Mythical Version of the Three Kingdoms

The period when Zhou Yu was half-dead was actually an opportunity in Chen Xi's judgment. Although Chen Xi was not very optimistic about Zhou Yu's plan at that time, after all, it was essentially looking for compensation, but Chen Xi admitted that if Meng Combu really attacked Yes, it is indeed a good opportunity for Gan Ning, who is devoted to his country.

In the past few years, Gan Ning has been on the front line through wind and rain. Although Zhou Yu has indeed gained a lot of merit due to his performance, this is completely inconsistent with Gan Ning's status as a naval commander. To put it bluntly, now These days, a few people still remember that Gan Ning was the leader of the navy, and Zhou Yu was actually just the governor of the world.

Therefore, this time is also an opportunity for Chen Xi. If everything goes as Zhou Yu estimated, Gan Ning might be able to seize the opportunity and soar into the sky. No, the opportunity has come.

After all, Gan Ning also captured Ceylon Island, the strategic fulcrum of the Kushan Navy, this time. In any case, it was a great achievement that was enough to make him a prince. As Gan Ning's staff officer in this battle, Lu Xun would share some of the credit. First, he would Once the title is raised, the rest will become much easier.

What's more, after Gan Ning's operation this time, Ceylon Island was captured, and Malacca was still in Jiangdong's hands. Then there was a foundation for forming another navy based on Ceylon Island. Gan Ning, as the navy chief, helped Lu Xun take over. That's really what happened.

"This week Gongjin can be considered to have escaped from the pillar of shame." Fazheng said with a teasing tone, "However, I have to admit that he played really well, even if he was looking for compensation, it is really impressive to be able to achieve such a result. People were shocked.”

"The main thing is that being able to fly is really amazing." Jia Xu said with admiration, and then looked at Chen Xi. Chen Xi was also developing the air force, and had achieved some results. I don't think Zhou Yu's efficiency was even more exaggerated. Now he has actually The Air Force has already figured it out.

"Indeed, that guy still has some trump cards." Chen Xi nodded, "Let's wait for the accurate battle report later. We just won the battle now, and the gains have not yet been counted. We will talk about the reward after the counting is done. Speaking of which, Chang'an has been recently The number of aristocratic family members has grown a bit outrageously."

Chen Xi estimated that Zhou Yu's gains this time would be exaggerated. After all, Meng Kangbu's flagship was destroyed, and these days, in addition to the captains of each battleship, the backbone of a navy will basically be concentrated on the flagship, so as to facilitate The flagship exerted its maximum combat effectiveness, but the flagship was completely destroyed. According to Zhou Yuxin's description, it was completely destroyed.

In this case, very few people could survive. Maybe only Mengcomb, who was on the deck at the time, escaped, and everyone else might be wiped out.

According to Guishang's previous configuration, Chen Xi estimated that Meng Kangbu would probably kill two or three Gan Ning-level naval backbones. In other words, this gain alone would be enough for the rest of Jiangdong to drink some soup. But this time Zhou Yu probably doesn't have the nerve to ask for this reward. When the time comes, he will make an exchange of interests and give Zhou Yu a step up. Don't even think about it.

In his own territory, as the highest-ranking person, he could still be assassinated by others. Chen Xi had nothing to say. Our Han room was just having fun all day long, right?

"There is no way. Although Central Asia has obtained considerable resources, there is still not enough food. The major families have driven some people back first. After all, the Central Plains is not short of food." Jia Xu said calmly. In his view, Come on, those aristocratic families in Central Asia did the right thing in this matter. If you have no food to eat, then go find a place where you can eat. That’s good.

"Oh, what's the overall situation in Central Asia now?" Chen Xi asked Jia Xu casually while looking through the information on Central Asia. After all, Jia Xu just went to Xinzhou and just came back. He must have quite a lot of knowledge about the situation in Central Asia. understanding.

"It's not that good. Food is still scarce, but the major families are barely able to survive." Jia Xu said with a bit of regret, "The locals in Anxi died all over the place, and there is still turmoil, but it can no longer cause too much damage. The most serious period has passed. Now it can only be said that it is the aftermath of the previous cannibalism, which is no longer as serious as before. "

Chen Xi was excited when he heard this, and his eyes were somewhat intolerable, but he still didn't say anything. Xi'an has been dead for almost ten years, and the composition of the Xi'an survivors who have not yet been naturalized is needless to say. There are limits to humanitarian relief. Chen Xi couldn't save the millions of Parthian survivors, so he could only let the Han family deal with it themselves. There was really no good way to do this.

"Then the situation of the three families in the Persian Gulf is not very good." Jia Xu added. Chen Xi was silent for a while without saying anything. He had known for a long time that the situation of the three families was not good. After all, sugar cane could be grown in that area, and then Sugarcane can produce sugar, let alone three centuries later. In fact, sugar will also be an important strategic resource and commodity in later generations.

"Being blackmailed?" Chen Xi thought for a moment before asking.

"It doesn't count. It's just that after it was revealed that they can grow sugar cane and produce sugar, many people are staring at them in this situation." Fa Zheng replied on behalf of Jia Xu, "The current situation in the sugar industry is very complicated. And the sugar industry is very profitable.”

"It goes without saying, I know it very well." Chen Xi curled his lips and said. No one knows the potential of the sugar industry better than him. What's more, during the famine years, sugar can really save lives. Drinking sugar water can't supplement it. Other trace elements, but they can really make you live longer.

"Roma is also keeping an eye on it, but Roma is in such a mess right now that they can only put this matter aside for now, but they may take action within two years at the latest." Jia Xu made his own judgment with a solemn expression.

Rome didn't have any intention to attack Cao Cao because Cao Cao was far away, and the three Persian Gulf states were next to the Persian Gulf. Rome was indeed short-handed, but it was no problem to hold the Persian Gulf in its hands by sailing down the coast on a small sampan.

Moreover, in addition to bringing happiness, sugar is also a strategic resource. Moreover, in this era, sugar water can treat most common diseases. Although this thing is a placebo in many cases, this placebo is really powerful and can really suppress many diseases.

The title of panacea has been applied to sugar for a long time in ancient times. The only problem is that the output of this thing is not enough.

It's not that the official output is sufficient, and then it is deliberately curbed, but it is actually not enough. Chen Xi started to let Mi Zhu engage in the sugar industry since the Xuzhou period. Until now, Jiaozhou grows sugarcane, Yangzhou grows sugarcane, and Jingzhou grows sugarcane. There are still hundreds of large sugarcane plantations far behind.

Chen Xi had no good solution for this. This thing was just like the steel output of the Han Dynasty. How much you produced, they would consume. Especially after the popularization of iron pots, Chen Xi's steel gap was getting bigger and bigger.

As I said before, the military's steel consumption was nothing. The real big part was all civilian use. Any small number multiplied by nearly 100 million people would result in a huge scale. Steel and sugar belonged to this type of thing. Anyway, you couldn't get enough.

"Let's talk about it later. If it doesn't work, let the three Persian Gulf families do some work for Rome and occupy the land first." Chen Xi waved his hand and said, what he had to do now was to kill Kushan in the next third five-year plan.

To be honest, if Kushan was not killed next, it would be difficult for Chen Xi to kill Kushan.

As Zhu Helai and others judged, the Han Dynasty has actually had enough food by now. It is Chen Xi's will that continues to fight against Kushan, and Liu Bei also agrees with this point. In addition, the Han Dynasty is thriving and there are no major problems, so it can continue to push forward.

But if it fails to defeat Kushan for a long time, the Han Dynasty will also be tired. When this breath is relaxed, it will be too difficult to bring it up again later. Therefore, the third five-year plan must be implemented to kill Kushan and complete the plan of enfeoffment.

Therefore, during this period, Chen Xi can make some compromises with Rome. As long as Rome does not go too far, the Han Dynasty is still willing to give some steps. If Rome goes too far, after the three million troops beat Kushan, Chen Xi does not mind taking out 200,000 from it to make an example for Rome.

Anyway, the most important task at this stage is to fight Kushan, and the others will be pressed later.

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

In fact, Chen Xi was going to send troops to the Ganges, and the scale was estimated before. The grain and grass to be mobilized from the rear were also very large. In this case, once the grain route was attacked by the Kushans, the plan of the three million troops to capture the Ganges would be ruined.

Therefore, according to Chen Xi's plan, at the end of next year, no later than the middle of the next year, the flag of Meng Kangbu on Ceylon must be removed, otherwise Chen Xi's final plan would be basically impossible to achieve. After all, as long as Meng Kangbu was still squatting on Ceylon, if Chen Xi's logistics passed through the Bay of Bengal, he would have to face the possibility of Meng Kangbu who would explode and cut off the grain route at all costs.

From a certain perspective, if Meng Kangbu cut off the grain route with the awareness that he would die, the Han Dynasty would never be able to hold on to the Bay of Bengal. After all, that broken place was really navigable in the rainy season, and Meng Kangbu was based on the awareness of dying together, and Zhou Yu could not stop him.

Therefore, knocking off Ceylon at this point, for Chen Xi, there is one less obstacle at the strategic level, and the subsequent troubles are only tactical troubles. There are still more than two years for the tactical problems, and they can be knocked one by one.

"Speaking of which, how much is our sugar gap?" Li You asked Zhuge Liang with some curiosity after Chen Xi opened his mouth.

"300,000 tons." Zhuge Liang didn't even bother to look up this time, and directly reported a number to Li You, and then continued to deal with his work.

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

Everyone looked at Chen Xi collectively. Chen Xi was helpless. He had no choice. It wasn't that there was no gap before. In the past, it was not considered. Whatever, there was no gap. Now it is included in the strategic reserve, and it is naturally necessary to calculate the per capita demand, and then there is a gap of 300,000 tons.

To be honest, Chen Xi did not exaggerate the sugar intake of the Han people. He calculated it based on 10 kilograms per person per year, not counting other needs and external sales, etc. This alone would require more than 350,000 tons.

Is this a lot? It's not much. The problem is that even if it's not much, Chen Xi can't make it, and the current price of white sugar is still quite outrageous. The price of one kilogram of sugar is basically the same as the price of one stone of rice. This is Chen Xi's official price stabilization, otherwise the price of sugar will rise on its own.

Anyway, the rock sugar sold by Rome from the Han Dynasty is always priced at 300 yuan per pound. The problem is that even at this price, Rome can charge unlimited amounts. This is why the sugar factory in Kandahar can be called a cash cow. The reason is that after Rome inspected the sugar factory and determined the sugar production, it was completely acceptable to pay first and then get the sugar. In short, this thing is currently going crazy all over the world.

The result of the crazy killing is that the gap in the Han Dynasty is getting bigger and bigger. It's so big that Chen Xi has to put it aside because he has nothing else to do. Before the industrial age, there was probably only a few plantations all over the world with this kind of demand. European countries can barely do it.

As for the Han Dynasty, the Han Dynasty may be established in the future, but it is definitely not expected now. Just the area of ​​sugar cane plantations required to produce such a large-scale sugar, and the manpower required for such a large-scale sugar cane plantation, even if Chen Xi relied on those master craftsmen to successfully evolve from Farm Tools 1.0 to Human Farm Tools 1.5 to 2.0. A plantation of this scale also requires the participation of millions of people.

This still requires at least one million people to participate, and it is only the planting process. The subsequent processes also require considerable manpower!

Although from the perspective of output, stabilizing society, and creating employment, there is no problem with this operation, but now is not the time to do it. But the entire Han Dynasty is waiting for food, and there are many people all over the map waiting to eat sweets. Yes, many people who have eaten candy for the first time have doubts about what they were doing in the first half of their lives. Eating candy is not determined by human will at all, but by human genes, so there is no way to fight against it.

"What is the plan for the sugar cane plantation in the third five-year plan?" Li You asked Chen Xi. Although Li You was fine, he saw Yuan Shu and mocked Yuan Shu for drinking honey water, but Li You himself drank it. Among the people in the hospital, Li You also has the highest demand for sweets. After all, Li You has a group of kids and needs to give them sweets.

"The plan is to add another 150 plantations in southern Jingzhou to absorb the population while restoring local people's livelihood." Chen Xi said expressionlessly. This plan was not made by Chen Xi, but reported by Liao Li as the governor of Jingzhou. Because there were not many people left in Jingnan due to the wave of aristocratic families that moved south. When Chen Xi and Liu Bei passed by, Jingnan was almost reduced to a county.

Fortunately, these unscrupulous Jingnan bureaucrats succeeded in getting a group of people from the mountains by various means, and then barely maintained their dignity.

The problem is that these people dug out from the ravines are basically uncivilized species, and they are not even Han Chinese. It’s just that these days, because these people are in the local area, they are not very particular, and the iron fist of the feudal bureaucracy , the chief of the Wrathhammer slave tribe, and then severely exploded the population, etc., which is also an improvement from a certain perspective.

Relying on this hand, the four counties in Jingnan didn't know what outrageous tricks they relied on. In short, they really burst out of nearly 100,000 men from the mountains in southern Jingzhou and the ravines in southern Yizhou. From this perspective, this is indeed an amazing ability.

On the other hand, the penetration ability of the Han Dynasty's regime is still not enough. At least there are still some savages in the mountains in the south who have not yet been naturalized. However, Chen Xi has nothing good to do about this, let alone the Han Dynasty. In the 20th century, when the People's Republic of China came out, there were still some people in the mountainous areas in the north and south living according to the way of the third century.

It was still happening in the late 1990s to bring a stick down the mountain to knock the girl he liked unconscious, and then carry her up the mountain to become his wife.

As for why they don't take care of it, it's because the sky is high and the emperor is far away. As long as there are no riots, the bureaucrats will be too lazy to take care of it. As long as it can be maintained, it will be fine if they focus on this aspect and can't generate gold coins, so why bother.

The same is true for the Jingnan bureaucrats in the Han Dynasty. If Chen Xi and Liu Bei hadn't threatened them with their official hats, and even directly stated that if they couldn't even get 20,000 people, they would downsize Jingnan. , compressing the counties in Jingnan into county-level establishments, holy shit, this is such a stimulus to the bureaucrats, and it directly increases their subjective initiative.

Then we really recruited 100,000 people in the second five-year plan. In other words, these bureaucrats knew that there were people in the mountains before, but completely ignored these aliens. Now their official hat may have been damaged, so they Quickly capture these alienated people to fill the population gap.

Chen Xi didn't make any too direct statement about this. Isn't that what bureaucrats are like? Make fewer mistakes if you can, and you will be rewarded only if you have credit. If you don't have credit, you will be given a hammer.

After such efforts, the population of the four counties in Jingnan successfully recovered less than half, but a new problem arose. The customs and habits of these mountain people were very different from the current customs and habits of the Han Dynasty. It was easy for locals and mountain people to conflict. , local civil governance was extremely poor, and there were frequent armed fights.

This is simply making people bald. Jingnan officials hate this and have no good solution. In the past, they did not arrest these people to fill the population because if they were arrested, they would break out into armed fights with the locals. Now it is impossible not to arrest them, but they are. After that, I will fight with each other and want to die, really.

Fortunately, Liao Li gave some advice, make money, and lead them to make money!

I quit, I couldn't get up in the morning.