Fuzhou, Donghua Palace.

At dusk, a woman in palace clothes came out of Changchun Palace and walked along the long corridor in the palace towards the front.

Behind her, eight palace maids lined up in two rows, with attendants behind.

The vermilion hall door of Donghua Palace is open, and the interior is carved and painted, which is extremely luxurious.

The candlelight flickered, reflecting the beds and tents in the dormitory.

The woman in the palace costume sat on the side of the bed and waved her hand.

The palace ladies slowly withdrew, and the door of the hall slowly closed, leaving her alone in the cold hall.

Behind the screen, the figure of a young man appeared, wearing a purple python robe, with a pale face.

"How?" The man asked.

"Not well, the old man woke up." Li Chunyan didn't have any joy on her face, "But the emperor is crazy and paralyzed in bed, I'm afraid that he can't leave without people to serve." ”

The young man smiled and said, "Isn't this just the fulfillment of you ......and me," he looked at the beautiful woman, whose chest was white and greasy.

The palace beauty Li Chunyan looked affectionate, and laughed angrily: "Why should the prince be in a hurry, you can't replace the saint now." ”

She is still very young, her face is also gorgeous, and she knows her strengths.

Wang Jipeng, the prince of Fujian, stretched out his hand and stroked Li Chunyan's fragrant shoulder: "My father can't do anything, and I, as a son, naturally have to work hard to serve you for his old man." ”

The candlelight was dim, the drapery fluctuated, and Li Chunyan's coquettish voice came from inside: "I should call my mother concubine......"

In the main hall, in the incense burner with gold wire hollowout, the cigarette smoke curls and sways in the candlelight.

Wang Yanjun, the king of Fujian, killed his brother and stood on his own, was named the emperor of the Great Min Kingdom, and also named Chen Jinfeng, the concubine of his father Wang Zhenzhi, as the queen. Now that the Heavenly Dao is circulating, it seems that the tradition of the Wang family planting grass on their father's head is still continuing......

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In March of the 11th year of the Republic (938), Li Qi received a large Khotanese delegation consisting of hundreds of people in Jinyang. What made Li Qi particularly curious was that these mission officials, who could only speak some simple Chinese, actually all had the names of the Han family.

Li Shengtian, the king of Khotan, had already sent an envoy to the court the year before to express his intention of submission, and this time it was officially sent to request the canonization of the central dynasty.

The history of Khotan's existence is much longer than that of the Tang Dynasty, which was established in the Han Dynasty and accepted the canonization of the Central Plains Dynasty. During the Tang Dynasty, Khotan was one of the four towns under the jurisdiction of the Anxi Protectorate. However, after the Anshi Rebellion, with the fall of Hexi to Tibet, in fact, the two major protectorates of Anxi and Beiting established by the Tang Dynasty in the Western Regions were briefly under the rule of Tibet.

However, the Tibetan only ruled the Western Regions for a few decades, and it also fell apart.

With the decline of Tibet's power, while the Guiyi army became independent, the Weichi family, as the royal family of Khotan, also expelled the Tibetan rulers and regained the country. Later, Khotan had endless contacts with the Guiyi military regime in Shazhou, but due to the blockage of the Hui and the Dangxiang Qiang Department, the exchanges with the Central Plains Dynasty were intermittent.

Li Shengtian admired the culture of the Central Plains, claiming to be a descendant of the Chinese and the Tang dynasty (his great-grandmother was a princess of the Tang Dynasty), and vigorously promoted the Central Plains culture in Khotan under his rule, and still followed the administrative system of the Tang Dynasty. The building folk style of the capital city of Khotan is just like the scene of the Central Plains. Of course, Li Qi is very appreciative of such a king, and is ready to set him up as a model for the countries of the Western Regions, so as to vigorously support him behind the scenes.

After canonizing Li Shengtian as the king of the Tang Dynasty in Khotan, Li Qi also canonized the official position of the Tang Dynasty, an official of the embassy: Ma Jirong was named the general of Zhenguo, Zhang Zaitong was named Wei Weiqing, and Wu Shungui was appointed as a young eunuch. Regarding Li Shengtian's request for the imperial court to send an embassy, and the symbolism was to garrison Khotan, Li Qi also readily agreed.

At present, Khotan's national strength is still very strong, and Li Qi's original plan was to gradually extend and infiltrate the western regions along the two lines of the Tianshan Mountains and the northern frontier of the Altai Mountains, and try to avoid touching the interests of Gaochang and Khotan. The now Buddhist state of Khotan, which was beginning to clash with the Qarakhanid kingdom in Central Asia, still had a certain upper hand in Khotan, and it was not the right time to intervene.

But now, Li Shengtian took the initiative to ask Datang to send garrisons, which shows the sincerity of his heart to the Central Plains.

It seems that the plan to settle in Tuntian to the Western Regions needs to make some adjustments, from the original Tang Dynasty Silk Road north and south two lines at the same time.

The southern route of the ancient Silk Road is to take the Qinghai Road to the Western Regions, because it is necessary to cross the Kunlun Mountains and the Altun Mountains, this road is naturally not as good as taking the Hexi Corridor through Shazhou, and then to the Western Regions.

Now that Datang has regained control of the Hexi Corridor, it naturally opens the door to the Western Regions.

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Li Qi didn't think that he was capable of gaining a foothold in the Western Regions now.

Before the problem of transportation was solved, the territorial development of the agrarian peoples was greatly restricted.

The general's white-haired husband is in tears, and if he goes to the Western Regions, he may not be able to return to his homeland for the rest of his life.

Every time the migrants began to migrate to the Western Regions, it was a miserable scene......

He Quan's team is still worried about how to put the steam engine on the carriage.

This thing is so heavy that it's just a frame, and it can't even be held on the ground......

Li Qi really looked at them pitifully, called He Quan and a few people led by him to his study, drew some sketches in his hands, and explained to them the principles of trains and steel rails.

This thing is not organized, in fact, the Tang Dynasty cannot really control the Western Regions and expand on land.

As a time-traveler, Li Qi naturally has a clear understanding of the important role that the steam engine can play in opening the industrial age. Otherwise, he wouldn't have taught the students the steam engine technology very early.

It is obvious that he has the skills and ability, but he has to watch his cavalry troops fight alone in the Western Regions at the risk of being wiped out at any time in the absence of food and grass supplies and support.

With the advent of steamships, Yunzhou and Shuofang, Shudi and Longyou, Jingxiang and Lingnan, plus the Central Plains and the North China Plain, material transportation and personnel exchanges have become much more convenient and faster.

Although the current steam engine still belongs to the kind of atmospheric steam engine, the efficiency is still very low, but it can still save a large part of the manpower and material resources of waterway transportation.

At present, the biggest problem is the lack of production capacity, and the number of coal-burning "small steamer" equipment is limited, and it has become a hot equipment for all places.

The manufacture of this kind of steam engine and small steamer became a popular industry for the nobles and wealthy everywhere to invest in.

In this regard, the imperial court only adopted a guiding policy, trying to make these machine workshops evenly distributed in the country, instead of gathering in one place, and vicious competition appeared very early.

With the improvement of transportation, the imperial court's control over the local area has also been greatly strengthened......

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