The day after Xiang Zhuang arrived at the Dantu Naval Camp, Jiang Ji also returned from Panyu.

Hearing that Jiang Ji's navy had arrived at the outer sea, Xiang Zhuang personally went to the pier to greet him. After waiting for half an hour on the pier, a black spot finally appeared on the vast river in the east. As the distance approached, a mast broke, the sails broke, and even the broken ship, which had broken several large holes on the side, finally appeared in sight.

Looking at this dilapidated "Chu Ship", Xiang Zhuang couldn't help feeling a little sad.

When he set off from the Dantu Naval Camp two years ago, Jiang Ji's naval fleet had a total of 100 "Chu Ships", and they were all large sea ships with sharp bottoms and bows. A hundred large sea ships, with ten ships as a team, divided into ten teams to explore the South American continent. Xiang Zhuang was helpless in doing this, after all, the navigation technology was limited at this time.

Although there is a Pacific chart that I pretended to be drawn by dreams, this chart is very general after all. Xiangzhuang is absolutely unable to draw how many islands there are in the South Pacific and the exact location of these islands. In addition, Sinan is not very accurate, and there are great problems in the accuracy of the direction. Xiangzhuang had no choice but to divide the fleet into ten routes. He thought about planting and harvesting them widely. As long as he sent out all the way, he would be victorious.

This is a very simple probability arithmetic problem.

Due to the limitations of navigation technology, the survival probability of a hundred Chu Ships traveling together will never be much higher than that of ten Chu Ships going to sea. Xiang Zhuang estimated that it would be very good to have a half-percent survival probability, but if the fleet is divided into ten teams, the probability of a fleet successfully returning will immediately increase to 50%!

50%, this is already a very high probability!

Xiang Zhuang never expected the navy to return completely. All he needed was a few or one ship to return. As long as the navy could bring back sweet potatoes, potatoes and corn, this great sailing adventure would be.

However, when Xiang Zhuang saw that there was really only one way and there was only one sea boat back, he couldn't help feeling sorry for the emperor. As an emperor, Xiang Zhuang had long been used to life and death, but he still felt a little guilty about the experience of the navy. If he waited for decades to sail, such losses would probably be avoided.

But to be honest, Xiang Zhuang can't wait. He urgently wants to introduce the three crops of sweet potatoes, potatoes and corn into China in the shortest time. He is eager to see the explosive growth of the population of the Huaxia people. He also wants to see in his lifetime that the Huaxia people will achieve effective rule over the Far East, Central Asia and Southeast Asia!

The broken boat slowly leaned onto the pier. Jiang Ji hurried down the gangway and saw that he was dressed in rags, his hair was unkempt, his eyes were sunken deeply, and his eyes were even more bloodshot.

Xiang Zhuang almost didn't recognize it at first glance. This is... Jiang Ji?!

"I, Jiang Ji, the general of the Navy General, please bow to Your Majesty!" Jiang Ji knelt down on his back.

"Long live your life when you see Your Majesty..." The navy soldiers behind Jiang Ji also knelt down on the ground.

"Jiang Aiqing calmed down." Xiang Zhuang quickly stepped forward to help Jiang Ji up, and then said to the other soldiers. "Sir, please calm down quickly, flatten your body..."

After a few words of condolences, Xiang Zhuang asked anxiously: "Aiqing Jiang. Have you ever been to the Jidong Continent?"

Jiang Ji sighed and replied with a sad expression: "I don't know if it is the extreme east continent, but I did sail to the southeast according to the navigation chart given by the king. Although there were many difficulties during this period, I finally arrived at a new continent after nine months of sailing and found the things the king said."

There were many difficulties during this period. Jiang Ji seemed to be gentle and clever at this time, but Xiang Zhuang could imagine it. How thrilling these nine months were. The huge storm in the Pacific Ocean, the wild beasts on the desolate island, and the panic caused by the inability to find supplies on the vast ocean were all life-threatening.

However, Xiang Zhuang obviously didn't care about comforting Jiang Ji anymore. He said anxiously: "Where is the thing?"

Jiang Ji waved his hand and six navy soldiers lifted three vine baskets from the boat. Xiang Zhuang looked closely and found that the basket was indeed what he had dreamed of, half a basket of potatoes, half a basket of sweet potatoes and half a basket of corn kernels. Xiang Zhuang grabbed a handful of potatoes and a handful of corn kernels and looked at it again and again, smelled it again and again, and finally couldn't help but smile at the sky.

Jiang Ji was not sure about this and said carefully: "Your Majesty, I originally brought a hundred baskets, but in the past few months before Panyu, there was really no food on the boat, so..."

"It's okay, it's enough, it's enough." Xiang Zhuang waved his hand indifferently, and then turned around to command the Danyang County Magistrate standing behind him, "Mr. Zhou, you go back and arrange it immediately. I need a hundred acres of the most fertile land and a hundred most experienced old farmers, and send another thousand government soldiers to obey the order!"

"Here!" The governor of Danyang County took the order and hurried away... Two months later, until the seedlings and potato sprouts grew in the field, the sweet potato seedlings were moved into the ground, and the governor of Danyang County was arranged to take care of the ten acres of fertile land carefully. Xiangzhuang returned to Luoyang with unfulfilled satisfaction. But four months later, Xiangzhuang would come again. The sweet potatoes, potatoes and corn sown at that time should almost be ripe.

When she returned to Luoyang, Xiangzhuang began to arrange a military service to Goguryeo.

Although it has only been two years since the reunification of the world, such as Guanzhong, Yandi, Qidi and Huainan, and have not even recovered from the trauma of war, the new Huaxia Empire still couldn't wait to launch a large-scale foreign war, and Goguryeo was the first target of the Huaxia Empire to take action.

In history, the Han Empire in the same period of history took nearly a hundred years to recuperate and finally accumulate enough national strength and then began a fifty-year battle against the Hungarians. However, the Chinese Empire in this time and space advanced this process by half a century. Although the Chu-Han struggle lasted longer in this time and space, the national strength of the Chinese Empire was far from comparable to the Han Empire.

This is thanks to the national policy of encouraging scholars, farmers, industry and commerce implemented by Xiangzhuang. After 30 years of development, the former Chu State's current Chinese Empire had a huge scale of industry and commerce. The prosperity of industry and commerce brought about abundance of the national treasury. In addition, handicrafts feed back to agricultural technology, so that the counties under the rule of Chu State had bumper harvests year by year, and the two warehouses of grain were piled up like mountains.

As for why handicrafts have a feeding back to agricultural technology, the reason is very simple, because handicrafts will absorb a large amount of middle-aged labor. If these middle-aged labors are devoted to handicrafts, they will inevitably have an impact on agriculture. In order to make up for or eliminate the impact, they can only find ways from farming technology and production tools, which has led to the development of agricultural technology.

For example, deep cultivation technology based on iron plows, such as water wheels, well irrigation technology based on water wheels, intercropping technology, rotation technology, etc. With the exploration of farmers and the unremitting efforts of students from the Taixue School (there is a scientific research institution responsible for buses, and you can get a title by inventing them). Agricultural technology has developed rapidly.

With sufficient money and food in the treasury, coupled with the reward mechanism for military merits, the new Chinese Empire, from the emperor to the common people, all had a strong desire to use military force to the outside world. As an emperor, he wanted to expand his territory and create unparalleled merits. As a general, he wanted to achieve military merits and get the rewards he deserved. As a commoner, he also hoped that his children could obtain military merits.

Inspired by the farming and war system, the Great Qin Empire in history was a deformed and huge war machine. The new Chinese Empire had developed more comprehensively at all levels such as scholars, farmers, industry and commerce. The war mobilization ability is absolutely not inferior to the farming and war system of the Great Qin Empire, and the continuous war ability is much stronger.

Therefore, large-scale external expansion is inevitable.

As for why Goguryeo was chosen as the first target of attack, it was also carefully considered.

First of all, Goguryeo is close to Liaodong and is not too far apart. Secondly, Goguryeo is an agricultural civilization, unlike nomadic peoples such as the Huns and Yuezhi. If they cannot defeat them, they will escape into the desert or the Gobi Desert, making you unable to find anyone. The last and most important point is that Goguryeo is in an expansion and rise period.

As long as Goguryeo is destroyed, the remaining enemies in the Far East, whether they are the Wuhuan people, Xianbei people, Fuyu people or Jizi Korea, will never challenge the Chinese Empire anymore. Of course, it is only possible to conquer at this stage. It will take a certain amount of time to achieve true and effective rule over the Far East.

Today is the beginning of the month, and all officials gathered in the Fengtian Hall of the Dahua Palace.

In the magnificent hall, Xiang Zhuang, the First Emperor of the Chinese Empire, was placed on the throne, and under the jade steps was the imperial case of the crown prince Xiang Zheng. Xiang Zheng was wearing a five-clawed dragon robe, and its shape was no different from that of Xiang Zhuang. Even the crown on his head was the same as the twelve tassels.

Xiang Zhuang is setting rules in this way, and this is the real crown prince of the country.

The reason why Xiang Zhuang did this was not just to establish the authority of the prince, but he had more far-reaching considerations, because Xiang Zhuang felt that the throne inheritance system in history had great flaws, and the prince could only select from the descendants of the current emperor, and there was little choice. It was difficult to ensure that the quality of the next emperor was not mentioned, but sometimes there would be a gap between the blue and yellow!

If the current emperor died suddenly and the young prince ascended the throne in a hurry, it would be even more serious, and it would be possible that the imperial power would be interrupted. There are countless precedents of turmoil in history because of the young master. For example, Emperor Hui of Han, Emperor Xian of Han, and the most notorious one was probably the late Qing Dynasty rule.

Therefore, Xiang Zhuang was determined to break this unreasonable system of inheriting the throne. In any case, there would be no emperor under the age of 18 and without experience in participating in politics with the court. Establishing and consolidating Xiang Zheng's position as crown prince, allowing him to participate in politics with the court and giving him great voice to appoint and dismiss personnel. This is the first step that Xiang Zhuang took.

Xiang Zhuang's eyes swept across the faces of the ministers, and finally froze on Xiang Zheng's face, and asked: "Prince, do you have a suitable candidate for the commander-in-chief of Goguryeo?" (To be continued)!~!
Chapter completed!