The period when Zhou Yu was half-dead was actually an opportunity in Chen Xi's judgment. Although Chen Xi was not very optimistic about Zhou Yu's plan at that time, after all, it was essentially looking for compensation, but Chen Xi admitted that if Meng Kangbu really attacked
Yes, it is indeed a good opportunity for Gan Ning, who is devoted to his country.
In the past few years, Gan Ning has been on the front line through wind and rain. Although Zhou Yu has indeed gained a lot of merit due to his performance, this is completely inconsistent with Gan Ning's status as a naval commander. To put it bluntly, now
These days, a few people still remember that Gan Ning was the leader of the navy, and Zhou Yu was actually just the governor of the world.
Therefore, this time is also an opportunity for Chen Xi. If everything is as expected by Zhou Yu, Gan Ning may be able to seize the opportunity and soar into the sky. No, the opportunity has come.
After all, Gan Ning also captured Ceylon Island, the strategic fulcrum of the Kushan Navy, this time. In any case, it was a great achievement that was enough to make him a prince. As Gan Ning's staff officer in this battle, Lu Xun would share some of the credit.
Once the title is raised, the rest of the matter will become much easier.
What's more, after Gan Ning's operation this time, Ceylon Island was captured, and Malacca was still in Jiangdong's hands. Then there was a foundation for forming another navy based on Ceylon Island. Gan Ning, as the navy chief, helped Lu Xun take over.
That's really what happened.
"This week, Gongjin has finally escaped from the pillar of shame." Fazheng said with a teasing tone, "However, I have to admit that he did play very well, even if he was looking for compensation, it is indeed impressive to be able to achieve such a result.
People were shocked.”
"The main reason is that being able to fly is really amazing." Jia Xu said with admiration, and then looked at Chen Xi. Chen Xi was also developing the air force, and had achieved some results, but Zhou Yu's efficiency was even more exaggerated.
The Air Force has already figured it out.
"Indeed, that guy still has some trump cards." Chen Xi nodded, "Let's wait for the accurate battle report later. We just won the battle now, and the gains have not yet been counted. We will talk about the reward after the counting is done. Speaking of which, Chang'an has been recently
The number of children of the aristocratic family has grown a bit outrageously."
Chen Xi estimated that Zhou Yu's gains this time would be exaggerated. After all, Meng Kangbu's flagship was destroyed, and these days, in addition to the captains of each battleship, the backbone of a navy will basically be concentrated on the flagship, so as to facilitate
The flagship exerted its maximum combat power, but the flagship was completely destroyed. According to Zhou Yuxin's description, it was completely destroyed.
Under such circumstances, very few people could survive. Maybe only Mengcomb, who was on the deck at the time, escaped, and everyone else might have been wiped out.
According to Guishang's previous configuration, Chen Xi estimated that Meng Kangbu would probably kill two or three Gan Ning-level naval backbones. In other words, this gain alone would be enough for the rest of Jiangdong to drink some soup. But this time
Zhou Yu probably doesn't have the nerve to ask for this reward. When the time comes, he will make an exchange of interests and give Zhou Yu a step up. Don't even think about it.
In his own territory, as the highest-ranking person, he could still be assassinated by others. Chen Xi had nothing to say. Together, our Han family has been having fun all day long, right?
"There is no way. Although Central Asia has obtained considerable resources, there is still not enough food. The major families have driven some people back first. After all, the Central Plains is not short of food." Jia Xu said calmly. In his view,
Come on, those aristocratic families in Central Asia did the right thing about this. If you have nothing to eat, then go find a place where you can eat. That’s good.
"Oh, what's the overall situation in Central Asia now?" Chen Xi asked Jia Xu casually while looking through the information on Central Asia. After all, Jia Xu just went to Xinzhou and just came back. He must have quite a lot of knowledge about the situation in Central Asia.
understanding.
"It's not that good, food is still in short supply, but the major families are barely able to survive." Jia Xu said with a bit of regret, "The locals in Anxi died all over the place, and there is still turmoil, but it can no longer cause too much damage.
It has been affected, and the most serious period has passed. Now it can only be said that it is the aftermath of the previous cannibalism, which is no longer as serious as before."
Chen Xi was excited when he heard this, and his eyes were somewhat intolerable, but he still didn't say anything. Xi'an has been dead for almost ten years, and the composition of the Xi'an survivors who have not yet been naturalized is needless to say. There are limits to humanitarian relief.
Chen Xi couldn't save the millions of Parthian survivors, so he could only let the Han family deal with it themselves. There was really no good way to do this.
"Then the situation of the three families in the Persian Gulf is not very good." Jia Xu added. Chen Xi was silent for a while without saying anything. He knew long ago that the situation of these three families was not going to be good. After all, sugar cane can be grown in that area, and then
Sugarcane can produce sugar, let alone three centuries later. In fact, sugar will also be an important strategic resource and commodity in later generations.
"Being blackmailed?" Chen Xi thought for a moment before asking.
"It doesn't count. It's just that after it was revealed that they can grow sugar cane and produce sugar, many people are staring at them in this situation." Fa Zheng replied on behalf of Jia Xu, "The current situation in the sugar industry is very complicated.
And the profits of the sugar industry are also very high."
"It goes without saying, I know it very well." Chen Xi curled his lips and said. No one knows the potential of the sugar industry better than him. What's more, sugar can really save lives during famine years. Drinking sugar water can't supplement it.
Other trace elements can really make you live longer.
"Rome is also keeping an eye on it, but Rome is in such a mess right now that they can only put this matter aside for now, but they may take action within two years at the latest." Jia Xu made his own judgment with a solemn expression.
Rome didn't have Cao Cao's idea, that's because Cao Cao was far away, and the three Persian Gulf companies were next to the Persian Gulf. It was true that Rome had short legs, but they relied on small sampans to go down the coast and pinched the Persian Gulf.
There's still no problem with my hands.
What's more, sugar, in addition to bringing happiness, is also a strategic resource, and these days, sugar water can treat most common diseases. Although it is often a placebo, this placebo is really powerful.
It can really suppress many diseases.
The title of universal medicine has been attached to sugar for a long time in ancient times. The only problem is that the output of this thing is not enough.
It’s not that the official output is sufficient and then deliberately suppressed, but that it’s actually not enough. Chen Xi started to let Mi Zhu engage in the sugar industry during the Xuzhou period. Until now, sugar cane is grown in Jiaozhou, sugar cane is grown in Yangzhou, and sugar cane is grown in Jingzhou.
A large sugar cane plantation is still far behind.
Chen Xi didn't have any good solution for this. This thing was just like the Han Dynasty's steel production. They could consume as much as you produced. Especially after the popularity of such incredible things as iron pots, Chen Xi
The steel gap is getting bigger and bigger.
Again, the military's steel consumption is nothing. The real bulk is civilian use. If you multiply any decimal number by a population of nearly 100 million, the result will be a scale that is unbelievable. However, things like steel and sugar are...
No matter what you do, you won't be able to get enough of this type of thing.
"Let's talk about it then. If not, let the three companies in the Persian Gulf do some work for Rome and occupy the land first." Chen Xi waved his hand and said. What he has to do now is to carry out the third five-year plan.
In the middle, kill Kuishang quickly.
One thing to say is that if Chen Xi can't kill Kuishang next, it will be very difficult for Chen Xi to kill Kuishang.
Just as Zhu Helai and others judged, the Han Dynasty was actually full by now. The continued attack on Kushan was actually driven by Chen Xi's will, and Liu Bei also agreed with this. In addition, the Han Dynasty was flourishing, and there was no
What is the big problem that can be pushed forward continuously?
But if the battle cannot be fought for a long time, the Han Dynasty will also be tired. By then, it will be relieved, and it will be too difficult to bring it up again later, so the next three five-year plan must be implemented to death.
Kushan, complete the enfeoffment plan.
Therefore, during this period, Chen Xi could make certain compromises with Rome. As long as Rome did not go too far, the Han Dynasty would still be willing to give some steps. If Rome went too far, after the three million troops defeated Guishan, Chen Xi would also
I don't mind taking 200,000 out of it to set an example for Rome.
Anyway, the most important task at this stage is to do Kushan, and other things will come later.
This is why Chen Xi is very satisfied with the performance of Zhou Yu and Gan Ning this time. This victory completely solved the problem of possible attacks on the grain route when Chen Xi mobilized his troops to the Ganges River.
In fact, Chen Xi wants to send troops to the Ganges River, and it is the scale he estimated before. The grain and grass to be mobilized from the rear is also very large. In this case, once the Kushans attack the grain road, three million troops attack the Ganges River.
The plan was immediately finished.
Therefore, according to Chen Xi's plan, Mongkhambu's flag on Ceylon Island must be removed by the end of next year, or no later than the middle of the next year. Otherwise, Chen Xi's final plan will be basically impossible to realize. After all,
As long as Moncomb is still squatting on Ceylon Island and Chen Xi's logistics passes through the Bay of Bengal, he will have to face the possibility that Moncomb will self-destruct and cut off the food road at all costs.
From a certain point of view, if Mongkhambu had the consciousness of his own death and cut off the grain road, the Han Dynasty would not be able to defend it in the Bay of Bengal. After all, in the rainy season, it is really possible to sail in that poor place.
Kang Bu had the consciousness of perishing together, and Zhou Yu couldn't even block him.
Therefore, if Ceylon Island is eliminated at this point, for Chen Xi, there is one less obstacle at the strategic level. The only subsequent troubles left are at the tactical level, and the tactical level problems still have more than two years to go.
, just knock one by one.
"Speaking of which, how far are we from the sugar gap?" Li You asked Zhuge Liang with a curious expression after Chen Xi spoke.
"Three hundred thousand tons." Zhuge Liang didn't even think about raising his head this time. He directly reported the number to Li You and then continued to deal with his work.
"Ah, why is the gap getting bigger and bigger?" Guo Jia was confused. If I remember correctly, wasn't there this gap a few years ago? When this gap appeared the year before last, it was only a few hundred tons. This year it is
Why is the gap so weird?
The collective looked at Chen Xi. Chen Xi was helpless. There was nothing he could do. It was not that there was no gap in the past. In the past, we did not consider this and did whatever we wanted, so there was no gap. Now this is included in the strategic reserve. Naturally, we need to calculate the per capita demand, and then
A 300,000-ton upward gap was created.
One thing to say is that Chen Xi really did not adjust the sugar intake of the Han Dynasty people too much. It was calculated based on ten kilograms per person per year, not counting other needs, external sales, etc., just this
It would require 350,000 tons.
Is this a lot? It's not much. The problem is that even if it's not much, Chen Xi can't get it. Moreover, the current price of sugar is still quite outrageous. The price of a pound of sugar is basically the same as the price of a stone of rice. This is Chen Xi's official stable price.
, otherwise the price of sugar will increase on its own.
Anyway, the rock sugar sold by Rome from the Han Dynasty was always priced at 300 cents per pound. The problem was that even at this price, Rome could not charge an unlimited amount. This is why the sugar factory in Kandahar can be called a cash cow.
The reason is that after Rome inspected the sugar factory and determined the sugar production, it was completely acceptable to pay first and then get the sugar. In short, this thing is currently going crazy all over the world.
The result of the crazy killing is that the gap in the Han Dynasty is getting bigger and bigger. It is so big that Chen Xi has to put it aside because he has nothing to do. With this demand, before the industrial age, there were probably only a few plantations all over the world.
European countries can barely do it.
As for the Han Dynasty, the Han Dynasty may be able to be established in the future, but it is definitely not expected now. Just the area of sugar cane plantations required to produce such a large-scale sugar, and the manpower required for such a large-scale sugar cane plantation, even if
Chen Xi relied on those master craftsmen to successfully evolve from Farm Tools 1.0 to Human Farm Tools 1.5 to 2.0. A plantation of this scale also requires the participation of millions of people.
This still requires the participation of at least millions of people, and it is only the planting process. The subsequent processes also require considerable manpower!
Although from the perspective of output, stabilizing society, and creating employment, there is no problem with this operation, but now is not the time to do it. But the entire Han Dynasty is waiting for food, and there are many people all over the map waiting to eat sweets.
Yes, many people who have eaten candy for the first time have doubts about what they were doing in the first half of their lives. Eating candy is not determined by human will at all, but by human genes, so there is no way to resist it.
"What is the plan for the sugar cane plantation in the third five-year plan?" Li You asked Chen Xi. Although Li You was fine, he saw Yuan Shu and mocked Yuan Shu for drinking honey water, but Li You himself also drank it.
Among the people in the hospital, Li You also has the highest demand for sweets. After all, Li You has a group of kids and needs to give them sweets.
"The plan is to add another 150 plantations in southern Jingzhou to absorb the population while restoring local people's livelihood." Chen Xi said expressionlessly. This plan was not made by Chen Xi, but reported by Liao Li as the governor of Jingzhou.
Because Jingnan was devastated by a wave of aristocratic families moving south, there were actually not many people left in Jingnan. When Chen Xi and Liu Bei passed by, Jingnan was almost reduced to a county.
Fortunately, these unscrupulous Jingnan bureaucrats succeeded in getting a group of people from the mountains by various means, and then barely maintained their dignity.
The problem is that these people dug out from the ravines are basically uncivilized species, and they are not even Han Chinese. It's just that these days, because these people are in the local area, they are not very particular, and the iron fist of the feudal bureaucracy
, the chief of the Wrathhammer Slave Tribe, and then violently explode the population and so on, which is also an improvement from a certain perspective.
Relying on this hand, the four counties in Jingnan didn't know what outrageous tricks they relied on. In short, they really burst out of nearly 100,000 men from the mountains in southern Jingzhou and the ravines in southern Yizhou.
From this perspective, this is indeed an amazing ability.
On the other hand, the penetration ability of the Han Dynasty's regime is still not enough. At least there are still some unnaturalized savages in the mountains in the south, but Chen Xi has nothing good to do about this, let alone the Han Dynasty.
In the 20th century, when the People's Republic of China came out, there were still some people in the mountainous areas in the north and south living according to the way they lived in the third century.
This kind of thing was still happening in the late 1990s, when you would go down the mountain with a stick to knock the girl you liked unconscious, and then carry her up the mountain to become your wife.
As for why they don't take care of it, it's because the sky is high and the emperor is far away. As long as there are no riots, the bureaucrats won't bother to take care of it. As long as it can be maintained, it will be fine if they focus on this aspect and can't generate gold coins, so why bother.
The same goes for the Jingnan bureaucrats in the Han Dynasty. If Chen Xi and Liu Bei hadn't threatened them with their official hats, and even directly stated that if they couldn't even get 20,000 people, they would downsize Jingnan.
, compressing the counties in Jingnan into county-level establishments, holy shit, this is such a stimulus to the bureaucrats, and it directly increases their subjective initiative.
Then, 100,000 people were really recruited in the second five-year plan. In other words, these bureaucrats knew that there were people in the mountains before, but completely ignored these aliens. Now their official hat may be damaged, so they
Hurry and capture these aliens to fill the population gap.
Chen Xi didn't make any too direct statement about this. Isn't that what bureaucrats are like? Make fewer mistakes if you can. Only when you have credit will you be rewarded. If you don't have credit, then it will be a hammer.
After such efforts, the population of the four counties in Jingnan successfully recovered less than half, but a new problem arose. The customs and habits of these mountain people were very different from the current customs and habits of the Han Dynasty. It was easy for locals and mountain people to conflict.
, local civil governance was extremely poor, and there were frequent fights.
This is simply making people bald. Jingnan officials hate this and have no good solution. In the past, they did not arrest these people to fill the population because if they were arrested, they would break out into armed fights with the locals. Now it is impossible not to arrest them, but they are.
Later, I would fight with each other and wanted to die, really.
Fortunately, Liao Li gave some suggestions to make money and lead them to make money!
