The wheels of the train beat rhythmically on the rails, making a "clang, clang" sound, and occasionally the roar of a steam engine.

Zhuge Weidao had already boarded the train to Turkhisk at this time, and was driving on the vast plains of the Rakshasa Empire, which was covered with ice and snow. The distance from Petersburg to Turkheysk is more than 2,500 kilometers in a straight line, and the length of the railway line between the two places is more than 3,000 kilometers. In those years, the speed of the railway was twenty or thirty kilometers per hour, and it took 100 or so hours to travel 3,000 kilometers, and it took about five or six days.

However, compared with the long journey to Bagua City, the capital of the Jin Empire, and then from Bagua City to Yining, the capital of Daming Ili Province, this journey can only be described as comfortable and fast. If the latter walks slowly, it will not be certain for two or three months!

And this period of time on the road is really very precious for Zhuge Weidao. Because his memories have not been able to be "recovered", it seems that they were deleted when the "soul was reloaded". So he had to re-enter a little bit of the necessary memory. You can't be like a stupid B everywhere, I don't know this, I don't know that...... He's a Zhuge military advisor who can pinch and calculate!

So before boarding the train leaving St. Petersburg, he asked Guo Xiaobao to spend public money to buy him a lot of books on history, geography, and the navy, intending to "make up" during the journey. Most of these books are in the Rakshasa version, but fortunately, Zhuge Weidao still remembers the Rakshasa text, and can not only speak, but also read. In addition, Natalie, who is with her, has studied Chinese seriously, and she is still learning it as a second mother tongue when she is a child, so if Zhuge Weidao can't understand it, she can also help translate it.

Of course, he didn't have to think about it if he wanted to complete the "recultivation" in a few months and master everything that Zhuge Weidao Buddha-figure had learned in the past twenty years or so.

Because he has already inquired with Guo Xiaobao, the original Zhuge family with many talents can also be regarded as a "heavenly cow" - a natural cow!

That "Zhen Zhuge Weidao" finished high school at the age of sixteen, and was admitted to the Daming Naval Academy with the first place. When I was twenty years old, I was the first in the graduation exam and comprehensive score!

Just two years later, he was admitted to the Naval Staff College with the first grade, and then graduated from the Staff College with the first grade, and then he was awarded the rank of major and sent to the Rakshasa Kingdom as a naval attaché.

If nothing else, after he completes the task of "bringing back Natalie", his next position should be as the first or second officer on a fast cruiser or armored warship - a highly technical position that cannot be fooled by the knowledge that Zhuge Weidao has now.

So after returning to the Ming Dynasty, Zhuge has to continue to study hard for the Tao!

It was already dark outside the train, and Natalie and the Rakshasa maid who accompanied her had already gone back to their small room to sleep.

And the cadres from Hezhongtang and the Jin Empire mission had already gone back to their carriage to squint.

That Sushun Xiaoshunzi was also arranged by Zhuge to go to rest.

Only Guo Xiaobao, the military attache secretary of Zhuge Weidao, still yawned and accompanied him all day long, not that Guo Xiaobao didn't want to sleep, but Zhuge Weidao didn't let him go!

There are a lot of stupid questions about this "stupid Zhuge ", and Guo Xiaobao has to answer them one by one patiently.

"Baozhi, how is this Luzon Islands half of us and Spain? How did we have an island of Luzon, a Palawan and a few small islands? Don't want so much land in the south? ”

The stupid question of "Silly Zhuge is here again!

Guo Xiaobao held his eyelids and replied: "Isn't this that King Zheng Chengzhong died of illness when he attacked Luzon?" The Zheng family horses who accompanied him on the southern expedition also died of many diseases...... Therefore, after taking Luzon, they had no choice but to withdraw their troops. ”

Zhuge nodded for the Dao, and said in his heart: "Zheng Chenggong contracted the disease and died after accepting Luzon, which is considered a wish in his previous life, but this tropical epidemic is indeed powerful!" ”

Guo Xiaobao said: "Later, King Wuzhong will give priority to conquering Borneo...... He knew that there was a treasure on the island of Borneo, and he had to conquer the coast completely. Therefore, the use of troops in the southern part of Luzon was temporarily abandoned.

And in order to avoid the Spaniards supporting the princely princes of Borneo. He signed a peace treaty with the Spaniards, only recovering the islands of Luzon and Palawan, and leasing all the scattered islands in the south of Luzon to the Spanish Habsburgs. ”

"King Wuzhong knows that there is oil on Borneo!" Zhuge thought to himself, "That must be taken down...... After all, China's large oil fields are not well developed, and the oil on Borneo comes from a few dug up, and several oil fields are near the coastline, which is very convenient to transport. ”

"But why didn't King Wuzhong take South Luzon after he collected Borneo?" Zhuge asked again for the Tao.

Guo Xiaobao shook his head, "Brother Daozi, you don't have a hard time watching people carry the burden!" ”

"What, is Borneo hard to fight?"

Guo Xiaobao sighed and said: "It's not difficult to fight, but too many people have died in the fortification, defense, and tuntian after the battle...... In the past ten years, no less than 30,000 Ming soldiers and civilians have died of illness in Borneo!

Even the son of King Wuzhong, Marquis Wenzhong of Wuxiang later died of illness in Borneo! ”

Zhuge Weidao also knows the power of tropical infectious diseases, even after the advent of quinine, tropical infectious diseases such as malaria are still fatal to immigrants from the north!

In the early years, only by fighting for one's life to clear the primeval forest into clean and cooked land could the harm of disease be effectively reduced. If the Ming army could catch enough indigenous slaves or buy some black slaves, it would have killed fewer people.

However, the sequelae of such a method are also quite big, it is easy to catch slaves, but it is difficult to drive slaves! It is not appropriate to have an area like Borneo that must be taken completely.

"This Marquis of Wuxiang Wenzhong is ......" Zhuge Weidao was silent for a while, and then asked.

Even grandfather forgot...... Guo Xiaobao was also speechless, it seems that this Zhuge Weidao's amnesia is still quite serious.

Guo Xiaobao sighed and said, "He is Grandfather Ling!" The title of Duke Ling Zun Youde is also the Marquis of Wuxiang, known as Zhongyi, and the current Marquis of Wuxiang is Brother Ling. ”

"What about me?" Zhuge asked, "Do I have a title?" ”

"No," Guo Xiaobao shook his head, "There are only two hereditary titles owned by the Zhuge family, one is the Martial King, and the other is the Marquis of Wuxiang. ”

"Oh," Zhuge nodded, "then let's talk about how the development of the South Seas is yellow." ”

Guo Xiaobao paused, and then said: "Because there are too many dead people, the voice of the DPRK and China opposing the development of Nanyang has also risen. King Wuzhong and his old man couldn't convince everyone, so they had to suspend the plan to go south.

He originally wanted to wait for the local population of Daming to grow a little more, and at the same time, when the cinchona trees introduced from South America had grown, he would go south. Who knows...... Before that day, his old man died on the way to the west. ”

Guo Xiaobao stretched out his right hand and gently stroked the map spread on the table, and sighed: "King Wuzhong was twenty-five years old and threw his pen from Rong, turned the tide and helped the Ming Dynasty to perish, leveled the Central Plains, set the northwest, smashed the Yellow Dragon, stepped on the grassland, swept the Western Regions, went to the snowy plateau, rejected the Rakshasa Baiyi, and subdued Annam, Siam, Zhenla, Nanzhang, Ava and other Tiannan countries, and also sent troops to the New World in his busy schedule to open up the land of New Manchuria.

King Wuzhong, his old man, has been in the prime minister for more than 50 years, during which there are always 30 years of fighting abroad, people do not take off their armor, horses do not unsaddle, until he dies in the army. It can be said that you have done your best, and you have died! ”

Zhuge Weidao also lowered his head to look at this Rakshasa version of the world map, and the China on the map is very large and beautiful...... But it's not big enough, it's not beautiful enough!

At this time, if the Ming Empire on the map includes several subject countries such as Korea, Annam, Siam, Chenla, Nanzhang, Ava, and Ryukyu, plus the overseas provinces of Borneo, Luzon, and New Manchuria (that is, Alaska), plus Mongolia, Baikal, Trans-Khingan, Beiyang (Outer Northeast Primorye, Sakhalin Island), Ili and other border provinces, the total territorial area is about 178 million square kilometers.

To be honest, such a big empire is indeed big enough!

But it's not perfect, first of all, Daming's territory in the Americas is not big enough, only Alaska is such a piece, or a land of ice and snow.

Secondly, Daming actually doesn't have those Malacca shipping to rush! Without taking Malacca, it would be impossible for Daming to get involved in the oil-producing areas of the Middle East. At the same time, the Palembang oil field in Malacca is also a large oil field with low extraction cost! Such a shipping choke point was actually firmly controlled by the British Empire. It's kind of incredible!

Moreover, Da Ming actually did not swallow Australia...... It's still a British territory!

In the end, the Japanese state didn't have time to be destroyed, is this left to Ben Zhuge ?

Obviously, that King Zhuge Wuzhong did not finish all the work, and the reason why he did not finish it was because Zhuge Weidao could guess a little.

Thinking of this, Zhuge Weidao asked Guo Xiaobao: "Does my great-ancestor King Wuzhong like to bow down to everything?" ”

"Yes, yes," Guo Xiaobao said, "everyone knows about this...... However, King Wuzhong is much stronger than Zhuge Kongming, he has been in the prime minister for decades, and he has been one of the world's three major scientific giants in his busy schedule, but he still lives to be seventy-five years old. ”

I see!

Zhuge thought to himself: "This ancestor is a workaholic, a person who has been busy for the country and the people for fifty years, and has been busy until he dies...... But others may not work so hard. Because King Wuzhong made that set seems to be centralized! Although there were representatives of the eight great families and hundreds of meritorious families discussing politics together, they did not divide the territory, and even their original territory and army were nationalized by King Zhuge Wuzhong.

In addition, King Zhuge Wuzhong's governance of the new territory is all overseas provinces and frontier provinces, not to mention feudal countries, not even autonomous territories, and there are no trading companies. Although there were also a few subject states, where those countries were originally located, they were not established by the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, as soon as King Zhuge Wuzhong dies, others will have no strength to expand......"

"By the way, Baozhi," Zhuge said, "Did King Wuzhong mention in his testament the plan to conquer the New World and the Southern Continent?" ”

"Yes, yes," Guo Xiaobao nodded, "King Wuzhong knows that he has worked hard in his life, making everyone very hard. Therefore, in the testament form, everyone is required to recuperate for 20 years...... Then reorganize the armament for ten years, and launch a major war thirty years later, first go south, then go east, conquer the southern continent, and at least half of the new continent! ”

Zhuge Weidao looked at the map and said with a smile: "I guess, after recuperating in the past twenty years, everyone feels very comfortable and doesn't want to fight anymore?" ”

Guo Xiaobao raised his thumb, "You think, that's what everyone thinks...... Our Daming is the richest country in the world, with the first industry, leading science and technology, a large land, a large population, a developed industry, and the marketing of goods all over the world, so there is no need to fight at all. ”

Zhuge Weidao smiled and looked at Guo Xiaobao's honest black face: "It's impossible not to want to fight...... Don’t wait for prosperity to care for the things important to you! The British Empire will never give up the world hegemony that it has bought with countless blood and lives...... And even if we don't want to dominate the world at all, as long as we are large enough, economically strong enough, and advanced enough industrial technology, we are doomed to not be able to live in harmony with Britain. So a worldwide war is inevitable! Treasure, this is the luck of our generation of soldiers! ”