I am not an ant thief in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 746, Specialties

Facing the threat of Daqian again, Liu Bei's generals are also trying to improve their situation in Tianzhu.

Zhao Yundao: "Tianzhu and Dahan are completely different. It takes more than half a year for Dagan to transport troops to Tianzhu. The sea route of tens of thousands of miles is their biggest weakness, unless Lei Gong doesn't want to do Dagan.

The 1 people alone can only give us some harassment at most. We can completely ignore Dagan's military operations and gradually annex Tianzhu at our own pace. If we are influenced by Lei Gong and the others, we will focus on If it is used to guard against Lei Gong, it will fall into Dagan's trick instead.Tianzhu is only inferior in military power, but their population is far larger than ours, and we are also outsiders. If we can't defeat them quickly, we will not be able to bear the war of attrition! "

Liu Bei nodded and said: "Zilong is right. We have tens of thousands of people in Tianzhu, and we are still a minority. We only send 10 people to occupy a country in Tianzhu. They can't do backstabbing like a big man." we have.

Although we can't say that we ignore them completely, we can't take them too seriously. The most important thing for us now is to annex the ten countries in the south of Tianzhu. As long as the whole south of Tianzhu is unified, the great Han will be completely revived. "

Guan Yu also said: "Our self-improvement is the key. If we occupy the entire Tianzhu, even if Lei Gong occupies the Sinhala Kingdom, at most it can only contain us and can't do more. Instead, we must speed up the attack. , although Lei Gong is powerful, it is impossible for him to affect Tianzhu thousands of miles away, it is enough for us to do our own thing well."

After thinking about it, the others thought it made sense, and they were no longer as scared as they were just now.

Liu Bei said to Zhang Shiping: "You need to get through the transactions with the islands in the South China Sea quickly, and try to transport all the brown sugar, palm oil and artillery we need. In Leigong, we are already afraid of us. I found that we trade with the islands in the South China Sea. It will definitely be stopped!"

Zhang Shiping nodded and said, "No!"

Then Liu Bei looked at Yuan Ji and said, "Shi Ji, would the major families in Nanzhong want to move to Tianzhu? As long as they are willing to come to Tianzhu and share Tianzhu with them, their families can also live in Tianzhu, a rich land. Take root again!"

The fact that the Dagan army captured the Sinhala Kingdom still worried Liu Bei. He felt that he still had to find a way to improve their strength in Tianzhu, and the fastest way to improve their strength was to naturally increase the population of Han people in Tianzhu.The Nanzhong sect can be regarded as his only ally.

Yuan Ji smiled wryly: "Naturally, the powerful clans in Nanzhong are willing to help the general to be a great man again, but it is impossible for the general to want them to give up the foundation of Nanzhong. They have been rooted and sprouted in Nanzhong for 10 years. The family business in Nanzhong is not small, although there are big players in that suppression, but many people don't want to give up the family business they have worked so hard to open up."

Jian Yongdao: "How does the barren land in Nanzhong compare with Tianzhu? Didn't Brother Shi Ji explain Tianzhu's richness to them?"

Liu Bei and the others in Nanzhong also experienced it, even after 10 years of pioneering by the big Han clan.

But to put it bluntly, Nanzhong is still worse than the poorest place in Dahan. The wilderness is everywhere, and wild beasts are everywhere. It is extremely dangerous to leave the city within ten miles, either to be taken away by leopards or by crocodiles. bite.

As for Tianzhu, although their army's combat effectiveness, construction ability, cultural level, and even the prosperity of civilization are not much worse than those of the original Han Dynasty, there are even many core areas whose prosperity can directly match the original Han Central Plains area.

It is an exaggeration to say that Tianzhu can be regarded as a big man with slightly weak force, so Liu Bei's civil and military ministers are 10 times more satisfied with Tianzhu than Nanzhong. Even if Tianzhu needs to risk their lives to defeat them, they are willing to do so , rather than staying in Nanzhong.

Yuan Ji said helplessly: "Of course I told the elders of the various clans about this situation, but even so, they are not willing to put all their clan strength on Tianzhu. The major clans have suffered too much losses these years, and now they are diversifying their investments. It has become their instinctive reaction. Although the family is getting weaker and weaker, they still want to split a few more so that the family can be passed on."

Lei revealed a bad idea. He killed the peerless massacre of the powerful clans, which made the powerful clans in the whole world feel extremely poor in security. The powerful clans who refused to separate their families have long since disappeared.

Only those powerful clans that were constantly separated, although they declined, they have also been passed down.Over the past few decades, the noble families have been splitting up, and many families have even split into more than a dozen branches, scattered in all directions in the world. No one knows which branch of these families can really survive, but this kind of branching, although The strength is weak, but it can guarantee that as long as one can survive, their family can continue to survive.

Obviously, no matter how strong their affection for Liu Bei is, it is impossible to suppress all of them on Liu Bei's side.

Liu Bei also said helplessly: "Forget it, it's enough for them to send some people to support us. We can't continue to demand them any more! But you should find a way to mobilize those families more, and try to mobilize them in the autumn Before the arrival, there will be more than 50 Han Chinese in the whole of Tianzhu.”

Then Liu Bei ordered Guan, Zhang, Zhao, Huang, Wei and other generals to train soldiers, wait for the summer in Tianzhu to pass, and send troops to attack the small country in the south of Tianzhu in October.

In the next few days, Liu Bei first met the scholars who had come to join him from Nanzhong, and after assessing their knowledge and skills, he filled them into the grassroots of his regime and became some small officials, township chiefs, and village chiefs.

At the same time, in order to comfort them, assure them that this position is only temporary, as long as they have the ability, they can be promoted soon.

After decades of fighting against the nobles and nobles, their arrogance is gone. Even such small officials with a few hundred stones are willing to accept it and are willing to polish it at the grassroots level.

After interviewing these powerful and powerful families, Liu Bei interviewed Pang Tong and others non-stop.

He looked at Pang Tong and asked, "Can you make steam engines and artillery?"

Pang Tong said: "We learned these things in the Mechanical University, but the power of artillery mainly depends on explosives. Charcoal is easy to manufacture, but sulfur and saltpeter are more troublesome. If the general cannot get enough raw materials, even if the artillery can be manufactured , and can't exert much power."

Liu Bei continued to ask: "Do you also know how to make steam looms?"

Pang Tong said: "This is not difficult. The difficulty is mainly on the steam engine. The steam loom uses steam as the power, replacing the traditional human power as the weaving technology. Others can use the original loom."

Liu Bei saw that Pang Tong was able to speak on his ideas, and recognized his ability, so he said: "The general appointed you to work in the general's mansion, in charge of machinery construction, now you can find a way to help the general's mansion make a steam loom factory, and at the same time create a military factory, which is related to military manufacturing, and you will be responsible for everything. You can also report money and missing machinery to the General’s Mansion, and this general will help you solve it!”

Pang Tong was pleasantly surprised. He didn't expect that he would be highly valued by Liu Bei as soon as he came to Tianzhu. At the same time, he felt a little helpless in his heart. After less than three years of mechanical construction, he did not expect this to become his specialty.

(End of this chapter)