Although he cherishes his reputation, but the development of Australia is more attractive to Kangxi, thinking about the possible existence of a huge gold mine in the village, his heart jumps wildly, if he can have an additional income of tens of thousands of taels or hundreds of thousands of taels of gold every year, then how generous is the hand? After pondering for a long time, he asked in a deep voice: "How many troops will it take to send troops to occupy Australia?" ”

Hearing Kangxi's question, Yinzhen knew that he had acquiesced, and said with a slight sigh: "Australia has a vast territory, and there are natives entrenched on it, and there are fewer troops, and it is difficult to achieve results in the short term, and 30,000 troops are still needed." ”

Only 30,000? Kangxi couldn't help but be surprised, with such a vast territory and 30,000 horses, wouldn't it be like a sea of mud cattle? What can be helped? When will it take for the full occupation of Australia? He couldn't help but look at Yinzhen suspiciously.

Feeling Kangxi's questioning gaze, Yinzhen paused slightly, and then explained: "Huang Ama, Australia is a terra nullius, it is not difficult to occupy it, build a few ports in several directions or on the coast near the shipping route, erect monuments, and plant the flag of my Qing Dynasty, it is enough to declare the sovereignty of Australia belongs to the Qing Dynasty." ”

So easy? Kangxi was a little unbelievable, this is just child's play! It's easier than staking land, that's half of the territory of the Qing Dynasty, the old fourteen has always acted steadily and well, how could he be so careless and sloppy about Australia? Thinking about it for a while, he couldn't come up with a reason, so he said, "Can overseas places be so easy to obtain?" ”

"Back to the Emperor Ama." Yinzhen replied calmly: "With the development of navigation technology and shipbuilding, the opening of new routes, the discovery of new continents, the era of sea power called by Westerners has come, whoever has a strong enough navy will be able to have more overseas territories, wealth and discourse."

Portugal, Spain, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and France are the leaders of the Western countries, Spain is the most prosperous maritime power in the early stage, and its mainland is not as good as the two southeastern provinces of the Qing Dynasty, but it relies on the silver looted from the Americas against several Western countries for decades, and the one relied on is the powerful Spanish Invincible Armada.

There are many terra nullius overseas, and as long as you have a strong enough navy, you can easily obtain them, and the reason why Australia can declare the sovereignty of the Qing Dynasty is based on the strong national strength and navy of the Qing Dynasty.

At present, there are borderless lands overseas, and the Western countries will definitely not take the risk of provoking a war between the two countries to seize the territory that has declared the sovereignty of the Qing Dynasty, as long as the navy is strong enough, the dragon flag of the Qing Dynasty can be planted on all continents, and no one dares to offend! ”

Grab territory on all continents? What a big spirit! Kangxi was also heartbroken when he heard it, no wonder the old fourteen openly spread that he wanted to divide the seal overseas, and it turned out that he was planning to grab land everywhere! It seems that this overseas division has to be carefully reconsidered, and the proposal of the old fourteen cannot be taken lightly, thinking of this, he said in a very gentle tone: "Tell me about your idea of overseas separation." ”

Seeing Kangxi's gentle attitude, Yinzhen's heart was very relaxed, it seemed that Kangxi was also very tempted to grab land everywhere, and after sorting out his thoughts a little, he said eloquently: "Huang Ama has seen the map of Kunyu Wanguo, and he knows the distribution of all continents well. The newly discovered areas of North and South America, Africa, and Australia are all sparsely populated and largely uncivilized.

Although Portugal and Spain were the first to open up new shipping routes and discovered South and North America, Africa, and other places, they did not occupy many places overseas because they were small and small, and their military forces were limited, and the two countries were very short-sighted, and they mainly plundered and had no intention of occupying overseas territories for a long time. ..., the Netherlands, despite its strong maritime power, was mainly engaged in trade, and was only interested in important places on the trade routes of the East and the Americas, as well as in spices, gold and silver.

Britain was a newly rising maritime power, and now it was beginning to conquer overseas territories everywhere, and the Qing navy rose not too late at this time, and it can be said that it was just in time for the golden age of carving up the New World.

Nowadays, overseas South and North America, Africa, Australia and other continents, everywhere are terra nullius, as long as you have a strong navy, it is no exaggeration to say that you can just plant a dragon flag and set up a stone monument, you can declare that this place belongs to the Qing Dynasty!

However, the land thus occupied is only a nominal possession, and cannot be regarded as the land of the Qing Dynasty in the true sense, because the Qing Dynasty has a strong national strength, sufficient population and military strength, and can completely occupy a place, consolidate a land, and assimilate a land, and after more than ten years, the occupied land can be completely transformed into the Qing Dynasty

There are too many terra nullius overseas, even if the navy is strong, it can't draw so many troops and energy to blossom in all directions and expand everywhere, and the imperial court can't send so many officials to manage everywhere, and it doesn't have so much energy to supervise and manage all places.

Therefore, the sons proposed to implement overseas feudal feudals, imitating the Western Zhou feudal system, and should decentralize the political, financial, military, and personnel powers to the feudal country.

In this way, all continents could be fully expanded at the same time, and the imperial court could concentrate on the occupation and consolidation of strategic points.

For the feudal state, the emperor only needs to promise to seal as much territory as he wants, and many feudal states will naturally try their best to expand and vigorously develop in order to consolidate and develop their own vested interests.

In this way, in this wave of carving up the New World, the Qing Dynasty will become the biggest beneficiary, and after more than ten years, it will be possible to form a situation where dozens or hundreds of feudal states are spread all over the major states, and the navy is the strong backing of all feudal states, cruising all continents, maintaining the sovereignty of the Qing Dynasty and protecting the feudal states from infringement. ”

Kangxi was already dumbfounded when he heard it, dozens and hundreds of feudal countries are all over all continents, what kind of situation is that? All countries come to the dynasty, that is an exaggeration, a hundred countries to the dynasty is estimated to be no problem, longing for a long time, he calmed down and thought, enough tea time, before he said in a deep voice: "Even if it is a feudal country, there must be enough troops as a backing, otherwise it will not be able to develop at all, although the Qing Dynasty has a large population, but it can't withstand such a toss, there is not enough population, no matter how much it is divided, it is meaningless to occupy more land." "Min