Chapter 1281: The Aftermath of the Train Incident (I)
"This king is too lazy to argue with you, get out of the way, this king is tired and wants to go back to the post house to rest." Queen Seondeok turned around and gave Songtsen Gampo a fierce look, her eyes were full of complexity, there was complaint, anger, and a trace of resentment.
Songtsan was stared at by Shande's gaze, and he unconsciously shuddered.
The people of Baekje on the other side did not give way, but took a step forward: "You, you can't go, you explain this matter clearly." ”
"Why should this king explain to you what you are?" Queen Seondeok was forced to have no way out, and she was angry and played a scoundrel.
Just seeing the train had already made her feel the strong pressure from Datang, and she had doubts about the success of her plan that she was going to calculate, and her mood was already a little low.
Now that Songtsen Gampo has made public his plan to secretly collude with the Tang Dynasty against Baekje, she has been surrounded by Baekje envoys, and her heart is full of knots, and the whole person falls into deep helplessness.
But at this time, Ning'er, the palace maid beside her, finally stood up, and just before the Baekje people turned pale and wanted to continue arguing, they rushed to a guy who was standing behind everyone with a shrunken head.
"You, what do you want to ......" The man was hiding behind everyone with his head down, and he was startled in the face of Ning Er, who suddenly appeared.
"You're the one who just spoke, right?" Ning Er didn't give him a chance to speak at all, her hand waved lightly on the buckle of her belt, and a cold light was already in her hand, and the sharp blade of the sword was on the shoulder of the guy who was hiding.
"You, you're talking nonsense, I, I didn't speak at all just now." Facing the sharp blade, the neck shrunk even tighter, and said in Baekje language.
And at this time, the Baekje envoy reacted, rushed to Ning Er's side and shouted loudly: "Who are you, why are you spewing blood, he is just a casual person, he can't even speak the official language of the Tang Dynasty, how can he have an authentic Chang'an dialect." ”
However, Ning'er didn't speak, just looked at Songtsen Gampo, quite a kind of meaning that I handed over someone to you.
"Come on, take down all the people of Baekje and the officials, and take them all to Dali Temple for trial!" Songtsen Gampo also waved his hand very cooperatively, and gave orders to the soldiers who were in charge of guarding the city below.
In any case, today's matter always has to be resolved, and it will not benefit anyone to continue to entangle, so Songtsen Gampo doesn't care if the guy who was held hostage by Ning'er is the one who just spoke, anyway, as long as he is arrested.
As long as the person who blames the crime is found, the matter will be resolved, as for what the Baekje envoy will think...... It doesn't matter, it's good if the people who died in the country are not expelled, and they want more?
"Can this king leave now?" Queen Seondeok's face was still not so good-looking, and she looked at the group of Baekje people shouting and being escorted away, and asked Songtsen Gampo coldly amid the cheers of the people around her.
"The troublemaker has been found, please feel free where the queen wants to go, but it's best for you to stay in the city, there has been a lot of chaos outside recently, and the official doesn't want you to make any mistakes." The half-truth, half-false, half-threatening words that came out of Songtsen Gampo's mouth sounded like concern, but what the real purpose was seemed to be understood only between him and Shande.
"Hmph, let's go!" Queen Shandeok glared at Songtsen Gampo fiercely with her most ferocious gaze, turned around and led the entourage around her to separate the onlookers and leave in the direction of Chang'an, while Songtsen Gampo showed an indifferent expression.
A storm passed so simply, and then it didn't take long for Heng to bring Yu Zhining and a group of other old guys to the scene, in a gasp of exclamation, Songtsen Gampo quietly left, leaving a group of people who lost to explain to the old guy that the train had just finished the trial run.
But although the incident passed, the turmoil it caused did not pass, and the entire Chang'an City was still immersed in the discussion of the huge steel 'monster' a few days later.
The Datang Xun Bao made an exception and published a supplemental issue, using almost two full pages to report on the train, and launched a lot of ideas on the purpose of the train.
Some of the boring people of the family and the noble family who did not follow them to Mount Tai all took the time to go out of the city to see the legendary train, and when they returned home, a heated argument began, and countless letterheads were sent out of the city like snowflakes to the Fengzen procession on the way home.
Another point is that almost all the aliens in Chang'an City have disappeared from the market, and some merchants from different races are much more humble than before.
After a period of precipitation, everyone realized that the one parked on the outside was not a 'monster', it was just a machine made up by the Tang people.
But the machine seemed too big, too big to be imagined.
The body is all made of steel, plus the two steel rails on the ground, I don't know how much steel will be consumed, but even so, Datang still built it, and it is conceivable that the benefits it will bring in the future will far exceed the value of the steel itself.
Datang has become so powerful, but what about those alien races? Most of them were still worried about a carriage, and most of the weapons used by the clan were wooden spears and shields.
Perhaps only countries like the Great Food in the West can be stronger, but after seeing the huge and friendless steel beast, the merchants from the Great Food are also intimidated.
In their view, it is not something that can be done by human beings at all, and it is not just a matter of resources, but more of a technical aspect. After all, if you just make such an iron lump, it is not a very difficult thing for any country, what is really difficult is to make it move on its own.
Therefore, the appearance of the train caused a certain panic among the aliens, but it also strengthened their confidence to stay in Datang, because they believed that such a powerful country could guarantee their safety, which was far better than returning to their country.
Because for now, the entire Far West is at war, today you fight me, tomorrow I fight you, Sassanid Persia is at war with Byzantium, the Great Qin Empire, which was in full swing in the past, is also at war with his enemies, and the Western Turks are also at war with Great Eclipse and other countries.
In short, the whole Western world is like a powder keg, which may burst completely at any time.
That's why there are countless aliens who come to Datang, either to do business or study, in short, they want to do everything they can to stay in Datang and stay in this powerful country and don't want to leave.
However, since there are people who do not want to leave, then there are people who are very eager to leave, and a group of envoys from Baekje are one of those people who want to leave, but they are now detained in Dali Temple, and it is not so easy to leave.
(End of chapter)