Kurban's brows furrowed even tighter, the sound of the conversation next door was not loud or small, it was completely a normal communication voice, it didn't seem like he was deliberately saying it to him, besides, he had been sitting in the private room for half an hour, if he deliberately said it to him, it should have been not long after he entered the private room. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

That is to say, at this time, Kurban had completely believed what Lian said, and believed in the huge concessions made by the Tocharian states to the Tang Dynasty, and in this way, he had to rush back to Shiguo as soon as possible and tell their king about this important situation, so as to listen to their king's opinion, after all, with such a big concession, he was a small envoy, and he couldn't be the master at all.

After confirming the authenticity of the matter, Kurban immediately put down the wine glass in his hand and beckoned his entourage to hurry to Chang'an City West Railway Station, where he wanted to return to Shiguo as quickly as possible.

At the same time, he also ordered his subordinates to go to the market of Datang and bought a few high-fuel motorcycles, as well as enough gasoline, after all, Datang's train only leads to Anxi, and there is still a long distance from the capital of Shiguo.

The speed of the motorcycle is not said, during the Chinese New Year in later generations, because the train and car are very nervous, many people who want to go home to work outside, many choose to ride a motorcycle home, and many people's hometown is still thousands of kilometers away, which is enough to show that riding a motorcycle is completely possible to travel thousands of kilometers.

When Kurban boarded the train, there was a pair of eyes staring at him behind him, and as soon as the train left, the man left and ran in the direction of Ang Lee's courtyard.

"Li Shilang, Kurban has already left by train."

"Oh, really, you saw it with your own eyes."

Ang Lee looked excited.

"Li Shilang, the humble position is indeed seen with my own eyes, this is definitely not wrong."

"Okay, great, great, prepare the car, the official must enter the palace immediately to face the saint."

Li An was greatly pleased, and decided to enter the palace immediately, tell Li Longji the good news, and study the next plan.

After entering the palace, Li An soon met Li Longji and happily told the whole good news.

"Li Shilang, are you really sure?"

Li Longji was also very happy in his heart, however, he was not sure whether the king of Shiguo would agree to the request of the Tang Empire.

"Your Majesty, rest assured, Shiguo is a businessman from top to bottom, they understand very well the importance of the railway to them, if I Datang insists on building the railway to Tocharo, the life of the people of Shiguo will not be easy, so even if they put forward such high requirements, they have to comply."

Li An opened his mouth to analyze.

Li Longji stroked his beard and said: "I hope Li Shilang's analysis is right, it is best for Shi Guo to agree to this request, if not, I plan to make Shi Guo a state and county of the Tang Dynasty." ”

After saying that, with a very proud expression, now that Datang's strength has become very strong, it must be extremely easy to take a small country like Shiguo, and the great breakthrough of the railway allows the main force of Datang to easily enter Anxi, so that they are not afraid of the interference of the western powers, and even, they can swallow the western powers in one breath and establish a vast empire.

"What Your Majesty said is, however, Weichen believes that the king of Shiguo is a person who understands, so it is better for us to prepare to build the railway as soon as possible, in order to prevent accidents, we can mobilize some troops and horses to enter Anxi, so as to strengthen the momentum of my Tang Dynasty and make the western countries submit."

Ang Lee opened his mouth to suggest.

Li Longji nodded and said, "I plan to send an ironclad artillery brigade into the city, and in addition, Li Shilang can ask the railway bureau to immediately start preparing all kinds of materials needed for the construction of the railway, as well as the steel workshops around the capital, and from now on, the production of rails will be accelerated." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty, Wechen will arrange it."

Li An answered, and walked to the map with Li Longji, looking at the planned route for the next step in building the railway.

This planning line was drawn by Li Ang a month ago, but Li Longji needs to consider some interests and things, so it has not been made public, except for Li An and Li Longji, no one knows about this planning line.

These days, when Li Longji has free time, he will take out this planning map, study it carefully, and think carefully to determine what the route planned by Li An is, and whether there are any inappropriate and needs to be modified.

The route planned by Li An was to start from the Swap City, pass through Bodaling, and enter the westernmost military town of the Tang Dynasty, Broken Leaf City, to connect the last town of the four towns in Anxi, and then start from Broken Leaf City, go west through Kulan City, and enter Talas City in Shiguo.

After the railway reached Talas, the line was to be divided into two parts, one continuing west along the medicine and the other southward connecting the Transoxiana countries and leading directly to the Tocharian region.

In Ang Lee's planning, Talas City is obviously a transit station, which shows the importance of Talas City.

The first stop of Talas City to the south is also the capital of the Stone Country, which can also be seen from the importance of the entire Stone Country.

To the south, Tuozhi City has to pass through small countries such as Kangguo, Mi Kingdom, Shi Kingdom, Anguo, He Kingdom, Cao Kingdom, etc., the area of these small countries is very small, much smaller than Shi Kingdom, but the economy is very developed, because they are closer to Tocharian and the western Dashi and other countries, it is the development of trade, which makes them rich.

The Kangguo region can also be used as a transit for trade, so in the vicinity of Kangguo, the Datang railway will be divided into two again, one south into the Tocharian countries, and the other west to Dashi.

Therefore, after the railway went abroad, there were two transfer stations, the first transfer station was Talas City in Shiguo, and the second transfer station was Savijian in Kangguo.

Now, Shi Guo's envoy Kurban has taken the bait, and the next step is to deal with Kangguo's envoy, but with Li An's means, it is still very easy.

Looking at the winding railway line, all the way to the western countries, Li Longji's mood is heroic, Li An's mood is also very happy, after some exchanges, Li An returned to the R&D center, began to arrange the production of rails and other work related to the laying of railways.

Kurban is very good friends, and a lot of local products he sent are very fond of Li An, especially the beautiful and very understanding Mei'er, which makes Li An like it very much, in short, all the gifts, Li An likes them very much, and next, Kurban will inevitably offer a greater gift, that is, part of the land of Shiguo, the land along the railway.

Of course, even if Datang gets this little land, and the railway is finally completed, it will serve the people of Shiguo, and it will only be good for Shiguo and not harmful.

Half a month passed quickly, and Kurban rushed back to Chang'an, and the envoys of Kang and other countries in the river also rushed back to Chang'an City, bringing back the latest orders of their kings.

As Li An expected, these small countries were already afraid of the Tang Dynasty, and at the same time, they hoped to use the power of the Tang Dynasty to fight against the rising Dashi in the west, so after comprehensive consideration, they agreed to the request of the Tang Empire, and were willing to dedicate the land through which the railway passed to the Tang Empire, and did not expect to be able to share the rights and interests of the railway.

After receiving the news of the concessions of the countries in the river, the Tang court was extremely happy, and immediately began to recruit craftsmen, and used railways to transport a large number of goods to Anxi, and freight trains also transported manufactured rails and other materials to Anxi.

Of course, relying on the manpower of the Tang Dynasty alone is not enough, all countries along the way need to levy a large amount of civilian power to assist the Tang Dynasty in building railways, in return, the Tang Empire can give them preferential prices for rides, such as a 20% discount or something, so that the merchants of the countries in the river can use the railway system of the Tang Dynasty more cheaply.

Of course, the magnitude of the discount is linked to the contribution they made to help Datang build the railway, and the large contribution can be discounted more, and the small contribution will be discounted, and it is still a time limit, and it is impossible to discount it all the time.

In order to continue to get discounts, countries along the way must continue to contribute to Datang's railway system, the early stage is to help Datang repair the railway, and the later stage is to maintain the normal operation of the railway, such as repairing the railway line or something, although the railway is very strong, but it is also to be maintained for a long time, as long as the countries along the way are willing to contribute to maintenance, Datang can continue to give them preferential treatment, in a small way, to give them benefits, after all, everyone is really good, both sides can make profits for a long time.

Because Datang is also laying railways in China, human resources are relatively tight, so only from the country to send 150,000 skilled craftsmen to Anxi to build the railway, the rest of the labor, can only rely on the countries along the way to provide, how long it will take for the railway to be built, it depends entirely on how much manpower the countries along the way can provide, Datang anyway there are so many people, can not be because of the construction of the king's railway line and consume too much manpower, Datang is fully industrialized, very lack of manpower.

Of course, in order to make up for the lack of human resources, Datang will transfer a large number of construction machinery to Anxi, so that 150,000 craftsmen can match one million manpower.

Now gasoline engines and pneumatic tires have begun to be mass-produced, the production of construction machinery is still very advanced, and the reliability has been greatly improved.

In the case that the railway has led to Anxi, it is very convenient to go to Anxi to inspect it, and it will take a few days to take the train, so in order to check the specific situation of the location of the railway in Anxi, Li An decided to take the train to Anxi to change the city for a trip, at least, Bodaling must go over to see.

There is at least 5,000 miles from Chang'an City to Diao City, and it will take at least three days to arrive after the railway speeds up, so Li An has to take a car for at least three days to get to Diao City, and then he has to transfer to Bodaling.

In order to relieve the loneliness of the journey, Li Ang brought Mei'er with him, after all, this time Kurban returned to Shiguo with him, and this little Lori was given to him by Kurban, and he only often took it with him to show respect for his friends, which showed that he was very satisfied with Kurban's gift.

If it were in the future generations, Ang Lee's behavior would definitely be criticized, but in the era of the Tang Dynasty, it is a normal thing, no one will say that Ang Lee's quality is not good, even Ang Lee's wives do not have the slightest opinion on this, anyway, they have something to do, how can they care about Ang Lee's chic? Besides, Mei'er is so caring and gentle, with a little lady taking care of her husband, they can be more at ease, and they don't have to worry about no one to accompany Ang Lee when she is lonely.

After all, the area of a carriage is larger than any large passenger car, and the internal space is naturally more spacious, and it is much stronger than the previous small soft sleeper private room, and such a large suite is only used by Li An alone, and no one else is qualified to use it.

In the Tang Dynasty, in addition to the emperor's travel, Li An's travel treatment is the best, the emperor's special train, a person can occupy five or six carriages, although Li An only occupies one, but this treatment is already quite good, at least, Li An has been very satisfied, such a large carriage, is divided into multiple rooms, and the later generations of three bedrooms, one living room and one bathroom is not much different, this carriage, equivalent to a seventy square house, living in it while moving, while looking at the scenery outside the window, that feeling is also to be detailed, The main thing is that he still has a little Lori in his arms, which makes it feel even more heavenly.

"Alang, open your mouth."

Mei'er peeled an orange and stuffed it into Ang Lee's mouth.

"Well, it's delicious, another one."

Li Ang stroked Mei'er's soft skin while chewing the orange petal in his mouth.

Hearing this, Mei'er continued to peel oranges, putting one arm around Ang Lee's neck, this method of peeling oranges allowed Ang Lee to smell the smell of oranges, and at the same time, she could also smell the body fragrance on Mei'er's body, plus the pleasure of stroking, it was almost heavenly.

"Li Shilang, Kurban asks to see you."

The guard outside the door opened his mouth to report.

Li Anke wouldn't mind Kurban coming over to spoil the atmosphere, because he was not afraid of Kurban at all, in front of Kurban, he could still hug Mei'er, just like the young people of later generations, they could talk to me on the street, completely ignoring the hateful eyes of single dogs, and they didn't care about social morality, as long as they were happy, other people's feelings could be completely ignored.

"Let him in."

Ang Lee said and kissed Mei'er's pink lips, squinting intoxicatedly, enjoying the slippery feeling.

As soon as Kurban entered the door, he saw Li An and Mei'er's little lips pressed together, and he was stunned for a moment, but he quickly licked his smiling face and came up, and said, "Li Shilang, it's a bit of a bad time to come down!" ”