Great Tang Southern Emperor

Finally, with the demise of Huihe and Xue Yantuo, these craftsmen fell into the hands of Datang, and the Greek fire became Datang's trophy, and it was added to the design of the fire-breathing cannon, which increased the power of the fire-breathing cannon.

But even so, Li Zhen was not satisfied, and called the world's famous craftsmen to modify it for nearly ten years, and finally modified the flamethrower to the point of perfection. No need to ignite, the kerosene will ignite in the wind, the range is as high as 200 meters, and the shooting interval is only ten. Breathing (this speed is not slow anymore, although it is not comparable to firearms, but the rate of fire is almost the same as that of ordinary cannons), the fuel is mainly distilled gasoline, but some special chemicals are also added to it, and the ignition point is extremely high. Low, it can burn on the surface of the water, it is very difficult to extinguish, once it is wrapped around the target, it will never be extinguished unless the target is completely burned. It can be said that this is an absolutely terrifying weapon, and its deterrent power is even stronger than that of cannons. It must be scary, after all, a cannon bombards people to death, but a flamethrower burns people to death. It is conceivable which weapon is more terrifying.

It’s just that the performance of the cannon these years has been amazing. It has been active in various battlefields. Well, it has never appeared again in the past 20 years, and the court deliberately concealed it, so it was not known to anyone, and no one noticed it. Even if someone really remembered, the flamethrower has not appeared for so many years , the power and range are not as good as cannons, and you will think that the court has given up on it. I never thought that the court would still hide such a terrible demon, and suffered a big loss for a while...

Chapter 1119 The Identity of the Enemy ([-] words)

Chapter 66 The Identity of the Enemy ([-] words)

There are a total of twenty fire-breathing cannons installed on a ship, with an average of ten on one side. That is to say, in just a moment, the enemy ships facing each ship were hit ten times. The entire enemy ship was engulfed in flames.

"Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable, sin is sin."

Seeing the blazing flames engulfing the entire ship, and hearing the faint screams from the opposite ship, Li Daoyun clasped his hands together and began to chant sutras for the dead.

"I said priest, you are a bit interesting, they are enemies, what are you guilty of? You don't rarely kill people on weekdays, why are you so compassionate today?" Cheng Chuliang couldn't help laughing and teasing when he saw this: "Let's talk What scriptures do you recite? You are a Taoist priest, not a monk. If a monk can save people, can you, a Taoist priest, also save people?"

"Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable, although Pindao is not a monk, he is also a monk. Naturally, he has compassion. Besides, transcendence is not a patent of Buddhism. Buddhism has the "Diamond Sutra", and my Taoist school naturally also has "Taishangdongxuanlingbao. "(That is, the Book of Rescue, I don’t know when it came from, but it was installed before the Tang Dynasty)." Li Daoyun said lightly: "What's more, killing people is nothing more than nodding, usually we use the simplest method to kill, even if the enemy You can't feel pain even after you die, but today..."

"That's right, don't say it." Cheng Chuliang smiled wryly and shook his head: "Actually, I don't want to do this either, but the enemies are all approaching, and there are better weapons to use, but they insist on bringing the enemies closer and then fighting against each other. What's the point of this?"

"Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable, this truth is naturally clear to the poor, but after all, this move is harmful to the peace of heaven. It is best not to use it."

"Do you still need to say this?" Cheng Chuliang rolled his eyes: "You don't know, this means that we were tricked today. Where do you usually see me using it?"

"..." Li Daoyun was speechless, and thought to himself that it's probably not that you don't want to use it, but that under the bombardment of naval guns, the enemy can't rush to your side, right?If you let the enemy rush to you, do you think you will use it?

"But who are these enemies?" Cheng Chuliang ignored Li Daoyun, but set his sights on the enemy's flag: "There are so many flags, each of which is more fancy than the other, what kind of forces are these? Taoist priest Can you tell the difference?"

"Let the poor have a look." Li Daoyun took the binoculars and carefully identified it: "The one with the seven-color cloud flag is the Cowin Chamber of Commerce, the one with the shark skull should be the black shark boat group, and the one with the '卍' sign should be It's the Buddha Pirates, the one with the fist flag should be the Fist Shipping Company, and the one with the golden dragon flag... eh? How could there be one with the golden dragon flag? This should be the symbol of the Royal Merchant Group, right? Why did they get involved? "

"Let me take a look..." Cheng Chuliang quickly grabbed the binoculars and found the flag of the Royal Merchant Group, and a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth: "It really is the Royal Merchant Group, this is really interesting... It seems that our Highness not only There are foreign enemies, and even many people in the royal family want him to die, but I don't know which prince, dare to be so blatant?"

The Royal Merchant Group is not a business group established for Li Shimin, nor is it a real chamber of commerce, but a consortium similar to later generations. Those idle princes saw how profitable Dahanghai was, so they set up their own caravans one after another. Finally, at the suggestion of an elder of Li Shimin, everyone jointly managed the name Royal Merchant Group—everyone has the qualification to hang this flag, but each caravan is still their own, but at the same time there are some public properties, everyone Each holds a part of the shares, which can be regarded as a very loose alliance.

"Don't talk nonsense, maybe it's just being used by someone else." Li Daoyun was very nervous, and after looking around and found no one, he continued: "Besides, this is a royal family affair, we courtiers should not discuss it, be careful that walls have ears. "

"Hehe... Forget it, let's not talk about it, even if what you said makes sense." Cheng Chuliang was noncommittal, everyone knew this kind of thing well, how could it be faked by the enemy?

The names that Li Daoyun reported before are all well-known characters on weekdays. For example, the Cowin Chamber of Commerce is a famous black business group. It's an underworld business. Over the years, I don't know how many merchant ships have died in their hands. It's a pity that they do things too badly. Every time they attack merchant ships, they will kill them all and never leave any flaws. Although the court knows that some things are theirs. I did, but because there is no evidence, I have never been able to take them down. If it is an ordinary force, it doesn’t matter even if they are really wiped out. The problem is that the Cowin Chamber of Commerce is supported by Confucianism, even the court. Don't dare to take them under the knife.

The Black Shark Fleet is a pirate alliance with hundreds of ships of all kinds. They even attacked the patrol fleet of the Hangzhou Fleet before and captured two Tier [-] battleships. Fortunately, the quality of the Hangzhou Fleet's navy Yes, all the naval guns were destroyed before dying, otherwise the cannons would have been left outside.But even so, having two Tier [-] warships greatly increased their momentum.

At the same time, the Black Shark Fleet is also the hostile force that the Datang Navy most wants to eliminate. It is still above the Southern Pirate King Roger on the must-kill list, but because they don't know where their lair is, there has been no result.More importantly, this black shark fleet is very mysterious. No one knows who their master is, even Li Zhen has activated all the forces under his hands, but it is not ordinary people who can gather so many fleets .

The Fist Shipping Agency is a chamber of commerce that specializes in shipping goods to people. Its nature is similar to that of the smuggling king Piero. Don't even think about it, how can freight forwarders make money without carrying some private goods?How much money can you earn just by soliciting goods for others?Fist Shipping Company is one of the strongest freight organizations in Datang Nanyang. There are hundreds of large and small merchant ships alone. It is strong and can be regarded as a big force in Nanyang.

Of course, like other groups, shipping companies also have behind-the-scenes bosses, that is, the blood alliance - this is an organization jointly established by the seven families (now there are only five, although since the Li family in Longxi became the royal family, the Lu family in Fanyang They have taken refuge in the imperial court, and there are only five of them), established almost at the same time as Li Zhen’s Blood Dragon Guard, it is a very old-fashioned organization, integrating assassination, infiltration, intelligence, espionage, business and other industries. The intelligence killer organization established by the five surnames is also one of the backups they have left for themselves. Even if the family declines in the future, there is still a way out of the blood alliance.

Back then, because of the Yindao incident, there was a major civil turmoil in the Lingnan branch of the Blood League. Li Zhen stepped in, and the power of the Lingnan branch was greatly damaged. It was simply banned by the headquarters, and the power was withdrawn to the south of the Yangtze River. Therefore, Lingnan completely became Li Zhen. territory.Later, when the great voyage developed, the old blood alliance, which also had a business industry, naturally would not miss this opportunity. After so many years of development, they finally saved such a large fortune. The forces of the country provide all kinds of contraband from Nanyang.

As for the Buddha Pirates, although they bear the name of Buddha, they are not the forces of Buddhism—think about it, and Buddhism is not that stupid. If the pirates belonged to them, how could they blatantly use their name? Hang up?Besides, Buddhist disciples value Buddha the most, and others can't make fun of Buddha, so why would they put Buddha and pirates together?Isn't this tarnishing the word Buddha?

In fact, the real enemy behind the Buddha Pirates is the Zoroastrianism, which was also called Zoroastrianism in the Tang Dynasty. At the beginning, Li Zhen had a plan to introduce foreign teachers to check and balance the local religion of the Tang Dynasty, and they were one of the beneficiaries of this plan.Because in the Tang Dynasty at that time, there were only two forces of Taoism and Buddhism, and only Taoism belonged to the local religion, but it was also rubbed against the ground by Buddhism.Foreign sects of Buddhism were very powerful. At that time, it could be said that they were everywhere in the Tang Dynasty. Almost every county had a big temple, and the incense was at its peak. However, Taoism was not well-known among the people and was completely suppressed by Buddhism.

So Li Zhen claimed to be the descendant of Zhenyuan Great Immortal, and supported Taoism to check and balance Buddhism. After more than ten years of support, Taoism's power has grown by leaps and bounds. , Seeing that Li Zhen is already the prince, only one step away from the emperor, and Taoism will soon soar to the sky because of this, completely suppressing Buddhism.

It's just that Li Zhen is very clear that whether it is Buddhism or Taoism, it is essentially something to deceive people. Religion is a double-edged sword. If used well, it can stabilize people's hearts, but if used poorly, it will hurt people. Hurt oneself, so no matter which power is strong, the ruler is not willing to see it. Only when the three pillars stand together, or even coexist with more powerful forces, can the country be truly stabilized.

Therefore, Li Zhen intends to introduce foreign religions into the Tang Dynasty to check and balance the two major religions. Anyway, even if he does not introduce them, when the Tang Dynasty becomes stronger in the future and conquers their territory, he will support them in order to stabilize the hearts of the people. Let's build a good relationship now, maybe when Datang arrives in the future, they may surrender without fighting?Of course, this is impossible, but in any case, with such a layer of affection, it will be very helpful for the management of Central Asia and West Asia in the future, so why not do it?

But what Li Zhen didn't expect was that his move not only won the joint protest of Buddhism and Taoism - that's for sure, there was only so much meat in the pot, and there was not enough for the two of them, you still want to eat it again? Pull in a few, won't all of us have to starve to death?So not only Buddhism, but even Taoism began to protest. Li Zhen was prepared for this.

However, what Li Zhen didn't expect was that it was nothing more than Buddhism and Taoism's opposition, and even the imperial court was against it. At the beginning, Li Zhen thought it was the spokespersons of Buddhism and Taoism in the imperial court who were protesting, but later found out that even Li Shimin was protesting. Not very optimistic.This made Li Zhen very puzzled. It stands to reason that everyone should be able to see the benefits of doing this. This will completely cause wars between Buddhism, Taoism and foreign sects, and make them consume each other, so that there is no time for others. , let alone compete for power and profit with the court—but it was such an obvious truth that it was rejected.

why?

Later, when Li Zhen got the answer, she couldn't laugh or cry.

It turned out that the imperial court had debated Li Zhen's proposal for a long time, but after nearly half a month of discussion and adoption of arguments, after excluding the resolute opposition of the spokespersons of the two major forces of Buddhism and Taoism, it came to a conclusion One conclusion led to the overall opposition of the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty-the aggressiveness of Zoroastrianism and Manichaeism was too strong, and it did not conform to the middle way that the Han people have always pursued, and in their place the divine power can be paralleled with the imperial power. This is what the court insisted intolerable.

You can think about it, originally the court was a good uncle, but now someone comes to be your equal, how can Li Shimin, who has always been the only one who respects me, bear it?Let alone Li Shimin, even the foolish emperor Sima Zhong couldn't bear it, right?

As for the reasons why all the officials objected, it was pretty much the same—we usually have enough to worship an emperor, but now that you are here, you not only demand that we worship the emperor, but also your patriarch?What is your priest?It's just a group of foreign monks, why should we worship him?

This made Li Zhen very speechless. Can the aggressiveness of Manichaeism and Zoroastrianism be called too strong?So what is Islam?Even the Pope and the Emperor are unbearable to you. If I tell you that in faraway Europe, theocracy is still above the imperial power, and even the emperor has to bow down to the Pope, how would you feel?

Of course, despite the opposition from the imperial court, Li Zhen secretly supported Zoroastrianism and Manichaeism, but also suggested to the priests of the two major religions to change some of their teachings.Contrary to Li Zhen's expectations, the old scholars who thought these research teachings were obsessed should have sternly rejected his proposal, but who knew that Li Zhen had just proposed it, and got a response from the two religions—no problem at all. .

At that time, Li Zhen was stunned.

What about manners?

What about your morals?

Didn't it say that the head can be severed and the blood can be shed, but the teachings cannot be lost?

Where did your integrity go?

In fact, Li Zhen didn't know that since the Tang Dynasty became stronger and stronger, those Western religions have always wanted to enter the Tang Dynasty to preach, but the world of the Tang Dynasty has already been occupied by Buddhism and Taoism, and they are foreign sects, even though they are foreign monks. It is easy to chant scriptures, but correspondingly there is no local foundation, and it is very difficult for foreign sects to establish a foundation in the local area-unless a war is launched and won, but Datang is now powerful, who is Datang's opponent?

Chapter 1120 The Weird Assassin

Chapter 68 Weird Killer

"Oh, so it's this." Li Daoyun looked at these small boats very puzzled, but it was Cheng Chuliang, who suddenly showed a look of surprise when he saw it, patted his thigh and said, "I'll just say, if your Highness has anything else? If you are behind, then there are only these ships.”

"What kind of ship is this? Where did it come from?" Li Daoyun asked.

"Don't worry, let me tell you slowly." Cheng Chuliang began to explain the origin of these ships slowly.

He did not lie, Chu Liang had seen this kind of boat before, it was specially brought by Li Zhen, and the reason why these boats were not known to others was because the places where these boats were hidden were a little different—these boats In fact, it is hidden in the belly of the merchant ships behind... It is not abnormal to load the small boats into the big ones, because the displacement of these small boats in front of them is only about a hundred tons. I dare not say that it is no problem to install two or three ships in a [-]-ton large merchant ship, and there are quite a few merchant ships in my own fleet, all of which came from Yuezhou with Li Zhen.

Cheng Chuliang didn't know why Li Zhen loaded these small boats, but what he knew was that these boats were very complicated, and there were not many people in the entire fleet who knew the existence of these boats. Cheng Chuliang estimated that apart from Li Zhen, himself, and others Other than the captains of the boats, there are only those officers and men who drive these small boats—and the people who drive these boats are Li Zhen's most trusted fighters, the elites of the Raging Wave Camp of the Youth Army. They will never betray Li Zhen. True, so the matter of these boats was well concealed, so that almost no one knew the existence of these boats, even Cheng Chuliang himself forgot.

It wasn't until Li Zhen got it out that he finally realized that if Li Zhen's trump card is what it is, it can only be these things, although Cheng Chuliang doesn't know what these ships are—it's no wonder Li Zhen let himself support For such a long time, it is obvious that it is very labor-intensive and time-consuming to get these ships out of the belly of the ship.

"So that's the case." Li Daoyun nodded slowly, the doubts in his heart were finally resolved, but he didn't say anything else.

"Boom boom~"

Maybe they discovered these weird boats. Although they didn't understand what the purpose of these boats was, the enemy obviously didn't want to hide any longer, and the naval guns began to roar.

"Counterattack, suppression, we must not let the enemy harm our ship, this is the key to our survival." Cheng Chuliang reacted immediately and immediately issued a correct order.

"Boom boom~"

So the warships on Datang's side also started to counterattack. Although their shells were not many, they could still be suppressed for a short period of time.