The summer is hot, especially in Xinjing, which is located on the edge of the desert.
Compared with other towns in Western Qin, Xinjing is like a stove.
In recent years, more than 100,000 acres of woods have been planted in the west and north of Xinjing through afforestation.
It effectively blocked the invasion of desert heat waves and sandstorms, which allowed Xinjing to The world's largest city with a population of nearly two million has a little bit of coolness in this hot summer.
Even so, the heat generated by the large population every day and the heat absorbed and stored by the tall cement bricks and masonry buildings that are increasing every day.
The temperature of Xinjing is much higher than that of other cities.
As the weather gets hotter in summer, wealthy businessmen, officials, and dignitaries must store some ice cubes in their homes to escape the heat.
Otherwise, life will be really bad.
There is no shortage of wealthy people in the new capital, and these people are never stingy.
Spend some money to make yourself more comfortable, and this makes the ice-making workshops near Qianquan Mountain extremely prosperous.
These ice-making workshops do not have the technology to produce ice cubes.
Similar to an advertising slogan in later generations, they started from They do not produce ice, they are just transporters for nature.
The temperature on the Qianquan Mountains is much lower than that below the mountain.
The heat is steaming below the mountain, while the top of the mountain is covered with heavy snow in the cold winter.
Businessmen saw business opportunities and raised money to build many wide roads from the foot of the mountain to the top of the mountain.
They built a large number of factories on the top of the mountain and transported clean spring water from the mountainside to the top of the mountain.
As long as it passes midnight, the spring water will freeze into ice. , and then the merchants used horse-drawn carriages to transport the ice cubes down the mountain as quickly as possible overnight to the homes of wealthy businessmen, officials and powerful people.
These ice cubes can be used to freeze food or placed at home to escape the heat, or you can wait for the ice cubes to turn into spring water and drink it directly to quench your thirst and relieve the heat with sweetness.
The palace has a special summer resort, the Ice Palace, which is built on the top of the mountain of Wangtian Cliff on the east side of the palace, with an altitude of more than 3,000 meters.
There is a special way to get here.
In winter, the temperature in the Ice Palace drops to more than ten degrees Celsius, and the entire palace is surrounded by thick snow.
The main materials used to build the Ice Palace are crystal clear rectangular transparent ice cubes, but there is no trace of ice here.
The cold wind can blow because there are three higher peaks on the east, west, north and west sides that block the cold wind blowing from these three directions.
In summer, the cold south wind blows from the south, and the Ice Palace is still covered in ice and snow, but the temperature is as cool as in spring and autumn.
The hot summer is coming, and the royal family members all come to the Ice Palace to escape the summer heat.
The originally deserted Ice Palace becomes lively.
In this hot summer, the walls of the Ice Palace made of crystal clear ice show no signs of melting, but the temperature inside and outside is as cool as in spring and autumn.
The younger generation of princes and princesses were playing in front of the palace.
The queen and princess sat aside and watched, talking for a while.
The maids and eunuchs were busy coming and going.
Zhao Ziliang came over from the palace and was about to go to the children when he came to report a condition: Hong Xu, the minister of Honglu Temple, asked to see him.
After hearing this, Zhao Ziliang turned around and walked towards the pavilion on the edge of the cliff.
At the same time, he told the eunuch: "Xuan" "Follow the decree" Soon Hong Xu, the minister of Honglu Temple, came in and saluted Zhao Ziliang and said: "I pay my respects to the king."
"Pingsheng" Zhao Ziliang raised his hand and asked, "What's the matter with Hong Qing coming to see me today?"
Hong Xu stood up and cupped his hands and said: "Your Majesty, Nasser, the envoy of the Dashi Kingdom in Xinjing, wants to see your Majesty."
Zhao Ziliang said displeased: "Is there something that you, the minister of Honglu Temple, can't handle?
You have to let me talk to an envoy?"
Hong Xu hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, this Nasser is the new envoy sent to Xinjing by the Kingdom of Dashi.
He came to Xinjing for the first time and said that he wanted to submit his credentials to the king.
Of course, a small minister cannot overstep his authority in this matter.
The king can personally receive him."
"I see.
In this case, the court meeting will be here in a few days.
You send someone to tell him and let him be prepared.
Next time he rushes to the palace gate on the day of the meeting, someone will take him into the palace to see the king."
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"Yes, Your Majesty" After Hong Xu left, Zhao Ziliang sat in the pavilion without moving, thinking constantly in his mind.
Nasser was the new envoy.
This person probably already knew that the Western Qin Army had captured Gucheng and Mashad. , even if the person does not know it before arriving, he will be willing to do so after arriving in Xinjing You must have known about it, because this incident spread quickly in Xinjing, and the people of Western Qin felt particularly uplifted, and the previous depression and grievances were swept away.
The big cannibals in Xinjing will definitely pay special attention to this.
The new envoy from the Great Food Kingdom must have known the news.
This envoy named Nasser may talk about this matter when he meets in court.
Zhao Ziliang thought of several ways to deal with it, but he also thought that the life of the Western Qin envoy in Baghdad would not be easy at this time.
The Western Qin army entered the territory of the Kingdom of Dashi.
It is hard to imagine whether Mansour would be angry.
He knew that, but Zhao Ziliang was not afraid or worried.
Even if Mansour got mad and ordered the army to go to war, he could calmly order war mobilization and mobilize troops from all over the country to fight on the border.
On May 30th, Zhao Ziliang quickly reviewed the memorials.
Tomorrow was the day of the court meeting.
Today he must finish processing all the memorials sent over the past few days to prepare for tomorrow's court meeting.
Throughout the morning, Zhao Ziliang had just finished processing all the memorials and before he could take a breath, the eunuch on duty outside the door walked in and reported: "Your Majesty, General Wang Can said that he has something important to report to your Majesty."
Zhao Ziliang stood up, stretched his body, and said to the eunuch: "Xuan" "promise" Zhao Ziliang walked out of the hall, walked down the steps and breathed in the fresh air on the top of the mountain.
After walking a few steps, he saw Wang Can quickly walking over and clasping his fists, saying: "I pay my respects to the king."
Zhao Ziliang raised his hand: "Come on, you won't come to me if you have nothing to do.
Tell me, is there something going on in the Dashi Kingdom?"
Wang Can replied: "Yes, after summarizing the information currently obtained by Dongchang, we have drawn some conclusions: First, the armies in Eelam, Kerman, Hamadan, Norestan and other places in the Great Food Country are gathering, and there are about 50,000 soldiers and horses in Syria, Jordan, Jerusalem and other places moving towards Baghdad; secondly, food supplies are being hoarded in various places in the big food countries.
The supplies on the market are beginning to be tight, and prices are slowly rising.
If news of war breaks out, prices will soar.
Third, our merchants in Dashi Country have encountered varying degrees of difficulty when they returned.
Based on the above circumstances, we at Dongchang believe that Dashi.
The country is already making preparations for a large-scale war with us.
In view of the above conclusion, Wei Chen suggested that we in Western Qin cannot sit still and wait for death, and we must start preparing for a large-scale war from now on."
Zhao Ziliang said: "Preparations for war.
Since my return, I have issued relevant orders to the Military Academy to prepare for war.
The Government Affairs Council has given me an accurate answer.
If there is to be a war, one year from now is the best time to start.
Because by then our plans for the past ten years have been completed, and everything has embarked on the path of rapid development.
The impact of war on our country at that time will be minimized, but I also know that it does not mean that we can not fight if we don’t want to fight.
Yes, others want to impose war on us, I They can't hide even if they want to.
I think that if we wait less than a year, we will have a large-scale war with the cannibals.
I hope that we will not rush to the war by then.
For your Dongchang, I will mention a few words now.
Point requirements: First, from now on, focus on As for the big food country, we can't relax about the affairs of other neighboring countries.
Secondly, we must cooperate closely with our other intelligence agencies.
While detecting the intelligence of enemy countries, we must also pay close attention to our own internal affairs.
Sometimes the consequences of internal problems are greater than External factors are more serious”
Wang Can agreed: "Yes, I understand."
Zhao Ziliang immediately ordered the eunuch next to him: "Go and send a message to all the heads of the yamen in the royal court to come and discuss the matter."
"Yes, Your Majesty" Soon, all the heads of the yamen of Xiqing Royal Court came to the Ice Palace one after another.
After the monarch and his ministers met, Zhao Ziliang asked Wang Can to report the news to these big bosses.
After listening to Wang Can's report, all the ministers became nervous.
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After all, the Dashi Country is not a small country or a barbarian.
This is today's A first-class powerful country in the world, the population it rules is not much less than that of Western Qin.
Dugu Wensu said to Zhao Ziliang: "Your Majesty, now is not the best time to start a war.
Our development results of more than ten years have begun to bear fruit.
Starting a war now will have a great impact."
Zhao Ziliang sighed: "It's not that I want to fight now, but that others are going to fight.
Instead of passively responding to the fight, it is better to take the initiative.
In this way, at least the initiative of the war is temporarily in our hands.
The cannibals may not be ready.
They have been in civil strife for many years, and have been fighting with the Eastern Roman Empire for so many years.
I don’t believe that with their current national strength, they can still fight a full-scale war with us."
Dugu Wensu said: "The Big Food Country is a powerful country, but they may not be much more civilized than the barbarians.
Wei Chen believes that the Caliph Mansur of the Big Food Country is also a gambler.
If it is in our Western Qin or in the Tang Dynasty , if the departure fee is not distributed before sending troops, the morale will not be improved.
However, in a country like Dashi Country where theocracy is higher than the political power, there is no departure fee at all.
As long as they send missionaries or monks to shout a few words, the cannibals will immediately become extremely warlike and fearless of death.
Compared with us, the cannibals' wars are more like doing business without capital.
Everything they do All income is obtained from surrender, and there is no military salary or departure fee at all.
In other words, in terms of fighting, their cost is far lower than that of our country, the Tang Dynasty and the Eastern Roman Empire."
Zhao Ziliang nodded and said: "Prime Minister Dugu is right.
The cost of war for the people of Dashi is far lower than that of our country.
But don't forget that we have now transformed our comprehensive national strength into war potential to the greatest extent.
This was not possible in the past.
Unprecedentedly, farming peoples have always been driven away by nomads.
That is because farming peoples have never maximized their comprehensive national strength into war potential.
Therefore, whether in the East or the West, , no matter how strong the national power of the farming people is, they cannot form an overwhelming absolute advantage over the nomads, but now we in Western Qin are different.
Not only do we have enough fertile land to grow crops, but we also have a large number of pastures and grasslands for grazing cattle, sheep, and horses.
Not only are there sufficient grain and meat, but also sufficient war horses, which makes the nomadic people's advantage over our Western Qin completely gone.
The big food countries want to do business with us without capital, but they are dreaming
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