"I ask again. If you have any doubts about the clans, you can ask them. I will give you a detailed answer. The Southern Expedition is a major event and will never turn back once it is started. The vassal kings fought so fiercely. If the foreign war ended in failure, how do the people in the world think of our Sima family? The purpose of starting the Southern Expedition is to our royal family for the sake of the birth of descendants and a place to be a ban. For the people, it is to increase the trust of the people. How to gain trust? Naturally, the opening of the territory is the most priority."

Sima Ji talked freely, and he was going to finish it all at once. Now the kings were just aroused to be greedy. Once they left the Yan Prince's Mansion and calmed down, they would consider the long journey, the possible accidents on the sea route, etc., and it would not be impossible to give up at that time.

The ugly words were better than just taking the chicken blood. Sima Ji's words calmed down the kings present and began to seriously consider the significance of the Nanzheng instead of thinking about snatching one.

"If you walk on the sea, you will be afraid of encountering storms along the way." Xiangyang King Sima Fan pondered for a while and asked, "Why does Uncle King explain?"

"There can be two directions of attack. One is to go south along the Ningzhou River and occupy the local area with a thousand miles. Just as the safety of Jingxiang is important to Jiankang, the two have similar effects. The other road is to enter the sea from Jiankang and touch the place along the coast. The combination of the two will be accomplished." Sima Ji gestured to the map, "You don't have to worry too much on the sea road. Just go to the shore directly if you see the opportunity. There are all prefectures and counties in the Great Jin Dynasty along the way. What are you afraid of?"

To be honest, Sima Ji's planned policy of conquering the Indochina Peninsula, or directly moving south, cannot be compared with the great voyages of later generations. The difficulty is completely different. At most, it can be compared with the Diaz's maritime route. The Diaz's maritime route is to surround the African coastline. This is the safest method. The advantage is that you can go ashore at any time if something happens.

The sailing routes of Columbus and Magellan were really a pioneering move, and were a route that Europeans had never taken. The North Atlantic Ocean was not the Pacific Ocean, and the sea conditions of the North Atlantic Ocean were much worse than those of other oceans. Therefore, from the initial stage, Europe was much more difficult than China. Once Europeans proved that they could cross the Atlantic Ocean, it almost showed that European shipbuilding and navigation technology was above China.

The Ming Dynasty's voyage to the West was actually a relatively safe old route. This route had been taken by Arabs and Indians for hundreds of years. The difficulty of the two was different. The danger of Zheng He's voyage to the West was not the ocean.

Sima Ji just wanted to swallow Southeast Asia and had no time to cross the Pacific Ocean, so as long as he was dispatched in the appropriate season of the monsoon, he would not have the dilemma of the early Western Age of Discovery.

As for whether immigrants will adapt to the local climate in the future, they will not care about the matter of the King of Yan and will always sacrifice for the country. It is normal to not adapt to the local environment. As long as most local people continue to have children, they will sooner or later be able to swallow the local area.

The problem of King Sima Fan of Xiangyang also made Sima Ji sigh secretly. Perhaps the Chinese are indeed unwilling to place their lives on the sea.

"I just don't know if the ministers in the court agree?" King Sima of Qi said with some concern, "The country is not peaceful now. If Zhang Chang's rebellion is wiped out, the southern expedition will be started immediately. They should not agree."

"Who said it's now started? I also feel that it will take two or three years to prepare to stabilize the country. When the time comes, the initial stability will be started and the southern expedition will be started. What qualifications do they have to oppose it? The vocational division is the matter of our Sima family. What qualifications do the gentry have to oppose it? They are qualified to bargain with our royal family?" Sima Ji pointed to the vassal kings here, "The world belongs to our family. The strong gentry is to seize the rights of our family. The stronger they are, the less tax they will pay to our family. This world is not enough for us to share, and there is no place to share it with them."

"What the King of Yan said is that our royal family agreed, why should the gentry oppose it?" As soon as King Liang Sima Xi spoke, the vassal kings agreed. Now, after hearing Sima Jiyi's words, I think that's the case.

So many high gentry sects are on par with them, isn’t it just a matter of dividing the power of the Great Jin Empire? An example is sitting on the top. If Sima Ji hadn’t had a word in Youzhou and had no high gentry sects and the King of Yan divided the accounts, would the King of Yan be able to fight against Sima Ying and Sima Yong, who were much stronger than the apparently powerful in the land of a state?

Sima Ji could use all his money and food in Youzhou for war, and the two vassal kings could not do this. They had to take into account the noble families under their rule. It has to be said that Sima Ji used this civil war to prove many things. He won, and he won it when his territory and population were much weaker than the enemy. There was no better way to prove it than the result of the war.

Sima Ji, who had successfully brainwashed the royal kings in the royal family, happily sent them out of the mansion. The smile on his face gradually disappeared and he thought to himself, "This should be the second round of bans after the Zhou Dynasty."

Regarding the feudal system and the county system, what should be determined by this? It is not unacceptable to the newly occupied feudal system. You should know that after the Zhou Dynasty defeated the Shang Dynasty, the vast land was something that the Zhou emperor had no time to take care of. The Shang Dynasty's remnants were still there and had the strength to make a comeback. There was nothing wrong with sealing and suppressing the Shang Dynasty.

Now he also wants to divide the feudal system, with the purpose of occupying more land. Anyway, the counties and counties within the Great Wall cannot engage in feudal system. From the Zhou emperor's enfeoffment to Qin Shihuang's unification of the world, it has proved that the feudal system is no longer suitable in the Central Plains. However, from a larger perspective, the Jin Dynasty could have started the second round on a larger scale, and its current territory remained unchanged. The future enfeoffers would be sent to Southeast Asia. If there were more local people and fewer lands, they would migrate out. If the Jiangnan Peninsula was full, the Indochina Peninsula was full, and the Indochina Peninsula was full and the Southeast Asian archipelago was full.

"I feel like I am standing shoulder to shoulder with Han Wu, Emperor Gaozong and Qianlong." Sima Ji was even proud of his beautiful prospects. As for whether the Sima kings would rebel in the future, to be honest, it was not that he looked down on the forces of the Indochina Peninsula. His concerns about local separatism were far more than the other side sweeping the world.

"King Yan, I just saw the King of Qi and others leaving. I was very happy to see them." Cao Qian came in from outside the mansion and saw Sima Ji that he was admiring himself, so he couldn't help but say curiously.
Chapter completed!