Chapter 869
"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 get 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 is that those who violate the strong Han will be punished even if they are far away. How can you 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 the Western Regions. 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.
Chapter completed!