Chapter 503: The Great Discovery of World Geography
People can't generalize, when some people think about family trivialities, some people care about the gains and losses of some money, and some people want to keep their official positions, Wang Lanling thinks a lot.
The matter of suppressing bandits has not been taken seriously by Wang Lanling from the beginning, and a little desert bandit is not worth Wang Lanling's attention at all.
He sat here, and his men could easily capture these desert bandits.
Wang Lanling is thinking about the future.
Since a few years ago, Wang Lanling has been thinking about development.
Shanhai County is a good place to start, but it is definitely not the best place to develop.
At first, it was just because of the atmosphere here in Muzhou, and it was more suitable to find some helpers here, and then there were several subordinates here, and it was not too far from Yunzhou.
But now is not the early stage, although all aspects are already on the right track, Wang Lanling is obviously thinking farther and longer.
The winter in Shanhai County is too cold, and even though heating equipment is gradually becoming popular, there are still serious inconveniences in many places.
The most obvious is road maintenance, road construction in cold areas, and maintenance, the cost is too high, but the railway is cheaper.
Wang Lanling felt as if he was living in the North Pole, but the further north was not as cold as his side, and the Xianzhou Ice State, which was farthest away from him, might be the South Pole.
Considering that there are dinosaur-like giants such as triceratops in this world, it's not uncommon for the Arctic to be covered in forests.
Wang Lanling thought that if he was in the Arctic now, then the desert Sand State, the rain-rich Yunzhou, and the grassland-dominated Muzhou in the north......
After re-acquainting himself with several nearby places with obvious terrain and environmental characteristics, Wang Lanling roughly understood some things.
This is not the earth, but if you think correctly, the best place is indeed Longzhou.
This was uncomfortable, and after thinking about it for a long time, I came up with a most useless conclusion.
"Alas......"
Wang Lanling sighed, he didn't realize until today that he had actually stood at the top of the empire two years ago.
Although it is a vertex in the geographical sense.
"Will Shanhai County become an iceberg in the future?"
Wang Lanling thought about it and felt that this matter was too far away, at least a few hundred years or thousands of years later.
And without professional props, it's impossible to determine which position is the highest point in the true sense.
But the probability that this side may be the North Pole is quite large, and the two coldest places in the empire are only this side and the farthest away Xianzhou Ice State.
If Shanhai County becomes a glacier, then Muzhou and Yunzhou will become permafrost areas, Shanzhou is similar to the terrain of the Northeast, Yunzhou is similar to the climate of Northern Europe, and Tongzhou will become a grassland, and Longzhou is still the most suitable place to live.
Wang Lanling has always clearly known that the world is a three-dimensional ball, not a flat map, but he has always ignored this point, until he was frozen in the snow for a few days some time ago, and he really thought about one thing: Why is it so cold here?
This kind of thing is too far to think, and Wang Lanling is currently worried about the development of the last ten to twenty years.
He won't go to Longzhou, even if he resists the decree, he doesn't want to go.
There are too many things over there, and if you don't want to go, you just don't want to go, Wang Lanling is a person with ideals.
At this time, Wang Lanling was thinking that it was more suitable for his own development.
Shanhai County definitely wants it, and Wang Lanling doesn't have time to start over.
In addition to Shanhai County, Wang Lanling also wants to establish a No. 2 base.
This base is better than Shanhai County in terms of location, and it is more suitable for human habitation.
First of all, the first thing is not to be too far away.
The second is not too cold, not too hot.
Third, it is necessary to be safe, such as Wild Horse Ridge, a place that may erupt at any time, is first ruled out, and it is only suitable as a vegetable base.
Third, there must be a sufficient population.
Without enough population and labor, industry cannot develop.
Wang Lanling's first thought was Senzhou, which also belonged to the far place of Emperor Tiangao, and was rich in natural resources, and the population was not small, and it was quite concentrated.
But the key problem is that the court is not Wang Lanling's, not what Wang Lanling says, he Wang Lanling wants to go to Senzhou, maybe he will be transferred to Bingzhou!
Next door to Senzhou is Shanzhou, Shanzhou Mu is the most prominent general in the Jiang family, and Wang Lanling was also troublesome in the past.
After thinking about it for several days, I still couldn't think of a good place to develop.
"Do you really want to go to Shazhou to engage in construction?"
Wang Lanling felt that most of his subordinates refused to go.
Was this head kicked by a donkey? Going to Sarawak for construction?
But Wang Lanling knows very well that Shazhou is not as bad as he imagined, and this place is bad because it looks garbage compared to several places in Longzhou.
In fact, in terms of area, natural resources and environmental climate, Sarawak is much better than Egypt.
But Wang Lanling is confident that he will build a good kingdom there, which does not mean that the rest of the people are willing to follow him.
If you don't want Shanhai County, Wang Lanling is confident that he will take a quarter of the people, and at least a quarter of the people will follow Wang Lanling.
But under the premise of maintaining the continued development of Shanhai County, Wang Lanling feels that one-tenth of the people will be difficult.
Most people go to Shanhai County to live a stable life.
There is no shortage of water in the state, and the water for industry can be supported by a few rivers, and the population must be concentrated in the oasis area, with a lot of various fruits and arable land.
Just when Wang Lanling was thinking about things alone, Chai Tuo walked in.
"County magistrate, we killed a group of robbers from Sarawak and captured a few prisoners."
"Oh." Wang Lanling didn't care about those desert bandits, and said casually: "Bring them over and ask for questions." ”
The territory of the empire is too big, as long as Wang Lanling can gain a foothold in Shazhou, and the imperial court wants to send a large army to trouble Wang Lanling, it will be delayed by the huge military expenditure first.
This premise is that the empire's technology has not made an explosive leap, and once the empire's technology improves, then Wang Lanling is looking for death.
It's just that Wang Lanling is very aware of the academic and officialdom atmosphere of the empire, even if there is a genius who is peerless in the past, as long as he is not surnamed Jiang, his talent will not be able to be brought into play.
Even if the surname Jiang can't do it, because the system can't support it, the emperor can't control his family, let alone the rest of the scholars.
If you want to have the right to speak, you must be an official, and people who are officials basically have little interest in doing research.
Wang Lanling continued to think about his own affairs, even when Chai Tuo and a few people brought the three captives up, they didn't pay attention.
He didn't take these rabbles into account at all.
"Zha Daomin!" (Let go of me!) )
A man dressed in desert clothing with a large beard shouted as he entered, his arms tied behind him with ropes tied behind his back, and he was pressed to his knees by the soldiers as he entered.
Wang Lanling was thinking about things, and was disturbed by a burst of language that he didn't know what language it was, so he glanced at these foreign captives.
"Since you can't speak human language, let's kill it, there's nothing to ask anyway."
Wang Lanling waved his hand and motioned for them to be pulled down and slaughtered.
Chai Tuo quickly agreed, "Yes!" ”
At this moment, the man who shouted just now quickly shouted, "Don't kill me!" I speak the Imperial language! My empire speaks very well! Exceptional! ”
Wang Lanling looked at this brown-haired man who was still speaking bird language just now, and now he started to speak human language, it was indeed the appearance of that kind of desert people.
There are more blonde hair in the alien race in Muzhou, and there are very few blonde hair in Shazhou, and the most is this miscellaneous hair color, as well as black hair, but the eyes and silhouette still belong to the alien kind, which can be recognized at a glance.
Wang Lanling doesn't think this person is of any use, he really wants to develop in Shazhou, but to be honest, the main problem is the problem of his own people.
As long as the problem of the people on your side is solved, it doesn't matter if the people on the Sarawak side agree or not.
"It's all here, let's plant trees here for the rest of my life, drag him out, castrate."
Wang Lanling lightly issued a judgment on these robbers, they are all here, and they always have to leave something.
Since you dare to come to Wang Lanling's territory to make trouble and plunder, you must think about the fate of your captivity.
"Send someone to inform the Sarazhou side, the families and tribes of these robbers are guilty of the same crime, and they will be taken together!"
Wang Lanling is no longer the lone Wang Lanling he was at the beginning, he is now prestigious, and there are thousands of available people under him.
After disposing of a few captives at random, Wang Lanling continued to think about the development plan.
The ecology of Dumu County is very fragile, and it cannot be used as a transit base.
What if a railway was built linking Sarawak and Shanhai County?
No, this is a fantasy, the wind and sand in the desert are quite powerful, and the railroad tracks are easily buried by the wind and sand, and then it will be the end of the car crash and death.
The cost of building bridges and railroad tracks is too high, and it is estimated that when my grandson is born, the project will not be completed.
Unless there is a surplus of steel, Wang Lanling will not do this kind of project.
"Magistrate, the man said that if we don't castrate him, he's willing to take us to get the treasure that their tribe has hidden in the sand."
Wang Lanling was thinking about things, and after being disturbed again, he said angrily: "Emasculated! Beat him again, and after the beating, tell him that if he doesn't want to be beaten, he will tell him the place, and if he refuses to say, he will sprinkle hot sand on his wound to disinfect it!! ”
In any case, Lord Xiao Wang has taken interrogation classes in the Tongzhou Official School, and he doesn't like to use those cruel methods that have no lower limit, just because he won't.
Soon his men interrogated the treasure and the captives were castrated.
After seeing Wang Erlang's cruel methods, the rest of the robbers suddenly couldn't get angry.
The people who had gone out on a treasure hunt returned a few days later, bringing back some worthless spices and silk pottery...... completely dispelled Wang Lanling's expectations of these desert bandits.
Wang Erlang was angry and castrated all these people.
However, it was not completely without gains, Wang Lanling asked for a rough map of Shazhou from the mouths of these robbers.