Chapter 572: A Little Regret
"Thou shalt die. www.biquge.info The four cavalry, along a line, galloped quickly, the weather was very cold today, and the breath of spring was blown back by the cold wind, and it was like a knife on people's faces, but these four cavalry, as if they did not react, galloped quickly. Then, suddenly, someone stared at him and shouted.
"These hairy children, do death. Only one was killed last time, and their parents didn't care." A few children, who were building snowmen, and the cavalry came galloping away, and they ran away giggling, as if they thought it was funny. A rider scolded angrily, these hairy children simply don't know whether they are alive or dead.
"Team Zheng, it doesn't seem to be here when I was hit and killed last time, really, if you don't really die, you will never be able to learn?" "We fell into the frieze, and the driver also fell into the frieze. What's even worse is that the one who didn't die, there was only one last time, and he was crushed and his leg was broken" "Yes, last time, the family went to the court to sue the driver, how many times did they warn, but they just didn't listen." "If you don't listen, we're tired of this cold day, and we have to come out to run."
"Here we are." , drove away the people, the four horsemen still divided into two roads, galloped forward along a line, walked all the way, spoke loudly all the way, almost ran for more than ten miles, almost to the ground, the leader had to shout.
"It's a shift, it's a shift." "Good work. Come in and rest.'" There was a small wooden house on the side of the road, and many horses were parked outside, and several people tied the horses, fed them, and got into the cabin. There were several people inside, also wearing Tang Dynasty red jacket uniforms.
The wooden house was warm and lively, and the voice of the comer had already come in, and eight people greeted each other, and the people in the original wooden house did not dare to delay, so they handed over the wooden house to the comer, went out by themselves, rode on horses, and continued to gallop on the relay class.
There is a coal stove in the house, it is very warm, several people roast their hands, drink hot drinks, some people pour out a little wine from the pot, some people take out a bag, put the vegetables in it into an iron pot, put it on the stove to heat, this is a snack for the drink.
"What are you drinking?" There were three people in the room, three of them were drinking a little wine, and only one of them was drinking something black by himself. The others asked curiously.
"Well, this is coffee." The man said, "This thing is very expensive, and the production is not much, most of it is sold to the Heavenly People, and they are so precious that they are dying."
"Divide it and see." , the man generously distributed the coffee to the others, and the other three almost didn't squirt out as soon as they took their mouths, so bitter, "Alas, don't spit it out, this thing is too expensive, more expensive than the fine tea." I managed to get it.'"
"It's so bitter, something. You're not going to use any herbs to deceive people, are you?" , He said that it was late, and the other three drank it until it tasted wrong, and they all spit it out, and hurriedly rinsed their mouths with warm wine.
"What a waste. That's a good thing.'" The man said distressedly, "What is bitter, beer is also bitter, you love to drink it." In the heavens, they can only drink from people like priests."
Coffee, this kind of thing was introduced to Datang by Li Chen. It is mainly used as a supplement to tea. At present, most of them are exported. The sales price is still expensive, but unfortunately, most places in Datang are not suitable for planting this crop, which is currently planted in Qiongzhou and Lingnan. Because coffee can only be grown within the Tropic of Cancer, it is a pity that Datang does not occupy many of these places.
However, in the future, I believe there will be a lot, Li Chen has begun to develop the Philippines, and plans to develop the South Seas in the future. Coffee will be a very good tool for export, and the people of heaven can like it, but unfortunately they don't know how to grow it yet, so they can only import it from Datang.
In fact, coffee was popularized by the Arabs, and as a monopoly commodity, it was vigorously sold to Europe by the Arabs, making a lot of money from the Europeans. It's a pity that I don't know how long it will be, and Datang is currently making this money.
Datang has long been navigated to the heavens, and Li Chen has consciously collected seeds from various crops very early, and coffee is also among them. However, he never collected it. When he remembered this matter and asked about it, he found that the Tianfang people didn't know about coffee.
He wondered, he remembered that it seemed that in the fifth century A.D., the Romans began to drink coffee, how could no one know about it, and no one had heard of it being cultivated. Fortunately, he remembered that the origin of coffee was Africa, not far away, not West Africa, but East Africa, which made people go to the wild to find it.
Eventually, he found a wild coffee tree, and he transplanted the crop in large quantities. He also carefully sent people to inquire in Tianfang, and also asked Suleiman, and made sure that the Tianfang people did not know the existence of this crop at present, so they vigorously promoted Kafei to Tianfang. Although the sales volume is not much, it is limited by the current production is too small. Therefore, coffee beans can be sold at a price equal to gold.
Li Chen doubts, is it also the butterfly effect, so that the coffee that should have appeared in the fifth century was fanned by him? Not really. According to the literature, the first civilization recorded that coffee was found either by the 10th-century Persian physician Reziz or the 11th-century Arab philosopher and physician Avicenna.
Although coffee had been used by the Ethiopians for a long time before that, wild coffee was often found in the wild in the area, and it was also a staple food for the local nomadic people. The systematization of coffee cultivation seems to have waited until the beginning of the twelfth century. Therefore, Li Chende's behavior can be regarded as the earliest coffee planting and promotion in human history.
Li Chen didn't know this, so he could only say that it was a pity that coffee could only be planted between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Cancer, and there were not many places like Datang. Another strange thing is that in the big countries that consume coffee in modern times, they are all countries outside the Tropic of Cancer, and I have to say that this thing is really amazing.
The four of them were talking nonsense, and it wasn't long before they felt the ground vibrate, then they heard a whistle, and then a roar. The four of them rushed out of the house, and a behemoth came speeding by, passing by the four of them, and there was another whistle, as if it was like greeting several people.
"No matter how many times I watch it, I'm always shocked by the steamer car." , who had just pretended to be 13 and drank coffee, muttered, "When I retire, I'm going to drive a steamer too." "I'm going too, it's amazing that such a huge guy can gallop without losing to the fast horse, and gallop for so long." "Team, what about you? Let's go and sign up together, retired soldiers will be given preferential treatment."
"I'm not going." The team shook their heads silently, "Let's go together, we can still be classmates when the time comes." , someone persuaded him.
"I'm not going to drive a steamer, I'm going to design a steamer, Iron Behemoth..." The team's tone was not as flat as just now, but with a hint of fanaticism, "We are all cavalry, have you ever thought that if one day, we will attack this steel beast head-on, will we have a chance of winning?"
"Crazy, who's going to hit the steamer head-on?" "That is, when I saw the steamer coming from afar, my legs were weak." "Our horses are too, and Ash was scared half to death by the steamer."
"Then what if one day you get on a steamer and meet you on the battlefield?" "What else can I do, run." Can't you hide if you can't win? Anyway, this steamer has no rails, so it can only stop."
"That..." The team was dragging out their words, "If one day, the steamer can run without the rails, do you think you can still say that if you can't beat it, you can run?" , The three of them were silent, yes, now the steamer needs rails, but what if one day it is not needed?
The three of them shivered in unison, not because of the cold, but because no one knew the steamer better than them. This terrifying steel beast is not at all capable of being matched by man.
A steamer is a train. All four of them are road guards. This is an army dedicated to the protection of railways. However, this branch of the military is only temporary. Their establishment is still in the army, and only temporarily responsible for the protection of the railway.
This railway, called the Beijing-Youzhou Railway, extends from Chang'an all the way to Youzhou, and after several years of construction, this is the first railway in Datang to open to traffic. Starting from Chang'an, to Tongguan, and then to the north, all the way to Youzhou.
Originally, the construction of the railway from Chang'an to Longxi was still in full swing, in order to catch up with the railway to the north of the Tang Dynasty, that had to be postponed, until the completion of the Jingyou railway, began to increase manpower and material resources.
There will be road guards, not to protect the railway, but to protect people. Even before the opening of the train, it was already publicized through newspapers, theater troupes, etc., that the railway line could not stay, otherwise the court of the dead would not be responsible, and there were still people who did not know the situation, and many people were killed.
The collision was okay, and the one who didn't die went to sue the driver of the steamer and asked him to compensate. Only then did they have a road guard, and they temporarily sent out the light cavalry in the army to drive away the people along the way before the train arrived.
It's not just for human life, the court will never compensate, if you die, you will die, and if you die, you will die in vain. It's not that Li Chen is cold, but the train runs along a fixed route, and the momentum is not small before you come, unless you are deliberate, it is impossible to be hit by the train and die, so it is absolutely impossible to compensate. It's not that you can drive a car at will, and there is no reason for compensation.
There will be road guards, the main thing is trouble, at the moment the transport task is urgent, and one person is killed. Therefore, sending these light cavalry out of the army can be regarded as training on the one hand, and on the other hand, it will not delay the transportation task of the army.
For a temporary transportation task, it is not cost-effective to use manpower and material resources, and also build a hut for rest along the way? In fact, it is not specially for the road guards, these huts can be used as places to add water and Gaza in the future.
Steam trains, with water to be added from time to time along the way. Gaza is for climbing, to increase the grip of the train. So these buildings, too, will not be wasted.
"Ah! Tang Dog, there is a kind of killing your grandfather with a knife." "Come here with a knife, frown, you Uncle Tubo is not a hero." , the road guards worked hard to protect the railway in the cold and freezing, and now there are also people suffering in the cold and freezing, screaming so badly that people can't bear to see.
Some of these suffering people scolded in Chinese, and most of them scolded in a language that observers could not understand, but it didn't matter. The people who were in charge of observing it were as if they had not heard of it.
This is a secret base that takes place in the deep mountains of Datang Guanzhong, and Li Chen finally decided that for the sake of medical progress, some human experiments must be conducted. To be honest, it's cruel, yes, but if you don't do some black development, some reactions can't be known.
Li Chen thought about it, anyway, in terms of fear of heat, it is better to use it for experiments, he has been hesitating for a long time, whether to do some experiments that may be more contrary to human ethics. It's just that I haven't been able to start.
Later, when it came to being captured alive by fear of heat, Li Chen thought, simply, let's use this guy as an experiment. Cruel? For a large-scale plundering of eight states and killing tens of thousands of Han people to get livestock, it is really not cruel, otherwise Li Chen would have changed to a vegetarian diet a long time ago.
So on the fear of heat and one of his subordinates, there were not many subordinates left, after being sent to Chang'an, they were raised by good food and drink for a while, and then went to the Dharma field, named Ling Chi, which is actually a human anatomy. The envoys of all ethnic groups who watched the onlookers couldn't bear to see it.
There were not many people visiting, only more than ten people, all of them were envoys of those grassland peoples, Li Chen brought them together with the phobia, and when the phobia thought that Li Chen was going to agree to his request, he was still proud.
But after Li Chen announced his crime and let the palace guards take it down on the spot, his expression said that it was as wonderful as it was. Li Chen can't describe it.
Seeing that Li Chen asked him to come to the front of the steps, he still had a big mouth, knelt down in front of Li Chen, and wanted to salute his boots, Li Chen wanted to arrest him, of course he didn't let him get close, he just said that he would wait until the announcement was over, and he didn't care for a while. Verbal obedience, father-in-law.
Then when the warrior in front of the palace took him down and read out the guilt, he was stunned, stammered, and looked incredulous, and then struggled to resist, and the guards were already prepared, grabbed his joints, and took him down.
The people were sent to the laboratory, and the medical workers and their students who had been brought in from heaven to understand a little human anatomy were dissected. While cutting, he also recorded, so cold that he was inhumane, and those envoys felt chills in their hearts. His legs trembled, which was even more terrifying than Ling Chi.
Especially those dissecters, recording with expressionless faces, Ling Chi made people feel that they were not looking at people, but as an artifact, which was really terrifying.
After that, Li Chen announced his decision and asked the envoys to convey his message back. On the spot, someone fainted, Li Chen didn't care, and let people send them away.
Li Chen is quite satisfied with the whole thing, and it has achieved the effect of intimidation, hoping that this matter will spread, and the Tang people will be terrible in the future, and they will be able to stop children crying at night on the grassland. It has also achieved medical effects, Chinese medicine can do without these, but Western medicine needs it. The development of Western medicine and Chinese medicine can play a complementary role. There is no need to favor one side and despise the outside side.
In the end, it is to achieve the goal of punishment and not waste. It's best to let these humanoid animals do this kind of thing. The only regret is that there are too few subordinates who are afraid of heat, because he is too brutal, and after being beaten by the Tang army, it is even more so, and many generals have run out.
It's okay to be a little sorry, after dealing with this matter, Li Chen is relieved to go on the road.