I am not an ant thief in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 725, Cao Cao's ambition
Liu Bei's military operations in Tianzhu continued to ferment, causing a sensation in various places in Dagan. Many people in Dagan thought that a defeated general like Liu Bei could do it. Why couldn't they? Although this overseas is dangerous, it is also a place of wealth. This has caused a new round of longing for the overseas of Dagan people, and many restless people have started to move to the coast!

Their idea is simple, they don't necessarily have to conquer a country like Liu Bei, but if they take advantage of this trend, they will make a fortune!

And Liu Bei's victory also caused a sensation among the forces around Daqian.

Izumo Kingdom (Cao Cao dislikes the name of Crab Island is too ugly. In the past, they enclosed the land and had no relationship with diplomacy. Naturally, Cao Cao and the others don’t care about the name, but now under the leadership of Guo Jia, there are already many A few big businessmen have set up factories here, and it would be a joke to use the name Crab Island, so Cao Cao renamed Crab Island Izumo Island, and he also became king and established Izumo Kingdom, so that there is also a legitimate It is the name of the outside world!)
After Cao Cao learned of Liu Bei's actions, he summoned his ministers of civil and military affairs and held a celebration meeting for Liu Bei.

At the banquet, Cao Cao raised his wine glass and said to his Minister of Civil and Military Affairs with a smile: "Brother Xuande is worthy of being a loyal minister of the Han Dynasty. People are comparable!"

To be honest, Cao Cao was a little ashamed of Liu Bei. At the beginning, when the various princes of the Han Dynasty resisted Lei Gong, Liu Bei was rich and powerful, and he had no complaints at all, but they repeatedly implicated Liu Bei. , directly handed over Qingzhou and Xuzhou and fled to Crab Island, which can be said to have sold Liu Bei completely.

Xun Yu said: "If Duke Xuande really rebuilds the big man in Tianzhu, it will be a good thing for us, the rest of the big man. At least we have a little backing."

Now the power of big money overseas is getting stronger and stronger, and the power of Dagan in Wajima is also getting stronger and stronger. It is not a good thing for Cao Cao and the others who are on Crab Island. The subordinates established more and more forces.A country like Cao Cao, established by the servants of the big man, already feels a bit different among the many small countries overseas. If Liu Bei sees the big man succeed again, they will have some incense to rely on anyway.

Cao Cao said with pride: "How about I send an army to support Xuande, in order to repay the help Xuande gave us in the past!"

Cao Cao really admires Liu Bei now. After he was defeated, he has been very decadent. The development of Crab Island is only for his own pension, so Cao Cao has hardly done anything in Crab Island in recent years, and Liu Bei was beaten by Lei Gong. Worse than himself, but he can fight for the big man again so quickly. From this point of view, Cao Cao thinks that he is not as good as Liu Bei!And now he wants to help Liu Bei, just to see how far Liu Bei can do it!
Cao Cao's words made many civil servants and generals look at each other in blank dismay. It's not a big deal to celebrate Liu Bei's victory here, it's just an excuse for everyone to eat and drink.But if you really want to send troops to Tianzhu thousands of miles away to fight, I am afraid that few people are willing to fight such a battle.This journey of tens of thousands of miles, if one is not careful, the whole army will be wiped out, and even die without knowing where they died!
Xia Houdun came out and said: "Meng De, we want to help Duke Xuande, but we are powerless. Not to mention that there are not many soldiers in Izumo Kingdom, and these few soldiers have not fought for nearly 10 years. Let them go to the battlefield. , I'm afraid it will hold back Duke Xuande."

This remark made Cao Cao a little angry and said: "Could it be that we just sit here and watch, and can't help anything? In less than 10 years, you have degenerated into what you are now, and you can't even hold a knife! "

Everyone was a little helpless. To a certain extent, what Cao Cao said was not wrong. Cao Cao had captured all the savages around Crab Island, and the rest were all subordinate forces of Dagan. Cao Cao and the others did not dare to fight. Crab Island is pretty much useless.

In order to reduce expenses, Cao Cao kept an army of 5000 people in the form of military settlements.But this army has been farming for 10 years. It is no longer possible for the veterans to go to the battlefield, and their nephews really have no battlefield experience at all, and have not fought a single battle. The fighting power can be imagined.Not to mention that there are tens of thousands of miles away.

Cao Ren thought for a while and said in a low voice, "Why don't we get some supplies like food or cloth to support Lord Xuande, which can be regarded as doing our part for the big man!"

Xun Yu persuaded: "Now we can't do what we want to help Liu Bei. It is the limit of what we can do to support some food and grass supplies."

The others nodded their heads, as if they recognized Cao Ren's idea, as if that was all they could do.

Thinking of his current situation, Cao Cao could only helplessly say: "Izumo Island is really aggrieved, I really want to join forces with Xuande to fight against Tianzhu here."

During the ten years in Crab Island, Cao Cao thought that his ambition had been gradually extinguished, but this time when the news came that Liu Bei was fighting in Tianzhu, Cao Cao found that his heart was still hot, and Crab Island was not a rest for him. This is an incomparably huge cage, trapping his ambition and mobility.

Hearing this, people like Xiahoudun were a little worried. It was Lei Gong's kindness that they could live on Izumo Island. If they had ambitions, Lei Gong would not let them go. Compared with Dagan, Yunguo is like an ant!
Luzon!
After more than a year of development, the appearance of Luzon Island has not changed much, but it has begun to show signs of civilization. The black cloud pillars in the Luzon mining area have become beautiful buildings. The black cloud pillar can be seen even hundreds of miles away, and it has become a huge lighthouse. As long as the merchant ships around see this black cloud pillar, they will know that they are coming to Luzon.

At this time, Luzon was very busy, and there were transport ships docked everywhere on a simple and huge pier, which was still expanding.No way, who made Luzon’s specialty is copper mine? It can even be said that Luzon’s specialty is money. This specialty is even more valuable than spices and brown sugar. After all, there are more spices and brown sugar, and the price will drop, but copper ore The value is hard to depreciate!
So after the emergence of the Luzon copper mine, there is no shortage of transport ships in the whole Luzon. These ships come to Luzon to pull copper ingots or copper mines. There is no way that Luzon’s output is too low, and many of them can’t wait. The fleet will simply pull the copper mines and refine them, and there will be no shortage of blast furnaces!
(End of this chapter)