On the western edge of the Iranian plateau, nicknamed "Fat Kong", there is no longer any obsession to be seen, and the swarthy and lean little Contrinoa looks at the foot of the snow-capped mountains in the distance, and the magnificent and huge urban complex called Idu (Isfahan) is surrounded by countless flowering gardens, villas, and manors in the suburbs.

Although it used to be the place where it was the resting capital, the monuments and buildings full of foreign styles and foreign characteristics in the city have all been renovated and added without exception, full of Middle-earth style cornices and arches and residential corridors, etc., and according to the distance of the construction age, it shows a certain historical gradual evolution of the vicissitudes of flavor and trend.

Therefore, from a distance, at first glance, it is almost thought that this is a typical Middle-earth city, and only when you are in the neighborhood and carefully taste the subtleties of the neighborhood will you rediscover some of the old outlines and vague traces of the foreign rule era.

Among them, the most conspicuous and majestic is undoubtedly the sky garden built on the top of the huge and incomparable platform tower in the north inner city, which is known as "Weihelian Tianyun" and "Qiyun Wanren High", which was also once called "New Babylon Tower" and "Sky Garden" and "Miracle of Creation" by the local natives.

It is also the final destination of his current trip, which is called "Lianshan Palace" and "Tiancheng Garden", where the palace complex is located;

This time, however, he came by sea, and the newly formed Western Naval Division escorted hundreds of warships of the three major fleets, including hundreds of civilian and merchant ships of various kinds, all the way from Guangzhou - Jiaozhou (Jiaozhi) - Tiannan (Champong) - Anyuan (Malay Peninsula) - Foszhou (Sumatra) - Lion Island (Sri Lanka) ——, to the inner bay of the Sabbatical Sea, and then landed from Maasba at the mouth of the Tigris River.

Therefore, the voyage and transit along this road also carry a certain kind of incidental declaration of the ownership of the former Southern Dynasty Beam, the homeland and the old subordinates since ancient times, and the armed parade and strength of the suzerainty and feudal power.

At least in the thirteen continents where Saikaido is located, the overseas feudal divisions and princes, both near and far, have vied with each other to present all kinds of land and household registers to show their submission, as well as feudal taxes, tributes, and courtiers that are twice as heavy as the old imperial system of the old dynasty; Just to ask for a verbal promise and assurance, or a little peace of mind about their future.

After all, since the last of the former Liang shogunate and the four major offices, in the naval battle besieging Lion Continent, they lost the last bit of strength that can be relied on and the resistance force to follow, and had to surrender from the old royal city/capital Zhongbutan, the huge outer region of the West Sea has not been able to stop, this new dynasty that unified the north and south of the world, inside and outside the mountains, and the east and west sea roads, exercised authority and command.

Even the Tang princes and vassal states who had pioneered as far as Shanzhou in the south, or the military and civilians of the Governor's Office in Damazhou, which was the farthest away, were busy sending envoys to express some heartfelt welcome and encouragement for the succession of the new dynasty.

After all, for these Tang forces who are far away from their homeland and are engaged in exploration, exploration, and business, there is no place that can become a stronger backing and confidence than a strong and unified homeland and homeland. Even if they verbally pull the tiger skin as a banner, it is enough for them to be used for generations.

Thanks to hundreds of years of great geographical discoveries and overseas exploration eras, countless foreign countries of all sizes who did not know the current affairs in this process and were completely crushed into new soil, and the bones of the foreign Yi people who tried to use their arms as a car.

Whether it is on the east and west coasts of Shanzhou in the already civilized south, or in Xiniuhe Prefecture or near the coast of the Great and Small Kunlun Sea, no one has ever dared to ignore and ignore the determination and strength, authority and will of the powerful central dynasty in Dongtu; Therefore, as the distance grows, they are the most eager to be recognized by their homeland.

Under the banner of the uniformed guards who opened the way, as the distance gradually narrowed, a certain kind of thoughts and melancholy called homesickness inevitably surged out of his bosom like a boiling spring.

For Fat Kong, who has returned to Middle-earth and changed his name to Yuwen Christ, this is a meaningful revisit to his hometown or a return to his hometown; In this great city, he has condensed too many memories and pasts, and has also left many unforgettable tragic and joyful stories.

Before he knew it, he had been in Middle-earth for fifteen years, and there were still fifteen years to waste in the rest of a person's life. The regrets and resentments that once made him linger have faded with time;

He even had to thank those who drove him out of Yidu and fled to Beitianzhu to avoid disaster, otherwise how could he have obtained this great opportunity to witness and participate in the birth of a new era in Dongtu, and become one of the few relatives and upstarts in the new dynasty.

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And his greatest confidence is undoubtedly a series of victories of the new dynasty on land;

In addition to the Beiting Metropolitan Protectorate, as the birthplace of the Central Plains and the agent of the Western Kingdom in the Eastern Territory for a long time, the once famous Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate and its vassals, large and small city-states, were also forced to bow their proud and reserved heads in the Third Battle of the Green Ridge;

The dozens of prefectures and counties in the land of the river, the small oasis city-states under the surname Zhaowu Jiu, and the cities in the northern Yanbian grassland, fell to their knees and surrendered to the roar of firearms and the trampling of iron hooves from the army of Middle-earth.

Therefore, the army of the western expedition with the land in the river can continue westward at any time beyond the medicine and killing water, threatening the Khorasan Provinces, which are the hinterland of Great Xia and the plateau where the capital is located, or go north to sweep the Aral Sea states and approach the Khazar Turkic homeland; Or it is to go south to the Hindu Pass and take directly to the important granary, resources, and wealth in the south of Bactria that has been cut off from the north, and the Northern Tianzhu Metropolitan Protectorate across the five river basins beyond the mountains.

But before that, the new dynasty spent almost ten years to calm down and suppress the rebellion and turmoil in the vast land of the new unification, to gather strength and recuperate with the people;

But it also became an opportunity in the eyes of some people in power in the Xia Kingdom, which led to the Second Western Army's Eastern Expedition a few years ago when it detoured through the grassland and hit the ancient city of Chang'an again, and then followed by a large counteroffensive of thousands of miles to the West, from the Hexi Corridor to the Xihai Qiangtang Road and then to the Tianshan Mountains and the North and South Roads, which were killed all the way to the point of blood.

In the end, where the battle with Bactria and the border line will stop will depend on the results of his envoys and negotiations.

Isn't it the highest achievement of a lifetime of struggle in life, isn't it the war and future between two great countries with a territory of billions of trillions of people?

What made him more sure was his understanding of the Western Kingdom of Bactria and his years of life experience;

As a large country in the West, although Bactria is geographically vast and bordered by mountains, the number of people under its rule is extremely large and complex, and the princes, vassals and vassals that are also subordinate are also scattered and claimed to be hundreds.

Therefore, the resources and military forces that need to be maintained and invested in all directions are also a huge amount;

Not to mention the fact that the Great Khazar Khanate, which was in danger of declining in the north and was in danger in the midst of the rise of the Slavic princes, needed constant aid and blood transfusions to sustain itself;

The south is in the north and east of Shanzhou (Africa) in the south, which has continued to develop and operate for hundreds of years, and it has also reached a relatively critical juncture in the counterattack and tug-of-war from the inland Tu people. In particular, the development and reconquest of one of the most important vassal states of Shanzhou in the south, Anju (Egypt), along the upper reaches of the Nile, encountered bottlenecks and obstacles in the region.

To the west, in the land of Taixi, the Great Qin, which was trying to revive and revivenation, constantly used the fortress on the east coast of Puhai as a springboard to penetrate and raid the Tang descendants of the states attached to Bactria in an attempt to regain all of the land of Minor Asia.

In the Xia Kingdom, because the princes on the outer side were lined up as the screen domain, and the imperial family directly led each province to dominate the pattern of all parties, the demands of the princes from different regions and directions were also different, and it became a protracted and entangled issue and factor in the court;

Therefore, in the same way, while maintaining a large standing naval and army force, the Great Xia court also needed enough strength to sit in the major divisions to deter and monitor the nearby princes and vassals who had varying degrees of autonomy, or to force them to always be consistent with the center in the general direction through both soft and hard means at one time; He even went into suppression and pacified the remnants of the Tu tribe who had always been barbaric, or the remnants of foreign lands who did not obey the king and hid in the mountains and deserts.

Under the involvement and expense of these various aspects, it is simply impossible to concentrate and mobilize all forces to fight a protracted large-scale national war and the attrition of continuous confrontation with the new DPRK from afar.

Especially in the case of the loss of the Anxi Protectorate, an important springboard and proxy force used to intervene in the situation in the eastern soil, has been eliminated and annexed, the strategy and investment of Great Xia in the east are even more powerless; At present, the only thing that the other party can rely on is the long geographical distance and the treacherous environment along the way.

If there is basically no problem in judging in the general direction; What remains is a game of trade-offs and losses of specific conditions.

He suddenly let out an invisible sigh, for he had seen a large number of prisoner carts outside the city, and the men, women, and children loaded on them, who were slowly moving away into the distance under the watchful eye of the cavalrymen in armor and spears.

These are undoubtedly the consequences of the losers of the political struggle and the factions to which they belonged in the court of the Western Kingdom before this mission; And deliberately arranged at this node to carry out the fall, is this a kind of statement and hidden implication before the formal negotiations, it seems that the Western Dynasty's appeal and urgency to end this war is also obvious that it no longer cares about showing timidity, and temporarily inferior to others.

However, some information from his private sources; After all, this Great Xia has been established for hundreds of years since Liang Gongxi's expedition to expand the territory, and it has been replaced by more than ten generations; From the initial enterprising and unstoppable Quartet expedition, after several degrees of Zhongxing and revival, the stability across the three continents, and now under the repeated bottlenecks of expansion and frontier problems, various encouragements to maintain and the loosening of internal and external checks and balances;

So much so that just a few defeats from the east were enough to make them show a certain state of decline and weakness, which was not necessarily good news for the princes and vassals scattered all over the Great Xia territory. Therefore, what is more urgent than himself now should be the current Great Xia monarchs.

Therefore, as long as he plays it properly, the role of a new court envoy who is complacent and thoughtful but will repay is enough; Next, as long as he can bring those expected conditions and requirements to the face of Da Xia Zi and his regent Empress Dowager, there will naturally be someone to plan for him what happened later.

Whether it was those who had persecuted, framed and designed him at the beginning, or took the opportunity to fall into the well and invade and encroach step by step, the existence of his family property and political legacy will not be much better. At least in public and private, as long as he mentions it slightly, the Great Xia court must have some expression and attitude.

And his other task here was to establish an open permanent embassy and official business institutions, and at the same time, he also began to develop and lay out a network of intelligence and governance in Bactria in case of future emergencies;

Although, in today's Ehai and other lands, there has always been a practice and tradition of "the Tang people will not be destroyed, and the Tang descendants will not fight", but once the forces related to these Tang descendants fall into the crisis and decline of the local Sha'an, there is no reason to cheapen those foreign barbarians in vain.

It's just that there was a little accident in the end of his trip, and more than ten days later he was in the temporary state guesthouse.

Fat Kong looked at the teary-eyed woman in front of him and was a little speechless, she used to be smiling like a cardamom bloom, but now she is just over middle age and a slightly plump and delicate woman from another family.

It's just a vaguely familiar face, and it will remind him of the tsundere girl who always has blue eyes for him and targets him in everything in Idu University; and later, in the midst of a wall falling down and being pushed by everyone, the decisive girl who climbed the wall and ran out of the confined home, dressed as a man and sent a message to herself, and the bag of jewelry that was entwined in the right to make a circle.

Is this the way of doing things in the Western Kingdom, it seems that I am really not used to staying in the Eastern Land for too long. He obviously just wanted to see his old friend, but how did it become this style of washing and packing it up and sending it to the door to enjoy.

But no matter what the memories and bits and pieces of joy and sorrow were, they finally turned into a long sigh, and "Can this be a memory?" It's just that it was already clear at the time. "It's extraordinarily uninteresting.

"I heard that you only have one daughter?"

After a long time of being speechless, Fat Kong suddenly looked at the opening and asked.

"I'll take her."

"Think of it as my compensation and salvation."

(End of chapter)