Li Er felt that if he remembered correctly, it was in Manila.
It should be said that it is the core area of Southeast Diao.
The Southeast is different from China in that it does not have so much depth, and there is no China in the northwest. Specifically, there is Rome in the northwest, mainly Rome.
Especially the Mediterranean, the heartland of Rome.
China, on the other hand, naturally has its own heartland because of the strategic direction of the northwest Roman Continent. Like Rome, the Romans' Mediterranean was their three main directions: Persia, Eastern Europe and even China, and the ocean.
The core base that radiates power and wisdom.
There are many places in the heart of China. According to the city classification, there are even nearly ten strategically important cities. There are also various grain-producing areas, including many large ones.
But what is consistent is that both China and Rome have their own heartlands, but Southeast Asia does not have such a thing. The biggest economic pillar of Southeast Asia was, of course, farming before.
After all, the agriculture in the southeast is still very developed, but the problem is that the king of Siam, the king of Luzon, these chiefs are really just chiefs, and their governance capabilities are not even comparable to the county magistrates of Guanzhou County in China.
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Therefore, after the rise of sea trade, it is conceivable that the "heartlands" of these places naturally turned into large commercial ports and towns along the coast.
Li Erkai has been familiar with this for so many years, so his grasp of the situation and trends in the Southeast Bay area is mainly based on these commercial ports along the coast, and the largest one is undoubtedly the famous Manila.
In other words, as long as Manila is calm, there will be almost no military problems in the south.
And once the time comes that military action is needed.
Regarding the matters here, unless the Romans exerted their influence remotely and caused pirate activities in these waters to become rampant again, then the Imperial Guards would need to go to Manila for a visit on sea ships, and most of the problems would be solved, and there would not even be a need to go.
If you need to announce that you are going, or send a captain there, it will be settled, such as a conflict between maritime merchants or the like.
These things can naturally be imagined.
How is it possible that the giant Buddha Li Er cares about labor?
Having made this clear, it is not difficult to imagine that whether Li Er is reading newspapers or reviewing memorials, he basically skips the southeast part. It is really hard to see what motivation and motivation these native kings have to cause trouble.
The possibility of causing trouble.
But that's why.
When Li Er noticed this, his surprise was beyond words.
The cost is astronomical. This is actually okay. Which country in the world doesn’t do things that cost astronomical prices on a daily basis?
But these guys actually want to recruit the best sailors and navigators.
And the old ship owner with the most experience and the most scars on his face.
This makes people have to pay attention!
In Li Er's opinion, this is clearly a bit of "recruiting assassins", or that the dead soldiers have a taste for it. What do these grass-head kings from Southeast Diao want to do by recruiting dead soldiers?
Of course, recruiting the best sea runners obviously cannot be true even if they are recruiting dead soldiers. After all, those who make a living on the sea are just ordinary people, and the heroes on the sea.
Although they are more or less gangsters, some are very gangsters, and some even work part-time, but compared with the dead soldiers produced in the dark corners of China, the quality of these guys is somewhat inferior.
Therefore, Li Er would naturally not make wild guesses that these people wanted to send people to assassinate Chang'an City in the deep interior of China. Basically, this horse-riding man was just a dream come true.
But Li Er's mind still started to move. There must be some meaning and plot behind this.
Although it is certainly not a large-scale recruitment of troops - if these tribal chiefs in the southeast area can learn to work hard to govern? Then it will be better to wait until the next life.
And since most of these idiots will never learn what stable and powerful rule is, then of course their recruitment of folk heroes cannot be extensive.
In other words, the probability that they plan to assemble a large navy and use a large number of ships to launch a serious military operation against China is still low.
From this point of view, it should be some kind of special maritime military operation - but what is it planning to do?
The greatest wealth in the southeastern ocean of China is undoubtedly the various coastal commercial ports on the mainland of China. They are all rich places where every inch of land is valuable.
In these places, Li Er estimates that the mountain kings of the southeastern tribes would not dare to touch them. After all, the monks can escape but cannot escape the temple. Even if they capture a certain commercial port with a single blow, such as Saint Maiden Port, the next step will be
Woolen cloth?
The navy of the Tang Dynasty demonstrated the great righteousness of the world every minute.
In addition to this, there were just passing merchants - but in the southeastern ocean of the Tang Dynasty, there had just been a large-scale piracy activity in the past year or so.
This piracy ended with China sending the most bizarre weapons to spread sufficient terror.
How dare these unscrupulous people stroke a tiger's beard? I'm afraid this is very strange.
Yes.
If we don't attack the commercial ports or the many merchant ships on the sea, then where else can we find wealth?
Think about it.
It’s so tempting that you can’t help but ponder it.
Li Er became so curious that he hurried to the Manna Hall without even finishing breakfast that day and summoned a group of close ministers to discuss the matter.
After the ministers began to discuss, they soon showed surprised looks.
The same idea as Li Er.
Wei Zheng and others also quickly caught the strangeness in this matter, because it stands to reason that after the local emperors in Southeast Diao arbitrarily conscripted the people, they would most likely not do anything serious and beneficial to the interests of their people.
Judging from the people they recruit, the things they want to do should and indeed have nothing to do with the people.
And when you think about it, it’s very strange.
It seems possible to form a pirate team and conduct robberies with the government.
Considering what happened in the past year, I'm afraid it's not possible.
But since it's not for plundering, then why did they suddenly spend so much money to form such a team?
Thinking about it this way, things seem a little weird.
The wrinkles on Wei Zheng's face suddenly became extremely obvious, as did Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui, Changsun Wuji and others.
But these guys are not ordinary people after all. Soon,
I saw the wrinkles on Wei Zheng's face slowly dispersing, and he seemed to have suddenly become several years younger. He suddenly said, "Has your Majesty ever heard of Australia?"
"This has never appeared on His Highness's map, but there has always been such a legend among the people."
