Datang romantic little landlord

Gaochang State is a transportation hub connecting the East and the West, and those glassware shipped from the West are not uncommon at all.

Even in Li Er's Taiji Palace, when it comes to glassware, I'm afraid there are not as many glassware as in Qu Wentai's palace.

Qu Wentai and the Gaochang officials were very familiar with glass, that is, colored glaze, so they did not have the slightest doubt about the material of the colored glaze Buddha statue.

And Liuli is naturally not afraid of water, everyone knows this.

If he wanted to tell Tang Songling that the Buddha statue was melted by the rain, it would be an insult to Tang Songling's IQ.

For a moment, Qu Wentai was at a loss for words.

Seeing that Qu Wentai was speechless, Tang Songling sneered again: "Okay, okay, since Gaochangguo treats me like this, Tang, then I will not accompany you! Someone, take down the Buddha statue and take it away. The mission will leave today." Set off and return to Chang'an! I, Tang, will definitely not let this matter go! If Gao Changguo can't give an explanation, don't blame me, Tang! Don't say it was unexpected! Your Majesty, farewell!"

After Tang Songling finished speaking, she turned her head and left without giving Gao Changguo any chance to defend herself.

The craftsmen of the Tang Dynasty who came with the mission immediately ran up to the golden Buddha altar and began to lift and dismantle the melted and damaged Buddha statue.

Qu Wentai opened his mouth, intending to stop him, but he couldn't speak.

The glazed Buddha statue was destroyed in a temple in Gaochang Kingdom. The Tang Mission was furious because of this, but it was reasonable. What reason did he use to stop it?

Qu Wentai sighed, shook his head, and summoned all the officials back to the palace.

What happened today obviously has a lot of future troubles, but how to appease Datang's anger, he needs to have a good discussion with the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty.

But Qu Wentai never imagined that his absurd guess before was actually the truth...

972 The Great Army's Expedition to the West

Time went back to half a year ago, in the Sufujiade Auction House by the Qujiang Pool, in the box, Li Wangyou leaned into Li Er's ear and whispered: "Uncle, my nephew just suddenly thought that since my Tang Dynasty lacks a The excuse of attacking Gaochang country, this Buddha statue in front of me is an opportunity."

"The reason why my nephew said that I asked my uncle to present a glazed Buddha statue in Gaochang as a national gift is to do something about it. After the Buddha statue is sent to Gaochang, my nephew has his own way to let the glazed Buddha statue dissolve on its own." .”

"At that time, my Tang Dynasty can use the excuse that Gaochang State destroyed the national ceremony and insulted my Datang Tianwei, and sent troops to attack Gaochang. Moreover, Gaochang State is a Buddhist country, and the glazed Buddha statue was melted and damaged for no reason. It must be a great blow to Gaochang State. This is more conducive to the Tang army's rapid capture of Gaochang."

Li Er was surprised and delighted again: "Ziyou, are you serious? But how could this glass dissolve by itself?"

Li Wangyou easily shrugged his shoulders, expressing his affirmation.

Glass was difficult to fire in ancient times, mainly because the melting point of sand was too high.

With a melting point of [-] degrees, it is too difficult to reach such a temperature. You must know that the melting point of copper is only about [-] degrees.

Therefore, when firing glass, it is necessary to add baking soda, which is alkali, to the quartz sand.

In this way, its melting point can be lowered to more than 800 degrees.

But the glass fired in this way has a disadvantage, that is, the glass will dissolve with water.

So when firing glass, lime needs to be added, and calcium silicate can be obtained by reacting limestone with silicic acid... In fact, Li Wangyou has long forgotten all these high school chemistry knowledge and returned it to the teacher.

He also only had a vague impression, and he seemed to have read similar articles somewhere else.

But the fact is true. When Li Wangyou ordered the craftsmen to burn the "glass" for the experiment and poured it with water, the glass really began to dissolve like melting ice.

After confirming that Li Wangyou's plan was really feasible, Li Er was naturally overjoyed, and immediately started a series of plans according to Li Wangyou's plan.

The glazed Buddha statue that was transported to Gaochang country for thousands of miles is a Buddha statue that is "afraid of water".

The climate of Gaochang is arid, and without rain, nothing will happen, and no one can see the flaws.

But once it is watered by rain, it will slowly melt like an ice cube.

In order to deceive Gao Changguo, the open-air Buddhist altars and statues built in Chang'an City, including Daci Temple, were all deliberately done by Li Er and Li Wangyou, just to give Gao Changguo a psychological hint.

Moreover, the glass-fired Buddha statues, in the open-air environment, emit various rays of light when exposed to sunlight, which is indeed quite brilliant.

So Qu Wentai, the lord of Gaochang, jumped into the trap step by step without noticing it.

The glass Buddha statues placed in the open air, after being drenched by rain for a day and a night, melted and damaged silently...

Since Qu Wentai followed suit and built an open-air Buddhist altar, the fate of Gaochang Kingdom was doomed to be destroyed by the Tang Dynasty.

In fact, whether he builds an open-air Buddhist altar or not does not make much difference to the fate of Gaochang Kingdom.

Even if he didn't place the glazed Buddha statue in the open air, but carefully enshrined it in the main hall, Li Er couldn't catch Gao Changguo's sore feet, and it would only be a few years later.

In the 13th year of Zhenguan, Gaochang Kingdom will still risk its life to form an alliance with the Western Turks, and the country will inevitably be destroyed by then.

As for the reaction of Tang Songling, the servant of the Ministry of Rites, of course, it was premeditated.

As for why the wreckage of the Buddha statue was transported away, it was naturally for the purpose of destroying the corpse and eliminating traces, so as not to give Gaochang people a chance to find out what was tricky.

When the mission came out of Gaochang with the wreckage of the Buddha statue "in a rage", Tang Songling immediately ordered people to smash the wreckage of the Buddha statue, and buried it in a random place in the Gobi. and go...

One month later, Li Er read out the "Decree on Qu Wentai" in the Hall of Taiji in front of envoys and civil and military officials from all over the world at the Shuowang Court Attendance, enumerating Qu Wentai's crimes.

As in history, Li Er appointed Hou Junji as the general manager of the march, and Niu Jinda and Xue Wanjun as the deputy chief managers, leading an army of 15 to attack Gaochang.

In fact, it would take less than 15 people to attack a small Gaochang.

After all, the population of Gaochang State is only more than 3, 15, and they can be scared to death.

Li Wangyou forgot, however, that Qu Wentai, the lord of Gaochang in history, was frightened to death after the soldiers of the Tang army overwhelmed the border.

Li Er sent an army of 15, not only for Gaochang.

After Li Wangyou offered advice, Li Er now intends to swallow all the countries in the Western Regions and take them into his pocket.

For countries such as Loulan, Raoqiang, Qiuci, Xiye, Wusun, and Khotan, Li Er regarded them as meat on the chopping board and planned to swallow them in one gulp.

The benefits of controlling the Western Regions are self-evident.

For Li Er's "big appetite", all the big figures in the court, including Fang Xuanling, Changsun Wuji, and Gao Shilian, all supported him.As for the generals, they even raised their hands in agreement.

After the autumn harvest in the fifth year of Zhenguan, Hou Junji, Niu Jinda, and Xue Wanjun swore an oath in Chang'an, and an army of 15 marched out to the Western Regions.

In the Li Mansion of Dingzhou Village, Li Wangyou held a glass of wine and stood on the top floor of the castle overlooking the west, but there was an imperceptible sarcasm on the corner of his mouth.

In the end, as he expected, Li Er chose to love Hou Jun as handsome.

"Hou Gong, have a good journey!" Li Wangyou raised the wine glass in his hand, shook it towards the west, and then poured the wine in the glass onto the ground.

If Hou Junji saw such an act of paying homage to the dead, he might have to fight Li Wangyou desperately.

But for Li Wangyou, Hou Junji's expedition to Gaochang might be the end of the road.

For Hou Junji, Li Wangyou actually didn't feel much ill at first.