Chapter 155: The Four Towns of Anxi
Chang'an is not only expensive rice, with the continuous expansion of the population, the society after Zhenguan is becoming more and more stable, Chang'an has gradually become, it is not easy to live up.
The price of land, compared with the early years of Zhenguan, has already doubled, and the upward momentum is still very strong.
Chang'an City is only so big, millions of people are pouring in, and there are more and more officials, all of whom need to have a place to live, how can houses not become more and more expensive?
Although Li Zhonghua did not particularly remind Wu Zetian of anything, it has to be said that Wu Zetian has a very sensitive reaction to real estate.
As early as when she kept renting the shop, she felt that it was extremely uneconomical to pay the rent to the landlord every month.
So when she expands her store, she can buy it, buy it as much as possible, even if the other party asks for a slightly higher price, she doesn't like to rent other people's properties.
Seeing that there is a favorite property to sell, she will not hesitate to buy it, in her words, that is, there are so many sisters in the family, each of them may have their own children, or even more than one, there is nothing wrong with buying more real estate, be prepared.
Even if you can't use it temporarily, you can rent it out, and even arrange some shopkeepers who take care of your own business, and live in it, you can also buy people's hearts and make the other party work harder.
Although the lord's mansion is not small, and his own lord also bought it with money, but after all, it is the property of the imperial court, and Wu Zetian does not have much sense of security in his heart.
Looking back now, the investment in these properties has yielded great returns, and the value of the properties with excellent geographical locations has increased several times, and it cannot but be said that this is an unexpected income.
It's hard to reunite once, it stands to reason that he has to stay in Liaodong for a few months, and even Li Zhonghua thinks that it is enough to let Wu Zetian command it remotely.
But Wu Zetian was not at ease, so he let his own industry in Chang'an go.
In fact, there is also a strong woman in Chang'an, that is Wang Qiangrose, the patriarch of the Dayuan Wang clan and the granddaughter of Wang Qi, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites.
Wang Qi, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, died of illness at this time, and Wang Qiangrose is no longer a young girl, but I don't know why, Wang Qiangrose, who is twenty-six years old this year, is still an old girl who has not left the cabinet.
After so many years of development, China Restaurant has been opened all over the states and capitals of the Tang Dynasty, and some counties with good economic development also have branches of China Restaurant.
In this, Wang Qiangrose's contribution is great.
This time, Wu Zetian took Feng Qiushuang and others, and before coming to Liaodong, the important task of managing the industries under the name of China was handed over to Wang Qiangrose.
However, Wu Zetian is still not very relieved in his heart, not because of Wang Qiangrose's ability, in fact, Wu Zetian is still very optimistic about Wang Qiangrose's people.
It's just that in Wu Zetian's heart, Wang Qiangrose is an outsider after all, and there is a big family called the Dayuan Wang family behind him, supporting him, so he is afraid that the Dayuan Wang family will take the opportunity to ask Wang Qiangrose to do something that harms the interests of the Li family.
If Wang Qiangrose was his sister and Li Zhonghua's woman, Wu Zetian would not be so worried.
Girls are extroverted, if Wang Qiangrose is Li Zhonghua's woman, even if it is the Dayuan Wang, there is no way to force her to do something that harms Li Zhonghua's interests.
After three months in Liaodong, the industrial park in Jinzhou has officially started operation.
In addition to cement, a new product, Li Zhonghua took the opportunity of building a kiln to burn cement, and Li Zhonghua also got the glass out by the way.
It has always been the glaze of the Western Regions, and it was brought to the Tang Dynasty by merchants from the Western Regions to sell, and the selling price was amazing.
Now Li Zhonghua plans to develop the Maritime Silk Road, and a mirror made of glass is, of course, indispensable, and something that can be sold for a large price, and the cost paid is just some sand.
Wu Zetian saw himself in the mirror for the first time, and he was also surprised to close his mouth, the effect of the mirror made of glass, compared with the copper realm, the effect is really not a little better, and the cost is very cheap.
And the role of glass is not only to make mirrors, but also to burn glasses and drink Chinese red wine, which is really the best.
As soon as the three months passed, Wu Zetian couldn't wait to go back to Chang'an, although she also wanted to stay by her man's side, but she enjoyed it more, the feeling of being in control of everything and deciding the fate of many people.
After the Tang Dynasty withdrew its troops, the Goguryeo king Gaozang was very afraid that the Tang Dynasty would attack again, but sent his son Mo Zhili to Gao Renwu and take the delegation to Chang'an to pay tribute, and apologize for his crimes.
The Tang Dynasty was one of the most high-spirited times in Chinese history, and the frequency of frontier wars and the number of victories were very rare in ancient Chinese history.
Only the Tang Dynasty could give birth to a special school of Biansai poetry, and give birth to verses like "Every year the bones of the war are buried in the wilderness".
As for "the Han family is full of Yin Mountain, and if you don't send Hu'er to return the horse, you are willing to grow and serve the country, why should you be born in Yumen Pass?" "The desert is dark and dusty, and the red flag is half rolled out of the gate. The former army fought in Taohebei at night, and has reported that it has captured Gu Hun", "Qinghai Changyun Dark Snow Mountain, and the lonely city looks at Yumen Pass. Yellow sand wears gold armor in a hundred battles, and Loulan will not be returned if it is not broken", "Grape wine luminous cup, if you want to drink pipa, urge immediately." Drunk and lying on the battlefield, how many people came back to fight in ancient times? This kind of bold rhetoric, due to the atmosphere of martial arts and literature in later dynasties, has even become an absolute sound of the martial spirit of the Chinese in ancient history.
In the twentieth year of Zhenguan, the war broke out again in the west. At the same time, subduing the Turks and the Tang Dynasty, Li Shimin sent an army led by Guo Xiaoke, Ashina Sheer, and Yang Hongli, and sent more than 100,000 cavalry to conquer Qiuci.
The turtle guards will flee from the wind. The king of Qiuzi, Qi Lifa, led 50,000 troops to meet the Tang army. The vanguard of the Tang army was small, and when they saw this, they pretended to retreat, and the Qiuzi army followed up, and when they encountered a large army of the Tang army, they were severely attacked.
Ashina Sheer then marched into the capital of Qiuzi, and the king of Qiuzi fled on horseback. Guo Xiao held the city, and Xue Wanbei (Xue Wanche's younger brother) led the cavalry to chase and fight for 600 miles, and finally captured him.
In this battle, the prime minister of the state of Qiuzi, who was only spared, was a patriot who was unwilling to admit defeat, and he invited Turkic soldiers to attack the Tang army, and even killed Guo Xiaoke.
But it was immediately hit hard by the Don army. This attack on Qiuzi successively broke through five large cities and captured tens of thousands of men and women.
From then on, the Tang Dynasty set up four towns in Anxi in the Western Regions, namely Qiuzi, Khotan, Shule, and Xiaye, as a stronghold to control the Western Regions.
In the same year, the Tang army broke Xue Yantuo again. After the defeat of Zhenguan in the fifteenth year of his reign, Xue Yantuo gave up the Turkic territories he had seized and fled back to his hometown in the north.
However, the rest of Tiele was afraid of Xue Yantuo and asked the Tang Dynasty for help, so Li Tao led 20,000 cavalry surnamed Tiele to the expedition.
Xue Yantuo "saw that the officials and soldiers were dying, and he was terrified and didn't know what to do", and asked the Tang Dynasty to surrender. However, the Tiele tribes complained to the Tang Dynasty, saying that Xue Yantuo was duplicitous.
So Li Tao pursued the army, beheaded more than 5,000 people, and captured 30,000 men and women. Since then, Xue Yantuo has almost "died and scattered".
Just when Goguryeo King Gozang sent his son Mo Zhili to Gao Renwu and go to Chang'an of the Tang Dynasty to pay tribute and apologize, Da Mo Zhiyuan Gai Suwen united with Baekje and invaded Silla, and the Silla was defeated and retreated, losing dozens of cities one after another.
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