With Zhao Kuo's order, a combat meeting on the second day was naturally held in the palace of the Han Dynasty.

Zhao Kuo sat on the throne with a calm expression. He said to the many important officials of the Han Kingdom in front of him: "My dear friends, it's been another year now, and we should also plan carefully. When next year, what direction will our Han Kingdom develop and advance."

After hearing Zhao Kuo's words, many of the ministers of the Han Dynasty present showed a somewhat surprised expression.

You should know that this is usually discussed in winter. It is indeed rare for Zhao Kuo to discuss it in autumn.

The director, including the director, did not answer the questions of these ministers, or there was no need for that.

Because after the meeting was held, these ministers naturally understood why Zhao Kuo held this meeting so quickly?

Zhao Kuo glanced at Xiang Yan, the chief of staff in front of him, and said, "Xiang Yan, then you can introduce the strategy I plan to carry out next."

After Zhao Kuo obtained the throne of the emperor, the military consultation mechanism similar to that of Zhao State, which was similar to that of the previous state, also changed.

Like the previous state of Zhao, the monarch and ministers usually discussed which country they would attack next, and fierce disputes often broke out. However, the Han Dynasty made reforms, and generally the General Staff directly formulated the strategy, and then the monarch and ministers of the Han Dynasty were asked to discuss it.

The advantage of doing this in the Han Dynasty is that the entire strategy is basically formulated by military generals who understand military affairs. Although civil servants also have the right to know and discuss, they cannot affect the formulation of the strategy and can only choose the strategy.

In this case, civil servants are laymen after all, and the possibility of their blind commands interfering with the progress of military strategy will be greatly reduced.

After several years of experimentation, this method has basically become the most effective method among the Han Dynasty and has been accepted by all the ministers of the Han Dynasty.

After hearing Zhao Kuo's orders, Xiang Yan stood up and walked to the hanging map.

Since Sima Shang, the Minister of the General Staff, is still in the south and is attacking many tribes in South Vietnam, Xiang Yan, the chief of staff, has once again become the candidate for introducing the strategy.

In fact, this is not the first time Xiang Yan has done this, but this time Xiang Yan still felt inexplicably nervous, because according to this strategy, a new army will be born in the Han Dynasty.

Xiang Yan cleared his throat, abandoned all the messy thoughts in his heart, and then said, "According to the discussions between many generals and staff of the General Staff, we unanimously agreed that this time it should be time for us to take down the entire Korean Peninsula."

While speaking, Xiang Yan's baton also moved from the direction of the Imperial Capital toward the Northeast and landed on the Korean Peninsula.

After hearing Xiang Yan's words, the ministers of the Han Dynasty present had different expressions on their faces, but they did not speak.

For them, North Korea is actually a relatively unfamiliar place, so they are not willing to speak out any opinions before they fully listen to the complete strategy.

Of course, Xiang Yan also understood this situation, so he paused for a moment and continued to talk.

"The situation on the Korean Peninsula is actually relatively simple. The main areas in the north are occupied by the North Korean regime, while in the south, they should be various primitive and backward tribal countries.

This time we plan to dispatch about 50,000 troops, and cooperate with our Han Kingdom, which has just been prepared and has formed a combat-capture naval fleet, and marched together by water routes, striving to completely occupy the entire Korean Peninsula within one to two years and incorporate this land into the rule of our Han Kingdom."

After listening to Xiang Yan's introduction, the important officials of the Han Dynasty present were thinking.

Prime Minister Xu Li spoke first: "I want to ask, if I can occupy this Korean Peninsula, will it be beneficial to our Han Kingdom?"

After years of influence or training by Zhao Kuo, the ministers under Zhao Kuo were used to looking at problems from a war economics perspective.

Simply put, if there is no great benefit to the Han Kingdom after the war is over, then whether to fight this war will have to be questioned.

Xiang Yan obviously knew that someone would ask this, so he immediately answered.

"First of all, from a geographical perspective, the core area of ​​our Han Dynasty today is undoubtedly the Central Plains.

So the areas that can threaten the Central Plains, in fact, if you look closely, you will basically be conquered by us, leaving only the Korean Peninsula and the Fusang Islands to the east."

Xiang Yan's words are really correct. If you think about it carefully, the Han Kingdom is now making large-scale strategies and conquering the territory of Jiangnan. In the north, the grassland has also fallen under the rule of the Han Kingdom, and it has also been conquered in the Hexi Corridor and the Western Regions in the west.

Therefore, only the Korean Peninsula and the four islands of Fusang that became East Asia were not included in the territory of the Han Dynasty.

As long as the Korean Peninsula and the four islands of Fusang can be conquered, the Han Kingdom will be equivalent to unifying the entire East Asia. In this way, there will be no need to worry about any threats from external land.

Xiang Yan continued to speak: "Secondly, according to Your Majesty's previous philosophy, our Han Dynasty's navy must be developed. If you want to develop a navy, it must start with the war in the ocean.

But now, there is no navy in this world that can directly fight with our Han navy, so our navy does not need to be in a hurry. We can cooperate with our army to carry out some operations first.

From this perspective, attacking the Korean Peninsula and even conquering the four islands of Fusang in the future are a rare and precious temper for the navy."

After Xiang Yan finished speaking, many people started nodding, but there were also many people who obviously still had doubts in their hearts.

For example, another Pang Xian couldn't help but speak: "Your Majesty wants to develop the navy, of course, this is something everyone knows, but the old minister wants to ask if it is really necessary to develop the navy?"

Pang Yin's doubt is actually a relatively realistic one. For him, he felt that the army of the Han Kingdom is now invincible.

If you want to conquer any country, just send an army to fight and it will be done.

For example, Central Asia, or even West Asia, where the Seleucid Empire is located, is thousands of miles apart from the Han Kingdom, and the cavalry of the Han Kingdom can be fought. So according to this mileage, is there any place in the world where the cavalry of the Han Kingdom cannot reach?

Facing Pang Nuan's question, Zhao Kuo himself answered.

"Prime Minister Pang's question is very well said. Today I just want to tell you about love here. Why do I attach so much importance to this navy?"

While speaking, Zhao Kuo also stood up and walked to the world map. Xiang Yan was very sensible and respectfully handed the baton to Zhao Kuo.

Zhao Kuo took the baton, drew a circle on the world map, and slowly opened his mouth.

"Actually, you can see that more than 70% of our world's area is oceans, and less than 30% of the area is land.

What does this mean?

This means that whoever can control the ocean will be able to truly control the world.

Let me give you an example. Let’s take a look. There is a huge peninsula further south of Lingnan. I call it the Indochina Peninsula.

In this Indochina Peninsula, it belongs to a tropical region, with countless tropical rainforests and countless indigenous people living here.

If our Han army wants to conquer this place, it is actually quite difficult, because we need to march in the tropical rainforest and need to adapt to the miasma of this place. All kinds of mosquitoes are very troublesome, and our logistics supply is difficult to keep up.

But if we change our perspective and use the navy to conquer these places, it will be different.

You can see that the Indochina Peninsula is surrounded by oceans on all sides.

In other words, we can land in any suitable port in the Indochina Peninsula, and use this port as a support to establish a regional location, and then penetrate inland step by step.

In this process, the indigenous peoples in this area are completely unable to invade our logistics supplies, and their climate is difficult to pose any great threat to our army, because if we are not adapted to the climate in the forest, we just need to retreat to the port.

There is not just one Indochina Peninsula in this world, there are many tropical areas similar to the Indochina Peninsula.

If we want to conquer these areas, it is absolutely not enough to rely on the army alone. We must have navies and build ports like this and slowly advance inland. Only in the end can we ensure that these places can become our colonies and ensure that these places are ruled by our Han Kingdom.

If we want to do this, the size of our navy is as small as it is now, it must be far from enough. Do you understand?

We must continue to expand the scale of the navy, and in the future we can also use naval ships to transport the spices, sugars, and various resources produced in these places back to our great Han country.

In this way, we can not only conquer this place, but also obtain the resources of these places. What we have paid is to make the navy of the Han Kingdom stronger. Why don’t we do it?"

What Zhao Kuo said was not fabricated out of thin air, but something that happened when Western colonists opened up colonies in history.

These colonists like this were indeed like this during the Age of Discovery. Now they find an excellent port near the seaside, then establish a stronghold in the port, and use this port stronghold as a starting base to expand step by step towards the inland.

It was through this seemingly simple expansion method that the colonists slowly divided the entire earth into various colonies in hundreds of years.

Since all the colonists can succeed, how could the Han Kingdom, which was guided by Zhao Kuo, was unable to succeed?

After hearing Zhao Kuo's explanation, the important officials of the Han Dynasty present were all convinced and showed an expression of admiration.

Pang Nuan couldn't help but speak, "Your Majesty said very well.

It is indeed the old minister who lacks consideration.

If we can really expand according to His Majesty’s plan in the future, then the Navy is indeed our great Han Kingdom and we must invest a lot in the future, and it can even be said to be a key support group of troops."

As for the others, they were naturally in line with each other, and they all said that His Majesty’s naval plan is very far-sighted and we all support it very much.

After Zhao Kuo saw that everyone expressed his support, he stopped talking nonsense and directly issued a new order.

"Since we all think this plan is feasible, then after the spring next year, we will conquer the Korean Peninsula according to the strategy just now.

After conquering the Korean Peninsula, we continued to cross the waters between the Korean Peninsula and the Four Fusang Islands according to this map, and further conquering the Four Fusang Islands.

It is said that there are many indigenous people on the Four Islands of Fusang. We can also use Four Islands of Fusang to experiment with how to establish a colony, how to effectively rule the colony and obtain resources.

Xiang Yan and Wang Jian will be responsible for this matter, and the Crown Prince Zhao Qian also needs to serve as the military supervisor and follow the navy to experience this war."

Zhao Kuo's first order made Xiang Yan and Wang Jian take the lead and deputy generals, but it did not cause any trouble. However, after hearing that Zhao Qian was going to participate as a military supervisor, some people still objected.

But Zhao Kuo just used one sentence to block the opposition of these ministers.

"Don't everyone have confirmed it just now. In the future, the navy will definitely become one of the most important troops in our Han Kingdom.

As the prince of our Great Han Kingdom, he is also the future emperor of the Great Han Kingdom. If Zhao Qian didn’t even know how the navy was running, how could he lead and develop a truly powerful navy?

And you don’t need to worry. This time, the main routes of the navy are all along the coastline, not just going on ocean travel, so Zhao Qian is of course relatively safe."

After listening to Zhao Kuo's explanation, no one objected.

Everyone began to look forward to what kind of powerful team should that Han navy be?
Chapter completed!