Expansion is what people want, but expansion also depends on the direction.

Qin Cang was not ready to continue north or east. At present, less than 200,000 of the 600,000 Han people have been newly exchanged, and there are still 400,000 people waiting in the back. Fortunately, Wei Yang of the Colonial Bureau has been working at full capacity, which can be regarded as reducing a lot of pressure on Qin Cang.

As for the direction of expansion, after a long period of deliberation, it was decided not to consider Kandal for the time being, but to set its sights on the great Komneens of Trabzon. John IV had no sons (historically next year), while his younger brother David Komnenos was the first to succeed.

And if Qin Cang gets Trabzon as his wife Sophia, he needs to cross three obstacles. First there was the dying John IV, then David as a prince, and then Mr. Alexander, who now lives in Constantinople. Alexander was the unlucky guy who was overthrown by John IV, and now he was almost sixty years old and his whole family was living in Constantinople.

Qin Cang personally took out the dossier on Trabzong and began to re-study it.

Trabzon said that he was an empire, and that was to respect his surname, and that the Komnenos were indeed in Rome's most glorious moments in the later period. But that's just the afterglow of the sunset.

There is a reason why tiny Trabzon was able to survive on the Black Sea coast and carry it for hundreds of years.

The mighty Pontus Mountains stretch across the northern part of the Asia Minor Peninsula and are only accessible from the east and west, by sea, and by a few mountain routes. As long as the east and west ends are held, there will be no problem in placing elite soldiers in the fortress on the mountain.

Trabzon was originally raised by the Georgians, because it was the golden time of the Georgian landscape. Later, as soon as the Mongols came, Georgia was immediately pressed to the ground and rubbed for hundreds of years.

The unique topography of Trabzon also made it difficult for the Georgians there to annex them. First of all, the relationship between the Greeks and the Georgian rulers in Pontus was not good enough to wear a pair of pants.

Actually, it's Trabzon, a hellish place full of mountains as far as the eye can see. If the Georgians want to come from the eastern land, they have to trek in the mountains for an unknown amount of time, and this is a barrier.

On the current land of Trabzon, the four cities of Trabzon, Rize in the eastern sector, Ordu and Giresun in the west are the main cities of Trabzon. And small places, of course, are not mentioned.

The western gate of Trabzon is in present-day Samsun, and if Samsun is defended, the enemy will not be able to enter. The east gate is on the east side of Rize. Or it's not easy to get to Rize.

The south gate is mainly a few mountain paths.

And Qin Cang wants to go south, and it is indeed a very good place to get Trabzon. Because Trabzon was the terminal of the Silk Road, it was possible to intercept a lot of wealth.

"Actually, Georgia is good. You see, Georgia is a country with ethnic and religious turmoil. The Abkhazians are now very close to us, and the Abashize family in the Adjara region of Adjara (present-day Adjara Autonomous Republic of Georgia) is acting as a proxy for us. And the Imerej region is a princely state......"

Chen Hanlin pointed to Georgia and said.

Georgia has always been a highly divided country, with Armenians in the south, Alans in the north, Abkhazians in the west, and a group of ****** in the east. And this is already the simplest division.

In modern Georgia, there are still seventeen lingua franca! This is the result of centuries of integration, from which we can see how chaotic Georgia is.

And the turmoil in Georgia has been around since the time of Armenia. The current royal family of Georgia, the Bagration family, is the former Armenian royal family. However, Armenia at that time was beaten by the stunned Basil II.

"Don't dream. Georgia, next to the mountain is another people, and the peoples on both sides of the river cannot talk. You say you want to conquer such a place? Qin Changan glanced at Chen Hanlin with disdain. This guy wants to spend the money of the household department again.

This reminded Qin Cang of Russia's step-by-step conquest of the Caucasus.

The section from Kutaisi to Tbilisi in Georgia is a rare plain, and the Russians first conquered Georgia, and then slowly penetrated into the mountains of the Caucasus, and then slowly controlled the mountains of the Caucasus.

"Alright. Let's write a plan. We went to Trabzon to have fun. ”

For the current Qin Cang, he is indeed qualified to say so. Once the migration wave of the Han people is surging, it is difficult to forcibly stop it.

For the current Han Kingdom, there is a survey that clearly shows that the Han people are different from other groups. Among the high-income group, the Greeks and Jews were constantly dried, and the Han Chinese accounted for 63 percent of the high-income group; The middle-income group Han is even more dominant, stepping on the high figure of 70. And those who are of different races and Sinicized people are obviously reduced to second-class citizens economically.

To make matters worse, they can't say anything about it. The tax for low-income people in the law of Han equalization is not much, but they just can't work as hard as the Han people to make money.

Thus, in the clear tilt of the law, except for the Greeks and Jews, as well as a small number of Tatar nobles and princes, everyone else was unfortunate to find that their lives were getting worse and worse than others.

This is not to say that they have regressed, but that they have not been able to keep up with the pace of social development. Otherwise, they moved to places like Belgosale, and they were still relatively wealthy.

After the task of the plan was issued, Qin Cang went home to convince Sophia.

"Unless you guarantee it, the second son I gave birth to can receive the title of Grand Duke of Trabzon!" Sophia said evilly.

Obviously, once a woman gets married, she will do things that are a little scary. Sophia doesn't care about her family at all.

On the other side, Bao Yin's face was already terrifyingly dark.

Bao Yin is pregnant, just this month. She had always wanted a boy to maintain her position, and when she heard Sophia's words, she couldn't help but think of the tragedy when she gave birth to her daughter for the first time.

"Of course, no problem." Of course, Qin Cang agreed.

So that night, Sophia asked for it again, and she didn't stop squeezing Qin Cang dry.......

Of course, the days of Chijing were getting better and better, but Constantinople was different.

After successive additions, the port of Sofia has gathered more than 30,000 Han Chinese. After these Han Chinese came to Constantinople, they continued to open up the borders of Sofia Port and occupied almost the entire southern city area!

However, the vigorous development of the Han people attracted hostile attention......