Liu Xie told the situation of the Nanyang Islands, looked around at the ministers, and waited for everyone to speak.

Zhuge Liang asked: "Your Majesty means to conquer the Nanyang Islands?" ”

Liu Xie nodded and said, "This is just one of them. ”

"One?" Everyone asked in surprise and began to discuss curiously.

Liu Xie said: "That's right, the conquest of the Nanyang Islands is only one of the next plans. And the second is that I want to take the poison myself! ”

Body poison, that is, the name of Tianzhu in the old Han Dynasty, is located in the South Asian subcontinent, is an ancient civilization, and has the same or even longer history as our Great China.

The ministers were not surprised when they heard that Liu Xie was going to conquer the body poison, and it was also a royal expedition.

Liu Xie said: "The history of the civilization of the body poison does not have to be worse than my Han Dynasty, if it is not for the support of new technology, my Han Dynasty will even be difficult to match, so the expedition must be carried out by me in person." ”

Zhuge Liang asked: "What does Your Majesty mean that while you are personally poisoned, you also need to go to the Nanyang Islands?" ”

"That's right, Kong Ming, that's what I mean, now the question is, who will be the commander of the expedition to the Nanyang Islands?"

After a while, Zhuge Liang said: "Your Majesty, the ministers are not talented, and they are willing to lead the army to the Nanyang Islands." ”

Liu Xie looked at him and said, "Kong Ming is on the expedition, I am very relieved, what are your plans for the expedition to Nanyang?" ”

Zhuge Liang said: "Weichen thinks that it is still in accordance with the policy that His Majesty has always upheld, combining grace and power, spreading culture and welfare, colonizing and reclamation, and carrying out at the same time. ”

Liu Xie said: "That's right, this is exactly what I have always been saying, only in this way can I rule for a long time, sometimes, it is not enough to rely on force, the main thing is to return to the people's will." Kong Ming, when are you going to leave? ”

Zhuge Liang asked, "Does Your Majesty need to start the expedition now?" ”

Liu Xie pointed to the Kra Isthmus on the map and said, "I want to go to the body poison, and the march on the road is complicated and slow. I was going to take the sea route, but the long isthmus here blocked my westward expedition. Either you have to go a long way south, through the Pizon Strait. That's why I'm going to be here—"

Liu Xie pointed to the narrowest part of the Kra Isthmus and said, "Lai Yiya, dig a canal, we can take a lot less sea routes." ”

Liu Xie paused, looked at everyone, and then said: "I have sent people to inspect this place before, its width is only a hundred miles, although the distance is very short, but it is not easy to dig him, because one of the biggest difficulties is that this place of Laiyiya is basically a hard rock structure, so it will be very difficult to excavate. ”

Zhuge Liang said: "In this case, wouldn't it take a long time to chisel through?" ”

Liu Xie smiled and said, "Any difficulty must be overcome in front of me, and I plan to spend a year at most to chisel it through, so I need a lot of explosives." ”

Zhuge Liang also walked to the map, looked at it carefully, and then said: "Your Majesty, the amount of explosives required for this will be very large." ”

"That's right, we need to increase the production of explosives, and the main problem of explosives from time to time, the most important thing is the problem of personnel, I need a large number of people to come here."

Liu Xie looked around at the ministers and said: "Not only can the population plan not be listened to, but it must continue to increase!" I need countless people, the more the better. As long as there are people, anything can be done. My initial plan was to emigrate 300,000 people to this place, and to increase the number in the future.

"So Kong Ming," Liu Xie said, "you set out for the Nanyang Islands in half a year, you have half a year to prepare, and I also set out for poison half a year later." That's right, it is impossible for the Laiyi Canal to be dug successfully in half a year, so after half a year, I still plan to pass through the Pizon Strait. ”

The Strait of Pizon, which is today the Strait of Malacca.

"So, Zhongqing," Liu Xie said, "a magnificent era of great construction has come, and sometimes construction is more challenging and rewarding than conquest."

"Next, rest for half a month, after half a month, I personally led the army to Laiyiya, in this half a month, I hope to form an engineering team in the country, and bring a large number of explosives over."

The deliberations have been decided, and everything is getting ready.

Half a month later, he personally led thirty warships, led a large number of soldiers, engineers, explosives, supplies, and equipment to leave the dense forest and go to Laiya.

The battleship rode the wind and waves, sailing on the sea of Funan Bay, Liu Xie stood at the bow of the ship, looking at the waves in front of him, and couldn't help but feel full of pride.

Just a few children were running happily on the deck, and those children didn't pay attention to Liu Xie, who was standing in front of the deck railing, Liu Xie looked back, there were a total of eight children, four boys, namely Liu Wen, the son of Fu Shou, Liu Wu, the son of Dong Lu, Liu Hao, the son of Zou Yuan, and Liu Long, the son of Diao Chan.

There are four more girls, namely Yan'er's daughter Liu Xue, Wen Yin's daughter Liu Jing, Diao Chan's dragon and phoenix fetal daughter Liu Feng, and Xiahou Ling's daughter Liu Man.

Liu Xie hid in the dark and secretly watched them play, but when he looked at it, he felt that something was wrong, so he only heard Liu Wu cross his waist and say with an arrogant expression: "You have to figure it out, Brother Liu Wen is the son of Queen Fu, and sooner or later he will be the crown prince of my Han Dynasty, and he must be the only one, do you understand?" ”

Liu Hao shouted: "My father didn't set up a prince, and my father always said that if you don't set up a prince, you call yourself Prince Liu Wen like this, aren't you afraid that your father will be blamed if he finds out?" ”

Liu Wu shouted: "Liu Hao, do you want to rebel?" Your mother was Zhang Ji's wife back then, a widow, and it was his father who took pity on him and took her in, which is why you are a bastard! Are you worthy to speak here, too? ”

"What did you say?" Liu said angrily, "I'll beat you!" ”

Liu Hao was about to use force when he raised his fist, but was grabbed by Liu Long and said: "Liu Hao doesn't have the same knowledge as him, let's play by ourselves." ”

Liu Wu said again: "Haha, they are all children of defeated and abandoned women, and they really smell the same!" ”

Liu Long and Liu Feng are the children of Diao Chan's dragon and phoenix fetus, and Liu Hao is the son of Zou Yuan. And Zou Yuan was Zhang Ji's wife, and Diao Chan was Lu Bu's wife, and they both remarried after their husband's death and became Liu Xie's concubine.

Therefore, Liu Wu will say that they are the sons of abandoned women of the defeated army.

Liu Long glared at him, didn't argue with him, pulled Liu Hao to leave, Liu Hao shouted: "Liu Long, you can bear it, I can't bear it!" ”

Liu Wen laughed out loud and said, "What if you can't bear it? It doesn't change your lowly status! ”

Liu Hao broke free of Liu Long and said, "I want to teach you how to behave!" ”

Liu Wen and Liu Wu laughed, and Liu Wu smiled: "Big brother, did you hear what he said?" ”

Liu Wen smiled: "He said he wanted to be beaten, so let me clean him up." ”

Liu Wu said: "Slaughtering chickens with a knife? Or I'll do it, big brother. ”