When Chen Xi pointed to the map and began to tell Liu Bei what the world of high-ranking Wenchen was, the people present who came into contact for the first time were extremely shocked.

Zhuge Liang, who is known for his steady wisdom, couldn't maintain his indifferent look at this moment, and the vastness of the world completely exceeded their expectations.

"This is the world, the complete world, the world that I have always told you to be unified." Chen Xi said calmly, "Great Qin has come, we have not yet been unified, we need a line of defense to block the Great Qin coming from across the border." ”

"Great Qin has worked for thousands of miles, I'm afraid even if he comes, he won't have combat effectiveness." Zhuge Liang had calmed down at this time, staring at the map with his eyes, silently remembering it in his heart.

"That's not the case, we can know about Great Qin, and it is also because we also have people who have traveled thousands of miles and hunted with Great Qin in the Rest Empire." After all, Li You was very optimistic about Zhuge Liang, so after Zhuge Liang inquired, he directly gave an explanation.

"Wenru, you can repeat those things." Chen Xi said to Li You.

Li You did not refuse, and interspersed the events that happened in the Rest Empire with the information he had gathered.

"That is to say, the rest is already lonely, but Daqin is at its peak." Xun Yue frowned, "Even so, Great Qin has no value in fighting with our Great Han, after all, this distance is too far, and it is not the work of Ming Jun to conquer a country thousands of miles away." ”

"I'm afraid that Daqin is similar to what we think, there are no two heavens and no two earths, and the distance of thousands of miles is not too far." Fa Zheng said slowly, "If the official roads are all like those laid by Gongyou, the distance of thousands of miles. The cavalry marched for less than forty days. ”

The horses of this era are different from the era when there is no heaven and earth essence, even if the wild horses do not gain internal qi. The physique is also far more than the vast majority of BMWs in history, if it is placed in the era of no internal gas. They are definitely treasured horses that travel hundreds of miles a day.

"The distance of thousands of miles has greatly limited the degree of troop deployment on both sides." Xun Yue is not a waste material, he is also an all-round character, and his military strategy is not blown, "Not to mention the problem of grain and grass, just talking about the climate, the change of climate thousands of miles away is enough for any famous general to lose his troops." ”

"Cut,. It would be hellish if the climate problem could turn the old man Hua over. Cookie said with a disapprehensive face, although he was very afraid of Hua Tuo, but he still recognized Hua Tuo's medical skills, whether it was Zhang Zhongjing or Hua Tuo, he could solve this kind of unsuitability.

"Okay, we are an empire, the other side is also an empire, we have the other side too, climate change ignores, what about the deployment of troops. Even if we ignore the grain and grass and collect the grain on the spot, how many troops can we put in the past? Is there one hundred thousand? The problem is that 100,000 soldiers and horses have entered a unified empire......" Xun Yue glanced at everyone present, and there was no need to say anything else. But the meaning is self-explanatory.

"What Xun Zhi said is indeed reasonable." Liu Ye smiled and took over the conversation, "100,000 soldiers and horses are indeed not a problem for a unified empire, but we will let the other party take action." And we don't do anything? ”

"That's not the case." Xun Yue shook his head, pinched his beard and said slowly. "I just think it's too much of a stretch to work so hard for a distant, uncertain enemy. We used to occupy the Western Regions, but in the end we had to give it up, because it was too far away from us. ”

After that, without waiting for Liu Ye to speak, Xun Yue took the first step to cut off the other party's words, "It is true that our marching speed has been much faster than two hundred years ago, but is it really worth our investment there?" 100,000 cavalry to consolidate, how much can be produced there? ”

Xun Yue's words directly stopped many people, but Chen Xi looked at Xun Yue happily, he had never found that Xun Yue was so powerful before, and the angle of looking at the problem was so weird.

"There's an empire there." Chen Xi said with a smile.

"But that empire is thousands of miles away from us." Xun Yue shook his head.

"We can spend 10 to 20 years building an official road and fix it once and for all." Chen Xi said with a smile, that road must be repaired, if it is not repaired, the Western Regions will definitely be reversed, and it will be reversed, and it will be repeated hundreds of times.

"Worth it?" Xun Yue frowned slightly, "What's the point of investing so much." ”

"As long as the road is built, villages will naturally appear on both sides of the road, forming market towns, and finally cities." Chen Xi laughed and said, "And that road must be repaired, even if there is no Great Qin, I will not allow Wusun, the small countries of the Cheshi to go back and forth." ”

"As for the distance, the range that a country can rule is the distance that the army can reach within a hundred days, of course, if you are really strong enough to make the surrounding countries desperate, in fact, there is not much difference between a hundred days and two hundred days......," Chen Xi continued.

After more than a hundred days, if the army is not allowed to enter, it will basically reach the extreme wall of the empire, and at that time, the scope of rule will continue to expand, and the result will only be that the other side will turn against after withdrawing the army.

Of course, there have been some dynasties in history that have clearly broken through the extreme walls of the empire, and the kind of truth is mainly that the vanquished have given up the struggle.

It doesn't matter if the army enters for a hundred days or two hundred days after the vanquished rebel, because for a dynasty that has broken through the extreme wall of the empire, it will enter garbage time after entering, and simply put, for this kind of empire, the countries next to it are garbage.

Crush the enemy in minutes, the other party rebels and crushes it once, and if it is crushed more times, there will be no rebellion, so the empire has broken through the extreme wall of the empire, but for a feudal dynasty, it is not ordinary difficult to achieve this level.

Xun Yue was silent for a while, he understood what Chen Xi said very thoroughly, the scope of national rule is almost as Chen Xi said, and the official road that Sun Qian has been constantly building has also become a great cause for the ages from this point of view, Sun Qian is using this method to expand the limit of the empire little by little.

"If we don't build roads, we can only reach the level of Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty when the scope of rule is the largest, and if we build roads, we and the other party will become neighbors!" Chen Xi said calmly.

"Why should we tolerate the other side occupying the place we will occupy in the future, if the other side is stronger, we will be weaker." Chen Xi looked at Xun Yue and asked rhetorically, "Reunification has never been my goal, nor has it ever been the goal of Xuande Gong. ”

Xun Yue looked at the world that painted the vast land, and finally fell silent, it was obvious that Chen Xi wanted to create a great cause for eternity, and he did have that ability!

If one day the official road is built through the Western Regions and reaches the extreme west, as long as there are enough horses, the Han Dynasty can reach it within a hundred days, and throw hundreds of thousands of troops into another empire! (To be continued.) )