"Report!"

"Great victory!"

"The Western Expeditionary Army has won a great victory!"

The third prince, Zhao Xu, came to Zhang Lingyang with a wild goose, and was waiting for Zhang Lingyang to praise himself, but he didn't want to be at this time, there was a rush of sound outside.

After a while, I saw Xiao Fuzi leading a scout to run into the park and said to Zhang Lingyang: "Congratulations to Your Majesty, congratulations to Your Majesty, the great victory of the Western Expeditionary Army!" ”

"Really?"

Hearing this, Zhang Lingyang's originally somewhat sluggish spirit was suddenly shocked.

At this time, I saw the scout kneeling down in front of Zhang Lingyang and said: "Your Majesty, half a month ago, General Sun and General Ma each led 150,000 troops to cross the Euphrates River and fight a decisive battle against the Europa coalition army.

At the same time, General Sun secretly dispatched 100,000 Jewish legions from the north side of the Caspian Sea to the back of the Europa coalition army, and burned down the logistics base of the Europa coalition army in one fell swoop 10 days ago.

After the Europa coalition army was distraught and burned down the Europa army's logistics base, the Jewish legion turned around and launched an attack on the rear of the Europa army, and the Europa army was defeated and fled.

General Sun and General Ma are currently pursuing the Europa coalition forces, and the special general will come to report the victory to His Majesty! ”

"Great!"

"That's great!"

Zhang Lingyang couldn't help but take joyful steps, his hands kept rubbing, and he instructed Xiao Fuzi: "Little Fuzi, bring it down and reward it!" ”

"In addition, I sent an edict to Ma Jinzhong and Sun Dingzong, so that they should not kill the prisoners, I will be of great use."

"Besides, when things over there are sorted out, 650,000 troops will be stationed on the coast of the Persian Gulf, and then 10,000 troops will be stationed in each of the five Central Asian countries, and all the rest of the men and horses will be brought back to me."

Hearing this, Xiao Fuzi was obviously stunned, and then came back to his senses and asked: "Long live Lord, the West Asia region is still relatively vast, and the 50,000 army is only afraid that it is not enough!" ”

"I don't want anything else, I only want the Persian Gulf, and the rest will be left to the Jews, and as for how much land they can get from the Ottoman Empire, it's up to them."

In Zhang Lingyang's view, the entire West Asia region, and the Persian Gulf, have great value, and as for other places, Zhang Lingyang is too lazy to take care of them.

Mainly because the Persian Gulf has the richest oil in the world.

Although it is not yet the era of internal combustion engines, Zhang Lingyang has an intuition that at most, the era of internal combustion engines will come.

By that time, the Persian Gulf had become a golden land.

Therefore, Zhang Lingyang can't wait to get the land along the Persian Gulf coast.

As for the Jews, the relationship between Da Zhou and the Jews is nothing more than mutual use, and it would be an exaggeration to say how good the relationship between them is.

The most important thing is that Zhang Lingyang does not want to see the West Asian region remain peaceful.

The Jews have money, and the Ottoman Empire is not enough to see compared to the Western powers and the Great Zhou, but it is also an old empire in the end, and it still has this strength against the Jews.

In this way, the money of the Jews could flow into the pockets of the Great Zhou in a fair and continuous manner.

Why do you say that it flows into the pocket of Da Zhou?

In fact, the reason is very simple, this time the Jews offended the European powers too hard, if they did not rely on the Great Zhou, the Jews would say that they would have restored their country, but they were afraid that they would have no place in the whole world.

It is precisely because he understands this that Zhang Lingyang made such a decision.

Because in this way, if the Western powers no longer directly sent troops against the Jews, then they would have to rely on supporting the Ottoman Empire to contend with the Jews.

The Jews had the money to buy a steady stream of weapons from the Great Zhou, while the Ottoman Empire was a traditional power in Western Asia with deep roots.

If there is no external interference, it is really not certain who will die in the end.

By doing so, the Ottoman Empire's power could also be greatly increased, which in turn prevented the Rus' expansion to the south.

At the same time, it also completely blocked the pace of expansion of European powers into West Asia.

Speaking of which, we have to talk about the country of the Ottoman Empire.

The Ottoman Empire was a powerful empire spanning Asia, Africa and Europe, and although it has declined, it still has a lot of territory in Eastern Europe and West Asia.

For decades, the Ottoman Empire had been the enemy of all European nations.

Zhang Lingyang wanted to see whether the Ottoman Empire, after it became strong with the support of the European powers, would finally take action against Eastern European countries.

If that's the case, then there's a lot of excitement to see.

Of course, this premise is that the state created by the Jews should not be too strong. If the Jews were too powerful, there would have been nothing to do with the Ottoman Empire.

God knows if the European powers will win over the Jews when the Jewish kingdom becomes stronger!

So all of this, Zhang Lingyang has to take it into account.

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Although Zhang Lingyang is still unclear how many European soldiers were captured by the Western Expeditionary Army, Zhang Lingyang hopes that the more the better.

In this way, Anzhou, which is also a mining area in Australia, has no shortage of miners.

Anzhou has a large number of high-quality open-pit iron ore areas, and Zhang Lingyang is in urgent need of someone to mine it!

On the contrary, although there are a lot of iron ore reserves in the Great Zhou Dynasty, most of these mining areas are between the mountains and mountains, which is not conducive to development, and there is another reason, that is, the iron ore in the Great Zhou Dynasty generally has a high sulfur content, and it cannot smelt high-quality steel.

Even if high-quality steel can be smelted, the cost will increase by a factor of two.

Therefore, Zhang Lingyang can't wait to mine Anzhou's iron ore.

For now, the high-quality steel produced in Dazhou every year is extremely limited, more than eighty percent of it is used in weapons manufacturing, and the remaining two percent is used to make precision machinery.

Therefore, Zhang Lingyang wanted to build bridges on the major rivers of the Great Zhou Dynasty and build a railway network, but there was no high-quality steel available.

Because whether it is to build bridges or railways, a large amount of high-quality steel is needed, but Dazhou can't provide so much high-quality steel at the moment, so many plans can only be pressed back again and again.

Once Anzhou's high-quality iron ore is mined, the problems encountered by Dazhou in high-quality steel will be solved.

However, before that, Zhang Lingyang had to carry out large-scale immigration to Anzhou.

Because of the national peace and security in recent years, the population of the Great Zhou Dynasty has shown explosive growth, and the land issue has once again become a problem for the imperial court.

Although in recent years, the imperial court has also carried out large-scale immigration to the sparsely populated Liaodong, Western Xinjiang, Siberia and even Nanyang regions, but the speed of immigration has not been able to catch up with the speed of the Great Zhou Zi's children.

No way!

Now the people of Dazhou have enough food at home, and there is no culture and entertainment at ordinary times, and at night, in addition to making children, there is only one thing left to make children.

According to the statistics of the household department, in Dazhou, a husband and wife have at least three children under their knees.

That's a lot!

In some rural areas, it is not uncommon to have seven or eight children in the family.

There was even a period of time when in order to solve the problem of excessive population expansion, Zhang Lingyang once wanted to use family planning to control the explosive growth of the population.

However, in the end, Zhang Lingyang still did not implement this method.

The reason is very simple: family planning is only a temporary measure, and it cannot fundamentally solve the problem without saying it.

The main thing is that once this policy is promoted, after twenty or thirty years, all kinds of drawbacks will be highlighted.

That's why Zhang Lingyang didn't promote this policy!

However, fortunately, although the land area of the Great Zhou Dynasty has not changed significantly, the subject countries are very large.

Anzhou, Nanyang, Tianzhu, Central Asia, Goryeo, Fuso, and even the Persian Gulf region, the land area of these vassal states has even exceeded the land area of the Great Zhou itself.

In addition, with the exception of the wealthy and large populations of Fuso, the rest of the vassal states were sparsely populated areas, which could be used for large-scale immigration.

Therefore, the problem that cannot be solved in China, Zhang Lingyang wants to throw it to the vassal state......