All External Possessions Can Be Taken

Lan Tian smiled slightly: "The two systems can coexist for a long time. The policies of Jiao Province only need to be enforced within Jiao Province. As long as we ensure that officials from commoner backgrounds in Jiao Province do not flow into other provinces to seize power, it will suffice. The powerful clans of the Shi Clan are all attached to their ancestral lands; who in the thirteen provinces of the Han Dynasty would care about the remote Lingnan?"

"That may not be a problem, but Ziyu, you have exhausted your life's efforts just to build a paradise in Lingnan?" Liu Bei remained puzzled.

"Although officials do not circulate between regions and the common people rarely migrate, merchants travel everywhere. Therefore, the current policies of Jiao Province will one day spread throughout the world."

"It is like a house with many windows; once one is broken, the cool breeze can blow inside. When the other windows are opened is merely a matter of time," Lan Tian said with full confidence.

Liu Bei nodded in agreement: "Wonderful. With this, I am relieved. Ziyu, you truly have a way."

"Brother-in-law, do not praise me yet. Whether it will work still requires time to verify."

"I have full confidence in Ziyu."

Watching Liu Bei's relieved expression, Lan Tian thought to himself that success was certain; it was just that the current productivity was too low. The advanced systems of later generations could not be copied entirely, and the necessary historical stages would always have to be experienced.

Jiao Province was currently equivalent to a blank slate, and the only powerful clan had been suppressed in Jiaozhi. Lan Tian brought out the strategy of that old man, and combined with the broken-window effect, it would surely succeed. After all, "One Country, Two Systems"