In the fourth year of Dalong's reign of peace, it was the thirteenth day of the first month.
After deliberation, Nangong Ye and others sent a letter to the capital to report the victory, informing Liu Mingzhi of the news that the war between northern and southern Tianzhu was finally completed, and at the same time temporarily took matters into their own hands and began to disperse their troops to manage the people's livelihood in various parts of Tianzhu.
After receiving the order, many generals who were rough on the surface but as careful as a needle gradually realized that the orders passed by Nangong Ye and the three people to govern the people's livelihood in Tianzhu and Tianzhu were full of instructions about how to govern the Beifu and the New Mansion after His Majesty unified the world.
The shadow of people's livelihood in the two places.
Many quick-thinking generals suddenly became excited. Perhaps in the near future, the Great Dragon Celestial Dynasty will add a vast protective palace.
And as the founders of the Protectorate here, it would be difficult for them not to leave their name in history.
Perhaps the history books will not describe each of them in too much detail, but just writing down the four words "opening up frontiers and expanding the territory" is enough to make them live their whole lives.
Let me ask you, among the hot-blooded men in the world, who doesn’t want to win fame both in life and in life?
They left their homes and traveled thousands of miles away. What they wanted was not to make achievements, expand territory for the imperial court, and create a foundation for the ages!
Now that I finally got what I wanted, how can I not feel generous and heroic in my heart?
For a time, many Dalong generals thought of their bright future and were filled with energy.
The Western Expedition of Dalong's Western Expedition Army's right-hand troops has already yielded initial results, but at this time, Generalissimo Zhang Kuang, the left-hand troops of the Western Expedition Army, is frowning.
The reason why Zhang Kuang is gloomy is not because the war in Dashi Kingdom is not ideal, but because Zhang Kuang has been planning to continue the Western Expedition after reading the secret letter that Young Master Liu gave him before setting off for the expedition, but he still couldn't find anything.
There is no valid reason to continue leading troops westward.
Dalong is a country of etiquette. It always pays attention to famous teachers and never rashly touches unknown teachers.
If Zhang Kuang wants to command hundreds of thousands of troops under his command to continue marching westward and expand territory for the imperial court, he must have a legitimate reason to obey nature and people.
However, the war in the Great Food Country has been over for some time. After several discussions, Zhang Kuang, Yeluha and Hu Yanyu still could not find a suitable excuse to send troops to Egypt and Rome, which are adjacent to the Great Food Country.
After Zhang Kuang met An Gouer by chance in Yemen, he easily captured the King of Dashi, Mohammed Med, who had fled to Yemen, and escorted him and a group of princes and princesses back to Baghdad, the city of King Dashi, without any hindrance.
Join Hu Yanyu and the others.
Now that so much time has passed since the war ended, Hu Yanyu and Yeluha have filled hundreds of barrels of the black water they secretly searched for, but there has been no progress in continuing to advance westward.
Therefore, the arrogance of sorrow can be described as not thinking about food but tea.
In the palace of Baghdad, Zhang Kuang was sipping tea and looking through the documents in his hand boredly.
These documents were passed down by the generals under their command and reported on the current situation of the cities in various places in the Great Food Country. The contents above described in detail all the changes in the Great Food Country since it was occupied by the dragon soldiers and horses in the past few months.
"Report to the Commander-in-Chief, Deputy Commander-in-Chief Yale is asking for an audience outside the palace."
"please!"
"yes!"
"Deputy Commander, the Commander-in-Chief invites you."
Several voices were heard outside the hall, and Deputy Commander Yeruha strode into the hall holding a stack of documents in his hand. Zhang Kuang put down the teacup and documents in his hands, stood up and greeted him.
Zhang Kuang frowned slightly and looked at the stack of documents in Yeluha's hand, and said feebly: "Brother Yale, isn't it another document about cities in various places in the Food Country?
These constant contents appear every month, and my brain is about to explode."
Yeluha chuckled and shook his head: "Commander, you must be disappointed. The documents in the hands of the general are really not documents about the people's livelihood in various parts of the country. Even if you want to read it, you can't read it."
Zhang Kuang's brows suddenly relaxed: "It's okay if it's not, it's okay if it's not, come on, sit down and talk."
After Zhang Kuang and the two sat down, Yeluha took the tea from Zhang Kuang and opened the paperwork in his hand.
"Feng Buer reported that there are now three hundred barrels of clean black water. He wrote a letter asking us if we would send a group of troops to escort a batch of black water back to Beijing.
Let your Majesty check whether the black water he mentioned is what we collected.
If these are exactly the black water His Majesty needs, that would be great. If not, we can search for the black water His Majesty needs again in time to save such a waste of time.
After receiving the letter, General Mo thought about it and felt that what Feng Buer said was very reasonable.
Without His Majesty's personal confirmation, all our efforts now will be in vain.
To be on the safe side, it would be more appropriate to mobilize a group of soldiers and horses to escort a group back to Beijing.
At the same time, we can also escort Mohammed Med and those culprits from the Dashi Kingdom who participated in the massacre of our people in Dalong, along with this batch of black water, back to Beijing and hand them over to His Majesty.
The general thought, Your Majesty should have been waiting for the results of our western expedition!
Although we have delivered several good news to the capital one after another, the real culprit has not been handed over to His Majesty. I think His Majesty will never be able to feel at ease.
I wonder what the commander-in-chief thinks?"
Zhang Kuang took off the dry tobacco bag from his waist and lit it with a fire stick. He squinted his eyes and puffed out the smoke silently. After the pot of tobacco was burned out, Zhang Kuang silently nodded in response.
"I don't think there is any big problem, but this matter needs to be sent to Brother Nangong Ye, Brother Wanyan, and others, asking them to dispatch a group of soldiers and horses to escort the executioners of Tianzhu who massacred our Dalong people on the way with us.
The soldiers and horses along the way gathered together and then returned to the capital together.
After all, the war between Tianzhu and Dashi has long since ended, but the prisoners were escorted back to the capital in two batches and handed over to His Majesty.
It’s better to ventilate the brother on the right first.”
"Yes, yes, the general has neglected this point. The commander-in-chief should have thought more carefully. It is indeed more appropriate to vent his anger to Nangong Shuai first, and try to escort all the executioners prisoners from Blackwater and the two countries at once.
Returning to Beijing will save you time and manpower again and again, and nothing will happen again.
Did the commander-in-chief do this himself or did the general do it for him?"
"Brother Yale, just do it for me. It's not a major military matter, so there's no need to be so cautious."
"Okay, I understand. I will deal with this matter when I get back.
In addition to the matter about Heishui and escorting the prisoners back to Beijing, there is also a letter from Zhang Mo's nephew."
As Yeruha spoke, he put down the document in his hand, picked up another document and handed it to Zhang Kuang.
"Zhang Mo's nephew came back with a message. He led his elite soldiers and horsemen to conduct a secret investigation in three groups, and finally found traces of the gold and silver mines.
There are three gold mines and seven silver mines.
As for how much gold and silver can be mined, it is not yet possible to draw conclusions.
What Zhang Mo's nephew means is that now that our army on the left has not found an excuse to continue marching westward, we should take advantage of this opportunity to immediately mobilize troops and horses to mine these gold and silver mines, and then smelt them into gold bricks and silver ingots and escort them back secretly.
Beijing.
The general felt that Zhang Mo's nephew's suggestion was very feasible. After all, my troops on the left have been unable to continue marching westward. Except for some of the troops guarding the cities in various places in the country of food, 60% of the soldiers were doing exercises besides being idle.
, it would be better to let them mine these gold and silver mines.
In addition to gold and silver mines, there is also this kind of ore. Zhang Mo's nephew doesn't know whether this kind of ore is precious or not, so he brought a pack of samples in the letter for us to take a look.
The general had taken a look at it before. This kind of ore was gorgeous and eye-catching, but he didn't dare to judge whether it was precious or not.
Commander, you should also take a look."
As Yeruha spoke, he took out a handkerchief from his wristband and handed it to Zhang Kuang.
Zhang Kuang paused as he was about to look through Zhang Mo's documents, then put down the documents and took out the tied handkerchief. More than a dozen dazzling diamonds lay on the handkerchief, emitting dazzling light.
Zhang Kuang frowned and picked up a diamond and looked at it for a while: "This should be a diamond, right?"
Yeluha was stunned and looked at Zhang Kuang in surprise: "Huh? Diamond, what is a diamond?"
"I can't tell you the specific situation, but I saw the Queen wearing a ring and jewelry very similar to this stone on her hand.
I heard that His Majesty got it from the Westerners back then, and the only one in the whole Dalong Dynasty was in the hands of the Empress.
Things are rare and valuable, so I think this should be regarded as a kind of gem!"
"Hiss...Does that mean it's extremely valuable?"
"It's hard to say! I don't know much about it, and I don't dare to make any judgments. However, since Your Majesty wears it as jewelry for the Queen, I think it must be of great value.
If it's not laborious, it wouldn't be a big deal to mine some and transport it back to the capital.