"Lao Wang, what's going on? Our fleet was attacked by pirates in the Strait of Malacca? Wang Neng angrily smashed the table.

"Is it tolerable or unbearable, we have never been the only one who robbed others, how can there be any reason for others to rob us?" Bai Jia also expressed disappointment with the intelligence work below.

"The investigation report is out! Where did the blind pirates come from who dared to hit us with their ideas? ”

"The sailors who fled said that the pirates were Indians and spoke Tamil. It is estimated that it was an accident caused by the Chola Kingdom (Zhu Yuanguo) wanting to wrestle with Sri Buddha and compete for hegemony in the Bay of Bengal? ”

"Why don't we have a trade treaty with this country? Lao Bai, what are the people below you doing? ”

"He can't be blamed for this, I kept him from visiting Chola and the Tamil countries. India is now very chaotic, and it has many countries with very complicated relations, similar to China during the Five Hu and Sixteen Kingdoms period. The country is in the midst of a Rajput period, and Muslims in the West are encroaching on Hindu territory. Landlocked countries have little contact, but coastal countries have established basic channels of direct communication. The Pala Dynasty, the Sina Dynasty, the Eastern Henga, the Kakatiya, the Chola, the Pandia, the Hosala, the Chalouqi Dynasty, and the Solanki Dynasty Sindh all established trading stations and exclusive docks.

India was a poor country with a population of 1.2 billion in later generations, but what about India now? It is a geographical concept that has not yet been unified, similar to Germany before reunification. Compared with Africa, Europe, Central Asia, and West Asia, it is certainly rich, but compared to East Asia, where we are located. Wealth per capita can be ignored. The standard of living of many local princes and nobles is probably similar to that of Gaochang before he joined our system.

The army is a very funny elephant race. Most of the navy consisted of triangular galleons resembling big cannibals and offshore ships of no more than 300 tons. It was not easy to go to Sri Buddha and seize the territory of the Malay Peninsula with great difficulty.

Why should I condone this poor and weak country? Because this country is our future. In other words, it is understandable that this is our bridgehead, the stepping stone to open India's rich resources. I am ready to annex this Tamil state directly. Turning this country into a direct territory of the Chinese Empire, just like the British did back then, so that it would be much easier to trade with them after the big stick was available, and give them carrots. ”

"In order to reduce our trade costs, you are unscrupulous! Even we don't know your plan, how can you explain it? What do you do with a dead sailor? Zhao Shouzhong complained.

"I won't tell you because I'm not sure that country will loot first! The pretext of colonial war must always be imposed on specific objects! Now if something happens, I can lay it out! What if the target of the plan is Chola, the country with the greatest possibility, and other countries provoke first? ”

"Aren't you at the end of your rope! It's completely possible to launch a mole layout and act before other countries do it! You don't have to die so many people! ”

"Did you know about the bombing of Pearl Harbor? If you don't be realistic, domestic public opinion is not easy to agitate! If you die in a war, you must have a plausible excuse! And you don't know that the conspiracy will always come to light. In order to preserve our innocence, wouldn't it be better to take the initiative to create a handle for future generations of historians to study and expose? Anyway, the probability of the Chola Congress making a move is greater than 7 percent. Let's just do it! ”

"The pirates who can rob our armed merchant ships with a certain ability to defend themselves must be the navy, and those who dare to rob the imperial merchant ships in the territorial waters of friendly nations (Sri Buddha) without an official background must be eliminated. Otherwise, how can we successfully conclude a mutual defense treaty with the countries of Southeast Asia? Sri Buddha wanted to defend mainly against the old enemy Chola, and there was no reason why we should not go to Aceh, a strategic place in the northwest corner of Sumatra, to build a military base and hold the Strait of Malacca. Wang Xinyu said in an affirmative tone that he had coveted overseas military bases for a long time.

"Isn't the blueprint for the establishment of the Empire's overseas military bases that you submitted a few months ago too radical? It was necessary to garrison 2 million. Maintain 100 military bases? If you don't mention it, I'll forget about it as a joke. Actually want to garrison Iceland? You don't have a NATO system, what's worth garrisoning in that place where Vikings don't want to stay? ”

"Isn't that a sky-high price? You're not going to pay it back on the spot!"

"Not like you. Is there a spectrum? Do you want to spend too much on the military expenses of the Song Dynasty before school and make the finances bankrupt? I tell you, there are no doors! Not a single one is allowed to be built. ”

"Why?"

"I know what you're going to do, the colonial system needs a stick to sustain it. But we can only keep 12 percent of our finances on military spending. Not a single more. If this additional expense had to be borne by friends who were still in an agrarian society, I think they would all choose to become enemies. ”

"Can't the military spend on the accounts of the security group?"

"This is not the time when we were able to engage in smuggling and robbing enemy countries, we are the regime. What are you going to smuggle to where? Take the money in the left pocket of the customs to your right hand pocket of the security group to engage in overseas bases? Or rob the Indian countries that have a small-scale peasant economy that has nothing but grain and firewood (although spices and textiles are Indian specialties, they can be ignored before India entered the 18th century, and the GDP of Chola is only the level of three counties in Liangzhelu)? Liu Xin, who is in charge of finance, asked.

"How dare you engage in smuggling? In the past, there was an embargo policy between Song, Liao, Xixia, and Xia, so that smuggling could be profitable, but now almost all the trade objects are our dumping targets, and all the neighboring countries that have signed free trade treaties have reduced their tariffs to less than 2%. What profit do you have? Do you dare to smuggle high-tech goods that are profiteering but we embargo to other countries? We won't let you go.

The transformation of the security group is inevitable. It is impossible to maintain a combat-ready supernumerary force with a small militia training allowance alone, and we still have to save face. We can't learn from the privateering licensing system that Europe and the United States have. You have to send the mercenaries of the security syndicate who can only do the task of dart and bandit suppression to Southeast Asia to exterminate the cannibals and protect the plantations. Serve as an escort in the fleet to survive. Zhao Shouzhong suggested.

"Got it, I'm not in a hurry now!"

"The pirates of the state are too bad and will deal a blow to the credibility of the country. We can't do it, but we can leave it to foreigners, and we can just capture pirates in turn? Chen Guanxian proposed.

"Nonsense, how much wealth can be seized? If we don't control the scale of the pirates, we will commit suicide, and if we control the scale, we will lose money, and you will do this with all your might, it is better to exterminate the pirates and ensure the safety of the sea routes. And then the trade boomed and the tax was overcharged. ”

"That's how I think the overseas base will be done! Just as Singapore is building a military port, we directly use the security income of the escort fleet's foreign fleet (the protection fee of the domestic fleet has been paid when paying income tax) as a maintenance fee, okay? Liu Jiao proposed.

"That's it, we can only approve three military bases. And it can only be established on the territory of the direct jurisdiction, and it is not allowed to be established on the territory of friendly countries. Although the important place of Singapore is the territory of Sri Buddha, we can obtain it by signing a territory swap agreement. We would like to take the Andaman Islands from the Chola Kingdom and exchange them for the island of Singapore with Sri Buddha. Without the need to exchange a large island for a small island for Sri Buddha's death, it would not have agreed to allow us to establish a direct territory in such a central place.

The other two, in my opinion, were built in the future territories of Ceylon and Socotra. Li Ji decided on this plan that made Wang Xinyu excited and difficult. Excited is that one did not approve three. What is difficult is to get it from other countries.

"The founding monarch of the Polonnaruwa dynasty in Ceylon today should be Vijayabahu I. It's not about eloquence, but it's not Alzheimer's yet. As long as we get rid of Chola, we will solve their old enemies for them. Once the struggle between the Sinhalese and Tamils is over, Ceylon will become our protectorate and a Goryeo-like vassal state. Isn't it easy to make a coastal port a direct jurisdiction? Lao Wang, why are you so bitter. ”

In the long run, the cost of maintenance far exceeds the cost of building the base, but where does the construction cost come from, the crossing has never been able to squeeze out. In the end, the only way to do this was to let the security subsidiary of the Nanyang Development Corporation turn the cannibals who should have been slaughtered into slave laborers when exterminating the primitive natives, and divert the labor-saving funds from the hard work of these old and weak women and children (all of whom died in battle) to build the port of Singapore.

"The Sinhalese are much richer than the poor countries of South India, and there is no need for a self-sufficient island nation, which I am afraid will not be available to the direct administration by then. If the suzerainty fails, it becomes a hostile state. ”

"In this era, there is no reason for rich countries to occupy poor countries, only poor countries rob rich countries. Doesn't the pirate ship robbing our merchant ship show that they are poor in India! As long as you don't touch the fundamental interests of Vijayaba I, he will not oppose joining the Chinese Co-Prosperity Circle. You have to care about what to do with the tens of thousands of elephants in Chola, and it will not be easy to deal with those tens of thousands of elephants when the time comes. ”

"It's easy to talk about the elephants, all of them are distributed to the local indigenous nobles, and the little property of the royal family is enough for us to eat. What I want is to remove all the minerals and labor in India, and that's what they're worth. ”

"How to take the Chola Kingdom? The navy is not successful, it has only been 5 years since the founding of the country, and there are only 30 warships of 1,000 tons, how can you cross the ocean to South India to attack Thanjavur, the capital of the Chola country, which is 100 kilometers from the coastline? ”

"The current Chola State is not the great power of 4 or 50 years ago, the powerful empire that occupied the island of Ceylon and part of the Malay Peninsula has been weakened, not only has it lost Ceylon and all its overseas territories, but even its own territory has been eaten away by most of the Pandia, Hossala and Chalou dynasties, and now there are only 200,000 square kilometers of land left, only one-fifth of the power in its heyday. A 2,000-strong infantry cannon will be able to storm the capital, which is said to have seven walls. You know, the sound of artillery is a talisman for untrained elephant troops. ”

"Okay, take the Andaman Islands in March next year and get a base, directly occupy the Chola country when the trade winds arrive in June, negotiate in August, take Colombo as a military port, and occupy the ungoverned island of Socotra before the end of the year, so decided. Next month, we will discuss how to solve the thorny Indochina issue. Li Ji announced the adjournment of the meeting on the layout of this piracy incident and seeking to expand the colony. (To be continued......)