As long as it is the emperor, whether it is the faint monarch or the Ming monarch, they all want to kill the family gate valve.

Because these families, which have been passed down for hundreds of years and experienced multiple dynasties at every turn, have no sense of identity or loyalty, and the only thing they are loyal to is their own family.

For example, a certain family that cultivated the table occupied all the fields of their hometown in a certain place in Shandong, and turned their fellow villagers into their tenant slaves.

Every time there is an alien invasion, they are always the first to descend and ask someone to be their master.

It is precisely because of this ability to see the wind and steer that it can last for dozens of generations and enjoy the treatment of the emperor of the soil.

Even, the fellow villagers who have been oppressed and bullied by their family are still proud of them.

For the emperor, of course, it is impossible to have any good feelings for such a gate valve family.

It's not that Li Er doesn't want to move them, it's just that the influence of the gate valve family is extremely great, and the strength is also very strong. It is not impossible to use force directly, but it will cause turmoil in Nuoda.

has his own cousin as a lesson from the past, and Li Er has always been very cautious in this regard.

After all, among the various anti-kings at the end of the Sui Dynasty, which one did not accept the support of the gate valve family behind it?

They have the power to fan up the havoc.

Now, Li Er has sensed a good opportunity to pit the family of gate valves, and he believes that Li Yunze can also see it, so he wants to cooperate with him.

Li Yunze, who was holding the fast son, groaned slightly: "The gate valve family also wants to build the railway? ”

"Hmm."

Li Erzhi nodded, "I have mentioned it many times openly and secretly, and it is all the gold and silver sea you earned on the railway." ”

"They know a!"

Li Yunze sneered, but didn't explain much.

The materials he used to build the railroad came from the modern world, and the background behind it was very complex, and it was as simple as it seemed on the surface.

Without the massive materials and various technologies provided by the modern world, with the current production capacity of Datang, it wants to build a railway of more than 1,000 miles? Dream on.

"Everybody wants to make a money-making business." Li Yunze looked at Li Er, and confirmed through micro-expression observation that he didn't want to let the gate valve family get a piece of the pie, and immediately said, "It's not profitable, but it's a very important project, and it has to be built." ”

Sure enough, Li Er's eyes lit up, and he asked with interest, "Tell me about it." ”

"Who else in the known world is barely qualified to be Datang's opponent?"

Facing Li Yunze's inquiry, Li Er thought for a while and said, "The previous dynasty made three expeditions to Goguryeo, but it failed to destroy its country with millions of casualties, which can be counted as one." ”

Li Er's hostility towards Goguryeo has never been extinguished, and what his cousin didn't do, he wants to do.

"The Western Turks control hundreds of thousands of strings to deter the countries of the Western Regions, and they should be destroyed."

Since the Turks of Nuoda, under the cooperation of Emperor Wen of Sui and Changsun Cheng, directly divided it into two, while deterring the Western Regions, while coercing the Central Plains, it is still a first-class power in the world.

Now East. The Turks have already fallen under the iron hooves of the Tang Dynasty, and the Western Turks are naturally the next target.

Seeing Li Yunze motioning for himself to continue, Li Er frowned and pondered for a moment, and said uncertainly, "Tubo is located on a high mountain, easy to defend and difficult to attack, can it be regarded as one?" ”

No wonder Li Er was puzzled, more than a hundred years later, Tubo, who successively broke through Chang'an City and plundered the people of the Han family up the mountain to become slaves, was far from showing such a strong strength in this era.

Its real national strength took off after Princess Wencheng got married, and Li Er, the sand wither, gave a full set of gift packages.

"That's right."

Li Yunze finally spoke up, "Whether it is Goguryeo or the Western Turks, in fact, there is nothing to worry about. As long as the Datang Iron Cavalry can pass, it will naturally be devastating. Only here in Tibet, if you don't take precautions, it will definitely be a problem for the Tang Dynasty in a hundred years, say no

When you get it, you can also besiege Chang'an City, and let the princes in the city tie up many women and give them to him. ”

Li Er's eyes instantly became fierce.

If Li Er is a real dragon, then Chang'an City is his dragon's nest.

Hearing that someone can threaten his lair, the murderous aura on his body is really terrifying.

Li Yunze was not frightened, but spoke calmly, "The time and place are favorable, and Tubo occupies an absolute geographical advantage. ”

"The air is thin on the high mountains, and if people like us who live in dense air all year round go up to the mountains, most of them will be affected by the thin air."

"If you are light, you need to rest, and your mobility will be greatly reduced. It is not impossible to lose your life directly. In this state, the combat effectiveness of the Tang Army could not be brought into play at all. On the contrary, the Tibetan people, who live in the mountains all year round, have adapted to this environment

It's able to be a dragon and a tiger. ”

Li Er, who bowed his head again and again, hurriedly asked, "Is there a way to deal with it?" ”

"Of course, there is a way to deal with it." Li Yunze responded with a smile, "Sun Daochang, he is already making preparations. ”

"Okay." Li Er nodded again and again, and then asked, "You mean, there will be a battle between the Tang Dynasty and Tubo, so you should build a railway to the bottom of the high mountain first, in case of emergency?" ”

Looking at the road guards who flashed by outside the window and rode horses to inspect the railway, Li Yunze said with a smile: "It is said that the railway can make money, and it is all because of the money that wants to get in, but I don't know that among the railway projects, the choice of the line is the most important." ”

"For example, the route from Chang'an City to Luoyang City is definitely the most profitable, and there are countless people and materials coming and going, which is a typical way to make money lying down."

Li Yunze simply took the map and spread it out on the table, and his fingers fell all the way west on Songzhou and Victoria.

After defeating Tuyuhun, the Tang Dynasty's soldiers came directly to the feet of Tubo. Here in Songzhou and Victoria, you can go directly to the Tibetan mountains when you go out of the city. When he went to war with Tibet, these two places must be the most important logistics and supply centers. ”

Regarding Li Yunze's judgment, Li Er nodded in agreement.

These two places are at the foot of the high mountain, and there is a passage up the mountain in front of them, which is an absolute battleground for soldiers.

"Building a railway to these two places is bound to be a loss. But for Datang, it is a must. Moreover, the difficulty of building here is very high, and the cost of each mile is at least double that of repairing to Lanzhou. ”

Li Er already understood here that this kind of thing that is beneficial to the imperial court is really good for using it to pit the family gate valve.

Li Yunze's words were not finished, or he simply directly picked out the matter, "Daming Palace has been completed, and when the inauguration ceremony is carried out, Your Majesty can take out the two lines from Chang'an City to Lanzhou and Chang'an City to Songzhou and Victoria, so that everyone has a chance."

Participate in the competition. ”

"Of course, it's a competition on the surface. Secretly, the line to Lanzhou was given to the nobles, and the line to Songzhou and Victoria was given to the family gate. Li Yunze even explained the specific operation, "Let them directly form a consortium to bid, as for how to do the insider."

Operation, then it's up to His Majesty. ”

Li Er smiled and stroked his beard, his eyes narrowed, "Great goodness!" ”

The accumulation of hundreds of years of the gate valve family, that is really old and rich.

But their money would rather be hidden in the cellar and moldy, rather than used to support the imperial court, and even because of the large-scale hoarding of money, the money supply in the market is insufficient.

Now that there is a chance to pit them, Li Er will naturally not be soft.

Li Er, who was beautiful, went to dinner, but Li Yunze was in a daze at Songzhou and Victoria on the map.

These two places also have stories in the history of the Tang Dynasty.

The so-called Songzhou is actually the ancient city of Songpan.

When the Tibetan Prime Minister Lu Dongzan came to propose, he walked here.

As for Victoria, the ancient city of the Three Kingdoms period is Jiang Weicheng, and you can tell who built it by looking at the name.

Historically, after the Tubo people used beauty tricks to conquer Victoria, they renamed it Sanssouci City, which means that after taking here, there will be no worries.

And after another thousand years, the name of this place is called Wen. River!

The Tibetans attacked Victoria many times, but it was too easy to defend and difficult to attack, and they failed to conquer it many times.

They thought of many ways, one of which was the beauty scheme.

selected a beauty, came to Victoria to seduce the city gate official, married the city gate official and gave birth to two sons.

Twenty years later, when the two sons grew up, they cooperated with the Tibetan interior and the outside world, and opened the city gate at night to let the Tibetan people into the city.

After finally breaking through the slaughter of the Tibetan people in Victoria, they conquered Songzhou and Baozhou one after another, and finally came to Chang'an City.

The frightened Daizong fled in a hurry, and the frightened civil and military nobles in the city tied countless women with ropes and gave them to the Tubo people x Le Qihe.

This matter is similar to what Zhao Ji's father and son did.

It's all brutes!

"Beauty tricks?" Li Yunze clenched his fist and smashed it on the map with a muffled voice, "Wait." ”

Li Er's hunting meeting on the steppe was held very smoothly, and all the tribes on the steppe were very sincere in expressing their loyalty to their Heavenly Khan, offering horses, falcons, and white bulls and lambs.

For these gifts, Li Er was very satisfied.

After the hunting, he invited the nobles of various tribes to go to Chang'an City with him to participate in the inauguration ceremony of the Daming Palace.

】

Faced with the invitation of the Heavenly Khan, no tribe would refuse.

This was especially true after Tuyuhun was defeated and their khans danced in front of everyone.

The steppe tribes are very practical, whoever is strong will follow whom, and there is no disagreement.

Of course, if it is weakened, it is to wipe the face and replace it with another face.

Li Er understands these things very well, so he took these people to Chang'an City to show the national strength and strength of Datang, so that they can honestly graze Datang.

On the return trip, Li Er's special train also had more than ten trucks attached to it, which were loaded with preliminarily processed wool, as well as coal and other minerals.

Seongju has become the most prosperous trading place in the Northland.

All sorts of goods from Kannai were transported here and sold to various tribes on the steppe.

The grassland tribes also exchanged their cattle and sheep, wool and leather, cheese and meat jerky and other materials, and their commercial and trade development made many of the civil and military nobles who came with them sigh.

You must know that before the opening of the railway, this was a poor country.

It was also through Li Yunze's connections that Shengzhou found a large coal mine, and trains full of coal went south almost every day, providing sufficient fuel supply for the entire Guanzhong.

Moreover, at Li Yunze's suggestion, the imperial court was even willing to provide coal as fuel to the people at a low price or even for free, and then banned the cutting down of trees.

Because Li Yunze said, if you cut down trees without restraint, under soil erosion, the big river will have to become the Yellow River!