"Your Majesty, hey, Xingxia Zhang Qiang, you are also here." When Hu Xiaosi, Zhang Jianzhong and Xu Tianxiang walked into the Changqing Palace, they found that Li Xuanqing and Qiaoxi were pointing at a model sailing ship with Xu Xingxia, and Zhang Qiang next to him was even full of excitement.

"What's wrong with you three? Coming together, is there any new progress on Tessie's side? After Li Xuanqing was interrupted by Hu Xiaosi, he beckoned the three of them to sit down, and did not forget to ask Zhang Qiang to put the model sailboat on the table on the side.

"Da Qin and Da Shi have been successfully split, and I am here to hand over the order to the emperor. After more than three years, the Xuanying Wei Taixi branch successfully completed the mission. Hu Xiaosi changed his previous hippie smiling face and got up and said solemnly: "The Great Qin Empire is divided into dozens of countries, except for the Balkan region where Byzantium is located and controlled by the Great Qin Royal Court, the north is divided into more than a dozen small countries, and the Aegean region is occupied by the navy led by Elidogan. Gaul and northwestern Thailand were restored to their previous status quo ante and fragmented, while the area where Kiev Russia was located was occupied by the Kingdom of Tungas, whose army had more than doubled in size in a short period of time across the entire Dnieper River basin, and drove millions of Slavs to the Danube and the northwestern coast of Thailand. The Great Food Empire was basically divided into six countries, from east to west, the Kingdom of Persia in the Persian region, the Caliphate of Baghdad in the Baghdad region, the Kingdom of Celestial Heaven, the Kingdom of Judea near Jerusalem, the Kingdom of Tunisia, and the Kingdom of the Iberian Caliphate in the Iberian Peninsula. After Hu Xiaosi finished speaking, he said: "After the division of the two countries, there is no external power, and in addition to the continuous filth between the countries, there are also many internal worries, which are more complicated than the chaotic Tianzhu Peninsula." ”

Li Xuanqing nodded and glanced at Qiaoxi, he was very satisfied with Xuan Yingwei's plan for more than three years, basically this is also the basic territory of the later generations, after the split, the Taixi countries completely lost the strength to compete with the Tang Dynasty, and the Great Food Empire also split the territory across the three continents into countries similar to those of later generations in advance, which is undoubtedly greater good news for Li Xuanqing, who has been worried about the external expansion of the Heavenly Fang Sect.

Xu Tianxiang said with a smile after Hu Xiaosi finished speaking: "Xiaosi, this is almost enough, the General Staff has not much to say about the Western Expeditionary Army, the Western Expeditionary Army has basically completely occupied Central Asia and Asia Minor, and southern Egypt has also been completely taken, Zhang Sheng's Anxi Corps even directly crossed the Egyptian border and advanced to less than 300 kilometers away from Tunisia, I heard that it is ready to redraw the border with the other party." The whole situation in Tessie has been decided. Xu Tianxiang was relaxed when he said this, but in the understatement, it revealed the military momentum such as today's heyday. After the fall and division of Great Qin and Great Eclipse one after another, Datang has become the only superpower in this vast and boundless land, and it is the real Heavenly Empire. Even in Xu Tianxiang's view, Li Xuanqing at this time was already a veritable Heavenly Khan. After all, these divided countries, large and small, in the face of the strong soldiers of the Tiance Army, without exception, will pay tribute to the Tang Dynasty. A hundred years ago, Taizong's title of Heavenly Khan was firmly in Li Xuanqing's hands this time.

"Is the Cabinet going to submit to the Senate for consideration of the establishment of provinces in Central Asia and Asia Minor?" Li Xuanqing looked at Zhang Jianzhong and said with a smile: "These two places are not suitable for establishing a province for the time being, it is better to have military management, after all, the Tang Dynasty has no ruling foundation in these places, and it is necessary to use military management to sort out the early stage, and then carry out immigration enrichment." The Cabinet and the General Staff should jointly draw up an effective plan. ”

Although Zhang Jianzhong was a little regretful that he did not agree to the establishment of a province, he quickly adjusted and said: "The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is too busy during this time. After the split of Taixi, dozens of countries suddenly dealt with our Datang, and a basic criterion needs to be established for foreign affairs work. ”

"There are three basic principles, one is fairness and justice to other countries under the condition that Datang gives priority, the second is the most-favored-nation treatment for trade, and the third is Datang's judicial jurisdiction." Li Xuanqing raised three fingers and said with a smile: "In short, Datang's goods must enjoy the most preferential treatment when entering various countries. ”

Zhang Jianzhong nodded and said: "Your Majesty, rest assured, our foreign affairs work will not violate these three guidelines, and strive to make all countries have no opinions on Datang." ”

"Alright, the basic rules have been decided, and the rest is up to you. Since you have encountered it today, let's take a look at the masterpieces of Xingxia and Zhang Qiang, which is a major event that is not inferior to the achievements of the Western Expeditionary Army. Li Xuanqing waved his hand and asked Xu Xingxia to move the model over and put it in front of everyone, and said with a smile: "Guess what's so special about this ship." ”

"I don't see anything special other than the addition of sails." When the three of them saw that Li Xuanqing had something to do, they all went around in a circle, but they didn't find anything special.

"Alright, I won't tease you. Zhang Qiang, this is made by you, you can explain it to them. Li Xuanqing and Qiaoxi looked at each other and smiled, and motioned for Zhang Qiang to come over and explain. For the duo, the model and the new boat, which has already been keeled at the Tianjin shipyard, basically represent a new revolution in Datang's shipbuilding industry. Because this ship uses the latest new technology, longitudinal two-shaft double rudder, two-blade rudder blade. The design of the paddle wheel propulsion system was completely changed, which not only saved a lot of space and weight of the boat, but most importantly, the radical change of the transmission system allowed the steam engine to greatly reduce the waste of power, so that the range and speed of the ship have been greatly improved. According to Qiaoxi's arrangement, the Shanghai shipyard at the mouth of the Yangtze River in the emerging city and the shipyard in Liuqiu will immediately vacate the slipway and dock to refit all the current ships, and all the previous paddle wheels will be replaced with a twin-shaft twin-rudder propulsion system.

Zhang Qiang's detailed explanation made the three of them feel fresh. In addition to the design of a genius ship designer in the shipyard, there is also the progress of the new special steel newly developed by Yuwenjia. For special steel, neither Li Xuanqing nor Qiaoxi knows very much, many only know a name and characteristics, but neither of them knows the specific formula. Therefore, this aspect is a new formula developed by Yuwenjia in the past ten years of tireless investment and research and development in steelmaking. In practice, the formulas of new special steels such as new nickel alloy steel and tungsten manganese alloy steel are almost all developed by Yuwenjia and the special steel research institute of the equipment department. And in this process, Yuwenjia has explored a complete set of special steel smelting and processing processes, as well as a full set of machinery and equipment. On this basis, it has brought new innovation to Datang's steelmaking industry. The latest steelmaking furnace has reached the level of the later martin furnace and open-hearth, and a series of new technologies such as top blowing have also been invented. Moreover, in order to adapt to the increasingly strict requirements of the Ministry of Water Resources and Environmental Protection for environmental pollution, Yuwenli has also developed a relatively complete waste gas and waste residue recycling and treatment system, opening a new chapter in waste recycling. At this point, even Zhang Quanfu rushed over directly to prepare for a field visit.

The successful development of the new special steel makes the longitudinal propulsion system have materials that can be adapted, so as to avoid the heating and deformation of the spindle after working for a long time when the longitudinal biaxial propulsion is too long, which will bring hidden dangers. This made Li Xuanqing see the opportunity for the emergence of new ships. According to the design calculation of Tianjin Shipyard, after adopting the latest twin-shaft and twin-rudder propulsion system, the monohull can increase its performance by about 20 percent on the basis of the original one, and even after adopting the latest hull, this figure can be increased by 30 percent. This also means that the current number of all power vessels of Datang has increased by more than 30% in capacity and speed. This is undoubtedly great news for Egypt, whose farthest territory of the empire is already in the Mediterranean. It greatly reduced the pressure on the Northwest Railway, and ships from Xihai County were able to reach the Persian Governorate without any interruption of supplies.

With the addition of the new ships and the Phoenician Canal, the future Tang Dynasty will firmly control the Taixi countries, so that it will provide a stable commodity market for domestic industry and commerce after the Tianzhu Peninsula, and can quickly send goods thousands of miles away.

"The Cabinet may consider liberalizing export restrictions on powered vessels at its discretion. It's just that the export vessel is not allowed to be a new ship with such longitudinal two-shaft propulsion. Any ship that is not worth altering can be sold to Tessie. None of this will be a problem when the Phoenician Canal is opened. Li Xuanqing decided to relax the restrictions after the Tianjin shipyard was already able to design and manufacture new ships, which was tantamount to allowing the domestic heavy industry, which was originally in absolute blockade, to break the technical restrictions and unable to achieve export restrictions. The deep-seated reason is that Li Xuanqing and Qiaoxi have calculated that according to the current population and scale of heavy industry in the empire, it will inevitably reach a relatively saturated state within five years, and it is necessary to find an opportunity for heavy industry to expand exports, although the opening of high-end technology industry has not been loosened. But by selling primary products and primitive technology, the industrial development of the empire was bound to lead to a climax. Even this time, it has been detached from the two of them, and the heavy industry of the empire has stepped out of the path of independent development, which is the most gratifying and relaxing place for the two.

"Your Majesty, don't worry, I will discuss carefully with Murong and Chongmin and then revise the export prohibition list. It's just—" Zhang Jianzhong said with a wry smile: "The Taixi countries have just experienced a great war, and now they are divided into dozens of countries, I'm afraid they may not have much financial resources to buy our power ships." We can't trade at a loss, can we? ”

"You can ask the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to add a clause when negotiating with them, for the countries that have passed the examination of Xuan Yingwei, they can issue loans by the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China under the condition that they use Tang currency, and let Honglin study the interest rate or something. However, they were told that all countries that adopted Tang coins must pay a currency tax. Datang can't give them the use of our currency for nothing. The smile on Li Xuanqing's face made several people present couldn't help but feel a chill. This still requires them to pay taxes after calculating the other party once with Tang coins, so can they still play like this? However, no one, including Xu Xingxia, objected to this matter, after all, Tang Yuan's method of controlling the finance of other countries in this era, even if the Jewish kingdom has been established, it is impossible for Jews who have not undergone thousands of years of precipitation to know that finance can still play like this. Therefore, no matter how you calculate this matter, the ultimate beneficiaries are all Datang, and even for businessmen like Xu Xingxia, I wish everyone used Tang coins, so that the transaction speed of goods would be faster.

"Alright, big brother, let's talk about this other special place." After seeing Li Xuanqing finish saying this, Qiaoxi took over the conversation and said with a smile: "What I want to talk about today is this sail." ”

"Yes, the third sister-in-law almost forgot if she didn't say it. Don't we have a steam engine? It's all charcoal-burning, so why put this sail on it? Hu Xiaosi touched his head and smiled: "This seems to be the first thing I started asking." ”

"Xingxia, come on, you're going to use it right away anyway." Li Xuanqing smiled: "This time, with the sail, you are safe enough to go anywhere, right?" ”

"That's what the emperor said." Xu Xingxia was not polite, nodded and said, "This sail is mainly prepared for ocean voyages. This time, I'm going to set out from the vicinity of Luzon and head east to see if I can find the new land recorded in the Classic of Mountains and Seas. ”

"Overseas classics?" Hu Xiaosi frowned, but still nodded and said: "That's right, I have asked the Dark Guard and the Flying Eagle Brigade to follow the naval expedition to the south before, and it turned out that there is still a piece of land south of Sriwijaya, and the preliminary area is not small. "The naval expedition team, Xuan Yingwei and the Flying Eagle Brigade have found a new continent located at the southern tip of the South Sea at the beginning of the year, but this time this continent is not named Australia, but directly named the Southern Wilderness, which was proposed by Su Xiaohu, and no one cares why the commander of the Flying Eagle Brigade thought of these two words, but these are not important. The important thing is that after the discovery of the Southern Wilderness Continent, the absurd places recorded in the Classic of Mountains and Seas began to be re-examined by all levels of the Tang Dynasty, and after new discoveries continued to be transmitted back to China, Xu Xingxia had already planned to start an ultra-long-distance voyage to explore whether there was a new continent to the east of the ocean. After all, the continent that was discovered after heading north from Vladivostok stretched all the way south. It's just that the route is too restrictive, so it was not agreed by Li Xuanqing to be announced as a regular route.

"It's not the first time for you to go on a long voyage, and I don't need to explain the materials that need to be prepared." Li Xuanqing nodded, according to the experience of later generations, this voyage organized by Xu Xingxia was not just a matter of discovering the New World. But it's better for them to find out for themselves. In ancient China, there were all the basic conditions for long-distance sailing, and this life was enriched to the extreme, and now it is time to carry out this feat. (https:)

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