"Whatever it is, it's uglier than me. Shi Yong, you're a bad drinker, aren't you? ”

Li Kui looked at a group of dark and ugly women coming into the hall, stared at him, and threw the wine bowl.

Xu Guanzhong and the others looked at the woman selected by Shi Yong, and they also felt that their appetite was exhausted.

Shi Yong said embarrassedly: "The ugliness of life is the most eye-catching, this is already the most eye-catching in the palace." There are beautiful people who are Han Chinese, and according to the prince's orders, all Han people are restored to their free bodies, and I don't want them to come. ”

Chao Yong waved his hand and said, "That's it, take them all down." ”

"Yes."

Shi Yong also felt ashamed, and hurriedly led people to drive out a group of dark-skinned Yue women.

When the women of Yue went out, the hall seemed to be much brighter.

Li Kui shouted: "I thought that Yue people were only black for men, but I didn't expect that this woman was darker than me." I'm afraid I won't be able to find my mother-in-law at night. ”

"Hahaha"

Everyone couldn't help but laugh when they heard Li Kui talking nonsense again.

After laughing for a while, Xu Guanzhong said: "We don't look down on Yue Nu, and I'm afraid the soldiers are not so picky." It's been almost five months since the troops were dispatched, and the army has been on the road, and now that they are relaxed, the soldiers will inevitably have trouble. ”

Chao Yong also has a deep understanding of this, the sweep of the Yue Li Dynasty is complete, as soon as he enters the palace, he wants to see the beauties, people are of the same mind, and the soldiers have also saved up their energy.

Chao Yong thought for a while and said, "Xue Yong, pass on my order." 5,000 Yue women were degraded as camp prostitutes, and the soldiers could take turns to relax. Those who commit adultery abroad, regardless of whether they are Yue or Han, will be killed without mercy. ”

"Yes."

Not long after Xue Yong went, the city's earth-shattering cheers resounded again.

On the second day, except for the 5,000 camps of prostitutes in the city, there were no more Yue people, who were either fed the fish and shrimp of the Fuliang River, or branded with slave marks. The escort went north.

The palace is full of the soldiers from the city to search out of the property, the Yue Li Dynasty is not as rich as the Central Plains, but most of the country's wealth is in the Shenglong Mansion, there are many Yue Li Dynasty specialties, transported to the Central Plains are worth thousands of gold, these wealth is no less than Chao Yong after the southern expedition to the soldiers all the rewards.

Chao Yong's dispatch of troops this time can be said to have been useless, and he unified Jiangnan, swept away the Yue Li Dynasty, and also obtained tens of thousands of Yue slaves. These slaves will be sent to the mines in the country. Create wealth for the beams continuously.

This is the Vietnamese slave captured by the army from Li Qiande's army and Thang Long Province, and 100,000 barbarian soldiers are still searching for it in the north of the Fuliang River. As long as the girder is strong and the head is strong, the wealth will go to the barbarians.

Thirty-six mountains plundered Guangxi, and Chao Yong demanded that they release all the Han people and return all their belongings. It was also necessary to compensate the Han people who had been taken captive, and at once the 36 Mountains, which were not rich, were broken down.

Fortunately, Da Liang gave them the opportunity to make a fortune, not to mention that they also had to atone for their sins with human heads and strong men, if they didn't catch enough strong men and strong men, no one knew how Da Liang would punish them. Therefore, the barbarians carefully searched every inch of land, and not a single Yue person was spared.

The mountains and forests full of snakes and insects are no different from the places where they grow, and there is no need to supervise the Liang soldiers to drive them away. So they went into the mountains and forests and arrested the fleeing Yue people. The mountains and forests that could not be searched were burned down.

In the dry season, the mountains and forests of the country can be lit up, but the rainy season comes. Soon new vegetation will grow.

The Han Chinese who were exiled to the Yue Li Dynasty and were willing to return to their hometowns with the escort of the Yue slaves, and those who were willing to live in the new Kingdom of Annam stayed in Thang Long Province. After the new city is completed, we will move to the new city together.

Willing to stay. Each man was given ten pieces of money, five horses of cloth, and one buffalo, and whoever cultivated the land belonged to him. There are hundreds of thousands of hectares of fertile land in the Fuchun River Delta, and tens of thousands of Han people cannot fully reclaim them.

Paddy fields also need to be cultivated, and it is not just a matter of sprinkling seeds and the fields are full of crops. The more fertile the place, the more vigorous the weeds will grow, and if they are not intensively cultivated, the crops will not be able to compete with the vigorous weeds.

Under the heavy reward, there were only more than 30,000 Han people who agreed to stay in the Kingdom of Annam, and more than half of them were Han people who had lived in the Yueli Dynasty for many years, and only a few Han people in Guangxi were willing to stay.

After resting for three days, the army set out on the journey again, going south to sweep away the remnants of the Yue Li Dynasty, and every day the Yue people who were marked as slaves were sent to Thang Long Province.

Chao Yong did not go out with the army, but wrote his physics in Thang Long Mansion every day.

The regular soldiers and horses of the Yue Li Dynasty have only a few thousand at the junction with Zhancheng and Zhenla, and not only are there no soldiers and horses in the hinterland, but even the city is gone, just some large or small villages.

The dignified prince Liang went to arrest a few monkeys and sent them back to China, I am afraid that he will provoke the anger of the heavens and people, and it is impossible to say that there will be Wenchen who is not afraid of death to impeach the prince and lose the prestige of the court.

After entering February, it began to rain in Thang Long Province, although it was not a continuous heavy rain, but it also announced the end of the drought in the first year of the Great Liang Apocalypse.

This is really related to the beam, it doesn't rain in a winter, although Chao Yong uses soldiers quickly, but the people in the world can't stand it. The first year of the Apocalypse is a great drought, and if there is a drought in the second year of the Apocalypse, there will be no rice in the nursing homes in Daliang. Therefore, the hundred officials asked Chao Gai to sacrifice to the sky and ask for rain.

Chao Gai believed Chao Yong's words and felt that heaven and man could not communicate at all, but for the sake of the stability of the world, he had to lead hundreds of officials to ask for rain. As a result, as soon as the rain ended, it began to rain in Tokyo.

After a long drought and a rainy day, the city carnival, the people felt that not only the prince was a god descending from heaven, but the emperor must also be a god descending from heaven, otherwise he would not ask for rain, and the rain would come.

The day of asking for rain is the day of the good observation of the sky into the clouds of the dragon Gongsun Sheng, since the three volumes of Chao Yong's book of heaven after the Taoist volume, Gongsun Sheng closed the door to study the Tao, got Tokyo, but also declined all official positions, concentrated on the study of Taoism. After hearing that Chao Gai asked for rain, he asked Chao Gai to bathe and fast, and showed his sincerity to the heavens for a while before he began to ask for rain.

After spending a month in Thang Long Province, Chao Yong met with the Champa envoys.

Zhancheng was originally a subject state of the Song Dynasty, often enshrined, after finding out that the Great Liang swept away the Yue Li Dynasty, he immediately got in touch with the Great Liang army that went south to capture the Yue people, and wanted to send an envoy to meet the prince of the Great Liang.

Zhancheng is in the south of the Yue Li Dynasty, and its national strength is not as good as that of the Yue Li Dynasty, and it was invaded several times by Li Qiande's troops. Hearing that Daliang swept away the Yue Li Dynasty and continued to send troops south, he was so frightened that he prepared a richer tribute than the Song Dynasty in previous years to claim the title of vassal.

The Champa envoy brought ten trained white elephants, dozens of carts of ivory, rhino horn, ebony, and agarwood.

Hua Rong had already led his troops back to Thang Long City, and thousands of elite horsemen lined up outside the city. However, it was not the cavalry that terrified the Champa envoys, but the flying boats that flew up and down in the air.

The city of Zhancheng is located further south, and there are countless fruits in the country, and there are more war elephants than in the Yue and Li dynasties. Charging up, the war elephant can directly knock the war horse into the air, and the impact force is not at the same level at all.

However, what the Cham people couldn't understand was the spaceship flying in the air, and the black dragon painted on it spread its teeth and claws, as if it wanted to choose people to devour.

When the spaceship rises from the city and goes straight up for nine days. The battlefield messenger who had just arrived outside the city gate fell to the ground in fright and kept bowing.

Hua Rong, who greeted him at the gate of the city, said with a smile: "Messenger, please get up, the prince is already waiting for you to meet you in the palace." ”

When the envoy of Zhancheng heard this, he hurriedly got up and followed Hua Rong into the city.

When he entered the palace hall, the messenger of Champa fell to the ground. Chanted: "The envoy of Champa visited the prince of Daliang, and the king of our country heard that the prince personally led the army to conquer the Yue Li Dynasty, so he specially sent a villain to meet him." Champa and the Central Plains are thousands of miles apart, and I don't know that the Central Plains has changed its new owner, so there is less tribute, and the prince is asked to forgive his sins. The king of our country has asked people to prepare a national ceremony, and he will send people north to the Central Plains in the near future. Called the minister Nagong. ”

As he spoke, he held the gift list high.

Shi Yong took the gift list and sent it to the throne.

Chao Yong saw that it was written on it as a private gift from Zhancheng, and he was also very satisfied.

Maritime trade flourished during these years. Whether it is Dashi or India, Southeast Asian merchants come to the Central Plains, they have to pass through the sea area of Champa, Champa makes a lot of profits in sea trade, and Champa itself also has many precious specialties. It can be said that it is quite rich. Of course, their wealth was the same as that of the Yue Li Dynasty, and the nobles wore gold and silver. The people were still naked.

Chao Yong nodded and said, "Okay, there should be no obstacle to the matter of being a minister." This time, I led my troops south, just to exterminate the Yue Li Dynasty that invaded my borders, you can rest assured. Now the Yue-Li Dynasty no longer exists, and it has been replaced by the Kingdom of Annan, a subordinate state of my Great Liang, and the future King of Annan will be my son. In one or two decades, the population of the Kingdom of Annam will not be too large, but you must not covet the territory of the Kingdom of Annam, otherwise the today of the Yue Li Dynasty will be your tomorrow. ”

When the envoy of Champa heard this, he hurriedly said: "Our country must firmly guard the frontier and will never dare to invade the territory of Annam." ”

Chao Yong nodded and said: "The Yue people invaded my frontier and killed my people, and I want to destroy their country and raze their people." There will be soldiers and horses in the Kingdom of Annam to search for the Yue people for a long time, and there are few Yue people who flee to the city, and your country must return all the Yue people who fled to the city. ”

The envoy of Champa hurriedly said: "Obey the orders of the prince." ”

"Okay, that's all I have to say. The matter of diplomatic relations between the two countries will be decided by the capital, so I will not say more. The messenger came from afar, and he should be entertained. However, all the Yue people were escorted to China, and there was no singing and dancing for you to see. In this case, I'll show you my girders' ships and fire and thunder attacks, and the messenger must be very curious about these two weapons. ”

The envoys of Champa heard that the prince of Daliang was going to show them a flying boat and a fire and thunder attack, and hurriedly thanked them.

In their opinion, the spaceship and the legendary god thunder that can blow through the city wall are the weapons of the gods, and if they are lucky enough to see it, it will be worth it.

"The fire and thunder are huge, let's go to the city wall and see it."

Chao Yong and his entourage came to the city, and the two warships of the navy sailed to the middle of the Fuliang River, one of the warships dropped anchor, and the sailors on board withdrew to the other warship and returned to the shore.

Hou Jian flew up and down in the air for a while, then chose a good altitude and headed over the warship.

Xu Guanzhong explained: "The target of the attack is the warship. ”

The Champa envoy also saw it, and stared at the spaceship in the air without blinking.

Above the warship where the ship arrived, a huge fire thunder roared down.

"Boom"

The lead of the fire thunder was shorter, and it exploded as soon as it reached the sky above the warship, and the huge power released by the explosion of the specially built large fire thunder suddenly blew up the sawdust of the warship several feet long, and the hull was directly torn into several pieces and fell into the water.

The spaceships at a height of dozens of feet shook.

Everyone on the city wall also felt a huge shock in their eardrums, and the people who heard the fire and thunder explosion for the first time all fell to the ground in fright, their faces were colorless, and one person even left a pool of unknown liquid on the ground.

Until Chao Yong asked his soldiers to help up the Champa envoy, the Champa envoy still trembled with his legs, looked at the few wooden planks left on the river, and said with a trembling mouth: "It's really a god weapon, no wonder it can sweep away the Yue Li Dynasty so quickly." ”

Chao Yong smiled: "I wanted to let the envoy know about the spaceship and the fire thunder, but I didn't expect to make the envoy frightened. That's it. Let's go back to the palace, and I'll give the messenger a drink to suppress the alarm. ”

The envoy of Champa hurriedly bowed down and said: "Thank you prince for opening my eyes, I can see the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder today, although I have no regrets about dying." ”

Everyone returned to the palace, and Chao Yong held a banquet to entertain the envoys of the city.

The Champa envoy drank several cups in a row, and his hands and feet stopped trembling, and repeatedly said that he would definitely show the king of Champa when he went back, and send an envoy north to pay tribute to Daliang as soon as possible. Pay tribute every year, and come to the court every year.

I don't know if the Cham people drank a little or were frightened by the fire and thunder, and after drinking for a while, the Champa envoy got drunk. He was screaming in a bird language that no one could understand, and his expression was very frightened.

Chao Yong asked the retinue of the Champa envoy to bring the people back.

As soon as the Champa envoy left, Li Kui jumped up and said, "I've been busy chasing and killing black monkeys these days, and I've forgotten about the spaceship." Earlier, the prince promised to let me play with the spaceship in the Yue Li Dynasty, but this wine was the same as water, and there was nothing to eat. It's better to play spaceship. ”

After the army rested, Li Kui followed the soldiers and horses to fight in the south. Sun An, Shi Bao, Fang Jie and others were not interested in those villages, and they all stayed in Thang Long Mansion.

The spacecraft could not be replenished due to the lack of fire oil it carried. There was no movement with the army.

Hou Jian had just come back to attend the banquet, and when he heard this, he immediately said: "There is not much fierce fire oil left, and it is not too late to play when I return to China." ”

Li Kui glared at him and said, "I'm going to play today." The prince agreed, who dares to do a good thing to me. Eat me with a fist first. ”

Chao Yong smiled: "Since I promised, let him play." This banquet is not interesting, everyone goes to the spaceship to see my first kingdom of Daliang. ”

When the crowd heard this, they came to the place where the silo was built at the back of the main hall.

Walking to the silos, Li Kui shouted, "I'm the first." ”

When Hou Jian heard this, he couldn't help but look at Chao Yong.

Chao Yong smiled: "Then let Li Kui go first." ”

Hou Jian explained the operation method to everyone, in fact, it is very simple, that is, to adjust the size of the firepower and let the spacecraft change its altitude. The wind direction is different at each altitude, and the ship can fly towards its destination by changing the altitude.

Easier said than done.

Everyone knew that the operation would not be so simple, only Li Kui shouted: "It turns out that it is so easy, hurry up and ignite the fire, I will fly again." ”

Hou Jian also wanted Li Kui to suffer some hardships, and commanded a few people to light the fire, and the hot air balloon soon swelled up and went straight up, tightening the cables around it.

When Li Kui saw Hou Jian's signal, he rushed to the hanging basket and said with a smile: "Okay, let go of the rope." ”

Hou Jian did not let people loosen the rope at once, but slowly let people loosen the rope and let the spaceship slowly rise into the air.

At first, Li Kui stood in the hanging basket and looked around, but when the rope was lowered a few zhang, and the spaceship was higher than the top of the main hall, Li Kui's face turned a little pale, and he didn't look around, and grabbed the edge of the hanging basket with both hands.

Hou Jian couldn't help laughing when he saw Li Kui's appearance, when he first chose the spaceship team members, he found that many people were afraid of heights. They can climb thousands of mountains, but they don't dare to take a spaceship. Because no matter how high you climb the mountain, you are down-to-earth, and the hanging basket of the spaceship is a layer of rattan, although it is very strong, but once you go up to the sky, the people on it will have no sense of security.

Li Kui is undoubtedly a person who is afraid of heights.

"General Li, we're going to let go of the rope."

Li Kui actually wanted to jump down for a long time, but he had been clamoring to play with the spaceship before, and if he went down before it got up, he would definitely be laughed at, so he kept gritting his teeth and insisting.

But hearing Hou Jian's shout, Li Kui couldn't hold on any longer, and he felt that there was nothing under his feet when he was dragged by a few ropes. If you let go of the rope and the spaceship will fly straight into the sky, it will really not be able to reach the sky or the ground.

"Don't, don't, drag me down. I don't play anymore. ”

Everyone on the ground couldn't help but laugh when they heard Li Kui's anxious voice.

Hou Jian saw that Li Kui was in a hurry, and he didn't dare to laugh anymore, so as not to be beaten by Li Kui, and shouted: "You turn down the firepower, and we will drag you down." ”

When everyone dragged the spaceship down, Li Kui's legs were already weak, and he stepped several times before stepping out of the hanging basket.

"It's too scary to stand in this small basket and rise into the air, thousands of troops and horses have never been afraid, only this spaceship is not afraid, it's so strange."

Chao Yong smiled: "Fear of heights is also a disease, not a matter of guts. There are also those who are unsteady when they see water, and faint at the sight of blood. ”

Li Kui nodded and said, "The prince is right, I must be sick, otherwise I wouldn't be afraid of flying." You guys play, I'll go and heal the nerves. ”

So saying, he walked forward.

Li Kui left, and everyone took turns to take the air to enjoy the scenery of the Kingdom of Annan.

Because there was not much fierce fire oil, everyone also skimmed it and lowered it.

Everyone behind them did not fly alone, but was led by Hou Jian to fly around.

Although the load of the spaceship is not large, it is still no problem to carry two people.

Although he didn't fly alone, the first time he made a hot air balloon to take off, everyone was still nervous, but it was not as big as Li Kui's reaction.

Chao Yong is a little weak in the bottom of his heart, he is invincible, even if he encounters an elephant on the ground and goes crazy, he can not be beaten, but he can't help it when he goes into the air, and he will definitely not be spared if he falls from a height of dozens of zhang, so he has never taken a spaceship before.

Up to now, the six spaceships have taken off and landed hundreds of times, and none of them have gone wrong, so Chao Yong has the courage to fly this time.

The hot air balloons of later generations have dropped two from time to time, and the hand-sewn hot air balloons of this era are even more heart-wrenching.

Fortunately, there was no problem this time, and after rising to a height of dozens of zhang, the tortuous Fuliang River and the plains on both sides of the river were all unobstructed.

(To be continued)