In recent years, through afforestation, hundreds of thousands of acres of forests have been planted in the west and north of Xinjing, which has effectively blocked the invasion of desert heat waves and sandstorms, which has made Xinjing, the world's largest city with a population of nearly two million, have a touch of coolness in this hot summer, even so. The heat absorbed by the large population every day and the large cement bricks and bricks that are increasing every day also make Xinjing much warmer than other cities. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

With the hot weather in summer, rich businessmen, officials, and magnates must reserve some ice cubes at home for summer escape, otherwise this day is really not good, there is no shortage of rich people in the new capital, and these people are never stingy to spend some money to make themselves comfortable, and this makes the business of the ice-making workshops near Qianquan Mountain extremely hot, these ice-making workshops do not have the technology to produce ice, similar to an advertising slogan in later generations, they never produce ice, they are just the porters of nature.

The temperature on the Qianquan Mountains is much cooler than at the bottom of the mountain, and the hot air is steaming below, while the scene of heavy snow in winter is on the top of the mountain. The merchants saw the business opportunity, raised money and built a number of wide roads from the foot of the mountain to the top of the mountain, they built a large number of factories on the top of the mountain, and transported the clean spring water from the mountainside to the top of the mountain again, as long as it was after the middle of the night, the spring water would freeze into ice, and then the merchants used horse-drawn carts to transport these ice blocks to the mountain as quickly as possible overnight to the homes of wealthy merchants, officials and magnates who needed it. These ice cubes can be used to freeze food or keep them at home to escape the heat, or they can be used as spring water to quench your thirst.

The palace has a special summer resort - the Ice Palace, which is built on the top of the cliff on the east side of the palace, with an altitude of more than 3,000 meters, and there is a special reason to lead here. In winter, the temperature of the Cold Ice Palace drops to more than ten degrees below the order, and the entire palace is surrounded by thick snow, and the main materials for the construction of the Cold Ice Palace are crystal clear rectangular transparent ice cubes, but there is not the slightest cold wind to blow here, because there are three higher peaks on the east, west, and north sides to block the cold wind blowing from these three directions. In the summer, the cool south wind blows from the south, and the ice palace is still in the snow and ice, but the temperature is as cool as spring and autumn.

The hot summer is coming, and the royal family members have come to the Cold Ice Palace to escape the heat, and the originally deserted Cold Ice Palace has become lively. In this scorching summer, the walls of the Ice Palace, which are made of crystal clear ice, show no signs of melting, but the temperature inside and outside the room is as cool as spring and autumn.

The younger generation of princesses and princesses were playing in front of the palace, the queen and princess sat on the sidelines and watched, talking from time to time, and the palace ladies and eunuchs were busy coming and going.

Zhao Ziliang walked over from the hall and was about to go to the children, when a condition came to report that Honglu Temple Qing Hong Xu asked to see him, Zhao Ziliang turned around and walked towards the pavilion on the edge of the cliff when he heard this, and at the same time instructed the eunuch: "Xuan! ”

"Yes!"

Soon, Honglu Temple Qing Hong Xu walked in and saluted Zhao Ziliang and said, "Weichen meets the king!" ”

"Pingsheng!" Zhao Ziliang raised his hand and asked, "What is the matter with Hong Qing coming to see this king today?" ”

Hong Xu got up and arched his hand and said, "Great King, Nasser, the envoy of the Great Food Country in Xinjing, wants to ask to see the Great King!" ”

Zhao Ziliang said unhappily: "Is there anything that you, Honglu Siqing, can't handle?" Do you have to let the king talk to one of his envoys? ”

Hong Xu hurriedly said: "King, this Nasser is the new envoy sent to Xinjing by the Great Food Country, he came to Xinjing for the first time, saying that he wanted to submit his credentials to the king, of course the minister could not overstep his authority in this matter, and he could only be received by the king himself."

"I see! In this case, in a few days it will be the time of the court meeting, you send someone to tell him, let him get ready, and the next court day will rush outside the palace gate, and someone will take him into the palace to see the king! ”

"Yes, King!"

After Hong Xu left, Zhao Ziliang sat in the pavilion and didn't move, thinking in his head, this Nasser is a new envoy, this person is very likely to have known that the Western Qin army captured Gucheng and Mashard, even if this person didn't know before he arrived, he must have known after arriving in Xinjing, because this matter quickly spread in Xinjing, and the people of Western Qin felt particularly uplifted, and the previous depression and grievances were swept away, and the big cannibals in Xinjing would definitely pay special attention to this matter. The new envoy of the Great Food Nation must have known the news. It is possible that this envoy, named Nasser, would have spoken about this matter during the court.

Zhao Ziliang thought of several ways to deal with it, but he also thought that at this time, the life of the Western Qin envoy in Baghdad was not very easy, and the Western Qin army entered the territory of the Great Food Country, would Mansur not be angry? This matter can be imagined, but Zhao Ziliang is not afraid, nor is he worried, even if Mansur's brain is hot and he orders the army to go to war, he can calmly order war mobilization and mobilize troops and horses from all over the country to rush to the border to fight.

On May 30, Zhao Ziliang quickly reviewed the recitals, tomorrow is the day of the court meeting, and he must process all the recitals sent in the past few days today to prepare for tomorrow's court meeting.

For a whole morning, Zhao Ziliang had just finished processing all the pieces and had not yet taken a breath, when the eunuch on duty outside the door walked in and reported: "King, General Wang Can said that there is something important to report to the king!" ”

Zhao Ziliang got up and stretched his body, and said to the eunuch: "Xuan! ”

"No!"

Zhao Ziliang walked out of the hall, walked down the steps and breathed the fresh air on the top of the mountain outside the hall, and after walking a few steps, he saw Wang Can walking over quickly and hugging his fists and saying, "Weichen meets the king!" ”

Zhao Ziliang raised his hand: "Calm down, you are fine, you generally don't look for this king, let's say, is there any movement on the side of the Great Food Country?" ”

Wang Can replied, "Yes! The information obtained by Dongchang so far has been summarized and some conclusions have been drawn: first, the troops of Ilam, Kerman, Hamadan, Norestan and other places in the Great Food Country are gathering, and there are about 50,000 soldiers and horses in Syria, Jordan and Jerusalem are moving in the direction of Baghdad; Second, all parts of the big food country are hoarding grain and grass materials, and the materials on the market are beginning to be tight, and the price is slowly rising. Thirdly, our merchants in the Great Food Country have been subjected to varying degrees of harassment when they return. Based on the above situation, we in Dongchang believe that the Great Food Country is already preparing for a large-scale war with us! In view of the above conclusions, Weichen suggested that we in Western Qin cannot sit idly by, and we must start preparing for a large-scale war from now on! ”

Zhao Ziliang said: "Since the return of this king, the relevant orders have been issued to the Military Aircraft Institute to prepare for war. The Government Council has given this king an accurate answer, if there is a big war, a year later is the best time to start, because at that time our plans in the past ten years have been completed, everything has embarked on the road of rapid development, at that time the impact of the war on our country will be minimized, but this king also knows that it is not that we can not fight if we don't want to, others want to impose a war on us, we just can't hide if we want to! The king thinks that if we don't wait a year for a large-scale war with the great cannibals, this king hopes that we will not rush to the war at that time! For you Dongchang, this king now makes a few requests: First, from now on, focus on the big food country, but the affairs of other neighboring countries must not be relaxed! Second, we should work closely with our other intelligence agencies, and while probing the enemy's intelligence, we should also pay close attention to our internal affairs, and sometimes the consequences of internal problems are more serious than external factors! ”

Wang Can promised: "Yes, Weichen understands!" ”

Zhao Ziliang immediately instructed the eunuch next to him: "Go and send the heads of the various yamen of the royal court to discuss the matter!" ”

"Yes, King!"

Soon, the heads of the yamen of the Xiqing Royal Court came to the Cold Ice Palace one after another. After the monarch and ministers saw the ceremony, Zhao Ziliang asked Wang Can to inform these bigwigs of the news he had gotten, and the ministers began to get nervous after listening to Wang Can's briefing, after all, the big food country is not a small country and a barbarian, this is a first-class power in the world today, and the number of people it rules is not much less than that of Western Qin.

Dugu asked Zhao Ziliang and said: "King, now is not the best time to go to war, our development achievements in more than ten years have begun to bear fruit, and now the war will have a great impact!" ”

Zhao Ziliang sighed and said: "Now it's not that this king is going to fight, but that people are going to fight!" Instead of passively responding to the war, it is better to take the initiative, so that at least the initiative of the war is in our hands for the time being! The Great Cannibals are not necessarily ready, they have been in civil strife for many years, and they have been fighting the Eastern Roman Empire for so many years, this king does not believe that with their current national strength, they can still have a full-scale war with us! ”

Dugu asked: "The Great Food Country is a strong country, but they may not be much more civilized than the barbarians, and Wei Chen believes that the caliph al-Mansur of the Great Food Country is also a gambler." If it was in our Western Qin or in the Tang Dynasty, the promotion fee was not distributed before the troops were dispatched, and the morale would not be improved. But in a country like the Great Food Country, where the divine power is higher than the political power, there is no promotion fee at all, and as long as they send a missionary or a monk to shout a few times, those Great Food Eaters will immediately become extremely warlike and fearless of death! Compared to us, the big cannibals are more like doing business without capital, and all their income is obtained from payment, and there is no military salary or promotion fee at all! In other words, in terms of war, their cost is far lower than that of our country, the Tang Dynasty and the Eastern Roman Empire! ”

Zhao Ziliang nodded and said: "Prime Minister Dugu is right, the members of the Great Cannibal people who fight are far lower than our country, but don't forget, we have now converted our comprehensive national strength into war potential to the greatest extent, which has never been done before!" It has always been the farming nation that has been beaten by the nomads, that is because the farming nation has never converted its comprehensive national strength into war potential to the greatest extent, so whether it is in the East or in the West, no matter how strong the national strength of the farming nation is, it cannot form an overwhelming absolute advantage over the nomads, but now we are different in the West Qin, we not only have enough fertile land to grow crops, but also have a large number of pastures and grasslands for sheep, cattle, sheep and horses, not only have sufficient food and meat, but also sufficient war horses, This makes the nomads' advantage over our Western Qin gone, and the Great Food Country wants to do business with us without capital, they are dreaming! ”