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In the second year of Kaiyuan, the first month.

In the hall of the upper house of the Parliament of the Tang Empire, the Persian Emperor Isqi III tearfully accused the Arab bandits. He asked the benevolent and righteous teachers of the Tang Dynasty to be the masters of the Persian people and resist the invasion of the Arabs for Persia, hoping that the Tang Dynasty would help the suffering Persian people repel the Arabs and return Persia to a blue sky.

The representatives of the aristocratic members of the Tang Upper House of Lords are, of course, unbearable for the suffering of the Persian people. They also proposed to the prime ministers of the cabinet that the border cards should be opened and Persian refugees should be allowed to enter the four territories of the Tang Dynasty: Xihai, Hezhong, Daxia, and Xindu.

Many of the lords who had been sealed in these places patted their chests and offered to take in their Persian brothers and provide them with a job.

This matter involves the vital interests of the aristocracy, and Persia has basically lost the country, and the lips are cold. After the Arabs have swept away the Persians, the next step may be to attack them.

At the council, the nobles also asked the cabinet to support the strong people in Persia and to establish resistance groups.

As the prime minister of the cabinet, Zhang Chao also expressed his willingness to provide armament and food support to the Persians who insisted on resisting, and even set up training camps for the Persian resistance in the Tang Dynasty and sent instructors to help them train new soldiers.

Although Persia is dead, it still has value to be used.

Absorb refugees from Persia and increase the population of the nobles' domains on the border. Supporting the Persian nobles and powerful to build resistance forces and allowing them to continue to fight the Arabs in Persia can also contain some of the Arabs' power.

Zhang Chao even said that if the Arabs refuse to negotiate and persist in negotiations when necessary, then for the friendship of the Persian people of the Tang Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty will reserve the right to send volunteer troops into Persia to help the Persian people recover their lost territory.

It is better to fight the Arabs on the territory of the Persians than for the Arabs to enter the territory of the Tang Dynasty.

The Persian emperor burst into tears with excitement and fled all the way from Persia to Hanjing, like a lost dog, and now he finally feels warm. He wanted to flee to Rome, but the Romans refused.

It's still Datang, the real iron brother.

It's hot in parliament.

Three of the eight aristocratic dominions of the Tang Dynasty are close to Persia, and their reliability is also very close. Now the nobles are running their territories with their hearts, and who wants those Arabs to come over.

One day.

Two days.

Three days.

It was not enough for the entire House of Nobles to negotiate a response, to attract Persian refugees, to help them set up training camps, and to support them in the Persian resistance.

The aristocrats united.

The nobles asked them to create several combined armies to deal with the Arab threat.

According to the Tang system, the nobles could have a number of soldiers according to their titles, the lowest son and man could have 1,000 soldiers, and the highest prince could have 10,000 soldiers. However, the assembly and training of noble soldiers and horses need to be reported to the imperial court, and they are not allowed to go out of the territory without permission, otherwise it will be regarded as rebellion.

The nobles were now to form an alliance, garrison the border, and possibly even enter Persia, which required the consent of the imperial court.

"The Tang Dynasty Noble Army marches west!"

"Each nobleman sends a hundred troops!"

"Hit Ctesiphon!"

"Coalition army of 100,000, liberate Persian Sassanid!"

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There are more than 5,000 real nobles in the Tang Dynasty, and there are thousands of them in Xindu. And the three leaders of Hezhong, Xihai, and Daxia have no less than 2,000.

With so many nobles, even if they have not been in the territory for a long time and the population is not large, they can make up tens of thousands of people if they have ten in a family.

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Cabinet.

in the council chamber.

Du Yan exclaimed, "The nobles in the northwest are working very hard this time. ”

Zhang Chao said with a smile, "When it comes to their own vital interests, who doesn't work hard." The Arabs were so strong, everyone saw that the momentum was so fierce that Persia was swallowed up in just two or three years, and if they fought again, many nobles' territories would be lost. ”

Without the territory, the title and title may have to be cut, who dares not to work hard.

Besides, in the past, there was Persia, and these nobles in the northwest, although their territory was inland, but there was the Silk Road, and their trade with Persia and Rome was still very prosperous, and they made a lot of money.

As soon as Persia was in turmoil, especially after the occupation, the Silk Road to that side was broken, and even the road to Sindu was very dangerous.

After Datang occupied Xindu, many commercial goods came directly from the sea to Xindu, and then from Xindu to Hezhong and Xihai through Daxia, but it was much closer than taking the Silk Road.

"The Persians are so useless, a huge empire, tens of millions of people, if you say no, it will be gone." The eldest grandson Wuji was disdainful.

The Persian emperor, the emperor of a great empire, actually wept bitterly in the house of nobles, what did he look like, how could he have the slightest imperial majesty.

Cen Wenwen said, "It's not that Persia is too useless, although it is said that Persia is infighting, and in a few years, more than a dozen emperors have been changed, but the key is that the Arabs are too fierce." I have also gathered some information about these people, and I can't just assume it. ”

Chu Suiliang asked, "Do we really want to go to war with this Arab?" Persia is too far away from us, and it is beyond our means to go to war in Persia. ”

Zhang Chao shook his head.

"It's not that we're going to war with the Arabs, it's that they're going to go to war with us. Unless we give up Bactria and Hezhong, the West Sea, or even all the noble lords north of the Tianshan Mountains and west of the Green Mountains, or even the Xindu Realm, or even our trade, do you think we can give up? ”

"Impossible." Fang Xuanling shook his head.

It is impossible for Datang to give up these.

These aristocratic lords occupy half of the aristocratic territories, and they are vital to Taixi's land and sea trade, which is even more important to the economy of the Tang Dynasty.

No matter what, you can't give up.

"That's right, we can't give up on that, so we can only take the initiative and not let them come over. On two fronts, in Hezhong and Daxia, we must unite these thousands of noble vassals of several noble lords, let them contribute their efforts, establish several aristocratic joint armies, deploy them on the Persian border, and if necessary, enter the territory of Persia. Moreover, with the help of the Persian Emperor's call, we will support some Persian armed forces as our co-operatives. ”

Zhang Chao pointed to the map.

"On the other hand, our court is going to send troops to the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Aden. We have reached an agreement with the Roman prince to unite the three empires of Tang, Rome and Axum against the Arabs in the Red Sea. They have agreed to hand over the Horn of Africa and the Sinai Peninsula to the Tang Dynasty as the permanent territory of the Tang Dynasty for our garrison to build a city. ”

Zhang Chao's plan is very detailed, but the prime ministers still feel that it is a little beyond the reach of the whip.

A war thousands of miles away, a war of this magnitude, an all-out war with a powerful emerging empire, it is difficult to look at it.

How can Datang support the logistical supply of such a big war?

"The West Sea Fleet is still attacking the ports of the Japanese Ring Country, and there are not many troops, so I am afraid that there is no spare strength to go to the Red Sea."

Zhang Chao also knows that there are difficulties, but if he can't have difficulties, he won't go up.

In fact, Datang still has strength, but the imperial court can't spare it.

"Ladies and gentlemen, there are actually solutions. Right now in the Red Sea, we already have territory, and now all that is needed is warships and armies. As for the supply of food and grass, the Romans and the Aksumites are willing to provide support, and we can also procure them locally. ”

Zhang Chao prefers to involve civil forces.

For example, the coast security company he proposed earlier used these colonies in the Red Sea as a base to recruit several maritime security companies, and if there were not enough warships, they would first use merchant ships to arm merchant ships.

If there are not enough soldiers, the crew, sailors, and escorts of the merchant ship can be temporarily filled. Didn't the imperial court just reform the army, cut off a large number of government soldiers, and recruited them in.

The Imperial Court sold the Red Sea colonies sent by Rome and Axum to these recruited companies, and they could immediately make a fortune.

At the same time, the imperial court was able to establish a force in the Red Sea to protect the shipping routes to the Mediterranean, without paying for or sending troops of its own.

Why not?

The eldest grandson Wuji couldn't imagine that Zhang Chao would never forget this, and even went around for a long time and came back here.

Originally, the matter of this colonial territory was still under discussion, and there was no result for a long time.

The eldest grandson Wuji still wanted to delay it if he could, but now, Zhang Chao obviously didn't give them a chance.

The four major fleets of the imperial court are only 80,000 people. In Xindu's Western Sea Fleet, there are only 20,000 people. This person has to cooperate with Wang Xuance to counterattack and stop the Japanese army, how can he have the extra strength to draw to the Red Sea.

After all, the Western Sea Fleet is not yet mature and perfect.

Fang Xuanling was carefully thinking about Zhang Chao's proposal, and the Red Sea route was guaranteed, not only for trade, but also to contain the Arabs and protect the security of the Tang Dynasty's territory.

But the imperial court is indeed a little beyond the reach of the whip.

Take the Sinai Peninsula and the Horn of Africa to recruit security companies, sell them as colonies, let them take merchant ships and convert them into armed merchant ships, and recruit merchant sailors and retired government soldiers to garrison the Red Sea.

It's a two-pronged solution.

Fang Xuanling thinks you can give it a try.

The second prime minister expressed his support, and the eldest grandson Wuji was isolated.

Zhang Chao said with a smile, "You can take this time as a pilot for the security company to open up the colonial territory." If the effect is good this time, it can be fully implemented in the future. ”

Eldest Sun Wuji had a cold face, "The current situation in the Red Sea, I'm afraid that no one may be willing to spend a lot of money to take risks." ”

Zhang Chao smiled.

If no one really wants to go, he is still willing to go to the Zhang family, and even Qin Qiongcheng bites these old friends, he said a word, which family will not immediately pay to recruit people to buy ships in the past?

The Red Sea is indeed far away.

But from another point of view, Datang has sealed thousands of lords in Xindu, and Xindu is not far from the Red Sea. And in the river in the West Sea, the same many lords. In terms of transportation, the time to return to Datang from the Horn of Africa is much faster than that from the Volga River on the Caspian Sea.

Especially the Horn of Africa and the Sinai Peninsula, which is close to the Red Sea, the largest trade route between the Tang Dynasty and the West, this is a golden artery.

Not to mention the Horn of Africa, but a few small islands on the edge of the Horn of Africa, which are all valuable.

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