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- The clear blue sky is clear, and there are herds of cattle and sheep on the vast green land.
¡°Woo¡Woo¡¡±
A long whistle broke the silence on the grassland outside the Great Wall. The herds of cattle and sheep that had been engrossed in grazing raised their heads alertly and looked at the end of the grassland.
Where the world wants to connect, a long steel monster that keeps spitting out thick white mist and makes a deep "clang" sound is approaching quickly.
????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Under this steel monster, which puffed out a great mass of white mist, a track entirely made of steel stretched straight out, and on both sides of this steel track, there were three identical steel tracks.
The four steel-paved tracks traverse the vast plains and extend to the end of the world. They seem to be infinitely long.
The huge herd of horses was frightened by the sound of the whistle, and they fled in panic under the leadership of the leading horse. Although they have seen this steel monster too many times on this grassland, their fear of the unknown still makes them run away every time.
Countless fat and strong horses galloped across the vast grassland like a strong wind. The overwhelming roar of horseshoes instantly overwhelmed the "clang" sound of the collision of steel.
There are tall and thick dense fences standing in rows on both sides of the four tracks, isolating the tracks from the grassland and preventing the horses, cattle and sheep that are free on the grassland from crossing the tracks.
This is a train that runs from Jiuyuan Fortress of Daqin via Pingyi City to Lekang City, Anbei County of Daqin. It has a total of twenty carriages except the front.
Since the first steam engine head that only ran less than fifty meters was developed at the Handan Iron Yard in the fifty-fifth year of the Qin Dynasty. It took the craftsmen of the Mohists and the Ministry of Industry another full sixteen years to develop a steam engine head that could be used for a long time and could still be used after thousands of miles of testing.
¡° If the previous development time is included, Daqin spent a full twenty-five years developing the steam engine head. Almost two generations ago.
But fortunately, it was finally developed.
In the sixty-eighth year of the Qin Dynasty, Hu Hai had already ordered the construction of railway tracks connecting various parts of the Qin Dynasty in advance. Prior to this, craftsmen from the Ministry of Industry had spent ten years planning Daqin's railway network.
Starting from the first Xianjiu Road paved based on Jiuyuan Straight Road. Nearly thirty years have passed, and the construction of Daqin's railway network has never stopped. In thirty years, six main railway networks connecting the southeast, northwest, and three horizontal lines have been built, as well as branch lines connecting various counties. In general, The traffic mileage has exceeded 100,000 miles.
Hu Hai knew very well what the emergence of railways in this era meant to Da Qin. As long as the railway network is continuous, Daqin will be able to mobilize enough troops from the country to deal with any emergencies at any time without being beyond its reach due to the long distance.
Anbei County is a new county established by the Emperor Hu Hai in the 78th year of the Qin Dynasty. Lekang City was a newly built county town after the establishment of Anbei County. It was named after its proximity to Lekang Lake (later Balkhash Lake).
Hu Hai is currently sitting in the two carriages specially added at the end of the train, which seem to be no different from the eighteen carriages in front.
In the carriage, Long Hong nervously patrolled everywhere.
Trains, such a large and fast transportation object, can be said to have completely changed everything Daqin faced. distance and space. It is no longer the problem that Da Qin needs to worry about most.
However, precisely because trains are a new thing, since the first direct train track from Xianyang to Jiuyuan in the history of the Qin Dynasty was completed and opened to traffic in the 71st year of the Qin Dynasty, overturning and derailment accidents have occurred basically two or three times every year. . Although that accident only occurred in the first few years, and there has been no rollover or derailment in the past few years, Long Hong is still worried.
This year is the ninety-fifth year of the Qin calendar.
The eighty-fifth year of the Qin Dynasty. The Great Qin Holy Emperor and Holy Emperor Hu Hai, who has been in power for thirty-five years and is only just half a century old, issued an edict to pass on the throne to Ying Jingxi, who must far surpass the other princes in virtue, character, etc., and completely faded out of the Great Qin. The vision of civil and military officials and the common people.
Ying Jingxi is the son of Empress Li Ji of Qin Dynasty.
No one raised any objection to the arrangement of the Holy Emperor. In fact, as early as when the eldest prince Ying Lekang died in battle by Lekang Lake in Anbei County, all the courtiers of Great Qin knew that the Holy Emperor Hu Hai of Great Qin, who looked much older because of the eldest prince's death in battle, had already intended to abdicate.
There are a total of twelve sons and six daughters under the Holy Emperor. The Holy Emperor has no one before or after him in governing the world. Every one of the twelve princes is also a dragon or a phoenix among men. Among them, those with the most outstanding virtues, character, and abilities are the eldest prince Ying Lekang andThe prince Ying Jing shivered.
The seventy-fifth year of the Qin Dynasty. In order to resist the Qin's invasion of Central Asian countries, the Seleucid Empire inherited the Persian Empire and occupied the vast land in Central Asia extending to the Persian Gulf. It also occupied the entire territory of Iran, Iraq, Armenia, Turkey, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, The Parthian Empire in Tajikistan and Afghanistan had the most intense collision with the Qin Dynasty as it continued to expand westward.
The collision and war between the three empires. It starts from Lake Balkhash and extends to the Indus River to the Arabian Sea.
In addition, if we add the Mauryan Dynasty, which has entered its twilight stage and dominated most of the Indian Peninsula, which had started an uninterrupted war with the Qin Dynasty five years ago, the northwest, due west and southwest of the Qin Dynasty The vast territory is in flames of war.
The Royal White Tiger Army of the Great Qin Dynasty, the Royal Plains Army, and the Royal South Vietnamese Army totaled an army of 300,000, as well as the various Central Asian countries that had been imported into the Great Qin culture continuously for more than ten years and gradually assimilated and were officially merged into the Anxi County of the Great Qin Dynasty in the 72nd year of the Great Qin calendar. The small country's servant army of 300,000 people formed the western theater. Battle with the Seleucid Empire.
The Qin Royal Xuanwu Army, the Royal Suzaku Army, the Royal Qinglong Army, the Royal Longxi Army, and the Royal Jiuyuan Army totaled 500,000 troops and formed the northwest theater to fight against the Parthian Empire.
The First Fleet, Second Fleet of the South China Sea Fleet of the Royal Navy of the Qin Dynasty, and the Royal Guilin Army counted 300,000 troops. Formed the Qin Dynasty and occupied the southwest, and fought against the Maurya Dynasty.
In the seventy-sixth year of the Qin Dynasty, the White Tiger General Han Xin, the commander of the Third Army of the Western Theater Command, used the Royal White Tiger Army, the Royal South Vietnamese Army and 300,000 servants to hold back the Seleucid Empire's million-strong army composed of the entire country. He personally led 80,000 Pingyi army cavalry and traveled thousands of miles. Bypassing the defense line of the Seleucid Empire, they swept across the Seleucid Empire's million-strong army camp from the rear. At the same time, the White Tiger Army, the South Vietnamese Army's 200,000 troops, and the 300,000 servant troops, who seized the opportunity, attacked across the board and defeated them in one fell swoop. The million-strong army of the Seleucid Empire achieved a shocking victory.
In October of the same year, the Qin Dynasty's 500,000-strong army defeated the Parthian and Mauryan dynasty's 600,000-strong army that came to aid the Seleucid Empire, and captured Antioch, the capital of the Seleucid Empire.
The Seleucid Empire fell.
Taking advantage of this great victory, the five most elite legions of Great Qin were assembled in the northwest theater, totaling half a million troops, and the troops were divided into five groups. A full-line attack was launched against the long defense line of more than 500 miles consisting of various fortresses and castles that the Parthian Empire had operated for a year.
In the heavy snow, it took only three days for the five legions of the Qin Dynasty to break through all the Parthian Empire's fortress defenses, and more than 800,000 Parthian troops fled across the board.
Led by the Royal Suzaku Army of the former General Qinglong and now General Suzaku Xu Chuang, the Qin Dynasty's 200,000 cavalry pursued and killed the fleeing Parthian army for three days and three nights, stretching nearly a thousand miles to the west of Lake Balkhash. Corpses of Parthian soldiers littered the fields.
In this single battle, the Parthian Empire lost thousands of miles of territory in the eastern part of the empire, and lost more than 80% of its troops.
It was also during this battle that the eldest prince Ying Lekang, who secretly entered the Great Qin Royal Qinglong Army and was promoted to captain through meritorious deeds, was injured by a stray arrow during the charge. By the time the imperial doctor arrived, it was too late, and he eventually died of his injuries. He was killed in battle at Lake Balkhash in February of the seventy-eighth year of the Qin Dynasty. Only twenty-five years old.
When the news came, the whole country was mobilized.
The Holy Emperor Hu Hai sat in meditation in the emperor's study for a whole day, and did not leave the emperor's study until the next day. When the ministers saw the Holy Emperor Hu Hai, his ears and temples, which had hardly changed for decades, turned gray overnight.
Concubine Long Jiao suddenly heard that her beloved son had died in battle. He vomited blood and fainted, and became seriously ill.
Xin Sheng, a 60-year-old veteran who was the former General of Longxi, was cleaning up the battlefield on the front line and was transferred to the commander-in-chief of the Qinglong Army. When the eldest prince was killed in battle, he committed suicide in the big tent that night.
After this incident. The eldest prince Ying Lekang, the descendant of the Holy Emperor Hu Hai, is in the Qinglong Army, the second prince Ying Jingxi is in the White Tiger Army, the third prince Ying Youning is in the Guilin Army, and the fourth prince Ying Jingjia, who is only twenty years old, is in the Royal Navy. News of the First Fleet of the South China Sea Fleet spread throughout the world through certain channels.
March. The Holy Emperor issued an edict to make Xin Sheng the Marquis of Anbei. At the same time, he promoted Shi Zhao, a disciple of Wei Liao who had been promoted to Shaocheng of the General Staff Council, as General Qinglong and commanded the Qinglong Army to continue the Western Expedition.
Faced with the request of the ministers in the court and the people of the world to recall several princes to Xianyang, Hu Hai directly ignored them.
In April, half a million troops in the northwest theater of the Qin Dynasty surrounded the city of Nissa, the capital of the Parthian Empire. After seven days of siege, they used gunpowder to completely destroy the four walls of the city. Before the city was broken, King Fraat I of Parthia killed all the concubines and concubines in the harem. Heirs, and set fire to the palace and died in the sea of ????fire.
The once powerful Parthian Empire perished.
As the powerful Parthian Empire and Seleucid Empire were successively destroyed by the Qin in less than two years, the Mauryan Dynasty in the Indian Peninsula, which had entered its twilight years, was surrounded by the Qin's 800,000-strong army. The Mauryan King panicked and hurried to the Qin Dynasty. Da Qin sent envoys to beg for peace.
In May of the seventy-eighth year of the Qin Dynasty, the Holy Emperor Hu Hai issued an edict to divide the Parthian Kingdom into three parts, and newly established Anbei County, Anle County, and Ankang County from east to west. At this point, the western frontier of Great Qin expanded directly to Europe, the Aral Sea became the internal sea of ??Great Qin, and the Caspian Sea became the outer sea of ??Great Qin. Later, Lake Balkhash was also named Lekang Lake by Hu Hai. As for Anbei County, Yuekang City is also named after this.
The Seleucid Empire was also divided into three, with Dongzhou County, Zhongzhou County, and Xizhou County newly established from east to west. The southwest frontier of Daqin reaches directly to the Persian Gulf and borders the Arabian Sea.
At the end of December of the seventy-eighth year of the Qin Dynasty, the Qin Dynasty and the Maurya Dynasty reached a truce agreement. The Maurya Dynasty finally won the understanding of Hu Hai, the Holy Emperor of Qin, at the cost of paying 30 million gold coins and 100 million silver coins to Qin and ceding most of the seaside of the Indian Peninsula, and the two countries ceased fighting.
In the first month of the seventy-ninth year of the Qin Dynasty, the Holy Emperor Hu Hai issued an edict to establish a new Ashan County in the coastal part of the Indian Peninsula ceded by the Maurya Dynasty, and it was garrisoned by the Guilin Army.
Before that, Indochina Peninsula was also divided into three counties: Annan, Anzhong and Antai.
Today, the abdicated Holy Emperor Hu Hai brought Concubine De, Concubine Shu and Empress Qi Yi, one of the nine concubines, to Lekang City to pay homage to the eldest prince Ying Lekang who was buried on the bank of Lekang Lake.
Of course, Hu Hai did not alarm anyone.
Except for the three concubines, there were only less than 300 personal guards from Longwei Mansion. Long Yu was promoted to the rank of lieutenant of Xizhou County. Now of the original twelve personal guards of the emperor, only Long Hong is still with Hu Hai. Now Long Hong has been promoted to the chief of Hu Hai's personal guards.
The overwhelming roar of horse hooves that was about to disappear suddenly came closer again. Listening to the sound, a large number of cavalry were approaching on the left and right sides of the train.
In less than a moment, through the glass windows of the train, one could clearly see a cavalry force of more than ten thousand people on both sides of the railway track approaching rapidly.
??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? The people in the car got up and leaned on the windows one after another to watch the two cavalrymen who could only be the Great Qin cavalry approaching rapidly on the grassland, the quiet train suddenly became lively.
Since the great war in the seventy-eighth year of the Qin Dynasty, the Qin army has become so powerful that Wei shook the world. As of this year, the inland counties of Da Qin have been without any war for nearly fifteen years.
Except for some occasional frictions between the border counties of Xizhou and the emerging Roman Empire that wanted to expand outwards, in general, everything in Da Qin was stable. The country is peaceful and the people are safe.
Therefore, this was the first time that the people of the Qin Dynasty who filled the carriage could really see the world-famous Qin Dynasty cavalry with thousands of horses galloping in unison. How can we not make the people who have always been proud of Da Qin excited?
In just a few dozen breaths, the two cavalrymen were clearly visible.
It was a black military flag that looked a little shabby. Through the mutilations and damage on the flag, it seemed that it could be seen how fierce fighting this military flag, which symbolized glory and military soul, had experienced. In the middle of the black flag flying in mid-air is a fiery red bird with wings spread out and ready to fly.
The flag of the Qin Royal Vermilion Bird Army.
And it is the only military flag that cannot be lost and is stamped with the jade seal of the Emperor of Qin and the private seal of His Majesty the Holy Emperor.
The originally noisy carriage suddenly became quiet for a moment after seeing the military flag, and then erupted into even more intense noise.
The Holy Emperor abdicated ten years ago. From then on, he never participated in any political affairs, and basically never appeared in front of others. The succeeding third emperor Ying Jingxi continued Hu Hai's consistent policy of benefiting the people, and even reduced taxes compared with when Hu Hai was in power.
But none of this can change the imprint he has left in the minds of the 20 million people of Qin, and in this empire that is so vast that it seems that he will never be able to finish it in his lifetime.
The eternal palace of God seems not enough. Look at it from south to north, from east to west, from the big city to the remote pavilion, from the land to the sea, everything can be lacking. The only thing that is not lacking should be the countless holy temples dedicated to the sculptures of the Holy Emperor. You can understand what that man whose appearance seems to never age means to this empire.
Even Long Hong himself is now an old man with wrinkles on his face and gray hair. However, he had been with Hu Hai since the first year of his reign, and he had been with Hu Hai for almost half a century, but he found that the Holy Emperor had hardly aged. Except for the gray spots on his temples caused by the death of the eldest prince in battle. There haven't been any wrinkles on my face so far.
Even ShengtianThe more than ten concubines of his wife are all almost sixty years old, but they still look like thirty-year-old young women without any sign of aging.
Long Hong had to believe it, and he couldn't help but believe it. His Majesty the Holy Emperor is indeed the Son of Heaven and a god in heaven.
Except for gods. Who else can maintain such an ageless appearance?
Hearing the sound of horse hooves outside the carriage, Hu Hai, who had been closing his eyes to rest, opened his eyes and turned his head to glance, then glanced at Long Hong and said lightly: "Did you tell Long Xuan that I was going to Lekang City?"
This is the nineteenth carriage. It goes without saying that the interior of the carriage is decorated. Apart from Hu Hai, only Long Hong can enter the carriage. The remaining guards of Longwei Mansion are outside.
But Long Jiao, Long Mei, and Qi Yi were all resting in the last carriage. Nowadays, there are no planes, so we can only rely on the relatively fastest train.
After Long Xuan and Fan Yu got married, as the General Staff Council gradually upgraded to the highest military organization commanding operations in the Qin Dynasty, he was finally promoted to the chief general of the Royal Suzaku Army by Hu Hai in the 82nd year of the Qin Dynasty.
Zheng Guo died of illness in the 70th year of the Great Qin calendar, and then Dunwei died of illness in the 75th year of the Great Qin calendar. Then Feng Quji passed away peacefully in the 78th year of the Great Qin calendar after Great Qin had completely won the war against the Parthian and Seleucid empires. . Three years later, Meng Tian, ??who resigned from the General Staff Council, passed away in the Meng Mansion.
In the eighty-second year of the Qin Dynasty, Meng Yi also gave up and went west. Subsequently, Zhang Han, the Minister of the Ministry of War, Kong Yu, Shang Fangcheng, Tian Ren, the Minister of the Ministry of Industry, Yao Jia, the Minister of the Ministry of Punishments, Hu Wujing, the former Minister of the Rites, and the Minister of the Taipu Temple Ma Xing, Su Mo, Fan Jian, Fang Youcong and other important officials in the court passed away one after another within this year.
A year later, the 92-year-old old Zongzheng Yingteng passed away while Zongzheng was in office.
With the passage of time, the veterans who followed Hu Hai grew old one by one and left one by one. This prompted Hu Hai to raise the matter of abdication early.
After Hu Hai issued an edict to abdicate, Du Teng, Xu Chuang, Weng Zhong, Wang Qian, Feng Jie, She Jian and other veterans who had entered their twilight years retired one after another.
Feng Jie passed away in the 86th year, and Shejian also passed away in the same year.
At this point, all the veterans who followed Hu Hai, except Zhang Cang, who was the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue at that time. The rest all gave up and went west.
?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????Outside of Long Xuan, Shi Zhao, and Yu Ziqi, who command the Suzaku Army, Xuanwu Army, and the Royal Navy of the Qin Dynasty respectively, the main generals of the other corps are all young generals promoted by Ying Jingxi in the past ten years.
As for Han Xin, he has now been promoted to the post of Zuo Cheng of the General Staff Council of the Qin Dynasty.
When Ying Jingxi first served, he was in the White Tiger Army led by General Han Trust. It is reasonable for Han Xin to gain control of the General Staff Council.
"Your Majesty, your Majesty"
"Okay, don't talk anymore, come as soon as you come. It's just a train ride, don't be so nervous." Hu Hai waved his hand, interrupting Long Hong.
While speaking, the two cavalrymen had already approached the fences on both sides of the railway track and formed a long straight line, accompanying the train. The column of cavalry on the left. The person holding the flag of the Suzaku Army and galloping at the front was a strong old man with white beard and hair.
Who is it if it¡¯s not Long Xuan?
Hu Hai opened the curtain covering the glass window and looked at Long Xuan who was riding closely behind him through the car window, his eyes moistened slightly.
The soldiers of the Suzaku Army have not seen what the Holy Emperor who left countless legends looks like, but the expression and movements of the commander-in-chief Long Xuan even personally held the flag and galloped for more than a hundred miles from the camp to escort this ordinary iron train. car behavior. Everyone told them that there was an important person on this train.
And it seems that except for the third emperor of the Qin Dynasty, no one else has this qualification, right?
But it was obviously impossible for the third emperor to go on tour in such an ordinary iron car. What's more, they haven't received any news yet.
So who is the person in the car?
Looking through the glass window at the young man with gray hair on his temples who still maintains a youthful face after endless vicissitudes of life, and then look at the excited general who seems to be trembling. Think about some of the legends circulating among the people
A figure becomes increasingly clear.
It is His Majesty the Holy Emperor!
Although it has been ten years since Hu Hai abdicated, everyone in the Qin Dynasty, including the ministers in the court, has not been able to succeed. They will all call them this habitually. This will make them feel friendly and feel that the Holy Emperor still exists and that the Holy Emperor is still looking at them.
The news that the Holy Emperor was on this train spread quietly among the 10,000 cavalrymen.
?Soon, including the ordinary people in the carriage, they discovered that the last column of cavalry on the right had changed. Even though they were separated by a distance of more than ten feet, even though they were separated by a carriage, they could still clearly feel the excitement and joy radiating from the young cavalrymen who were galloping, as well as what seemed to be a high fighting spirit.
Those soldiers suddenly became as aggressive as wolves.
There are big shots on this train!
Although trains are already very common in Daqin, there are obviously still knowledgeable people in the carriages.
"Long Hong, when you get to Lekang City, you go down and ask Long Xuan to leave the cavalry outside the city and bring him to see me alone." Hu Hai closed the curtains and said. From the young faces that suddenly became full of wolfish nature, Hu Hai knew that they must have guessed his identity, and one of them might cause trouble in the city.
"Here!"
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