Chaos of the Three Kingdoms Summons

Chapter 2433: Dajin's Strategy towards the South, the Resurgence of Arms Trade

"Hasn't the Kushan Empire been eyeing Southeast Asia in the past two years?"

“It doesn’t matter who you sell things to.”

"Tell the officials in Jiaozhou and Nanzhou, they know what to do!" Li Xiang said after thinking for a while.

Southeast Asia was not stable either. Even during the period when Zhu Yuanzhang ruled the south, the King of Linyi once launched a small-scale attack on the Jiaozhou area. However, the scale of the attack was too small and Zhu Yuanzhang easily repelled it, so he did not pay too much attention to it.

At that time, Zhu Yuanzhang's knowledge of Linyi Kingdom was still based on ancient books. In his opinion, it was just a barren land and the benefits of attacking it were not worth the cost.

After all, you can't just go to war in Southeast Asia. There are several issues that must be resolved before the war starts.

First, miasma. This miasma is actually caused by poisonous changes caused by animal carcasses in large tracts of forests, similar to plague, which caused great casualties to the army. During this period, Southeast Asia was distributed with a large number of jungle areas, and miasma was rampant.

Second, the heat is unbearable.

The climate in the south is different from that in the north. If you go further south, the temperature will rise even higher. If a large-scale army is dispatched, each person will only be a small problem. If they gather together, it will also be a huge problem.

In addition, there are mountain warfare and jungle warfare.

Zhu Yuanzhang's soldiers were good at water battles and plains battles. After they took Jiaozhou and even conquered Nanyue, they had a group of soldiers who were good at mountain and jungle battles.

However, at that time, Zhu Yuanzhang had just taken control of Jiaozhou.

Adding all these problems together, for Zhu Yuanzhang, the benefits behind it were not worth his investment in the process.

Precisely because Southeast Asia is also unstable, even if the Kushan Empire intervenes in Southeast Asia, the investment of only a small part of its forces is still not enough to support them to quickly open up the situation in Southeast Asia.

The Kushan Empire also had most of its territory in tropical regions, and the hot climate was no obstacle to them.

Moreover, the Kushan Empire's naval power was quite impressive, and it gradually swallowed up the Southeast Asian region from both sea routes.

In addition, the Kushan Empire was a large empire with a population of tens of millions and hundreds of thousands of soldiers.

Logically speaking, for those scattered small countries in Southeast Asia, this can be said to be a dimensionality reduction attack.

However, it was because the Kushan Empire could only devote a small part of its forces, and according to the information obtained from the Fushuifang, although these Southeast Asian countries were small and scattered and could not be unified, their resistance consciousness was quite strong.

It can be said that almost everyone is a soldier. Even a child of a few years old dares to suddenly attack those Kushan soldiers on the street.

In addition, although they were not strong enough to face the Kushan Empire on the front battlefield, they relied on the mountain and jungle environment to launch guerrilla warfare. Moreover, the densely packed traps made it difficult to defend against. For the Kushan Empire, the jungle was almost their death zone.

As a result, the Kushan Empire's strategy in Southeast Asia was severely hindered, and it even seemed to be stuck in a quagmire.

"Your Majesty, it is a good idea to support the power of Linyi, Funan, Tangming and other countries to fight against the Kushans. However, we are afraid that it will bring disaster to us!" Zhuge Liang said with some concern.

After all, he was the governor of Yizhou before, which was relatively close to Jiaozhou and Nanzhou. Therefore, countries like Linyi had always been restless, and they had even heard of people being robbed from them. It might not be a good thing to support these restless countries.

"It doesn't matter!"

"After all, they are just a few small countries!"

"Besides, with the strength of Kushan, even if our Great Jin supports them, can they really fight against Kushan?" Li Xiang didn't care much about this issue.

The Kushan Empire seemed to be having a difficult time in Southeast Asia, but one reason that cannot be ignored was that their investment was limited.

If these small countries in Southeast Asia could be united as a group, perhaps it would be possible to make them face up to the reality.

However, with just this state of division, even if we support them and allow them to grow and become stronger, they will never be able to truly turn the tables.

After all, their support is only military support, and at most they just sell them a batch of weapons and equipment.

They have done this kind of thing on the grassland before, so they don't care about having a few more buyers.

No matter how many weapons and equipment they sold to them, the first ones to suffer the backlash would be the Kushans, not them.

After the War in the Central Plains and the War in the South, Zhao Kuangyin and Zhu Yuanzhang's forces were defeated, leaving behind a large number of weapons and equipment.

In recent years, whether the Jin army has the need to expand its army, they naturally cannot use these! Moreover, even if they can be used, these will have to be re-made first.

Therefore, it would be better to sell it.

However, at this stage, the grasslands cannot afford it given their current situation. Moreover, even if they buy it, it is impossible for them to buy weapons and equipment at this time.

As for the Kushan Empire, they obviously looked down on these junk. If they bought them back, they would also rebuild them like the Jin Dynasty did.

Therefore, the trade with the Kushan Empire in the past three years was all about pig iron and even iron ore.

But if the trading partners become small countries like those in Southeast Asia, then they will not have the right to be picky like the Kushan Empire.

In their situation, it’s good enough to be of some use!
Strengthen the military strength of the small countries in Southeast Asia, so that they have the confidence to confront the Kushan Empire to a certain extent, and then use the confrontation with the Kushan Empire to consume the national strength of these small countries in Southeast Asia.

Moreover, by continuing to develop commercial trade with the other party, the power of the floating house can continue to take root there and grow stronger step by step.

After a few years, when the strength of the Jin Dynasty has recovered, they can follow the example of the Kushans and erode this land step by step from both land and sea.

At that time, it would be much easier for them, the Great Jin, to do the same thing than for the Kushan Empire.

As for the junk we sold them, it is already junk now. After a few years, when they, the Great Jin, take action, how dilapidated will they be?

Things like swords, spears, and halberds aren't something you can use for a lifetime once you make them!
Even the things currently in warehouses around the country may need to be simply processed before being sold to Southeast Asia, to avoid them becoming rusty and unusable, to the point where even the small countries in Southeast Asia dislike them.