Unlike the national identity of the Han people, in Europe at this time, there was no national consciousness.

The people were loyal to the nobles who were their vassals, and then they took the nobles' grain, fought for him, farmed for him, and served him.

This state of no belonging until the French Revolution, when the king was beheaded, and there were no nobles and kings to vassal, and the people began to think about who they belonged to.

As a result, the French appeared with the national flag, national emblem and national anthem, and this sense of national identity was spread to all corners of Europe by Napoleon's army.

If Yelu Dashi knew that the so-called Hundred Nations Alliance, which he said he was afraid of, was actually a collection of more than a hundred small forces, each of whom had their own command, and it was a pure rabble, he would probably regret coming from Fuliao City.

After a period of nervous preparation for war, the distant scout Ma sent back the news that the total number of the so-called Hundred Nations Alliance would not exceed 200,000, and it was very loose.

And it seems that these people have come to sack the west, and have no intention of continuing the crusade at all.

In the imperial city of Constantinople, Yelu Dashi sat on a white chair, looking at the secret letter in his hand, and the bruises on his face came out.

It seems that the feeling of being humiliated makes him surprisingly angry, and he is half dead, how different from a coward.

As soon as he slapped the table, all the officials below looked up, and Yelu Dashi stood up and said, "Open the royal treasury of this city, send a force of light cavalry, carry treasures and pretend to be invincible, discard the goods and turn them back, and we will set up an ambush in the mountains west of the city." ”

Ye Luxian was a little disappreciative and said, "Your Majesty, such a simple plan to lure the enemy, will they come?" ”

"They... Will definitely come. Yelu Dashi was not worried about the IQ and military discipline of these people at all, and said contemptuously: "And it will come soon." ”

The courtiers below, where did they know Yelu Dashi's thoughts at this time, he felt that he had made a series of preparations for a sick chicken, and wanted to fight with it, but the chicken knew nothing, which was a huge insult to Yelu Dashi, who claimed to be a hero.

The person who insulted himself was precisely himself, so that he had nowhere to fire.

Ah Guda and Yang Lin, who they regard as their lifelong enemies, are in the east, the sky is falling apart, the wind and clouds are rolling, the mountains and rivers are changing color, and heroes and heroes are endless, but they are here to scare themselves to play...

After giving the order, a fierce color flashed in Yelu Dashi's eyes, since they took the initiative to send it to the door, this time they will be here to create a big empire.

The envoys sent to the Song Dynasty before were estimated to have not arrived, and Yelu Dashi ordered to select a few from this place as envoys to the Great Song Dynasty.

Yelu Dashi was arranging, and suddenly Xiao Baobao stepped forward and said a few words in his ear.

Yelu Dashi flicked his sleeves and said, "Men are determined to be in the world, how can they covet women." Speaking of this, he suddenly laughed and said, "Send it to the Great Song Dynasty to consume the morale of the Song people." ”

With just one sentence, the Byzantine aristocratic girls imprisoned in the imperial city were all sent to the Great Song Dynasty as gifts.

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Xingzhou, originally called Xingqing Mansion, was the old capital of Western Xia.

Now that Yang Lin has re-ruled the sphere of influence, there are more Uighurs, and the party has probably moved eastward to the Yinxia area.

At the gate of the city, Song Jiang led people to greet Yang Lin here, and now in the area of the Baiyu River, the Jin people are suppressed in the east, and they are difficult to take care of in the Moxi grassland.

After returning to the grassland, the remnants of Hebule's army lost their foundation, and it was difficult to compete with hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses in the northwest.

The situation is very good, the grassland ambush is just around the corner, and many tribes have already surrendered through the Kerebu.

Yang Lin got out of the carriage, and the weather was already a little cold now, especially in the northwest.

He was dressed in a light gray fur and a hat, and a cold wind blew in his face as soon as he got out of the carriage.

Yang Lin shivered from the cold, and a pair of white jade hands behind him put a cloak on him.

Suina stood behind him, not afraid of the cold, but also a little excited. The carefully permed little wavy curly hair set off her delicate snow-white little face, looking forward to Yanran, bright and beautiful, worthy of being the flower of the grassland.

Song Jiang stood under the car with a smile and said, "Shaozai Shen, Song Jiang is convinced, I didn't expect to have such a result!" ”

His face was flushed, his figure looked a little bloated because of his clothes, and his eyes were narrowed into slits, obviously he had received the war report from the grassland.

Yang Lin nodded and said, "The Jurchens are in a hurry to fight a decisive battle, and they don't have enough time to ambush the Mongol tribes, which is their biggest hidden danger. Now that we have discovered it, and we have grasped this shortcoming, the gains and losses of the grassland are the winners and losers of this battle. ”

After finishing speaking, Yang Lin jumped out of the carriage and reached out to help Suina down.

In fact, Suina was born in Hengshan Qiqiang, but she was not squeamish at all, and her movements on and off the horse were more familiar and elegant than Yang Lin.

However, it was rare for the man in front of him to love him so much, and of course Suina smiled and let him help him out of the carriage.

Yang Lin followed Song Jiang while walking and chatting, and the surrounding guards followed closely, Yang Lin's line was in the west of Xingzhou City, and he could reach it in a few steps.

When Tong Guan conquered Xingqing Mansion, there were too many killings, and the entire city was almost full of dead corpses.

Song and Xia's century-old grievances, the Western Army has a sea of blood and hatred, and they have entered the lair of their old enemies, of course, they will not show mercy.

However, in order to promote humanity, the imperial court did not mention the killing of the Song army at all, in fact, there were not many former Tuoba clan members left.

Now the party members under Yang Lin are Hengshan Qiqiang. Hengshan Qiqiang was oppressed by the Tuoba clan for hundreds of years, and Yang Lin helped them turn over, and they were also loyal to Yang Lin.

Not only because Yang Lin treated them much better than the Tuoba clan, but more importantly, their interests were tightly held in Yang Lin's hands.

The benefits of trade are 10,000 times better than grazing, hunting, and plundering.

The line is on the outskirts of the city, built by the mountain, and outside the corridor is a building that descends according to the mountain.

The surroundings were already full of guards, Yang Lin led people into the courtyard, Song Jiang smiled: "Shaozai, look at the pavilion on the high place, you can see the scenery of Xingzhou." ”

Yang Lin shook his head and said: "The autumn wind is bitter and biting, it is very different from the Central Plains. ”

Song Jiang looked disappreciative, but still followed him into the hall, where animal charcoal was burning, and the window was open, and it was still very warm.

Yang Lin turned over the copper furnace with great interest and asked, "Our Great Song charcoal, are they all this kind of charcoal?" ”

"Or else?" Song Jiang asked.

Yang Lin lay down on a soft pile of Arhat carvings, and Suina stood behind him prettyly, gently kneading her shoulders.

After snorting comfortably, Yang Lin said: "Previously, coke and iron smelting appeared in Suzhou, and the people in Changzhou had begun to mine coal. Coal began to be used as a daily fuel in Gangnam, forging, burning lime, refining cinnabar, sulfur, and much more. ”

Song Jiang was stunned and said, "That thing is billowing with smoke, how to use it?" ”

"That's why I often tell you, if you don't read, you suffer the loss of no culture, and there is a record in the Han book, 'Yuzhang is out of stone, and it can be burned as salary'. You don't even have as much knowledge as the people of the Han Dynasty, what's wrong with the thick smoke, isn't it just to erect a chimney. ”

Song Jiang was obviously reluctant to discuss the issue of charcoal, in his opinion, it was all a trivial matter, but said: "Shaozai, Yao Pingzhong chased all the way to the Baiyu River, and Wang Yu and Zong Ze also sent troops to confront the Tartars across the river. As long as we cross the river, no matter how strong the Jurchen is, it is also exhausted, and there is no point in us staying here, it is better to go to the front line. ”

Yang Lin's throat was a little dry, he pressed Su Yina's hand, patted it, and said, "Go and bring a cup of tea." ”

"Gongming, let's wait for the battle of the grassland to be over, press the border from the west, and encircle the Jurchens on three sides, and then it's not too late to attack. Now that the initiative is in our hands, why rush? ”

Song Jiang also knew this truth, but victory was just around the corner, so he couldn't wait.

"This time I have won the victory and returned to the court, the lower officials and others have been arranged, as long as Shaozai says a word, the official family is..."

Yang Lin waved his hand to interrupt him, and said, "I know this matter in my heart, you can just listen to my arrangement, don't make your own decisions." ”

Song Jiang secretly admired in his heart, Shaozai's determination was absolutely unattainable, and he was not in the slightest hurry for such a major event.

In fact, he is not Yang Lin, and he can't understand Yang Lin's state of mind at this time, this emperor is within Yang Lin's reach, but if he handles it well, if he is not careful, he will have endless troubles.

Anyway, it can't run, why should I rush to the top, now in this Great Song Dynasty, the Manchu Dynasty civil and military are not yet ready to be dispatched.

When Suina came with two cups of tea, Yang Lin was getting up and sending Song Jiang away.

Looking at his back, Yang Lin closed his eyes and sighed, Suina put down the tray and asked, "Da Lang, what's wrong?" ”

Yang Lin returned to the couch, wrapped her in his hand, put her on his lap, leaned in from under Cuiluo's skirt with one hand, and took a sip of the teacup with the other, and said, "I'm a little worried, these birdmen will give me a yellow robe." ”

"What's wrong with the yellow robe? By the way, what is the yellow robe? ”

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Outside Bianliang City, a group of people gathered in front of a clearing, and in the midst of the crowd, a bright metal machine was placed.

Many people, with charcoal and brown paper in their hands, waited for the record.

A young man who looked a little thin, after approaching, his hands trembled and hugged his fists, and said: "Ladies and gentlemen, the student is Shen An from the Jiangning school building, this is a machine developed by our Jiangning school building, which can pump water from deep wells with firepower. ”

The people around all nodded their heads, and there was an older one, who was Jia Xian. He was a little impatient and said, "Let's start quickly." ”

"That's it, what's the point of being out of the blue?"

The young man became even more nervous, poured some fierce fire oil into an iron container, and then lit a shovel and shoveled some coke.

In a few moments, thick smoke billowed out, and in a moment the young man was already black.

The people around him scolded and fled, Jia Xian scolded while covering his mouth, and when he got to the distance, he was still scolding, but from a distance, he saw that the two rows of teeth were white.

On the bank of the Bianhe River, a group of people gathered, and one of the "black men" hung his head and said with a crying voice: "We have done a good job in Jiangning, who knows that the charcoal here is so unbearable, and it cannot be compared with that in Changzhou." ”

"It's all your fault, I said to bring charcoal, but you said it's all the same, just to save a few cars and horses, now it's okay, our efforts are all in vain."

Shen An went to the river, washed his face, rubbed it vigorously, slapped his palm on the water, and scolded: "Unwilling! Originally, we could have become famous in one fell swoop and won this year's bounty. ”

Coal, like oil, is frightening in the amount of smoke that billows out of most of it if it is not refined.

However, there are some places where coal is blessed, we call it anthracite, Suzhou's coke ironmaking, the coke used is silver-gray, metallic, hard and porous, and it is also a good coal.

These people who came all the way from Jiangning, after making a joke, packed their luggage overnight and prepared to leave for home tomorrow.

After all, the housing prices in Bianliang are too high, and they can't get the bonus of the sleeve building, so it is difficult for them to even live in the restaurant.

In the office of the Ministry of Culture and Education, I heard a noise inside early in the morning, mixed with very crisp laughter.

Cai Jing walked halfway with the support of several concubines, and heard a voice asking, "What happened in Bianliang today that makes a few of these people so happy?" ”

The official who was cleaning in the courtyard stepped forward and said with a smile: "Back to the Taishi, a few of the people laughing inside were in the west of Bianliang City yesterday, a group of students from the school building in Jiangning, who made a lot of noise to get firepower for water, and as a result, all the hundred and ten people present were dyed into 'black charcoal', hehe, it's a coincidence, our Li Ganban is also among them..."

Cai Jing was stunned when she heard this, and her face was a little ugly, Li Qingzhao was her relative, but she had just been widowed, and she went to the outskirts of the city to join in the fun, which was also unruly.

But when I think of loving a clean person so much, I guess I won't feel good in my heart.

Cai Jingwan smiled, suddenly his eyes widened, and he turned around and asked, "Then the firepower to take water, is it taken up?" ”

"Hey, as soon as the smoke rolls out, everyone is scattered, who knows if you take it out or not."

Cai Jing stood firm and said, "Quickly send someone to find them and send them to the Department of Culture and Education, this is the achievement of the Jiangning School Building, and it is the political achievement of our Department of Culture and Education, but you people only care about making fun of it here." ”

"If we can draw water from the depths, then why should we fear drought? If you don't hurry up and give it away, it will be too late to cry. ”

Cai Jing is in the Department of Culture and Education, and if he says yes, there will be people who will immediately go to look for the Jiangning school building.

This group of people is now a celebrity in Bianliang, and they know where they are as soon as they ask, and most of them are still laughing.

Fortunately, Bianliang is mixed, and no matter what kind of ugliness it is, the topicality will not last long, and it will soon be forgotten.

A group of people who were about to go out of the city were politely invited to the Department of Culture and Education, and who didn't know Cai Jing's name, everyone was in good spirits first.

I randomly thought that I had accidentally injured some noble person yesterday, which provoked the yamen to come to the door, and I was a little timid.

When he arrived at the Department of Culture and Education, he knew that Taishi Cai was interested in their firepower to get water, so he introduced the "sinner" Shen An and explained it to Cai Jing excitedly.

This simple steam engine pumping pump uses the principle of real air pressure, and Rao is Cai Jing is rich and rich, and he can't understand a word.

In the end, I heard that it was because of the coal problem, so I asked them to choose good coal and try it again.

In the autumn of the third year of Xuanhe, the year when Yang Xue blew all over the earth, the steam engine was born.

PS: Two chapters in one