AD 764, the twenty-eighth day of the first lunar month.
India, on the banks of the Narmada River, the camp of the Western Qin Army.
The Western Qin military camps stretching for more than ten miles are covered on the north bank of the Narmada River.
Thousands of flags in the camp are fluttering in the breeze.
Countless Western Qin cavalry are practicing riding and shooting tactics and sprinting and slashing tactics in the camp.
The smoke and dust shot straight into the sky.
Li Siye stood by the river wearing a black cloak and holding a waist knife, looking at the other side of the river and said: "The people of Xinjing should still be wearing thick cotton clothes now.
Maybe there is heavy snow falling in the sky.
Sometimes it is sunny and windy here, and sometimes it is sunny.
There was a storm.
It was the first time in my life that I had seen such a big-leafed tree.
It was also my first time to eat such a melon that could drink juice.
It is true that the world is so vast and full of wonders."
Zhao Lei said with a smile: "There are countless rare and exotic fruits in the world, and there are many in various places in southern Tianzhu.
From now on, the general will be able to feast his eyes on it."
Li Siye also smiled and said: "As long as the countries across the river are destroyed, you can eat the fruits here whenever you want.
How is your collection of Tianzhu going these days?"
Zhao Lei said: "After nearly a month of exploration and inquiry, I found that we still don't know enough about Tianzhu.
It turns out that Tianzhu is divided into Central Tianzhu, South Tianzhu, North Tianzhu, West Tianzhu and East Tianzhu.
West Tianzhu is It is the current Jisu Protectorate and the Thar Desert area.
North Tianzhu is the thirty-six city-states, East Tianzhu is close to the Piao Kingdom, and South Tianzhu is further south.
Our location is Central Tianzhu, which is the most vast.
Qu Zhe The Kingdom of Lopratihara, the Kingdom of Chandaira, the Kingdom of Paramara, the Kingdom of Zhaohan, the Kingdom of Solanki, the Kingdom of Kalajuli; and further south there are the Kingdom of Kalinga and Rashidharakota Kingdom, Hoysala Kingdom, Yadva Kingdom , East Ganga Kingdom, Sadieputra Kingdom, Sandara Kingdom, Kakatiya Kingdom, Kadamba Kingdom, Vagadaka Kingdom, Jela Kingdom, Western Ganga Kingdom, Rashtraku Tower Kingdom, Chola Kingdom, Pandya Kingdom, Pallava Kingdom” "The Kingdom of Plotihara, Kalajuli, and Chandela in Central Tianzhu are already under our government, and there are still three kingdoms left: the Kingdom of Paramaru, the Kingdom of Zhaohan, and the Kingdom of Solanki.
These three kingdoms are The three kingdoms are all in the middle The relatively powerful kingdoms in Tianzhu are by no means comparable to the small city-states of the thirty-six city-states of northern Tianzhu, not to mention the sixteenth kingdom of southern Tianzhu, whose strength should not be underestimated.
Their total military strength is at least 500,000.
Above, if we want to capture the entire Central Tianzhu and Southern Tianzhu in half a year, the general will think it is an impossible task.
Even if we have more troops, it will take at least a year, and we need to increase our troops.
Three Ten thousand people want to conquer half a million, which is a good idea, but we are afraid that we will not be able to control the growing number of servants.
The general suggested that we immediately send an eight hundred mile rush to Xinjing to tell the truth here.
Face-to-face report" After listening to Zhao Lei's words, Li Siye walked east along the river with his waist knife in hand.
As he walked, he thought about what Zhao Lei said just now.
Seeing that Li Siye didn't say anything, Zhao Lei said again: "General, if you don't want to talk about anything else, let's talk about the Kingdom of Paramaru, just across the river.
They have 30,000 infantry, 5,000 cavalry, and 500 elephant soldiers.
Their infantry and The cavalry is nothing to worry about, but those elephant soldiers are a bit difficult to deal with.
General, you have also seen the elephant soldiers of the Lachiput people in the thirty-six city-states of Northern Tianzhu.
They will follow Chu Ge last time.
When the general attacked the thirty-six city-states of Northern Tianzhu, after these elephant soldiers appeared, our war horses had never seen such huge beasts, so they were all frightened and ran around.
The team was instantly in chaos.
The soldiers tried their best to We couldn't control the frightened horses.
Fortunately, the enemy's cavalry was not many at that time.
Although our army retreated in chaos, the enemy was unable to pursue us, so we escaped."
Li Siye asked: "How many elephant soldiers do we have in our servant army now?"
Zhao Lei said: "One thousand five hundred" Li Siye said: "Since we also have elephant soldiers, let's use them to deal with their side soldiers.
Our shields may not be able to block the enemy's spear attack, but their spears are not necessarily sharper than our spears.
You The information collected about Tianzhu indeed exceeds that of Wang Ting and According to my general's imagination, it seems that we have to take a long-term approach.
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Let's write a memorial and send someone back to Xinjing immediately.
We can't rest here, just in case the king doesn't agree to increase the troops and strictly orders us to be there.
To capture the entire Tianzhu within half a year, we can only bite the bullet."
Zhao Lei cupped his fists and said: "Promise" Returning to the Chinese army's tent, Li Siye immediately sent someone to notify the commanders of the two legions and their generals to come to the Chinese army's tent to discuss matters.
After receiving the notification, Xuan Si, the commander of the Ninth Legion, and Bulhan, the commander of the Slave Legion, as well as other generals, rushed over.
"Everyone is here.
General Zhao Lei will first introduce to you how big the difficulties we need to face."
Li Siye said and nodded to Zhao Lei.
"Yes" Zhao Lei agreed, and immediately gave a detailed explanation to Xuan Si, Bo Lehan and other generals about the population, output, economic conditions, military strength, customs and customs of dozens of kingdoms in Central and South Tianzhu. .
"The above is the situation in Central Tianzhu and Southern Tianzhu.
Therefore, the difficulties we have to face are definitely more than ten times higher than when we attacked Northern Tianzhu.
We are thankful for two things: First, our enemies on the ground have not yet formed a unified alliance to resist our attack Second, our enemies cannot compare with us in terms of equipment, organization, or fighting will.
If they have equipment like ours, strict organization, and fighting will, then this battle will be impossible.
We don't need to fight, just The successors should go back.
Just because they are far inferior to us in all aspects, we still have hope.
The general just now suggested to the general that he should immediately send 800 miles to Xinjing to report the situation in detail to Xinjing and ask Wang Ting to send more troops.
Horses, at least two more legions must be added With the strength of our two legions of more than 30,000 people, I am afraid that we will not be able to conquer Central Tianzhu and Southern Tianzhu within half a year.
If the number of servant troops exceeds 100,000, our more than 30,000 people will not be able to maintain enough strength.
The big deterrent makes them willing to surrender and obey orders.”
Xuansi said: "Our enemies have a total strength of more than 500,000, which is really beyond my expectation.
It would be okay if they did not form an alliance, but once they form an alliance, we are afraid that we will not be able to make progress in a short period of time."
Li Siye said: "I have thought about what General Zhao said.
Military affairs must not be motivated by emotion.
This is not a child's play.
I, Mr.
Li, will not accept this porcelain job without this diamond.
Therefore, I decided to write a memorial to send eight hundred miles.
We must rush back to Xinjing and ask for reinforcements from the Royal Court.
At the same time, we cannot rest here.
We will fight first and wait for instructions from the Royal Court.
What do you think?"
Xuan Si, Bo Lehan and other generals all agreed.
Xinjing, Jiuhua Temple.
The weather was nice today.
Zhao Ziliang was tired from dealing with memorials, so he came to the Jiuhua Temple next to the palace to relax.
The two of them walked under the mangrove trees in the temple.
Zhao Ziliang said, "If we were in the south of the Yangtze River in the Central Plains, the peach blossoms at this time would be the most beautiful."
It’s about to bloom.
There is a mountain covered with peach trees in our hometown.
I remember when I was very young, the peach blossoms would be in full bloom during this season. " Yang Yuhuan said: "It would be better if I ordered people to plant some peach trees here.
In two years, there will be peach blossoms all over the mountains and plains."
"Okay, but the peaches grown here probably won't taste like those in Jiangnan."
The two sat down at a stone table under a big tree.
On the stone table was a Go chess set and a charcoal stove.
The water on the charcoal stove had already boiled.
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A Taoist nun stood aside to make tea for them.
People drank tea and played chess.
Zhao Ziliang stayed in Jiuhua Temple for a whole afternoon, and did not come out from the small door on the west wall of Jiuhua Temple until it was dark.
There was an eunuch standing outside the small door who was walking back and forth anxiously.
He saw the small door opened and Zhao Ziliang walked out.
He immediately stepped forward to report: "Your Majesty, you are back.
Mr.
Gao Shang, the Secretary and Deputy Superintendent, is already here."
Qinzheng Palace has been waiting for you all afternoon.
It seems that there is urgent military information coming from Tianzhu."
Zhao Ziliang thought for a while and told the eunuch: "Send someone to Qinzheng Palace and take Gao Shang to Qianquan Palace to have dinner together."
"Yes, Your Majesty" Dinner in Qianquan Palace has been prepared for a long time.
The long dining table is filled with dinner plates.
In order to prevent the food from cooling down, each dinner plate is covered with a silver lid.
In order to maintain hygiene, the royal family members Everyone has their own plate, and the food is placed on their plate by the royal chef.
All the tableware is silver, the chopsticks are ivory chopsticks, and the water glasses and wine glasses are glass.
Glass appeared very early.
The glass sold from Italy in the West were colored beads.
The kings and nobles of the Central Plains thought they were gems, so greedy Western businessmen sold the glass beads as gems.
To the princes and nobles of the Central Plains.
Western Qin is now producing glass on a large scale.
The process of this thing is not complicated.
Zhao Ziliang only needs to make a slight formulation, and people from the Palace Household Office will conduct experiments.
After many experiments, colorless and transparent glass is finally produced, which makes Western Italians There was no market for colored glass beads immediately, and glass from the Western Qin Dynasty was sold as far as Western Europe and the Central Plains.
However, the cups used for every meal at the palace banquet are made of glass, but at a grand banquet, using glass products seems a bit shabby.
At the grand banquet, the palace uses glass cups.
The production of this thing Technology was brought over from the Central Plains by some common people.
During the Anshi Rebellion in the past, the Yan army invaded Chang'an and robbed all the property of Liuli King Wang Yuanbao.
Wang Yuanbao's real name was Wang Ergou.
In his early years, he was engaged in raw silk business and lost his fortune.
Just when he committed suicide on a hanging beam, there was someone in the dark. white The old man with a beard appeared and reminded him: "When you are rich and powerful, how can you commit suicide and not hear about the colored glaze coming out of Zizhou?"
After saying that, he threw down a gold ingot and left.
Wang Ergou then used the gold ingot as capital to start a colored glaze business, which soon became a business in Chang'an.
The richest man, and changed his name to Yuanbao.
Wang Yuanbao, whose family was once again bankrupt, moved to Western Qin with his family, and re-established a Liulichang factory to sell colored glaze.
Today, his family's colored glaze has become a royal treasure of the Western Qin Palace
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