A few days later, at the Yangon pier, the spontaneous crowd was waving goodbye to Lu Lan's fleet that had already left the shore, and Lu Ren was also standing on the deck watching Lu Lan's departure at this moment. Although they were already far away from each other at this time, and they had already looked at each other's faces, Lu Ren still felt that Lu Lan's pretty face with a little naughty seemed to be right in front of him.

Suddenly, I felt a pain in my ears, but it was Minchan next to me who reached out and grabbed Lu Ren's ear, and there was a little frost on her face: "It's finally gone." But Yihao, I'm a little jealous! ”

Lu Ren smiled dumbly and said, "Hey, hey, the public, you are here to save some face for me." ”

Minchan smiled and put down the hand that grabbed Lu Ren's ear, and Lu Ren turned back and touched Minchan's ass. In fact, although there were some conversations like "strict wife" just now, there were smiles on everyone's faces at this moment. Lu Ren is not a family that is afraid of his wife, and Minchan is by no means a fierce woman, so the twist just now is just Minchan using this way to relieve the mood in Lu Ren's heart.

Seeing that there were only small dots left in Lu Lan's fleet on the sea level, Minchan reached out and grabbed Lu Ren's arm, and said softly: "I didn't expect you to be really willing to let Xiaolan go." ”

Lu Ren said: "What can you do if you are reluctant? What's the point of forcibly putting a bird in a cage when she wants to fly? As long as she understands where her home is, then she will naturally come back when she has flown enough and is tired of playing. ”

Saying that, Lu Ren turned to Minchan: "Wasn't you like this at the beginning?" And after you get tired of playing, don't you stay by my side honestly? ”

Diao Chan glanced at Lu Ren, raised her foot and stepped on the surface of Lu Ren's feet: "I only realized later that you are simply trying to get away with it." ”

Lu Ren pretended to have a sore foot very cooperatively, then sat down on the deck, and said with a smile: "But I have better than you, haven't I?" Why don't you want to think about it, a beautiful woman like you who is alluring to the country and the city, if you want to change someone else, how can you be willing to indulge you! Not to mention putting you in a cage, the plan will be that you will fly away, or even break your wings. ”

Minchan smiled and sat down beside Lu Ren: "There are really enough meanings in your words. But if you think about it, you're actually right, because I've been through this kind of thing before. So, I still like to be around you, because I feel comfortable with you. ”

Lu Ren just shrugged his shoulders noncommittally.

Minchan looked at the direction of Lu Lan's fleet again, and suddenly asked, "Have you eaten Xiaolan into your stomach these days, and you don't even have scum left?" ”

Lu Ren scratched his head and laughed dryly: "If you don't eat it, you can't do it." In what Xiaolan said to me, if you don't eat it, you may go bad. ”

Minchan stretched out her hand and twisted it lightly on Lu Ren's waist, and then smiled faintly: "As a woman, I can see that Xiaolan's smile when she parted was full of satisfaction. Speaking of which, it's not easy for her to like you for so many years, and she hasn't gotten a response from you until now. But it's a shame that you, a womanizer, can endure not touching her for so many years, if you want to be another man, with our Xiaolan's stunning appearance, I really don't know how many people don't want to touch her. ”

Speaking of this, Minchan's face showed a little worry: "But do you really feel free to let Xiaolan go to Rome like this?" Aren't you afraid that those Romans will have a heart of hegemony after seeing Xiaolan's peerless elegance? ”

Lu Ren laughed: "After so many years, you should know a little bit about these things in the political arena, right?" Although Xiaolan does not have the official position of our Han Dynasty, the actual significance of her trip to Rome is far greater than that of ordinary diplomatic envoys, and those politicians in Rome will not fail to understand this. For them, the main enemy at the moment is Rest, and Rest is not something that the current Rome can defend against in many ways because Wan'er is there, so they will pay special attention to me as a military ally.

"At this point, not only because I can hold off Kushan's reinforcements to Sabbath, but the Romans also need to obtain weapons from me that can confront Sabbath's advanced weapons. In order to get these things that are related to their interests, they naturally do not want to offend me. And what is the relationship between Xiaolan and me? If they moved Xiaolan, wouldn't they directly offend me? If they had offended me, and had severed my dealings with Rome, and had no more military action against the Kushans, how much would they have to suffer on the battlefield? ”

Minchan hesitated: "According to what you say, you don't actually send Xiaolan to Rome, this alliance can actually be reached, right?" Then is it a bit of a superfluous move for you to send Xiaolan over? ”

Lu Ren shook his head: "It's not that simple. Although the official envoy has been sent, it can only be a dead letter, and the Romans will still have many doubts about me here, which will only cause the Romans to be timid and difficult to do their best when fighting for Anxi, so Xiaolan's purpose in the past is to prove my sincerity here. There's no way, I'm the only one here who has some fame in Rome, and no one else has the fame to do this well. ”

Minchan nodded abruptly. She had come out of the court, so she knew the importance of the reputation of the envoys.

Lu Ren looked up at the sky here, but the person smiled: "As for Xiaolan's personal safety, you can rest assured." You usually stay by my side with a few 'magic weapons', will Xiaolan be less by her side? In addition, Xiaolan's ship is not much worse than the one we are staying in now, if something really happens, Xiaolan will definitely be able to escape. ”

Hearing this, Minchan couldn't help but glance at the landing craft they were on now. As one of the closest people around Lu Ren, of course she had long known the extraordinaryness of this landing craft, and at the same time, she also knew the main reason why Lu Ren usually only stayed on this landing craft when he was out, so when she heard that Lu Lan's ship was actually similar to Lu Ren's ship, people were also much more relieved.

However, Lu Ren's mind was thinking of another thing, that is, if Lu Lan's fleet wanted to reach the Mediterranean region, he didn't need to go around Africa in a big circle, but just go directly to Suez.

It is generally believed that the Suez Canal was opened in the 19th century, but this is not the case.

The Suez Canal may date back to the Twelfth Dynasty of Egypt, when Pharaoh Sinuset III (whose name comes from the word "Suez") ordered the excavation of an "east-west" canal connecting the Red Sea with the Nile in order to conduct direct trade by overland punts. Later there is some evidence that the canal continued to exist at least until the time of Ramses II in the 13th century BC, after which it was abandoned.

According to the Greek historian Herodotus's book Historia (.dotus), around 600 BC, Necho II began to re-excavate it, but it was not completed.

The Suez Canal was then regained by Ptolemy II around 250 BC and was continuously improved, destroyed and rebuilt over the next millennium until it was finally abandoned in the 8th century AD for the Abbasid caliph al-Mansur () of the Arab Empire.

Subsequently, the Suez Canal was excavated and opened intermittently, with two long periods of opening in 117 BC under King Trajan under the Roman dynasty and twice during the reign of 'Umar ibn Khattab in 640 AD.

Then there is Napoleon at the end of the 18th century. When Bonaparte occupied Egypt, he planned to build a canal to connect the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea. However, due to the French erroneous calculations that the Red Sea was higher than the Mediterranean, which meant that it was impossible to build a canal without locks, Napoleon abandoned the plan and left Egypt in a confrontation with the British.

After the defeat of Napoleon, France rebuilt the second colonial empire of France, because the colonies in the Americas were lost to Britain, so France focused on the development of the East, and the opening of the Suez Canal was of greater significance to France.

By 1854 and 1856, the French consul in Egypt, Ferdinand Ferdinand. Morality. Viscount Reseb received a charter from Pasha Said, the Governor of Egypt in the Ottoman Empire, authorizing Reseb to set up a company and build a sea canal open to ships of all nations according to a plan drawn up by Australian engineers. By leasing the land, the company can operate for 99 years from the opening of the canal...... This is the Suez Canal as it is known in modern times.

History ends here, and Lu Ren is at the point in time when the Roman Trajan period was open for a long time, when the ancient Suez Canal could have been passed. Moreover, because there had been a certain amount of trade between Luren and Rome's eastern provinces around the Red Sea in the early years, and because Rome also needed to purchase firearms from Luren here, it became necessary to ship related matters, so the Roman side expanded the ancient Suez Canal to a certain extent.

In a word, it was not realistic for the ancient Suez Canal at this time to pass through the large ships of the time, but it was not much of a problem for medium-sized ships. Moreover, the large ships here refer to the standard here in Lu Ren, which are generally large battleships and large transport ships, and there are no large ships in Lu Lan's fleet, so it is no problem to go to the Mediterranean Sea through the ancient Suez Canal.

Lu Ren's thoughts on this are that he has really saved too many things. Just imagine, if you can't go directly from Suez to the Mediterranean, then Lu Lan's fleet will have to circle almost a whole circle around Africa, how much time will it take? Of course, you can also land in the Red Sea area, and then take some land routes and then take a boat to Rome, but in that case, Lu Ren will have to worry about Lu Lan's safety again.

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Well, I won't talk much about this, just say that when the time entered the spring of the twenty-ninth year of Jian'an, the war between Lu Ren and Guishuang began to become a little more. But in general, basically Lu Ren launched a small-scale attack, and after taking down a small piece of land, he either digested it himself, or he was a favor from the nobles on the Kushan side, and he sent it out with a backhand.

On the other hand, on the Guishan side, under the various offensives of Lu Renming and Wu Secret Text, several factions were gradually split. Some saw that it was profitable to follow Lu Ren, so they fell to Lu Ren either openly or secretly, while others were more rigid and determined to start a war with Lu Ren. In other words, the purpose of differentiating Guishan that Lu Ren originally set had basically been achieved at this time. It's just that such a large piece of meat, Lu Ren can't gnaw it down for a while.

Then in the folk of Guishan, some poor people's movements against the aristocracy directed by Lu Ren were also continuous. Again, who wants to be inferior and oppressed by others by birth? The key lies in whether the overall ideological consciousness is sufficient. And some of the things that Lu Ren made were precisely to improve the ideological consciousness of the low-level people in Guishan. After all, although Guishan was still strong during this period, it was already changing from strong to declining, and the class contradictions were becoming more and more acute, which made it not too difficult for Lu Ren to find some key points.

The fight that should be beaten, the pull that should be co-opted, the support that should be supported, and the erosion that should be eroded, this is Lu Ren's current status of Guishan.

Then there was Ah San's side, and the Han Ah San supported by Lu Ren was divided into two according to Lu Ren's proposal, one went to Ceylon to start attacking the Indian Peninsula, and the other was to return to Yizhou to recruit the Han Ah San from Yizhou to join the army and return to the Indian Peninsula to carry out the "great cause of liberation...... This is the name of Lu Ren's heart for the actions of the Han Asan.

To tell the truth, Lu Ren is very optimistic about the "great cause of liberation" that the Han Ah San want to do, because Ah San is a country, looking at their modern history, it will always make people think that they are a bit strong and capable, and they seem to be hard, but in fact they are a ball of cotton candy that is a hole with a finger.

Moreover, the caste system of the Asan seems to be too deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and it is said that in modern society, it often happens that the rich lower castes are scolded by the higher castes who are beggars and dare not pay back. Lu Ren doesn't know if this kind of thing is true, but if it is true, then the "great cause of liberation" that the Han Asans want to do is really ...... Let's take a look here. And Lu Ren's idea was nothing more than to let these Han Ah San make a mess of the Ah San city-state at that time, and Lu Ren didn't think much about further things.

However, the actual situation is a bit unexpected by Lu Ren, or it should be said that the three city-states at this time have not yet reached a substantive unity, although some things have been quite long, but because there is no strong implementation by the strong authorities, they are still a little chaotic at the ideological level, which also leads to the caste system at this time...... It's hard to say.

In short, when the Han Ah San who returned to Yizhou to recruit people were still busy recruiting, the Han Ah San who went to Ceylon first took the southernmost tip of the Indian Peninsula with the help of the Ceylon Navy, and then a large number of ideas influenced by the Chinese culture of "Gong Hou will have a kind of Xiangning" were spread, and in just two or three months, tens of thousands of lower castes came to defect, so that Lu Ren hurriedly transferred some money, food and weapons to support them.

Lu Ren couldn't guess what the next situation would be, but if it was based on the current situation, it was basically certain that several Asan city-states at that time would be messed up by these people......