The bicycles and three-wheeled bicycles made by Xia Hongsheng were soon learned by Li Chengqian and a few people, and the four of them took turns to ride outside for a day, and they were reluctant to give up when they left, and told Xia Hongsheng that they must make one for each of them.

Xia Hongsheng also has the intention to promote these two things that are very useful to ordinary people, after all, ordinary people have few people who can afford to raise horses, and they can walk everywhere, with these two things, whether it is ordinary travel, or pulling some things, it will be much more convenient.

With a thought in his heart, he simply gave them bicycles and tricycles.

Li Chengqian rode a bicycle to carry Li Zhi, Li Ke rode a tricycle to carry Li Tai, and the four of them went back to Chang'an.

Let them ride this thing around the palace, presumably Li Lao Er should summon him in a few days - Xia Hongsheng believes that Li Lao Er still has this vision.

After sending off the four brothers of the Li family, it was already sunset.

Just as he was about to go home, he arrived at the door, when a shout suddenly came from behind him: "Grandpa, please stay!" ”

Xia Hongsheng turned his head to look back, but saw a burly man running over.

Qi Yong naturally stepped forward to stop him and asked, "Who are you?" ”

The burly man hurriedly took off the burden on his back, stretched out his hands, and took out a bamboo tube from it.

"I was entrusted by an old ghost to send a letter back to my grandfather." The burly man held the bamboo tube in both hands and said to Xia Hongsheng.

Xia Hongsheng was stunned, this thing was sent by Ghost Qianqiu?

At that moment, he gestured to Qi Yong, and Qi Yong stepped forward to go to the bamboo tube and handed it to Xia Hongsheng. Erase the sealing clay, twist the bamboo tube, and pour out a roll of parchment from it.

Unfold it and look at it, it's still ciphertext.

"Qi Yong, you ask the housekeeper to take all the strong men back to their homes to rest." Xia Hongsheng gave an order, took the parchment scroll to the study, found the ciphertext book, and compared it.

When the translation was completed, he hurriedly got up and rushed out of the study, shouting: "Qi Yong! Prepare the horses! ”

Qi Yong didn't know what Xia Hongsheng was doing, but when he heard the order, he immediately went to prepare the horse, prepared a cotton coat and a cotton hat, and took cotton gloves.

Xia Hongsheng took Qi Yong on horseback, ignoring the cold wind like a knife along the way, galloping, and soon returned to Chang'an.

When he arrived in Chang'an and entered the palace directly, the chamberlain saw that Xia Hongsheng was anxious, and he didn't dare to slack off, so he hurriedly led Xia Hongsheng to Li Shimin's study.

After the transmission, Xia Hong ascended into the study, Li Shimin put down the song, raised his head and asked: "The virtuous son-in-law entered the palace overnight, but what urgent happened?" ”

"Back to ...... Return, Your Majesty...... ......"Xia Hongsheng rode too fast along the way, but at the moment, his face was frozen, and he couldn't speak.

"Son-in-law, go and warm up." Li Shimin pointed to the coal stove and said, "Wang De, take the soup pot." ”

Wang De hurriedly took the soup woman over and handed it to Xia Hongsheng, Xia Hongsheng also made it to the coal stove, and the warmth came up, and then he finally felt a feeling on his face again.

"Father-in-law, Oni Qianqiu sent back the letter and said two things." Xia Hongsheng waited for his mouth to be able to speak neatly, and hurriedly said: "The first thing is that he found a new land, in the extreme south, in the past Java. According to his description, the son-in-law thought it was Australia on the map dedicated to his father-in-law. ”

Li Shimin was stunned for a moment, then stood up, didn't call Wang De anymore, strode to the back room in person, and soon walked out with a map, which was the world map that Xia Hongsheng gave him.

Wang De hurriedly tidied up the table and unfolded the map.

Li Shimin lowered his head and looked for it slightly, and tapped his fingers: "Here!" ”

"Not bad!" Xia Hongsheng said to Li Shimin: "The area of this land is almost as big as a Datang!" The son-in-law once heard that this land contains extremely rich mineral deposits, and it is very suitable for agriculture and animal husbandry. However, the land is only surrounded by a coastal area suitable for human habitation, and most of the desert is in between. If we have this place, we Datang will have inexhaustible mineral deposits and inexhaustible cattle and sheep! Now that our Datang is developing rapidly, it is the time when we need all kinds of mineral deposits, and it is too timely. The son-in-law suggested that he immediately start to build a port in this place, open up shipping routes, transport mineral deposits, and become the agricultural and animal husbandry base of the Tang Dynasty. ”

"Good! Hahahaha, another effort to expand the territory! Li Shimin was very happy and laughed: "This place is also a borderless land, right?" ”

Xia Hongsheng nodded: "Naturally, it is a borderless land, and now, Ghost Qianqiu has set up a tablet to engrave words, declaring that this land is the land of Datang and is owned by Datang." ”

"Hahahaha! Worthy of being my overseas governor! Li Shimin was very excited: "Can Malacca build a port? ”

"It's already done. Now it has served the maritime merchants of Datang everywhere. Xia Hongsheng nodded.

"Okay!" Li Shimin stared at the map excitedly: "This ghost Qianqiu, I will be rewarded!" By the way, what is one thing? ”

Xia Hongsheng's expression was solemn and he said: "Your Majesty, General Cheng and General Niu offended the Tang Dynasty because of the help provided to Tubo by Ni Bo, so they surrounded Ni Boro. Nibora asked Tianzhu for help, and the ruler of the city of Qunu, King Jieri, was calling on the other Tianzhu states to join forces to gallop to the aid of Nibore. I don't know if General Cheng and General Niu know this news. ”

Li Shimin frowned and said to Wang De: "Go and pass Duan Zan to come." ”

"How did Oni Chiaki get the news?" Li Shimin asked.

"His fleet has been cruising the waters." Xia Hongsheng pointed to the extent of the Indian Ocean on the map and said: "Actually, Ghost Qianqiu is also preparing to gather his fleet to gather at the southern end of Tianzhu, take advantage of General Cheng and General Niu to attract the attention of the Tianzhu states in Niborao, land on the south coast of Tianzhu after bombarding Tianzhu, and attack the coalition forces of the Tianzhu states on both sides with the teams of General Cheng and General Niu, and wipe out Tianzhu and its country!" ”

"What?!" Li Shimin was not calm again, his eyes widened, and he was taken aback.

"Yes, he also said in the message that once Tianzhu is taken, the army of Linyi Dao is in the east, and the land between Tianzhu and Linyi Dao will naturally be pocketed by Datang." Xia Hongsheng said to Li Shimin. After a pause, he added: "Your Majesty, from Linyi Road to Tianzhu, Zhancheng rice can be harvested three times a year!" And the abundance of mineral deposits is unimaginable! ”

"This man has a big plan." Li Shimin quickly calmed down and said: "It's just that the soldiers under Cheng Qing and Niu Qing are only more than a thousand people. How many ships can he have? The only thing I can count as combat power is two ironclad ships, and a few new sea ships equipped with trebuchets. Can Tianzhu be destroyed with this? ”

"So he asked His Majesty to cooperate with his plan." Xia Hongsheng said with a wry smile: "I also said that I have helped Your Majesty so much, after this incident, please ask Your Majesty to give him a few more ironclad ships as a reward, so that he can lead the fleet to verify what Weichen said." ”