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With the development of industry, expansion is no longer simply about seeking resources, but actually finding dumping grounds for industrial products has become a more pressing problem.

The industry of the empire was just beginning to take off, and domestic demand was far from saturated, and there was nothing more advantageous for a country that wanted to develop its industry.

What the current empire lacks is not a market, and at the same time it does not seem embarrassing in terms of resources, but it must be recognized that the absence of saturation now does not mean that there will not be saturation in the future, and many resources are non-renewable.

The Western Expeditionary Corps and the Northern Expeditionary Corps had recently received a direct order from the Emperor at the same time. The Emperor asked the two corps to take charge of the roads from the mainland of the empire to the Western Regions, and also gave a hint that the empire needed more labor.

Policing the roads? The emperor specifically mentioned that the two corps did not pay attention to this point, and they had already cooperated with the local government to carry out some necessary security maintenance, after all, whether the road was smooth or not was related to whether the logistics supply could be guaranteed. The Emperor's second order was to send more troops from the two corps to reinforce them.

Empire needs labor? This sentence was not only shouted by the emperor, but it was probably due to the fact that except for the working class, which did not like more and more slaves to grab jobs, any class longed for more labor to use.

Workshop owners, factory owners, and ranchers, they are not the most eager for labor, in fact, the most urgent for labor is the government that oversees the construction of roads.

In the next ten years, the empire will complete the road breakthrough in the southeast, northwest, and northwest, which will be a total length of 80,000 kilometers.

Building roads is not an easy task, especially in the years BC, when it would be a human life...... And it's a cause that is enough for human lives to fill.

If it is a state of war, and it is still an extremely unfavorable war situation. The empire doesn't actually hesitate to fill in with human lives, but use the lives of its people to build roads? Let's not talk about whether it can withstand the resentment of the people, but the emperor has been complaining that the population is too small, which official dares to pave the way with the lives of the people of the empire?

Cherish the people of the empire, then you can only focus on those aliens who seek labor, the empire has been doing this in recent years, and the great cause of slave hunting in Nanyang is not in full swing!

"The total population of the Western Regions is over three million, but we can't plunder as recklessly as the savages of the outer south." Meng Tian looked at Liu Bang expressionlessly and said, "Those things you are doing may affect the Empire's strategy towards the Western Regions. ”

Liu Bang has been enveloping some countries in the Western Regions recently, and those things were originally acquiesced in by Meng Tian. But things have changed.

"Western Regions Strategy?" Liu Bang is too depressed, very much like a bad year, what he wants to do will always encounter twists and turns. He said in a sullen voice, "I haven't received any orders from the empire itself, huh? ”

Meng Tian knew that Liu Bang was not lying, and there was indeed no order from the local area to send it to the envoy corps, but it had nothing to do with the Western Expeditionary Corps, and he was also reminding Liu Bang out of good intentions, saying: "Feng Zheng will come over soon, he is as an envoy of the empire to attack the Western Regions." ”

Liu Bang knew that Feng Zheng would come to the Western Regions, but he was more concerned about whether the cooperation he had reached with Meng Tian before was not counting.

"This ......," said Liu Bang clearly. Meng Tian was slightly embarrassed: "Feng Zheng will discuss with you on behalf of King Qin. ”

Come on, that is, no matter what he talked about before, it was in vain, and Liu Bang, who got the answer, did not scold on the spot, but just said a few words to Meng Tian with a very ugly face and left.

"Big brother. What happened? Fan Hao found that Liu Bang's face was pale, and he couldn't help but ask.

"Sure enough, it's a nobleman raised by a son of a bitch, talking is like a fart, and you can suck it into your stomach after you finish it!" Liu Bang was actually very angry. But if he was asked to turn his face directly with Meng Tian, he couldn't do it. In a fit of anger, he forgot that he was also a nobleman, and scolded for a while. Taking a deep breath, he said to Fan Xu: "Recently, you have taken people out for a walk, and you won't come back in a short time." ”

"That's a good idea!" When Fan Xu heard this, he grinned and showed his yellow teeth: "The brothers are not very happy to be called back, how can they be happy outside when they are restrained in the camp!" ”

Fan Hao has always been Liu Bang's sharp blade, and as Liu Bang's retainer, he has no other big ability, that is, daring to fight and dare to kill is the most practical for Liu Bang. After he arrived in the Western Regions, he took a group of warriors with him, and he didn't do less murder and robbery, because he had been wearing a mask, and he had a nickname called Masked Blood Slaughter?

Bloodmassacre? With such a title, there must be no less killing, the fact is that Fan Xu really led a group of subordinates to kill a lot of people, it is the kind of slaughter that does not distinguish between men, women and children, which is extremely cruel.

"Less killing?" Fan Xu was a little unhappy after being persuaded a few words, and he said to Liu Bang: "Big brother, the guys we recruited are all ruthless people with bloody hands, they are honest in the country, they are bound by the law and the sense of honor of the soldiers, and when they go abroad, they are not bound by the law and the sense of honor of the soldiers. ”

Liu Bang had a headache in an instant. When he recruited samurai, what he wanted was to be fierce enough, and a friend introduced him to a group of retired soldiers and mercenaries who often operated in the south, he saw the murderous temperament of those people with his own eyes, and he was quite happy at first, but later found that it was not difficult to control, and those samurai would not be traitors, and he was even more happy, but now he is a little unhappy.

"It's a bunch of livestock that are killed, don't worry about it, big brother." Fan Xu advised instead: "They originally followed their eldest brother to go to Southern Xinjiang to make contributions, but they transferred to the Western Regions in the middle, and they were bored for so long along the way, and it was actually very good that they didn't make trouble." ”

Livestock? It should be said that it is the indigenous people of the Western Regions, but in the eyes of some special groups, because they have been indoctrinated with a certain idea for a long time, they really look at any alien race as if they were looking at livestock.

The so-called special group is a group of people who have been licking blood for a long time, and they have carried out too many killing tasks in the army, whether it is a direct officer or a military colonel, they have repeatedly repeated that any creature that is not from their own race is no different from livestock. Originally. Instilling a similar concept is not to make the soldiers feel too burdened, but habits will always become a kind of "naturalness", and if it continues to be "natural" for a long time, it will form a deep-rooted thought, and as a result, they will suffer from symptoms similar to the sequelae of the battlefield.

The military has been encouraging various groups to hire veterans after retirement, in fact, it is also worried that that part of the group will become a hidden danger in the homeland, after all, those people have shed their blood for the empire, and it is better to go to the harm of aliens if they stay in the country and suddenly go crazy and kill people one day.

"......" Liu Bang was speechless for a while, then came back to his senses and smiled bitterly: "Indeed, I originally promised to take them to a large territory in southern Xinjiang. It was I who broke my promise. ”

"Don't worry, eldest brother, I will control them and won't cause any trouble to eldest brother." Fan Hao seems to be righteous, but the misfortune he said does not include killing aliens, in fact, he has been killing recently.

"Can you arrest instead?" Liu Bang touched his chin and muttered: "The market for slaves has been very good recently, you can take them to earn some extra money." ”

"Won't you cause trouble for your eldest brother?" Fan Xu said more bluntly: "Killing people and capturing are two different things, and it will be very troublesome to transport them back, right?" ”

"The military received an order to send labor to the mainland." Talking about the military, Liu Bang's face changed again. With a stinky face, he said: "These guys must have made some promises to the mainland, such as that they can push the Western Regions or something once the war starts, so the local people don't want to play tricks in the Western Regions at all." ”

This is also something that has been complained about in recent years, because the military is often able to rely on hard power to defeat opponents. As a result, the military has increasingly focused on muscles, and has gone from ignoring to ignoring soft power strategies. What is worse is that the military really did not suffer a loss after ignoring the strategy, and the result is that the military has a tendency to develop into muscles in an all-round way.

"You can't say that!" Yu Fanjun said with a smile: "The military still pays attention to strategy. It was the Righteous Envoy who did not understand the Empire's disposition of the Western Regions. ”

Liu Bang waited for Fan Hao to leave before returning to the camp of the envoy group, and met Yu Fanjun on the way, because he was very uncomfortable and vomited a few words of bitterness. I didn't expect Yu Fanjun to say something like that.

"The Western Regions are a hunting ground for the empire, look at how many mercenaries have poured into the Western Regions, and how many mercenaries have come behind." Yu Fanjun always has a happy expression, not like being happy at some point. He said to Liu Bang, who had a stunned expression on his face: "To put it mildly and bluntly, even if the empire is not disarmed, there will be no fewer people who retire from the army every year. Among the demobilized soldiers, there are many people who want to live a peaceful life, but there is definitely no shortage of people who are used to killing people for a living......"

Didn't Liu Bang just talk to Fan Hao about this issue just now? He didn't think about it so much just now, but now he immediately understood it as soon as he was reminded by Yu Fanjun.

"Local law and order are also strictly enforced, but there are still cases of violent killings by retired soldiers. There are a variety of reasons why a soldier returns home and finds that his wife is stealing, or when a soldier is not at home. Yu Fanjun saw that Liu Bang was listening carefully, so he simply found a place to sit down, and then continued: "The empire attaches great importance to the treatment of soldiers, but to be honest, even if the sun shines, there are shadows, especially since the empire has a vast territory and a large population, it is impossible to completely take care of everyone. You agree with that, right? ”

Liu Bang nodded directly.

"There are not many similar incidents, after all, the military is strong, and the magistrates dare not ignore the military families. What's really going on with the most accidents? It is a retired soldier who has a conflict with people in his hometown, and it is good to be able to restrain himself, many retired soldiers do not want to kill, but the body has memorized the habit, and it is often after doing it and waiting for the real killing of people to react. Yu Fanjun took out the water bag and twisted it open, the water bag was filled with wine, and took a few sips and handed it to Liu Bang. Seeing Liu Bang's refusal, he took a few more sips and reinserted the plug before continuing: "That's it." No matter how much you pay attention to it, there will always be problems, and when there is a problem, you will always be punished or remedied. ”

For the phenomenon that only reacted after killing people, Liu Bang knew that there was a professional term called "body memory", which was a kind of physical instinct that was repeatedly trained and cultivated. He heard the latter and said sullenly: "The remedy is to encourage those who are strongly aggressive to go abroad?" ”

"Exactly!" Yu Fanjun pointed to the mercenaries playing Keju in the distance, and then pointed to some other people who were playing sumo, and pointed to many places in a row: "This group of people is actually not simple. I'm not saying that they are not simple, but the supporting package of the empire's policy of first customs is not simple. They are a group of highly aggressive people, unaccustomed to peace, and suitable for fighting abroad, but this is not the point. For the Empire, they are likely to be the first unofficial, private voluntary expedition groups, and will evolve into part of the Empire as they settle in some places. ”

The word "encroachment" immediately popped up in Liu Bang's head, especially when he thought of an ethnic group that was about to be wiped out, and that ethnic group was called Baiyue.

Baiyue used to do similar things, they are threes and threes, anyway, it is not the nature of an army, migrating to some places that are not traditional places of residence, and then taking root in those places, the time cycle is usually relatively long, but they can always complete the submerged tacit occupation when the local government is not too sensitive. Under normal circumstances, waiting for the government to react somewhat, because this part of the Baiyue people also have taxes, then there will be hesitation, after all, there are taxes and once it is dealt with, there will be chaos, the government is not so determined to want to expel it, and hesitation often has terrible consequences, waiting for the Baiyue people to gather to a sufficient number, after a riot, it is not only the ordinary people who are unlucky, but also the people of the government will be killed.

"The difference between the empire and the Baiyue is that the people who carry out the cannibalization are intensely aggressive from the start." Yu Fanjun grinned, revealing his yellowed front teeth: "Besides, our people have a powerful empire behind them, and those countries have to consider what will happen if they use force against our people." ”

"So does the empire want to encroach on the Western Regions?" This is what Liu Bang wants to know most now.

Yu Fanjun hurriedly shook his head and said, "I didn't say that, I just know another way for the empire to open up to the outside world." ”

"What a problem! If you don't go to war directly, I don't believe that the empire can't maintain two-front logistics supplies! Liu Bang complained with a face: "Either use strategy and pull a batch to fight a batch." Now it looks like I'm swaying from side to side, making me do some things that are not good, and I can't do them right but can't do them. ”

Yu Fanjun heard it with a dumb smile on his face.

Ps. chasing more children's shoes, are there any free appreciation tickets and starting coins~ The countdown to the 515 red envelope list is over, I'll pull a ticket, ask for an increase and appreciation vote, and finally rush a handful! (To be continued.) )