Datang: Touching the Corpse Li Yuanba at the Beginning

"want!"

Wei Zheng replied resolutely, "How about killing a few foreigners or exterminating a few ethnic groups without consuming our Tang people's power and national power?"

"Anyway, they can only live like animals, drinking blood every day, without ethics. We went to rescue them and help them forgive their sins."

"Okay, as long as you agree."

Li Wenhao's eyes almost popped out, he never expected that Wei Zheng would give him such a big reversal.

But if you think about it, the great unity of the world may be Wei Zheng’s dream, but to save money, save people, and save trouble, you can see it in your eyes. The dream is out of reach, and the saved money is in your pocket. Which one should you choose?

Any fool knows which one to choose!

"Your Majesty, I don't know how to divide your war zone?"

"It's very simple. The north and south of the Yangtze River are the boundaries, and the famous mountains and rivers are the boundaries."

"Now, Fan Yang is located, including Hebei, Henan, and Yandi as the Gyeonggi theater, with Fan Xing as the commander of the theater, commanding the non-retiring battalion, the Shenji battalion, the three thousand battalions, the five military battalions, and the Guanning Iron Cavalry, of which three thousand battalions , the Fifth Army Battalion, and the Shenji Battalion are the Forbidden Army."

"Eastern Liaodong, Western Liaodong, and the Far East constitute the Northeast Theater, and the commander of the theater is Ran Min, who leads the Qihuo Army, as well as the left and right military guards and left and right Xiaowei."

"The Guanzhong region with Chang'an as the center is the Guanzhong War Zone. Cao Mengde, the commander of the war zone, is dominated by the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry, the Xuanjia Army, and the left and right Jinwu Guards."

"Bashu is the Southwest War Zone, which governs Bashu, Yungui, the west of Jingxiang, and the land of Nanman. Zhuge Liang is the commander of the war zone, and the soldiers under his jurisdiction are still the original troops."

"Han Xin is in charge of the east of Jingxiang, the south of the Yangtze River, with Yangzhou, Jinling, Jiankang and other places as the center."

"Tiao Pangtong enters the military aircraft department, with Taiyuan, Kaifeng, and the north bank of the Yellow River as the boundary, and draws the central war zone. His subordinates control the left and right guards, as well as Huang Zhong and Ma Chao's subordinates."

"Taking the southwestern plateau as the Tubo theater, Bai Qi led his sharp men to station there to take charge of all defenses on the plateau and the war against Tianzhu and other countries."

"Yihuo Qubing, Xu Da, stationed in the Western Regions, established the Western Regions Theater and the Silk Road Alliance, and governed the Western Regions, from Altay in the east to Kashgar in the west."

"Vladivostok in the Far East, as well as Sakhalin Island, the coasts of Shandong, Fujian, and Guangdong, set up naval admirals' mansions, each commanding 20 sailors and [-] treasure ships!"

"Additionally, the South China Sea Islands are protected by the government, with [-] sailors, [-] infantry, and [-] treasure ships. The government is built in Danzhou in the South China Sea. Zhou Yu is named the South China Sea Protector and Admiral of the Guangdong and Guangxi Navy."

"Additionally, the Ryukyu Governor's Mansion will control [-] sailors, [-] infantry, and [-] treasure ships! Liu Rengui will be appointed as the Ryukyu Governor"

"The chiefs of the other navy admiral's offices are selected from the current navy and selected for use."

"Order Zheng He, Qi Jiguang, the fleet to go to the southeast, there is an archipelago country, and there is an island country whose area is no less than that of the Tang Dynasty in the first year of Zhenguan. It must be taken down here, especially the big island, where is it? It produces silver, iron, and rare metals are abundant in those islands, especially a plant called rubber tree."

"Tell Zheng He and Qi Jiguang to let them go, that is, to rob. There is no need to show me the prestige of the heavenly kingdom. If you go there, you will do it, and if you refuse to accept it, you will be killed."

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

Everyone answered very simply, but Tai Shiling, who was in charge of recording Li Wenhao's words and deeds to enter the history books, had a difficult time.

All dynasties have hoped to have a glorious and great image in the history books, but Li Wenhao... can't wash it away.

"Record truthfully, I just want to let future generations know that if you want a strong nation, you can't be soft-hearted. I, Li Wenhao, would rather be the devil of the whole world, and I also want to be the angel of the Great Tang."

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

With Li Wenhao's approval, the historian began to write, especially Li Wenhao's sentence that he would rather be the devil of the whole world, which made the historian's blood boil.

As a historian, the most important thing in his life is to keep time, to record history truthfully, and to record every bit of a great man. He feels that he is not far from that road now.

"Also, tell Bai Qi, at most one year, give him one year, tomorrow spring, I want to see his army go south to Tianzhu, the spices from Tianzhu have made me covet for a long time!"

"Also, tell Han Xin, I gave him power, I gave him freedom, I even gave him artillery, what can he do to me?"

"In addition, tell him not to walk the 20 mountains, that is a beast that eats people and does not spit out bones, and it is useless to fill it with [-] troops. Let him go by water, starting from the South China Sea Islands, within two days. to the enemy's shore."

"Your Majesty, fighting on multiple fronts, isn't that a bit..."

Changsun Wuji asked a little worriedly.

"many?"

"Is that a lot?"

"I forgot to tell you one thing, our old opponent, the Persians are coming, otherwise I wouldn't be in such a hurry to come back, the Military Aircraft Department, get ready!"

"In this battle, I plan to send troops to the north of the Yellow River and Liaodong to fight against him. I plan to equip the whole army with firearms. This is the battle of my Tang Dynasty firearm Yang Wei. If I want to fight, they dare not fight." Raise your head, not only not daring to raise your head, but also asking them to cede territory and surrender."

"Your Majesty, firearms are good, but..."

"I said, don't come to me for things that can be solved with money."

"Isn't our Fan Yang in control of the economic lifeline of the whole world? If we have no money, it's easy. Then we cast iron money and paint it with copper paint. We use scrap iron to make money and buy things from them. Then we just need to ban this waste money from being sold in the Tang Dynasty." Internal circulation will do.”

"Remember, their economic collapse has nothing to do with us, as long as we are fine, why do they care?"

"It's better if they don't have enough food to eat, so they can come to my Tang Dynasty with precious ore every day to exchange for food!"

Li Wenhao said sinisterly, this is the benefit of economic dominance, I have the right to issue currency, today I say gold is valuable, you have to use gold to trade with me, tomorrow I say stone is valuable, you have to use stones, anyway, what to use Forget it, in other words, Datang does not need to export now, the big deal is to pile up things, the country has enough money to balance the market, and the people's life has long been better, there is not much difference between selling or not selling, but the Western Regions Can those countries resist not buying things in Datang?

Ask their aristocrats, if they are used to wearing the inferior silk that Tang Dynasty gave them, would they still want to wear that coarse linen?

Ask their civilians, if they are used to the knives of the Tang Dynasty, can they still pick up the rusty and dying copper utensils?

It can be said that Li Wenhao is clearly playing hooligans, and he is playing hooligans all over the world, but there is no way, I have rare goods to live in, if you want to come, you must follow my rules, otherwise, there is no need to talk about it.

Chapter 534 Ouch, Your Majesty Tang is so poor

Is Li Wenhao's methods clever?

It's not clever at all, but any modern person can come up with this method after watching the news for a few days, after all, that's how they messed with us.

In the final analysis, we have to ask others.

but now……

Let’s reverse it, Li Wenhao wants the whole world to beg Datang.

He wants to make Datang the core of the world, not only military, but also culture and economy. He wants to make people all over the world unable to live without Datang.

For example, the table salt of Datang, the snow-white salt, has broken through all the fantasies Westerners have about salt.

Their dream is to be able to eat a bite of salt with relatively small grains, but as soon as Datang's snowflake salt is shipped, they are robbed by them at sky-high prices.

Why do Western food sometimes use that kind of large grain of salt?It's not because when they first started to develop humanities, they couldn't eat good salt at all, and it was slowly passed down.

Not only salt, but also all kinds of sugar, food, even daily necessities, even the yellow papyrus that we have discarded, which we don’t even use to wipe our buttocks. Commonly used paper.

It's a pity that they have never seen rice paper, otherwise, why can oil paintings only appear on canvas?

Is it because it is easy to preserve?

Don't bullshit, it's just because they can't produce clean white paper.

(The author is confused, don't bring it in, my dears, the plot needs it.)

far away...

"Military Aircraft Department, go back and inform me that the Infantry A, Flying Tiger Army, Three Thousand Battalion, Fifth Army Battalion, Blood Killing Battalion, and Beggar Army are equipped with firearms on a limited basis, and they are required to master the use of firearms within three months."

"In addition, Hou Jiuman has researched a new type of musket, and equipped them with the White Horse Camp, the Owl Ghost Army and the White Robe Army!"

"The Ministry of Households, the Ministry of Industry, approve money and personnel, select sites in places with abundant resources, and build arsenals, at least one for each war zone."

"In addition, the Ministry of Finance sent people to the Far East, where there are many minerals buried underground, and I will mine them all."

"There is also the Ministry of Industry, which produces more large ships. How is the research on iron-clad ships going now?"

"How about the steam turbine research?"

"Install all these things for me. For ten years at most, I want Datang's ships to be replaced with iron-clad ships, so that I can plunder the resources outside."

"Remember, it's a requirement that not only constrains our generation, but also tells future generations that I, Tang Dynasty, cannot cut down even a single tree until the resources outside are exhausted."

"Also, Persia must be taken!"

Although Li Wenhao is only in his 20s, and according to his body, it shouldn't be a big problem to live to a hundred years old, but he still feels that he doesn't have enough time.

At the very beginning, he fantasized about whether he could develop the Tang Dynasty's industry to what it was before and after World War II in his lifetime, and at the end it would have to be the same as in the early [-]th century, but now it seems that it is difficult...

Not just difficult, but even harder.

Now Fan Yang Academy does not lack technology. He gave Fan Yang Academy the brochure on the industrial development of the first industrial revolution, but what Fan Yang Academy lacks now is the kind of large lathe that can be forged, and what it lacks is high-density steel. , What is lacking is materials, not technology. If the materials are complete, Li Wenhao believes that with the genius brains of Fan Yang Xuegong, I am afraid that in less than ten years, Datang will be able to make steam locomotives everywhere.

"Your Majesty, if this happens, my Tang treasury will probably consume one-third!"

"Consume it, otherwise don't you feel bad about feeding those stale grains to pigs every day?"

"It's true that the Persians are so few. If they have more people and buy more, we won't be feeding heavy grain to pigs. Waste, waste..."

That's right, this is Datang. Now in Datang, no matter whether it is an official or a commoner, no one eats a bite of heavy grain. Last year's harvested grain can't be eaten up. When the new grain arrives in the next year, we must deal with it quickly, otherwise the granary will not be able to hold it .

In this feudal era, this is unimaginable. Generally, only landlords do this, but landlords don't feed their pigs with grain.

Datang is really in pain and happy now.

The pain is because, with more and more food, there are more and more pigs and dogs to feed, but there are fewer people.

Originally, a family planted a hundred acres of land and raised more than a dozen pigs, which was quite leisurely and comfortable. However, as more and more pigs were born, the speed of giving birth to babies became slower and slower. As a result, the pork in Datang was already faster than Vegetables are cheap.

In the early years of Zhenguan, if ordinary people wanted to eat meat, they still had to celebrate festivals, or be rewarded by the landlord's family, but now...

Anyone who says he can't afford meat will be looked down upon, because people who can't afford meat nowadays are either lazy or bad gamblers.

Even for the disabled, widowed elderly, homeless children, Datang has special welfare institutions to support these people every year.

"Your Majesty, do you misunderstand what I said about one-third? Do you know how big our treasury is in the Tang Dynasty?"

"How big?"

"How can I compare it to you?"

Mu Yikuan frowned into a word Sichuan, after thinking for a long time, he stretched out his hand and gestured.

"Your Majesty, this is our Fan Yang City!"

Mu Yikuan gestured with his hand the size of a plate, "Then this is our treasury! Don't you feel bad about consuming one-third of it at once?" He stretched out his hand and drew a big circle, which was as big as more than ten plates. Yikuan asked back.

As a brother-in-law and as a minister of the dragon, they all came out together in the midst of insignificance, and Mu Yikuan and Li Wenhao were not so reserved when talking.

"Fuck, are we so poor?"

"Didn't I ask you to start a mountain and hoard money?"

"Oh, my lord!"