This time, Li Sheng had specific goals for his development. It was completely different from the previous Han dynasty when Wei and Huo led the stars to Mobei.
Wei Huo entered Mobei because of serious border conflicts. Mobei herdsmen would encounter natural disasters and severe food shortages from time to time. And in this environment...people do not want to live and work in peace and contentment, and banditry is a natural thing, including the world island.
The whole place in that passage is like this.
The various pioneering actions of Datang at present are different from that time. It can even be said...
The ones initiated by Li Er were also different from the pioneering actions of the Tang Dynasty in history!
At that time, in order to stabilize the border areas, Li Er followed Wei Huo's example in various ways. On the one hand, he accepted the Hu people's style title of "Tian Khan", recruited Hu people on a large scale, and sent Han people to colonize and establish stable frontiers. This also became
Later generations of the Northwest Province.
But Li Er's development was a bit excessive, or the Han people of that era worked too hard.
Because in those places in the northwest of Mobei, the land production capacity is very low. After all, the latitude is there. In such an environment, vigorous reclamation seems good at first. With the strong settlement and development of the Han people, these places must be more prosperous.
Become more stable and prosperous.
But in fact this is not the case, because the carrying capacity of the land is not good to begin with, and the result of efforts to develop it is... desertification.
No matter how hard the ancestors of the Han people tried, if the land turned into a desert, you would not be able to grow anything even if you were covered in liver. Naturally, the territory would become nothingness and slowly be eaten by soldiers and horses from all walks of life.
Therefore, Li Sheng's strategic direction this time is somewhat similar to that of Zhang Qian in the Han Dynasty. That is the real way out. Agriculture cannot be pursued. In terms of industry, due to the world environment of later generations, it cannot be done without ports, so the best way is commerce.
——That is the version answer, Silk Road.
It was precisely because he had found the right path that the Han Dynasty's border management was the most successful among all dynasties in China. Even if it failed at the end, it was not due to problems such as the Anshi Rebellion.
Li Sheng's strategy will go one step further, not only to open up the land route to Europe, but also to directly dominate the continent!
All hegemony must ultimately lead to the unification of the world, otherwise it will be a lonely hegemony.
On the other hand, the same is true for the development in the south. The final direction of this road is America - which is the ultimate granary.
These plans were extremely grand, and Li Sheng casually talked about them during the banquet.
Although Xiao Yu is an important minister in the court, and even Li Er sometimes has to rely on respect, he is not a core member of Tiance Mansion after all.
Even guys like Wei Zheng, Du Ruhui, and Fang Xuanling relied on deceit and deception to get these strategies out of Li Sheng, let alone other people? How could they know?
But this shows that Xiao Yu is more powerful than others, and that professional bureaucrats are more powerful than others.
He can detect hidden trends that others cannot see.
Of course, everyone has a sense of crisis, but Xiao Yu is amazing at being able to see opportunities in crises.
When something went wrong, in addition to worrying, he would also observe it, so he thought carefully about the extravagant work Li Sheng had done, and finally smelled the clues.
In this crisis, Xiao Yu finally chose this path!
Of course, Xiao Yu is not young anymore. If he is not an old man, he is still a few years old.
At this age, after all, he has experienced too much and many of his thoughts cannot be changed. Xiao Yu is still uneasy in his heart.
But uneasiness is uneasiness, everything has begun after all.
South China Sea……
Li Sheng stood on the deck of a large ship, looking at the surrounding scenery from a distance.
It is not that there were no high-rise buildings in ancient times. There were various pagodas, some of which were dozens of meters high.
A height of tens of meters, of course, is nothing in modern eyes. After all, there are not many buildings with a height of several hundred meters. The world record is running towards one kilometer... But Li Sheng hasn't seen it for a long, long time.
Such a scenery.
This time, bathing in the sea breeze on the deck of the ship, Li Sheng suddenly remembered the high-rise jungle in his previous life.
And the location is almost in this area...or a place very similar to this area.
It is also a coastal area and an emerging economic zone.
However, this time is different from the previous life. In the previous life, China's economy took off, and China paid a huge amount of raw material prices and a lot of hard work, but the majority of the profits were basically taken away by international loans and holdings. But this time...
Things are different.
Li Sheng clearly knew that everything would be completely different!
Last time, troubles always happened in China at critical time points. When Europe started its great voyages, it happened to be the late Ming Dynasty when China caught up with China. By the time the most important industrial revolution began, China was already in the Qing Dynasty.
But this time...Li Sheng couldn't help but smile when he thought about it, hehe.
This time the ship is returning from the outer sea islands and reefs. As for the outer sea islands and reefs, it goes without saying that it is the top priority when sailing in the South China Sea. However, this is not the previous one, but the last one or so in the past month or so.
With the newly discovered islands and reefs in China, the sea route from the Indochina Peninsula has once again been extended by more than 300 miles.
Of course, this area is actually a coastal area, and there are many islands and reefs within the continental shelf. However, these islands and reefs are quite necessary for navigation according to the current level of technology.
Modern times are not ancient times. There are satellite positioning systems everywhere you go. The ancient "needle paths" are very important for navigation.
Of course, Li Sheng helped make the sextant, but due to historical reasons, astronomy has always been quite taboo, and it is an extremely rare subject. There are too few people who can master the use of the sextant... not too few...
, but generals and elite officers like Chai Shao and Ma Zhou don’t quite understand.
For these reasons, the development of islands and reefs cannot be stopped.
The main purpose of this sea-going ship is to transport various materials and tools to the bases and stations established on the islands and reefs. This is the first purpose. The previous sea-going ships were used to do this, but this time...
Li Sheng felt very good because this ship actually brought back a kind of rice seeds from the islands and reefs.
Of course, they are wild rice seeds, and the quality seems to be... average no matter how you look at it, but this does not affect Li Sheng's good mood, because this is a beginning.
China is qualified to share the resources on this planet!
Of course, Li Sheng also saw other crops from the reports of the soldiers who went to sea, but the most exciting one was rice.
Originally, these colonizing soldiers had to work very hard to survive on a deserted island, but this time they saw rice, which was like taking a ton of stimulants...
