Chapter 48: Harmony
In the west of Jinling City, on the bank of the river, a steamship docked, and envoys from various countries, including Anar and the Jade Bone Dragon Chi brothers and sisters, disembarked from the ship and stepped on the solid land on the shore.
"Brother Song Xian, Miss Song, there will be a period in the future, and I have time to go to Goryeo!"
Elder Lee, the envoy of Goryeo, warmly bid farewell to the Yugu Longchi brothers and sisters, and was reluctant to give up.
"Brother Li, there will be a period later!"
Anar and Yugu Longchi waved to Elder Li.
"The two, I have time to go to Dali and wait in the court. However, maybe next time, Dali will be under the rule of the Great Song Dynasty. ”
Wang Xun, the envoy of Dali, said goodbye to the Yugu Longchi brothers and sisters, and seemed a little listless.
After taking a train, visiting the Daye Iron Works and a steamship cruise, all the illusions in his heart were shattered.
"Brother Wang, cherish!"
Yugu Longchi and Wang Xun said goodbye, and they felt a little bit of sympathy for each other.
They are also neighbors of the Great Song Dynasty, and the Great Song Dynasty soldiers are strong and strong, and they frequently use troops abroad, and they all seem to have to make a choice.
Seeing that Jade Gu Long's face was ugly, Anar made a joke.
"Jade Bone Dragon Chi, when you come to Jiangnan, the good mountains and rivers here make your face just whiter, why is it starting to turn black again?"
"Anar, how many cannons can that Daye Iron Works make in a month?"
Yugu Longchi said suddenly, his brows still locked.
"It seems that five or six hundred pieces of artillery, big and small, can be built. Why do you ask this? ”
Anal asked in surprise.
After a day by train, they visited Daye Iron Works, the size of the factory and the strong production capacity are indeed amazing.
But for a woman like her, there is no intuitive impression.
"Anar, Da Song is too powerful! It's so powerful! I, Gaochangguo, follow the Tatars, sooner or later it will be a dead end! ”
The jade bone dragon was full of worries, and said it with a dark face.
a well-trained, endless army of tigers and wolves; indestructible and terrifying firearms; The land is vast and unimaginably rich......
Now there are steamships and trains!
Only when you see it can you know how strong you are, and only then do you know the gap with each other. This may not be a gap anymore, but a difference between heaven and earth, clouds and mud.
"Jade Bone Dragon Red, what's wrong with you? Were you scared of Song Jun? Although the Song army had firearms and steam ships, as well as the steam train, their cavalry was not very powerful. If you meet on the battlefield, you don't necessarily know who wins and who loses. ”
Anar laughed out loud and quickly covered her mouth.
She is young and beautiful, and she is a woman of different races, which attracts the malicious eyes of many men around her.
"The cavalry of the Song army is not powerful, who told you? You really don't understand anything! ”
It is said that my sister is smart, and now it seems that she is still a little girl.
"Those elementary schools, those seven or eight-year-old children, all of them know how to stab guns, everyone practices horseback riding, bomb throwing, physical education classes, all schools are the same. It's scary to think about! ”
As he spoke, Jade Bone Longchi's face darkened again.
One of the 10 men joined the army, and the Great Song Dynasty was able to gather millions of soldiers. Whether it's Gaochang or Tatar, how many people are there in total? How to compete with the Great Song?
"What's this? Haven't all the warriors on our steppe practiced riding and archery since childhood? What's so scary about this? ”
Anal was still ignorant.
"You really don't understand anything! How many people are there in the Great Song Dynasty and how many people are on the grassland? ”
Jade Bone Dragon Chi shook his head and carefully analyzed it for his sister.
"All the children in the Great Song Dynasty went to school, and all of them practiced spearmanship, horseback riding, and firearms. Think about it, how many people are there in the Great Song Dynasty and how many people are there on our grassland? 70 million to 1 million, with the national strength of the Great Song Dynasty, under the leadership of this terrible Great Song Emperor, not only my Gaochang Kingdom, but even Wokotai and them will be wiped out! ”
As he spoke, his heart became heavy again.
The Great Song Dynasty soldiers were strong and strong, and it was only a year or two of hard work to restore the Central Plains. Next, it should be Gaochang Kingdom and the Western Regions.
"Jade Bone Dragon Chi, you're right. I thought that the state of etiquette in the Great Song Dynasty was splendid, and the article was splendid. Now it seems that the Song Emperor has a set of soldiers to govern the country, and he is ambitious. He doesn't even pay attention to Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and Tang Taizong, and he definitely wants to take back my Gaochang Kingdom! ”
Anar suddenly realized, her face became serious, and she no longer had the joy she had just now.
Emperor Song is young and promising, and if Gao Changguo wants to escape, I'm afraid it will be too difficult.
"That's right! That's when I thought of this, and I was terrified! Great Song, it's not something that my little Gao Changguo can fight against! ”
The jade bone dragon is as red as a number of treasures, one by one:
"Trains, steamboats, four-wheeled carriages, lecture halls, normal schools, sailor schools, large and small schools, ordnance manufacturing divisions, subdivisions, machine manufacturing divisions, glass, ceramics, soap, soap, etc. The Great Song Dynasty has one, do I have one in Gaochangguo? ”
Now there is another train, although it seems to have nothing to do with the military, but this reflects the thriving national strength of the Great Song Dynasty.
"However, Tatar is on the east side of my Gaochang Kingdom, so what can I do with Gaochang Kingdom? If I really turn against them, it won't take a month, and my Dachang Kingdom will be destroyed! ”
Anal's face turned white with fright.
The country of Tatar tigers and wolves, which cannot be offended. The Great Song Dynasty soldiers were in their prime, and they didn't dare to offend. I heard that the official army of the Great Song Dynasty was going to go on a northern expedition, and if the northern land was recovered at that time, Gaochang would come to surrender again at that time, I am afraid it would be too late.
"Now it depends on the situation of the Northern Expedition of the Great Song Dynasty."
The jade bone dragon Chi Youyou said.
"You mean, the Song army wants to go on a northern expedition?"
Anal was taken aback again.
The Song army was strong and strong, and sooner or later it would have to go on a northern expedition, and once the troops were used, Gaochang would inevitably be conscripted by the Mongols. At that time, it will be difficult to escape the war.
"You can speak Chinese, and you can play with it. Didn't read the newspaper? Also, haven't you noticed that Daye Iron Works and Jiangnan Ordnance Manufacturing Division are transporting firearms in large quantities? Didn't you notice that the Song army was constantly gathering north? You see the warships and grain ships on the sea and the river, countless of them, all the way to the north. That's all for the big battle, for the Northern Expedition! ”
The jade bone dragon secretly rejoiced that he still knew a little Chinese.
"That'...... Can Ogedai fight? ”
Anal asked, apprehensive.
The Great Song Dynasty ruled the country with Confucianism and the military with literature, perhaps the Song army was a good thing and vulnerable.
"You are speaking Chinese, but you learned it in vain!"
The jade bone dragon red tapped lightly on his sister's head.
"In the first battle of Hanzhong, Wokotai was scared, and Torre was killed by the Song army, how could the Han army of the two rivers block it? Think about it, such a big formation of the Song army is not the Northern Expedition, is it just a play? ”
"Will Wokotai send more troops to the two rivers? He won't ask us Gaochangguo to send troops again, right? ”
Anal continued, hoping for luck.
"Reinforcements? What to take? It's not my Gaochang and Dongliao vassal states! ”
Jade Bone Dragon Chi shook his head and snorted coldly in his nose.
"In the first battle of Hanzhong, the Tatars lost more than 70,000 cavalry and 40,000 Han troops. If you think about it, there are only so many soldiers and horses on the grassland. If there were more troops, they would have gone south to take revenge! On the other hand, in the Great Song Dynasty, those vassal states were willing to send troops to help, but they were all blocked by the Great Song Dynasty. ”
"The Song soldiers are overwhelming, they don't care. Fortunately, Wokotai did not wave his troops south again this year, otherwise, the strong men of my Gaochang Kingdom would have died. ”
Anar said it with palpitations, and then asked:
"Jade Bone Dragon Red, what should I do now? Is there a way to stabilize the Great Song Dynasty and Wokotai at the same time, and prevent my Gaochangguo from increasing troops to Lianghe? ”
"If you want to make wall grass, there may be only one way to try, and that is to make peace with Da Song. In this way, even if the Song army goes north, I Gaochang will have room for maneuver. ”
Jade Bone Long Chi looked at his sister and waited for a while before he spoke.
Emperor Zhao Hong of the Song Dynasty was in his prime, but he was eight or nine years older than his sister, and if he could get along, Gao Chang would have something to rely on.
"And Da Song and Qin?"
Anal was stunned for a moment, then blushed halfway.
and the Great Song Dynasty, it won't be to let yourself marry the Song Emperor, right?
Arnal's heart fluttered.
"Yes, dear! And Da Song and pro! ”
The jade bone dragon's red eyes were shining, and it was obviously well thought out.
"When the Western Xia died, the royal family was all about to be killed, and it was because of the peace with the Great Song Dynasty that there was a way to live. Anar, you admire Chinese culture so much, and Emperor Song is a master of domestic articles, if you marry him, Gaochang will be saved. ”
"I became Emperor Song's concubine? Will he agree? ”
Anal's face flushed, and her heart beat even more violently.
Becoming the concubine of the wise and martial Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty and the mother of the world, that is a dream thing.
"You are now 22 years old, and you have never married, not because you don't look down on ordinary people. You see, the Goryeo envoy was proud to be a vassal state of the Great Song Dynasty. It would be nice if I could become another Goryeo. ”
The jade bone dragon talked eloquently and betrayed his sister directly.
"When I go to Jinling to see Emperor Song, you bring up this matter in person and probe Emperor Song's tone. Whether Gao Chang can escape the catastrophe or not depends on you. ”
I have to say that in the face of the absolute strength of the Song people, he is already afraid.
A steamship and a train show the national strength of the Great Song Dynasty and the strength of the Song army, and how can it be compared with other countries, including Mongolia.
"I'm going to say?"
As a descendant of the steppe people, Anar has a bold personality, but she still has some scruples in her heart.
If she does this, Emperor Song won't look down on her, right?
"Of course you go! You speak so well in Chinese, if you don't go, do you go? ”
Looking at his sister's expression, Jade Bone Long Chi knew that his sister was already tempted.
It can be seen from the poems of the Song Emperor that the Song Emperor will definitely use troops to the Western Regions. Even if the Song Emperor accepts me, I am afraid that Gaochang Kingdom will be recovered by the Song Emperor. I don't know, will Atta agree? ”
Anal thought for a moment before speaking.
"Atta isn't listening to Ana yet! You don't want Gaochang to be covered with corpses and rivers of blood, right? voted for the Song Emperor, and was willing to be a pawn of the Great Song Dynasty, and he was glorious and rich for a lifetime, which is not bad. ”
In Yu Gu Longchi's heart, it seemed that he had already made a comparison.
It is a matter of life and death for Gao Changguo, and it is not necessarily a bad thing to be close to the Song Dynasty. Even if you can't continue to maintain the rule of Gaochang Kingdom, you can still get a lifetime of wealth.
Trust their parents, Balshu, to make the right choice.