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Migrating to such a frontier region would be madness.
Therefore, Dongping Prefecture was not a good place to settle.
But if Dongping Prefecture was not an option, then Xu State would have no new lands to expand into.
In Qingzhou, it only occupied the territory of two prefectures, and now the planning for these two prefectures left hardly any living space to spare.
If Xu State wished to settle immigrants, it had to find new territory to accommodate more people.
And if Xu State wanted to continue expanding and needed new land, there was only one choice left, which was to ask for it from Liang.
After all, Liang had six or seven prefectures' worth of land in Qingzhou, and its strength had declined severely; naturally, it was the prime target in the eyes of the surrounding hungry wolves.
Who wouldn't want to take a bite out of it?
But here came the awkward part.
At the moment, Xu State and Liang had just formed an alliance.
