Chapter 1148: The Concealed News

"The scale of the war hasn't expanded, it's just that right now in our Huaxia, there are quite a lot of things going on, and every place needs people, so we are short on manpower; for now, it can only be like this."

Ce nodded while moving forward: "Oh, so that's how it is. Then Prince, could you tell us what has happened in our Huaxia during this time, and also..."

Ce turned his head to look at Ayuduo and said: "And this matter of your marriage, it can be considered a major event too. We didn't get to participate, could you tell us about it?"

Wuzhong also joined in the excitement: "That's right, Changle, you should tell us about this too. I didn't even come to send you off; I missed this, it's truly a pity. Tell us how the two of you got together, and when you got married. I have never seen her before; whose daughter is she, exactly?"

Ayuduo blushed the entire time and didn't say a word. Changle's expression was radiant: "Her? Ayuduo, she isn't from our Huaxia; she is a Princess of the Jiuli. I met her at the Xuanyuan Tribe. Anyway, the first day I saw her, I felt we were a perfect match, and then we were together immediately. It was only a short while ago that we returned to Huaxia from the Xuanyuan Tribe, and then we held the wedding."

"And then, following my father's arrangements, the two of us came here, came here to inspect, and also to search for new seeds."

"Ayuduo is a Miao physician of the Jiuli. Anyway, she knows all kinds of medicinal Grass and plants, and her work is quite similar to mine, so the two of us can talk about things together. Now she can also be considered my assistant; the two of us are working here together now."

"That is the story of the two of us; there isn't much to tell. But because she is a Princess of the Jiuli, our Huaxia and the Jiuli might conduct some trade. However, after all, the distance between our two tribes is too great, so whether this trade can be achieved is still unknown; it is still early."

"This is one of the major matters of our Huaxia. And then, another big event—we didn't dare to speak of it along the way because there were too many Laborers from the Xuanyuan Tribe, so we were afraid the news would leak."

"There are no people from the Xuanyuan Tribe here, only our own people, so I can tell you. But, you should try to keep it a secret for now and not tell others, so that when the road is built over, the news won't have leaked."

"Wait until the people from the Xuanyuan Tribe have all left, then you can tell everyone."

"Alright, Prince, you tell us; we will definitely be able to keep the secret," Ce said very firmly. The others were waiting expectantly, and Ayuduo was also a bit curious, because along this journey, nothing had been said, and Ayuduo herself didn't know what Changle was going to say.

"This news is that the Suiren Clan has joined our Huaxia."

"What!!!"

"Ah!!!"

"Is this true??? How did this happen?"

Exclamations erupted, but this was all within Changle's expectations. Regarding everyone's exclamations, Changle was also prepared to explain slowly, so he let them quiet down first before recounting the whole process of the matter.

"Actually, when I found out, it was already quite late. Anyway, Baoxi suddenly came to Huaxia City. I don't know what he came for, but after seeing our Huaxia, he suddenly decided to join Huaxia. My father didn't want to at first, but after considering all aspects, he decided to let the Suiren Clan join Huaxia."

"Now, the entire Suiren Clan belongs to our Huaxia. Officials have already been sent over, and we are preparing to migrate all the people of the Suiren Clan over in the next few years. The territory of the Suiren Clan might no longer be needed; currently, tens of thousands of people have already been transferred over."

"And then, because of this matter, other things have been involved. Now, the land around your Western Development Group has all become the fiefs of various Nobles."

"What!"

Ce was the first to cry out. He expressed his lack of understanding regarding this matter. He had already developed feelings for the Western Development Group. He wanted to build the Western Development Group into a super-large city, and with these endless grasslands, the land here could only belong to Huaxia, could only belong to the King, but it could not belong to these Nobles.

Ce himself wanted to become a Noble and wanted his own fief, but he did not want the fruits of his own hard work to become someone else's fief. For him, this was a very, very great injury, a great blow; he found it hard to accept.

"What's wrong, Ce? Do you have any questions about this matter?"

Ce didn't dare to speak clearly and could only say with a lack of confidence: "This, Prince, the future of the Western Development Group is still very good; it will definitely be able to be built into a very large city. But if the surrounding land is treated as the fiefs of Nobles, this will definitely affect the future of the Western Development Group, right? How will it expand here later? Isn't this not very good?"

Changle waved his hand: "No, you are overthinking this. No matter how big a city is, it doesn't need that much land. Giving the surrounding land to those Nobles is no problem at all. And it wasn't given to them for free; it was exchanged for larger fiefs further away. Once this exchange was made, their fiefs became much smaller."

"And when I came over, I also looked; there are already some places that are almost useless land. They can't build cities, and they can't be used as farmland. But this is the land of those Nobles; they took that land, and it has absolutely no impact on the Western Development Group here. I even feel that they wasted their own good former fiefs to exchange for useless fiefs far away."

Being told this by Changle, Ce finally felt a little more at ease. He thought about the surrounding land, and it seemed that there really weren't many good places left. The best places had already been occupied by their Western Development Group. When the time came, as long as it was a good place, it would all belong to the Western Development Group. When it came to places that weren't good and had no use, then naturally they would be the fiefs of the various Nobles.

After all, at this time, there were no such detailed maps. Let alone those Nobles, even Baifeng didn't know how large the area occupied by the Western Development Group was. Anyway, for now, they were just roughly drawing a range; only what was outside this range could be considered the fiefs of those Nobles.

Now that Changle had come, everything was already known in advance, so it would be easier to operate. Ce could circle all the good places he wanted and make them the territory of the Western Development Group, and the remaining forests, barren hills, and rocky mountains could be treated as the fiefs of those Nobles—useless fiefs.