I opened a tavern in Datang/Datang: My peerless talent was exposed

The mentality of a gambler is naturally wrong, but the strict measurement of the relationship between risks and benefits is a fact that every high-ranking person needs to face.

Therefore, Zhang Nuo was actually relieved that Li Shimin was explaining to him the risks and benefits of establishing an air force and equipping airships on a large scale.

I'm not afraid of Li Shimin to measure, but I'm afraid that Li Shimin doesn't think about it at all, only sees the benefits but not the risks, and rushes up when his brain is hot.

And as long as he knows how to measure and consider, it proves that Li Shimin has not lost his mind and can think seriously, then there is no problem.

After all, today's Zhang Nuo clearly knows that what a country's rulers and leaders need most of the time is not a benevolent person with so much compassion, but a thinker who can calm down and weigh the pros and cons.

Once you think about it clearly and understand it, then the rest of the things will be easy to handle.

In fact, for Datang, what is needed at this time is such an emperor.

Thinking of this, Zhang Nuo couldn't help but nodded, looked at Li Shimin who was already smiling and said,

"Okay, you convinced me, I will help you form an air force. These people will adopt the conscription system and start training immediately. After the airship is in place, it can basically be put into actual combat!"

"Actually, you don't even need to convince me, you are not the emperor, I have to obey your next order, right?"

Li Shimin was quite happy when he heard the previous sentence, but he was upset when he heard the latter sentence. He didn't care if there was no one around, so he just rolled his eyes regardless of the emperor's majesty, and said angrily,

"Forget it, you and I only talk about personal friendship and don't care about business affairs. If I really give you an imperial edict as the emperor, you will take care of things for me, but you are probably gone as a friend. Then I am at a loss. Big!"

Speaking of this, Li Shimin didn't know what he thought of. First, he waved his hand to let the servants who were waiting next to him go out, and made things difficult for these servants. Every time they waited on such an occasion, they could always hear all kinds of treason and thrilling things. If they weren't too afraid of death, they would probably have the heart to kill themselves.

After seeing everyone else going out, Li Shimin sighed and said in a low voice,

"Brother, I have no shortage of ministers who will work as soon as they receive an imperial edict, and there are even many ministers who can do the things I entrusted to them beautifully!"

"But in front of them, I will always be me, but here with you, I am me, not an emperor or a high-ranking king, but a friend who can drink, brag and make trouble!"

"There are tens of thousands of people who regard me as the emperor, but now you are the only one who regards me as a friend, Li Shimin!"

Zhang Nuo looked at Li Shimin, who looked a little downcast, and wisely didn't ask why Changsun Wuji didn't treat him as a friend. After all, the two were well-known friends of the common people, or the relationship between brother-in-law and uncle.

Thinking about it, since Li Shimin said that he is the only friend in the world, it proves that something happened with Changsun Wuji. No matter what the reason is, at least from this point of view, this old brother is really pitiful.

You must know that Li Shimin's requirements are actually not high. It's not that you have to make suggestions or go through life and death to be his friend. As long as you can treat him as an ordinary person, you can drink with him, chat, beat farts and listen to his nagging.

However, Zhang Nuo is the only person in this world who can do this.

Except for Zhang Nuo, who has no requirements for power, earns money easily, has received a complete nine-year compulsory education, and believes that everyone is equal, he can make friends purely based on whether people are right or wrong.

As for the others, who can be like Zhang Nuo after knowing Li Shimin's identity?

Even Changsun Wuji can't do this now, or can do it, but if the price is to give up something, Changsun and the old fox are not willing to do it.

Of course, Zhang Nuo can only guess about these things in private, it is impossible to ask, not because he is afraid of Li Shimin, but since the two are friends, asking such a question would be to expose the scars of others, and that would be too insincere up.

Zhang Nuo patted Lao Li on the shoulder silently, and said comfortingly,

"Old Li, actually, don't think too much about it. Things like friends are not easy to deal with, especially with your status!"

"Actually, I won't talk about you, hehe, how many friends do you think I have? I can indeed chat with anyone, but when I find that everyone who meets me laughs on the surface but is trembling in fear, in fact Not very comfortable either!"

"But what can I do, life is still the same? But I am better than you, at least my Hongyu only treats me as a husband, not as a prince or something, but my sister-in-law seems to always treat you as an emperor, haha , no way, who told her to manage the harem!"

Li Shimin was quite moved when he heard Zhang Nuo's words at first, thinking that Zhang Nuo was a friend who shared the same illness with him, but who knew that when he turned his head, he began to groan.

As for men, the most despised is this kind of comparison with women, not to mention that in the eyes of Li Shimin, Empress Changsun is a really good woman,

"Come on, why doesn't your sister-in-law treat me as a husband-in-law? Do you have to talk to you bastard about some boudoir fun between us on weekdays!"

Hahaha, Zhang Nuo was immediately happy when he heard Li Shimin's sophistry, but it seems that Li Shimin's life is not so pitiful. Perhaps the eldest grandson queen should be dignified in front of his uncle, but in front of her husband, there is really no need up.

It's okay to be coquettish, to complain, and there's nothing wrong with it. People have emotions, and they bury everything in their hearts. Maybe they will either go crazy or die in the end, which is not a good idea.

Chapter 742 The Significance of the Datang Style Air Force

The conversation between Zhang Nuo and Li Shimin was basically coming to an end this time.

As for the money spent on building an air force, the procedures required for recruiting troops, hehe, that's not what Zhang Nuo and Li Shimin need to care about.

Anyway, in Zhang Nuo's view, since Li Shimin didn't directly say he was embarrassed, it proved that Li Shimin was ready to pay for the airship.

Moreover, he was sure that Li Shimin's treasury could afford it. Even if it was difficult for the treasury to afford it, Lao Li, who had a big business now, would make up for it from his small treasury.

After all, Li Shimin knew the cost of an airship a long time ago, and now that he speaks like this, he is sure of it, so there is no need to question Lao Li's ability to pay.

Speaking of doubting whether a big man's wallet is thick enough, it's not a polite move, it's a bit contemptuous.

So Zhang Nuo didn't say anything at all, and the big deal was to wait for Lao Li to hold on when he couldn't hold on.

In fact, Zhang Nuo agreed to establish such an air force, on the one hand, perhaps because he wanted to further establish or find something he was familiar with in this era, and on the other hand, he also liked the efficient and fast maneuverability of this kind of airborne troops.

Zhang Nuo has already made clear his goal, he wants to conquer the whole world, truly spread the flag of Datang and his own footprints all over the world.

But if you rely on the navy alone, it is actually not enough!

After all, those three-masted sailing ships are enough to crush all the countries in the world, but for those countries that are deep inland, they can't sail the ships to land.

Moreover, as long as the city is a little farther away from the coastline, the navy will not be able to attack the city. Could it be that the sailors on the ship take their lives?

No matter what others think, at least Zhang Nuo is reluctant to part with it. You must know that compared with the army that will be built in the future, the navy is a well-known high-tech arm, and the real training time is much longer than that of the army.

As for those government soldiers who are still hanging out in the army, they are even more incomparable.

All sailors are proficient in reading and writing, and they are extremely fluent in listening, speaking, reading and writing, and they also need to master relevant knowledge of sea navigation. These are the seedlings of future officers.

Therefore, if it was sacrificed in a sea war, it would be fine, at least it would be considered a well-deserved death, but if a good life was wasted in a siege without the support of naval guns, it would not be worth it.

But with the Air Force, it's different.

When Zhang Nuo heard that Li Shimin's team called the Air Force was actually an airborne force, the first thing that came to mind was not the parachute bags all over the sky, but the leapfrog tactic that he had seen in some military novel.

It seems that during World War II when the beautiful country was at sea, it was a tactic of using islands as bases, constantly jumping forward, gradually advancing the front line while reducing the opponent's strategic depth.

In Zhang Nuo's view, such a tactic is actually very suitable for the current Datang.

If Datang wants to launch a war against Fusang, then as long as an air force logistics supply base is established near the Tsushima Strait in Koryo, manpower and resources can be invested immediately to support the Fusang campaign.

This is not only as simple as the establishment of air supremacy, but also a logistics supply line for the rapid delivery of materials and personnel. As long as this line exists, energy will be continuously delivered directly from Korea to Fusang.

After all, the small strait between the two is not only ignored by the navy, but also by the air force. As long as they want to, they can cross over to attack at any time.

At that time, there will be naval artillery attacks on the sea, bombing from airships in the sky, and airborne troops, navy sailors, and army attacks transported by airships on the ground. As long as the bamboo armor and low city walls of those dwarfs can stop them It's strange to live.

It is even possible to drop artillery units directly across the sea. The navy is not good at transporting those cannons. After all, loading and unloading takes a lot of time, not to mention not much can be loaded, but the airship whose cargo door can be opened directly does not mind.

It was also thinking of these things that Zhang Nuo nodded and agreed to build an air force.Otherwise, with Zhang Nuo's lazy temperament, he wouldn't be bothered to do any air force construction.

After all, the airship doesn't need him to help, and a complete factory can be built in Pyongyang with a confession, and the military conscription and training can be left to other people.

Now his set of training methods is not a secret or magical thing. Even if they are not from the navy, many veterans trained by Zhang Nuo are very familiar with them, because they have also been trained by Zhang Nuo in this way.

With the military qualities of these people, they can serve as instructors for recruits, allowing them to quickly master some basic military skills if they want to die.

At the same time, with these people around, Zhang Nuo could train those recruits to look like soldiers in the shortest possible time without Zhang Nuo's presence.

Therefore, after Zhang Nuo took over this errand, he could do nothing and leave it to his subordinates, but his sense of responsibility and ambition prevented him from doing so.

He is really lazy, and he really doesn't want to do these things repeatedly, but he is willing to worry about it for his own ideals and aspirations.

Of course, he's just a labor of heart at most, and the real hard work is still done by the subordinates. He just needs to take out the relevant regulations, and then go over and stare at them from time to time.

After all, even he, His Highness the King of Qin, has to go to work, so what's the deal?

However, after taking over this errand, Zhang Nuo also sighed a little, this stupid script is wrong, he clearly said that he should enjoy life to the fullest.

But this first was the conquest of Goryeo, then the Turks and Tubo fought all the way, then established the Pyongyang City Industrial Park to transfuse Datang, and then established the Navy to make up for the missing piece of Datang, completely from the loess to the sea, and now it is going to Create an air force.

What the hell is this called? Even with such a simple calculation, Zhang Nuo felt that he was too sorry for his title of nerd.

But for the sake of his own ideas, maybe it’s worth the hard work. After ten to twenty years, and looking back, he might not feel tired or depressed, but instead be proud of what he has done. .

Maybe his children were already grown up at that time, so he could talk about how wise and powerful his father was in front of them, much more powerful than his uncle the emperor!

Chapter 743 Construction Arrangement

The marines had to rest for a month, so naturally Zhang Nuo would also rest comfortably in Lantian City. Although this kind of idle life seemed a bit exhausting, it was really comfortable to live.

Not to mention anything else, going to bed early and getting up early every day, eating and drinking enough to be able to go for a walk in the street, and being able to hug his wife under the covers at night, this is really a kind of happiness for Zhang Nuo.

On the way, he made a trip back to Koryo, mainly to inspect his territory and arrange the construction of the airship factory at the same time.

This time he did not put the base on the side of Pyongyang City, because he felt that the current layout of Pyongyang is really big enough. A new-style port area can be built on the edge of the sea, and a main city that can radiate the lower half of the Koryo Peninsula can also be built.

The most important thing is that it was originally the location of a big city in Silla, which has its own foundation, and it is not too far from the current Pyongyang City. It is not particularly difficult to connect it by railway.

Of course, a bridge across the Han River has to be built in the middle, otherwise it's all nonsense.

Zhang Nuo also has no choice. At present, the heavy industry of the entire Tang Dynasty is concentrated on the Koryo Peninsula. To be precise, it is all concentrated in the territory of the original Koryo. Although there are resources here and the land is relatively fertile, the climate is not very good. .

On the contrary, Silla and Baekje, which were originally the most suitable for shipping development, have not developed, and the climate there is much better than above.

At this time, Zhang Nuo wanted to build a new port area of ​​the Koryo Peninsula through the construction of the Incheon New City, and gradually bring the development of the entire Koryo Peninsula.

And the construction of this Incheon new city will undoubtedly be based on the original old city, and then center on the airship base to be established, supplemented by other upstream and downstream industries at that time, to form an aviation city integrating production, education and research.

But Zhang Nuo would not put the air force school here, let alone put the air force base here, because unlike the navy, it must rely on the sea, and it would not be called the navy if it went to land.

But the Air Force is different, where there is no sky, right?

Moreover, in Zhang Nuo's eyes, this force equipped with at least fifty airships in the future is far from being as simple as a strategic rapid strike force. They will be involved in various tasks such as material transportation, personnel deployment, and disaster relief. bear extremely important responsibilities.

Then, in order to grab time, it is inevitable that the troops cannot be deployed to the city of Pyongyang, which is thousands of miles away, but must be placed in the hinterland of the pass.

Only in this way can the imperial court be able to mobilize the power of the air force as soon as possible when there is any urgent matter.

Of course, it's impossible to put it in Chang'an City or Lantian City. Just think about it, how much space does it take to park at least fifty airships?

There are also necessary barracks, warehouses, and even large workshops that can accommodate airships for maintenance. The area occupied by these alone is a bit scary.

Not to mention that when dozens of airships dock in the future, the distance between any two ships must be far apart. This is also for insurance and safety, so the need is even greater.

Moreover, Zhang Nuo, whether it is based on the principle of military secrecy or for security reasons, the entire air force base must be a closed and secret unit.

Perhaps everyone is already familiar with the airship, but there is no need to let others know about how it is built, maintained, and used.

Even if the secrets are leaked in the future, it will be partial at most. As long as the air force base here and the manufacturing base in Incheon do a good job of keeping secrets, there is almost no need to worry about someone being able to expose the core technology.

In fact, to put it bluntly, what is the real core technology of the airship?

Could it be the big black steam engine used as the power source for flight?of course not!

The real core technology is the preparation and storage of hydrogen, which is the key to the ability of airships to fly into the sky, but this thing has no certain foundation, even if it is placed in front of you, you can't understand it.

Even if you know the technology in it, it is impossible to prepare it on a large scale. Without the production conditions, if you produce it rashly, the only result will be a small bomb and a big bomb.

However, even if he knew this was the case, he still had to keep it secret. Not to mention anything else, Zhang Nuo was worried about people outside when he just talked about preventing danger.

The current cost of airships is really expensive. If one is blown up by someone with ulterior motives, not to mention the impact, the light loss will be enough to cause headaches.

Zhang Nuo has carefully calculated that even if all the resources are in place and the manpower is sufficient, it will take more than a year and nearly two years to produce the fifty airships currently needed by Datang.

As far as this is the case of using a large number of manual parts regardless of cost, otherwise, the expenditure will be even greater.

As for the universal popularization of machine tools, this is a bit unrealistic at present, not because of other reasons, but because the current machine tools are actually very simple, and many things cannot actually be manufactured.

There is no way, don’t look at the machine tool, especially the early machine tool is basically a mechanical structure, compared with the electric multi-axis intelligent machine tool of the later generation, it looks like a stupid, clumsy iron fool.

But in fact, it’s like this, and it’s already sold like crazy in Datang. Who doesn’t know that with this thing, coupled with a steam engine, the productivity of the workshop will increase dozens of times as if it’s turned on?

However, it has to be said that such a machine tool, which is as precious as an artifact in the eyes of Datang people, actually still has many flaws.

Say the simplest thing, the knife head!

You must know that the cutter heads, drill bits, etc. on the machine tools of later generations can easily drill and cut various metals, but now, machine tools for processing wood have come out, and they are sold everywhere.

However, the machine tool that can process metal is still in the research institute. The main technical problem is that it is stuck on the problem of metal materials.

This is no longer a problem for one or two families. The Changsun family is actually very concerned about this problem, because once this problem is solved, the consumption and value of minerals will inevitably increase.

This is a life-saving medicine for the eldest grandson's family who are dedicated to being mine bosses.

It's a pity that Zhang Nuo's research institute has such a rich boss like Zhang Nuo, so it doesn't need external capital investment at all. All the investment is arranged by Zhang Nuo, so the eldest grandson's family can't intervene at all.

It's not that they haven't tried to poach people with courage, but everyone refused without hesitation. Only those who have been in the research institute know how good it is.

Chapter 744 New Changes in the Tang Dynasty

Sometimes time is really inconspicuous. Zhang Nuo always felt that yesterday he had just returned from Korea with a bunch of kids who graduated from the Naval Academy, but today he told him that the first batch of air force cadets had completed basic military training. , You can go to the airship for training.