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A long whistle broke the silence of the steppe outside the plug. The herds of cattle and sheep that were originally buried in grazing raised their heads vigilantly and looked at the end of the grassland.

Where heaven and earth want to meet, a long steel monster that keeps spitting white fog and a deep sound of "clang" is rapidly approaching.

Beneath the steel monster, which was spewing a large white mist, a track made entirely of steel stretched straight out, and on either side of the steel track, there were three identical steel tracks.

Four steel-paved tracks, stretching across the vast plains and into the ends of heaven and earth, seem to be infinitely long.

The huge herd was startled by the sound of the whistle and fled in panic under the leadership of the head horse. Although they have seen this steel monster too many times in this grassland, the fear of the unknown still makes them flee every time.

Countless fat and strong horses galloped across the vast grassland like a violent wind. The overwhelming roar of horses' hooves instantly overshadowed the "clang" sound of the steel colliding.

On either side of the four tracks, a dense and tall fence rises in rows, isolating the tracks from the grassland, preventing the horses, cattle and sheep from crossing the tracks.

This is a train from the Great Qin Jiuyuan Fortress through Pingyi City to the Great Qin Anbei County Zhile Kang City, except for the head, there are a total of 20 carriages.

From the fifty-fifth year of the Great Qin calendar, the first steam engine head that only ran less than 50 meters was developed in the Handan Iron Yard. It took the Mohists and the craftsmen of the Ministry of Industry a full 16 years to develop a steam head that could be used for a long time and could still be used after thousands of miles of testing.

If the previous development time is counted, the cycle spent by Daqin in developing the steam head is a full twenty-five years. It's almost two generations.

But fortunately, it was finally developed.

In the sixty-eighth year of the Great Qin calendar, Hu Hai had already ordered the construction of railway tracks connecting all parts of Great Qin in advance. Prior to this, the craftsmen of the Ministry of Industry had also spent ten years planning the railway network in Daqin.

Starting from the first Xianjiu Road, which was paved based on the Jiuyuan Straight Road. Nearly 30 years have passed, Daqin's railway network has not stopped construction, 30 years, the construction of six trunk railway networks connecting the southeast, northwest and three horizontal, as well as the branch line network connecting the counties, the total mileage has been more than 100,000 miles.

Hu Hai was well aware of what the advent of railways in this era meant to Daqin. As long as the railway network continues, Daqin will be able to draw enough troops from the country at any time to deal with any emergencies without being overwhelmed by the long distance.

Anbei County is a new county established by Emperor Hu Hai in the 78th year of the Great Qin calendar. Lekang City is a newly built county city after the establishment of Anbei County, and it is named after its proximity to Lekang Lake (later Balkhash Lake).

Hu Hai was sitting at the end of the train in two carriages that seemed to be no different from the eighteen carriages in front of him.

In the carriage, Long Hong nervously patrolled everywhere.

Trains, such a huge and fast transport capacity, can be said to have completely changed everything that Daqin faced. Distance and space. It is no longer the most important thing for Daqin to worry about.

However, precisely because the train is a new thing, since the completion and opening of the first train track from Xianyang to Jiuyuan in the 71st year of the Great Qin calendar, the accidents that have occurred have basically occurred two or three times a year. Although it was only an accident that occurred in the first few years, and in the past few years, there has been no rollover and derailment for five or six years, but Long Hong is still worried.

This year is the ninety-fifth year of the Great Qin calendar.

Eighty-five years of the Great Qin calendar. The Holy Emperor Hu Hai, who has reigned for thirty-five years and is only half a hundred years old, issued an edict to pass on the throne to the emperor in virtue, character, etc., far surpassing the rest of the princes, and completely faded out of the vision of the civil and military officials and the people of Great Qin.

Ying Jingxi is the son of Li Yan, the Empress of Great Qin.

No one objected to this arrangement of the Son of Heaven. In fact, as early as when the Great Prince Ying Lekang died in battle on the shore of Lekang Lake in Anbei County, all the courtiers of Great Qin knew that Hu Hai, the Holy Son of Great Qin who looked much older because of the death of the Great Prince, had already had the intention of abdicating.

There are a total of twelve sons and six daughters under the knee of the Holy Son of Heaven, and the Holy Son of Heaven has no ancients in front of him to govern the world, and any of the twelve princes is also a dragon and phoenix among people. Among them, the most outstanding virtue, heart and ability belong to the eldest prince Ying Lekang and the second prince Ying Jingxi.

Seventy-five years of the Great Qin calendar. In order to resist the encroachment of the Great Qin on the Central Asian countries, the Seleucid Empire, which inherited the Persian Empire, occupied the vast land of Central Asia and extended to the Persian Gulf, and the Sabbatarian Empire, which occupied all the territory of Iran, Iraq, and Armenia, and part of Turkey, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and Afghanistan, had the most fierce collision with the continuous westward expansion of the Great Qin.

Collisions and wars between the three great empires. It began with Lake Balkhash and stretched to the Indus River to the Arabian Sea.

In addition, if we add the Mauryan Empire, which has entered the twilight of the vast majority of the Indian Peninsula and has already started a non-stop war with Great Qin five years ago, the long territory of the northwest, west, and southwest of Great Qin is in the midst of war.

The 300,000 troops of the Great Qin Royal White Tiger Army, the Royal Pingyi Army, and the Royal South Vietnamese Army and the 300,000 servant armies that were gradually assimilated into the Great Qin culture for more than ten years and were officially incorporated into the Anxi County of the Great Qin Dynasty in the 72nd year of the Great Qin calendar formed the Western Theater. Great war with the Seleucid Empire.

The Great Qin Imperial Xuanwu Army, the Royal Vermilion Bird Army, the Royal Qinglong Army, the Royal Longxi Army, and the Royal Jiuyuan Army counted 500,000 troops to form the Northwest Theater and fight against the Anxi Empire.

The First Fleet, the Second Fleet, and the Royal Guilin Army of the South China Sea Fleet of the Great Qin Royal Navy counted 300,000 troops. Formed the southwest of Great Qin to occupy and fought with the Mauryan Empire.

In the 76th year of the Great Qin calendar, Han Xin, the commander of the Third Army of the Western Theater and the White Tiger General, personally led 80,000 cavalry of the Pingyi Army to travel thousands of miles when the Royal White Tiger Army, the Royal South Vietnamese Army and 300,000 servant troops dragged the Seleucid Empire's million-strong army with the strength of the whole country. bypassed the defense line of the Seleucid Empire and swept through the Seleucid Empire's million-strong army from the rear, while at the same time, the 200,000-strong army of the White Tiger Army and the South Vietnamese Army and the 300,000-strong servant army that seized the opportunity attacked on all fronts, defeating the million-strong army of the Seleucid Empire in one fell swoop and achieving a shocking victory.

In October of the same year, the 500,000 army of the Great Qin defeated the 600,000 troops of the Sabbath and the Mauryan Empire, which came to the aid of the Seleucid Empire, and broke through the capital of the Seleucid Empire, Antioch.

The fall of the Seleucid Empire.

Taking advantage of this great victory, the Northwest Theater of Operations, which gathered the entire 500,000 troops of the five most elite armies of Great Qin, was divided into five routes. Launched a full-front attack on the long defense line of more than 500 miles long composed of various fortresses and castles that had been operating for a year.

In the heavy snow, it took only three days for the five legions of Great Qin to break through all the fortress defense lines of the Rest Empire, and more than 800,000 rest troops fled on all fronts.

Led by the Royal Vermilion Bird Army of Xu Chuang, the former Qinglong general and now the Vermilion Bird general, the 200,000 cavalry of Great Qin pursued and killed the fleeing Sabbatical Army for three days and three nights, stretching for nearly a thousand miles west of Lake Balkhash. The corpses of the rest soldiers are strewn all over the field.

In this battle alone, the Anxi Empire lost thousands of miles of land in the eastern part of the empire, and the loss of troops was as high as more than eighty percent.

It was also in this battle that the great prince Ying Lekang, who had been incognito into the Great Qin Imperial Qinglong Army and had been promoted to captain, was injured by a stray arrow in the charge, and it was too late when the imperial doctor arrived, and finally died of his injuries and died in Lake Balkhash in February of the 78th year of the Great Qin calendar. He was only twenty-five years old.

When the news came, the whole country was moved.

Hu Hai, the Son of Heaven, sat quietly in the emperor's study for a whole day, and did not leave the emperor's study until the next day. When the ministers saw the Holy Son of Heaven Hu Hai, the ears and temples of the Holy Heavenly Son, who had barely changed for decades, were white overnight.

Concubine De Long Jiao heard that her beloved son died on the battlefield. vomited blood and fainted, and then he was haunted by scabies.

Xin Sheng, a veteran of the former Longxi general who was over 60 years old and was transferred to the chief general of the Qinglong Army, who was cleaning the battlefield on the front line, was killed by the great prince and killed himself in the big tent that night.

After this incident. The news that the eldest prince Ying Lekang under the knee of the Holy Son Hu Hai was in the Qinglong Army, the second prince Ying Jingxi was in the White Tiger Army, the third prince Ying Youning was in the Guilin Army, and the 20-year-old Sihuang Zi Ying Jingjia was in the First Fleet of the South China Sea Fleet of the Royal Navy spread all over the world through certain channels.

March. The Son of Heaven issued an edict posthumously crowning Xin Sheng as the Marquis of Anbei, and at the same time promoted Shi Zhao, a disciple of Wei Yu, who had been promoted to the rank of Shaocheng of the General Staff Academy, to be the general of Qinglong, and commanded the Qinglong Army to continue its westward expedition.

In the face of the court's ministers and the people of the world hoping to recall several princes to Xianyang, Hu Hai directly ignored it.

In April, 500,000 troops in the northwest theater of Great Qin besieged the capital of the Rest Empire, and after seven days of siege, they completely destroyed the four walls of Nysa City with gunpowder.

The once-powerful Sabbatical Empire came to an end.

With the mighty Sabbatical Empire and the Seleucid Empire destroyed by Great Qin in less than two years, the Mauryan Empire on the Indian Peninsula, which had entered the twilight of the Indian Peninsula, was surrounded by 800,000 troops of Great Qin.

In May of the 78th year of the Great Qin calendar, Hu Hai, the Son of Heaven, issued an edict to divide the country of Anxi into three, and newly established Anbei County, Anle County, and Ankang County from east to west. At this point, the western frontier of Daqin was directly expanded to Europe, and the Aral Sea became the inland sea of Daqin, and the Caspian Sea became the open sea of Daqin. In later generations, Balkhash Lake was also named Lekang Lake by Huhai. As for the county of Anbei County, Zhiyue Kangcheng is also named because of this.

The Seleucid Empire was also divided into three parts, with new counties of Dongzhou, Zhongzhou, and Xizhou from east to west. The southwestern frontier of Daqin reaches the Persian Gulf and threatens the Arabian Sea.

At the end of December of the 78th year of the Great Qin calendar, the Great Qin and the Mauryan Dynasty reached a truce agreement. The Mauryan Dynasty finally won the understanding of Hu Hai, the holy son of Great Qin, at the cost of paying 30 million gold coins and 100 million silver coins to Great Qin and ceding most of the coastal part of the Indian Peninsula, and the two countries stopped fighting.

In the first month of the 79th year of the Great Qin calendar, Hu Hai, the Son of Heaven, issued an edict to establish a new Ashan County in the coastal part of the Indian Peninsula ceded by the Mauryan Empire, which was garrisoned by the Guilin army.

Prior to this, the Indochina Peninsula was also divided into three counties: Annam, Anjung, and Antai.

Today, it was Hu Hai, the abdicated son of heaven, who brought Concubine De, Concubine Shu and one of the nine concubines, Qi Yi Niangniang, to Lekang City to pay tribute to the eldest prince Ying Lekang, who was buried on the shore of Lekang Lake.

Of course, Hu Hai did not alarm anyone.

In addition to the three concubines, there were only less than 300 personal guards from the Longwei Mansion. Long Yu was promoted to the rank of lieutenant of Xizhou County. Now only Long Hong is still with Hu Hai among the emperor's twelve personal guards, and now Long Hong has also been promoted to Hu Hai's personal guard.

The overwhelming roar of horses' hooves, which was already about to disappear, did not know when it would get close again. Listen to the sound, a large number of cavalry are approaching on the left and right sides of the train.

In less than a cup of tea, through the glass windows on the train, you can clearly see that a cavalry with more than 10,000 people on each side of the tracks is rapidly approaching.

The people who were bored because of the long-distance car ride got up one after another, leaned on the window, and looked at the two cavalry that could only be the Great Qin cavalry that were rapidly approaching on the grassland, and the quiet train instantly became lively.

After the seventy-eight years of the Great Qin Calendar, the Great Qin soldiers Wei Zhenhuanyu. As of this year, the inland counties of Daqin have not been in any war for nearly 15 years.

Except for the occasional friction between the frontier counties and the emerging Roman Empire, which wanted to expand outward, on the whole, everything was stable in Daqin. Guotai Min'an.

Therefore, this is the first time that the people of Daqin, who are full of carriages, have really seen the Great Qin Iron riding thousands of horses for the mighty universe. How can you not let the people who have always been proud of Great Qin excited.

However, after dozens of breaths, the two cavalry were already clearly visible.

It was a black military flag that looked a little shabby, and through the mutilation and damage on the banner, it seemed that it could be seen how this military flag, which symbolized glory and military spirit, had experienced a tragic battle. In the middle of the black flag fluttering in the air was a flaming red steed bird with wings ready to fly.

The military flag of the Great Qin Imperial Vermilion Bird Army.

And it is the only military flag that cannot be lost, stamped with the jade seal of the Great Qin Emperor and the private seal of His Majesty the Son of Heaven.

The originally noisy carriage suddenly became quiet for a moment after seeing the military flag, and then erupted into an even more intense noise.

The Son of Heaven abdicated ten years ago. Since then, he has never asked about any political affairs, and he has not even appeared in front of people. The successor of the third emperor, Ying Jingxi, continued Hu Hai's consistent policy of benefiting the people, and even reduced taxes compared to Hu Hai's reign.

But this can't change the imprint that he left in the minds of the 20,000,000 Great Qin people, in this empire that is so vast that it seems that he can't finish it in his life.

The eternal and immortal Divine Mansion seems to be not enough. Look at everything from south to north, from east to west, from county to big city to remote pavilions, from land to sea. The only thing that is not lacking should be the countless temples dedicated to the sculptures of the Son of Heaven, and you can understand what that man who does not seem to age means to this empire.

Even Long Hong himself was already an old man with wrinkled face and gray hair at this moment. However, he has been by Hu Hai's side since the first year of the Second Emperor, and he has been by Hu Hai's side for almost more than half a century, but he found that the Son of Heaven has hardly aged age. Except for the whiteness of the temples that was caused by the death of the eldest prince. So far, there are no wrinkles on the face.

Even the more than ten concubines of the Holy Son of Heaven are almost sixty years old, but they still have never seen any old age like a thirty-year-old young woman.

Long Hong had to believe it, and he couldn't help but believe it. His Majesty the Son of Heaven is indeed the Son of Heaven, a god in heaven.

Except for the gods. Who else can maintain such an ageless face all the time?

Hearing the sound of horses' hooves outside the carriage, Hu Hai, who had been closing his eyes and recuperating, opened his eyes and turned his head to glance at it, then glanced at Long Hong and said lightly: "You told Long Xuan that I want to go to this Lekang City?" ”

This is the nineteenth carriage, needless to say, the interior decoration of the carriage is naturally needless to say, in addition to Hu Hai in the carriage, Long Hong can enter the carriage alone. The rest of the Dragon Guard Mansion guards were outside.

Long Jiao, Long Mei, and Qi Yi all rested in the last carriage. Nowadays there are no planes, so we can only rely on this relatively fastest train.

After Long Xuan and Fan Yu got married, as the General Staff was gradually upgraded to the highest military organization in command of operations in Great Qin, he was finally promoted to the chief general of the Royal Vermilion Bird Army by order of Hu Hai in the 82nd year of the Great Qin calendar.

Zheng Guo died of illness in the 70th year of the Great Qin calendar, and then died of illness in the 75th year of the Great Qin calendar, followed by Feng Quji's death in the 78th year of the Great Qin calendar, after the Great Qin completely won the war against the rest and the Seleucid Empire. Three years later, Meng Tian, who had left the General Staff, died in the Mongolian Palace.

In the eighty-second year of the Great Qin calendar, Meng Yi also left for the west. Subsequently, Zhang Han, the secretary of the Ministry of War, Kong Kun, Shang Fangcheng, who retired from the post of the Imperial Academy of Great Qin and the Ministry of Rites, Tian Ren, the secretary of the Ministry of Works, Yao Jia, the secretary of the Criminal Department, Hu Wujing, the former secretary of the Ministry of Rites, Ma Xing, Su Mo, Fan Jian, Fang Youcong and other important ministers of the court passed away one after another within this year.

A year later, the ninety-two-year-old Zong Zheng Yingteng died in Zong Zheng's office.

The old ministers who followed Hu Hai at the beginning, with the passage of time, grew old one by one and left one by one. It also prompted Hu Hai to mention the abdication early.

After Hu Hai's edict abdicated, Du Teng, Xu Chuang, Weng Zhong, Wang Gan, Feng Zai, Shijian and other veterans who had entered their twilight years died one after another.

Feng Zai died in the eighty-sixth year, and Shiruma also died in the same year.

So far, the old ministers who followed Hu Hai at the beginning, except for Zhang Cang, the head of the household department. The rest of them went away.

Now the main forces of Great Qin, except for Long Xuan, Shi Zhao, and Yu Ziqi who commanded the Vermilion Bird Army, the Xuanwu Army, and the Great Qin Royal Navy respectively, the main generals of the rest of the corps are all young generals promoted by Ying Jingxi in the past ten years.

As for Han Xin, he has now been promoted to the position of Zuo Cheng of the Great Qin General Staff.

When Ying Jingxi first served, he was in the White Tiger Army of Han Xin's main general. It is also reasonable for Han Xin to take control of the General Staff.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty ......"

"Okay, don't say it, come here. It's just a train ride, so you don't have to be so nervous. Hu Hai waved his hand and interrupted Long Hong's words.

As he spoke, the two cavalrymen had already drawn into a long straight line close to the fences on both sides of the railroad tracks, accompanying the train. The column of cavalry on the left. Holding the flag of the Suzaku Army and galloping on a horse at the forefront, he was a sturdy old man with white hair.

Isn't it Long Xuan, who is it?

Hu Hai opened the curtain covering the glass window, and looked at Long Xuan, who was riding a horse closely following his car window, his eyes were slightly moist.

The Suzaku soldiers had not seen what the Holy Son of Heaven who had left countless legends looked like, but the expression and movements of the main general Long Xuan even personally held the flag and galloped more than 100 miles from the camp to escort this ordinary iron car. They all tell them that this train has an important person.

And it seems that except for the current Emperor of Great Qin, who is the personal guard of the Son of Heaven and the great Qin minister who is now in command of the 100,000 army, he is not qualified to do so, right?

However, it was obviously impossible for the Third Emperor to go out on patrol in such an ordinary iron car. What's more, they haven't heard anything yet.

So who exactly is the person in the car?

Looking through the glass window, the young man who seemed to have gone through endless vicissitudes and gray temples but still maintained a young face, and then looked at the excited general who seemed to be trembling. Think about some of the folk legends......

A figure is getting clearer and clearer.

It's His Majesty the Holy Emperor of Heaven!

Although Hu Hai has abdicated for ten years, everyone in Great Qin, including the ministers of the court. will be habitually called that. This will make them feel intimate, feel that the Son of Heaven is still there, and that the Son of Heaven is still looking at them.

The news of the Son of Heaven on this iron cart quietly spread among the 10,000 cavalry.

Soon, the common people, including the people in the carriage, noticed that the last column of cavalry on the right had changed. Even if they were separated by a distance of more than ten zhang, even if they were separated by carriages, they could still clearly feel the excitement and joy emanating from those young cavalrymen who were riding their horses and galloping, as well as things that seemed to be full of fighting spirit.

The soldiers suddenly became aggressive like wolves.

There's a big guy on this train!

Although the train is already very common in Daqin, there are obviously people with insight in the carriage.

"Long Hong, when you arrive in Lekang City, you go down and let Long Xuan leave the cavalry outside the city, and bring him alone to see me." Hu Hai closed the curtain and said. From the young faces that suddenly became full of wolves, Hu Hai knew that they must have guessed their identities, and if they didn't get it right, it would be full of wind and rain.

"Whoa!"

ps:。 There are also two or three chapters in the outer chapter.