Chapter 549: The Silk Railway

The battle on the Indochina Peninsula lasted for a short time, from the end of April to the end of June for more than two months, the 19th Corps swept the entire Indochina Peninsula at a gallop, so that the entire Central and Southern China was quickly incorporated into the territory of the Tang Dynasty, and thus the southernmost point of the empire also changed from the southernmost Yanzhou of Jiaozhou to the original overseas territory of Manchuria. This long, dragon-tail-like peninsula penetrates directly into the hinterland of the South Seas, and also provides strong support for the next step of the empire's development in the South Seas. For this reason, the cabinet allocated a large number of manpower to be stationed in Nanyang accompanied by seven battalions of the National Guard mobilized by Yang Yi, and in order to ensure that there would be no recurrence on the Nanyang side, the Tiance Army originally stationed in Guangzhou, Jiaozhou and other places also began to move the camp to the south. In addition, coastal ports such as Yanzhou and Jiaozhou City along the coast of Jiaozhou also began to grow gradually in this wave of recovery operations, and a large number of wharves were gradually increased and built, so as to accelerate the circulation of the entire Indochina Peninsula with the mainland.

However, although Central and South China have always been backward, the indigenous governments in various places are very rich, not only in the tropics, rich in products, rice is grown three times a year, and countless other crops grow here, and these places have a large number of gold and silver mines and other mineral resources. Originally, the development of trade between Datang and these local forces was to use labor commodities in exchange for these mineral resources and gold and silver mines, so as to fill the needs of Datang's internal industrial development. This time it was directly in the bag, and the large number of captures made the 19th Corps have to assist the logistics troops in transporting the captured materials on the way back to the army, and it can be said that the Tang Empire started from Fengzhou so far, this is the largest number of seizures. In the end, in order to ensure that the transportation capacity was concentrated on gold and silver and other valuable materials, all the food and other materials were handed over to the civil affairs officials who followed.

On the one hand, it urgently sent personnel south to count the seized gold and silver, and on the other hand, it quickly asked the commissioner to take people to Zhongnan to explore the local gold and silver mines, and dispatched manpower to speed up the mining to make up for the increasingly tight gold and silver reserves of the bank.

However, Li Xuanqing didn't care much about the results of the Central and Southern War, he was an indigenous force, and if it wasn't for the harsh natural environment, this place would have been included in the territory of the Central Plains Dynasty long ago. At this time, it was basically a matter of course for the Tiance army to enter, whether it was those forces resisting or directly surrendering, the result was the same. At this time, Li Xuanqing, like the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, was concerned about the direct trade with Taixi brought by the Great Qin Mission after he returned. According to the end of the Silk Road, a large number of silk, porcelain and other items on the Central Plains after the long Northwest Silk Road finally settled in Taixi, that is, the Great Qin Empire. As a visitor from later generations, Li Xuanqing naturally understood the popularity of these products in the Central Plains on the Taixi side, so he regarded them as an important market for the empire's export of goods, and did not hesitate to put breech guns on the shelves. Although Li Xuanqing is currently strictly restricting the export of technology, and the technology of the breech gun cannot be cracked in a short period of time by relying on the current ability of Daqin's side, it is undeniable that this is actually another technology exported to the outside world. Moreover, Li Xuanqing promised Daqin and the Great Food Mission that the Tang Dynasty would accept all the students sent by the other party, which also laid a hidden danger for the future. However, these are nothing if large-scale trade exports can be realized.

And staring at this sky-high trade is not only Li Xuanqing, the high-level officials of the empire, but also the Tang industry and commerce circles who leaked their mouth when they were wandering around Chang'an from Great Qin. Almost immediately after the return of the members of the mission, the industrial and commercial circles headed by the six major families began to transport a large number of industrial commodities to the northwest, listing almost all the industrial commodities allowed by the Ministry of Industry and Commerce to be exported, among which the Zhang family and the Xu family jointly purchased a large number of traditional materials such as silk and porcelain from the south of the Yangtze River and began to roar towards the northwest along the railway day and night. Throughout April to June, there was a large-scale war in the south, but large and small manufacturers within the empire, especially in the Central Plains and other places, received large quantities of orders, and even the northern industrial belt also received a lot of additional orders in overtime.

"Your Majesty, this person's order hasn't been placed yet, we are fanatical first, is there going to be a problem? In case there are not so many orders placed on the Qin side, our industry and commerce will be dragged down by a sentence. Now many factories have learned to borrow money from money to expand production, and if the order cannot be sold, it will inevitably form a chain reaction. Cen Tianshi was taken aback by the hot scene in China, and ran to Li Xuanqing to think about what countermeasures he could.

"Don't worry, if the Taixi people don't have an order, I will let the Western Expeditionary Army fight over, and let the army go to find a market for the goods." Li Xuanqing patted Cen Tianshi's shoulder and said with a smile: "Mr. Cen rest assured, this is the market acting on its own, what we need to do as a supervisor on the one hand is to guide the market when the market plays a positive role, on the contrary, we need to regulate them and even create better conditions to let the market play a role." ”

"Nowadays, the Northwest Railway Line is basically about to become a veritable silk railway, and almost every day, traditional commodities such as silk and porcelain from Jiangnan and other places will be unloaded at the canal wharves in the Central Plains and other places, and then loaded and transported to the northwest. This will bring new development opportunities to the northwestern provinces. The transportation of large quantities of goods to the northwest actually means that the productivity of the Tang Dynasty is inclined to the northwest, and what is transported back from the northwest is countless wealth, so as to drive the sustainable development of the empire's internal economy. Therefore, Mr. should tell Tuoba Sizhi to let him prepare for this wave of goods to the northwest in the northwestern provinces on the one hand, and establish border markets in the Aral Sea and other places on the front line, so that our merchants can not only trade in the country, but also pay attention to going out, and truly walk out of the trade route from Datang to Daqin. ”

"The emperor means that we will lead this trade route to Daqin?" Cen Tianshi was a little surprised.

"Yes, the Yelu family in the northwest has done a good job, they have been deeply cultivating the northwest trade route over the years, not only restoring the grand occasion of the Silk Road, but also with the pace of the Western Expeditionary Army over the years, the business has been directly done in the territory of Dashi. With the strong support of the Western Expeditionary Army, the Yelu family was able to dominate this trade route. Li Xuanqing was actually surprised by the courage of the Yelu family. In these years, when other families were developing overseas trade, they were the only ones who did not fight or fight, and left their presence on the trade routes along the northwest. And today's situation also shows the wisdom of the Yelu family when they set the northwest development strategy. The northwest side connects the two empires of Dashi and Daqin, and once the trade route is opened, then there will be real gold flowing on this road.

"I asked Murong to take the time to communicate with the Yelu family, and then asked them to send someone to the northwest, and let Tuoba Si advise on specific matters." Cen Tianshi gritted his teeth when he thought of the booming scenes of industry and commerce in various places and the grand occasion of countless industrial commodities being shipped to the northwest, and began to seriously implement Li Xuanqing's suggestion. After Murong Hanhai negotiated with the Yelu family, he began to take the Yelu family as the leader and joined more than 30 wealthy families in Chang'an and other places to form a huge caravan and immediately set off for the northwest, and set up a Taixi Trade Development Co., Ltd. in Shule and other places, so as to establish branches in the Aral Sea and other places to coordinate trade with Taixi, and when the Taixi people had not yet arrived in the northwest of the Tang Dynasty, they took the initiative to attack and walked west along the Aral Sea. Head to Byzantium, the royal capital of the Tessians, towards the sketches of the westernmost part of the Silk Road and the maps unearthed by the Xuanying Guards over the years. In order to ensure safety, Wan Yi dispatched a brigade of the Flying Eagle Brigade to stop in the northwest to follow the whole army, on the one hand, to ensure the safety of the caramel, and on the other hand, to probe the bottom of the forces along the way, and to cover the Xuan Ying Guard's local manpower.

At the same time as the Yelu family dispatched people to form caravans, they were actually already arranging other trade routes, among which they followed the Germen all the way west to the Volga River and the Dnieper River and other Eastern European Plains in later generations, and had already established a sphere of influence with the Russian principality of Kiev after following the Tunians all the way west to the Volga River and the Dnieper River, and took advantage of the gap between the Tuns and the Slavs to fight for territory, and began to establish commercial bases one after another, transporting various materials from the Central Plains to these places for sale. The Slavs were not good at farming, so although the Kiev Russians were strong by relying on national barbarism, their level of civilization development was far from that of the Great Qin people in the south. However, the warehouse opened here by the Yelujia and the industrial and commercial circles in the northwest allowed them to see all kinds of commodities for the first time, as well as grain, wine and other products from the East. Commerce grew rapidly, and almost every month a large number of caravans transported large quantities of goods from Chel to these areas. Now, after the establishment of the Taixi Trade Development Company, the Yelujia took the initiative to include these areas in the company's development territory, so that before the caravan arrived in Daqin, trade with the Slavic peoples such as Kiev and Russia had already begun.

At this time, after such a large number of goods entered the northwest border, Tuoba Siji, who was sitting in Shule, also sent a large number of people to start repairing the straight road from Andijan to Baishui City, and almost at the same time as building this straight road, he planned to extend the railway line from Shule to the northwest to Baishui City and Genross, and prepared to start construction of this railway after the construction of the southern line railway was completed. This idea also led to the early formation of the first intercontinental railway. Starting from the easternmost part of the continent and moving all the way west, the Tiance Army and the Tang Dynasty continued to advance with the pace of external expansion, and finally reached the other side of the sea.

And when the time came to August of the ninth year of the Apocalypse, the Great Qin caravan promised by the envoy of Great Qin finally arrived on the northwest border and began formal trade with the Tang Dynasty in the border cities in the western part of the Aral Sea. Although this time, the Great Qin caravan basically concentrated on buying the breech guns and bullets purchased by the previous mission, but the obsession with silk and porcelain caused these goods to be bought in large quantities, and the glass products industry that Li Xuanqing had not planned to sell on a large scale before was highly sought after. This grand occasion made the Aral Sea envoys ecstatic and at the same time quickly spread the news to the entire northwest, and the northwest trade became even more popular like pouring hot oil. Soon after, the caravan of the Taixi Trading and Development Company also successfully arrived in Byzantium, and after the goods carried by the entourage were traded, this exotic city had a lot of goods from the East overnight, and in the following time, the caravan of the Taixi Trading Company almost traveled more than Daqin's own caravansera, and countless goods began to flow back and forth along the road they opened up on this vast plain. Even as the southern cannibals became more and more aggressive, these aristocrats, who had been fond of luxury since Rome, could not stop their frenzied pursuit of luxury goods from the East. And more and more industrial products also make these people feel novel and purchase a large number of them, bicycles such a magical thing in a short period of time filled the streets and alleys of Byzantium, and with this as the leader, a large number of industrial products produced by Datang began to enter Daqin, so that the industrial development within Datang became more prosperous.

While the continuous trade made the industrial and commercial community of Datang go all out, the northwest side also received a report from Xuan Yingwei that the Great Cannibal had already attacked the capital of the Green-clothed Great Food and captured hundreds of large warships of the other side. It can be said that overnight, the black-clothed cannibal army and the land and water armies have been greatly replenished. Although the other party is divided, the advantage of almost the same origin is enough for Baghdad to digest it in a very short time, so that the forces of the black clothes will inevitably rise to a higher level.

Unlike the Tang Dynasty, which was still studying what kind of strategy the Great Cannibal could adopt after its strength increased greatly, the Great Qin Empire next to it was like a fish in the throat at this time, and the shock caused by the other party's sudden annexation of the Green-clothed Great Food and the giant explosive weapons that appeared in the capital of Egyptian Province also made the Great Qin people shudder. At that time, the capital of Egypt was the former Phoenician City, which was formerly the territory of the Great Qin people, and the Great Qin people knew how to defend the city, but now they were blown to the ground by the other party with a new weapon, which made the Great Qin people frightened and began to immediately send a mission to re-enter the Tang Dynasty. This mysterious force from the east no longer hesitated after the Great Qin people saw the power of the breech gun.

"Immediately report to the General Staff and the Emperor, the Western Expeditionary Army is ready, and at the same time let the Xuanying Guard send people to contact the Qiangsi people, if necessary, we can provide support and assist them to open up a safe and secure territory in the northern grasslands as soon as possible." Wan Yi made a decision almost immediately, and at the same time set his sights on the Eastern European Plain in later generations. However, at this time, before receiving Li Xuanqing's order, Wan Yi chose to help the Slavic people to play the forward and find out the strength of these Slavic regimes. (https:)

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