The Holy Light newspaper then attached the topographical map explored by Xu Dexian to the right side of the headline in the form of an engraving, and issued a warning that there were murderous cannibal tribes on the islands of the South China Sea, and if they wanted to completely occupy them, they needed to prepare in advance and organize a sufficient number of armed forces.

If you need to buy weapons, you can contact the Imperial Ordnance Smelter.

As soon as this news came out, the people of the empire were boiling. Occupy the South China Sea and occupy 100 square miles, and you can seal the country and establish a principality subordinate to the empire. Guogong is the title of the empire to the master of the country, and he is actually the king on his own and thirds of the land.

In this world, how many people don't want to sit at the top of the temple and look down on all beings? Who doesn't want to glorify their ancestors?

There has never been a shortage of ambitious people in the empire, especially in recent years, with the increase of wealth, people have paid more and more attention to the pursuit of fame while enjoying material life.

Now, the empire has given them a catharsis that allows them to fly up the branches and become phoenixes overnight.

As a result, the armor and blades that the empire had cut down for many years had a market again, and they were robbed by the clans, gate lords, and rich people in various states.

The former veterans of the Imperial Army and the major dart games have also become the target of competition for the wealthy and noble. The orders received by the major shipyards of the empire in a single day were piled up.

The Age of Discovery is coming.

Seeing that things had a good start, Luan Yi didn't pay more attention, because he knew that those barbarians in the South China Sea who were not in the Stone Age were no match for the imperial mercenaries holding standard blades in terms of military literacy and military strength. Under the continuous attack of the imperial magnates, defeat and enslavement are a matter of time.

With this move, Luan Yi not only found new jobs for the retired Imperial soldiers, but also allowed them to use their surplus heat without the Empire having to pay salaries, and continued to expand the territory of the Empire with the support of the powerful.

More importantly, Luan Yi succeeded in luring the desire for power of the gatekeepers and the rich to the vast space outside the empire, preventing them from coveting the peak of the empire's power due to excess wealth, thus cutting off the source of civil strife to a large extent.

As for whether Haoqiang will break away from the empire and establish himself as king after occupying the islands in the South China Sea? Luan Yi has never been worried about this. After all, there is more than one powerful country rushing to the South China Sea, and for a considerable period of time in the future, the South China Sea will fall into a state of hundreds of countries.

In the pursuit of power, it is inevitable to attack each other. At this time, the empire will be reconciled as the suzerain, and the empire will follow the principle of "those who obey me will prosper and those who disobey me will perish", and the empire will give enough support and help to those who bow down to the empire, and vice versa...... There is no need for the empire to do anything, just Luan Yi calls on other principalities to annex it.

In this process, the empire only needs to grasp the degree of power, and especially need to be careful not to let a certain island country dominate and eventually break away from the control of the empire.

At that time, the empire will have to send troops to eradicate it. This was not a difficult task for the well-armed Imperial Navy, and for the regular army of the Empire, it was much easier and less laborious to storm a city and subvert a regime than to slaughter the hard-to-find cannibal savages on the islands.

It is precisely by taking advantage of the many advantages of calling on the powerful to go south to expand the territory, so although the South China Sea islands continue to fight, but between the war took place outside the empire itself, the empire has not been affected in any way. The empire is still marching like the wind, still galloping on the broad road of prosperity.

In the first month of the 29th year of Shengyuan, although the new year has arrived, the cold wind on the northwest Gobi is still biting. The cold north wind blew and covered the sky with dust. The crisp camel bell rings on the trade road from Qiuzi to the Imperial Qiang Autonomous Prefecture.

It was a huge caravan with a thousand men. Unlike the caravans that traveled back and forth between the Holy Chinese Empire and the countries of the Western Regions in the past, the members of this caravan now are either white-skinned, jet-black, or bronze-colored, and varied. The largest team at the front of the caravan was clearly the leader of the caravan, and the members of the team were all black hair, black eyelashes, and black beards. Judging from the color of their hair alone, they are the same as the Holy Chinese Empire people in the East, but their high nose bridge and white skin also confirm that they are clearly different from the Chinese people.

They came from Rome and were sent to the Holy Chinese Empire by the Roman Empire's executor Severus.

The reason why Severus wants to send an envoy to the Holy Chinese Empire is also related to the Resting Empire. It is said that thirty years ago, Hercules and his master Molun went to China in the Han Dynasty together, Hercules was bought by Luan Yi with 200 elite soldiers and 300 taels of yellow scarves, and his master Molun returned to his hometown to rest in peace.

It is true that during Molun's visit to Dahan, Dahan was in the midst of the aftermath of the Yellow Turban Uprising. Mo Lun saw poverty and decay in the Han Dynasty, but he also saw the profound cultural heritage of the Han Dynasty and the still prosperous world.

Therefore, after he returned to rest, he began to imitate the example of many Han scholars, recorded his observations and experiences in the East in cuneiform script, and ordered a large amount of rice paper from merchants in the Western Regions, and then imitated the movable type printing technology of the Han people to make cuneiform letters, and printed the characters he recorded into a book for public sale.

This book, titled "The Chronicles of the Kingdoms of Dongzhou", not only records the customs and customs of the countries in the Western Regions east of Anxi, including Dawan, Wusun, and Qiuzi, but also focuses on what Mo Lun saw and heard in the territory of the Han Dynasty, the customs of the Han nation, and the abundant products of the Han Dynasty...... Of course, there is also the duel in the Han Palace, where the first warrior of peace rests against the Han god general Luan Yi. There are more than 400 pages densely arranged.

As a result, as the first book in the true sense of the word in the history of Sabbath, and at the same time the work with the most characters, "The Tale of the Kingdoms of Dongzhou" was immediately favored by the people of Sabbath, and its influence even spread to the territory of the Roman Empire for a time, arousing the curiosity of the Roman aristocracy.

In fact, before that, during the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Rome had sent a team of envoys to the Han Dynasty at that time. It's just that the Roman envoys at that time were not so much envoys as they were sneaking into the Han to find out information. After arriving in the Han Dynasty, they did not go to Luoyang to meet with Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, but disguised themselves as a juggling team and went around to reconnoiter the military intelligence of the Han Dynasty. After making a simple assessment, they immediately found that the Han civilization was surprisingly powerful, the city was tall, the armor was sharp, and the population was beyond their imagination, and with the current strength of Rome, if it went to war, it would be the losing side.

After receiving this judgment, this group of Roman missions left in such a gloomy manner, and did not even enter the city gate of Luoyang.

After hundreds of years, Rome once again got the news that it was entrenched in the rich empire of the East, and the Romans couldn't help but get excited. The Great Han - the country that the Romans and Greeks called Seris - was the land of silk in their hearts. For hundreds of years, their hand-woven silk was a source of interest to the Roman aristocracy, and in recent years, the glass from trade has also been highly sought after. In the eyes of the Romans, Seris was both beautiful and mysterious. They are eager to learn about all aspects of the country, its economy, its ethnicity, its folklore...... And, of course, the military.

Although these contents are recorded in the "Chronicles of the Eastern Kingdoms" written by Molun, the Romans did not think that the stupid Sabbath could really evaluate everything objectively and fairly, so the Roman Senate suggested that Commodus, the Roman consul at that time, send envoys to the Great Han.

However, Commodus, who was indulgent by nature, ignored the advice of the senators until his mistress killed him, and Rome survived eighteen years of turmoil, and the new consul Severus came to the throne.

Apparently, Severus was also interested in the magical land of Seris far to the East, and in order to show the importance he attached to this visit, he appointed his close confidant Maximin as the head of the mission, and ordered Petronius, the general of the Praetorian Guard, to select 400 elite soldiers to escort him.

When the nobles and merchants of Rome heard that the consul was going to send an envoy to Seris, they organized caravans to accompany him. As a result, Maximin's envoys grew to a huge scale of more than 1,000 people.

A group of thousands of people embarked on the eastward journey, they broke through the raids of the Seleucid barbarians, avoided the siege and interception of the Sabbatarians, passed through the Great Moon Clan, withstood the bitter cold wind of the desert, and finally arrived at Qiuzi after nineteen months of arduous and arduous trekking.

On the official road of the Holy Chinese Empire, a handsome middle-aged man with a beard in the Roman mission wrapped himself in a thick robe. He was Maximin, the head of the Roman mission on this trip. "General, how long is it before you get to Seris?"

Not far from Maximin, Petronius, the commander of the Roman Praetorian Guard, took out the map from his bosom and roughly estimated it, and said, "My lord, it seems that it will take about a month to reach Seris...... Cool province. ”

"Cool Province?" The person who repeats the words of Petronius is called the body. As a merchant who had been going back and forth between China and Anxi for a long time, Shen Wu could not only speak fluent Chinese, but also know Anxi, so Maximin paid to hire him as a guide for the mission. And he happened to be preparing to go to the Romans' mouth of Cyris, and he saw that the Romans were in good shape, and joining the Romans' ranks was equivalent to a mercenary escort for nothing, so he did not hesitate to respond.

He corrected Petronius and said, "That's not called Qingliang Province, it's Liangzhou." Besides, sir, when did you get this map? ”

The interpreter of the Roman mission then translated the Sabbath words spoken by Shen Wu into Roman and relayed them to Petronius.

"This picture?" Petronius said: "It was drawn three hundred years ago during the visit of our envoy to Seris. ”