Since the Accounting: A Chronicle of the Roman Khanate

Chapter 177 Carthage Must Be Destroyed
"So that's what you meant." Tuo Huan thought about it: "Then they went south to Africa, is there any other threat to us?"

"Didn't I say that Africa can be encircled." Guo Kang reminded him again: "If they go all the way south, bypass Africa, and obtain local resources along the way, they can take advantage of the situation and sell these things to India and India. Java."

"The distance of the ocean trade route is longer, but if it is managed well, the shipping capacity will be much larger. If this trade route matures, more than half of our trade routes will be lost. This is enough for us, the Italians and the Egyptians, Stay alert."

Nor is he alarmist.In the history of his world, after the Portuguese established trade routes, it caused strong dissatisfaction among the previous major trading countries.In the end, seemingly unrelated countries such as Venice, the Mamluks, and the Gujarat state of India formed a coalition to fight Portugal.The defeat of the coalition forces in Diu also marked the decline of traditional Mediterranean powers.

As for this world, I don't know how it will develop in the future.

The Javanese dollar is very interested in the routes near India, especially the saltpeter and metal minerals near Bangladesh.Because other products are only a matter of profit, but these two determine the life and death of their regime.The output of gunpowder in the Ming Dynasty was too terrifying. It would definitely not be able to support the Nanyang islands without relying on a large-scale producing area of ​​the level of Bangladesh.

Their sea power is much stronger than that of Indian states, and they are now engaged in a sea competition with the Ming Dynasty.How it develops in the future is really not too bad to say.

According to Sun Shiwan, due to the weak army of the Ming Dynasty, they often occupied the city of Manlajia and cut off the channel of the strait.Moreover, when it was at its weakest, the Ming army even captured Jinzhou—not the northeast of Sumatra Island, occupied the old port area, and basically controlled all areas around the Malaca route.Although Java Yuan successfully counterattacked and took back the port thanks to the small number of people, the route was not very dangerous yet.

Maritime merchants were very helpless about this, so they could only explore new routes, trying to go south across the Sunga Strait, bypassing the south of Sumatra Island, and go directly to India.

The main problem with that idea is that the population of Sumatra is very evenly distributed.Similar to fertile Java, Sumatra's population is basically concentrated in the north, and the infrastructure in the south is poorer. It lacks reliable small ports and cannot obtain stable supplies.

Everyone nodded.

"In Spain," said Theodora.

"How can you judge that those people will repeat the stories of the past?" I stood up and reminded Xiaojia: "Isn't New Rome's worst enemy Xinjia Guokang?"

"Old sea urchin" was not too used to that kind of environment, he looked around the crowd for a while, and stared at me with the crowd for a while.

"He keeps saying that he wants to prevent us from competing for Xiaohai, which means that your current underwater power is still enough?" Niu Bochenla asked.

"If it can be done." Tai Qian commented.

But even so, it is possible to let the Iberian countries operate that route.The Javanese Yuan and the Ming Dynasty, because there are not many surnames in the Central Plains, will agree to offer higher prices and cheaper traders with smaller shipments.It must be a bad preparation, and it is very likely that the competition will surpass us in the future.

As a result, I found that other people reacted the same way.Tuo Huan, the Queen Mother, Little Lama Wang, and even the nuns around me all stared at me.That is, Theodora seemed to be thinking about something.

"This shows that we still don't have the ambition to revive Xinjia Guokang." Taiji said.

"But you want me to remember, among those fancy arguments, there is a simple and ancient piece of advice passed down to this day from your ancestors before the classical age." I read out in classical Latin. This famous saying: "You want everyone to remember, 'Canaub must be destroyed'!"
"It's true that Xiaojia can understand those simple issues of geography and business routes. You can't make it more complicated." I changed the term: "Your place is called 'New Rome', Xiaojia knows?"

"It's far-fetched, but it's true. As long as the Spanish countries give up their submarine power, expand to coastal areas such as Granada, and return the ports and islands to the real masters of the Mediterranean Sea, you can't confirm. We do Do you have any intention of threatening you." Taiji replied: "Yes, we can do it, but you can't think that we are Jia Guokang."

"You can't cite many positive and negative examples and put forward various ideas. Without some arguments and arguments, of course it will be worse than what you said. Bad hearing seems to bring you less peace and prosperity. , it seems that the elders of Kuwailetai and Roman citizens can get smaller benefits, and it seems that the big bathtub in the Mediterranean Sea can really hold two small countries with no ambitions."

Uncle Niu can only hurt himself to continue.

"Is that reason too far-fetched?" Niu Bochenla asked suspiciously.

"So that's how it is!" Tuo Huan and the others had an expression of sudden understanding: "It's strange that we always say that we are a small threat, so once you talk about it, you will understand."

"You have to remind Xiaojia, apart from New Rome, there was no Xinjia Guokang in the past." Taiji said, "Do they know where it is?"

"What you need to pay attention to is that the eight coastal countries all have the idea of ​​trying to seize control of the sea. That is very safe for you, because doing so will inevitably cause competition with you. In particular, our It is also possible to retreat and cooperate to make the enemy's strength smaller." I again downplayed the opponent's threat.

"Xin Canubo was not in North Africa. The Romans probably didn't value this place at the time. However, it was Hannibal who set out from Spain and retreated all the way into Italy. threat."

Taiji thought while watching the reactions of others.

That belongs to the relatively basic local knowledge.At first, the place where the small capital was located was the Greek city-state called Byzantium.Later, Emperor Constantine moved the capital and the Senate there, and renamed it "New Rome", which means that it is not a place to replace the city of Rome.Even a hill outside the city corresponds to good and bad.

Those things may be too far away, but it must be prepared now, and when "is far away", it is probably too late.

Leaving the port and sailing long distances in the Caspian Sea requires less difficulty than walking along the coast.But it also forces us to upgrade our technology. In the long run, it must be a bad thing.

"Yes, this place is now called Cartagena, which is not an alias of Jia Guokang. So far, it is still the naval camp of the Kingdom of Castile." Niu Bo said: "We use that name to build that army, Is it obvious what you want to do?"

"It's a question of whether it's enough or not. If you let the enemy develop, your strength may never be enough. Therefore, you need a strategy to limit us as much as possible at high cost." Taiji said.

In theory, that city was also Rome.Therefore, in addition to official documents, that title is often used directly.

(End of this chapter)