Valley Emperor

In order to prepare for today's welcoming ceremony, Xu Chenbing and other local officials in Shanghai took a lot of thought.

It is not an easy task just to select hundreds of actors with outstanding acting skills from a reliable crowd.

Because there are many people with outstanding acting skills, and a lot of professional actors, but these people are unlikely to appear in the welcome crowd.

People's Guards, Han Tong, and the Servant Section, which are responsible for the security of the Son of Heaven, have imprecise restrictions on the people who come to welcome them. Among them, the families of civil and military officials are the main ones, and then the families of famous gentry. All the above-mentioned groups must be After rigorous scrutiny.

Picking actors from these people is not so easy.

In particular, these people are actually from the upper classes of society. Most of them don't play this trick with you, shame on you!

Therefore, it is not easy to find people with excellent acting skills who are also willing to accept such exaggerated performances as crying, and there are still many people.

Fortunately, Xu Chenbing is not an ordinary person. He is a high-ranking person himself. From the top of the third rank to the county magistrate, his political status is stronger than that of ordinary senior officials of the third rank.

So after a lot of thought, I still found a suitable person, and then there were many people crying excitedly in the crowd that was greeted by a crowd today.

It fully reflects the support and love of the people of the Tang Dynasty for the Son of Heaven!

The Son of Heaven is happy, and Xu Chenbing is naturally happy too!

From the North Bank Railway Station to the Shanghai Palace, the journey is not short or far. The Shanghai Palace is located at the intersection of the Wusong River and the Huangpu River, which is next to the famous Wusong River Hotel.

This road needs to pass through the North Bank Development Zone, then cross the Wusong River Bridge, then enter the Yanjiang Avenue in the north of the trade zone, and finally arrive at the Shanghai Palace.

The Holy Chariots marched all the way. In addition to the chariots of the Son of Heaven, there were more than 200 imperial guards from the Servant Section accompanying them on foot. In front of them was the First Cavalry Regiment of the Guards.

Behind the chariot of the Holy Son of Heaven was followed by a large group of important officials of the court. They also traveled by horse-drawn carriage, and those who were fortunate enough to follow Li Xuan's **** in a horse-drawn carriage were all high-ranking officials of civil and military affairs. There were only dozens of them, and the reason why Xu Chenbing was able to be in it was purely because he was the top official of the local government.

The carriages they ride, some are four-horse horses, some are two-horse, basically they are formulated according to grade, military rank, and title, and strictly follow the imperial ritual system.

And more officials, in fact, go with the rail carriage at the rear.

After passing through the North Shore Development Zone, when the Holy Car team passed the Wusong River Bridge, Li Xuan also saw the largest steel bridge in the world today.

Although Li Xuan had seen the drawings, it was the first time he had really seen this steel bridge.

Even in the eyes of later generations, this Wusong River Bridge is actually like that, but now it is the 16th century, so it cannot be compared with the eyes of the 21st century.

After passing through the Wusong River Bridge, it is not far from the Shanghai Palace.

When they arrived at the Shanghai Palace, many of the accompanying civil and military officials and many soldiers of the Guards would not go in with them. At this time, their tasks were basically completed. The officials who accompanied them from Jinling City would Living, living and working in many buildings prepared in advance in the surrounding area.

The middle and senior officials are mainly concentrated in the Wusongjiang Hotel and the nearby Shanghai Traders Hotel. These two hotels are both top-level luxury hotels in Shanghou. They not only have all kinds of facilities, but are also large enough. Among them, Wusong Hotel Jiang Hotel is able to provide dozens of luxury suites at the same time, in addition to provide more than 300 ordinary rooms.

The two hotels had been secretly contracted half a month ago, but there was no public information at that time, only the name of the delegation of the Ministry of Commerce to visit Shanghai.

After the middle and senior officials and their entourage officials settled down, they continued their daily work.

After all, no matter where Li Xuan goes, his daily government affairs will not stop. Every day, a large number of official documents travel to and from Jinling City and the place where the special train is located.

In this regard, the postal company has also made preparations early to ensure the smooth delivery of a large number of official documents, so as not to delay the normal official business of the empire.

The normal operation of the huge empire will not be stagnant because of the Son of Heaven's tour.

How it was before, and how it is now.

It's just that the political center was transferred from Jinling City to the special train.

After staying at the Shanghai Palace, Li Xuan did not intend to rest because of the fatigue of the journey.

In fact, his journey was not tiring. The royal train was extremely luxurious and comfortable, which allowed Li Xuan to get enough rest. So after the initial settling down, Li Xuan summoned the ministers in the afternoon.

However, the main purpose of the meeting has nothing to do with the inspection, but to deal with some daily government affairs, and the discussion is still about the Tatars.

At noon today, Li Xuan received a report from the military saying that the Tatars had already entered Europe.

More importantly, now that the Tatars have broken through Moscow, it is rumored that the Tatars have razed the entire Moscow to the ground.

Because since last autumn, Moscow faced the attack of the Tatars and defended it, trying to drag the Tatars to death by virtue of the cold weather.

In fact, the Tatars are not afraid of the cold, although fighting in the winter is a little more troublesome, but they have not stumped the Tatars.

In the end, the city of Moscow was beaten down, but the Russians still caused a lot of casualties to the Tatars who attacked the city.

In order to retaliate, but also to intimidate and deter other European countries, after the Tatars conquered Moscow, they mercilessly adopted a policy of massacres. The people in Moscow were all slaughtered, and then the Tatars set Moscow on fire. All clean.

Even though this was not the first time that the Tang Dynasty had heard the news of the Tatars advancing westward, it was the first time that they had received the news that the Tatars had conquered the city of Moscow. Li Xuan still paid some attention to this.

The Tatars are basically the hegemons in Central Asia now, overwhelming the Yu Mughal Dynasty and the Persian Safi Dynasty in the south. Even the Ottoman Empire can only rely on the mountainous terrain of the Caucasus. Resist the Tatar offensive.

Now that they are invading Eastern Europe on a large scale, in Li Xuan's view, it is not easy for Europe to block the Tars. Even if they can block it, I am afraid it will have to pay a huge price.

The actions of the Tatars in Eastern Europe seem to have nothing to do with the empire, but they are actually related, and the relationship is not small.

First of all, the Tatars have placed their strategic focus on Europe, and will definitely weaken their strength in the eastern region, that is, the Western Regions, which will provide certain guarantees for the Empire to enter the Western Regions.

Today, the construction of the Northwest Railway has entered the final stage. According to the report of the Datang Railway Corporation, the Northwest Railway will run through the whole line for the first time this fall. From Kaifeng in Henan to Jiayuguan in Gansu, it will be covered by the long Northwest Railway. connect them.

This means that the Datang Empire can deliver a large amount of various materials to the northwest region through the Northwest Railway.

Before the railway, the Datang military spent a lot of manpower and materials in order to maintain the supply of the garrison in the Gansu area. From the Central Plains area, 100 catties of grain were transported to Jiayuguan. In the end, only 20 catties of grain could arrive successfully. Others All were consumed by transporters on the road.

And this is still on the basis that Datang has adopted four-wheeled heavy carriages on a large scale!

It can be seen how difficult it is to provide supplies to the northwest region through traditional methods such as people picking horses. Otherwise, the military will not vigorously relocate in the northwest region, and the immigration and reclamation division will not vigorously emigrate to the northwest region. , its root cause is to provide various supplies needed by the military nearby.

To this end, the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises even established the fourth largest arms company in the empire~www.wuxiaspot.com~, which is the Northwest Arms Company. Its headquarters is located in Xi'an, and arsenals are set up in Shaanxi and Gansu to provide supplies to the military nearby. .

However, in fact, many of the equipment and raw materials needed by these arsenals also need to be transported from the Central Plains and even the Jiangnan region, so it is still very troublesome.

However, all these troubles will be resolved with the opening of the Northwest Railway.

Once the Northwest Railway is open to traffic, the Empire's field strength in the northwest region can completely increase to more than 100,000 people on the basis of the existing 50,000 or 60,000 people.

And it can also provide these 100,000 people with various supplies needed for large-scale tweezers at any time.

And the latter is the point.

The empire's dispatch of troops to the Western Regions can be as short as one year, but it will take two years to form. The specific progress will depend on the construction progress of the Northwest Railway and the speed of subsequent transportation of materials, but it is necessary to fight that, regardless of the fact that the army has been waiting for this for many years. , even the broad class of the empire has been waiting for this for a long time.

Xizheng has been talking about it for so many years, and everyone in the empire can't wait.

At this time, the Tatars dispatched the main force to attack Europe, which was in line with the strategic intention of the empire.

As for whether the Tatars will go further after they conquer Europe, and eventually become the confidants of the empire, no one can say for sure, but at least from the current perspective, it is impossible.

With a total population of just over one million Tatars, no matter how much you jump around, you won't be able to get there.

Therefore, the Tatars' westward expedition, in Li Xuan's view, is an opportunity for the empire!

Of course, it doesn't seem very good to let the Tatars take Europe too early. The ghost knows what they will do after taking the entire Europe. It is impossible to guarantee that they will not use the power of the entire Europe to fight against the Empire in the end.

So, Li Xuan has already decided that it is time to intervene in the European situation.