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However, even though he had won over the hearts of some servants, the millions of Liang people in Guangling City who harbored intense hostility towards the Chu army were indeed a problem.

Guangling City was located at the center of Qingzhou, and from this base, it could radiate throughout the entire Qingzhou.

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Although both are in Central State, the area of Qingzhou is substantially larger than that of Yuzhou.

If the total area of Qingzhou includes the adjacent Yangzhou Guangling, two jurisdictions and six prefectures of Xiangyang, parts of Henan in Yongzhou, and parts of two jurisdictions in Nanyang, then it roughly encompasses the territory of eighteen jurisdictions and six prefectures, whereas Yuzhou has only fifteen jurisdictions, lacking three jurisdictions and six prefectures.

Similarly, the level of development in Qingzhou far surpasses that of Yuzhou.

The most direct evidence of this is that during the peak period of the Liang state, the population exceeded eighty million.

If one also counts the parts of Central State in Yangzhou and Yongzhou, the population even breaks one hundred million.

Now, with countries like Wei, Zhao, and Xu relocating massive numbers of people here, Qingzhou’s population has grown by another forty to fifty million on top of the already over one hundred million.

This scale has become even more massive.

But what about Yuzhou next door?

Even at the zenith of Zheng Kingdom, before it split, plus the population of Jin Country, the fifteen jurisdictions only amounted to a little over forty million in total.

That’s not even half of Qingzhou’s population.

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From this, one can see the disparity between the two central states.

That is also why Lu Yuan believed that as long as he defeated Liang and seized Qingzhou, he would possess the strength to pacify the entire world.

Because in terms of population alone, Chu State has ninety million, and with Qingzhou’s one hundred fifty million, just this total population count has already surpassed the combined population of all the other states in the Nine Provinces.

Moreover, Qingzhou is one entity, so if people from Chu migrate here, logistics will become even more convenient.

On the other hand, the other countries are comprised of countless groups, scattered in all corners of the earth, and even if they want to cooperate, communication issues alone would bring immense difficulties.

In such a situation, even if Lu Yuan himself does not take action, sheer strength would be enough to crush the opponent completely.

This is the advantage of Qingzhou; this is the advantage of Central State.

Located in the center of the world and being the most fertile, it can produce countless money and grain and has the largest population to cultivate innumerable armies.

With such a tremendous advantage in hand, how could Chu possibly lose?

This advantage is also the reason why Lu Yuan naturally places immense importance on Guangling City at the center of Qingzhou.

He had already decided to make this Guangling City the capital of Chu in Central State, from which to radiate throughout the entire Qingzhou.

As for whether this will change in the future, that will have to wait until Yuzhou is conquered.

By then, perhaps once Yuzhou is developed, to better balance Qing and Yu states, Chu might undergo a second capital relocation.

But all that is in the future, and there isn’t time to consider so much for now.

The most pressing matter is to take control of Guangling and then use it as a base to radiate across Qingzhou while providing strong logistical support for next year’s Third Northern Expedition.

Therefore, after conquering Guangling, Lu Yuan did not continue his campaign.

Besides arranging for his avatar Qingyu to continue leading the troops given to him, to take advantage of the disastrous defeat of Xu State’s large army and head north toward the exposed Dongping jurisdiction.

He himself stayed in Guangling to preside over central affairs and handle internal governance.

This first step was to clean up Guangling City.

Given Guangling City’s importance and its destined role as the core of Chu, it was naturally impossible to continue to allow a group of Liang survivors who were hostile towards Chu and harbored resentment to dwell there.

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Therefore, not long after entering the city, Lu Yuan appointed the Grand Judge of Southsea and the Governor of Southsea and instructed them to start the relocation of some of the Southsea people from within the city of Southsea and the province.

They were to be moved to rural areas for land reclamation.

This was the treatment and punishment for the defeated.

As for the city of Southsea and some of the already developed areas within the province, they were to be filled by Chu people who were relocated from Baling and the territory of the Chu State.

Yes, the people of Baling had already begun to relocate.

Or rather, the second batch of relocations had already begun within the territory of Chu.

Last year’s first wave of relocation, involving twenty million people from the southwest and Lingnan, had by this April been completely finished.

Twenty million Chu people had been successively settled in places like Jiangxia, East Sea, Xingyang, and Nanyang.

In these four provinces, due to the ravages of war, the population had greatly diminished.

Therefore, when the Chu immigrants arrived, they directly impacted the local population structure, resulting in a phenomenon where Chu people outnumbered the local Wei and Southsea people.

With the arrival of these core support populations, Chu’s control over these four provinces was instantly as solid as rock.

And some of the local inhabitants, surrounded by a large number of Chu people, did not dare to harbor any thoughts of resistance.

Although there were still some conflicts due to competition over resources.

But since everyone hailed from the lineage of the Three Emperors, with similar cultural origins, and even bloodlines, they were not too different from one another.

Assimilation, therefore, was much more convenient than integrating some different ethnic groups.

According to reports from local officials, in a few more years, maybe ten, these four provinces would be able to completely assimilate into the Chu heartland.

Lu Yuan was, of course, pleased with this.

So, in May of this year, just as he was laying siege to Southsea city, he seized the opportunity and ordered the start of the second wave of migration within the country.

The migrants were mainly from the two southern provinces of Jianan and Qianzhong, and the national capital Baling, a large city with three million households and an already somewhat overflowing population.

The total population of these two provinces and one city combined was ten million, already quite an astonishing number.

However, compared to last year, when twenty million were relocated at once, relocating just ten million this year did not seem so significant.

The reason for relocating fewer people was that, after two years of warfare and considerable expenditure, Lu Yuan had become somewhat overwhelmed.

Therefore, this year’s migration had to be scaled back, just like his plans to reduce the army.

Luckily, ten million people could still adequately populate many areas.

Such as the already stable provinces of Henan, Jiying, and Chengyang, as well as the newly conquered and strategically vital Southsea province.

With the arrival of these immigrants, they could quickly dilute the influence of the local remnants of enemy states and rapidly establish Chu’s core support base, securing domination over the local area.

The immigrants have already been arriving successively in provinces such as Henan, Jiying, and Chengyang, settling down locally and beginning initial production.

But about one million three hundred thousand were still on the road, yet to be settled.

Originally, these people were meant to be placed in Henan province, to strengthen Chu’s western border in Central State.

But now, well.

The province of Southsea, still at the core of the world and set to be the imperial capital, is a bit more important.

Therefore, Lu Yuan issued an edict, instructing this group of migrants heading to Henan province to turn around and come to Southsea instead.

Now it is only the end of July, still some time before winter sets in at the end of September.

It’s enough time to relocate the Southsea migrants out of Southsea city, and for those Chu migrants to arrive.

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