Li An's vegetable greenhouse area, after several upgrades, has changed greatly, 500 acres of greenhouses have all achieved medicinal jade, and the types of these 500 acres of greenhouses are not the same. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

There are double-layered medicinal jade to enhance warmth, there are mixed types of agriculture and animal husbandry that increase the breeding area, there are also orchard types that specialize in planting low fruit trees, and there are mushroom cultivation greenhouses that block most of the light.

With so many types, the demand for manpower is great, so the manpower owned by Li An's 500 acres of greenhouses has also increased a lot, more than 50 people compared with before, and the total number of people is more than 100 people.

"Good guy, it's so warm in this greenhouse, no wonder cucumbers can grow in winter, yes, it's really good!"

Wang Zhongsi casually walked into a vegetable greenhouse, picked a cucumber, stuffed it into his mouth and ate it.

Seeing this, Li An hurriedly picked a few more, handed one to Guo Ziyi, and ate it with him.

"No harm, how much does it cost to build such a greenhouse?"

Wang Zhongsi looked around and asked with concern.

"This ...... It is still relatively expensive, and the market price is above 100 gold. ”

Li An is telling the truth, according to the market price, it does cost 100 gold to build a medicinal jade vegetable greenhouse, but the medicinal jade is made in Li An's workshop, and the real cost is too much lower than the market price, and the medicinal jade that Li An sold to the imperial court is all privately traded at cost price, only Li Longji and a few big eunuchs know, and outsiders don't know the market at all.

"I know that the medicinal jade is very expensive, but I heard that these medicinal jade are all produced in your workshop, and the cost price should be much cheaper!"

"This ...... It's a lot cheaper. ”

Wang Zhongsi smiled and said, "I don't want the iron armor command car, how about you send me a few enough medicinal jade needed to build a greenhouse?" ”

"Uncle, you are a lion with a big mouth!"

Li An was stunned for a moment, put on a heart-wrenching expression, paused, and nodded: "Okay!" Since the uncle likes the medicine jade greenhouse so much, the nephew can't bear to cut his love. ”

"Hahaha! Okay, let's go back and drink. ”

Wang Zhonghei was overjoyed, walked to the courtyard with Li An, and ate and drank in the main hall, and Guo Ziyi of course accompanied him.

In fact, Wang Zhongsi asked Li An for a large amount of medicinal jade, not for personal enjoyment, but because the border army was very bitter, especially when the weather was cold, and often could not eat fresh vegetables, and after having the medicinal jade greenhouse, the soldiers of the army could eat vegetables in winter, which was very important to improve the living standards of the border army officers and soldiers.

"Uncle, General Guo, these delicacies were invented by me, you can taste them."

Ang Lee seemed quite enthusiastic.

"Haha! I've eaten it, I've eaten it all, and on the way back by train, what I ate on the train didn't taste ordinarily good! This spirit, in particular, is much better than the ones that were drunk before, and compared to this spirit, the previous drink was all plain water. ”

Wang Zhongsi looked very excited and began to eat and drink.

"Since my uncle likes it, then eat more, General Guo, don't be polite!"

Ang Lee was hospitable and asked the kitchen to continue adding dishes.

"Uncle, you just said that you have something to discuss with me, I don't know what it is?"

Li An felt that the time was ripe and asked.

Wang Zhongsi pondered for a while, and said: "Here's the thing, I heard in Shuofang that eight artillery brigades have been formed in the capital, and the power of artillery is extremely huge, and it can attack the enemy army a thousand steps away, so this time I took the opportunity to face the saint and asked His Majesty to send an artillery brigade to Shuofang to deter the newly rising Hui on the grassland, as a result, Your Majesty was very hesitant and did not immediately agree, I want to hear your opinion, does my request make Your Majesty very difficult?" ”

"Send an artillery brigade to Shuofang?"

Li An thought for a while, nodded and said, "It's not impossible, it's just that what about Fanyang, Anxi, Longyou, Hexi, and Jiannan?" As long as my uncle starts, the envoys of each town will ask the imperial court for artillery troops, and when the time comes, the eight artillery brigades in the capital will not be enough, so His Majesty is bound to feel embarrassed. ”

"Sure enough, but what is the point of so many artillery units, all concentrated in the capital? The capital is in the hinterland of the Tang Dynasty, and no enemy can cross the border to attack the capital. ”

Wang Zhongsi felt that good things had been created, so they should make good use of them, and they could not be a good deterrent to potential enemies around them if they were placed in the capital.

"Uncle, now that more advanced artillery has begun to equip the troops, it is completely feasible to equip the border army with the artillery built before, but Your Majesty has not figured it out yet, and when I persuade Your Majesty, I will definitely be able to fight for an artillery brigade for my uncle."

Li An had already considered this, and this time Wang Zhonghe's return to the capital was a good opportunity, when the emperor ordered as soon as possible to equip the border army with the phasing out breech guns, so as to deter the potential enemies around him, so that the vassal states of the Tang Dynasty would not dare to be presumptuous in front of the Tang Dynasty.

"Okay, can you really convince Your Majesty to agree to equip the border army with artillery units?"

Wang Zhongji was overjoyed.

"Uncle rest assured, my nephew understands His Majesty's thoughts, and he is naturally sure to convince His Majesty."

Li An nodded confidently, and suddenly thought of something, and said, "Uncle, I'll give you a gift!" You must like it. ”

"Oh, what gift? I must have liked it. ”

Wang Zhongsi asked curiously.

"It's a map, a big map, with my Datang's plans for railways and bridges for the next few years."

Ang Lee said and asked people to get the map.

"Uncle, please see, this is the map."

Ang Lee personally hung up the map and pointed to the Datang area on the map.

"What is this? Datang actually only has such a small piece? ”

Wang Zhonghe's reaction was the same as that of others, a completely shocked look.

"Uncle, this is the map of the whole world, outside our Datang, there are still many places, this black line is the railway that has been built so far, the intermittent black line is the railway to be built in the future, and these double lines are the bridges that have been built, these are the bridges to be built in the future."

Ang Lee pointed to the map and introduced them one by one.

Wang Zhongsi and Guo Ziyi didn't have time to wonder how Li Anken knew this, they knew that Li Anken would move out of the emperor, so they didn't answer this question head-on.

"Isn't it too unrealistic for Datang to lead the railway to such a far place in the future, and these bridges, the width of the lower reaches of the Yellow River is several miles, and the lower reaches of the Yangtze River are even wider, can you really build bridges on this?"

Wang Zhongsi and Guo Ziyi looked incredulous.

"As long as there are enough reinforced concrete materials and construction machinery, even a river ten times wider than the Yellow River and the Yangtze River can be bridged on it, there is no doubt about this, the Grand Canal railway bridge that has been built at present, the upper level is already seven or eight miles away."

Ang Lee tried to dispel the two of them's doubts and went on to explain.

"Okay, since Wuxiao is so serious, let's believe it for the time being, this map is very good, I will accept it."

Wang Zhongsi very readily accepted the map, and hung it in the main hall to continue to observe, asking Li An from time to time about what he wanted to know.

"Yes, General Guo once told me that you had predicted that the Turks would soon fall and that the Hui would replace them, I don't understand, how can you guess so accurately, how do you know all this, is it just speculation?"

Wang Zhongsi couldn't help but be curious, and asked.

"This is not difficult to predict, the Turks have repeatedly had turmoil, and it is natural for the country to die, as for the rise of the Hui Hui, there are all the old Turkic lands, it is because the Hui have produced a very good leader, just like the Xiongnu Mao Dun back then."

Li An said casually.

"No harm, you have never stayed in the north for a long time, how do you know that Hui Hui has produced a very good leader, Hui Hui Huairen Khan's strength is average, and he is not very good at all."

Wang Zhongsi disagreed with Ang Lee's point of view very much and opened his mouth to retort.

"Haha! That shows that the uncle is too proud, looking down on Huairen Khan, although the nephew has not gone to the north in person for so many years, but in these days in the capital, he also learned a lot of things on the grassland, Huairen Khan does not seem to be as eloquent as the Xiongnu's Maodun, but its ability is restrained, so it is easy to confuse the enemy, so that others think he is very weak, in fact, he is very powerful, this is called pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger. ”

Ang Lee's serious nonsense is really cute.

"Pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger? Pretending to be a stupid pig, but suddenly attacking and swallowing the tiger in one bite, what a clever strategy! ”

Guo Ziyi couldn't help but interject.

Wang Zhongsi also nodded again and again, and kept thinking about everything that happened on the grassland, indeed, every time the Huairen Khan of Hui Hui, it was a little inconspicuous, which made it difficult for him to pay attention to it, but if you think about it carefully, every time, the benefits of Hui Hui are the most, especially after the fall of the Turkic Empire, Hui Hui silently swallowed all the old land of the Turks, so fast that he, the envoy of the Tang Dynasty, was shocked.

"What a Huairen Khan, he actually hides so deeply, but Huairen is dead, and his son Gele Khan has just succeeded to the throne, unharmed, what do you think of Gele Khan? Is he as cunning as his father? ”

Wang Zhongji was successfully fooled by Li An, and continued to ask about Gele Khan.

"Uncle, in recent years, there has only been news of Huairen Khan, and the situation of Gele Khan is not clear to my nephew, but there is an ancient saying that the tiger father has no dog, and this Gele Khan should not be simple!"

Ang Lee flickered seriously again.

"Oh, if Gele Khan is also as cunning as his father, is the next step to invade the Tang Dynasty, is he going to follow the old Turkic path! If this is the case, it will be all the more necessary for our Shuofang army to deploy artillery units. ”

Wang Zhongsi said nervously, from Li An's words, he felt the threat from the north.

"Uncle don't worry, since Gele Khan is the same as his father, he must be a smart man, now that Hui Hui has just expanded his territory, the country is in ruins, and he needs a good rest and recuperation, and the strength of my Datang is so strong, Gele Khan does not have the courage to challenge Datang in the short term, and in the future, my Datang will become stronger and stronger, and Hui Hui will have no chance."

Li An said proudly, for a barbarian clan like Hui Hui, Li An can destroy him with just a finger, the ironclad gun car is not a joke, even the most elite cavalry of Hui Hui can't avoid his pursuit.

"The Ghost Fang, the Xiongnu, the Xianbei, the Turks, the Hui, the rise of the peoples on the grassland one by one has always been a big problem for my Central Plains Dynasty, if there is a good way, it would be best to completely solve the threat of the grassland."

Wang Zhongsi said leisurely.

"Do more trade, strengthen exchanges, and realize industrialization at an early date, so that the grassland problem will no longer be a problem."

Li An said seriously.

This time, Ang Lee did not fool, but told the truth, trade and exchanges, can communicate with each other, so that each other can understand each other better, the possibility of conflict is greatly reduced, and industrialization is the most fundamental measure to comprehensively solve the threat of nomads.

The population of the nomadic people is far less than that of the Central Plains people, but with their strong and fast cavalry troops, they can often beat the Central Plains people, causing heavy losses to the Central Plains people.

But as long as the Tang Dynasty realizes mechanization, the cavalry troops that the nomads are proud of will completely lose their advantage, and it is not even worth mentioning, just imagine, the scene of 10,000 cavalry troops facing fifty ironclad artillery vehicles must be very tragic, cavalry attack, defense and mobility are far inferior to ironclad artillery vehicles, in this case, do you still need to fight? Do nomads still dare to go south?

In later generations, there was a nomadic country in the north of China, in the era of cold weapons, with the help of powerful cavalry troops to dominate the world, and established an astonishing huge empire, but in the later generations of industrialization, it has been reduced to a very poor and backward small country, and the cavalry that was once proud of it has no place to use, in the face of the steel torrent of southern China, they can only choose honest trade, and even dare not breathe in the atmosphere.

Li An believes that the Tang Empire will also have that day, as long as the industrialization process continues to be promoted, in the future, there is no need to use the army, a long-distance transport truck driver can kill a cavalry unit in seconds, if a convoy with 100 transport vehicles, there is no need to be afraid in the face of 100,000 cavalry, horses can't hit the transport vehicle, and axes and spears can't pierce the iron armor.

"Industrialization? Fine, are you talking about the machines made by the R&D center? ”

Wang Zhongsi asked.

Li An nodded and said: "That's right, it's these machines, my uncle and General Guo also saw it just now, the ironclad command car runs faster than the cavalry, if you drive a hundred ironclad command vehicles to meet the Hui cavalry on the grassland, and rush over in a straight line, you can easily crush the Hui cavalry into meatloaf, in addition, I Datang also has a more powerful ironclad artillery car, a burst of artillery fire, can make the Hui cavalry panic." ”