All Heavens and Worlds Modified History System

Chapter 329: Our Tang Dynasty is rich and powerful, so why is there only such a small place?

In the fourth year of Zhenguan, on February Jiachen, at the foot of Yinshan Mountain.

"It's foggy." Su Dingfang spat on horseback and looked at Xue Wanche beside him. "Are you sure you're not going the wrong way?"

Xue Wanche looked up at the faint sunlight above the mist. "What time is it now?"

"It's almost the beginning of the morning." Su Dingfang responded, "We have been running all night, it's almost dawn."

"The sun is in the east at the beginning of the morning hour." Xue Wanche muttered, took out a compass from his cotton coat and placed it flat on his palm.

The painted end points to the north.

Knowing the east and the north, we can naturally determine the specific direction.

"We are on the right track." After taking back the compass, Xue Wanche said, "We followed the North Star last night. If we continue heading north, we will definitely reach Tieshan!"

After several years of recuperation and with the country's strength strengthened, Li Er was determined to take revenge.

He first sent Li Jing and others to defeat Jie Li Khan in Dingxiang, which frightened him so much that he fled north to Tieshan.

Jie Li Khan adopted a delaying tactic and sent envoys to Chang'an City to find Li Er, expressing his willingness to surrender.

Li Er, who was worried about the vastness of the grassland and did not know where the Turkic royal tent was located, was overjoyed and agreed immediately. He then sent Tang Jian, the Minister of the Honglu Temple, to find Jie Li Khan's royal tent with the imperial edict and gifts.

Some time ago, Tang Jian quietly sent someone back to inform the location of Jie Li Khan's tent.

Li Jing immediately dispatched Su Dingfang to lead the Lantian Army, which had once defeated the Xuanjia Army, as the vanguard to attack Jie Li Khan's royal tent first. He himself set out with the main force afterwards.

The journey before was relatively smooth. Xue Wanche, who led the Lantian Army, relied on the skills he had learned and followed the North Star as a guide to lead the way accurately.

But I didn't expect that there would be night fog before dawn.

Fortunately, his study of the "Militia Training Manual" was not in vain, and he used the sun and compass to determine the direction.

Su Dingfang had heard of the Lantian Army, which was named after it was trained in Lantian County.

Hearing that these people spoke so nicely, and that everyone had their own special talents, he was also very curious.

"I'll trust you for now." Su Dingfang snorted twice, "But if it delays the military situation."

"If anything happens, I, Xue Wanche, will take full responsibility!"

Xue Wanche waved his hand unhappily, "I have never missed the skills taught by the Taoist priest!"

"Brothers~~~" He shouted to the Lantian Army around him, "The Turks are in front of us, follow me to kill the enemy~~~"

"Kill~~~"

The sunlight dispelled the night fog, and when the Lantian army emerged from the fog, they were shocked to see an endless group of tents just a few miles in front of them!

The herdsmen who got up early to collect water from the melted snow stared in amazement at the large group of Tang troops rushing out of the fog, and were completely at a loss as to what to do.

They never imagined that the Tang army would attack the king's tent in such an icy and snowy environment.

The following battle was completely one-sided.

The Tang cavalry marched across the battlefield, but the Turks, who had an absolute numerical advantage, were unable to organize themselves for a counterattack.

Especially after Jie Li Khan rode away on a BMW, the morale of the Turks collapsed.

The Khan has run away, what can we do?
When Li Jing arrived hurriedly with the main army, all he saw were captives and cattle and sheep, enough to fill many acres of land.

"Grand Steward."

Su Dingfang rode his horse and came at a gallop, his eyes full of joy. "We won the battle! We captured hundreds of acres of prisoners and livestock."

Li Jing hurriedly asked, "Where is Jie Li?"

"He ran away. Xue Wanche led his men to chase him."

Jie Li Khan was actually very good at escaping. Historically, he was captured simply because he was unlucky.

This time he was even more unlucky because the people chasing him had studied topography and tracking.

He was able to escape purely because of the speed of the BMW he was riding, but the pursuers behind him, although riding slower horses, were able to keep up with him.

It was icy and snowy, and Jie Li was cold and hungry, so he had to eat snow to fill his stomach.

Although he was riding a BMW, he couldn't withstand the cold weather and had no food, and eventually he collapsed due to exhaustion.

Jie Li Khan, who had a strong desire to survive, even wanted to hide in a cave, but was eventually found out by Xue Wanche and others who caught up with him.

"I surrender. Take me to see His Majesty."

The captured Jie Li Khan was very single and immediately chose to surrender.

This shows that he is also a man who knows the times.

On the way back, Jie Li Khan asked curiously, "How did you manage to travel thousands of miles without getting frozen in such a cold weather?"

Xue Wanche called over the excited Fang Yiai, "Show him!"

Fang Yiai immediately showed off his cotton coat. "See? It's a cotton coat! It's made of cotton cloth and filled with thick cotton! It keeps you warm even in the coldest weather!"

"Okay." Jie Li Khan remembered that when the Honglu Temple Minister of the Tang Dynasty came, he seemed to be wearing this kind of clothes.

"Even if the people are fine, the horses..." When he said this, he saw that the horses ridden by Fang Yiai and others were all wrapped in cotton coats from the belly to the neck and limbs. He was stunned and speechless.

After a long while, he still asked unwillingly, "It's so cold that I can't make a fire. My BMW can't even eat the cold dry food. How can your horse chase me for so long?"

"Who says you can't start a fire?"

Xue Wanche laughed, "You illiterate, we brought kerosene that we refined by cooking, and it's time to eat, show it to him!"

Fang Yiai immediately called the cook over and took the sealed leather bag from the horse's back. He first built a stove on the ground, then poured in the pungent kerosene and put an iron pot on it.

He waved the fire starter and went under the stove, and suddenly a big fire broke out.

Find some clean snow and throw it into the pot, and steam will start to come out of it in a short while.

A whole bag of cornmeal was poured into the pot, followed by a large amount of rapeseed oil and salt.

The cooks stood by, skillfully using sharp knives to cut large chunks of bacon into small pieces and throwing them into the pot.

Stir constantly with a spoon and it soon becomes a thick porridge.

Jie Li Khan also got a bowl of steaming cornmeal and meat porridge, which even made sweat appear on his forehead.

Then he saw that when the meat porridge gradually cooled down, the cooks used a ladle to scoop out the remaining jelly-like meat porridge and feed it to the horses.

"Are you crazy?"

He shouted in disbelief, "This is food and meat, how can you feed it to horses?!"

Xue Wanche smiled proudly, "When you get to the Tang Dynasty, you will know how wealthy the Tang Dynasty is now! Feeding horses with grain is nothing. We use grain to feed poultry and livestock!"

"boast."

Jie Li Khan didn't believe at all that the livestock on the grassland were just eating grass.

Food? Ordinary herdsmen can’t even get enough to eat!
In the Battle of Yinshan, the Tang army won a great victory.

More than 100,000 prisoners were captured and hundreds of thousands of livestock were seized.

When the news came back, the whole Chang'an City was in an uproar!
"As long as we have enough food to eat, we are not afraid of anyone." Looking at the piles of eggs in the chicken farm, Chen Ran smiled with satisfaction, "We must not only eat enough, but also eat well. Only in this way can we dominate the world!"

The large-scale popularization of cotton solved the problems of cold winter and the logistical pressure of fighting in the north.

With a large amount of cotton-padded clothes, the farming people could continue to advance northward, to places where even cotton-padded clothes could not keep out the cold.

The large-scale pressing of rapeseed oil added oil to the stomachs of the people of the Tang Dynasty, so they no longer had to eat vegetables all day long.

The most critical crop is corn.

In the Tang Dynasty, corn itself is considered a high-yield crop.

It not only meets the people's food needs, but its important significance lies in providing sufficient, reliable and nutritionally comprehensive feed for large-scale breeding of livestock and poultry.

Even corn cobs can be used as feed, so it really is a treasure from head to toe. What’s even more exaggerated is that it has a super high yield and is not susceptible to various plant diseases.

As for the Northeast Min pigs and white-feather chickens, they can only be considered icing on the cake.

After all, with sufficient feed, all kinds of poultry and livestock can be raised.

"After defeating Jie Li, the Eastern Turks collapsed." Chen Ran returned to the study, picked up a pen and continued to paint on the connecting paper that almost covered the floor. "It's time to show Li Er the world map."

Li Er became swelled, very swelled.

The Turks, who had been dominating Middle-earth for many years, were defeated by him just like that. This achievement was enough to make him leave a mark in history books.

After many days of celebration, Li Er finally remembered Chen Ran and decided to go see this great man who provided excellent logistical support.

When Li Er saw Chen Ran, the first thing he said was, "Fang Yiai did a good job in capturing Jie Li alive. As his master, you taught him well."

'The modification of Fang Xuanling has been completed, and the reward is now issued.'

'Note: One thousand sugarcane seedlings will be distributed.'

Sugarcane seeds cannot just be buried in the soil, they need to be grown into seedlings.

The seedlings are in sections, not granular like corn.

"Is this the rhythm of making a profit? The lives of the people in the Tang Dynasty are really going to get better and better."

Seeing Chen Ran talking to himself and ignoring him, Li Er felt unhappy, "I'm talking to you, arrest Jie Li!"

"I see. It's not a big deal. He keeps talking about it all the time. Isn't he just a Turkic Khan?"

"Heh~~~"

Li Er was so angry that he laughed, "Just a Turkic Khan? You are the Turkic people in this world."

"Stop, stop, stop." Chen Ran simply interrupted him. "Don't talk about the world all the time. Do you know what the world is? The world you can see is just a corner in a remote corner."

He simply turned around and said, "Follow me."

Li Er was stunned for a moment, but still took a step forward to follow.

When I arrived at Chen Ran’s study, I could see the connection paper covering the floor as soon as I opened the door.

Looking at the densely packed marks on the paper, Li Er was puzzled. "What is this?"

"Map." Chen Ran looked at him in confusion. "You've fought in wars, too. How can you not understand a map?"

Li Er blushed immediately and argued, "Who would have thought there would be such a large picture?"

"That's not even that big."

Chen Ran shook his head and motioned for him to step on it and take a look.

"Here." Walking to the southeast corner of the map, Chen Ran pointed with his toes, "This is the Tang Dynasty."

Li Er came over, leaned over to take a closer look, and immediately exclaimed "How is it possible?!"

"My Great Tang is rich and powerful, how come there is only such a small place?"

(End of this chapter)