A.D. 764, the twenty-eighth day of the first lunar month. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info India, on the banks of the Narmoda River, the camp of the Western Qin army.

The tents of the Western Qin military camp, which stretched for more than ten miles, were spread all over the north bank of the Narmoda River, and thousands of flags fluttered in the breeze in the camp, and countless Western Qin cavalry practiced cavalry and archery tactics and sprint and slash tactics in the camp, making the smoke and dust soar into the sky.

Li Siye stood on the bank of the river with a black cloak and a waist knife, looked at the other side of the river and said: "The people of Xinjing should still be wearing thick cotton clothes now, maybe there is goose feather snow in the sky!" And there is a beautiful wind and sunshine here, sometimes there are storms, this kind of big-leaved tree, this will be the first time in his life to see, this kind of melon that can drink juice is also the first time to eat, it is really the world is not strange! ”

Zhao Lei said with a smile: "There are countless rare and exotic fruits in the world, and there are many of them in all parts of Nantianzhu, and the general will be able to feast on them in the future!" ”

Li Siye also smiled and said: "As long as the countries across the river are destroyed, the fruits here can be eaten whenever you want!" Prince, how are you collecting Tianzhu these days? ”

Zhao Lei said: "After nearly a month of exploration and inquiry, I found that we still don't know enough about the situation in Tianzhu, the original Tianzhu is divided into the middle Tianzhu, the south Tianzhu, the north Tianzhu, the west Tianzhu and the East Tianzhu, the west Tianzhu is now the Jisu Duhufu and the Taer Desert area, the north Tianzhu is the thirty-six city-states, the east Tianzhu is close to the country of Pi, the south Tianzhu is still further south, our location is the middle Tianzhu, its land is the most extensive, there are Qu Zheluo - Proti Luo Kingdom, Zhan Dai Luo Kingdom, Polo Mora Kingdom, the Kingdom of Zhaohan, the Kingdom of Solanki, and the Kingdom of Garajuli; And further south, there are the kingdoms of Kalinga, Rashidrakuta, Hosala, Yadharva, Eastern Ganga, Sandhiyafudora, Sadara, Kakatiya, Katampa, Vagatha, Jera, Western Hengga, Rashtrakuta, Chola, Pandia, and Pallava! ”

"The Qu Zheluo-Proti Hora Kingdom, the Gara Zhuli Kingdom, and the Zhandailuo Kingdom of Zhongtianzhu have been our government, and there are still three kingdoms left, the Poramoro Kingdom, the Zhaohan Kingdom, and the Solanki Kingdom, these three kingdoms are all relatively powerful kingdoms in Zhongtianzhu, and they are by no means comparable to the small city-states of the thirty-six city-states of North Tianzhu, not to mention the sixteen kingdoms of South Tianzhu, the strength is not to be underestimated, and their total strength adds up to at least 500,000 or more, if you want to capture the entire Zhongtianzhu and South Tianzhu in half a year, The Admiral thinks it's an impossible task, even if we have more troops, it will take at least a year, and we need to increase our troops, 30,000 to conquer 500,000, which is a good idea, but we are afraid that we will not be able to control more and more servants. The last general suggested that he immediately send an eight-hundred-mile expedited to Xinjing to report the truth to the above! ”

Li Siye listened to Zhao Lei's words, held his waist knife and walked east along the river, thinking about what Zhao Lei said just now as he walked.

Zhao Lei saw that Li Siye didn't say anything, and said: "General, if you don't say anything else, let's just say that the Kingdom of Bolomora is just across the river, and they have 30,000 infantry, 5,000 cavalry, and 500 elephant soldiers!" Their infantry and cavalry are not to be worried, but those elephant soldiers are a little difficult to deal with, general, you have also seen the elephant soldiers of the Ratsiput people in the thirty-six city-states of North Tianzhu, when the last time the end of the general will follow General Chu Ge to attack the thirty-six city-states of North Tianzhu, after these elephant soldiers appeared, our war horses have never seen this kind of behemoth, so they are scared everywhere, the team is instantly chaotic, the soldiers can not control the frightened war horses with all their might, fortunately, the enemy's cavalry is not much at that time, although our army is chaotic and retreats, But the other side was powerless to pursue, so we escaped! ”

Li Siye asked, "How many elephants does our servant army have now?" ”

Zhao Lei said: "Fifteen hundred!" ”

Li Siye said: "Since we also have elephant soldiers, then we will use elephant soldiers to deal with their box soldiers!" Our shields may not be able to block the attacks of the spears in the hands of our enemies, but their spears are not necessarily sharper than ours! The information you have collected about Tianzhu is indeed beyond the imagination of Wang Ting and General Ben, and it seems that we have to think about it in the long run. In this way, you write a letter and immediately send someone back to Xinjing, we can't rest here, in case the king does not agree to increase the army and strictly orders us to capture the entire Tianzhu within half a year, we can only bite the bullet! ”

Zhao Lei hugged his fists and said: "No! ”

When he returned to the Chinese army's big tent, Li Siye immediately sent someone to inform the commanders of the two corps and their generals to come to the Chinese army's big tent to discuss matters.

After receiving the notice, the commander of the Ninth Legion, Xuansi, the commander of the Slave Legion, Brehan, and other generals rushed over.

"Everyone is here, General Zhao Lei will first introduce to you how big the difficulties we need to face!" Li Siye said and nodded to Zhao Lei.

"Yes!" Zhao Lei agreed, and immediately explained in detail to Xuansi and Brehan and the generals of various ministries and ministries the population, output, economic situation, number of troops, and customs of dozens of kingdoms in Zhongtianzhu and Nantianzhu.

"・・・・・・ the above is the situation of Zhongtianzhu and Nantianzhu! Therefore, the difficulties we have to face are definitely more than ten times higher than when we attacked Beitianzhu, and we should be fortunate for two things: first, our enemies on the ground have not yet formed a unified alliance to resist our attack; Second, our enemies cannot be compared with us in terms of equipment, organization, or will to fight, if they have equipment like ours, have a strict organizational form and will to fight, then we don't have to fight this battle, just go back to the division, because they are far inferior to us in all aspects, so we still have hope! Just now, the last general had suggested to the general to immediately send 800 li to urgently report the situation on this side to Xinjing, and asked Wang Ting to send more troops and horses, at least to increase the strength of the two legions, with the scale of more than 30,000 people in our two legions, I am afraid that we will not be able to conquer Zhongtianzhu and Nantianzhu within half a year, if the number of servant troops exceeds 100,000, our more than 30,000 people will not be able to maintain a large enough deterrent to make them willing to bow down to their orders! ”

Xuan Si said: "Our enemy has a total strength of more than 500,000 troops, which is indeed beyond my expectations. It's okay if they don't form an alliance, but once they do, then we're afraid we won't be able to make progress in a short period of time! ”

Li Siye said: "I have considered the opinions of General Zhao, military affairs must not be rash, this is not child's play, I Li will not take this porcelain work without this diamond, so I decided to write a piece of music and send 800 li to rush back to Xinjing, asking for reinforcements from the royal court." At the same time, we can't rest here, we will fight first, and wait for the instructions of the royal court while fighting! What do you think? ”

Xuan Si and Brehan and other generals agreed.

Xinjing, Jiuhua view.

Today's weather is good, Zhao Ziliang is tired of dealing with the chapter, and comes to the Jiuhua Temple next to the palace to relax, and the two of them walk under the mangrove trees in the view, Zhao Ziliang said; "If it is in the Central Plains Jiangnan, at this time the peach blossoms are only afraid that they are about to bloom, there is a mountain full of peach trees in our hometown, I remember when I was very young, whenever the peach blossoms will bloom in this season, the peach blossoms all over the mountains and fields smell the fragrant fragrance far away!"

Yang Yuhuan said: "It's better to be poor and order people to plant some peach trees here, and after two years, there will also be peach blossoms all over the mountains."

"Okay, it's just that the peaches grown here are not the taste of Jiangnan!"

The two sat down at a stone table under a big tree, on which was a pair of Go, and a charcoal stove, the water on which had been boiled, and a Taoist aunt stood aside to make tea for them, and the two played chess while drinking tea.

Zhao Ziliang stayed in the Jiuhua Temple for a whole afternoon, and only came out of the small door on the west side of the Jiuhua Temple when it was dark.

There was a eunuch standing outside the small door who was walking back and forth in a hurry, he saw the small door open, Zhao Ziliang walked out of it, and immediately stepped forward to report: "Your majesty, you are back, the secretary and deputy supervisor Gao Shang have been waiting for you in the Qinzheng Hall for a whole afternoon!" It seems that there is an urgent military situation from Tianzhu! ”

Zhao Ziliang thought for a while and instructed the eunuch: "You send someone to the Qinzheng Palace and take Gao Shang to Qianquan Palace for dinner together!" ”

"Yes, King!"

Dinner in the Thousand Springs Palace was already prepared, and the long dining table was filled with plates, each of which was covered with a silver lid to prevent the food from cooling, and in order to maintain hygiene, each member of the royal family had his own plate, and the food was served by the imperial chef in their plates. All the cutlery is silver, the chopsticks are ivory, and the water and wine glasses are glasses. Glass appeared very early, the glass sold from Western Italy was some colored beads, the kings and nobles of the Central Plains thought it was a gemstone, so the greedy Western merchants sold the glass beads as gems to the princes and nobles of the Central Plains.

Xiqin is now producing glass on a large scale, the process of this thing is not complicated, Zhao Ziliang only needs to formulate a little, the people of the palace and the internal affairs office will conduct experiments, after many tests, finally made colorless transparent glass, which makes the colored glass beads of Western Italy immediately have no market, and the glass of Xiqin is also exported to Western Europe and the Central Plains.

However, the cups used in each meal at the palace banquet are glass products, but in the grand banquet, the use of glass products is a little shabby, and in the grand banquet, the palace uses glass cups, and the production technology of this thing is brought by some people from the Central Plains. In the past, when the Anshi Rebellion, the Yan army broke through Chang'an, robbed the family property of the glazed king Wang Yuanbao, Wang Yuanbao's original life is called Wang Ergou, this person did raw silk business in his early years, and once he lost his family, just when he committed suicide in the hanging beam, there was a white-bearded old man in the dark, and reminded him: "Erdang is rich and rich, how can he be killed!" Don't hear that Zizhou is out of glass? After saying that, he left an ingot, and Wang Ergou used the ingots as capital to do glass business, and soon became the richest man in Chang'an, and changed his name to ingots. Wang Yuanbao, who was bankrupt again, moved to Xiqin with his family, and re-established a glaze factory to sell glaze, and now his family's glaze has become the royal thing of the palace of Xiqin.