The news of the discovery of the strait was sent to the emperor's line, who was heading to Chang'an, which directly led to the emperor's trip stopping in Luoyang, Sanchuan County.

Many people will not be clear about what the strait means? But Lu Zhe knew. In modern times, the strait will be the area with the most ships in the world, and whoever masters the strait is equivalent to holding the key from Asia to Europe.

It's 202 B.C., and there are basically no countries in Asia except for empires, and Europa exists except for the Roman Republic, which is the country of Massaria. The trade between the two sides is basically zero, and it is estimated that there will be no maritime trade in the next few hundred years, after all, the Suez Canal does not exist at all, and even if the Cape of Good Hope or something is discovered, it will be against Africa, not Europa. Therefore, if the two sides are to develop trade, they will only do so by land.

Now the empire is not looking at Europa, it is too far away for the empire, and the things around them have not been sorted out, so how can they pay attention to Europa.

The discovery of the strait will change the empire, completely change the national policy adopted by the future empire, and the expansion by land is restricted by transportation, and it will definitely not be possible to build it so quickly, even if there is a railway, it will take time to build.

There will only be two places for the empire to fight on land in the future, which are the Western Regions and the north of Liaodong.

That place in the Western Regions uses a cannibalization strategy, and all that needs to be done is to pull one side and fight another. Then, what needs to be done is not to let there be too strong forces in the Western Regions and solve the Wanguo, then the next thing should be to weaken Wusun, Qiuzi, and Cheshi.

It is actually quite easy to weaken those countries in the Western Regions, and at present, the Hujie and Ding Ling people are still at war with Wusun, and the imperial army did not participate in the war on a large scale, but coerced and lured the Qiuzi people and the Cheshi people to gather troops to participate in the war. Qiuzi and Cheshi used to be Wusun Hood, and there seems to be nothing unreasonable about letting them fulfill the obligations of the following "former junior brothers". The empire's choice to capture them like this made the Wusun people very happy, thinking that the empire wanted to support them to become the overlord of the Western Regions again.

Fighting Donghu is a matter that has been put on the desk in the past five years of the empire, Donghu is a disaster caused by tribes going south, and the Donghu people also picked up a lot of cheap when the empire attacked the grassland, and it is not the character of the empire to take revenge, and the cheapness of the empire is not so easy to take advantage of.

There is a fertile field of 3,000 miles north of Liaodong, although it is frozen all the year round, it is difficult to find the fertile field. Do not doubt the degree of desire of the Chinese people for arable land, knowing that there are three thousand miles of fertile and fertile land, even if it is climbed, the soldiers of the Chinese nation will crawl forward to conquer the wild people there, and then turn the land into a sacred and inseparable part.

The empire does not need soldiers to crawl to conquer others, and the empire of cotton has been imported from the Kangju country for more than three years. It would be a lie to say that it took three years to make a large number of cotton clothes, after all, every plant needs a certain amount of adaptation, and the same plant cannot survive anywhere, so the main popular warm clothing in the empire is still a jacket made of cotton wool materials. The woolen jacket has long been one of the standard uniforms of the empire, although it is not as warm as the cotton coat, but how can it be useful.

At present, the ruling government is experimenting with cotton cultivation throughout the country, basically choosing relatively barren land for experimentation. In fact, cotton does not need much fertile land, and the Kangju people grow cotton in the land where the desertification is more serious.

External expansion is a benefit, you can find more species, add more ingredients or condiments to the recipes of the Chinese people, such as finding chili peppers in the South Seas, and then introducing courgettes from Central Asia. Of course, in fact, women are also introduced, but they are generally placed in entertainment venues, for example, Persian girls have been very popular recently, but it is the royal family that starts......

"He was also sent over with the commander of the Nanyang Fleet, who asked for new warships." Luo Shao will soon be no longer a lieutenant, and he will step down at the end of the year, and then go to the Western Regions to be his governor. He laughed a few times, and then said, "It's true that some warships should be added, but regular ships are enough." ”

Lu Zhe basically doesn't care much about allocating military expenses now, or which unit wants what equipment and other trivial things, in addition to controlling the general direction, he just enjoys life a little.

Having said that, they are all people in their forties, and if they don't enjoy life, do they have to wait until they are too old to walk, or a vital organ loses its function before enjoying it?

The so-called major events are generally to attack a country or ethnic group, and then those things that are closed to the country naturally have to be controlled by yourself.

Now there are only two feudal states in the empire, and the official title of the feudal state is the kingdom, that is, the kingdom of Qin and the kingdom of Wei.

Now the migration team of the Qin Kingdom has passed through the Western Regions and is moving to the established location. They joined the envoys, and the journey did not seem to be so smooth, and several times the envoys reported to the mainland, basically mentioning that they had been attacked by the natives, and even more troublesome, there was a tailgating by Maudun.

The migration of the Wei Kingdom was actually not so smooth, the place where they were going to move was full of wild people, and the natural environment was also very harsh.

The South Asian subcontinent is subtropical, and snakes, ants, and mosquitoes are notoriously numerous, and the rainy season is also very annoying. The trouble that the Kingdom of Wei is facing now is nothing else, it is that there is no good way to prevent mosquitoes, because of the factor of mosquito bites, many people do not die at the hands of savages, but die of an inexplicable disease.

After receiving the report, the empire made a special move, which was actually to find some plants to repel mosquitoes.

There are many plants that can repel mosquitoes, such as tuberose, pyrethrum, wild chrysanthemum, purple jasmine, lemon, crape myrtle, jasmine, orchid, lilac, atractylodes, cornflower, dandelion, mint, etc., but some plants are found in China or Nanyang, and some do not exist in the control area.

Don't think that there were no mosquito-repellent creatures in ancient times...... That is, something similar to mosquito coils, in fact, there are them, but because the relationship between productivity is relatively scarce, the price is usually relatively high.

What's going on now? The empire has finally begun to embark on the pace of industrial construction, since it is urgently needed, and the Wei Kingdom is willing to pay, why not do the business that makes money!

Because of the need, dry, wet, and liquid can be made anyway, and after it is made, it will have an effect, and it will be sold to the Wei Kingdom. What? The Kingdom of Wei has no money? Then King Wei hurry up and find the empire for a loan!

The empire changed the gold, silver, and copper triple monetary system, and other finances must also be carried out, and after arriving in Chang'an, the court will discuss the establishment of the imperial gold bank.

Gold Bank? Yes, that's the name, who specifically stipulates that the place where money is kept can only be called a bank? Now the empire is the boss, as long as it can continue to maintain the status of the boss, the name of the empire is justice, that is, eternity, even if the ball under the feet is not called the earth in the future, but changes to other names, that is the case.

"Indian Ocean...... Not. Lu Zhe stopped, he hadn't figured out what the newly discovered ocean should be called.

The Indian Ocean was not called the Indian Ocean before, there was no name earlier, when the Arab navy was strong, it was called the Arabian Sea, and the name was changed after the decline of the Arabs, and the name was not taken by Ah San, but by the British.

Called Nanyang? The problem is that the current South China Sea is called Nanyang, and although it is not an official name, it is used to it. What's that called?

"For the time being, I don't know what the strength of the national navy in that area is, but I should add some warships to the Nanyang Fleet."

In Lu Zhe's memory, the Mauryan Empire did not have a navy, but the Seleucid Empire had a good navy, but the ships were scrapped, but as long as they were beaten a few times, the imperial navy did not destroy the Seleucid Empire, and the Seleucid Empire's navy must be updated, and the most likely thing is that the Seleucid Empire imitated the battleships of the Empire.

"What Chen Xuan reported is that three capital ships and eight conventional ships will be added." Luo Shao himself did not support the addition of any capital ships, he said: "The last general feels that it is basically possible to add five conventional ships, waiting for the discovery of new situations, and the empire's shipbuilding capacity can be increased at any time." ”

Lu Zhe did not object to Luo Shao's statement, after all, the construction of the navy is really expensive, and because of the wooden structure, the speed of ship replacement is quite fast.

The empire has already come up with the steam engine, and if nothing else, the ships of the navy will be redesigned, and it is impossible to reach modern standards, but it is no problem to reach the style of the eighteenth century, right? Maybe it can reach the level before the First World War directly in BC, then you have to play.

It doesn't seem impossible? The Empire has already got the front-loading bronze cannon out, and the rear-loading cannon is being studied. Wait for the breech-loading gun to come out, then the breech-loading gun will also be studied naturally. As for the shells? Even Minnie bullets are starting to be made, and there is still a shortage of shells? It's pretty much the same thing.

The research on firearms has not been interrupted, and machine guns and other things cannot be done for the time being, but the progress of rifles is somewhat fast. Last year, the first single-shot gun (similar to the Chuntian rifle) had been researched by Lu Qi without serious work, or Lu Zhe personally pressed down, otherwise after a period of trial, waiting to determine the performance, it should be put into mass production.

Lu Zhe hid the appearance of the new rifle for no reason, the empire in the era of cold weapons was invincible, and a little play with flintlock pistols and artillery is to accumulate experience in the use of firearms, but it is not good to get guns above flintlock pistols out.

If you want more advanced weapons to appear, you still have to wait for the empire to swallow most of Asia first, and at least the transportation will become smooth. At present, the empire still has some more than enough heart and strength for Central Asia, and it is purely uncomfortable to get more advanced weapons out early.

The secrets of the world can never be guaranteed to be 100% completely confidential, not afraid of 10,000, just in case, the Central Asians may not have a big problem, they do not have industrial capacity at all and are close to the empire, even if they find a problem, even if they will pay a heavy price, how can it be bulldozed.

If it goes to Europa, the Empire is too far away from Europa, and it's hard to know what's going on there, and the Empire doesn't know how many years it will take to march into Europa, and when the Empire marches and encounters a group of enemy troops armed with single-shot guns, that's really funny.

Not only is it a single-shot gun, but Lu Zhe didn't even let him do things like grenades and grenades that are not difficult to make and make, not because he didn't know that this kind of thing was easy to use, but as long as he mastered the correct gunpowder formula, it was too easy to do. Now it's cool for the Imperial army to blow up others with this thing, and they should be depressed when they wait to be bombed. At the same time, this thing can be used not only on the battlefield, but also against civilians. Think about it for a moment in the future, if the city "booms" so many times a day, does it tend to turn pale?

As for why flintlock pistols and artillery were made? Everyone has a willfulness time, and for a monarch who endures eating all of his own food and then tries not to kill people, it is actually normal to have other habits.

Earlier, Lu Zhe's habit was to design houses to be built everywhere, and he was an engineer, so it is normal to have this hobby. It seems that I am tired of playing in the back, and it is also fun to think about the "lobster soldiers", and then how to adapt the army to firearms, so I got it out.

In fact, Lu Zhe would not have thought of it, he is happy now, but after eighty years, waiting for the subordinate kingdoms of the empire to march further west, the army of the feudal kingdom really encountered troops equipped with flintlock pistols and artillery, they were the Romans from Europa and their allies.

The first battle between the East and the West was that the two sides lined up in an array line, and there was a burst of "crackling" fried beans, and not only lead bullets flew on the battlefield, but also shells were smashed on both sides, the difference was that the subordinate feudal states of the empire had flowering shells, and the Romans did not.

At that time, it was a secret whether Lu Zhe died or not, but when the empire knew that Europa had firearms troops, various military factories began to make new actions, that is, to start making semi-automatic weapons, and then a new round of all-army refitting began. By the following year, the Imperial Wehrmacht, armed with semi-automatic weapons and equipped with machine guns and breech guns, had already embarked on ships in the south, and they had landed in the Middle East six months later to participate in the war against the Romans as a support unit for the subordinate kingdoms.

In a strange world, who knows what will happen before it happens. Maybe Lu Zhe also expected it, but for a country that is constantly innovating and developing, sometimes encountering some setbacks that can be solved, to be honest, it is not entirely a bad thing.

So, everything is on the right track, what else can Lu Zhe do if he doesn't enjoy life? If it weren't for the fact that the crown prince was still too young, he would have thought about abdicating and sitting in the empire for a few more years, and then he would have taken a large group of wives around to enjoy the natural scenery or something. It is...... His wives are in their forties, and it seems that they need to add some young and beautiful looks? (To be continued.) )