Chapter 113: Seven Stabs to the Back—Suicide! (2 / 2)
It wouldn’t matter. A single island nation going against a country—no matter how skilled the island’s warriors were, they could only watch helplessly as their opponent’s logistics continuously replenished soldiers, weapons, food, and all other strategic resources.
—With the country’s resources, it could afford to lose many times, but the island nation only needed to lose once to be utterly ruined.
After some thought, the Qingpu magistrate added, “If Your Majesty is concerned about governance after conquest, all Wokou could be relocated to a smaller, resource-poor island.”
The officials who didn’t grasp the reasoning reflexively asked, “Why?”
Those who did understand inhaled sharply, staring at the magistrate as though he were a venomous strategist from antiquity.
The magistrate calmly continued.
“If they are confined to an isolated island with limited resources, they will naturally turn on each other in competition, fragmenting themselves. This will suppress their population growth. Additionally, Great Xia could trade with one faction annually, bringing them resources they lack. To secure Great Xia’s favor, they would strive to curry favor and submit to us.”
“As for the now-vacant Wokou islands, they could serve as another place for Great Xia to exile criminals.”
Since it would be an exile site, there wouldn’t be much need to worry about disaster relief in the event of typhoons or earthquakes.