Chapter 351: New Canal
"Can I say I'm just an example?"
Li Hao touched the back of his head and replied, and Li Ke on the side looked at this guy with schadenfreude in his eyes. It's just that Gao Yang is just talking, Li Hao is actually really good at women. Coupled with the fact that Gao Yang has now regained her identity as a princess, she has been in a good mood recently.
Li Er has been recuperating in the palace for many years, and now he values the affairs of his children. The princes and grandsons in the Tang Dynasty, plus the princess will have dinner with him once or twice a year, which makes him pay more and more attention to this kind of thing, so Gao Yang's return has become inevitable.
It's just that Princess Jinyang has now become Li Er's heart disease, Princess Jinyang was originally because of her frailty, and was once asserted that she would not live to be twelve years old.
However, Li Hao felt that this girl couldn't marry too early, and after eighteen years old, she was sure that there was nothing wrong with her health, and then she would think about marriage, now that Princess Jinyang was over eighteen, she had to find a good husband for her. Li Ke has also been looking for Princess Jinyang all these years, but this girl has not been very satisfied.
Because of her body, Li Ke and Li Er didn't dare to force Princess Jinyang too much, and this sister's marriage has been dragged down. This time I came to Hangzhou Mansion, Princess Jinyang also came over, and also participated in the poetry meeting, but there was no progress, this Li Hao didn't know very well, and now this girl came to eat with Li Ke.
"Brother Xian, isn't this name too rude? It always feels like it doesn't go well with this delicious thing. After Li Ke ate a few beef balls, he felt that this thing tasted really delicious, but the name was really bad! Peeing beef balls, if you have a habit of cleanliness, you don't want to eat it when you hear the name.
"This name is normal, meatballs made of peeing shrimp and beef, isn't that called peeing beef balls?" Li Hao rolled his eyes and replied after hearing this, just this name, if you like to eat, you can eat it, and if you don't eat it, you will pull it down. This thing will be promoted as a flavor snack in the future, and the money will be handed over to the people of Datang to earn, Li Hao has little interest in this kind of small money.
Be kind and charitable, scatter wealth and seek blessings, Li Hao has done this kind of thing many times over the years. He made a delicious snack and then saw someone who was pleasing to his eyes and was a good person, so he gave the recipe away as a gift.
So in recent years, a lot of delicious food has emerged in Datang, because the people have money in their hands and do not worry about eating, and these delicious snacks have become hot now. Various snacks have been pushed out in various cities, attracting people from all over the world to come and taste them.
"You're too lazy to pick a name, are you?" Li Ke also rolled his eyes after hearing this, and the person who dared to roll his eyes in front of him, the emperor, was also Li Hao, and the two of them didn't know how much more casual than his other monarchs and ministers. "After you participated in the competition here in Hangzhou, you went directly to the north, that Beihai is really so beautiful?"
Lake Baikal in later generations during the Beihai period, one of the great lakes in the Tang Dynasty now, but the name is still called Beihai when Su Wu was shepherding sheep. Li Hao is going to wait for the end of the model competition here, so he will take his family to go around there, and then go to the northeast in October to have a look, and take the family to experience the feeling of hitting roe deer and scooping fish.
"Of course! When I say beautiful place, it must be beautiful, and I'm a professional in that regard. There are a few special food ingredients on the Beihai side, and I'm going to go over and see if I can develop them. At that time, people in other parts of my Datang will be able to eat the special delicacies there, and by the way, it will also drive the economic development of the northern side, isn't this a beautiful thing? ”
Because the weather in Beihai is relatively cold, and it hasn't been long since it was surrendered by Datang, the development efforts over there are still a little less. Li Hao didn't want the people of Datang to forget this place, these were the territories of Datang. What can be developed will be developed, and then the population growth here will be accelerated.
"You guy pushed down the official position of the imperial court with all his might, I'm afraid that's what he thought. I'm almost done with all the beautiful places and delicacies in Datang, where are you going to go? Li Ke shook his head after hearing this, full of helplessness towards Li Hao.
"There are so many places I can go, the hot springs and Yusheng in Fuso, and a large part of the Americas, the South Seas, Oceania, I haven't been to any of these places, and I'm going to spend a few years visiting them all." Li Hao smiled after hearing this.
"My Datang ships are getting bigger and faster now. It doesn't take much time to go around these places, and when I'm old, even if I want to go around, I can't walk anymore. ”
Li Hao has always had the idea of traveling around the world, but he has been waiting for the development of Datang's military and various technologies, and then he can calmly come to such a trip, eating while walking.
"I want to take such a trip, but I don't know if I will have this opportunity in my lifetime." After hearing this, Li Ke said with a little envy, he is the emperor, it is not easy to leave the palace and walk around the country, and it is still a bit extravagant to walk around the world.
"There will be opportunities, now that transportation is developing so fast, after the advent of ships, trains will also be faster, and in a few years, I am afraid that airplanes will also appear, and the time to go will be greatly shortened. The emperor wants to go out for a walk, and it is not difficult to come. ”
People can go to the sky, this has long been verified, there are several hot air balloon sightseeing spots in Chang'an, you can sit in the hot air balloon and rise to the sky to overlook the scenery of the entire Chang'an. This Li Ke himself has also been on it, so he has no doubts about the plane that Li Hao said.
In short, many of the things Li Hao said have been realized now, and those that cannot be realized have now theoretically demonstrated the feasibility of what he said. For example, things that can emit light on their own, as well as the technology of Qianli Sound Transmission, these are now in the testing stage, and the finished product will come out soon.
Qianli Transsion is now using telegraph, and the phone will have to wait a little longer. Generators have come out, and electric lights have appeared, but there is still a long way to go before large-scale equipment is available. With the emphasis on scientific research throughout Datang, various technologies have now been vigorously developed.
"I hope I can wait until that time, we have cultivated in Datang for a period of time in the past two years. Tianzhu and the Western Regions are almost consumed, are we starting to continue the westward expedition? I hope that in my lifetime, I will be able to completely unify the entire Asian, Eurasian and African continents. Coupled with the territory of other regions, the entire earth will be all my Datang by then. ”
This is the daily life of the two of them, chatting about their thoughts while eating, these will not be discussed in the court, but they are just things discussed by the two, only if Li Hao thinks that this is feasible, Li Ke will take these to the court to discuss.
"There's no rush for this, let's wait until the train is fully opened. The journey from my Datang to the Western Regions is too long, and it takes too long to walk by horse alone. And with the train, you don't have to worry about this, that kind of car can run day and night, and it can pull a lot of troops over at one time. ”
Li Hao thought about it for a while, the railway from Chang'an to the Western Regions had been repaired for a while. To fully realize the opening of traffic, the time spent in the middle is only a few more years, and Datang and Li Ke can wait for these years. And in a few years, the population and military strength of the Tang Dynasty will develop to a new stage, and it will not be difficult to conquer anyone at that time.
"But our navy can go first, go to the Persian Gulf side first, and control this large part of the Persian Gulf. Then run a range out here, and build a grand canal from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea in the capture of slaves. At that time, the journey of our Datang navy to Europe will also be shortened a lot, which will save a lot of time. ”
The place Li Hao said was the Suez Canal in later generations, which was originally excavated by Western countries, and now it has been excavated by people organized by the Tang Dynasty. Datang has experience in building canals, so it naturally doesn't take much thought to deal with such a canal.
Human resources are requisitioned on the spot, and the people over there are not Tang people, so the Tang Dynasty court will naturally not worry about excessive servitude of the people. It is good to disperse and settle all kinds of captives and slaves into it, so that these people can't even talk, and it becomes difficult for them to rebel together.
This is a kind of prediction, in fact, except for those who must be eliminated, the treatment of these slaves and captives is much better now. Coupled with the rapid development of Datang's military strength, those people can't do things if they want to, and they are very tame.
"We've already dug a canal on the American side, and now we're going to dig a new canal on the Persian Gulf side. There are also several railway lines under construction in the country. After hearing this, Li Ke thought about it, and now the kind of project to repair a water conservancy or something is not a big project.
The original Panama Canal excavated by Datang in the Americas has been started for a period of time, so that after passing from Datang, it is much more convenient to go to the east coast of North and South America, so this project was excavated in advance.
This kind of project, which involves millions of people working at every turn, has to be added with all kinds of new machinery, which is called a big project, a big battle. Lao Yang pitted him with a Grand Canal, and Datang is now carrying out several such major projects at the same time. At this moment, Li Hao proposed to add another big project, so that there was no need to worry about the court being dragged down, but imagine how strong the Tang Dynasty is now.
"For canal mining here, we just need to provide enough food. My Datang grain now has a tendency to be in surplus, and I need to consume some of it, and it is just right to dig this canal. In addition, after this canal is opened, the route of my Tang Dynasty's westward expedition will also be much more convenient. ”