Three Kingdoms Eschatology

The ministers were still puzzled by this remark, Yibin is on the verge of barren land, at the edge of the world, how can the goods of the whole world be traded here?Of course they don't know that this "world" is not that "world".

No matter what they didn't understand, they still strictly followed Feng Yu's edict and completed the move of the capital in a very short period of time.

In fact, Feng Yu's wishful thinking is to open up the passage from the inland of Bashu to the Western Ocean, and obtain the Western Ocean's outlet.The so-called Western Ocean is the Indian Ocean in the original world.

At the same time, he also planned to use tens of thousands of Zhuluo prisoners of war to build a convenient passage between the Jinsha River, the Nu River, and the Dulong River with canals, plank roads, and other unique transportation facilities.

At that time, for the Liang State and even the Han Empire, it would be equivalent to opening up a "road" leading to the Western world.As a transportation hub on this "road", a business center, will gain endless wealth.

In Yibin City, on the pavilion in the courtyard of the newly built King Liang Palace, Queen Cai Yan and Princess Wei Lier sat at the table, looking down at the scenery outside the building. In the distance is the confluence of the Jinsha River and the Shu River.Feng Yu's children were playing around their laps.

With a voice: "The king is here", Feng Yu has already boarded the pavilion.Cai Yan and Wei Lier got up and greeted each other with courtesy.Feng Yu said: "Excuse me" and pulled them to sit down.

"Here, do you still have the habit of living here?" Feng Yu asked pleasantly.Cai Yan smiled and said, "It's all good, but...it's just too far away from my father."

Feng Yu smiled and replied: "It doesn't matter, Mr. Cai has sent a letter to Gu, and he will resign these days. After resigning, he will come to live in Yibin."

Cai Yan said pleasantly, "That's great." Feng Yu exchanged pleasantries with Wei Li'er, and the guards came to report that the Southern Expedition Army had returned triumphantly, and the army had arrived near Yibin.

Feng Yu immediately ordered: "Oh? They arrived so soon. I have to go outside the city to meet this triumphant division in person."

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Feng Yu personally hosted a banquet in the palace hall to entertain the soldiers who returned from the Southern Expedition triumphantly.The civil servants and military generals with higher ranks in Liang Guo also participated in the banquet.

At the banquet, it is easy for the main ministers to toast each other and congratulate each other.After drinking for three rounds, when everyone was flushed and their ears were red and slightly drunk, Feng Yu personally came to Zhuge Liang with the wine and wine utensils. Zhuge Liang stood up immediately, looking a little flattered.

Feng Yu said with a smile: "Kong Ming, I have heard that you have made great achievements in this Eastern Expedition. I don't know how to reward you. Come, I will have a drink with you first."

"Your Majesty's words are wrong. The Southern Expedition is not the work of Liang alone. It is all thanks to the three generals Gao Shun, Dian Wei, and Meng Huo, as well as all the officers and men, to achieve this great victory."

After the two finished talking, they drank the wine in the cup.Zhuge Liang was obviously a little drunk at this time.Relying on the strength of the wine, he asked Feng Yu: "Your Majesty, there is something that Liang doesn't understand. Please enlighten me, Your Majesty."

Feng Yu jokingly said: "Oh, there are still things in this world that Kong Ming doesn't understand. Tell me, what is it that you don't understand?"

"Your Majesty, the capital of Liang Kingdom is logically the most suitable place to stay in Zhuyang, because it is the closest to the Central Plains and the imperial court. Your Majesty has also operated there for many years. It is understandable that we moved to Chengdu later. .Because Zhuyang is, after all, on the edge of our country of Liang. But now it has been moved to..."

After hearing this, Feng Yu laughed and said, "It turns out that Kong Ming also has doubts about the move of the capital. In fact, you are not the only Kong Ming, and many people are also puzzled by this. Let me take this opportunity to give you a detailed explanation."

After Feng Yu finished speaking, the noisy banquet scene suddenly fell silent.Feng Yu called the guard at the door and whispered something to him.After a while, the guard came over with a cloth bag, took out coins from the bag, and distributed them to everyone in the hall one by one.

These coins were actually gold coins, but half of the people in the hall were not surprised by this. They were generals who had dealt with Zhu Luo's army on the battlefield.They knew that these were the coins used by the Chola people, but most of them were silver coins, and gold coins were rare.

Zhuge Liang, Gao Shun and the others had seen it before, and their faces were even more puzzled, wondering why Feng Yu gave them these gold coins.

"Everyone, you may already know that these are the gold coins of the Zhu Luo Kingdom. But you don't know that these coins were not minted by the Zhu Luo Kingdom itself."

As soon as Feng Yu said this, the hall was filled with surprise.Unexpectedly, in a big country like Zhuluo, even the coins are not minted by its own country.Zhuge Liang suddenly realized and said to himself: "The portraits on this Zhuluo gold coin have been deliberately damaged, and I have always been puzzled by this. Hearing what the king said, it makes sense. This coin is the head of another country. In the Chola, of course, his likeness cannot be kept on coins."

"Yes, this coin comes from the Great Qin State in the Far West." Feng Yu responded to Zhuge Liang.

"Great Qin? Wasn't it destroyed by Xiang Yu, the overlord of Western Chu hundreds of years ago?" Dian Wei exclaimed.

When everyone in the hall heard Dian Wei's words, they burst into laughter.Dian Qing tugged at Dian Wei's sleeve, and said in a low voice, "This Great Qin is not the Qin Dynasty, this is a Fan Kingdom in the Far West. It has nothing to do with the Qin Dynasty."

Dian Wei blushed, rubbed the back of his head and muttered: "Why does this country still take the name of our former Central Plains dynasty?"

Feng Yu went on to explain: "This Daqin is what we call them, and their official name is the Roman Empire. Although Guozuo is not as good as my 400-year-old foundation, it has a history of two to three hundred years."

Feng Yu took a sip of his wine, and then said: "Rome has a vast territory and is quite rich in resources. More importantly, they have something that we don't have but need, not just resources and wealth."

Chapter 251 The Western World

Taking advantage of the pause in Feng Yu's words, Fazheng on the side interjected: "Your Majesty is determined to conduct official business with this Great Qin... er, with this Rome?"

Feng Yu nodded and shook his head again: "It's not just about doing business with Rome, it's not limited to doing business. Instead, we want to communicate with all foreign countries in the Western world. Between the Great Qin and my Great Han, there are hundreds of thousands of Fan Kingdom. Among them, besides Zhuluo, Anxi, and the Guishuang Empire that you all know can be called the Empire of God. There are inexhaustible wealth and resources in these places."

Fazheng took a breath, and asked, "Could it be that the reason why the king moved his capital to Yibin was to communicate with foreign countries in the West? But as far as Fazheng knows, there is indeed a poisonous road to the body of Shu after passing the south of Nanzhong." It connects to the West. But almost no one has walked through the smoky land from beginning to end. Large-scale trade is also impossible."

Feng Yu smiled slightly and said: "Of course I will not go to the Western countries through the Shendu Road of Shu. Even if I go through the Shendu Road with great difficulty and arrive at the Shendu area, it is still thousands of miles away from Rome, and even from the Guishuang is also far away."

When Feng Yu said this, the expression on his face turned solemn: "Shu's body is poisonous, and Gu's wish cannot be fulfilled. Gu wants to push the border of our country Liang to the seaside of the West. From there, we can reach by sea. And Western ports can be connected to Yibin through inland waterways, and Yibin can reach Chengdu, Hanzhong and even the rest of the world with the Yangtze River and Jialing water.”

When Feng Yu said this, everyone was shocked.Western, most of them have heard of it.But they never thought about where the Western Ocean was, nor did they think that the border of Liang State could reach there.

Only Zhuge Liang knew this well, after all he had studied in the system school in Zhuyang for three years.He stood up and said with a bit of a loss of composure: "Your Majesty, do you still want to continue the southern expedition? Cross the smoky Hongshawadi, go straight to the coast of the Western Ocean, and open up the sea passage to the western countries?"

"Exactly. We want to conquer Hongshawadi and make him a part of our Liang Kingdom, a part of Han Jiang. This passage is also the way for Zhuluo Kingdom to invade my big man."

At this time, the hall was completely silent, only Jia Xu stood up with a little worry on his face, and he said to Feng Yu after saluting: "Your Majesty, I feel that there is a word that must be addressed to the Majesty."

Feng Yu's solemn expression turned into a smile again, and he said, "Wen He is trying to persuade me not to waste my life and money, so please go on an expedition."

Jia Xu bowed his body slightly and replied: "The king is a sage. Xu is exactly what he meant. This expedition of thousands of miles is still a land of smog. How much manpower and material resources will it cost. We have suffered casualties from the war in the middle of Sichuan to the expedition to Yongchang in the south. The military strength is nearly 2. All legions are short of soldiers. In the past two years, the strength of Wei and Wu has increased dramatically. What I mean, whether it is for Liang or the court, we should focus on the Central Plains... "

Feng Yu interrupted Jia Xu and said, "Wenhe, Gu understands your worries. But Gu's decision-making is precisely to counter Cao Wei and Sun Wu. Although our Liang State has the largest territory, its population is also the sparsest compared with Wei and Wu Far less than the Central Plains and Jiangdong area.

Gu already knew that the population of the Central Plains and Jiangdong was rapidly recovering now that the military disasters and natural disasters were no longer there.Moreover, the population bases of Wei and Wu are much larger than ours.

So as time goes by, the population gap between us and them can only widen.Therefore, Liang Guo can only guarantee our leading strength in the case of a population disadvantage. "

Zhuge Liang stood up a little excitedly, and said to Feng Yu: "Your Majesty, Liang is willing to be a pioneer to open up this unusual westward road for you."

Lu Bu, who had been silent for a long time, also stood up and said to Feng Yu: "Your Majesty, I have been in the Liang Kingdom for a long time, but I haven't made any achievements. Now that I have completed my new army, I would like to invite you to fight south. "

But Feng Yu replied: "Don't worry, most of your soldiers are northern soldiers. I am afraid that they are not suitable for this southern expedition due to the unacceptable climate. But it doesn't matter. In the next year or two, We will also go west in the direction of the north. Then it is time for you to make meritorious deeds."

Then Feng Yu said to Zhuge Liang: "I will worship you as the military advisor of the Southern Army and let you be the commander of the southern expedition to Hongshawadi. However, it will be a hot summer season soon, and it will be the rainy season in Hongshawadi. It is not suitable for conquest. By this time, you and the generals of the Southern Expedition can make preparations."

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Poison Subcontinent, on the banks of the Cauvery River, the palace of the city of Oraiyur.

A middle-aged man with a high nose, deep eyes and beard, dressed in a luxurious Shu brocade robe, leaned on the seat, which was inlaid with precious stones and gold ornaments. A beautiful woman from Zhu Luo was holding a banana leaf shape for him. fan.In the hall, there are also a group of dancers singing and dancing to vocal music.

The person in the seat is none other than Karikala, the emperor of the Chola Empire.

A palace attendant ran up to him and said respectfully to Karikala: "Your Majesty the Supreme King, a letter from General Jarawa of Hongshawadi. It is said to be an urgent military report. So the letter was sent directly to the palace. gone."

The attendant presented the letter while talking.Karikala, who was eating grapes, took the letter and unfolded it. After reading two lines, she almost swallowed the grape skin in her mouth.

He spit out the grape skin with a pop, and said to himself in a surprised tone: "What, Jarawa was also defeated! Rahal told me that the Han country in the east has only a few million people, how could it be possible?" Defeat my two big armies in a row?"

He straightened up, read all the letter paper, then frowned, raised his hand and waved.The sound of music and music in the hall stopped abruptly, and the dancers and singers also hurriedly retreated.

Karikala said to the attendants on the left and right: "Go, call the ministers, and discuss with them about the urgent military situation."

After a while, the ministers and generals of the Zhuluo Empire entered the hall one after another.

Seeing that everyone was here, Karikala said, "Our Galava army was defeated and lost our last piece of territory in the territory of Han. Now Galava asks us to increase our troops, everyone, what should I do?" Answer him."

An old man with white beard and hair and wrinkled face said: "Your Majesty, since this Han country is so difficult to occupy, then we don't need it. Now the Kalabora people in the southern jungle have started to rebel again. Mojie Tuo has just conquered, and people's hearts are not stable. Guishuang in the north is eyeing. These places need to be heavily guarded to prevent accidents, so how can there be extra soldiers transferred to Jialawa?"

Karikala said with a sneer: "You haven't heard me finished yet. Galawa asked for more troops, not to continue attacking Han, but to keep Hongshawadi. He has lost more than half of his troops, and there are not many troops left. If the Han army continues to attack south, Galawa is worried that with the current strength, it will not be able to defend Hongshawadi."

When Zhu Luo's officials heard this, their discussion suddenly became louder, forming a noisy trend.

Chapter 252 The Airship Pulled by an Elephant

In the palace hall of Emperor Chola, Karikala leaned on the throne again.He supported his face with his right hand, silently observing his arguing courtiers.

Karikala's attitude of staying out of the way made the noise and quarrel louder and louder.The group of ministers seemed to be divided into two factions, one faction supported the increase of troops, and the other faction opposed it.Each has its own reasons.

A supporter said: "It is precisely because we conscripted a large number of Calaborans to fight in the far east last year that led to today's jungle rebellion! Why are we sending troops to the east of the sea now?"

Another person also echoed: "Yes, two-thirds of the ships in our fleet are used to transport food, grass and soldiers to Hongshawadi. However, on the west coast, our sea area is still under the control of the fleet of the Guishuang Empire in the north. Threat. Your Majesty, we really don't have any extra power to use Hongshawadi!"

However, someone immediately refuted them and said: "You are all short-sighted. If Hongshawadi is captured by the Han Kingdom, then our efforts in the past few years will be in vain. There is also Funan Kingdom, and more Our vassal states on the southeast island are all facing great danger."

Some people also echoed: "If someone seizes Hongshawadi, Magadha will also be under threat from the other party. The other party may even cross the sea to attack our homeland."

This was immediately refuted:

"This statement is extremely stupid. My Zhuluo navy is invincible in the world. Even a powerful country like Guishuang has to bow to my Zhuluo at sea. Our fleet can sail tens of thousands of miles. An army like Han with only inland navy How to compete with our navy? All in all, His Majesty Hongshawadi and the Han Kingdom in the north are bottomless pits, and if we invest manpower and material resources in it, I am afraid that the country will be in danger of subjugation!"

When the ministers said this, a trace of uneasiness flashed in the eyes of the expressionless Carapola.An attendant hurried into the hall again, handing Karikala another letter.Karikala opened it, her face still became solemn, and she lowered her head in thought for a moment.

The ministers may have also discovered this change, and the voice of the quarrel gradually decreased, and finally fell silent.But when Karikara raised his head again, his expression returned to normal.

Karika said slowly: "There is no need to argue about this matter. In the name of the king of King Chulawan, I named Galava the Duke, and gave him the land of Hongshawadi as the principality. Let his descendants Sun Yong is stationed in Hongshawadi, and is the defender of our Chula Empire."

Although Karikala's remarks did not mention at all whether to send troops to Hongshawadi.But the ministers all understood what he meant.The position of the Duke of Galava was given to him to find a way to solve his own national defense.The Zhu Luo Empire will not send a single soldier.

When the ministers dispersed, Karikala left several confidant ministers behind and circulated the letter that he had received earlier to them.Everyone was also shocked after reading the content, and only then did they understand why Karikala suddenly decided not to increase troops to Hongshawadi.It turned out that the Sinhalese on the island of Ceylon could not bear the rule of the Cholas and launched a rebellion.

The status of this Ceylon Island in the Chola Empire is very important. No matter whether it is the jungle of the Kalaborans or the Hongshawadi, it is nothing compared to it.

If the island of Ceylon is lost, the Chola Empire may lose its maritime supremacy.And half of the annual fiscal revenue of the Chula Empire comes from maritime trade, so this will bring disaster to the Chula Empire and Karikala.

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Suburbs of Yibin.A behemoth rising slowly in the sun, this is a hot air balloon airship produced by Yibin Hot Air Balloon Workshop.It is moving slowly by being dragged by elephants or horses on the ground.

This seems pointless.But in fact, under the same animal power, it can increase the load capacity by more than ten times compared with the carrying vehicle.The most important thing is that it is not restricted by geographical terrain. As long as there is enough space in the air, there are horses on the ground, and narrow roads that elephants can pass, this airship can pass.

In a completely windless situation, this airship can use its own simple power system.It was a small boiler cast in bronze, connected to a steam nozzle.

The nozzles inject high-pressure steam to the rear of the airship to obtain power to move forward or turn around.Of course, this kind of power is very small, and it is almost ineffective in windy conditions.With the existing technical conditions of the system, Feng Yu can't make modern relatively sophisticated machinery.

Around the flight test site, there was a sea of ​​people, all densely packed with human heads.Living people within a hundred miles of Yibin came to watch the excitement and see this "spaceship" that can be suspended in the air.

Zhuge Liang was naturally among the onlookers. This airship was originally prepared for his southern expedition after autumn.Since returning from Nanzheng, Zhuge Liang has always held a goose feather fan in his hand since he didn't know when, and he looks quite young and mature.In fact, this fan was given to him by Feng Yu.

Zhuge Liang put the fan on his eyebrows, squinted at the airship in the air, and said to Feng Yu beside him: "Your Majesty, this thing is much better than the Kongming Lantern designed by me. The outer shell of the Kongming Lantern is made of paper. The skin of this airship is made of cowhide, and the frame is a light metal. It must be durable.”

Feng Yu replied: "In Hongshawadi, our army's march may be mainly advancing along the river, so this thing is mainly used for transportation between Gufu and Buwei."

Speaking of this, Feng Yu paused, and asked solemnly: "Kong Ming, how many troops do you need for this southern expedition?"

Zhuge Liang seemed to have understood this for a long time, and replied: "This time the southern conscription is not about many, but about the elite. I only need four thousand elite troops, and two good generals are enough."

Feng Yu laughed loudly and said, "Just now I was worried that you would say 'Han Xin orders troops, the more the better. You marched south with five thousand soldiers. You are just like what I imagined, in this smoky land, you have to travel thousands of miles. You can’t rely on the way of overwhelming the army to complete it. We can’t afford the logistical supplies of too large a force.”

Zhuge Liang smiled, and asked Feng Yu back: "Then the king is not curious, how did Liang plan to use only a few thousand soldiers to conquer this thousand-mile land?"

Feng Yu said leisurely: "You should be the same as I imagined. You will use the river as a road, set up points along the road, use points to lead to areas, and use barbarians to control barbarians to open up this territory."

Seeing Feng Yu's easy words, Zhuge Liang turned solemn and said, "Your Majesty is wise, this is a classmate's axe."

Finally, Feng Yu asked again: "Kong Ming, what else do you think you need for this Southern Expedition?"

Zhuge Liang thought for a while and replied: "Basically everything is ready, but there is one more important thing. But I don't know where to get this thing, and I don't even know what it is."

Chapter 253 Go straight to the ground

After hearing Zhuge Liang's strange words, Feng Yu asked curiously, "What exactly is it?"

Zhuge Liang shook his goose-feather fan and said solemnly, "My Majesty, it is something that can resist miasma. I searched hundreds of books and thousands of volumes, but I didn't find a proper and feasible way to prevent miasma and prevent soldiers from being infected with miasma.

Some medical books mention it, but some of them can be seen at a glance as nonsense, ghosts and gods.There are also some that have been tested by Weichen in the process of conquering Yongchang in the south, and they are almost useless.There are still many soldiers infected with miasma. "

Zhuge Liang's worries are not unreasonable.In the battle of the Southern Expedition to Yongchang, more than 4000 troops were reduced by [-] people, and only half of them were direct casualties on the battlefield.The rest were contracted malaria and fell ill or even died.

It is said that the miasma in Hongshawadi is far worse than that in Nanzhong. This is also the reason why when Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty opened the Southwest Yi, the southwest border stopped abruptly when it reached Yongchang.

In fact, Feng Yu already knew this well. He was about to raise this issue with Zhuge Liang, but now that Zhuge Liang raised it on his own initiative, he said:

"I have explained this matter to Gao Shun. You only need to be prepared to prevent mosquitoes, and the water must be boiled before drinking. You can prevent miasma to the greatest extent. If you do these two things well, the miasma in Hongshawadi will not be affected. How much worse will it be than the miasma in Nanzhong."

In tropical jungles, due to the humid and low-heat environment, mist visible to the naked eye is often formed in the early morning.And when a person is in it, there will be a stuffy body feeling.The smell of tropical jungle animals and plants will also penetrate into the nostrils.So people guess that there is a poisonous gas in this environment, which is called miasma.

But in this environment, people are extremely susceptible to a vicious disease.People took it for granted that this disease was associated with the imaginary miasma, and this disease was called miasma.And it is very certain that miasma is caused by inhaling miasma.

But Feng Yu, who has common medical knowledge in the original world, is very clear about this.The so-called miasma mainly refers to dysentery, not a respiratory disease, and has nothing to do with the so-called miasma.It is mainly transmitted by mosquito bites and drinking water.

After listening to Feng Yu's words, Zhuge Liang murmured: "But this time the southern expedition to Yongchang, General Gao Shun followed what the king said and asked the soldiers to follow suit, but in the end 2000 people were still infected with miasma..."

Feng Yu said sternly: "That's because two things were not done properly. Think about it carefully, do soldiers drink boiled water when they drink water? Did they light wormwood to repel mosquitoes every night when they camped?"

Zhuge Liang was stunned for a moment, and thought about it carefully.Indeed, after a fierce battle, the heat and thirst were unbearable.Many soldiers are not so particular about it, they pick up raw water from a nearby water source with their bare hands and pour it into their mouths.

Sometimes the logistics supplies cannot be delivered, so there is no way to repel mosquitoes when camping.When he woke up the next morning, the soldier's body was covered with lumps from mosquito bites.

He replied to Feng Yu: "It is true that these two things have not been fully completed. I will find a way to let the soldiers strictly follow the king's teachings during the southern expedition to Hongshawadi."

Feng Yu nodded and continued: "It is impossible to prevent miasma infection 100%. For this miasma, there is a special herbal medicine that can quickly cure it, and there is no way to grow this medicine. It's just that the seeds of this medicinal material are in a very distant place. It takes several months to travel by sea to reach... Alas, it’s too far away, this is a later story, let’s not mention it for the time being.”

In fact, the herbal medicine Feng Yu mentioned was the cinchona tree produced in South America.In the task of [Recovering the Han Territory], he was rewarded with facility cards for cinchona tree planting fields and rubber plantations.It's just that these two things belong to wild species, and the facilities generated by the system do not come with seedlings.Seedlings need to be collected by Feng Yu himself in this world.

Feng Yu paused and continued: "Earlier, I ordered the pharmacy to make a special ointment to smear on the body, which can effectively prevent mosquito bites. They also asked them to develop and produce a portable ointment that can repel mosquitoes. Fragrance. These two things were only developed when you returned in triumph. But after a few months, you will still be able to use them.”

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