Zhang Ji was shocked when he heard this. He couldn't believe it and asked: "Is this true? Crab Island is not a barbaric place. How could Cao Cao and the others recover so quickly? There is no way Lei Gong could give Cao Cao a good place." Bar?"
Although Daqian has been continuously attacking the Han Dynasty in recent years, the pace of overseas development has not been slow. Gold mines have been discovered in Wo Island, brown sugar has been produced in Yizhou, and a large number of spices and many precious materials have been discovered on Spice Island. of timber, each of these islands is a land of wealth.
But in Zhang Ji's view, Lei Gong must occupy the rich territory for himself, so how could he give it to Cao Cao? Cao Cao has only been overseas for a few years, and he can actually regain his strength?
Is it true that there are so many fertile islands overseas and that the Han people really misjudged these places before?
The islands that Daqian has discovered one after another in recent years have changed everyone's thinking about overseas islands. They know that there are not only wild lands overseas, but also many fertile lands and places of wealth waiting for everyone to discover.
Even now, there are many old men and women who regret it. If the Han Dynasty had made these discoveries, the finances would not have been empty every time, and the Ling Emperor would not have bought and sold officials for more than a billion dollars, and in the end the world was destroyed. .
Han Rong sneered and said: "It's not as good as you think. Crab Island is naturally a barbaric land. If you want to open up such a place, you have to sacrifice your life. How many people died in Jingzhou back then? Cao Cao will develop Crab Island." Ten times more people will die! But Cao Cao doesn't care, so the cost of developing all the way will naturally be low!"
Zhang Ji didn't believe it and said, "How many people can Cao Cao take away? How can Lei Gong be so kind as to let Cao Cao take away millions of people?"
Taking human lives to fill it, there are still millions of people on Crab Island, so how many people Lei Gong helped Cao Cao relocate, and how much it will cost, in Zhang Ji's opinion, this is completely unreasonable!
Cai Yong explained: "At first, the people who followed Cao Cao to Crab Island were only hundreds of thousands of clan members from the Qingxu Land, but there were tens of thousands of savages on Crab Island. All of these savages were quickly captured by Cao Cao and became There were serfs who opened up wasteland, and next to Crab Island there was a Japanese island that was several times larger. There were many gold and silver mines on the island. The Daqian court controlled this island, and hundreds of thousands of people mined on the island all year round."
"But mining is extremely hard, and it is also extremely dangerous. These mining rangers thought of catching the savages on the island to mine. The savages who were mining suffered heavy casualties, and there was also a country of savages on the island. What was it called? Yamatai is governed by a queen named Bei Liuhu!"
"This queen does have some insight. She knew that she could not defeat Daqian's rangers. In order to protect her people, she led the people of her country away from the gold and silver mines on the island, but they moved to the vicinity of Crab Island. At that time, Cao Cao wanted to develop Crab Island and lacked manpower, and although Yamatai was a savage country, it still had hundreds of thousands of people!"
"So Cao Cao took a fancy to these savages, but there is a strait between Crab Island and Japanese Island. It is difficult for Cao Cao to attack Yamatai, and even if he could attack Cao Cao, he would not dare to attack. After all, Japanese Island is Daqian's territory. Cao Cao If he dares to have any thoughts, he is afraid that if his army moves forward with its front foot, the navy with its rear foot will be wiped out.
I don’t know who gave Cao Cao an idea to marry the Queen of Yamatai, and the two countries merged into one country, and all the citizens of Yamatai migrated to Crab Island! It’s hard to say that this would happen. what!"
"So that's how it is!" Zhang Ji couldn't help but exclaimed, Cao Cao's full-fledged tyrannical tactics, even marrying barbarians in order to grow stronger, amazing!
Ding Gong said angrily: "This Cao Ah Man is a villain. He even married the queen of the savages. It is a disgrace to my big man!"
The reason why Duke Ding was so angry was because his daughter was Cao Cao's wife, Mrs. Ding. If Cao Cao had taken a concubine, he wouldn't have been so angry. But after all, Queen Yamatai brought a country's dowry, how could she be a concubine? Even if Cao Cao wanted to appease the hearts of these hundreds of thousands of barbarians, he couldn't do this. He divided the east and west palaces, his daughter was the east palace, and Queen Yamatai was the west palace. They said they were equal in status, but how many people did Queen Yamatai have? There are 100,000 tribesmen, but his daughter only has a few thousand tribesmen. How can this be equal?
And even if Ding Gong is really equal, he can't stand it. Their family has been ministers for several generations, and even the third prince has been born in the family. Otherwise, the family would not be enough to marry Cao Cao. Now a savage is climbing on his daughter's head, so that His family was ridiculed in Daqian. When will the savages stand above his family?
Zhao Qi said angrily: "Among us, Meng De is the most promising. The others have long been defeated. Meng De can still have a country to continue your family. What else are you dissatisfied with?" !Although your daughter now has someone who is equal to him, she is still a princess after all! The wealth of your Ding family has been saved. Look, which of the old friends here does not envy you."
Ding Gong said angrily: "What kind of princess is the Savage Princess?"
Even though the Han Dynasty perished, his outlook on life has not changed. In Ding Gong's view, the barbarians are their slaves, and becoming a king of the barbarians is not as powerful as the Han Dynasty!
Han Rong said disdainfully: "If you really think that Cao Cao's country is a savage country, why do you want to move your tribe to Crab Island? There are thousands of tribesmen. I'm afraid there aren't many people from the Ding family in Daqian!"
Ding Gong was so overwhelmed that he could not speak. Even though he despised places outside Daqian, he acted very honestly and moved his family to Crab Island. Those who stayed in Daqian were all side branches or bastards like them. Old people waiting to die, these side branches continue to use the money they earn to support the clansmen on Crab Island. Cao Cao can develop so fast, it is really inseparable from the support of these people. Although they have no rights in big money, they can do business Earned a lot of money.
Xu Shao smiled and said: "Jun Qingping is a traitor and a hero in troubled times. My evaluation is indeed correct. Even though the world has produced such an unparalleled hero as Lei Gong, Meng De still did it on Crab Island, in such a wild place. A career of his own, and he is truly worthy of being a hero in a troubled world. If it were not for the existence of an alien like Thunder Lord, I believe that the one who can bring peace to the world must be Cao Cao."
Chunyu Jia sneered and said: "You said Benchu was a model for the world. Now he has been exiled to the desert to herd sheep, and the Yuan family has disappeared. Why don't you say this anymore! You just said the good things and Forget the bad ones, use this method to improve your reputation."
Even among this group of losers, there are good and bad. As a famous person in the world, Xu Shao was originally the most famous person, and he was also the fastest to adapt to the new era. He found that his skills in commenting on characters were completely unparalleled in the officialdom. It's useless. Daqian does not select officials based on reputation but relies on imperial examinations. Relying on the strength of Litian and military officers, no one will listen to him, a remnant of the previous dynasty.
He also quickly found his own skills in making a living by posting articles to Jidu Daily and giving full play to his skills in commenting on people in the world. He often commented on various princes and heroes in troubled times in newspapers, because he had all the information , he is also very objective in commenting on the characters, and his style of laughing and scolding is even more down-to-earth. It is very suitable for the people of Jidu who are somewhat educated but not high-level. The people of the entire imperial capital love to read his articles. From this aspect , his fame is now even greater, but he has lost his political influence.
Now Xu Shao's pen name Bai Xiaosheng is very famous in Jidu. Jidu Daily has dedicated a page to publish Bai Xiaosheng's articles. Many people in Jidu are willing to read his articles, and there are already hundreds of thousands of them. Readers, and in order to retain this generation of literary giants, they even paid him a hundred dollars per word to win him over.
His manuscript fee is also the highest in the whole Daqian, and he can earn tens of thousands of dollars from just one article. Therefore, Xu Shao is the richest among these people, and his daily life is not much lower. There is also a three-in-one courtyard house in Jidu, and the living conditions are not much worse than those in Luoyang City back then, except for a few fewer maids and servants.
Nowadays, they want to publish books and they can make millions of dollars. But if they want to publish their hard work, not only can they not make money, but they have to put in hundreds of thousands of dollars.
This gap naturally caused dissatisfaction among the other group of friends. We were all a bunch of losers, but among this group of losers there was a literary giant. This was hard for many people to endure, so it was inevitable to ridicule him.
Xu Shao sneered and said: "Yuan Shao has been resisting Thunder Lord for several years, and he has been fighting on the front line. It is not an exaggeration to say that he is a model for the world, but what have you, an old man, done? You are not just lingering on trying to please Thunder Lord. In the end, Lei Gong turned his back on you."
Xu Shao naturally knew that most people here were dissatisfied with him and understood why they were dissatisfied, but their dissatisfaction made Xu Shao look down on his old friends!
If they were really capable, they could write articles and submit them to make money based on their true abilities, but unfortunately the articles they wrote were obscure and highbrow, so few people were willing to read them, and soon even newspapers were unwilling to ask for their articles. .
No one is willing to learn their family knowledge now. It can be said that their entire lives have been denied by Da Qian, so they are full of hatred for the successful Xu Shao, and they always get into fights when they meet!
Seeing that the two were about to quarrel, Zhao Qi on the side said loudly: "We are all so depressed, why are we still mocking each other? If you want to quarrel, go out and quarrel, don't be embarrassed here!"
Zhao Qi is older and more qualified. If he says this, others will be embarrassed to continue arguing.
Zhang Ji didn't know how to view the scene in front of him for a while. They were not very united among the people who had subjugated their country. The party struggle in the late Han Dynasty seemed to be continuing!
Liu Xie saw the astonished Zhang Ji and laughed softly: "Although everyone was fighting fiercely, they didn't take it to heart. They just wanted to use this method to forget the fact that the Han Dynasty had perished! At the same time, they also vented their inner feelings. The distress!”
Then Liu Xie said darkly: "But we all know that the Han Dynasty is irredeemable. It was difficult for me to accept this reality at first, but after coming to Jidu, I saw the stable people and prosperous city here, but I also understood how to face it. The demise of such a powerful Daqian Han is inevitable!"
Zhang Ji thought about what he had seen along the way. The world was recovering very quickly. Not to mention the water conservancy facilities in the Central Plains had been completely restored. They were even better than during the Han Dynasty. You could see towering trees near the city. Such a granary contains 300,000 dan of grain. Zhang Ji discovered that even the small towns along the way had hundreds of thousands of dan of grain stored in them. If the Han Dynasty had not just perished, he would have thought that he was living in a prosperous age.
Daqian's national power is indeed much stronger than that of Dahan. Even when Dahan was at its strongest, he may not be Daqian's opponent. When encountering such an enemy, Daqian's defeat is doomed! The only thing that makes him feel relieved may be Da Qian's care for the people is true. The people of the world have not suffered from the war in vain. They have waited for their own prosperous age!
At this time, Zhao Qi said to Zhang Ji: "I have an advice for you. If you have the determination and ability, then go to the lands other than the Han Dynasty and make a living. Judging from Lei Gong's achievements overseas in the past two years, , overseas is not the wild land we imagined. It is a land of wealth, just waiting for us to discover it."
Zhao Qi didn't want Zhang Ji to see the jokes of his old friends anymore, and wanted to get rid of Zhang Ji as soon as possible, so he came up with an idea!
Zhang Jiwei said: "When we first opened up Jingzhou, we paid a huge price, and our children suffered heavy casualties. Now overseas lands are more difficult to cultivate than Jingzhou. I'm afraid our casualties will be even heavier, and many people in Jingzhou are reluctant to part with their current land." Family business!”
Zhao Qidao: "Overseas is our only way out. If you want to stay in Daqian, you will only become losers like us. You will not have a chance to make a comeback until decades later. This is a game where the continuation of the family is the bet. , the loser will have nothing!”
Zhang Ji was still thinking. At this time, a voice shouted: "Sorry, I'm late!"
Then Zhang Ji saw a man wearing a Chinese tunic suit coming here. In Daqian, officials were usually dressed like this. This shocked him. He thought this was just an alliance of losers. He didn't expect to see a big man. It is undoubtedly a very shocking thing that a fallen general of the Han Dynasty has the opportunity to become a high-ranking official of the Gan Dynasty. Lei Gong, who was trying to kill all the powerful nobles, actually showed mercy!
"Zitai is here!" Zhao Qi said calmly!
Liu He responded with a smile: "There is something going on in the government office, I'm late!"
Others also saluted Liu He, and then looked at Liu He with envy. Among them, Liu He was the only one who had become a member of the Daqian officialdom, and his status was not low now! Now he is an official in the Foreign Affairs Department under the Ministry of Rites. !