"This is okay, I don't know anything else, but I know that Gao Chang is definitely going to make trouble." Hou Junji directly opened his eyes and said.

"Yes, Gaochang has always been a wall grass, when Zhenguan was six years old, the king of Yanqi sent envoys to the Tang Dynasty to ask His Majesty to "open the Daqi Road, so that the luggage" ("Old Tang Dynasty Book, Yanqi Biography") At that time, this was a good thing for my Tang Dynasty, but then Gaochang directly attacked Yanqi, and this matter was not over. Chai Shao also nodded and spoke.

Li Ke also knew about this at the time, and I have to say that there are some people who have brains in this era.

If you want to get rich, you need to build roads first, and some people say that there is something about this person, because after Loulan almost disappeared, the southern route of the Silk Road on Yanqi's side gradually fell into loneliness, so they put forward this slogan.

If you want to build a road through the Yumen Pass in the Han Dynasty, you will reach Dunhuang directly in the direction of Yangguan. As a result, it was directly attacked and looted by Ju Wentai of Gaochang, and the matter was over, and the Tang Dynasty at that time was not capable of governing the contradiction between Yanqi and Gaochang.

"Then you look at the arrangement of this matter, who do you think is better to be in charge of this matter? Directly let Xizhou and Longyou Dao generals or? Li Shimin looked at Li Ke and asked.

"I think let Li Daozong and Rong Guogong be together." Li Ke opened his mouth and said, An Xinggui, as the Duke of the Tang Dynasty, the An family has also made indelible contributions to the stability of Longyou Dao, so if An Xinggui is put in charge of this matter this time, he will also be given the position of a military squire by the way. It can be regarded as entering the highest command system of the Tang Military Department.

"Yes." Li Shimin nodded.

Wei Zheng next to them were a little helpless, they must have refuted this before, the thirty-six countries of the Western Regions, even Gaochang is currently respecting the Tang Dynasty as the lord of the country, but now you are openly beating people's ideas, this is ...... It always feels a little inauthentic.

But His Highness just finished speaking, Datang is not really invincible at home and abroad, and after taking most of the 36 countries in the Western Regions, according to His Highness's plan, it is true that the entire West Kunlun Mountain Range will become a natural barrier for Datang, and Datang at that time is really offensive and defensible.

It's hard for them to refute it.

"Three, I don't think you need to be too entangled, sitting in the position of three, morality in some aspects should be lost, there is no friendship between countries, there are only interests, when the Tang Dynasty was weak, who cared about the thoughts of the Tang Dynasty in the thirty-six countries of the Western Regions? This is the naked reality. ”

"From ancient times to the present, you have all read through history books, haven't you figured it out a little? History is written by the victors, and no kind of history can be truly fair, and besides, we are not against our subjects. It's about saving the people of these subjects. Li Ke said lightly.

"The Western Turks are nomadic peoples, and they have always had the habit of plundering, and the thirty-six countries of the Western Regions will either conquer each other or suffer from the plundering of the Western Turks, in order to prevent these people from suffering from the Western Turks, for their safety, in order to save them, we have no choice but to send troops to eliminate these contradictions."

"Otherwise, with the little wealth of these countries, it is not enough for the cost of my Datang to send troops, and how much manpower and material resources will it take for my Datang to transport grain to these places?" Li Ke looked at Fang Xuanling and the three of them.

Wei Zheng and they were all a little speechless, Your Highness, your words are too shameless, but if you have to say this...... It also makes sense.

After all, if it is really in accordance with His Highness's way of dealing with the people of the thirty-six countries, these people are really the biggest beneficiaries.

"In that case, then this time it will be a success! Directly take Gaochang, the king of Gaochang is a villain, although he nominally belongs to my Datang, but over the years, instead of paying tribute to my Datang, he has also prevented other countries in the Western Regions from paying tribute to my Datang for many years! It's time to pack up, too! Cheng Yanjin immediately spoke.

Since this strategy passed the unified demonstration of the military department, Li Shimin soon signed the relevant orders and issued them directly through the military department, and the relevant edicts and military orders were directly delivered to Li Daozong and An Xinggui through the two channels of the 800-li Urgent and Intelligence Departments.

And Li Ke himself wrote an order to Lu Hai, the person in charge of Xizhou, asking him to test some weapons in Xizhou.

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At the time of the special meeting of the military headquarters, outside the city of Chang'an, the Chang'an Iron and Steel Plant, which was not in the industrial zone of Chang'an West, was further away, but it was close to the edge of the Wei River.

At this moment, inside the steel plant, a huge steel machine has been installed, and Lu Daqiang and others have already been guarding here, waiting for the final start.

"Academician Lu, can this work?" Yan Zilun, the person in charge of the steel plant, said with some apprehension.

This large steel production line consumes a lot of high-quality steel, which is not easy to cast. Yan Zilun, who is the person in charge of the steel plant, is now a little skeptical about whether this thing can work.

He thought it was okay to have this production line, this thing was based on the kind of manual machine tool provided by His Highness before, but it was an enlarged version, and it was a version that was magnified many times.

Therefore, this kind of production line must be unable to move by human and animal power, and the reason why this was built is this machine brought over by Academician Lu, and it is said that it is a machine that can burst out with great power.

The production of this machine alone cost them a lot of steel, and the materials used for its base and structural parts were not the same, such as the main cast iron blocks, wrought iron, and steel of different properties, as well as some copperware.

Even with their current size, this behemoth would have taken a lot of effort.

"Just give it a try and you'll find out!" Lu Daqiang said with a smile, the feasibility of the steam engine does not need to be tested, it is nothing more than the improvement of the performance of the steam engine, and the plan given by His Royal Highness has various structures and components of the steam engine, which gave Lu Daqiang a lot of inspiration.

And this one is the first steam engine he made that will be used in the actual world.

"Ignition!" With Lu Daqiang's order, the workers over there began to add the coal that had already been burned red into the boiler, and what was different at the beginning was that Lu Daqiang was no longer excited about the ignition.

Soon, as time passed, the steam inside the steam engine burst out with great force, and with the rotation of the flywheel, the special gear drove two huge steel rollers to start rotating, and there was immediately a heavy iron plate that had just solidified for a long time and quickly entered the two rollers along the track.

Yan Zilun immediately became nervous, until the red and heavy steel plate was directly squeezed into a thinner iron plate by the two steel rollers as easily as tearing paper, and Yan Zilun was stupid! This efficiency ......

In the past, they wanted to forge such a steel plate, and it was so large, it took at least half a day, and it took a lot of time to use hydraulic pressure and other methods, and it was necessary to burn red repeatedly, but now, it ...... In just a few minutes, it took shape.

The rollers driven by the huge machine were still rotating, and Yan Zilun's eyes lit up! Because under his gaze, the steel plate that was still finger thick was directly cut into two smaller steel plates by another special machine under terrifying mechanical pressure.

If this process is repeated, it can even be pressed directly into the thin steel sheet needed to make the armor!

That huge flywheel made Yan Zilun's mind have countless ideas, and he has thought of countless uses, such as setting some machines to speed up by it, so as long as someone looks at these steel bars, it will become what he wants according to the established procedure!

For example, if Your Highness asks them to cast the track, it will be cast faster! More terrifying!

For example, steelmaking furnaces...... Yan Zilun has already thought about how to improve the current open-hearth furnace into a converter, because the open-hearth has a large number of redundant unqualified steel every time, and the tapping rate cannot go up, Yan Zilun has thought about whether it is better to change it to a converter, which can be evenly heated, but after changing to a converter, the power required to turn the furnace is too huge, and it is not at all possible that human and animal power can accomplish it, but now, it ...... This thing can!