Two days ago, only a relatively small number of people like Iron Hammer rushed to the official road, but the day before, horses were like waves of a converging river, constantly gathering on the road from the Red Sea to Longyang Gorge. On both sides of the official road.
But these herdsmen were very smart. They did not get close to Chihai City because they were afraid that His Highness would find out and order them to go back. They could not resist His Highness's order.
So they began to gather on both sides of the official road from more than 20 miles away from Chihai City. More and more herdsmen gathered here. At first there were only a few hundred, then gradually thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands... …
More and more herdsmen are like waves blending into the river, constantly gathering and gathering on the road that is nearly two hundred miles long.
Simple tents were set up on both sides of the road, and the horses were grazing nearby. Next to them was a river.
They are waiting here just to see His Highness off.
The entire Anxi Protectorate has been busy for two days. Li Ke has a lot of things to bring back. First of all, the gold must be transported back to Chang'an. The 20,000 Tang Dynasty kilograms of gold in Tubo alone is equivalent to more than 11 tons in later generations. Counting the previous Li Ke reasoned with others and got back more than 9 tons of gold, which totaled 20 tons of gold.
In fact, this gold is not very much. If you calculate it, it is about 5.36 million guan in the Tang Dynasty. The current gold exchange is too bad. As a later generation, Li Ke naturally knows that gold is very scarce in nature, and gold It is also an important industrial raw material, although it is not currently used by Datang.
But there is nothing wrong with keeping the gold. Li Ke is not going to exchange the gold for it. But for silver, it is actually okay. From this winter to next year, it is estimated that the amount of silver in Li Ke's hand will skyrocket. The main reason must be From Tubo.
Although Tubo is a slave society, it is precisely because it is a slave society that almost all the wealth is concentrated in the hands of Songtsan Gampo, and Li Ke reasoned with him and asked him to get back 20,000 kilograms of gold. Songtsan Gampo There is definitely not much gold in hand, and a large amount of silver must be used to buy pig iron.
In addition, Li Ke feels that next year Songtsen Gampo will directly cross the Himalayas in large numbers in later generations and start either trading or plundering countries such as Tianzhu.
No matter what it is, there will still be a lot of gold and silver coming back, which is a good thing.
Because the money will flow back to Li Ke's hands.
On the second day, when Li Ke put on one of his twenty sets of clothes under the service of Yang Anning and others, the team outside was already ready to set off.
Because Li Ke was not in a hurry when he went back, he naturally didn't know how to wear armor.
When Li Ke went out, Li Daozong and others had already put on their armor and were waiting for him outside.
"General Li, I will leave Xizhou to you." Li Ke said seriously.
"Please rest assured, Your Highness, Xizhou is your Highness's hard work, and we will work hard to ensure the smooth operation of Xizhou." Li Daozong said solemnly.
"Well, anyway, you just have to know what I'm telling you." Of course, let Li Daozong ask his two daughters if he has anything specific to say. Li Yan and Li Xin have very long-term visions now. , and they can often draw inferences about many of Li Ke's arrangements, which plays a great role in stabilizing Xizhou.
Although Xizhou will not have any big problems as long as it maintains the current situation, if Li Yan is here, at least Xizhou can move forward.
Although Li Xin looks a little stupid, Li Ke naturally doesn't take the problem at face value. Many people see that Li Xin is quick to talk, as if he can't hide things in his head, and just says what comes to his mind. See Looks pretty stupid.
But everyone has overlooked one thing, that is, what Li Xin said is the most critical! This is very important, because it means that she can think of this problem in her head before she can speak it out. It means that she can also see these things clearly.
This is talent. Speaking can be made up for by the day after tomorrow, but talent cannot be made up for.
When she grows up in a few years and gets rid of this habit of talking, Li Xin will not be worse than Li Yan.
"Yes!" Li Daozong saluted silently. Li Ke said these words in private, not in front of everyone. Naturally, it was to give him face as a father. As for his daughter's ability, Li Daozong has not said it during this period. It can be said to be a real experience.
In the next two months, Li Yan was almost the one handling all the affairs of Xizhou, and His Highness only made decisions. Li Yan was doing all the specific affairs distribution and arrangements. Li Daozong thought that he himself could not do this.
"Let's go!" Li Ke jumped on his horse without saying any nonsense. What should be arranged has been arranged long ago. What should be said was all said yesterday. Just set off today.
As Li Ke got on his horse, the team that had been prepared naturally followed him and walked out of the city. After leaving the city, the 30,000 troops left outside lined up neatly on both sides of the team.
When Li Ke and others came out, Su Dingfang, who was at the front of the team, said loudly: "Stand at attention!!!"
"Click!" The sound of armor hitting each other came out uniformly.
"salute!!"
"Whoa!" All the soldiers raised their right hands and saluted as a military salute for future generations! Yes, this military salute was naturally improved from the militia training manual. The army of the Tang Dynasty performed the cross-hand salute most of the time. This time, the entire Xizhou was conducting military training. The entire militia training manual, in addition to the tactics of modern thermal weapons, In addition, all other queue training and so on will follow.
Naturally, the military salute was changed directly. Anyway, Li Ke himself felt that the military salute of later generations was quite beautiful, better than the cross-hand salute of the Tang Dynasty. Besides, it was good for the army to have a separate etiquette, and these soldiers wore bright Mingguang uniforms. Armor, uniform military salute, super handsome, okay? !
The future world and this military ceremony were invented by Li Ke, His Royal Highness, King Qin of the Tang Dynasty!
Li Ke didn't say anything. He just rode on his horse and waved his hands to these soldiers.
They were stationed here in order to protect their homeland and country. Although Li Ke compensated them with military salary, it was certain that they would be far away from home. In ancient times, it was not like modern times. It was difficult to go back home.
The long team continued to advance until the phalanx of soldiers behind them could no longer be seen, and Li Ke felt a little emotional.
The surrounding grasslands have become withered and yellow. Although the temperature has not yet dropped below zero, winter will soon enter in more than ten days. I wonder how much Xizhou will change next time I come here?
