: The extra man cannot have only fifteen states

November 20, 20th year of Zhangwu (205).

In Shanyin County, Kuaiji County, Prime Minister Li Su, who returned from the inspection of Juzhang, received news that Sanhan and Jiuzhou Island were pacified.

Li Su was of course very excited and decided to hold a banquet at the Duke's Mansion that day to invite Yangzhou officials and Prime Minister's Mansion staff to celebrate the victory together.

At that time, Li Su himself had just returned from another place and was enjoying family happiness. He was surrounded by concubines and children, so of course these people congratulated him.

The leader was naturally Zhen Mi, who was the highest-ranking Zhen Mi in his side room. At this moment, Zhen Mi was still a little haggard, but she looked very happy and cheerful, but she was weak in body. She praised her from the bottom of her heart:

"Congratulations to my husband for preparing for such a great achievement for the Han Dynasty, even though Duke Zhou was not as good as that."

Li Su looked energetic: "This time, at least I took back the land that was once Qing and Yandutian caused the bandits of Taishan rebellion. If the merits can be expanded in the future, maybe one or two more counties--"

When Zhen Mi heard this, she was not easy to respond. She just lowered her head and smiled and leaned on her husband's shoulder.

Zhou Ying, another concubine who was holding the child, came closer to her and joked: "My husband never cared about fame and fortune, just wanted to educate the world, so why did he care about fiefdom?"

Li Su took over his son and smiled indifferently: "We don't care, but we can't be too shabby. After all, we have decided to open Kuaiji in the future, but now in the middle of Fujian, Caihouguan County is under the ban.

Immigration to newly established Zhangzhou, Quanzhou and other places will avoid suspicion and not annexation. It will be difficult for this kid to become a county marquis in the future."

It turned out that the child he had was only four or five months old, and Zhen Mi gave birth to him in the past two years he came to his fiefdom, Kuaiji.

Cai Yan stayed in Chenliu, his father's last filial piety, and took away Li Su's second son named Cai. So in the ninth year of Zhangwu and ten years, Li Su was in Kuaiji, and most of his favor was given to Zhen Mi.

Zhen Mi gave birth to Li Su's first child more than three years ago, but she had a daughter, so Li Su has only two legitimate sons born to Cai Yan, and one of them has changed his surname. Recently, he has just made up for the number of sons needed to inherit the Duke.

Now Zhen Mi is twenty-one years old, and she has been married to him for five years. Zhou Ying and the others are even twenty-six or seven years old, while Cai Yan is over thirty years old.

Zhen Mi was pregnant after Li Sugang arrived in Kuaiji for half a year, and she was just born at the end of summer this year. After birth, Li Su accompanied Zhen Mi to take care of her health. She had not left Shanyin for half a year. Some of the official duties were also handled at the Duke's Mansion, and asked her staff to report and request instructions.

After the child was over a hundred days after he confirmed that there were no disasters and his wife and concubines recovered well, Li Su returned to the pace of inspections everywhere.

Just in early October, he only visited Wuxian, Louxian, Haiyan, Juzhang, and even the newly established Zhoushan County. He walked outside for a month and a half to inspect the construction of ports and shipyards.

After all, it has been almost two years in a flash, and the Southern Development Plan prepared by Li Su has also been implemented for two years.

Of course, the planned Zhoushan Islands lighthouse group has not started yet. After all, the demand for maritime transportation has not yet been saturated to that extent, and those spectacles that are exhausting the people and the money can always be delayed for another five to ten years before they are put on the agenda.

However, in two years, the development of local commercial and trade industries has been sufficient to develop into a prototype for the construction of ports and shipyards.

After all, Li Su has rich farming experience in this regard. When Lu Su was preparing for shipbuilding in the South China Sea, Zhuge Liang developed the shipbuilding industry in the lower reaches of the Yellow River after restoring Luoyang. He saw the efficacy in two years and was able to form a fleet.

Now, Li Su has just finished inspecting and is satisfied with the phased results of farming. He found that the output of farming in the south can be exchanged with the coastal areas of the Central Plains in the north with relatively efficient and low cost.

As a result, as soon as he came back these days, he got more good news. Taishi Ci Ganning won a big victory as expected, which can be regarded as giving Li Su more use of his farming.

Continue to build large-scale sea ships, transport the high-value density products of Sanhan and Fusang back to the Central Plains, and build a close trade cooperation system, so the Dahan's control over Sanhan and Fusang will not be relaxed and can be maintained by relying on his own hematopoietic function.

Of course, Li Su’s wives and concubines would not understand the twists and turns in this, and they also lack the necessary basic knowledge and cannot make up for it.

However, Zhen Mi knew at least that her husband was really strong and responsible. She had only five months of her first son for her husband. Her husband was already thinking about earning a fief for her son and including the newly established counties in the central Fujian region into the duke's territory, and these will all belong to her son in the future.

My husband was obviously not like this when he was young. Will he become more or less spoiled when he gets older?

This thought flashed through Zhen Mi's mind, and she hurriedly condemned her. How could she think of the adjective "ager"? Her husband is obviously only 36 years old (for false reports to the outside world, thirty-three physical bodies)

It was because she thought of this just now that she was embarrassed to point out that Li Su became "intoxicated with profit and power". After all, she was suspected of being good at being cheap. And her son was not Zhou Ying's, so it doesn't matter Zhou Ying's jokes.

...

A few days later, Li Su held a banquet and accepted the celebrations of officials from all over Yangzhou. At the same time, he was also thinking about it and summoned his aides to discuss how to submit a letter to Liu Bei and ask for credit for the generals.

At the same time, a follow-up rule plan for the Sanhan region and even the Yematai was proposed to allow Liu Bei to accept in-depth development and governance of the local area, rather than just loose rule in the form of restraint.

Of course, Li Su knew completely that when Taishi Ci sent out this good news, some of the deadly hard tribes of the Bian Yi and Xiong Xi Barbarians must have been resisting and not returning to the king's transformation. What Taishi Ci killed was only those top barbarian kings, and they still had to be busy in the future.

Otherwise, it would be too easy to conquer the barbarian land, and the territory of the Han Dynasty would not be as large as it is now.

In contrast, the places between Japan and South Korea in later generations were actually relatively easy to expand into the Han ruling circle, at least much easier than the grasslands in the north of Mobei.

The reason is that Japan and South Korea could not be ruled in ancient times, but the navigation technology was not good, and the ship was too large. The Korean Peninsula was connected to the Central Plains by land transportation, and the cost was several times higher than that of Liaodong. Once the navigation shortcomings were solved, the remaining Chineseization was not a problem.

After all, the production methods, crops, climate and environment of Japan and South Korea are very similar to those of the Central Plains farming areas.

At most two generations, forty years, the locals can think of themselves as Han people. Moreover, they do not have systematic writing, only language, and no historical records. The Han people have writing, books, especially historical books, but it is not the Han people who have the final say.

If the landless peasants in the Central Plains immigrate to it, the assimilation process will only be faster. After all, the ethnic composition that has been moved is completely Han people and will soon become the main population of the local population.

No matter how you do it now, at least you have a good start and everything will be expected in the future.

...

Li Su is of course confident that he will completely integrate Japan and South Korea in his lifetime and kill them before they form their own national consciousness.

But what he lacked was an excuse. We have to admit that there were some personal selfishness and tendencies in it. After all, other people who were not time travelers could not think that these barbarians in the late Han Dynasty were wary of their future growth.

For the Han Dynasty rulers, difficulty is not a problem, but cost is a huge problem. Even if the shipping is solved, the emperor will still feel that it is not cost-effective to explore those places.

The Korean Peninsula is also mountainous. Except for the later Han River Basin and the Busan Basin, there are no large-scale farming areas in other places. They are all mountainous areas and primitive forests. There are some mineral resources and a lot of coal, but they were useless in ancient times.

There are too many mountains in the Japanese archipelago, with plains ranging from Kitakyushu, Osaka Bay, Lake Biwa, and Musashino, Kanto. Moreover, the largest Kanto Plain is still a primitive swamp now.

These things are also not attractive to the Han people. They only feel that the court invested manpower, material resources and financial resources to make original investments and immigrated for freight, which also had no reward for the central government's finances. On the contrary, over time, new things are likely to form, stronger ones, threaten separatism.

After all, I am not afraid of barbarians on the eastern island, but I am afraid of cultural immigrants, but these immigrants are not interested in the Han Dynasty. In this way, once the Central Plains becomes unstable, they may backfire in the future.

Li Su didn't have to report these superficial truths and worries. When discussing with other confidant Yangzhou officials and staff in Shanyin City, enough people had already raised them.

Zhang Song, Wang Lei, and Huan Jie expressed their discomfort and even put forward compromises:

"Why is the Prime Minister obsessed with setting up other prefectures and counties in these wilderness and remote areas far away to the east of the East China Sea? Although Your Majesty trusts the Prime Minister, he must give enough reasons. Otherwise, he may be secretly attacked by the new ministers in the court in time.

These places are isolated overseas and are too far from the Central Plains. Even if Your Majesty gets along with the Prime Minister, the monarch and the ministers, it is difficult to guarantee that there will be no descendants of future generations who take advantage of the unstable Central Plains to rule by themselves. It is better not to explore for the long-term plan."

Li Su really couldn't respond to these opinions immediately.

After all, he knew that what Zhang Song and others said were indeed reasonable.

Even from the perspective of time travelers, I feel that these places will be threatened later, but I have to admit that these neighbors in the east were able to develop first because they learned from the Central Plains. However, in the end, others changed their new masters and left Asia and entered Europe.

Temporary conquest is easy, but once civilization is passed on, the industry has failed to form a new territory and the Central Plains, and the ability to make blood by itself. After those dynasties, they are making enemies.

To put it bluntly, to give the most extreme example, if Li Su could reach America during his lifetime, then his attitude towards America would definitely be limited to the level of species exchange.

It is good to bring valuable seeds and cubs back to plant and raise them, but it is definitely worthless for American colonization in today's era.

No matter how good you do, what will happen after hundreds of years? It is nothing more than a new United States. At most, it is a yellow United States that is not dominated by white people in terms of blood, but is dominated by yellow people.

The reason is just like the United States cultivated by the British thousands of years later in history, and it is nothing more than changing the complexion of a new immigrant.

After Li Sujing calmed down, she felt that she had to sort out the excuses she had given to Liu Bei.

Of course, he knew in his heart that the main purpose of conquering Japan in the short term was to find gold, silver and copper ore.

(Note: Japan not only has Sado Jinshan, Shijian Yinshan, but also has many copper ores, including Tongshan and Zuwei Tongshan. However, the cost of cross-sea copper transport in ancient times was relatively high, and the early navigation technology in the Central Plains was not good, so copper was not favored.

The geological conditions in Japan are actually similar to those in Chile. They are both volcanic extrusions on the edge of the oceanic plates of continents. In such places, all heavy metals are rich in gold, silver and copper.

But because Japan has been mined for more than a thousand years, it is obviously inferior to Chile in the present. In the early days when the Edo Shogunate unified Japan, that is, in 16XX, Japan's copper mine exports also ranked first in the world, but only lasted for less than a century)

If we spend decades of immigration and mining, the Central Plains will definitely attach importance to the local area and establish a good rule. Even the imperial center will build a standing navy for this purpose to form a deterrent, so as not to avoid local local powers and wealthy people who rely on their loneliness overseas and feel that they have hope of independence.

Of course, if it is just a unilateral "economic plunder" and squeezes mineral resources, then the people who have been immigrated will definitely be unwilling to give up. Therefore, in this process, we must also find ways to form economic mutual benefit.

After all, under Li Su's idea, those who settled on the Japanese archipelago in the future were all descendants of the Han people who immigrated, that is, they were really the same language and race, and they were not "a foreign object of colonial oppression". They must consider their people's livelihood and cannot be like the British in history treating the Americans.

In the long run, if we do not engage in non-renewable and unsustainable industries such as mineral resource plunder, we can only transform Japan's mountainous environment into a state that plant terraces, forest cash crops, and import pickled seafood.

Then, take advantage of the more comparative advantages of the arable land in the Central Plains, and use the food from the Central Plains to exchange for forests and terraced crops, and pickle dried fish. This forces Li Sude to further improve shipbuilding technology and reduce shipping costs. Otherwise, even grain trade will be shipped at sea, which will definitely lead to huge losses.

As for selling pickled fish, there is no problem with this, because in history, Britain before the Age of Navigation, established a country like this, by selling cod salmon, earning gold and silver hard currency from the European continent. There is also the Bass fishing boat that sells whales and baleen whales and oil whales.

Japan's geographical environment is very similar to that of the UK in terms of marine resources, and of course it can also imitate this economic niche.

But unfortunately, these things are still castles in the air at present, and can only be used as a long-term plan, but still cannot solve the most urgent motivation problem at the moment.

Li Su couldn't make a fuss to Liu Bei for prophecy that "Japan has gold, silver and copper mountains", so he had to hide it.

After thinking about it, Li Su only thought about something that he didn't know if it would work. He could only rely on Liu Bei's trust in him and first detour.

"Or, take the example of introducing Linyi rice from Linyi people and advise Your Majesty to open your eyes to the world. After discovering new civilized settlements, you should explore and investigate in depth. Maybe there will be new crop species worth introducing in Japan.

This kind of plan to organize an expedition and inspection should not be much. After you really start, you will take action first and then report it in the process of execution, and make a mistake. If you really discover gold and silver mines, your Majesty will also agree to expand the expedition plan..."

After thinking about it, Li Su finally found that his final plan was surprisingly similar to the value of America that Columbus and the Spanish Queen boasted in history.

There is no way! Who made America worthless at the beginning? Later, it developed so well, and that was a hundred years later! It was the result of generations of landless farmers in Europe colonizing and farming and developing well.

At the beginning, you could only deceive the monarch into some direct and quick benefits. It is not to say that there are huge amounts of ready-made treasures, but to say that there are high-yield crops. Both must be one, otherwise why would the monarch support this plan?

After Li Su thought it through, he completed his memorial to Taishi Ciganning and others alone, and wrote several suggestions on establishing new prefectures and counties in Sanhan and Xiematai.

This is not outrageous. In history, after pacifying the Three Koreans, Gongsun Du also established a new state in the Three Koreans in the name of the Han Dynasty, called "Pingju", and the jurisdiction was equivalent to the entire Korean Peninsula in later generations.

Now the imperial court has unified one Jiuzhou Island and set up a new state-level administrative unit, which is reasonable. Moreover, the new development zone north of Liaodong can also be adjusted and the Northeast can be re-divided.
Chapter completed!