After a long time, Xenas spoke first: "This uncle has raised a problem, there should always be a solution, right?" ”

"Hey, who do you call uncle?" Wei Song gave him a blank look.

Li Tianhao stood up and bowed to the ground, and said, "I beg Uncle Shi to give me some advice." ”

Wei Song pursed his lips and said: "It's not that there is no way, but I don't dare to say that my method is the best, whether you want to use it depends on your own judgment." ”

"Uncle Shi, please speak."

"First of all, there is a question of diplomacy. The mountainous region of Dils is vast and poor, and it will be impossible to support it if it is attacked on two fronts, so it is necessary to try to win over the Duchy of Palci as an ally. This is what this Xenas did very well, and he took the opportunity of capturing Port Portsmo to win over Arina, the earl of the Lorraine family. Next, we need to send spies to infiltrate Palchi, learn about all aspects of Palchi, decide what to send Elda by sea according to what supplies they lack, make Palchi more dependent on the trade rights of Port Portsmo, and then send envoys to try to sign an alliance agreement with them to stabilize the rear. ”

"I completely agree with that, and let Lorencis and Jamo start the investigation first." Li Tianhao nodded yes.

"Then there is the economic issue. The Dirs Mountains are particularly economically disadvantaged. At present, most of the army's income is the income from plundering the private property of slave owners, but there is no corresponding military law to prevent looting, and once there is an incident of plundering the people in the future, it will lose the support of the people, but if the looting is not allowed, the army must pay the army's salary, so the amount of money used in the future is very large. In addition, it also requires a lot of money to carry out intelligence work, buy enemy personnel, etc., which cannot be supported by the Li family merchant group alone. Therefore, it is important to focus on exploiting the potential of the Djels Mountains themselves.

After this period of investigation, I found that the previous Lords of Dils had developed in the wrong direction. ”

When Li Tianhao heard this, he couldn't help asking: "I didn't think of this before, I don't know what went wrong?" ”

Wei Song smiled faintly and said, "The problem lies in the terrain of the Tiers Mountains and the port of Pucimo. The mountainous area of Dils is inaccessible, and there are only two ways to transport supplies to the outside, one by sea from the port of Portsmo and the other by water from the Namra River. However, due to the difference in terrain and the five waterfalls on the Nara River, it is very difficult to transport goods, so most of the products go from the port of Portsmo, and the prosperity of the Dils Mountains naturally focuses on the east. In the past, the Dils were the territory of Palci, which operated here for many years, forming the prototype of today's pattern. Unfortunately, this is a wrong approach, and the real potential of the Djels Mountains lies not in the east bank, but in the west. ”

"The West Bank? There's nothing there. Li Tianhao said curiously.

"Nothing, and that's because no one has ever built the land. You see," said Wei Song, dipping his wine and drawing a map of Diels on the table, "the Nanra River cannot pass through the Diels, so it has been diverted to the west from the present channel, for the simple reason that the terrain here is the flattest. But most of the flat land is concentrated on the west bank, which had been abandoned by constant harassment by barbarians, and in fact this land area is almost equal to the arable area of the entire Dils Mountains, but because the basin of the Naura River is not so vast and there is no water source, this land has been abandoned in vain. If we dig a canal on this land, build a town at the junction of the canal, and then develop a water conservancy project to bring water from the Namra River to this land, it will become a rich food production area! With food, the basic needs of the towns will be supplied, and all kinds of handicrafts and manufacturing will be established here, and the necessary exchange of goods will be completed through the canals, and commerce will surely be more prosperous than it is now. Water transportation would be much more convenient than land transportation, and it would also save a large number of cattle and horses, which could be freed up for agricultural use and horses for military use. In this way, in a few years, this place will become the foundation of the country, and its economic strength will definitely make a qualitative leap! ”

Li Tianhao slapped the table and shouted, "Great! Commercial transportation is my business! How come I was blind and didn't see the value of this land! ”

Yamo reminded him: "Lord Li should consider the problem of the barbarians, if there is their harassment, I am afraid that the construction of this land will not go so smoothly." ”

Li Tianhao looked at him and blinked, and said, "No, the barbarians are currently engaged in a civil war, and it is estimated that there will be no time to harass us in a few years." With this time, we can refine to the point where they dare not invade. ”

"The barbarians are fighting a civil war? How do you know that? Yamo looked at Li Tianhao with puzzled eyes and asked.

Li Tianhao pointed at Alam with his mouth: "He also knows about this." Because I was the one who started this barbarian civil war. I'll talk about this later, Uncle Shi, hurry up and talk about it. ”

Wei Song took a sip of wine and cleared his throat before he said, "The third is the problem of this slavery system. I know that you originally wanted to free the slaves and make them freedmen, but unfortunately your attempt failed. The reason for this is that you go too fast and miscalculate the self-consciousness of the slaves, who have been enslaved for thousands of years and have become accustomed to the fate of enslavement, and even if they put their freedom in front of them, they do not know how to enjoy it.

I know that you have a wide range of knowledge, you have seen the national conditions of various countries, and you know which of these countries' systems is superior or inferior, but rashly applying the excellent systems of one country to another country may not be able to obtain a satisfactory result. Different countries have different national conditions, and the various social problems are even more intertwined, so it will take more time to complete it to change all this. ”

Li Tianhao nodded again and again after hearing this, the bitter fruit of this failure had made him depressed for a long time, and he had not found a solution to it.

Wei Song continued: "The existence of the so-called system must have its rationality. This was true even of the slavery of the Yaki country. However, if you have to see clearly where the drawbacks of this system are, and start from this drawbacks to make changes, then the effect will be very obvious, and then gradually let the people adapt to the new system. The biggest drawback of Yaki's system is that it is too difficult to change identities. A royal family is always a royal family, a priest is always a priest, a nobleman is always a nobleman, a commoner is always a commoner, and a slave is always a slave. There are occasional exceptions, but they are more of a miracle than a general phenomenon. Such a society must be dead, because effort becomes a futile act. If you can break this limitation, slaves, through their own efforts, can become free people; Freemen can become nobles by hard work; And if the aristocracy does not want to make progress, it may become a commoner or even a slave, so that the whole country will be filled with an upward momentum! Don't emancipate the slaves, but let them emancipate themselves, only then can they truly understand the value of freedom! Wherever your army goes, it will not liberate the slaves, but it will give them the hope of freedom, which will be your most effective weapon against the Yakee slave owners! ”

"Don't go and free the slaves, but let them free themselves." Li Tianhao repeated this sentence in his mouth, and finally he laughed loudly as if he had been empowered: "I understand, I understand!" ”