Sui and Tang Dynasties: My Wife is the Eldest Grandson Wugou

Of course, this is just Fu Yun's idea.

In fact, if Ye Fan wanted to kill them, it would be a casual matter, but whether it was worthwhile to kill them was another matter.

If it wasn't necessary, Ye Fan wouldn't bother to hit them.

It's useless to lay down these places, and it doesn't make any sense.

In the first place, the Western Turks were defeated because they were the center of Asia, and the territory of the Western Turks was too large, far surpassing Tuyuhun and Tubo, and they were also very threatening to the Sui Dynasty.

That's why Ye Fan chose to destroy them, and sent a large number of troops to suppress their entire territory.

Therefore, it is of necessary strategic significance to attack the Western Turks.

But what about Tubo and Tuyuhun?

Add up, although the land is not small, but the people are few!

The labor force is not even as large as Shiwei and Jimo. If it is for labor, why doesn't Ye Fan attack Shiwei and Jimo?

At the very least, those places will not cause the soldiers to suffer from altitude sickness. Although there are many mountains, waters, and virgin forests, they are much better than these plateau areas.

So now raising troops to attack Tubo and Tuyuhun is a matter of losing money.

Ye Fan would never do business that loses money!

Now to help Nanzhao Kingdom, Ye Fan's purpose is only to defend, as long as he can repel Tubo, then all these 20 people will stay in the territory of Nanzhao Empire.

On the one hand, it is to suppress the ambitions of countries like Tubo and Tuyuhun, and on the other hand, it is also to suppress the local regime of Nanzhao Kingdom. With these 20 troops, Ye Fan is not afraid that these guys will be disobedient.

Dare to jump, directly use counter-insurgency as an excuse to destroy the local regime, and then Ye Fan will send some officials to take over their regime, which is simply more worry-free.

"Your Majesty, General Cheng said that he intends to petition you to destroy Tuyuhun. Do you think we should send some more soldiers here?"

You Junda asked tentatively.

"Destroy what?"

Ye Fan curled his lips: "It's hard work, why bother with them? In my eyes, this kind of goods are just like ants, and they will be destroyed if they are said to be extinct, but that is only limited to meaningful situations. Remember, Unless they have the resources we need in their country, or they are too arrogant and constantly provoke the authority of our country, or there is a large labor force in their country, except for these three cases, don't act rashly at other times! "

"Because once a war starts, the cost will be quite high. I won't do the stupid thing of spending money if you don't make money!"

Seeing that Ye Fan opened and closed his mouth thinking about gains and losses, You Junda couldn't laugh or cry.

The emperor is worthy of being a businessman, and he really thinks about fineness.

It turned out that You Junda didn't realize it yet, but after what Ye Fan said, it seemed that it was true.

Chapter 603 Li Shuming's Greeting

They don't think about these things at all when they fight in peacetime. They always fight with enthusiasm and fight wherever they don't like it.

But they didn't think about the problem from Ye Fan's point of view. Naturally, they didn't expect that after a battle, it would cost so much money. If it was just for the pleasure of destroying a country by themselves, it would be too uneconomical.

It's really shameless to spend so much money just for your own pleasure.

If Ye Fan was rich and not short of money, then he would naturally not think about these things, and he would just beat Tuyuhun who said he was going to beat his mother, and he would not think about anything.

But now Ye Fan is short of money!

Very short of money!

The territory of the Great Jin Empire is so large, so many cities need to be remodeled, so many technological breakthroughs need to be made, and even Ye Fan wants to prepare for the construction of national highways as soon as possible, and then call the Ministry of Industry to study and research the means of transportation that can replace manpower.

Although the pressure car studied by Ye Qianwen has greatly improved the traffic efficiency, it is still very slow.

It took Ye Fan one day to go from Luoyang to Honghua, even if he was going all out. It took another three days to go from Honghua to Wudu, and another day or two to go from Honghua to Chengdu.

This is fairly close, if you go far away, you will have to crash if you hurry.

Back then, when we were marching and fighting, we traveled day and night and didn't even have time to rest. It took about ten days to set off from Luoyang to northern Xinjiang.

Therefore, researching a means of transportation that replaces human or animal power is really the top priority at the moment.

Ye Fan planned to allocate a considerable part of the funds to the Ministry of Industry for research, and Ye Fan proposed an idea for the Ministry of Industry, which is the direction of their breakthrough, that is, the steam engine.

If there is a steam engine, it means that mankind has entered the steam age.

You must know that the steam age in history also appeared more than 1000 years later. If the steam engine can appear more than 1000 years earlier, it means that human technology will experience a big explosion in the next 200 years.

Of course, it is not realistic to study things like steam engines now.

Because the domestic steel production of the Great Jin Empire has not yet reached the standard, and the joint development of all walks of life is not yet in place.

But now it is very fast. Zhu Tiedan and others have now set up steel factories all over the country. The technology of steelmaking and ironmaking in these places is very mature, and their technology has been applied to many fields, not just for furniture. Provide services.

The first to get the application of steel technology is naturally the army.

The technological development of a country is often driven by the military. Usually, many technologies are used by the military and gradually evolve into civilian use.

Therefore, the development of the army is often the first element to promote scientific and technological progress.

Now there are a lot of weapons made of fine steel in the army, steel weapons, steel armor, steel shields, even some tents and gates mixed with steel technology, as well as various defensive and offensive equipment, you can see Get the shadow of steel and iron.

So now as long as the labor force can be increased, as long as a large amount of metal mines can be exploited, and the country's steel reserves can be increased, then it can fully support the needs of human beings entering the steam age.

Now if you want to enter the age of steam, you need three conditions, one is steel reserves, the other is technology reserves, and the third is talent reserves.

Ye Fan is in short supply of these three things now.