"That's okay. I don't know anything else, but I know that Gao Chang is definitely going to cause trouble." Hou Junji said directly with his eyes shining.
"Yes, Gaochang has always been a stranger. In the sixth year of Zhenguan, King Long Tuqizhi of the Yanqi Kingdom sent an envoy to the Tang Dynasty and made a request to His Majesty to "open the Daqi Road to facilitate luggage" ( "Old Book of Tang·Biography of Yanqi") At that time, this was a good thing for us in the Tang Dynasty, but later Gaochang directly sent troops to attack Yanqi, and the matter later fell into disuse." Chai Shao also nodded and said. .
Li Ke also knew about this at the time. It has to be said that there are some smart people in this era.
Some people say that if you want to get rich, you must first build roads. Longtu Qizhi has something to say, because after Loulan almost disappeared, the southern route of the Silk Road in Yanqi gradually became lonely, so they That’s why this slogan was proposed.
I want to build a road through Yumen Pass in the Han Dynasty, and directly reach Dunhuang in the direction of Yangguan. As a result, they were directly attacked and plundered by Ju Wentai of Gaochang, and the matter was settled. At that time, the Tang Dynasty did not have the ability to govern the conflict between Yanqi and Gaochang.
"Then let's look at the arrangements for this matter. Who do you think is better responsible for this matter? Directly let Xizhou and Longyoudao generals go?" Li Shimin looked at Li Ke and asked.
"I think we should let Li Daozong and Duke Rong go together." Li Ke said, An Xinggui, as the Duke of Tang Dynasty, the An family also made an indelible contribution to the stability of Longyou Road, so this time An Xinggui is responsible If this happens, he will also be granted the position of Military Minister. It can be regarded as entering the highest command system of the Tang Dynasty military headquarters.
"Okay." Li Shimin nodded.
Next to them, Wei Zheng and the others were a little helpless. They must have refuted what they said before. The thirty-six countries in the Western Regions, even Gaochang, currently respect the Tang Dynasty as their master country. But now you are openly trying to take advantage of others. This... It always feels a bit unauthentic.
But His Highness has just said that the Tang Dynasty is not truly invincible at home and abroad, and after taking over most of the thirty-six countries in the Western Regions, according to His Highness's plan, the entire West Kunlun Mountains will indeed become a natural barrier for the Tang Dynasty. At that time, the Tang Dynasty could really advance and attack, and retreat and defend.
It would be difficult for them to refute.
"Three of you, I don't think you should be too entangled. If you sit in the position of three, you should lose some aspects of morality. There is no friendship between countries, only interests. When the Tang Dynasty was weak, the Western Regions Who in the Thirty-six Kingdoms cares about what the Tang Dynasty thinks? This is the naked reality."
"From ancient times to the present, you have all read history books. Haven't you figured it out? History is written by the victors. No history can be truly fair. Besides, this is not against us. The country. But we are saving the people of the country." Li Ke said calmly.
"The Western Turks are nomadic people and have always had the habit of plundering. The thirty-six countries in the Western Regions either conquered each other or suffered plunder from the Western Turks. In order to prevent the people of the Western Regions from being solved by the Western Turks, for their Safety, in order to save them, we in the Tang Dynasty had no choice but to send troops to eliminate these contradictions."
"Otherwise, the little wealth of these countries is not enough for the Tang Dynasty to send troops. How much manpower and material resources does the Tang Dynasty need to consume just to transport food to these places?" Li Ke looked at Fang Xuanling and the others and said .
Wei Zheng and the others were a little speechless. Your Highness, what you said was too shameless, but if you insist on saying it like this...it makes sense.
After all, if the people of the thirty-six countries are really controlled according to His Highness's handling methods, these people will really be the biggest beneficiaries.
"In this case, then we will achieve great success in one fell swoop this time! Let's start with Gaochang directly. The king of Gaochang is a villain. Although he belongs to the Tang Dynasty in name, he has not only failed to pay tribute to the Tang Dynasty over the years, but has also paid tribute to the Tang Dynasty. For years, we have prevented other countries in the Western Region from paying tribute to the Tang Dynasty! It’s time to deal with it!" Cheng Yaojin said immediately.
Since this strategy passed the unified argumentation of the Military Department, Li Shimin quickly signed the relevant orders and issued them directly through the Military Department. The relevant edicts and military orders were directly delivered to Li Daozong and Li Daozong through the two channels of Babaili Express and the Intelligence Department. An Xinggui has it in his hands.
Li Ke himself also wrote an order to Lu Hai, the person in charge of Xizhou, asking him to test some Xizhou weapons.
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When the military department held a special meeting, outside Chang'an City, the Chang'an Iron and Steel Plant was not in the industrial zone in west Chang'an, but farther away, but it was close to the edge of the Wei River.
At this moment, inside the steel plant, a huge steel machine has been installed. Lu Daqiang and others have already been waiting here, waiting for the final start.
"Academician Lu, is this possible?" Yan Zilun, the person in charge of the steel plant, asked with some anxiety.
This large-scale steel production line consumes a large amount of their high-quality steel, which is not easy to cast. As the person in charge of the steel plant, Yan Zilun now has some doubts about whether this thing can work.
He thinks this production line is okay. This thing is based on the manual machine tool that His Highness provided before. It is just an enlarged version, and it is an enlarged version many times.
Therefore, this kind of production line must be incapable of human and animal power. The reason why this production line was built was because of the machine brought over by Academician Lu. It is said that it can explode with huge power.
The production of this machine alone cost them a lot of fine steel, and the materials used for its base and structural parts are different, such as cast iron blocks, wrought iron, and steels of different properties. and some bronzes.
Even with their current size, this behemoth would take a lot of effort.
"You will know after you try it!" Lu Daqiang said with a smile. There is no need to test the feasibility of the steam engine. It is nothing more than an improvement of the performance of the steam engine. The plan given by His Highness contains the structure and structure of various steam engines. Parts gave Lu Daqiang great inspiration.
And this one was the first steam engine he made that would be used in actual applications.
"Light the fire!" Following Lu Daqiang's order, the workers over there began to add the already red-hot coal into the boiler. What was different at first was that Lu Daqiang was no longer excited about the ignition. .
Soon, as time passed, the steam in the steam engine exploded with powerful force. As the flywheel rotated, special gears drove two huge steel rollers to start rotating, and there was immediately some steam that had just solidified. The thick iron plate quickly followed the track and entered between the two rollers.
Yan Zilun immediately became nervous, until the red and thick steel plate was directly squeezed by the two steel rollers into a thinner iron plate as easily as tearing paper, Yan Zilun was completely stunned! This efficiency...
In the past, if they wanted to forge such a steel plate, and it was so big, it would take at least half a day, using hydraulic pressure and other methods to consume a lot of time and repeatedly burning it red. But now... in just a few minutes, it can be made. Taken shape.
The rollers driven by the huge machine were still rotating, and Yan Zilun's eyes lit up! Because under his gaze, the steel plate that was still as thick as a finger passed through another special machine and was directly cut into two smaller steel plates under terrifying mechanical pressure.
If this process is repeated continuously, it can eventually be directly pressed into steel sheets as thin as those needed to make armor!
That huge flywheel made countless ideas pop up in Yan Zilun's mind. He had already thought of countless uses. For example, after setting the speed of some machines driven by it, then as long as someone is watching these steel bars, it will follow the established rules. The program becomes what you want!
For example, the track His Highness asked them to cast will be cast faster! Even more terrifying!
For example, take the steelmaking furnace... Yan Zilun has already thought about how to improve the current open-hearth furnace into a converter. Because the open-hearth furnace has a large amount of redundant unqualified steel every time, the steel production rate cannot increase. Yan Zilun has thought about changing it before. Is the converter better because it can be heated evenly? However, after changing to a converter, the power required to turn the furnace is too huge and cannot be completed by human or animal power. But now... this thing can!
