Chapter 672
The situation in the Western Regions is definitely a bad debt. Take Lanzhou at your feet for example. There are Han people, Tubo people, Dangxiang people, and even Qiang people, as well as Shatu people, but they dare not make a statement.
In the past, they conquered each other and deceited each other, and such things would never be missing.
It can be seen from the territory of the Guiyi Army alone that they once had eleven states, but now there are only two states left, and the population is only a pitiful 300,000.
Chai Rong had no intention of severing the lawsuit for them, and the enemy was facing him, so he was not allowed to waste his energy.
"Don't argue!"
In a word, all three parties shut up obediently and waited for His Majesty's emperor to fall.
"I can see that you are all loyal ministers of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and your marriage is not busy. The most important thing at the moment is to deal with the invasion of the Great Cannibal... I want to drive my troops westward. What do you think is the most urgent thing?"
Li Guangrui immediately said: "I will report to Your Majesty. The so-called army will not move, food and grass will come first. The most urgent task is to transport grain to the Western Regions."
"Yes, if you want to transport food and grass, you must build the road." Chai Rong said: "I have issued an order to build the Shu Road to transport food from Bashu and support the Western Expedition. Now I need to build a road from Jingzhao Prefecture to the Western Regions. This is a major road that lasts thousands of miles long and must be built as soon as possible. This is my request to you and a test for me. As for how to build the road, please discuss with the Champion Hou!"
After saying that, Chai Rong patted his butt and left. His Majesty the Emperor always set the general direction. What should he do is naturally left to others to take responsibility.
In an instant, the three people's six eyes fell on Ye Hua.
Ye Hua was full of anger. Chai Rong was so inauthentic that he was too lazy.
There was no way, Ye Hua could only deal with three people.
"Mr. Marquis, what does Your Majesty mean?" Li Guangrui asked first.
"Your Majesty's meaning is very simple. Whoever you contributes the most will have the opportunity to marry the King of Shang, and whoever you pays the most attention to in the Great Zhou Dynasty."
The three of them looked at each other and said it was so hard to get married. Not only did they need a generous dowry, but they also had to do things for Dazhou. What is the reason?
It turns out that our princess baby, the pearl in the palm of your hand, is that worthless?
Of course, this idea only dares to flash for a moment, and then immediately throw it out of the sky.
They knew very well that getting married to the Shang king was definitely not a simple marriage. The Great Zhou entered the Western Regions, with thousands of miles of territory, and how to distribute so many benefits, and whoever is more or less, it all depends on this time!
"Mr. Marquis, our Dangxiang is willing to do his best, but we don't know much about building roads!" Li Guangrui scratched his head.
The representative of Guiyi Army laughed, "Marty, we are good at it, we are willing to share more!"
The old monk also shouted: "We have to build roads to help Khotan!"
They all fought for it, but Ye Hua waved his hand, "This road is thousands of miles away, and everyone must work together to achieve it. In this way, the road is divided into four sections."
Ye Hua took the map and explained it to them.
The section from Chang'an City, Jingzhao Prefecture to Lanzhou was under the responsibility of the Great Zhou Dynasty. Not long ago, Chai Rong had issued an order and transferred Zhao Pu, the Minister of War, to supervise the road construction.
This time the road construction is different from the Shu Road. Chai Rong directly ordered the mobilization of the Xiang army in the northwest, regardless of cost, and at the fastest speed, the road construction according to the military's standards.
Zhao Pu's ability does not need to be doubted. This guy is cruel, and Zhang Wei is not enough to see it.
"From Lanzhou to Ganzhou, this section will be handed over to the Dangxiang side, and then to the Guazhou side of Shazhou and Guiyi army. The remaining section will lead to the city of Khotan, which will be responsible for the Kingdom of Khotan."
Ye Hua said: "The gunpowder, cement, craftsmen and Dazhou can provide it, but you must do the labor required!"
"I'll come out!"
Li Guangrui agreed happily, "Marty, our party has produced 100,000 national men."
After he said this, Guiyi Army quit, and even if they were beaten to death, they would not be able to produce 100,000 people!
No, Dangxiang can't be taken out!
"Mr. Li, your party, Xiang Qing and strong only have tens of thousands of people. Are you planning to send all the elderly, weak, women and children?"
Facing the questioning, Li Guangrui rolled his eyes and sneered: "What do you care about me? One hundred thousand people are one hundred thousand people, and no one will be missing! I will do what I say!"
The Khotan side was also in a difficult situation. Although their manpower was more than that of the Guiyi army, they really couldn't draw so much to prepare for war and build the Khotan City!
Li Guangrui was proud. You can't do it. I won't admit defeat if I'm comparing you. When will you wait? He just wanted to laugh three times!
Ye Hua suddenly said quietly: "General Li, are you going to capture the Tubo people or the Uighurs?"
His mind was suddenly exposed, and Li Guangrui laughed and said, "Actually, you can also catch the Khitans!"
Ye Hua smiled and said, "In this way, your Dangxiang is not good at engineering. I will arrange personnel for road construction. You just need to catch prisoners! Starting from 100,000, the more you have, the better!"
Ye Hua paused and said, "I have some armor and weapons in the Great Zhou Dynasty. If necessary, I can replace them with prisoners. What do General Li thinks?"
Li Guangrui smiled and nodded repeatedly.
Look, follow the Great Zhou, the benefits will come!
Dangxiang will also smelify iron, but their technology is backward and the cost is too high.
Take the armor in the army as an example. They are all passed down from ancestors. If they are broken, add a few iron leaves to add them. Almost 80% of the armor was passed down from the Tang Dynasty and can be used as cultural relics.
He had long been coveting the plate armor of Dazhou, which was light, strong, beautiful, and strong...most importantly, Dazhou made armor like a game. New recruits who had been in the army for more than one year could wear armor.
What’s especially annoying is that the musketeers have abandoned their armor and think that thing is too heavy. Grandma’s, we don’t want it yet!
"Mr. Marquis, of course we are willing to change, but can we? A little bit..." Li Guangrui didn't say anything.
Ye Hua laughed, "It's all my own family. I just said that, just want to say that. Eighty percent of the new armor in the army, three young and strong prisoners, and other swords and weapons. I'll sell them to you by weight."
"Ouch!"
Li Guangrui almost jumped up. He had known the heroic spirit of the Great Zhou for a long time, but he did not expect that it would be so rich that it was unreasonable!
"Mr. Please rest assured. I will mobilize my troops now to chase the remaining Tubo soldiers and capture the prisoners!"
Li Guangrui left in a hurry, even if there was no marriage, the business would not be lost. He seemed to see that his subordinates were all equipped with armor and 100,000 cavalry. Who would compete with him?
Guiyijun and Yutian were both a little stunned. This was not so good. They first asked Dangxiang people to eat a piece of fat. Li Guangrui's mouth was full of oil!
"Marty, what should we do?"
Ye Hua smiled indifferently, "Everyone is my own. I will not treat you badly, but you should also show some sincerity... The battlefield is on the side of Yutian, so I won't say that. The Guiyi Army's performance made me disapprove of it!"
Ye Hua suddenly turned his face down and scolded: "In recent years, you have not stopped fighting in the internal struggle. You have lost so much land and people. You have also come to present pictures of the eleven states. If Li Guangrui doesn't say it, I'm ashamed of you! Also, in order to survive, you have tried to surrender to the Dangxiang, and in order to survive, you have tried to surrender to the Dangxiang. Is this what you can do?"
Faced with Ye Hua's scolding, the old man's face turned dark.
Fortunately, Ye Hua changed his subject, "Of course, I know that you are difficult. I will inevitably be more harsh on my own people. I will arrange a military advisory group to go to Shazhou to help you reorganize your army and guide you to train and build roads. In short, you must be self-reliant and self-reliant. The saints have the world in their hearts and the people are all the people of the saints. As long as they are sincerely loyal, the saints will not treat anyone badly."
After saying this, Ye Hua asked them to go down and pass the news back to China as soon as possible.
After Ye Hua explained, he went to see Chai Rong again and briefly explained the matter.
Chai Rong laughed, "There are some fighting and pulling, some hard and some soft, and you can easily retract and release. Ye Qing, your methods are much more clever now!"
Ye Hua smiled and said, "Your Majesty can see through this plan at a glance! Your Majesty, I think you can select 300 people from the Dangxiang tribes and serve as the prince's guards. What do you think?"
"Oh!" Chai Rong took a breath, thought for a while, and said slowly: "The emperor will be ten years old soon. He should learn to train troops and fight and pick people from Dangxiang. This method is good. Remember to choose young people and send a gentleman to them to educate them well!"
A person like Ye Hua who is very scheming will not make mistakes easily.
Even if the emperor trusts you, even if the prince regards him as a teacher, he cannot be arrogant and feel that no matter how he does it, no matter who Brother Guo Xing gets married, the strength of the Shang King will increase.
At this time, if you don’t give the prince any benefits, it will easily leave cracks.
Moreover, Li Guangrui is not a good-looking lamp. He is close to Brother Xing, and he may have some thoughts. Ye Hua simply gave Dangxiang a knife and gave some of his strength.
These Dangxiang people left the northwest and arrived in the capital, and their eyes were dark, so they could only follow the prince honestly, just so that they could prevent the civil and military officials from leaning against the prince... In short, this trick would definitely kill more than one shot.
The adult world is too complicated, so Brother Guo Xing’s world is relatively simple. He is thinking about how to defend the city of Yutian.
A lot of artillery have been made, but the rate of fire of artillery is still too miserable.
There must be a more efficient weapon.
After many days of hard thinking, Brother Guo Xing discovered that the most tiny oil in Khotan was even more powerful than gunpowder... The little guy decided to design a new weapon.
He first made an oil tank filled with tinder oil, then used a conduit to lead it out, and then installed a manual air pump, so that the tinder oil can be pulled out of the tank and then sprayed out using atmospheric pressure...
Brother Guo Xing kept experimenting, making his body covered in black and oily, like a little ghost.
In the distance, the two little princesses stretched their heads and looked at them, their hearts getting cold. They were almost over in their lives!
Chapter completed!