If even the merchants of Seles think that the island is huge - you must know that the land area of Seles is much larger than Rome. If you just conservatively calculate it, it is two or three times.
This is two or three times the size.
Such a large place is probably at least twice the size of the "Qiongzhou Island" south of Selis. And Qiongzhou Island is so big that if it were thrown into the Mediterranean Sea, Rome would no longer be an inland sea country, but a big river country.
This legendary giant island in the South China Sea.
If the area is indeed larger than Qiongzhou Island, it may even be larger, two or three times larger.
Once Rome is captured, this strategic situation will be great!
Because for such a large island, the terrain above must have a certain level of plains - this naturally determines that Rome can have a new food production area!
And this place of origin is different from other places.
The farmland of Rome in Europe, the farmland with eggs in Europe, are basically all in Eastern Europe, and have long been occupied by the Tang Empire. Now in the Roman Empire, His Majesty often talks about this in his speeches to encourage the army officers.
In addition, it is mainly farmland in northern Africa. This place is really, first of all, the foundation of Rome. According to the map of Selis that Rome has obtained so far, the basic foundation of the Tang Empire is similar.
, is a grain-producing area called the "Chengdu Plain". In addition, there is the "Heluo Area" and some places further south. In general, the situation is somewhat similar to that of Rome. It is easy to understand.
Not difficult.
However, relying solely on the grain-producing areas of Africa is not enough.
The results of the war so far have fully proved this point - Rome needs more food to feed a larger army and more elite talents.
And just the grain-producing areas in northern Africa are completely insufficient, of course.
The grain-producing areas of the Americas are so good. Those immaculate plains are like the skin of Venus. Just looking at them makes people feel drunk.
But the problem is that Rome really doesn't have the energy to manage North America at all. If we really talk about management, it's a waste. The farmland there is basically like a candle in the wind.
It sounds very strange. It is both the skin of the god Venus and the candle in the wind. These two extremely contradictory positions seem to not appear on the same thing anyway.
Unfortunately, however, these two properties really appear on the same thing.
The expansion power of the Tang Empire was too strong, maybe not that fast, but they really had the ability to interrupt the legs of forces that were expanding faster than them in minutes.
In this case.
The sea area south of Southeast Bay is extremely vast and mysterious.
So far, no merchant has ever gone there!
As for why the sages of Selis knew of its existence, this seems very strange, but Marcus already knows it - in Selis, any kind of systematic education will provide divination education.
In the orthodox education of Salis, the main classic is a book called "The Book of Changes". Of course,
It is not difficult to imagine that most of this kind of education is a failure. Who knows what will happen in the future? The devil knows.
There is no such thing as divination.
However, in line with the idea of treating enemies with leniency, Marcus still tends to believe that it is impossible for Thalys to be so awesome today because he has nothing in his stomach - who knows if anyone has really learned this so-called
Divination?
What if there really is one inside?
It is said that this was written by the founder of an ancient empire in Selis. If you look at it this way, it seems that there is really something. So, this kind of thing was learned by powerful people in Selis, and they divined the existence of land overseas. It seems that
It's not impossible either.
But it's still very strange, because if the above possibility exists, how did Li Sheng know that this place was very large?
Not only do you know its existence, but you also know its location and area?
Then again, since they knew that place existed, why didn't the Tang Empire try to occupy it themselves? Of course, there might be a trap here. Maybe the Tang Empire had already quietly occupied that place and established a military fortress.
, just waiting for the Romans to stupidly run over and be attacked head-on by them.
But this possibility, Marcus speculates, is not high, because that kind of place, judging from the description of this rumor, is probably really far away. Even if Rome wants to try to explore, the first wave of expedition teams must be small in scale.
Since the scale is not large, how meaningful is it for the Tang Empire to launch this ambush? This is obviously uneconomical.
Shopping malls are like battlefields, and battlefields are like shopping malls. All military operations also depend on costs, benefits, and risks.
And then again, businessmen have the best information, maybe better than the officials of the two empires of Tang and Rome - these guys do anything to obtain information. And in this whole rumor, even the businessmen seem to have never
Having heard of the Tang Empire's expedition to that land, it seems not difficult to understand that most of the time the Tang Empire had never touched those places.
The businessmen all said that it was the "Legendary Big Island", and obviously there really wasn't any other relevant information. Otherwise, given the unscrupulous character of these guys, all kinds of rumors would have been spread long ago.
Of course, there is another possibility. This big island in the south does not exist at all. This is just a random fabrication by some unscrupulous businessmen without any sense of responsibility, and then it was spread by others. Finally, in order to increase the authenticity and the effect of the program, Li Li was
The name Sheng was added.
But Marcus thought about it. Although Li Sheng did not seem to be an official courtier in the Tang Empire and was in a very special and strange position, his prestige was undoubtedly very high. Those businessmen should not dare to mess with such a person's name.
Cover, so there is still a lot of authenticity.
Now that there is this new possibility.
After leaving these old nobles of Salis, Marcus reboarded the ship, and his excitement almost overflowed, because if Rome could take over this land, then as long as it sent armed immigrants there, the next step would be to raise it.
It can afford a new, large-scale army and skilled craftsmen who are proficient in various technologies.
Thinking about it this time, it seems that I have really gained a lot after traveling a long distance to run a map for His Majesty.
Let’s not talk about the giant island in the mist of the southern sea. After all, Rome cannot capture that place in a blink of an eye. What can and must be done immediately, which is the real main purpose of this trip, is still that group of people.
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That group of disbanded pirates disbanded pirates.
