The camel caravan personnel who sabotaged the railway, as well as other ruffians and hooligans who took advantage of the fire to rob, were all punished as they deserved, but with the exception of some who were beheaded for their lives, most of them were only imprisoned for a few years, and they could be re-established in the future, and the slightest coercion was only reprimanded and released after a few hundred boards. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

This is also proposed by Li An, to give these Shiguo people who have committed the crime of confusion for a while, a chance to reform themselves, and treat Shiguo people with gentle means will inevitably improve Shiguo people's good impression of Datang and make them more willing to rely on Datang.

The camel caravan personnel who made minor mistakes were well educated after receiving the punishment they deserved, and then, very willingly, joined the Datang railway system and became a regular employee of the Datang railway system.

This approach not only solves the livelihood of these people, but also meets the needs of the Datang railway system, after all, it is impossible to maintain too much Datang labor in Shiguo, and the huge railway system needs a lot of employees.

As for, they have attacked road builders and hurt the people of the Tang Dynasty, it is all a small matter, since the matter has passed, there is no need to worry too much, for the greater interests in the future, this little mind is still very necessary, the Tang Empire is the largest country in the world, the basic mind is a must, as long as you obey it, follow the Tang Dynasty, you can forgive.

Since there were still a few days before the train passed, these idle unemployed camel caravan workers all volunteered to join the road construction army, and exchanged their hard work for money to make a living to support their families.

Shiguo has always been in the east-west commercial trade arteries, so the camel caravan has always been relatively developed, with tens of thousands of personnel, except for a few leading bosses, most of them are darts and coolies, these people joined the road construction army, greatly speeding up the progress of building the railway, so that the railway can be built faster and better.

When he was idle, in the name of inspection, Ang Lee would take a group of people to the railway construction site to inspect and guide them on the spot, ask everyone if they had any difficulties, and if there were difficulties, Ang Lee would personally give guidance to help these people who were working to eliminate difficulties.

In short, wherever Ang Lee goes, the progress of railway construction will be greatly improved, and the quality of the project will also be improved.

Of course, Ang Lee's role is real, unlike the leaders of a certain country in later generations, in fact, they don't know anything, but the people are more ignorant, and as a result, the leader went to the fish breeding base, the output of fish increased, the leader went to the sheep breeding base, the output of sheep increased, and when he arrived at the dairy base, the milk production of the cows immediately increased, in short, their leaders became a fairy-like existence, as long as the leader goes, where the leader can get the brilliance of the leader, and all kinds of crops and production can get a great efficiency bonus.

This kind of personality cult is also for the sake of national cohesion, for the sake of maintaining the stability of the regime, and for the benefit of a certain group. However, the practice of effectively ruling the people in a foolish way will itself seriously inhibit the normal development of a country, and the common people will all become ignorant people, and how much impetus can there be for the development of society, and how much hope can the nation have.

Seeking truth from facts in everything is the king, and what is the point of engaging in these false things will only make people more and more ignorant and servile.

Of course, Ang Lee still knows the railway system very well, so it is entirely possible for Ang Lee to go somewhere and guide the technicians to improve the quality and output of a certain place, and there is no false component, after all, Ang Lee is an expert in this area, and after some guidance, it can indeed play a role in improving quality and output.

According to Li An's preliminary estimate, in two years at most, the railway of Datang can be directly connected to Talas and Tuozhi City in Shiguo. In this way, the economic development of Datang and the countries in the river will be promoted, and the influence of Datang will be extended to the western region.

While Li An was waiting, an elite army of Datang had already entered Talas City in Shiguo, and the leading young general, Li An also knew, was Duan Xiushi, who used to be Li An's guard.

Duan Xiushi came over this time and brought three thousand elite Tang soldiers and horses, including an elite artillery team, that is, ten cannons, and more than fifty artillery officers and men.

This is the elite force specially transferred by Gao Xianzhi from the artillery brigade under his command, the purpose is to improve the strength of the soldiers and horses under Duan Xiushi's command, so that this small force of 3,000 people can be competent for the important task of guarding Shiguo.

In the future, the Tang Dynasty will have more soldiers and horses transferred abroad to realize the Tang Empire's control of the entire world, just like a certain country in later generations, with hundreds of military bases around the world to achieve the goal of controlling the world, the current Tang Empire is definitely the most powerful superpower on the entire planet, and is fully capable of achieving control over the entire world.

In short, sending troops to defend Shiguo is only the first step, the next step is to send more soldiers and horses, to guard more important areas, this is the established plan of the Tang Dynasty, which is conducive to the unification of the whole world, in the future, when all the countries become vassals of the Tang Dynasty, it is also the happiest time for the people of the world, only unification can bring peace, in order to curb war and turmoil.

"Humble to meet Li Shilang."

After Duan Xiushi arrived at Talas, he asked his deputy to arrange the miscellaneous work of the deployment, and he himself went to Ang Lee's residence as soon as possible.

"Duan Xiushi, I haven't seen you for a few years, and you have already become a general, amazing!"

Li An didn't care which troops and horses Gao Xianzhi sent over, so naturally he didn't ask, but he didn't expect that this person was an old acquaintance Duan Xiushi, which was at least a little unexpected.

"Huh! Compared with Li Shilang, it is far worse, and he still needs to ask Li Shilang for advice. ”

Duan Xiushi looked very humble, but after so many years of experience, he had become a lot more confident, and he was not nervous at all when he saw Ang Lee, and he seemed very confident.

And after years of polishing by the wind and sand, Duan Xiushi's face looks even rougher, at least twice as rough as when he was in Chang'an, that is to say, his face has become thicker, and the whole person also looks more mature and stable, like a general.

"Just ask for advice, this official doesn't bring troops now, by the way, you brought three thousand soldiers and horses over this time, how about it, what do you think of these three thousand soldiers and horses, can they be competent for the important task of guarding Shiguo?"

Ang Lee asked loudly.

"Li Shilang, don't worry! With the 3,000 elites under the command of the lowly position, it is enough to look down on the world, and most of the guards have returned to us an artillery team, which makes our strength even stronger, even if there are 100,000 male soldiers on the opposite side, the lowly position is confident that it will be defeated in one fell swoop. ”

Duan Xiushi said magnificently, with a momentum of looking at the world.

"Three thousand against one hundred thousand, and it was defeated in one fell swoop, General Duan is so angry!"

Ang Lee said with a smile.

"It's not because Li Shilang invented so many practical weapons, which greatly increased the combat effectiveness of our army, and I don't hide it from Li Shilang, our army is equipped with ten ironclad vehicles, and they rush over in a line, which is enough to make the enemy fearful."

Duan Xiushi said proudly.

"Haha! Ten ironclad cars, what a momentum! Coupled with ten cannons, General Duan is really going to dominate the Shi Kingdom, and the soldiers and horses of the entire Shi Country together are not General Duan's opponents. ”

Li An said happily.

With the weak soldiers and horses of Shiguo, even without Li An's invention, the Anxi Army of the Tang Dynasty is enough to deter them, after all, Shiguo is a commercial country, and the people of the whole country are thinking about how to make a fortune in business and live a comfortable life, so they are naturally unwilling to die, and once the soldiers are all afraid of death, the combat effectiveness is naturally not worth mentioning.

Later generations of the Wa Kingdom were praised by the world for their strong combat effectiveness and fearlessness of death, which was called the spirit of the samurai, and they all died when they started a war, but in the commercial cities of the Wa Kingdom, a group of soldiers and horses recruited was indeed afraid of death, as long as they encountered war, they all applied for sick leave, and even tortured themselves to make themselves sick, so as to escape the war, in short, this army could not fight at all.

In the event of war, the army marched slowly, and by the time they arrived at the battlefield, the battle was over, and they were able to return safely, but the reputation of being greedy for life and fear of death had spread throughout the world, and even decades later, there were still people talking about this wretched army.

Shiguo is located on the main road of east-west transportation, the common people of the whole country, almost all of them are engaged in business, under the influence of profit, everyone wants to obtain greater benefits, of course, they are not willing to die, all of them are greedy for life and afraid of death, and the people who have grown up under this influence have the will to fight can be imagined.

After Datang becomes rich, the fighting spirit of the common people will also be weakened, but Datang is rich in land and resources, not all places are rich, and there are many places where the people are strong, in addition, the equipment of the Datang army is relatively advanced, and some of the troops can almost do zero casualties to fight the enemy, so that the soldiers will naturally become a lot braver, and they do not need to be afraid of fighting at all, but are eager to obtain military merits through combat and seek the greatest benefits for themselves.

Therefore, despite becoming rich and commercialized, the combat power of the Tang army, because of the continuous improvement of equipment, has not decreased in the slightest, but has become more and more powerful, and even, if you send a medium-sized army of thousands of people, you can defend one side.

Just like the Western Empire in later generations, it was possible to conquer a large country with a population of hundreds of millions by sending a few thousand people and setting up a few cannons, which is the result of the generation gap in science and technology.

The current Tang Dynasty has the same force as the Western powers of later generations, and if you send a medium-sized army, you can deter a big country, and tens of thousands of troops can be gathered, and you can destroy a big country, so that a big country like Tubo can choose to submit obediently.

Relying on the geographical remoteness of the country, the big food country has not taken the warnings of the Tang Dynasty into account, and continues to bully the subject countries of the Tang Dynasty, forcing these small countries to pay them high protection fees, and the Tang Empire has been suffering from the difficulties of transportation and cannot teach the big food country a lesson, so the situation continues to deteriorate, and now the situation is different, the railway is about to open to traffic, as long as the railway line enters the stone country, all kinds of strategic materials of the Tang Dynasty can continue to enter the stone country, so as to support the continuous combat capability of the Tang Dynasty soldiers and horses, So that the Tang army could fight a medium-sized battle in the west.

This situation is also the situation that the monarchs and ministers of the Great Food Country are most worried about, so they will be desperate to obstruct and prevent the Tang Dynasty from building a railway in the Stone Country, so as to maintain their interests in the land of the river and prevent the threat of the Tang Dynasty to them, and they obviously do not realize that paving the railway to the world is the established national policy of the Tang Dynasty, which is not something they can stop.

Of course, the monarchs and ministers of the Great Food Kingdom obviously did not realize this, they were too confident, too eager to get tribute from the countries in the river all the time, so they did not hesitate to risk the destruction of the railway that the Tang Dynasty was building.

In the palace of the black-clothed food, King Apos was very angry when he saw these ministers who had returned from failure, these people who ate his food and were supported by him, not only did not complete the task he assigned, but instead persuaded himself to give up hostility with the Tang Dynasty, support the Tang Dynasty to build a railway in the river, and even asked for the introduction of the Tang Dynasty's railway into the Great Food Country, so as to promote the economic development of the Great Food Country.

"King, the Tang Dynasty soldiers and horses are extremely strong, our army is not their opponent at all, they have made up their minds to build a railway in the river, the people of the entire Shi Country, almost all support the Tang Dynasty's approach, and even, the camel caravan people have been persuaded by them, if we want to destroy it now, we can only send out the army, but this is tantamount to a direct confrontation with the Tang Dynasty, the price is too great, we have no absolute chance of winning."

"King, the strength of Datang is not something we can fight against, many useful things in the palace are all made by Datang, the gap between us and Datang is too big, and we must not use force to fight."

"Yes, yes, Datang is extremely powerful, and our country can fight against it."

All the ministers expressed their awe of the Tang Empire, believing that the country they were loyal to could not be compared with the Tang Dynasty, and that for the security and stability of the country, they must cooperate with the Tang Empire, not be hostile, so that it is in the interests of the Great Food Country.

"You are so afraid of Datang, it won't be that you have received any benefits from Datang!"

Apos looked at several ministers with sharp eyes, as if he wanted to dig into the hearts of these people, he suspected that the people he supported had betrayed him, and this situation was absolutely unacceptable to him.