Xu Wei asked Jia Xu to bring him a world map that he had recently drawn. This map was one foot long and eight feet wide. It was a world map that Xu Wei created based on his own memory after he was discovered on the Japanese island!
After this map was spread out, everyone was surprised. Although they didn't understand the affairs of other continents, they could understand Dahan's topographic map. What surprised them most was that Daqian actually only had Take up a small piece!
Then Xu Weidao said: "This is our world. The combined territory occupied by Da Qian and Da Han is only one-tenth of the world. There is a bigger world outside waiting for us to explore. This is why I let Cao Cao go." The reason is that the outside world is so big, there is absolutely no need for us to kill each other in a small corner like this."
Guo Taixian said: "Even if the outside world is so vast, we can occupy it by ourselves. Why should we leave it to enemies like Cao Cao? This is not raising a tiger for trouble!"
Wang Ge said: "Brother Guo is right. It's cheap and it's cheap for our own people. How can we give up these places to the enemy Cao Cao when we are in power? How many places have we opened up since the founding of the Great Qian Dynasty? The entire desert has been annexed by us." Yes, although these places are big, as long as we are given the world, we may not be able to occupy all the continents on this map!"
Other high-ranking officials started making noises one after another. Everyone had the same idea, not to take advantage of Cao Cao, a big enemy.
But Xu Wei said with a wry smile: "You really think that opening a new home is that simple."
"I will give you an example. In order to fight against us over the years, Liu Bei has spent a lot of effort to develop the land south of the Yangtze River. Although the harvest was huge, the casualties were not small, including conflicts with savages, various local diseases and wild beasts, etc. , it can be said that for every acre of land cultivated, a human life is required. The current prosperity of Jiangnan is obtained by countless human lives.
And the land south of the Yangtze River has been developed. Counting from the time when the First Emperor unified Baiyue, the Han Dynasty has developed the land south of the Yangtze River for more than 400 years. But everyone knows what the situation in the south of the Yangtze River is like. There are still some areas near the Yangtze River. In terms of human habitation, other places can be said to be barbaric lands, and there are more barbarians than Han people! This land in the south of the Yangtze River still has a foundation of 400 years!"
"But we people from the Central Plains are prone to acclimatization when we go to the south. Three out of 10 people who go to the south will die, and there are many plagues. If a plague breaks out accidentally, all the people in a place may die."
"Plague!" Everyone was frightened when they heard this term, because most of the people present had experienced the danger of plague.
I don’t know whether it was a climate problem or overpopulation, but the Han Dynasty also reduced investment in infrastructure, which led to an increase in all kinds of garbage and the raging plague. During this period in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, there were so many epidemics that they were even terrifying. degree.
Plagues have occurred in places with large populations such as Qingyou, Ji, and Xu. The Great Sage Master relied on curing the plague to achieve such high prestige in Jizhou and even the whole world. Some officials with 2,000 shi even became Great Sage Masters. disciples, it can be said that the plague in the late Eastern Han Dynasty was the most feared natural disaster.
In recent years, the population may have been reduced due to wars. Xu Wei and the princes from all over the country have worked hard to repair the infrastructure of the Han Dynasty. Coupled with the cold climate, the plague in the Central Plains has finally decreased. There has not even been an outbreak in the past few years. However, Liu Bei developed Jiangnan. This
As a result, the plague in Jiangnan gradually increased, and the scope of its influence gradually expanded.
The most recent plague that broke out last year, even with Liu Bei's full support, still killed 30% of the population in Changsha County. In other places, entire villages could be wiped out. A plague caused the entire Jiangnan area to lose several people.
Population of 100,000.
Therefore, during this period, no matter how powerful any natural or man-made disaster is, it is not as powerful as the plague, so everyone will be frightened when they hear this word.
Xu Weidao: "Yes, the hotter the place, the easier it is for plague to breed. Cold places like Japan are nothing, but if you look at these overseas islands in the south of the Yangtze River, these places are extremely hot. Basically,
There is no winter, only a rainy season and a dry season. It is because of this climate that plagues are easy to breed. If people from the Central Plains like us rush to visit the place, a plague will probably take us all away."
Wang Ge and others looked at the map and found that these islands were located further south than the south of the Yangtze River. Although they understood geography, they also knew that the farther south they were, the hotter the climate, and the more humid and hot the place, the more likely it was for plague to break out.
They still know this!
"Needless to say, these areas on my current map are not even barbarian countries. The infrastructure is even worse than that of Jiangnan. It can be said to be a barbaric land. Such a place has all kinds of
There are various dangers, one of the plagues, and various other diseases and dangers that we don’t know about. If you want to go to such a place to open up a new home, I will naturally support you fully."
This is not Xu Wei’s alarmism. Going to Southeast Asia to resist the establishment of a country in this era would be risking his life. Even with the support of Daqian, Xu Wei could not guarantee that these people could survive. In the Age of Discovery, various early colonial
Strongholds can easily be taken away by a wave of natural disasters. They are still colonial settlements in temperate and cold zones. At least these strongholds are less susceptible to various abnormal plagues. In the land near the equator, if there is no country, there will basically be no colonies. It is still necessary to
It was not until the explosion of medical technology at the end of the 19th century that there was a wave of carving up the world.
Of course Xu Wei has the idea of expanding the world. It is best to occupy all the ownerless lands and return all the suffering and suffering to the ancestors of these white people. But in this era, he wants to open up the world.
You really have to risk your life in your new home. If you go to Southeast Asia, you may really lose your life.
This is also the reason why Xu Wei let Cao Cao and others go overseas. Even if it is a Japanese island, Cao Cao's people will not only survive a narrow escape, but also a 50-50 chance of death. In this case, there is no need to kill him. Maybe.
What kind of virus, it just swept away and took Cao Cao away.
Moreover, Xu Wei also needed people like Cao Cao to accumulate some experience in developing places, so he was even more reluctant to let Cao Cao's stepping stone go to waste.
After being told by Xu Wei, those who knew that there were dangers overseas and wanted to go to places other than the Han Dynasty put their minds down and joked, everyone still has ways to resist wars and so on, and they also have experience, but the plague and
You can't see other diseases, so how can you resist them? This unknown thing is even more frightening!
Then Xu Wei continued: "We must find a way to stand down in these places on the map and become the land of our Han Dynasty. If we don't take it from God, we will suffer the consequences. This island is the best defensive zone for our Han Dynasty. It occupies
If the enemies at sea here want to attack us, they must first attack this string of islands. This will give us time to defend, and we can even take the initiative to attack based on these island chains.
But if we do not occupy these places, and these islands are occupied by other people or countries, they will become the front line of attacks on our front, and every one of us present will become a sinner in history."
"So Cao Cao is taking the lead for us and accumulating experience. We want to see what problems will happen and what dangers will be encountered after Cao Cao develops these islands. With Cao Cao's exploration, if we open up these islands,
It will be much safer.”
"If you also want to occupy an island and create a country like Cao Cao, I will definitely support you as the leader of any country."
Xu Wei is telling the truth. How should heroes deal with this is a worldwide problem. Now it is Xu Wei's turn to face this problem. And now Cao Cao has given Xu Wei an idea to solve the problem of heroes, which is to put these
Send all the heroes overseas and let them go overseas to build small countries. This not only opens up the boundaries of Chinese civilization, but also resettles these heroes. It clarifies the internal problems of Daqian and can even find new industries for Daqian.
With the commodity market and raw material origin, it can be said that it kills multiple birds with one stone.
However, few of the senior officials of Daqian are interested in going to some overseas desert island. They are about to become the founding hero of the country, and will enjoy endless glory and wealth in the future. Now they have to go to a barbaric land to live a hard life, and all the time
After maybe a few decades, even if the island belongs to you and you can claim the throne, what's the point of claiming the title over a group of savages?
Anyone who wants to go there can go there, but there are not many people here who want to go there anyway.
But everyone understood the reason why Xu Wei let Cao Cao go. This was to let Cao Cao serve as a pathfinder, so that they could better understand the overseas situation through Cao Cao! Everyone suddenly realized that it was this reason that made the ruler let Cao Cao go.
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But Wang Ge and the others did not want to be sent to the island, so when faced with Xu Wei's words, everyone said: "Da Qian still needs us to do things. How can we leave the government and open up the island before the world is unified?"
Let others take care of things."
Xu Wei is aware of all this and does not think there is anything wrong with Wang Ge's ideas. If there is no way out these days, who would be willing to run to the island.
You must know that the so-called Age of Discovery is not that Westerners have a great spirit of adventure and are willing to risk their lives to discover the new world, but that the Western civilization at that time was in decline and could no longer survive. Who dares to believe that Yin Liya was there back then?
Most of the peninsula is actually the territory of camels.
Those countries in the West are not only small in territory, but also so poor that even wealthy locals as rich as camels are unwilling to even look at them.
The so-called Eastern Expedition sounds nice and seems exciting, but in reality it is just some poor people who can't live anymore. They want to rob rich people like camels and directly become robbers.
On the Han side, the nomads wanted to rob the farming people. According to their statement, the Xianbei people had conquered the Han dozens of times. It can only be said that bragging was also their specialty! But at that time, they were not only poor but also weak.
I couldn't win against them even if I robbed them, but I was beaten half to death by them. In the end, I had no choice but to desperately develop towards the ocean. In the end, they really found a way to survive.
From here, we can find that unless they really can't survive, basically no one will abandon civilized places and go to those so-called barbaric places.
At this time, Dahan is a beacon of civilization that is more hopeful than the Land of Hope, but the land outside Dahan is even more exaggerated than Uncle Hei's place. How many people are willing to go to such a place?
This is the reason why successive dynasties studied the feudal system of the Zhou Dynasty, but failed to learn it at all.
People assigned heroes to wild lands to open up new foundations. The emperors of later generations felt sorry for their descendants and assigned their descendants to wealthy lands. Naturally, these wealthy lands had money, food and people.
The princes have everything, and they can only fight hard to see if they can seize the throne of the Ninth Five-Year Plan?
As a result, the Seven Kings' Rebellion and the Eight Kings' Rebellion caused wars all over the world, and the enfeoffment system was ruined.
In fact, it was not that the enfeoffment system was bad, but that later emperors did not want their descendants to be separated into remote areas.
If you really want to seal these princes and grandsons in remote areas, they will have to find ways to farm to support themselves, recruit tribesmen, and gradually develop their territory from a village to a town, and then a city, to complete a real-life version of Minecraft.
After this process, it would be impossible to build a decent city within tens or even hundreds of years, and after so many years of hard work to survive, naturally there is no more energy to think about the throne of the Ninth Five-Year Supreme.
Naturally, the world will be peaceful. After a few hundred years, this city will become a group of cities or even a country. You see, Chinese civilization has opened up new territories. And now Xu Wei wants to send the heroes of Daqian to
Places outside Daqian territory.
Obviously it is better to have them volunteer, and how to make them volunteer, Cao Cao is a good example. If Cao Cao can succeed in founding a country, he may be able to attract a large number of ambitious and capable heroes to divide the feudal country, and
The lack of heroes is a good thing for the new Daqian Dynasty. It can be said that this is a win-win deal.
But Jia Xu still said: "In power, even if Cao Cao is allowed to occupy overseas territories, he cannot entrust them near the Japanese island. This is too close to our Treasure Island. If Cao Cao is ambitious, he will probably find a way to occupy it.
Treasure Island, by then we will be in trouble with tigers.”
"It's better to move Cao Cao to this island north of Wadao. This island is thousands of miles away from Treasure Island. There is so much land in between. It is naturally difficult for Cao Cao to influence us."
The place Jia Xu was referring to was Hokkaido. Xu Wei remembered that there seemed to be some slaves on this island. There seemed to be some iron ore on the island, but there seemed to be nothing else. After thinking about it, Xu Wei nodded in agreement.
With Cao Cao's ability, even a place like Hokkaido is enough for him.