Chapter 944 Two Silk Roads

The Roman Empire was definitely a super-empire, and the territory of the Roman Empire today is more than twice as large as it was in history.

The population is much larger than in history.

Such a large empire is very dangerous when it is extremely aggressive.

When the defensive strategy was dealt with, Zhang Yu and Guo Jia sat down in a chair.

Zhang Yu made tea himself, made a cup for Guo Jia, and then picked up a cup of tea and drank it himself.

After drinking a few cups of tea, Zhang Yu had a basic idea, and then said: "This Roman Empire can't be avoided, it's better to understand it earlier." ”

Guo Jia nodded, stroked his beard for a while, and then said: "Lord, it is really difficult to deal with without intelligence, we should indeed find out first, but this also has disadvantages, and it may also lead the other party to understand our situation." ”

If the other party understands that the land of China is still in a state of warlord secession, will it step up and send a large army to invade?

It's very likely, but Zhang Yu can't care about it so much for a long time.

So he said: "No matter what, we should first understand the enemy, the other party is developing very quickly, and it may not be long before it invades us, it is better for us to take the initiative to understand first, maybe we can find a way to delay their invasion." ”

Zhang Yu actually had other ideas, one was to set up obstacles from the only invasion channel of the Roman Empire, and the other was to influence the Roman Empire from several other directions.

Very simply, although the Roman Empire was strong, it did not develop the navigation industry, and even if it did, it did not develop as fast and good as Zhang Yu.

Zhang Yu comes from the afterlife and knows the general outline of the world and has a direction.

"Fengxiao, I want you to go to the west, I want to go in person, but it's too dangerous to either pass through the territory of Cao Cao and the Yuan family, or through the territory of the Xiongnu."

If Zhang Yu goes to the west, whether it is to go to the grassland, or to Jizhou and Bingzhou, it is very dangerous, and if Yu Fuluo knows that Zhang Yu is going over, it is normal to send people to besiege him.

"What about going west?"

In the west, Zhang Yu is in the easternmost place, far away, I really don't know what to do.

Zhang Yu said: "You go to Ma Yunlu or Ma Chao, let them introduce, let Ma Teng help us find out the intelligence in the west, and strive to let them open the road to the west, open a road called the Silk Road." ”

Zhang Yu continued: "This king wants to understand this empire through commerce, collect intelligence, and only trade routes can drive more people to go, there is no benefit, who is willing to risk the possible danger in the middle of these thousands of miles." ”

The opening of the Silk Road can bring the East and the West closer together.

The information that Zhang Yu asked for would naturally be passed on slowly.

After a few years of operation, I will slowly understand the super empire of the West.

The Roman Empire expanded very rapidly, and its territory continued to expand.

Guo Jia understood Zhang Yu's thoughts and said: "The subordinates are naturally willing to give it a try, but they don't know much about this Ma Teng Group, and they don't know much about it, so they are not sure. ”

"I have some friendship with Ma Yunlu and Ma Chao, if I can't convince Ma Teng, let them help privately, just open a trade route, I believe they won't refuse." Zhang Yu said.

Guo Jia went to prepare, and he wanted to go west once.

This time, Zhang Yu gave Ma Teng enough face and let Guo Jia go out.

Guo Jia is definitely a heavyweight in the Jiangdong Group, and there are only a few people at the same level as him.

Guo Jia is fully qualified to represent himself, Zhang Yu can't go by himself, let Guo Jia go, it is very important.

After Guo Jia left, Zhang Yu was still thinking there.

"If I open the Maritime Silk Road, will I be able to guide the Roman Empire to develop navigation temporarily?"

Zhang Yu has an innate advantage in naval navigation, if he guides them to develop navigation, maybe he can fight a decisive battle with the Roman Empire at sea, and he will have an advantage when the time comes.

But Zhang Yu now only has a navy of 50,000, and he will expand it when the time comes.

Expansion is not something that can be solved with a small amount of money.

In addition, if the Roman Empire developed navigation, it would also need to invest a huge amount of money, which would also be affected at that time.

"It must be dragged until the unification of China." Zhang Yu clasped his hands and said firmly.

"In addition, immediately send people to establish a stronghold in South Africa to lure the Roman Empire to develop in southern Africa."

Now that the Roman Empire occupies the Mediterranean coast, including northern Africa, the Roman Empire might have crossed the desert to grab it if it had known that South Africa had a lot of gold and diamonds.

However, it is not so easy to travel through the whole of Africa to reach South Africa, not only is it not easy, but it can also lead to a crisis.

Zhang Yu wanted to create a South Africa full of wealth and let the Roman Empire conquer south.

Once the southern crusade was launched, they would not have enough energy to go east, and the pressure on China would be reduced.

In South Africa, Zhang Yu and they took a few years to establish a stronghold first, and they naturally had an advantage when the time came.

After deciding, Zhang Yu began to plan.

"First of all, we must continue to improve the technology, continue to build ships suitable for long-distance voyages, and then if we can build more bases along the way, one station at a time, it will be safer at that time."

Speaking of which, it still needs money, a lot of money.

Zhang Yu needs more money to do this.

Money.

In fact, Zhang Yu is very rich, and most of his daily expenses are paid by the money earned from salt.

Everyone's wages, the daily operation of the government, and the daily consumption of the army can be paid for with the money of salt.

However, the expansion of the army, the war, and the construction of large projects, these funds that do not belong to daily life require Zhang Yu to get another money.

If there is no war and there are not so many projects, Zhang Yu does not need to worry about money at all.

"Rome, it's good to have a big empire on this planet."

The Roman Empire did not exist for a long time, but when he was strong, he was very strong, which made Zhang Yu a little worried.

Zhang Yu formulated two Silk Roads to influence the national policy of the Roman Empire.

At this time, the Roman Empire was still conquering the rest of Europe, and the northern part of Africa was completely occupied.

In addition, the Roman Empire has already paid attention to China and has begun to crusade eastward, and there are other countries on the way to the east, and it will not be so fast.

But there shouldn't be much time left for Zhang Yu.

After the decision, Zhang Yu had to squeeze out money to develop navigation.

At this time, Zhang Yu even wanted to raise taxes, and if he continued to raise taxes, he could indeed solve many problems.

"Alas, forget it, the people have been suffering for too long."

Zhang Yu gave up raising taxes, so he had to pick out money from other places.

Zhang Yu felt that he was going to scrape together money again, why was he so miserable.

Zhang Yu ordered the construction of two larger dockyards in Jiangdong to study the construction of new ships.

At the same time, he ordered the southeast region to mine more and contribute more money, of course, Zhang Yu will not always exploit them, and will also transport a large number of daily necessities.

(End of chapter)