Chapter 468 A Fact
"Are you sure?" Huo Gang looked at Li Chengqian with some weirdness and asked.
"I dare not deceive the teacher." Li Chengqian spoke seriously.
"Very good. You will be half a year in two months. In two months, I will ask someone to prepare relevant residences for you. Come to me and start class." Huo Gang said simply.
"Yes! Thank you teacher." Li Chengqian bowed directly in joyful tone.
"You're welcome. After you go back, you mainly think about a few questions. You have to think about why the Baijia Qiming was not realized in the Tang Dynasty now, and why things that the Han Dynasty could easily be executed in the Tang Dynasty could not be implemented? After you think about these problems clearly, you can suddenly realize that there are many things. Let's take this book back." Huo Gang thought for a while, stood up, and then took out a book from the bookshelf behind him.
He handed the book to Li Chengqian, and Li Chengqian respectfully took the book over.
"Okay, you can go back now. Remember to complete the task I told you." Huo Gang said with a smile.
"Yes." Li Chengqian agreed, then bowed out again and left.
After leaving Huo Gang's leader's mansion, Li Chengqian lowered his head and saw the book in his hand. The title of the book surprised Li Chengqian because there were only a few words on it: Selected Works of Huo Gang.
Well, if there is another person from later generations, he should know where the content comes from, but the original name cannot be used here, so Huo Gang simply became a little thick-skinned.
Of course, this book has also been re-edited, and some of the contents in it have been improved by Huo Gang. It is impossible to take it out completely. Isn’t it a reinvention of your own life? So it is definitely impossible to follow the original argument, but even if it is not based on the original content, there are still too many theories that are ahead of this world.
For example, when it comes to class analysis, there is a lot of content that allows you to figure out which classes are standing in which they are. It depends on your positioning of the royal family.
Anyway, Huo Gang could not completely copy the future generations, nor could he follow the current emperor's position.
As for how much Li Chengqian can understand after reading it, it depends on Li Chengqian himself.
After returning to his place where he lived, Li Chengqian did not read the book as soon as possible, but began to write down what he had sorted out again.
At night, Li Chengqian finally finished writing the letter from the family. After finishing writing, Li Chengqian thought about it and did not choose to leave it to the person who followed him, but went directly to Zhao Er.
Zhao Er asked him to help him tell me the letter to Jiayuguan, and then the people from Jiayuguan gave it to the responsible generals in Jiuquan.
The total number of letters that Li Chengqian passed was two. One of the letters was handed over to Chai Zhewei, who is the current general of Jiuquan, and the other letter was naturally directly to Li Shimin.
Zhao Er naturally did not hesitate about this. He knew that the letter was very important, so he arranged for the golden eagles to say that they were sent to Jiayuguan, and then the people from Jiayuguan also delivered them directly to Chai Zhewei.
After receiving these two letters, Chai Zhewei opened the letter to him directly. After reading the contents, Chai Zhewei immediately arranged for someone to send the special letter to Chang'an in a hurry without saying a word.
Two days later, Li Shimin, who received the letter, was a little shocked because he didn't have to look inside. Just looking at the contents on the envelope, Li Shimin knew that it was written by Li Chengqian. However, it was sent back in a hurry for 800 miles, and Li Shimin opened it as soon as possible, although he didn't know what the content was.
The thick letter paper made Li Shimin read it very carefully, but when he saw part of the content, Li Shimin couldn't help but stand up directly from his position. His face was full of shock, and he couldn't help but read this paragraph again.
After reading this passage, Li Shimin still looked unbelievable. If it weren't for Li Chengqian's writing back, and told him that after he got on the train personally, Li Shimin would have no idea whatsoever.
But now, no matter how he could not imagine it, Li Shimin could only believe it.
Similarly, as Li Chengqian said, this thing must be found in the Tang Dynasty. In this letter, Li Chengqian also talked about some of Huo Gang's ideas, especially the worker's problem. Li Shimin considered all these issues, but these were not important, because all the techniques were mastered in the hands of the Han Dynasty. No matter what the other party's conditions were, the only way for them to own a train in the Tang Dynasty.
So after Li Shimin finished reading the entire letter, he immediately called Chang Lin and asked him to call all the important ministers over, including Wei Zheng, who had rushed back to Chang'an, and also called him directly over.
If you want to do this, you will definitely need to negotiate. However, how to negotiate in detail is to ask Wei Zheng and Huitong several other ministers to go to Jiuquan or something else. Li Shimin has no other idea at the moment, but this train must be there.
The ministers who were supposed to come arrived soon, and Li Shimin did not hide it and handed them the envelope in his hand directly. All the ministers immediately looked down. After they finished reading it, all the ministers had almost the same expression. They subconsciously raised their heads and looked at Li Shimin and asked, "Your Majesty, is this serious?"
"Be serious, such things cannot be fake, let alone the prince sent them back in person." Li Shimin spoke seriously.
All the ministers now had some numb claws. This thing...had far exceeded their imagination, or, in other words, it had far exceeded the strategic points of a country. What does such a thing mean to the Han Dynasty? So what does it mean to the Tang Dynasty?
The Tang Dynasty needed more than the Han Dynasty. Not to mention anything else, the Tang Dynasty's subsequent northern expeditions and southern expeditions all needed these things.
The reason is very simple. When Huo Gang agreed to sell grain for the Tang Dynasty and sold grain at a very low price without limiting the quantity, Li Shimin probably knew Huo Gang's idea. Although he did not understand the food security of a country, it was mainly because people in this era did not have this awareness.
The reason why we don’t have this awareness is that there is not enough food in this era. If someone sells you so much, why don’t you buy it quickly? How could you think about what food is controlled by others? You won’t think about it at all, because when it comes to a disaster year, don’t you still have no food to eat? The rulers have long been used to it, so they don’t have this awareness.
At least they wouldn't have thought of the consequences at the moment. When they realize it, it must be when a large amount of land in the Tang Dynasty had already cultivated economic crops. At that time, it was not possible to make a return in a year or two.
So Li Shimin knew very well that if this train route was completed, wouldn’t it mean that the Han Dynasty’s grain could be transported to the Tang Dynasty at an extremely fast speed or even at an extremely low price? Although he knew that the freight was impossible, considering the amount it was delivered at one time, the price would definitely be much more cost-effective than transported by a horse-drawn carriage.
Not only that, the Tang Dynasty that could drive the Tang Dynasty to all economic development along the Hexi Corridor was not only closely connected with the Han Dynasty, but also Chang'an and Wuwei. The economy along the way would naturally develop rapidly and business would also develop rapidly. In just half a year, Li Shimin had already gained the benefits of business, so he no longer looked down on the little agricultural tax.
Li Shimin had already thought that if this railway was built to the south of the Yangtze River, and another nomadic people from Chang'an to ancient Youzhou, which is where the 40 million acres of black soil are located, the nomadic people in the north? Li Shimin can be said that since the Tang Dynasty, all the threats to nomadic people have not existed!
These ministers soon began to discuss, but their discussion... were actually not discussed, because the Tang Dynasty had to have this thing, but it was nothing more than a matter of what to pay.
"Your Majesty, I am willing to go to Jiuquan and the Han Dynasty to negotiate this railway." Du Ruhui saluted directly.
"I am willing to go with Du Gong." Changsun Wuji next to him said without hesitation. He may not care about the past, but this matter cannot be done. Changsun Wuji must participate.
"I am willing to go." Fang Xuanling and Wei Zheng both saluted at the same time.
Looking at their actions, Li Shimin actually wanted to say that I still want to go in person. This time the matter is too important, so Li Shimin felt that it seemed better for him to talk to Huo Gang in person.
"Pharmacist." This time, it was not only these civil officials, but also the military officials Li Shimin called him. Li Jing and the others were there, so Li Shimin simply called Li Jing.
"I'm here."
"If the Han Dynasty relied on this railway to raid the Tang Dynasty, would you have a preventive plan?" Li Shimin asked directly. Although this could not happen in the relationship between the Tang Dynasty and the Han Dynasty, because if we really wanted to do that, it would be enough not to save Li Shimin at that time, no matter how good the relationship between the two countries was, we still had to be prepared for it.
"I think this railway is recorded in His Highness's letter. It is based on rails. If the railway is destroyed, I think it can prevent this thing from running. However, if we simply consider the Han attack on the Tang Dynasty, I think this railway is not important. With the benefit of the opponent's cavalry, we can directly bypass Jiuquan, Wuwei and other places and directly penetrate Jincheng (now Lanzhou). After the opponent controlled the vicinity of Lanzhou, it was almost impossible for us to counterattack."
Chapter completed!