After the war in the Southwest, it gradually returned to its former prosperity.
The outside world was under the impression that the Southwest was probably shrouded by the shadow of the Qing Consortium's rule. But in actual fact, after the Qing Consortium gained control of more than 30 strongholds in the Southwest, they did not increase taxes or excessively settle scores with the previous people in charge.
In the Southwest, many important figures from both the political and business world had thought the Qing Consortium would continue on their expansion path, and as a result, they felt that all the industries in the Southwest would get dragged into the resulting wars and be set back further.
However, the Qing Consortium did not do that. The first thing Qing Zhen did was to try to revive the Southwest.
First, he standardized the currency before organizing transport routes.