Although the Qin Dynasty has been peaceful and peaceful in recent years and agriculture has developed rapidly, food security must have always existed for such a large country.

More than 30 million people had to eat, millions of soldiers had to pay food, and huge nobles had to occupy a large number of fiefs. The entire Qin Dynasty needed more than 200 million stones of grain to maintain operation every year.

The population of the Qin Dynasty is growing rapidly. According to the imperial court's speculation, the population will exceed 50 million in ten years, and by then it will be necessary to have nearly 400 million stones of food to avoid famine.

If we want to support so many people, food will definitely become a heavy burden for Daqin.

Although Qinghe Hou had predicted the arrival of this population explosion in advance and was also very clear about the importance of food security. The legal reforms implemented to reduce and exempt grain taxes for land reclamation and farming, and the grain taxes are also reduced again and again, Daqin will definitely be food shortage in the future and will continue to be nervous.

Because in the next twenty or thirty years and one hundred years, the population of Daqin will reach 200 million, 300 million, or even 500 million, 600 million, 700 million...

Eating and drinking enough to make babies is almost the most common way of life for ordinary people.

Therefore, even though the economy of Daqin has been booming in recent years, the price of grain has never dropped and has even been rising slowly. A large number of labor recruited by a large number of engineering projects consumed a large amount of grain.

The rice yield in the south is low, and the price remains high.

Hainan has so many wild areas with hot climates and abundant water sources. If it is developed to farm, it will be ripe three times a year. According to this output, even if the Wei Dynasty only farms and sells grain, it will definitely become an extremely wealthy country.

Under Gai Nie's intimate personal protection and surrounded by a group of Wei ministers, Gongsun Beiyan rode a horse to inspect the first harvest season of the Wei Dynasty.

Unfortunately, this is not Australia.

Although he has gained a foothold here, Gongsun Beiyan has been uneasy in his heart.

Although Chen Xu did not force her to find Australia, she now knows that this place will inevitably be a hot land in the future, because their fleets in the southeast, west and northwest have been explored. Only this narrow strait can lead to the West and occupy this place. In the future, the fleets of the Qin Dynasty and the merchant ships that traveled from each other will inevitably pass by here all year round. The Qin Dynasty will definitely not allow an uncontrolled force to establish a country here and occupy this traffic throat.

If you want to get rid of this situation, there are only two options.

First, give up the plan to establish a country, and then take advantage of the first arrival to occupy this place and do business with merchant ships. At the same time, you can also recruit a large number of people to cultivate and plant rice. Trafficking to the Qin Dynasty will inevitably be a long-lasting business. Even if you cannot be the Princess of Wei, you can at least be a wealthy business that can rival the country.

The second is to give up the throat on the East and West waterways, and turn to the farther south or the West to seek the founding of the country, and completely get rid of the sphere of influence of the Qin Dynasty. As long as the place found is far enough, the Qin Dynasty's arm is not long enough and he can only let it go.

But these two choices are contradictory and anxious for the power that has finally been created.

Now she is not the 17-year-old young girl when she went to Qinghe Town ten years ago, but an adult woman of twenty-seven years old.

After more than ten years of hard work, I have been in a situation where there is no family and no country.

The best youth in life are thrown on the journey of escape and busyness.

In the past ten years, I have never had a good meal, slept for a day and woke up from my dreams, and suffered from anxiety.

Is all this really what you want?

The Wei Kingdom, which was pursuing hard, is now just a wild place far away from its hometown and even the Daqin County. The simple palace looks like a joke. The nobles of the six countries who followed him are all over the place, and they are beginning to lose their ambitions. They are now arrogant and begin to forget their bold ambitions..."

Gongsun Beiyan rode on the horse, gently stroked his slightly rough cheeks and fine lines at the corners of his eyes, and his heart felt bitter one after another.

"Maybe, I was wrong at the beginning. I shouldn't have given up on him so superficially. Sister Qingrou is the smartest and happiest woman!"

The scene when Gongsun Beiyan went to Qinghe Town with Shui Qingrou for the first time to meet Chen Xu.

A young man in strange clothes ran to the health center without any pretentiousness and cares, holding the injured water in front of everyone.

And that time, she was late for the first time when she was late for yam and poria cakes, and ate the iron pot and barbecue. She saw those simple but strange items.

If there is anything else that can make her unforgettable memory besides the unforgettable dream of restoration, the trip to Qinghe Town will be her unforgettable memory for the rest of her life.

But every time she remembered what Chen Xu said, she felt that she could not just give in, and that the young man in the wild whom she looked down upon turned around and couldn't afford to see her.

So she gritted her teeth and persevered. From being caught by Huangshi Gong to the desolate island, and then being captured by a group of Motuo Taoists to Yingzhou, the months of aimless shaking in the vast sea. The helplessness and despair made her want to jump into the sea countless times to end her life. It was like this, and the illusory dream of wealth and her ridiculous insisted on being swallowed by the waves and waves. From then on, she became relaxed and no longer had to worry.

And whenever I want to die, there will always be such a voice of contempt for a young man indifferent to him: "Gongsun Beiyan, you cannot succeed. The restoration of the six countries is just a flower in the mirror and the moon water..."

"Chen Xu, I want you to see that my Gongsun Beiyan is not a stupid woman with big breasts and no brains. I will definitely find Australia and prove to you that my Gongsun is not a person who can only talk big..."

Gongsun Beiyan stubbornly wiped away her tears, and a rare shyness and bright redness appeared on her fair and slightly rough cheeks.

The name "big and brainless" is what Shui Qingrou talked to her when a group of people were imprisoned by Huangshi on a deserted island in the East China Sea.

Every time she thinks of this word, she always feels an uncontrollable heat flow in her body, and even some joy in her anger.

“Woooooo~”

There were several rapid and low horn sounds coming from the sea in the distance.

This is how ships pass messages to each other in an emergency.

Gongsun Beiyan, Gai Nie, and many followers all stopped and looked back at the direction of the sea.

Daliang, Weidu, is surrounded by dense tropical rainforests, and is still several miles away from the coast.

After the horn sound briefly stopped, just when a group of people breathed a sigh of relief and thought it was a misleading news, the horn sound suddenly became more dense and short, and the high and low sounds were rapid and mixed, as if full of anxiety and panic.

"Princess, I'm afraid something big happens with such a dense emergency horn. We'd better arrange someone to check it out!" Chen Yu, the left prime minister of the Great Wei Kingdom, spoke anxiously.

"Okay, I'll tell you immediately General Han summoned his soldiers to the beach to check the situation..."

"No need, summoning soldiers will only ruin big things. If the guess is good, it must be that the Qin fleet has arrived!"

Gai Nie, who dressed as an old farmer, almost never spoke every day, suddenly interrupted Gongsun Beiyan's words.

"ah?!"

As soon as Gai Nie said that not only Chen Yu and Zhang Er and other members of the Great Wei were instantly frightened, but even Gongsun Beiyan's face was extremely pale in an instant.

"Uncle Nie is right. It is definitely not an ordinary situation to let more than ten ships issue warnings together. It must be the Great Qin Sea Division fleet. It is useless to summon soldiers. It is better to go and check out the situation of the Great Qin by the way.

Gongsun Beiyan squeezed her legs and went to the beach with anxiety.

A few miles away arrived in an instant. When Gongsun Beiyan and others arrived at the seaside pier and boarded a docking ship, they could see clearly on the deck without using a telescope, and a huge fleet was slowly coming. The huge hull, the high masts and the huge sails were clearly visible. Even the different patterns and handwritings on the central sail could be seen vaguely.

"It's indeed the Daqin fleet. How many ships are there?"

"There are at least ten miles in length, and there are probably about thirty ships according to the scale."

"God, they are all the latest ships!"

A group of accompanying officials discussed in a terrifying manner.

At this time, the big ships docked on the coast and nearby seas also began to slowly list a defensive formation to surround the big ship where Gongsun Beiyan was located.

But this is just a style. There were not many people on these big ships at this time. After the past six months, in addition to some big ships exploring outside, there were only dozens of shipmen and crew on the harbor and nearby ships. It was okay to deal with the local barbarians, but if you wanted to deal with the Qin fleet, it would be vulnerable. Especially the Qin Haishi Fleet established by Langya Maritime Academy, equipped with immortal weapons such as muskets and cannons. If you fight head-on, less than ten large ships of the Wei Dynasty in front of you will be instantly beaten into sieves.

"Send the order, all ships dock, raise the Qin Dragon Flag and the White Flag!" Faced with this asymmetric force value, Gongsun Beiyan, who had long been accustomed to issuing orders, instantly made his own decision.

The order was soon conveyed, and with the sound of a long horn, the big ships near the harbor began to turn their sails to the dock, and at the same time raised the Daqin Dragon Flag and a white flag showing friendship.

Just as Gongsun Beiyan gave up on the resistance, the black ships on the distant sea became closer and closer, as if they had reached several miles in an instant. At this time, it was clearer with the naked eye. The warships and merchant ships with different hull numbers and names were arranged into a huge geese formation, shaking waves like huge waves. The magnificent and mighty aura made all the soldiers and civilians of the Wei Kingdom who ran to the dock at this time scream in a panic.

"Who dares to resist such a fleet? The Qin Dynasty will unify the world sooner or later, and we are far from waiting!" An old man with gray beard and gripped a handful of beards and trembled violently.

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