The crisis of the Lena dynasty has been hidden since the generation of Nicholas III's grandfather. "The first issue of the word is only due to the effective handling of several generations of emperors, coupled with the huge pressure of the southern empire, it has always been very hidden. But in recent years, as the empire has weakened, the Lena people have grasped more initiative, and while the internal cracks and contradictions have become more and more obvious.

Compared with the empire or the Omanis, the Lena dynasty had more contradictions and more complexities.

In the empire, Yanyun County in the Northland is the most familiar with the Lena people. Any person of insight can tell a thing or two from it: for example, the dispute between Nicholas III and the Grand Duke Yehra, the ******** between the Lena and the Slavs, the difference of interests between the upper nobles and the new officers at the bottom, and so on. However, these are not the main problems of the Lena dynasty at the moment.

What bothered Nicholas III and Prime Minister Kuzov was the slowly growing population and the shortage of land and food!

This is the root cause of the contradictions that intensified the Lena dynasty.

Thanks to the development of these years and a series of reforms since Kuzov came to power, the national power of the Lena dynasty has increased a lot, and the population has also increased. However, the Lena Dynasty was located in the north, and although the territory was still relatively large, the extreme north was either a permafrost plain, or it was covered with snow all year round, and it was impossible to cultivate at all. The land in the south is better, but the harvest is not much higher than that of Yanyun County, which is bitterly cold.

Historically, the Lena people have not encountered this situation. In the end, it was either civil strife and attrition, or they could only wait for a cold spell or famine to naturally reduce the population to acceptable proportions, and the empire was too strong to covet. But now, with a weakened empire, things are different.

Although the Lena had already waged a war with the Omanis in the north during the First Tennan War, the consumption of some of the surplus population was far from enough.

Unleash a new, larger-scale foreign war. Consuming the population and diverting domestic attention and contradictions has gradually become the unanimous consensus of the civil and military of the Lena Dynasty!

The Second Tiannan War. Since it was a war between the Songjiang army and the Omanis, it was not involved in the empire much. The Lena dynasty did not choose to participate in the end, despite its hesitation. But this year, the increasingly intensified contradictions in the country made Nicholas III and Kuzov determined.

Moreover, they also ushered in a good opportunity.

That is to join forces with the Tile Thorn Wanderers in Wuwei County in the northwest reads(); The queen of the cold palace is a pretty chef!

The envoy of the Lena people had already made a detour through the Duchy of Guò Barents to the Golmud steppe in the far west. Here, contact was made with the royal court of the Tile Thorn. The two sides agreed that one side would invade from Wuwei County in the northwest. One side invades from Choibalsan in Yanyun County in the north and joins forces to attack the empire!

The Qianyuan royal family, which has just gained a little respite, will usher in a huge crisis again in a few months.

At this time, they were still making a final effort to quell the rebellion in Wudou Midao.

The second reinforcement army of the Inca kingdom finally marched into Xichuan County. Although the result was not surprising and was easily defeated, it caused more trouble for the Empire. However, after the end of this battle, Wudou Midao completely lost the last piece of territory, and Zhang Fa, who had previously broken through from the lonely city of Longquan, committed suicide in a desperate defeat here. The entire southwest of the empire. Only a few remnants of the army remained.

It can be said that the Wudou Midao Rebellion, which once swept the four counties, was completely recovered at the moment when Zhang Fa committed suicide and Xichuan County was completely recovered. It has already been declared a failure. It's just that the impact of a large number of routs on the local area, as well as the robbers and robbers everywhere, make it take a long time for the four southwestern counties to heal their wounds.

However, the Empire is no longer out of that time.

The soldiers of the Qinghe Army, who had been fighting for many years, had just returned to their hometown to rest and recuperate, and in early summer they received news that the people of the northern Lena were about to move. For a time, the tired and war-weary soldiers were angry. The Reich's military department made a move to add fuel to the fire, delaying the payment of the military salary for a whole month - not because they did not want to pay it in time. However, the central financial crisis is really in great crisis.

The ruins of the four southwestern counties, the de facto division of the three southeastern counties, and the continuous war......

In order to maintain the imminent collapse of the finances. After several discussions with Qian Yuanji, the finance minister had no choice but to order an increase in the collection of local taxes. This is a way to quench thirst by drinking a donkey. Although it can barely survive the current crisis, it will undoubtedly leave a greater hidden danger and local discontent. Although there will be no rebellion of the scale of Wudou Midao for a while, in just one spring this year, the number of uprisings and rebellions reported in various places has already exceeded the number of a year when Chen Wugang crossed over!

At this time, anyone can feel that the huge broken ship of the Qianyuan Empire seems to be about to sink!

The situation of several major countries is so bad, and the reappearance of the clouds of a new round of war has made the shape of the Eastern Continent more and more tense. In this case, the three counties of Songjiang, which had just gotten rid of the war and had a good shape, became prominent. According to the statistics of the Songjiang Finance Bureau, since the beginning of this year, the number of caravans imported and exported from Daqingguan and Qingjiang Waterways and the total amount of taxes paid have increased by at least 20% on average compared with the same period in previous years!

That's a pretty staggering number.

On the other hand, the Yinggehai Salt Farm, which was developed after the capture of Ninghai County, has initially consolidated the market and entered the stage of comprehensive expansion of production capacity. The production of sea salt, which skyrocketed, began to circulate throughout the three counties. Denglai Haiyan, which originally occupied a ninety percent share of the market, has seen its sales shrink sharply to less than three percent, and it is still declining rapidly.

These markets and rolling profits seized by the Yingge Sea Salt Farm undoubtedly all fell into the hands of the Songjiang Army.

Soon after, the first shipment of iron ore from the Asahikawa Iron Mine on Cook Island docked at Quanzhou Port, marking a new beginning. However, as the core of the Songjiang Army and the master of the three counties, Chen Wu was far from satisfied with the current situation. Under the superficial prosperity, a hidden danger is still there and has not been solved.

That is the food problem that Yuan Xingwei had mentioned to him before the Asahikawa Iron Mine!

Although the transportation of Asahikawa iron ore allowed the Songjiang Army to reduce its dependence on Yanyun County and the scale of its transactions, Songjiang County did not produce war horses, so the transactions with the Great Prince and the Song family still could not be stopped. Lord of a Thousand Faces. In addition, the sales of Hanjingfang liquor exceeded everyone's surprise, and the food consumed continued unabated, and the grain stocks in the three counties of Songjiang were decreasing at a faster rate.

When Yuan Xingwei was a little breathless, he once again sent a kind reminder to Chen Wu. Chen Wu knew that the time had come to solve the food problem.

His gaze fell on the continent map of the Eastern Continent.

With the cartographic technology of this era. The Qianyuan Empire could only carry out a rough survey and mapping of its own territory, and could only use the general scope to delineate its neighbors. But with the help of Chen Wu, a traverser. One qiē is different. Although there are still many differences in the details, the overall shape and the distribution of major national borders and major cities have been amazingly improved.

Perhaps the specific latitude and longitude and proportional dimensions still need to be accurately determined, but compared to the extremely unprofessional world map of the Empire, this map of the Eastern Continent in his study is already perfect!

The line of sight wandered, starting from the port of Quanzhou in Ninghai and entering the Eastern Ocean.

But this time, he didn't move northeast to Cook Island. Instead, it stretched diagonally southeast for thousands of nautical miles, stopping near the confluence of the Eastern and Southern Oceans.

It was still blank, and Chen Wu deliberately didn't mark it out in advance.

At this moment, he picked up the pen and drew a circle in the general direction.

The location of that circle is called North Luzon!

Also a large island, the value of the Cook Islands is nothing compared to that of Northern Luzon.

The former has barren land, a small population, and perennial wars on the island, with almost no decent resources except for the Asahikawa iron mine. Northern Luzon is different. Its area is equivalent to the total area of Songjiang County and Ninghai County, and it is larger than Cook Island. Due to its tropical location, the soil is fertile. Most of the Luzon rice produced here is produced three times a year!

You know, according to the statistics of players in the game, North Luzon is close to the empire's major grain-producing county Songjiang just by the area of rice fields that have been developed. And since most of the rice fields in North Luzon are three seasons, even if the local natives don't care about farming and rely solely on fertile soil, North Luzon still has a grain output on par with Songjiang County!

What an attractive piece of territory!

What's even more eye-catching is that the Duchy of Luzon that rules here is the local native of Luzon. Not only is it ignorant and uncivilized. It also has the common lazy habits over there. The fertile island of Northern Luzon is also vacant with large tracts of idle land. If all the potential is exploited. At least one-third more arable land in North Luzon!

It's not even just a matter of food.

In addition to high-quality Luzon rice. It also produces a large number of tropical fruits, palms, a variety of mineral veins, and natural rubber! Although rubber is of little use at this stage, in the future, with the full emergence of firearms, entering the era of hot weapons, and even promoting the industrial revolution, the usefulness of rubber is beyond doubt.

In addition, Luzon has at least three excellent natural deep-water seaports and is strategically important throughout the Eastern and Southern Oceans.

This enclave located on the ocean is working well, and it can be called an unimaginable treasure land. If it can be swallowed, Songjiang County will be equivalent to adding a new Songjiang Ninghai territory, and there will be no need to compete with the other forces of the empire. The local population of 6 million natives is a great wealth of labor - of course, how to train them with a whip is a problem!

In the history of the game, it would take six years for it to be conquered by outsidersreads(); [Twilight] Hey, werewolf!.

Of the three kingdoms that have enough strength to do something against it, the empire has no interest or will. The emperors of the Omani Dynasty, like the Qianyuan Empire, looked down on the natives of Luzon. Moreover, Saladin always had the idea of chasing the Central Plains, and he was bent on fighting north, without developing a sailor. Even the military operations that landed at the port of Quanzhou had to rely on the strength of the Andamanies.

The Andaman Alliance in the South Seas has a strong enough naval force, and it also knows the existence of Luzon.

But this force also has its own problems.

It is a loose alliance of island city-states, with constant internal strife and a scumbag army. Although the Principality of Luzon is decaying, and the natives of the island do not have any enterprising spirit and national identity, it is a great force with six million people. Coupled with the fact that it is completely self-sufficient, the Andaman Union has no way to take Luzon at this stage.

In "Empire", it was the Andaman merchants who slowly conquered it six years later. It's just that at that time, their internal contradictions have been greatly alleviated in a war, and they have the ability to unify with the outside world.

The farther forces of the Central and Western Continents, at this time, were at the end of the war between the Sun Dynasty and the Western Continent countries, and they also had no time to pay attention to the East.

This has created a rare situation where such a treasure land as North Luzon falls on such a weak native force as the Duchy of Luzon, but it has always developed steadily and no outsiders have come to occupy it!

Chen Wu's long-term goal is to take advantage of the precious vacuum period in the past few years to slowly swallow this place, and vigorously develop shipping, so as to completely connect and assimilate this place with the three counties of Songjiang. A rich Songjiang County has become the foundation of the Songjiang Army. If one more Northern Luzon Island is added, countless resources will flow back to the three counties, and Chen Wu will have almost endless war potential.

Taking 10,000 steps back, even if Chen Wu completely loses in the war against the Central Plains and even with the Sun Dynasty in the future, he can return to this treasure island in the ocean. Rely on the Mariners and the Great Ocean to defend yourself, wait for the moment to change on the island, and then make a comeback!

After staring at the map for a long time, Chen Wu came back to his senses from his excitement and longing for the future.

The idea and strategy are good, but the execution is not easy. Although the Duchy of Luzon was decaying, it still had an army of 60,000, and the leaders of various places also had their own private armies. If it borders Songjiang County, then Chen Wu is naturally not afraid, and directly the two divisions will be bulldozed. However, North Luzon Island is separated from the port of Quanzhou by several thousand nautical miles, and it can take several months to make a round trip - the unpredictable ocean is the greatest enemy of the Songjiang army!

Fortunately, some of the Andaman merchants who had been doing maritime trade with the Empire for many years had visited North Luzon more than once and were aware of the Empire's shipping routes to North Luzon. With the map provided by Chen Wu and a rough line drawn on it, supplemented by the heavily recruited Andaman maritime navigation, the Ninghai division was capable of conquering North Luzon.

The previous landing of the Omanis at the port of Chengxi and the crossing of the sea to attack the Asahikawa Domain on Cook Island laid a firm foundation for this truly ocean-going voyage.

As for the step-by-step plan, Chen Wu also already had an idea.

A direct attack on North Luzon was not advisable, and the strength of the Ninghai Division was still limited, and the troops transported at one time were not enough to defeat the Duchy of Luzon. Therefore, Chen Wu intended to dock the fleet on Yanjian Island, near the island of North Luzon. Seize this place as a springboard, wait for the follow-up troops to land, and drop it on the island of Northern Luzon at one time, and strive to defeat the royal court of the Duchy of Luzon in Manila!

As long as this rotten principality is finished, the remaining leaders can be broken one by one, and Northern Luzon will be brought under the rule of the Songjiang Army in the shortest possible time. (To be continued.) )

ps:There is still only one big chapter of 4000 words today.,Tomorrow it will be back to normal updates.,Book friends, forgive me.。