Although Yeyue and Li Hong were together, their behavior was relatively open, but now the two are still affectionate and courteous, except for Li Hong occasionally taking advantage of Yeyue's body, the two have not done anything deviant so far, and they are not husband and wife.

So when Yeyue heard the drunk Saleh suddenly ask such a sentence without warning to Li Hong, especially when Li Hong's eyes moved to her flat lower abdomen, she instantly blushed, and after scolding at the two bad men, she got up and left in a hurry.

Li Hong, who had just reacted, was awakened a lot by Saleh's words, and pointed to Yeyue's back and said, "She...... She's your own sister, do you really want her to conceive my child without a name or a penny? ”

"The heart has long ceased to eat, otherwise I wouldn't have disagreed with her, so I would have asked you to send someone to pick her up at the big food." Saleh lowered his eyes, and this time he poured half a glass for himself and Li Hong.

"In this way, when Yeyue returned to Chang'an from the Great Eclipse, I have to thank you for your help." Li Hong took the wine glass, looked at Saleh and said.

At this moment, the eyes of the two of them were extraordinarily bright, and they didn't look like people who had drunk a jar of wine at all.

"Not back! It's coming! Saleh picked up the sick sentence in Li Hong's words and corrected.

"What do you mean?" Li Hong heard the sound outside the strings, and his eyes involuntarily looked at the sultan who was angry and extremely depressed.

"It's not interesting, drink." Saleh took the lead in picking up the wine glass and drank it all, and then looked at Li Hong, who was holding the wine glass and pondering: "Don't you know a lot about my Great Food Country?" Don't you know that? Or are you just a heart-to-heart at all? Or is it...... Is the night moon wishful thinking? ”

"Is this your condition?" Li Hong frowned, what is the custom of the Great Food about the night moon? He really didn't know.

"Of course not, and with the strength that the Tang Army showed in Tocharo, it won't make my father, or our Umayyad family, look at it differently, the cooperation between the strong and the strong, first needs the two to show each other's true strength, and then the division of interests between the cooperation, right?" Saleh's deep eyes looked even deeper, and he said lightly.

"Isn't Da Shi also not in Anxi, showing all his strength?" Li Hong asked rhetorically.

In fact, this question is completely redundant, and now the two countries are only in Tocharo, and they have had several tentative confrontations, and they have not even encountered the most fundamental interests between them, so at this time, it is obviously impractical to talk about cooperation while they are hidden.

Tocharo, Persia, Protrusion, and even the big and small Bolu are weak and dispensable existences for Dashi or Datang, and they are chicken-ribbed existences that belong to the tasteless food and the pity of abandoning it.

Their territory is not a matter of great interest to them, and their gradual encroachment on small countries is in fact only to expand their influence, or rather, to reflect the will of their own monarchs.

Relatively speaking, Datang is slower and even more hesitant than the iron hoof pace of Da Shiguo in this regard.

Because Li Hong saw from the beginning that the vastness of the territory was more like a sharp double-edged sword for a powerful empire, especially in this era of cold weapons.

Because in history, there has never been a dynasty with a vast territory, which can be strong for hundreds of years, often as if it was short-lived, and their peak period, their strong period, were very short.

But at the same time, they also left their mark on a piece of land in the long river of history.

But these imprints did not help the empire in the slightest, but only added a few more pages of pen and ink to the historical record.

Therefore, even the richest Tang Dynasty in the world will not be as blind as Da Shi in the face of territorial expansion, even if there is a lot of domestic pressure, even if all kinds of struggles are still going on non-stop, but this will not stop them from continuing to move west and east.

Therefore, the Umayyad dynasty, after a hundred years of existence, collapsed and drowned in the dust of history.

Contemporary people cannot write the history of contemporary people, history is always written by the latecomers, writing the glory of the previous dynasty, and this glory must be mixed with national pride.

So, when the right time comes, there will be a king who is deeply proud of the nation, or who is extremely obsessed with expanding his territory.

Li Hong didn't want to be such a king, after all, the price paid for expanding the territory was too great, the endless supply lines, the risk of multi-front warfare, and if the internal turmoil hidden in the dark was added, the national fortune would soon disappear.

The dynasty will also be squeezed by war, after depriving the empire of its foundation layer by layer, and then causing the empire to collapse.

But when faced with the fierce and ambitious Da Shi, Li Hong had to make a tough counterattack, so while history was back on track, before Da Shi began to covet Anxi, and before Tocharo became the undead under Da Shi's iron ride, Li Hong had to suppress Da Shi's ambitions.

If once the Great Eclipse stepped on Tocharian and faced himself and the protrusions on the north and south sides, the momentum of their Great Eclipse was strong, and the Tang Dynasty, which took the initiative to defend, whether it was a strong city or a strong soldier, would more or less lose a lot of strategic advantages in the face of the majestic Great Cannibal.

In history, Datang and Dashi have fought many wars, and the results of all the wars are not surprising, because Datang has won less and lost more.

In this way, not only because of the invasion of the Great Food, but also caused the herdsmen of the Anxi Protectorate to be unstable, and began to take advantage of the opportunity to rebel one after another, dragging the military hindquarters of the Tang Dynasty behind them.

It even led to a large number of Tang Dynasty craftsmen, women, wealthy merchants, etc., all of whom were plundered by the big cannibals, and thus enslaved by the big cannibals, squeezing their free value, so that the big food got a lot of advanced technology.

Today's Datang has extremely strict control over rare and expensive commodity technology, which makes Dashi and other countries, including the Wa Kingdom, have been eyeing and wanting to steal, but fortunately, Taiyi City has always been heavily defended and has never given anyone any chance.

Finished goods wander on the Silk Road, but the technology has always been controlled by Datang, which Li Hong has always insisted on.

But he never insisted on the cultural control insisted on by the literati of the Tang Dynasty, especially the five surnames and seven wangs of the year, and he has always been in a steady stream, and even created opportunities in Tocharian for cultural transmission and cultural inheritance.

Rather, he hoped that one day, the invisible weapon of culture would be able to take root and sprout in the soil of Anxi, whether you are Tocharo, or Tuqishi, or Persia and other places, there are Analects, Mencius, etc., and Chinese characters have become a language for them, in Li Hong's view, this is much more threatening than how many iron hooves step on the city.

It is impossible for the Tang Dynasty to truly spread its influence militarily and in the territory, but the transmission of culture, this inconspicuous but powerful substance, can achieve the most ideal role.

The great cannibals have changed dynasties, but their cultural heritage and will have never changed, a scripture controls a world, and controls people's beliefs, so is there any weapon more lethal than cultural inheritance?

Tocharo can not be wanted, protrusion can not be taken, as long as the border area guarded by the four towns of Anxi, the outside world, let him wind and rain, I have been standing still, with strong powerlessness as the backing, carrying out cultural erosion.

In the end, it is reached, whether it is the territory of the Tang Dynasty or not, but as long as the Chinese culture is circulated, it is enough.

After all, who knows if there will be a more vigorous monarch in the future, so as to step out of the four towns of Anxi and completely take the territory outside of Anxi into the bag!

After all, with the same culture, isn't the line of belonging stronger?

It is enough to sow the seeds and wait for the day when they will take root and grow strongly, and that day may not be too far away.

In the Xuanzheng Palace, Li Hong was like a lecturer in the previous life, under the gaze of Li Zhi, Wu Mei, and officials above the third rank, he wrote and painted on a blackboard that Li Lingyue used when he was in the palace.

In a short time, along with his words and handwriting, the whole form of Anthy and the surrounding area became clear to everyone.

Li Hong, who had some cyan bruises on his right eye, put down the small wooden stick in his hand, his expression was serious and deep, but in Wu Mei's eyes, it was full of funny and coke, just like the giant panda in Qinling, who was renamed by him.

"Therefore, I don't care which envoy of a small country has approached any of you, and no matter what method they use to let you come to talk about it, but I want to warn you, at any time, as a courtier of the Tang Dynasty, you should put the interests of the Tang Dynasty first! It's not that people are sophisticated, and it's not that you reject them and worry about their loss of face! Face is earned by oneself, and it is maintained by the strong and powerless! Before the Weishui Alliance, did they give me the face of the Tang Dynasty, which had just established the country, at that time, who had taken care of the face of the first emperor? In the end, it was not by relying on the horizontal knife in the hands of the first emperor that he killed his face and the prestige of the Heavenly Khan! Why should we give them face when we are rich and strong? What is face? It is a strong soldier in our Datang borderland! Not etiquette! The thin stick in Li Hong's hand fell to the ground with his words, and it snapped in the palm of his hand.

The crisp sound sounded in the Xuanzheng Palace, but it made everyone's hearts tremble several times involuntarily, as if their hearts had been broken.

(ps: Never save the manuscript, send it when the code is ready.) ）