Chapter 91: Murong Fuyun, King of Tuyuhun Khan

Mulei, in fact, was a country of Pu in the Western Han Dynasty. "Pu class" Xiongnu voice turn, because of the Pu class of the sea and get the name, the Pu class sea is now Balikun Lake. Over time, it became the current wooden barrier.

In the northern part of Mulei County, Baitak Mountain (now Beita Mountain) was a strategic point between Yiwu, Altai and Dihua in later generations, but at this time, it is not that important, after all, the vast Western Regions are full of detour locations.

After the Ko Boya, Ko Wentai father and son, and the Gaochang royal family were rescued by his henchmen, they were stationed in the Baitak Mountains.

As more and more tribes were gathered, by the middle of May of the fourth year of Wude, tens of thousands of people had gathered here.

Of course, these tens of thousands of people are not all the army, and there are also some herdsmen of various ethnic groups who are not subject to the constraints of the Tang law, but they are all hostile to the Tang people.

But there are too many people, and eating and drinking have become a problem. Seeing that there were fewer and fewer grains, cattle and sheep, Lu Wentai found Lu Boya and said to him: "Father, we already have more than 6,000 elites in our hands, and it should not be difficult to capture Gaochang City, Gaochang City is only 2,000 Tang Army, and there are no plans to win!" ”

But Lu Boya shook his head and said, "Forget it!" ”

"Forget it!" When Li Wentai heard this, he immediately became anxious: "Forget it? How can it be counted, they destroyed my Gaochang country, destroyed my temple and Sheji, this hatred is not shared, how can it be counted! ”

Ko Boya suddenly took out a hoe from the corner of the tent: "Look at this?" ”

Lu Wentai glanced at it nonchalantly, and was not interested in looking at it a second time: "Father, the sons and daughters are not diligent in their limbs and do not divide the grains, this is just a hoe, what is there to look at!" ”

Lu Boya sighed and said, "You take a closer look!" ”

Ko Wentai took the hoe and felt that it was obviously much heavier than the normal hoe. It was an ordinary hoe, only half of it was coated with black lacquer, mainly to avoid oxidation of the steel. He looked at it for a long time, but he didn't see why, and handed the hoe to Lu Boya: "Father, this is no different, at most it sinks a little!" ”

Lu Boya pointed to the hoe and said: "This is just a hoe, but it is made of 100 steel, extremely sharp, can split the steel bar as thick as the little finger at once, it can be called sharpening iron like mud, whether it is an arm or a thigh, let it swing it will be broken in two!" ”

Lu Wentai was stunned: "There is such a thing? ”

As he spoke, he asked people to bring a thick iron chain, and went into battle himself, with a wave of the hoe, with a click, the iron chain was cut into two by the brush, and then looked at the edge of the hoe, there was no hair!

Immediately shocked, Ko Wentai stroked the smooth blade of the shovel, and said with a shocked expression: "This hoe is so sharp? This Tang man is too loser, isn't it, such a good steel is actually used to make hoes? Is there so much steel in the Tang people? ”

From the beginning of the rise of iron and steel in the Han Dynasty until modern times, steel has been a strategic material for 2,000 years, firmly controlled by the central power, and smugglers of iron materials are guilty of serious crimes, because steel production is scarce and extremely expensive.

If you don't have an intuitive understanding of the preciousness of steel in ancient times, you can ask your ancestors, many of whom still used wooden plows until twenty or thirty years after the founding of New China. Steel is hard to find, and steel with superior performance is even more difficult to buy, and the better ones are used to make weapons, and the second ones are used to make farm tools, and there will be no waste at all.

Now the Tang army actually uses such good steel as a hoe, or a handful of people, which can only show that the steel resources mastered by the Tang people have exceeded everyone's imagination, and they don't regard steel as a rare commodity at all!

At this moment, Ko Wentai noticed that there was still one person in the tent.

Xue Yingxiong.

Gaochang was able to gain a foothold in the Western Regions, mainly relying on the six surnames of Xue, Ma, Zhang, He, Liu, and Liu in the Western Regions. The Xue clan has long occupied Gaochang's officials, and its protégés and former officials have spread almost throughout the entire Western Regions.

Xue Yingxiong actually wanted to take refuge in Chen Ying, but he was preempted by Ma Mengming, and the Xue clan was very miserable by Chen Ying this time, and it can be said that he suffered heavy losses. The main source of wealth for the Xue family is farming. Anyway, the Western Regions are vast and sparsely populated, and you can farm any place you want, but the population resources are very precious, especially the Han people who can farm are even more valuable.

The Xue clan controlled tens of thousands of tenant farmers, who lived a slave-like life of poverty, and the Xue clan relied on the exploitation of these Han people to live a luxurious life comparable to that of princes. Chen Ying said that more than 10,000 tenants of the Xue clan were disbanded by Chen Ying and formed yeoman people, and the Xue family's fields were confiscated and distributed to ordinary people.

It was precisely because Chen Ying did too much that Xue Yingxiong was very dissatisfied with the officials.

Cutting off people's wealth is like killing one's parents. Therefore, the Xue family was determined to go against Chen Ying with Lu Boya.

Xue Yingxiong looked at Lu Wentai and was shocked, and said with a slight smile: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince doesn't know that after Chen Ying led the army to leave Gaochang, he did not set up the Western Regions to conquer the Western Turks, but stationed in Jinman County to reclaim the wasteland, and also established several blast furnaces in Huaergou, which were specially used for steelmaking!" ”

Lu Boya said: "Chen Ying's several giant blast furnaces, making steel around the clock, I don't know how much steel they can produce in a year?" ”

Xue Yingxiong said: "200,000 catties." ”

Lu Wentai and Lu Boya both breathed a sigh of relief, 200,000 jin is not a small amount for a warlord, but for Gao Changguo, the richest country in the Western Regions, it is really nothing. Gaochang produced up to 500,000 catties of domestic steel, but most of this steel was supplied to the Western Turkic Khanate.

However, considering that Chen Ying's steel performance is very superior to that of their Gao Changguo's steel, it is also difficult to despise.

Xue Yingxiong said again: "One furnace!" ”

Both Ko Wentai and Ko Boya exclaimed, "What? 200,000 catties a furnace? ”

Xue Yingxiong nodded and said, "Yes!" Your Majesty, 200,000 furnaces! Chen Ying can smelt at least 20 furnaces of fine molten steel in a month in Huaergou, and you can imagine how much steel they can produce in a year. ”

One furnace of 200,000 catties, a month is 4 million catties, a year is nearly 50 million catties, this is really too scary.

Chen Ying didn't want to make steel in the Western Regions, but when he asked people to open up wasteland near Hua'ergou, he accidentally found that there was a coal mountain on the west bank of Hua'er Xiaogou, and an iron mine thirty miles upstream of the east bank, which was a windfall.

This is not the most motivating force for Chen Ying to prepare for mining, mainly because Chen Ying found that when the Han people in the Western Regions were farming, they were actually wooden plows, and every household rarely had iron tools except for a kitchen knife. It was unbelievable for Chen Ying to say it, there were many Han people in the Western Regions who didn't even have an iron pot.

Seeing this situation, Chen Ying felt that he had cleared the wasteland for a month, cultivated the soil, and planted it again. Anyway, these 100,000 troops are idle and idle, but the father and son of Ko Wentai have no movement, even if Chen Ying wants to kill people, he needs to have a truth, otherwise it will be criticized.

Therefore, Chen Ying paid attention to the internal fighting of the Western Turks, and at the same time let the soldiers of the Anxi Army make steel. In fact, the soldiers of this era were still peasants, and they were all multi-skilled workers, who could farm, work, and hunt. So, Chen Ying mined coal in Huaergou West Mountain, led the Gaochang Han people to mine coal together, and handed over the method of making briquettes to ordinary people, a simple briquette mold, and an iron briquette stove, which was too simple.

Of course, there is another purpose for this. Because the winter in the Western Regions is too cold, a large number of trees are cut down for firewood in order to keep warm, which is also the reason for the deterioration of the environment in the Western Regions.

Chen Ying opened a workshop and a mining industry at the same time, so that the Han people in the Western Regions would take the lead in becoming rich, but it was not enough to be rich, they must be allowed to learn to protect themselves.

Chen Ying believed that Li Yuan would never allow Chen Ying to wait in the Western Regions for a long time, and he would not allow Chen Ying to lead an army of 100,000 for a long time.

So, Chen Ying directly took the Lingzhou model and used it. The common people of the Tang Dynasty have a fort for every ten households, and a town chief is set up, and ten forts are a fort with a town with a town head.

Ding Zhuang of each household took advantage of the slack to practice the military method under the training of the soldiers of the Anxi Army, and the captured equipment of the Tongye Protector Army and the newly built horizontal knife and crossbow were all free and free of charge.

In today's Western Regions, the Tang people are all soldiers.

Of course, during the training, Chen Ying also gathered the people of all ethnic groups to set up large-scale construction activities, and built a town fort in a town, which is actually a small town, which is different from the Central Plains city, this kind of dock fort is built in order to prevent the enemy from attacking, and it is specially built in the kind of location that is easy to defend and difficult to attack.

At present, the 19 new states in the Western Regions, with a total of more than 170 towns and forts, are blooming almost everywhere.

Xue Yingxiong continued: "According to the news from Xizuo, the Tang peasants in various parts of the Western Regions have one hand, and they don't need money, they are given away for free, in addition to hoes, horizontal knives, bows, crossbows, and shields. ”

Lu Wentai said: "Give it away for nothing, Chen Ying is so generous?" ”

Xue Ying said: "There is too much steel in Chen Ying's hands, it is unimaginable. ”

With these words, Ko Wentai didn't even have the sound to breathe in the cool air. How powerful can all this steel be? It's hard to say anything else, anyway, the Han people on the side of Gaoche and Gaochang have generally used steel farm tools, and even ordinary people's homes have iron armor and horizontal knives made of high-carbon steel. And as time goes on, there will only be more and more well-armed Dons, as long as they are not idiots know what this means!

Ko Wentai smiled contemptuously and said: "War depends on people, not steel!" When the Turks raised their troops, they used arrows made of animal bones or flint, and they didn't even have a pair of leather armor, but they still killed the Rouran people in fear, and they couldn't form an army! ”

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is right, how can the Tang people have more steel? What if you become well-equipped? Even with a sharp weapon that sharpens iron like clay, they are still a flock of cowardly sheep, clumps of weeds for them to harvest! Xue Yingxiong laughed and said: "No matter how good the equipment of the Tang people and dogs is, it is useless, after a battle, these have become ours, and I wish they were all wearing armor and holding treasure swords!" ”

"Not bad!" Ko Wentai said: "The hedgehog is covered with thorns, and a light knife can kill it; The bull has an infinite wrestling force, and a single arrow can knock it down! No matter how well equipped the Tang Army is, it is also an army made of sand, what a way! ”

Lu Wentai and Xue Yingxiong both had disapproving smiles on their faces, but Lu Boya still felt a little lacking in confidence.

At this moment, there was a sudden burst of wanton laughter outside the tent: "It's ridiculous, it's ridiculous, a group of cowardly foxes actually fantasize about dealing with tigers, it's really ignorant and fearless!" ”

Hearing this, Ko Wentai's face changed drastically, and he hurriedly drew his sword and rushed out of the tent.

I don't know when, but the tent was densely packed with majestic cavalry. A tall man in golden armor at the head, riding on horseback, looked at Ko Wentai, and the look of disdain in his eyes was clear at a glance.

Ko Wentai looked around and found that his so-called elite was actually controlled by this group of cyan armored cavalry, and no one issued a warning. However, it can be reassured that there is no murderous aura on the person who came, and it is not Tang Jun, although he said it in Tang Yan, but with a strange tone.

Ko Wentai boldly asked, "Who are you?" ”

The general in golden armor smiled faintly: "Ben Khan Murong Fuyun!" ”

"Murong Fuyun?" Lu Boya suddenly realized, he saluted Murong Fuyun and said: "I didn't want Tuyuhun Khan to come, I missed the welcome, please atone for my sins!" ”

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