When it came to isolating the new district from the old district, it was actually not difficult.
To a great extent, he did not need to deliberately do anything.
In fact, what he needed to do was reduce his interference!
After all, one must not forget that, apart from Great Zhou, which already had Steam Trains, the people of other countries had extremely low mobility.
In this era, more than ninety percent of people would never leave the city where they were born in their entire lives.
If ordinary people truly had business in another city, it might take several months at best, while at worst, spending three to five years on the road was nothing unusual.
That was because the vast majority of ordinary people in this era had neither carriages nor horses at their disposal, and many could only travel on two legs.
Therefore, as long as Zhou Xu did not push things along, large-scale contact between the populations on both sides would be unlikely.
With this as the premise, Zhou Xu's plan was for each side to develop independently at first.
After a few years, once the people of the new district had developed a certain degree of loyalty to Great Zhou, they could gradually open things up.
After all, if they never came into contact, it would affect the overall development of Great Zhou.
At the same time, isolation did not mean that there would be no contact whatsoever between the two sides before then.
He would enact preferential immigration policies in the new district, attracting some of its population to develop the old district.
After all, the old district was still short of people.
They would first provide immigration quotas for fifty thousand people each year, with these fifty thousand people assigned to the various