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Chapter 1139: Chapter 459 Post-War Tally_3 Chapter 1139: Chapter 459 Post-War Tally_3 Having annihilated the opponent’s main force, the remaining matters became much easier to handle.

Huang Lin first led his troops to recapture Handan and then dispatched soldiers in various directions to reclaim Zhao country’s cities.

At the same time, he expelled and suppressed the Barbarians rampaging in Ji Province and gathered the local Zhao common people.

It took a month, but the original territory of Ji State Zhao Country was finally stabilized.

During this period, a minor episode occurred.

After the fall of Zhao Country, not all of Ji Province had lost the power to resist; there were still some remnants of Zhao operatives resisting in the region.

Among these remnants, there was a force entrenched in the eastern part of Ji Province, controlling about two prefectures’ worth of land, with thirty thousand troops at its command, led by an Innate General of Zhao Country.

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This person, seeing Chu State helping Zhao Country resist the Barbarians, took the initiative to bring his territories and forces to surrender and join Chu State.

With the help of these remaining forces of Ji Province Zhao Country, Huang Lin quickly took control of the situation in the former Zhao territory.

This laid the groundwork for a foothold in the Ji Province of Hebei.

After the situation had stabilized somewhat, Huang Lin left behind some troops to maintain local security in Ji Province and then personally led an army of three hundred thousand to continue northward, to subdue the remaining Barbarian tribes in Ji Province.

In the previous battle, the Barbarians of Ji Province had been severely defeated by the Chu army and had already lost their elite forces.

Now facing the main force of Chu’s campaign, they were utterly powerless to fight back.

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In a month’s time, the Barbarians of Ji Province were basically pacified.

Of the two Inborn Barbarians who had originally fled, one was killed during resistance, while the other took the initiative to lead his tribe to surrender, causing no further trouble.

Therefore, by the time it was September, Ji Province was controlled by Chu State.

After taking control of the entire territory of Ji Province, Huang Lin conducted an inventory.

This battle not only secured Ji Province but also netted a total of three million Zhao refugees and about four million Barbarians.

The entire Ji Province, with its remaining seven million population and two Inborn Grandmasters, had all fallen into Chu State’s control.

Adding on the gains from the Yongzhou Camp, Chu State’s action to gather Barbarians to the north secured a population of nine million and five Innates.

Such gains were tremendously significant, no less impressive than the conquest of Liang.

Having achieved these gains, what naturally followed was the need to assimilate them.

For the nine million people acquired, Lu Yuan already had plans.

Let’s not discuss Yan State for the moment.

There, Huang Xin merely sent people to entice the tribes of Yan State and did not send troops to conquer the local territories.

Therefore, in Yan State, Chu State did not have actual territorial control.

All that was needed there was to relocate the two million surrendered Barbarians into Central State’s territory for proper settlement.

The relocation site had already been determined.

It was the territory of the four prefectures recently conquered from Liang.

The original seven prefectures and six prefectures that had been used to settle immigrants — Henan, Nanyang, Jiangxia, Xingyang, East Prefecture, Jiying, East Sea, northern part of Guangling, and northern part of Xiangyang — had already surpassed a population of ten million each after three years of relocation and the local residents already there.

Prefectures that received key relocations, such as Henan, Nanyang, Xingyang, each had populations exceeding fifteen million.

This was no longer just a dense population but had become overcrowded.

Therefore, the eastern part of Qingzhou, some parts of Yong and Yang provinces — the territories of these seven prefectures and six prefectures — had already reached saturation and would struggle to accommodate any more immigrants.

Future immigrants from Yangzhou, as well as those from other states, will gradually move to the central and eastern parts of Qingzhou and the southern part of Yu State, these three regions.

Among them, the central Qingzhou region surrounding Daliang would naturally be used to settle the core base of Chu State and the Chu people of Yangzhou.

The remaining eastern part of Qingzhou and the southern part of Yu State, these peripheral regions, were designated for the settlement of immigrants from other states and the Barbarians.

Although the world was united under one rule, it was still necessary to distinguish between those close and distant.

Moreover, the Chu common people had paid a lot for the Northern Expedition over the past few years; now that victory had been achieved, they naturally deserved some consideration.

The central areas close to the Imperial Capital had always been the most prosperous and wealthy, so of course, they should be reserved for our own people.

The Barbarians who had submitted to Yan State were well-settled.

And Ji Province had not been neglected.

Ji Province, situated in the north and not within the boundaries of Central State, suffered the invasion of cold currents every year, with habitable areas increasingly shrinking.

This territory was bound to be abandoned sooner or later.

If Lu Yuan was gradually giving up Yangzhou’s main territory, he naturally had no intention of developing Ji Province.

In Ji Province, he planned to leave one million Barbarian common people, stationed at various strongholds and important cities.

The remaining six million were all to be relocated to the eastern part of Qingzhou, which was the former Liang territory.

Ji Province would be guarded by Huang Lin at the helm of the restructured Northern Army, which had been scaled down to just two hundred thousand troops and five Innates, stationed in Jizhou Army.

The model was similar to that of Yangzhou and southwestern Lingnan.

In the remaining four prefectures of Ji Province, each prefecture city would be garrisoned with fifty thousand troops, one Innate, and two hundred and fifty thousand common people, serving as the core defense force of that prefecture.

In the eastern part of Ji Province, facing directly towards Xuzhou, this region would serve as the Army’s headquarters, personally stationed by Huang Lin, with two Innates.

Hmm, from this arrangement, it’s not hard to see that the role of the Jizhou Army, as well as the south’s four prefectures, has only one purpose.

That is to expand Chu’s northern borders, using the entirety of Ji Province as a buffer zone to guard against threats from Yan and Xu States.

So that the three prefectures of Henan, East Prefecture, and Jiying, adjacent to Ji Province, could become completely peaceful rear areas and focus on development.

With these troops and the remaining common people in Ji Province, Chu State could also maintain nominal control over Ji Province.

Having one state and four prefectures also would provide a significant amount of Qi Luck to aid Lu Yuan’s cultivation.

This was a way to turn waste into treasure, making full use of the resources at hand.

With the reorganization of the Northern Army, the spared two hundred thousand troops and five Innates were directly incorporated by Lu Yuan into his central command for direct administration.

The following year, he would need to muster an army of five million for the fourth Northern Expedition.

At the same time, Yangzhou’s main territory was increasingly plagued by sea raiders and Barbarians.

There were too many places requiring troops, and at this moment, he also needed to apply arithmetic to extract military strength from various places to be utilised.