Diao Chan, Cai Yan, Da Qiao, Xiao Qiao, Zhen Mi, Fu Shou, Dong Xuan, Sun Shangxiang, Bu Lianshi, Xin Xianying, and so on.
There were also many more promising candidates selected through civilian talent shows over the past few years. Jiang Siming's Forbidden City had long since become a dazzling display of a hundred flowers in bloom.
After playing the 'foolish emperor' in the Forbidden City for three days, Jiang Siming finally left the palace reluctantly, taking Guo Jia and tens of thousands of Black Armored Army soldiers westward.
They passed through Liangzhou, crossed the former territory of the Great Han, and entered the lands of other nations.
This land had once belonged to the Kushan Empire. It was what would later become India and Afghanistan.
By this time, however, the land had long since been occupied by the Great Ming cavalry and had become part of Great Ming territory.
As they marched, Jiang Siming could not help nodding in approval. All these conquered places were occupied by Great Ming troops.
Between the cities, Great Ming soldiers stood guard everywhere. Xun Yu had also wisely encouraged Great Ming merchants to come here to trade, do business, and settle down.
He had also continuously infused the region with Great Ming culture, sending many Great Ming teachers here to provide free instruction.
They had conquered the region not only through military force but also through cultural invasion.
Military force could conquer a place for a time, but cultural invasion took root far more deeply.
Through sustained cultural invasion, the thoughts of the people in this territory would gradually be transformed. They would become subjects of Great Ming completely.
The Kushan Empire had been conquered for only a year, yet the people here had already more or less fully integrated.
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