The Three Kingdoms

But this road is not so easy to open up.

Thousands of miles of desert, no one inhabited, if you want to build a safe route, you must first build a post station that can echo back and forth in this route, and can maintain the supply of water...

The cabinet and the entire Ministry of Industry have been working on this silk power for more than half a year, but they can only get through it at present. Even transporting troops is still very dangerous. It is impossible to move this heavy cannon.

"Your Majesty, the sea is very stormy, and there have been many accidents recently. I am afraid that when the time comes, we will be unlucky. A storm will pass by, and we will lose the terrifying weapon that we have studied for a long time and invested countless times!"

Xu Shu said in a low voice.

"The red cannon is a weapon against the heavens. I have been hesitating whether to use it on the battlefield. Its killing power is too terrifying, and I who let it appear on the battlefield is a complete executioner, but In my heart, I still hope that it can become a sharp weapon for more great Wu soldiers to survive on the battlefield, but this kind of thing sometimes requires some luck from God!"

Sun Quan smiled: "Just transport them by sea. If they can't reach the Western Regions safely, it's because they didn't show up on the battlefield."

The use of black powder has opened the era of thermal weapons.

Now that he uses the red-clothed cannon again, he will completely ruin the era of cold weapons.

What is the concept of hot weapons.

The first time in history plus the second world war is a war of hot weapons. In just half a century, the number of casualties surpassed the number of war casualties in East Asia and Western Europe in the thousands of years of history.

Therefore, Sun Quan has always been somewhat resistant to the use of thermal weapons.

Because he will feel whether he is accelerating the demise of this world.

But it is undeniable that hot weapons can end the war earlier.

The appearance of this kind of red cannon will speed up the time to bury the Roman Empire.

"Yes!"

Although Xu Shu didn't quite understand Sun Quan's contradictory thoughts, he could feel Sun Quan's abnormality, and nodded with a wry smile on his face.

"Yuan Zhi, I have been uncertain about one thing these days!"

Sun Quan stood upright under the wind and snow, his face became serious: "Can you give me some advice?"

"Chen, I am willing to share the worries and solve the problems for His Majesty!"

"The Anxi territory that has been conquered has become a trouble for the cabinet. The cabinet is overwhelmed, and the Military Aircraft Department has been urging to let the cabinet settle in and relieve the pressure on the military. This matter has been debated above the imperial court. You said Wouldn't it be better for me to seal off the Anxi Territory?"

Sun Quan has been struggling with this issue.

"Partition?"

"Great Wu Guijue has always been in name only. They have worked hard and worked hard for the unification war. I have to give them something to think about. I will never divide the territory of the Central Plains, but the land of the Western Regions is beyond the reach of the imperial court. It is impossible to manage it in a short time!" Sun Quan sighed: "We don't have so much energy, and if we put it in the territory of the Western Regions, if we divide it out, will it be integrated faster?"

The West is different from the Central Plains. Their language communication, their customs, their lives, their thoughts...all of these are incompatible with the Central Plains.

If the imperial court doesn't want to waste too much energy here, the best way is to entrust them out.

But the Anxi Territory is the territory of an empire. There are countless cities, farmland, and mines here, and enfeoffment is also a big problem.

However, Sun Quan determined that in order to stabilize the Anxi territory and better conquer the Roman Empire, it should be divided out.

As long as the enfeoffment is implemented, these newly rising nobles will use their own resources to suppress the fiefdom. For their own fiefdom, they will desperately invest everything they have.

In the hands of these nobles, they now control countless resources, and how many surrendered. The financial resources and talents controlled by the new aristocratic families are the jealous objects of the imperial court.

If it wasn't entrusted to them, they would never give it back to the court from the bottom of their hearts.

This is a distinction between active and passive.

Court management is passive for them.

Their own fief is active for them.

Public and private are different.

"Your Majesty, this matter..." Xu Shu trembled and became cautious.

Regarding the welfare of a large group of heroes and nobles who were born in the Great Wu Dynasty, he did not dare to say a word. If it had the opposite effect, he might be drowned in saliva.

You know, since the founding of the Great Wu Dynasty, no one has ever obtained a fief except for the Jiangdong Shuanghou who obtained the fief.

At that time, Sun Jian's Overseas Yizhou was enfeoffed to the Second Marquis of Jiangdong, and Donghou is now the emperor Sun Quan who is firmly established as the emperor. That is to say, the only one who has a fief in the Great Wu Dynasty today is Jianghou Sun Ce.

Sun Quan never took back Sun Ce's title and fief.

He was the only one among the twelve Dukes of the Great Wu Dynasty who held a county fiefdom.

Therefore, fiefdom is a rare species in Dawu.

Even if he is the second-rank noble, he is plotting to enshrine the land, and countless eyes are on Sun Quan.

"It seems that you can't give me any good advice!"

Sun Quan shook his head. He also knew that there were some things he could say by himself, but the people below, including Xu Shu and Guo Jia, didn't dare to say a word lightly.

"Your Majesty, His Majesty needs to make up his own mind on this matter!" Xu Shu said respectfully.

"never mind!"

Sun Quan sighed, and said: "You do something for me, and spread the news that I intend to entrust the Anxi territory 'very carelessly', and I want to see the court's reaction!"

Before making a decision, he wanted to test the attitude of the officials.

"No!" Xu Shu nodded.

"As the saying goes, it is easy to conquer the world, but it is difficult to secure the world!"

Sun Quan raised his head, looked at the vast snow scene, and a melancholy smile appeared on the corner of his mouth: "Governing a big country is like cooking a small fish, and it takes time. I always thought I could control this time, but as the territory of the Great Wu Dynasty became larger and larger, , I also feel more and more powerless!" (To be continued.)

[The first thousand and 330 chapters of the third chapter of the second year of Tianquan]

After the battle of the Sicily River ended, the battle situation in the west gradually stabilized.

The atmosphere between the Anxi territory that has become under the banner of the Great Wu Dynasty and the Mesopotamian provinces between the Roman Empire is still tense. After all, there are hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses facing each other.

But just confrontation.

Although hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses lined up to confront each other, the situation was actually much better than Zhuge Liang, Tai Shici and others had expected.

After defeating the main forces of the two major armies of Rome in the Battle of Sicily, Zhuge Liang and the others thought there would be another big battle, but unexpectedly, no battle broke out afterwards.

As the eighth main legion just compiled under the command of the Roman Empire, the Parthian Legion is the new force of the Roman army. They have gathered more than [-] soldiers and horses, and they marched southward from northern Mesopotamia in a menacing manner.

But they had just entered the northwest territory of the Anxi territory when they received a report of the Battle of the Sicily River.