"Enlightened marshal, Kulan City is in an emergency." Wan Yi's Western Expeditionary Army Headquarters had moved from Gongyue City to the vicinity of Yibohai and was preparing to take the next step to reach the west to reach Broken Leaves, when he received an urgent battle report from the front line, and outside Kulan City, Hammud and Li Feixue had joined forces to defeat the main forces of the Samanid and Great Food Empire armies one step ahead, thus ending the battle before the direct battalion arrived at the scene.

"Those 100,000 people are members of the Heavenly Fang Sect?" Wan Yi's surprised look also made Liu Xuan smile bitterly, anyone who saw the news would have the same reaction, and the most terrible thing was that a single religion could actually control more than 100,000 people to participate in a country's war, and it seemed that the combat effectiveness of these sects under religious bewitchment was stronger than that of ordinary kingdom troops.

"Dashuai, I'm afraid we have to think about how to fight against the threat of the Heavenly Fang Sect in advance." Liu Xuan sighed and said, "The battle report we sent back to the General Staff should have been received by the General Staff and the Emperor, right?" Why hasn't there been any news from the base camp so far? ”

"I'm afraid that there may not be any good solutions on the side of the General Staff." Wan Yi also knows that there is really no good way to fight against this kind of religion on the Datang side, although it can completely resist this cultural erosion in terms of the current achievements of Datang in the cultural field, but cultural assimilation takes time, and many times the time needs to be very long, so at this time, Wan Yi really can't think of any good way to fight against this religion, especially the **** empire of the Great Food Empire.

Although Wan Yi didn't have any good ideas on his side, he didn't think of a way by the way, and the idea given by the cabinet Cen Tianshi was the national policy being implemented by the Ministry of Education, so after the two ministries of military and political affairs ran out of ideas, they could only go to Li Xuanqing with a shy face. Not long ago, the couple even went to the newly built Xihai County on the west coast of Nanzhao Province to inspect the location of the fifth shipyard of the royal family, and Zhang Qiang and others determined the location of the fifth shipyard of the imperial family, and instructed Guo Chongtao to plan the location and route of the Western fleet's cruise. Originally, Guo Chongtao planned to wait until the shipyard started to build new warships, but when the northwest side had already reached Genros, if the navy had to wait for the new shipyard to start, it would inevitably not be able to play a role in cooperating with the army, so under Li Xuanqing's suggestion, Guo Chongtao planned to transfer ten Izumo-class warships from the current Beiyang Fleet and Nanyang Fleet to form the framework of the fleet in advance to explore the routes and footholds along the way.

After solving the development of the Western Fleet Base and Xihai County, Li Xuanqing and Qiaoxi had just returned to Chang'an and were about to plan the construction of the railway in the Lingnan area, when Xu Tianxiang also walked in with Hu Xiaosi with the battle report sent from the northwest.

"The third sister-in-law hasn't seen this trip to Nanzhao for so long, why do you seem to be a lot whiter? Shouldn't this be? Hu Xiaosi screamed strangely when he saw Qiaoxi from afar, and almost let Xiao Tianqi, who was sitting next to him practice calligraphy word by word, directly stuff the brush stick into his nose. Qiaoxi glanced at the two of them, and nodded helplessly at Xiao Tianqi, who immediately ran out of Changqing Hall happily.

"Tell me, what's the matter?" Li Xuanqing looked at the two of them, casually beckoned them to sit down and asked.

"This is a battle report sent by the senior brother, the whole territory of the Safar side has been recovered, and the Southern Advance Corps has now begun to gradually merge with the division and the headquarters." Xu Tianxiang saw that Li Xuanqing was still sketching the railway map of Nanzhao, Guangdong, and southern Yunnan provinces, thought about it and continued: "Another thing is that when we fought with the Samanids before, we encountered the forces of the Heavenly Fang Sect. ”

"Heavenly Sect? Does the second brother mean that the Heavenly Sect intervened in the decisive battle between Saman and his senior brother on the front line? Did they use the congregation to fight? Before Li Xuanqing could answer, Qiao Xi had already taken over the conversation and said, "Senior brother, did you find that the other party's soldiers suddenly became fierce and fearless of death, and their wills were particularly firm, as if they had been jumped by someone?" Qiaoxi's words almost made the two sit directly on the ground, and Hu Xiaosi muttered to himself: "Third sister-in-law, you won't know in advance with the emperor, right?" I don't remember if I sent the news to the palace in advance? ”

"Tianfang Sect, it's not like I haven't been in contact with it before." Qiaoxi sat next to Li Xuanqing and said with a smile: "But the second brother still explained to the senior brother, it is best to be cautious about the Tianfang Sect, their brainwashing skills are not comparable to ours." And it's best to prepare in advance, the Great Food Empire itself is a **** country, so their emperor himself is a religious caliph, that is, the head of religion, so when necessary, they can turn all the followers of the Heavenly Sect into fanatical religious warriors at any time, that is, they need to face a war in which all the people are soldiers. Qiaoxi's words made Xu Tianxiang's hairs stand up all over his body suddenly, but Hu Xiaosi frowned and said: "Is the brainwashing that the third sister-in-law said the kind of sacrificial ritual that makes people frenzied to fight and ignore death, right?" So how do you crack it? ”

"Crack?" Qiao Xi also smiled bitterly when he heard this, this problem is almost unsolvable in later generations, but after all, the two of them have memories of their previous lives, and at least they still know a little other way, so Li Xuanqing said: "It's not that there is no way, but there are not many that can really be implemented and have an effect in the short term." On the one hand, let all parts of the cabinet intensify their efforts to cooperate with the military administration region to implement the popularization and education of Tang dialect and Chinese characters as soon as possible, advocate the educational concept of the Tang Empire, strictly control the new generation and foreign migrants, and prevent the spread of Tianfang Religion, on the other hand, let the religious associations come forward for the various popes in the occupied areas, implement the regulations of the Tang Empire on the management of religion, and religion must serve the imperial government. It is absolutely forbidden for forces higher than the power of the government to exist, otherwise it will be a cult, and when necessary, it will directly use force to eradicate and never cause future troubles. ”

"The second is to let Buddhism and Taoism, which have been converted in China, go out and use religion for religion to suppress the infiltration of Tianfang Sect into the northwest of the Tang Dynasty." Li Xuanqing continued: "This point has made Mr. Cen and the Religious Association's Master Empty inform them that they will definitely not let go of this opportunity. ”

"Another point is to let the cabinet issue a national directive from now on, implement a religious conversion registration system within the empire, all religious missions within the Tang Dynasty must be jointly authorized by the religious association and the Ministry of Civil Affairs, otherwise it will be illegal proselytizing, and all religious disciples must be registered with the civil affairs departments of each residence within the time limit, and all files are in duplicate, one for the civil affairs department to keep, and one for the transfer to the religious association." Li Xuanqing directly sacrificed the system adopted by the later republics for religion, strictly limiting the scope and number of religious propagation, suppressing it within the scope of imperial control, and at the same time strengthening the popularization of new education, and making it mandatory that there should be no dissemination of religion in all educational institutions run by the empire. This point is even directly monitored by the law court.

"Is this the same method used in the Northwest?" Xu Tianxiang asked while recording. The northwest side is more troublesome than the mainland, and the mainland is fortunate that there are basically those few religions, and it is relatively easy to control. However, the large and small religions in the northwest are so dense that even the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the religious associations themselves cannot count the numbers.

"Let religious associations deal with minor religions and religions whose teachings do not conform to the laws of the Tang Dynasty and the habits of the people in advance, and when necessary, let the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the Ministry of Security directly use coercive means to ban them and suppress them as illegal organizations." Li Xuanqing thought for a while and continued: "Give the religious association half a year, after half a year, all religions in the northwest that are not registered but still exist will be banned, and all religious assets will be handed over to the Ministry of Civil Affairs for disposal. Because of the experience of later generations, Li Xuanqing was very happy about the punishment of hard labor, and for this reason, he also specially discussed with Du Rangneng to change all the previous very cumbersome punishments and punishments to hard labor.

"The emperor and the third sister-in-law still have a way, and several of us have been sad for several days, but I didn't expect it to be solved in just a few years." Hu Xiaosi smiled bitterly. Hu Xiaosi felt that there was no problem with Li Xuanqing's methods, it was not just a matter of suppression and restriction, and many measures were even directly banned with the secular power of the empire. And those small religions, when the big religions are suppressed and have nowhere to develop, suddenly the empire lets go of a breath so that they can justifiably annex small religions, and they will inevitably be eliminated quickly, and this does not require the empire to spend half of its energy.

"Your Majesty, don't worry, I will inform the cabinet and the legal court." Xu Tianxiang recorded all the main points that Li Xuanqing said and continued to ask: "Then what should we do with the Great Food Empire?" ”

"The Great Food Empire?" Li Xuanqing also has a headache for this great empire that has been defeated and retreated in Europe across three continents in history, the strength of the other party is very strong for those cold weapon armies in Europe, but it is not much of a threat to the Tang Tiance army that has entered the era of hot weapons, what really gives him a headache is that the other party **** can pull out hundreds of thousands of sect members from so many people in his huge territory at any time to participate in the war. Didn't the Great Food Empire and the Heavenly Fang Sect directly collapse the entire Great Qin when they attacked the Western world in history? Moreover, the Heavenly Fang Sect also took advantage of the rapid spread of the power of the Great Food Empire to the entire three continents of Europe, Asia and Africa, establishing its position as one of the three major religions in the world in later generations.

"For the Great Food Empire, don't take the initiative to attack for the time being after the Western Expeditionary Army takes Saman, and put all your forces on maintaining stability in the rear. If the other party doesn't attack, we don't take the initiative to provoke. Li Xuanqing nodded and said: "At present, we have taken all the territories of Anxi Dadu, and the next step is to build roads, whether it is railways or straight roads, only when the roads are repaired, the territory we have laid down can be firmly controlled by us, and become a market and resource for the development of the empire." As for the Great Food Empire, that's the next thing we need to consider. ”

"The territory is expanding too fast, and our current strength is about to reach the limit." The wry smile on Li Xuanqing's face is also sympathetic, and now it is a problem that there is no such thing as not being able to beat it down, but not being able to eat it. Therefore, Li Xuanqing thought of giving priority to the development of industry and commerce in the Central Plains to improve the industrialization level of the Central Plains, and then assimilating the surrounding areas step by step. It's just that in this way, the time will be extended, at least this generation will not be able to fulfill the dream in Li Xuanqing's heart.

"If the Great Food Empire takes the initiative to fight, then give me a complete fight, and focus on destroying the other party's living force." Li Xuanqing now knows too well the constraints of population on the development of the empire. Originally, I thought that I had swept the Central Plains with the power of thunder and retained the population base of the Central Plains to the greatest extent, but now that the population of less than 50 million is scattered on such a huge imperial territory, it is not enough to see at all. However, even if the people are willing to give birth, the new generation of population will not be able to come in handy even if the people are willing to give birth for more than ten years, and it will also require huge investment in supporting construction every year. Therefore, Li Xuanqing was very interested in reducing the opponent's population base and weakening the opponent's war potential.

"You immediately sort it out, send these urgent to the northwest, hand them over to Senior Brother and Tuoba Si for advice, and tell them to do it immediately. Then immediately take action with the Cabinet and the Court of Law. Although we don't need to exterminate Buddha on a large scale like Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty now, we can't sit idly by and watch religion threaten the development of the empire. A glimmer of light flashed in Li Xuanqing's eyes. After Xu Tianxiang and Hu Xiaosi realized the seriousness of the problem, they immediately sent Li Xuanqing's handling method to the northwest as quickly as possible, but by the time this urgent instruction was sent to Wan Yi and Tuoba Siji, the Great Food Empire had already collided fiercely with the Western Expeditionary Army.

Since last night, the Flying Eagle Brigade went straight to the middle of the Tianfang Sect army and then directly reimbursed all the religious leaders with an explosion, almost all the Celestial Sect troops turned into walking corpses in an instant, as if they had lost their souls, so that the entire battlefield was still in a fierce battle with this loud bang and gradually came to the end, and the Uighur Corps immediately began to capture prisoners all over the battlefield under this situation. These Heavenly Fang Sect members who had lost their souls were directly disarmed on the spot, and then escorted them to the city of Kulan City one by one.

"Deying, you immediately escort a team of these captives to Dongcheng to clear the battlefield first, and then camp on the spot, and there is no mistake in concentrating all the prisoners." Immediately after Hamoud finished ordering Deying, he asked Ogeyan to lead more than 10,000 people in his headquarters to immediately set off to help the guard camp.

"What should I do if so many captives are still disciples of the Heavenly Fang Sect? Could it be that Chengdu can't be killed? Hammoud was taken aback by the sudden murderous thought in his mind, and immediately suppressed the murderous thought and turned to arrange other matters.

On the 23rd day of August in the fifth year of the Apocalypse, when Li Feixue commanded the personal guard battalion to pursue for hundreds of miles and completely defeat the Samanid army, the direct battalion that had made a detour from the northern front arrived in Julan City under the leadership of Lu Yi. After more than 50,000 elite troops rushed to help, Hammoud's mind finally relaxed.