A young palace lady wearing a purple round collar and a hat walked over and curtsied, and said on her knees, "Holy Lord, there is charcoal burning in the house, and the concubine will serve you to take off your coat first, it will be hot in a while."

"Okay." Wang Rong let her take off the sweater and coat she brought back from the front line of Henan County.

Sima Shi whispered, "The Holy One is diligent in government and loves the people, but he is very frugal, which is really a blessing for the people."

"Huh!" In front of the queen, Wang Rong didn't know what to say to Sima Shi. However, none of the women present were simple, listening to Sima's words, they could see at a glance that the fur coat worn by Wang Rong was a bargain!

However, he has no interest in expensive clothes at all, and does Wang Rong still need anything outside his body to highlight his value?

It's really strange, Wang Rong thinks that he is the son of heaven, and now he has great power, but he actually feels a little restrained in front of these women. He deliberately avoided Zhang Pu's full and round upper body and wonderful body lines, for fear of being seen by these women.

At this time, Zhang Pu said in a rhythmic and soothing voice, "And the Holy Heart is benevolent. The Bearded People burned, killed, and plundered the people of our Tang Kingdom in Youzhou and Bingzhou, and now the Holy Lord has captured countless soldiers and civilians of the Bearded Army, and he thought that he would slaughter them in retaliation, but the Holy Lord did not kill them."

Wang Rong said: "Renzhi refers to the country, and not massacring foreign civilians has nothing to do with Renzhi."

"Oh?" Zhang Pu looked at him with interest.

Wang Rong pondered for a moment and said, "I am not afraid of a blood feud with the Badman. But I am not only in contact with the Chinese people.

It is understandable that our country's attack will inevitably kill, and it is intended to benefit its own people; However, preaching massacre and extermination will not only be feared by all the surrounding ethnic groups, but also demonized and difficult to cleanse up; And with a benevolent attitude, it is easier to be friendly with the countries and be worshipped. Strength is not about shouting, it is about strength."

Zhang Pu's eyes were bright, he nodded thoughtfully, and asked, "What is the Holy Lord busy with lately?"

The words made the women around them also pay a little more attention and listen attentively.

Of course, Wang Rong will not say: I am busy registering the national book. He pondered for a moment and said, "The queen came to power a few months ago and sent for ships from the Ajuras. I was trying to devise a strategy to allow Ajura to trade and prohibit them from leaving the port to interact with the government and the people.

This time, not only did I get shipbuilding and nautical charts, but also a book by Aristotle, which was very interesting. This man is a Greek from a thousand years ago, and Greece is said to be far west of the kingdom of Ajura, the birthplace of civilization in the Far West."

Zhang Pu said: "It turns out that there is a country in the distance. He wrote a book a thousand years ago, isn't he a sage like Confucius and Mencius?"

Wang Rong said: "For Westerners, they can indeed be called sages and saints. I'm looking for someone to translate it, let's see first, for the time being, it is forbidden to copy and print by hand, it cannot be published, and it must be revised before printing."

Zhang Pu couldn't help but smile and said, "Isn't it that the saint has also become a great Confucian, and thinks that the books of the sages are also wrong?"

Wang Rong shook his head and said, "How can things in the world be distinguished by right and wrong in black and white? If this writing is a spontaneous thought in China, whether it is right or wrong, there is no need to control it too much, I can't burn books and pit Confucianism, and I can't do such things.

But it is a completely different foreign product, and if we do not guard against it, in the long run, it may cause confusion in the beliefs of the scholars, and in the end they will not know what to believe, and it will be difficult for people not to believe in anything."

Wang Rong fully believes in the understanding ability of the world, and can write things such as the Book of Changes that even he does not understand very well, and cannot underestimate the ability of the wise men of the ancients too much.

Zhang Pu was curious: "How powerful is a book? If it is translated, let me see it too."

Wang Rong said in a deep voice, "Yes, it is indeed not simple. Because I have written too many things about the origin of things, and I have developed my own perfect set of understandings. As far as I can see, his remarks are contrary to the understanding of the Chinese sages.

If it's crazy nonsense, it can't convince people anyway, but this kind of sage's words are set into a system, and there will always be people who want to believe it. If it becomes chaos and there is no perfect theoretical system to replace it, how can the country be governed?

When we don't understand foreign things, we must be vigilant. Therefore I forbade the Ajura to leave the harbor

For this reason. The Ajura people are also different from the Chinese in terms of original ideas. If we don't understand, how do we know if there will be serious consequences?"

When Wang Rong said these words, the women around him couldn't understand them at all, and although he said all the official words, they could only listen in awe.

The woman in this world, I'm afraid that only Zhang Pu can still understand what Wang Rong is saying.

Although Wang Rong ascended the throne as emperor, he found that governing the country was not an easy task. Perhaps the average emperor only needs to do it according to traditional experience, but his independent thinking method is very complicated, and even ancient philosophy has to find a way to understand it. At the very least, you must know what the various doctrines say, otherwise I am afraid that you can only be fooled by the scholars, and the emperor himself does not understand anyway.

The Gayajun sent an envoy by sea and landed in Bohai County, and the performance was sent to Chang'an first.

Wang Rong's view is written in neat Chinese characters. First of all, the self-proclaimed Gaya's ceremonial music and clothes all respected the Tang style, the same as the Central Plains. I heard that the emperor of Tang was very happy to defeat Yu, and congratulated him. then scolded Yu Guo at length, and the sentence "the country of birds and beasts" impressed Wang Wei the most.

If these curses reach the royal family of Yu, I don't know how the surviving royal family of Yuguo feels.

In the early stage, the imperial court took the initiative to send people to contact the Gaya Kingdom, originally trying to let the Gaya Kingdom flank the back of the Youguo. However, the efficiency at this time was too slow, and by the time the Tang army had already captured Youzhou, the Gayazu Kingdom had just made friends with the Tang Kingdom.

When the envoys of the Gaya Kingdom landed, the officials of the court and the Chinese government prepared the emperor to ask about the affairs of the Gaya Kingdom, and for a time many people talked about the Gaya Kingdom.

Gossip does not distinguish between ancient and modern, and the most talked-about thing is not a series of national policies or customs of the Gaya country. The first thing Wang Rong heard was a gossip: the queen of Jin Tao, the lord of the Gaya Kingdom, was his own sister.

The father of the king and queen is the sixth lord of the Gaya kingdom, Jin Qian, and the queen is a princess, who is a half-brother and sister with the surname of her mother. Is that okay too?

Wang Rong was very curious when he heard it, not to mention that in this era, even modern brother and sister marriage is not good. However, he quickly thought of a TV series from a certain country in the future, and suddenly it dawned on him.

In the early autumn of the third year of the Tang Dynasty, the envoy of the Gaya Kingdom met and paid tribute to a rare sword.

Xiaojiewei moved the sword to the Liangyi Palace, because it was a rare thing, very careful. At that time, Yu Kezhi, the right attendant of the Ministry of Rites, had just finished receiving the envoys of the Gaya Kingdom and came to meet him.

Unexpectedly, Wang Rong had no interest in the sword, he was playing with an arquebus that had just been sent by the craftsman's yard, and he didn't even look at the sword.

This fire gun is very finely made, and the fine wood inlay above the tail is also carved with gilt auspicious cloud patterns; The barrel is straight and smooth, buttered on top, carefully polished inside and out, and smoothed with an awl drill on the inside.

The arquebuses soaked in plant ash, the mechanism of the firing mechanism and the reeds are forged from brass, and they are still very delicately made.

Because this thing was given to the emperor, it was more decorative, just like a work of art. However, the firecrackers made in batches must not be so delicate, otherwise the cost would be too high.

Wang Rong couldn't put it down when he saw this thing, what sword could no longer arouse his interest at all, even if that sword could really sharpen iron like clay, it was still a sword, and it was just a rare thing that could not be copied in large quantities.

He noticed the threaded connection used at the bottom of the firecracker, which was probably made by carving the threads out of wood, then making a sand-cast iron core, and then forging the tail. This construction facilitates the disassembly of the barrel and the cleaning of residues.

On the table there is also a stack of files of Liaodong County's recitals, and the new sea ships have been largely completed, a total of three. Wang Rong had already decreed that after the sea trials of the shipyard of the Tang Dynasty, the newly established Jing Navy of the Tang State would take over the sea vessels, and the envoys of the Gaya State would be able to send them back with these ships when they returned to China next year. In addition, the Ministry of Industry was ordered to send people to Duli Town, Yushi County, to build a new port.

Yu Kezhi glanced at the sword of the Gaya Kingdom that was resting on the table, bowed down and said, "Holy Lord, the Gaya Kingdom seems to be rich in swords."

Wang Rong raised his head and said, "Oh? I have never heard of it."

Yu Kezhi said: "They have paid tribute to the kingdom of Hao, and they have also given swords."

After hearing this, Wang Rong knew that Yu Kezhi had something to say, and wanted to borrow things to play. He put down his arquebus and listened with interest.

Yu Kezhi continued, "However, after the destruction of the Wofu Kingdom by the Hui Kingdom, the relations between the Gaya Kingdom and the Hui Kingdom deteriorated. This is due to the fact that the Gayasu country plotted to frustrate the country for a long time, and the migrating population ran the muddy; Unexpectedly, the country of Mao made the first move and swallowed up the land of the country. The country is strong, and it is more and more difficult for the country of Gaya, so it is more and more difficult for the country to get the old land, so it resents the country."

Wang Rong nodded and said, "I see."

At this time, the Youguo perished, and the Tang State inherited a large area of the Youguo, and its strength was stronger than that of the Youguo; In the northeast of the white mountains and black waters, the state of Hao was very hostile to the powerful Tang State, and in the past two years, Liaodong County and Liaoxi County were not less harassed by the state of Hao, and they were all repelled by the Youzhou army. There is also a benefit to having the Gaya kingdom in its belly and back.

Yu Kezhi said: "This time, the Gaya Kingdom sent an envoy to ask me to send troops to recover Xuansu County and jointly attack the Xuansu Kingdom. In the eyes of the ministers, the Gaya-kingdom saw the defeat of the kingdom of Hao, and once again peeped at the fertile and depressed land, but still had ambitions."

When Wang Rong heard the ambition, he played with the firearm in his hand again, glanced at the sea ship data file on the table, and couldn't help but smile, and said, "It is understandable that all countries should seek self-improvement and have an enterprising spirit. However, the imperial court has no intention of raising troops to fight again with the state of Hao, and Yu Shilang can reply to the envoys of the Gaya country, and the matter will be discussed later."

Yu Kezhi hugged his fists and said, "The minister obeys the order."

Wang Rong turned to look at a large and sketchy picture hanging on the wall. Recently, the envoy of the Gaya Kingdom came to Beijing, and he also had some personal understanding of the situation of the Gaya Kingdom.

This place was relatively spacious in the early antiquity, and the further you go, the worse it will become.

At the turn of the Sui and Tang dynasties, Goguryeo was a relatively powerful country, and it must have been a threat to the Sui and Tang borders, so the Sui and Tang dynasties did not hesitate to mobilize large armies to crusade several times.

However, after the Tang Dynasty, the Khitan rose in the northeast, and the grassland forces that had been threatening the northern part of the Central Plains also moved eastward. It not only threatens the Central Plains, but also compresses the space of the Gaya Kingdom. From this time on, they will not only face the Central Plains Dynasty, but the nomads will also become an important factor that threatens their survival.

In the future, the threat of the herdsmen will continue to be in the east, and there will be one more maritime threat from Japan in the Gaya country, which can be said to be sandwiched between various forces, and it is also a very tenacious group of people who can carry it all the time.

Wang Rong said: "In the past, our dynasty wanted to recover Youzhou, so we wanted to use the Gaya Kingdom to contain it; Now the country of Gaya wants to occupy the old land of the country of Wofu, and wants us to send troops to the white mountains and black waters. Countries are planning for themselves."

In addition to Wang Rong and the two ministers in the Liangyi Palace, there is only one Zhang Yu and several palace women. Wang Ge asked in a bright and bright manner, "It seems that the Gaya kingdom was established after the destruction of Silla and Baekje, so could there be internal enemies in this country?"

Yu Kezhi said: "After the Jin clan established the country, he implemented the policy of pushing grace and gentleness internally, and the ministers heard that the country was stable."

Wang Rong nodded thoughtfully.

The recovery of the Central Plains has a great impact. However, at this time, the speed of news transmission was limited, and there was no change when he first conquered, but as time passed, the influence of the Tang Kingdom gradually became prominent.

Until the late autumn of the third year of Yuanwu of the Tang Dynasty, Duan Longshun, the lord of Yangtho Bacheng of the State of Xuan, sent a letter of state and paid tribute to congratulate. In order to create the political achievements of "all nations coming to the dynasty", the Ministry of Rites gave a generous reward.

The tributary system is really a loss for the Central Plains Dynasty in terms of goods, but if it is not, other countries will not have the motivation to take the initiative to pay tribute.

Wang Rong issued an order to discuss with the envoys of the state of Ku to negotiate the two countries' relations and trade, the Central Plains was in the war before, but the people's trade was never cut off, and secretly ordered the Department of Detectives to send a fine work into the caravan to go to the country to understand the situation in the distance.

Although diplomatic relations are a major event, Wang Rong's attention is not here, but just handled it easily. He has been conceiving a change in military power.

The arquebuses were also made in batches, and Wang Rong not only read the recitals, but also went to the colonel to observe them in person.

The official test of firearms was carried out by more than 100 people from the Xiaojie Guard, and these people were already very skilled in using arquebuses at this time. The soldiers took off the small bamboo tube from their belts, bit the plug with their teeth, then poured the well-measured gunpowder into the muzzle, and then used the stick to poke the softer lead pellet into it, and then shook some of the gunpowder from the small gourd in the firing pool, and then prepared to fire.

There was a "crackling" sound on the school grounds, the smoke of gunpowder was filled, and the distant targets were full of holes. Firearms do work! After all, gunpowder is in the closed air

Occasionally, when the fire is pressurized, the lead bullet will be shot out, everything is an objective law, and there will be no exceptions.

The new firearms have an effective range of 50 paces, and within 30 paces, they can shoot through most armor. As for the accuracy, the direction will not drift wrong anyway, and it is much more accurate than a bow and arrow that travels with the wind.

Because it requires three platoons to shoot in turn, the formation is also different from that of ordinary armies. The military structure is formulated according to tactics, and the structure only changes when weapons and tactics change; Perhaps the military system will gradually change.

The range of this thing is much closer than that of a bow and a crossbow, such as Wang Rong, who can shoot a hundred steps with a bow and still have accuracy! And the operation is complicated, the rate of fire is very slow. However, compared to the combat effectiveness of the infantry bow, the ability to pierce armor at close range is stronger than that of a bow and crossbow. As for the range, it surpassed that of mounted shooting.

After a few months of improvement experiments, Li Si, the deputy envoy of the Craftsman's Academy, said that the distance is between stepping and riding a bow and arrow. The closest armor piercing is the strongest, which is long; The firing is slow and complicated, the accuracy is uncertain, and it is not as flexible as a mounted shot, but it is short.

However, Wang Rong has a different view. The biggest advantage of this thing is that after a group of peasants understand the queue and military discipline, they can immediately have not weak combat effectiveness.

They may not be able to win a hundred battles, but the price of the Tang State having hundreds of thousands of elite infantry cavalry of the Fifth Army is that it took hundreds of years to make the whole world sparse.

When Wang Rong watched the performance of Xiaojiewei, he was in a very comfortable mood, and when he returned to the Taiji Palace, he briskly picked up a stone by the Xihai Pond and threw it on the water to play. The pebble jumped briskly on the surface of the water, and jumped a few ripples.

The accompanying ministers were very happy, but they might think that Wang Rong's behavior was a little frivolous at this time.

At this moment, Wang Biao pointed to the water and said, "Our stone cannon smashed a hole, in fact, we can try other methods."

Li Si said: "The stone cannon shell is too heavy, and if the angle is too small, it will fall to the ground in front of you."

Wang Rong said, "That's the idea. If we make that "gunpowder" in the wrong direction, I'm afraid it's useless, unless we make gunpowder cannons."

A few people couldn't answer.

Wang Bian ignored it, and looked at the ripples on the lake for a long time, just like his mood at this time, light and not calm.