
After the massacre of a tribe occurred, they could not collect even a grain of food from the indigenous people.
They had to transport food here from the Tang Dynasty and from Bingcheng.
The food problem is just the beginning.
Because all those aborigines left, the aborigines stopped all commercial dealings with them.
This directly caused the business of the Family Alliance to completely slump.
They could only rely on their own internal population, and the transaction volume suddenly dropped sharply.
Business is sluggish, and the factories they open have overproduction, so they don't need as many workers.
If there are not so many workers, which workers will face the problem of being laid off.
And these workers all have mortgages on them.
They learned how all this works from Huaxia City.
They must find new jobs.
Fortunately, they are currently in the midst of crazy construction, so they don't have to worry about finding jobs.
But the problem is that their business base and their potential customers are the indigenous people.
Now that they have lost these customers, their construction is just waterless water.
Their development will lose vitality and foundation.
They want to build a huge empire.
It is naturally impossible. All construction resources are transported from Datang.
Although the accumulation of the aristocratic family is very amazing.
But it is not enough to support such consumption.
If their stronghold here cannot operate automatically and create value.
Then, in a short time, their country will collapse on its own.
The people of these family alliances never thought about it before launching the war.
They just started a war, and in the end, it actually dragged them into such a crisis.
If they could foresee the seriousness of the matter in advance, they would definitely consider it carefully.
But now, the war has been launched, the deal is done, the consequences have been caused, and everything is irreversible.
Now, the people of the Family Alliance are faced with a difficult choice.
The first choice is to find ways to make amends with the aboriginal people and work hard to restore business relationships with them.
But in this case, they will not be able to continue to expand outward.
The second way is to do nothing without doing anything else.
Aren’t those aborigines already at odds with them?
Stop selling them food and stop doing business with them?
If that's the case, then the only thing to do is to be evil to the end.
Well, don’t you aborigines sell us food?
So let’s just go ahead and grab it!
Seize your men and make them do hard work.
Your women, sell them and let them reproduce.
After your children are raised, they will continue to work hard.
After setting this tone, the people of the Family Alliance began to formulate combat plans targeting the nearby indigenous peoples.
Not only did they have to launch an attack, they also had to reduce their own casualties, and they couldn't let them run away.
