Chapter 30 Overview

Early the next morning, when Zhu Bingkun was leaving the city, he met Zhang Xin's brother and sister again.

Both brothers and sisters were holding tall horses. As soon as he saw Zhu Bingkun, Zhang Xin smiled and said: "Brother Zhu and I have a close relationship."

Zhu Bingkun laughed: "Sure enough."

He said, "Are you two brothers and sisters going out of the city?"

"Isn't Brother Zhu going out of the city too?" Zhang Xin said with a smile: "My brother and sister have an appointment with friends, and we will go there today as promised."

"That's it." Zhu Bingkun said with a smile: "I plan to take a walk around Jiang Yang to see what's going on."

Zhang Xin's expression changed: "Brother Zhu is planning to establish a foothold in Jiangyang?"

"It's not a bad idea." Zhu Bingkun said.

Zhang Xindao: "Brother Zhu has been in the Western Region for more than ten years. After all, China is the root. Now that Mingzhou is in chaos, it would be good to establish a foothold here. Jiangyang is the strategic point of water and land in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, and the feng shui is good."

"I hope so." Zhu Bingkun clasped his fists: "I won't disturb your brothers and sisters. Brother Zhang Xian, see you later."

"See you later." Brother and sister Zhang Xin got on their horses, and the sound of horse hooves disappeared in the distance.

Zhu Bingkun looked at the backs of the two men and said to the armored soldier beside him: "Follow them, don't miss their whereabouts."

"Here!"

Lead the horse away.

"The horses in this world are much better than those before the empire improved horse breeds." Zhu Bingkun also turned over and jumped on the horse: "The world is different, and many things are different."

Then he said: "Let's go back to the base."

This horse is not cheap. Zhu Bingkun bought a hundred horses at one time. After all, we still need some transportation here for the time being.

Back at the base, it was probably noon.

Zhu Bingkun first sent the situation back to the empire, and then suppressed and waited.

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After Ying Yi took a look at the photo, his heart was spinning, and he was slightly moved. The second realm is the ancient world, with low productivity and backward combat power. With the current power of the Daxia Empire, it is not difficult to conquer. However, thinking of the previous plan, Ying Yi calmed down a little.

Changing orders in the morning and evening is not beneficial. The grand strategy cannot be changed and cannot be said once and for all.

Moreover, the exploration of the second world has just begun, after all, I don’t know if there is anything strange about it. Being impulsive may not necessarily be a good thing.

For the time being, the 500 soldiers Zhu Bingkun brought should be enough. However, like the first realm, a stronghold must be established first, and the corresponding production lines and craftsmen must be sent there early.

As for building the corresponding portal, there is probably nothing we can do now. Wang Yulong, who has construction experience, is still in the first realm. Generally speaking, his background is still insufficient.

After thinking for a moment, Ying Yi consumed millions of human Dao Qi and asked the Sky Eye to send a message to Zhu Bingkun. Then Zhang Ming was ordered to send an order to the Ministry of Industry to organize craftsmen and prepare the production line, and sent it within three days.

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Zhu Bingkun quickly received the order and after reading and taking photos, he had a clear idea. Now I'm just waiting for the soldiers who escaped to report back.

In the next half month, the soldiers who had been sent out came back one after another, bringing many news about the surrounding five hundred miles.

First of all, Zhu Bingkun had a certain understanding of the geography of this world. Li's Sui Kingdom had a very vast territory in name, much larger than the territory of the Ming Dynasty before the Great Xia Dynasty. There were fifty-six realms in Li's Sui Kingdom, and each realm was as wide as the state-level administrative regions of the empire.

For example, Mingzhou is one. Yangnan, where Jiangyang belongs, is also on the same road, bordering Mingzhou Road.

Secondly, we have a more detailed understanding of the current situation in Li's Sui Kingdom. Zhu Bingkun also knew the details of the so-called three cross-sea expeditions and the cross-continent canal.

The Three Cross-Sea Wars were the three cross-sea wars from the third year to the end of the tenth year after Li II came to power. In each war, more than half a million troops and more than one million civilians were used. The target is a continent on the other side of the mirage.

Zhu Bingkun does not know all the geography of this world. Maybe even the natives in this world don't know. But the continent on the other side of the mirage had already communicated with China as early as 800 years ago. The mirage sea is long and narrow, tens of thousands of miles from south to north, but its width is only a thousand miles on average.

Li II mobilized all his troops and sailed to conquer the East. He suffered huge losses three times, but the results were hard to make up for the losses. Three times, at least 60% of the 1.5 million troops and more than 3 million civilians were lost in the cross-sea war, and they only occupied a land equivalent to a strip of land in the Eastern Territory.

Such huge losses caused turmoil in the Sui Kingdom. The loss of a large number of young and healthy laborers caused a rapid decrease in productivity. The loss of the elite army made it difficult for the Sui State to suppress surrounding hostility, and even lost control internally.

Corresponding to the three cross-sea signs is the Henglu Canal. There was a huge inner lake in the east of the Sui Kingdom. The rivers flowing from the west to the east in the Sui Kingdom eventually poured into this inner lake. There is only a narrow strip of land between the inner lake and the sea.

However, the main rivers in the Sui Kingdom ran north to south. The rivers running from east to west are not large and are not conducive to water transportation. Therefore, Li Shi II decided to build a canal starting from this inner lake called Donghai, running from east to west, connecting three major north-south rivers, and ending at the Imperial Capital.

This canal is 2,800 miles long from east to west and took more than five million people to build. It was just completed a year ago.

Even in Daxia, such a huge project cannot be underestimated. But it was realized in such a world with backward productivity. Even if this Li Shi II is not good, his courage is worthy of praise. However, the three conquests across the sea and the transcontinental canal were superimposed, exhausting the last bit of potential of the Sui Kingdom.

Now the entire Sui Kingdom is in war. It’s not just Mingzhou. There are fifty-six realms in the world, except for the twelve realms in the Western Region, which can be ignored. Half of the other forty-four realms have rebelled.

Yangnan Road, where Zhu Bingkun was located, was relatively peaceful. Although there were small-scale rebellions, they were all suppressed by the Yangnan Road Taotai.

In addition, Zhu Bingkun also gained an in-depth understanding of the historical evolution of this world from the books he collected.

It has been four thousand years since civilization began in Middle Earth in this world. During this period, there were nine dynasties, and the Sui Dynasty was the tenth dynasty. In this world, there were five emperors and nine emperors in ancient times, and there were hundreds of schools of thought in medieval times, including Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism, and Buddhist farmers.

The mainstream of today's era is aristocratic families. The roots of aristocratic families originated from hundreds of schools of thought, and then they devoted themselves to military affairs and monopolized cultural knowledge, forming the framework of a dynasty and a country. The family became famous in the Liang Dynasty, the previous dynasty of the Sui Dynasty. The Liang Dynasty was destroyed due to the chaos of the family.

The Li family of the Sui Dynasty was a large family in itself, and the establishment of the Sui Kingdom was with the strong support of other aristocratic families. Therefore, when Sui II disturbed the family, his country could not be saved.

Zhu Bingkun saw the essence of this world at a glance from the news and books he collected. Sui II was not a wise king, but the Sui family was deeply rooted. If he wanted to centralize power, he had to fight with the family. However, it eventually got out of hand and resulted in the current situation.