Then I saw that the emperor was already eating with chopsticks.
Zhang Yang drank tea and looked at the bell tower that had not yet been repaired.
Li Shimin suddenly asked: "Your child will also be a civil servant in the future?"
"Children need hands-on skills, teach them first." Zhang Yang said in a very calm tone, "It is beneficial to build up enough hands-on skills in childhood."
"Your children look like country children."
"Your Majesty, I am a country person, so I naturally have to do this with my children. It's ridiculous."
"Country children are easy to feed. The prince's child can study well, but he can't lay bricks and do anything with his hands. This is not as good as your child. When it comes to teaching children, the prince should learn more from you.
study."
The monarch and his ministers ate their meals. As the host Lishan did not drink, the emperor also stopped drinking at the dinner table.
After the food was removed, Li Shimin took out the map and spread it out on the table. This was a small half of the world map.
Zhang Yang remembered that there was a complete world map in the Ministry of Rites. Of course, some people did not believe that it was a world map.
The emperor divided the map into parts, and he took one now, the western part.
"The Gauls came again this year and talked about a man named Heraclius."
Zhang Yang placed his chopsticks in a cross shape and asked, "Are they holding this in their hands?"
Li Shimin frowned and said, "I heard that these people have silver objects hanging on their bodies, not holding them in their hands."
"That's their belief."
Listening to Zhang Yang's words, I felt a little strange.
Li Shimin smiled and said: "Your teacher told you?"
Zhang Yang did not admit it, frowned and said: "In the West, their hometown is called Rome. This dynasty has a lot to do with the war with Byzantium, and their rise is also related to the powerful Persia at the time, but the current situation is different now.
"
"They miss Rome and compare themselves to Romans to maintain their ethnic identity."
"Are they powerful?"
Zhang Yang shook his head, drew a circle on the map, and explained: "Their territory is only this big now."
Li Shimin frowned again, "Too small."
"Yes, their territory is too small for the Tang Dynasty."
"This Gauls gave me a lot of gold."
Zhang Yang drank tea, observed the emperor with his eyes, and said slowly: "Has your majesty accepted it?"
Li Shimin said with a smile: "The congratulations haven't started yet, and now it's time for peace."
"That seems to be a confiscation." Zhang Yang said again: "There is gold in the west, and there is a lot of gold. If your Majesty is willing to join forces with them, the Tang Dynasty will not be able to attack them anymore, and it will not be able to get more gold.
I can receive these contributions from them."
"Do you want me not to be on good terms with them?"
Zhang Yang scratched the stubble on his chin, feeling a little distressed.
After a long time, Li Shimin clicked his tongue and said: "It's not important. It's just a sentence or two to attack the west. Besides, the situation of Dashi's war has not yet been decided."
Zhang Yang said with a smile: "I thought His Majesty was going to use cannons to level the West."
Li Shimin also laughed.
The king and his ministers all laughed, and even the princes and princes on the side also laughed.
Seeing Xiao Qingqing frowning, "It's all fake, it's all hypocrisy."
Xin Xin'an whispered: "Sister, how did you see it?"
Xiao Qingqing glanced at him and replied: "You are a fool, so naturally you can't feel it."
"I..." Xing'an hesitated and said angrily: "I can write now, and I can write thirty words."
"The words you learn are the simplest."
"I will learn more."
The two siblings started to argue again.
At the foot of the mountain, a dozen guards stood in the cold wind, whispering about the scene on the mountain just now.
Those scenes of bears surrounding each other still send chills down my spine when I think about it now.
As for Lishan Mountain, whoever dares to approach it easily will dare to go up the mountain.
Especially the largest of the three, which stands taller than an adult man.
Someone among the guards whispered: "I used to know a hunter. I heard that if you encounter a bear in the mountains, you will either kill the bear or you will be eaten by the bear."
"Only one can live?"
“If you can’t kill a bear with one arrow, you will be mauled to death by a bear.”
The guard gestured with his sword, "Even if you risk your life, you may not win."
The conversation on the mountain continued, and Li Shimin asked again: "There are many powerful people in Dashi, are there also in the West?"
Zhang Yang nodded and said, "Yes, there is a man named Aristotle."
"Is it great?"
"He was a wise man, but he was born in the West. He was expelled by a group of believers because he could not prove the tide. Since then, Greece has lost a wise man. Some people in this world are rational. Rational people are good at thinking, and people who are good at thinking can guess.
A lot of things."
"It was also because he made too many guesses and did not have enough theoretical and practical basis to complete his argument. At first, he was valued by Alexander, but after Alexander's death, those ignorant people persecuted this wise man."
Zhang Yang sighed: "The story of a person with ill-fated fate and ignorance culling wisdom has been repeated in the West. Every time such a character appears, he will not end well."
Li Shimin listened carefully. Zhang Yang might not have said so much back then, but now his situation and status are different. He can tell everything he knows without worrying about being questioned.
"So the West now is just a group of people eating hotcakes, and they are still thinking about food and clothing, or a group of people thinking about how to establish their own authority. They are stupid, arrogant, ignorant, and they are also a group of rich people."
Zhang Yang grinned, "Your Majesty, they are fat sheep, a bunch of stupid fat sheep."
The emperor still kept his eyes on the map and said: "Now that I know what to do, I will ask people to collect Western classics."
"Your Majesty is wise to allow Western classics to be collected in the Tang Dynasty, and their history to become a part of the Tang Dynasty."
The prince stood aside quietly. He didn't understand why the county prince said this to his majesty.
The county prince has been encouraging His Majesty's ambitions, hoping that His Majesty can expand the territory.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Li Shimin said: "I want three thousand artillery pieces. I want new artillery pieces from Lishan. I will give you 20,000 pieces."
"Your Majesty, Lishan doesn't want money."
"Hehehe, you don't even care about my money now."
"Lishan wants resources. Your Majesty will exchange them for copper and iron of equal value." Zhang Yang took another sip of tea and said, "I want the best copper and iron."
"Okay, I have everything, and I want the best."
"Lishan is a sharp weapon for Sheji. Everything forged by Lishan is for Sheji."
After the emperor left, the family on Lishan Mountain continued to the bell tower.
Tian Khan returned to Chang'an City and asked the Ministry of Rites to continue questioning the Gauls.
Zhang Daan received His Majesty's order to talk to the Gauls. These Gauls can speak Dashi dialect and some Guanzhong dialect.
The Guanzhong dialect is very poor, so let them speak the Dashi language, but the Persians in Chang'an City can translate it in general.
Zhang Daan asked his second brother Zhang Dayu to translate, and the conversation was very difficult.
Afterwards, Zhang Daan learned that His Majesty had gone to Lishan Mountain and had these records.
As Zhang Daan raised questions one by one, the Gauls answered them one by one through Zhang Dasu and several Persian businessmen.
Outside the post house, Pei Xingjian was also sitting here, and Wang Xuance was also here.
"Brother Wang, are you also concerned about the war in the West?"
"A certain family dreams about how the cannibals will die." Wang Xuance looked a little more bored, "I went to Persia and almost lost half my life."
Pei Xingjian smiled helplessly and stood at the door, listening carefully.
After listening to Zhang Daan's question, the Gauls said loudly: "Tian Khan is really a man who knows everything."
Zhang Dashu gave him a look.
Zhang Daan nodded in confirmation. It seemed that the discussion recorded in this booklet was consistent with the history of the Gauls and was the history of the West.
There is also the experience of Heraclius. Zhang Daan talked about his doubts and the Gauls were also explaining.
Pei Xingjian frowned and listened carefully.
Wang Xuance whispered: "Something's wrong."
Pei Xingjian suddenly said: "Have you noticed it too?"
"Hmm." Wang Xuance rubbed the beard on his chin, "You and I have been in Persia for many years. Musab does hate the Tang Dynasty and the West, but we have never heard of such a wise man in the West."
"Don't talk about this wise man, even Heraclius heard about it for the first time."
Pei Xingjian made some calculations in his mind and frowned: "Brother Wang, it's not that we haven't heard of it, it's just that the time doesn't match up. It is said that the rebellion of these Gauls should have happened when the cannibals attacked Persia. This time
wrong."
"At that time, we were still confronting the cannibals in Persia. How did the county prince know the situation in the west?"
"We sent people to send the news to Guanzhong, and all the news sent to Guanzhong were written by us."
Wang Xuance suddenly slapped his thigh. Seeing that he was overreacting, for fear of disturbing the conversation in the room, he leaned closer and whispered: "Brother Pei, a certain family has an idea."
Pei Xingjian said: "Say."
"The one who knows everything is not the Khan of Heaven, the one who knows everything is the Marquis of Lishan County."
"Does the county prince know everything?" Pei Xingjian asked, "Does your majesty also think so?"
"The county magistrate can sit down and talk with Yuan Taoist priest in his dream. Is it so strange that he knows something about the West?"
Pei Xingjian smiled in relief, "Brother Wang said that there is only one person in the world who knows everything."
He is an immortal, and it is not unusual for an immortal to know everything.
Wang Xuance had no intention of continuing to eavesdrop, so he patted Pei Xingjian on the shoulder and left.
Pei Xingjian sat cross-legged and listened for a while, but couldn't hear any valuable news and left.
After a long time, Zhang Daan and Zhang Dashu also led people out of the post house.
In the post house, the Gauls kept paying homage in the direction of the Imperial Palace of the Tang Dynasty.
After this conversation, Zhang Daan felt a little annoyed. What was annoying was that His Majesty did not let the Ministry of Rites interrogate the Gauls, but went to inquire about Lishan.
There was another heavy snowfall in the middle of winter, and many people spread the news in Chang'an City, saying that Lishan had created that big thing that was spitting out black smoke again.
Lishan wanted everyone in Chang'an City to come and watch and see Lishan's creations.
It was originally the middle of winter, and many people were idle at home during this time.
It is human nature to watch the excitement. Ever since Zhang Yang took refuge in Lishan, people were curious about Lishan and even more curious about the Marquis of Lishan County.
At this time, Lishan invited people from Chang'an City to come and watch, regardless of men, women, old or young, dignitaries or heads of Guizhou.
As long as you go to the official road, you can see the monsters created by Lishan.
Snowflakes were flying between the sky and the earth, and the land in Guanzhong was so silent that only the sound of the wind could be heard.
A whistle sounded at the entrance to the village of Lishan.
The steam locomotive is lying on the repaired railway, which stretches for four miles.
There is nothing we can do if the road is not long, we can only build it bit by bit. Even if it is a normal road, casting the rails is really time-consuming and laborious. If it weren't for the county prince's investment regardless of the cost, everyone would have given up.
Li Tai always felt that the Lishan casting technique was not perfect enough. If the casting technique were perfect, the rails should be made faster.
At the end of the railway, there were many, many people standing on the official road. They wanted to see the monster created by Lishan Mountain.
In the camp outside Lishan Village, the Longwu Army surrounded the village. This situation made the soldiers feel troubled. They were worried that someone would take the opportunity to break in.
Pei Xingjian also led people to block the official road, and was worried that these people would rush towards the railway tracks or rush towards Lishan Mountain.
There was another loud whistle, and Li Tai stood beside the steam locomotive, watching the people in the car still pouring coal into the stove.
Calculating the time in his mind, Li Tai glanced at the sky, picked up the small flag in his hand and waved it.
Another whistle sounded, and the steam engine finally started moving.
Onlookers from a distance exclaimed, and the crowd became more and more crowded.
Li Xiaogong muttered: "Why does Zhang Yang want so many people to come and see it?"
The prince replied: "Back to the prince of Hejian County, the county prince is declaring the power of knowledge to the world. It should be said that it is the knowledge of Lishan. Isn't this what the county prince has always wanted?"
Li Xiaogong leaned to one side, bumped into Li Yuan who was beside him, and quickly supported the Supreme Emperor.
Then he changed places with the Supreme Emperor, not wanting to get too close to this eunuch.
The speed of the car is getting faster and faster, it travels smoothly on the rails, and the speed is much faster than expected.
Li Tai got on his horse and said to the guard on the side: "Watch it, don't let the children chase you."
"Here!"
The guards opened their arms to stop a group of children who were about to rush out.
The four-mile road is neither long nor short, and it is the first time that the sight of a steam locomotive is displayed in front of so many people.
In the eyes of the world, the big guy blowing out black smoke is getting faster and faster, like a ferocious beast, blowing out black smoke while running.
This thing requires no manpower or animals to pull it, and it seems like it can run endlessly.
It wasn't until the track reached the end that the steam locomotive slowly stopped.
Li Tai pulled the reins of the horse and looked at where the car was parked. The location was not good. Half of the car was parked outside the railway track. It would be very troublesome to clean it up.
Yan Liben walked over quickly with his people. Several craftsmen were recording the results of this experiment. The driving was smooth, but the results were not perfect.
The perfect result is that it should stop at the end of the rail, rather than slipping another distance.
Yan Liben had to consider re-modifying its brake structure, "Even though it's only such a short distance, it's all a cost."