If you want to use one word to describe today's Datang, it is ---- change.

Bottom-up change.

Everything is changing.

External, included.

This year is definitely an eventful time for Datang, when everyone's eyes are focused on the disaster in Henan, in fact, at the same time, something is happening around Datang.

Although this is all artificial, but this is also inevitable, because the Tang Empire is moving towards a more glorious era, so geopolitics will become more intense, when the power of the Tang Dynasty is strong enough, it will definitely radiate to the surrounding areas, this is the geopolitics of the cause, and the surrounding areas will have been greatly affected.

Yingzhou, located in the north, ushered in a cold winter earlier than the Guanzhong area.

The cold wind was howling, and the bare trees, like bald old men, swayed in the cold wind.

In a house outside Yingzhou City, I saw a beautiful woman with a slender figure and a fresh temperament, wrapped in a white woolen coat, sitting by the fire, holding a book in her hand, and she was extremely fascinated by it.

This beautiful woman is Chen Shuozhen.

After a while, I saw a young woman in her twenties walk in and said, "Mrs. Qiyu, all the books you want have been delivered, a total of 3,000 copies." ”

Chen Shuozhen closed the book, nodded, and asked, "How was the conversation with the Khitan?" ”

The young woman replied, "Everything is going very well, and we have made a trade contract with the merchants of the Sivanten, Hodaho, and Fuphyu tribes, and they will buy goods from us at a lower price than the market price. Moreover, in recent years, the people of the Khitan have become more and more dependent on our goods from the Central Plains, and I believe that these merchants will soon develop with our support. ”

Chen Shuozhen asked, "What is their chief's reaction?" ”

The young woman said, "The Khitan Eight Divisions have always traded with us, and we have only just begun to cooperate, which has not attracted the attention of their chiefs. But....... ”

Chen Shuozhen asked, "But what?" ”

The young woman said, "But I don't understand why the lady gave them these fairy tales in white as gifts?" Those Khitans are all barbarians who don't understand the culture of our Central Plains, and this book is given to them, and I don't think it will be useful. ”

Chen Shuozhen said with a smile: "Because our ultimate goal is not to eliminate them, but to overthrow their existing regime and completely incorporate these places into the territory of my Tang Dynasty, and these places are all nomadic people, and the living customs of our people in the Central Plains are very different, if you want to integrate, you must have something in common." Language and writing will be the key to our integration. ”

Speaking of this, she raised the book in her hand, "And this fairy tale in white is indeed very wonderful, I think once it flows into the Khitan region, their children will definitely like to read it very much, then it will prompt them to learn the language and writing of our Central Plains, and yearn for the Central Plains in their hearts, and when the time is ripe, they will take the initiative to ask to integrate into our Datang and become the people of Datang thoroughly." Therefore, not only do we have to send books to them, but we also have to send some people into their hinterland, establish academies, teach them to read and write, and promote our drama in the Khitan region. ”

The young woman bowed her head and said, "I understand." ”

This job is really suitable for Chen Shuozhen, because she used to do this, he knows how to publicize, how to disintegrate, but now she is promoting her own sect, inciting the people, and disintegrating the government, but now the Tang Dynasty culture she is propagating is the Khitan regime.

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Yizhou.

"Brother Tan, the new slave has arrived! There are 313 of them, and I have already checked them, and all of them are very healthy. ”

Saki came to the house and said to Tan Dong, who was sitting in the house.

Tan Dong was surprised: "It's almost twice as much as the last time!" ”

Zuo Wu said with a smile: "Isn't Engong always saying, the world is bustling for profit, the world is bustling for profit, in the past, the center of gravity of Tubo was in Tuyuhun and my Central Plains, most of the slaves in their hands are Han and Tuyuhun people, followed by the Western Regions, Tianzhu there are relatively few slaves, and now the price of Tianzhu slaves has been fried by us, and our goods in the Central Plains are deeply liked by them, and now their nobles have also begun to use toothbrushes, but they don't have much to exchange goods with us, Nowadays, we need a large number of slaves, and of course they will increase the number of times they go to Tianzhu to rob the population. However, they were very curious about why we only needed Tianzhu slaves. ”

When he said Tianzhu, he didn't mean the place of Tianzhu, but the entire Indian region, because their culture was limited, and they knew about Tianzhu about that region.

Now is also the time when Tibet is the strongest, of course, they also bully the weak, and from time to time they also go to India to grab something or something, but due to geographical restrictions, they can't attack on a large scale, but now they go there and make money, so of course they have to go a few times.

Tan Dong said: "Didn't you explain it to them? ”

Zuo Wu said: "Of course explained, we want to develop the Lingnan region, the climate of Lingnan is similar to that of Tianzhu, and the slaves in other places will not adapt to the water and soil, only the Tianzhu slaves are the most suitable for us, they have no doubts, but they want to sell the Han slaves to us." ”

Tan Dong smiled and said: "These Tubo people are not stupid, we have the most borders with them, and Han slaves are the easiest to obtain, but no matter how shrewd they are, they are not as shrewd as our proprietor, the proprietor has expected them to do this, so he has only instructed him several times, we must not want Han slaves, if we buy a large number of Han slaves, then it will only prompt them to continue to invade the border, which must not be agreed." For example, the price of Zhu slaves today has not yet reached the price set by the proprietor, and we must cooperate with them to continue to speculate on Tianzhu slaves and let them pay attention to Tianzhu. In addition, all those slaves were transported to Lingnan. ”

Zo Wu nodded.

At this moment, Zhang Jianbo suddenly walked in, "Big brother, our slaves are ready, a total of one hundred." ”

Tan Dong nodded, and looked at Zuo Wu again.

Zuo Wu said: "It's already been contacted over there, and in a few days, when I leave, I'll send them over." ”

Tan Dong nodded and said, "But you must be careful, don't let them notice anything, this is our proprietor's killing move, and there can't be any mistakes." ”

Zuo Wu smiled: "There is no problem on my side, there will be no mistakes, the key is whether these slaves are trained or not." ”

Zhang Jianbo said: "You can rest assured that in the past few years, we have been training them strictly, and it is impossible for Tubo to get any news from them." ”

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Cochin, Aizhou.

This Aizhou, also known as Thanh Hoa City, Vietnam, is located in the Red River Delta, which means near the sea.

Now this has become Li Jingye's base camp, more and more people from the Central Plains have come here, of course, they are here to do business, but not to live, no one wants to live here, but because businessmen send troops, full of business opportunities, many businessmen have sent people to follow Li Jingye together.

According to Han Yi's arrangement, they can't go deep inland, first, if there is anything to evacuate in time, second, they won't face miasma, and third, they are also recruiting people to go to sea, and they must be at the seaside.

On this day, Li Jingye and Qi Biming came to the dock to inspect.

"Shang Shuling really didn't favor us, the land here is really good, just throw the seeds in the soil, and you don't need to cultivate."

Qi Ming said with emotion.

Li Jingye said with a smile: "Such a good place should belong to the people of our Central Plains, not these barbarians." ”

Qi Bi Ming said: "According to Shang Shuling's plan, as long as this dock is prosperous, it will be able to attract people from other states and counties to come here, and our people in the Central Plains will also be able to avoid those miasma lands, and come here from the sea, sooner or later this place will completely belong to our Central Plains." ”

As he spoke, he saw Qin Qiao and Ashina Servo coming over.

Li Jingye smiled: "You guys are back, how are you going?" ”

Ashina Servo said with a look of disdain: "I really obeyed this tribal chieftain of Jiaozhi. ”

Li Jingye said curiously: "How do you say this?" ”

Ashina said: "Shang Shuling is really like a god, those chiefs, all of them are very greedy, here, the money is much better than the orders of the government, but unfortunately, those chiefs have not seen the world, give them hundreds of bottles of perfume, and their eyes are about to fall out." ”

Li Jingye said: "In other words, everything is going very smoothly? ”

Qin Qiao said: "It's very smooth, the imperial court gives the policy, we give the money, those chiefs are willing to cooperate with our propaganda, and five thousand warriors have been recruited, plus the Gao family brothers, I think it should be about the same." ”

Li Jingye said: "I really don't want to waste too much time here, I heard that the Yuan family sent the Yuan Fort Lord to go, and the bully also has some means, don't go before we go, they will clean up the Buddha's dead country." ”

Qin Qiao said: "Dedication, this matter is very important, Shang Shuling is a thousand instructions, don't act hastily, you have to follow the plan step by step." ”

Li Jingye nodded and said: "I know this, it's just that we have studied in the Military Academy for so long, and this hand is a little itchy!" ”

"Haha!"

Everyone burst out laughing.

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At the same time, in the bay of Manila, a "remake" of the White River Estuary is being made.

After the last temptation, the Buddha died and the country really raised an army to attack. At Cui Pingzhong's suggestion, Yuan Vulture first let Yuan Jie lead the army, go to sea to fight them, and then defeat them, leading them into a narrow place in Manila Bay. The Buddha died in a group of natives, where do they know what art of war, and they know that Yuan Jie is the boss, the boss is defeated, so what else to say, of course, is to take advantage of the victory to pursue, this head crashed in, the result was Yuan Vulture closed the door and beat the dog, and chose the most trouble-free fire attack, using fire oil, for the chaotic Buddha lost the country of the navy, this is very terrifying, their kind of small broken boat, one point, immediately messed into a pot of porridge.

Tongues of fire spread across the sea at an alarming speed, and the sky-high flames collided with the sunlight in the air, and the sound of screams and falling water was endless.

However, since this is a "remake", the scale and quality are naturally far inferior to the Baijiangkou War.

After all, at that time, the Tang Dynasty's sailors were pouring out, and the Wa State was also mobilizing on a large scale.

"Alas... I can't imagine that this Buddha is not even as good as the Japanese people, although the Japanese people are stupid, but they at least have the courage, and they are much stronger than them. ”

Yuan Vultures stood on the deck of the main battleship, looking at the battlefield not far away with a painful face, this was not what he imagined to show his skills.

"Hurry up and order to save people, these people can help us reclaim tens of thousands of acres of land."

Cui Pingzhong walked forward shaking a banana fan.

Yuan Vulture waved his hand depressedly at the dog tooth and said, "Put the rope and prepare to save people." ”

"Yes."

Yuan Vulture said to Cui Pingzhong again: "Old Cui, you see that the combat effectiveness of the Buddha Lost Country is like this, why don't we ......." ”

Cui Pingzhong said: "Do you know the situation of the Buddha's death? Do you know where their Kyoto is? Do you know how many soldiers they have? ”

Yuan Vulture shook his head and said, "I don't know." ”

Cui Pingzhong said: "And these things can be known from the mouths of these prisoners, and when those times come, I believe that our reinforcements have arrived." All I have to do now is to elevate some of the existing soldiers from slaves to civilians. ”

Yuan Vultures were surprised: "Why? Our Yuan family still thinks that there are too few slaves. ”

Cui Pingzhong said with a smile: "Because this can improve the combat effectiveness of our army, and if you make military achievements, you will be able to change from slaves to civilians, and they will definitely fight bravely to kill the enemy." Moreover, slavery will only cause disaster for our future rule, and we must give them a path to promotion, so that they will work hard for it and not cause us trouble. ”

Yuan Vulture groaned for a while, then understood this reason, and wondered: "Old Cui, when did you become so insidious?" ”

Cui Pingzhong said: "Those who are close to Zhu are red, and those who are close to ink are black." ”