Just when the Tang army was marching towards Gaochang in the Western Regions, the Western Turk Khan who had been relying on the background of the Gaochang King Ju Wentai died, and his ministers colluded with the Desire Valley to rebel, so it was easier to lose the Khan's counterattack successfully, recaptured a large area of territory, and the Desire Valley was able to confront the north and south, and the result was to die under great circumstances.

The new man to power was the nephew of the Khan of Lesh, Bobutler, known as the Khan of Ebisha Bowla. This is not as good as his uncle, and he is not an opponent of Desire Valley at all.

Now Gao Chang was dumbfounded, Nima, the big backstage actually fell, and Datang, who thought that he would not send troops to the expedition, also sent troops.

This, this, this is the rhythm that is going to end.

Datang doesn't know the worries of Gaochang people, and in a blink of an eye, the New Year has arrived, and hundreds of officials have also gone home for the New Year on vacation, visiting relatives and friends.

Wang Lun's family lived in Chang'an for a year, because after the New Year, it was a triennial ceremony, and many people from the Taiyuan Wang family wanted to participate in the scientific examination, so Wang Lun's family did not return to Jinyang during the New Year.

After all, now that meritocracy is lifted, it is no longer the time to be promoted just by relying on the family, and the family is also very concerned about scientific research.

After the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Emperor Li Shimin suddenly visited the residence of Li Tai, the king of Wei, and granted amnesty to the prisoners below the beheading of Chang'an City in Yongzhou, exempted the rent of the year in the area of Yankangli, and rewarded the subordinates of the Wei Wangfu and the elderly in Yankangli.

The emperor's sudden move made the courtiers stunned for a long time, and many people thought that it might be that Zhang Xuansu sued the crown prince Li Chengqian for not studying a safari and angered the emperor.

The emperor showed his attitude by rewarding Li Tai, the king of Wei, and there was a feeling of pampering Li Tai to pressure the prince.

For a while, the call for support for Li Tai's fight for the crown prince has been subdued for many years, and there are secretly more among the officials.

Naturally, the majority of the officials who supported the crown prince Li Chengqian, and these people also began to contact and prepare to write a letter of impeachment, wanting to force Li Tai to leave Beijing and become a vassal domain.

All these things made Fang Xuanling, the head of the hundred officials, smile very bitterly, there are really many people under him who like to drill camps.

These people don't know anything, so they are self-righteous and engage in tandem, really, Fang Xuanling couldn't help but think of a sentence that his second eldest Fang bereaved once said, which was said to be used by Wu Yuanqing to scold people, so that the emperor was not in a hurry and the eunuch was in a hurry.

It's really relevant.

Fang Xuanling's thoughts returned to the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, in the imperial palace Yeting Palace, which is commonly known as the cold palace.

But the Yeting Palace is actually not a cold palace, and the cold palace does not have a fixed place, and all the palaces used by the emperor to place the degraded concubines can be called cold palaces.

Yeting Palace is actually a palace complex in the imperial palace covering a wide area, located in the west of the imperial city, where some palace maids live in the middle, and north is Taicang, which is the largest official granary in Chang'an. To the south is the Inner Chamberlain, which is the administrative body of the Inner Chamberlain and the daily affairs of the Imperial Palace, as well as the place where the Inner Chamberlain lives.

It's just because most of the derogatory concubines of the Tang Dynasty are placed in the Yeting Palace, so there is the title of the cold palace here.

In the narrow open space of Taicang in the north and the palace maid's residence in the middle, a high wall has been built at some point, and even in order to have enough width and privacy, the surrounding buildings have been demolished The entire space surrounded by a high wall several feet high, only one door can enter and exit, and there are guards in exception.

And then it was here, on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, a shocking performance was staged.

The people who participated, in addition to Li Tai, the king of Wei, with his team, the rest were the emperor, the empress, the crown prince, Wu Yuanqing, as well as Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui, Wei Zheng, the eldest grandson Wuji, Li Jing and other Zaifu, and there were only more than 20 people in the special entry.

These people are the real decision-making level in the superstructure of Datang, of course, Wu Yuanqing is not qualified, he was invited as a special adviser.

On the open field, a road that winds about 500 meters long and looks strange like a road is paved on the ground. At one end of the road there was a hideous iron guy with a few iron frames dragging behind him.

Fang Xuanling and the other Zai Fu and the emperor and empress were very surprised to see this strange guy, especially the emperor and empress had already heard her son Li Tai say what this thing was for, and she felt that it was magical.

The only thing that doesn't feel strange is Wu Yuanqing, except for Li Tai and his team.

Steam locomotiveWell, steam locomotive, to be exact, this thing was made with his help. Not to mention that he has seen a lot of this thing in the future, not to mention it in TV and movies, he has seen a lot of real things.

Steam locomotives were discontinued in many places as early as the fifties and sixties of the twentieth century, and they were completely discontinued after more than ten or two years.

But in the land of China, it is time for others to stop producing steam trains when they really build their own steam trains.

When the developed countries entered the internal combustion engine, the land of China was the time when the steam train flourished, and even the steam train manufactured by the world was the most advanced.

In the late eighties, the steam train of Huaxia Land was also discontinued, but the vast majority of the trains used in various places are still steam locomotives.

In later generations, there was no passenger train in Wu Yuanqing's hometown, but there was a train to transport coal, and when he was a child, the coal trucks were all steam trains on the edge of the county, and you could see it up close when you ran a mile or two. When I was a child, because of the rarity, I always ran to see it, and the sound sounded very shocking.

The one Li Tai has made now seems to Wu Yuanqing to be like a simple toy, but this is his opinion.

In the emperor's eyes, this is a monster, especially after Li Tai waved his hand to let people refuel and start the train, the smoke that suddenly came out of the exhaust pipe could scare Li Shimin and them half to death, and Li Jing and several generals were so frightened that they rushed to the emperor to block and prepare to escort.

When the train clanged and drove slowly, the whole person of Changsun Wuji and the others was trembling and frightened, who had ever seen a car that could walk on its own without a horse, a man, a cow, a donkey, anyway, there were no various creatures to pull the car that could walk on its own, anyway, they hadn't seen it.

Li Shimin, the queen was also frightened, but more of a joy, is to feel that eternity will be forever laughing.

The truth is only within the range of the cannon, and it is impossible for Li Shimin to know this famous sentence said by Bismarck, the iron-blooded Chancellor of Germany, but he understands this truth.

He is familiar with history books, and has ruled the Tang Dynasty for many years, so he deeply knows that the Tang Dynasty's sphere of influence is only in the place where the horse's hooves can reach.

Why was it not so important to Tuyuhun, Turkic, and Western Regions before, why was it just to set up a state of restraint instead of actual rule, not because it was too far, it was not easy for the Tang army to go on a trip, and there was no way to actually govern, so it could only be to find a spokesperson in the local area to govern, and obey the will of the Tang Dynasty in the general direction.

But now with this thing called a steam train, distance is no longer an obstacle. If what Wu Yuanqing said is reliable, if necessary, Datang can fight farther away to rule there.