Drive the RV back to Datang

Chapter 648 Chapter 666: The general trend of the world
Although today's court meeting is just a small court meeting, it has a certain significance, because just today, the courtiers in the Great Tang Dynasty Hall are divided into two schools, the Li Hao faction and the Changsun faction.

Li Shimin hates forming cliques for private reasons, but they do not form cliques for private purposes, they do not gather in private, and they do not interfere with court affairs. They just support their leaders silently and tacitly. Defeat Li Hao, and the code of conduct on Li Hao's side is to support all of Li Hao's decisions without violating morality. In comparison, the people on Li Hao's side are more virtuous.

But Li Hao is notoriously unscrupulous, and now he is leading a group of moral veteran cadres to do things, the picture is very strange just to imagine.

There is internal strife in the court of Datang, but Medina, the capital of the Arab Empire, is discussing the matter of sending troops. First, someone proposed to send troops to attack Datang. This person is Yang Fan who has just joined the black food (Arab Empire) , he expressed dissatisfaction with losing to Fan Lihua, he didn't even know why he lost, why nearly a thousand Tang troops suddenly appeared in the royal court, he couldn't figure it out.

The king in black is not called a king, but called a caliph. He combines theocratic power and imperial power in one body. **Religion is the state religion, and there are many other religions coexisting in the country. The ruler does not force all people to believe in the true God Allah, but if they do not believe in the true God Allah, they will pay more taxes. country's economy.

The caliphate has the highest decision-making power in Dashi. It is equivalent to a god-like existence. It is what it says, and no one can question it. If Li Shimin knew this, he would not know how envious he would be.

The current caliph of the Black Dashi is called Uthman ibn Affan. He has been in office for six or seven years. This Uthman is a very wise leader. Food gradually grew and annexed many surrounding countries. At present, there are only two old enemies around their country. The first is naturally Byzantium, also known as the Eastern Roman Empire, which has been passed down for many years, and the second is Persia. Originally, Western Turks were black. The third enemy of clothing and food, but now the Western Turks have been destroyed by the Tang Dynasty and become history.

Osman is a very ambitious hero. He has carefully studied the general situation of the world in the past few years as the caliphate. He clearly understands that the most powerful country in the world is Datang. This is beyond doubt. Since he has the ambition to rule the world, he naturally doesn't like the most powerful Datang. Datang used to be far away from them, but now it is different. It wasn't huge, but it made him uneasy.

Yang Fan suddenly proposed to send troops to attack Fan Lihua and seize the land that originally belonged to the Western Turks. Osman refused, because he knew that this would only expose the hostility of the Great Food Kingdom to the Tang Dynasty, and it was very likely It will anger Datang. He is not afraid of Western Turks, but he is afraid of Datang. Don't offend such a powerful enemy for such a small territory. The gain outweighs the loss.

Osman has his own plan. The first thing he wants to solve is Byzantium, and then Persia. However, in recent years, Persia and Byzantium have formed an alliance to deal with him. There is a Western Turk next to him who keeps harassing him. He is basically in a [-]v[-] state. So he has been unable to defeat Byzantium. Now that the Western Turks have been destroyed, the opportunity has come. How could he foolishly provoke Datang? Isn't this just looking for trouble for himself?

Although Osman did not accept Yang Fan's proposal, Osman did not blame Yang Fan. On the contrary, he valued Yang Fan very much. However, he suffered repeated losses and repeated defeats, and how many generals he changed to go, were defeated one by one by Yang Fan. Osman has a broad mind, and when Yang Fan was desperate, he took Yang Fan regardless of the previous suspicions, because he liked Yang Fan Fan's unparalleled military talent, he appointed Yang Fan as a general, led the army to attack Byzantium, and at the same time sent the famous general Harris to lead the navy from the Mediterranean to the rear of Byzantium, and flanked Yang Fan's army back and forth.

Although Yang Fan was depressed because Osman did not accept his proposal, he was still very excited that Osman entrusted him with such a heavy responsibility, and immediately set off with an army of [-] to attack Byzantium.

In the Eastern World, Li Hao and Di Renjie had brought their troops to escort Sheng Guolan back to Nanzhao.

Further to the east, the country of Wa finally suppressed the civil strife thanks to the support of materials and weapons from the Tang Dynasty. Although there are not ten rooms and nine empties in the Wa Kingdom, there are still ten rooms, six or seven empties. Every day, a large number of people starve to death, mourning and mourning. , Once again condemned the envoy to Tang, asking Datang to sell them food to help them survive the crisis.

In mid-June, a few days after Li Hao and the others left Chang'an, the Japanese envoys came to Chang'an and asked to meet Li Shimin. Japan, but Li Shimin is not stupid, you can sell your food, don’t want the seeds, in order to prevent the rice seeds from leaking out, Li Shimin has already issued a strict order that only rice is allowed to be sold in the whole country, and the sale of rice is strictly prohibited. Meat, ten grains, cut ten catties, it is so cruel, and the inspection of the exported grain is even stricter.

At the same time, at the border of Tang and Liaodong, a team returned to Silla. This team is the team of envoys from Silla, but now there are three Tang people in it, namely Liu Xuanji and Wang Shi and Wang Lei.

Liu Xuanji and the others followed Pu Mingshun's emissary team back to Jincheng, the capital of Silla Kingdom. For Jincheng, Liu Xuanji's first feeling was: poor!

People who are accustomed to living in Chang'an naturally have a very high vision, but Liu Xuanji also lived in the Wa Kingdom for several years. In comparison, he felt that the Wa Kingdom before the civil strife was much stronger than Silla. Small and weak, he couldn't figure out why Li Hao attached so much importance to such a small and weak country, and specially sent him to stir up the wind and rain.

With countless doubts, Liu Xuanji moved into Pu Mingshun's house. After all, Pu Mingshun was also a senior official in Silla, but the mansion was a little bit bigger, and it was still a Tang house style.

Park Mingshun arranged rooms for Liu Xuanji, Wang Shi, Wang Lei, and his master and apprentice. Originally, Park Mingshun planned to arrange three rooms for them, but Liu Xuanji was very polite. He only wanted one room, and the three of them squeezed together. There was no bed in Silla's house. They all sleep on the floor, the floor is so big, not to mention three people, ten people can also sleep.

Since Liu Xuanji insisted, Park Mingshun agreed and told Liu Xuanji that he was going to meet the king tomorrow, and he would take him to meet his cousin Pu Zhiyong tomorrow afternoon.

That night, two black figures flashed out of Liu Xuanji's room. With the help of the darkness, they escaped the guards in the courtyard, climbed over the wall and left the courtyard. When the sky was about to dawn the next morning, the two figures came back again. Return to Liu Xuanji's room.

Liu Xuanji was sleeping, when he heard the sound of the door being pushed, he hurriedly got up, saw the two of them, and asked, "How is it?"

The two untied the black scarves covering their faces, and it turned out to be Wang Shi and Wang Lei.

"Very well." Wang Shi nodded, and then handed a note to Liu Xuanji.

Liu Xuanji took it over and took a look, then raised his head and asked, "Is there any fake?"

"It can't be fake." Wang Lei said with a smile, "You know our methods best."

"That's good." Liu Xuanji nodded reassuringly, and read the note carefully.

In the afternoon, Pu Mingshun came back from the palace to meet Liu Xuanji and wanted to take Liu Xuanji to see Prime Minister Pu Zhiyong. Liu Xuanji set off with Pu Mingshun after a little preparation.

Jincheng is not big, and soon arrived at Pu Zhiyong's prime minister's mansion. Pu Zhiyong is worthy of being the prime minister. The mansion is much larger than Pu Mingshun's mansion. Looking at the whole Jincheng, it is probably the largest mansion besides the royal palace. The mansion standard of a big family.

After entering the prime minister's mansion, Pu Mingshun took Liu Xuanji and waited in the living room. The two brothers Wang Shi and Wang Lei sat kneeling behind Liu Xuanji, like bodyguards.

After a while, the door was opened, and Pu Zhiyong walked in wearing casual clothes. When Liu Xuanji saw Pu Zhiyong, his face was shocked. He was shocked by Pu Zhiyong's face. He was so ugly. The ugly one looks like a joke, the resolution is extremely low, and anyone who is just made of dough looks better than him.

Although Liu Xuanji has seen the surprisingly ugly looks and styles of Silla people, this Pu Zhiyong is definitely ugly to a new height. Liu Xuanji couldn't help but be shocked. He thought to himself: "If I look so ugly, I'm afraid every time When you look in the mirror, you want to strangle yourself."

Seeing Pu Zhiyong coming in, Pu Mingshun immediately stood up and saluted: "Mingshun has seen my brother."

Pu Zhiyong said with a smile: "Ming Shun, sit down, I didn't expect you to come to see me so soon, you really are a good brother."

His eyes were originally small, but now that he smiles, he feels like he can't see his eyes at all, and only a flat nose and a big mouth remain on his pie-like face, oh, and two sparse eyebrows.

Both Pu Mingshun and Pu Zhiyong knelt down, and Pu Mingshun said: "Mingshun has always respected his brother the most. When he comes back, the first person he wants to see is the king, and the second person he wants to see is his brother."

Everyone else sat on their knees, but Liu Xuanji sat cross-legged, because he was a Taoist priest, and when Pu Zhiyong sat down, Liu Xuanji didn't get up, but just raised his right palm in front of his chest, performing a Taoist salute.

It was only then that Pu Zhiyong noticed Liu Xuanji. Seeing Liu Xuanji's grizzled hair at the temples, black beard and swaying chest, he was quite surprised, and asked in Tang dialect, "Are you from Tang Dynasty?"

Liu Xuanji raised his eyebrows slightly, and asked with a smile: "How does Mr. Pu know that the poor are from the Tang Dynasty?"

Pu Zhiyong said: "Looking at your appearance, you don't look like us from Silla."

Liu Xuanji laughed dryly and didn't answer, but he was thinking to himself: "Indeed, with my looks, if I were ten years younger, I'm afraid I would be the most beautiful man in Silla."

At this time, Pu Mingshun hurriedly introduced: "Brother, this Mr. Liu Xuanji in front of you is a rare person in the Tang Dynasty. I specially brought him back to help my brother in his great cause."

Pu Zhiyong was surprised when he heard the words, and asked in surprise, "A strange person? How is it a strange method?"

(End of this chapter)