Pei Min, Zhang Xiaosong, Zhang Jiuling, Wang Changling, Wang Zhilian, and Wang Wei each sat down in a cell full of the smell of wine and meat.

Everyone else has retreated, and in this circle of literati, there are outsiders who are a little inappropriate.

The aroma of Du Kang, plus carefully cooked roast whole lamb and beef stew.

Let the index fingers of the people sitting there move, especially Zhang Xiaosong.

came in a prisoner car all the way, although no one treated him badly, especially after Pei Min knew about Zhang Xiaosong, he asked Zhao Yizhen to take good care of him.

That's it, you can't eat such a hearty wine and meat on the road, at best, the food is better.

Pei Min knew that if he didn't do anything, they wouldn't eat, so he didn't care about them, and ate and drank in a big gulp.

The literati are a very contradictory product, they take pride in being neatly dressed, and they take debauchery as elegance, like the exhibitionist Liu Ling, and many celebrities who do not take a bath and talk about lice......

In the end, it all comes down to people!

If you're famous, if you're a big person, you're right about everything; If you are a worthless little person, even if you are reasonable, you are rude!

Literati, that's how realistic it is.

Pei Min ate and drank without taboo, which also drove everyone's emotions, and they ate and drank together.

Zhang Xiaosong is somewhat similar to Pei Min, both are champions, and they are both good soldiers, and they are extraordinary in terms of economics and history, but there is nothing particularly brilliant in poetry. For some reason, I have special respect for poets who are good at poetry.

In his eyes, everyone who is doing it is a first-class poet in the world.

This eating and drinking, non-stop toasting, talking about poetry and papers, and asking for advice.

Zhang Jiuling, Wang Changling, Wang Zhilian, and Wang Wei are naturally able to deal with it.

Pei Min's own skills are not good, but his ability to pretend is first-class and perfunctory.

made Zhang Xiaosong fascinated, and was able to discuss poetry with a group of poets, and he only felt that he had no regrets in this life.

Pei Min satisfied Zhang Xiaosong's interest, and also asked about what he cared about, the situation in the Western Regions.

"Mr. Xiaosong, you have been wandering in the Western Regions all these years, and it has been really hard, but I don't know what the situation is in the Western Regions now?"

Zhang Xiaosong's drunken and misty eyes showed a hint of enlightenment, and said with a smile: "Guogong is interested in the Western Regions? ”

"Of course!" Pei Min did not hide his thoughts and said: "What I am doing is my Tang Dynasty pillars, and they are all my own people, there is nothing to hide." Apply to come to Hexi in order to be the Western Regions. The Western Regions is the future, the court is now virtuous, and my Tang Dynasty will definitely be thriving. But if you keep going, you will reach the top of a bottle. If you don't break this bottle top, the result will be repeated. ”

His words here are not clear, Wang Changling, Wang Zhilian, and Wang Wei are inferior in this regard, and they seem to understand and some don't understand.

But Zhang Jiuling and Zhang Xiaosong knew that Pei Min was talking about prosperity and decline.

It's just that these words can only be understood, not spoken.

When a country reaches a certain level of strength, if it begins to rest on its laurels, waiting is the way to perish.

Like the Han Dynasty, the Han Dynasty was so strong that it was extremely rare in Chinese history. But after conquering the Western Regions, they were invincible and began to recuperate.

This recuperation raised an incompetent emperor, and the internal chaos began to rise, from prosperity to decline.

The Tang Dynasty was the same, Li Longji was so virtuous at the beginning, it is not an exaggeration to compare him to the Qin Emperor and Han Wu. It's just that it seems that everything that should be done is done, and he starts to enjoy himself, from a bright monarch, to a fool, and he has ruined his own virtuous life.

In all fairness, if Li Longji had one-third of his previous heroic martial arts in the later period, his imperial ranking would not be comparable to that of Emperor Qin and Han Wu, and there would be absolutely no pressure to complete Kangxi and Qianlong.

Because of this, Pei Min has always been committed to fighting out, not only limited to the lands he owns now, but also playing in the Western Regions, and competing with Arab and Byzantine countries, so that Li Longji's vision becomes farther, and he is not easily satisfied with pleasure.

"I know that the Western Regions is not the limit of Datang. We are not the only ones in the world. I want to prosper in the Tang Dynasty, break the cage of the Western Regions, and develop westward is the only way. Just like the Han Dynasty created the Western Regions, if it weren't for the eloquence of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, before the Han Dynasty, who knew that there was another world in the Western Regions? The predecessors are the benchmark, whether our descendants can break it depends on whether Your Majesty has the courage to do so, and whether our courtiers are as capable as Wei Huo Banchao. ”

"And even if we don't fight, it doesn't mean they won't fight. Whether it is defense or offense, the Western Regions will be the key to the top priority of our dynasty in the future. ”

"The country is famous!" Zhang Xiaosong looked at Pei Min, these four words were inspired by feelings.

He has been patrolling the Western Regions for many years, and he has the best understanding of the situation in the Western Regions.

The Western Regions is now a fragrant and gluttonous fatty meat, and everyone wants a piece of the pie and a bite.

It's just that considering the current strength of the Tang Dynasty and its own various reasons, it did not take positive actions, but continued to divide and understand with small actions.

Especially the big food country, the big food country originally didn't pay attention to Tianzhu. After they invaded the Indus Valley and conquered the large and small states in the northwestern part of the Indian subcontinent, they only sent a few troops to stay in the important places, and had no intention of dominating.

Now they continue to start recruiting troops in important places, and I believe that as long as they recover the vitality of the defeat in the water war, they will use troops against Tianzhu and peep at the Western Regions from the north and south.

This is something he has noticed recently, but he can't imagine that Pei Min has seen this step with extraordinary foresight.

There is only capital admiration in my heart.

He didn't know that the initiator of today's situation was none other than Pei Min.

Historically, the Arabs have not paid much attention to the Western Regions, and they have focused their development on Byzantium, on the European continent further west.

It was Gao Xianzhi's domineering style that caused the rebellion of Shi Guo, which attracted the attention of Arabia to the East.

So much so that there was a collision between the East and the West, and the Battle of Talas began.

In the end, it ended in the defeat of the Tang army, but at that time, there were certain internal problems in Arabia itself, and they did not take advantage of the victory to pursue each other and strike each other.

Now that history has changed, Pei Min's butterfly effect has made Li Longji pay more attention to the Western Regions, and the opening of Longshan Road and Wusheling has made the Silk Road more convenient and accelerated the exchanges between the East and the West.

The collision between the East and the West in history, Arabia was not its strongest period, and there were internal strife and disobedience. The Tang Dynasty also began to weaken and was not at its peak.

But the current Arab Empire is undoubtedly the strongest, while the Tang Dynasty has not yet reached its peak and is developing rapidly......

This made Pei Min a little sad, and he attracted the attention of the Western lion in advance, and he didn't know whether it was good or bad.

But all he could do was keep an eye on the lion's every move, and fight him at any time.

Such a grand treatment of Zhang Xiaosong, his own merits are one of them, his experience in the Western Regions over the years, and his understanding of the situation in the West are the real key.

It is also Pei Min's meaning of a drunkard.