As the old saying goes, it's ready to go.

After the destruction of Saladin's corps, the heavy army of Damin has been stuck in the middle of the Shatt al-Arab River, like a knife that is ready to be cut down at any time, hanging high on the necks of the Mesopotamian forces.

No one can ignore the threat of 500,000 heavy troops, and countless scouts reported back to their respective masters the magnificent grand situation of the Fujian army joint camp on the banks of the Shatt al-Arab, and listened to the report of the company camp for fifty miles, drinking the horse and the Shatt al-Arab, and the river was cut off, up to the governor of Kufa, Ziyad, down to the tribes of various local forces, and even many Persian warlords were panicked.

As a result, there was a polarization, with large numbers of tribes loyal to Islam and the Arab Empire moving closer to Kufa and retreating to Syria, as well as many of the wallgrasses who thought the Great Min was invincible to move closer to the Shatt al-Arab region.

Every day, there are many Arab tribes who take refuge in front of the army, such as the sands of the Tigris River, and the Caucasian tribes who betrayed Damin and relied on Byzantium last time also sent envoys to take refuge.

No one looked down on traitors, these Caucasians first surrendered to Arabia, then to Damin, and then to Byzantium again, really three domestic slaves, as a result, Damin was defeated, the Byzantine Empire was unreliable, and the fierce Arabs finally took back the Caucasus again.

Since Hassan was in power, the rule of the Arab Empire in the Caucasus was particularly cruel, Hou Jie repaired the Caliphate Palace in Damascus, successively requisitioned more than 200,000 laborers in the Azerbaijani tribes and the Kingdom of Armenia, lack of food, lack of water, lack of medical and health conditions, and there were many bones everywhere from the Caucasus to Damascus.

After Hou Jie came to power, the oppression of the Caucasus became more severe, one out of every three men had to serve in the Arab army, was mobilized to the Hejaz to fight against the rebellion of the Hawariji, the taxes were terrifying, for every three sheep raised, two were handed over to the caliph, barley was seven out of ten, those who could not pay it were sold into slavery, and those who resisted were hanged.

Thousands of miles at the bottom of the Caucasus Mountains, there are hanged corpses on the trees at the entrance of the villages, large-scale resistance, and large-scale slaughter by Arab cavalry, the status of black slaves in the empire is the lowest, and the Caucasians with two swords are not stronger than black slaves.

Even fearing that the Caucasians would unite against themselves like they did against the Persian Empire, the Abbasids also carried out crazy persecution of the former Armenian royal family, the Great Khan of Azerbaijan, even the infant baby was killed in public, except for a few side branches in exile in Constantinople, after the rest of the empire, the Armenian royal family of the Sassanid Persian Dynasty for almost a thousand years was almost killed.

The same is the wealth that Hou Jie left to Damin, under this oppression, the depth of hatred can be imagined, this end, without waiting for Xiao Sheng, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, to accept it again, the large-scale uprising against the Arabs in the Caucasus has been in full swing, and the angry Caucasian cavalry gathered from all corners to launch a comprehensive attack on the Arab strongholds in the territory, and even a part of the Caucasian rushed to Mesopotamia to carry out large-scale burning and plundering, which made Ziyad even more anxious.

In this case, Li Jie is even less anxious.

For two months, the Fujian army was busy accumulating supplies from Basra and from the Persian Gulf, behind the Shatt al-Arab, Tianzhu's rice was almost piled up into a mountain, with countless swords, guns, swords, halberds, and the wealth of Fujian was unintentional.

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Except for an occasional trip to Qom City to catch a naughty girl, Li Jie spends most of his time in his huge mobile palace to review and hold political affairs, even if a few prime ministers take on a large part, Li Jin of Bosistin will also select a part of the flow within his authority, the huge empire still has a lot of things that need to be handled by Li Jie every day, which is really more tiring than the college entrance examination students in later generations.

After a long period of work, Li Jie also developed high efficiency, turning the folds, not reading the first ten pages of Chinese nonsense, just looking at the last two pages, the main content of the officials' recitals is also on these two pages, most of the prime ministers also hung up the handling opinions of the yellow, Li Jie only needs to choose one of several opinions, and most of the major military affairs can be dealt with in less than ten seconds.

A small number of prime ministers can't deal with it, or the handling opinions don't meet Li Jie's requirements, so they need to spend a minute or so thinking about it, and it is only a slight delay in time.

But today, Li Jie has been holding this black-skinned thick chapter in his hand for more than half an hour, and he has read every page and not a single word a few times, but he is still reluctant to put it down.

The cantata came from the West, as far away as the Apennine Peninsula, and later from Italy.

At this time, Italy had been under the supervision of the Protectorate of the Great Min Expeditionary Force for several years, and with the Suez Canal, a commercial waterway between the East and the West flowing with gold, the heart of Rome, which had been dormant for four or five centuries after the fall of the Roman Empire, seemed to be beating slowly again.

Milan, Florence, Turin, ******, Venice, which has become the port of Phoenix, and, of course, Rome, the base of the expeditionary force.

The Eternal City on the ruins is still so desolate, not far from the old Roman city near the Tiber River on a flat land, the new Roman city began to rise from the ground, starting from the Vatican Hill, stretching for miles of new city churches, all kinds of great guild handicraft workshops are also everywhere, and in the exquisite Gothic architecture, you can often see the eaves and arches belonging to the Tang people, after all, China has left a strong imprint in it.

However, after all, the expeditionary force of the Min people is a minority, and to manage the huge northern Italy, they also had to make changes, first of all, the county system of the Fujian State does not work here, the people here are too unruly, the territory is divided into cities and autonomous regions, and the mayors are sent by the Fujian State, and each city selects 100 people to form a city council, and the countryside is a canonized knight territory under the command of the Governor's Mansion to manage the peasants, relying on the old local aristocracy and the emerging bourgeoisie, the Expeditionary Governor's Mansion is difficult to gain a foothold in various places.

Compared with Chen Zhangming and Yang Xiong's political difficulties, the big businessmen of Fujian have achieved much success, the branch of the Fujian Chamber of Commerce, Zhong Huang's She Chamber of Commerce almost has a great say in the big guilds of various cities, and many local industrial and commercial owners need to rely on the trade she attracts to make a fortune, and obey Zhong Huang's words, and Huanggang has almost become Zhong Huang's dictatorial territory.

Even two years ago, the Governor's Palace, with the support of Zhong Huang, defeated the Normans, who coveted the wealth of northern Italy and invaded blatantly.

Recently, it seems that the commercial queen of the Apennine Peninsula has set her eyes on the east coast to the west coast, and placed it in the first port of the Governor of the Great Min Expeditionary Force when he first arrived in the Apennines. On the port of Naya.

The heat at this time. From here, Apennine wine, rice, Fujian's silk, porcelain, and spices were imported into the Visigothic kingdom that occupied Spain, and the Frankish kingdom that occupied Gaul, and the wood, black pigs, and hams produced by the two countries also returned from here.

Accommodating such a large volume of commercial trade, the entire port was seven or eight times larger than the original, and various workshops, chambers of commerce, and churches and schools spread out one after another, and the safe harbor for mooring ships also stretched for several miles, and there were thousands of merchant and fishing boats moored.

One of the best bays near the Shelter Mountains to the west is completely cut off by a floating wooden fence that does not allow any boats to approach, and there are patrolling dinghys nearby, which are immediately driven away if another merchant or fishing boat approaches.

This is the best haven, it's not that no one complains about jealousy, but it's a pity how to complain about jealousy, and no one dares to say half a word, who let this be the territory of the She Chamber of Commerce, the Tang people are here, it's so domineering!

However, it is fortunate that no merchant ships were able to enter here, otherwise the fat and oily Roman merchants would probably be frightened.

The red-haired pirate queen Katarina, the black-bearded captain Barbary, the one-eyed pirate Henry, and the famous pirates of the Mediterranean, most of them gathered in this closed port, and those who traveled through the port land and ships were either fierce and fierce Phoenician pirates, or tall and shirtless Greek pirates.

There are even many Arab pirates who have just joined the big cake of the Mediterranean.

In the center of the entire harbor, there is a seventy-meter sea Jiao-level Damin warship, in the spacious and comfortable captain's room, the hillbilly sits on a comfortable camel hair sofa, and the wild pirates who eat on the Mediterranean are now as well-behaved as cats, and even have always been known for their ferocity, and the red-haired queen Caterina who was born in the south of the Franks also frequently looks quite feminine at the handsome young man at the round table.

Dressed in a bright yellow Tang robe, wearing a crown of Jinxian with oriental characteristics on his head, the robe actually depicts the dragon that is absolutely exclusive to the emperor, although it is not the emperor's exclusive five-clawed golden dragon, the reckless dragon that lacks a claw still looks majestic and compelling, on the white and stiff cheeks, a pair of eyes are as bright as the North Polar cold star, looking at these pirates of all kinds of dark colors and colors below.

Now that the chaos in West Asia has formed all kinds of warlords in various places, and even tens of thousands of officials in the Min court are estimated to have dreamed a hundred dreams, they once gritted their teeth, and then sighed, the second caliph of the Abbasid dynasty, Houjie, who should have been destroyed with the burning of Damascus Palace and withdrawn from the stage of history, is now sitting here vividly.

And sitting next to him, Li Yu'er, the county lord of Damin Chang, who was wearing a half-metal mask, also looked down.