"Two premises?" Li Ke was stunned after hearing this. He couldn't think of what were the two premises that Li Yan said?

Li Yan put down his chopsticks, then stretched out his two fingers in turn and said, "First: transportation; second: population!"

After hearing this, Li Ke was a little puzzled and said, "Sixth brother, I thought you would talk about transportation and army, how could it be transportation and population?"

Li Yan smiled and shook his head and said, "No need to mention transportation. If you want to gain a foothold in the Mediterranean, you must need strong support from the rear. My father and I can provide this, but we need the Suez Canal, which is often controlled by the cannibals. This is quite stuck by them. We must find a way to prevent them from acting rashly."

"As for the second reason, the population is not the army, the first is because the army also comes from the people under his own rule, so you must have a certain population in your hands, and the Han people must account for a considerable number. The second is because although the army can help you capture a large piece of land, if you want to completely control this land, a large number of Han people are required to stabilize the rule. Therefore, the importance of population is far more important than that of the army." Li Yan said slowly at the end.

After hearing this, Li Ke nodded seriously, and at the same time he admired Li Yan even more. Although he served as the governor of the Tang Dynasty and governed the people of a state, he did not have the experience of establishing a country overseas alone, so he was not very mature in some aspects. What Li Yan said today was of great help and inspiration to him.

"Liulang, I have recorded what you said, but these two prerequisites are not something I can solve by myself. I wonder if you have any good solutions?" Li Ke asked humbly.

"Yeah." Li Yan thought for a moment, and immediately smiled, "For population, I can issue an announcement in Daqi. As long as the conditions for you are offered by Third Brother, you should be able to attract a group of people. But I can't guarantee the number, but at least tens of thousands of people can be gathered. In addition, with your influence, you should also be able to gather a group of followers in the Tang Dynasty, and as a father, you must support Third Brother, you have a group of people. I heard that the population of Hu people in the northern grasslands has grown rapidly in the past two years, and those are born cavalry!"

After hearing Li Yan's words, Li Ke showed a embarrassed look and said, "Liulang, I won't refuse if you give me a hand, but how can I speak with my father?"

"Third brother, you really have to see your father once, because in addition to this incident, if you want the great cannibals to dare to get stuck on your neck, you also need your father to come forward. My seventh brother, eighth brother and I can help you!" Li Yanmin said helplessly. He knew that Li Ke was thin-skinned and embarrassed to speak to Li Shimin, but if you want to solve the two premises of population and transportation, Li Ke must also talk to Li Shimin in person.

"Oh? It seems that Liulang, you have a way to let the cannibals open the Suez Canal obediently and let the support fleet of supplies unobstructed?" Li Ke's eyes lit up after hearing this.

Although population is a big problem, after all, whether it is the Tang Dynasty or the Daqi, although it has been encouraging childbirth, the population growth is not a matter of one or two days, so it is temporarily in short supply, so Li Ke did not expect that he could summon many people to follow him. At worst, if the number of Han people is not enough, then fill it with the grassland Hu people or even the three Korean people under Li Yan. However, Li Ke was quite helpless about the fact that the great cannibal might get stuck on his neck. He thought of various ways along the way but felt that it would not work, so he placed all his hopes on Li Yan. Now it seems that Li Yan did not disappoint himself.

After hearing this, Li Yan analyzed with a serious look on his face: "In fact, it is not troublesome to solve this matter. It is just to take advantage of the power to force the people. The rise of the great cannibals is too fast, and the ethnic groups in the country are mixed, which makes their country lack a cohesion. However, because the great cannibals have always been victorious, giving people a feeling of invincibility. This not only makes them have the upper hand in fighting against the outside world, but also makes the foreign races in the country dare not have any other intentions."

When he said this, a strange smile suddenly appeared on Li Yan's face, and then said: "But now Dashi meets us, the Tang Dynasty of Father is almost invincible in the battle on land, and in the last confrontation, Dashi was very clear that if they really fought with Dashi, their chances of victory were very small, not to mention that my navy could directly threaten Dashi Peninsula. If they really fought, they would inevitably suffer a major defeat. In this way, they would break the myth of their invincibility. This is undoubtedly fatal to Dashi today, so Dashi would never dare to start a war with us at this time!"

Hearing Li Yan say this, Li Ke also slapped and said, "So that's the case. Dashi's weakness is that he dare not fight. He is worried that if he loses the battle, the confidence that the people in the country will finally establish will collapse, and it will have a fatal impact on their rule. Then we only need to make an offensive attitude. As long as Dashi feels frightened, then we will make the conditions next. It is even more difficult to open a small Suez Canal!"

"Haha, the third brother is still quick to react. The matter of coercion of Dashi still requires the father to come forward. After all, he can not only represent the Tang Dynasty, but also represent the Indians of my Daqi and the Seventh Brother. As long as the three parties act together and do not fear that Dashi will not give in, they may even gain greater benefits!" Li Yan laughed happily.

Sometimes he really admired himself and came to help Li Ke, but after his trouble, this matter became a common force between the Tang Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms to jointly coerce the Dashi for profit, and helping Li Ke became a secondary one.

Next, Li Yan and Li Ke began to discuss how the Three Kingdoms of the Tang Dynasty should act so that Dashi would feel the greatest threat, and at the same time, they would not feel that they would die without any doubt, so as not to make the other party backfire. At that time, Dashi and they would be defeated. If they really reached this point, even if Dashi really destroyed it, it would be a loss for the Three Kingdoms of the Tang Dynasty.

Both Li Ke and Li Yan were extremely talented, and the coercive plan was quickly formulated. To be on the safe side, Li Yan also specially gave the plan to Wang An and Lu Hong for consultation. In the end, they also felt that although there were certain risks, it would be quite feasible if the implementation went smoothly.

After the plan was finalized, Li Ke and Li Yan stayed in Nugang for a few days, but it was okay to live in a place like Wuzhou for a few days, but the successive earthquakes were really unbearable. In particular, Li Yan was still a very life-threatening person. He didn't want to die in a quake one day, so he quickly took Qinghe and other women back to Taiwan. As for Li Ke, he took a boat to the Tang Dynasty to meet Li Shimin and personally sought his help.

In the plan finalized by Li Yan and Li Ke, it was divided into two parts, which were completed by Li Ke and Li Yan. Li Ke had already gone to see Li Shimin, so Li Yan naturally could not be idle either. After sending his family to Keelung, he immediately left Taiwan by boat, first arrived at Lion City, then crossed the Strait of Malacca, and went to the Indian continent for the second time.

Because the time was urgent this time, Li Yan rode a steamship all the way. After nearly two years of development, not only steamships have begun to be popularized on all routes in Nanyang, but even steamships have begun to appear on relatively long routes such as India or Africa. Even in Li Yan's navy, steam warships are already being tested. If they can succeed, the navy's strength will make another leap.

It is also worth mentioning that after leaving the Maliu Strait, the route of the Tianzhu Gulf was rampant, posing a huge threat to passing ships. Li Yan had long wanted to clean up, but because of the matter in the South China Sea, he had never been able to free up. Last year, he finally organized a large number of navies to start cleaning up.

After a year of hard work, the navy eliminated hundreds of pirates of all sizes here, making the routes in the Tianzhu Bay well order. Although there are a very small number of pirates who have escaped, they are no longer in a state of climate. This has praised the maritime merchants from all over the world, and has also greatly promoted commercial exchanges here.

The steamboat Li Yan took did not go to Ceylon Island, and it was directly anchored at the Tianzhu port closest to Zhongjing. This port is an unknown small port, but because it is closest to Zhongjing, it quickly became prosperous. It has now been named Jingwei Port by Li Yun, and it also has a large amount of military force to prevent the enemy from attacking from the sea.

There is a railway to Zhongjing in Jingwei Port, which was just completed last year. All the railways and trains were imported from Li Yan. What is very interesting is that the train cars are also divided into levels. Brahmins and Kshatriyas are in higher cars, while Vaishya can only take lower cars. As for the bottom-level Daudra, they are not qualified to take trains.

Li Yan's envoy arrived one step earlier than him, so Li Zhen and Li Yun specially arranged a train for Li Yan to greet him. Although the train has been improved several times and the speed is getting faster and faster, it is at most similar to the speed of horses at most. It took three hours to go from Jingwei Port to Zhongjing, so Li Yan slept on the train before he arrived at Zhongjing.

By the time Li Yan got off the train, Li Zhen and Li Yun had already been waiting for him at the train station, which made Li Yan very happy. He laughed and walked forward, hugged the two brothers enthusiastically for a few times. Then Li Yan pulled Li Zhen and Li Yun into the carriage as if they were escaping, and rushed to the palace quickly.
Chapter completed!