Indeed, marriage is an effective means to bring two countries closer together. Especially the ethnic minorities in the north seem to be more susceptible to this method. In the final analysis, this is just using a marriage as a cover-up, while behind the scenes
It's just a tacit exchange of interests between the two parties. When one party's interests are seriously harmed, or they no longer care about such a balance, the marriage will naturally be broken.
In the early Han Dynasty, the Huns were married for generations, but the Huns did not give up harassing the Han Dynasty border, because obviously the Han Dynasty needed to buy peace from the Huns, but the Huns could not get the food and slaves they wanted, so
They did a lot of things behind the scenes. Until Liu Che's time, the powerful Han Dynasty no longer needed to maintain peace with the Huns, so they didn't mind breaking the original marriage status and directly putting the Huns to death.
Therefore, the so-called political marriage is just a layer of skin on the surface. It can only be used as a cover for the transactions behind the scenes, and it is just the icing on the cake. After all, people who have reached this position, whether it is Yu Wenxian, Yang Jian, or Luoyang
Both Yuchi and Jiong's minds have become harder and colder.
In the eyes of a hero, in order to achieve his set goal, it actually doesn't matter what kind of means he adopts. Even his beloved wife, concubine or daughter who is the apple of his eye can be given away as long as it suits his own interests.
Even Li Xinchen cannot disrupt his entire strategic layout and arrangements because of his children's affair. Just like Yuchi Jiong is considered a relative of the Han Dynasty, Li Xinchen will never be merciful when attacking the Yuchi family.
Once there is a problem with the exchange of interests between Li Xingchen and Yang Jian, Li Xingchen will not show mercy just because he has Yang Jian's daughter as his wife, and the same is true for Yang Jian. In history, Yang Jian once directly killed Yu Wenchan, who was only seven or eight years old.
Yu Wenchan is Yang Lihua's adopted son and Yang Jian's grandson. Even if Yang Jian thinks he is ashamed of Yang Lihua, this does not prevent him from murdering Yu Wenchan.
"As for the icing on the cake, we can talk about it if we can. If it's not appropriate, there's no need to talk about it." Li Xingchen said calmly, "But since it's urgent at 800 miles, I'd better go and ask the Prime Minister and the others for their opinions."
"I obey!" Yang Su responded.
And Li Xingchen looked around strangely: "By the way, why hasn't the Taiwei returned yet?"
This Taiwei Mansion is Xiao Mohe's Taiwei Mansion, but Li Xinchen has been here for so long and has not seen Xiao Mohe come back from inspecting the military camp. As the new year is approaching, all matters need to be handled by Xiao Mohe, the Taiwei.
Even if the morale and morale of the soldiers around Jiankang Mansion are very important, logically speaking, it shouldn't take such a long time?
Yang Su hurriedly wanted to send someone to rush him, but he saw Xiao Mohe striding in:
"Your Majesty arrived at the Taiwei Mansion and it was my fault that I failed to accompany you!"
Li Xingchen smiled and gave him some support, but it was obvious that the young emperor had a dissatisfied look on his face. If Xiao Mohe could not give Li Xingchen a reasonable explanation, he would definitely be punished.
"Your Majesty, the newly developed weapons from the Ministry of Industry have been sent to the school grounds for demonstration. I was quite shocked after seeing it. Please move to the Ministry of Industry. Wu Ping, Minister of the Ministry of Industry, invited your Majesty to go and watch." Xiao Mohe said nervously.
Then he said in a deep voice.
Li Xingchen was slightly stunned, but he immediately knew what the Ministry of Industry should have developed.
Gunpowder, which is said to have been inadvertently invented by the people of the Tang Dynasty when they were refining alchemy, is like the fire of karma in hell. It has burned human society for nearly a thousand years since then. No one can deny that gunpowder has played an important role in the history of mankind.
It has an irreplaceable promotion effect. At the same time, it was gunpowder that gave birth to guns and allowed human society to move from feudalism and isolation to modernity step by step.
Li Xingchen had previously asked the Ministry of Industry to start researching gunpowder and corresponding firearms. Firearms are actually very easy. Even the muskets of the Song Dynasty were simply simple firearms made with bamboo tubes as gun bodies, as well as the pine cannons of later generations.
Earthen firearms have different approaches but the same purpose, but the real difficulty lies in the configuration of gunpowder.
Explosion and death are things that people don't want to come into contact with, but once these things are inflicted on the opponent, it means victory.
However, what Li Xingchen knew was only the rough components of several types of gunpowder in later generations. The main components of gunpowder are saltpeter, sulfur and charcoal. These three things are actually relatively common raw materials, but how to proportion them affects the quality of gunpowder.
As for the power, if the ratio is wrong, then it is more likely that you will see a huge firework with no explosion effect at all.
It is precisely because no one has explored the ratio of gunpowder that gunpowder was not officially used for military purposes for a long time in ancient times. After all, no one would want to hold such a powerful weapon in their hands.
weapons, not to mention that the ancients inadvertently created gunpowder during the process of alchemy. They had only seen small-scale explosions of gunpowder, and they still lacked understanding of the true power of gunpowder. This is why it was not until the Southern Song Dynasty that gunpowder began to be used.
Entered China's military arena, and even in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the West was overtaken by the West in terms of firearms.
Therefore, how to create gunpowder in the right proportion is a big challenge in itself. Fortunately, because of Li Xingchen's full support, the development of the Ministry of Industry has been relatively smooth, not to mention that the power of the Thunderbolt Car and the Fonzi Crossbow have been overtaken by the Ministry of Industry.
The craftsmen have developed as much as possible, and there is almost no room for improvement.
Therefore, the Ministry of Industry also has enough manpower to explore and move forward with what Li Xinchen saw in a lost alchemy book. Of course, Wu Ping and other people in charge of this matter still maintain the military use proposed by Li Xinchen.
Although they were suspicious, they felt that Li Xingchen was probably trying his best to refine the elixir.
After all, every generation of emperors has a dream, which is to live forever. Even the greatest emperors, such as Qin Shihuang, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and later Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, could not help but indulge in the search for immortality and medicine.
Therefore, it is reasonable for Li Xingchen to have such a mentality, so the Ministry of Industry did not take this matter seriously at first. However, as the research deepened, the craftsmen were surprised to find that these things not only produced thick smoke when ignited, but also
There might even be an explosion. Only then did I realize that what Li Xingchen said seemed to make sense.
If it is possible to control the proportion of input raw materials and thus the scope of the explosion, it will really be a new killer weapon that is not inferior to the power of the trebuchet.
Looking at it now, the Ministry of Industry has obviously succeeded.
It’s no wonder that Xiao Mohe’s face is filled with joy that cannot be concealed. (To be continued)