Chapter 47: If you don't take it, you will abandon it

The wind in the Tang Dynasty was relatively open, and the banquets held by dignitaries and nobles must be accompanied by silk and bamboo, and singers and dancers. Although Chen Ying set up a banquet in Furong Garden, the place was good.

Since the Furong Garden was built in the former Sui Dynasty, in the era of material abundance in the Sui Dynasty, the decoration of the Furong Garden was even more magnificent. Tables and chairs and a few stools, in addition to the gloomy wood is rosewood, the hollow carving does not know how much effort it took the craftsman; The carved windows on all four sides are opened, allowing the fresh air on the river to pour in.

The seat was covered with a thick mink fur, so that Cheng Zhijie sat extremely awkwardly, the beautiful and enchanting maid crushed the beast incense and added it to the red clay oven, the blue and white light smoke dissipated, and the fragrant fragrance gently brushed the 38,000 pores of the guests, as if in the fairy palace.

It's a pity that the time is almost up, but Chen Ying, the main master, avoids it. Fortunately, Wei Zheng, Luo Shixin, Li Shiji, Cheng Zhijie, Qin Qiong, Xie Yingdeng and Niu Junda are all old acquaintances, even if Chen Ying is not here, the atmosphere does not feel awkward. Cheng Zhijie is a smart person, don't look rude on the outside, this is just his mask.

When Cheng Zhijie saw Wei Zheng, he stepped forward and slapped him, and then gave a bear hug, which directly strangled Wei Zheng's face to turn purple, and then slowly put Wei Zheng down. Wei Zheng finally broke free from Cheng Zhijie's bear hug, and Luo Shixin also had a 720-degree maneuver on Wei Zheng, so that Wei Zheng couldn't stand on the wall.

At this time, Niu Junda still wanted to be enthusiastic with Wei Zheng, but before Niu Junda stepped forward, Wei Zheng raised his hands and surrendered: "Old Niu, let me breathe a sigh of relief......"

Qin Qiong and Cheng Zhijie's eyes touched in the air, and the two of them knew it in their hearts. Cheng Zhijie and Qin Qiong, who avoided frolicking in the living room, Wei Zheng, Luo Shixin, Niu Junda, Xie Yingdeng and others, came to the window near the river and said in a low voice: "Old Cheng, what do you think?" ”

"Isn't that a matter of lice on a bald man's head?" Cheng Zhijie smiled bitterly: "We are all old acquaintances, but when we gather today, the gap will come out." ”

At that time, Luo Shixin and Qin Qiong were both generals under Zhang Xutuo's tent, and they controlled the elite soldiers of the government. But now, Luo Shixin is already the general of Zuowuhou of the Tang Dynasty. As one of the sixteen guards directly under the central government of the Tang Dynasty, it is also one of the standing armies in Guanzhong, with 12,500 men and horses. All of them are heroes.

But, what about Qin Qiong?

He is only the commander of the Qin Palace's army at the moment. The name is not right, except for a 300-member personal guard regiment, there is not a single soldier under his command.

To say that Qin Qiong doesn't taste it in her heart is definitely a lie.

Qin Qiong looked at Wei Zheng, who was being chased by Niu Junda, and said in a low voice: "Old Cheng, you know what I mean, don't interrupt!" ”

Cheng Zhijie groaned: "Uncle Bao, what do you think? ”

Qin Qiong thought for a while and said, "The prince of the East Palace is powerful, and the king of Qin is weak!" ”

Cheng Zhijie said: "It is precisely because of this that we cannot accept the prince's solicitation. ”

Qin Qiong was puzzled: "Why?" ”

Cheng Zhijie said: "We are now taking refuge in the prince, it's too late." Under the command of the East Palace, now headed by General Chen, there are also Li Shiji, Li Yi, Feng Li, Wei Ting, Wei Chigong, Luo Shixin, Wei Wenzhong, Xue Wanche, Xue Wanren, and Yang Wengan and others, they are now the most prosperous and four-grade martial arts, we go to the East Palace, just the icing on the cake, the prince will not think so. However, the Qin Wangfu is different, now the Qin Wangfu is weak, in addition to Hou Junji, Duan Zhixuan, and Lei Yongji, is there anyone else who can handle it? We have now labeled the Qin Palace, even if we go to the East Palace, we will not be trusted. King Qin is different, he just needs someone to open his eyes for him, so ...... Today, let's eat when we should eat and drink wine. ”

When Qin Qiong heard this, she showed a deeply approving expression.

Wei Zheng was tossed by the old general of Wagang, and finally Wei Zheng collapsed on the ground, and then he gave up.

Seeing that the time was getting later and later, he was slow to start the table. Cheng Zhijie said: "Master, General Chen, what's going on?" ”

"Lao Cheng, don't worry!" Wei Zheng gasped and explained, "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has important matters to discuss with General Chen, so ...... Wait a minute! ”

In fact, Chen Ying did not avoid it, but because Li Jiancheng also came to Furong Garden. Although Li Jiancheng agreed to support Liangzhou, he believed that as long as the siege of Liangzhou was lifted, it would be enough. After all, Datang's financial resources and materials are limited, and it cannot support the 50,000-strong army on an expedition of 10,000 miles.

Therefore, he came to Furong Garden to find out why Chen Ying wanted to swallow the Western Regions at this time. In Li Jiancheng's view, Datang's development strategy should be to first go north and then south, and then conquer the Western Regions in the west.

Now, because of Chen Ying's development strategy, all of them have been interrupted.

When Li Jiancheng raised this question to Chen Ying, Chen Ying smiled dumbly and said, "Does His Royal Highness the Crown Prince think that the Western Regions are barren lands?" ”

Li Jiancheng said suspiciously: "Isn't it?" ”

"Definitely not!" Chen Ying dipped his hand in the tea and drew a topographical map of the Western Regions on the table, Chen Ying explained while drawing: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince doesn't know everything, the Western Regions are even bigger than the Tang River West and the West River at the moment. Guanzhong, Hedong, and Hebei are even larger together, and the Western Regions are not only large, but also a treasure land. For example, if Datang uses the coal from the Western Regions, it is estimated that it will not be used up in 100,000 years......"

Of course, this is not Chen Ying's exaggeration, only the current resources in Xinjiang, there are more than 4,000 mineral fields, of which five rank first in China; There are 24 of the top five in China; It is estimated that the total oil resources of the whole region are about 50 billion tons (more than one-third of China), and their reserves now rank third in China. The total amount of natural gas resources is about 13 trillion cubic meters. The predicted reserves of coal are 182 trillion tons, accounting for 40 percent of China's predicted reserves, and the total copper resources are 57.83 million tons. The total nickel resource is 16.71 million tons. There are more than 150 lead-zinc mines.

However, Xinjiang is actually only a part of the Western Regions, and it cannot be counted as the whole of it. If you count the land of the Western Regions in the Tang Dynasty, then these resources can allow future generations of Chinese descendants to lie down on the golden mountain to sleep.

It's just a pity that the Western Regions have lost too much.

It must be said that this is a very big pity.

Chen Ying Li Jiancheng continued: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince may say that he does not have a deep understanding of the Western Regions, so the minister will give a very simple example, such as cultivated land, the cultivated land that can be cultivated in the Western Regions is about forty or thirty million dumps, which is more than two hundred times that of Guanzhong. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince can imagine that if Datang had so much more arable land, how many people could be resettled, how much food could be planted, and how many people could be fed......"

Hearing this, Li Jiancheng's eyes flashed.

Chen Ying explained: "The collapse of every dynasty, without exception, is because the population exceeds the limit of what can be carried by the land. In our territory, according to one ding per 60 acres of land, with a population of almost 65 million, the land is already in short supply, and if the common people have no food to eat, as long as there is any wind and grass, the country and society will collapse. ”

Li Jiancheng nodded, sighed and said, "Yes, Qiang Qin is like this, and so is Qiang Han......"

"Not bad!" Chen Ying pointed to the soil shape of the Western Regions and said: "The Tang Dynasty takes down here, all here, you can get an additional 43 million poured fertile land, not 43 million mu, but 43 million dumps, if you let the minister go all the way to the west, the minister can hit the Byzantine Empire 20,000 miles west of the extreme west, from the lower Shule south, we can reach here, here is the birthplace of Buddhism, but also the so-called poison country, about fifty years ago, with the rise of the Turks, the Mobei grassland of the Bada people were driven to the Western Regions by the Turks, They were chased to the west of the Green Ridge by the Gaoche people in the Western Regions, they were lucky, and met the weakened Kushan Empire, so the Kushan people successfully controlled the Kushan Empire, and along the Kushan Empire all the way south to invade, the originally powerful Gupta Empire, because of the invasion of the Gupta people, the governor of the Gupta Empire called himself king, and now, if you want to take it here, it is not difficult to ......"

In the history of ancient India, there were more than 300 invasions. However, India is more tragic, except for a draw in the Mauryan era, the rest of the time, it is often the enemy who successfully invades and successfully colonizes. As a result, India has more than 180 ethnic groups.

But the Indians are also the darlings of the heavens, because they have only one-third of China's arable land, but they have nearly four times as much arable land.

China could have had more arable land, but due to the limitations of its knowledge, it has been lost. It is no exaggeration to say that if Xinjiang were not due to water shortage, Xinjiang's grain could feed the whole of China.

Chen Ying sighed and said: "The Western Regions is a treasure land, if you don't take it, the sky will abandon it." ”

Li Jiancheng was moved.

In fact, Chen Ying said that there was 100,000 charcoal in the Western Regions that could be burned by the Tang Dynasty, but he was not moved. Chen Ying said that there was a mountain of gold in the Western Regions, and he was not moved, Chen Ying said that there were hundreds of millions of trillion catties of copper in the Western Regions, and Li Jiancheng was joking with Chen Ying.

But when Chen Ying said that there were two hundred cultivated land in the Western Regions, Li Jiancheng was really moved.

In ancient China, agriculture was the foundation. Cultivated land is the lifeblood of the empire, and if the horns are lost, they will be lost, they will not feel distressed, but if they lose the vast arable land, try it?

The sixteen states of Yanyun were lost, and the Great Song Dynasty began to establish itself, even on the eve of its destruction, it has always been obsessed with the land of the sixteen states of Yanyun, not only because this is the barrier of the Great Song Dynasty, but because the sixteen states of Yanyun have land that can feed tens of millions of people.

The wandering gaze in Li Jiancheng's eyes became clear: "Yes, the land of heaven, if you don't take it, heaven will abandon it." ”

Chen Ying said: "His Royal Highness the Prince, we should go out of the living room, otherwise they will be in a hurry!" “

Li Jiancheng nodded and said, "That's fine!" “