"Maybe you can make the war boat wait for orders in the plains of Qi Kingdom." Luo Kai, who rarely came up with ideas, opened his mouth to suggest. "Pingyuanjin is more than 300 miles away from Handan, and it can be reached overnight, but I don't know ......"

Pingyuanjin is east of Handan, and can only go against Huanshui to Zhangshui, so it is closer, but will the Qin army block the Huanshui waterway? If it is blocked, the Huanshui is different from the Yellow River and the Zhangshui, and the war boat will never be able to pass.

"The minister thinks that it may depend on the battle situation," Zi Mo didn't know much about military affairs, but his words were right, if the Chu army invaded Xianyang, the Qin State would be destroyed, and the Zhao State would be saved. "If our army successfully attacks Lantian in September and Handan survives, we can not send war boats to Handan; If our army cannot attack Lantian, then we should send a war boat to welcome King Zhao, Taifu, and Princess Yingnan back to Chu. ”

"Yes." Nao's cunning method may be the most suitable way, Xiong Jing can only say yes.

Xiong Jing said yes, Xiang Yan wanted to speak and stopped, and finally was speechless. The situation has reached this point, the Chu army has been fully mobilized, and the soldiers, grain, and baggage are marching day and night according to the plan of the Great Sima Mansion, and it is useless for him to say anything. can only be like Zi Mo said, looking forward to the Chu army attacking Xianyang, as long as Xianyang is pulled out, the Qin State will definitely be in chaos, and Handan will be relieved.

"What else is going on?" Everything is in order, Xiong Jing has very little government affairs to deal with, and more of his own family affairs.

"The king, there is no long pigeon to tell you: he has entered the sea of the earth and visited the country of Carthage." Zhao Huang told that this was already the news half a month ago.

"Good." Xiong Jing was happy. "Is there a route in return?"

"Yes." Zhao Huang nodded. "The route has been placed in the king's bedtime, waiting for the king's eyes."

"What about India?" At this time, the question is no longer about the world, but about the world. Wu Gouchang's entry into the Mediterranean announced that the Chu State had finally opened up the Xizhou route, and since the Xizhou route had been opened, the spice plan could be fully implemented. As the source of pepper, sheath ginger, jasromin, and three tendon leaves, India is the most basic part of the monopoly plan.

"Alto proclaimed: The 100 multiplicators have defeated the Indian army in a row, and now they have driven the Indians north. To the south of the hundreds, to the west of the continent, there is a small country, whose people call themselves Tamil. The land of pepper can be bounded by this country...... "The king wants to manipulate and monopolize the pepper trade, and the courtiers only need to do it." However, Xiang Yan, Nao Wei and others had no interest in this, and Lan Hao and Dong Yegu yawned even more, forcing Xiong Jing to wave his sleeves and scatter the court, letting Zhao Huang go to the main bed, but he didn't expect Zhu Ao and some ministers to follow him all the way to the main bed.

At this time, India, outside of the Sanghaja, the southern continent was divided into five countries, Baiyan, Zheluo, Pandia, Julo, and the newly emerging small Tamil states, and the power of the Mauryan Empire had been driven out of the Deccan Plateau. According to the negotiation between Ou Tuo and the Baicheng people, he sold his armor to the Baicheng, and the Baicheng guaranteed the independence of the southern countries and did not interfere in the affairs of the southern countries.

As long as you control the two countries of Tamil and Zheluo, you can monopolize pepper. The Tamil Kingdom is only about a quarter of the size of the Tamil Kingdom between the Zara and the Hundred Times, but its national strength is not inferior to that of the Zara and the Pandia. In order for her and Zheluo to become the protectorate of Chu, it is necessary to fight a war, a war with the four kingdoms of Tamil, Zheluo, Pandia, and Chula. The resulting monopoly was bound to harm the interests of the Persian merchants, the Seleucid Empire.

Ou Zhe's report on the four southern states of India is not long, but the content on the control of South Indian trade by Persian merchants is very long. He believed that this involved an annual trade of more than 35 million drachmas—not just pepper, but also the goods of the eastern part of the Indian continent, especially the Gangetic Plain, which were transported west through the port of Arakan Kulan under Pandia.

“…… Alto also said that Pandia had always complained about my establishment of a port in Sinhala, and that he had not allowed me to enter the port by sea. Zhao Huang said again.

"I won't be allowed to enter the port by sea?!" Xiong Jing's voice raised an octave, "Why are you so rude?" ”

"I'm afraid it's ......" Jin Yi interrupted Zhao Huang's words, "Tell the king, after the envoys of Pandia, Zhu Luo, and Zheluo arrived in Yingdu, they learned that the Qin State is the strongest among all the countries in the world, and I have a bad relationship with the Qin State, so I despise me." There was still etiquette before the unsold armoured soldiers, but now I have built a harbor in the monks, although I have many sea boats, Queen Pandia has strong self-sustaining power, so she has been rude repeatedly. ”

"What about a gunboat?" Xiong Jing asked. The state of Chu stopped building sea boats, but did not stop building gunboats.

"Five ships can be launched this year." The public loses the firm notice. "It's just that now the whole country is recruited, and there is no shortage of sailors."

The Gluttonous class was originally a gunboat, and it was of the same rank as the Lucky in the Battle of the Furious Seas. The Chaos was launched and finalized last fall after a long sea trial and after improving some problems. Like the clipper, its keel ribs were wound with huge iron sheets. The construction period of more than 500 tons of sea boats was very short, and the main reason for launching five boats was to build a large number of inland river boats.

"The minister thinks it is inappropriate to fight with Pandia and other countries at this time." Nao was worried that Xiong Jing would be angry and go down to fight Pandia, Zheluo and other countries.

"King, everything is based on attacking Qin." Xiang Yan also said. India was too far away, and he couldn't imagine what the Chu people were going to do there.

"Naturally, it is not at this time to fight with them." Xiong Jing took a deep breath, he had to finish dealing with Lao Ying before he could go back and deal with the Indians. "However, after the gunboats are launched, they will enter the port of Sangrakha, and if they do not threaten them, they will definitely gain an inch."

The Chaos was equipped with 180 men as standard, and the five gunboats were only 900 men. Hearing that the king only ordered the gunboats to be stationed in Seng Luojia instead of sending Yingshi or Yueren's division to station, Nao, Xiang Yan and others were a little relieved.

"What else?" The affairs in the Mediterranean can only passively wait for news, and the affairs in India will be postponed until next year or the year after.

"Seven days later, our army will attack Qin, please come to Xiayi as soon as possible." And they waited for his words. There are more than 1,700 miles from Yingdu to Xiayi, and it is necessary to mobilize before the war to boost morale, so Xiong Jing must leave Yingdu to go to Xiayi as soon as possible.

"I don't know." Xiong Jing's eyes inadvertently swept the west room, and he was about to leave as soon as he came back, and he was a little reluctant to grind with Mi Xuan's ears and temples in the past few months. However, in this way, the problem of suing the temple was solved - Wang Yin actually asked Mi Xuan to sue the temple in Chu Palace again.

"In order not to miss the military plane, the minister asks the king to leave today." Zhao Huang saw Xiong Jing's gaze sweeping towards the west room.

"No, you have to ...... Always say goodbye to the queen mother," Xiong Jing said. "Say goodbye to the queen."

"The king is fallacious." Zhao Huang Road. "The princess has not yet sued the temple, let alone married to the king, and is not the queen. And the king has become the princess of Qi, and he should marry the princess of Qi. If this is known to all the people, it will be displeased. ”

"Qi people?" Xiong Jing laughed, but did not speak, he waved his sleeves to let Chang Jiang send off. When he returned to the west room, Mi Xuan had already helped him sort out the books and was sitting there in a daze.