Fu Tang

"Ye Luxian has a big face." Li Congjia threw the letter of credence on the case table, and laughed out of anger.

Shi Xueting didn't quite understand this sentence, but it didn't prevent him from understanding Li Congjia's meaning. He picked it up and looked at it and said, "Ye Luxian wants Korea? It's not impossible. Let's take it down and let him use the same territory. Can’t we just change it? Yanyun still has six states in their hands, plus some other places, well, if they really want to change, maybe they will give us both Beijing and Tokyo.”

Li Congjia said angrily: "Didn't you see how they wrote it? Just ask for it, and still have a charity tone, afraid that we will die far away, and I will use him to worry?"

After a careful look, Shi Xueting said: "I think Ye Luxian is just here to tease you. He really thinks that the Tang Dynasty can't beat Korea. This letter of credence is not written according to the exact format!"

After Li Congjia came over to take a look, he found that it was really the case. He was so angry just now that he didn't pay attention to the format. Such a letter of credence can be regarded as not seen!

Li Congjia: MDZZ!

Shi Xueting put down the letter of credence and said: "However, death in a distant place is indeed a problem. We are separated from Korea by the coast, and it may not be very easy to govern after we defeat it."

In fact, Li Congjia is also worried about this matter. If it is inland, I feel that it is too far away to be controlled. It can completely follow the example of the Rabbit Dynasty to form an autonomous region. There is no way to resist, but it is easy to rebel after they are relieved.

Li Congjia sighed: "It would be great if we could build a bridge directly to Korea."

Shi Xueting... Shi Xueting looked at Li Congjia as if he was looking at a neuropathy, after all, such an idea was too whimsical.

However, what he didn't know was that Li Congjia was really not whimsical. In later generations, what was the cross-sea bridge?

Shi Xueting said: "It's really not possible, in order to stabilize Khitan, we can only agree to a replacement."

"Replacement?" Li Congjia curled his lips: "The land on the Khitan side is so barren, what is there to exchange?"

Although the land in Korea is just like that, it is not suitable for agricultural development, but it is close to the sea, so there are so many seafood waiting!

Shi Xueting said: "The problem is that after taking down Goryeo, there is a Khitan between us and Goryeo. If you were Khitan Khan, would you think that sooner or later the next door would call?"

This is natural, no matter who it is, there is a gap between their own territory, and either the floating territory is taken away by others, or they directly annex this country and become their own territory.

Li Congjia looked at the map and said, "Change? What do you think is a good place to change?"

Shi Xueting circled the map with his fingers and said: "This place is very good, plus the Yanyun Six States in their hands."

Li Congjia saw that it was the place where the Tatars were located, and it almost included the entire Yinshan Mountains. In terms of area, it was a little larger than Goryeo.

Li Congjia understood Shi Xueting's meaning almost instantly: "This is a good place with lush water and grass. It's just that almost all the best pastures in Khitan are here. Will they change it?"

For the nomads, the grasslands are the basis for their survival. In addition to the Yanyun six states, this condition... Li Congjia always finds it a bit difficult.

Shi Xueting said calmly: "Yanyun Six States must take it back, and the rest can be negotiated. You are asking for a lot of money, and you can pay back the money."

Li Congjia couldn't help laughing out loud, the contrast was really great when Shi Xueting said such fireworks.

After Li Congjia marked the place on the map, he put it aside. We have to wait until the war with Korea is over. It is too early to say anything.

At this time, both Li Hongji and Zhao Kuangyin felt very bored. In their impression, naval battles were still about the enemy and us driving boats, swinging on each other's boats to hack and kill. Whichever side can win depends on which side's soldiers are brave enough.

However, the emergence of firearms directly changed the way of fighting, or changed the way of fighting the Datang Fleet. In this battle, even the smallest Fuchuan in Datang was stronger than the best ship in Korea. Li Hongji and Zhao Kuangyin only needed What I do is to guard the soldiers from burning, killing and looting, it's nothing!

Zhao Kuangyin looked at the situation of the Korean people being bombarded crying father and mother outside and couldn't help but said: "Your Majesty didn't let me go out because I was not familiar with naval warfare. How the hell do you need to be familiar with it?"

Li Hongji said with a blank expression: "What's the use of coming? How do you count military exploits in such a situation?"

Now Datang's combat exploits are judged according to the head or ears. Now in the case of naval battles... the opponent either died or disappeared after being bombarded. Where the hell can I find the head!

Zhao Kuangyin snorted and said, "I don't care. It's really boring to stand on the Dafu boat and watch the scenery. I'll go find a small boat to see the Korean people."

Li Hongji looked at Zhao Kuangyin's back and couldn't help but shook his head and said, "This killer."

Although he made complaints about it, he also envied Zhao Kuangyin. After all, Zhao Kuangyin was only a second-in-command with high flexibility, and as the captain, he had to sit on the Dafu boat and observe the movement of each ship.

But the only thing is that it is not easy to observe with the naked eye. Fortunately, the current fleet is not very large, and there are a total of ten Fuchuan. If the fleet is to be expanded according to Li Congjia's idea, then how to manage these ships?

Thinking of this, Li Hongji turned around and went back to write a memorial. He asked people to board a patrol boat and hand it over to the officials on the shore for them to submit.

After the memorial was sent out, Li Hongji felt deeply melancholy when he thought that he still had time to write the memorial during the war, and felt that the diction was not beautiful and revised it again. This kind of war is really meaningless.

However, it's boring and boring, but he knows that such a war is a blessing for his own soldiers, and the reduction of casualties is enough for Li Congjia to be praised forever.

Li Congjia, who was thought by Li Hongji to be praised forever, couldn't help but said after opening his memorial: "These two people are too idle, right? One ran to the Fuchuan to do his best, and the other was still thinking about the future of the fleet. question?"

While peeling the pomegranate for him, Shi Xueting said, "Isn't this pretty good? It proves that they really went well, and they didn't hide anything."

Li Congjia let out a hey, from the founding of the Tang Dynasty to the present, when did you dare to hide the truth about the war?The grave grass found on the way is very tall.

However, what Li Hongji said is indeed very reasonable. In the vast sea, the distance between ships is regulated. Manned warships are better than ships, and the distance between ships is even greater.

Li Congjia bit his pen and thought about it if he wanted the general to observe to the end. It seemed inappropriate to ask everyone to be as powerful as Hawkeye, so he could only... Huh?

When Shi Xueting was checking the intelligence information below, he suddenly heard a loud noise, and when he looked up, he saw Li Congjia stand up and said, "How did I forget this?"

Shi Xueting was taken aback by him, and asked, "Does your hand not hurt?"

The loud noise just now was caused by Li Congjia slapping the desk hard. He was too excited just now, but now that Shi Xueting asked him, he just came back to his senses, then grinned and shook his hands.

Shi Xueting rubbed his hands while asking, "What do you remember again?"

Li Congjia laughed and said, "Binoculars."

Shi Xueting said in surprise, "Telescope? What is that?"

After thinking carefully for a long time, Li Congjia explained: "It means that you can see very far away with that thing, even thousands of meters away, you can see even a few centimetres."

After Li Congjia finished speaking, he felt that it was a bit exaggerated, but the high-precision telescopes of later generations can indeed reach this level.

Shi Xueting's first reaction was disbelief, but looking at Li Congjia's expression, he knew that the other party was serious. As long as Li Congjia was serious about something, then it was very likely to succeed, no matter how incredible it was, it was still possible.

Shi Xueting asked: "What kind of telescope are you talking about?"

Li Congjia said: "Glass, oh, it's colored glaze."

Shi Xueting looked at the glazed paperweight on Li Congjia's desk and said, "This thing?"

Li Congjia looked down, and then realized that the glass these days has bubbles of various colors, and it is not transparent at all, so naturally it cannot be used as a telescope.

Li Congjia thought for a while and said, "Get a kiln first... let's see when the time comes."

Shi Xueting was very speechless, and Li Congjia was the only one who wanted to build a glazed kiln as he wanted. After all, colored glaze is not ceramic, and it is still a very precious thing at present. Even in the entire Tang Dynasty, few glazed glazes were fired. kiln mouth.

Shi Xueting asked people to look for it for a long time, but they couldn't find it. Of course, it's not that they didn't find it, but they didn't sell it at all!

Li Congjia had no choice but to say: "Then let's do it ourselves."

Shi Xueting looked at Li Congjia in surprise: "Come by yourself?"

Li Congjia stroked his chin and said, "It shouldn't be too difficult, let's go, go to the academy and have a look."

Now the academy is almost the high-tech center of the entire Tang Dynasty, and even the Ministry of Industry is no longer comparable to the academy, but many technologies in the academy are immature. At that time, Li Congjia stipulated that accurate data must be obtained after many tests before applying .

Li Congjia went to the academy for a while, and found that no one in the academy studied colored glaze. He immediately felt that the academy was still lame. For such an important project... Well, in the eyes of many people, glass is a luxury, what is it for industry? It's useless, so the academy didn't put this in an important position at all.

After returning, Li Congjia asked Shi Xueting to look for materials, and he planned to build a kiln by himself to make glass.

Shi Xueting couldn't help asking: "Would you know it?"

Li Congjia thought about it seriously and said, "I don't know how to do it, but I probably know how to do it."

The earliest glass was fired from quartz sandstone and natural soda. As long as the silica in the quartz sandstone is pure enough, relatively transparent glass can be produced. Nowadays, there are various kinds of glass products in Datang. The main reason for the color is that the quality of quartz sandstone is not good enough, and the good ones from abroad are just suitable for the minerals there.

In fact, it's not that there are no suitable places in the Central Plains, it's just that these people couldn't find them.

As far as Li Congjia knows, there is good-quality quartz sandstone in the Shenmu area closest to Chang’an. Of course, this is to find a special landform. A friend of Li Congjia’s mentor at the time was specializing in the direction of ancient glass art. It’s a pity that at that time he was only After a rough understanding, I don't remember where it is, but the quartz sandstone has a very special landform, as long as someone knows it, they will be able to find it.

Fortunately, research on geology in the college has also started, and there is really one person who knows about quartz sandstone. Of course, this thing is not called that name at this time, and everyone only calls it sandstone.

After Li Congjia asked him to find high-quality quartz sandstone, Shi Xueting asked, "Are you sure there is?"

When Li Congjia came back to his senses, he knew that he had been exposed again, so he had to say: "There is a high possibility that there will be, but I am not sure if it is true, Xue Ting, I know a lot of strange things in my mind. I can’t remember it, I only remember it when I need it, as for why I know this, I can’t say yet.”

Seeing that he was serious, Shi Xueting patted his head and said: "I know, don't think too much, I don't mind, just like everyone said, you are the real dragon emperor, so you are naturally different."

The corner of Li Congjia's mouth twitched, he really wanted to say that his situation had nothing to do with God, but if he really said that, he still had to find a way to continue explaining, so he simply acquiesced in the end, making Shi Xueting think that he was talking about it anyway That's good, so that if there is really no other way in the future, when you have to tell your own background, it can also minimize Shi Xueting's...fear of him?

Shi Xueting didn't want to talk too much about this, so he changed the subject and asked, "I think it's better to prepare for the worst first. What will you do if they don't find it?"

Li Congjia simply said: "If you can't find it, use sand."

Shi Xueting was a little surprised: "Sand?"

Li Congjia nodded and said: "Yes, it can be fired with sand, but the effect is not very good, the quality is not good, but it can be used flexibly."

Since there is a substitute, Shi Xueting is not in a hurry, in fact even Li Congjia is not in a hurry.

The telescope is a good thing, but it must be controlled by the imperial court. In fact, this matter should be done by the Ministry of Industry, but the Ministry of Industry in the former Tang Dynasty was a relatively idle department, but when it comes to Li Congjia, the Ministry of Industry is definitely the busiest. There is no one in the department, and they are busy every day researching various new weapons and new farm tools.

And let them bear Li Congjia's whim from time to time?Li Congjia is really afraid that these technical nerds will die from overwork!

Of course, the most important thing is that if the Ministry of Industry is asked to study colored glaze products, these people may not understand how useful colored glaze is. If Li Congjia is misunderstood to satisfy his own selfish desires, it will be broken if he becomes extravagant. Going to carry it.

So Li Congjia planned to make the glass by himself first, and then hand over the rest of the research work to the Ministry of Industry. The Ministry of Industry would naturally cooperate with the college. Li Congjia was not worried about this at all.

When Li was looking for quartz sandstone from Jiamanshijie, Li Hongji and Zhao Kuangyin finally landed on the island. They landed from Jeonju, and the infantry who had been aggrieved on the ship for a long time flocked to Tokyo, Korea like chicken blood when they landed on the island.

It's just that these soldiers have been wandering at sea for too long, and they haven't recovered their status for a while. They can't wait to walk swayingly. In their words, they feel as if they are still floating on the sea.

When Li Congjia found out, it suddenly occurred to them that they always thought that the navy was short of something, but they couldn't remember it. Now they know that the marine corps is missing!

In many cases, the ultimate goal of naval battles is to land, and after landing, the combat methods mastered by the navy may not be able to be used. At this time, the Marine Corps must be sent. If the strength of the Marine Corps cannot be improved, the overall strength will be correspondingly reduced.

Li Congjia had always forgotten to build such an army before, and now it can be put on the agenda. In fact, the requirements for the navy and marine corps are quite strict, because they have to go out with the fleet, but they are not used in naval battles, so they also Also be trained to survive at sea.

He handed over this matter to Zhu Yuan. Zhu Yuan can be regarded as a veteran of the Tang Dynasty, but because he only knows how to fight, he gradually became marginalized after the war in the Central Plains subsided. I regret that I don't know how to lead a navy and can't fight water battles. Now Li Congjia decided to let him train a marine team.

Although currently the only country that needs to be conquered from the sea is Goryeo, Li Congjia's eyes have never been limited to the Eurasian continent. After all, there are so many lands on this earth, and the ocean is still so big. Students who have studied modern history know the pain of being closed to the outside world, and Li Congjia naturally found a way to get out.

What's more, other mainland countries may still be very weak now, so when will they wait if they don't take advantage of this moment to rob?

Zhu Yuan accepted the task happily, and decided to train himself in naval battles, after all, he learned to live forever.

Li Congjia admired Zhu Yuan's spirit very much. After all, he didn't have so much energy to do these things now, as if the daily government affairs had consumed most of his energy.

Li Hongji and Zhao Kuangyin would completely occupy Goryeo. Li Congjia never doubted that, but he never thought that these two people would do it in such a short time.

It took... two months from landing to occupying the whole island?

When Li Congjia saw the good news, he suspected that something was wrong with his eyes. He turned to look at Shi Xueting and asked, "Is this because the Koreans didn't resist? Even Wang Zhao was caught, why did they move so quickly? "

Shi Xueting chuckled and said, "The Korean people really didn't resist much."

"Huh?" Li Congjia was a little puzzled. This victory report only told the court that they had won the battle. As for the specific process, it would have to wait for Li Hongji and Zhao Kuangyin's memorial. However, with Shi Xueting here, Li Congjia could always know earlier. inside story.

Shi Xueting said: "The two of them fought too savagely at sea. There were hardly a few warships left in Korea. The sea defense line that the Korean people are proud of never stopped them, so when they landed on the island, All nobles and civilians are fleeing, even soldiers."

Li Congjia: ...

Does this mean that the Koreans are scared out of their wits?It's just... Li Congjia couldn't figure it out. If you don't resist, you will die, and if you resist, you will die. If this is the case, why don't you try to resist? Maybe a miracle will happen?

Of course, this is why he thinks so when Datang wins. If Gao Li really resists desperately, he will probably be angry with Gao Li for causing Datang to lose too many soldiers. Now it is fine.

Shi Xueting understood Li Congjia's thoughts very well and said: "Many of those Koreans fled directly to Khitan. Khitan should take them in, so they may not have a way out."

Oh, yes, Li Congjia realized now that he forgot about the country of Khitan.

Thinking of Khitan, he thought of what Shi Xueting said about exchanging land, and he couldn't help asking Chunsheng to invite the cabinet ministers and six ministers to Xuanzheng Hall immediately, he wanted a meeting!

The ministers of the cabinet have received the news of the victory, and they are very pleased about it. Even if they don't advocate random wars now, they know that the stronger the army, the more stable the country will be, especially if this powerful army is firmly in control In the hands of the emperor, as long as the emperor is not a fool, the prosperity of the country is just around the corner.

Li Congjia sat down and talked about Shi Xueting's previous point of view. Of course, he couldn't directly say that it was Shi Xueting's idea. Since he also agreed with Shi Xueting's idea, he directly said it was his own point of view.

In response to this, Zhao Pu, the second assistant who had a little more experience in civilian life than the other three veterans, immediately asked, "Is there any progress in woolen cloth?"

Li Congjia smiled and nodded. Not to mention, the old man Gongshu is really powerful. He improved the loom from Khitan, and now he can actually weave wool. From Li Congjia’s point of view, the quality of that wool is comparable to What about the Huada of later generations!

Li Congjia asked someone to bring a piece of woolen fabric, and after passing it on to everyone for a look, almost everyone immediately found that it was soft to the touch and had a good thermal performance.

Fan Zhi said one word to this: Change!

It is necessary to exchange for wool, especially if the Yanyun Six States can be exchanged back. The only thing to worry about is that Khitan will not agree.

Li Congjia directly asked the people below to write a letter of credence to Ye Luxian, and was prepared to be rejected, but he didn't expect that Ye Luxian didn't want to return the Yanyun Six States, but he didn't know anything about the Yinshan area. Those who do not object are willing to exchange it with Datang!

Li Congjia: I always feel that something is wrong.