Osman was very tall, about forty years old, which is the most mature age for a man's thinking, and it is also the age of a man's confusion.

A man of this age is a man with a very uncle's taste, and it is also the most favorite type of little girls in later generations, of course, it must be an uncle who has money and status, if there is no money and no status, it is a disgusting uncle.

Ottoman is tall and strong, and he is also very manly, and he is a general of the Umayyad Dynasty, and he can definitely charm thousands of girls in the future generations, and a large number of girls are lovesick.

However, Osman is not a gentle uncle, he is a battle-hardened veteran, very ruthless, during the expedition to France, he did not kill less, especially when he was defeated and fled, in order to vent his grievances, he slaughtered many unarmed Frankish civilians, and the cruelty of the means can be seen.

Although Uthman was a cruel fellow, his loyalty was still good, he was quite loyal to his master, after hearing about the civil turmoil and the birth of the Aposian dynasty, he did not choose to submit to the Aposian dynasty, but chose to continue to be loyal to the Umayyad dynasty that had existed in name only, becoming the last mainstay of the Umayyad dynasty, and won the trust of the new leader of the dynasty, Darrahman.

For his own safety, Darlaman traveled to Spain to ascend the throne and established the post-Umayyad dynasty, while the famous general Ottoman withdrew his troops from the Franks, traveled by sea to Egypt and landed, and recently arrived near the city of Aden, preparing to contact the rebels within the Aposian dynasty against the nascent Aposian dynasty.

It's just that what Ottoman didn't expect was that these Shiite armed forces and other forces seemed to be very wary of him, and did not make it clear that they wanted to unite against the Apos dynasty, and it is no wonder that all the allies who were united with the Apersians in these factions to resist the Umayyad dynasty and formed an alliance with their own enemies, just to fight against new enemies, whether this is right or wrong, many people are a little undecided, even if they are united, they can only tacitly and secretly unite, and cannot openly form an alliance, otherwise, many things will not be easy to do.

If the Ottomans were allied with Artik, how would they divide the benefits of defeating the Apos dynasty? Whether to make the Umayyad Darlaman caliph or Ali's descendants a caliph is a non-negotiable matter, and without a common political goal, the union is too fragile, and the combined legions with each evil spirit are a rabble.

Osman is a mature and steady man, he has not been able to unite with Artik, and he is not in a hurry, because everyone at this age understands that many things are in a hurry and useless, and it is better not to be in a hurry.

At this moment, Osman's mood was not only not anxious, but very excited, because he heard that Apos, the founder of the Apos dynasty, was seriously ill and was about to die, which was definitely great news for him.

"Damn Apos is finally dying, this is really something to celebrate, it must be celebrated, let the soldiers celebrate well."

Osman said without hesitation.

"General, Apos is dying, will it cause a civil strife? It would be great if there was civil unrest. ”

"I hope so! If the people of Apos were to fight among themselves, it would be too good for us, and we would be much less stressed. ”

"Anyway, we'd better wait and see what happens lately."

Each ministry will have its own opinions.

Uthman looked to the east, where was the great camp of Ziyad, and the enemy whom he feared, paused, and said: "Egypt has been occupied by them, and there are 10,000 soldiers and horses stationed there, which cuts off our rear route, and I hope that there will be civil strife, otherwise, our situation will be very bad." ”

"Don't worry, general! I bet they're going to have infighting, it's going to happen. ”

One of his subordinates said prayerfully.

Osman smiled and said loudly, "Okay! Let's celebrate! ”

To the northwest of the city of Aden, the Ottoman army held a celebration of the serious illness of their enemy leader, Apos, and it is conceivable that they would do it again when Apos died.

In the vast Arabian Sea, Ang Lee's ship was moving unhurriedly, because there was no need to rush to the city of Aden, so naturally there was no need to deliberately speed up the voyage to save precious fuel.

When traveling on the sea, all you can see is the vast sea, as well as the blue sky, and occasionally you can see seabirds in the sky and whales in the sea, which is generally quite monotonous.

And human nature is to like a colorful life, and a monotonous and boring life will make people very uncomfortable, so people who have been sailing at sea for a long time must find something that can regulate their emotions.

For example, it's very good to watch a TV series or something, but in this era, there is no such high-tech as a TV series, and there are no games or anything, so it's impossible to count on these.

At least, in the current situation, in addition to reading books and hugging beauties, Ang Lee has no more entertainment methods, but anything will make people tired, eating too much food will get tired, reading too many books will make you dizzy, too much snapping will also be very tired, you always have to keep changing the type of entertainment, in order to make people better relaxed.

"It's so boring! What should we do? ”

Li An touched the white fox in his arms, and the feeling was not so strong, after all, there had been a big battle just an hour ago.

"Ah Lang, I'm hungry, let's eat something!"

The white fox snorted.

"Baby, what do you want to eat?"

Li An asked softly.

"Grouper, braised grouper."

The white fox snorted.

Li An immediately shouted: "Black Bean, go and tell the back kitchen and let them make a braised grouper." ”

Black Bean was the most obedient, and hurriedly ran to tell the back kitchen, but he quickly ran back and said loudly: "Ah Lang, the back kitchen said that there is no grouper." ”

It is impossible for the kitchen to prepare too many ingredients, it is impossible to prepare all kinds of food, and Li An has not often eaten grouper before, so the kitchen did not prepare, and, according to the understanding of the people in the kitchen, after the fleet leaves Anzhu City, it will soon arrive in Aden City, as long as the food is enough.

"Alang, I want to eat grouper."

The white fox was not happy when he heard it.

Ang Lee naturally can't blame the kitchen for such a trivial matter, but the white fox especially wants to eat grouper, so he has to find a way.

Since there is no grouper in the kitchen, you can only look for it from the sea, there are all kinds of fish in the ocean, and if you are lucky, you may be able to catch a few groupers.

"Whether you can eat grouper or not depends on your luck."

Li An will not be too accustomed to the white fox, if he really doesn't have it, then he can only eat something else.

"Is the nearest harbor too far away?"

The white fox spoke.

Li An patted the white fox's head and said softly, "What do you want?" Just to let you eat grouper, you have to send a boat to the nearest harbor to buy it, Ah Lang doesn't dare to be so capricious, let alone you. ”

As a compassionate soldier, Ang Li will not learn from Li Longji, an old man, in order to let his concubine eat lychees, he actually used a post station to expedite the delivery of lychees, which is really too capricious.

However, this period of history has been rewritten, the railway network of the Tang Empire has been connected to the south, and the fresh lychees in the south can be sent to Chang'an City in an extreme time, not only Li Longji and these nobles can eat fresh lychees, but even ordinary people in the Tang Dynasty can eat lychees.

Of course, in order to reflect the nobility of the nobles, the lychees supplied by the royal family are the best varieties, and the fastest royal procurement train is responsible for transportation, while the lychees in Chang'an city are transported by ordinary trains, and there are differences in both variety and freshness.

Lychee is still a delicate fruit, and it will deteriorate in a short period of time after picking, as the saying goes, lychee changes color in one day, fragrance changes in two days, taste changes in three days, and after four or five days, the color and fragrance are gone.

The south, which is rich in lychees, is thousands of miles away from Chang'an City, so in ancient times, lychees could not be sold in Chang'an City, and only Li Longji, as the emperor, would willfully use the power of the post station to deliver lychees.

And because the distance is too far, when passing the lychee, it is not just as simple as using the post station, otherwise, even if the people at the post station go all out to deliver the lychee, it will deteriorate in Chang'an.

The people who curry favor with the concubine adopted the method of transplanting the whole lychee tree, digging up the lychee trees in the south by the roots, placing them on boats, and watering them day and night to prevent the lychee trees from drying up.

The boat traveled all the way north until it reached the place where the Qinling Mountains were not accessible by water, and then immediately picked the lychees, and let the post station be responsible for transporting them, because the Qinling Mountains were not too far from Chang'an City, so the post station could send the lychees to the Huaqing Palace within one day, so that the concubine could taste the fresh lychees.

The manpower and material resources used in this method are undoubtedly very huge, of course, this is nothing, what is terrible is that Li Longji actually used the post station, in case of an emergency military situation, it will not be delayed.

Since the railway of the Tang Dynasty is connected to the south, if the lychee is transported by the royal procurement train, it can return to Chang'an City within one day, and the effect is similar to before.

However, in order to let Yang Guifei eat fresher lychees, the people below actually used the old method this time to transplant the entire lychee tree into the carriage of the train and carry out watering insurance.

Lychee trees are generally relatively large, and even smaller ones are relatively large, and the part that exceeds the capacity of the train car has to be cut off, which also causes some kind of waste.

Yang Guifei was naturally even happier, because these lychees could be transported to her eyes intact, and he could also see the lychee tree and personally pluck the lychee from the lychee tree.

She would even have lychee trees planted in the palace and watered them, of course, it is impossible for lychee trees to survive in the north, and even if they barely survive, it is impossible to produce delicious lychee fruits.

To say that the railways have been built, Li Longji can take his concubine to Lingnan to pick it personally, but after all, he is the king of a country, and a trip out of the palace is not a simple matter, all kinds of guards and casual officials are very large, if they go to the south just to eat lychees, it will cause labor and money, compared with this, the use of trains to transport the whole lychee tree, the consumption of people's and material resources is much smaller, so naturally no minister dares to object.

Moreover, when there were more lychees transported, Li Longji would also reward them to the ministers of the court, almost all of whom had eaten freshly picked lychees, and their mouths were short, so of course they couldn't say anything about such trivial matters.

The fresh lychees in the market, because they are transported by ordinary trains, generally take a day or two to arrive, so, there will be some changes in color, but there is absolutely no deterioration, in addition, smart businessmen have long found a way to keep it fresh, they will soak the lychees in cold water, in this way, the quality of the lychees can be preserved to the greatest extent, to ensure that the lychees can be fresh when they arrive in Chang'an City, so that the ordinary people of Chang'an City can eat fresh and delicious lychees.

Li An can't eat lychees now, so he doesn't dare to hope for it, but if he wants to eat grouper, there may be hope for it, and there may be grouper in the sea under his feet, which is very conducive to fishing when the boat is slow.

"Ah Lang wants to catch grouper in the sea, but where is the grouper!"

The white fox looked at the sea water and shook his head gently.

Li An looked at the black bean and ordered: "Pass the order, let all the people who have nothing to do go to the deck to fish, and those who catch groupers will be rewarded again." ”

Black Bean soon went to give the order, and soon a large group of people ran to the deck to fish and play, and Ang Lee himself also took a large fishing rod and sat on the deck to catch fish.

There were a lot of people on Ang Lee's boat, almost a quarter of them ran out to fish, and naturally there were many people fishing in other boats.

Ordinary fish move in groups, so there are a lot of fish in some places, but there is not a single fish in some places, and the place where the Datang fleet passes is where there are no fish schools, so no one has caught fish.

However, the Datang fleet has been on the move, and the fact that there are no fish in the position for the time being does not mean that there are no fish in the next position, so the big guys are not discouraged, but continue to stand on the deck and fish.

The hard work paid off, and after a moment of tossing, the Datang fleet passed by a school of fish, and almost all the people involved in fishing caught fish, but there were only a few varieties of fish caught by everyone, and there was no shadow of grouper.

"Ah Lang, the big yellow croaker is also very good, just eat the big yellow croaker!"

The white fox didn't want Li Ang to work too hard, and he was afraid that Li Ang would lose his patience.