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Lu Ren was lazily lying in the hammock in the shade of the trees at the moment, and people didn't know what they were doing, and those people around Lu Ren whenever they saw Lu Ren is such a virtuous character, unless there was something important, they generally wouldn't bother Lu Ren, because they didn't know how long Lu Ren would stay like this, and an hour or two was a normal thing. Among those people, only Shirley knew that Lu Ren was not actually stupid in a daze, but reading books and materials that could not be copied in this era.

Don't think that Lu Ren walks east and west from time to time, he is a so-called hands-off shopkeeper, in fact, Lu Ren's kind of time is squeezed out. In Lu Ren's own words, this is a typical time to play when he was in his position, but now he stays in this position, and he has to pay attention to recharging himself at all times.

At the very least, these books and materials can always inspire you when you read them. And Lu Ren has always been very clear that his ability, courage, and personal charm are far inferior to Cao Cao, Liu Bei, and Sun Quan, and the only thing that surpasses them is a large number of books and materials. If you don't make good use of it, do you really think you can shake up your tiger body and then do that or something? If you really have that kind of thought, you don't have to mix it up in this era.

was looking at the book here, and the Shirley floated to Lu Ren's side.

"The host ......"

"Shirley? What's the matter? ”

Shirley hesitated for a moment and asked in a low voice, "Master, we have just reconciled with Sun Quan, but you are in a hurry to send out the fleets of Gan Ning and Huang Zhong, are you in a hurry?" If Sun Quan makes any more changes, then won't we have anyone at hand? ”

Lu Ren kept the information bookmark or something, turned over and sat down in the hammock. first glanced at Shirley a few times, then looked up at the sky, and suddenly smiled inexplicably: "This season is autumn in a blink of an eye...... Shirley, do you know what autumn means? ”

Shirley didn't understand what Lu Ren meant, but she also looked up at the sky, and said thoughtfully after a long time: "Autumn...... If it were me in the past, I would say that it was a natural phenomenon, but now I would say that autumn is the harvest season. ”

Lu Ren gave Shirley a thumbs up: "This answer is good, it means that you are much more emotional than your previous robot state." Okay, don't stare at me like that, I actually want to tell you that this autumn is actually my harvest season as well. ”

Looking at Shirley's puzzled look, Lu Ren explained with a smile: "From the first day I came to Yizhou, I knew that there would be a battle between me and Sun Quan sooner or later, and how to win this battle while minimizing the loss as much as possible has always been something I have been thinking about. And the most important thing is the meaning after this battle. ”

Looking up to the sky, Lu Ren sighed lightly: "Needless to say if we lose, we will have nothing, and then everything has to start from scratch." And if I win, I can really be in an equal position with Cao, Liu and Sun in terms of political status, and then I will have the corresponding political influence, and some things can be done.

"Let's put it this way, before this battle, our Yizhou can only be regarded as a safe haven where we can escape the war, and after fighting this battle and winning the victory, I, Lu Ren, can be regarded as a candidate, and many people in this world will only take me into account when making a choice, so this battle is also a battle that must be fought in a sense. And the only pity is that despite all the preparations I made in this and that way, I didn't expect that something like that would happen, and I lost the lives of so many girls who should have been alive...... I, Lu Ren, am sorry for them! ”

Shirley was silent for a moment, shook her head and said: "Master, things have already passed, and there will be too many accidents in this world, no matter how capable you are, it is impossible to calculate it so accurately, and it is already very good to be able to go on according to the direction of your heart." Well...... I can probably understand this, but I don't understand what you mean by harvest, master? ”

Lu Ren smiled and passed one of the documents in the chip to Shirley: "Here are some comparisons I just sorted out, you can also take a look." ”

If it was the original fifteen years of Jian'an, the three families of Cao, Liu and Sun would be calm on the surface, but in secret, they would be torrential. Cao Cao was waiting for Sun and Liu to fight, but the Sun and Liu families wanted to fight but didn't dare to play too much, so they could only play their own tricks in secret. In the fifteenth year of Jian'an, Sun Quan was supposed to marry Sun Shangxiang to Liu Bei, but in the same year, Zhou Yu died of injuries and illness under hatred...... Perhaps these two events were the bigger things at the time.

However, it is now the autumn of the fourteenth year of Jian'an in the Eastern Han Dynasty, but due to the appearance of a certain unusual figure, the original process began to deviate from the original track. First of all, Lü Meng, one of the Four Heroes of Jiangdong, was captured and killed, and then Sun Shangxiang, who was supposed to marry Liu Bei, became a hostage in Yizhou.

And what about Zhou Yu? Coincidentally, when Zhou Yu and Zhuge Liang came to Yizhou to persuade Lu Ren before, they were just in time for Hua Tuo and Zhang Zhongjing, two famous doctors, to be in Yizhou. Zhou Yu's injuries were from the outside in, Hua Tuo and Zhang Zhongjing worked together to help Zhou Yu diagnose and treat it, Zhou Yu, who was supposed to die of injury in Jian'an for fifteen years, unexpectedly left a life.

And what does it mean that Zhou Yu survived? Even the battle between Zhou Yu and Zhuge Liang will continue because of this. To put it further, the battle between Zhou Yu and Zhuge Liang is actually the battle between Sun Wu and Liu Bei in Jingzhou.

Now that Lu Ren and Sun Quan were reconciled, Zhou Yu did not want to provoke Lu Ren, who would not have caused Sun Quan any trouble, so he bitterly advised Sun Quan to attach importance to the friendly relations with Lu Ren, and at the same time obtain huge profits by taking advantage of trade with Yizhou, and then concentrate Sun Quan's main energy on Cao Cao in Jiangbei and the possession of Jingzhou.

Under the premise of this situation, Lu Ren's Yizhou undoubtedly has a relatively long period of stable development, and according to Liu Ye's analysis, it can have at least five years or so. And Lu Ren, no matter how stupid he is, knows that he can't rest on his laurels, but should take advantage of this period of steady development to further enhance his strength. Therefore, as soon as the situation eased by all parties, strategic adjustments were made.

The first was to order Gan Ning to lead the fleet to India, and at the same time pay attention to opening up the Malacca trade route. If there is something to be done, Gan Ning must occupy Malacca, a key gate in Southeast Asian waters. This occupation refers to the complete occupation and firm control in the hands, and before this, Lu Ren had already sent a small number of people to build village docks in the Malacca area, but the whole thing out of that bit of people was at best a supply port, and it was nonsense to say that it was controlled.

As for India, which was rich in cotton, hemp, rice, spices, precious stones and gold at that time, it was also one of the best trading areas that Yizhou could reach by seafaring ability. Among the scheduled goods, Lu Ren was most concerned about the high-quality cotton produced in India at that time. Don't underestimate cotton, this thing is a strategic material. For example, after Cao Cao pacified Hebei, in order to restore the people's livelihood and economy in Hebei as soon as possible, he once greatly reduced the taxes of the people of Hebei, but required the people of Hebei to "collect four liters of land and rent per mu, and each household to weave two horses and two catties of cotton", which shows that cotton has been able to be compared with silk as early as the Han Dynasty.

During the Eastern Han Dynasty, although there was a certain amount of cotton cultivation in the Yellow River Basin in Huaxia, the quality was relatively inferior due to the influence of various factors. Lu Ren had been in charge of Tuntian when he was in Cao Yingli earlier, and he had a lot of contact with the displaced people in the north, so he knew more about this matter.

Now that he has the corresponding ability, Lu Ren certainly wants to get the high-quality cotton back. Anyway, there is land in Southeast Asia at the current point, and it will not be difficult to get a large-scale cotton production base at that time. Moreover, Lu Ren's plan is to use a knife against the Northeast region, but with the severe cold of the Northeast region, if you want to carry out large-scale development, you must have something like cotton that can be popularized in large quantities.

Needless to say, hemp, rice, spices and so on, precious stones and gold can directly enhance the economic foundation of Yizhou. Although Lu Ren is not a student of economics, he is also well aware that any country must have a large amount of gold reserves to support the treasury. Yizhou, on the other hand, relied on commercial circulation to earn development funds, and its requirements for gold reserves were much higher than those of any other party at that time.

Gan Ning's destination is India, while Huang Zhong's destination is the Jakarta region. The Jakarta region is another gate to Southeast Asia, and the two gates of Southeast Asia, Malacca and Jakarta, are basically in the hands of the whole of Southeast Asia. As for the spicy sauce that is abundant in the Jakarta area......

This is a bit difficult to say, after all, the glory of the Spice Islands was built on the basis of the 15th century, when the economy had already developed considerably, and the current Europe? Let's wait for Ganning's side to stabilize India's trade points first. But then again, although the economy of Europe was not on the rise at that time, there was a relatively prosperous economic circle in the Persian Gulf and Asia Minor, and this economic circle had a high demand rate for many products in the East at that time, which means that it was a place where Lu Ren could make a lot of money. Under this premise, Lu Ren must also put together several important transit points along the way as soon as possible.

Shirley finished reading these things that Lu Ren sorted out, and after thinking for a while, she nodded to Lu Ren, but still said worriedly: "But master, these can basically be regarded as our next development goals, but for Sun Quan and Cao Cao, don't you worry about anything?" Especially Sun Quan, what if he does it to us again? (To be continued.) )