In Lu Zhe's wishes, what he hoped was that his ethnic group could continue to expand outward, and increasing the living space of the ethnic group was one of them, and the other was to spread the culture of Chinese civilization.

The territory that a country can expand is limited, which is limited by the logistics line, and it is impossible for the country to focus all its energy on expansion for a long time, after all, no matter how much it expands, it cannot forget the construction of the country, and building a country is never so easy.

The logistical line can be borrowed from the nomadic people, and the army can bring sufficient cattle and sheep and other livestock as military rations, and can also "feed the enemy" every time it invades a place, but some aspects such as ordnance must have a good smelting system. It is certainly not enough for an army to have food and grass, and without the replenishment and repair of ordnance, no matter how strong a person is, he can't fight empty-handed, right?

The expansion of state behavior will be relatively rapid and smooth in the early stage, and it will become more difficult as the battle line gets farther and farther away from the mainland, so there will always be a very long cycle for the expansion of the living space of an ethnic group.

Lu Zhe couldn't wait that long, and in terms of the selectivity of the historical stage, the Huaxia ethnic group was not always able to achieve the cost performance of expansion at the minimum cost. At present, there are many enemies around Huaxia, but there are not many who can compete with the Huaxia clan in terms of overall strength, so if you don't expand with such a good opportunity now, do you have to wait until the enemy grows up?

After a long period of research, it will be found that the Zhou royal family's feudal expansion method is very powerful, originally inherited from the Yin Shang Ji Zhou from a small territory, through the independent expansion of each sub-minister to become the largest ethnic group in Asia, in the expansion process of the Zhou royal family gradually lost its influence, but the benefits obtained by the ethnic group are unimaginable.

Lu Zhe never thought that the Lu dynasty would last for thousands of generations, and there would be wise people in a family, but there must be mediocre people, and there would be many people who would die on their own. Because he is alive, his son's generation and his grandson's generation can still control or guide him, and who can imagine how the historical trend will develop after he dies? Therefore, what he wanted to do most in his lifetime was to develop a general strategy that would last at least 100 years. It is considered a success if the strategy is made to have inertia, so that the strategic inertia can continue to achieve the maximum goal of ethnic expansion.

For Lü Zhe, the expansion strategy is divided into two types, one is the expansion of the territory under absolute control, that is, the army is conscripted in the formulated strategy, and the territory of the territory has been expanded, which he himself called the "local fixed circle", that is, the territory under the direct rule of the Lü dynasty; The other is to learn from the sub-feudal of the Zhou royal family, not to pay attention to absolute control, and let these sub-feudal vassals expand on their own. Under the same ethnic group, the empire is the suzerain, and the sub-vassal state is a subordinate state or a vassal state, as long as the living space of the same ethnic group can be expanded, it is considered a success.

The territory of the empire demarcated by Lu Zhe was very extensive, and the territory of the original Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period was all included, but it was not only these, but it would also expand the national border all the way.

So far, the Saihan army has completely conquered the modern Inner Mongolian grasslands, but their ultimate goal is to march all the way to the depths of the grasslands. Mt. Wolf will not be the end, but will continue to push the battle line north, until it extends to the north of the North Sea (Lake Baikal), that is, the footsteps will stop near the Arctic Circle.

Donghu currently has a wide habitat area. It is bounded by the North Sea in the west, Liaodong in the south, Sakhalin Island in the east, and the Arctic Circle in the north. The existing habitat of Donghu is also coveted by Lu Zhe. Lu Zhe's ultimate goal was to capture the entire territory of Donghu, leaving no land near the Arctic Circle, and even thought of landing directly in North America from the Beiling Strait. Of course. Now there is no Beiling Strait, and North America has not been named, waiting for the expansion of the imperial army to two places, and then it should be named by the Chinese ethnic group.

After the integration of the empire's territory, the southern coastline is not the termination line, and the occupied Yizhou (that is, Taiwan) is not, the empire's navy is just developing, yes, as the navy continues to explore, it will definitely find Luzon Island (the Philippines), and the Pacific Ocean will eventually become the empire's sea bathtub one day.

The west is the most troublesome in the direction of expansion, the Han army has expanded to the plateau area, and under the plateau is a swampy area, where there was a force called Nanzhao in the Tang Dynasty who said that swampland. At present, the Han army is also framed by that swamp, and if you want to climb the plateau, you must first conquer the swampland, even if you conquer the swamp, it is still unknown whether the plateau will be affected by the climate.

According to Lü Zhe's will, the empire must occupy the plateau, and continue to expand its territory to the boundary of Indochina, that is, the backbone of the world, and it is best to find a road to the Indochina continent, and then decide whether to invade the Indochina continent according to actual needs.

There are armorers who hang up a large map of the world, and the drawings on the map look very detailed, but whether the continental plates and coastlines are really like that is a bit unreliable.

In fact, the world map is also drawn by Lu Zhe according to his own memory, and the continents can still be a little reliable, at least the continents really exist, but the islands in the major oceans have been completely forgotten.

"It's huge! So the land under our feet is only such a small piece of the world? ”

"Those red ones represent the current territory of the empire, and the red line area is the area where the empire will expand in the future, so how can it be that almost half of the entire 'world island' is included in it?"

"What do those extra colors mean? Is it the territory occupied by other countries or powers? ”

"It's obvious thing, I didn't see those green maps marked with 'Xiongnu', but now I know that there is not only a Hu country like the Xiongnu on the grassland, the bright green is called Ding Ling, the orange is called Hun Geng, the sea blue is called Qu She, the rest color is Hujie, and the gray and black is Donghu?"

"It turns out that the Yue's people ran over here? There is also a tribal confederation called Wusun. ”

"Hmm...... What does it mean to move eastward and the natives of the Western Regions? ”

"Whatever it means, they occupy a lot of territory!"

There are many more people who do not understand why the enemies on the continental shelf of Lü Zhe have not been wiped out, so why they should go to sea and bother to find any islands, such as Kyushu Island, which has been included in the imperial territory.

"Kyushu?" Lu Zhe immediately had a smiling expression on his face: "The miners with the pulse have already discovered the silver mine over there. ”

In fact, the silver mine is not the world-famous "Iwami Silver Mine", there are no large precious metal mines on Kyushu Island, and the real "Iwami Silver Mine" is on the Hiroshima side. On the other hand, Sado Kanayama is an island located in the waters of the Wajima Islands near Hokkaido. For example, Mt. Fujikin, as the name suggests, is not in Mt. Fuji. It is an area called Suruga near Mt. Fuji.

Zhao Xie's face was flushed, he had already drunk a lot of wine, took a sip of wine, and asked, "Virtuous son-in-law, tell me why you want to go to those places, right?" He was referring to the Wajima.

Lu Zhe didn't mind introducing some things, and straightened out his thoughts: "So far, a lot of gold and silver mines have been discovered in Kyushu, many of them are open-pit metal mines, and the most special thing is that there are many that don't need to dig deeply, just dig in the river to find golden sands and silver sand......"

With Lu Zhe's slow narration. The more the people present listened, the more straight their eyes became, most of them knew that there would be islands in the east of the sea, but in the long-term cognition, the islands were just some immortal islands made up by warlocks, and there were immortals living on them, and they could send people to ask for an elixir of immortality and other illusory stories like deification.

"Immortals? Haha, who knows if there are immortals. "Lu Zhe really doesn't know if there are immortals, he will cross when he is smashed by something at the door of the supermarket for some reason, and such an outrageous thing has happened. Who can be sure that there are no immortals in the world? After laughing for a while, he continued: "Now that the immortals have not been found, there are a lot of precious metals, and the imperial soldiers have already marched to the farther islands with the help of the local natives. More precious metal mines will certainly be found in the near future. ”

The gold and silver mines of the Wajichi Islands are indeed amazingly abundant, and the gold and silver mines of Echigo, Sado and Kurokawa, Nakayama and Umejima, and Izu are ...... Some of them are very famous and not very famous, and there are no less than 100 gold mines in Wajima.

There are also many precious metal mines of the silver type in the Wajijima, and according to the exploration of the vanguard of the maritime army. Twenty-six silver mines have been discovered on Kyushu Island and surrounding islands alone, and this is less than a year's achievement, and there are certainly more to come.

"Really...... What a lot of wealth! Fusu swallowed. My heart was full of envy: "In the past, I used to send ships to seek immortals, but no one thought of sending an exploration team to explore." ”

When Lu Zhe heard Fusu's words, he smiled, not because he was conceited, nor because the ancients were too ignorant, but because of an information asymmetry.

In the simplest example, primitive man certainly did not know what a state was, and he certainly could not imagine how the tools of future man were not stone tools. People in the feudal era couldn't imagine what a car was, and they couldn't believe that the earth was round and why it wouldn't fall. Modern people have a rudimentary idea of the universe, but they also have no way of knowing that there are no other civilizations in the boundless universe.

Lu Zhe has a good reason, before North America and South America were not discovered, the precious metals on the Japanese Islands were the highest in the world in the entire known world, and he has now sent people to land on the Japanese Islands, and he has really discovered many gold and silver mines one after another, and the financial restructuring of the empire also has a related source of precious metals, isn't it worth being happy?

In addition, sending troops to land on the Japanese Islands is actually to satisfy Lu Zhe's own unknown wishes, but unfortunately there is no country on the Japanese Islands, and it can even be said that the current natives of the Japanese Islands are not the ancestors of the group of people two thousand years later, so even if the Han army is now massacring purposefully, he has not gained even the slightest sense of achievement.

Slaughter? Yes, it is a massacre, the Japanese islands are facing the slaughter of the Han army, and the South Asian subcontinent is also staging massacres all the time, in addition to the necessary "clean-up", more alien races are captured and become coolies, and there has never been any peaceful coexistence on the road to expansion, which will always be accompanied by blood and tears.

"The Imperial Army has its own plan of expansion, and those who choose to be separated will also have their own path." Lu Zhe stopped, very deliberately for a while, and then ordered: "Escort those aliens up."

The first to be escorted were two white-skinned people, who were also different from the Caucasian race. The so-called universal "Caucasians" are actually the white-skinned people such as the Xiongnu who can be commonly seen in Chinese civilization, but the hair of the Xiongnu and other Hu people is basically black, the pupils are actually black, and the difference between the facial features and the Chinese ethnic group is not too big.

"It's not the same as the Hu people around us, right?" Lu Zhe pointed to the two white people: "Their skin is whiter, the color of their hair is mainly golden, and their facial features are different from the Hu people around us." ”

The escorted up were a man and a woman, and at this moment they were standing naked in place under the care of the armor soldiers, and they could see many differences clearly, such as not only the difference in facial features and hair color, but also the body hair on the white people of this type was much more than that of the Hu people around Huaxia.

"Too short, right? The man looks like an ape-man, and the hair on his chest is too thick, which is really ugly. The woman's breasts are relatively large, but the bones look a little strange? Zhao Xie commented at the beginning of the product: "This kind of Hu people who are completely different from the Rong, Di, and Xiongnu have relatively straight noses and flat nostrils. The woman's appearance looks good, I don't know how it tastes like to enjoy it? ”

No one looked at Zhao Xie with strange eyes, the Zhao family has always had the habit of intermarrying with other races, and the first family in Chinese history to mix with Caucasian people is the most famous Zhao family (both intermarriage with Di people), maybe Zhao Xie still has Caucasian blood.

The two white people who were escorted up, the male is 1.64 meters, and the female is 1.62 meters, which is indeed relatively short compared to the average height of the current Chinese ethnic group of 1.75 meters.

"This Caucasian is an ethnic group that migrated east from Europa, and the army has captured a lot of them on the Heshuo side, since Weng Zhang likes it, he can pick some later." Lu Zhe glanced at Zhao Xie with a smile, and then looked at the others: "If you are interested, you can pick a few later." ”

A burst of laughter appeared, for the men of the Huaxia ethnic group, it is not disliked to try what other women of different races look like, but it is just a "taste", and the Zhao family can really do it.

"Huh? Hehe! Lu Zhe was interested when he saw it, and ordered to the armor soldier: "The next alien race is brought up." ”

The armor should "No! Leaving, the others glanced at each other, and then realized that there was more than one alien race, and it seemed that Lu Zhe wanted to show all the alien races that had been plundered during the expansion? (To be continued......)