People in the Three Kingdoms: Starting from Preaching

Chapter 593 Terrified
Seeing the circle drawn by Xu Chen, Ju Shou's heart couldn't help but beat a few more times. Naturally, his concept of geography was not as clear as Xu Chen's, but he could also deduce the width of Xu Chen's circle based on the width of Shenzhou.

Even an elite like him felt terrified by Xu Chen's ambition. This was many times the size of the current territory of China. It was difficult for him to imagine how such a huge country could exist.

After all, Ju Shou was an elite from an agricultural civilization, and the territory of China was almost the limit of his understanding. Because it was almost the limit of the radiation of the power of agricultural civilization, he could not imagine how to maintain the stability of such a vast area.

Only Xu Chen knew that as we move towards industrial civilization, the boundaries of the territory could be further broken.

The circle he drew was his ideal territory, a territory that was completely and directly ruled by China. If it were any further away, it would be difficult to maintain even in the industrial age.

The centrifugal force of geographical distance will increase linearly with distance. Instead of swallowing it up indiscriminately and then triggering an uncontrollable independence trend, it is better to determine a reasonable range first.

Global unification is destined to be an unfeasible fantasy. Instead, maintaining the vast lands outside the direct borders through an international system is a more efficient and stable way.

Of course, even the scope of Xu Chen's circle is already large enough. To completely swallow up these territories, the method of military conquest, which has strong side effects, is obviously not suitable. Xuan Xia needs to explore a suitable route for outward expansion. What Ju Shou is going to do now can be regarded as a preliminary experiment.

In the future, Xuanxia will liberate all the different ethnic groups within that circle just as it liberated the southwestern tribes, rather than getting involved in a long-term confrontation and struggle with the endless native peoples in various places.

While being shocked by Xu Chen's terrifying goal, Ju Shou also understood what he meant. It turned out that he was going to the southwest to make a sample first.

"I think that we cannot rush to liberate the minority groups immediately. This will only force the tribes to fight to the death. If we want to completely liberate the tribes, the government must first build a mass base of the minority groups. This is also the most difficult thing. I am afraid we can only do it slowly, maybe for ten to twenty years."

"What do you think, please tell me in detail."

"In the long run, we can only use the chieftain system to appease the hearts of the leaders of various tribes, but the government will also attach other requirements to force the tribes to open up tribal exchanges, so that the minorities can go to Han territory to work and receive education. When the minorities have gained knowledge and know the pros and cons, they will naturally yearn for the Han system. Within ten years, the people's hearts will be won, and the government can naturally support the local minorities to carry out their own liberation struggle, and the matter will be accomplished."

If you want to do things beautifully, you have to do your work meticulously, especially when it comes to complex matters like minority policies.

With Xuan Xia's current strength, of course, it can ignore reason and just use pure force to suppress and expand, but the sequelae of doing so are huge. Even if the land is conquered, it will be difficult to maintain long-term stability. The most likely scenario is a rapid self-collapse.

Under this premise, Ju Shou, guided by the philosophy of naturalism, came up with the current plan.

Although this plan will take a lot of time and will test the government's specific work level, the good thing is that it is stable and secure. Once it can successfully help the various tribes achieve liberation, it can truly achieve long-term stability.

Hearing this, Xu Chen nodded and said, "Since you already have a plan in mind, I can send you there with confidence. This journey may take several years, but you will have to work hard."

Ju Su's strategy was exactly what Xu Chen had in mind.

The affairs of ethnic minorities have to be handled by the ethnic minorities themselves. Only by allowing them to spontaneously begin to reform themselves can things be done well. The Xuanxia government can only be a promoter and helper.

When they have completed their self-reform, they will naturally become one with Xuanxia because of their ideas. This is the case with the southwestern tribes now, and it will also be the case with Buyeo, Dongying, and Nanyang in the future. Xu Chen does not know whether he can determine the ideal territory in his heart before he dies, but at least he must mark the path so that future generations can continue to move forward.

"The leader trusts me, and I will repay him with all my strength. As long as the southwest is not at peace, I will not return!"

Although he knew that this was a tough job, Ju Shou agreed to it without any hesitation. It was difficult for a subordinate to refuse a task assigned by his superior. The more difficult the task was, the more Ju Shou wanted to do it well, so that he could demonstrate his own value.

Like boss, like subordinates. If the boss likes hypocrisy and boasting, then the subordinates must be sycophants. But for a capable boss like Xu Chen, subordinates like Ju Su also know what role they should play. If they do their job honestly, Xu Chen, the boss, will naturally have a book of merits in his mind.

After the conversation, Ju Su said goodbye and left. He would then separate from the army and go to Yizhou alone. He might not return for five to ten years.

Ju Su already had a strategy in mind on how to do his job well. In fact, Xuan Xia was already doing this kind of work, but it was at a more macro level.

The alliance formed with the grassland tribes and Buyeo and Goguryeo was actually a means to prepare for annexation. Now Ju Su was just exploring more detailed methods.

In his opinion, if his work can really help China realize its grand blueprint, then it would be worth the hard work now.

After the war, Ju Shou separated from the Yellow Turban army and started his new mission. However, more than ten days after he left, many people caught up with the Yellow Turban army. Unlike Ju Shou, these guys had given up everything they had.

Zhang Lu's entire family from Hanzhong and Shi Xie's family from Jiaozhou all left their original places and came after the war to pay homage to the new ruler of this land.

From now on, they are no longer the overlords they once were, but will become house dogs in Xuanxia, ​​at the mercy of others. Although this is their active choice forced by the situation, who knows the bitterness in their hearts.

If they could, they would certainly be happy to occupy one place and live happily and comfortably, but the development of the world situation does not allow them to do so. If they do not know the current situation, they may not even be qualified to be the head dog. The Yellow Turbans' thundering methods are still quite deterrent.

Every time the Yellow Turbans advanced, there was often a huge amount of bloodshed in the post-war settlements. If they had not left such a ruthless situation, the nobles and powerful families in the world would not have been so incompatible with the Yellow Turbans. And Zhang Lu Shi Xie was obviously unwilling to be one of those people who suffered the most.

However, although they came to pay homage to the saint sincerely and knew the current situation, they did not seem to be welcomed by the saint. Xu Chen had not received them for several days.

Despite this, Zhang Lushixie did not dare to express the slightest dissatisfaction.

In terms of status and position, although Xu Chen is not an emperor, he is far beyond the emperor. The saying that thunder, lightning, rain and dew are all grace from the emperor is also completely applicable to Xu Chen.

Zhang Lushixie would only be terrified by such neglect.

(End of this chapter)