Chapter 806

It's natural to work for whoever you eat. Eating this one's meal and manipulating that one's heart is called a rebel.

At all times and in all countries, those who enjoy the benefits produced by their own people but consider the happy life of other people may be praised by the international community, but in fact they are sending out their own benefits. If they can exchange any benefits, they can only have a reputation or a personal reputation, It's really not something a ruler should do.

Liu Yan remembers one thing. It seems that in the election year in the United States, some people think that the candidate can't compare with another candidate in any aspect. The dominant candidate gave a vague speech when it comes to the U.S. foreign policy, and then the candidate behind in the poll seized the opportunity.

What opportunity? It is the candidate who lags behind in the polls who interprets the candidate who has the advantage in the polls, saying that those who have the advantage will take care of the people of the world and buy some media at home and abroad to praise the candidate who has the advantage in the polls.

On election day, something surprising happened. The candidate who thought he was sure to win the election lost the election. Not only was he ignorant, but also the selection team. The domestic polls were so high, and there was praise and expectation abroad. There was no reason to lose the election!

Some of the latter media want to understand why, and they really understand what happened. In fact, voters want to elect a leader who can be responsible for themselves, not the president of the United Nations. When the president of the United States wants to control the happiness and well-being of other people, no one is willing to share such a leader.

At that time, a voter put it bluntly, saying that he would rather vote for a jerk who would take care of his own people than for a Virgin Mary president who took care of the world with his own taxpayer money.

There is competition between countries. Of course, there is nothing wrong with the layout in order to grab interests, but if you pay free, you are training potential competitors.

Liu Yan knew that the Central Plains Dynasty had been cultivating opponents. In fact, it was good before the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty. Later, Li Tang first cultivated Tubo and fed Huihe. The greatest of Zhao and Song Dynasties successively cultivated Jurchen, Shangdang and Mongolia, and Zhu Ming cultivated wild boar skin.

Contemporary Han people are also the most distrustful generation of foreigners. Instead, they keep pace with Liu Yan's concept, so they won't care about the life and death of any non Han people.

For example, the last time Tuyuhun came to kneel and lick, he was ignored by the state of Han. If Li Tang, Zhao song and Zhu Ming were changed, they would be happy. Perhaps as long as a suzerain country's name, they might also be accepted as a Jimi District, and then nourish Tuyuhun silently. One day, when Tuyuhun chopped it with a knife, they would be angry or scold helplessly.

Some areas around Zhuxia are very evil. It seems that they exist to raise a group of Twenty-five children, cowards and enemies. After repeated tests of history, almost all dynasties have staged similar things. For example, the Shandong family always takes the lead in surrender, and the ambitious people in the north of Liaodong are dormant and waiting to turn over.

After arriving at Fanyang, Liu Yan was able to use Chi road again, starting from Zhuo County of Fanyang county to Gaoxian County of xuantu county.

This road was built in the seventh year of Yuanshuo, and it can be regarded as completed after three years. It is mainly responsible for transporting troops and supplies.

There is another Chi road in Liaodong, which runs from mashijin to Gaoxian county.

If Zhuo county to Gaoxian mainly aims at supporting the Northeast in all counties in the north, Ma Shijin is actually preparing for the south of the Yangtze River.

China's maritime navigation has developed slowly. The most priority for transporting materials from the south is to take the sea route. You can go ashore from Buqi port (Qingdao) in Changguang County, or enter the Yangtze River and take inland waterways to the nearest inland. If you want to transport materials or move back materials from the south, you can take a boat from mashijin to nearby ports.

"The Northeast has already produced." Sang Yu made a special understanding and said: "last year, he transported back 400000 stones of all kinds of grain, which has suddenly increased to 600000 stones this year."

The Han Dynasty began to develop the Northeast in the ninth year of Yuanshuo. Not many people went to China. Only some people with adventurous courage chose to immigrate to the past. In fact, the main labor force was slaves from Koguryo, Baiji and Xinluo. In addition, it absorbed Japanese people from the Japanese islands.

Liu Yan attached great importance to the development of the Northeast Plain and paid attention to the situation there from time to time. He clearly remembered that there were nearly 2.5 million slaves there. In addition to the subjugated people who killed the Three Kingdoms on the peninsula and the labor force from the Japanese islands, he also arrested nearly 100000 northeast savages.

"There are also various kinds of products, mainly medicine and fur." Sang Yu took fur clothes from the northeast with him in his salute. It was said that they were made of white fur from foxes. They kept warm and looked fashionable: "ginseng is the most valuable medicine.", He said, but he looked at Liu Yan. Ginseng is what Liu Yan specifically mentioned.

Liu Yan recalled that he knew a lot of northeast specialties. You know, after five dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, the Central Plains Dynasty wanted to build palaces and take materials. His eyes could only stare at the northeast, where there were trees that more than a dozen people needed to hold together.

"In overseas (sea of Japan) areas, there are pearls along the coastline. As soon as the season of several inland rivers comes, they will cast their nets and return with full load." Liu Yan can only think of so much. He also knows that China's largest oil field is also there. He just thinks that he can conquer Central Asia and East Asia. He doesn't pay much attention to Daqing oil field: "didn't he catch countless fish last year? The fish eggs there are a rare specialty."

When it comes to modern times, in addition to natural gas and oil, Russia's specialty is caviar in the Far East. What's special is that most of Russia's resources belong to Zhuxia from the early Han Dynasty to Zhu Ming, which was lost later.

"Caviar?" Yu Yi is no stranger to seafood. Fish is indispensable on the table of southerners: "it's really delicious."

How big a country's territory is, how many specialties there will be. This group of people in power led by Liu Yan, because of their identity, status and power, have found that all specialties are given priority. They have eaten all kinds of melons from the western regions and all kinds of fruits and seafood from Nanyang. The ginseng from the Northeast has been collected in the library for thousands of years, Liu Yan even raised two white bears from the Arctic (the Navy explored North America and set foot in the Bering Strait, which died one after another).

Yu Yi didn't eat caviar when he was still in the small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. He didn't eat it until the Han state began to explore the sea. In contrast, caviar produced in the northeast is really the most delicious.

"I prefer pomegranates." Sang Yu said with a memorable expression, "unfortunately, it comes from Persia."

Er, the origin of pomegranates is really in Persia, but they were moved to their homes by the Romans, which is not a specialty of Persia.

Sang Yu's behavior has only one meaning. He hopes that when Persia can become a pomegranate breeding garden for big men.

"I prefer olives." LV Tai was completely busy, not afraid of big things, but also with a salivating expression on his face: "it's a pity that he came from Daqin."

There are few specialties in any place. The Indochina Peninsula and Luzon islands are also rich in bananas, but those places have become in the big man's bowl, so people don't mention it.

The original desire of human exploration is to obtain more food. Only with a large enough territory can we master more food sources. That is the reason why primitive humans slowly went out of Africa.

With the progress of society, the reason why a country expands its territory becomes resources. First of all, it must have a large enough territory to master the basic conditions that can make the country strong. The term is a kind of resource accumulation. Only with enough resources can it enhance its strength and open up a larger territory.

In terms of the scientific and technological level of the current era, many things can't be made at all, but if they can't be made now, it doesn't mean that they can't be made after scientific and technological progress. Then Liu Yan's insistence on expansion makes sense.

"We did explore rubber." Seeing that everyone was confused, Liu Yan briefly introduced what kind of specialty rubber is. In particular, he named only three places in the world where rubber can be produced, of which the Indochina Peninsula and Nanyang islands are the largest. Even in modern times, they account for 70% of the world: "it is a very special material, but now we can directly use it to make tires."

Don't underestimate rubber. When technology is not enough, it can only be made into tires and other things without special technical content, but many scientific and technological extensions are really inseparable from its existence. Plastic science is also a part of supporting modern science.

There is already a carriage using rubber in new Chang'an, which is one of Liu Yan's toys.

People have seen cars with rubber tires. Even if they haven't experienced it in person, they know what it is. In short, it is to reduce bumps. Otherwise, even if the damping device is good, there will still be an obvious sense of bumps.

When the technology of rubber related materials develops to a certain extent, it and oil will become the most important strategic resources. Take a simple example. After Germany was blocked during World War II, the lack of rubber resources had to rely on metal materials. Fortunately, Sweden has been supplying German iron ore. at that time, the wheels of German cars that were extremely short of rubber were completely iron, Military vehicles are either full track or half track. In fact, it's not a good track style. It's really short of rubber! Not only the wheels of cars are made of iron, but also some wires that need rubber to make insulators are useless.

Liu Yan now tells them that they have not contacted and have no relevant concepts, which is no different from listening to the heavenly book.

"In a word, it is an indispensable strategic resource, and we have at least 70% of such resources in the world." Liu Yan hasn't said oil yet. Han has mastered many islands and sea areas in the Indo China Peninsula and the Asian part of the Pacific, which also contains rich oil resources: "Han has been looking for the super island from Luzon to the south. As long as it can be found, about 20% of the world's iron ore resources are in the hands of Han."

The iron ore people understand that they also have a preliminary concept of "the world". Of course, the concept comes from the unreliable world map painted by Liu Yan. They know that there are seven continents and two oceans in the world, and the current territory of Han only accounts for less than 7% of the global land area.

The so-called 7% includes the Indochina Peninsula and Nanyang islands, and the local area may be less than 4%.

"Although Zhuxia's old land is vast, there are really very, very few resources in the world compared with other places." Liu Yan didn't lie. The essence of vast territory and abundant resources is to deceive others and ourselves: "we have some advantages and resources."

If we want to say what resources are most abundant in Zhuxia old land, we have to say that they are rare earth, tungsten, molybdenum, tin, mercury and antimony. But now Han people don't know what rare earth, tungsten, molybdenum, tin, mercury and antimony, especially antimony, are the most abundant in the world. But these resources may not be of any use to people today... Even in hundreds of years.

Just because there are some resources, the development line of science and technology can be even. If the Indians haven't found copper, haven't opened bronze technology, and then haven't extended the iron age, it's really a tragedy.

"Like them?" Yu Yi pointed out a group of slaves wearing animal skins: "there are so many resources, but they still live in ancient times (Stone Age)."

The slaves instructed by Yu Yi came from the north of Liaodong, including the Northeast Plain. Each looked strong, but they were in the era of fishing and hunting.

I have to admit that the physical quality of the savages in the northeast is really just, because the weak system in the sky will be eliminated by nature, and what is left is a good gene?

They have arrived in Gaoxian County, where they can see the running Liao water. They look from south to north, East and west to see whether the woods are removed or not. A large number of slaves are doing logging and transporting wood.

"They are very rebellious." LV Tai is fully qualified to say this: "the captured are still difficult to tame, and a batch of prisoners must be killed every month."

Savages living in the Northeast are born to fight with heaven. If they want to live, they have to fight with wild animals. They are fierce in their bones and are really difficult to tame.

"Further to the northeast, autumn is freezing." Liu Yan said with a modern impression that the climate will not be different even if it is different now: "in a bitter and cold place, naturally, a group of such people will be raised."

To say earlier, is Yandi still short of people who sing impassioned elegy? If they were led by some brave kings, they would basically be able to make great achievements. For example, the king of the state of Yan in the spring and Autumn Period taught Donghu a lesson with those brave men. Only then did they have youpeiping, Liaoxi and Liaodong. Otherwise, they should still be nestled in the West of the water.

"Those savages..." Liu Yan thought of a very bad thing and didn't lower his voice: "you can kill them all."

The accompanying historian understood the record: on September 23, the 10th year of Yuanshuo, the emperor said, "it is difficult for savages to obey the king in the north and east of Liao, so they should be a family.".