The successful defense of the Qin warships revealed a paradox in the plan of the Operations Division: in order to build this long bridge of more than 20 miles, it was necessary to build artillery ships that could resist the Qin warships; But if there are artillery ships that can resist the Qin army's war boats, then why bother to build bridges? Directly build a detachable pontoon bridge, or simply send a fleet of buildings to protect the boats in Daliang City and sail out of Muze, both of which are easier and less troublesome than building bridges.

Fortunately, the Operations Division drafted two plans, one was to directly build a bridge, and the other was to build a large building ship to cross Makizawa. However, the latter had to occupy the already tight shipbuilding resources, and had to transport hundreds of thousands of people out of the city of Daliang, and the building ships were not effective in building bridges.

Seeing that the Qin army's war boat had nothing to do with the building ship and slowly retreated, Xiong Jing thought about these two plans, and he even thought of the cement ship. Cement can build bridges and build ships. It's just that the cement ship is heavy, accounting for more than half of the displacement tonnage, and the hull is not resistant to bumps. Of course, it is always good to have a ship, 40,000 or 50,000 tons of cement, as long as there are enough ribs, maybe 300,000 or 400,000 tons of cement ship can be built. In this case, I don't know how to choose between spending cement to build bridges and squeezing out the originally tight resources to build buildings.

When Xiong Jing decided to hand over this matter to the Great Sima Mansion and the Zao Mansion to decide with specific numbers, Nao Xin's shout came from behind him. In the cheers, Xiong Jing couldn't hear what Nao Xin was saying, only saw him talking loudly.

"What?" Nao Xin, who was riding a horse, ran to the side of the car, and Xiong Jing asked.

"Red has news." Nao Xin raised the message in his hand, this was the pigeon news a few months ago, and the barely healed wounds on the carrier pigeon showed the thrill of crossing 100,000 miles across the Eurasian continent.

"Red!" Xiong Jing was shocked. With both fleets to Xizhou in vain, and the withdrawal of the fleet from the Red Sea, he almost forgot about his previous plan to establish a world spice trade network. It was too late, and the state of Chu could only adjust its deployment and start that plan again after avoiding Xinying.

"Yes, yes." Singing sounded on both sides of Muze again, and Xiong Jing jumped off the roof of the carriage to hear Nao Xin's words. The text of the news is not the original text of the pigeon news, and it was only sent to Kaifeng after the Great Sima Mansion copied it. This is not the first pigeon news sent out by Red, it may be the second, maybe the third. The dispatch took place in a port that had never been heard of before: Ostia.

Ostia was a port at the mouth of the Tiber River, about sixty miles northeast of the Tiber River, and on the left bank of the river was the city of Rome on the Latin plain. The relationship between Ostia and Rome is a bit like the relationship between Wusongkou Fort and Shanghai, and many ancient port cities were not near the sea, but were generally located in the mouth of inland rivers.

This was of course for security, and Ostia, located at the mouth of the Tiber River, was one such military port to defend the city of Rome, although it was originally built for trade, trade with the Carthaginians.

A few months earlier, a never-before-seen powerful fleet had appeared in the Tyrrhenian Sea, which immediately caused panic among the Roman navy patrolling the coast. After the end of the First Punic War, Carthage did not completely succumb, and the Baca family, which had become increasingly influential in the Carthaginian Senate, went to the Iberian Peninsula without the permission of the Carthaginian Senate.

Although, as Hamilca Baca said, he would not have been able to pay war reparations without opening up the Iberian Peninsula for Carthage, the Baca family had done much more than the indemnity payments for silver mining, and at least the Baca army, nominally to deal with the local tribes, was completely independent of the Carthaginian Senate, with 50,000 infantry, 6,000 cavalry, and 200 elephants, which made the Romans fearful.

The army of the Baca family was bound to attack Rome at some point, which was a concern for the senators. For this reason, the Roman Senate once sent a mission to the Iberian Peninsula, but not to Carthage, and what the Baca family did in the Iberian Peninsula was not under the control of the Carthaginian Senate, and the army's salaries were not allocated by the Carthaginian Senate, but were borne by the Baca family alone.

If history had not changed, the Roman Senate would have sent another mission to the private possessions of the Baca family in the Iberian Peninsula in the same year to test Hamilcar Baca's intentions once again (because of a Chu armor that had not drowned two years earlier). The two sides were to sign the famous Treaty of the Ebro River in the new city of Carthage in the Iberian Peninsula, namely:

Rome and the House of Baca were bounded by the Ebro River on the Iberian Peninsula, and the Roman Senate recognized that the south of the Ebro River belonged to the sphere of influence of the House of Baca, and Rome promised not to cross the river to wage war against the subjects of the House of Baca, but the city of Sagunto, south of the river, enjoyed autonomy; For their part, the Baka family pledged not to cross north of the Ebro River with weapons.

(The Carthaginian Senate was never consulted and never ratified by the Carthaginian Senate.) ）

When Red appeared in the Tyrrhenian Sea, the Roman Senate had not yet had time to send a mission to Iberia, and the Roman navy, which was on alert, thought that it was the Carthaginians who were coming, and it was not until they got close and saw a ship of a different shape, and the dress and appearance of the ships were completely different from those of the various races of the Mediterranean, that the commander believed that it was not the Carthaginians coming again.

The fleet soon sailed into the port of Ostia under the guidance of the Roman navy, and the Red also arrived in Rome with his envoys and entered the Senate to speak. When he spat out Xiong Jing's long list of titles, it immediately attracted snickering from many elders. The Romans were proud of their republic, a country with a king, and obviously an extremely ** country. It wasn't until the general talked about the history of the Chuni Kingdom for more than 800 years that these snickering people relented.

At this time, the known world is far older than the Chinese world, the Greek city-states seem to be more than a thousand years later, the eighteen provinces of Guannai, by the combination of the Mongolian Manchu Qing Dynasty Macedonians ruled for more than 100 years, Tian's Dai Jiang such tyrants appeared frequently more than 300 years ago, Roman allies, Sicily Syracuse King Helo II has been unable to say how many tyrants the country has, simply and rudely, in the known world, the king can basically be equated with **.

It is a miracle that the city of Rome ceased to exist more than 800 years ago, and that such an ancient kingdom, although it did not move towards a republic, did not have tyrants in three or four hundred years, as the Greek city-states did. And when they heard that the country had a plebeian (wai court) in addition to the Senate (Shojo), and that the country was governed by seven elected consuls in turn, the senators suddenly stood up and saluted.

The kingdom of the ancient Greek city-states, free rather than ** government, crossed more than 20,000 lorries to 'our sea', any of which is surprising. In addition, the fleet was loaded with spices and silks, as well as iron weapons and armor that were superior to those of the Celts, which excitered the senators even more. With these weapons and armor in mind, the Senate decided to ally with the Zuni that day.