Chapter 677

Liu Yan, who was in Guanzhong, received the war report from Huanwen. It was after the winter solstice.

"Wipe out 60000 people in Gupta, including 500 fleets." Xu Zheng had no superfluous emotion about this kind of war for a long time. The Han army won again and again in East Asia. At the most glorious time, it annihilated hundreds of thousands of enemy troops: "our army has little loss, and the warships seem to have been damaged a little more."

In fact, the Han Army did not have much experience in naval warfare. The war of a Sanyang was a real naval battle. In the first stage of the invasion, by the time the center received the war report, the Han Army had sunk 57 warships, and 68 warships had lost their combat effectiveness in a short time, which was equivalent to almost half the combat effectiveness of the expeditionary fleet.

The expeditionary army has only 300 warships, not including affiliated transport ships and supply ships. They began to carry out the attack war since they arrived in assaiyang. In fact, the number of warships lost in the attack war is very limited, and the major war damage occurred in the later Maritime War between the two armies.

"234 enemy ships of all kinds were captured, and the number of ships held by the expeditionary army rose instead of falling." Ji Chang was in a very good mood, but it was not because he captured all kinds of Gupta ships. It was: "general Zhengnan mentioned that the Gupta nobles were willing to pay a ransom, with a rough calculation value of 127 tons of gold."

Katluk Kapp said that nobles would pay the same weight of gold to redeem themselves, but not every nobleman was so rich. Only a small number of people who were able to pay the same weight of gold.

No one knows whether ah San is rich in gold, but it is true that ah San is obsessed with gold. Those Gupta Gao castes who were defeated and captured in the war have been informed that if they can't get the wealth of gold of the same weight as themselves, they will be sent to the mainland of the Han state as slaves. They don't want to face a tragic fate. They have to make up enough to redeem their wealth even if they sell iron.

At present, gold is not a circulating currency in the Han state. The Han state only restored the circulation of five baht money, including silver. On the contrary, cloth and grain account for a large proportion of barter.

"Huan Wen has sent envoys to the Gupta side to replace gold with grain." Liu Yan was naturally pleased to learn that he had won the war against ah San. Huan Wen, as the commander-in-chief of the front line, has been approved to act easily. He had to mention something: "we did not evaluate the strength of a San enough to win the first war against a San."

"Yes, the third country named Gupta is more powerful than we thought." Xu Zheng, as a lieutenant, was more or less surprised to learn that Gupta could organize millions of troops: "next, we are invading thousands of miles across the sea. I'm afraid it's difficult to destroy Gupta several times."

No one knows whether the Gupta Dynasty can organize millions of troops, but with Gupta's current army of no less than 400000, the Han army will invade across the sea after thousands of miles. It's not easy to destroy Gupta.

In the end, the Han Dynasty is too far away from the Gupta Dynasty, and the sea strength of the Gupta Dynasty is not weak. The Han army can defeat the Gupta army, but for the current situation of the Han country, it will be very uncomfortable to be determined to destroy the Gupta Dynasty.

"The destruction of Gupta is a long process." Jichang attached great importance to: "as we know before, Gupta is a country rich in food. If they admit defeat, in addition to the nobles who are willing to pay ransom, the state should also punish them."

It has been confirmed that there will be a large area of drought in the Central Plains. Before, there was not much time to prepare for disaster prevention, such as the construction of water conservancy facilities, so we can only make a disaster relief plan after the outbreak of drought.

"We need food, a lot of food." Ji Chang, as prime minister, can imagine how much pressure there will be after determining that a large-scale drought will break out: "nearly 2.5 million tons have been seized on the Indochina Peninsula, which is far from enough."

In the Eastern Jin Dynasty, a stone weighs 160 kilograms, and 2.5 million tons is 31.25 million stones. In fact, the quantity is very terrible, but it is really not enough to support a country.

According to the data investigated and calculated by many parties in the Han Dynasty, the large-area drought will last for at least three years. During this time, there are many areas without grain in the north of the Yangtze River Basin, and production can be maintained only in the south of the Yangtze River.

The current population of Han is 17.26 million. If the Yangtze River is used as the boundary, the population to the north of the Yangtze River is about 110 million, and the rest is all to the south of the Yangtze River.

In the upcoming drought, the affected areas include the whole northwest, and Guanzhong is also included. Then, the administrative units of Binzhou, daizhou, Sizhou, Yanzhou, Youzhou and Jizhou, Yuzhou and Qingzhou before the abolition of the state are equal to one-third of the vast Han country.

In the whole seven years of Yuanshuo, the Han center was busy with too many things. The most important thing was to estimate the local grain producing areas. Vigorously developing the land of Jingchu (Hunan and Hubei) in the south of the Yangtze River had a good effect on the development of the land of Jingchu. There was really not much output that could be obtained.

In addition to the south of the Yangtze River, which is not affected by drought, Xuzhou also attached importance to water conservancy construction.

Xuzhou was a big granary in the Eastern Han Dynasty. Although it was repeatedly damaged by war, it has been recovering since it was under the jurisdiction of Liu Yan. It is also an expected grain producing area in this special season when drought is about to break out.

Moreover, it is certain that the land of Bashu will not be affected by drought, but there is only one plain in Bashu that is a grain producing area (i.e. Chengdu plain), which is basically a guarantee for Bashu's self-sufficiency.

For the Han country, nothing deserves more attention than the impending drought, and finding ways to obtain food has become the key.

Any Central Plains Dynasty is not strong in resistance to natural disasters. Many dynasties perished because of the outbreak of natural disasters. When natural disasters broke out, few dynasties could come up with any effective methods, even if there were enough grain reserves. In fact, because of roads and official corruption, few could really be sent to the victims.

In detail, the dynasties in the Central Plains had the strongest resistance to natural disasters, which was called the weak Song Dynasty. In the face of natural disasters, the two Song dynasties took the recruitment of victims and the formation of Xiang army as the main means. In fact, Xiang army was to centralize the victims for effective management and reduce the flood of refugees after the outbreak of natural disasters. It was also a great event to stop ambitious people from bewitching and gathering the victims to change dynasties.

Whether the two Song dynasties were dragged down by the Xiang army is not the key. The key is that the two Song dynasties had a very popular maritime trade. There are relevant data to prove that they continuously purchased food from overseas during the two Song dynasties. This is also the reason why there was no obvious food shortage in China after the population explosion and commercial development of the two Song dynasties.

Liu Yan is not ready to gather the victims to form a Xiang army. His plan is to form a construction corps. In short, he is to centralize the management of the people in the affected area and hire them to carry out various construction, so as to achieve the goal of work for relief.

"Disaster is inevitable. Naturally, we should take this opportunity to improve domestic transportation." Ji Chang said that the domestic transportation planning is mainly led by the prime minister's office, with the participation of Taiwei office, Yushi office, Tingwei office, Dali temple and other departments: "the preliminary planning is that a national road directly to the capital will be built in the East, West, South and North borders, and the capital in the South and the two roads leading to the capital in the northwest will be built first."

In the planning, the starting point of the south is Jiankang, across the Yangtze River, through Lujiang County, Ruyin County, Chen County, Yingchuan County, Xiangcheng County and Xingyang county to Hongnong County, meet with various hub roads at Tongguan, and then go to Guanzhong to Chang'an new city, with a total length of more than 3800 Li.

Another starting point is Dunhuang county (Yangguan), which will run through Jinchang County, Jiuquan County, Zhangye County, Wuxing County, Wuwei County, Guangwu County, Longxi County, Nan'an County, Lueyang county and Fufeng County to Chang'an new city, with a total length of more than 4500 Li.

If the national roads from south to new Chang'an and from north to new Chang'an are built, a national road from northwest to Southeast will appear, which indicates the stability of Han's rule over Northwest and Southeast, and will also create the first great achievement in history, that is, the construction of a national road with a total length of more than 8000 miles.

"We have made relevant preparations." Ji Chang is thirty-nine years old this year. He looks old. Too much government affairs weigh on him. He looks old when he works hard. His spirit is good: "it is planned to focus on the sectional construction of each county, and finally connect each section of roads. It is expected that the two roads can be built within 15 years."

Of course, the drought will not haunt the Han country for 15 years. The preliminary guess is about three years. The people who first invest in road construction will start from six million people, and the construction personnel will be gradually reduced in the future.

The prime minister's office has made a 15 year plan. In the first three years, the peak period of construction will be when the manpower is most sufficient. The main investment of the victims is in flat areas without any danger. The opening of mountains and forests will be completed by the military and slaves. It will take 15 years to build, taking into account that the victims will be gradually demobilized later, and slaves will be used as the main force of construction, supplemented by corvee workers.

The two national highways in the southeast and northwest alone will take 15 years. In addition, from the northeast to new Chang'an and from the southwest to new Chang'an, the latter two will take longer. They are basically viewed in terms of the level of national projects.

Liu Yan has no doubt about the scheduling after having grain. On the premise of "golden finger", there is no need to transport at all. What is more important is the consideration of water use.

"Already trying to store water." Ji Chang did not dare to make any guarantee in this regard. He could only say: "I will do my best."

What the Han state does now is to obtain food as the main goal. It is not only sending expeditionary troops to invade and the construction of local grain producing areas, but also developing the greatest potential for the fishery of the sea.

The coastline of Han country is very long, and it is impossible to do ocean fishery for the time being, but the development of offshore fishery is actually mature. There are a large number of fishing boats doing business in offshore, which can provide a large number of seafood.

"My Lord." LV Yi always wanted to interrupt, but he couldn't get in. Waiting for the opportunity, he immediately asked, "how to arrange when general Zhengnan mentioned Sasan and other countries?"

Huan Wen led the army to victory in a Sanyang. Although the Gupta Dynasty has not completely conceded defeat, the victory was witnessed by many countries.

After the end of that war, ugutai Bahram landed with the Han warship and saw Huan Wen only a few days later. When he proposed that he came from Sasan, Persia, he mentioned the requirement of "resuming the front edge".

In addition to bossashan, the latter two satraps (Cypriots), karabalas (A-San), lambajana (Sri Lanka), bharapa (A-San), Arakan (Bangladesh) and PYU (Myanmar) sent people to contact the pingman captain department, all of which proposed to send envoys to Han.

Later, the "battle of the three oceans of Han Gu and a" spread to Rome, and the Roman side also joined in and made a request to send envoys to the Han country.

At present, except Rome, the requests of other countries have been sent to the center of the Han state. As long as Liu Yan nods, the envoys of various countries will arrive at home by sea through Malacca at the beginning of next spring.

LV Yi is happy to see the success of so many countries sending envoys. His duty as a Dian guest is to be responsible for diplomacy. However, for a long time, he has never done anything constructive except submitting a war paper. He desperately needs a dance platform that can perform.

By the way, there were a few small-scale activities such as "the coming of all nations to Korea" in the pre-Qin period (the unification of Qin Dynasty). In the Western Han Dynasty, there was more conquest abroad. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, there was one in the Liu Xiu period, and then it didn't appear until the Sui and Tang Dynasties.

The small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty has been talking about the "coming of all nations" to whitewash its face, but the so-called "envoys of all nations" are actually fake, and their real identity is a merchant.

So far, the Central Plains Dynasty has little interest in "coming to Korea from all countries", because as long as there is such a country, Later, they will be conquered by the Han people (for example, the Western Han Dynasty and the Eastern Han Dynasty came from "all nations" in the western regions). LV Yi's excitement is that he has something to do at last, which can increase his understanding of the outside world. He also wants to clarify all countries, but fortunately, he will make more contributions to the country on the way of Conquest later.

"Are the Sassanians the sabbaths?" Xu Zhengzhen didn't know that there was such a nation as Persia: "the general of the southern expedition mentioned that they and we were allies, but it's true?"

If LV Yi wanted to show something, the classics he should consult must be checked. He really found relevant records in some classics, that is, the mission of Zhang Qian in the Western Han Dynasty, that is, there is no literature to prove that the two sides are allies.

"It's Persian." LV Yi reminded Xu Zheng. He was still waiting for Liu Yan to reply. When he saw Liu Yan nodding, he said, "the minister sent pingman school captain to contact him."

Liu Yan thought of something. Whether it's Parthia or Sassanian, Persians also control the vast plains. It seems that they are also a food rich civilization. Maybe we should talk about food trade after contact? He also did not forget the Rome that ruled Egypt. Since Persian Sassanids were contacted, he might try to contact and open trade.