Seeing this, Bailiyan asked Chen Dian:

"So far away, how did General Chen find out?"

"Coincidentally, it is the beginning of spring at the moment, and the birds fly from north to south, and after arriving in Guangping, they see a flock of birds flying in the northeast of Guangping, so they think that the northeast must be a land where the birds rest, and only use 20 times the telescope to look at the northeast, but do not see any land, so after Guangping replenishes fresh water, sail to the northeast for more than 500 miles, not only do not see the land and islands, but there are more birds in the sky, so they sail more than 150 miles, and find a high mountain in the telescope, and then find this big island."

"Shhh...... In other words, is this place or an island? Bai Liyan asked.

"Exactly, but too big to be on land. According to preliminary estimates, the longest point from east to west is 1,260 miles, and the longest point from north to south is nearly 900 miles, which is almost as high as four or five counties in the Central Plains! ”

Everyone was taken aback when they heard the news, and King Xian hurriedly said:

"General Chen, can you be sure that there are four counties here!"

"Back to the king, it is only a rough estimate, not a field measurement, so it is impossible to determine the details."

The next moment Baili Yan asked:

"What is the situation on the island, is it inhabited?"

"Back to Yongxinghou, the island is too big, full of rainforests, and I haven't explored deeply, and I haven't found any signs of human habitation. However, there are large lakes, rivers, fruits, wild animals on the island, and in addition, a large area of mountains has been found in the southwest of the island, and there are guano mountains on the mountains, which are unprecedented in number. ”

"Very good, very good!" King Xian said a lot of words, and then looked at Bailiyan and Gao Xun and said: "Yongxing Hou, Gao Changshi, the widow thinks that he will immediately send someone to the island to occupy this place, so as not to have a long night and a lot of dreams." ”

"This ......" Bai Liyan hesitated, thought for a moment and said: "The situation on the island is still unclear at the moment, and it may not be appropriate to move people to the island rashly. The minister suggested that the details of the island should still be found out in detail, especially whether there are miasma, poison sources and indigenous people in the area, so as not to lose their lives in vain. ”

"Such a big island, what if the Jin Kingdom occupies it."

King Xian couldn't help but worry, but Bai Liyan was very confident, he said:

"Back to the king, there is no possibility for the Jin people to occupy this road."

At this time, Gao Xun on the side answered and asked:

"Why is Da Si Nong so sure?"

"At present, the news of this island is only known to us, and even if the news is leaked by sailors in the future, the Jin Kingdom has neither ships nor charts, let alone the necessary equipment for navigation, and its sailors will not be able to leave the coast for a month. And our army now has an ocean-going navy, equipped with 10,000 stone ships, even if there is no supply on the way, food and fresh water can be sustained for two months. If you rely on the fresh water sources and fruit forests in the open sea, there is no problem in navigating the open sea for four to half a year, but the Jin State cannot do it at all.

Judging from the nautical chart, this island is at least one month away from the coast of the north of the Jin Kingdom, and the round-trip is more than two months. ”

Bailiyan does not advocate the immediate development of large islands, but only roughly speculates from Chen Dian's reaction that the island is the widest part of the east-west, north-south and north-south part of a square area, including the sea area, the total area of water and land is eight times that of China's Hainan Island.

With such a large island, it is difficult to say that there are no indigenous inhabitants, and the rash migration of the population, if not properly handled, will intensify the contradictions and fall into overseas wars.

It is necessary to search further into the inner island, to find out the geographical situation and natural resources, to find out the arable land in the plains, and to gradually establish settlements, and then occupy the whole island.

As for King Xian's fear that the Jin State would send troops to occupy this island, it is not impossible.

The maritime activities of the Xian State in recent years have also attracted the attention of the vassal states along the North Sea coast, especially the Liang State, the Changsun State, and the Jin State.

The Xian State took possession of all the uninhabited islands, islands and reefs, and sand tables in the sea east of the Changsun Peninsula as its own, and erected a sovereignty monument to show its possession.

At first, it did not cause the princes of various countries, until the last two years, the infiltration and economic trade of the Jin State, and the leakage of the returned sailors, have been unable to cover up the situation in the open sea, especially since the second half of the previous year, the eldest grandson and the Liang State have successively sent "ocean-going" fleets to the open sea, and the Jin State has accelerated its activities in the Northland and the East China Sea.

However, they did not engage in economic development and maritime defense, they purely occupied territory for the sake of occupying territory, following the example of Xianguo erecting a sovereignty monument on the island, nominally occupying the island as their own, but in fact there were neither economic nor military interests, so it was not impossible for the Jin State to send people to occupy the island after learning the news.

Moreover, such a large natural island, with the sea as a barrier, is a safe haven.

Ran Bailiyan knew very well that these vassal states had neither the ability to go to the ocean nor the ability to develop. Not to mention that the vast majority of islands are unsuitable for human habitation, even if they occupy the islands, the size of the islands and the availability of fresh water limit the number of immigrants.

Taking a step back, ocean-going navigation is a comprehensive embodiment of the overall scientific and technological strength, and the vassal states can hold themselves at sea for one month, looking at the Central Plains, there are only Changsun and Xianguo, those who can eat and drink well at sea without getting sick, and those who can hold themselves for two months, only Xianguo.

The navy is not only equipped with fruits and canned food, but also has professional and perfect mapping technology, accurate theodolite, mechanical gyroscope, assisted by traditional stargazing navigation, and can accurately locate all known islands.

On the other hand, in other vassal states, the traditional astrogazing is still jerky, and cartography is only at the abstract level, let alone theodolite and mechanical gyroscope.

Of course, the compass, Sinan, and telescope produced by Xianguo are selling well in the Central Plains, and to some extent have the ability to ship in the deep sea, but Baili Yan never told them that the compass is actually not a guide.

Any magnet and the planet's magnetic field have a magnetic declination angle, which is not easy to detect on land, and at sea, in the absence of a reference, it has to be carried into a ditch if you are not careful.

At present, the management of islands cannot be achieved overnight, and the problems of inland land have not yet been solved, and the development of islands is not reliable.

Bailiyan's original intention was to find out the overseas situation and establish a standing navy to defend against the maritime threat from the northern hemisphere, but because of the discovery of guano phosphate ore and golden silkworms, the outer islands generated economic value, which gave the Xianwang a false impression, and excessive investment was counterproductive.

Bai Liyan's refusal made King Xian silent for a long time, and after a while, King Xian left the map and paced back and forth, saying:

"Since the Marquis of Yongxing thinks that it is inappropriate to occupy the island at this time, let's hold it off. However, how to name the island, you Aiqing have ideas, Yongxing Hou you can talk about it. ”

"The minister has already mentioned more than 30 island names before, and he has exhausted his brains, so let's give the name to the king."

"That's a real problem......

Jiang Hai is embarrassed, and more than 200 islands, islands, reefs, and reefs have been discovered in the past few years, and the rest are nominated by internal and external cabinet members. It's easy to say that one or two new plots of land are going to be just a few more plots of land, but it's not easy to name a lot of land in a short period of time.

At this time, Gao Xun thought for a moment, stepped forward and said:

"My lord, one of the ministers is available on this island."

"Oh, Gao Aiqing said quickly."

"This island is huge and lonely hanging overseas, looking at the birds and looking for traces, it is rumored that in ancient times, there were immortals who went north to cross the sea to ascend to heaven, and the minister thought that this island could be called 'spiritual realm', implying that the immortals passed through this place to get the Tao and turn into a spiritual place, in order to avoid its barbaric secret."

Gao Xun said a word, and won the heart of King Xian, so he was happy:

"Okay, the 'Spirit Realm' is very good. Lu Aiqing. ”

"The minister is here."

"Within the year, you can order someone to explore the Spirit Realm Island again and understand the terrain on the island as soon as possible."

"No!"

"In addition, Yongxing Hou, how is the widow's mausoleum excavated. Listening to the prince's words, the mausoleum is about to be completed, right? ”

"Back to the king, yes. It will be basically completed by the end of this year at the earliest, and will not exceed next year's summer harvest at the latest. However, funeral utensils still need to be purchased by the palace and the inner government, and these ministers are not easy to ask. ”

"This matter is not arranged by anyone. However, the black turban army was very rampant back then, and the widow didn't want to be disturbed by the gangsters after a hundred years. ”

"Please rest assured, the king is safe to keep!"

Bailiyan patted her chest and swore that there would never be a tomb robbery.

The surface area of the Xianwang Mausoleum is much larger than that of a standard football field, which is large at the top and small at the bottom, showing an inverted pyramid shape.

The depth of the digging is nine zhang nine, about less than 30 meters, such a huge project, there is no scientific scheduling and material basis, not to mention the loss of life and money, the general vassal states can not do it at all.

To this end, Yongxingcheng made a steel structure cantilever hanger to facilitate the lifting of earthwork from underground, and transferred a unicorn from the south to pull pulleys and counterweight levers to transport the underground earthwork to the ground.

After excavation, the earthwork was rammed within a radius of ten miles from the mausoleum, which did not need to be moved farther away, and at the same time, the city wall was built on the spot, which was equivalent to an additional defensive fortress.

As for the anti-theft, dig ten zhang deep, divided into four layers, the bottom floor is the main coffin room, the penultimate layer, the third layer of burial goods and the main hall, the top layer is the underground palace is also a labyrinth trap. And there is a labyrinth corridor outside the fourth, third, second and third floors, no matter which layer the thief hole enters, it is advanced to the corridor maze, and there are not only gear traps and traps in the labyrinth, but also quicksand and mercury.

Of course, it is possible to drill holes directly from the ground to the bottom level, but at least with the current technology, even Yongxing City cannot do it, unless there is a pile driver, a well drilling machine, and drill to the end.

Before the tomb is backfilled, iron powder will be sprinkled on each layer of the underground palace to consume oxygen, and finally the upper layer of the mausoleum is covered with three zhang sealing soil layer by layer tamping, and the hole is directly opened from the ground into the tomb, which is not only time-consuming and labor-intensive, but also faces the lack of oxygen in the underground palace.

After the meeting ended, Bai Liyan asked Chen Dian again in detail about the details of Lingjing Island, and then accompanied Lu Gao to Sima Mansion for the record.

After six years of governance and rectification, the Xian Inner Court has established relatively perfect systems and measures, but of course, some of them are still untouchable.

In particular, the traditional bureaucratic aristocracy can not move and solve the problem as much as possible.

With regard to those within the scope of our authority, especially in the military, educational, economic, agricultural, and technological fields, reforms should be carried out in a timely manner in light of the current national conditions. In short, each family sweeps the snow in front of their own door, and does not care about the frost on the tiles of others.

The Da Sima Mansion is now in charge of the nation's military use and logistics, and generally has the pattern of general staff and general logistics.

After the fall of the black scarf in 641, King Xian collected all the military power, not only Bailiyan was overhead, but Zhao Xun, Lu Gao, and Dingyang Marquis all the military power was in the hands of King Xian, and the Taiwei basically became a fictitious, and only Sima Mansion also had the right to drill and prepare and transport logistics.

Bai Liyan's understanding is that King Xian is nearly sixty years old, and he always feels that he is going to die one day, so he must tighten his military power before he dies, so as not to make chaos after his death one day.

In other words, the rebellion of Gongsun Yue hit King Xian too hard, and the shadow has not been removed so far, coupled with Zhao Xun and Baili Yangong's high shock, due to blood relations, economic interests, and the deterrence of royal guests, King Xian is not good to take forced measures directly, so he takes soft measures.

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