Prosperous Tang Blood Blade

Li Shimin nodded and said, "Of course I know."

The eldest grandson Wuji said: "Du Fuwei was born in poverty, and his background is lower than that of everyone here. Du Fuwei and Fu Gong Er have been friends since childhood. The local officials extorted and extorted money. He was only 16 years old when he was only [-] years old..."

Hou Junji nodded repeatedly, his face full of appreciation.

Li Shimin was thoughtful.

Changsun Wuji continued: "After Du Fuwei joined the rebel army, he fought extraordinarily bravely. Every time he fought, he rushed to the front, from a small soldier to the leader of the rebel army. Then, the rebel army he led, because of his bravery and good fighting skills, , and gradually annexed the surrounding rebels. Just when Du Fuwei's army was getting stronger and stronger, a man named Li Zitong led another rebel army to join him, but this Li Zitong suddenly launched a mutiny and wanted to Annexed Du Fuwei's team, and the official army of the former Sui Dynasty also surrounded and suppressed Du Fuwei at this time. Du Fuwei was seriously injured, and finally escaped from the encirclement on the back of his general, Ximen Junyi's wife. That At that time, Du Fuwei almost became a bare general."

Li Shimin interrupted and asked, "How old was he at that time?"

Changsun Wuji thought for a while and said: "19 years old. Later, Du Fuwei relied on absorbing refugees, expanding his power, and occupied Liuhe. But at this time, Yang Guang ran from Chang'an to Jiangdu, bringing 10,000+ elite officers and soldiers. Du Fu Wei's Heaven and Earth is right under Yang Guang's eyes."

If you don’t have an intuitive understanding of the distance between Jiangdu and Liuhe, then Jiangdu is roughly equivalent to Jiangdu District in Yangzhou, and Liuhe County is the current Nanjing Liuhe District.The distance between the two is about a hundred kilometers.

Li Shimin asked in surprise: "Yang Guang didn't kill him, but let him grow up step by step?"

Changsun Wuji nodded and said: "This is the magic of Du Fuwei. Du Fuwei treats his soldiers like brothers and sisters. He also treats scholars generously. He has the hearts of the people and morale. Sitting big under the eyes of Guang, he fought east and west, wiped out Shen Faxing and Li Zitong, and finally unified Jianghuai."

Li Shimin said: "This Du Fuwei is really a young hero. Auxiliary machine, please make arrangements, I will go to meet this Du Fuwei in person."

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An uninvited guest came to Chen Ying's Anxi Protectorate, a Byzantine priest named Robben Tullius Cicero. To Chen Ying's surprise, this priest named Robben spoke in poor Tang , put a bag of strange things in front of Chen Ying, and introduced to Chen Ying like Xianglin's sister-in-law: "Dear Duke, I know that you are rich and beautiful, and ordinary gold and silver treasures are not eye-catching. So I sent something, you must be interested!"

Li Xiuning secretly looked at Father Robben. Father Robben has ancient Roman and Greek blood, and is a top-notch middle-aged handsome guy.But in Li Xiuning's eyes, this Father Robben was really ugly and scary.

At this time, Chen Ying was in a daze, with green eyes, drooling, and straight eyes, like a pervert who suddenly met a stunning beauty after holding back for ten years, looking at the woman in front of him with his eyes. This bunch of weird things.

This pile of gadgets that made his eyes straighten and swallow his saliva is not seductive at all, it is nothing more than a pile of monsters made of wood and steel, a lot of ghosts without aesthetic feeling, and you can tell that they are not fun at first glance. thing.

The more Li Xiuning looked at this small model made of rotten wood and steel, I really don't know how he fell in love with these ghost things!

Father Robben pointed to a palm-sized model and said, "Your Excellency, this is a boring machine, which is specially used to polish the inner chamber... Dear Chen, don't doubt its power. As long as the water power is sufficient, it only needs two You can grind the inside of any crystal cup so smooth that a fly will fall down!"

The moment Chen Ying saw the model of the boring machine, he subconsciously thought of something.

God of War - Artillery!

In the early days of the invention of the original artillery, copper was usually used as the barrel. That was because the cast iron and steel casting technology was not up to standard. Chen Ying did not make technological leaps. Chen Ying subconsciously defined the label of prodigal to Father Robben.The boring machine is actually used to polish crystal cups.

Chen Ying reached out and touched the sharp and well-made knife model, nodded repeatedly and said, "It's really a good thing!"

Father Robben pointed to another one: "This is a drilling machine, specially used for drilling holes. Your Excellency, you are building a track now. In order to connect the various tracks, the method you are using now is the casting method. This is not only Inefficient and unsafe!"

In the era when electric welding was not invented, there was no choice but melting and casting for the connection of steel.However, looking at this drill press, Chen Ying had a flash of inspiration: "Yes, you can use a drill press to drill holes and connect them with bolts!"

Father Robben continued to introduce: "This is a planer. Have you seen this extremely sharp planer? Yes, it is used to cut metal! With it, Your Excellency, your steel surface will be sharper than ice. Be smooth!"

Chen Ying nodded with satisfaction.

Father Robben continued to introduce: "This is a thread processing machine, just start it, put the parts in, creak --- in the blink of an eye, circles of threads will appear on the extremely hard steel , whether it is internal thread or external thread, it can be easily handled!"

Although these machine tools are all made by hand, they are very simple, and the reliability is not much higher, but... this is a machine tool anyway. With it, machines can be used to produce machines. How can this significance be overestimated? Not too much!Chen Ying patted the boring machine vigorously and said, "They are all good things! But why are there no grinding machines and milling machines?"

Father Robben was obviously stunned: "Grinder and milling machine? What?"

Chen applied hand gestures and said: "The milling machine is a machine tool that uses milling cutters to mill the workpiece. In addition to milling planes, grooves, gear teeth, threads and spline shafts, the milling machine can also process more complex profiles. It is a machine tool used to grind metal, simply put, it is used to grind milling cutters! These two types of machine tools are very important...By the way, Father Robben, why is it just a model and no real thing?"

Father Robben looked embarrassed and said: "Actually, this time I was carrying physical machines, but when I passed through the Geluoling Valley, I was snatched by the Turks! The eight machines have all become the spoils of the Turks. It is estimated that Now the steel on those machines should be removed by them to forge swords!"

"What?" Chen Ying was furious when he heard that he jumped a foot, "When did this happen, why didn't anyone tell me?"

PS: I originally added an update yesterday. When I wrote more than 2000 words, Lao Cheng couldn't bear it anymore and fell asleep in front of the computer, so I had to wait until now to post it.[-] words combined chapter, please support me!

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Li Xiuning looked at Chen Ying inexplicably, wondering why he was going crazy at this time.But Chen Ying knew that he had made an empirical mistake. Chen Ying thought that if he controlled the Western Regions, he could control the Silk Road.

In fact, the entire Silk Road is not just the Western Regions in Chinese literature.The traditional Silk Road started from Chang'an and ended in Rome, with a total length of more than [-] miles.In fact, the Silk Road under the rule of the Tang Dynasty was only more than [-], barely accounting for half of it.

On this Silk Road, there are not only several small countries, but also regional powers such as the Western Turks, the Sasanian Persian Empire, and the Byzantine Empire.The continuous civil war in the Western Turks, from the perspective of Datang's national interests, it is in the interests of Datang to let the Western Turks continue the civil war.

Chen Ying had actually neglected it. At this time, not only were the Four Khans of the Western Turks out of their minds, but the Byzantine Empire was also in constant trouble. The Byzantine Empire was the Eastern Roman Empire. The Gar people, the Byzantine Empire at this time was a majestic lion, but was bitten all over by three hungry wolves, and was exhausted. It was precisely because of the weakening of the Byzantine Empire that the big cannibals began to rise.

Once the big cannibals rise, their appetite will never end. The big cannibals are very greedy for territory. They hit the Indus River in the southeast, the Sahara Desert in the south, the Caucasus in the north, and the Atlantic Ocean in the west. along the coast.If Gao Xianzhi hadn't created the Great Cannibal in the Battle of Talas, he rode less than [-] steps against an army of more than [-] cannibals. The dynasty then fell into the Anshi Rebellion, but the big cannibals were still frightened by the Modao army of the Tang Dynasty and did not dare to go east.

If the Byzantine Empire is allowed to continue to weaken, the Great Cannibal is destined to step on the rise of the Byzantine Empire just like in history, and the Tang Dynasty will eventually lose the four towns of Anxi, and even Suiye City, the birthplace of the great poet Li Bai, will also be lost.Now is precisely the most critical turning point. Chen should consider his own interests and worry that Li Yuan will be jealous, but if he stops in the Western Regions, history will return to the original track.

Once Chen Ying led the Anxi army to march westward, the Western Turks would stop the civil war and unanimously go abroad because they were afraid of the Tang Dynasty's army going westward. Where, from the face to ease the war with the Byzantine Empire, shrink the line of defense and troops to deal with the threat from the eastern powers.

In this way, Chen Ying's real goal has been achieved.An attack that lost its two old enemies, the Slavs and the Persians, the Byzantine Empire definitely had enough strength to deal with the threat from the southeast.

Chen Ying, who was not familiar with world history, did not take the civil strife in Western Turks seriously. However, now that he has figured it out, the civil strife in Western Turks has a direct impact that is fatal. Contained by the Shan area, the Sasanian Empire frantically attacked the Byzantine Empire, which greatly damaged the military power of the Byzantine Empire, thus losing control of the southeast (Arabia).

This is the real butterfly effect. The road to the rise of the big cannibals is similar to that of the Mongols. They all took advantage of the weakness of the old masters and took advantage of the situation, thus bringing heavy disasters to the people of the world.

The key is that the Byzantine Empire is of the same origin as the Eastern Roman Empire, and the civilization of the Roman Empire is based on the Greek civilization. Once the big cannibals are equipped with the advanced weapons and equipment of the Greeks, the iron hooves of the big cannibals will bring worldwide Killing and destruction, Chen Ying originally didn't care about the battle between the big cannibals and the Byzantines. However, the battle between the big cannibals and the Byzantines directly affected the Chinese civilization, and even the historical process and development.

Chen Ying was as angry as a bull with red eyes in the arena.

Zhou Qing looked at Chen Ying's unkind expression, and asked cautiously, "General Protector, what happened?"

Chen Ying said with a murderous look on his face: "By the way, is there any news from the Western Turks recently?"

"The news is in Guo Luo's hands..."

Before Zhou Qing could finish speaking, Chen Ying interrupted, "Call me Guo Luo!"

Guo Luo has fallen in love with intelligence work ever since he made a fool of Murong Fuyun.In fact, Chen Ying's Tiger Yicong is now divided into two parts, one in Guanzhong and the other in the Western Regions, but the focus of their work is on commercial intelligence.Who asked them to have a boss who wanted money?

When Zhou Qing found Guo Luo, Guo Luo was drinking a small wine. He didn't need to be on duty beside Chen Ying, so Guo Luo was much freer. Now Guo Luo turned into a stallion, working day and night, trying to make people.Less than three years after Chen Ying came to the Western Regions, Guo Luo had seven sons and eleven daughters, almost making up two football teams.

Hearing Zhou Qing say that Chen should find out about the Western Turks, Guo Luo was startled into a cold sweat.

If he remembers correctly, Chen Ying has been busy with military training, farming and doing business. He really kept his ears to the outside world and only made a small amount of money. It must be strange to suddenly care about the situation in Western Turks.

However, as the news of Chen Ying summoning Guo Luo spread, the generals of the Anxi Army, who had not made any major military actions for two years, were eager to move.

Just before Guo Luo entered Chen Ying's festival hall, Chen Ying immediately asked, "What's going on with Western Turks now?"

Guo Luo pondered and weighed his words: "There are relatively few sources of information about the situation in Western Turks. But it is certain that the four major khans of Western Turks are attacking each other, and the fighting is endless... By the way, news came two months ago that Western Turks In the north is Hou Quli Tuppi Khan who conquered Tiele in the north and was defeated by Xue Yantuo. He was suspicious and vicious, killed the hero Khan Yili and his clan, causing everyone in his subordinates to feel in danger. Two months ago, the humble Dagan set up Khan and Nushibi's troops to attack, and died soon after. Tong'e set up the throne to win the loss of Khan for Shaboluo..."

Chen Ying scolded angrily: "Idiot, everyone is an idiot! After more than two years of fighting, there is still no winner, so stupid that there is no cure!"

Ma Mengming sighed and said: "Western Turks also have difficulties... The Liangzhou battle, the Western Turks' vitality was seriously injured, and the Turks are very fierce by nature. If they insist on fighting, they may cause many casualties. Therefore, they came from the same origin. , just pretending, the four Khans of the Western Turks all want to appease them successfully, not only can save a lot of swords and catastrophes, but also keep a capable army for the Western Turks..."