The day after Xiang Zhuang arrived at the camp of the Dantu Water Division, Jiang Ji also returned from Panyu.

Hearing that Jiang Ji's sailors had arrived at the open sea, Xiang Zhuang personally went to the port to greet him, and waited on the port for half an hour, a black spot finally appeared on the vast river in the east, and as the distance approached, a broken ship with a broken mast, a broken sail and even several big holes in the side finally appeared in the field of vision.

Looking at this dilapidated "Chu ship", Xiang Zhuang couldn't help but feel a little gloomy.

Two years ago, when he started from the Dantu Sailor Battalion, Jiang Ji's sailor fleet had a full hundred "Chu ships", and they were all large sea ships with pointed bottoms and bows, and a hundred Great Chu ships, with ten ships as a team, were divided into ten teams to explore the South American continent, Xiang Zhuang was also forced to do this, after all, the navigation technology at this time was limited.

Although there is a Pacific nautical chart drawn by his own pretending to be a dream, but this chart is very general after all, how many islands in the South Pacific Ocean and the exact location of these islands, Xiang Zhuang can never draw it, and the accuracy of Sinan is not high, there is a big problem in the accuracy of the pointing, Xiang Zhuang can only divide the fleet into ten roads, thinking is to plant widely and harvest thinly, and send ten roads as long as there is a way back is victory.

This is a very simple probability arithmetic problem.

Due to the limitations of navigation technology, a hundred Chu ships in a group, its survival probability will never be much higher than ten Chu ships going to sea, Xiang Zhuang estimates, can have half of the survival probability is very good, but if the fleet is divided into ten teams, then the probability of a fleet of successful return will immediately increase to fifty percent!

Fifty percent, this is already a high probability!

Xiang Zhuang had never expected the sailor to return completely, all he needed was a few ships or a ship to return, as long as the sailor could bring back sweet potatoes, potatoes and corn, this great sailing adventure would be completed.

However, when Xiang Zhuang saw that there was really only one way and only one sea ship to return home, he couldn't help but feel sorry in his heart, as an emperor, Xiang Zhuang had long been accustomed to life and death, but what happened to the sailor. But I still feel a little guilty in my heart, if I wait for another few decades to sail, such losses can probably be avoided.

But to be honest, Xiang Zhuang can't wait, he desperately wants to introduce sweet potatoes, potatoes, and corn into China in the shortest possible time, he is eager to see the population of the Huaxia people explode, and he wants to see the Huaxia people achieve effective rule over the Far East, Central Asia and Southeast Asia in his lifetime!

The broken ship slowly approached the port. Jiang Ji hurriedly stepped down the gangway, only to see that his clothes were ragged and unkempt, his eyes were deeply sunken, and his eyes were even more bloodshot.

Xiang Zhuang almost didn't recognize it at a glance, this is ...... Jiang Ji?!

"Minister, Jiang Ji, the commander of the sailor, knock to see Your Majesty!" Jiang Ji fell to his knees.

"Knock on Your Majesty, long live......" The sailors and soldiers behind Jiang Ji also knelt on the ground.

"Jiang Aiqing is flat." Xiang Zhuang hurriedly stepped forward to help Jiang Ji up, and then said to the rest of the soldiers. "Soldiers, hurry up, flatten, ......"

After a few words of condolence, Xiang Zhuang asked eagerly, "Jiang Aiqing." Have you ever been to the Far East? ”

Jiang Ji sighed and replied with a gloomy expression: "I don't know if it is the Far East Continent, but the minister has indeed sailed south-east according to the navigation chart given by the king, although there are many difficulties during the period, but after nine months of sailing, he finally arrived at a new continent, and also found the things that the king said. ”

There were many difficulties during the period, and Jiang Ji seemed to be light and clever at this time, but Xiang Zhuang could completely imagine it. What a thrilling nine months these nine months were, with the great storms in the Pacific, the wild men and beasts on the desolate islands, and the panic caused by the inability to find supplies in the vast oceans, all of which cost human lives.

However, Xiang Zhuang obviously couldn't care about comforting Jiang Ji anymore. At the moment, he said eagerly: "Where's the thing?" ”…,

Jiang Ji turned around and beckoned, and six sailors carried down three rattan baskets from the boat, Xiang Zhuang looked at them urgently, and found that the basket was indeed what he dreamed of, half a basket of potatoes, half a basket of sweet potatoes and a small half basket of corn kernels. Xiang Zhuang grabbed a handful of potatoes and a handful of corn kernels, looked at them, smelled them and smelled them, and finally couldn't help but look up to the sky and laugh.

Jiang Ji didn't know why, and said cautiously: "King, the minister originally brought a hundred baskets, but a few months before arriving in Panyu, there was really no food on the ship, so ......"

"It's okay, it's okay, it's enough, it's enough." Xiang Zhuang waved his hand disappreciatively, and then turned back and instructed the Danyang County Shoudao who was standing behind him, "Zhou County Shou, you go back and arrange it immediately, I need a hundred acres of the most fertile land, and a hundred of the most experienced old farmers, and send another thousand soldiers to listen to the tune!" ”

"Whoa!" Danyang County guarded the order and hurriedly went...... Two months later, until the seedlings and potato sprouts grew in the ground, and then the sweet potato seedlings were planted in the ground, and the Danyang County Guard was arranged to take care of the ten acres of fertile land, Xiang Zhuang returned to Luoyang with unfinished intentions, but four months later, Xiang Zhuang will come again, and the sweet potatoes, potatoes and corn sown at that time should almost be ripe.

Returning to Luoyang, Xiang Zhuang began to arrange the use of troops against Goguryeo.

At this time, although it had only been two years since the unification of the world, places such as Guanzhong, Yandi, Qidi and Huainan had not even fully recovered from the trauma of the war, the nascent Chinese Empire still couldn't wait to launch a large-scale foreign conquest, and Goguryeo was the first target of the Chinese Empire.

At the same time in history, the Han Empire recuperated for nearly a hundred years before it finally accumulated enough national strength, and then began a fifty-year war against Hungary, but the Chinese Empire in this time and space advanced this process by half a century, don't look at the Chu and Han rivalries in this time and space for a longer time, but the national strength of the Chinese Empire is far from being comparable to the Han Empire.

After 30 years of development, the original Chu State now has a large scale of industry and commerce, and the prosperity of industry and commerce has brought about the abundance of the national treasury, coupled with the return of handicrafts to agricultural technology, so that the counties under the rule of the original Chu State have bumper harvests year after year, and the two warehouses of grain are piled up.

As for why the handicraft industry will feed back to agricultural technology, the reason is very simple, because the handicraft industry will absorb a large number of middle-aged laborers, and these middle-aged laborers will inevitably have an impact on agriculture if they devote themselves to handicrafts, and in order to make up for or eliminate the impact, they can only find ways from farming technology and production tools, which gives birth to the development of agricultural technology.

For example, based on the deep tillage technology of the iron rake, such as the waterwheel, such as the well irrigation technology based on the waterwheel, and then such as the intercropping technology, crop rotation technology, etc., in the exploration of farmers, as well as the tireless efforts of Taixue students (Taixue has a scientific research institution responsible for the bus conveyor, and invention can obtain a knighthood), agricultural technology has developed in a blowout.

The treasury has sufficient money and food, coupled with the reward mechanism for military achievements, the new Chinese Empire up to the emperor and down to the people of Lishu have a very strong willingness to use troops abroad.

The new Chinese Empire developed more comprehensively at all levels, such as agriculture, industry and commerce, and its ability to mobilize war was definitely not inferior to that of the Great Qin Empire, and the ability to sustain war was much stronger.

Therefore, large-scale external expansion is inevitable.

As for why Goguryeo was chosen as the first target of the crusade, it was also well thought out. …,

First of all, Goguryeo is close to Liaodong, not too far apart, and secondly, Goguryeo is an agricultural civilization, unlike the Xiongnu, Yueshi and other nomads, if you can't beat them, you will escape into the desert or the Gobi Desert, so that you can't find a figure, and finally and most importantly, Goguryeo is in a period of expansion and rise.

As long as Goguryeo is destroyed, the few remaining enemies in the Far East, whether it is the Uhuan people, the Xianbei people, the Buyeo people, or the Jizi Joseon, will no longer be able to challenge the Chinese Empire, of course, at this stage, it can only be conquest, and it will take some time to achieve effective rule in the Far East in the true sense.

Today coincides with the beginning of the month, and hundreds of officials gather in the Fengtian Hall of the newly completed Dahua Palace.

On the magnificent hall, Xiang Zhuang, the first emperor of the Chinese Empire, stands on the throne, and under the jade steps there is the imperial case of the prince Xiang Zheng, Xiang Zheng is wearing a five-clawed dragon robe, and its shape is no different from the dragon robe on Xiang Zhuang's body, and the crown on the head of the father and son is also the same, all of which are twelve.

Xiang Zhuang is using this way to set rules, this is the real prince of the country.

The reason why Xiang Zhuang did this was not only to establish the authority of the crown prince, but also to have more far-reaching considerations, because Xiang Zhuang felt that there were great flaws in the historical succession system, and the crown prince could only be selected from the heirs of the current emperor.

If the current emperor comes to a violent death, the young crown prince hastily ascends the throne, it is a serious problem, leading to the interruption of imperial power is also possible, there are countless precedents in history because of the turmoil of the lord and the young, such as Emperor Hui of the Han Dynasty, for example, Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty, and the most notorious is probably the curtain of the last years of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

Therefore, Xiang Zhuang is determined to break this unreasonable system of succession to the throne, and no emperor who is under the age of 18 and has no experience in participating in politics with the dynasty can not appear in any case, and establishing and consolidating Xiang Zheng's status as a prince, so that he can participate in politics with the dynasty and give him a great voice in personnel appointments and dismissals, which is the first step taken by Xiang Zhuang.

Xiang Zhuang's gaze swept over the faces of the ministers, and finally fixed on Xiang Zheng's face, and asked, "Prince, do you have a suitable candidate for the commander of the Eastern Expedition to Goguryeo?" (To be continued) RQ