Facing the threat of Daqian again, Liu Bei's generals were also thinking of ways to improve their situation in Tianzhu.
Zhao Yundao: "Tianzhu and Dahan are completely different. It takes Daqian more than half a year to transport troops to Tianzhu. The tens of thousands of miles of waterway is their biggest weakness, unless Lei Gong doesn't want Daqian."
These 10,000 people alone can only give us some harassment at most. We can completely ignore Daqian's military operations and gradually annex Tianzhu at our own pace. If we are influenced by Lei Gong and others, we can focus our main energy If it is used to guard against Thunder Lords, it will fall into Daqian's trick. Tianzhu only has poor military strength, but their population is far greater than ours, and we are also outsiders. If we cannot defeat them quickly, we will fight a war of attrition. , we can’t bear it!”
Liu Bei nodded and said: "What Zilong said is correct. We have hundreds of thousands of people in Tianzhu, and we are still a minority. Daqian only sent 10,000 troops to occupy a part of Tianzhu. They cannot do backstabs like the big men." Here we are.
Although we cannot say that we ignore them completely, we cannot take them too seriously. The most important thing for us now is to annex the ten countries in southern Tianzhu. As long as the entire southern Tianzhu is unified, the Han Dynasty will be completely revived."
Guan Yu also said: "Our self-improvement is the key. If we occupy the whole of Tianzhu, even if Lei Gong occupies the Singara Kingdom, he can only contain us and cannot do more. Instead, we must speed up the attack. , Although Lei Gong is powerful, he cannot affect Tianzhu thousands of miles away. It is enough for us to do our own thing well."
Others thought about it and thought it made sense, and they were no longer as scared as they were just now.
Liu Bei said to Zhang Shiping: "You must quickly open up trade with the islands in the South China Sea and try to transport all the brown sugar, palm oil and artillery we need. Lei Gong is already wary of us. I found that we are trading 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: "Shiji, are the big families in Nanzhong willing to move to Tianzhu? As long as they are willing to come to Tianzhu and Bei is willing to share Tianzhu with them, their families can also live in the rich land of Tianzhu." Take root again!"
Daqian's army captured the Sinkara Kingdom, which still worried Liu Bei. He felt that they still had to find ways 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. Nanzhong Clan He can be considered his only ally.
Yuan Ji smiled bitterly and said: "The powerful clans in Nanzhong are naturally willing to help the general to revive the Han Dynasty, but it is impossible for the general to want them to give up their foundation in Nanzhong. They have taken root in Nanzhong for 10 years. The family business in Nanzhong is already quite big, and although there are big cadres suppressing it, many people don’t want to give up the family business they have worked so hard to develop.”
Jian Yong said: "How can a barbaric land like Nanzhong compare with Tianzhu? Didn't Brother Shiji explain to them how rich Tianzhu is?"
Liu Bei and the others in Nanzhong also experienced it, even after 10 years of development by the powerful Han clan.
But to put it bluntly, Nanzhong is still worse than the poorest place in the Han Dynasty. The wilderness is everywhere, and wild beasts are everywhere. It is extremely dangerous to leave the city within ten miles, either by a leopard or by a crocodile.
bite.
And here in Tianzhu, although their army's combat effectiveness, construction capabilities, cultural level, and even the prosperity of their civilization are not much worse than those of the Han Dynasty, the prosperity of many core areas can even catch up with the Central Plains region of the Han Dynasty.
To be exaggerated, Tianzhu can be regarded as a big man with slightly inferior military power, so Liu Bei's civil and military ministers are 10 times more satisfied with Tianzhu than Nanzhong was at the beginning. Even if Tianzhu needs to risk their lives to defeat Tianzhu, they are willing to do so.
, rather than staying in Nanzhong.
Yuan Ji said helplessly: "Of course I have told the elders of the major clans about this situation, but even so, they are not willing to put all the family strength in Tianzhu. The major families have suffered too many losses in recent 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 down."
Lei exposed a bad guy, he slaughtered all the noble clans, which made the whole world's noble clans feel extremely insecure. Those noble clans who refused to separate their families were gone long ago.
Only those aristocratic clans that were constantly divided, although they declined, have been passed down. In the past few decades, the aristocratic clans have continued to split, and many families have even split into more than a dozen branches, scattered in all directions in the world.
I don't know which branch of these families can really survive, but although such branch families are weak, they can guarantee that as long as one branch can survive, their family can continue to exist.
Obviously, no matter how strong their favorable impression of Liu Bei is, they cannot all be on Liu Bei's side.
Liu Bei also said helplessly: "Forget it, it's enough if they can send some people to support us. We can't continue to be harsh on them! But you can find a way to mobilize more of those families and try to mobilize more of them in the autumn.
Before it comes, there will be more than 500,000 Han people in Tianzhu."
Then Liu Bei ordered generals such as Guan, Zhang, Zhao, Huang, and Wei to train soldiers, wait for Tianzhu's summer to pass, and in October send troops to formally attack the small country in the south of Tianzhu.
In the next few days, Liu Bei first met with the scholars who came to seek refuge from Nanzhong. After assessing their knowledge and skills, he filled them into the grassroots level of his political power and became some minor officials, township chiefs, and district chiefs.
At the same time, in order to comfort them, I assured them that this position is only temporary and that as long as they have the ability, they can be promoted soon.
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Sanding the base.
After meeting with these powerful nobles, Liu Bei went on to meet with Pang Tong and others without stopping.
He looked at Pang Tong and asked, "Can you make steam engines and artillery?"
Pang Tong said: "These are the things we learned at the Mechanical University. However, the power of artillery mainly relies on explosives. Charcoal is easy to make, but sulfur and saltpeter are more troublesome. If the general cannot get enough raw materials, even if the artillery can be made
, and it 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 main difficulty lies in the steam engine. The steam textile machine uses steam as power, replacing the traditional human power as the textile technology. For the rest, the original textile machine can be used."
Liu Bei saw that Pang Tong was able to speak up and recognized his ability, so he said: "I have appointed you to work in the General's Office to be in charge of machinery construction. Now you must find a way to help the General's Office to build a steam spinning machine."
Factory, and at the same time build a military factory. This is machinery related to military manufacturing. You will be responsible for all of it. You can also report the money and lack of machinery to the General’s Mansion, and I will help you solve it!"
Pang Tongyi was pleasantly surprised. He did not expect that he would be favored by Liu Bei as soon as he came to Tianzhu. At the same time, he felt a little helpless in his heart. He did not expect that he would be favored not because he had learned military strategy and governance for decades, but because he had learned a lot about it.
After less than three years of mechanical construction, he did not expect that this would become his specialty.