At the end of Qin, I became a son of the plane

Chapter 614: The domineering King Tang and their respective difficulties.

Zhou Ce looked at Xu Aiguo helplessly. The war had clearly reached the final stage, but he still wanted to intervene. He didn't seem like a son of a wealthy family who would not sit idly by.

This Tang King was a tyrant in the New World, unscrupulous and overbearing. When he was in the New World, he liked to lead the cavalry Li Ting to sweep the caves, sweeping thousands of miles. In a few years, he went to the territory of the Tang Kingdom and crossed the Dongyin Mountain.

The local natives were beaten and fled thousands of miles away by the Tang Emperor, but even so, the Tang King did not let them go. He often led the cavalry thousands of miles deep into the hinterland of Yinzhou. As long as he knew there was a large tribal alliance somewhere, he would lead his troops to sweep there and capture both people and livestock. The local natives were frightened, and more than a dozen leaders of large tribal alliances were forced to support this grand king as their king, and the daughters of their tribe became one of the Tang king's princesses.

The territorial strategies of other vassal states of the Han Dynasty were generally to educate the natives, cultivate the land, and expand the territories of the vassal states little by little. However, the Emperor of Tang did the opposite. He recruited a large number of herdsmen from the desert and established six nomadic tribes around these herdsmen on the outskirts of the Tang State. He then expanded to the hinterland of the New World with these six nomadic tribes as the core, and directly established a huge nomadic country in the New World.

A vassal state that had been established for less than 10 years owned millions of square kilometers of land and millions of people.

It would be fine if he just oppressed the local natives, but the key point is that this guy also likes to lead the cavalry and attack into the territories of these princes, saying that it is a military exercise.

He even suspected that the retired emperor had suppressed the second prince for too long, and now that he had come to the New World, his nature was released.

Of course, in his heart he was extremely envious of the King of Tang who could live such a free and unrestrained life. No matter what the Second Prince did, the Emperor would support him. The Emperor had no objection to giving up farming and living a nomadic life. The Emperor also had no objection to the King of Tang leading troops into battle and leading the troops. Even if he married more than a dozen concubines from foreign races, the Emperor had no objection.

Unlike his father who always asked him to follow the rules. The difference between fathers is so obvious, no wonder his father could only be the prime minister of the Han Dynasty all his life.

The fleet of the coalition of princes took the initiative to attack and block the last way out for these pirates. Under the fierce artillery attack, especially the incendiary bombs developed by the Han army, the entire sea surface has become a burning world, with burning pirate ships everywhere. The remaining surviving pirates, seeing that there is no way to escape, can only hang up the white flag and surrender.

After the war, the commanders of the two fleets sent General Bai to meet with Xu Aiguo. They left some warships to clean up the battlefield and capture pirates on the sea, while the main battleships continued to pursue the remnants of the pirates. According to their original plan, they went to the pirates' lair and cut off the roots of these pirates, thus creating a ten-year period of peace for the global shipping industry.

The fleet of the coalition of princes had to part ways with them because they had a large amount of gold and silver to escort. This made Xu Aiguo feel very sorry. The natives of the New World were stupid. He had used a set of tactics for 10 years, but these people didn't know how to improve. They had no energy at all in the fight. It would be more exciting to fight these pirates.

Watching these warships leave, Xu Aiguo asked curiously, "When did the imperial court develop this kind of artillery that can burn warships?"

Cao Qiu said worriedly: "If this kind of weapon spreads, maritime shipping will be over in the future."

Nowadays, the Han Dynasty's ocean trade is mainly based on sailing ships. Although the efficiency of steamships has improved, they are mainly used for short-distance trade, and most of them are sailing in the South China Sea. For sea trade that spans tens of thousands of miles like the New World, steamships cannot be used. Moreover, even for steamships, most of them are made of wood to reduce weight. In other words, more than 90% of the world's sea ships are still made of wood.

Once this kind of incendiary bomb was fired, a ship would be destroyed. It was fine that it was under the control of the court, but if it spread, the consequences would be unimaginable. How terrible it would be if a warship that I spent more than 100 million to order was hit by this kind of shell and the fire could not be extinguished at all.

Zhou Ce hesitated and said, "Pirates shouldn't be able to do this. The imperial court has been developing steel cannons for several years, but no other country or force has developed them yet. The technology to manufacture this kind of cannon should be very difficult."

Cao Qiu said: "It's hard to say. Take iron cannons for example. Only a few countries could manufacture them 10 years ago, but now even pirates have thousands of them. Do you think it's more terrifying that the pirates made the cannons themselves, or that all these cannons came from the imperial court?"

Xu Aiguo said: "Don't scare yourself. The manufacturing process of iron cannon is not advanced. As long as you can make a blast furnace and then use a mold to cast an iron cannon, if there is no iron, bronze can be used to make bronze cannons with higher performance, so the technology of cannons cannot be blocked at all. But steel cannons are different. If you can't make a converter and can't smelt tons of molten steel, you can't make steel cannons. I think the court has technical limitations for this kind of incendiary bomb."

"And the inextinguishable flames of incendiary bombs are not a difficult problem to solve. We can just load some sand on the ship, or just replace it with a steel ship. The Han Dynasty is not only researching steel battleships, but also has inland steel steamships that have replaced wooden ships."

Zhou Ce thought for a moment and said, "If I want to buy a transport ship, it's better to buy an iron-hulled one."

June 40, 10rd year of the Han calendar.

The fleet of the coalition of princes finally arrived safely at the port of Linzi, and then the 100 tons of gold and 500 tons of silver transported on it were escorted to the four major banks of the Han Dynasty as deposit for the construction of the railway network by the princes of the New World.

June 40, 10rd year of the Han calendar.

Xu Aiguo took the train back to Chang'an City, and then he excitedly ran home with his wife and children.

As soon as he got home, he saw his mother and fifth brother sitting in the small garden of their home chatting. He saw an Indian woman he didn't know and two children. He guessed that they were his fifth brother's wife and son.

But when Chen Xiu saw her second son coming back, she burst into tears and said, "He has turned black."

Xu Aiguo took his wife to his son and said, "Mother, this is your daughter-in-law Qingfeng, and this is the child's eldest son Xu Shaowu."

Then he said to his wife and son, "Call someone quickly."

"Mother!" Qingfeng whispered.

"Grandma!" Xu Shaowu said in a milky voice.

Chen Xiu was a little dissatisfied when she saw Qingfeng. This daughter-in-law was a native of the New World and in her opinion was too wild. She had wanted to introduce some ladies from noble families to her second son, but he didn't like any of them.

Fortunately, she liked Xu Shaowu. He picked up his eldest grandson and said with a smile: "Come home with grandma. Grandma will make you something delicious."

Xu Aiguo asked, "Isn't my father at home?"

Chen Xiu complained, "Your father is old but not old at heart. He said he would retire, but he has more things to do. Now he spends 10 out of 5 days in his lab and days at school as a teacher. He just doesn't want to stay at home. And you all stay away from home, making this home lonely and deserted."

Xu Aiguo said: "And I'll leave Shaowu in Chang'an to accompany you."

At this time, Xu Aijun also said: "Xu Jie can also accompany his mother."

Upon hearing this, Chen Xiu smiled with satisfaction and said, "You two have a conscience. Invite your eldest brother over tonight so that our family can have a reunion dinner." Then Chen Xiu went about busying herself with preparations, and their wives also went over to help.

The two brothers were left chatting in the living room.

Xu Aijun enviously said, "I heard that you brought hundreds of tons of gold and 500 tons of silver back to the Han Dynasty this time. It's true that the New World has a lot of gold and silver. My Tianzhu can't compare to that."

He was really envious of this. Tianzhu used to be very wealthy, with a lot of gold and silver in the country. But the Tianzhu Trading Company had been plundering Tianzhu for more than ten years, and the precious metals were not completely gone, but they were not much different. He wanted to raise hundreds of tons of gold and silver, but it was simply impossible. Are there any large gold and silver mines in Tianzhu?

Xu Aiguo said, "How can the New World compare to your India? In the New World, besides some wild tribes, there is also some gold and silver. Unlike your India, you have fertile lands, a population of tens of millions, and the India Trading Company to help you lay a solid foundation. India's foundation is among the top five powers in the world. If my Tang country wants to catch up with you India, it will take at least 100 years of development."

Xu Aiguo envied India for having tens of millions of people and mines. The key point was that India was a country with thousands of years of civilization and there was no shortage of talent from top to bottom.

Xu Aijun said with a bitter face: "Tianzhu only looks glamorous on the surface, but it is actually a quagmire. The biggest forces in Tianzhu are the monks who are mainly based in the temples. These charlatans are extremely greedy, and they are greedy for everything, such as wine, sex, money and anger. The people of Tianzhu are ignorant, pedantic, timid and cowardly. I have had a hard time in the past few years. I want to develop some industry. This piece of land belongs to this god, and that piece of land belongs to that god. These charlatans really dare to occupy the mountains and rob people on the road. Tianzhu looks like a continent, but in fact it is divided into thousands of fragmented feudal strongholds with temples as strongholds. After going to Tianzhu, I realized what feudal separatism is and what it means to die if you move a chair.
I just wanted to build a railway, but I ended up fighting with this charlatan. I even flattened hundreds of temples. Now I think the Han Dynasty is better. If you want to build a railway, you build a railway. If you want to build a factory, you build a factory. No one will say that the factory offends the gods and the railway destroys feng shui. In the Han Dynasty, everyone works together and makes a concerted effort. "

"Brother, your new world is not bad. It is a blank sheet of paper, so it is easy to paint. If you want to build a railway, you can build a railway. If you want to build a cash crop garden, you can build a cash crop garden. There is no obstacle. Brother, your country of Tang will definitely develop faster than my country of Tianzhu."

Xu Aiguo said, "This is difficult, Fifth Brother. You are too kind. These charlatans dare to hinder you from doing things. Why should you be polite to them? Just follow the example of the First Emperor and dig a pit to bury them all. Bury 100 and they are not afraid. Then bury or . Look at those charlatans in the Qin Dynasty. After the First Emperor used this trick, they behaved themselves for decades."

Xu Aijun smiled bitterly and said, "If I really do this, Tianzhu will rebel. Tianzhu is not the Han Dynasty. Almost all the people there believe in these charlatans. Besides, the end of the First Emperor was not very good."

"Each family has its own difficulties. The advantage of the New World is that it is a blank sheet of paper, which is easy to paint on, but the disadvantage is that the natives are also a blank sheet of paper. If you want to develop in the New World, you can't do without the immigration of the Han people. India is not short of population, but the Indian charlatans are too greedy, and the forces of all parties are mixed, so one move can affect the whole body.

Xu Aiguo said: "Your country of Tianzhu is in a good location. There is a Kushan country next to it, and a little further away, there is a Xiongnu country. I have heard of it even in the New World. The Xiongnu have been restless in recent years. They want me to find a leader in Tianzhu to fight them."

Xu Aijun said, "Second brother, stop joking. With the fighting power of the Indian soldiers, even if you were the reincarnation of Sun Wu, you would not be able to lead such soldiers to defeat the Xiongnu."

"In recent years, scholars in Chang'an have conducted research and believe that countries along the equator are too hot and not suitable for strenuous exercise. In addition, because the people are short, their fighting ability is not strong, unlike the people in the north, who are generally tall and strong and have strong fighting ability."

Xu Aiguo said disdainfully, "These are just excuses. If you say it's the era of cold weapons, it's reasonable, but now we use muskets. If anyone competes with you in strength, one shot will knock them down, no matter if they are nine feet or six feet tall. Moreover, a nine-foot tall person has a wider area and is easier to be hit. According to this theory, in the era of muskets, countries like India should be more capable of fighting."

In the evening, Xu Fan and Xu Aimin also came back, and the whole family sat at the round table and had a lively meal.

Then Chen Xiu took the wives and children of several people away, leaving Xu Fan and his son to chat in the living room.

Xu Fan first asked Xu Aiguo about the situation in the Tang Kingdom.

Xu Aiguo said: "It's still the same as before. Tang's main income comes from the Sanfan Gold Mine. Immigrants from the Han Dynasty mainly open up wasteland, build factories, and dig gold mines. The herdsmen in the desert lead the natives of the New World to graze. Now Tang has 6 large grazing administrative districts. The population of the country barely exceeds one million. Although the domestic area is a little larger, roughly equivalent to the size of four or five counties in the Central Plains, most of it is wilderness pastures, and the infrastructure is very poor. There are only some roads near the capital, and the rest are dirt roads that can be mined. There is only a little industry, textile industry, steel industry, which can barely weave cloth and make some tools. Agriculture is not bad, and there is also a land of more than acres that has been reclaimed. The grain produced by these lands plus local beef is self-sufficient."

In fact, the situation of the Tang Kingdom was better than what he said. After all, there was such a large gold mine there, which was very attractive to Han immigrants. The gold rush in the New World had always existed in Han. After all, dozens or hundreds of tons of gold and thousands of tons of silver were transported to the country every year. Every time a silver fleet landed in Han, it would cause a wave of gold rush.

There are the most legends in the New World of the Han Dynasty. Some say that if you just find a river and look for gold in the sand, you can find gold by kicking the rocks by the river, or that you can pick up a gold nugget.

Various rumors, true or false, have never stopped in the Han Dynasty, so every year there are more than 200,000 people willing to go to the New World. However, there are too many princes in the New World, and these people are divided among dozens of families, and each family only gets a few thousand people. Relying on the attraction of the Sanfan Gold Mine, the Tang Dynasty can attract tens of thousands of Han people to live there every year.

Xu Fan said: "Tang is a blank sheet of paper, easy to paint on. You should follow the policies of the Han Dynasty. In agriculture, you should evenly distribute the land. In industry, you should develop local light industry according to the characteristics of Tang. You should focus on education. It is difficult for Tang to develop rapidly just by relying on Han immigrants. You must educate the local natives well."

Xu Aiguo frowned and said, "These natives are too ignorant and difficult to educate."

Xu Fan said: "They are all human beings, with one head and two hands, so there is no difference in intelligence. The adult natives have a solid outlook on life and are difficult to educate, but the young people in the New World are a blank slate. If you educate them well, they will not lose to the young people of the Han Dynasty. When these people grow up and become talented, the development of your Tang country will naturally advance by leaps and bounds."

Xu Fan thought for a moment and said, "There is one more thing. You must not discriminate or cause internal divisions. You must treat the people of your country as Han Chinese. If you cannot do this, the Tang Kingdom will surely split even if it develops in the future."

"My child understands."

Maybe it's because he has a low status in the future. I don't understand why he would take the initiative to tear his own country apart. Even the bald eagle does not hide its brutality. Can he expect the whole world to be kind to him? What kind of fighting power would such a thing that is neither male nor female have if they really fight?

Or maybe they think they won't have to pay the price for the evil they've done, which makes it totally puzzling why they're willing to give up their own skills.

Then Xu Fan asked Xu Aijun about the development of Tianzhu.

Xu Aijun told Xu Fan about the situation in Tianzhu again, and Xu Fan nodded in understanding. The third brother was as stable as ever, even more than 2000 years ago.

Xu Fan thought for a moment and said, "If you just want to be the king of Tianzhu, Tianzhu may be the best place. Not only will they not discriminate against outsiders, they will also obediently provide for the newcomers. They will be perfect slaves. But if you want to achieve something, then you must find Shang Yang of Tianzhu and become the first emperor of Tianzhu yourself."

Xu Aiguo looked at his brother and said enviously, "Big brother is still the best. Father has laid a good foundation for you. Now that the Han Dynasty is in a stable political situation and people are in harmony, you don't have to worry about anything."

Xu Aimin sighed, "Being small has its advantages, but being big also has its difficulties. The Han Dynasty occupies most of China, with a population of hundreds of millions. The conflicts that occur every day are innumerable. Everyone from top to bottom wants to cover my eyes and plug my ears, making me deaf and blind."

Xu Aiguo was surprised and asked, "How could such a thing happen?" This was completely different from his impression. Wasn't the Han Dynasty a peaceful and harmonious place? Why did his elder brother say that it seemed like there were treacherous ministers everywhere?
Xu Aimin said: "I now understand why my father likes to go to the people. If you don't experience it yourself, you really can't understand the situation among the people. Even if you go there, you may find that it is fake."

It was obvious that Xu Aimin was extremely dissatisfied with the different situation among the people that he saw when he inspected the Central Plains and Liu Heng did.

(End of this chapter)