Back to the Warring States Period as Zhao Kuo

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Captain Li nodded with a smile, put down the little girl in his arms, then walked into the bedroom, took out a wooden box, and put the musket and ammunition box in it very carefully.

After doing all this, Captain Li walked out of the bedroom to wash his hands, returned to the back room, and sat down to eat with his wife and daughter.

Although there is a kind of etiquette in China called don’t talk when you eat, don’t talk when you sleep, but after all, it’s the etiquette among the nobles, even the emperor Zhao Kuo doesn’t like to abide by it, and ordinary people like Captain Li naturally don’t like this .

Captain Li smiled and said to his wife: "Today's luck is not bad. I caught a big wild boar weighing more than 300 kilograms and sent someone to send it to the butcher. We should have pork to eat in the next two days."

The wife also smiled when she heard the words, and said, "It's autumn now, and the animals are fatter. If we can pick more food to pickle at this time, the winter should be easier."

Captain Li nodded with a smile, then stretched out his chopsticks to pick a piece of meat into his daughter's bowl, and continued: "That's right, judging from the current situation, there should be no need to come from the city this year. Continue to receive relief supplies, and our settlement can be considered to have a firm foothold."

The wife nodded and said, "It's been two years. When I first came here, I thought it was a remote place, but after living here for two years, it's actually a good choice to come here."

Captain Li chuckled, and said with some complacency: "Of course, when the government asked us to move here, you were still worried that we wouldn't be able to survive here. Does this prove that I have a vision?"

His wife glared at Captain Li and said, "Foresight is something His Majesty has, so what does it have to do with you?

You are just obsessed with listening to His Majesty's words. "

Captain Li laughed loudly, then his expression became serious, and he said to his wife: "Although Your Majesty doesn't know us, we must know that His Majesty is the most outstanding and visionary person in the world.

Since it is what His Majesty wants us to do, we just need to do it seriously, and the result will definitely be the same.

Just think about it, when we first came here two years ago, there were only a dozen households with a total population of 100, but now, two years later, there are hundreds of households in our entire village People, nearly 1000 people, this is a very large growth rate.

Now the mountains and forests with a radius of tens of miles are all owned by our village, and all the fields that have been reclaimed are under our control. If you talk about such a good thing, if we stay in the Central Plains, can we get our turn? "

The wife was obviously persuaded by Captain Li, and said: "Although the truth is the same, but you are the only one in the whole village who has a musket, and now you are required to go every time we fight. Who will help us cultivate the fields?"

Captain Li said confidently: "Don't worry about this matter, the government has issued a notice recently, saying that every hunting leader will be able to obtain 1000 acres of land unconditionally in the future.

Starting next year, each hunting leader's family will get two slaves, and then we will let these slaves help us look after the fields. "

The wife was taken aback when she heard the words, and couldn't help asking joyfully, "When did this happen?

How can I not know? "

Captain Li laughed, and said, "I thought I'd tell you in two days, but I'm in a good mood today, so we'll talk about it together.

In fact, this is not surprising, you have to know that our hunting captains are holding the only musket in the village, which is a key weapon. Isn't it normal for the government to treat us better? "

The wife glared at Captain Li, and suddenly her voice became gentle: "You said we only have one child, Zhen'er. If she gets married in the future, what will happen to our fields?"

Captain Li was stunned for a moment, then he said with a smile: "That's not easy, let's work harder, just give me a few more fat boys."

On the second day, Captain Li was refreshed and went out with a gun in his hand.

Along the way, people kept saying hello to Captain Li, big and small, old and young.

Everyone's expressions are quite gentle, and there are smiles on their faces.

Captain Li also had a short talk or greeting with everyone with a smile on his face. It can be seen from his face that he is also in a very good mood.

All the way to a house here, this is the butcher's house mentioned yesterday.

The butcher was a man who looked quite fat. After seeing Captain Li coming, he hurriedly greeted him.

"Good morning Captain, your pig's hind leg is already hanging there, you can take it back yourself."

Captain Li laughed, and said to the butcher, "You kid, don't take the opportunity to cut corners. These are the big guy's stuff. If someone finds out, I won't spare you."

The butcher smiled, and said to Captain Li: "Captain, don't worry, I have been killing pigs for more than 20 years, and I have never cut corners."

After chatting for a while, Captain Li came to the entrance of the village with the pig's hind leg in hand.

The whole village is firmly surrounded by fences, and there is a watchtower at the gate of the village.

A young man was holding a spear, sitting on a high watchtower, looking left and right.

Captain Li slightly raised his voice and said, "Did you find those natives?"

The young man was taken aback, looked down and saw that it was Captain Li, and then climbed down from the watchtower.

"Captain, why are you here?"

Captain Li said with a smile: "Come and see, lest you lose your mind, kid, and you won't even know when the natives kill you."

The young man was not happy when he heard this, and quickly said, "Captain, you are looking down on people. Last time when the natives came over, I stabbed two of them to death."

Captain Li chuckled and said, "It is true that you stabbed two of them to death, but they both fell to the ground after being shot by me."

The young man blushed, smiled, and stopped talking.

Captain Li patted Housheng on the shoulder and said: "You look here carefully and don't lose your mind. You can be considered a bold guy. If I can't carry this gun in a few years, I will think about it." Apply with the chiefs of the city to see if you can become the next generation of hunting leader."

After hearing this sentence, the young man felt as if he had been beaten into a chicken blood, and he quickly puffed up his chest and said, "Please don't worry, captain, I will definitely be able to complete the task."

Captain Li smiled and said a few more gossips, then left.

After leaving, Captain Li didn't stay idle, but walked around the village chatting with people, getting to know the relatives of the host and the west, and seeing if there were any fights or troubles in the village recently, or any conflicts.

As the hunting leader in the village, the responsibility on Captain Li's shoulders is actually quite heavy. He needs to ensure the peace of the entire village.

After all, this is not the Central Plains. For these people who immigrated from the Central Plains to the four islands of Fusang by boat, what they have to face is not only the poisonous insects and beasts in the wild, but also the indigenous people who appear from time to time.

For these indigenous people, the Fusang governor sent by Huaxia is also very decisive. It is a policy that if you can subdue them, you will subdue them, and if you can't subdue them, you will kill them. If you catch them, you can use them as slaves.

Whether it is from the perspective of weapons or equipment, the aborigines are obviously impossible to be the opponents of the Chinese immigrants. When the village was first established, the aborigines often came to attack, but later it was the aborigines who fought several times. Every time, there were heavy casualties, and basically no natives came to harass them in the past six months.

This series lasted for a whole morning. At noon, Captain Li returned home for lunch. After resting for a while, he began to gather nearly a hundred young and middle-aged people in the playground of the village.

"Today's practice has started. Everyone, please be careful. Only by training well can you save your life when the aborigines kill you, and when you encounter aborigines in the wild!"

Then, under the leadership of Captain Li, these 100 young and middle-aged men brandished swords and spears, practicing martial arts in a decent manner.

Although muskets are now popularized in the army of the Han Kingdom, it is impossible to say that muskets, such a precious weapon, can be handed over to the Han Kingdom in such a short period of time, so in this village, Except for Captain Li, the hunting leader, who can own a musket, the others can only rely on cold weapons.

It really shouldn't be said that, this village has indeed established itself here, and will become even stronger in the foreseeable future.

Many teenagers and children sat and watched, while brothers, uncles, uncles and fathers were practicing diligently here.

These children, in fact, also have a dream of practicing martial arts in their hearts. The bravery brought by this kind of martial arts will accompany them throughout their lives.

Among the four islands of Fusang, there are hundreds of such settlements, which are fully blooming.

Not only that, among these settlements, many have begun to develop the prototype of towns.

Soon, this place will become another home of the Chinese people.

As for these local uncivilized indigenous people, according to Chinese history, they were likely to become slaves of Xu Fu and others, but now they can only accept the rule of the Han Kingdom in the future, or be ruled by the people of the Han Kingdom. They were completely wiped out.

This is the first overseas territory opened up overseas by the Han Kingdom, and it will also become a model for the expansion of the Han Kingdom in all overseas countries.

Captain Li stood on the high platform of the playground, practicing hard in front of many young and middle-aged men, with a smile unconsciously on the corner of his mouth, and an idea appeared in his mind.

"Perhaps in this world, only the Great Han Kingdom can allow those of us who couldn't get enough to eat locally to move us here to obtain a new home and life."

Recalling the impoverished life in the Central Plains when he fell to the ground, and looking at the heavy hind leg hanging around his waist now, the smile on the corner of Captain Li's mouth became more and more intense.

Being able to be a person of the Han Dynasty is really very happy.

Chapter 1212 Discovering a New City in Cochin County——Hanoi

Captain Li is very happy. As their emperor, Zhao Kuo is actually very happy.

Sitting in the palace, Zhao Kuo looked at the memorials sent from the four islands of Fusang in front of him, with a smile on his face.

Zhao Kuo handed the piece to Zhao Qian who was standing aside, and said with a smile, "You should come and take a look, after all, this is the land you discovered yourself."

Zhao Qian is naturally very concerned about the four islands of Fusang. After all, this is indeed the land Zhao Qian explored for the Great Han Kingdom at the risk of his life, so after hearing what Zhao Kuo said, he also immediately accepted the memorial. , read it attentively.

After a while, Zhao Qian's brows also widened immediately, and he smiled at Zhao Kuo and said, "He Cheng didn't expect that there are so many resources in the four islands of Fusang."

Zhao Kuo laughed, and said to Zhao Qian: "You are wrong, in fact, among the four islands of Fusang, what is really useful to our Han country is silver, their refined iron ore, and gold. We also have everything that we expect in the mainland of the Han Dynasty.

But you also have to remember in the future that this island is far away from the mainland after all, which means that it may appear in the future to have some images of being centrifugal towards our Great Han Kingdom. Once you notice this tendency, you must be firm nip it in the bud, get it? "

From Zhao Kuo's point of view, he must beware of the harm that the country established among these four islands did to the Chinese nation in history.

It is precisely because of this that Zhao Kuo made a special order to Zhao Qian today.

After Zhao Qian heard Zhao Kuo's words, of course he agreed very respectfully.

"Father, don't worry, my son will never let any piece of land break away from the rule of the Han Kingdom in the future."

After Zhao Kuo heard Zhao Qian's words, he immediately laughed in relief, and said something to Zhao Qian again.

"You have to remember that in this world there are always some lands that are relatively poor and some lands that are relatively rich.

As a common man, he definitely wants to live in a rich place rather than a barren place. This is human nature.

However, from a national point of view, this is not the case at all.

For example, the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau that the emperor is now sending troops to conquer. Frankly speaking, will the conquest of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau have any immediate effect on the expansion of the national power of our Han Dynasty?

It actually doesn't.

Even on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, it will involve a large amount of national power of our Han country to rule and stabilize this place. In the foreseeable future, for many years, these places will need our Han country to continuously input resources to maintain the above rule .

But why are we doing this?

Why do such a loss-making thing?

This is because although the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is very barren, it is related to the safety of our Central Plains. As long as the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau can be firmly controlled, then our Central Plains does not need to worry about the aggressors rushing out from this plateau.

As officials, they often pay attention to political performance. A place that has been subsidized by the central government has no evidence for officials, and it will even drag down his political performance. Therefore, officials will definitely not agree to maintain The rule in this barren place even wants us to evacuate this place and get rid of this burden.

But as an emperor, we must not have this kind of thinking, any inch of land is absolutely absolutely unacceptable to us.

Otherwise, if you give up an inch, you will give up more. When you give up to the Central Plains, you will find that you have nothing.

Since you are surrounded on all sides by those enemies who occupy the territory you give up, you are a lamb waiting to be eaten soon.

When it comes to national security, doesn’t he say that you can only make money, you can also lose money and you should be able to afford it, do you understand what I mean? "

After Zhao Qian listened to Zhao Kuo's words, a shocked expression appeared on his face.

For this young man, in fact, he was not so in favor of going to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau to conquer the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau at first, but now after he listened to Zhao Kuo's words, he suddenly realized Zhao Kuo's good intentions and understood the truth behind it. real thinking.

Zhao Qian said convincingly to Zhao Kuo: "Originally, I did have some doubts about this conquest, but now after listening to my father's teachings, I realized that my original thoughts were too much. Stupid.

From now on, I will definitely work harder to learn and understand the spirit of my father.

Absolutely will not give up any inch of land, and will continue to develop the Han Kingdom even stronger. "

After Zhao Kuo listened to Zhao Qian's words, he also laughed haha.

"You are already 16 this year, and you will be an adult in four years.

I really hope that you can have a good experience, so that one day in the future, I can confidently and boldly hand over this country to you. "

For Zhao Kuo's words, Zhao Qian certainly nodded his head, but Zhao Qian still doesn't know the intention behind Zhao Kuo's words at this moment.

It was at this time that eunuch Ling came in in a hurry, and brought a memorial to Zhao Kuo with a happy face.

"Your Majesty, this was just transferred from the Prime Minister's Mansion, saying that the South China Sea Fleet has discovered Jiaozhi!"

A month ago, South China Sea.

The South China Sea is a very important sea area for Huaxia.

There are various islands in this sea area, and it is also the most convenient waterway to Southeast Asia.

Twenty-five Yuhuang battleships and dozens of other ships, forming a huge fleet of more than a hundred ships, are slowly heading south along the coast not far away.

The commander of this fleet, General Wang, stood on the deck of his flagship and watched the coast not far away.

A gust of sea breeze blew past, blowing General Wang's cheeks, General Wang suddenly felt a little irritable, and couldn't help muttering.

"Tnd is really hot."

Although it is already autumn, for this latitude, the heat of autumn is still very unexpected.

General Wang said something to himself, but still turned his gaze to the coast.

The reason is also very simple, because he hopes to find a place for him to land.

Judging from the map, General Wang judged that he should have entered the place called Jiaozhi now. All he needs to do is to find a place on the plain in the north of Jiaozhi that allows him to land safely and build a new land. place of settlement.

This Cochin has another name called Vietnam in China. Why is it called Vietnam?

That's because this place is south of many Yue tribes, and at the same time, it is another race that is completely different from the Yue tribes.

Suddenly General Wang's eyes lit up, and he saw a big river.

This big river is flowing mightily into the sea. Beside the estuary, there are a large number of plains, coconut trees and areca palm trees, palm trees swaying together, almost all green as far as the eye can see.