sweeping the world

Chapter 525 Liu Yan Draws a Circle in the Southwest Peninsula

Due to low productivity, a country consumes too much and too much. In the cold weapon era, few countries can raise too many non-productive soldiers during non-war times. Basically, they will gradually be recruited when wars start.

Liu Yan wanted to maintain a standing army of 20 people who were not engaged in production. In fact, it was the limit that the Han Kingdom could afford.

With a force of 20, if young and strong soldiers are recruited temporarily, the number is large but only that.If the 20 troops do nothing but train all year round, it won't be a big problem to sweep any country with this number of troops.

After a few years of recuperation, the 20 standing army will undergo systematic and regular training. During the period, they will be matched and fought together. A real elite team will definitely be born, and Liu Yan will be able to make the next move.

By the way, the 20 standing army does not include system troops. However, due to the high consumption of national power, most of the "summoned" Liu Yan "summoned" were used for production. In fact, the system troops have never exceeded the number of [-]. .

That's right, Han's consumption has always been quite large, from food and fodder to various resources. If it weren't for Liu Yan's golden finger of the system, he would not be able to sustain it at all.

After a few years of support, the early consumption and normal production are basically gone. That is why Liu Yan agreed to the country to start to cultivate his health, otherwise he would still choose to continue to fight wantonly with his personality.

Sang Yu, who once managed the civil affairs of the whole country, knows the state of the national reserve better than anyone else. The storage of grain and fodder has reached the cordon, but various military supplies are piled up like a mountain.

"...The reason why there will be small-scale wars is that in addition to continuing to fight Shijie and Murong Xianbei in the north, it is also imperative to invade the southwest peninsula." Liu Yancai will not forget that the southwestern peninsula is an excellent food producing area: "The Yu family is going to invade Linyi, and they are the vanguard of the Han Dynasty's march to the southwest peninsula."

In the past, the small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty purchased grain from Linyi State or Funan State more than once, and could buy a large amount of grain from the two countries with only a small amount of copper coins.

The climate in the southwest peninsula is very favorable for the growth of plants, and the people there are still living a slash-and-burn farming... Wrong, they simply throw seeds randomly, or don’t throw seeds at all, anyway, they live by God’s reward, but it’s not a problem The production is not starved to death, and with a little effort, there will be exaggerated output.

The ability to purchase grain from two countries in the southwest peninsula is one of the reasons why the small imperial courts of the Eastern Jin Dynasty rarely lacked grain.In view of the fact that the climate in the southwest peninsula is good for grain production, the small imperial courts of the Eastern Jin Dynasty were unable to go north and then expanded towards the southwest. They traveled farther than the Western and Eastern Han Dynasties, and almost reached the coastline of the Indian Ocean.

Speaking of the Yu family's expansion, Yu Yi had just re-negotiated it, which meant that all previous discussions were invalid. Although they were still princes, the land the Yu family had laid down still belonged to the central government.

Liu Yan hasn't given Yu Yi a formal reply yet, but he has thought a lot about it.The topic involved the southwest peninsula, so he put forward some preliminary ideas.

"Ah? Every family can buy a sea-going ship to go to sea. Can one family explore alone, or can several families join forces?"

"The land that has been explored can be used to enclose the land within a limited period of time. How many years will the resources in the territory belong to the family, and after the time limit, the state will buy it back?"

"It's not limited to the southwest peninsula, if it is found at sea, is it the same?"

The status of those who can come to meet Liu Yan is not low, even if there is no family before, sooner or later a family will develop.Families need resources to develop, and the more powerful the family, the more resources they will use. It is destined to erode the national power of the country and form batches of national moths.

It is the nature of all species to make one's own family better and stronger, and Liu Yan is unable and impossible to stop it.He has witnessed the rise and fall of the land of China from history. Throughout the dynasties, there were always too many moths in the country, which either eroded the country into every possible way, or made the people miserable.

Resources are needed to develop a family, but all the families in China are exploiting internally, and there is no example of plundering foreign resources for development. Liu Yan hopes that this phenomenon will end in his own generation. It is to go outside to find resources, not Only within the borders of the country will be exploited.

With a single family or multiple families jointly plundering outwards, it is difficult to handle the model in the north. After all, the north has been occupied by fierce barbarians for thousands of years. Even if the national power is often on the defensive, how can the people have enough? The power to shake.

The southwest peninsula is different. Compared with the fierce horseback nation, there is no powerful nation in the southwest. The obstacle to plunder there is the natural environment, but as long as the harsh natural environment can be overcome, the southwest can take whatever they want. .

"The widow has sent a fleet to continue exploring. There are only Linyi Kingdom and Funan Kingdom in the southwest, and there are no other countries." Liu Yan continued in a seductive tone: "There are not only grains, jade, emeralds, pearls, agates, tortoiseshell... The number of treasures is far beyond what you can imagine. I am willing to share this newly discovered treasure house with all my lovers."

It’s not a lie. Although the Southwest Peninsula is still in the semi-wild and semi-bronze age, the people who founded the country there are too useless and don’t know how to develop and utilize them. It doesn’t mean that the resources there are not rich enough.

The underground of the southwest peninsula has the second largest silver deposit in Asia and the fourth largest coal deposit in Asia. It is also very rich in gold deposits. The emerald deposits that are very popular among Chinese Miao people are the largest in the world.

Liu Yan wants to break the cycle of exploitation in the territory, so that those guys don't always think about harming the people. It is ideal to use the Southwest Peninsula as a bait.

The most important thing is that the country is still expanding northward and westward, striving to penetrate the World Island one day. The southwest peninsula and many islands can become folk adventure parks, setting the stage for Han to unify the World Island in the future and expand to other continents. Go ahead and accumulate enough experience.

There is another reason. Whether it is the southwest peninsula or the various islands, they have never been the cradle of hegemony. That is, someone has full control and is willing to develop a country. This country is also ruled by a group of people who are extremely lazy. The only The slightly more ferocious race is the product of crossbreeding between local indigenous people and Chinese Miao descendants.

"The king has said that there is another one here..." Ji Chang rarely spoke in an excited tone: "A... Malacca? As long as this place can be found, the Han Dynasty can set off from the sea and land directly on the territory of the Anxi Empire. ."

Few people can understand what Ji Chang is excited about, and they don't even know what the Anxi Empire is.

Those who knew Liu Yanzhi's ambitions became excited when they heard it. After all, if you go west by land, the desert and swamp alone are enough to drink a pot. It is far better to invade directly across the sea than by land.

Liu Yan coughed a few times. He thinks that it is still far away to unify the world island, and it is more practical to focus on the present first.

If the dissatisfied remnants of the small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty were cleaned up, the Han Kingdom would probably be slightly larger than the Northern Song Dynasty, and the destruction of the Shijie Zhao Kingdom and Murong Yan Kingdom would only restore the territory of the early Western Han Dynasty, and there would be a huge The Western Regions are waiting to be recovered.

The size of the territory is only a basis for development. The number of people is very ambitious... well, it is lofty ambitions. Anyway, if Liu Yan wants to unify the world island, Han must have a population of at least 600 million.And now Han Guo is full of people and will not exceed [-] million people.

If you look up the world population history, the current global population is about 2000 million.This is mainly because after nearly 200 years of war in China, there are only less than 500 million left from 2000 million. In addition, wars broke out in Rome, Parthia, and other countries.

The most populous place today is in the Indian subcontinent, where it has been divided into hundreds of states since the Maurya Dynasty fell apart. During this period, the Guishuang Dynasty rose, but the Guishuang Dynasty soon disappeared in the long river of history.At present, there are hundreds of states in the Indian subcontinent, with a total population of more than 500 million.

It has to be said that, according to the records of world population history, China has not surpassed the Indian subcontinent in terms of population in a full 700 years since the Five Husbands, and it will not surpass the Indian subcontinent until the Northern Song Dynasty to become the first. However, the fall of the Southern Song Dynasty did not surpass the Indian subcontinent again until the middle of the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, apart from the Maurya Dynasty, the Indian subcontinent has never been considered a complete country. Tang Dynasty Wang Xuance invaded India with the army of Tubo. , this must be clearly distinguished.

The establishment of modern India is not due to how hard they worked. Even if they worked hard, it was hard to go on hunger strike, not by force. It was only through hunger strikes and protests that the country of India existed.

After the collapse of the British colonial system, there were more than 100 countries in various regions of the world that were independent or still under the Commonwealth system. Before Britain withdrew from the Indian subcontinent, it divided the colonies on the Indian subcontinent into India and Pakistan.There is no kindness in doing this in desperation, creating the disputed area of ​​Kashmir, and their methods of differentiation were also slapped in the face by Ah San. For example, the Pakistani enclave was forced to become independent by India.

It wasn't just Britain who was slapped in the face by Ah San. Not long after Liu Yan crossed, Ah San sent troops to invade the Tian Yi Dynasty's territory, but just like the Emerald Kingdom bombed Tian Yi Dynasty, Tian Yi Dynasty faced Ah San's invasion... ...MMP's, "hehe", these two words that are so unpredictable that they can extend countless meanings can represent everything.

Liu Yan turned the southwest peninsula into a paradise for various families, and soon after they dispersed, heated discussions arose.

In fact, this is not the first time in the history of China. It was at the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty that certain territories were first designated to make the domestic families have carnivals.At that time, King Zhou’s rewards for meritorious ministers were very rough. He pointed to the map and said, “This piece of land belongs to X’s family, and that piece of land belongs to O’s family. The XXOOs will bring their own people to hunt it down, and it will belong to the XXOO family.” "That's how the territory expansion of Huaxia Miao descendants in the early Spring and Autumn Period came about.

The history of the Spring and Autumn Period is not difficult to find out. Sang Yu was the first to release the news in order to atone for his sins. For example, Liu Yan wanted to follow the example of Zhou's generation, and the purpose of setting aside land was to give each family a chance to develop.He not only released the news, but also summoned all the families, and waited for enough families to gather. According to Liu Yan's revealed wishes, he went outside and did all kinds of evil, not staring at the flesh at home.

"In the whole world, there is nothing but royal soil..." Cui Wan was embroidering and saw that the clothes were for children.She hesitated and asked Liu Yan: "Is this really good?"

It was snowing heavily, Liu Yan couldn't go around anymore, except for court meetings or calling ministers to meet for business, or staying in the harem Maodong.

The speed of news transmission can be fast or slow. If the news that can be felt is spread intentionally, the speed of transmission is astonishing. Liu Yan moved his eyes from the book to Cui Wan, and said with a smile: "It was my family who asked you to come here. Asked?"

Cui Wan did not hide anything. The Cui family is of course interested in going to the southwest peninsula. It should be said that any family with a little bit of strength is very interested. After all, the news about the southwest peninsula being a treasure house was revealed by Liu Yan. Speaking for the king is more responsible than anyone else, and you cannot be easily deceived.

"Is it the land of the king?" Liu Yan did not say that whoever occupies it can establish a country and become independent, no matter who occupies the land, it is still the land of the Han Kingdom.He said without changing his smile: "The country gets the land, and the families get the benefits. If Mrs. Cui is interested, hurry up, one step is faster, and don't wait for others to eat it up before going."

Cui Wan who got the answer was not very happy, she said softly, "Shen'er..."

"What's wrong with Shen'er?" Liu Yan said a word, and then he reacted: "Don't think too much."

Liu Yan now only has one son, and he is still the true eldest son. Under the orderly human relationship between elder and younger, Liu Shen is a well-deserved candidate for the crown prince.He didn't know whether to be pleased that Cui Wan was thinking about the interests of the royal family, or to worry that Cui Wan had taken it for granted that Liu Shen should inherit everything and was thus protecting the throne.

The country wants to improve its health and well-being. Liu Yan set aside the southwest peninsula for the various families to deal with. First, there should be no accidents in the country, and then to try this model to see if it will work.He expects to only practice life and rest for five years, and then it is time to start the national war to destroy Shijie Zhao and Murong Yan, and then try to recruit Zhang Liang. If Zhang Liang is not interested, it will naturally be destroyed. The next The expansion target is the Western Regions.

In addition to resuming production, the main purpose of cultivating health and rest is to increase the population. If the sanitary conditions are not too bad, Liu Yan would like to force each couple to have more children, so how to improve the medical level is also a matter of cultivation. Necessary courses during the period of childbirth and recuperation.

How could Cui Wan not think too much, Liu Shen will soon be three years old, but the status of the crown prince has not been registered for a long time.She thought about it for a while, and really wanted to find a way to make her mother's family stronger and give her son more protection...

(End of this chapter)