During the period when Zhou Yu was half dead, it was actually an opportunity in Chen Xi's judgment. Although Chen Xi was not optimistic about the plan Zhou Yu made at that time, after all, it was essentially looking for a make-up. Chen Xi admitted that if Meng Kangbu really attacked, it would be a good opportunity for Gan Ning, who was dedicated to the country.

In recent years, Gan Ning has been rushing to the front line. Although Zhou Yu has indeed gained a lot of merits, this is completely inconsistent with the position of Gan Ning as the head of the navy. To put it too much, nowadays, there are still a few people who remember that Gan Ning is the leader of the navy, and Zhou Yu is actually just the governor of the four seas.

Therefore, this time it was also an opportunity in Chen Xi's opinion. If everything is really as Zhou Yu estimated, Gan Ning might not be able to seize the opportunity and soar into the sky. Now, the opportunity has come.

No matter what, Gan Ning also won the strategic fulcrum of the Kushan Navy this time, which is a great achievement that is enough to be a marquis. As the staff officer of Gan Ning in this battle, Lu Xun contributed some of the contributions from it and first raised his title, so that the subsequent things will be much easier to operate.

What's more, this time Gan Ning's operation was taken by Ceylon Island, and Malacca was still in the hands of Jiangdong. Then relying on Ceylon Island to form another navy will have a foundation. As the naval chief, Gan Ning will support Lu Xun as the leader, which is a natural result.

"Next, Zhou Gongjin will be considered to be out of the pillar of shame." Fa Zheng said in a teasing tone, "However, I have to admit that he was really good at playing. Even if he was looking for a make-up, it was really surprising that he could get such a result."

"The main reason is that being able to fly is really amazing." Jia Xu said with admiration, then looked at Chen Xi. Chen Xi was also developing the Air Force, and there were some achievements. Unexpectedly, Zhou Yu's efficiency was even more exaggerated. He has actually made the Air Force out of now.

"Indeed, that guy still has a trump card." Chen Xi nodded, "Wait for the accurate battle report later, I have only won the battle now, and the winnings have not been counted yet. After counting them, I will talk about the reward. Speaking of which, has the number of recent aristocratic families increased a bit outrageously."

Chen Xi estimated that Zhou Yu's victory this time would be very exaggerated. After all, Meng Kangbu's flagship was knocked out. In the past, except for the captains of each warship, the backbone of a navy will basically be concentrated on the flagship to facilitate the flagship to exert its maximum combat effectiveness. As a result, the flagship was knocked out as a whole. In the description in Zhou Yu's letter, it was beaten out.

In this case, very few people can survive. Maybe only Meng Kangbu on the deck escaped the disaster, and it is possible that everyone else will be destroyed.

According to Kushan's previous configuration, Chen Xi estimated that Meng Kangbu's hand would probably kill two or three Ganning-level naval backbones. In other words, just this victory would be enough for the rest of Jiangdong to drink some soup. However, this time Zhou Yu probably wouldn't be ashamed to ask for this reward. Then, it would be enough to exchange interests and give Zhou Yu a step. I'm afraid I won't think about it if there are more.

On his own territory, as the highest level, Chen Xi has nothing to say, and we are having fun all day long, right?

"There is no way. Although Central Asia has obtained considerable resources, the food is still not enough. The major families have driven some people back first. After all, the Central Plains are not short of food." Jia Xu said calmly. In his opinion, the Central Asian families did this right. If there is no food, then go find a place to eat. It is quite good.

"Oh, what's the overall situation in Central Asia now?" Chen Xi looked through the information in Central Asia and asked Jia Xu casually. After all, Jia Xu had just gone to Xinzhou and had just returned, so he must have a good understanding of the situation in Central Asia.

"It's not so good, the food is still short of food, but the major families can barely hold it." Jia Xu said with a sigh, "The locals died all over the place and are still in turmoil, but they can no longer cause too much impact. The most serious period has passed. Now it can only be said that it is the aftermath of the vegetarianism before, which is no longer as serious as before."

Chen Xi was shocked when she heard this, and her eyes felt a little unbearable, but she still said nothing. Anxi had been dead for almost ten years. What is the component of Anxi who has not yet been naturalized? There is no way to say that humanitarian rescue has its limits. Chen Xi could not save millions of Anxi's remnants, so she could only let the Han family solve it themselves. There is really no good idea.

"Then the situation of the three Persian Gulf families is not very good." Jia Xu added, and Chen Xi was silent for a while, without saying anything. He knew very early that the situation of these three major families could not be improved. After all, sugar cane can be grown in that place, and sugar cane can produce sugar. Not to mention the third century, in fact, in later generations, sugar is also an important strategic resource and commodity.

"Being blackmailed?" Chen Xi thought about it and asked.

"It's not counting. It's just that after it was exposed that sugar can grow and produce sugar, many people are staring at them in this situation." Fa Zheng replied on behalf of Jia Xu, "The sugar manufacturing industry is very complicated now, and the profits of sugar manufacturing industry are also very high."

"No need to say this, I'm pretty clear." Chen Xi curled his lips and said. No one knew the potential of the sugar industry better than him. What's more, during the famine years, sugar can really save lives. Although drinking sugar water can't supplement other trace elements, it can really make you live longer.

"Rome has also set his sights on it, but Rome is now in a mess, so he can only put this matter aside first, but there may be some action in the last two years." Jia Xu made his own judgment with a serious expression.

Rome did not have the idea of ​​beating Cao Cao because Cao Cao was far away, and the three Persian Gulf families were next to the Persian Gulf. It was true that Rome had short legs, but it was still no problem to go down the coast with a small sampan and pinch the Persian Gulf in his hand.

What's more, in addition to bringing happiness, sugar is also a strategic resource. Moreover, in these days, sugar water can treat most common diseases. Although this thing is often a placebo, this placebo is really powerful and can really suppress many diseases.

The name of universal medicine fell on sugar for a long time in ancient times. The only problem was that the output of this thing was insufficient.

It is not that the official production is sufficient and then deliberately curbed, but that it is not enough. Chen Xi started to let Mi Zhu engage in the sugar industry since the Xuzhou period. Until now, sugarcane plantings in Jiaozhou, sugarcane plantings in Yangzhou, and sugarcane plantings in Jingzhou are still far away.

Chen Xi had no good idea about this. This thing is the same as the steel output in the Han Dynasty. They can consume as much as you produce. Especially after the popularity of the iron pot, Chen Xi's steel gap is getting bigger and bigger.

As for the same sentence, the military's steel consumption is nothing. The real big head is all for civilian use. If a decimal number is multiplied by nearly 100 million, the number of people will be out of heaven. Steel and sugar are of this type of thing. Anyway, you can't do it enough.

"Let's talk about it then. If not, let the three Persian Gulf families work for Rome first and occupy the land first." Chen Xi waved his hand and said. What he wants to do now is to kill Kushan to death in the next third five-year plan.

To be honest, if Chen Xi cannot kill Kushan next, it will be difficult for Chen Xi to kill Kushan.

Just as Zhu Helai and others judged, the Han Dynasty has actually been full, and it is actually Chen Xi's will to continue to fight against Kushan, and Liu Bei also agrees with this. In addition, the Han Dynasty is booming and there is no major problem, so it can continue to push forward.

But if it cannot be fought for a long time, the Han Dynasty will be tired. At that time, the breath will be relaxed, and it will be too difficult to lift it up later. Therefore, the next third five-year plan must implement the plan to kill Kushan and complete the enfeoffment.

Therefore, during this period, Chen Xi could make a certain compromise with Rome. As long as Rome did not do too much, the Han Dynasty was still willing to give some steps. If Rome did too much, after three million troops knocked down the Kushans, Chen Xi would not mind drawing out 200,000 out of it to make a model for Rome.

Anyway, the most important task at this stage is to do Kushan, and the rest should be pushed forward first.

This is also the reason why Chen Xi was very satisfied with Zhou Yu and Gan Ning's performance this time. This victory completely solved the problem that Chen Xi might be attacked when he was dispatching troops to the Ganges.

In fact, Chen Xi wanted to send troops to the Ganges, and the scale estimated before, the food and grass to be mobilized from the rear was also very large. In this case, once the Kushan attacked the grain channel and the plan of three million troops to capture the Ganges will be completely ruined.

Therefore, according to Chen Xi's plan, at the end of next year, the flag that Mengkangbu in Ceylon must be pulled out at the latest no later than the middle of the year after, otherwise the final plan made by Chen Xi is basically impossible to achieve. After all, as long as Mengkangbu is still squatting in Ceylon and Chen Xi's logistics passes through the Bay of Bengal, he must face the possibility of Mengkangbu's self-destruction of the food channel at all costs.

From a certain perspective, if Meng Kangbu held his own consciousness of dying and cut off the food road, the Han Dynasty would never be able to defend it in the Bay of Bengal. After all, the broken place was really capable of sailing in the rainy season, and Meng Kangbu was based on the awareness of death together, and Zhou Yu could not seal it.

So for Chen Xi, knocking out Ceylon Island at this point will be less than one strategic obstacle, and the subsequent trouble will be the only tactical trouble. For more than two years, it will be knocked out one by one.

"Speaking of this, how much is the gap between our sugar?" Li You asked Zhuge Liang with a curious expression after Chen Xi spoke.

"Three hundred thousand tons." Zhuge Liang didn't even have the intention to look up this time, so he directly reported a number to Li You, and then continued to handle his work.

"Ah, why is the gap getting bigger and bigger?" Guo Jia was confused. If you remember correctly, wasn't there any gap in the past few years? When this gap appeared the year before yesterday, it was only a few hundred tons. Why is this gap so outrageous this year?

Looking at Chen Xi collectively, Chen Xi was helpless, and he had no choice. It was not that there was no gap before, but that I didn’t consider this before, so there was no gap. Now I am including this in the strategic reserve, and naturally I need to calculate the per capita demand, and then a gap of 300,000 tons was created.

To be honest, Chen Xi's sugar intake for the Han people was not too much. It was calculated based on ten kilograms per person a year, which was not counted in other aspects, as well as external sales, etc. This alone required 350,000 tons to go up.

Is this too much? Not much, the problem is that even if not much, Chen Xi can't figure it out. Moreover, the current price of sugar is still quite outrageous. The price of a pound of sugar is basically the same as that of a stone of rice. This is Chen Xi's official stable price, otherwise the sugar will increase its own price.

Anyway, the rock candy that Rome walked from the Han Dynasty was all up to 300 pounds. The problem is that even at this price, Rome still received unlimitedly. This is why the sugar factory in Kandahar can be called a cash bull. After Rome inspected the sugar factory and determined the sugar production, it was completely acceptable to pay the money first and then take the sugar. In short, this thing is currently killing crazy all over the world.

The result of the crazy killing was that the gap in the Han Dynasty was getting bigger and bigger, and Chen Xi was so big that he had no choice but to do anything about this. Before the Industrial Age, only a few European countries that built plantations all over the earth could barely create this demand.

As for the Han Dynasty, the Han Dynasty may be able to be created in the future, but now we must not expect that the area of ​​sugarcane plantations needed to produce sugar of this scale and the manpower required for sugarcane plantations of this scale, even if Chen Xi successfully evolved from farm tools 1.0 to human-powered farm tools 1.5 to 2.0 with those masters, plantations of this scale would require millions of people to participate.

This still requires at least millions of people to participate, and it is just a planting process, and the subsequent processes also require considerable manpower!

Although there is no problem with this operation from the perspective of output and stabilizing society and bringing employment, now is not the time to do this. However, the Han Dynasty is hungry and waiting for sugar to eat, and the map is full of people. Many people who have eaten candy for the first time doubt what they were doing in the first half of their lives. Eating candy is not determined by human will, but by human genes, so this thing cannot be fought against.

"How to plan the sugarcane plantation in the third five-year plan?" Li You asked Chen Xi. Although Li You saw that he had nothing to do and mocked Yuan Shu for drinking honey water, Li You himself also drank it. Among the people in the Zhengyuan, Li You's sugar demand is also high. After all, Li You has a group of kids and needs to give them candy.

Fortunately, Liao Li gave a suggestion to make money and take them to make money!
Chapter completed!