"I'm very excited!"

"Your Majesty......"

"It's just exciting, understand?"

“……”

Lu Zhe was dressed a little casually, just wearing a silk robe, and running barefoot in a basin of hot water. When he was in Miyagi, he always dressed so casually, how comfortable it was, how to come, and was advised many times by a group of imperial historians for this issue, and each time he said that he would pay attention to the image, but after saying that, what should he do.

The construction of Miyagi Castle has been completed for nearly 14 years, and only a few parts have not yet been completed, such as some forest gardens and flowers. Other halls and palaces have been built, and the glass Hall of Light has been modified several times to become a place that is almost unique to the Heavenly Palace.

It has been ten years since glass was invented, and at first it was only used by the royal family and some nobles because of the production problem, and then the construction of classrooms that first entered the world, so far ordinary people can also install them on their windows.

It has to be said that glass is a great invention that changed the way buildings are built. In the past, the windows of the building had no paper or glass, except for some particularly wealthy families, otherwise the "holes" in the windows were not large. Paper appeared earlier than glass in the empire, but it was not transformed into a use other than writing, and it was not until glass did not appear and was put on the market in large quantities, and there was a change in the civil society under the guidance of official architecture.

To put it bluntly, glass is just something made of sand! When the process is rough, the glass will react in a variety of colors, and it takes research again and again to make it completely transparent. At first, Miyagi's Hall of Light was a colorful product. It looked extremely gorgeous, but only Lu Zhe was deeply dissatisfied.

Ten years have passed, and transparent glass has long been studied. It was still the first to be used by the royal family and nobles, and when the classrooms were used for the sake of good light, the production was actually enough to put them on the market.

Lü Zhe did not regard glass as one of the important inventions for accumulating wealth, as many of his "peers" did, and he had previously instructed craftsmen to experiment and make paper, which was also a commodity that could generate huge profits, but he only earned some gross profits on the basis of cost. Again, glass only guarantees a gross margin, and then puts it on the market in large quantities. What's more, Lu Zhe sold the method of making paper and glass, and the way of selling was to collect patent fees, that is, whoever produced how much was given how much intellectual property money.

Let's put it bluntly. Lu Zhe was the ......emperor who "owned the world and was rich all over the world", oh, he did not regard the world as his private property. But is he short of money? There is no shortage! For him. There are so many things more important than making money.

The spread of paper is conducive to education, so that more people can acquire knowledge, and it is no longer necessary to see a large cart of bamboo slips.

The spread of glass may not be as significant as that of paper, and to be honest, Lu Zhe wants to get more people to join in industrialization and create more jobs. To put it more bluntly, he wants to give benefits to some researchers, and in addition, he is also doing a necessary promotion for the nation to open a "chemical science and technology tree".

It's not just paper and glass. Many things were invented or created under Lu Zhe's reminder, and he gave the participants their due remuneration. Basically, it is to carry out social promotion and pick up the necessary production patent fees.

Royalties? That's right, this is a term that modern people know, and it has not existed in the thousands of years of Chinese history, that is, no matter who invents and creates something, anyone can plagiarize it and use it for commercial operations.

Without the benefits of intellectual property rights and invention patents, what has Chinese civilization been doing for thousands of years? It is not only because Confucianism rejected strange tricks and then prevented the scientific and technological development of the Chinese people, but in fact it is the fact that inventions and creations can be plagiarized at will is the biggest obstacle.

Just imagine, I don't know how long I have worked hard to put the first batch of goods into the market, and then the inventor finds that there are already copycat products on the market after a few days, and the inventor has no way to stop anyone's plagiarism, and it is impossible to protect their own rights and interests.

Plagiarism is not terrible, what is terrible is the idea that "plagiarizing your product is you giving face" is almost deep-rooted. Who invents and innovates when a nation does not respect invention and innovation at all? Oh, don't talk about the four great inventions, which have risen to the level of the well-being of all mankind...... That is, the contribution is in vain, and no one appreciates it.

Lu Zhe's idea is very simple, since he has such an opportunity, he should continue to do what he thinks should be done when he can do something.

In the same way, Lü Zhe was now a little moved by the proposal of the Xiongnu to end the war and move westward, and to cooperate with the empire to attack Donghu before moving west.

The Xiongnu tribe is a threat to the empire, in fact, it is not only the Xiongnu, any tribe on the steppe will be a threat to the empire. This has been confirmed more than once in the long history of China, so even when the whole country did not think that the grassland was of any use, Lu Zhe launched a war against the grassland strongly, and he launched the war just after the unification of the whole country without integrating forces.

"Donghu is indeed more populous and larger than the Xiongnu." Lu Zhe looked at Zhang Liang and asked, "What do you think of this?" ”

Zhang Liang was dressed very formally, and he had always stood respectfully, and when he heard the emperor ask, he said calmly: "It depends on the degree of trust Your Majesty has in the Huns." ”

What could Lü Zhe have good faith in the Huns? Just because he can indulge some of his own people does not mean that he is willing to indulge other people.

Historically, the Xiongnu were divided into two parts, the Southern Xiongnu and the Northern Xiongnu (also called the Western Xiongnu), one part stayed in the east, and the other part migrated west.

The Southern Xiongnu were subdued by the Han Empire, they were vassals to the Han Empire, and became a tribe similar to mercenaries, whenever the Han Empire wanted to use troops, there would be Xiongnu Zhonglang will gather the various tribal leaders of the Xiongnu to gather cavalry, so that these cavalry similar to the servant army to fight with the Han army.

However, I have to tell the truth, the number of times the Han Empire actually summoned the cavalry of the Southern Xiongnu was only a handful. On the one hand, the Han Empire had almost no foreign enemies, and if there were enemies, it was not suitable for cavalry combat, so when did it really come to gather the Xiongnu cavalry to fight? It was on the warlord attack in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. Any warlord in the north has a record of employing the Huns. What is more strange is that there were actually Hun cavalry in the central army at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and they were used as the main force. For example, Cai Wenji (Cai Yan) was captured to the grassland by the Hun cavalry in the "Luoyang Ninth School" during the Luoyang War.

In fact, the Northern Xiongnu should be called the Western Xiongnu. Unwilling to submit to the Han Empire, this group of Huns climbed mountains and waded through rivers, walked through the desert and the Gobi, crossed the swamps, and first reached the border of the Anxi Empire (Parthia). The Northern Huns, who arrived at the border of the Sabbath Empire, undoubtedly did their old job. At that time, the Sabbatarian Empire was at war with the Romans who were expanding eastward.

Because of the escape and the defeat and westward flight, the Northern Xiongnu actually had less than 150,000 people left, but they were still able to beat the Rest Empire. Although the main forces of the Rest Empire were at war with the Romans. But later, the Rest Empire sent elites back to the east to try to solve the Huns, but they were still beaten. In the end, it was the Romans who sent people to invite Shan Yu of the Northern Xiongnu to Rome, and the two sides reached an agreement to divide the Rest Empire.

The alliance between the Romans and the Northern Huns, who had less than 100,000 men remaining, looks like a joke, right? But it really happened. There was only one reason why the Romans were willing to form an alliance with the Northern Huns. That is, the Northern Xiongnu used less than 20,000 cavalry to slaughter the 100,000 so-called elites of the Anxi Empire.

What are the facts? It was at that time that the Sabbath Empire had indeed fallen. Asked for help from the Han Empire before it fell? Asking for help or something is some wild history, and if there is no official record, just listen to it.

Lu Zhe's memory was not chaotic, he deeply remembered that it was the Southern Xiongnu who was beaten to the point of survival, it was the Southern Xiongnu who opened the prelude to the "Five ~ Hu Chao ~ Hua", and the emperor of the Eastern Jin Dynasty was arrested and poured out the urinal. And how many people were there in the Southern Huns at that time? It was restored to nearly 300,000, and it was the Han Empire that carved out the territory and gave materials and money every year, which expanded the Southern Xiongnu, who originally had not many people, to restore the population of more than 300,000!

"I don't like any interracial thing. Including the Xiongnu, Donghu ......, and even the Western Regions, Persians, and Greeks. Lu Zhe said very casually. At the end, he added: "But the Empire will not be hostile to all aliens at the same time." ”

Donghu's attack on the Xiongnu was robbing the fruits of the empire's victory, and it even happened that Donghu directly grabbed the empire's territory, but then the king of Donghu gave up on his own and sent people to the imperial capital to apologize.

The empire will inevitably conquer Donghu someday in the future, but definitely not now. So...... Before the empire attacked Donghu, was it necessary for the Xiongnu to fight with Donghu?

"According to the information sent back by our inner line on Jitu's side, there are less than 50,000 people under Jitu's command who can fight, and the rest are patchwork old and young." Zhang Liang knew that the emperor liked data, and thought that data was the real one that would not deceive people: "The king of Donghu attacked the Xiongnu and gathered 280,000 herdsmen, and with the total population of Donghu exceeding 2 million, and with the characteristics of the nomadic people, it is estimated that about 200,000 more people can be summoned." ”

Lu Zhe knew more about nomads than anyone else in this era, and he continued to say in a casual tone: "The Huns in the Wolf Juxu Mountain, didn't they resist the invasion of Donghu? ”

"Yes, the Huns in the Wolf Juxu Mountain blocked the Donghu people, what they are doing in Ganjituo, killing cattle and sheep and throwing them at the water source." Zhang Liang frowned deeply when he said this: "In fact, our army has also encountered similar problems. ”

The method of polluting water sources with corpses to create plague was not "invented" until the time of Liu Che, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, who conquered the Xiongnu in the north, but the nomads had already had such a method, which was a tool for their shamans to master such knowledge and pretend to be ghosts, and used to punish some disrespectful people.

In fact, even in the Mongolian period, the steppe shaman was still using that kind of means to deter, it may be true to maintain the majesty of the gods, and it is also true to ensure the interests of the shaman, so that people can be infected with the plague and die, and even the entire tribe will die. As for the situation of the plague, it is enough for the shaman to say that it is the punishment of the gods.

"It's terrible to have no knowledge." Lu Zhe was full of contempt: "Biochemical warfare? It was in the time of non-flowing living water, and the corpse could only be polluted by throwing it away, and it was impossible to use such a method in a flowing river unless the Huns slaughtered hundreds of thousands of cattle and sheep to block the river......"

What the emperor was saying behind Zhang Liang didn't understand, it sounded like some kind of very professional term or something. However, he understood what the emperor meant, that is, as long as the Northern Expeditionary Corps firmly controlled the Longle water, and then only drank the burning and boiling water, the Huns would not be able to threaten anything if they did those things.

"It's not very useful for us, but it's definitely useful for Donghu." Lu Zhe looked as if he was gloating? He said: "Then it is no wonder that the Huns in Wolf Juxu Mountain blocked the Donghu army. It is estimated that the Donghu people knew that the Xiongnu shaman had put a 'big move' and dissuaded the Donghu king from continuing to attack. ”

Zhang Liang found out that the emperor was in a very good mood today. He thought about it carefully, and it didn't seem that anything worthy of the emperor's happiness had happened, right?

It's nothing, it's just that Lu Zhe has accepted his eldest son's invitation today, thinking that after Zhang Liang finishes his report, he should clean up, and then go out of the palace to the outskirts in the direction of Yiling.

What did Lu Qi do again? He's just been busy making teapots.

Oh, the teapot is a code name, in fact it is a steam engine, and the teapot that the emperor is going to see is already number seven, and four of the previous six have exploded......

Seeing that Zhang Liang was still talking, it seemed that he couldn't finish talking for a while, and Lu Yi, who had been outside the door for more than half an hour, couldn't help but walk in.

The appearance of Lu Yi made Zhang Liang find some direction, and quickly guessed that there should be something going on with the royal family, and sped up his speech, as if he wanted to finish it as soon as possible?

"Father, if the 'teapot' made by the eldest brother is really successful, it needs the cooperation of the ruling government in some matters, right?" Lu Yi used a seemingly innocent, but actually cunning expression, and said: "There are too many things to be busy with in the government, but isn't Zhang Shangshu here?" Why don't you go over and take a look? ”

Speaking of which, Lu Yi is now twelve years old, and because of the food, he is relatively stout, and some people will definitely believe him when he looks at the age of fourteen or fifteen.

If you are already considered a laborer in some families at the age of twelve, and in some families you are expected to marry a wife and start having children, so ...... Lu Zhe has already begun to deliberately cultivate some things in Lu Yi, such as handing over some government affairs to Lu Yi to handle.

Zhang Liang doesn't have any spare time, he is actually very busy, hesitating to say something, the emperor over there has already made a decision. (To be continued.) )