Datang: Li Shimin begged me to rebel

"That's fine, I don't know anything else, but I know Gao Chang is definitely going to make trouble." Hou Junji said directly with his eyes lit up.

"That's right, Gaochang has always been a fool. In the sixth year of Zhenguan, Long Tuqizhi, the king of Yanqi Kingdom, sent envoys to the Tang Dynasty and asked His Majesty to "open the Daqiqi road so that the luggage" ( "Old Tang Book Yanqi Biography") At that time, this was a good thing for me in Tang Dynasty, but later Gaochang directly sent troops to attack Yanqi, and this matter was over." Chai Shao also nodded and said .

Li Ke also knew about this at the time, and I have to say that there are some people with brains in this era.

If you want to get rich, you need to build roads first. There is something about Long Tuqizhi, because after Loulan almost disappeared, the southern line of the Silk Road on Yanqi's side gradually became lonely, so they This slogan was put forward.

I want to build a road through the Yumen Pass of the Han Dynasty, and go directly to Dunhuang in the direction of Yangguan.As a result, Ju Wentai of Gaochang directly attacked and looted, and the matter was over. At that time, Datang was not yet able to govern the conflict between Yanqi and Gaochang.

"Then look at the arrangements for this matter. Who do you think is better to take charge of this matter? Let Xizhou and Longyou Dao generals directly?" Li Shimin looked at Li Ke and asked.

"I think let Li Daozong and Rong Guogong be together." Li Ke said, as An Xinggui, as the Duke of the Tang Dynasty, the An family also made an indelible contribution to the stability of Longyou Dao, so let An Xinggui be in charge this time. If this happened, he would also be given the post of Minister of the Military Department by the way.It can be regarded as entering the highest command system of the Datang Military Department.

"Yes." Li Shimin nodded.

Wei Zheng and the others next to him are a little helpless. They must have refuted what they said before. The 36 countries in the Western Regions, even Gaochang, respect the Tang Dynasty as the sovereign country at present, but now you are blatantly playing against others. This... I always feel It's a bit insincere.

But His Highness has just finished saying that the Great Tang has not really been invincible at home and abroad, and after winning most of the 36 countries in the Western Regions, according to His Highness's plan, the entire West Kunlun Mountains will indeed become a natural barrier for the Great Tang. Datang is really able to advance and attack, retreat and defend.

They couldn't resist it either.

"Three, I don't think you need to be too entangled. Sitting in the position of three, some aspects of morality should be discarded. There is no friendship between countries, and there are only interests. When the Tang Dynasty was weak, the Western Regions Who in the 36 countries cared about what Datang thought? This is the naked reality."

"From ancient times to the present, you have all read history books. Don't you understand something? History is written by the victors, and any kind of history cannot be truly fair. Besides, we are not targeting us. It belongs to the country. It is to save the people of these countries." Li Ke said lightly.

"The Western Turks are nomadic peoples, and they have always had the habit of plundering. The 36 countries in the Western Regions either conquer each other or suffer from the Western Turks' plunder. In order to prevent these people from the Western Regions from being dealt with by the Western Turks, for their safety, In order to save them, we Datang had no choice but to send troops to eliminate these conflicts."

"Otherwise, with the wealth of these countries, it is not enough for my Tang Dynasty to send troops. How much manpower and material resources does my Tang Dynasty need to consume just to transport food to these places?" Li Ke looked at Fang Xuanling and asked the three of them. .

Wei Zheng and the others were a little speechless, Your Highness, what you said is too shameless, but if you have to say it like this...it makes sense.

After all, if the people of the 36 countries are really controlled according to His Highness's handling method, these people will really be the biggest beneficiaries.

"If that's the case, then this time it will be a feat! Take Gaochang directly. The king of Gaochang is a villain. Although he belongs to my Tang Dynasty in name, he has not only refused to pay tribute to my Tang Dynasty over the years, but also I have blocked other countries in the Western Regions from paying tribute to the Tang Dynasty for years! It's time to clean up!" Cheng Yaojin said immediately.

Now that this strategy has passed the unified demonstration of the military department, Li Shimin soon signed the relevant order and issued it directly through the military department. In An Xinggui's hands.

And Li Ke himself wrote an order to Lu Hai, the person in charge of Xizhou, asking him to test some weapons of Xizhou.

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When the military department held a special meeting, outside Chang'an City, Chang'an Iron and Steel Works, this place is not in the industrial area of ​​Chang'an West, but in a farther place, but it is near the edge of the Wei River.

At this moment, inside the steel factory, a huge steel machine has been installed. Lu Daqiang and others have already guarded here, waiting for the final start.

"Academician Lu, can this work?" Yan Zilun, the person in charge of the iron and steel plant, asked nervously.

This large-scale steel production line consumes a lot of high-quality steel, which is not easy to cast.Yan Zilun, who is the person in charge of the steel plant, now has some doubts about whether this thing can work.

He thinks this production line is okay. This thing is an improvement based on the manual machine tool provided by His Highness before, but it is an enlarged version, and it is a version that has been enlarged many times.

Therefore, this kind of production line must be incapable of manpower and animal power, and the reason for building this machine is the machine brought by Academician Lu, which is said to be a machine that can burst out with great power.

The production of this machine alone cost them a lot of fine steel at the beginning, and the materials used for its base and structural parts are different, such as the main cast iron block, wrought iron, and steel of different properties and some copperware.

Even with their current size, this behemoth would take a lot of effort.

"You'll know if you try it!" Lu Daqiang said with a smile. The feasibility of the steam engine does not need to be tested. The components gave Lu Daqiang great inspiration.

And this one is the first steam engine he made that will be used in practice.

"Ignite!" Following Lu Daqiang's order, the workers over there began to add coal that had already burned red into the boiler. What was different at the beginning was that now Lu Daqiang was not excited about ignition at all. .

Soon, with the passage of time, the steam in the steam engine burst out with great force. As the flywheel rotated, special gears drove two huge steel rollers to start rotating, and there was a steam that had just solidified not long ago. The thick iron plate quickly entered between the two rollers along the track.

Yan Zilun immediately became nervous, until the red and heavy steel plate was directly squeezed into a thinner iron plate by the two steel rollers like tearing paper, Yan Zilun was completely dumbfounded!This efficiency...

In the past, if they wanted to forge such a large steel plate, it would take at least half a day. It would take a lot of time to use hydraulic pressure and other methods, and it would take a lot of time to redo it repeatedly. But now... it only takes a few minutes. It took shape.

The roller driven by the huge machine was still spinning, and Yan Zilun's eyes lit up!Because under his gaze, the steel plate that is still as thick as a finger is going through another special machine, and under the pressure of terrifying machinery, it is directly cut into two smaller steel plates.

If this procedure is repeated, it can even be pressed directly into a steel sheet as thin as that required for armor!

The huge flywheel made Yan Zilun have countless ideas in his mind. He has already thought of countless uses, such as driving some machines by it and setting the speed. The program becomes what you want!

For example, the track His Highness asked them to cast, it will be cast faster!Even scarier!

For example, the steelmaking furnace... Yan Zilun has already thought of how to improve the current open hearth furnace into a converter, because the open hearth furnace has a large amount of redundant and unqualified steel every time, and the steel tapping rate cannot be increased. Yan Zilun had thought of changing it before. I wonder if the converter is better, it can be heated evenly, but after changing to a converter, the force required to turn the furnace is too huge, and it cannot be done by manpower and animal power, but now... this thing can!