Datang: From exiled prince to eternal tyrant

Chapter 509 The Prosperity of the Tang Dynasty (The Finale)

of course.

Li Ke can directly mobilize the money in the Bank of Shu.

But in fact.

Build these two huge cities.

Money is only one aspect of consumption.

What is more important is the consumption of manpower, material resources and resources.

Li Ke plans to hire locals from both countries as laborers.

It's still relatively cheap.

If the population is mobilized from within Datang to build these two cities.

The salary alone is a lot of money.

After all, the living standard of people in Datang is much higher now.

If the money is less, others are not willing to do it at all.

But give a lot.

The Kingdom of Shu couldn't afford it at all.

And the travel expenses back and forth along the way also cost a lot of money.

Qin Shihuang's project to build the Great Wall was already huge enough.

But if the conversion is correct.

The current amount of construction work in these two cities.

Not weak at all.

Or even, more.

After all, the original Great Wall was mainly very long.

And it took quite a long time.

In addition, the tools at that time were also very backward.

This caused the Great Wall to become a huge project in history.

Now these two big cities, in terms of engineering volume.

It is definitely larger than the project of the Great Wall.

And Li Ke gave them time.

It's not that rich at all.

If you let them take their time.

Two cities took ten and eight years to build.

Naturally, it is not a difficult project.

But Li Ke's requirement for the two cities is one year.

within one year.

He wants to see these two cities built.

after all.

The Shu army simply could not hold out for such a long time.

To maintain such a large number of troops.

The consumption alone is an astronomical figure.

So it was impossible for Li Ke to wait.

and.

He gave these guys a year.

It's not that they wait until they have built the city before doing it.

It was Li Ke who was going to do it first.

He wanted to see these two built cities when he came back.

Di Renjie and Fang Xuanling were also a little dumbfounded.

None of them thought of it.

Li Ke would be so impatient.

As if something was chasing him.

Just when everyone was in doubt.

Li Ke suddenly announced an expedition to the west.

With a million troops of the Shu army.

This is truly an army of millions.

Plus logistics and forward, as well as a large number of supplies and so on.

Adding up the odds and ends, the number of people is probably more than 200 million.

No one can understand.

Why did Li Ke, who has always been extremely calm, suddenly do such an irrational thing.

It's not that this expedition is not possible.

But now is not the right time at all.

Expeditions take time.

It also requires a lot of preparation.

Everything Li Ke did before was qualified.

He built two gigantic cities.

It is to allow the troops to keep up with supplies.

As a result, in the blink of an eye.

Li Ke seemed to be a different person.

It doesn't wait for the two cities to be established.

Directly led nearly 200 million horses and marched westward.

This is definitely a big event that caused a sensation in the entire Tang Dynasty.

Li Shimin was also shocked.

Originally, he thought that Li Ke would never be in a hurry.

Will wait another two or three years.

In other words, slowly, one step at a time, slowly knocking down the entire West.

However, Li Ke suddenly launched a general attack?

An army of one million is directly equivalent to hollowing out the Shu army.

Almost all the forces of the Shu army pressed forward.

Today, the number of Shu troops left in the entire Shu Kingdom does not exceed [-].

And these [-] Shu troops are needed to maintain the daily development of the entire Shu Kingdom.

It can be said that the manpower has been dwarfed by comparison.

When Li Shimin received the news and rushed to the Kingdom of Shu.

The army has gone west.

Li Shimin is very clear.

If he chases now, he can still catch up.

After all, with an army of millions, the action is the speed of the turtle.

Not much to say.

At least within a month.

They don't want to go out of the Zhang Zhung Kingdom.

But Li Shimin did not go after him.

No one was chasing him.

Since Li Ke will do this.

Then there must be his reasons.

He believed in Li Ke.

Believe that he will not do something he is not sure about.

Even if there was some reason, he had to be so anxious.

But he is still willing to believe in Li Ke.

The Zhang Zhung Kingdom was quite terrified.

An army of millions pressed directly on the border, saying they wanted to borrow a road.

The king was almost taken aback.

He knelt down outside Fang Xuanling's room overnight, crying.

"Master Fang, I, the Xiangxiong Kingdom, are innocent, we didn't do anything."

He thought that Shu King Li Ke was coming to deal with him.

He really didn't know what happened.

Fang Xuanling is also very worried now.

He was not worried about the King of Shu's expedition.

He didn't know about it at this time.

Hearing King Zhang Zhung crying outside, he came out and saw that he was dumbfounded.

"It's the middle of the night, why are you crying?"

King Zhang Zhung was taken aback.

"This... His Royal Highness the King of Shu has mobilized millions of troops to attack us?"

Fang Xuanling rolled his eyes: "You think too much."

Using millions of troops to attack the Zhang Zhung Kingdom?

Doesn't he think too highly of himself?

With the strength of the Shu army, perhaps 20 men would be enough to defeat the Xiangxiong Kingdom.

Millions of troops attacked the Zhang Zhung Kingdom. Isn't that a cannon to fight mosquitoes?

Also, who is we with him?
Fang Xuanling was very dissatisfied with King Zhang Zhung's solicitation.

But he still comforted him: "Don't worry, Your Highness really just wants to borrow a way."

King Zhang Zhung was dubious: "Really?"

Fang Xuanling didn't bother to explain, and directly slammed the door.

Although King Zhang Zhung was a bit ashamed, he felt relaxed in his heart.

After all, Fang Xuanling was still with them.

If they really wanted to make trouble, Fang Xuanling would be their hostage.

Therefore, Li Ke should really have no other meaning.

After trying to understand this point.

He immediately issued an order to the whole country to cooperate with the army of Shu.

Whatever the Shu army wanted, they would give it to them.

We must not let Shu Wang Li Ke have any dissatisfaction.

Li Ke didn't stop at all.

He went directly to the west with an army of millions.

And this goes.

That's a whole year.

Throughout the year.

No news came back from the West.

Everyone thought so.

Li Ke has died in the West.

Even Li Shimin.

I couldn't help but start to doubt.

But that's only a year.

It's not easy for anyone to say anything.

Moreover.

That's an army of millions!
A real millionaire! !

Even if it really failed.

Someone from this million-strong army must come back to deliver the message, right?
Results a year later.

Li Ke is back!
In the border city of Pyu and Zhang Zhung Kingdom.

The two grand passes witnessed the return of millions of troops.

a year.

Li Ke completely wiped out all the countries in the world.

From now on in this world.

There is no country anymore.

After that, Li Ke stayed in Datang territory honestly.

He waited until Li Shimin abdicated and ascended the throne safely.

Since then, the Tang Dynasty has been completely peaceful and created a prosperous age!
(End of this chapter)