Chapter 912: Sisterhood is hard to part with.
Chapter 912: Sisterhood is hard to part with.
Ye Kun was overjoyed when he received the call, and asked Guan Bao and the Immigration Bureau to liaise with the Ninth Department to make preparations for the large-scale immigration.
The three major shipyards were also ordered to step up the production of large ocean vessels to support the large-scale immigration to the Mediterranean.
All immigration to Fuso Nagashima, Ishu Island, the Nanyang Islands, Jiaozhi and Tianzhu was suspended.
In this way, we can concentrate our efforts on taking care of the Mediterranean region.
However, Ye Kun did not restrict those who spontaneously immigrated to India, Jiaozhi, or Iju Island.
After arranging the large-scale immigration, Ye Kun communicated with He Tiantian and others by telegram to guide the scientific research work.
In a blink of an eye, half a month had passed since Ye Shusheng arrived at the Oil Peninsula.
Planning to go back.
Xie Baochan was going to follow her son to the eastern coast of the Mediterranean to visit her brothers and relatives in her hometown, and bid farewell to Ye Kun and Jiang Yourong in tears.
The Xie family of Yizhou used to have tens of thousands of people, but most of them have now migrated to the eastern coast of the Mediterranean.
Most of Xie Baochan's relatives are old and live here.
Jiang Yourong held Xie Baochan's hand, her eyes reddened:
"Baochan, you are two years older than me, but you have always respected me as a sister. Over the years, we have never had a quarrel. Now, Yuejuan stays in Hanhuang Island, and you are going to the Mediterranean. From now on, I am afraid that I will have trouble sleeping and eating when I think of you."
"Sister." Xie Baochan also burst into tears and hugged Jiang Yourong:
"I was originally the daughter-in-law of the Gongsun family, a widow, but the emperor didn't abandon me and we got married. I also became a sister to the empress. We have been sisters for many years, raising children together and accompanying the emperor together. I am heartbroken to be separated from you now!"
After all, we have been together for more than 20 years.
There is still sisterhood.
Ye Kun sighed and called Ye Shusheng to talk to him alone.
"Shusheng, compared to the prince, you have suffered a loss. The prince is the ruler of China and commands the four seas. But you, when you were a teenager, were thousands of miles away from your homeland, expanding the territory and building your own kingdom. I know I have treated you unfairly, but I can't do anything about it."
Ye Shu was only fifteen or sixteen years old when he was born.
It can be said that the children are being treated like adults.
Ye Shusheng smiled and said, "Father, I don't feel that I'm at a disadvantage. I feel that this kind of life is more interesting and exciting. If Father asked me to be a peaceful emperor, I would find it boring."
Ye Kun was stunned, then laughed and said, "Good boy, I was not wrong about you."
Ye Shusheng smiled again and said, "There is nothing wrong with building your own kingdom. Because such a kingdom will be more stable. Just like my father, he started from Cao Miao Village and fought all the way to the present day, and now he owns the whole world, and no one dares to disobey him."
"Son, you have really grown up and become more knowledgeable."
Ye Kun was somewhat impressed by his son and said with a smile: "I will bring more than 40,000 people to the Oil Peninsula this time. You can select 1,000 of them and take them to the Mediterranean to help you develop."
Ye Shusheng smiled and said, "Father, I took the people away. You don't have enough people. What should I do?"
Ye Kun said: "The Oil Peninsula is surrounded by straits and is relatively closed. The desert occupies half of the island. Because of the closed terrain, it is easy to manage here, and it doesn't matter if there are fewer people. Moreover, subsequent immigrants will be sent here continuously, and I have no shortage of people."
"Thank you for your grace, Father. I will respectfully obey your command."
Ye Shusheng was overjoyed.
Ye Kun took out another book, a handwritten one, and said with a smile: "This is the Secret Book of Governing a Country that I specially wrote for you and Crown Prince Ye Feng. You can take a look at it when you have time."
"Father, you have prepared something like this for me!"
Ye Shusheng was ecstatic, he knelt down to express his gratitude, and couldn't wait to look through it.
"This, you go back and look at it."
Ye Kun stopped Ye Shusheng and said thoughtfully: "Shusheng, the general trend of the world is that after a long period of division, there will be unity, and after a long period of unity, there will be division. In fact, I know that if I live another ten years, I will definitely be able to occupy the world and declare that the whole world is Chinese territory.
But I also know that with current technological conditions and productivity, it is difficult to maintain a global unified superpower empire.
Within a hundred years, or even within a few decades, you brothers will separate, each with your own territory and rule your own territories. "
Ye Shusheng was startled, and clasped his fists and said, "Father, I will never dare to betray my motherland, China, or my elder brother, the Crown Prince!"
"You can guarantee it, but your descendants may not."
Ye Kun sighed and smiled, "I only hope that you can guarantee two things. Namely, you will always be subservient to the Chinese nation. Also, make sure that the Mediterranean region is a Han country that inherits Chinese culture."
Ye Shusheng smiled and said, "Father, I swore these two points with all the soldiers and immigrants when I went to sea. Don't worry, I will let my descendants always guarantee these two things. I will write these two points into the laws and family tree."
Ye Kun smiled knowingly: "Then it's okay."
A superpower empire that unifies the world cannot be maintained for long.
Those princes who were granted fiefdoms outside the capital had already formed a de facto separatist regime.
As long as the Chinese nation fails to maintain control, the prince's descendants will declare themselves emperors.
Ye Kun could foresee such a situation, but there was nothing he could do about it.
Even Emperor Gaozu of Tang, Li Yuan, could not control his sons from killing each other.
All Ye Kun could do was to avoid the tragedy of Xuanwu Gate and let his sons separate and live in peace.
Two days later, Ye Shusheng said goodbye to his mother Xie Baochan and left the Oil Peninsula.
Ye Kun took Jiang Yourong and personally sent her to the beach.
The whistle sounded and the people left, and the vast ocean was filled with tears.
For a long time, Jiang Yourong was still standing on the beach, looking out with a telescope, unwilling to go back.
"My lady, it's windy at the seaside, let's go back."
Ye Kun held Jiang Yourong's hand.
Jiang Yourong nodded, and returned with Ye Kun, and asked in a low voice: "Your Majesty, will we be able to see Baochan again in the future?"
Ye Kun smiled and said, "It's easy to meet. We can go north from the Red Sea Strait on the west side of the Oil Peninsula, pass through the Suez region, and enter the Mediterranean. Once we enter the Mediterranean, it will be easy to meet Baochan again."
In later generations, there was a great canal called the Suez Canal, which was located on the west side of the Oil Peninsula and the northern section of the Red Sea Strait, connecting the Asian, African and European continents.
But the construction of the Suez Canal actually originated two thousand years ago, in the era of ancient Egypt.
Due to the backward technology and productivity of the ancients, the Suez Canal in ancient Egypt was not opened.
If the ancient Egyptians had used the energy they put into building the pyramids to build the canal, they would have created this wonder of the world thousands of years ago.
It is said that so many pyramids were built over thousands of years.
Over thousands of years, bit by bit, a channel for the Suez Canal was finally carved out!
Jiang Yourong perked up and said with a smile, "So, if we want to go see Baochan, we can go by water, and the land route is only 400 miles?"
It’s not hard to travel by water.
Traveling by land is too tiring and slow.
This is the experience Jiang Yourong summed up from this trip to the sea with Ye Kun.
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