Which time did you expand your territory without dying? Yes, there will be sacrifices in any expansion of territory, not that there needs to be sacrifices to cherish that kind of bullshit, but what you want to gain is always what you have to lose, the ancients called this "the conservation of heaven", and modern people call it "harvest and pay".

There is still a large territory in the southwest of Lingnan, which is South Asia in later generations, but the territory area is not as much as 30 times that of the Central Plains, even if the land of India is counted, unless it is a turn to attack Central Asia full of sand, otherwise only Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Shyness, and Thailand in later generations are seven to eight times the territory of the Central Plains.

There are already a lot of eightfold territory, how much blood has the Chinese shed for the land of the Central Plains for thousands of years, counting the civil war or something, dozens of dynasties fighting each other, because the lives lost in that land are at least 100 million, and this is not counting the natural death of old age......

Is it possible to occupy South Asia with current technology? Lu Zhe thinks it is feasible, but it is also about the road. In other words, as long as the roads can be built, with the leading culture and technology of the Chinese civilization, and with the good warfare of the Chinese race, it is not a problem to kill all the Stone Age savages who are similar to monkeys, and the occupation depends on whether the rulers have the patience to govern slowly.

Of course, there is a more important one, that is, the capital of the Chinese people cannot be far away from the South Asia-Pacific region, once the distance is too far, in this era when you can only walk forty or fifty miles on foot in a day, in this "wilderness" without trains and planes, as the distance between the capital and a certain place is too far, the control will inevitably decline.

Historically, the Chinese regime did not fail to fight farther than Lingnan, but the emperor was far away, and the generals of the garrison had different intentions, or the natives did not kill all to form an absolute population advantage, and in the end either the generals rebelled or the natives rebelled, resulting in the capital being too far away The speed of news transmission was too slow, and it was too late to send troops to quell the rebellion after receiving the news, and the final result was that the occupied territory was lost again.

Lu Zhe knows the importance of the road. As long as the road can be guaranteed, the ruling strength will inevitably be consolidated with the extension of the road, the most important road construction in Chinese history is no more than the Great Qin, but unfortunately the premature demise of the Great Qin, countless scholars or politicians believe that it is precisely because of the Great Qin's use of the people's power to guide the demise, after the Great Qin, there is no dynasty to have a plan, there is a goal to build a "national highway" like the straight road, the result is that the territory of China is only for a long time is simply the "Great Qin Empire" of the territory.

The importance of roads is fundamental to maintaining an empire, and it is also Rome that attaches great importance to road construction, and they build roads from generation to generation, forming the goal of "all roads lead to Rome". As a result, Rome continued to exist for nearly 1,500 years, even though there were rebellions everywhere.

Lu Zhe affirmed Kuaitong and Xiao He's ideas, if you want to achieve actual and effective control over the territory, then the road must be built, even if you need to sacrifice tens of thousands of people to build the road to ensure the smooth passage of the southern expedition, it is really worth it!

"Build roads!" Lu Zhe raised his hand and didn't put it down, he pondered for a while: "I think about it, I'll think about it again......"

It's not that he overturned the decision to build roads, but Lu Zhe is also a modern person, and he must have a lot of useful knowledge in his head for road construction. No matter how bad it is, you can "invent" some equipment to help build roads.

Kuai Tong and Xiao He looked at each other, since the importance of the road did not require too many words, then they didn't understand why Lu Zhe was so hesitant.

In fact, as long as it is related to the "national project", whether it is from Xia to Qin. The rulers never cared too much about how many people were sacrificed, and what they wanted to do was not to enjoy building palaces and imperial tombs, but to expand the territory for future generations.

"Cranes? It seems that Daqin had the original version of the crane when he built the Great Wall. So......" Lu Zhe didn't have a god chattering, he was filtering in his mind what could be used to assist in road construction: "Straight saws, circular saws, shovels...... That's right. Building a road must involve removing trees, which are far less laborious than cutting them with an axe. ”

There are a lot of tools, Lu Zhe pinched his fingers and counted them. There are at least 10 or more ways that can help open the road. He also thought of the "artifact" of the unicycle, and the other is a very simple wooden pulley road that can be pulled by manpower or animal power (in fact, it is a railway of different materials).

No, even if it is a wooden slide, the operation of sleepers and fixed slides is basically not easy, if the construction of a railway-like project because of the opening of the road, instead of reducing the project, it will be aggravated!

You can't do things that put the cart before the horse, and Lu Zhe should take a longer time to think.

"Lord, the first batch of people who went south to build roads ......" Kuaitong needs to be determined as much as possible: "Fifty thousand, okay?" ”

The road built on the Lingnan side will not have only one main road, even if there is only one, it is also the road where the materials are stored. There are two directions to choose from Nanling to Lingnan, one is to take Cangwu County, which has been stabilized, and the other is to take Changsha County.

Compared with Cangwu County, there are many water systems in Changsha County. The most fearful thing about building a road is to be intercepted by the water system, after all, it is not much more difficult to build a bridge now than to open a mountain. However, if you consider it in the political sense, Cangwu County has been stabilized, and the newly occupied Changsha County is unstable, so in contrast to the lesser of the two evils, even if Changsha County will encounter more difficulties, it can only be Changsha County.

There is a distance of almost 2,000 miles from Nanling to Lingnan, and it is almost 2,000 miles from Nanling to the Minnan Army or Nanhai County, and 50,000 people is absolutely not enough.

"Start with strategic locations, and the closer you get to the territory, you can postpone it later." Kuaitong's idea is very pertinent, and it is related to logical reasoning: "Stabilizing the morale of the army and causing enough psychological pressure on the local area may be able to attract the Baiyue people from the deep mountains and old forests." ”

That's right, the biggest problem in conquering Lingnan is not to fight with the Baiyue people, but that these savages are too familiar with that territory, and it is not ordinarily difficult to find out. In addition, the Chinese people are indeed not very accustomed to fighting in the jungle environment, and compared with the fighting of Baiyue real swords and guns, the losses of Chinese soldiers are more severe in non-combat diseases.

Lu Zhe has been making measures against water and soil adaptation, such as the study of tea has not been put down, and the health regulations have also begun to be implemented in the army.

Tea is an artifact, and although I don't really understand what exactly tea does to the human body, if you look at history, you will find some interesting things. For example, nomads say that tea can relieve oiliness is a lure scam, but in fact, tea can help nomads reduce the phenomenon of adaptation when they migrate. For example, the British discovered that tea can cure water and soil discomfort, and made a bold statement that "the British can complete the conquest of the world with a teacup in one hand and a rifle in the other".

Of course, the tea that Lu Zhe needs is not the kind that needs to be boiled now, it is the kind of dried tea leaves that have been fried and can be drunk after brewing in boiling water.

There has never been a shortage of tea trees in the south, and there are surprisingly many wild tea trees in Nanjun and on the Lujiang River, and there have been the birth of roasted tea under Lu Zhe's attention, but to be honest...... The taste is really not good.

For the huge effect of preventing water and soil adaptation, the taste is completely a secondary "accessory", Lu Zhe just carried out a simple packing of the tea after it was fried, and then a car was being sent to the camp of the southern garrison, but he was very strange to drink the tea, to be honest, he could not touch it, and he would definitely not touch even a drop.

"Fifty thousand is fifty thousand, and we will continue to draw later." After talking about the preliminary problems of road construction, it is impossible for Lu Zhe to do any 'invention' for a while, and he still needs to use charcoal pens to draw blueprints and communicate more with craftsmen before he can produce tools such as straight saws and circular saws. He had another topic for the two of them: "Is there any charter for encouraging childbearing?" ”

Yes, it's a matter of population, and it's a waste of land with only nearly five million people.

At the same time, Lu Zhe's desire to expand is very strong, so what is the use of occupying more land just by occupying the territory without the population to fill it?

"Got some ideas." Xiao He is in power, and of course the people under his rule must participate: "The opinion of his subordinates is that he will use administrative instructions, such as what rewards he will get for having an extra child. ”

Not? This seems to be the way Lu Zhe once said.

"Considering the problem of not being able to work after pregnancy, the subordinates thought that more assistance should be given. In addition, the survival of newborns requires serious attention. What Xiao He said is that pregnant women must raise their fetuses, and the current means of delivery and sanitary conditions can easily lead to the death of newborns and so on.

Lu Zhe raised his eyebrows, a pregnant woman will indeed make a family lose one or two laborers, and there should be a practical policy for this kind of assistance, otherwise no matter how much they encourage more children, families with more labor will not obey the government.

Ten months of pregnancy, after the child is born, there is a need for someone to watch for three or five years or even longer, which is actually a huge burden on a family, whether in a social environment with low productivity or in a modern social environment.

Setting up a nursery? There seems to be room for manoeuvre. But how to improve the infant death aspect, Lu Zhe is a little blind.

"Lord, we can gather experienced midwives and let them communicate and come up with effective methods." Kuaitong thinks about civil affairs in terms of military affairs.

Every time the army finishes a battle, the officers exchange experience, so there is nothing wrong with concentrating professional personnel for exchange, right? (To be continued......)