Back to the Warring States Period as Zhao Kuo

Xiang Yan obviously knew that someone would ask such a question, so he answered immediately.

;First of all, from a geographical point of view, the core area ruled by our Han Dynasty is undoubtedly the Central Plains.So the areas that can threaten the Central Plains, in fact, if you look closely now, they are basically conquered by us, leaving only the Korean Peninsula and the Fusang Islands further east. ;

What Xiang Yan said is really correct. After careful calculation, the current Great Han Kingdom is now aggressively conquering and conquering the territories in the south of the Yangtze River. In the north, the grasslands have also fallen under the rule of the Great Han Kingdom. In the west The Hexi Corridor and the Western Regions were also conquered.

Therefore, only the Korean Peninsula and the four islands of Fusang, which became East Asia, were not included in the territory of the Han Kingdom.

As long as the Korean peninsula and the four Fusang islands can be conquered, then the Great Han Kingdom is equivalent to unifying the entire East Asia, and in this way, there is no need to worry about any threats from external lands.

Xiang Yan continued to speak: "Secondly, according to His Majesty's previous philosophy, the navy of our Han Dynasty must be developed. If we want to develop the navy, we must start with the ocean war."

But now, there is no navy in this world that can directly fight the navy of our Han Dynasty, so our navy does not need to worry, and we can cooperate with our army first to carry out some operations.From this perspective, attacking the Korean peninsula and even conquering the four Fusang islands in the future are very rare and precious tempering for the navy. ;

After Xiang Yan finished speaking, many people began to nod their heads, but there were also many people who obviously still had doubts in their hearts.

For example, another Pang Nuan couldn't help but said: "Your Majesty wants to develop the navy. Of course, everyone knows this. But, the old minister wants to ask, is it really necessary to develop the navy?" ;

Pang Nuan's doubts are actually more realistic. For him, he feels that the army of the Han Kingdom is now invincible.If you want to conquer any country, just send an army to fight there and you're done.

For example, Central Asia, or even West Asia, where the Seleucid Empire is located, is thousands of miles away from the Han Kingdom, and the cavalry of the Han Kingdom can also fight there. So according to this mileage, is there any Han Kingdom in this world? Is there a place where the cavalry cannot reach?

Faced with this question from Pang Nuan, it was Zhao Kuo himself who answered.

"Prime Minister Pang's question is very good, and I just want to talk to you here today, why do I attach so much importance to this navy?" ;

While speaking, Zhao Kuo also stood up and walked to the world map. Xiang Yan was very savvy, and handed the baton to Zhao Kuo respectfully.

Holding the baton, Zhao Kuo drew a circle on the world map and spoke slowly.

;In fact, if you look here, you can see that more than 70% of our world is ocean, and less than 30% is land.

What does this mean?This means that whoever can control the ocean can truly control the world.

Let me give you an example. Take a look, there is a huge peninsula just south of Lingnan, which I call Indochina Peninsula.

In this Indochina Peninsula, it belongs to a tropical area, where there are countless tropical rainforests and countless indigenous people living here.

If we say that the army of the Han Dynasty wants to conquer this place, it is actually quite difficult, because we need to march in the tropical rainforest, and we need to adapt to the miasma in this place, and all kinds of mosquitoes are very troublesome things , and our logistical supplies are also difficult to keep up with.

However, if we change our thinking angle and use the navy to conquer these places, it will be different.

You can see that the Indochina Peninsula is surrounded by oceans on three sides.In other words, we can land at any place in the Indochina Peninsula that is suitable as a port, and use this port as a basis to establish a regional location, and then penetrate inland step by step.

During this process, the natives in this area are completely unable to interfere with our logistical supplies, and their climate can hardly pose any great threat to our army, because if we do not adapt to the climate in the dense forest, we will Just return to port.

There is not only one Indochina Peninsula in this world, there are many, similar to the Indochina Peninsula in tropical areas.If we want to conquer these areas, the army alone is absolutely not enough. We must have a navy. We must build ports one by one like this, and slowly advance inland, so that we can finally ensure that these places can become our colonies , Only then can we ensure that these places are ruled by our Han Dynasty.

To do this, the size of our navy is as small as it is now, it must be far from enough, understand?We must continue to expand the size of the navy, and in the future, we can also use naval ships to transport the spices, sugar, and various resources produced in these places back to the mainland of our Han country.

In this way, we can not only conquer this place, but also obtain the resources of these places. What we pay is only to make the navy of the Han Dynasty stronger. Why don't you tell us why we are not doing it? ;

What Zhao Kuo said was not fabricated out of thin air, but something that happened when Western colonists opened up colonies in history.

Like these colonists, they were indeed like this in the Age of Discovery. Now they found a good port near the sea, and then established a stronghold in the port, and used this port stronghold as a starting base, step by step. Expand inland.

Relying on this seemingly crude way of expansion, the colonists slowly divided up the entire earth in a few hundred years and turned it into various colonies.

Since those colonists can succeed, how could the Great Han Kingdom not be successful with Zhao Kuo, a traverser behind the scenes?

After hearing Zhao Kuo's explanation, all the important officials of the Han Dynasty present were also convinced, showing expressions of admiration.

Pang Nuan couldn't help but said: "Your Majesty's words are very true."It is true that the old minister lacked consideration.If we can really expand according to His Majesty's plan in the future, then the navy is indeed our great Han country, and we must invest heavily in the future, and it can even be said to be a key support branch. ;

As for the other people, they are more consistent, and they all said that His Majesty's naval plan is very far-sighted, and we all support it very much.

After Zhao Kuo saw that everyone had expressed their support, he stopped talking nonsense and directly issued a new order.

;Since the in-laws all feel that this plan is feasible, then after the spring of next year, we will conquer the Korean Peninsula according to the strategy just now.After conquering the Korean Peninsula, we will continue to cross the sea between the Korean Peninsula and the four Fusang islands eastward according to this map, and further conquer the four Fusang islands.

It happens that there are many indigenous people on the four islands of Fusang. We can also use the four islands of Fusang to experiment on how to establish a colony, how to effectively rule the colony and obtain resources.

Xiang Yan and Wang Jian will be responsible for this matter, and Prince Zhao Qian will also serve as the supervisor of the army, and follow the navy to experience this war. ;

Zhao Kuo's first order to let Xiang Yan and Wang Jian serve as the generals and deputy generals did not cause any disturbances, but after hearing that Zhao Qian was also going to participate as a supervisor, some people still objected.

But Zhao Kuo directly blocked the opposition of these ministers with just one sentence.

"Didn't everyone just confirm that the navy will definitely become one of the most important arms in our Han Dynasty in the future."As the prince of our Great Han Kingdom, he is also the future emperor of the Great Han Kingdom. If Zhao Qian doesn't even know how the navy works, how can he lead and develop a truly powerful navy?

And you don't need to worry, this time the navy's main marching route is along the coastline, and it doesn't mean going directly to ocean travel, so of course Zhao Qian is relatively safe. ;

After listening to Zhao Kuo's explanation, no one really objected.

Everyone began to look forward to it. What kind of powerful team should the navy of the Han Dynasty be?

Chapter 1177 The Navy Sets Out to Conquer North Korea (Ninth Change)

Time flies, this year's autumn and winter just passed by.

Due to the distance, the caravan heading towards Seleucus basically did not return at this moment, but some news was also sent back to the Han Kingdom one after another.

In general, just like the previous successful marketing for the first time, the caravan of the Han Kingdom brought more goods this time, and sold them in more places in Seleucid, which naturally opened up a larger market. market.

In such a case, more goods become demand.Therefore, these caravans also sent people back to Dahan Kingdom early to report to the real boss behind them, hoping to reserve more goods in the territory of Dahan Kingdom in advance, so that they can sell them when the next time the caravan departs There's more to it.

So even though those caravans have not come back, the commodity market of Dahan Kingdom has already begun to change because of these caravans.

More orders naturally represent more demand for productivity, so, with the help of this wind, steam engines began to be promoted.

The promotion of steam engines is a matter of course for Zhao Kuo. After all, the most important part of the transaction between Huaxia and Seleucid is the textile industry. Although the current Seleucid Empire needs more high-end products such as silk, but As long as the steam engine is used on a large scale, the cost of low-end textile products in the Han Kingdom will be unmatched, and at that time, the entire market of Seleucid can be directly opened up by virtue of the low price.

This scene is the dumping of commodities by industrial countries to backward agricultural countries in history. In fact, until the modern period of the 21st century, most of the backward agricultural countries in the world are still forced to bear this kind of dumping.

Only modern China has established a complete industrialization system after working hard to become stronger, not only resisting dumping, but also dumping developed countries in turn, which can be said to be a miracle in the history of modern development.

It is precisely because of this large-scale procurement that the discussion within the Han Dynasty about going to Seleucid to make a fortune has become active again.

Although the common people are not able to detect the information seen by the bosses behind the caravan, nor can they know the decisions of these bosses, but the problem is that where the procurement needs are, it is impossible to hide everything. human.

After all, everyone has been able to feel from some clues that the Seleucid market is indeed promising, especially in the imperial city, which is close to the foot of the emperor and is already very sensitive to wind and grass, many people have moved their minds .

It is precisely because of this that a brand-new movement began in the territory of the Han Dynasty, that is, to go to the west to do business and make a fortune.

Since there is a Xiaoguan at the junction of Guanzhong and Longxi County in the Han Dynasty, this movement is vividly described as breaking through the Guanxi.

Just as the movement to enter the Guanxi region was already brewing, another war quietly kicked off.

This war was just planned by Zhao Kuo to conquer the Korean peninsula and use the Korean peninsula as a springboard to further advance eastward to conquer the four islands of Fusang.

As the prince of the Great Han Kingdom and the supervisor of this war, Zhao Qian led Zhao Zheng and left the Imperial Capital City at the beginning of spring and came to Jiaodong County.

The Han Kingdom now has two naval fleet shipbuilding factories, one is located in Kuaiji County in the south, and the other is located in Jiaodong County where Zhao Qian now belongs.

Since Zhao Kuo had already allocated a large amount of funds and paid great attention to the manpower resources of shipbuilders, the number of ships in the Han Kingdom's navy was quite beyond Zhao Qian's expectations.

Just for the most magnificent Yuhuang warship in China today, there are as many as 20 ships in the Han Kingdom, and more than 200 other large and small warships.

Together, these warships can accommodate more than 2 officers and soldiers living on board, which is definitely an out-and-out super large fleet.

Yuhuang battleship has another nickname, that is "building boat", the height of this kind of warship is as high as a 3-story building, and it looks like it can cover the sky and block out the sun, which is very visually impactful.

Even as Zhao Qian, the prince of the Han Dynasty, who thinks he has seen a lot of worlds, when he saw the boat, he couldn't help taking a breath, and murmured: "Now I understand." Now, why did the emperor say that if he couldn't participate in this war with his own eyes, he wouldn't be able to realize how important the navy is. ;

Although the fleet hasn't even left the port yet, Zhao Qian feels as if he already knows Zhao Kuo's intentions just by taking a peek at the flagships like Louchuan.

All the officers and soldiers in the fleet had already made preparations, they set off quickly after waiting for Zhao Qian to board the ship.

If we count from the shortest distance, then we can reach the Incheon area in the central part of the Korean peninsula directly from Jiaodong County across the Yellow Sea. However, such a distance is actually very risky in this era.

Moreover, Zhao Kuo actually considered that Zhao Qian was a child of the Han Kingdom after all, and that was a treasure in the true sense, so whether he could use it to participate in the adventure of the first great voyage.

Therefore, Zhao Kuo's order was to let the fleet go all the way north along the coastline, in other words, to circle the interior of the Bohai Sea, and then follow the Liaodong Peninsula to the western coast of the Korean Peninsula.

In this way, since the fleet itself is very close to the coast, if something happens, the chances of surviving safely are very high.

For Zhao Kuo's idea, Zhao Qian himself is well aware of it, so Zhao Qian is actually a little moved in his heart. On the other hand, he also feels a little unconvinced, because he feels that Zhao Kuo is too Treat him like a child.

But in fact, the current Zhao Qian is really just a teenager who has not yet grown up.

In this way, the Han Kingdom's fleet left Jiaodong County mighty and mighty, and began to make a big circle along the coastline.

On the other side, Xiang Yan and Wang Jian, who had arrived in Liaodong in advance, also led the army and set off.

Xiang Yan is still the main general this time, and Wang Jian is still the deputy general. After all, the two sides have had the experience of working together as partners, so they have a good impression of each other, and the cooperation can be regarded as a relatively tacit understanding.

Xiang Yan said to Wang Jian with a smile: "Speaking of which, you and I are considered lucky this time. Prime Minister Li Mu doesn't like a small country like North Korea, but Minister Sima Shang is still there now." The south can't keep up with the presidency of military affairs, so it's our turn to take credit for this. ;

After all, this is not the first time everyone has cooperated, so Xiang Yan is relatively casual when speaking.

After Wang Jian heard Xiang Yan's words, he also smiled and said: "This is indeed the truth. We must also take this opportunity to make some contributions. Otherwise, how can we continue to make progress in the court in the future?" ;

There were happy smiles on the faces of the two of them at the same time.

After a while, Xiang Yan said: "I didn't expect that the heavy snow in Liaodong would melt so much later than our Central Plains. During this period of time, our speed will be somewhat affected." ;

Wang Jian nodded and said: "It is indeed the case. It seems that the north is still suitable for us, and the Central Plains in the south has a very different place."But we don't need to worry, after all, we now have a full 2 Musketeers and a sufficient amount of explosives. I think this force is enough to flatten the Seleucid Empire. ;

As the chief of staff, Xiang Yan is also the actual person in charge of the General Staff Department of the Great Han Kingdom. He still knows some inside information about this aspect.

After pondering for a while, Xiang Yan still decided to reveal something to Wang Jian, so she said: "Actually, His Majesty's thoughts are not a secret anymore. For an opponent like Seleucus, it's better for us to figure it out slowly."Use those businessmen to collect a batch of intelligence in their country's land first, and win over a group of traitors. In this way, the action of destroying the Seleucid Empire in the future will be smoother. ;

When Wang Jian nodded, he said in a puzzled way: "Actually, with the military strength of our current Great Han Kingdom, we are absolutely sure that we can flatten the entire Seleucid Empire within a single war. choose to do so? ;

Xiang Yan chuckled and said: "Actually, I was as confused about this question as you were before, but later Your Majesty gave me an explanation. I think this is indeed where His Majesty's foresight lies. Would you like to listen to it?" ;

How could Wang Jian hold back his curiosity when he heard this, and immediately nodded to express that he really wanted to listen.

So Xiang Yan said: "The answer to this question, if it is simple, it is actually very simple."His Majesty said so at the time, he said that we can easily occupy the land of Seleucus through military means, but if we want to occupy that land for a long time and truly integrate that land into our In the case of the Great Han Kingdom, some necessary preparations in the early stage still have to be done. ;

After listening to Xiang Yan's words, Wang Jian fell into deep thought.

On the surface, these words seem to say nothing, but in reality, it is completely different.

As a very good general, Wang Jian was actually able to understand Zhao Kuo's words, and behind them he grasped and considered the entire Seleucid people's hearts.Wang Jian also knew that during this period of time, the nightingales in the Intelligence Department of the Great Han Kingdom must be working tirelessly to ensure that the Great Han Kingdom will perish more smoothly in the future and rule the Seleucid Empire.

Thinking of this, Wang Jian also breathed a sigh of relief and said: "It seems that His Majesty's realm is indeed incomparable to those of us generals who fight." ;

While Wang Jian was still having a conversation with Xiang Yan, the North Korean side had already noticed the mobilization of soldiers and horses in the Han Dynasty.

After all, looking at the whole of East Asia now, besides the Han Kingdom, there is only North Korea left. As long as North Korea is not a fool, of course he will put all his energy and spies in the Han Kingdom.

So when the spies from Liaodong reported to Pyongyang that there was already an army of 5 people marching mightily along Liaodong towards the territory of North Korea, King Jifei of North Korea suddenly panicked.

The King of Joseon summoned many ministers in the country and began to ask for their opinions.

These ministers talked a lot, some felt that envoys should be sent immediately to seek peace from the Han Kingdom, while others believed that all North Korean soldiers and civilians should be mobilized to resist the invasion of the Han Kingdom, and the two factions quarreled. In a mess, I couldn't get a satisfactory answer for a while.

In the end, the king of Joseon, who had a great headache, made a decision, which was to adopt a compromise plan. On the one hand, he sent envoys to the soldiers and horses of the Han Dynasty to see what was going on in the form of condolences, and on the other hand, he launched a campaign in North Korea. Collect all war resources, recruit soldiers and horses, and prepare for the battle.

When the envoy arrived at the camp of the soldiers and horses of the Han Dynasty, it happened to be the second day after the soldiers and horses of the Han Dynasty entered the territory of North Korea.

Xiang Yan did not meet the envoy of the Joseon king at all, but directly sent someone to detain the envoy of the Joseon king in the local area.

A few days later, the long-awaited North Korean envoy finally arrived at a mighty fleet at sea, and Zhao Qian, Prince of the Great Han Dynasty who served as the supervisor of the army on this fleet, received the envoy.

The messenger was actually a little surprised, because the prince of the Han Dynasty would appear here.But no matter what, he still gave the letter of credence to Zhao Qian at the first time, and cautiously tried to test Zhao Qian by insinuating.

After Zhao Qian himself read the letter of credentials full of diplomatic rhetoric, he suddenly laughed.

As a young man just in the period of rebellion, although Zhao Qian said that he would not dare to disobey his father, Zhao Kuo, he was quite disdainful of the "adult's words" in this kind of credential.

Zhao Qian casually threw the letter of credence back to the emissary's feet, and said flatly: "It's already reached this point, and I don't need to have any politeness with you."Let me just put it this way, your royal family in North Korea will either submit to our great Han country, or usher in the demise of North Korea. There is no other choice except these two options.Well, you can reply to your king like this. ;

After saying this sentence, Zhao Qian ordered the messenger to be kicked out.

The envoy was out of his wits, and rushed back to Pyongyang City with the fastest speed along the way, and told the King of Joseon about this matter.

After hearing the whole incident, the Super Immortal King was terrified on the one hand, and furious on the other.

"This damned Zhuzi, when Zhou Tianzi replaced our Great Shang Dynasty, he still had to be polite to our Korean country. He was just a prince of Zhou Tianzi back then. Now that he won the world, is he so lawless?" ;

But now, the king of Joseon feels that there is no way out, and surrender is impossible, so he can only rely on the soldiers and horses he summoned to fight the Han country to the death.

Chapter 1178 The Destruction of Jizi North Korea (Tenth Change)

Even the North Koreans themselves did not expect that the time for the decisive battle would come so quickly.

Just as Zhao Qian was receiving the envoy of the Korean country, Xiang Yan and Wang Jian led 5 Han soldiers and horses, and had already launched attacks on various cities in North Korea.

Due to the existence of muskets and explosives, two weapons that can be said to have crossed the era, the attack of the Han team was very smooth.

In fact, as long as the Liaodong Peninsula is occupied, it will not be too difficult to continue to attack eastward.

From the Liaodong Peninsula to the east, you only need to cross a Yalu River to enter the western part of North Korea. Relatively speaking, the terrain is relatively flat, and Pyongyang, the capital of Jizi North Korea, is located here.