In the side hall, Lu Ning looked at the map on the table.

Broadly speaking, it is from Southeast Asia to southern India, that is, the area where the Hyakhang fleet operates in the East China Sea.

The East China Sea Hundred Fleet, if it is to India, the route is basically from Guangzhou, to Hanoi Jiaozhou Port, to Champa Port, in South Vietnam, Daqi has its own supply port and concession, and then, it is the trade port of other countries, from Champa to Chenla (Khmer Empire) southern port, and then to Sriwijaya (Malacca), through the naked country, to the Chola Empire in southern India.

Of course, on the map, many countries are marked, according to Lu Ning's habits.

For example, the Kingdom of Chenla is marked as the Kingdom of Khmer, Mataran is marked as the Kingdom of Java, Sri Buddha (Srivijaya) is marked as the Kingdom of Malacca, and the Chola Empire is marked as the Kingdom of South India.

Today, the Khmer Empire, the Srivijaya and Chola Empires are still strong.

The fleet of Baixing in the East China Sea is mainly trade-oriented, and promotes the goods of Qi to other countries, and does not have disputes with them.

In particular, the Chola Empire in southern India, which may have been the last strong period of Indian culture in history, is now on the rise, and historically even controlled Malacca and many islands in Southeast Asia, which also made Indian culture influence in the region for a long time, until the arrival of the Muhammad sect.

Of course, in terms of land area, the Chola Empire now occupies the southern part of India, and there are some countries in the north that compete with it, and in terms of the state system, there are many ethnic groups in India, and the Chola Empire and the northern empire are different from the Central Plains Dynasty, and they are still more or less loose slave federations, and various local lords, manor owners and slave owners are alliance kingdoms.

However, in any case, the Great Qi did not want to be hostile to these regimes now, because the Chola King Yudama Churo demanded that the goods of the Daqi fleet not pass through his port and then be transferred to the West, and the East China Sea Baixing also complied, and the trade with them, Yutama Churo obviously did not want to really anger this powerful empire from the East, and the trade between the two sides was fair.

Moreover, only operating the route from the Central Plains to India, just exploring this section of the route, has also greatly improved the safety of Qi merchants, and by other local merchants to promote the goods of Daqi in bulk, for the time being, there is nothing bad about the development of Qi trade.

For the two maritime powers, Khmer and Malacca, Baixing in the East China Sea also lived in peace with them.

However, the naked country between Malacca and South India, that is, the area of the Nicobar Islands in later generations, as the most important anchorage between Malacca and India and Sri Lanka, began to build a water village in the East China Sea.

The naked country is the name of the former Tang Dynasty, as the name suggests, because the tribes on this island community are extremely primitive and ignorant, they cannot have a textile industry or anything like that, and the climate is hot, so they only use leaves to cover their bodies.

Although the naked island is an important anchorage between South India and Malacca, but in the past, merchants were only anchored to rest and replenish fresh water, but the East China Sea Baixing was thousands of miles away from the Central Plains to transport building materials to build a water-village port, and even from the foreseeable long-term point of view, this is also an absolute loss-making business, if it is not a national act, as a businessman, it is impossible to do this.

Moreover, even the rulers of India or Malacca have never had the courage to spend money and money to build a port in this natural anchorage.

The naked island, now marked as "Jihai City" on the map of Daqi, belongs to the royal low-yield construction of the East China Sea Baixing commissioned by the royal family, similar to Donghai City, managed by the administrative staff appointed by the royal family, and at the same time, the Jihai Sea Village, the water army and the like, and the same management method as the Huangzhuang.

For Lu Ning, it is so easy to make these island communities become overseas places of the Great Qi territory, and the Bay of Bengal in the Indian Ocean has a military base of the Great Qi since ancient times, which is simply a blood gain.

What's more, from the perspective of overseas trade, the importance of this port to the Daqi caravan will also slowly appear.

However, Lu Ning is now staring at the map, mainly looking at Bagan (southern Burma) in the southwest of Dali and the Baltic Kingdom (Bengal) in the west.

Originally, Lu Ning was prepared, and the chief director decided that he would return to Bianjing, and it was time to pass through the northwest.

However, Zhao Kuangyin is eyeing him, if Zhao Kuangyin is not completely cut off, the southwest border is afraid that there will be many events in the future.

Is it true that an army and horses were transferred from Sichuan, Shu or even Bianjing?

Then, it's not just Zhao Kuangyin who is dealing with, if Zhao Kuangyin can be defeated, by the way, in Bagan and the Polo Kingdom, how about expanding the influence of Daqi?

Bagan, a small kingdom in southern Burma, will not expand until a few decades later, when the prodigy known as the first emperor in Burma's history ascends to the throne.

Nowadays, Bagan is a small kingdom, not even an army.

How the king is changed now, from the perspective of the Central Plains, is similar to a joke.

For example, the third king of the Bagan Dynasty, Sere Okoy, who was originally the second king's groom, was angry and pushed the king into a puddle and drowned, and the groom became a king.

And the incumbent king Liang Wu Su Luohan took office even more funny.

Liang Wu Su Luohan is a melon farmer.

And after the son of the horseman ascended the throne, he liked to ride around on horseback, ran to the melon field of the Liangwu Su Luohan to pick a melon to eat, and was found by the Liang Wu Su Luohan, he was dissatisfied with the usurpation of the horseman, and found that the current king of the horseman's son came to steal the melon, and beat the king to death in anger, and waved his arms again, leading the farmers in the village into the palace, and he became the new king.

From these rumors and allusions, it can also be seen that there is no real army in Bagan now, and the change of king is no different from the change of village head.

Of course, because the news is relatively lagging behind, Donghai Baixing does not care about this country, so I don't know if this good Wu Su Luohan is still alive, and whether there is a new person to succeed him.

However, it can also be seen that the king a few decades later, who really did not underestimate it, established a real army expansion, and laid the foundation for the largest area of Burma.

For today's Bagan, Lu Ning was not interested in it.

The East China Sea Baixing fleet does not go to the polar harbor, but along the coastal sea, that is, after leaving Malacca, to Chenla, then to the Baltic Kingdom, then to northern India, and then to the Chola Kingdom.

It has nothing to do with Bagan at all.

Even the annexation of Bagan, for the Central Plains Dynasty, is not regarded as an outlet to bypass Malacca, and now the goods are transported from the Central Plains to Bagan, by land, it is far less convenient and low-cost than by sea, and even in many places there are no roads, and it is impossible for freight horse teams to pass.

But if you gather an army here to fight with Zhao Kuangyin, you can also go to Bagan for a walk?

Even, to the west to test the direction of Bengal, is there room to expand the territory?

Lu Ning then shook his head, these corners and corners, forget it.

At least, the most important strategic area is in the northwest.

pondering, Lu Ning's eyes were focused on the map, the border between Dali and Tubo.