A bunch of guys from the Mo family at Nanshan Academy are improving the third-generation steam engine, and the train from Chang'an to Luoyang has been fully repaired. :3w.

The train track next to the official road looks quite like a feeling of coming to the next generation, Li Er sat on the frame and also looked around from Chang'an to Luoyang, and finally nodded with satisfaction, and gave the name "Changluo Railway".

Approaching the end of the year, all kinds of things are crowded together, here is the sending of people to the country, there is the women's college, here is the potato harvest, there is a visit to Europe, plus Li Er's "New Business Tax" is about to be promulgated, things are coming one after another, without the slightest respite.

Originally, I wanted to take advantage of the Chinese New Year to be lazy, but now Xuyang runs in the academy, the palace, and Xujiazhuang every day, which is quite like the feeling of three points and one line in high school in later generations.

The new season of potatoes is ready to be planted again, and this time it is not just Lantian County, but the three surrounding counties of Chang'an and Luoyang County.

Li Er attaches great importance to potatoes, and instructed Fang Xuanling to personally arrange the potato planting, and must not go on a business trip.

This matter is also caused by Fang Xuanling's bitterness, and he has complained to Xu Yang many times that he will resign from his official position another day and be a teacher in Nanshan Academy with Du Ruhui.

Xu Yang just smiled, now that Li Er has no one around, the historical Ma Zhou was also abducted into Nanshan Academy as the editor-in-chief, Fang Xuanling's work suddenly increased several times, and he had to read at night every day, and approve the folds, of course, Xu Yang had no way to help with this, so he had to give Mrs. Fang a few prescriptions for qi and health, and boiled for Fang Xuanling to drink.

While the territory of Datang expanded, the negative effect brought by it was the inconvenience of management. Li Er now extends the time of the batch from three hours to four hours a day. But it's still not enough. He also complained many times when he met Xu Yang that there were too many overseas things, and it was really difficult to deal with.

In this regard, Xu Yang could not deny it, but he did not speak, imperial power and human rights are two things full of contradictions, if you want imperial power, then you must sacrifice your rest time. to deal with many things, once these things are handed over to others, it is an indirect weakening of the imperial power, this thing, Li Er, as the emperor, is something that he should grasp well.

Jin Shengman is pregnant with a child, because she is a concubine, so she attaches great importance to Cheng Dù Of course, she is not as beautiful as Liu Mengli was at the beginning, except for Cheng Chumo and Yu Chi Baolin, several business partners did not send gifts. This also made Jin Shengman a little jealous. yelled for Xu Yang to take her to her sister, Queen Deshan, but Xu Yang was excused by his recent busy diplomatic affairs.

The Byzantine state's plea for help was shelved by Li Er. After discussing with Xu Yang for a long time, Li Er finally decided to refuse the request of the Byzantines, so he announced the news at a court meeting, but although Li Er refused to send troops to the Arabs, he still expressed a friendly gesture and attached great importance to the Byzantine division, and expressed comfort and reward, which was not rude at all.

After all, Li Er had heard about and was very interested in the Western powers in Byzantium, and Li Er was very willing to know more about them and was willing to maintain friendly relations with them. And the rejection of the request of the Byzantine Empire was the result of a half-day discussion between Li Er and Xu Yang.

Later generations can know from "On the Valley of Ghosts" that Li Er's refusal to send troops was carefully considered from three aspects.

The first is the traditional foreign policy of "distant friendship and close attack, separation from the strong and the weak". For China, both Arabia and Byzantium were geographically far from the Tang Dynasty and could only be distant objects. The survival between them, the victory or defeat has no impact on China's interests, so why bother to mobilize the people and waste national strength?

Second, during this period, the Tang Dynasty had just begun to take over the territory of the Eastern Turks, and was engaged in experimental wool trading and assimilation with the Western Turks, and did not have much energy to care about Byzantine affairs.

Third, the spearhead of Arab expansion at this time had not yet been pointed at East Asia, and the interests of the Tang Dynasty government did not interfere with the river water. It is better to settle the grievances than to settle them, so why take the initiative to provoke them.

In this way, Li Er's prudent character prevented the Tang Dynasty from getting involved in the Central Asian war, preserving its strength, and allowing its precious military strength to be used in more meaningful things. Of course, the Arabs are also the beneficiaries of Li Er's decision, because it objectively provides the Arabs with an excellent opportunity to expand.

After ten years, the Arabs had become the absolute power in Central Asia, and the Byzantine Empire was left with its capital in effect.

The pioneer Xu Yang mentioned one thing he regretted very much in "On the Valley of Ghosts", that is, he did not unite with Byzantium to attack the Great Eclipse, so that it took more than ten years to unify Central Asia.

This can't help but make people think, what if Tang Taizong made a move at that time? What kind of changes will take place in Asia and the world at large, or will China become a world hegemon as it is now? When you think about the existence of the butterfly effect, this may be a difficult problem to figure out.

Of course, history cannot be assumed, as written in "The Ghost Valley": an inconspicuous record, an emperor's decision, may contain infinite possibilities that affect the fate of the entire human society, it is enough to experience the joy of history.

The territory of the Tang people expanded faster than it could manage, so now there is no regulation in the circulation of overseas goods, Li Er has sent a number of prime ministers to assist Niu Jinda in managing overseas affairs, but there is still not enough manpower.

Now Chang'an is bloodthirsty for all kinds of mineral resources, especially iron ore, the eldest grandson family went crazy all over China to find iron ore, if it were not for Xu Yang to give them a long way of iron ore location drawings, the current steel production will drop by more than two-thirds.

Slaves were in constant need, the market was never saturated, and those who participated in the construction of the railroad were immediately sent underground and began a dull mining career.

The accumulation and development of capital began to show his fangs at this time, and there was dirty blood dripping from every pore, but this blood was not from the Tang people, and in the eyes of the Tang people, this blood was not even as good as that of pigs and dogs.

After Li Er watched the completed train tracks, he also took several ministers to take care of his life on the train for a walk, among which Xu Yang's name was impressively listed.

In the past, from Chang'an to Luoyang, the carriage also took half a day, although the current train also takes half a day, but the train can transport a large number of manpower and materials, and also provides great convenience for the transaction between Chang'an and Luoyang.

The opening of the train, in the eyes of the eldest grandson Wuji, is a good thing to deter foreigners, so on the second run of the train, a group of envoys from Tibet were invited.

Lu Dongzan was shocked when he saw the train, he never thought that the Tang people would study this kind of thing, I heard that he traveled a hundred miles a day, no need for forage, and he could shoot stars in both eyes, and he was even more concerned about when Tubo would be able to marry the princess of the Tang Dynasty, and frequently asked the eldest grandson Wuji.

However, Li Er's princesses are treated like babies in the court, and now that the Tang Dynasty is strong, they are not too worried about foreign invasions, and Li Er did not show too much enthusiasm for the request of Tubo and his relatives, and every reply was vague, and Lu Dongzan They had no choice, because they were about to embark on the way back.

In fact, Li Er's impression of Songtsan Gampo and Tubo is actually good, but the Tang princess is not a wholesale commodity, do you say that you can marry?

Li Er has a total of twenty-one biological princesses, except for those who died early and died of illness, the rest of the princesses have all married into the family of the ministers of the court, and half of them have changed their prices, which is quite tight, at this time, except for Princess Lanling and Princess Jinyang, the others are not very considerable.

However, this kind of thing is generally not allowed to go to the princess, even if it is a daughter of the sect, it is not an eldest daughter or the like, the most important thing is that there is a force in the court that opposes the pro, and the representative figure is Xu Yang.

Li Er didn't know why Xu Yang was so opposed to harmony, as soon as he heard the word harmony, Xu Yang's brows were furrowed like a flower, and his reason was only one sentence: "No harmony, no compensation, no land, no tribute, the Son of Heaven guards the country, and the king dies." (To be continued......)