"Your Majesty, haha, the exact news of the Third Corps has finally been sent back from the Xuanying Guard." Chang'an has entered the busy track of the two in mid-February of the second year of the Apocalypse, because the war in the northwest continues, a large number of materials continue to enter Lingzhou through the railway and then transported to the northwest, Chang'an and Fengzhou two railway transportation hubs are almost contracted military weapons and logistics grain and grass two major materials distribution center, and with a large number of materials into the northwest after the train came back to bring back a large number of Northwest prisoners of war and captured materials, and even a large amount of gold and silver wealth transported back from the northwest. Since ancient times, the northwest has been a very high proportion of gold and silver, Ganzhou, Suzhou and Shazhou, Guazhou and other places compared to the mainland, the passage rate of gold and silver is greater than that of the mainland, so the western expedition through the sweep of the Uighurs and the base camp of the Guiyi army, the Tiance army seized a large number of gold and silver property, including a large number of gold and silver coins in the local circulation, these seizures were transported to Hexi Province by these logistics departments and brought back to the headquarters of the Chang'an base camp by these trains, and with the opening of the Tang Qianzhuang branch in Shazhou and other places, A large amount of gold and silver, which was exchanged for Tang coins by the people, was also transported back with the car and became part of the bank's reserves.

When Hu Xiaosi came to Li Xuanqing, Li Xuanqing was discussing with Qiaoxi and Murong Feixue to prepare to split the industrial group, and he had such an idea before, preparing to spin off all the manufacturing divisions of the industrial group and hand them over to the imperial cabinet to be state-owned, and the industrial group will take out all its energy to concentrate on manufacturing research and development, and at the same time establish a chemical group to make efforts to start the chemical industry. This is a major restructuring of the imperial family's assets, while throwing out a large number of mature factories to support the improvement of the empire's industrialization level, it is more that Li Xuanqing is ready to take this opportunity to improve the technical level of the industrial group, which is used for the research and development of large-scale manufacturing technologies such as shipbuilding and design, the production and manufacturing of large vehicles, and the research and development of core power equipment. This is also a change for the three husband and wife, especially for Murong Feixue, who has now assisted Qiaoxi to control the entire royal enterprise, it is also an eye-opener, Li Xuanqing and Qiaoxi's thinking seems to be always staring ahead, and they don't seem to be looking at the mature manufacturing group in their hands, if they don't stop it, these two people don't seem to be ready to even ask for the BMW Group.

However, after the streamlining of the royal assets will be re-established into three complete parts, the first part is the cutting-edge manufacturing group, the main force is the BMW Group, Shenzhou Large Equipment Manufacturing Group and Tianjin Shipbuilding Group, the three largest large manufacturing groups in the Tang Empire, plus the industrial group R&D headquarters located in Chang'an headquarters, forming a complete set of industrial chain from R&D to equipment manufacturing to the final large-scale product manufacturing. In this industrial chain, almost all the fulcrums are the most cutting-edge parts of the Tang Empire in their respective industries. Li Xuanqing and Qiaoxi extracted this part of the core industry, and then set out to let Zhang Qiang and Muchen reorganize the industrial group, and the remaining large number of mature factories and manufacturing centers were all integrated and handed over to the cabinet to prepare for the newly established state-owned assets management bureau for state-run, and Cen Tianshi was also ready, after taking over this part of the assets, streamlined again, and then sold most of the low-end factories at the end of the industrial chain to the people, so as to drive the rapid development of the entire imperial industrial class. This is also a policy formulated by Li Xuanqing at the beginning, which was to promote the rapid development of the empire's industry through himself or the imperial state-owned enterprises, and then sell them to the private sector after maturity.

After streamlining the industrial group, Li Xuanqing began to integrate various other light factories and institutions opened in Qiaoxi's early stage to form a royal light industry and commercial development group, the most important of which were the two bicycle manufacturing companies run by the Media Group and Murong Feixue. Needless to say, the media group can be said to have directly changed the path of information dissemination and development of the Tang Empire, and now the media group has developed more than a dozen categories and more than 40 kinds of publications, including all aspects of the current development of the empire, and even led to the emergence of the most primitive folk tabloid company, as of the fourth year of the Apocalypse, the press and publication office under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has registered more than 50 newspapers and publishing companies. There are relatively well-run new journal publishing companies under the six major families, as well as pure information publishing and distribution platforms similar to media groups, and the unprecedented profession of journalist is sought after by the group.

As for the bicycle factory manufactured by Murong Feixue every year before Murong Feixue, the bicycles have swept the streets and alleys of the entire empire, and the use and manufacture of bicycles have developed rapidly after Li Xuanqing has brought out plastic products, especially after the development of Nanyang trade, the rubber killer has been successfully found from Nanyang, at present, the Tang Empire has imported a large number of finished rubber since last year, and at the same time, many businessmen in Guangzhou and other places have begun to plant rubber trees in the local area, so they have recruited many locals from Nanyang, This industrial booster, which appeared thousands of years earlier, once again added more impetus to the industrial development of the empire.

"Your Majesty, Li Yang has taken the city of Khotan and controlled the situation in Khotan. It's just that Xue Yang and Xu Ying have no news yet, and according to the last information sent back by Biaozi, they are lightly armed and ready to raid the secrets. While accompanying Li Xuanqing to divide the assets of the royal family, Hu Xiaosi casually reported the latest information he had just received. However, it is obvious that he doesn't know much about the chemical group that Li Xuanqing finally sorted out, but he didn't ask. Some of the royal assets were taken out by Li Xuanqing and distributed to a few sworn brothers who followed him at the beginning, although the shares are not much, but with the rapid development of the industrial group in recent years, the value of Hu Xiaosi and others is also rising rapidly, and they can be called real little rich, although these people have no big concept of money.

"At present, the chemical group is still mainly engaged in coal chemical industry and rubber manufacturing and R&D, and the rest can gradually industrialize the new products developed in the laboratory." Li Xuanqing handed the report in his hand to Qiaoxi and nodded, then turned to Hu Xiaosi and said, "Xue Yang, you don't have to worry, I'm afraid he is already under the Secret Protector City at this moment." This guy fights the same as Hou Chun, almost never takes the right path, and he has a good vision, and he suddenly picks the fortress of the Safarid Dynasty, as long as he can defeat this green town, then the situation in the entire northwest will be completely changed. ”

"Big brother, I heard that the Ma family in Fujian is already planning to build a rubber plantation of 10,000 acres, I plan to go to Fujian with my sister to talk to the head of his family after a while, they are responsible for rubber planting, we are responsible for building a factory for the production of finished products, and by the way, look at the construction of the third shipyard in Shantou Port." Qiaoxi saw that Li Xuanqing was about to discuss the war in the northwest with Hu Xiaosi, and stood up and said. In addition to the Tianjin and Dalian shipyards, the Tianjin Shipbuilding Group has begun to build the third and fourth shipyards in the Yangtze River Delta and Shantou to meet the increasing demand for ocean-going vessels. The shipyards of the Zhang family in Jinling and Hangzhou are now also making continuous efforts, but they have no technical reserves and construction experience for iron-hulled ships, and basically buy the architectural drawings and manufacturing technology of inland river flat-bottomed boats and small-tonnage ocean fishing boats that are ready to be delegated to them from Tianjin Shipyard. After almost all the Dalian shipyards were converted into military ship manufacturing bases, only the Tianjin shipyard was left for civilian ships, and the ships produced and launched every year could not meet the demand.

"It's okay, I'll also go, just to tour the south to see the industrial development of the provinces along the way, the construction of an industrial belt in the north does not mean that the industrial development in the south will stagnate." Li Xuanqing nodded, looked at Qiao Xi and smiled at him, then walked out, rubbed his eyebrows, stood up and continued with Qiao Xi while walking out of the Prayer Hall: "Don't worry about Xue Yang on the front line, if my estimate is good, they can solve the Safarid Dynasty alone, during this time, you should cooperate with the General Staff to deploy the preparations for the recovery of Tibet, and in March, aren't the Navy Department and Chen Fan's side preparing to recover Liuqiu?" Are you Xuanying Guard ready? ”

When Li Xuanqing and Hu Xiaosi discussed the war in the northwest, especially the dynamics of Xue Yang's department, Xue Yang's side had already pulled out the camp and opened towards the protection of the secret as Li Xuanqing expected, and the winter nights in the northwest were very cold, although the Third Corps was all equipped with the best military uniforms for the imperial cold, but many soldiers were still shivering from the cold. However, at this time, almost all the soldiers of the mountain battalion and the third battalion did not care about the severe cold, but went towards the peak in the distance as fast as possible. The area where Humi is located is the southernmost point of the Green Ridge Mountains, stuck in the crossroads between Khotan and the southern plateau. After the Safarid Dynasty occupied this place, it became a sharp sword hanging over the heads of Khotan and other northwestern countries, keeping the surrounding countries awake at night. Moreover, this place is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the Samanid Dynasty had also thought about taking the protector before, but the 100,000 army took more than a month without achieving any results, and finally left.

"General Qiyu, there are still fifteen miles away from the Secret Protection City, and the secret guards on the Xuanying Guard's side have lost contact with us." The report of the pro-guard team made Xue Yang frown, but then he shook his head indifferently and said, "It's okay, even if they know that we have taken action to protect secrets, they definitely don't expect that we will appear in front of them the next day." Go and tell my brother to speed up the troops and prepare for the attack, and be sure to take down the guard tonight. As soon as Xue Yang's order was issued, the speed of the mountain battalion and the third battalion increased again, Xu Ying urged the troops to speed up their advance in front of the front, and arranged the attack order in front of him, and at the same time ordered the demolition team to form three blasting detachments to prepare three blasting points for the outline of the secret city brought back by the reconnaissance detachment from long-distance reconnaissance, and at the same time, the reconnaissance detachment needed to be responsible for tracking and protecting the actions of the blasting detachment throughout the process.

The distance of fifteen miles was not completed in half an hour in front of the two fastest teams, and the mountain battalion and the third battalion slowed down when they approached the city guard, and began to crawl forward towards the city hundreds of zhang away, and the demolition detachment arrived at the city wall with blasters and sapper shovels and began to quickly arrange the blasting points. At this time, except for the soldiers on duty occasionally appearing on the irregular multi-diamond city wall, there are not many lights at all, and at this time it has entered the second half of the night, and the cold wind is even more harsh, but at this time, the soldiers of the Tiance Army who are in ambush are silently making the best final preparations, the attacking troops have checked their ammunition, and the mortar detachment and their own auxiliaries have also appeared in the attack sequence, they need to rush to the city wall to occupy the commanding heights as soon as possible, and then use the shells in their hands to support the fierce battle in the city, To this end, Xue Yang equipped the mortar detachment with a powerful escort force of 500 people.

"Order, detonate immediately." Xu Ying, who was carrying a large number of fire-igniting things with his personal guards, immediately ordered after seeing the signal coming from the front, only to see that in the next moment, three black-red mushroom clouds instantly rose into the sky, and the "boom" explosion suddenly appeared under the originally quiet and cold Humi City like a groundbreaking volcanic eruption, as if it was split by the Kaitian giant axe, and the originally impregnable city wall of Humi was blown apart, and countless rubble scattered and flew in all directions. The main blast in the middle was filled with too many blasting canisters, and the result was that this section of the city wall was completely blown up, and the collapsed stones and masonry even buried all the Safarid squad that originally patrolled here.

"After blowing the trumpet of the charge and ordering the whole army to storm into the city, but then blocking and killing." Xue Yang almost ordered the standard-bearer beside him to blow the horn almost as soon as the explosion fell, and the loud horn instantly conveyed the will of the commander of the Third Corps, and more than 20,000 horses of the Third Corps rushed towards the bombed city wall like a tiger coming out of the mountain. Because the difference in the number of enemies and us is too large, the order issued by Xue Yang is also more bloody and cruel, almost all the soldiers of the Tiance Army have received an order that surprised them, after entering the city, they don't care about the difference between the army and the people, as long as they are not their own people and refuse to surrender, they will be killed. Although this order later caused the tragedy of protecting secrets that terrified the entire northwest, it was a great shock to the Saffarid dynasty. At least for more than two months after the Battle of Humi, they did not dare to move at all, giving the Tiance army the best time to clean up the northwest and reinforce Khotan.

After being attacked by a huge explosion, the guards were like a rabbit that had just been frightened, and countless figures inside began to scurry, although the troops in charge of patrolling stepped forward to see what was going on for the first time, but after the third battalion and the mountain battalion all broke through, these people were quickly eliminated by the rain of bullets that burst out from the official rifles, and the pace of the Tiance army's advance in the city began rapidly.

"Boom Boom" touched the mortar detachment on the city wall in the first round of incendiary bombs, a kind of improved and miniaturized shells of the previous incendiary bombs, and after these shells were fired, they instantly ignited a raging fire in the same place, which was regarded as giving many soldiers of the Tiance Army a guide, and also allowing Xu Ying's personal guards, who were originally responsible for igniting the fire, to find the target in an instant. Although the Tiance Army in the Secret Protector City was not familiar with it, under the stormy blows of the Tiance Army, the Secret Protector Army, which was caught off guard and was blinded, could not organize an effective defense at all, and occasionally the spontaneous organizational resistance of some army generals was quickly broken.

"The secret guard has been taken, and the next thing is to see if the brother can defeat their command center." Xue Yang, who was standing on the city wall and following the mortar detachment, watched the chaotic battle in the city and the constantly flashing firelight illuminating the dark area of the city, Xue Yang knew that Xu Ying's personal guards had successfully started to ignite, and the fire not only gave the Tiance army the field of vision to attack but also brought great chaos to the other party.