The people of the entire Chang'an City suddenly discovered that the teahouse on Zhuque Street was once again surrounded by a group of familiar Wuhou who were under martial law.
At the same time, carriages were already parked around the teahouse.
There was actually a slight traffic jam on the formerly wide Zhuque Street!
This lasted for two full days.
Zhuque Street had just returned to normal, and the people in Chang'an City felt suddenly relieved.
A total of twelve aristocratic families, six Li clan members, and seven noble families of the Tang Dynasty were auctioned off to guard the city of Goguryeo and be granted the title of king and found the country.
In other words, in half a year, there will be nineteen more kings of the opposite sex in the entire Tang Dynasty!
"Master, in this auction we obtained 2.8 million jin of grain, 3.6 million jin of pig iron, wrought iron, and various iron tools. As for the iron mines, there are 45 iron mines!"
Li Chengqian sat in front of Li Xuan and reported the report respectfully.
However, the smiles in his eyes were all overflowing.
"Very good, now we can build several giant steel ships!"
Li Xuan smiled.
Li Chengqian: "..."
This Uncle Wang has really gotten into the giant steel ship just as his father said.
"What else do you want?"
Li Xuan asked again.
"Going back to Uncle Wang, I received the good news that Cao Guogong and Su Guogong have attacked the thirty-six surrounding cities with Pyongyang City in Goguryeo as the center.
To the south, we have already attacked the border of Baekje. Now the army of Baekje is facing the border with Chen Bing, the king of Tang Dynasty!
At the same time, both Baekje and Silla sent envoys to the Tang Dynasty to bow to the Tang Dynasty and presented two large carts of various rare treasures..."
Li Chengqian said.
"Humph..." Li Xuan sneered.
Although they are dismissive of these two small countries, what these two small countries are doing is the only most correct thing they can do at the moment.
This is the tragedy of a small country. It faces the sea on both sides, and its territory is still a little bigger than a palm, but its ambition is not small. It wants to follow the big country on the border to conquer another big country.
But he didn't expect that as soon as the big country on the border spread out its military formation and showed its fangs, Tang Dynasty slapped it on the ground, grabbed its throat, and then killed it with lightning speed.
Kill and devour them all.
It’s already good that Baekje and Silla are not scared to shit!
However, I couldn't escape even if I wanted to.
The Japanese country in the south hates them with all their heart, Goguryeo in the north has been occupied by the Tang army, and there is an endless sea on both sides of the east and west!
Knowing that the Tang Dynasty would never let them go, they still had to hold on to a glimmer of hope and sent envoys to plead guilty to the Tang Dynasty, hoping to fight to the death.
"Where are Tubo and Tuyuhun?"
Thinking about it, Li Xuan continued to ask.
"Uncle Wang, ever since Tubo and Tuyuhun started war against us, the Tang Dynasty, at the beginning, they were still able to compete with the King of the Tang Dynasty.
However, in recent years, Tubo and Tuyuhun have been reducing the number of war horses in order to raise yaks. The longer they delay, the less able they are to succeed.
In addition, as soon as the war started, all the caravans of our Datang Dynasty were cut off from small countries such as Tubo and Tuyuhun. Those powerful people could not sell their yak meat, nor could they buy sofas, glass, salt, etc. from our Datang Dynasty.
Luxury items such as silk, tea, and even liquor!
However, after two years of support from my Datang caravan, the landowners and nobles of small countries such as Tubo and Tuyuhun have become accustomed to these luxurious ornaments from my Datang.
In particular, luxury items such as liquor, salt, and glass were even more important to Tubo and Tuyuhun.
At first, the landowners and aristocrats of Tubo and Tuyuhun could tolerate it a little better, but as they ran out of liquor and salt, they could no longer eat their usual meals, and their long-term success was not good...
Therefore, recently, a peace-seeking faction has emerged among the landowners and dignitaries in Tubo and Tuyuhun...
Hum hum…”
As he said this, Li Chengqian couldn't help but snorted, his face full of disdain for the behavior of the Tubo, Tuyuhun and other barbarian hozens.
"Let them remain in chaos for a while longer, and then directly send troops to destroy them. In this way, we, the Tang Dynasty, can directly occupy the main road leading to the Western Regions!"
Li Xuan said.
"Uncle Wang is wise!"
Li Chengqian said with a sincere compliment, "If Uncle Wang hadn't sent a caravan to support Tubo and Tuyuhun a long time ago, they would have expanded the grassland everywhere in order to raise yaks in recent years, often had internal fights, and even gave up.
A large number of war horses and self-defeating martial arts.
Otherwise, the national power of Tubo and Tuyuhun will definitely increase greatly, and our eastern border of the Tang Dynasty will be in danger this time!"
"No!"
Li Xuan chuckled lightly, "There are bombs, and these nomads are not good at attacking the city. As long as they stay on the city wall and defend for a period of time, these barbarian hozens will retreat if they cannot attack the city.
But if they dare to bypass the border city and drive straight in, we can just surround them and catch them all in one fell swoop, adding fertility to my crops in the coming year of the Tang Dynasty!"
Li Chengqian was startled, then he raised his hands and saluted again, "This is still the credit of Uncle Wang!"
"I just made arrangements and did not go to the battlefield personally. Gao Ming's words are a bit serious!"
Li Xuan said calmly again.
"If it weren't for the bomb invented by Uncle Wang, our Tang Dynasty King would have suffered heavy losses if he wanted to defend the coalition forces of small countries such as Tubo and Tuyuhun!
How can it be like now, when we repelled dozens of attacks by the Tibetan and Tuyuhun coalition forces, we only injured more than 300 people!"
Li Chengqian said solemnly.
"More than 300 people were disabled?"
Li Xuan was stunned and looked at Li Chengqian, a little hard to accept.
"How can you injure and maim so many people if you have a bomb?"
"Back to Uncle Wang, after several attacks, the barbarian hozens from Tubo and Tuyuhun also found the flaw in the bombs. They would stand outside the range of arrows, bombs and hand-thrown bombs, and attack with catapults.
Or, you can directly escort some slaves or herdsmen forward to attract bombs, and then the army will charge!"
Li Chengqian said with an angry look.
"That's also a mediocre general!"
Li Xuan snorted coldly, "A bomb with such power was actually used by them in such a cowardly manner!"
"Hey, Uncle Wang is invincible, the generals of our Tang Dynasty cannot compare with Uncle Wang.
If those generals could be like Uncle Wang, who only led an army of 50,000 people and carried hundreds of thousands of kilograms of bombs, they could fight three times in Goguryeo and wipe out the 300,000 Goguryeo army. They would be like gods descending to earth, unrivaled.
Then the country of our country, the Tang Dynasty, will be as stable as Mount Tai, and we, the Tang Dynasty, will be very lucky!"
Li Chengqian quickly praised.
"Young, I have been handling government affairs with His Majesty for half a year, and my clever mouth is as if it has been covered with honey, and I can freely express compliments!"