"Previously, my father said that the reason why General Meng Tian was unable to continue marching into the grasslands was that, other than the lack of logistics, the biggest problem was that he was not familiar with the geography of the grasslands.”
Ying Changqing pondered and said.
"That's right. Could it be that Evergreen also has a different understanding of the grasslands?”
Ying Zheng said with a hint of surprise on his face.
"This is the gift your son wants to give to Imperial Father. It's called the world map!”
Ying Changqing took out the Great Qin World Map that he had obtained from the system lottery.
A world map?
Ying Zheng's face showed a hint of confusion.
Ying Zheng, who had been a ruler for many years, was naturally very familiar with the meaning of the map, but he had never heard of this world map.
Especially when Ying Changqing unfolded the world map and saw all kinds of colorful patterns and notes on it, the confusion on Ying Zheng's face grew even stronger.
"The world is actually the Great Nine Provinces.”
"Imperial Father should have heard that other than the small Nine Provinces where Great Qin is located, there is an even larger Great Nine Provinces, which is the world that your son just mentioned!”
"This world is far bigger than what Great Qin knew, much bigger!”
"In truth, the place we're on is a circular planet called Earth. This planet is extremely vast, and even with how vast Great Qin is, it only occupies a small portion of it.”
"Outside of Great Qin, there are many other Kingdoms, and the largest ones are even comparable to Great Qin!”
"Even the size of this Great Prairie is not much smaller than Great Qin!”
Ying Changqing said in a deep voice.
"Is this true?"
Looking at Great Qin, which was only a small part of the map, Ying Zheng's face changed drastically.
Ying Changqing smiled faintly.
After all, Great Qin was still in the era before the Christian era, and its understanding of the world was extremely crude.
To put it bluntly, apart from the Central Plains, the Great Qin people only saw the Grassland Outlanders and the Yue and other Barbarian Tribes.
Otherwise, with Ying Zheng's great talent and ambition, he wouldn't have thought that he would have all the rich lands in the world after pacifying the Yue and retreating the Xiongnu in the north, and that he would be able to stabilize the Central Plains by building the Great Wall.
If Ying Zheng knew how big the world was, he would have long set his sights on the future.
He would change all of this.
"Imperial Father, the world is truly beyond the imagination of ordinary people.”
"Take the Great Prairie as an example. Although it is not as rich in resources as the Central Plains, the vastness of the area is not inferior!”
"Our Great Qin army has been unable to do its best in the past few northern expeditions against the Xiongnu because the grasslands are much larger than we imagined.”
"General Meng Tian, even if we can obtain a temporary victory, the remaining Xiongnu soldiers can still escape westward. As for the Great Qin army, we are unfamiliar with the place and cannot catch up to the enemy army that is filled with cavalry. Adding on the difficulty of supplies, after chasing for a period of time without any results, we have no choice but to retreat.”
"Moreover, there is simply too much space for the nomads to live in. Even if Great Qin can defeat the Xiongnu, if we can't continue to move westward and completely occupy the Central Plains, it won't be long before new Tribes develop in the Central Plains and continue to threaten the Central Plains.”
"Just like how there was the Quan Rong after the destruction of Dongyi and the Xiongnu after the Quan Rong.”
"There is only one way to completely solve the problem of the grassland, and that is to take the initiative to attack and occupy all the grassland territories, leaving no space for the people of the grassland.”
"Moreover, there's another benefit to this, which is that we can turn the millions of kilometers of Great Prairie into Great Qin's horse ranch and create an invincible cavalry force for Great Qin.”
Ying Changqing introduced.
"Your Highness 'knowledge of the grasslands is indeed far beyond our imagination, but this also brings us another new problem.”
"The Prairie is simply too big. Even if Great Qin gathered one million soldiers, it would be impossible to control every corner of the Prairie. Moreover, the people of the Prairie are skilled in horses, and their mobility is far greater than Great Qin's infantry army.”
"It won't take three to five years for the money and food that His Highness has painstakingly collected to be completely exhausted!”
"At that time, Great Qin will have no choice but to retreat from the Great Prairie and return to the Great Wall!”
Meng Yi, who was summoned by Ying Zheng and had just entered the palace, said with a frown.
Ying Zheng also nodded in agreement.
With his personality, he naturally preferred to attack rather than defend. However, the Great Prairie was simply too big, and Great Qin could not take it all.
Could it be that they could only cancel the attack plan and return to the old path of passively defending the Great Wall?
"With Great Qin's previous strength, it would have been impossible for us to completely pacify and occupy the Great Prairie. However, things are different now.”
"This young master went out this time and accidentally found several divine crops. Not only are they very adaptable to the soil, but they can also be grown in dry and mountainous areas. Their production far exceeds the crops that Great Qin currently grows!”
"And it's not 10% or 20%. It's directly ten times!”
"Once these new crops spread, would Great Qin still have to worry about food?”
Ying Zheng and the others were completely stunned.
After all, Great Qin's crops were quite simple.
The staple crops were the five grains, namely rice, millet, wheat, and beans.
The yield was pitifully low. One mu of land worked hard for a year, and the final harvest was only two to three hundred catties.
Now, hearing Ying Changqing say that there were several new crops that could directly increase the yield by ten times, how could he not be shocked?
If not for Ying Changqing's solemn face and the many miracles that had happened earlier, Ying Zheng and the others would have thought that Ying Changqing was spouting nonsense.
"Your son has already ordered people to plant these crops in the backyard of the Young Master's Mansion and the selected land. There are also people to take care of them. In at most one and a half months, the first batch of crops will be harvested. At that time, Father will personally go and witness it, and you will understand that your son's words are true.”
Ying Changqing smiled and said," With these new crops, not only will we not have a problem with the grain we need to conquer the Xiongnu, but the people of Great Qin will also no longer have to worry about food."”
"When that time comes, Great Qin's goal will not just be the Great Prairie, but the entire world!”
"Your son's greatest wish is to make the entire world our Great Qin's territory!”
Ying Zheng and Meng Yi were shocked again.
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Currently, he needed to collect some new books. In the future, as long as his results were not too bad, he would definitely be able to release new chapters!
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