Arhan returned from Byzantium this time and brought back what Xia Hongsheng wanted most.

When it comes to books, it is mainly a new style of parchment scrolls or parchment handwriting, because there is no printing technology in Europe at the moment. Therefore, it is not easy to find these manuscripts, and more than a thousand copies can be found, which shows that Arhan did take a lot of effort in Byzantium.

Xia Hongsheng himself couldn't understand these things at all, most of those books were in Greek, and there were a few Latin, Xia Hongsheng didn't know them at all, so he could only rely on the translators found by Arhan.

There weren't many interpreters for Arhan, only three of them. It's not that Arhan is careless, it's just that these translators are extremely difficult to find. Because most of the people who know both Chinese and Greek are these Hu merchants, how can the Hu merchants, who are busy making money, have the heart to sit down and translate books? Moreover, these Hu merchants are actually not highly educated, and if they are translated, the effect will be very poor.

But there is no way, Xia Hongsheng can only do this now.

Xia Hongsheng transported the parchment scrolls and manuscripts to the printing house, so that they could survive and put them away, so that the three translators could immediately begin to translate the contents of these books into Chinese, and then polish them on the basis of the translation before they could be printed.

The best thing is to have a group of people who are already very well written and can speak Greek, so that the translation is much better. Unfortunately, this kind of person is too hard to find.

Why don't you fool Wang Xuance? Xia Hongsheng scratched his head, anyway, in the future, he also wanted him to go to Central Asia, West Asia and even Europe, why don't you let him learn those languages in advance?

Ten years later. It was time for Persia to be cornered by the Great Eclipse. According to history. Persia would send the last prince to ask for help from the Tang Dynasty, but Li Shimin refused to send troops to help because Persia was too far away. Later, Persia became a minister, the Persian prince entered Chang'an, and Gaozong canonized the right Weiwei general, but he never intervened. It can't be said that this decision is wrong, because although the Tang Dynasty at that time in history was powerful, it stationed its troops to such a long distance to conduct ultra-long-distance operations. There is no such ability and condition. Whoever had been in this situation would not have sent troops to help Persia, no matter how rich it was. After the Great Food expanded and destroyed Persia, it continued to advance eastward and compete with the Tang Dynasty for interests in Central Asia. Historically, the direct confrontation between the Tang Dynasty and the Great Food in the true sense was reflected in the Battle of Talas. It was in the late reign of Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty that the battle between the Tang army and the Great Food army ended in a great defeat. At that time. In fact, Da Shi has not yet been able to shake the position of the Tang Dynasty in Central Asia. But unfortunately, the Anshi Rebellion followed. It is that Datang no longer has the heart and ability to take care of Central Asia and run the Western Regions. And although that confrontation ended in the defeat of the Tang army, it still showed the amazing combat effectiveness of the Tang army, so that the Arabs' eastward advance stopped in Central Asia, and they did not dare to continue to expand eastward.

The Battle of Talas was a direct collision between the most powerful Eastern and Western empires in history at that time, although the Tang army had tens of thousands of people, but most of them were the combined Fan army among the small countries affiliated with the Tang Dynasty, and the number of real Tang soldiers was not large. The Arab Empire's army was at least 200,000, with additional reinforcements. Moreover, the Tang army was seven hundred miles deep, and it was already on the territory of Dashi, and its supply and intelligence were at a disadvantage. And one of the main reasons for the defeat of the Tang army was the betrayal of the Qarlu division in charge of the perimeter guard in the coalition army, which led to the sudden chaos of the Tang army's position, which was attacked by Arab reinforcements.

It can be seen that the combat effectiveness of the Tang army at that time was still quite high, and if there was no Anshi Rebellion, it could still be matched with the Arab Empire in Central Asia, and it was not known whether the Arab Empire could shake the hegemony of the Tang Dynasty in Central Asia. In fact, many historians believe that if it were not for the civil strife within the Tang Empire, perhaps, in a few years, they would have regained their hegemony from the Arabs, but the subsequent outbreak of the Anshi Rebellion made the Tang army lose this opportunity forever, and it was this eight-year civil war from within the empire that almost exhausted all the wealth of this powerful empire, and the decline began abruptly at that time. The empire rebuilt from the ruins is no longer the Celestial Khan.

However, no matter what you say, defeat is defeat, and the Anshi Rebellion has become a historical fact, and the Tang Dynasty has finally embarked on a decline of prosperity and decline, and has lost control of Central Asia.

It can be said that without the fall of Persia, there would have been no rise of the Great Eclipse.

For the Tang Dynasty, the best state should be that Persia is not good or bad, invincible and undefeated, the big food family is dominant, and other small Central Asian countries are led by Persia to resist the invasion of the Arabs, fighting for decades, and staging a Warring States era in Central Asia.

And the Tang Dynasty can run the Western Regions on the one hand, completely turn the land of the Western Regions into the Tang Dynasty, and on the other hand, reap the profits of the fishermen and the Dafa war wealth, and then when they are almost consumed, they will use the Western Regions as a base to intervene in it and occupy Central Asia.

This is where Wang Xuance comes in.

With this decision, Xia Hongsheng immediately spread out a piece of paper, took charcoal and began to sketch a map on it.

is not bragging, Xia Hongsheng is still quite confident in his ability to draw maps. When I was in high school, I studied liberal arts, and the geography teacher didn't need to look at the map at all, and drew it directly on the blackboard with chalk, which was not even bad with the map in the book. Xia Hongsheng is very good at comprehensive learning, making up for the shortcomings of mathematics and English. Geography is not bad, and later when teaching, I used this ability to show off in front of the teacher who taught geography.

The world is very big, and Datang is actually very small.

Using all kinds of knowledge and opportunities brought by himself from later generations as a golden finger, whether it can become a fulcrum and let Datang pry the whole world is an uncertain proposition.

But Xia Hongsheng is willing to give it a try. Otherwise, my heart will always be unwilling.

Maybe this is just the ambition of a willful idealist, but Xia Hongsheng is willing to give it a try.

A world map with only the outline of the coastline was drawn in detail from Xia Hongsheng's pen as much as he could.

After printing and drawing this map and putting it in his locked box, Xia Hongsheng left the house with another copy and went to the Juguo Mansion. (To be continued.) )