Drive the RV back to Datang

Chapter 553 Chapter 566: Continue to pit Japan
Li Hao frowned when he heard the words. From the eyes of the Tang people, the Wa Kingdom was indeed very respectful to the Tang Dynasty from the king to the ministers. It can be seen that although these Japanese pirates are just some idle vagrants and samurai fleeing for refuge, they immediately started looting and killing after they came to the Tang Dynasty. Treating the people of the Tang Dynasty like this is simply a robber. This is essentially a problem with the humanity of this race.

Those Japanese warlords rebelled immediately after getting weapons and food. What does this mean? It means that they are very greedy. This kind of greed has no end. It is basically the same from the people to the king. It is not an isolated phenomenon. This may be their cultural customs , can't be changed at all, if they are strong enough, there will definitely be greater greed, so greedy that they want to get their hands on Datang, this is the Japanese.

But these are what Li Hao thinks in his heart. He can't use this reason to persuade Li Shimin and his officials to target the Japanese country. In fact, he also wants to lead troops to the Japanese country to quell the chaos, and then take the opportunity to colonize there. The problem is that the geographical environment of the Japanese country is too large. Too bad, since he went to the Wa country a few years ago, he canceled the colonization plan. Not to mention the poor soil there, there are often powerful natural disasters such as tsunamis, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. These natural disasters will be very terrible in the future world It is not something human can resist, especially an earthquake. After a major earthquake, it is simply a catastrophe.

Colonizing the Wa country is simply asking for trouble, there is really no need for that.Furthermore, Li Hao's current power has not reached the point where he can do whatever he wants, even if he wants to colonize Japan, Li Shimin will not allow it, and the officials will also oppose it.

It’s fine if you can’t colonize the Wa country, but now Li Shimin is considering sending troops to help the Wa country to quell the chaos. Li Hao was very unhappy. He pondered for a moment, then slowly raised his head and said: "Your Majesty, our Tang navy has been sent to conquer by General Xue Rengui. Goguryeo, without ships, how to transport soldiers, horses, food and grass to help the Wa country to quell the chaos?"

Li Shimin said: "I have already thought about this. Xue Rengui sent a battle report two days ago, and the land and water armies have surrounded Pyongyang. Now the [-] remnants of Goguryeo are defending Pyongyang City. There are still several months before winter, and Xue Rengui has enough food and grass, enough for Xue Rengui to attack. Going down to Goguryeo, I plan to send an imperial edict to Xue Rengui, ordering him to conquer Goguryeo and then directly transport troops to Japan by ship."

"Your Majesty!" Li Hao suddenly shouted loudly, "Your Majesty, I beg you to give up the idea of ​​helping the Japanese country. Listen to my words. When the Tang Dynasty exchanged with the year before last, I experienced a catastrophe of the Tubo attack, and now I am breathing a little bit. When he was overwhelmed, His Majesty wanted to spend his military and financial resources to help the Japanese country, but he didn't know that although our Tang Dynasty was strong, there were many people peeping at the vast territory of the Tang Dynasty, and Tubo was dominating the snow-covered plateau and staring at our Tang Dynasty covetously. I would like to ask Your Majesty Do you want to avenge Tubo's invasion of Chang'an?"

Li Hao's words are very strong, with hints of innuendo. Li Shimin didn't feel comfortable listening to them, but he had to listen to them even if he wasn't comfortable. What Li Hao said was very reasonable. If you understand it, you want to meddle in other people's business.

When Li Shimin thought that Gal Dongzan almost led his troops to capture the Taiji Palace, he became angry from the heart and secretly gritted his teeth. He spent his entire life as a soldier, and he was honored as the Heavenly Khan by the world, but he suffered such a great shame in his later years. How could he If you can bear this tone, Tubo's great hatred must be avenged.

Although Li Shimin was angry, he was still very clear-headed, and he said helplessly: "The hatred of Tubo will naturally be avenged, but we have a contract with the Japanese state, and the Japanese state is facing a catastrophe right now. And no letter? And the ministers will not agree."

Li Haodao: "Your Majesty, we can support the Japanese weapons. When I was in Qiongnan, I developed a new metallurgical method, which increased the metallurgical efficiency by dozens or even a hundred times. It can quickly smelt high-grade fine steel. We only need to Recruit more craftsmen, make weapons and sell them to the lord of the Wa Kingdom, and sell some old grain to the Wa Kingdom by the way. Mining silver mines, the country is flooded with silver, and they have no shortage of money."

"Hmm..." Li Shimin nodded repeatedly when he heard the words, and said slowly, "This is a good idea, but now you are going to the coastal areas to fight against Japanese pirates, where there is no time for metallurgy, the metallurgical skills you mentioned should be very difficult .”

"Going back to Your Majesty is very difficult." Li Hao said seriously, "But don't worry, Your Majesty, I will leave behind some craftsmen from the minister's mansion. It was these craftsmen who created this brand-new metallurgy method together with my minister, and They also forge the best knives for the Wa people."

"Really?" Li Shimin looked at Li Hao in surprise. He wanted to ask Li Hao why he didn't report the new metallurgical method after he researched it. The technology researched is naturally owned by him, and he is willing to donate it because of his selfless dedication. If he wants to use it to make money, even as an emperor, he can't force it.

Li Shimin asked slowly: "Poetry mad, you want to..."

He was just about to ask Li Hao if he wanted to donate metallurgical methods, but Li Hao suddenly said: "Your Majesty, please leave this matter to me. I happen to be planning to build a metallurgical factory in the near future. However, I can't forge weapons privately. This is a serious crime. Therefore, I ask Your Majesty to allow you to forge weapons in batches and sell them to the Japanese country. Your Majesty can send people to monitor them, and I am willing to donate half of the money obtained to the national treasury."

Li Hao's request is a bit big, privately forging weapons is unprecedented, but Li Hao's last sentence is very tempting to Li Shimin, donate half of the proceeds to the national treasury, I don't know how much it will be, Li Shimin asked : "Then you estimate, forging [-] weapons to the Wa country, how much can you sell?"

Li Hao did some calculations, and said: "Your Majesty, I sell 1000 guan for one knife, and [-] knives are [-] million guan."

"Hiss——" Li Shimin gasped when he heard the words, 1000 million guan, if you get half of it, it would be 500 million guan. What kind of concept is this? Li Shimin asked incredulously, "So much? What kind of knife are you selling?" , why... so expensive?"

Li Haodao: "Your Majesty, that is a Taidao that is most suitable for Japanese people. The forging process is very rare. A knife sells for twenty guan, which is not expensive at all. The king of the Japanese country is not short of money now, but they must be short of weapons. , there is a shortage of food, and it is extremely scarce, so they will definitely buy it, and will thank us, we will sell them weapons and food, and the income will definitely be far more than 1000 million yuan!"

Li Shimin fell into a state of deep thought when he heard the words. Li Hao's words moved him so much. This amount of money is simply astronomical. If the court has this huge sum of money, it can do a lot of things for the people. Roads can be used to build water conservancy projects, cultivate fields, and repair canals...

Li Shimin is not a saint, and he doesn't want to harm his national strength to help other countries. Although the Wa Kingdom is his sub-country in name, he hasn't gotten any benefits from the Wa Kingdom so far. It's just a false name. He thinks more , or his own people, so after pondering for a long time, he nodded and said: "Okay, Poetry Maniac, I will allow you to play, I hope you didn't lie to me."

Li Hao clasped his fists excitedly and saluted: "How dare the minister deceive the king!"

"How many craftsmen do you need from me?"

"Return to Your Majesty, the more the better."

Li Shimin smiled slightly when he heard the words, and asked, "Is three thousand enough?"

Li Hao nodded confidently and said: "Enough is enough. Within one month, the blast furnace can be completed, and within 45 days, [-] swords can be completed. I have dozens of large merchant ships, which can transport weapons and grain to Japan for sale."

Hearing the words, Li Shimin stroked his beard again and again, and said, "Using business to help, your method is ingenious. Not only can you win people's favor, but you can also make a lot of money. It's wonderful!"

Li Hao smiled lightly when he heard the words, and thought to himself: kindness?Hehe, just kidding, Japanese people know how to be grateful?Stop making trouble. I sold so many knives and food to the warlords of the Japanese country. This time I can finally sell knives and food to the court of the Japanese country. This is the biggest fish in the Japanese country. Maintain the balance of power in the Wa country and let them continue to fight. The population of the Wa country is already small, and if we fight for a few more years, hehe... It is estimated that there are only tens of thousands of people left in a country, hehe...

Li Hao lowered his head, and a smirk appeared on his face again. Every time he smirked, it meant that he was going to trick someone, and someone would inevitably be unlucky. This time, it was a country that was going to be unlucky, and the entire Wa country was going to be unlucky. .

Li Daozong was basically the foil for this face-to-face meeting, and he didn't say a few words from the beginning to the end. Basically, Li Hao was chatting with Li Shimin, but after Li Hao left, Li Shimin asked Li Daozong to stay in the Ganlu Hall. Li Hao didn't know if it was set or not.

After returning home, Li Hao immediately ordered the craftsmen to be summoned. These craftsmen were brought over by him from Liuqiu and Qiongnan. All of them were senior technicians. They had rich experience in building blast furnaces and forging swords. Of course, the Taidao that Li Hao asked for was the kind of Taidao that had been tampered with. Otherwise, why would he try his best to ask Li Shimin to give him this task? Selling swords to Japanese people, how can they sell good swords.

As soon as Li Hao gave an order, his sea and land business empire began to get busy, and began to collect materials everywhere. Li Hao drew the blueprints of the steelmaking plant and the blast furnace overnight, and sent people to Luoyang to select the site. This time, the steel plant was located in Luoyang is on the bank of the Yellow River, because steelmaking requires a lot of ore, and in this era, land transportation is too simple, and if you want to transport ore, shipping is naturally more efficient.

Money can turn ghosts, this sentence is still very reasonable. When Li Hao spent hundreds of thousands of coins, the steel mills in Luoyang had already begun to be built in full swing, and various ores and coal mines had been transported through the Yellow River. To Luoyang, tens of thousands of porters and horses were recruited to transport the ore to the steel mill. Due to the relatively large investment this time, the construction speed was very fast, and with previous experience, the blast furnace was built with ease, not as timid as before.

　Recently, there is a very popular video on the Internet. It is asking if the island country sinks, the island country people want to come to China, and ask the Chinese people whether they will agree. The older generation said they could not accept it, but the younger generation said they could forgive it. They, after all, are the hatred of the older generation.

　　Huajian does not agree with those young people's statement. Besides, the young people in the island country do not recognize the aggression back then. They think it was a just crusade war. Huajian generally dare not talk about politics and military affairs. , This is a taboo, but today I dare to ask everyone, what do you think of the island country, if the island country sinks, and the people of the island country want to come to China, do you accept it?
　　
　
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