Tang Dynasty good brother

Chapter 431 The Dangerous Tang Dynasty

Two months later, when Master Xuanzang returned, Li Shimin led the ministers of civil and military affairs, and went out of the city gate for more than ten miles to pick him up, expressing the highest and most solemn respect to this national teacher.

Then, I threw them into the Big Wild Goose Pagoda to translate Buddhist scriptures. The monk was considered sensible, and he really didn't come out unless there were special circumstances, which saved Li Shimin a lot of worry.

The time just slowly slipped into the 13th year of Zhenguan.

The biggest change in Datang this year should be the issuance of banknotes. The issuance of banknotes will inevitably require the abolition of general-purpose notes, otherwise who would use banknotes.

Inevitably, Datang's economy was severely shaken, but in the end it was barely settled. Li Yuan also closed his eyes with a smile, saying goodbye to the world he created and led to the peak by his son.

Li Yuan's death didn't even change the court situation. He died peacefully, and Datang also welcomed his death calmly.

In addition, alfalfa was finally successfully planted on a large scale under the vigorous promotion of the imperial court. The output of the horse farm in Datang doubled, and the common people lived a good life that at least the elderly could eat meat.

All of this is naturally inseparable from the strong support of Persia. Today's Persian Empire has completely fallen to the side of the Tang Dynasty. The Prince of Persia even brought a large number of elites to Chang'an to serve as Li Shi's home guards. Ask Qin Hao for a drink.

However, the situation in Tubo, under Hou Junji's iron-fisted rule, has completely changed. Only then did the people of Tubo know that compared with the special Hou Junji, the warrior Xun is simply a goddamn saint.

During his lifetime, the warrior Xun always wanted to restore the four counties of the Han Dynasty, and planted cotton extensively in the Western Regions to attract the soldiers to be self-sufficient. Qin Hao also cooperated with him unconditionally, and gave him all the rich looms , but still out of scale.

There is definitely no shortage of land, and cotton seeds are not a rare thing now. As always, there is a shortage of people, to be precise, a shortage of slaves.

Now, those Tubo captives were in a miserable situation, they were all thrown to plant cotton by Hou Junji, the key point was that they were not good at planting, and a few of them were whipped to death every day.

The new Panchen Lama was canonized by Li Shimin. The Panchen Lama and Zanpu have a dual political structure, which can effectively prevent any one family from being dominant. As long as the canonized right is in the hands of the imperial court, this place will become sacred and inseparable sooner or later. part.

The problem is, even though the Tibetan captives have all gone to plant cotton, it still doesn’t seem to be enough. Then, Hou Junji set his sights on Western Turks, and then the cotton was planted, and Hou Junji is now very happy Jianwuwei County.

However, the Western Turks are different from Nanzhao. They have never been weak. Under the atmosphere of the same hatred, everyone finally decided to turn their guns and drive away the invaders of the Tang Dynasty. Then, the Western Turks were so unified. Moreover, Xue Yantuo was miraculously included, and Hou Junji's mother didn't know him anymore.

All of this has nothing to do with Qin Hao, and he is not a military officer. The Western Turks in history were indeed a great enemy, but it is nothing to the current Tang Dynasty. He just wants to be quiet. Quietly waiting for Wang Gui to die so that he can take over the position of others. It is said that this day should not be far away. I heard that the old man is seriously ill now. When he saw Wei Zheng a few days ago, he also I am very sad that my old friend will pass away.

However, Qin Hao couldn't help but get involved in the series of chain reactions caused by the Western Turks.

The thing is like this, almost at the same time when the Western Turkic Unity launched an attack on Hou Junji, on the sea surface, the fleet of Datang finally collided with the Arab fleet, the reason was to compete for spices.

In fact, this kind of thing is not once or twice. Everyone is doing business on the sea, and there is no one who does not touch his teeth. He feels that there is something wrong with seven or eight naval battles every year, but the scale is always small. Staying at the level of private commercial disputes, the two sides also win and lose each other, and it is impossible to talk about who loses and who takes advantage.

But this time, I don't know if the general on the opposite side got too drunk, and after a small victory, he actually turned his mind on Datang's concession in Southeast Asia.

Because Datang is closer to Southeast Asia after all, the spices are basically controlled by Datang. Datang is now popular in building concessions, so the vicinity of the Malacca Strait is now all the concessions of the Green Gang. No matter how they fight, they have never fought against each other on land, so their defenses are a bit lacking.

The fighting power of the Green Gang is no secret, especially on land, not to mention the mob, at least it is far from the opponent of the big cannibal, so the two concessions of Datang were slaughtered.

When the news came back to Chang'an, it was like slapping Li Shimin's face left and right with his big mouth. Have people been bullied like this?

So Zhang Liang set off with most of the main force of the Datang Green Gang. It is said that he wanted to destroy this barbarian who jumped out of nowhere. Although Li Shimin also reminded Dashi not to be underestimated, he didn't seem to take it seriously. In the end, regretting it, Qin Hao even gave others advice, and exaggerated the power of Dashi, so that Zhang Liang felt that his position as the commander of the navy was provoked by Qin Hao's eyes. Hao proved that he was the boss of the Green Gang, and he headed for Southeast Asia with a single stroke.

Then, isn't this kneeling in the hall?

In the First World War, less than half of the warships and soldiers were damaged, and they were killed by big cannibals, and they completely withdrew from Southeast Asia. This can be called the biggest fiasco since Zhenguan. Class must be dismissed. If you don't agree, it is not uncommon for these gangsters to mutiny.

In fact, why should the Green Gang ask for it? Li Shimin can't wait to tear Zhang Liang alive. Although he didn't kill him in the end because of his hard work, it is certain that he will be released to Lingnan after all.

How else can this be a chain reaction? When this naval battle was lost like this, Dashi’s land was not idle. A strong army of 30 attacked Persia almost at the same time. When Persia asked Datang for support, the entire Western Turkic family suddenly abandoned Xining City and went directly to the Hexi Corridor, completely blocking the communication between Datang and the Western Regions.

Then, Li Shimin, who had high blood pressure, lay down when he became unsteady, and it is said that he almost passed.

The reason why the Tang Dynasty was able to achieve today's prosperity is that apart from the explosive growth of several new crops, it is all due to walking on two legs, one is the sea route going south, and the other is the Silk Road drawn west by camels. Two legs were broken at the same time, this frankly cost Datang's life!

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