The most arrogant in history

Chapter 724: Five lakes and four seas are all brothers.

Qin Erwu was also on duty and said with a smile:

"Let our civilian sailing fleet work harder and destroy the Tamil Empire directly. There is no need for a regular navy."

The Tamil Empire was a complete country, but it was still a slave society.

Compared with the current Han Empire, productivity is extremely low.

The island will collapse at the slightest disturbance.

When the civilian sailing teams went to the island of Ceylon, they basically acted like the bosses and could act as they pleased. They were more like colonizers than the colonizers themselves.

The Tamil dynasty was helpless and often sent envoys to protest.

What Qin Erwu said was not wrong. If the civilian sailing team worked harder, they could directly destroy the Tamil dynasty.

Ye Kun smiled and said, "We should say that China is a country of etiquette. Let's rescue the foreign people on the island and build a better Hanhuang Island."

After the court session ended, Liu Yuejuan brought Prince Ye Chan to express her gratitude.

Ye Kun pulled Liu Yuejuan to sit down and asked, "Will you complain about me for letting your son go so far away?"

"No, since my son is a prince, it is only natural for him to expand the territory for the country." Liu Yuejuan said calmly:

"When children grow up, they will all leave their parents. My son will have such a large territory in the future, which is larger than Yizhou and Jingzhou. I am very happy and very grateful to the emperor."

In terms of area, the island of Ceylon is indeed large enough. It is surrounded by the sea and is easy to defend but difficult to attack.

As long as you can adapt to the climate and soil environment there, it would be really great to be an overseas king.

Shensheng died inside, while Chong'er was safe outside.

Liu Yuejuan understood this principle very well, but she just didn't say it.

Ye Kun nodded and looked at Ye Chan again: "Child, do you have any resentment in your heart?"

"This is the care of my father. How dare I resent it?"

Ye Chan smiled: "Shusheng is younger than me, and he has already gone overseas to fight for his fortune. In comparison, I am ashamed."

"Shusheng and you have different personalities, don't compare us."

Ye Kun shook his head and said, "After you get married, you can take two concubines and have more children. When the children are a little older and you are in your twenties, you can go to Ceylon Island. I will send troops to conquer the island, build a base for you first, ensure a sanitary environment, and let you have a few small towns to settle down, and then slowly develop.

Sang Buyi will also try his best to help you."

Others have uncles to help them, but Ye Chan doesn't.

Having two stupid uncles is useless.

Ye Chan nodded, thanked him, bowed and took his leave.

Ye Kun comforted Liu Yuejuan again: "Yuejuan, I will abdicate in about ten years. At that time, if you miss your son, I will accompany you to see your son and grandson. If you like, we can stay on the island of Ceylon together."

Liu Yuejuan smiled and said, "Your Majesty, I want to correct your mistake. It is called Hanhuang Island, not Ceylon Island."

"My lady is right."

Ye Kun laughed and admitted his mistake.

Back in the imperial study, Ye Kun, as the Minister of War, ordered Song Poliu and Xiahou Jun to attack the island of Ceylon with all their strength, and allowed civilian sailing teams to participate in the operation.

In the southern part of the Indian Peninsula, there are now 70,000 Chinese soldiers, thousands of warships, guns, ammunition, food and logistics. Taking over the island of Ceylon is like a piece of cake.

Song Poliu quickly called back: "Your Majesty, within one month, I will destroy the Tamil Dynasty, capture the Tamil King, and send him to Zhuo County."

Ye Kun was very satisfied.

On October 20, Ye Kun led the guard team, scientific researchers, and medical personnel, a total of more than 4,000 people, set out from Tianjin Port and embarked on another southern tour.

This time, the entire fleet was steamships, which were much faster.

Ayiman didn't go because she was worried about her child who was too young.

Among the female family members, only Wen Axiu and Liu Hongyu, as well as Moli and Bingbing, accompanied Ye Kun to help him handle some official business.

When he arrived at Qiantang Port, Ye Kun found something wrong.

After not being here for a few years, the prosperity of the coastal areas exceeded Ye Kun’s imagination!

Civilian ships were constantly coming and going, with the bright red Han national flag flying on the bow of each ship.

Moreover, there are many foreigners among the workers on shore and on board.

Huangfu Lin and Yingtao met him at Qiantang Port and explained:

"Your Majesty, after the court lifted the ban on civilian maritime activities, the wealthy families and merchants along the coast all knew to go overseas to make money. Over the past three years, countless people have made a fortune!

Nowadays, coastal residents no longer fish or farm, but instead save up money to buy boats and go out to sea to make money.”

Ye Kun smiled and said, "When I lifted the ban on sea trade, I hoped for the situation today. By the way, why are there so many foreigners?"

"They were all bought or captured by civilian sailing teams. They called them sea slaves."

Huangfu Lin shook his head and smiled: "There are at least 100,000 sea slaves in the coastal areas now, mainly responsible for port work, work on ships, and transportation work."

Ye Kun smiled and said, "Calling them sea slaves is too harsh. We should call them brothers. We are all brothers from all corners of the world. We should live in harmony."

Yingtao smiled and said, "Your Majesty, there are millions of young and strong people from other races in China now. Aren't you worried that they will cause chaos?"

"With such a large territory, we can absorb 10 million young and middle-aged people. It's just a few million, what are you worried about?"

Ye Kun disagreed: "Although there are millions of young and strong men from other ethnic groups, all the women have married Han people and become Han people's wives, proper Chinese wives.

Those men were sent to various factories and mines, or to build roads and dig rivers. A large coal mine, 50,000 laborers of different ethnic groups, including Jiaozhi people, Tianzhu people, Western Region people, Fusang people, Xiongnu people, Romans, Tamils, they are not familiar with each other, can not communicate, can not form a joint force, how can they cause chaos? "

Huangfu Lin smiled and said, "In a closed factory or mine, one soldier wearing armor and carrying a sword can supervise ten workers. We don't have to worry about riots. It's just that the population is too large, so we have to consider the food supply issue."

Wen Axiu shook his head and said, "Don't worry about the food. We can't finish it in three years. After the introduction of sweet potatoes, there will never be famine in China."

Cherry said: "Fifty years from now, we may have a population of 200 million. Will there be enough food by then?"

Ye Kun smiled and said, "Of course it is enough. In fifty years, technology will be further developed and food production will increase. Moreover, the speed of our overseas immigration will accelerate."

In such a big country, it is very easy to catch thousands of corrupt officials and tens of thousands of bullies every year.

After conviction, all immigrated.

Besides, the country has too many people and resources are tight, so people will naturally immigrate overseas.

For example, when Xiao Dequan came back this time, he brought hundreds of scientific and technological personnel with him, half of whom came with their families.

People are happy to go because there is so much land overseas.

Huangfu Lin nodded and said thoughtfully: "After the lifting of the ban on private maritime trade, there has been some chaos this year. There are many people who evade taxes and smuggle goods.

The coastal fishermen bought low-priced salt, ironware, porcelain, glass and other goods from the country and went overseas to exchange them with the natives for jewelry, gold and silver. Their business reached the Nanyang Islands, as well as India and the island of Ceylon.

Some adventurers even bypassed the Indian continent and continued their exploration westward. The sea slaves they brought back also became their private property.

Cherry also said: "Your Majesty, shouldn't you take care of this situation?"