Great Warlord: The Second Ancestor of the Empire

If the empire wants to seize Australia, which has rich iron ore resources, it can only attack from two directions.

One is that New Zealand, which is already independent on the surface but is actually controlled by the Jewish consortium, lands in southeastern Australia.

The other direction is to pass through the Kingdom of Sumatra, a country of ten thousand islands, and land directly from northern Australia.

Originally, Lin Yi cooperated with the Rothschild family and planned to land in Australia from New Zealand.

However, New Zealand is still 2700 kilometers away from Australia by sea. The distance is too far, and logistical supplies and follow-up support will be greatly restricted.

Therefore, during the campaign to seize Southeast Asia, the Daxia Military Department discovered that the Allied defenses in Southeast Asia were not as tight as imagined, so they began to formulate a plan to seize the Kingdom of Sumatra.

In fact, the Kingdom of Sumatra was not within the empire's attack range at the beginning, mainly because the kingdom was composed of islands of different sizes.

If the empire wanted to occupy these islands, it would cost more and take too long.

Therefore, the initial plan formulated by the Empire was to attack from New Zealand.

After all, a 2700-kilometer sea route is better than spending a lot of manpower and financial resources to capture the Kingdom of Sumatra.

Another point is that the Kingdom of Sumatra is now a colony of the Netherlands. At first, the empire did not want to conflict with the Netherlands.

After all, the Kingdom of Sumatra has been only a tributary state of Bactria since ancient times, not a tributary state. Here, Bactria has no legal theoretical basis and has no way to occupy the Kingdom of Sumatra like it did in Annan.

However, all this changed with a report.

Before talking about this report, I still need to mention the relationship between the Kingdom of Sumatra and Bactria.

Since the 2nd century AD, during the period of Emperor Shun of the Han Dynasty, the Central Plains Dynasty has had contact with the Kingdom of Sumatra.

Of course, at that time, the Kingdom of Sumatra was not called this name, but was called Ye Tiao Kingdom and Shan Kingdom.

"Book of the Later Han Dynasty" records: "In December of the 131th year of Emperor Shun's Yongjian reign ([-]), Rinan went to Waiye to transfer the country and the Shan country sent envoys to contribute."

The Ye Tiao Kingdom and Shan Kingdom here refer to the predecessor of the Kingdom of Sumatra.

During the Chengzu period of the Ming Dynasty, Zheng He made seven voyages to the West, and each time they passed through the waters of the Kingdom of Sumatra. At that time, the Kingdom of Sumatra often sent envoys to the Central Plains to meet with the emperor of the Central Plains.

This connection was not severed until the end of the 16th century, when the European Age of Discovery began and the Dutch occupied the entire Kingdom of Sumatra and turned the Kingdom into their colony.

But at that time, the Kingdom of Sumatra had already accepted millions of Han people who had fled there due to wars and settled there within a few hundred years.

And because the Bactrian Empire was later established and became more and more powerful, the Dutch were very worried that Bactria would interfere in the affairs of the Kingdom of Sumatra, so they raised the social status of the Han people to second only to their two-part citizens.

However, with the subsequent decline of Daxia, the social status of the local Han people also declined day by day, and finally they became lower-class citizens than the Javanese.

This situation did not change until Daxia defeated the John Empire head-on and became the most powerful empire in East Asia again.

However, at this time, the Netherlands was facing the invasion of the Hans Empire, and Daxia was an ally of the Hans Empire, which in turn led to a decline in the living standards of the local Han people.

Even the Dutch governor in the Kingdom of Sumatra allowed the locals to rob the Han people.

Now, the report Lin Yi got was a research report on the lives of Han people in the Kingdom of Sumatra.

It records in detail the living conditions of the Han people in the Kingdom of Sumatra, as well as the resources of the Kingdom of Sumatra.

Speaking of the natural resources of the Kingdom of Sumatra, this must be discussed in detail.

First of all, as a country of ten thousand islands, the Kingdom of Sumatra straddles the equator and is rich in natural resources.

Palm oil production ranks first in the world, rubber production ranks second in the world, and there are other mineral resources such as oil, natural gas, tin, bauxite, nickel, copper, gold, silver and other mineral resources.

It is truly a tropical treasure island.

Moreover, the Kingdom of Sumatra borders the Empire's South China Sea to the north and the Luzon Islands to the east across the sea. To the west is the Strait of Malacca, an important throat connecting the Western Pacific to the Indian Ocean.

To the south is the Australian continent. The straight-line distance is only a few hundred nautical miles, so it can be said to be close to the Australian mainland.

If the Kingdom of Sumatra is captured, the empire can better control the South Pacific region on the one hand, and can also eye Australia as a target.

Of course, this is all based on geographical location, and in terms of resources, the importance of the Kingdom of Sumatra is even higher.

First of all, since the first industrial revolution, that is, after the steam engine was improved by Watt, the importance of rubber has gradually increased.

Especially after the second industrial revolution and the birth of the automobile, rubber can be said to have penetrated deeply into people's daily lives.

Moreover, this importance will deepen day by day, and rubber is inseparable from all aspects of people's lives.

In addition to these, of course there is also petroleum, which is known as liquid gold.

It can be said that in the future, whoever controls oil will have absolute say in the world.

The Middle East produced oil, but it was too far away from the empire.

If the empire annexes the Middle East, it will definitely cause strong dissatisfaction among European countries. Therefore, at this stage, the empire has no idea of ​​annexing or controlling the oil-producing areas of the Middle East.

But the Kingdom of Sumatra was too close to the empire.

Therefore, even if Europe knew that the empire occupied the Kingdom of Sumatra, it could only turn a blind eye.

Of course, the Dutch may be dissatisfied with occupying the Kingdom of Sumatra, but what does it matter?

Therefore, Lin Yi submitted the report about the Kingdom of Sumatra collected by Fang Xiao to the military department. The military staff immediately understood Lin Yi's thoughts.

And after careful calculation, the possibility that the empire would occupy the Kingdom of Sumatra and support a pro-British king was very high.

So the military began to formulate detailed combat plans around Lin Yi's ideas.

As mentioned before, the empire had actually considered the possibility of attacking the Kingdom of Sumatra a long time ago.

However, considering that the Kingdom of Sumatra has 1.7 islands, if every island in Daxia is to be occupied, then the empire needs to station at least [-] to [-] troops in the Kingdom of Sumatra to fully control it.

This means that the Kingdom of Sumatra alone can basically hold back about ten divisions of the empire.

This is unacceptable to the Empire.

As a result, the offensive plan once again encountered this troublesome problem, and the formulation of the plan once again reached a deadlock.

At this time, a young officer who had just graduated from the martial arts hall and was assigned to the staff came up with an idea that everyone thought was whimsical, but at the same time everyone was amazed.