After settling down at the inn in Yumen, the young man couldn't wait to wander around the city again.

"Sure enough, it's outside the Seychelles! It's really worth the trip this time! ”

The young man looked left and right, and he was extremely excited.

Seeing this, the middle-aged man on the side shook his head helplessly and said, "Childe, it's better for us to come out this time and sell the goods earlier, the government has spent a lot of money for this trade."

The jade in the Western Regions is in short supply, not only in Chang'an, but also in some states where people are staring at this piece of meat.

”

This young man is the only son of Bo Yi of the Qiong Kingdom, and since he was submissive to the Qi people, Yi has taken the Qiong as his surname and lived in Chang'an with his family.

In recent years, the business of Qi has prospered, and although the official eunuchs are in business, a nominal earl like him is not among them.

With the increase of Qi's national strength little by little, Qiongyi completely extinguished his mind of recovering the country, and became a rich man in Chang'an with peace of mind.

It's just that although the earl is high, this title is not hereditary, and for the sake of his family's future, Qiongyi has set his sights on the road of doing business.

After a few years of tossing, but it also made him break out of his career, relying on some friends in the court, he got a wine lead, not only made wine but also opened a few restaurants, and the business was also booming.

With the arrival of the Qi forces in the Western Regions, at the beginning of the year, seeing the high-grade jade from the Western Regions, Qiongyi immediately realized that this was a business that could make a lot of money.

Before most people could react, they formed a caravan as fast as they could and hurried to the Western Regions.

His only son, Qiong'an, has no talent in studying, but he is quite interested in business like him, and this trip to the Western Regions is also for him to come over to see the world, after all, the Qiong'an family will be counting on Qiong'an in the future.

There are a lot of Hu people in Yumen Pass, listening to the lame official dialect of the Central Plains, Qiong'an looks very novel when he sees everything.

"Uncle Zhang, don't worry, I won't miss the right thing, I finally came out once, and I don't worry about it for a day."

Dome Road.

Uncle Zhang said helplessly: "It's good that the son knows it in his heart." “

Suddenly, there was a noise in front of him, and Qiong'an looked over there, only to see a lot of people gathered there.

"Let's go! Let's go check it out! ”

"Childe, slow down! Bring a knife! ”

Uncle Zhang said, and hurriedly beckoned the others to follow quickly.

I finally squeezed to the front, and saw a high-nosed and deep-eyed native of the Western Regions tied to the central pillar, and several soldiers with swords on their waists and muskets were guarding there.

Qiong'an looked around and asked a man dressed as a man, "This brother doesn't know what this barbarian has done. ”

The man saw that Qiong'an was not a Hu man, so he said: "This guy was tied up here a few days ago, and it is said that he is a spy from the west, and he will be beheaded here today." ”

"The spies in the west, but the legendary Romans."

"Well, it's the Romans."

Qiong'an was shocked: "How could the Romans appear here. ”

"Do you listen to the Di newspaper, the court has said that the Roman barbarians are bloodthirsty, no different from beasts, as long as they catch one and interrogate it, they will be beheaded, this guy is already the third to be beheaded this year, these barbarians, I really don't know how to write the dead word, and they dare to beat my Daqi idea."

The man hated.

Qiong'an looked at the Hu people and said, "The Romans are no different from the Hu people in the Western Regions. ”

When the man heard this, he said: "Hehe, you don't know this, these people are just vassal forces of the Romans, and no one has ever seen what the real Romans look like." ”

"Since they can come, aren't they not far from here in Yumen."

The man was obviously also a self-acquaintance, and when he saw that the people around him were also curious, he said to himself: "You are asking the right person, my relatives are from the Western Army, and they have been to places further west with the army."

Thousands of miles west from the Yumen, there is a big mountain, and these Hu people came from the west of the mountain, and that bullshit Rome is just south of the mountain.

”

Hearing this, Qiong'an nodded, and then looked at Na Hu Daodao: "This person came to inquire about the news of my Daqi, he must not have any good intentions, he should be killed!" ”

The nearby Qi people also deeply agreed with this.

At noon, a petty officer at the head of the group, after briefly stating the guilt of the Hu man, waved his head off with a knife and let him hang it above the city gate, and the body was dragged away by several soldiers, and I don't know where it was thrown.

After watching the excitement, Qiong'an suddenly felt bored, and he had little interest in the Roman kingdom thousands of miles away.

The jade gate is not big, and it takes less than half a day to wander around, and Qiong'an starts his merchant here with peace of mind.

Changan.

The newly expanded palace is much more magnificent than before, and Yang Hao, who is in his forties, already has a little gray hair on his temples.

Even as an emperor, some people have better material conditions than people of this era, but their faces are still older than their peers in later generations.

In the empty hall, the oil lamp flickered on and off, and the palace maid standing in the dark was motionless like a puppet, if it weren't for the slight sound of breathing, she would have thought it was a dummy.

After reading a transcript, Yang Hao muttered: "Did Rome decide the winner so quickly?" It seems that this Rand is not a soft persimmon either.

Hehe, send spies, is this noticeing me? It's okay, I'm here to see how many pounds and taels you have, don't let me down!

”

Yang Hao stretched, picked up the pipe that was placed aside, and took a hard puff.

Tobacco has been cultivated in a small area in Qi country, as a former old smoker, after getting tobacco leaves, he learned the method of flue-cured tobacco without a teacher.

Although it is not as tasteful as the cigarettes of later generations, it has relieved his smoking addiction for many years in the past six months.

In the smoke, Yang Hao picked up the jade seal and pressed it on the Ministry of Industry's application for the official start of manufacturing steam trains.

For nearly ten years, the State of Qi invested a lot of manpower and material resources, and finally made the first powerful steam engine in the fifth year of the emperor's reign.

After more than half a year of preparation, the factory for the production of trains was finally completed.

Without this, Yang Hao deliberately sent some officials from the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Households, and set up a railway department to supervise this matter.

In recent years, the steel production of Qi has been amazing, and the progress of basic science has been put into actual production at the fastest speed.

The perfection of the steam engine also marked the beginning of an industrial revolution in the Qi Kingdom.

At this moment, Yang Hao knew that the whole world would be different from now on, and what the steam era represented, as a person with some modern souls, was naturally clear in his heart.

At this moment, human beings have the ability to transform nature on a large scale.

It also gave him the confidence to resist Western civilization, and he didn't think that a Qi country in the rising period would be afraid of the natives who had lasted for three generations.

Even if the Western time-traveler is strong, he is dead, and his own genuine time-traveler is still there, and peace talks are an option that does not exist at all in his place, just waiting for everything to be prepared, which indicates that the war that determines the pattern of Eastern and Western civilizations has officially begun.