Prosperous Tang Blood Blade

Chapter 775
Chapter One Eighty Eight

"It should be harvesting cotton!" Chen Ying said without even thinking about it: "The eldest cousin married Ying Guogong as his wife, and accepted all the business of the Wu family after marriage. This cotton is a new crop with bright prospects. She should be I want to come to the Western Regions to see it with my own eyes, and try to open up sales!"

"This reason is very far-fetched and untenable!" Li Xiuning shook her head and said, "With the relationship between Chen Lang and Mrs. Ying Guo, there is no need for her to make such a trip in person and send a manager at random with her handwritten letter. , it can be done.”

Chen Ying shook his head and said, "Then I really don't know!" At this point, Chen Ying looked at Li Xiuning suspiciously and said, "Did you hear something?"

"Actually, it's not a secret. It's okay to tell Chen Lang!" Li Xiuning was very gossip about the conflict between Samurai Xun and Yang Rong because of Wu Shun's relationship, and Yang Rong was beaten by Samurai Xun.

Hearing this, Chen Ying was quite speechless.

In this era, the marriages of aristocratic families are usually married to daughters from high families and courted by low families.Don't look at Yang Rong who married a samurai Xun when she was in her [-]s. With Hongnong Yang's family status, marrying a samurai Xun as a wife is definitely considered a second marriage.However, the samurai Xun beat Yang Rong, which was tantamount to sweeping Hongnong Yang's face.

After Yang Rong left Chang'an, she came all the way to the Western Regions.In order to pray for Yang Gongren's uncle's forgiveness, the warrior Xun did not hesitate to take a pair of sons to kneel in front of Guan Guogong's mansion, which can be regarded as giving Yang Gongren enough face.

In this case, Yang Rong and Yang Gongren should also use the ladder to step down. However, looking at Yang Rong's attitude, it seems that he is not ready to forgive the warrior Xun easily.

Chen Ying sighed and said: "It is said that it is difficult for an upright official to break up housework. We don't care about the matter between the eldest cousin and the samurai. She is willing to stay in the Western Regions, so let's stay. Our family is not short of her meal. Of course, our eldest cousin is a hero among women, and she will make a lot of money when she comes to the Western Regions, and once word of her spreads in Guanzhong, other major families will surely jump on the news and rush to the Western Regions!"

Today's Western Regions can be regarded as a waste of time, lacking talents, funds, and consumers.The aristocratic clan occupies absolute wealth, and these wealth are not necessarily obtained by force. If one shot kills a boat, there will definitely be injustice.If these private capitals are used properly, they will become the most beneficial economic stimulants for the entire court of the Tang Dynasty, and even the entire world.

But again, if it is not used well, the market economy will collapse.

The price of goods in Chang'an, as the Tang Dynasty basically occupied the world, the large-scale war stopped, and after losing the army, a huge consumer, the prices of food and agricultural by-products continued to drop, and the people suffered unspeakably.At this time, the aristocratic families began to save money to buy real estate, and a lot of money poured into the market.

Datang's market started the first round of inflation.This made ordinary people in Guanzhong miserable.The income from farming is getting lower and lower, which has caused Datang to experience the economic crisis of the feudal era.

Under this circumstance, Chen Ying decided to adopt a regulation method to reverse the bad economic situation of Datang. Once the assets are transferred, the economic situation in Guanzhong will become more and more stable, and at the same time, it can benefit the general public.The most important thing is that Chen Ying can carry out his industrial Tang strategic plan in the Western Regions where the emperor is far away.

In the Western Regions, a gigantic strategic highway is under construction day and night. Massive amounts of steel, cement, sand, and wood are being transported from all directions. Thousands of workers are working day and night in two shifts. The bustling scene is really exciting. uplifting.This strategic highway, from Yiwu to Gaochang City, has a total distance of more than [-] miles.This high-speed kilometer has eight lanes, including six lanes of ordinary roads, and the innermost side is two lanes.

The standard width of Chidao is one foot and two feet, the length of each rail is 25 meters, and each rail weighs three thousand catties.Cars of steel rails were laid on the road, giving everyone a new understanding of the steel production capacity in the Western Regions.

The highway Chen Ying built in the Western Regions is actually a mixture of highway and railway.As for the vitality, let alone whether he can build a steam train, anyway, he is now starting to lay this kind of railway in the Western Regions.For every kilometer of railway construction, 24 jin of steel will be consumed. This scale is really appalling.

While building the highway.Chen Ying also sent Tiger Yicong to Jiangzuo, Lingnan, Guanzhong, Hedong, Hebei, Liaodong, and even Shandong and Longxi to poach people all over the world.

Those old craftsmen who have been working with steel all their lives and with superb skills are their favorites. Young people who have learned how to forge steel at a young age are also very popular. It doesn’t matter if you have no experience, you can learn!The ability of these guys to dig walls is really brutal. The highway has not been seen yet, and they have dug more than 800 craftsmen. The key is that in this era, excellent craftsmen are secretly controlled by major families and clans. As for the big clans and families, they blacklisted Tiger Yicong.

After all, the expressway is not a railway, and the expressway cannot be like the railway station of the later generations. However, Chen Ying adopted the method of a small station for fifty miles and a medium-sized post station for a hundred miles. While building the expressway, he also built a station one by one. .

There are not many original forest trees in the Western Regions, but in order to build these railways, the demand for wood is also very large.For this reason, Chen Ying asked people to go to Siberia (Siberia, meaning "a peaceful place", the name comes from the Mongolian "Xibor" (soil, muddy place). In ancient times, Siberia was a muddy place. The Mongolian ancestors here named this place based on the terrain. When the Russians came, they transliterated it as "Siberia", and some people think that the name "Siberia" originated from the Xianbei people).

In the primeval jungle of Xipoer, a large number of cold mountain pine trees were cut down, then nailed into wooden rafts, loaded with sails, and flowed upstream along the Ob River, piled up like mountains on the bank.

The woodworkers dug from various places are quickly busy processing the wood, and after making sure that there are no insect holes, they smoke it to dehydrate and dry it.This is a technical job. The wood of the railway sleepers will take several years to dry before it can be used. If it is too wet, the wood will dehydrate and the entire structure of the sleepers will be destroyed. If it is too dry Too wet can kill you.Only the most experienced craftsmen know what to do to keep the wood in its best condition, ensuring that the sleepers are structurally stable and strong.

Along both sides of the expressway from Yiwu in the east to Gaochang in the west, a large number of wood processing plants and steel processing plants have sprung up, and the plates and steel needed for the construction of the expressway are all processed here.A little further away is the gravel factory, oil refinery, bearing factory, water pump factory, anti-rust paint factory, asphalt factory... A lot of supporting factories are lined up. Of course, these factories are under intense construction. The prisoners of war who were originally captured by the Western Turks or Tibetans provided a valuable chance to survive.

Since the war in the Western Regions is not smooth, especially the Tibetans on the plateau, the winner has not yet been decided. Chen Ying asked Liu Tong and the others to calm down, and the Tubo people and the Tubo people started a war of fighting, and the fight was so brainless. Come out, the warring parties have their own prisoners of war, according to their traditions, the prisoners of war must be beheaded and executed, in this era, there is no such thing as the Geneva Convention.

Fortunately, Chen Ying needed a large number of workers to build the railway. As a result, the Anxi Army became a place to absorb slaves of all nationalities. Even the Sasanian Empire, the Byzantine Empire, and the disintegration of the ancient Indian Gupta Empire broke out in civil wars in this country. , In the melee of more than 100 countries, large and small, a large number of slaves also entered the Western Regions along with the caravan.

The price Chen Ying bought slaves and prisoners of war was pitifully low. The value of a slave of a strong man was only [-] yuan, or equivalent to [-] yuan for goods of the same value.

However, precisely because of the need, the major caravans will gather a large number of slaves or prisoners of war in advance, allowing them to act as free transport labor along the way, carrying goods, and after arriving in the Western Regions, they will trade with the Protectorate of the Western Regions to obtain resources.

Yang Rong looked at the bustling highway construction site and exclaimed, "My God, it's so spectacular! How many people will it take to build this highway?"

"Not many, about 8 to 300 people!" Chen Ying said proudly: "In fact, the use of a large number of new tools requires a lot less manpower. It takes at least [-] million people to lift it up. Then, using a gantry crane with moving pulleys, at most [-] people can place this rail where it needs to be placed.”

Li Xiuning looked at the steel rails placed on the ground.Distressed, he said, "How much steel is needed to build [-] miles?"

"It looks like [-] to [-] tons!" Chen Ying waved his hands and said, "Not many, what a fuss!"

"Seventy to eighty thousand tons!" Li Xiuning was familiar with Chen Ying, so she naturally knew that the ton he was talking about was actually two thousand catties, seventy to eighty thousand two thousand catties. Li Xiuning really didn't have the confidence to count this number down. She said angrily: "Seventy to eighty thousand tons One ton of steel is enough for the Tang Dynasty to arm tens of millions of soldiers, you prodigal son!"

In later generations, in my rabbit era, there were only three provinces with an annual output of more than [-] million tons of steel, [-] to [-] tons of steel, which was at best the annual steel output of a small black workshop.

"Is [-] to [-] tons a lot?" Chen Ying said more and more proudly: "With our Datang's manpower, financial resources and resources, if we are determined to rule the world, there is absolutely no one who will be our opponent."

……

Wei Zheng and Li Jiancheng talked side by side, unaware that it was already dawn.Li Jiancheng looked at the bright sky outside, and said with some embarrassment: "The issue of Hebei can't be delayed any longer. The people are suffering from the flames of war, and life is worse than death. I can't sleep or eat in peace. I'm going to ask my father for an order to lead the expedition Hebei, in Xuan Cheng's opinion, how many soldiers and horses should the palace need to deploy?"

Sitting beside him, Wei Zheng stretched his waist, shook his head and said, "The problem in Hebei is not a military problem at all!
Li Jiancheng said: "I also ask Xuancheng to give me some advice."

Wei Zheng squinted his eyes halfway, thinking, and said, "Since the beginning of the war, Hebei has been the land of the Four Wars. There is no danger to defend, and bandits and thieves are the most rampant. In order to protect themselves, the aristocratic families in all parts of Hebei have built fortresses and recruited Ding Yong even set up a government office on his own. As a result, Hebei became a situation where many aristocratic clans were divided and autonomous. Xia Wang was in Hebei, but he failed to wipe out those aristocratic clans. An Ning, the aristocratic clan is responsible for supplying money and food for the land."

Li Jiancheng listened carefully, nodded and shook his head and said, "Isn't this just lack of loyalty!"

Wei Zheng nodded and said, "It's about the same as the current Tang Dynasty."

Li Jiancheng coughed awkwardly and said, "Xuancheng, you really..."

Wei Zheng smiled and observed Li Jiancheng without any trace. Wei Zheng looked at Li Jiancheng's expression as usual, without any anger, and continued: "It can be said that the root of the chaos in Hebei lies in the imperial court. Among the aristocratic families in Hebei, if there is a trusted intermediary as a guarantee, the Hebei people themselves will take Liu Shishan down and present it to the imperial court, and the chaos in Hebei will be settled."

Li Jiancheng suddenly realized, nodded again and again and said: "Unfortunately, Jiancheng has no one who can win the trust of the Hebei family.

Wei Zheng nodded slightly, then yawned big, and lowered his head unconsciously.Wei Zheng said in a daze: "If the crown prince is in command, Wei Zheng...doesn't need a single soldier, just... a good tongue, and he can say surrender, Hebei 39 states!"

Li Jiancheng looked at the opposite side in surprise and joy, Wei Zheng, who had already fallen asleep, after a long while, finally smiled exhaustedly and slumped his shoulders.

(End of this chapter)