Chapter 678

On the other side, Wang Chong's uncle, Wang Qian, was already dumbfounded. He only thought about finding a fief for Wang Chong, but he didn't expect that Wang Chong was thinking about building a city by himself.

And what shocked Wang Chong was Wang Chong's last words, there are indeed great business opportunities on the westbound road, if Wang Chong succeeds, it is really as he said, it is a real unique business.

- On the entire Silk Road, it will be the only city and the largest post station. All the merchants, not the Western Regions, or the Tiao Zhi and the big food, as long as they want to operate, they will definitely not be able to bypass Wang Chong's city.

In the entire Tang Empire, I don't know how many wealthy families, princes and magnates want to intervene on the road to the west, but no one has ever succeeded. The reason is very simple, the first is naturally that no one has thought about what Wang Chong said at all.

And the other is that Datang has not opened a precedent for fiefdom for many years. And without fiefdoms, no one could build cities on the Silk Road.

——With the attention of the Holy Emperor and the Silk Road, the first one in the imperial court could not be passed.

But now, Wang Chong has really obtained the concession. Wang Jian had to admit that he really underestimated this nephew. What he wants, much bigger than himself.

And once he succeeds, it is very likely that the Wang family's harvest will really be much greater than that of a rich land like Zhao Di.

In the lobby, Wang Chong looked at the opposite side who was obviously shocked by himself, silent, thoughtful uncle, and smiled in his heart. The idea of "city management" is not a big deal in the world where he came.

But in this world, it's clearly still a novelty, something that no one has ever set foot in.

"I only have one last question now, and the construction of the city is not trivial. In particular, this kind of thing from scratch is extremely expensive. Even the imperial court did not dare to easily say that it would build a city on the road to the west. Moreover, in order to support the southwest, you have already spent all the gold and silver, how can you build a city with only the three million taels of gold rewarded by the Holy Emperor?"

Wang Yan asked.

The Lion City in the southwest is not very big, and it has already cost millions. And it's still an empty city. In the barren and barren land of the west, the difficulty and cost of building a city is definitely far higher than that of the Lion City in the southwest.

And considering that Wang Chong might have to build some inns or something in it, it would cost even more. This is by no means something that a royal family can support.

If you want to build such a fiefdom from scratch, the cost is enough to discourage most of the ancient, rich, and powerful families in the capital.

"Hehe, this one is easier. There are so many families and powerful people in the capital, does the uncle still worry about money?"

Wang Chong smiled and said disapprerovitically. The world is bustling, all for profit, the world is bustling for profit, and Wang Chong in the southwest battle has fully felt this.

Now it's just a rehash of the old ways.

In fact, he didn't need to open his mouth, and in the entire Jingshi, I don't know how many people were looking forward to it, waiting to cooperate with him.

"Good!"

Hearing Wang Chong's words, Wang Qian suddenly slapped the table and stood up from the Taishi chair. When Wang Chong said that he was going to seal the city, he was still a little angry at first, but now, the anger in Wang Chong's heart has been swept away, and the whole person's eyes are bright and bright.

"Chong'er, I never doubt your military talent uncle, in business,...... There is no one in the entire Wang family who is more business-minded than you. I was most worried about your political acumen. Throughout the ages, I don't know how many famous teachers and generals, because they don't understand the way of court politics, they give themselves, and their families are killed. The stronger the talent in the military path, the higher you climb, the greater the disaster you will incur. ”

"I've been worried about this, after all, you're too young. But now,...... I've been completely relieved. ”

Wang Gan's face was ruddy, and he looked extremely happy. "The husband is not guilty, but he is guilty", the unique business on the westbound road is indeed good, but it is also easy to attract huge disasters.

But if Wang Chong recruited other princes and magnates in the Jingshi and the big families, then everything would be completely different. It is equivalent to the princes and magnates of the entire Jingshi, and the big families are all standing with the Wang family.

With this alone, the Wang family is invincible in the court, which is the real "eternal industry"!

In the future, even if Wang Chong really enters the court and becomes a faction with real power, with his current popularity, he can definitely become a prominent figure in the court.

——Wang Jian faintly saw the traces of the old man from Wang Chong!

Wang Gen soon left the Wang family, and he left with satisfaction. This nephew will always be so outstanding, always so arrogant, and even when Wang Jian left, his steps were much more solid, and his head was raised higher.

If you have a nephew like this, what more can you ask for?

Why can't the future Wang family prosper?

However, Wang Chong didn't know that when he left, Wang Chong quickly quieted down, his eyes fell on the table, and on the map of the Tang Dynasty where the uncle fell, his eyes only stayed on the world-famous "Silk Road" for a moment, Wang Chong's eyes turned, and soon moved westward quickly, falling in the northwest of the Tang Dynasty.

Western regions!

Wang Gen didn't know that the reason why Wang Chong insisted on building the fiefdom in Wushu was not because of the world-famous Silk Road, but because of the distant Western Regions, the Annan Protectorate of the Tang Dynasty!

The "Silk Road" is a world-famous road of wealth and gold, but it is the lifeline of the Protectorate of Annam in the Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty! Every year, I don't know how many crossbows of the Tang Dynasty pass through here.

The mountains and rain are about to come and the wind is full of buildings, but except for Wang Chong, no one knows that the next crisis of the empire will come from the northwest of the Tang Dynasty. In a place that no one noticed, another empire as powerful as the Tang Dynasty was stretching out its tentacles and probing into the Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty.

This is a war between two great empires, East and West.

Different from the Battle of the Southwest, the Tang warriors who participated in this battle only had the 30,000 Anxi Protectors, far less than the 180,000 Annan Protectors in the Southwest, and the number of dead and wounded in this war and the affected Datang people was far from reaching nearly one million.

In fact, it was only those Hu people in the Western Regions who were really affected.

But his far-reaching impact far exceeded the entire Battle of the Southwest, because this battle affected the whole of Middle-earth!

"Gao Xianzhi, although you and I have different positions, I will do my best to help you in this matter! I hope you don't let me down!"

Wang Chong said secretly in his heart.

Although there are only 30,000 soldiers and horses in the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate, they are the most elite soldiers and horses of the Tang Dynasty of more than 30,000, and their overall martial arts level, training level, and coordination level are all the strongest in the Tang Empire.

The soldiers and horses transported in the past were all the strongest among the various provinces, prefectures, and frontiers in the Tang Dynasty. Moreover, they are equipped with an extremely wide variety of weapons, sophisticated, and there are tens of thousands of crossbows alone, almost reaching one per person, and there are many more in the warehouse.

In the entire Tang Dynasty, almost all the most elite weapons of the military department reached there.

In addition, from the first opening of the Western Regions by Emperor Wu of Han to the current Tang Dynasty, Middle-earth has a strong influence in the Western Regions, and Gao Xianzhi is a Fan person, knows many Chinese languages in the Western Regions, and is good at dealing with the Fan-Han dispute, so in the Western Regions, although the Tang soldiers are only more than 30,000, the army composed of Fan people is as many as 1780,000, and the power under control is extremely strong.

Therefore, although there are few Tang soldiers in the Anxi Protectorate, the fighting power is extremely strong, coupled with the "Imperial Shuangbi" composed of Gao Xianzhi and Feng Changqing, so it has become the strongest guardian of the western border of the empire.

The only thing that constrained them was the long supply and troop lines.

In the event of a war, the Anxi Protectorate could only rely on the more than 200,000 allied troops formed by the Han Dynasty. And the most reliable among the coalition forces is the 30,000 most elite Tang Anxi elites.

It's almost impossible to get supplies, or reinforcements!

This is also the innate defect that cannot be made up for by Datang's "Imperial Twin Empires"! At the same time, it is also the biggest weakness of the Datang and the Far West, the rapid rise of the Great Food Empire in this competition.

And this fiefdom on the Silk Road is Wang Chong's greatest effort for this future war in the Western Regions. Once there is a huge city as an economic, military, and logistical transit station and storage place on the westward journey, if something happens in the Western Regions, the troops in the city can quickly travel westward and replenish to the Western Regions, becoming the largest logistical supply and the fastest source of military replenishment for the Anxi Protectorate in the war.

This is the real reason why Wang Chong did not take the rich land of Longxi Zhao, but chose to build a fiefdom on the poor and barren Silk Road. As for choosing the "black wound" on the Silk Road, and not choosing elsewhere, the reason is also very simple -

Because there is Middle-earth, the Tang Empire is the most powerful, and at the same time, it is also the best source of soldiers!

Back then, when the catastrophe came, there was a huge misjudgment in the court of the Tang Dynasty, that is, they mistakenly thought that the strength of these foreign invaders was not as strong as the legend.

The reason is that those foreign invaders were strongly resisted in a place called Wushu, and after stepping into the world of Middle-earth Datang, there were many casualties for the first time.

Therefore, at that time, the Tang Dynasty did not pay too much attention to these legendary invaders from outside the sky, and still paid attention to the exotic countries of Goguryeo, Turkic, Mengshezhao, and Wusizang.

It wasn't until the army of the Tang Dynasty really fought with these exotic invaders from outside the sky, and they continued to rout like a chicken and a dog, that they knew what it meant to be a rout, and they knew how powerful and terrifying these exotic invaders were.

After Wang Chong later became the generalissimo of the world's soldiers and horses, he gathered all the remnants of the black wounded soldiers, got a total of 6,000 people, and trained them, but in the future, he became the most elite, the most powerful, the most fierce, and the most loyal under Wang Chong, known as the real strongest "black wounded iron horseman" in Middle-earth!

Regardless of whether they are on the horse or under the horse, these black wounded iron horses have extremely strong combat effectiveness. Moreover, the meridians that hurt people are special, and they are born as materials for practicing martial arts, which is not even comparable to the world-famous Tongluo people.

It's a pity that when Wang Chong noticed it, there were only 6,000 people left. And Wang Chong asked, at the peak, there were 50,000 people in the village.

Even excluding women, the elderly and children, there are more than 30,000 men in the prime of life.

It's a pity that all these people died in the battle when the foreign invaders went south!

This is the deep regret in Wang Chong's heart back then!

The 6,000 black-wounded iron horsemen had already supported the war in the later stages of the Great Catastrophe, and if there were more than 30,000 black-wounded iron horsemen, then everything might have become completely different.

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