Killing system of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 386 Maritime Silk Road Trade Prosperity

In the thirty (242) year of China, China conducted the fifth census, and the population of China has reached [-] million.

Zhang Yi is very satisfied with looking at the territory he has conquered over the years, East Asia, Southeast Asia, Australia, and extended his tentacles to South Asia.

He is almost 70 years old this year, but his body is still strong. Just last year, he had No. 18 sons with No. 40 concubines.

Zhang Yi felt that he could live for a long time, although many of the veterans who founded the country with him were old and retired, and many of them had even passed away.

Lu Su, Zhu Zhi and other important officials passed away one after another. Li Hongzhang, Fan Zhongyan and others retired due to illness. The current prime minister is Zhuge Liang, who is 60 years old.

Zhuge Liang did not show much talent in the military in this life, and there are only a handful of soldiers in the army at this time, and the leaders were in Yongzhou and Sizhou.

However, his talent in invention has been greatly demonstrated. As long as he has nothing to do, he will take his wife Huang to the fields or workshops, and invent many more advanced agricultural tools and war supplies.

Together with Ma Jun, he improved the trebuchet again, turning the trebuchet into a packed trebuchet for easy transportation (refer to the packed trebuchet in Age of Empires 2), with this siege weapon, Zhang Yijun was invincible.

In fact, there are not many places where Zhang Yijun can attack. When the packaged trebuchets are used in large quantities, they are still attacking the Great Food Country (India).

For more than ten years, Zhang Yi has almost stabilized Southeast Asia. Many Southeast Asian products have been continuously sent to the Central Plains, and the Central Plains are also constantly emigrating overseas.The land in the Central Plains is limited, and Zhang Yi also needs people to cultivate land overseas.

So Zhang Yi directly awarded the title of Lang Guan to anyone who explored overseas, regardless of gender.In the Central Plains, where martial arts is gradually recovering, many women follow many of Zhang Yi's daughters as their role models, especially Hong'er.

Although Hong'er has become a mother after marrying Lu Xun, she often goes out with Lu Xun.Not only knows how to boost morale, but even command operations.

It is often said that among the royal heirs there are two perfect people, one is the eldest prince Zhang Xingren, who is omnipotent in marching and fighting to govern the country, and after decades of hard work, he has become the deputy prime minister.The other is Hong'er, who fought with the army many times, inspected places many times, and dealt with many unjust, false and wrong cases, and punished dozens of corrupt officials. Every time she was fair and open, it was convincing.

Zhang Yi is also happy to regard Hong'er as a role model to improve the status of women.Although he has many wives, he is very happy to promote the status of women.

Now that the country has a small population, if only men are employed there will be many labor vacancies, which can only be filled by women.Zhang Yi even opened up the system for women to serve as officials, and formed women's armies in various places to replace the military garrison in places, and to shoulder security tasks together with retired veterans, so that these soldiers can be deployed to places where they are needed more.

After the stability in Southeast Asia, Zhang Yi also started the strategy of the Maritime Silk Road.He set up Southeast Asia into several major regions, and set up the Southern Region Protectorate, South Central Protectorate, South East Protectorate, and Southwest Protectorate together with Australia.

The four Protectorate Houses are all headed by princes who are in their prime. The conditions for being elected are 30-40 years old, and the term of office is five years.This is to prevent some of the princes from becoming ambitious and becoming kings on their own.

What Zhang Yi wants is an enemy country with a huge territory, not a world of Han people fighting each other.

After the establishment of the Four Protectorates, the fleet of the Han Chinese has already carried out maritime trade across Dashi and the newly restored Persian Empire.As long as every ship does not sink, it will get tens of millions of wealth.

This is also the result of Zhang Yi's constant encouragement of taking risks, because wealth and wealth are sought after risks, that is, powerful businessmen have begun to develop in coastal areas, hoping to get a share of the emerging Maritime Silk Road.

This has resulted in the emergence of three economic belts in China, one is the Yizhou, Yongzhou, and Liangzhou economic belts in the west that rely on the Silk Road.One is the Maritime Silk Road Economic Belt to Southeast Asia through the coast.The last one is the river, canal, and river economic zone.

Speaking of canals, one has to say that Zhang Yi successively appointed his son-in-law as the chief officer of canal digging and river expansion.

By the time of the 30th year of China, the canal had already moved from China Unicom to Ji County, Youzhou.As the northern end of the canal, Ji County has also gradually developed, and with the seaport of Quanzhou (Tianjin area), Jiquan area has become the most fertile area in Youzhou.

With the development of Jiquan, China has gradually formed six large economic zones.The economic zone centered on Shouchun, the economic zone centered on Shanghai Port, the economic zone centered on Panyu, the economic zone centered on Chang’an, the economic zone centered on Jiquan, and the economic zone centered on Qingzhou.

The development of the Maritime Silk Road made the big cannibals very dissatisfied, because Chinese businessmen did not pay taxes at all when they walked here.This is something they cannot tolerate. In order to avoid paying taxes, these Chinese businessmen don't even stop at their ports. Instead, they occupy the nearby islands as their strongholds, and then find big cannibals to act as agents for smuggling.

Seeing hundreds of millions or even billions of wealth slipping away every year, how could Dashi stand it?So a large number of sea ships were gathered to attack the stronghold of Chinese merchants, Shinan Island (Sri Lanka, originally called Shinan Island, but later it became Shinan Island).

The Chinese merchants in Heather Island are not bad at armed forces. Although they don't have the most advanced weapons in the army, they also have many bows and crossbows that have been eliminated from the army.For example, the most primitive ballista and the Liannu developed by Zhuge Liang at the beginning.

The sale of these weapons to overseas caravans made the government a lot of money.The money was used to subsidize military expenditures and was invested in the research and development of new weapons.

The attack of the Great Food Kingdom made the Chinese businessmen very angry. The merchants found Jiang Wei, the governor of Xizhou, and expressed their desire to attack the Great Food Kingdom.

As Zhang Yi's son-in-law, Jiang Wei has the power to make decisions on the fly.As soon as he heard that his merchants were attacked, he immediately led his troops to attack westward, crossed the Ganges from Xihai County, and began to conquer the Great Food Kingdom.

Facing China's armed forces to the teeth, the Great Food Nation could not resist at all.In less than six months, Jiang Wei completely occupied the entire Ganges River Basin.

In the 31st year of Zhonghua, Zhang Yi heard about this matter, and asked Deng Ai and others to lead an army of [-] to continue to conquer the Great Food Kingdom.

In June of the 32nd year of China, the Great Food Kingdom was destroyed.Zhang Yi established Nanzhou here, and took Deng Ai as the governor of Nanzhou to lead the military and administration here.

The Dashi Kingdom has a population of no less than one million, and the Han people are gradually being recruited into labor.Its fertile areas were soon occupied by the Han Chinese and became one of China's granaries.

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