Chapter 581
The carriage arrived at the embassy soon, and the embassy of the Han Dynasty was the only one. In fact, the Tang Dynasty had envoys from other small countries, but due to the transformation of the Tang Dynasty's strategy, the envoys from these small countries were actually not so concerned about it.
The Han Dynasty is naturally different. The entire Han Dynasty’s embassy was once one of the top residences in the Tang Dynasty. Currently, 200 Han soldiers have been stationed here for a long time as the guards here. Of course, at Yumen Pass, there are also Tang Dynasty soldiers stationed in the Tang Dynasty’s embassy.
Because it was getting late today, after saying goodbye to Huo Gang, Li Shimin and others returned to the palace, and Huo Gang naturally stayed at the embassy. The rooms here have been sorted out for Huo Gang.
After Huo Gang finished packing up his place, Liu Yebo came to visit him.
"leader."
"Well, how about it? The work here shouldn't be too big a problem." Huo Gang asked with a smile.
"No, the work here is relatively simple. We mainly communicate with His Majesty Li Shimin, and the task is relatively easy." Liu Yebo nodded and said, because the Han and Tang dynasties are in their honeymoon period, so the work of the ambassador is relatively easy.
"Well, do you need any ideas on the current collection situation?" Huo Gang asked.
"At present, it is mainly the three directions of the Tang Dynasty. It is estimated that we have the idea. At present, the Tang Dynasty has established two fleets, the First Fleet and the Second Fleet. The Second Fleet is currently mainly transport ships, including only three warships, and the First Fleet has 11 warships, 12 transport ships, and about 7 small ships of various types. The displacement of warships is about 1,500 tons, and the transport ships is 1,700 tons." Liu Yebo immediately reported.
"So it turns out that the strategy of Donghai is about to begin?" Huo Gang nodded.
"Yes, they are currently training mainly on the ocean. At present, they should start acting this fall." Liu Yebo said after thinking about it.
"Oh? Are there any signs?" Huo Gang asked.
Even Huo Gang didn't know much about the Tang Dynasty's actions. As for how Liu Yebo guessed, Huo Gang wanted to hear his thoughts when he arrived.
"Your Highness Li Tai is about to get married after the Lantern Festival. You should know this. Your Highness Li Tai can't wait to ask for this time. It should be that Your Highness Li Tai has already had an idea, and he should not wait for another year. In the past year, the Tang Dynasty seized the time to build two main official roads on the Jiangnan Road of the Tang Dynasty. One is to Luoyang, and the dock in Luoyang has been expanded."
"The other one is built to Lingnan Road. In this way, it is estimated that the delivery speed of material transportation on the north and south banks of the Yangtze River will be accelerated. According to the Tang Dynasty's next road construction plan, go directly to Youzhou Road, and the plan is to directly extend to the direction of Shiwei. In addition, it is to strengthen the river dredging project of the Yellow River."
"It can be seen from these aspects that the next major strategic plan of the Tang Dynasty should be Youzhou and Goguryeo."
"If Li Tai had taken over Japan in advance, Goguryeo would be the one in his pocket." Liu Yebo said his analysis.
"Well, this is OK. Do you think we want to open the railway construction technology to the Tang Dynasty?" Huo Gang thought about it and asked.
"This depends on whether our Han Dynasty has countermeasures against the Tang Dynasty," Liu Yebo said.
"What if there is?" Huo Gang asked looking at him.
"If there is, I think it can be opened, because if we open up railway technology, our great man will inevitably get a part of the profit from the middle, but the railway can quickly expand the strength of the Tang Dynasty. Although the strength of the Tang Dynasty has been improved, in fact, after the improvement of the Tang Dynasty, the real benefit of our great man is our great man. According to the current state, the main export market of our great man is the Tang Dynasty. The people of the Tang Dynasty have money, which is a good thing for us." Liu Yebo said.
Huo Gang nodded. Indeed, although the market of the Tang Dynasty is currently being made by the Tang Dynasty's commercial banks, in fact, all the products come from the Han Dynasty, and some of the commercial banks of the Han Dynasty have actually begun to enter the Tang Dynasty.
If the railways began to spread to various roads of the Tang Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty's dominance over its territory had also been strengthened, then similarly, the people of the Tang Dynasty became rich and the goods of the Han Dynasty would have a greater source.
At least in the next few decades, Huo Gang knew that the Tang Dynasty would not have a chance to surpass it. If their education system was not reformed, it would probably be difficult for decades, not to mention it for decades. So Huo Gang didn't mind making the Tang Dynasty stronger.
This soft power actually has little impact on the great man.
"Well, indeed, you can consider opening these technologies to them. If railway technology is opened, cement technology can also be opened." Huo Gang thought for a while and spoke.
"This needs to be considered by the leader." Liu Yebo nodded. These technologies are the issues that Huo Gang needs to consider.
"Well, it's good. In this way, your next work will focus on the affairs between the Tang Dynasty and Japan. If you have any questions, you will contact us via radio as soon as possible." Huo Gang said seriously.
"Yes." Liu Yebo took a deep breath. The radio was actually installed secretly in the embassy. Because the electromagnetic waves in this era are very clean, with the atmospheric ionosphere, it is not difficult for radios to spread thousands of kilometers, but the transmission efficiency may sometimes cause poor signal.
However, at present, there is actually no big problem. Without the interference of surrounding electromagnetic waves, the transmission efficiency is slower, but it is always much faster than the train line.
"Then that's it. You go back and have a rest first. I may not talk about official matters these days. You don't have to worry about it, just have a holiday with peace of mind." Huo Gang said with a smile.
"Yes." Liu Yebo said with a smile.
After Liu Yebo left, Huo Gang also went to his room. Li Lizhi was still cleaning the room. In fact, Wanshuang and the others followed him, and Li Lizhi didn't need to clean up the room. However, Li Lizhi was used to cleaning up her bedroom, and even in Yumen Pass, it was cleaned up by Li Lizhi himself.
So after coming back, Li Lizhi continued her work.
The next morning, after breakfast at the embassy, the carriages and the guards from the palace were already waiting outside.
"Chief, your highness, please." Chang Lin was responsible for welcoming the two. "Has Minister Sun been here?" Huo Gang asked directly.
"Yes, Minister Sun is already waiting outside, please rest assured, the leader."
"Well, let's go, there are no other arrangements today. Just have a simple meal. Today's main task is to treat His Highness the Queen." Huo Gang said.
"If you want to go back to the leader, after communicating with the leader yesterday, Your Majesty did not arrange any other things, but when the leader's affairs are over today, the three princes should come to visit His Highness." Chang Lin said.
"Well, okay, then that's it." Huo Gang nodded, and then got on the carriage with Li Lizhi who had changed his clothes.
Entering the palace in a carriage, for Huo Gang, this was also his first time to come to the Tai Chi Palace, which had almost completely disappeared in later generations. A small part of the rebuilt Daming Palace was only the rebuilt Da Chi Palace, and the Tai Chi Palace had completely turned into ruins.
After Huo Gang, who had been to the Forbidden City, actually did not think that it was very big after entering the Tai Chi Palace. To be honest, the status of the Forbidden City in ancient palaces was beyond doubt. The Tai Chi Palace was much smaller than the Forbidden City.
Moreover, the palaces of Tai Chi Palace are not as tall and luxurious as those of the Forbidden City. Many palaces are not high in height, but in fact they are taller than some ordinary mansions, that's all.
Such buildings are naturally not considered as Hongda, that is, the area between palaces may be relatively larger.
After entering the palace, Huo Gang and the others went directly to the palace where Empress Changsun was. Li Shimin and the others were also waiting here. When Huo Gang came out of the carriage, Li Shimin had already brought a few concubines and Li Chengqian and the others to wait here.
After meeting each other, Huo Gang naturally greeted these people one by one, and the gifts Huo Gang brought were also sent to them. The gifts Huo Gang brought were actually some relatively novel gadgets, such as the crystal balls that were once given to Li Lizhi. The man could easily make them, and he prepared a lot of them for Yizi.
In addition, I brought several exquisitely made sets of mahjong, chess, checkers and other different chess, mainly for the concubines in the palace. They don’t have much to do, so they can entertain them.
Huo Gang brought a lot of poker cards, such as playing cards. In fact, there are many of these things in the big man, but Huo Gang made them himself, so this time he could take them all at once.
There are many types of cards brought by Huo Gang. Huo Gang felt that these entertainment things alone were enough to play in the harem.
"Good guy, why do I think you brought this thing with me? Isn't this making them lose their ambitions?" Li Shimin couldn't help but complain as he looked at these things he was playing with.
"How could it be? If they didn't even have this little self-control, they probably won't have achieved anything. Being a rich man is good." Huo Gang said with a smile. He had no cover up. Anyway, the people here are all their own families, because Li Shimin did not let any minister come here.
Today, they are all their own family. "Are you just a sir?" Huo Gang looked at a thin little girl standing next to Li Shimin, and simply squatted down with a smile and asked. The little girl is very cute, but her hair is a little yellow. At first glance, she is not in good health, and her skin is too fair and thin, so she obviously has a long-term malnutrition.
The other one who is older than her should be Princess Jinyang's sister Princess Chengyang.
"Yes, brother-in-law, hello." Yizi looked up at Li Shimin, then bowed to Huo Gang, and said frankly. Although she was still a little shy, she was educated by the royal family, so etiquette and other things would not be left behind.
"Look, my brother-in-law just brought gifts to them. What gift do you want?" Huo Gang asked with a smile.
"The elders don't dare to refuse. Jinyang is very happy if my brother-in-law gives Jinyang any gifts." Wei Zi said seriously.
Looking at the stern little face, Huo Gang couldn't help but stretch out his hand and pinched her little face, then smiled and said, "You and Chengyang's gifts were chosen by your sister for you personally. Chang Lin."
"Yes." Chang Lin next to him immediately bowed and then quickly walked towards the boxes carried by the guards behind him. He took out two big cloth bags from a box behind him. Looking at the big cloth bags that Chang Lin and another eunuch were carrying over, Chengyang and Jinyang showed some expectations on their faces. They had received some gifts before, but they didn't expect that there were.
The others were smiling, because for them, no matter what Huo Gang gave, they must have used it for children, so they were not in a hurry.
After taking the thing, Huo Gang took one from Chang Lin's hand, then opened the cloth bag wrapped around him directly, and then took out a big doll bear from it.
"Wow!" When the ragdoll bear was taken out of the cloth bag, the two little girls Jinyang and Chengyang couldn't help but let out subconscious amazement. The two little faces were full of joy. Children of this era also had rag dolls to play with.
But the raven bears that do this as exquisite as those in later generations are simply impossible in this era, so they instantly attracted the attention of the two little girls.
"This is called a teddy bear, I'll give it to you." Huo Gang said with a smile, and then simply handed the ragdoll bear in his arms to Yizi. Yizi was only five years old and was not tall. This ragdoll bear was even bigger than her, but she still happily wrapped it over. The ragdoll bear was not heavy. When she hugged her, she dragged her legs to the ground.
"Okay, the squid is too big. Can you give it to your maid to take with you?" Li Shimin said with a smile.
"I want to hold it myself."
"But if you hold it, you can't talk to your brother-in-law and sister, so how about you playing when you go back?" Li Shimin smiled and stretched out his hand and rubbed her head.
"Okay!" Jinyang thought for a while, and finally nodded.
Both the little girls of Jinyang and Chengyang handed the doll bear to their maid, but Huo Gang noticed that Li Zhi, who was not much older than the two little girls, had some expectations in his eyes. Huo Gang chuckled, probably Li Shimin would not let him play with the doll.
The gifts were almost done, so Huo Gang and Li Lizhi naturally had to go inside to meet Empress Changsun. Because she was not feeling well, she naturally couldn't come out to greet her.
Chapter completed!