Halfway through the retreat, Mooney complained incessantly

"I heard you're going to war with the Patriotic Nation, right?"

"Your news is quite good, as far as I know, you have come here for the sake of armpit people. First of all, talk about you, what your Majesty and the Church are saying now. ”

"This incident was very evil back then, it was one of our naval fleets that went to sea, originally to go farther along the foothills of the East China Sea to find land, so as to find the sea route to your back, and on the forty-second day of the trip, two ships were found at sea."

"What, two!"

Bai Liyan was taken aback when she heard this, and then thought about it and felt reasonable. In the case of ocean exploration, there are usually multiple or even dozens of ships as supply vessels, and the rest of the ships carry self-sufficient rations, and when they are consumed to a certain base, the supply ships will start to replenish, so as to extend the sea voyage time.

The navy of the Xianguo country always went to sea with several supply ships, and it was extremely risky for a single fleet to sail to unfamiliar waters.

If the Jinxuedi people found two ships, it means that they were not lost at all, but the armpit people who carried out an organized exploration from the northeastern hemisphere to the southern hemisphere, during which they encountered an accident.

Thinking of this, he asked again

"And then?"

"It is recorded that the two ships were connected by very thick cables in front and back, and the largest ship weighed fifteen or six thousand stones, and the smallest one had seven or eight thousand stones, and the ship was empty, but large decomposing corpses and skeletons were found, both human and non-human, and what is even more strange was that there was a hole in the armpit of the non-human skeleton, which, according to you, was open-eyed."

"That's it, that's the eye socket. There are eye sockets on the human skull, and since there are holes in the armpits of the eyes, they must be eye sockets. After that, how did it sink? ”

"Alas......" Mooney suddenly sighed with pity, "Actually, these two ships have earth-shattering fire and black cargo powder, but unfortunately I didn't know what it was at the time, so I planned to pull it back." But he didn't want to encounter a storm halfway, the ship was too sinking, and as a result, it was broken and sank in the wind and waves. If you knew that it was a sky-shattering fire, you should have pulled it back and imitated it at any cost. ”

Bai Liyan turned over a cold word, thinking that he didn't give you a cheap bargain for nothing, otherwise it would be really difficult to do it afterwards.

"You should be glad that there is smallpox on that ship, and if it is dragged back to your port, it will soon spread to you."

At this time, Mooney's face suddenly changed, and he said solemnly

"Actually, we Jinxuedi people don't get smallpox."

Bai Liyan was shocked when he heard the news, none of the four major races on the earth were spared, and the Jin Xuedi people were considered golden people, but if Bai Liyan believed that their genes were more advanced, and they were not even afraid of smallpox, he didn't believe it.

"Do you know what you're talking about, but anyone gets smallpox!"

"No, many of our sailors who came back from boarding the ghost ship at that time had pimples and blisters all over their bodies, but they were all cured after a few days, and no one died, leaving only a very shallow pockmark, which would heal and disappear on its own after half a month. After hearing about smallpox in the Central Plains, we sent someone to inquire about this disease, and we thought it was very similar to the papules of the year. ”

After listening to Mooney's detailed words, Bailiyan was taken aback again.

He couldn't see that Mooney was lying, and it was clear that lying wouldn't do him any good, but he didn't believe it either. The only explanation is that some of the various strange diseases of the Jinxuedi people can produce immune antibodies against smallpox, but only the immunity after the invasion of the virus blocks the replication and spread of the virus, but does not prevent the onset of the smallpox virus after the invasion. However, the smallpox virus can be cured once and has lifelong immunity.

"Well, even if you don't get smallpox, you can't stop the armpits from going south at any time, and I want to know what your Majesty and the Church are thinking now. You won't wait for the armpit people to wipe out the Central Plains, so let's go north to pick up the cheap. ”

Mooney's expression became solemn at this time, and he said

"According to you, armpit people can't be killed, right?"

"Not exactly, their heads are as fragile as humans, but they carry iron helmets thicker than half a thumb, they can easily pick up things that are more than four hundred pounds, and each person has an extremely powerful firearm, and they can also turn people into monsters, so it is difficult to threaten them with ordinary swords alone."

While speaking, the group came to the lodge, Bailiyan led everyone in, and said after sitting down

"It's not me scaring you, if the people of the Central Plains are finished, you won't be able to escape, they will follow the coast, along the land all the way to the south, and sooner or later find your land. From the standpoint of people, we should not continue to kill each other, at least until the armpit people are eliminated, we should not continue to fight each other, you say. ”

"Actually, Your Majesty is not worried, what is really worried is the church."

Mooney's statement was unexpected, and Bailiyan suddenly understood how Mooney could come this time, and if he didn't have the permission of the church, he would probably be banned from going abroad. However, Bai Liyan also wondered, what was the urgency of this church, so he asked again

"What is the church worried about, it is not their turn to charge into battle when they are killed, is it an ulterior motive?"

"I don't know what's going on inside the church, but the church is really worried, and I don't know what I'm worried about, so the church tends to believe your news."

"And then, just the word 'believe' and that's it?"

"So if we want to coexist peacefully, it's not impossible, in order to prevent the armpit people from breaking through the Central Plains, we need to build more cities and roads forward, so we need to expand the two provinces to the north in order to better connect the Central Plains."

"Fart!" Bai Liyan scolded, and then said fiercely, "Do you know what it means to expand the two provinces to the north, you have to be like the two provinces of Posong and Songdia, and don't let you put your nose down at the door of your house, don't think about it!" ”

The Jin Xuedi people have always had the intention of continuing to expand northward, and the northward expansion means that they are closer to Qianyue Mountain, and the southernmost reconnaissance outpost of Yuke is only more than a thousand miles deep.

They knew that the Central Plains would inevitably react strongly at that time, so they deliberately put forward conditions in front of this critical juncture, so as to acquiesce in their occupation of land, and at the same time not to attract the Central Plains to send troops to attack, which would become a fait accompli after a few years, so that they would get both land and forward bases.

The effective administrative jurisdiction of one province alone is more than one Xian country, and the indirect uninhabited land is equivalent to one and a half Xian countries, and according to this expansion method, the expansion of two more provinces will add at least 5 million square kilometers of land.

And the land south of Qianyue Mountain is wide from east to west, and slightly shorter from north to south, so the expansion to the north is two thousand miles, and the east-west expansion is not more than two thousand miles at all, and the area of more than 10 million square kilometers that is actually encircled by the Jin Xuedi people is a no-man's land, such a large square, whoever lets it out, who is the sinner of history.

Now the Jin Xuedi people clearly know that the Central Plains has obtained unicorn horses, and even powerful vehicles such as thousand-mile leaps and four-wheeled carriages, and their logistics capabilities are not inferior to them, and they are afraid that the Central Plains will sweep south and attack the two provinces outside the Guan, so they came up with such a bad idea. It is not so much that I am worried about the southward invasion of the armpit people, but that I am worried about the encroachment of the land.

"You can figure it out, two thousand miles of opening your mouth will be yours, are we also touching our mouths twice and taking away two thousand miles of land from your doorstep, do you also agree!"

"The land is placed there, you don't care about our business, and the road is shortened, and it is convenient to trade with you, and everyone can benefit."

"Phew! I think you're here on purpose. Wei Qi, let's go! ”

Standing up, Bailiyan turned around and was about to leave, but Mooney called out to him

"Even if you don't agree, we will still move outside the gates, and you can't stop us."

Bai Liyan said disdainfully

"Hmph, we'll see."

After speaking, Bai Liyan left angrily, annoyed in her heart.

Having dealt with Jin Xuedi people for many years, he knows very well the temperament of Jin Xuedi people, as long as he has the opportunity, he will be everywhere. When the armpit people went south, the Central Plains bore the brunt of the southern border, so they took the opportunity to move northward to build towns, and when the Central Plains had recovered their strength, they had already occupied land and established settlements, and it would take a lot of effort to do it again.

This time, however, they miscalculated.

When he returned to the courtyard, he saw that Bailiyan was furious, and Zong Botai came forward to ask

"It doesn't seem like a good conversation with Mooney."

"Don't mention it, it's so infuriating. Jin Xuedi people expected that the armpit people were really invading the south, so they took this opportunity to ask for a sky-high price, asking the Central Plains to promise them to expand two thousand miles to the north, which was simply too deceitful! ”

Zong Botai was taken aback when he heard the news and hurriedly said

"That's what Mooney said?"

"No, he said to expand two provinces. But sir, you don't know how big the two provinces are, one of them is bigger than the eleven counties of the Xian Kingdom, and the two provinces want to swallow more plains than one Jin Kingdom, if you count the forests, hills and mountains, then there are two Jin Kingdoms, isn't this a lion's big mouth. ”

"Then how did Master Hou reply to him?"

"I let him dream. As soon as the offensive and defensive battle was over, he discussed with Xiao Gongyi that a new army of 30,000 Yuke would be sent south next year to set up at his doorstep to see what he could do with the Jinxuedi people. ”

"Master Hou must not do this."

"Why is that?"

"Since Mooney can tell me about this, Master Hou won't be surprised?"

"Strange?"

Bai Liyan was silent, thinking about it carefully, he felt suspicious, the Jin Xuedi people really wanted to expand northward, they could do it unknowingly after the armpit people invaded south, so why talk about it now, Mooney obviously wouldn't be kind enough to tell him their full plan.

Puzzled, he asked again

"Do you know why, sir?"

"Looking down, the Jin Xuedi people may have a suspicion inside, and their outward expansion is really a convenience to eliminate dissidents."

"Oh, how can you see that there is a secret dislike inside? And how to kill two birds with one stone. ”

"After the defeat of the war fifteen years ago and the abuse of power by the Church, the two incidents dealt a serious blow to the domestic elite and the Church power, which can be described as a great loss of vitality, and the resulting power gap will inevitably be filled by the new forces, and then after several years or even more than ten years of gestation, it has become a new force in the country.

In order to achieve their own interests, the new forces will inevitably compete with other established forces for power. However, unlike our Central Plains, there is no land to expand in the United States, except for the sea, and if you want to go south, you must climb over the Qianyue Mountains as far as 10,000 miles, which is extremely inconvenient.

However, the Jinxuedi people can migrate all the way to the north unimpeded, as long as they continue to move north, they can continue to move the new forces of the country outward, so the fundamental purpose of their expansion is to avoid triggering civil strife, and through their outward migration, they can move the internal strife outward, and at the same time use the expansion of the land of the new forces.

Since it was the outward migration of the new magnates, the court spent very little money, but the nobles themselves paid for most of the expenses incurred by the migration, so they consumed the magnates and moved the country northward.

Moreover, this migration to the north is different from the past, and it is closer to the border of our Central Plains, and if the Central Plains sends troops to the south in the future, its newly expanded land will inevitably become the front line, and it can also cut off these dissidents for them, and at the same time achieve the purpose of uniting them, so it is not killing two birds with one stone. ”

"What Mr. Ben Hou meant, what should Ben Hou do?"

"Qianyue Mountain is thousands of miles away, and Xianguo is now beyond the reach of the North Sea whip, but it cannot but consider it for the future unification of the world. His subordinates suggested that they should prepare in advance now and demarcate the border south of Qianyue Mountain with the Jin Xuedi people.

Since it is impossible to stop them from expanding northward, it is better to agree to their expansion to the north, but we must obtain our consent and demarcate the boundary between the southern section of the Qianyue Mountain and the province of Qiposong.

If they do not agree, we will forcibly demarcate the border and nail the border, anyway, they will not be able to fill the land of expansion in thirty or fifty years, and our country will be unified in thirty or fifty years, and it will not be too late to free up their hands to clean them up again.

Moreover, its outward expansion is mostly internally divided, and our country may wish to take this opportunity to have more contacts with it, and if it can deepen the relationship for its own use, it may not be impossible to go back to the south in the future. ”

"Hehaha......" Bai Liyan laughed when he heard this, and he said, "Mr. Zongbo's words are inevitably hollow. This Jin Xuedi is the most clear, my Central Plains people are very infighting, and they are even worse when they encounter external enemies. On the contrary, the Jinxuedi rarely cause mutinies and bloodshed due to their internal infighting, and when the external threat is greater than their internal threat, they are immediately pressed to hug together and unite with the outside world.

Therefore, it is absolutely unfeasible to win him over as his own and use this method, but Ben Hou agrees with Mr. Demarcation, and since it cannot prevent his northward expansion, he may as well use this as an empty condition to negotiate and demarcate the boundary with him, and it may not be impossible to deceive him into cooperating first. ”

Zong Botai's design is not unreasonable, the external expansion of the Jin Xuedi people is caused by internal differentiation, and each of their Northern Expeditions is the result of internal development and expansion, which must be vented and expanded outward, and if it is not consumed, it will turn into internal fighting and even cause civil war.

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