Chapter 502 His Majesty, the Khan of Heaven, can be taken advantage of!
One month later.
Li Xuan discovered that Li Shimin's emphasis on bombs was far beyond his expectation.
On the hilltop in Lijiazhuang, the holes originally created by the bombs have begun to grow overgrown with various lush weeds.
As for the big trees that were blown apart, the farmers in Lijiazhuang carried them down to the village and divided them for use.
On the side of the mountain, Li Shimin was holding a bomb with a huge front and a petite bomb at the back, which looked very much like the grenades of later generations. However, the hand-thrown bomb in Li Shimin's hand was obviously much larger than the grenades of later generations.
At Li Shimin's signal, Li Wei carefully lit the fuse at the handle. Immediately, Li Shimin flicked the bomb in his hand and threw it out, disappearing into the crowd without a trace.
After a few breaths.
Halfway up the mountain, there was a loud noise.
At the same time, dust was flying.
From several surrounding hills, flocks of birds flew out and fled away as hard as they could.
From outside the grass on the ground, animals also jumped out one after another, running towards the depths of the mountains.
Seeing this, Li Shimin's eyes flashed with satisfaction.
Turning around, he looked at Li Xuan.
"Xuanba, what do you think of the power of this hand-thrown bullet?"
"With only ten thousand people equipped, we will be unstoppable on the battlefield!"
A flash of appreciation flashed in Li Xuan's eyes. In just over a month, the master craftsmen in the Ordnance Supervision were able to make this kind of hand-thrown bomb. It was already very good!
"Hahaha, our Tang Dynasty army can have such hand-thrown bombs, Xuanba deserves a great contribution!"
Li Shimin said with great joy.
"Your Majesty does not need to do this. Your Majesty should also know that I invented bombs just to break mountains and crack rocks better, so that the craftsmen can mine ores better!
I don’t know, Your Majesty, but for the craftsmen of the Shaofu Supervisor to use this kind of explosive to mine ore?"
Li Xuan shook his head slightly and looked at Li Shimin with a blank expression.
Hearing this, Li Shimin's expression suddenly froze.
"Xuanba, bombs are so precious. Isn't it a pity to use them for mining ores?"
"..."
Li Xuan looked at Li Shimin quietly for a long time, "May I ask Your Majesty, compared with a bomb or a common person of the Tang Dynasty, which one does Your Majesty think is more important?"
"We are the people of the Tang Dynasty!"
Li Shimin said directly without hesitation.
"Then, does Your Majesty know that it takes many times to make a bomb?"
"How many breaths of time!"
"Including iron and gunpowder?"
"this……"
Li Shimin looked stunned!
Both iron and gunpowder need to be calculated from the mining of ores, which is impossible to calculate!
"Your Majesty, you don't have to use bombs to blow up ores. You can also stuff gunpowder into a long sealed iron cylinder, drill a big hole in the mountain, throw the iron cylinder filled with gunpowder in, and ignite it.
The entire mountain will explode from the inside out.
In this way, it can at least save the people half a month or even a month of effort."
"If this time is saved, how much more work can these people do? Then, how much more ore can these people mine, how much more steel can they forge, and how many more bombs can they make?
Repeat this, and a bomb will bring endless benefits..."
As he said this, Li Xuan couldn't help but suddenly remember something.
"Your Majesty, are we, the people of the Tang Dynasty, mining the ores now, or are the Turkic slaves mining the ores?"
"It is our people in the Tang Dynasty who mine the ores!"
Li Shimin replied slowly.
“Why not let Turkic slaves mine the ores?”
Li Xuan's tone couldn't help but be a little stiff.
"Xuanba, those Turkic slaves are building the cities of Shunzhou, Yuzhou, Huazhou, Changzhou, Dingxiang, and Yunzhong!"
Li Shimin also looked stunned, not understanding why Li Xuan suddenly became so angry.
"Your Majesty, those Turkic slaves have been building for more than a year. Are the cities of Shunzhou, Yuzhou, Huazhou, Changzhou, Dingxiang, and Yunzhong almost completed?
Moreover, mining ores is not only tiring, but also very dangerous. This kind of work is what those Turkic slaves should do!"
Li Xuan said.
"This is what it should be!"
Only then did Li Shimin understand why Li Xuan, who had been so happy just now, was angry.
It's just a matter of Turkic slaves, and it's not worth quarreling with Li Xuan.
"Your Majesty, please forgive me. I was impetuous and my tone was a bit rude. However, those who are not of my race must have different feelings! I am really worried that your Majesty is too tolerant of those Turkic slaves! You know, no matter how much we Han people treat those Turkic slaves,
Foreigners, especially thieves like Turks and Goguryeo, are so tolerant.
However, when they become stronger, they will turn into white-eyed wolves and invade our borders of the Tang Dynasty!"
After hearing this, Li Xuan slowly calmed down. But looking at Li Shimin's perfunctory expression, Li Xuan felt angry again!
"Xuan Ba, don't worry. I will never be merciful to those foreigners. When it is time to kill, I will never leave them alive. However, for those foreigners, the Turks still need to leave an example!
In this way, the vassal states around the Tang Dynasty will be willing to surrender to the Tang Dynasty and be influenced by the Tang Dynasty!"
"Your Majesty wants them all to surrender?"
Li Xuan was angry again.
"The Tang Dynasty is a kingdom of heaven, and I am the Khan of Heaven..."
Li Shimin said slowly.
"May I ask Your Majesty, what is the use of the name Tian Khan?"
Upon hearing this, Li Xuan already knew what Li Shimin was going to say, so he sneered and interrupted Li Shimin's words.
This made Li Chengqian, Fang Xuanling and others on the side look tense.
"In my opinion, the honorific title Tian Khan given to His Majesty by those vassal states is not as good as the title of Taken Dutou!
Every time a foreign envoy comes to Chang'an, he only brings a few carts of items, which are not worth a hundred guan in our Tang Dynasty. However, His Majesty always returns gifts worth tens of thousands of guan?
I really don’t know why Your Majesty is doing this?
Your Majesty may feel that this kind of behavior can demonstrate the great courage of our country, the Tang Dynasty.
However, every time I have the feeling that the Tang Dynasty is trying to curry favor with those small and vassal states. It seems that it is using these precious gifts to implore those vassal states to respect me, the Tang Dynasty, as the supreme kingdom of heaven, and to respect His Majesty the Tang Dynasty.
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As soon as these words came out, the whole mountain became silent.
His Royal Highness the King of Jin is actually mocking His Majesty!
It even constitutes insult...
You know, no one has dared to speak to Li Shimin like this for a long time.
Even Li Shimin's eyes widened and he didn't react for a moment.
However, Li Xuan's words did not stop him.
"Sometimes, I wonder if the nobles of those vassal states were secretly happy after the vassal envoys returned with so much goods. The Tang people were stupid and rich, so they used some of their country's rags to give
The Emperor of the Tang Dynasty could get so many good things by saying a lot of good things!
Later, they saw that the Tang Dynasty was so easy to talk to, and even ethnic groups like the Turks who had a blood feud with the Tang Dynasty could receive such good treatment as long as they surrendered!
They will be more courageous when they use their troops to plunder the people of Tang Dynasty!
The worst case scenario is that if they attract the Tang Dynasty’s army to conquer them and they cannot defeat them, they will simply surrender. The Tang Dynasty will not kill them anyway. On the contrary, after they surrender, their lives may be even better than before!
Even His Majesty the Tang Dynasty could put them back, crown them kings, and continue to send troops to plunder the people on the border of the Tang Dynasty!"
"If you put it this way, Your Majesty is really the Khan of Heaven, the Khan of the people of all countries in the world, and the people of the Tang Dynasty are only part of His Majesty's subjects, and those soldiers of the Tang Dynasty are just..."