Chapter 188 The tongue of three inches is not rotten and says that it will descend to Hebei

"It's supposed to be cotton harvesting!" Chen Ying said without thinking: "The eldest cousin married Ying Guogong as his wife, and after marriage, he accepted all the business of the Wu family, this cotton is a new crop with broad prospects, she should want to come to the Western Regions to see it with her own eyes, trying to open up sales!" ”

"This reason is very far-fetched and simply untenable!" Li Xiuning shook his head and said: "With the relationship between Chen Lang and Mrs. Yingguo, she doesn't need to make such a trip in person at all, just send a steward and bring her handwritten letter, and she can do this." ”

Chen Ying shook his head and said, "Then I really don't know!" Speaking of this, Chen Yinghu looked at Li Xiuning suspiciously and said, "Did you hear any rumors?" ”

"Actually, it's not a secret, and it doesn't hurt to tell Chen Lang!" Li Xiuning was very gossipy about the conflict between Wu Shi Tong and Yang Rong because of the relationship between Wu Shun, and Yang Rong was beaten by Wu Shi Tong.

Hearing this, Chen Ying was quite speechless.

In this era, the marriage of the family gate valve is usually a high-ranking marriage and a low-level courtship. Yang Rong didn't look at marrying a warrior Tong when she was in her forties, and marrying a warrior Tong with Hongnong Yang's family as his wife, it was definitely a marriage. However, Wu Shi Tong beat Yang Rong, which was equivalent to sweeping the face of Hongnong Yang.

After Yang Rong left Chang'an, she came all the way to the Western Regions. In order to pray for the forgiveness of Yang Gongren, Uncle Lang, Wu Shi Tong did not hesitate to take a pair of sons to kneel in front of the Guanguo Mansion, which was enough to give Yang Gongren face.

In this case, Yang Rong and Yang Gongren should also take the ladder to step down, but looking at Yang Rong's attitude, it seems that they are not ready to forgive Wu Shitong easily.

Chen Ying sighed and said: "There is a way that it is difficult for Qing officials to cut off family affairs, the matter of the eldest cousin and the warrior Tong, let's not care, she is willing to stay in the Western Regions, then stay, our family is not bad for her bite of food, of course, our eldest cousin, but the heroine of the female middle, she will make a lot of money when she comes to the Western Regions, once her matter spreads in Guanzhong, other major families will definitely hear the wind and pounce on the Western Regions!" ”

Today's Western Regions can be regarded as a waste waiting to be rebuilt, lacking talents, funds, and consumers. The clan occupies absolute wealth, and these riches are not necessarily taken by force, if it is said that a pole is the bottom of a boatload of people, there will definitely be wrongs. These private capitals, if used properly, will become the most profitable economic stimulant for the entire court of the Tang Dynasty and even the whole world.

But in the same way, if it is not used well, the market economy will collapse.

The price of goods in Chang'an, as the Tang Dynasty basically occupied the world, the large-scale war stopped, and after the loss of the army, a huge consumer, the price of grain and agricultural and sideline products continued to fall, and the people were miserable. At this time, the family began to buy real estate with the money they had accumulated, and a large amount of money poured into the market.

Datang's market began its first round of inflation. This made the ordinary people in Guanzhong miserable. The income from farming is getting lower and lower, which has caused an economic crisis in the feudal era in Datang.

In this case, Chen Ying decided to adopt a regulatory approach to reverse the economic situation of Datang, once the assets are transferred, the economic situation in Guanzhong will become more and more stable, and at the same time, it can also benefit the people. The most important thing is that Chen Ying, who is far away from the Western Regions of the Tiangao Emperor, can fully carry out his industrial Tang strategic plan.

In the Western Regions, a giant strategic highway is under construction day and night, with massive amounts of steel, cement, sand, and timber being transported from all directions, and thousands of workers working in two shifts day and night. This strategic highway, from Yiwu to Gaochang City, is more than 1,200 miles. The high-speed kilometre has eight lanes, including six lanes of ordinary road and two lanes on the innermost side.

The standard width of the road is one zhang and two feet, the length of each rail is 25 meters, and each rail weighs 3,000 catties. A car of steel rails was laid on the road, allowing everyone to have a new understanding of the steel production capacity in the Western Regions.

The highway that Chen Ying built in the Western Regions is actually a hybrid of road and railway. As for the living force, don't mention whether he can build a steam locomotive, anyway, he is now starting to lay this kind of railway in the Western Regions. For every kilometer of railway construction, 240,000 catties of steel must be eaten, which is really a terrifying scale.

At the same time as the construction of the highway. Chen Ying also sent the Tiger Righteous to Jiangzuo, Lingnan, Guanzhong, Hedong, Hebei, Liaodong, and even Shandong and Longxi, digging people everywhere in the world.

Those who have been dealing with steel all their lives, skilled old craftsmen are their favorite, and young people who have learned how to forge steel at a young age are also very popular. The fact that these guys digging the foot of the wall is murderous, and there is no trace of the highway, they have dug up more than 1,800 craftsmen, the key is that in this era, the excellent craftsmen are secretly controlled by the major families and gate valves, so that the gate valves and families have blacklisted the tiger from them.

After all, the expressway is not a railway, and the high-speed gallop cannot be like the railway station in later generations, but Chen Ying took the method of a small station in 50 miles and a medium-sized post station in 100 miles, and built a post station while building a highway.

There were not many primitive forests in the Western Regions, but in order to build these railways, the need for wood was also very large. For this reason, Chen Ying sent people to Sipol (Siberia, meaning "quiet place", the name is derived from the Mongolian word "Sibol" (mud, muddy place), Siberia was a muddy place in ancient times, and the Mongolian ancestors who lived here named this place based on the terrain, when the Russians came, they transliterated this as "Siberia", and some people believe that the name "Siberia" originated from the Xianbei people).

In the primeval jungle of Sipol, a large number of Hanshan pines were cut down, then nailed into wooden rafts, loaded with sails, and piled up on the banks along the Ob River, upstream of the river.

The carpenters, who had been dug up from all over the world, were quickly working on the wood, and after making sure that there were no insect eyes, they smoked it to dehydrate and dry. This is a technical work, the wood of the sleeper of the railway has to take several years to dry before it can be used, it is absolutely not good if it is too wet, the wood will be dehydrated under the scorching sun, and the whole sleeper structure will be destroyed, and it will kill people if it is too dry and wet. Only the most experienced craftsmen know what to do to keep the wood in tip-top condition and ensure that the sleepers are structurally stable and strong.

Along both sides of the highway from Yiwu in the east to Gaochang in the west, a large number of wood processing factories and steel processing factories have sprung up, and the plates and steel required for the construction of the highway are processed here. A little further away are sand and gravel plants, oil refineries, bearing factories, water pump factories, anti-rust paint factories, asphalt plants...... A large number of supporting factories are lined up, of course, these factories are under intense construction, providing a precious chance to survive for those prisoners of war who were originally captured by the Western Turks or Tibetans.

Due to the fact that the war in this part of the Western Regions has not been completed, especially the Tubo people on the plateau, and now the winner has not been distinguished, Chen Ying asked Liu Tong to stop a little, and their Tubo people and Tubo people began to tear apart the war, and the dog's brains came out, and all the warring parties have their own prisoners of war, according to their traditions, prisoners of war must be killed and executed, in this era, there is no Geneva Convention.

Fortunately, Chen Ying needed a large number of workers to build the railway, so the Anxi army became a place for slaves of all countries and ethnic groups, and even after the disintegration of the Sassanid Empire, the Byzantine Empire, and with the disintegration of the Gupta Empire in ancient India, a civil war broke out in this country, and in the melee of more than 100 countries, large and small, a large number of slaves also entered the Western Regions with caravans.

Chen Ying's purchase of slave prisoners of war was pitifully small, and the value of a slave for a man in the prime of life was no more than 3,000 yuan, or the equivalent of 3,000 yuan in goods.

However, it was precisely because of the need that the major caravans would concentrate a large number of slaves or prisoners of war in advance, and let them serve as free transportation laborers along the way, carrying goods, and after arriving in the Western Regions, they would trade with the Western Regions Protectorate and obtain resources.

Yang Rong looked at the construction site of the highway in full swing and exclaimed: "My God, it's so spectacular!" How many people are needed to build this road? ”

"Not much, about seventy or eighty thousand!" Chen Ying said proudly: "In fact, the use of a large number of new tools requires a lot less manpower, such as this rail weighing 3,000 catties, if you need people to lift, on average, it needs at least 3 million to barely be able to lift." Then, with a gantry crane with movable pulleys, up to 20 people can place the rail where it needs to be placed. ”

Li Xiuning looked at the steel rails placed on the ground. He said distressedly: "How much steel does it take to build 1,200 miles?" ”

"Seventy or eighty thousand tons!" Chen Ying waved his hand and said, "There's not much left, what a fuss!" ”

"Seventy or eighty thousand tons!" Li Xiuning and Chen Ying are familiar with each other, so they naturally know that the ton he is talking about is actually two thousand catties, seventy or eighty thousand two thousand catties, this number Li Xiuning really has no confidence to count, she said angrily: "Seventy or eighty thousand tons of steel, it is enough for Datang to arm tens of millions of soldiers, you loser!" ”

In later generations, in the era of my rabbit, there were only three provinces with an annual output of more than 100 million tons of steel, 780,000 tons of steel, at best, the annual steel output of a small black workshop.

"Is seventy or eighty thousand tons a lot?" Chen Ying became more and more proud: "With our Datang's manpower, financial resources and resources, if we are determined to rule the world, absolutely no one is our opponent." ”

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Wei Zheng and Li Jiancheng chatted on their knees, unaware that the sky was already bright. Li Jiancheng looked at the bright sky outside, and said with some embarrassment: "The problem of Hebei can not be delayed any longer, the people are suffering from the war, life is better than death, and it is difficult to sleep and eat in this palace." The palace is ready to ask the emperor for a decree and take command to go to Hebei, in Xuancheng's opinion, how many soldiers and horses does the palace need to transfer? ”

Wei Zheng sat next to him, stretched back, shook his head and said, "Hebei's problem is not a military problem at all!"

Li Jiancheng said: "Please also ask Xuancheng to give advice." ”

Wei Zheng half-squinted his eyes, and while thinking, he said: "Since the beginning of the war, Hebei has been the land of four wars, where there is no danger to defend, and rogue thieves are the most rampant. In order to protect themselves, the clans in Hebei built fortresses, recruited Ding Yong, and even set up their own government offices. In this way, Hebei has become a situation where many clans are divided and autonomous, and the king of Xia has not been able to exterminate those clans in Hebei, but only let the clan call him a vassal, the king of Xia is responsible for ensuring local tranquility, and the clan is responsible for supplying the land with money and grain. ”

Li Jiancheng listened carefully, nodded his head, and shook his head: "Isn't this just no loyalty at all!" ”

Wei Zheng nodded and said, "It's about the same as the current Datang." ”

Li Jiancheng coughed embarrassedly and said, "Xuancheng, you are really ......"

Wei Zheng smiled and observed Li Jiancheng without a trace, Wei Zheng looked at Li Jiancheng with a normal expression, not angry, and continued: "It can be said that the root of the Hebei Rebellion is in the imperial court, as long as it is appeased with appropriate interests, and there is a trustworthy intermediary in the Hebei clan as a guarantee, without using knives and guns, the Hebei people themselves will take down Liu Shishan and dedicate it to the imperial court, and the Hebei Rebellion will be peaceful." ”

Li Jiancheng suddenly realized, nodded again and again: "It's a pity, Jiancheng didn't have the ability to win the trust of the people of the Hebei clan."

Wei Zheng bowed slightly, then yawned loudly, and unconsciously lowered his head. Wei Zheng said in a daze: "If the prince is in charge, Wei Zheng ...... You don't need a single soldier, you just need to ...... Three inches of incorruptible tongue, you can say that it will fall, Hebei 39 states! ”

Li Jiancheng looked at Wei Zheng, who had fallen asleep on the other side, in surprise and joy, and finally smiled tiredly and dropped his shoulders for a long time.