Datang Lingnan King

Chapter 411 A Stable Year

What Li Shimin couldn't bear was actually the Great War in the Western Regions. Such a great battle involving hundreds of thousands of soldiers and dozens of cities was easily won in just a few months.

Most of them are not elite soldiers, but the steel cannons that have played a huge role in achieving such results, of course, let Li Shimin pay attention.

After Li Chunfeng returned to Chang'an, he rushed to make a steel cannon. Of course, the effect of the experiment was very gratifying. Now Li Shimin couldn't sit still anymore, and his restless heart finally started to move again.

Steel cannons and ammunition are in the process of being intensified, and the troops and government affairs are also being adjusted and mobilized. The high-level officials of the court have already felt some tense atmosphere, and they have guessed Li Shimin's thoughts.

In order to complete his work, Li Shimin decided to make more preparations and let Liaoxi build a railway from Youzhou to the front line to transport troops and supplies. At the same time, he is also building a railway from Chang'an to Liaoxi. It can be transported as far as it can be repaired, which can greatly save time.

This is also the inspiration that Li Shimin brought to Li Shimin after the opening of the Chang'an-Luoyang Railway. From Luoyang to Chang'an, one day arrives. The sun rises in the morning and the sun has not set. As a businessman, he knows the value of time. There are many businessmen coming and going from the north to the north, so more than a month has passed since the opening of the train, and the trains are fully loaded every day.

However, there are still many people who oppose the construction of the railway to the west of Liaoning, because it does not have much economic value, but there are also many people who support it. After all, there are a lot of coal mines and iron mines in the west of Liaoning, and there are seeds. The railway can be repaired quickly. Transported to Guanzhong, and there is a railway, which will be of great benefit to the future imperial rule.

Now that he had guessed what Li Shimin was thinking, Feng Daiwen certainly would not let it go. The armored vehicle appeared, and the steel cannon was also made. The combination of the two is the tank of the king of land warfare.

Whether it is siege or field battle, tanks are now invincible. When siege, they can attack at close range without worrying about being hurt.

The only disadvantage is that it is more difficult to make now. Only one tank can be made in a month, and the production of ammunition is not so easy. After all, it is not just a combination of gunpowder and copper and iron. It must be made with the same thickness. The length of the lead wires, these required processes cannot be completed quickly.

The fine varieties from western Liaoning were planted in the Western Regions. Due to the abundant sunshine, wheat was planted in good mountainous areas, and almost all of them were planted with cotton. A lot of vegetables that were easy to survive were also planted, especially the easiest to preserve and high yield. The radish and cabbage are planted in large quantities. These vegetables are not only convenient to grow, but also easy to take care of.

Of course, grapes, a specialty of the Western Regions, are planted more, and almost all the places that can be planted are planted. Anyway, most of the entire Western Regions now belong to Datang, and these are not left to be arranged.

In the conquered places in the Western Regions, only ordinary people are left, and they can have a more stable life, and no one has any complaints.

As for the more than 30 captives captured in the Western Regions, after helping the spring plowing, they were escorted to Fuyun for mining.

Building a straight road from Longyou Road to the Western Regions is also an important task. As for the Western Regions Road, the roads between the cities will also be put on the agenda when the people are free, so as to connect all the cities and form a whole, which is very beneficial to the Western Regions. governance.

And Feng Daiwen sent news to Dawan, Wusun and other countries to buy a large number of captives, regardless of men, women, old or young, and exchange them for weapons and commodities, and they can exchange them for anything they want. And through merchants, these news spread even more to Gui Frost, Persia.

It is also shocking the spirits of the decadent two countries. The main reason for the decadence of these two countries is that the domestic nobles are corrupt, extremely greedy, and extremely harsh to the people.

Now, selling slaves is more profitable than collecting taxes. What's more, all the goods in exchange are the scarce supplies of the Tang Dynasty, and the people in their own territory want to farm for themselves, so they can't sell them.

No one can do that, of course, they can only rob others, so unprecedentedly, these nobles unite and send troops abroad. You must know that these nobles are extremely stingy at ordinary times. If you want them to send people and money, it is basically a an impossible thing.

But now, for the sake of money, the combined explosive power is still very strong. Not only did the Arab Empire retreat steadily for a while, but also the Persian black-clothed big food attacked from the side.

The Arab Empire lost several areas one after another, and these coalition forces also found that the enemy was not so invincible, and their arrogance rose for a while, and there was a tendency to counterattack.

The aristocrats are not fools, and the newly conquered lands are all occupied by the nine surnames of Zhaowu, the small countries that wandered in the Western Regions, and the remaining Turkic people who fled occupy them as isolated areas, and they continue to make a fortune with the money from the transfer of the land.

Without the assistance of an expert in internal affairs, Feng Daiwen was busy all day without touching the ground, and the most difficult thing was the language barrier, so Datang's first language popularization training was held in the Western Regions.

The biggest feature of this training session is that there are many ethnic groups and the largest population, which requires a lot of interpreters. After daily labor, countless people are organized to learn Datang Dialect.

At the beginning, the effect was not good. Many people found it very difficult to learn, and almost drove the teacher crazy. Finally, Feng Daiwen came up with a way to use rewards and punishments at the same time. A small bottle of white wine, a bag of salt, and the punishment is not heavy, sweeping the street, washing clothes, but they are all small punishments.

But this also proves that people have a sense of shame. Once the reward and punishment system is introduced, not only the enthusiasm of everyone is greatly improved, but the results are also quite good.

However, for more than half a year, no matter in the city or in the fields outside the city, it was all Tang dialect with various accents. Seeing people with different skin colors and hair working together, it felt like a meeting of all nations, which was particularly fulfilling.

From autumn to winter, the Xiyu Road began to snow heavily at the end of October every year, and the vast expanse of snow was white, but it still couldn't stop the people from traveling.

Although the snow was quite deep after the heavy snow, it was still possible to travel with skis and sleds pulling things.

And this is also the happiest year for the people in the history of the Western Regions. Whether it is the common people or the coolies, although the food in the Western Regions still needs to be supplemented by the Central Plains, the abundant cotton harvest has given everyone cotton clothes.

A large number of grapes are planted to make wine unique to the Western Regions. The taste is particularly good. This is because the Western Regions have sufficient sunshine and the grapes are particularly sweet. It is a pity that the grapes cultivated in the West of Liaoning are the kind of fine varieties with large grains and few young. , was only grafted out, and it will take another year for a large harvest. By then, whether it is wine making or canned fruit, it will be the best item.

(End of this chapter)