"Is there any salvation?" A middle-aged man asked anxiously about a young man with a medicine box.

"I'm afraid not." The young man looked at it and shook his head.

"Oh." When the middle-aged man heard such an answer, he just sighed, and then sat motionless with great sadness.

"Ugh." The young man carrying the medicine box sighed and shook his head helplessly. They are South Korea's prospecting team, they are looking for iron ore, this time the island they are looking for is Haeju Island, which is today's Hainan Island, but the natural environment here is too harsh.

Many of them have already fallen. They are frustrated by the lack of necessary health care. There are many strange diseases that make them difficult to treat.

Haizhou originally belonged to the Chu people, but the Chu people saw that the climate here was too bad, so they sold it to the Koreans, and deceived the Koreans that it was rich in resources, so the Koreans took over this Haizhou Island, boarded this island and began to look for ore.

"Buried here, we'll honor him." The young man said. The middle-aged man just nodded, and then looked into the distance. With the development of South Korea, South Korea's shortcomings have also become apparent. When it comes to steel smelting, South Korea is in a disadvantageous position. South Korea is small, Jiaozhou resources are not very sufficient, but South Korea has a very large demand for industrial steel, from iron, to steel, can only rely on the provision of Zhao Guo to develop, which is extremely unfavorable to South Korea, the only solution is only one, that is, South Korea itself also develops. This requires a large amount of iron ore, and despite the active actions of the South Korean government, South Korea's actions are still very limited in this regard. However, in Haizhou, they found some fine traces, and here they found red iron brown soil, which is the expression of iron ore is abundant. But they need to dig deeper to find out.

But the price they paid was also very large, and many people gave their lives for it, but they have no regrets. This is their responsibility.

Just when South Korea was exploring the resources of Haizhou, the people of Qin were also actively doing things of expansion.

Admiralty of the State of Qin. A lieutenant colonel officer took a report and handed it to Wang Shu, and he asked for an appropriation of one million and a half taels for this matter, which is not a lot of money, and in addition, it is necessary to provide some weapons resources, which for the navy, are a matter of how long the warehouse has been stacked.

"You decided you want to do this?" Wang Shu looked at the report in his hand and looked up and asked the lieutenant colonel.

"Yes, sir, in the northern region, there are a large number of Xiongnu tribes, and this time the Qin army may not recruit too many troops, in this case, they will have too many remaining troops. We have to do something, otherwise they're going to have some mess, and the only way is to give them something to do. My thing is to get them to go to the beach and survey some roads, make maps, show the coordinates, and so on. Of course. Our officers will be involved, too. The lieutenant colonel officer said.

"Our purpose is to find the sea." Wang Shu looked at the report and said.

"Yes, sir, looking for the sea from the northern land, although we have obtained a port for a naval base from the Yan people, and the Prime Minister's Mansion is also under active construction, but that naval base has great drawbacks, without the Qin State as a support, we can only rely on the Yan State, once our diplomatic relations are bad, the situation will be very bad. It can be said that if we put all the navies there, the Yan Kingdom may solve our navy from the land, and if we unite with other countries, our navy will be in a very bad situation. We could be wiped out, so to speak. This is a disaster for the Qin Navy, a huge disaster. Lieutenant Colonel said.

Although Shang Wen approved the establishment of Liaonan Prefecture in Yan State, the Yan government officially established Liaonan Prefecture, and the entire Liaonan Prefecture included the entire Liaodong Peninsula, and the Qin State chose the best place to build its own naval base. With the arrival of the Qin navy, a southern Liaoning railway will also go south along Xiangping directly to the Qin naval base, and the Qin government will participate in such a project. The Yan government would take a certain stake in the form of land transfers, but the ownership was owned by the Qin Railway Company. This project is very attractive. Some of Qin's railway companies have already considered this matter.

However, there is still a great danger in the Qin State, after all, no country will put the navy in a place that has nothing to rely on, but the Qin State has no good way to solve this problem, the Qin State Navy must have its own springboard to establish bases overseas, and it also has to take on huge transportation tasks. This made the navy very difficult, and this was also the dilemma of the Qin navy.

"We all know the predicament of the Qin Navy, if we rely on the Yan people, we may become a piece of meat on the knife edge of the Yan people, which is very unfavorable to us, we can't do such a thing at all. The only way is for us to occupy the north and build a port built in the north, which may be in very poor condition, but after all, our own region. Lieutenant Colonel said.

"Hmm" Wang Shu nodded, and then he touched his chin. Apparently the lieutenant colonel's side of the argument made him feel moved.

"At present, the army is unwilling to do such a thing, but it does not mean that we cannot do such a thing, we only need them to reach the sea, provide maps, we provide them with some money, weapons and resources, in the north, there are many black-hearted merchants who are crazy to buy the maps in the hands of those Huns, these maps indicate that the land they occupy, they can sell to the Qin government, and the profit distributed to them is very small. If we can provide a reliable document and map to the Prime Minister's Office, I am sure that the Prime Minister's Office will not give up our idea. Lieutenant Colonel said.

"It's not a lot of money." Wang Shu said after adjusting his sitting position.

"To be honest, such funds are not very much, what can we do with one million and a half taels of money, at most it is to build an ironclad ship, but such an ironclad ship is useless to us, we have no port. You can't go to sea, and a lot of technology can't be restricted. But if we can get access to the sea, the situation will be different. Wang Shu nodded and said.

"You draw up a plan, I will arrange for you to have sufficient funds, and you must do a good job in this matter, which is related to the development of our Qin Navy. Do you understand? Wang Shu looked at the lieutenant colonel and said.

"Understood, sir." The lieutenant colonel nodded.

"Very well, just do it." Wang Shu nodded and signaled that the other party could leave.

Qin State, Prime Minister's Mansion.

"Look at this, the number of laborers we need, not only our Western Regions, the northern region needs, but also more Yan State, Zhao State, Korea, and Chu State." Shang Wen worriedly handed a labor report to Meng Yi.

"The Zhao people need labor to dig coal resources, the Yan people need to develop a lot of gold resources, and they also need a lot of labor to build their railways. And the Koreans also need to do this, the biggest demand is the Chu people, they have a lot of farms, in addition to the potential mineral resource advantage, and we also need so many labor resources to build railways, develop all kinds of resources, so that the demand for labor will become very large. It's a huge market. Shang Wen said.

As slaves became more widely used, the demand for slaves became extremely extensive. Slaves were everywhere, the most dangerous, and labor-intensive places were full of them. This is already a common need in all countries.

"However, the supply is very insufficient, and our only source of labor is the Indy, and according to the speculation of our intelligence department, the Bangla kingdom controlled by the Koreans may be just a city-state under the Indo-Northern Dynasty. In this way, this Indo-Northern dynasty is very large. Meng Yi said. In fact, this northern dynasty was none other than the Mauryan dynasty unified by Ashoka, but alas, Ashoka had died before the Qin people arrived here. The remaining Mauryan Empire was divided within themselves due to infighting and various reasons. But fortunately, this is only an internal problem, but this internal problem will gradually disintegrate the Mauryan Dynasty, in fact, the Mauryan Dynasty will gradually disintegrate without external forces. It's just that now Qin, Korea, and Chu have become a kind of thrust from the outside world. This thrust accelerated the speed of the Peacock's disintegration, and the pressure on the Mauryan Empire increased. It made them feel very depressed.

"But this is a good thing for our Qin State's Western Regions, after all, if they disintegrate, there will be fewer threats to our Qin State's Western Regions." Meng Yi said.

"But we need more labor, and the only solution is to support the expansion actions of the Yueshi government, and we need to build more factories, railways, and let them meet our labor needs in the Yueshi area." Shang Wen said.

"Well, it's just that the financial funds needed by the Yue Clan government are very large, and the increase in the price of slaves may stimulate them to do so, so they will have a very large motivation. What the Qin government has to do is to allow them to issue more bonds and solve such problems through bond purchases, for example, labor bonds. Meng Yi suggested to Shang Wen.

"That's a good suggestion." Shang Wen nodded in agreement.

On the Yue's front, the Yue's people are still reinforcing their defensive fortresses, which will provide them with greater advantages. The Indians had apparently noticed this, but they could not launch a larger offensive. Their rear had been greatly damaged, and the long-standing army had suffered a certain food dilemma, which could be very unfavorable to them if they did not solve this dilemma.

"The order above may be a bit complicated for us." Mo Lan watched as Meng Ping handed Meng Ping a report written in the Qin script to Meng Ping.

"On the one hand, we are allowed to maintain the current situation, let us go deep into the interior of Indy, and on the other hand, we will have more labor resources, that is, more prisoners of war, but in doing so, we will need to carry out a huge encirclement operation, or capture more people, which will make it very difficult for us." Moran said hesitantly as he looked at the report in his hand.

"Hmm. Such a thing, it seems, is very difficult to deal with. Meng Ping felt that this task was a bit too much, or rather, very complicated. If there are too many things, it is not a good thing.

"What's your solution?" Meng Ping asked.

"I want to fight a huge siege, but we don't have enough troops, and the Indians won't retreat, I think, you know very well, in the face of such a situation, the only way we can solve it is to crush the enemy, and then take the opportunity to capture more enemies." Moran said.

"Well, I think it's not very good to do this, it may have a very bad impact on us, I think we should go deeper, capture the rear personnel of the other side, maybe in the rear, they will have more labor force, after all, the current price of labor has risen very much, and the demand is also very large, the need of the Yueshi government is to increase fiscal revenue, for how to increase income, that is, to increase more labor force." Meng Ping said.

"From a military point of view, we surround each other's military personnel, the military cost will be very large, although their threat to us, the threat is huge, however, their advantage lies in their fortress, if they leave the fortress, their situation will be very unfavorable, and compared to their depth, the defense is very weak, this attack, after we open the opponent's first line of defense, there will be no fortress system at all, in this case, our situation is very favorable, I think, At present, the only way for the Indians is to quickly build their defense in depth, without such a defense in depth, it will be difficult for them to resist our attack to the south, in contrast, I think, the south, may be more smooth, after all, the other side has not established a deeper defense in depth. Meng Ping said.

The disadvantage of the Indian defense is that they have not established a relatively complete defense system in depth, they just put the defense on a simple defense line, this defense line is like the Great Wall, but the defense is a defense system in depth, once broken through, a line of defense will collapse, the Indians have encountered such a situation, after facing such a problem, if the Indians can take timely action to make up for such mistakes, their situation may be better.

"Okay, after the fort is built, I'll mobilize my mobile forces to try to do that. We need more labor to solve the problem. Meng Ping said with a smile.

In Zhang Dahui's tent, he was studying the defense map brought by Prince Atuo, which was the Indian's own defense map, which seemed very simple, but it also explained the problem.

"I think that your current situation may not be good, the Yueshi will build a defensive fortress, and it will go deep into your inner line, so that there will be a big gap in your inner line. from this notch. Once you get into the cavalry, or more infantry, your front-line defenses will break down or crumble. This is definitely not good news for you. Zhang Dahui analyzed it himself.

"That's true, the Yue people are moving very fast, they have already built a fortress, and our defense line is basically built here, but it still can't defend against the difficulties of the Yue people, I don't know what kind of way to solve such a problem, Chief Zhang?" Prince Atuo said in Korean, which is not very fluent. His tongue is a little curled, and his pronunciation is not very standard, but he can understand the meaning.

"We can only build multiple defenses, or fortresses against the Yueclan, and build fortresses to restrict their activities, however, I fear that more places will be breached. The only way to do this is to build multiple lines of defense. Zhang Dahui looked at the map and said. It was the only thing he could think of. The situation of the Indians is not very good. Their army is an old-style army that cannot resist the attack of the Yueclan, and they need time to retrain the army that has always been very combative. But it takes a lot of time.

"This. I'm afraid we won't be able to do that. Prince Atuo said in embarrassment.

"The Indies have levied very high taxes, and a large part of the manpower has been concentrated here, and there are more than 300,000 troops here, including 560,000 logistics personnel. Such numbers have drained our national strength. We may not be able to do that. Prince Atuo said worriedly.

"This." Zhang didn't know what to say. The Indians lack too much money, most of their manpower, and the concentration of force here still cannot solve their border crisis, and they mobilize more people to come here, but they can only consume their resources in vain.

"Me. There's no way around it. Perhaps, the problem can only be solved through negotiations, but how? This one. Zhang Dahui shook his head and said.

"Negotiations?" Prince Atuo asked.

"Yes, that's the only way to do it. You can't afford to fight, so you can only negotiate and sign a deal that is not very fair, and I think that might ease your situation, but I need to go back now and report this, you know, I don't have enough military rank, and we need the support of the South Korean government, which is the biggest government force behind us, to do this well. Zhang Dahui said embarrassedly. He feared that the Indians would not accept such a thing.

"This." Prince Atuo's face was embarrassed, and it was obvious that he was also very embarrassed, and if he did so, he would cause India a lot of losses. However, their strength can still exist, this is the only place in their favor, whether to choose to fight with dignity or choose to fight with dignity, Prince Atuo is thinking about this heavy question.