After a surprise birthday party, Xia Guo ushered in a new tomorrow.

At the court meeting at the end of March, in addition to the regular reports, the development and utilization of Xiayuan Mainland was also proposed by officials.

However, Yang Song didn't develop the New World as early as he was because the Xia Kingdom's millions of square kilometers of land have not been developed yet.

If you transfer your energy to the new continent at this time, it is estimated that not only will it not enhance the national strength of Xia State, but it may instead drag down the development process of Xia State.

"Report to Your Majesty, I think it is too early to develop the Xiayuan Continent at this time." Before Yang Song could refute this proposal, Xun Yu raised his objection first.

However, as the king of a country, Yang Song naturally would not rush to express his opinions. Even if Xun Yu's opinions were in line with his ideas, he would now let the ministers express their opinions first.

"Xunge Ge, how can you explain this?" Yang Zhong, who proposed to develop the Xiayuan Continent, asked in confusion: "Now my Xia is in peace and stability, and the people live and work in peace. Now there is Xiayuan Continent again. It is the time for further development, so why is it too early?"

When Xun Yu heard this, he first glanced at Yang Song on the stage, then bowed to Yang Zhong, and replied: "What Yang Geshou said is true, but the territory of my Daxia has not been developed before, so how can we develop such a vast land as Xiayuan Continent?"

After Xun Yu replied to Yang Zhong’s question, he bowed to Yang Song and many ministers and said, “Your Majesty, my colleagues. A few and many colleagues agree with Yang Geshou’s opinions, but don’t forget that the plan I made before in Daxia has not been completed yet.”

"Outside the pass, Guanzhong, the main railway roads within the pass have not been built yet, let alone the planned secondary roads and branches, as well as the railway connecting the Ice and Snow Kingdom..." Xun Yu slowly explained the current situation of the Xia Kingdom again.

"...I guess Zhang Geshou of the Finance Pavilion also has the same opinion as me." In the end, Xun Yu also brought Zhang Juzheng out, meaning that it is still a matter of money to develop the New World.

Zhang Juzheng suddenly mentioned him at the end. Although he felt uncomfortable as a helper, he really did not agree with developing the Xiayuan Continent now.

So Zhang Juzheng stood up and reported to Yang Songhui: "Your Majesty, I agree with Xun Geshou's opinion. Now our Daxia finance has just eased from the replacement of the navy's ships, and we have already planned to develop our own territory. If we want to develop the Xiayuan Continent, we should wait for the finances to be better."

"Since that's the case, the development plan of Xiayuan Continent will be given up for the time being." Since Zhengge He Caige did not agree to the development of the new continent, Yang Song naturally suspended the development of Xiayuan Continent.

Speaking of developing a new continent, in addition to financial hardships, it is also related to a country's comprehensive strength, such as having a sufficient population to colonize new land, and an effective system for managing, developing and developing new land...

Now the population of Xia State has exceeded 200 million, and the population conditions have been met. As for institutional issues, the Xia State has occupied a lot of new land in the past few decades, and this is definitely not short of it.

But as Xun Yu said, the vast land with four million square kilometers outside Shanhaiguan is not yet developed outside the Linhai Basin and the vast land of the four million square kilometers south of Tianqianguan has not been developed yet. Not to mention that there are some kingdoms north of Jiehe that pose certain threats to the frontier of Xia, which prevents Xia from relaxing.

Most of the four million square kilometers of land that the Xia Kingdom now owns on the Xiaqi continent is conducive to living places. Even if it accounts for nearly half of the mountainous areas, the hilly terrain also has such various resources.

Until now, the Xia Kingdom has not completed the development of this land. At most, it has brought the main land to strategically layout, and is mainly concentrated in gentle areas.

However, there is no development in mountainous areas, hills, southern rainforests, forests and other areas, and there are only some residential areas developed due to resource mining.

All this is because Xia State or Yang Song carried out urbanization construction in various parts of Xia State from the beginning. After all, Xia State has entered the steam era, and all the conditions for urbanization are basically met.

Urbanization, urbanization, when it is broken down, is actually the construction of cities and towns, but it does not mean that there is no rural area. On the contrary, there are a large number of villages around each town in Xia State.

Over the years, Xia State has already established a complete and effective procedure for developing new land.

First of all, every time Xia State develops a place, it first looks at the geographical environment of this place and analyzes how many states and counties it can build.

Then each state chooses a place to establish a state city, and each county also chooses a place to establish a county city. Then, after analyzing it again within each county, several towns can be planned.

Then, according to the plan, each town is built, and each village is built around each town... Finally, the natural development of various places and the joint efforts of local officials and people in various places.

If a county develops well, it will naturally develop some towns into cities, and villages will also become towns, and then the next step of expansion and development will be carried out until all the land in this area has been developed.

If a region has a wealthy population after development is completed, the court will move these wealthy populations to the next place and then proceed to the next "reincarnation".

Of course, population migration is entirely voluntary. Anyway, since the development has reached now, the people of Xia have also tasted the sweetness of developing new land. There is no such thing as the hometown is hard to leave. Instead, they are all willing to go to a new place.

The people of Xia Kingdom are not unhappy or unreal. Some people are willing to join in the fun and live in the city. If they don’t like this city, they can choose the next city.

There are also people who like quiet rural life, so choose a place with beautiful scenery and pleasant climate to live and work in peace, farming, fishing, grazing, etc., etc. If that profession is not enough, you can also find a vocational training institution run by the local government (a subsidiary of Tai Academy of the Yuange)

Of course, there are also hard-working people who are willing to use their hard work in exchange for a lot of money, mining, road construction, and transportation... These relatively hard-working industries have a considerable reward - no one is willing to go if the money is low - this is also a choice for market development!

In order to make the people more comfortable and safer to move, and make the people more convenient to move, many businessmen among the people have seen business opportunities in this area, and thus a large number of companies responsible for helping the people move and move.

The emergence of private companies has played a great auxiliary role for the court, and at least it has made the court and local governments less concerned. Some places are willing to hire these companies to do things, which is also another phenomenon of public-private cooperation.

In short, the Xia Dynasty's imperial court and local governments were responsible for the planning, development, management and service to the people in general. Many of the remaining aspects were left to the market for development on its own.

But it is precisely because of this that Xun Yu, the head of the government affairs, opposed it now to develop the Xiayuan Continent. After all, he has the most say in this regard.

In addition, if the Xiayuan Continent is developed first, it will develop better than the Xiaqi Continent, and then there will be a phenomenon of weak and strong branches soon, which will be detrimental to the stability of the entire Xia Kingdom.

Therefore, Yang Song still chose to be realistic and pragmatic, and first develop Xia Kingdom in Xiaqi mainland.

Anyway, Xia Yuan Continent exists there and will not run away with long legs.

Yang Song thought more. If he developed Xia Yuan Continent now, where would his heir, Yang Xian, come from?

He, Yang Song, did not have this need, because the entire Xia Kingdom was established step by step under his leadership. To be honest, Yang Song still had to pave the way for Yang Xian.

So instead of developing the dispensable new continent now, it is better to hand over this land to people in future generations to develop.
Chapter completed!