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Chapter 1167(1/2)

Liu Yu was not very interested in the tribute relationship of the tribute of all countries, and then taking a bunch of younger brothers and vassal states, and tribute tributes to some valuable and rare tributes.

This is not to say that this kind of tribute relationship is not good, but Liu Yu knows that the tribute relationship is unstable.

The influence of the Central Plains dynasty was not affected by itself at all, but by its own initiative.

If these young men of the vassal state do not want to promote sinicization, they can continue to maintain their barbarian characteristics of the vassal state. The Central Plains dynasty doesn't care much about their sinicization process, just be a younger brother.

As for how to be a younger brother, no one cares too much.

But Liu Yu is different.

What he wanted to build a solid defense circle for the Central Plains dynasty.

This defense circle is not only military, but also political, and cultural.

Among them, Liu Yu has always attached great importance to the Near East, which is the largest source of religious exports in the world in the future.

To place a vassal state of Huan Wen is not simply to accept his younger brothers, but to build a pioneer fortress for the Central Plains Han culture locally.

"Send this military newspaper to Santai and six provinces, and ask them to give me a charter on how to support Huan Wen as soon as possible!"

Liu had imagined it and asked his close servant to report Huan Wen's report to his important officials.

After all, Huan Wen's Pingnan vassal state is thousands of miles apart. To provide support, it is not a simple matter. We must try our best to adjust the energy of each department.

No matter what, Liu Yu had already made up his determination to support Huan Wen, and whether it was financial, material and manpower, he had to arrange as much as possible.

Before Huan Wen could make a definite constitution, Liu Yu encountered another thing that made him unable to help but lose.

The Great Han Jiaozhou established a Maritime Warehouse, saying that the Great Han merchant ship was attacked by local barbarians in Zhuluo, the Atlantic.

Although there were no casualties and injuries to many crew members and sailors, a large number of goods such as spices, jewelry, rice, etc. purchased by the Han people were looted and burned.

"The Jiaozhou Maritime Warfare Department said that the Zhuluo Kingdom is full of cruel people. They have stolen goods from Han merchant ships many times before. After repeated bans, they have become more and more serious. I would like to ask Your Majesty to report to the Jiaozhou Maritime Warfare Department to fight against the military power of the Southwest Ocean bandits!"

Xi Jian, who had just taken over as Minister of War, told Liu Yu.

Since the Qin and Han dynasties, the Zhao family has sent sea boats from Lingnan to sail along the coast and traded to the city-states of the Indochina Peninsula.

After Emperor Wu of Han pacified Nanyue, the Han Dynasty's commercial sea ships continued to sail forward, reaching the southeastern city-states along the Indian Ocean coast. Occasionally, sporadic sea ships also reached the southeastern area of ​​the Indian Peninsula.

After Liu Yu conquered the Jiaozhou area, he did not rush to expand south on land, but started from the sea.

First, a Maritime Bureau was set up in Jiaozhou, which specialized in collecting taxes for maritime trade, and also formed a fleet to explore trade in the Indian Ocean.

In the past two years, I have finally figured out the sea transportation and started trade with Zhuluo and other countries in the southeast of the Indian Peninsula.

"How strong is this Zhu Luo Kingdom?" Liu Yu asked with a frown.

Although they are on the same continent of India, there is no connection between the Gupta dynasty in the north and the Juluo Kingdom in the south, and there is no strong relationship. It is completely unfamiliar to the Han Dynasty.

"Report to Your Majesty, this Zhuluo Kingdom has a land area of ​​about two or three thousand miles. I don't know how many people there are. People from the Jiaozhou Maritime Warehouse once said that it is richer than Jiaozhou, and is probably similar to Jiangdong." Xi Jian said.

The southeast of the Indochina Peninsula is mostly mountainous. It cannot compare with the northern part of the Indochina, which occupies the two great river plains, but the advantage is that there are few strong enemies invading, and the local population is relatively large.

"So, the Jiaozhou Maritime Warehouse Department can't deal with them at all." Liu Yu said.

When Xi Jian heard Liu Yu's words, he was stunned at first. He did not expect that the emperor had just thought of taking revenge against the Zhu Luo Kingdom.

"Your Majesty, the Jiaozhou Maritime Bureau submitted a petition to seek a crusade at sea, just to ask for more military registrations and more new boats, I'm afraid I didn't think about really taking revenge on Zhuluo."

When Liu Yu heard this, he shook his head.

"If you have hatred, you will be revenge, and if you have grudges, this small Zhuluo barbarian country dares to harass our Han fleet and burn and loot the Han cargo. How can you not teach them a lesson? What Chen Tang said back then was that those who violated the strong Han Dynasty would be punished even if they were far away. How could they easily forget it?"

When Xi Jian heard this, he felt a little angry.

Over the years, Emperor Liu Yu has used more and more national power in various remote areas. Although he occupied more and more land, the manpower and material resources he consumed have become increasingly under pressure.

Xi Jian was really afraid that one day he would exhaust the national strength that the man had finally accumulated.

"Your Majesty, this Zhuluo Kingdom is thousands of miles away, and it is different from Nanzhong. What you need to pass through is the unpredictable sea. With the dozens of boats and ships from the Jiaozhou Maritime Warehouse Department, there is probably no possibility of conquering the battle."

According to Xi Jian's assessment, all the boats and ships of Jiaozhou Municipal Shipping Bureau were filled with soldiers, and they could only carry 10,000 or 20,000 people. This is not considered as carrying items such as baggage, weapons, war horses, etc.

If these are counted, the Jiaozhou Maritime Shipbuilding Department will probably transport less troops.

I'm afraid that even five or six thousand people will not be able to transport them by then. With such a small amount of troops, it will definitely be an act of an egg hitting a stone across the sea.

"If a Jiaozhou Maritime Warehouse Department is not good, isn't there still the Yangzhou navy?" Liu Yu said.

"Yangzhou Navy?" Xi Jian was in trouble again when he heard this.

Regarding the Yangzhou navy that Liu Yu said, Xi Jian knew what kind of people he was.

Most of these people were coastal people in the Wu and Yue area, many of them were northerners who went south as early as the late Eastern Han Dynasty, and many were even descendants of the remnants of the Yellow Turbans.

These people now believe in the Five Doks of Rice or the Heavenly Master, and the various Taoist leaders have greater influence than the government.

After Liu Yu conquered the land of Wu and Yue, he repeatedly ordered the resettlement of these coastal people, but they all suffered repeated setbacks.

These coastal residents armed by Taoism have a striking attitude of not leaving.

One of the most important reasons is that these people have long been armed with Taoism and formed a powerful pirate marshals group.

During the later Sun Enlu Tour Rebellion in history, many people were descendants of these coastal refugees.

Liu Yu had just ordered that they were all organized into naval forces not long ago, preparing to retain their organization, and then let them explore the southeast Yizhou Island.

Now, as soon as the Han Dynasty started his journey to the sea, he encountered a slap in the face by Zhu Luo Kingdom. If he didn't find a way to take revenge, he was afraid that there would be more imitators in the future.

In this way, these pirate and fishermen in the coastal Yangzhou have a place to use their skills.

However, it is still very unrealistic to let these grass-roots pirates cross the sea to conquer a country thousands of miles away.

"I plan to give these righteous navy troops in Yangzhou the power to expand their territory and defend themselves," said Liu Yu.

"Your Majesty, what does this self-defense mean?" Xi Jian asked.

"To expand the land means to open up the land by themselves, and then they can each guard their own land. The officials of the court will not interfere in all matters on their land, as long as they are loyal to the court." Liu Yu said.

"Your Majesty means, isn't it just to split the earth and divide the ban?" Xi Jian couldn't help but frown.

Since the unification of the Qin Emperor, the general trend of the world should be to merge one place, but Liu Yu has always liked to trick out some tricks of franchise recently, which really scared Xi Jian.

I am afraid of repeating the civil strife of the Sima family kings in the future.

"No, the self-defense of land development is not the same as the principle of splitting the land. The splitting the land is to seal off your own land. This time I plan to let these Yangzhou refugees and pirates develop land that the imperial court is unwilling to operate."

"Land that you don't want to manage? Where is your Majesty referring to?"

Xi Jian asked.

According to Liu Yu's temperament, whether it is the southern middle of the desert, or the black water and white mountains in deep mountains and old forests, they are all useful places. How could any land that is unwilling to operate?

"I'm talking about this here!"

Liu Yu did not answer directly, but stood up and pointed at the map on the wall with his hand.

Xi Jian looked at it and immediately recognized it.

"Your Majesty is referring to Rinan County?"

Rinan County belongs to Jiaozhou, and is in the southern part of Jiaozhi County. According to the location of later generations, it is located in the central area of ​​Vietnam.

"The governor of Jiaozhou reported before that there were few people in Rinan County, and the migrants were hot and often migrated 90% of the people fled north, which was simply unable to operate." Liu Yu shook his head and said.

At this level, it is extremely difficult to deal with infectious diseases in tropical areas and open up land. Even without the pressure of taxes and labor, the development of Rinan County was extremely unsuccessful.

The local indigenous tribes soon obtained the remaining land and houses after the Han people immigrated.

The Han imperial court worked hard to migrate the people, but most of them benefited from these indigenous barbarians.

Liu Yu had no good idea. Now he was just in line with these Taiping Road refugees in Yangzhou, and he could completely transfer Rinan County to them.

"Rinan County has fertile fields, cities and houses. Apart from being a little hotter, there are almost no disadvantages. It is most suitable to use these to settle down and buy property for refugees in Taiping Road in Yangzhou." Xi Jian nodded and said.

This benefit is naturally not for nothing.

"These Taiping Road refugees in Yangzhou all use boats and islands as their homes. Even if they go to Rinan County, they will definitely carry boats. When they move to Rinan County, they can free up some of the large ships and cooperate with the Jiaozhou Maritime Bureau to plan the attack on Zhuluo State."

These earliest pirate groups had almost thousands of sea ships.

If they were asked to cross the sea from Yangzhou to Rinan County, they would basically complete a preview of a cross-sea expedition.

But these are Liu Yu's ideas. If the refugees from Taiping Road in Yangzhou really agree to this arrangement, they must arrange a capable candidate.

For the Taiping Road refugees in Yangzhou, it is impossible to let them leave their boats and go to the inland to become registered households.

In order to make things go smoothly, Liu Yu specially assigned a family to Yangzhou.

The child of this aristocratic family is Lu Chen.

He was born into the Lu family of Fanyang, a descendant of Lu Zhi, a great scholar of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and was also the nephew of Liu Kun, Zhongshan County. He was the grandest family.

Sun Qiao, the leader of the Yangzhou refugee pirate group, has a friendship with Lu Chen.

Sun Qiao was born in the Sun family of Langya. His uncle Sun Xiu was the confidant of King Zhao of Jin Dynasty Sima Lun, and he had a good relationship with Liu Kun, who was also Sima Lun's confidant.

Later, Sima Lun was killed in the rebellion, Sun Xiu and others were also killed, while Liu Kun's brothers remained unscathed by their family background.

Sun Xiu's clan had to cross the south of the Yangtze River to avoid disaster. In order to make a living, the Sun family of Langya, who had lost their official status, used their ability to master the Taiping Path to attract the people as religious people in Yangzhou.

However, in more than ten years, Sun Qiao had tens of thousands of believers, covering the sky with one hand in the coastal island area.
To be continued...
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