Afterwards, Zhou Huaian handled several more matters during the break in the fields;

The most important thing is to sign the five mountain barracks, six garrison battalions and naval combat teams that were recently along the Xiajiang River Waterway, and formed the fourth side division to launch another spring offensive in the neighboring Luzhou.

This is not the result of Zhou Huaian's unremitting efforts or his eagerness for quick success. On the one hand, the conditions for attacking Xichuan again have been initially mature. Gao Renhou, the main opponent of Xichuan Town, and his main force of the formation, have now been mobilized northward, and have been restrained in Xingyuan Prefecture and have no time to take care of him;

On the other hand, the Lushui barbarians, who had caused great trouble to the Taiping Army by sneak attacks and destruction by familiar geography, have fallen into division and civil strife and are temporarily in danger. At the same time, under the current development of the situation, the progress of the strategy of Sanchuan, Jiannan also involves the layout of Taiping's future industrial development.

Because recently, the supply of saltpeter in the Taiping Army's production has once again been seriously insufficient. This is not only because of the need for military production mainly by gunpowder, but also because of the huge consumption of the original fertilizer industry in various aspects of agricultural production and new land development. This has also become a major focus of the competition among the departments of the Grand Commander for resource allocation.

After all, chemical fertilizers mainly composed of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium, combined with concentrated livestock and intensive farming, are simply a killer for this generation of agricultural production. Ammonia compounds, an important catalytic component of fertilizer synthesis, require a large amount of saltpeter. At least before artificial ammonia synthesis technology is released, it must rely on naturally generated minerals.

Therefore, the best quality is the largest source of overseas imports, which is potassium saltpeter from the southern Tianzhu area, also known as Indian saltpeter and pyrogen. It is produced in soil, rock surfaces or caves in dry areas with large heat evaporation. It can be used as potassium and nitrogen fertilizers in agriculture by slightly processing. Therefore, this is also an important quota for sea trade ships between southern Tianzhu to and from the designated ballast to trade.

In contrast, the main domestic output is Glauber's salt compounds. Most of them are concentrated in later generations of sand stains and salt lakes, and some of the production areas located in the south are relatively scattered.

Among them, Jiannan Sanchuan is undoubtedly the area with the richest calcium Glauber's salt mineral resources in the south. Later generations have 24 discovered mining areas. They are mainly distributed in Xinjin, Meishan, Mingshan, Pengshan, Hongya, Danlen, Ya'an and other places west of Chengdu. There are also 6 discovered calcium Glauber's salt mines in Yunnan in later generations, but they are now within the territory of Nanzhao.

There are even fewer ones located in the Taiping Army. Among them, the ancient Glauber's salt mine located in Hunan is a symbiotic mine of the salt lake bitter brine. Six mining areas have been discovered, mainly distributed in Hengyang and Li County. They belong to the brine salt residue left after the ancient Yunmeng Daze evaporates and retreats one after another; the resource output is relatively abundant, but collection is more troublesome.

Then, in the (Hubei) area between Jingnan and Shannan, a total of 19 calcium Glauber's salt production areas associated with salt mines were discovered, mainly distributed in Zaoyang, Yingcheng, Yunmeng, Hanchuan, Songzi-Publican, Tianmen and other places, mainly associated with or symbiotic ores with rock salt. It is easier to mine, but the difficulty and cost of refining technology are higher than the former.

In addition to the above areas, the newly occupied Huainan territory (Dongxing, Yongyuan County, Anhui; Xienian, Huaiyin, Jiangsu Province, etc.); Liangling (Longgui, Guangzhou City,) and other places also have calcium and Glauber's salt resources, but the reserves are small. Then, the method of collecting excrement through the issuance order can only be a slight supplement.

Therefore, the foreign trade department from Guangzhou once came up with a so-called development plan for South Tianzhu. It is to expand and open up targetedly based on multiple permanent strongholds/trade stacks from East Tianzhu to South Tianzhu, and establish a sphere of influence deep inland to ensure a stable territorial origin of Tianzhu saltpeter.

But after watching it, Zhou Huaian felt that he was really willing. Did he really treat others as a casually fabricated fish? Although the South Asian subcontinent has always been a stepping stone for the failures and remnants of the great migration of northern ethnic groups, he was able to show off his power;

However, its geographical environment, population size, and complex local forces are enough to make the conquers who come across the sea very troubled. Not to mention that they have to endure the influence of monsoon and tides during this period. Using Zhan Po, Zhen La, Poli, and Foshi as a springboard and transit to maintain a continuous supply line at the sea, it is simply a matter of life.

But later, a prince from India who fled from sea to Annan changed the situation, which also caused new ideas and plans in the foreign trade department. Because this was a royal family member who was born in the former Eastern Indian Kingdom (Poro Dynasty, most of Bangladesh and India's Bihar), and a large number of monks who fled were accompanied by.

Because his king's surname is famous for his support and protection of Buddhism; it is also the five-way Indian land that is now in the end of the Buddhist period, and the last royal family to believe in Buddhism. The kings of Polo in all dynasties were devout Buddhists, and have long invested in the construction of the famous Buddhist comprehensive institution Nalanda Temple and Chaojie Temple, the famous Buddhist schools in North India.

Among them, Chaojie Temple/Juyan Temple, which is mainly based on Tantric Buddhism, is said to be larger than the Nalanda Temple built during the Great Gupta dynasty of Buddhism. Because it is also the last place for the Brahmanism to shelter and shelter a large number of monks and believers from the five directions after the resurgence of the Brahminism.

However, this unique Krai Kingdom was defeated by the emerging Krai (Krai Kingdom) in the past decade, and once captured the royal city on the north bank of the Ganges River. The contemporary king Vikara Hopola I was missing, and the members of the royal family fled in scattered. Therefore, now it is a dilapidated situation where strong enemies attack cities and separatist countries are invaded.

Therefore, after the settlement of stability, Prince Lu, who fled to Annan, went to Guangzhou without hesitation through the Buddhist monks who were promoting education in the local area, and proposed to seek help from the Taiping Army forces, who were also in the background of "Buddhist Daxing". This inevitably made the foreign trade department who had no idea about intervening in the breakthrough point of the local area of ​​Tianzhu.

Although in the face of Prince Luo's request to restore the country by using his troops to restore the country, the Taiping Grand Governor's Office still could not directly cross the sea and send troops on a large scale; however, it was still quite hard to provide targeted support and assistance in other aspects of equipment, manpower and material resources, and to the expectation of gaining a new foothold in Dongtianzhu.

After all, the Kingdom of Liluo was considered a major force in the Indian territory. In the early Tang Dynasty, it also competed with King Jie Ri and other major forces in Northern India for the hegemony of Zhongtianzhu. During the Tang Dynasty, Wang Xuance used troops to capture the new generation of Northern India overlord Aronasun, and once took over the Qunun City, which represented the hegemony of Zhongtianzhu.

Even if it is weaker now, it still has a large area of ​​territory in the East and West Bangladesh in later generations. As one of the costs and rewards to assist the prince in restoring the country, in addition to the ceasing of many rights and interests, it is more time-saving than sending troops directly to attack.

Moreover, even if the final vision is not fully achieved or the restoration of the country fails, it can still be used to continue to occupy a coastal area in its name to think of its long-term business foundation, which is relatively small in capital and great profit. What's more, the Taiping Governor's Office has introduced private capital to share risks through bidding.

Therefore, under the banner of "helping ministers and re-promoting Buddhism", he finally formed a large ship of tens of thousands of people. Not only were many maritime merchants enthusiastically traveling ships and people, and they paid for shipments to participate in the process of speculation and sharing. By the way, a large number of potential unstable elements in Annan and Liangling were sent out.

Nowadays, several news has been heard back, saying that it had already reached an ancient port city called Danmolidi (now Tamluk, Bangladesh) in the Gulf of Gange River. It successfully landed on the shore without bloodshed. It also pacified and recovered several nearby cities under the banner of Prince Gilau;

However, although several batches of trophy and goods were sent back, it was still far away to obtain a stable mineral land for example. Therefore, the sphere of influence of the Taiping Army is closest to the Taiping Army, and it is relatively easy to obtain a large amount of saltpeter production, leaving only the Xichuan territory of Sanchuan, Jiannan.

Of course, if it can be defeated and eliminated, the small court in Shu, which is relatively empty, will be just an unexpected victory like a rabbit, like a fight for a rabbit. However, it is no longer the primary matter that Zhou Huaian is particularly concerned about.

After all, as long as the main industrial system under the Taiping Army is sufficiently nourished to develop, even if the remaining orthodox status and power of the Li Tang royal family can last for a period of time, it will end the trouble of being crushed and crushed by the wheel of history driven by industrial development.

In contrast, wasting more shipbuilding production capacity and increasing the maintenance cost of the Xiajiang waterway is nothing to do with the human and material resources that the Taiping Army has now mastered.

Even the wars ongoing within the pass have lost the meaning of continuing to maintain their political support as the object of assistance and support, the New Dynasties of the Great Qi Dynasty.

In fact, most people under the Taiping Army had some psychological preparation for the end of the Li Tang Dynasty, but the difference was how much price they had to pay for this result, how many cycles and time they had to be used to realize this process of replacement.
Chapter completed!