When Lu Ren's navy took Ceylon, it was already May of the 28th year of Jian'an.

All that mess aside, Ceylon is indeed a beautiful island. At that time, Ceylon had not been much developed, but it also retained a considerable original beauty.

Zhou Yu was strolling through the streets of Ceylon at the moment, admiring the exotic customs here in Ceylon with great interest, and from time to time he would ask the clerk who followed him to write down some of his oral observations and feelings, so that he could sort them out after he returned.

Strictly speaking, Zhou Yu is now truly seeing the exotic. Although I have spent some time in Brunei, Malacca, Yangon and other places before, I have to say that these areas are more sinicized due to Lu Ren's "invasion", so walking on the streets of those areas, it feels that there is not much difference from the Chinese region...... Of course, this also has a lot to do with the fact that these regions originally had no cultural system to speak of. Yangon is considered to have some original cultural system, but it can't stand Lu Ren has let Chen Li work hard there for many years, and some things have long been squeezed out.

But this is not the case in Ceylon. What is the situation of the most primitive aborigines of Ceylon, this may not be clear to anyone, but in the fifth century BC, Sinhalese migrated to Ceylon, bringing with them the cultural system of India, and then the influence of the Mauryan Dynasty, so in general, the cultural system of Ceylon and India are of the same root and origin, so in terms of customs and architectural styles, there is not much difference from the Asan cultural system at that time, and the cultural system of China is naturally very different.

Zhou Yu wrote these down, in addition to being a little old and wanting to write a travelogue or something like that for future generations, of course, there were also considerations for his needs in military and political aspects. There are many such things in history, such as the records left by Zhang Qian when he went to the Western Regions, which is very helpful to the Western Han Dynasty in dealing with the problems of the Western Regions. And Master Sanzang's journey to the west...... In fact, strictly speaking, the Westward Journey Manji is not a travel note, but something that Master Sanzang asked Master Sanzang to write out after Master Sanzang returned to China for military and political needs, so there are many records of the military and political situation of the countries in the Western Regions, mountains and rivers, and cultural records such as humanities and history.

Don't go too far, because Zhou Yu is the first to see the exotic, so the things he is interested in are not a little bit, so whatever he finds useful, he will let the clerk record it immediately. And when Zhou Yu opened his eyes, in his subconscious, he would think that these things he wrote down would be of great use to Jiangdong in the future? Or maybe one day, Sun Quan's fleet will be able to hit here?

Zhou Yu was strolling, Sun Shangxiang ran over like a little girl, and handed a bag of things to Zhou Yu. Zhou Yu took it and glanced at the bag and said in amazement: "Shang Xiang, this, this is ......"

The bag contained more than a dozen gems. As mentioned earlier, Ceylon is famous for its gem mines. Looking at Sun Shangxiang again, he smiled evilly: "The king of Ceylon gave a lot, so I specially picked out some and gave them to my sister-in-law." ”

Zhou Yu couldn't help but be speechless. Speaking of which, Zhou Yu is a person who looks at things like money very lightly, and has seen a lot of the world, but just now he was almost blinded by that small bag of gems. Roughly calculated, if this small bag of gems were to be left in the Huaxia area, it would be able to buy hundreds of hectares of fertile land.

After collecting the stunned look just now, Zhou Yu wanted to return the bag of gems to Sun Shangxiang. Seriously, these things are too precious for Zhou Yu, why is Zhou Yu embarrassed to ask for them? But Sun Shangxiang stopped it, and said with a displeased face: "Brother Zhong, what are you polite to me?" Besides, I also kept a lot, and I just gave these to my sister-in-law. ”

Zhou Yu understood Sun Shangxiang's temper, so he had no choice but to put away the bag of gems. When the navy went to Ceylon, it was indispensable that the supply fleet would come over to deliver supplies and transport the income from Ceylon back to Yizhou, and at the same time, a letter from home would also be brought back with them, so Zhou Yu turned around and asked the supply fleet under Lu Ren to bring back to Yizhou and then hand it over to Xiao Qiao.

And after putting away the gems, Zhou Yu remembered something, and couldn't help but wonder: "The king here gave it to you?" Old Man Huang didn't copy the king's palace? ”

Sun Shangxiang shook his head: "No." Old Man Huang said that since he was willing to surrender, there was no need to kill them all. ”

In fact, this is what Lu Ren meant. Because if it is not necessary, Lu Ren will not do anything to kill everything, after all, excessive high pressure will only attract a strong backlash. It is now more convenient to support and control the existing local authorities, and then use them to control the region. Therefore, after the surrender of the king of Ceylon, Huang Zhong followed Lu Ren's instructions, first "condemned him for the crime of despising the kingdom" to the king of Ceylon, and then "appeased him with kind words", and at the same time restrained the soldiers and strictly enforced military discipline...... That's it, anyway. And the king of Ceylon saw that he had no worries about his status and property, and even got a few strange things from Yizhou, so he was overjoyed and wanted to return the gift, so he opened the warehouse and let Mr. Huang and Sun Shangxiang choose the treasures, and Sun Shangxiang's gems were obtained in this way.

As for Old Man Huang...... Old Man Huang really didn't care about this, so he just took a few random pieces and distributed them to his subordinates as a reward. In general, Old Man Huang and Sun Shangxiang only took a small box of gems in total, which was nothing to the king of Ceylon's warehouse, so the king of Ceylon was a little grateful. It's just that he didn't know that Lu Ren had already calculated after receiving Huang Zhong's telegram that there was a way to earn the gems in the king's warehouse in Ceylon.

However, although the gem did not take anything, Huang Zhong, the granary of the king of Ceylon, did not let go. To put it simply, in fact, after taking Ceylon, he opened a warehouse and released grain generously to others, so as to buy the hearts of the people.

Because the Ceylon army itself was defeated in a small battle, it did not cause a large number of casualties, so there was not much hatred for the Han army. Now that I see that the Han army not only has strict military discipline and no offenses in the autumn, but also opens warehouses to release grain to help the poor people, my favorability towards the Han army has naturally increased a lot.

I'm going to talk a little bit here. Although Ceylon and Ah San share the same cultural roots, the relationship with Ah San has always been not good, and there were many wars with Ah San before the 16th century. It was not until modern times that it became two different countries...... Oh, that's right, anyway, at that time, Ceylon, or the Asan Peninsula did not have any concept of great unification at all, and it was still divided into several different city-states, so there was no concept of national resistance in people's hearts. To put it bluntly, it doesn't matter who is the king, as long as the people can live a good life. The Han army's strict military discipline and kindness to the people just met the requirements of the local people.

On the other hand, Lu Renke is a guy who has studied historical materials in detail, so he knows very well that in dealing with Ah San's cultural system, it is necessary to respect his religious beliefs, but also to suppress them in appropriate places. The crackdown was not so fast, but it was okay to get the soldiers to respect the religious beliefs of the local people.

In fact, at the beginning of the establishment of Yizhou, Lu Ren considered religious issues, after all, this is an indispensable thing in the history of human development. However, Yizhou takes an open and tolerant route, and there are often contacts with other regions, and it is inevitable that other religions will come to Yizhou to preach. Therefore, while Lu Ren is accepting, he is also playing suppression and correction to make it more in line with the needs of Huaxia...... Well, in fact, Lu Ren doesn't need to think about this matter, the Chinese people themselves have a strong ability to "copycat for use", like Chinese Buddhism and the Buddhism of Ah San's origin are two different things.

To borrow the comment of a later scholar, that is, the Chinese people do not actually need religious ...... It seems to be getting farther and farther away? And it's hard to get to the bottom of this kind of problem. Anyway, the people under Lu Ren's command are not very interested in religion, which has a lot to do with Lu Ren's constant attention to culture and education, and has long made people understand that the so-called gods are just imaginary spiritual idols. If you take 10,000 steps back, if you really can't do it, doesn't Lu Ren himself still have the title of "Immortal Master" on his head?

No more nonsense, anyway, the Han army's attitude of respecting the religion here in Ceylon although they do not believe in it has also greatly won the favor of the people of Ceylon. Together with the above-mentioned opening of warehouses for relief, the people of Ceylon also had a very friendly attitude towards the Han army.

Of course, after all, there were some deaths in the war before, and in order to dilute these hatreds, Lu Ren played a trick of hatred transfer and put all the blame on the king of Ceylon...... Who let this guy send troops to follow him to find trouble with Lu Ren? Therefore, Lu Ren's side is the side of revenge, so you King Ceylon will honestly carry this pot. The people of Ceylon want to complain, and they also resent you, the king of Ceylon has nothing to do when he is full, what is Lu Ren doing.

All in all, although Lu Ren took Ceylon by military means, under a series of operations, the situation here in Ceylon is relatively stable. At least when the Han soldiers were patrolling the streets to maintain law and order, the people of Ceylon in the market would hand over to the Han soldiers with respectful looks, but what they didn't know was that Lu Ren was already preparing to attack in secret. And the direction of the start......

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Sun Shangxiang bought some snacks in the market, and the stall owner saw that it was a Han soldier, and waved his hand to say that he didn't have to pay, but Sun Shangxiang insisted on putting the money in the hands of the stall owner, and then left with Zhou Yu. After wandering around for a while, Sun Shangxiang suddenly said: "By the way, Brother Zhong, Lu Zhengnan sent a song and dance troupe over, if nothing else, it will be here in the next two days." ”

Zhou Yu was stunned at the time: "Song and dance troupe? Just kidding, right? Miss Lan is coming to Ceylon? ”

Sun Shangxiang shook his head again and again: "How is it possible?" Who is Lanna? If you just come here casually, believe it or not, the top and bottom of Yizhou must be upside down? What Lu Zhengnan sent over was just an ordinary song and dance troupe. In Lu Zhengnan's words, when soldiers are fighting overseas and far away from their homeland, they have to let them hear their native accents and remember where they are from. ”

This kind of song and dance troupe, in the vocabulary of modern military, should be "art troupe". Lu Ren has been in charge of the army for many years, and he knows the spiritual needs of the soldiers, so how can he not put this thing out? The art discipline in Yizhou University has provided a lot of talents for Lu Ren's art troupe...... Well, here Lu Ren wants to pay tribute to the revolutionary predecessors again.

Zhou Yu was also a little disappointed after figuring out what was going on with the song and dance troupe, because Zhou Yu was also one of Lu Lan's fans. Now that he is on an expedition overseas with the army, if he can hear Lu Lan's singing, what kind of feeling in his heart will ...... Hehe, this is still needless to say. However, Lu Ren sent a song and dance troupe over, and the last time it was better than nothing, so I really had a little bit of anticipation in my heart.

Zhou Yu is not a "native of Yizhou", but he still has expectations, let alone the real Yizhou soldiers. In addition to the up and down of the Han army, Old Man Huang also deliberately invited the king and officials of Ceylon to watch the performance according to Lu Ren's wishes, and also spread the news that the people of Ceylon can also come to watch the performance without charging any fees.

This kind of thing is indispensable in any civilization and country, such as the opera and acrobatics in the Chinese civilization, the tragicomedy and gladiatorial battles in the Greco-Roman series, which can be said to be world-famous. The cultural system of Ceylon and Ah San has the same roots, of course, this kind of Dongdong is indispensable, but in the era when culture and entertainment were extremely scarce at that time, culture and entertainment were basically the only things that the aristocratic class had, and the common people had nothing to play and see, so as soon as this news came out, the common people here in Ceylon were also aroused with great interest, but anyone who was a little free was ready to rush over to have a look.

By the way, in the religious system of Ah San, it is actually forbidden to participate in any recreational activities, but that is for practitioners, and how can ordinary people not even have some cultural entertainment in their lives? In short, there were a lot of people who came to see it, and even with a small stimulus to the economy of the royal city of Ceylon during this time, the people who did business in the royal city were almost laughing from ear to ear, which made their friendliness towards the Han army rise a little more.

In this way, a few days later, the song and dance troupe sent by Lu Ren arrived in Ceylon, and the long-awaited song and dance performance also started as scheduled. Those ordinary singing and dancing performances are not much to narrate, although they are much worse than Lu Lan's "Heavenly Troupe" in terms of level, but they are enough to make everyone present feel happy physically and mentally.

After the general song and dance performances, the song and dance troupe sent by Lu Ren began to stage dramas...... Well, it's a drama. In fact, Lu Ren has already made this Dongdong, and the original repertoire is also the "Fairy Sword" drama that the public has long been familiar with. However, in the early years, because all aspects were not very mature, it had not really taken shape in Yizhou, and it was not until the past two years that it could be regarded as development.

But this time in Ceylon, what about the plays...... If there was a person in China who lived through the forties and fifties in the twentieth century, he would say something like this:

"What's going on with this Nima? Replace the names, backgrounds, costumes and other things of the characters in the play, is it "The White-Haired Girl" at all!? ”

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(Ahem, the joke seems to be a bit too big at the end...... ）