The news of the victory at Yumen Pass reached Chang'an as quickly as possible, and it was already a month later.

After Yang Hao read the battle report, Long Yan was happy, and after the situation in Yumen stabilized, the Western Regions was in fact surnamed Qi.

However, it is a pity that the Roman envoy escaped in this battle and failed to catch a Roman, which Yang Hao regretted.

And the two muskets sent back allowed Yang Hao to roughly analyze the industrial capacity of Rome from them.

The firearms of Qi were all made of fine iron, and after the steam engine was put into use, the output was greatly increased, and the basic uniform specifications were already realized.

In particular, the appearance of flintlock pistols made a qualitative leap in the combat effectiveness of the Qi army.

And the Firearms Bureau has already begun to study the rear-loading musket according to his request, and as long as the way to succeed in the war will be rewritten again.

Although the process may be long, Yang Hao feels that it is worth putting a lot of effort into it.

On the other hand, the muskets given by Rome to the Wusun people are somewhat different from those of the Qi State, and their appearance is more exquisite than that used by the Qi army.

But in terms of range, the entrance is full of arquebuses, but it is much inferior to the Qi army.

From this point of view, the production of Roman muskets has also initially gotten rid of the limitations of labor and used the method of industrial production.

I just don't know if it's water or steam.

Yang Hao has a rough analysis of Rome's strength, and he believes that Qi and Rome should be between them in terms of industrial capacity.

"That traverser came to this world decades earlier than me, and he actually has this ability, which really makes me look up to me, and the Western barbarians are nothing more than that."

Yang Hao had lost interest in this musket, and some flashy decorations on this musket had already made him disdain for his Western opponents.

In his opinion, weapons are used to kill people, and it is a waste of time to get these things without thinking about improving the performance of weapons.

"That romanticism of the West? When Lao Tzu repairs the train, you sons of won't be able to waste.

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Yang Hao is an extreme racist, staunch man, and only the yellow race is the best people in the world.

Even if we cannot destroy Westerners in our lifetime, we must destroy their culture and civilization, so that they will never be able to turn over until this race completely disappears from the world.

In the seventh year of Emperor Hong Kaihuang, Yang Hao decreed the establishment of Xizhou, and established a city in the middle of the Western Regions, named Dingyuan City, which was the capital of Xizhou.

In July of the same year, Yang Hao sent a large army to attack Mobei, exterminated more than ten tribes in Mobei in a few months, and more than 100,000 captives moved into Hexi and inland to build railways, and built military bases in Beihai.

In the eighth year of the emperor's reign, Yang Hao was forty-seven years old, and the northern territory of Qi had extended to the area of Lake Baikal in later generations, although there was only a small stronghold of less than 100 people, but the flag of Qi had been fluttered and raised, swearing its own sovereignty.

In nine years, Yang Hao organized two more expeditions, one to the Americas along the route that had been opened, and the other to the South Seas.

The goal this time is the same as last time, the same is the crops and mineral resources useful for the war, although the country of Qi is large, there are still many things that cannot meet the needs of the country.

Especially in the past two years, with the increase of national strength, the disposable income of the people of Qi has increased greatly, and the requirements for the quality of life have been completely different from before.

Moreover, after more than 20 years of universal education, there are more and more intellectuals in Qi State, and they attach more importance to this aspect.

No matter what the reason, Yang Hao felt that it was necessary to use the national strength of Qi to collect the world's wealth for his own use before the world was divided.

In the ninth year of the emperor's reign, it took nearly two years, nearly 100,000 prisoners, and tens of thousands of people to build the railway.

These two railways start from Chang'an and go directly to the capital of Xizhou, which is thousands of miles long and consumes countless steel and timber, even with the current national strength of Qi.

It accounts for almost 30% of the total steel output of Qi country, but all this is worth it after the railway is built.

The running train makes the land of the Western Regions not lonely from the inland.

And the emergence of railways has also directly driven the economy along the way.

Especially in the Hexi area, the local garrison's incessant attacks on the surrounding barbarians organized households and people, opening up a safe barrier along the railway.

At the time of the rapid development of the Qi State, the western Rome was divided into two factions in the treatment of the Qi State.

One side believed that the great Roman Empire should be above all races, and that it was necessary to demand that the Eastern Qi Kingdom submit to it.

On the other hand, the other side believes that the Qi State is different from the previous conquered lands, and that it is exhausting to send envoys to show friendship, rather than spending money and food on soldiers, and that Rome is not stable internally, and rebellions are coming and going, and it is exhausting to deal with the endless rebellions.

The young Rand had recently become more and more impatient with the Lord and the faction, and he thought very highly of himself, feeling that he was more capable than his father and grandfather, and that the empire would reach unprecedented heights in his own hands.

Several of his brothers, such a good person, dared to compete with him for the throne, and he didn't take them into account from the beginning.

As it turned out, Rand had no trouble taking out several of his older brothers.

And easily beat the Venede barbarians in the north and fled to the north, and now someone made him equal to another country, which is simply a humiliation to him.

It's just that many of these peace factions are nobles with high titles and have a lot of troops in their hands.

As a last resort, Rand didn't want to offend these people.

It's just that news came back from the north that the Qi people in the east had built an extremely strong pass at the narrow mountain passage and stationed heavy troops, which was obviously not good.

Although Rand was conceited, he also admitted that Qi had a certain strength and could not easily defeat this strange enemy.

Although the empire has a population of tens of millions, it is scattered in a huge territory, and there are not many of them.

Rand is also waiting, waiting for the Empire's train to be repaired to the easternmost part of the Empire, as long as the railway is opened, a southern passage is being opened.

Mobilize a million troops by yourself, no matter how strong the Qi people are, there is only one way to fail in front of the imperial army.

In this way, the world depicted in the grandfather's map, with the exception of the distant land, would be included in the Roman territory.

The greed for the land and the lust for power made him unable to withstand such temptations.

The world will be unified in its own hands, and the whole of humanity will sing the praises of the greatness of Taland.

In the glorious palace, Rand showed a hint of madness.