In Chang'an, the imperial capital of the Tang Empire, there are almost no signs of war. People here are busy as usual, using their own efforts to make the city better.
The street was spotless, the sprinkler truck had just passed by, people still wearing sweaters were walking on both sides of the road, and the cars in the middle were jammed together, waiting for the traffic signal to change.
No matter from any angle, this is a prosperous modern city. Although some places are not satisfactory, overall, this is definitely the most beautiful city in the world.
However, Chang'an is a big place and difficult to live in. The capital of the Tang Empire was not so friendly to outsiders. The housing prices here are ridiculously high, and the cost of living here is not as high as people in other places can imagine.
On one side of the already very congested street, a blue construction barrier surrounded a large area, and earth-excavating machinery was at work, accompanied by the roar of engines.
The construction of two subways in the Imperial Capital of the Tang Empire started at the same time, making traffic in the entire city too congested. The roads that were already not enough were now even worse due to construction encroachment.
Being able to start construction of subways despite a war to destroy the country, and at the same time began to lay civilian network cables, and popularized civilian computers on a large scale... The Tang Empire did not seem to regard Qin as its opponent at all.
The Forbidden City, which represents the power of the empire, is bathed in the sun, exuding a sense of domineering and majestic. On top of the huge tower, the bloody dragon flag of the Tang Empire is fluttering in the wind.
In the office, Tang Mo was listening to various reports from several important ministers. For the Tang Empire, victory over Qin seemed to be a foregone conclusion, and how to swallow up the vast territory was what everyone was concerned about.
"The famine in the Chu region requires the allocation of food relief, which requires part of the army's transportation capacity. Therefore, the offensive against Huaishan and Huxuan should be slowed down. After all, relieving the victims is the first priority." Deputy Prime Minister Chu Muzhou spoke.
suggested.
Tang Mo also knew that if he wanted to maintain the stability of the occupied area, he would need to invest more energy and resources. He would have to deal with various new problems carefully, and some of these problems would even last for ten years.
If you want a region to truly return to its homeland, it is sometimes useless to just show kindness, and appropriate suppression will definitely be carried out.
As the saying goes, loosen and tighten, slap and give sweet dates, pull back and forth over and over again, and rely on time to finally make the people in the new occupied areas recognize their new identity. This requires a process.
"In addition, the funding for building railways, highways, bridges, and airports in the Chu region... also needs to be calculated clearly and allocated as soon as possible... The blockage there is their capital for self-reliance. Only when connections are opened up and transportation is established, will they be able to
Be honest." Chu Muzhou continued to say to Tang Mo.
"Money is not the problem, the problem is the construction progress... Although we have thought of countless ways to expand our infrastructure team, we still lack the corresponding personnel to accelerate our development and construction of the entire Western Continent." Tang Mo
He rubbed his brows a little tiredly and sighed helplessly.
No matter how much effort he put in, the result was not enough - the Tang Empire had millions of infrastructure personnel, but these personnel were scattered across the country, making them so scarce.
In order to supplement this, the Tang Empire expanded the scale of orc labor and asked goblins to contribute a large number of labor. At the same time, it even began to use Qin captives on a large scale to build the Dahua region.
Despite this, the Tang Empire still lacks construction workers in more places, which has seriously affected the construction speed in the areas occupied by the Datang Empire.
There is no way, the Tang Empire is expanding too fast. In the past six months, the Datang Empire has annexed most of the Great China Empire, occupied two-thirds of Shu, and controlled all of Chu.
territory.
This speed of expansion dwarfs the already fast speed of infrastructure construction. Many areas that have just been occupied lack personnel management, are unable to carry out construction, and even lack transportation capacity to donate materials.
The war destroyed local agriculture, destroyed roads and railways, and left behind only millions, tens of millions or even billions of victims, refugees, bandits, and bandits...and these were much more difficult to deal with than the already vulnerable Qin troops.
"The empire's food reserves are declining, and this year's expected harvest is not even enough to fill the extra mouths of the occupied territories." Roger has always been in charge of agriculture, so he has a say in this regard.
The Tang Empire's grain reserves showed a downward trend for the first time in the past few months, which was enough to arouse Tang Mo's vigilance.
"Countries in the Eastern Continent are reducing food exports. Judging from the data, they are looking for ways to restrict our development." In the economic department, Alice gave a series of intuitive data: "The data does not lie, they are wary of us and plan to
It will delay our development materially."
"Anyway, after annexing Qin, we need to recuperate for a while. In the first year, we need to integrate agricultural resources, level the land, distribute fine seeds, and encourage farming..." Chu Muzhou put forward the idea of recuperating.
"We have to wait at least two years after the harvest before we can stabilize the fundamentals of agriculture and begin to industrialize and modernize Shu, Chu, and Qin." Luo Jie also said later.
Chen Jing has been in charge of the industrial layout of the Tang Empire in the industrial department. His achievements are very obvious. The Datang Empire has also saved a lot of time and money because of the more reasonable layout.
The deputy of the industrial department said at this time: "Then, we have to think about the connection with the Orc Empire, and promote the industrialization of Qi, Zheng, and Mirage."
"I even personally think that these names for certain places should be banned at the official level. In the future, the Tang Empire should give these areas some new names to strengthen the concept of Tang people and increase the people's sense of belonging.
." Foreign Minister Nangong Hong also suggested.
After hearing the suggestions from his ministers, Tang Mo nodded slightly and agreed: "We really shouldn't rush to expand. We should stabilize our achievements, chew up and swallow what's in our mouths... and then think about other things...
"
"In any case, let's eat up the Qin State first, and then start sorting out domestic affairs... Let's go step by step, formulate a plan within five years, set the goals we want to achieve, and complete it!" Tang Mo remembered
He came up with a "plan" that he was very familiar with and gave the order casually.