Seven hundred and thirty ninth chapter steam engine
The title of emperor has been the unique title of emperor in the central dynasties in China since Qin Shihuang. If any neighboring country dares to call itself an enemy, it will of course be a fight to the death.
Well, unless the central dynasty is extremely weak and cannot defeat the opponent, otherwise it will send troops to fight like this.
This is the same as the current Ming Dynasty and Tang Dynasty!
After the Ming Dynasty learned that Li Xuan was proclaimed emperor, they focused on encirclement and suppression and never had any thoughts of recruiting. Unfortunately, they could not encircle and suppress Li Xuan. Instead, they lost troops and generals and lost several huge southern provinces.
Even the current Tang Dynasty will not easily negotiate peace with the Ming Dynasty!
As long as the fight can continue, then the fight will definitely continue until one side is completely destroyed.
Because there are no two days in the sky!
There can only be one emperor in the land of China!
At the same time, since ancient times, China has had a very interesting concept, that is, the land of the world must not be the land of the king!
What this means is that the whole world is the emperor’s land, and this whole world includes all known and even unknown territories!
It would be an exaggeration to say that the whole world and even the entire universe is the territory of the emperor!
Therefore, some people in later generations said that "since ancient times" actually has a theoretical basis. According to this set of theories, the entire earth has been Chinese territory since ancient times!
Now, a Folangji man who appeared from nowhere dared to call himself the emperor, and there was no room for Liu Bagou to be angry about this!
This is not only a matter of face, but also an issue of Tang orthodoxy and Chinese tradition.
The Folangji people must be killed!
Therefore, when Liu Bagou said this, many people nodded slightly, thinking that what Liu Bagou said made sense!
To be honest, even Li Xuan agreed with Liu Bagou's words, but it was a bit unreliable to go on an expedition to Folangji for this reason!
Folangji is thousands of miles away from the land of China. It is quite embarrassing to send a large army to a country thousands of miles away.
Besides, the Strait of Malacca and even the shipping routes from Europe to the Far East are now under the control of the Francois. Even Spain, the contemporary empire on which the sun never sets, cannot avoid the Francois in the Far East.
To get involved, it is extremely difficult to colonize the Philippines. I tried several times but was defeated by Franji.
With the current strength of the Tang Dynasty's navy, let alone an expedition to Europe, even whether it can pass through the Strait of Malacca is a problem!
However, Li Xuan would definitely not say such words, but Rear Admiral Bao Yifen on the side explained that it was not realistic to fight against the Fo Langji people.
Of course, Rear Admiral Bao Yifen, who is well aware of political sensitivity, would never say that the Folangji people cannot be defeated and that the navy cannot defeat them now. He can only say that the Folangji people must be defeated.
These daring and lawless barbarians must be killed, but there is too much preparation work required for an expedition thousands of miles away, and long-term planning is needed!
A long-term plan can be regarded as deceiving this matter!
And Liu Bagou is actually not stupid. He said this because of his righteousness. Now that the navy has said that it will be considered in the long term, he just pushed the plan and said that if there are any difficulties in the military's preparations,
, the cabinet will provide as much help as possible.
Strictly speaking, at this Xiaochao meeting, the emperors and ministers of the Tang Dynasty had already decided to go to war with the Folangji people and to conduct an expedition against the Folangji people. However, when the war will officially start, we need to consider the long term!
After getting this matter out of the way, even if we started to discuss it, the envoy of the Folangji people still had to be dealt with, and the matter of trade and reconciliation also needed to be implemented.
The emperors and ministers of the Tang Dynasty who shouted a few lofty slogans soon became realists.
Fighting will be discussed later.
Now, it would be better to repair it through trade with Folangji and then make money through sea trade!
In the past two years, the Tang Dynasty liberalized maritime trade to the outside world and developed industry and commerce internally. Maritime trade developed rapidly!
Moreover, although there was a battle with the Folangji people in Haojing, the Folangji people also tried to blockade the Guangdong coast, but this is all a matter of Lao Huangli. The blockade was useless, but other businessmen saw a lot of money.
At that time, the people of Folangji couldn't help it anymore. They had stopped engaging in blockades and so on. They also sent several batches of merchant ships to trade. Of course, in order to avoid suspicion, they used the names of small countries in Southeast Asia.
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The Tang Dynasty also pretended not to see it, directly killed the blond foreigner and killed the Nanyang natives on the spot, and resumed business.
In the past six months, the Folangji people have sent many batches of merchant fleets to Guangzhou or Lianzhou for trade, which has made both the Folangji people and Datang a lot of money.
But although money can be made, it is not a problem to always borrow the names of other countries, so this time we sent envoys to negotiate and repair.
Regarding this matter, Li Xuan also set the tone. It is okay to make peace through trade, but the other party must remove the word "emperor" from his self-proclaimed name, otherwise he will get away as far as he wants!
After putting aside these Franco-German affairs!
This time the morning meeting is still going on!
However, it was nothing major, just daily government affairs, which were quickly dealt with and then the meeting adjourned.
After the meeting was over, Li Xuan was not idle, but summoned more than a dozen officials from the Ministry of Works alone. Naturally, it was because Li Xuan was dissatisfied with the development of the Ministry of Works.
In particular, I am not satisfied with the slow progress of technology research and development, and plan to hold a special meeting.
"The Navy recently reported that the mass production plan for the fourteen-pound artillery promised by the Ministry of Industry has been delayed again?"
At the beginning of the meeting, Li Xuan said directly: "The fourteen-pound artillery is even the main naval gun of the navy, and it is also the heavy artillery that the army is preparing to use. Why hasn't it been developed for so long?"
Faced with Li Xuan's questioning, the people from the Ministry of Industry expressed their helplessness!
If the fourteen-pound cannon is only produced by hand in a small scale, then the Ministry of Industry of the Tang Dynasty has actually been able to do it. Not only the fourteen-pound cannon, but also the eighteen-pound cannon, it is now starting to try.
Made.
But this purely manual small-scale production and large-scale mass production are two different concepts!
Purely manual, small-scale production, it takes a few engineers with the most exquisite skills, and a group of craftsmen with equally strong skills, to build a large-caliber artillery for a month or more.
As for mass production, a group of ordinary workers can use machinery to continuously produce large-caliber artillery with uniform specifications!
These are two completely different concepts!
But having no choice but to do so, the officials of the Ministry of Industry could only endure Li Xuan's criticism, and at the same time made self-criticisms. They expressed their deep sorrow that the Ministry of Industry had hindered the Tang Dynasty from competing for hegemony in the universe, and promised to do more in the future.
Work hard, put more effort into research and development, and contribute your meager strength to the Tang Dynasty to conquer the entire universe, and to His Majesty's dream of marching into the Qinhuai River.
Li Xuan is still very satisfied with the attitude of the officials from the Ministry of Industry!
Although he also knew that these Ministry of Industry officials acted like they wanted to change their past mistakes in front of him, in fact, this was unlikely to speed up the mass production plan of the 14-pound artillery.
In fact, the large-caliber artillery mass production plan cannot be solved by the arsenal under the Ministry of Industry alone. The real research and development work has actually been transferred to the Zhaoqing General Camp of the Youjun Camp.
In fact, it is not just the research and development of large-caliber artillery. In fact, many technological research and development of the Tang Dynasty are currently in charge of the students in the Young Army Camp. Although the students in these Young Army Camps are not old, most of them are in their teens.
There are a few young people, and in terms of academic qualifications, they are only incomplete elementary school students at most, and there are only a few middle school students.
But even so, their scientific literacy is the only one in the world besides Li Xuan.
In today's Tang Dynasty, although the Imperial College is the highest-level institution in name, it actually focuses on liberal arts. Even the School of Science is biased towards astronomy, geography and some common sense theories.
The juvenile academies opened in various places are actually weakened versions of the Imperial College, incorporating both arts and sciences.
Some core technologies, especially the physics, chemistry, ordnance and other courses at the middle school level and subsequent high school level written by Li Xuan, can only be accessed at the Zhaoqing General Camp of Youjun Camp.
In order to further cultivate high-tech talents, the current Youjun Camp Zhaoqing General Camp has begun to carry out reforms!
On the one hand, it recruits students from the juvenile college, but on the other hand, it also divides the classes into liberal arts classes, science classes, and military classes.
Among them, the science class is the core, and the people in it are almost all young geniuses. Although the number is not large, there are only about ten people at present, but these ten people are actually responsible for various advanced technologies of the Tang Dynasty.
Core R&D.
Almost every student takes on the research and development work of a certain project while studying according to their interests and hobbies, such as the fuse improvement of large-caliber artillery and howitzers, mechanical design, and even the research and development of glass and mirrors.
Responsible person in the military camp.
Of course, they are only responsible for theoretical design and testing. How to turn laboratory products into industrial products is a matter for the factories below, and they don't have so much time to do it.
After the meeting of the Ministry of Industry, Li Xuan held a series of working meetings in succession, including those from the Ministry of Taxation, the Ministry of Commerce, and the Ministry of Agriculture.
I was busy until the evening!
In the evening, when Li Xuan was about to finish his day's work and return to the harem to watch the court dance, the secretary from the secretarial department outside came in and reported to Li Xuan that there was news from the young military camp, and that His Majesty was the most important.
Concern, the steam engine that the Youjun camp invested a lot of manpower and material resources in research and development finally made a breakthrough.
They built a prototype and tested it successfully!