Two bombshells fell from the sky, one of which landed on the outside of the wall alone, and the other smashed directly on the top of the wall, thus blowing up the thick and strong wall by a large margin. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

This accident surprised everyone present, and their eyes widened to see everything in the distance.

"Is the Great Aries dead or stunned?"

Li Longji looked at the motionless white sheep in the distance and said suspiciously.

The big white sheep suddenly died just now, he felt that this was mostly a fraud, but two bombshells exploded nearby, and the powerful power was completely possible to make the big white sheep stunned.

"Your Majesty, the two bombshells are extremely powerful, it is estimated that the internal organs of this big white sheep have been shattered!"

Yang Zhao took a closer look with a telescope and found that the big white sheep was motionless, and it was estimated that he was dead.

Ang Lee didn't immediately say anything, this heroic big white sheep had already surprised him just now, and maybe he could have a better performance.

When the third wave of planes passed, because no moving prey was found, they passed directly, and the fourth and fifth waves of planes also passed easily, and the drill seemed to be over, and the training ground returned to calm.

"Li Shilang, it's already okay, let the soldiers of the Heavenly Army return! Later, I will go to the airport myself to see the soldiers of the Celestial Army. ”

Li Longji made a decree.

Li An nodded and immediately ordered ten planes to return.

As the roar moved away, this time the Great Drill of the Celestial Army was completely over, although there were some accidents, but the overall success was still very successful, at least, it had fully demonstrated the strong combat effectiveness of the Celestial Army.

"It's moving, it's moving, the big white sheep is moving, this beast's life is quite big, and it's still alive."

Yang Zhao was surprised when he saw the little white sheep moving.

"Run, this little brute actually jumped over the wall and ran away."

When Li Longji looked over, the little white sheep had already jumped over the low earthen wall, and quickly ran away, and soon disappeared from everyone's sight.

"Your Majesty, if you run a fish that slipped through the net, do you want to send troops to pursue it?"

Li Longji shook his head and said, "No need, this white sheep is very heroic, let it go!" This is my reward for its bravery. ”

Everyone likes heroic people, and the emperor is the same, the heroic performance of the Aries just now conquered the heart of an emperor, so even if this Aries destroys the bravery of the Heavenly Army, the emperor will not be angry.

"Your Majesty is merciful."

A group of ministers began to pat themselves on the back.

After getting off the viewing platform, Li Longji announced in public that the Tang Heavenly Army was officially established, and the garrison was near the capital to defend the national capital of the Tang Dynasty and ensure the safety of the national capital.

Subsequently, Li Longji took some ministers to the airfield, visited 30 bombers, and personally boarded the cockpit of the plane, felt the huge space inside the plane, and gave him his affirmation.

As an independent branch of the Tang Dynasty, the Heavenly Army has finally been established, and in the future, it will definitely assume the heavy responsibility of defending the Tang Empire, which is what all the people of the Tang Dynasty are happy to see.

Early the next morning, the Tang Dynasty newspaper devoted nearly one-third of its space to introducing the news of the Heavenly Army, the Heavenly Army, and the Heavenly Soldiers and Heavenly Generals, which spread in the capital, and the topics discussed by the common people after tea and dinner were mostly related to the Heavenly Army, especially the title of Heavenly Soldiers and Heavenly Generals was the most domineering.

Many ordinary soldiers in the capital dream of one day being able to join the Heavenly Army and become an enviable Heavenly Soldier and Heavenly General, so walking on the street must be very face-saving.

So much so that when many heavenly soldiers enter the city to seek pleasure, the girls look up to them and will serve the heavenly soldiers with a better attitude.

After the Heavenly Soldiers officially joined the military sequence of the Tang Dynasty, the military strength of the Tang Dynasty was once again greatly improved, which was extremely beneficial to improving the prestige of the Tang Empire.

However, the cost of the Celestial Army is also very large, this is still the beginning, and when there are more and larger Celestial Army fighters in the future, the cost will be even greater.

After years of industrialization, Datang's financial resources have been greatly improved, and the country's wealth and materials are also extremely abundant, but the empire needs to develop, and there are too many places that need to use money, so it is wrong to only focus on gathering wealth at home, and to look farther, to look abroad, so as to obtain more and better wealth.

The construction of the railway to the land in the river is to better maintain the Silk Road, facilitate the connection between the Tang Dynasty and the western countries, and facilitate the Tang Empire to sell advanced industrial products to these countries and import various cheap raw materials urgently needed from these countries.

Therefore, the Silk Road is a road to make money, not only the Tang Empire can obtain great wealth, but also the western countries can also obtain a lot of wealth.

In addition to building railways on the basis of the original Silk Road and greatly expanding the transportation volume, it is also necessary to develop another road to make money, that is, the Maritime Silk Road.

Regarding the Maritime Silk Road, in fact, this road has been around for a long time, but due to the great danger of sea navigation, most of the coastal countries are also some small countries, for this reason, the maritime trade route has not been paid much attention, and the reputation is far less than that of the Silk Road on land.

At least, in the era of the Tang Dynasty, the Silk Road on land was the most important, because his eastern starting point was Chang'an, the capital of the Tang Dynasty, which naturally had great influence, and there were many large countries in the west, which were much stronger than the countries that the Maritime Silk Road had to pass through.

Of course, in the Song Dynasty, especially in the Southern Song Dynasty, the Maritime Silk Road gradually became prosperous, this is because the Southern Song Dynasty was dark in the south of the Yangtze River, and the areas through which the Silk Road passed had become the territory of the enemy country, so there was no way to make good use of the Silk Road to do business, and it could only take the way of maritime trade to trade with coastal countries, so as to obtain the necessary financial resources for the Southern Song Empire.

At this time, it was the Tang Dynasty, and it had not yet reached the Song Dynasty, so the Maritime Silk Road had not been taken seriously, and the development of the shipbuilding industry was far less than that of the car industry.

But Ang Lee understands that the future era is the era of the ocean, and only by seizing marine resources and better controlling the ocean can we become a truly powerful country.

For this reason, Li An has not relaxed the research and development and manufacturing of advanced ocean ships, and has successively manufactured a large number of steamships with a speed much faster than ordinary sailing ships.

Even using these advanced iron ships, he successively discovered the Americas and Australia, and made great contributions to the expansion of the Tang Dynasty.

Nowadays, Datang has established a lot of strongholds in the Americas and Australia, and has gradually developed into cities, and the much-needed resources obtained are also being transported back to Datang in a steady stream, providing sufficient raw materials and financial resources for the Tang Empire.

In addition, the far-sighted Li An not only did not relax the research and development and manufacturing of large ocean ships, but also played the imperial court and built a number of large deep-water ports in the coastal areas of the Tang Dynasty to meet the docking needs of more and more large ships in the future.

Laizhou Bay large seaport is the first large-scale seaport built, which is mainly responsible for the Americas and Australia, is the bridgehead between Datang and the Americas and Australia, Datang's personnel and all kinds of urgently needed materials, are loaded here and shipped to the Americas and Australia, and the return ships of the Americas and Australia will eventually arrive at the Laizhou Bay seaport.

After the completion of the construction of the large seaport in Laizhou Bay, Li An successively built large seaports in Hangzhou, Fuzhou, Guangzhou, Leizhou, and Yazhou to meet the needs of large seagoing ships in the future.

Among all these large ports, one of the most important places for Li An is Guangzhou, located in the south of the Tang Dynasty, where the natural conditions are very good, there are many natural islands, in addition, it is also the mouth of the Pearl River, the city itself is relatively large, there is enough material supply, can fully meet the needs of building a large seaport.

Ang Lee's goal was clear: to make Guangzhou the starting point and base camp of the Tang Maritime Silk Road, which echoed the large seaport of Laizhou Bay in the north, one for the Americas and Australia, and the other for connecting the western coastal states.

After years of construction, the construction of Guangzhou seaport has been completed, and the shipbuilding and ship repair workshops supporting it have also been built, and the specifications are not weaker than the Laizhou Bay seaport in the north, as the starting point of the maritime Silk Road of Datang, it is fully qualified.

In addition, more and more sea ships have been built in recent years, especially large sea ships, which also provides a strong capacity guarantee for the Maritime Silk Road of the Tang Dynasty, so that the Tang Empire has the full strength to start the construction of the Maritime Silk Road.

The Maritime Silk Road, the exchange of products, the contact of feelings, its main products are silk, porcelain, glass, tea, as well as a variety of industrial machinery, books and so on.

These materials were transported to the western coastal countries, and they were bound to be able to sell well, thus obtaining a huge source of wealth for the Tang Empire.

To open up this route, in addition to honest business dealings, it is also necessary to have a strong military backing as a guarantee.

Because on this fragile maritime Silk Road, there are countless groups of pirates, large and small, who kill people and steal goods, which can be described as doing all kinds of evil, and are the sworn enemies of the vast number of merchant groups, and also the nightmare of maritime trade merchants.

In order to prevent their goods from being looted, many merchants have to spend a lot of extra money to hire bodyguards, and in addition, they have to contact other merchants to go together and take care of each other.

The existence of such a situation will inevitably greatly reduce the profits obtained by the merchant group, and at the same time, it will also interfere with the flexibility of business.

Just imagine, a large number of merchants need to gather and go together, which will not delay a lot of time, and in this way, it will seriously restrict the development of commerce and interfere with the further strength of the Tang Empire.

Piracy activities near the territory of the Tang Dynasty are relatively light, after all, with the existence of powerful Tang sailors, it is difficult for them to have great development, but in areas far away from the territory of the Tang Dynasty, piracy activities are more frequent.

In particular, thousands of miles south of Yazhou is the hardest hit area of piracy, and many merchants were attacked by pirates when they passed through this area, and the losses were extremely serious.

Many merchants also tried to ask the Tang court for help, asking the Tang court to send troops to exterminate these hateful pirates, but the court also had the difficulties of the court and could not meet the needs of these merchants.

After all, most of the pirates are thousands of miles away from the Datang coast, and the Datang Navy needs to work on expeditions, which requires a lot of financial resources, and the pirates are well aware of the topography and hydrology of the sneak attack area, which can be said to occupy a great advantage, and it is not easy to think of exterminating them on their territory!

The merchant group was reluctant to give up the lucrative opportunity to trade overseas, even at the risk of encountering pirates, and even some merchants were familiar with the pirates, and each time they offered a sum of money to avoid being looted.

The pirates are also happy to collect money to buy the road, sparing the merchants a way to live, after all, the merchant ships have a certain amount of armed equipment, once they start, although the pirates can obtain all the goods, but they also have to bear a certain number of casualties, and this is not what they want to see.

In addition, there is another point that it is better to kill chickens and take eggs than to keep chickens that lay eggs, and a comprehensive robbery of merchant ships will obtain more goods at one time, but in the long run, there are not many merchant ships willing to go to the sea, and subsequent robberies will become more and more difficult, so there will be no livelihood.

Therefore, as long as the passing merchant ships are willing to leave a sum of goods, they are also willing to let them go, and even make a friend or something, so that the pirates can grow step by step without casualties, and the threat to the maritime trade routes is becoming more and more great.

The imperial court has long understood this, but because the area of piracy is far away from the Datang coast, the management cost is too great, and many of the imperial court's forces are placed on land, and the opening up of shipping routes between the Americas and Australia also consumes huge resources, and it is really impossible to maintain the maritime Silk Road.

But this situation must be changed, the Silk Road on land has made great progress, every year trade can provide enough financial resources for the Tang Dynasty, while the Maritime Silk Road has been far behind the land, in order to allow the imperial court to obtain more adequate financial resources, it is imperative to improve the route environment of the Maritime Silk Road.

As the best talent in the Tang Empire, Li Ang has long seen this, but he has been committed to studying airplanes and making a big deal about the Tang Dynasty, and he has not taken the energy to study the Maritime Silk Road.

Now, the Datang Daily is already smooth sailing, and the Heavenly Army has officially become an army, and Ang Lee can spare his energy to care about the things of the Maritime Silk Road.

"I heard that a businessman from Guangzhou recently came to Beijing to file a complaint, but the court ignored it, is there such a thing?"

Li An met Yang Zhao on the outskirts of the capital and asked.

"The merchant of Guangzhou sued? Is there such a thing? ”

Yang Zhao was confused, this little thing was not a big deal at all, he had a lot of things to do, where could he take care of these.

"Back to Li Shilang, there is indeed such a thing."

An attendant stood up from behind Yang Zhao and replied truthfully.