"I'm impatient. Go ahead. Zhao Ji sighed.

In later generations, Zhao Ji still had a certain amount of research on the rise and fall of Chinese civilization. For example, China's 2,000-year-long feudal society was divided into three stages: east-west expansion, north-south expansion, and overseas expansion. This corresponds to the three great dynasties of China: the Han Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty, and the Yuan Dynasty. These three dynasties were the ones that made China's large-scale expansion abroad.

The Han Dynasty incorporated southern China and Gansu, Xinjiang, into the Chinese territory. The Tang Dynasty incorporated Northeast China and the Mongolian steppes into China's territory. The Yuan Dynasty incorporated the Tibetan Plateau and Taiwan into China's territory. According to the madness of foreign expansion, the Yuan Dynasty is undoubtedly the highest, but the actual effect achieved is the least.

The main reason for this is that the expansion of the Han and Tang dynasties was an extension of civilization, and the areas included in the territory were all areas without strong civilizations, and they were all areas that had not been developed. The areas expanded by the Yuan Dynasty with China's advanced firearms were all regions with strong civilizations, such as Central Asia and Western Asia, which had been developed on a large scale, not an extension of civilization, but a military expansion.

There is an essential difference between the extension of civilization and the expansion of the military. Civilization extended, new lands were developed, and civilization was nourished. Military expansion, instead of developing new land, occupied already developed land, and the local advanced civilization was not nourished. Therefore, from the Yuan Dynasty onwards, Chinese civilization weakened.

At this time, the backward Western European civilization was advanced under the spread of Chinese civilization, such as the four great inventions of technology, entered the Age of Discovery, developed the Americas, Australia and Africa three continents, so it quickly rose to become the world's first civilization and covered the world.

Perhaps many civilizational views believe that it was the Western Europeans who invaded the Americas and occupied the territory of the Indians. Actually, no, the Americas were not the Americas of the Indians, the Indians lived in only a small part of the Americas, and most of the Americas were unexplored. This invasion is not a military expansion, but an extension of civilization. During the Han and Tang dynasties, this was the case with China's territorial expansion.

Following the Han Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty developed the steppes and the northeast, and the Turkic people who originally occupied the steppes were either driven away or completely sinicized. It was precisely because of the large-scale development of the Tang Dynasty that after the fall of the Tang Dynasty, the economic foundation for independent statehood was established, and the Northern Liao and Western Xia had the foundation for confrontation with the Song Dynasty.

If it is placed in the Han Dynasty, when the Northeast and the grasslands were not developed by the Chinese civilization, even if the warlords in the late Eastern Han Dynasty were divided, any secession regime could be fought against the surrounding tribal alliance regime. When the Han Dynasty fell, it was still inviolable and incomparably powerful to the surrounding barbarians. The name of the Han nationality comes from this.

The so-called homeland of the Han and Tang dynasties is not the result of military expansion, but the achievement after development. It is precisely because the Chinese ancestors overcame obstacles to develop that land that future generations dare not forget or discard it. Where Chinese civilization extends, it is the land of China. Although China has its time of weakness, the Chinese civilization has lasted for 5,000 years, and one day, the land we have developed will eventually return to our hands.

In order to let the Chinese civilization continue to prosper, and to let the Great Song Dynasty rise and unify China, the only way is to continue to develop and nourish the Chinese civilization. Unfortunately, it is too far to develop the Americas, and the South Seas are too affected by tropical rainforests.

Without North America and the fertile land of the United States in later generations, it is estimated that Western European civilization would not have developed at all. Whether it is agriculture, industry or commerce, land is the most basic, without land, it is all nonsense. Whether ancient or modern, all military operations are for the land.

The sigh that Zhao Ji just now was haunted by the terrain on the west coast of the Pacific Ocean. It would be nice to have a piece of land like the Central Great Plains to develop, and the cost of developing areas with dense water networks such as Huguang and Liuqiu, which are mostly barren and hilly land, is too high. The land in the northeast is not bad, but it is abandoned in the hands of Northern Liao. In the bitter cold land of Northern Liao, the birth rate and survival rate of the population are relatively low, and there are only 9 million people in Northern Liao, where is there still a surplus population to fully develop the Northeast!

"The saint's guess is not wrong, the national strength of Zhancheng is indeed very weak, and the military operation of the king of Zhancheng to make a torch to recover the old capital is indeed unpopular. The reason for the defeat of the Champa army was, on the one hand, due to the improper use of torch troops, and on the other hand, the chieftain of the Bintonglong area in the south of Champa took the opportunity to launch a rebellion, attracting most of the troops of the Champa state. At present, the three prefectures of Dili, Maling, and Buzheng in the north were all ceded to Jiaozhi, and the division of the Bintonglong region in the south accounted for one-third of the territory of Champong. In addition, in addition to the feud between the Champa and Jiaozhi, the Champa and Zhenla are also incompatible. Now that the Great Song Dynasty has sent troops to fight each other, it can be described as a relief for the city. Although it is not possible to directly annex Champong, it is not impossible to use other methods to actually control Champa in the hands of our dynasty. Xia Yanbin analyzed.

"Hahaha, how about Xia Qing's family to be a military advisor in our army?" Xia Yanbin's analysis made Zhao Ji feel good.

"The grass people don't dare." Xia Yanbin said in panic.

The military advisor is a high-ranking official from the sixth rank who is equivalent to the commander, and Xiao Yiyuan came from all over the country to get the position of a commander. Xia Yanbin didn't think that he could get this position if he let Long Yan Dayue. Moreover, he worked so hard because the king of Champa made a torch Chengruo, as long as he could persuade the Great Song Dynasty to send troops to Jiaozhi and help Zhancheng recover the old capital, he would be named a merchant of the Champa country, and the foreign trade of the Champa country would be in his hands. The promise of the king of Champa was much more appealing than a position from the sixth rank.

"Shengshang, if you can get the full assistance of Champa and attract a part of the Jiaozhi troops from the south of Jiaozhi, then Jiaozhi is actually a three-front battle. During the Renzong Dynasty, Dali sent an army of 200,000 to invade Jiaozhi in order to compete for the Jingyun region (now northern Laos), but was defeated by Jiaozhi, and the eastern gateway town of Jingyun was obtained by Jiaozhi. If the Holy Lord can give Zebian Mansion to Dali, then Dali will have the right to rule Zebian de jure. At that time, let the Dali soldiers press Jiaozhi, and Jiaozhi will be a four-line battle. Zhang Dian took out another map of Dali and pointed to Zebian Mansion above.

"Well, that's a good idea. Where is this place? Zhao Ji agreed with Zhang Dian's suggestion and pointed to a small seaside town on the map of Champa and said.

"This place is called Tulun, a small town under the jurisdiction of Xinzhou, the capital of the Champa state, and it is also a port where large ships can dock. In the north of Champa there are four prefectures, Maling, Buzheng and Xinzhou, the first three of which have been ceded to Jiaozhi, and although Xinzhou has not been ceded, it is still under the control of the Jiaozhi army. The meaning of the Holy Lord, could it be that he first took this place as a stronghold? Xia Yanbin explained.

"The last general also knows that the last general of this town has been sacked once. The town is full of Cham people, and the folk customs are relatively fierce, which has caused me to lose a lot of men, and it makes me angry when I see them! All of them were dark, thin and short, and their cheekbones were still old and tall, like monkeys! It's fucking disgusting! Bai Bo said with a big grin.

"Uh. Hahaha. Everyone laughed.

The Cham people are of the black race, and this Zhao Ji also knows it. When it comes to size, the Great Song people do have incomparable advantages, and often joke about the size of the barbarians. Let's just say that the ministers of civil and military affairs of the military department standing here are all about 1.8 meters tall. Zhao Ji is only 1.76 meters tall, which is still a short man. The tallest is Niu Zaigao, one of the top ten generals, this guy is seven feet tall and two meters tall. People often joke about how high the cow is: "No matter how high it is, no matter how high it is, it will break the sky!" ”

In addition to the Khitan people and the Dangxiang people, the height of the other ethnic groups is indeed unsightly. It is generally around 1.6 meters. The shortest is the Japanese, who are only about 1.5 meters tall. The tall Song people are the fundamental reason why the Japanese sent beautiful women to the Great Song Dynasty. The height of the Zhan people is more than 1.6 meters, and in front of Bai Bolang, who is 1.83 meters tall, he really has to make Bai Bo disgusting.

The reason that led the Great Song Dynasty to stand out from the crowd was still in economic development. Since the Tang Dynasty, most of China's agricultural cultivation has been intensive, and the yield is very high. In order to accumulate manure and fertilize the fields, most of the common people have raised a large number of domestic animals. In terms of food structure, the menu of ordinary people is very rich. In the Song Dynasty, grain production increased again, coupled with the introduction and cultivation of Champa rice, grain production increased year by year, and the quantity of commercial grain increased greatly. The abundance of grain provided space for the cultivation of various other agricultural products, and ordinary people could eat meat every day, and they could also change their menus every day, and many cooking techniques originated in the Song Dynasty. Because of the rich food structure, the height of the Song people is the same as that of the economy of the Great Song Dynasty, which makes it unattainable for other countries.

The decline in the height of Chinese began in the Yuan Dynasty, mainly because the population growth rate could not keep up with the land development and economic growth, resulting in the increasing poverty of ordinary people. The sum of the economies of the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties was not even comparable to that of the Song Dynasty, and the people were reduced to drinking porridge every day. The general height of Chinese, after the three dynasties of the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, has decreased from the general height of about 1.8 meters to 1.6 meters at the end of the Qing Dynasty. It's really sighing.

The opposite of China is Western Europe, before the 17th century, the height of the people in Western European countries was generally about 1.6 meters, not more than 1.7 meters, and the Nordic countries were shorter, only about 1.5 meters tall. However, with the development of the economy and the rise of Western Europe, the height of all ethnic groups in Europe has increased to about 1.9 meters in the nineteenth century after 500 years of development.

Zhao Ji thought of Japan in later generations, and after the Meiji Restoration, its economic development surpassed that of China. The development and opening up of the economy have enriched the recipes of the island nation. After a century of development, in addition to the size of the economy still surpassing China, the average height of its citizens has already surpassed China. The Chinese are still laughing at them for being little Japan, they really don't know themselves!

"In this battle, the most feared thing is that because of the climate, which will lead to various epidemics, it is undoubtedly the most important thing for the soldiers of the expedition to adapt to the climate and environment of the South Seas first. In addition, the expeditionary force was newly formed, and the regiments and towns still needed to be run-in. Weichen suggested that the army should be transferred to Qiongzhou in batches for a period of intensive training, and it is best to equip them with new weapons, so that they can test the actual effect of new weapons through actual combat. The cabinet group assisted, and Tong Wenjiang, the giant of the Mo family, was the first to stop laughing and put forward a specific strategy for transporting troops.

"Yes, this time the troops must be dispatched in a hurry. If you are slow, you will accumulate strength, and if you are in a hurry, you will win with one blow. Zhang Dan added.

"Okay, one hit wins." Zhao Ji said happily with a high-five.

"This battle will be won! The Great Song Dynasty is mighty!·····" White Wave raised his hand and shouted.

The other generals, after seeing Bai Wave shouting, the officials did not blame, so they were much less restrained in front of the emperor, and they also shouted. Zhao Ji couldn't stop laughing.

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