Plagues were everywhere, and they were busy with their officials, but Lu Ning still called Guo Jia, Tian Feng, Zhang Liao, Gu Yong, Sima Lang and others to study some military affairs work together.

Lu Ning said to them: "Everyone also knows that the locust disaster in the north is very harmful. The plague in the south is flooded everywhere, and even the north is affected. Now our government officials' main work is to prevent and control plagues, resettle victims and refugees. In the northeast and northern expeditions, the wars are still in a tense stage. It is probably still some time to completely solve those places. The conquests of various armies in the second half of next year should have a result, but the far northern and Far East areas must also be solved, which is not a problem that can be solved in a short period of time. Although there are not many foreign ethnic groups living in those places, they live very scattered. In addition, the climate conditions in those places are harsh, our expeditions and army will also encounter many difficulties, but no matter how difficult it is, they must solve these places. This is the only way to permanently solve the border problems of our Han ethnic group."

After hearing Lu Ning's words, Sima Lang said, "Brother, what are you thinking about? What are you going to conquer in the far north and the Far East? The climate in those places is cold and harsh. They are all remote, poor and backward places. Even if they are conquered, they cannot be resettled. Although the place is large, it is of no use to us and it will not be easy to manage in the future. Control these places. Such conquests are actually a life-threatening loss. My opinion is that there is no need to conquer those places."

After hearing this, Lu Ning thought, what do you know? Those places store a large amount of mineral resources, and we cannot mine them now, but this is also for the sake of future generations. Now those places are uninhabited. It is much simpler for the conquest, and it will not cause any national disputes. If you want to conquer them later, you still want to conquer them after being occupied by other countries. Wouldn't that dream? "Fifth brother, you can't say that. Those places store a large amount of forest resources, mineral resources, animal and plant resources. These resources are essential to our Han people. Even if we don't mine now, we must conquer them, occupy them first and then leave them for future generations to use. We can't mine all the resources, what

We don’t leave any for future generations, so we are all scolded by our descendants. Taking advantage of the fact that no country has been formed in those places, it is very beneficial for our conquests. This is also considered to seize reserve resources. Besides, after we conquered those places, in the future, our Han people will only be able to station troops to defend the invasion of the enemy in the west on land, otherwise we will be invaded by enemies from the west and north. In the east and south, the sea is all there is. After our navy conquered the Japanese islands, Yi Islands, large and small Luzon Islands, our Han people will have a defensive depth; of course, if conditions permit, continue to expand their defensive depth to the sea and form several layers of defense systems. This is what I think."
Chapter completed!