(In the previous chapters, there was a clerical error in the description of the year. The forty-sixth year of Xuanping should be the forty-seventh year of Xuanping)
Now the upper echelons of the empire believe that the control over the area east of the Don River can be appropriately relaxed, but the Caucasus still needs to be under strict supervision.
At the same time, agricultural development can also be carried out in Ukraine!
This area is the best piece of land that the empire has obtained during its many years of western expedition. It is extremely suitable for farming. As for other mineral resources, the empire does not pay much attention to them for the time being. Anyway, the empire is not lacking in various minerals.
What the empire values more is food supply!
In order to further increase the food supply in the local area, the empire decided to conduct limited agricultural development in the military-controlled area of East Ukraine and recruit immigrants to work there.
However, this place already belongs to Eastern Europe, and the people of the empire have never liked to immigrate to the west. In previous years, it was difficult for Central Asia and other regions to attract new immigrants.
Moreover, this place is still under military control for the time being, and is only separated by a river from the indigenous control area.
Therefore, the upper echelons of the empire estimate that the domestic people will be relatively repulsive to this. If the number of immigrants is not large enough, they will be prepared to follow the example of the empire in the middle reaches of the Volga River and other places where some people in the empire are unwilling to immigrate.
Directly let state-owned agricultural companies go to the local areas and mechanize farming in the manner of large farms.
Over the years, the empire has carried out primitive development in this way in many places such as Siberia, which are relatively cold and where ordinary immigrants are unwilling to go, directly allowing state-owned agricultural companies to develop and carry out mechanized farming.
But this time, the upper echelons of the empire miscalculated!
The Department of Immigration and Reclamation has not yet issued an announcement to recruit official immigrants to settle in Eastern Ukraine, but already countless people have gone to move to Eastern Ukraine on their own!
Many people know that the Ukrainian plains are the beginning of a real super-large granary. If they immigrate there, according to the empire's one-stop immigration policy, immigrants to the border areas will be able to obtain a large amount of land.
As long as immigrants can get a piece of fertile land suitable for farming, they will naturally be happy.
As for the fact that there are natives next door, what are we afraid of? Maybe those natives dare to attack us.
At most, at most, I just occasionally see a few annoying illegal immigrants!
Although the proportion of people who dared to take risks was small, there were many people in the Tang Dynasty, and the total number was much larger. So the imperial officials saw that countless people took trains to Eastern Ukraine every day, and some went by ships.
The Department of Immigration and Reclamation of the Ministry of Agriculture took a look and realized that there was no need for official immigration. The number of spontaneous immigrants was enough for the initial development of the Eastern Ukraine Plain.
As a result, the Immigration and Reclamation Division quickly set its sights on the central and northern areas of the newly occupied area, especially the cold northern areas.
That shabby place was very cold. For the people of Tang Dynasty, it was a typical shabby place. No one wanted to go there even if they paid a lot of money!
After the Immigration and Reclamation Department advertised and recruited for a long time, only 3,000 people were willing to sign up to immigrate to Moscow!
As for Beile City at the mouth of the Neva River further north, even if generous immigration conditions are offered, only 500 people are willing to go!
This made the relevant person in charge of the Immigration and Reclamation Department very hurt!
Now the people of the empire have had their appetites whetted. As for agricultural immigrants, they are only willing to go to places with a good climate and fertile land, but they are not willing to go to places with a slightly worse environment.
In desperation, the Immigration and Reclamation Department and the newly established Beile Military District Administrative Office could only improve the immigration conditions. For example, hundreds or even thousands of acres of land would be given free of charge, and grain seeds, farm horses, etc. would be subsidized.
Yes, in short, as long as you are willing to go there, everything will be easy to talk about.
But there is a high probability that it will have no good effect.
It has been decades since the establishment of the Northeast Province of the Empire to the north of Heilongjiang, but the population is still only a million, and most of them live in this part of the area south of the Waixing'an Mountains, north of Heilongjiang, and some
There are still few people in the coastal areas, as well as in the vast inland areas of the wilderness.
For so many years, no matter how hard the immigration officials of Northeastern Province tried, few people were willing to go to such a cold and remote place.
It’s not that the people of the empire are delicate, but that the people of the empire have too many choices!
No immigrants are willing to come here, but we cannot waste such a large area. Many of them can still be cultivated.
And this is also the reason why the Tang Empire established a large number of state-owned agricultural companies, just to develop places where some immigrants were unwilling to go.
After considering the central and northern regions of the newly occupied areas of Eastern Europe, especially the northern region, the empire, in addition to continuing to attract immigrants, focused on the development model of state-owned capital farms.
In addition, you can also develop some businesses appropriately, develop some special local resources, or trade.
For example, Beile City in the western part of the Baltic Sea was actually St. Petersburg in later generations. Its geographical location was quite advantageous, and it could later be operated as a key city for the empire in the northern region of Eastern Europe.
In the autumn of Xuanping 47, the Tang Dynasty and the Jin Kingdom successively handed over Eastern Europe to the empire, which also meant another major adjustment in the empire's foreign strategy.
This adjustment is not just a direction, but also a change in specific measures.
In the early days, probably during the Age of Sail before the 19th year of Xuanping, the empire's external expansion was mainly concentrated in the northern region, including Northeast, Mongolia, northwest and other regions. Its overseas expansion was mainly concentrated in Nanyang, more precisely in Lu
Song Islands, Banten Islands area.
Since the 19th year of Xuanping, the empire has begun the era of steamships, which has directly led to the empire's comprehensive external expansion, which has blossomed almost all over the world. The main expansion areas are concentrated in Central Asia, North America, Southeast Asia, and in Africa.
, South America, and India have also expanded to a certain extent.
After the industrial age fully opened, the emergence of steamships and trains made the empire's external expansion a breeze. The indigenous people everywhere were unable to resist the empire's external expansion. The only things that could stop the empire's expansion were climate, environment, disease and other factors.
This period of large-scale expansion lasted for more than fifteen years, and it did not slow down slightly until around the 35th year of Xuanping.
These fifteen years were an important period for the empire's external expansion. Most of the areas controlled by the empire today were captured during this period.
And it is worth noting that the expansion of the above-mentioned areas is still mainly based on military capture.
Thirty-five years after Xuan Ping, the empire relied less purely on military means for expansion, and began to use non-war means such as purchase or peaceful coercion to continue to acquire overseas territories.
However, after the empire adopted non-war methods to expand, the pressure on military expenditures required for expansion became smaller. What's more interesting is that the actual expansion rate of the empire did not stop, but accelerated.