Lu Dongzan of Tubo tried his best to plot against the Tang Dynasty, but at this time the Tang Dynasty began to make the worst plan, that is, war, and the gold and silver dug out of the Japanese island were continuously transported back to the Tang Dynasty.

Twenty percent of these gold and silver were transported to Dengzhou by Li Zhan, and eighty percent were transported to Li Chengqian's China Banking Regulatory Commission. These gold and silver were used to allow the Tang Dynasty to enter an era where settlement could be made using the silver standard as soon as possible.

In the future, people in the Tang Dynasty would no longer have to bring much money. Large transactions can be traded with gold or silver coins, which is very lightweight.

There are also gold and silver coins of the Tang Dynasty. The gold coins are printed with Li Shimin's avatar, and the silver coins are printed with Li Zhan's avatar. A gold or silver coins are added with 20% of other metals.

But the production is still extremely exquisite. All major families rushed to buy them in large quantities. Li Shimin made a lot of money just for the other metals.

Li Shimin now has such a strong family background. Not to mention fighting one Tubo, he can even launch three attacks on Tubo.

So when Lu Dongzan was plotting against the Tang Dynasty there, the entire Tang Dynasty didn't matter, because no one would be afraid in the face of absolute power.

As the end of the year approaches, Li Chengqian has been staying at the China Banking Regulatory Commission for this period. The addition of Li Zhan’s avatar on the silver coins was made by Li Chengqian. It was originally suggested that Li Shimin, the gold coins were used and Li Chengqian’s silver coins were used.

But Li Chengqian opposed it, and followed Li Chengqian to submit the letter, using Li Zhan's avatar, Li Shimin agreed, and he agreed happily, because this is the brotherhood.

Li Shimin agreed with Li Chengqian's approach. By the way, there is also good news that during Li Chengqian's days at the China Banking Regulatory Commission, Li Chengqian also welcomed the birth of his first son Li Jue.

Li Jue is where Hou Ruixin is, and Su Wan is not pregnant yet.

After Li Jue was born, Li Zhan spoke on his behalf. From now on, Li Zhan will teach him personally. Hou Ruixin and Hou Junji are grateful. Because of this, Hou Junji no longer has any other thoughts in his heart.

To protect the Tang Dynasty with one mind is the only thought in Hou Junji's mind.

And just during this period of New Year, Li Zhan became busy. In addition to Li Zhan running outside Chang'an City every day, this busyness added a mysterious atmosphere.

Almost no one else has been to the place where Li Zhan went, including Li Chengqian.

If this is exchanged for someone else, Li Shimin will investigate immediately. Because there is no possibility of anything hidden in Chang'an City from Li Shimin, but Li Zhan should be the only one? Why is Li Shimin trusting Li Zhan very high?

So where was Li Zhan going?

A carriage slowly entered a village? This village is about thirty miles from Chang'an City and covers an area of ​​about three football fields. Li Zhan got out of the carriage and then saw Gao Hu smiling and greeting him, "Your Highness!"

Seeing Gao Hu? Li Zhan also got off the carriage: "How is it today?"

"The speed has increased, but there is a limit on manpower? Otherwise, there will be no problem with one thousand pieces a day."

Gao Hu replied with a smile. When he heard this, Li Zhan also nodded and said, "Then he has to work hard. I want 100,000 pieces this time. I rely on this thing for the Tubo army to know how powerful we are."

"Your Highness, can we increase our manpower?" Gao Hu asked.

At this time, Li Zhan seemed a little embarrassed, and finally shook his head and said, "Forget it, the fewer people know about this thing, the better. If Tubo wasn't too arrogant, to be honest, I wouldn't want to make this thing? Its appearance will change a lot of things? This is not what I want."

Speaking of this, Li Zhan remembered the time capsule he found a year ago nearby. It was not long before this time, and the time capsule was about to be opened. Li Zhan didn’t know what was recorded in it, so Li Zhan was thinking? Can you give the time capsule to his own hands?

Is this time capsule too weird? Li Zhan always feels bad. Will this time bringing out this thing foreshadow that someone will be controlled by him?

Thinking of this, Li Zhan sighed slightly.

"Your Highness, go to the workshop to take a look!" Gao Hu bowed slightly when he saw Li Zhan's face was not good.

Hearing Gao Hu's words, Li Zhan nodded and followed Gao Hu into the village. At this time, the village had been completely closed by the Hu Ben Army, and only Li Zhan's order could enter.

What is being made inside is actually not a mysterious thing. At this time, the village is making gunpowder and grenades.

The grenades made by Li Zhan are very simple. I don’t know if you have seen the sword. Comrade Li Yunlong talked about it for two hours in the sword.

Why did Li Yunlong himself say that this was a broken thing in half, but he still refused to give in and grind the factory director to give him a few more boxes? It's very simple, because it was the only weapon that the Eighth Route Army could be self-sufficient except for the big sword.

Compared with pistols and machine gun bullets that require accurate metal shells, the manufacturing process of grenades is the lowest requirement among modern weapons, and it can no longer be lower. The most basic grenade only requires a cast iron warhead, the cavity inside is filled with the simplest black gunpowder, and a wooden handle is installed behind it. The wooden handle is drilled with a small hand drilled hole, and several layers of thick paper firecrackers are installed inside, and a friction fire tube is added. This is OK.

However, such grenades in modern times may not be very advanced, but in the Tang Dynasty, such things are enough to stand out among the heroes. You must know that Li Zhan did not want to take out the black gunpowder.

Because Li Zhan does not want to speed up the process of technology, Li Zhan is very afraid that the process of technology will accelerate the fate of human beings to kill each other. He wants to advance slowly according to history.

It’s just a pity that people’s calculations are always worse than God’s calculations. When Tubo comes, he then asks for marriage with great fanfare, and he still asks for his own sister. This is what you are looking for death in Tubo. Li Zhan once boasted about the sea in front of Li Shimin.

He only brought his own Hu Ben Army and the Hu Tiger Army to fight against Tubo and Tuyuhun. This gunpowder grenade was Li Zhan's last and strongest reliance.

When Li Zhan walked into the village, he was basically residents of Li Zhan Dunhuafang. These people were loyal. Li Zhan hoped to protect the secret of black gunpowder to the greatest extent. However, Li Zhan also knew that this secret could not be kept for long, but Li Zhan could only do his best to protect it.

When they saw Li Zhan, everyone working in the village greeted Li Zhan happily. Li Zhan responded one by one. Finally, Li Zhan came to the finished grenade library. How about it? The grenades made by Li Zhan here are not stronger than modern grenades, but they are several times stronger than those made in the border areas that Lao Li said.

If one is thrown out, there will be no result of a blow-off in half, because Li Zhan’s black gunpowder is enough. Not only that, Li Zhan’s other things are also better than the Eighth Route Army of that period.

Therefore, Li Zhan's grenade has an attack radius of within 25 meters, which is enough to hurt you.

"Do you want to try one?"

Gao Hu smiled and said to Li Zhan: "This thing is really interesting. If there is something unpleasant, it will be much less if it throws out a few unpleasant things."

"Haha!" Li Ye smiled and looked at Gao Hu and said, "Hao Hu Hou has tried it?"

"Hehe!" Gao Hu smiled and said, "When I tried last time, those guys didn't dare, so I just let me do it. The lead and explosion were all very ideal. How about it, do you want to try it out?"

"Let's go!" Li Zhan laughed.

However, Old Ying, who was on the side, followed with some concern and told him: "Your Highness, you must be careful!"

"Haha!" Li Zhan smiled at the worried old man Ying. In fact, this gunpowder was not as terrible as expected. As long as you follow the operation process, there would be no problem.

Soon, Li Zhan followed Gao Hu to the place where he tested the grenades. Gao Hu brought a box of grenades. However, because Li Zhan urgently needed grenades, he left five.

The main reason is that Li Zhan wants to feel the power of this grenade.

Lighting the leads one by one, Li Zhan threw out the grenades in his hand one by one.

"Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!"

The opposite side exploded five times in a row, causing dust to fly. When the flying dust was slightly immersed, Old Ying was shocked to find five small pits in front of him. Although the pits were not very big, where did you go to find such weapons at this time?

"This is a hot weapon!" Li Zhan's eyes moved slightly.

Such power made Li Zhan feel that he could not bring hot weapons to this world. You should know that the mortality rate in the cold weapons era was very high. In ancient times, war was very cruel. In the era of cold weapons, soldiers basically had no idea how to come back alive. Moreover, the damage ratio of each war was surprisingly high.

Basically, they all adopt the tactic of annihilation, for fear that there will be endless troubles after leaving a living person, so this has increased the cruelty of the war.

In peacetime, it is hard for us to imagine the cruelty of war.

However, in ancient times, there were wars throughout the dynasties, and no dynasty did not fight. Some idioms about war passed down from ancient times, such as bleeding and drifting, corpses wrapped in horses and corpses, bloody battles, etc., can be seen from these idioms that can see the bloody and cruelty of ancient wars.

In ancient times, when people fought in wars, they mostly used cold weapons to fight in close combat, and the cruel scenes were imagined.

In an ancient battle, tens of thousands died, and hundreds of thousands of people were considered small. This was just the number of soldiers killed, not including the innocent people who suffered innocent lives because of the war. There was also a special way to treat prisoners of war in ancient times, which further increased the number of deaths, that is, killing.

Bai Qi, the killing god of Qin, once killed 400,000 prisoners of war in Zhao in one fell swoop in the Battle of Changping. In addition to the casualties of Qin army, the number of deaths in this war actually reached 700,000.

This battle lasted for three years since the two armies confronted each other. It was not until Zhao State replaced the main general Lian Po and replaced the young general Zhao Kuo that the winner was finally decided.

During the Battle of Changping, the Qin and Zhao armies confronted each other on the front line for three years, and hundreds of thousands of people were very expensive. The ancients had a very cruel way to prepare food and grass in wars, which was to eat people.

The Anshi Rebellion led the Tang Dynasty from prosperity to decline. After An Lushan was assassinated by his son An Qingxu, An Qingxu led the rebels invincible and even conquered Luoyang and Chang'an. At that time, the crown prince Li Heng succeeded to the throne and began to settle the verdict.

However, wars broke out and were in a state of great trouble. At that time, the general of Suiyang was named Zhang Xun, and An Qingxu led an army of 100,000 to surround Suiyang. There were only less than 8,000 people in Suiyang City, and Zhang Xun still insisted on leading these 8,000 people to guard for 10 months. There was no food or grass in the city. In the end, the soldiers had no choice but to rely on the women and children in the city to maintain their combat effectiveness.

There was also Zhao Siwan, who took the initiative to eat people. He served as the governor of the Later Han Dynasty in the Five Dynasties and preferred to fight and kill. After he led his army to occupy Chang'an, he ordered people to gather all the children in Chang'an City, kill them and cook them into jerky meat, and serve as food for the army.

In ancient times, communication was poor and transportation was inconvenient. For example, it was normal for the Battle of Changping for three or four years. The army had to fight everywhere, and hundreds of thousands of people marched by foot.

Peasant uprising broke out in the late Ming Dynasty, and the war burned all over the Ming Dynasty.

The royal family in the Ming Dynasty had limited military strength. As soon as this battle ended, the army was about to set out to suppress another riot. In this case, it was impossible for the wounded soldiers to receive effective treatment, and they could only seek blessings for themselves.

Even if he did not die during the battle, he might die of infection during the subsequent marches. Most of the bodies of the fallen soldiers were buried on the spot. In the end, they were mixed with the corpses of the enemy, and his descendants could not even find a place to worship.

In ancient times, there was also a very cruel way to deal with corpses, called Chujiguan. After one side won, it would collect all the corpses of the dead enemy soldiers, pile them up into a tower shape, and then pile them on earth to shoot them. This kind of corpse mountain is called Jingguan, which is used to shock the enemy.

In ancient times, wars consumed both military power and seriously endangered people's livelihood. The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom War, the most dead in Chinese history, had a total of more than 70 million deaths. The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom movement broke out in 1851, and it took a total of 13 years to the Qing Dynasty successfully suppressing the rebel army. In these 13 years, the war caused a total of 70 million deaths, and the total population loss was more than 100 million.

However, these are still incomparable with hot weapons. In 1945, Japan's defeat was decided, and the United States wanted Japan to surrender as soon as possible.

At the same time, for military and political reasons, the United States decided to throw an atomic bomb on one of the four cities including Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan according to the original plan. However, after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in Japan at that time, they did not choose to surrender.

In order to end World War II early, the United States dropped a second atomic bomb in Nagasaki, Japan. So how many people were killed and injured by these two atomic bombs in Hiroshima, Japan at that time?

It is understood that in Hiroshima, Japan, at that time, the atomic bomb exploded in the air 600 meters above the ground. A deafening explosion occurred over Hiroshima City. In an instant, huge mushroom-like smoke and clouds were rolled up, and Hiroshima City immediately became a sea of ​​fire.

People can still feel the stuffy airflow 16 kilometers away. At that time, the number of people in Hiroshima was more than 340,000, while the number of people died on that day was more than 88,000, and the number of people injured and missing was 510,000.

However, Hiroshima's tragedy did not make Japan realize the seriousness of the matter. Japan still wanted to continue fighting, so the United States dropped a second atomic bomb in Nagasaki. The number of people in Nagasaki was more than 270,000, and more than 60,000 died that day, causing another tragedy.

Later, Japan also conducted special statistics, with about 240,000 deaths, more than 310,000 injured, and 8 million homeless. This tragedy happened, and I hope Japan can remember that the war is cruel forever.

Although hot weapons do not die in the period of cold weapons, the death of hot weapons is instantaneous, and hundreds of thousands of people die in an instant, which is incomparable to cold weapons.

If Li Zhan's hot weapons were handed over to a bloodthirsty person, the consequences would be unforeseen, so Li Zhan would do his best to curb the power of the hot weapons
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