On the last day of the Shangsi Festival, Chen Xu arranged for the servants to select ten carts of gifts in the treasury, and then took Ying Shiyan and her two daughters to the palace to thank the First Emperor, and at the same time in the name of thanking Concubine Yun and the concubines and ladies of the harem for their care and care on weekdays, the ten carts of gifts were sent to Shaofu.

"Master Taishi, why bother, I am rich in the world, and there is no shortage of ten carts of gifts!" Sitting in the imperial garden drinking tea, the first emperor said with a slightly complaining smile.

"Your Majesty still calls the ministers as usual, and the title of the Taishi is the minister's heart!" Chen Xu smiled bitterly.

"Haha, what Aiqing said is right, I'm still a little unaccustomed to it, so I almost shouted wrong, okay, there are only me and Aiqing here, just as casual as in the past!" Qin Shi Huang obediently changed his title.

"It's also comfortable to listen to like this!" Chen Xu breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile, "Your Majesty, it's not that the minister compares with His Majesty, it's just that there are too many gifts, and the minister's treasury can't be put down, not to mention that the minister only has three wives and two concubines, one hundred and ten maids, and these items can't be used up in the minister's house for ten years. ”

"Alas, I know that Aiqing's mind is enough, so let's not take it as an example!" Qin Shi Huang could only nod helplessly.

After a cup of tea, the first emperor put down the teacup and his face became slightly serious, "A few days ago, I talked to Aiqing about the management of Korea and Yingzhou, and now the customs department has begun to prepare, and the Taishi recommended Li You to serve as the customs officer, and I also quite agree, but I am still quite hesitant about who will be the governor of Korea and Yingzhou, and the most important thing is that there is now a Chen country built by the Shang Dynasty between the Liang Kingdom and the Korean Peninsula, and it must be resolved as soon as possible to ensure the tranquility of the peninsula, otherwise I am afraid that even if officials are sent to govern, it will not be peaceful. If the merchant ships returning from Yingzhou are attacked and looted, it will make my Great Qin lose a lot of money and goods......"

After listening to Qin Shi Huang's worries, Chen Xu pinched his chin and thought for a moment and said: "Your Majesty, the minister has also been studying the situation in the northeast in recent years, and the location of the Chen country is very complicated, with the Liang country in the west, the sea in the east, and the Wofu and the Qi country in the north, and the Chen country itself is still a tribe composed of the three Han tribes of Ma, Chen, and Ben, and the population composition is also relatively complex, including the remnants of the Shang Dynasty, the Yan people who escaped at the beginning, and many different immigrants from the Central Plains who went to avoid the war in the Central Plains when the Seven Kingdoms were fighting. The most important thing is that the mountains and forests here are dense and the rivers are blocked, and it is not an overnight thing to conquer, and it takes manpower and material resources, so if you want to eradicate this trouble, you need to use a two-pronged strategy! ”

"Please also ask Aiqing to elaborate, what is the two-pronged strategy?" Qin Shi Huang asked movingly.

"Now that my Great Qin has unified China, there is no internal trouble, and the domestic population is extremely scarce, so whether it is the Yan people who escaped in the early years, or the people of the Central Plains who went to avoid the war, or even the remnants of the Shang Dynasty, Your Majesty can appease and accept, arrange for the envoys and officials of the Liang State to go to the land of Sanhan to preach Your Majesty's pardon documents, promise national treatment, and even freely migrate to Liangguo, Liaodong and even the Central Plains to live, if the leaders of the three Hans and large and small tribes are willing to submit, they can be awarded official titles and rewards, Then send officials to divide the counties and govern them, so that the Korean Peninsula and the counties of Liaodong can be completely integrated, and the laws and languages of the Central Plains will be imposed, and the natural peace will be natural for decades......"

"Well, Aiqing's strategy is feasible, and the cost of sending envoys is minimal, but this Chen country has lived in a wild place for a long time, and it is the same as the original Baiyue, it belongs to the state of mixed living and disobedience to the king of the Central Plains, I am afraid that it is not easy to accept it with only envoys and pardons...... Qin Shi Huang nodded while pulling his beard.

"Your Majesty, the two-pronged strategy that Fang Caichen said, sending envoys is only one of them, just like the conquest of Lingnan land, if you want these tribes of Chenguo to completely surrender, it must be supplemented by force, and the minister asked Your Majesty to prepare for the establishment of the Maritime Academy to form the Great Qin Maritime Division, and also to assemble the Shenwei artillery on the ship of the Maritime Division, this conquest of the Chen Kingdom, if you hand it over to the Maritime Master to hone it!"

"Aiqing is saying that he will arrange for the generals to use artillery to attack and deter from the sea?" Qin Shi Huang came to his senses in an instant.

"Yes, at present, although the Maritime Academy has just begun to prepare, the school camp will be gone, but in fact, Langya Shipyard has been building sea ships in recent years, in order to develop Yingzhou, the minister has previously built eight large ships, the fleet returned from Yingzhou, the minister also earned a lot of money, in order to cooperate with the imperial court to develop Yingzhou to conquer the Chen country, the minister is willing to take out these big ships for the purpose of training sea masters, and at the same time install the Shenlei artillery on the big ship for drills, It only takes more than a month for these sea masters to go to sea to conquer the country of Samhan! ”

"Okay, I think Aiqing's strategy is very good, Chen Kingdom is all barbarians, how dare you compete with the Immortal Family's magic weapon, this brilliant heavenly might, it may collapse in an instant, and then send envoys to surrender, it will definitely have twice the result with half the effort!"

Qin Shi Huang stroked his palms happily and laughed, and couldn't wait to pull Chen Xu to Zichen Hall to look at the world map to discuss the specific details of preparing for the Maritime Academy and the Maritime Division.

For the First Emperor, conquering the world was more interesting and combative than developing the domestic economy.

At the beginning, Chen Xu told him that only by conquering the world could he embark on the true path of the emperor, and only then could he hope to get the mercy of the heavenly immortals and get that unattainable chance of immortality.

Now that Daqin has been subdued, and he has obtained the immortal magic weapon Taiyi Divine Thunder and Taiyi Divine Artillery presented by Chen Xu, it is a good opportunity for him to start to show his strength and conquer the world.

Chen Xu has repeatedly told him that the future of Daqin's conquest of the world is on the sea, not on land, only by dominating the sea, then the world can be held in the palm of his hand, and in five years and ten years, Daqin will inevitably dominate the four seas and intimidate the world.

Qin Shi Huang felt that although he was almost fifty years old, he was still ambitious, and it was false to say that he didn't want to live forever, at least he also wanted to see the prosperous and prosperous era described by Chen Xu in his lifetime, and planted the dragon flag of Great Qin all over the four continents, and experienced the magnificent scenery of the eight directions that came to congratulate all the countries and the dynasty.

A return gift turned into a military seminar between the monarch and the minister, and with the opportunity to conquer the Korean Peninsula, Chen Xu even carefully talked about the direction and development of overseas exploration in the next three to five years.

The First Emperor followed the direction of Chen Xu's hand, looked all the way to the south, and watched Chen Xu use a thick pen to add Taiwan, Hainan, the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia and other Nanyang islands to the world map.

"Your Majesty, the former ministers only drew a map of the four continents, but in fact, there are countless islands in the vast sea, and each of these islands is comparable to Yingzhou and even the country of my Chinese princes, and the climate is very different from the Central Plains, so the products are also rich and diverse, and there are many ......goods that I have never had in the Central Plains."

"Your Majesty, please look here, through a narrow strait here, you will enter another vast sea area, called the Bay of Bengal, and from the Bay of Bengal landing, you will reach the body poison in the west, although the body poison seems to border with the western region of our Great Qin, but in fact, there is also a green plateau and towering snow-capped mountains that are difficult to cross into the clouds, if you want to conquer the body poison from the land, it will take at least more than a full year just to spend time on the road, and the body poison population is more than my Great Qin, it is a veritable Western power, If there is no million troops, it will definitely not be able to defeat it, Your Majesty can imagine mobilizing a million troops for a year to consume on the road, this is an extremely terrifying thing, even if my Great Qin is prosperous and rich, I am afraid I can't afford to experience this great drag, after two or three times, the economy will collapse and return to the state of internal and external difficulties when the Seven Kingdoms were fighting, but if you attack from the sea, it will be completely different......"

Chen Xu's fingers drew a huge arc along the Great Qin Sea Frontier, and his fingertips went all the way west around the Strait of Malacca and poked at the position of Sri Lanka, "Your Majesty, there is a big island here, rich in all kinds of precious gems, and it is close to the body poison, this island is like an unsinkable sea ship, which will provide a place for the merchant ships and warships to and from the West to stay and stop, as long as it occupies the place, the body poison will be squeezed by my Great Qin from the north and south, coupled with the threat of the divine thunder artillery, it is not difficult to conquer the body poison, If my Great Qin gets more than 20 million people and a vast territory, then with enough food supplies and ordnance replenishment, it will be easier for me to continue to conquer Anxi and Egypt and Rome in the west......"

"Further west, there is the Arabian Sea, which used to be the boundary of the West Niuhe Continent, which is the real country of the West, with this narrow sea area and the Mediterranean Sea as the boundary, and the Western countries are fighting each other...... Alexander the Great, who had been mentioned to His Majesty in the past, was here, starting from the Macedonian Kingdom, leading tens of thousands of troops across the Mediterranean, conquering Greece, Egypt, Persia, Poison, and Bactria and then arriving near the Great Wan Kingdom, only a few hundred miles away from the Western Regions controlled by my Great Qin, and the territory of Alexander's Empire at its peak was several times larger than the territory of my Great Qin......"

"Now Alexander's empire has fallen apart, the rising countries are rest Rome and Carthage, but these countries are stronger than the body, whether it is the army or the navy, they are all the fierce enemies of Great Qin, if it is placed ten years ago, the naval divisions of Greece and Rome and Egypt are enough to crush our Great Qin, because they have begun to fight in the Mediterranean thousands of years ago, but now it is completely different, the new sea ships and Shenlei artillery will completely change this situation, as long as my Great Qin's naval division sails away, it will definitely deter the entire Western ......"

Chen Xu's description of the world map and world pattern this time was more detailed than any previous time, and it took nearly an hour to not only clearly draw the route of the voyage, but also to tell the general state of the West, and also reflect the great advantages of navigation through the comparison of time and cost, that is, to save time and effort, in addition to fighting with the wind and waves of the sea, it is almost possible to transport the warriors of Daqin to the doorstep of the Western countries without any battle, and when the naval division arrives, it is the day when the Western countries tremble.

Under the roar of artillery, the so-called Western powers can only bow down.

"Your Majesty, if you regard this world as a feast, then Yingzhou Korea is just an appetizer, so Your Majesty should not have any worries, if even a Keizi Korea cannot be conquered, how dare the minister dare to speak out and assist His Majesty to conquer the world, and when the Great Qin Haishi arrives in the land of Sanhan, it will be the time when the tribes of the Chen Kingdom surrender, at most one year!" Chen Xu retracted his eyes and smiled comfortingly, and said to the First Emperor.

"Aiqing has really already penetrated the heavens!" Qin Shi Huang was overjoyed when he heard this, rubbed his hands and withdrew his gaze from the map, and said excitedly, "Aiqing's detailed explanation, I finally understand the pattern of the world, and sure enough, it is faster to go to the west from the sea, not to mention the time and effort, not to mention the cost is smaller and safer in comprehensive calculation!" ”

"It is precisely in this way that the minister proposed to prepare for the customs bureau to stimulate the rapid development of our Daqin navigation industry by developing the huge wealth obtained by Yingzhou, encourage the private sector to build merchant ships to continue to expand to the South China Sea, seize many islands along the way for development, and establish ports, docks, warehouses and other supply docking places on the main transportation routes, and the imperial court will continue to divide the princes or send officials and governors to manage the affairs of various places, provide a place to rest and replenish the supplies for the merchant ships that come and go, and also provide a place for the sea division to be stationed. Then the power of my Great Qin is spreading and growing in all directions like vines, and in a few years, it will inevitably be the merchant ships and naval warships that I planted the Great Qin Dragon Banner in the four seas......"

"In this way, I also want the court to make arrangements as soon as possible, and be more attentive to the formation of the naval division, building warships, casting artillery, and manufacturing ammunition must be put on the agenda as soon as possible, and by next year at the latest, I will let the naval division arrive in the Philippine islands, and enter the Bay of Bengal two years later to occupy this gem island......" Qin Shi Huang nodded with a serious face, stared at the map and thought for a moment, and then pointed to the two locations of the Philippines and Sri Lanka to speak.

"Your Majesty, this matter is not difficult, the difficulty is still to build the money and equipment of the sea and a large number of boatmen and sailors who are proficient in navigation, so the maritime academy must also be prepared as soon as possible, but you can use the process of conquering Jizi Korea to train troops, if the enthusiasm of civil navigation is high enough, this year to occupy Taiwan and Hainan Islands is still very hopeful, and with the rapid development of maritime shipping, the coastal counties will definitely follow the rapid prosperity, such as Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi counties land transportation is not convenient, Therefore, the court could not manage it easily, but if it was through sea ship traffic, these former poor and poor places could also be quickly brought under the jurisdiction, so that they would not be as chaotic as they are now, so they thought that they should also find excellent bays in some places where rivers and seas meet in the southeastern counties as soon as possible to build seaports and wharves, and set up official offices to provide convenience for the seagoing ships traveling between the southeastern counties and the Nanyang regions to berth and replenish the trade and unload their goods, and these places will also facilitate the transportation of inland freight. For example, the goods of the Changsha counties in Bashu, Guizhou, Guizhou and Guizhou go down to the coast of Huiji, and the goods of the counties of Guizhou, Guangxi, and Guangdong pass through the Pearl River to the coast of Panyu, and then they can be directly transported to Langya and even Liaodong by seaship, which is up to two months, which is far faster and more convenient than the transportation through inland oxen, horse, carriage and boats......"

"Aiqing is right, in order to quickly develop the South Seas and explore and find a route to the west, the supply stops along the way must be arranged as soon as possible, but this matter seems to be bothered Aiqing to arrange it personally, I am afraid that the officials of the three provinces and six ministries of the court are not familiar with navigation, and many arrangements will be chaotic at that time!"

"Your Majesty, rest assured, the minister will make proper arrangements and write all the plans as soon as possible and submit them to Your Majesty for viewing!"

Chen Xu nodded and smiled bitterly in his heart.

The so-called cannon of his own appointment will be finished with tears, and this opportunity to attack the world is also his own fool of the first emperor, now Qin Da has stripped off his clothes and revealed his strong body, ready to start to cool according to the West, as an old bustard soliciting customers, this task of making the bed and folding quilts Chen Xu must help to complete, otherwise the emperor is not happy, many people will be unhappy, and those little ladies in the West who twist and pinch and half push and half even pretend to be noble may be beaten by Qin Da with a blue nose and swollen face.

But the ending of the overlord is not what Chen Xu wants to see.

The earth is too big, there are too many Westerners, if you really rely on military conquest of the world, Daqin is estimated to be completely dragged down in the end, in this era, there is too much money to use, population and strong industry are the most important conditions for global domination.

In the evening, Chen Xu and Ying Shiyan accompanied the First Emperor Concubine Yun to have dinner before returning home, and after returning home, they plunged into the study and began to plan in detail the maritime academy, the composition of the maritime division, some supply ports and trading docks in the southeastern counties, etc.

Suddenly pushing a country that was originally an inland model to the maritime mode involves extremely complicated things, but since Daqin has been pushed to this point, and Daqin's current economic development can also initially support the development of the Great Navigation, so what we need to do now is to turn many of the policies that we pay lip service into reality, prepare for the establishment of maritime colleges, expand the scale of shipyards, build more sea ships, and recruit civilian warriors to form a navy for basic ship operation and firearms training. Encourage non-governmental investment in the construction or lease of seagoing ships to go to sea to grab people, money, and land, and to build large-scale ports and wharves in southeastern counties.

All of this will need to be done at a speed over the next few years.

Although the time is urgent, it can actually be divided into the first phase, the second phase, the third phase, or even the five-year and ten-year plan, so the investment in the early stage is not too large, as long as Daqin continues to develop steadily, the economic strength and population size of Daqin will be enough to support Chen Xu's plan to colonize the world after ten years.