'How can my brother's gaze be limited to the country of Wa! Looking at the searching eyes of everyone in the hall, Wang Ze had a sense of pride as a traverser.

He pointed to the map in front of him and excitedly said to everyone: "Now that we have a firm foothold in the East China Sea, we will attack the Wa Kingdom on the one hand, and gradually advance the occupation of the Wa Kingdom, and on the other hand, we must prepare to establish a stronghold on Ezo Island, Kuyi Island, and the southern part of the Begi Coast further north, and then expand outward on the basis of the established strongholds!" ”

It was not until this time that Yang Ku and others discovered that Wang Ze's ambitions that had been hidden in the past were so big, and when the countries besieged the Northern Qi Dynasty before, Wang Ze did not take advantage of the situation to attack the prefectures and counties of the Northern Qi Dynasty, but only encouraged Wang Yong to cooperate with him to open up the occupation of the islands in the East China Sea.

At that time, Yang Ku, Zhuo Ran and others just thought that Wang Ze would not dare to compete with the Central Plains countries in order to seize the world, and felt that Wang Ze worked so hard to open up the islands of the East China Sea for immigration, just to avoid overseas and be a free prince, but they didn't expect that Wang Ze had already set his goal on the land further north.

As he spoke, everyone turned their attention to the large area where Wang Ze drew a circle with the wooden pole in his hand, which was much larger than the circle drawn by Deng Xixian in the South China Sea in the later generations.

How big is this land? At least the entire Northeast region of later generations and the outer Northeast region of Russia, as well as Sakhalin Island and Ezo Island, were also included, in fact, Wang Ze planned to start occupying the Kamchatka Peninsula and some places further north in the later generations, such a large piece of land is larger than any of the current Northern Qi, Northern Zhou, Southern Chen and other countries.

Although the pie painted by Wang Ze is big, Yang Ku still has his own worries: "Little Marquis, now we are still fighting a war against the Japanese Kingdom, although the main force of the Japanese State has lost most of it, but there are still two or three hundred thousand young and strong people in the whole country, and there are still seventy or eighty thousand troops under the command of Su and I Yongde, if we despise the Japanese State and then conquer other places, once the Japanese State frantically counterattacks, it will inevitably pose some threats to our side!" ”

"Sir, rest assured, now what I'm talking about is only the direction of our development in the next few years, at present, the most important thing for us is to continue to attack the Japanese country first, otherwise the character of the Japanese people is extraordinarily forbearing, as long as they are given time to recuperate, they will bite us back sooner or later, so take advantage of the advantages we have now to sweep away the Japanese country!"

"It is also a safe plan for the little marquis to arrange it like this, and in a few years, when we will almost wipe out the strength of the Japanese kingdom, the few strongholds established in these places at that time will also have a good foundation, and it will be easier for the little marquis to send a large army to occupy these places in Beji!" Yang Ku looked at the map in front of him and said thoughtfully.

Seeing that Yang Ku began to support his plan, Wang Ze became more and more energetic, and he pointed to the place of Vladivostok in the future with a wooden pole and said to everyone: "Now Zhao Qin is logging here, and there are tens of thousands of acres of unharvested trees in the land of Beji, and this will be the main shipyard of my East China Sea here in the future, so a city will definitely be built here in the future, I think the big ship built here is to guard the sea, so this city is called Zhenhai!" ”

"If we occupy this large piece of land in the future, we only need to face the threat of Goguryeo in the south, and we don't have to worry about the border trouble in the north, and the barbarians in the steppe such as the Turks in the west don't have to worry, this vast jungle alone is enough to resist the Turkic army!" Zheng Kui looked at the map and began to express his support for Wang Ze.

Seeing that Yang Ku and Zheng Kui successively expressed their support for him, Wang Ze said with a smile: "Yes, the biggest problem of the Central Plains Dynasty has always been the border trouble in the north, and we have now set up several strongholds on Kuyi Island, Ezo Island and Beji South of this land, which are very far away from the Turks, and when we gradually expand outward in the future, there will be forest barriers, and when we become stronger, we will not have to worry about the Turks attacking!" ”

"Little Marquis, if you choose to build a city here in Zhenhai, I'm afraid there is still a problem that can't be bypassed, this is not far from the land of Goguryeo, and there are many Beji tribes nearby who are attached to Goguryeo and pay tribute to Goguryeo, once Goguryeo learns that we have set up a stronghold here, I'm afraid that we will immediately send troops to attack, so Little Marquis still needs to think about it!" Just when Wang Ze was happy, Qu Liulang poured cold water on him.

Yang Ku took over and said: "After Goguryeo moved its capital from the domestic city (the Jilin side of the middle reaches of the Yalu River in later generations) to Pyongyang, its main focus was not only on the side of Baekje and Silla, but also on the main consolidation of the occupation of the four Han counties in Liaodong. ”

Qu Liulang was unconvinced and said: "Mr. Yang, even if it is just a bondage, if the Goguryeo people know that this place is occupied by us, they will definitely not sit idly by, be careful in everything!" Saying that, Qu Liulang, Yang Ku and the others began to debate again.

Wang Ze stared at the map and thought for a while, pointed to the blank space on the map that had not yet drawn a map of Zhenhai, and said to Yang Ku and Qu Liulang, who were still arguing: "In this case, in order to prevent any incident, then let Zhao Qin further north until the mouth of the Tongjiang River (the name of the section where the Heilongjiang and Ussuri rivers meet to the mouth of the sea) and then establish a stronghold, which can also be used as a supplement to Zhenhai, since this is called Jiangkou at the mouth of the Tongjiang River!" ”

Qu Liulang interjected: "Little Hou Ye, I think we should take down the two places of Kuyi Island and Ezo Island first, according to Ling Cheng's report, there are large areas of excellent pastures on Ezo Island and Kuyi Island, the terrain is vast and flat, which is very suitable for raising horses, it is better for us to send a batch of horses from Jeju Island to Ezo Island, now the horse farms on Jeju Island are relatively crowded, and Qinjin is not suitable for raising horses!" ”

"Since the sixth brother thinks it is suitable for raising horses, he will first transport hundreds of war horses to try it first, if it is indeed very suitable for the growth of war horses, and then move a large number of horses there, Mr. Yang, you are responsible for assisting in arranging it!" Wang Ze felt that the war horses raised on these two islands must be more hardy, so that when he attacked Zhenhai and other Beji regions in the future, he could have a large number of excellent war horses.

Saying that, Wang Ze said to Qu Liulang again: "Sixth brother, what you said is very reasonable, but the indigenous population on these two islands is very sparse, and they have always admired Chinese civilization, so we only need to send armed colonists and a small number of troops to completely control these two islands, but since Zhenhai is close to Goguryeo, the nearby tribes are still relatively strong, so we still need to send more people here!" "Nuwa Library

Seeing that everyone still didn't understand the importance of the Northeast region, Wang Ze pointed to this large area of the Heilongjiang River Basin from the sea to the Great Khing'an Mountains in later generations, and said to everyone: "Do you know how precious this large piece of land is? This place can be said to be the lifeline of the Central Plains Dynasty in the past dynasties, and it is also the place that poses the greatest threat to the Central Plains. ”

Isn't it too exaggerated, now the life gate of the Central Plains should be said to be the northwest! The crowd was somewhat unimpressed by Wang Ze's statement, and now the Turks who posed the greatest threat to the Central Plains were the Jinshan Mountains (Altai Mountains) in the northwest, and the earlier steppe overlord Rouran and even the most powerful Xiongnu originated from the west and north of the Central Plains.

Seeing that everyone was a little unimpressed by his statement, Wang Ze was not in a hurry, he said slowly: "In the Han Dynasty, because of the Xiongnu, everyone in the world thought that since ancient times, the border troubles of our Central Plains have been in the west and north, and even now there are Turks rising in the northwest. ”

Wang Ze pointed to the places on the map and continued: "But they have forgotten that the threat from the northeast in the past is not inferior to this, from the Donghu and Shanrong in the Spring and Autumn Period, to the Wuhuan and Xianbei in the Han Dynasty, all of which originated from this, and in another hundred years, even the threat from the northeast will exceed the threat from the northwest!" ”

In fact, what Wang Ze can't say is that in the next hundreds of years or thousands of years, there will be more dangerous Liao, Jin, Mongolian, Later Jin and other regimes all originated in this region, and the strong enemies that originated in the west have no great enemies except for the Turks and Tibet, so it can be said that the land of Beji is the most important territory of China.

Once this land truly belongs to the Central Plains, then the arable land and resources here will be huge for the entire Central Plains, on the contrary, if there is a hostile force to the Central Plains, then his threat to the Central Plains will far exceed the nomadic forces on the grassland.

The invasion of Wuhuan and Xianbei to the Central Plains Many people will have some general understanding through the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, but in the past, the threat of Donghu and Shanrong to the Central Plains is not clear to many people, in the Spring and Autumn Period, Donghu was the most powerful, and once invaded the Central Plains on a large scale and occupied a lot of land.

Later, the alliance of the princes of the countries led by the State of Qi joined forces to defeat Donghu and make it withdraw from the Central Plains, among which the Xiangguo Guan Zhong of Xiaobai, the Duke of Qi Huan at that time, had a great contribution, so that Confucius later sighed: "Micro Guan Zhong, I am wearing a hair left!" "That is to say, if it weren't for Guan Zhong, I would have been a barbarian with his hair scattered and his clothes turned to the left.

Of course, civil officials such as Yang Ku and Zhuo Ran, who were born as scribes, knew these allusions, but Zheng Kui and other military generals who read less did not understand them, so he said: "Little Marquis, isn't Goguryeo also occupying a large area of land in Liaodong now!" I didn't see how powerful Goguryeo is now! ”

Even Zhuo Ran, a scribe who knew Donghu, Wuhuan, and Xianbei, echoed: "Yes, and I haven't seen the Northern Wei Dynasty and Northern Qi go to attack Goguryeo because of the threat posed by Goguryeo's occupation of these places!" There were still some objections to Wang Ze's efforts to develop Zhenhai Zhuoran, so he took Goguryeo as an example.

Wang Ze glanced at Zhuo Ran, thinking that Zhuo Ran's vision was really the material for being a county guard, and at most it would be a thorn in the future.

"At the end of the Han Dynasty, Goguryeo was just a small country covering an area of 100 li and a population of more than 100,000, but after he occupied the four counties of the Han Dynasty in Liaodong, it quickly rose to become a big country with a base of 3,000 li and a population of millions.

Seeing that Yang Ku and the others were thoughtful, Wang Ze continued: "And have you forgotten that after Goguryeo occupied the counties of Liaodong County and Lelang County, Emperor Cao Wei Wu sent the general Muqiu Jian to lead the army to attack Goguryeo, and at that time, the capital of Goguryeo Maruo fell and almost the country was destroyed, and later because of the battle for Liaodong Goguryeo, he was crippled by Murong Xianbei several times in succession, aren't these all ready-made examples!" ”

Most of the Central Plains dynasties were very aware of the importance of the Northeast region, although during the Tuoba Wei and Northern Qi periods, because of the fierce battle for the Central Plains, the Northern Wei and Eastern Wei and Northern Qi dynasties who occupied the Central Plains at that time temporarily ignored the importance of the Liaodong and Beji regions.

However, in the original history, the Sui and Tang dynasties, which later completed the unification of the Central Plains, began to attack Goguryeo impatiently after the Central Plains was unified.

Although the 300,000 troops sent by Emperor Wen of Sui went halfway, almost all the troops were wiped out because of the plague caused by heavy rain on the way, and then Emperor Yang of Sui, who inherited his father's business, also died because of his repeated expeditions to Goguryeo, and Li Shimin, who conquered Goguryeo for the third time, also failed and finally did not end well.

But for the importance of Liaodong, so that the Central Plains Dynasty still worked hard to continue to attack Goguryeo, no one has ever ignored it, until the fourth emperor Li Zhi sent several gold medal fighters to work together, and united with Silla to send troops, which finally destroyed Goguryeo, a small strong force with strong vitality.

After all, at that time, Goguryeo used Chinese characters and Han rites, and other city construction and state systems copied the Central Plains entirely, and if Goguryeo was allowed to occupy Liaodong and continue to develop, it would be likely that a powerful and agrarian country would occupy it in a few hundred years, so the threat to the Central Plains Dynasty would be too great.