Many years later, the Governor of Tang Provence, Fantasy Manor.

As the sun set, Xiao Qubing took his twenty-sixth son Xiao Jingyan and walked side by side with He Keer in the endless sea of lavender flowers.

The two-and-a-half-year-old Xiao Jingyan asked in a milky voice: "Daddy, what is Datang like?" ”

Xiao Quzhi smiled and said: "Datang, first of all, she is very big, just speaking of Datang itself, when the sun has just come out in the east, the moon has just risen in the west; When the people in the north are so cold that they want to wear fox furs, the people in the south are so hot that they can only wear short shirts; Besides, Datang is still very beautiful......"

"Oh......" the little man was fascinated by the sound, and his eyes were full of little stars, "I said no wonder." ”

"What's the wonder?"

Xiao Jingyan was tired of walking, stretched out his hands to hug, Xiao Quzhi put him on his neck, and the little guy grabbed Xiao Quai's shortened hair with both hands: "I heard Jack say today that he has to pass the Chinese level 6 test as soon as possible, so that he can go to Datang!" ”

He Ke'er smiled slightly: "So that's the case, but if he wants to go to Datang, he can't just pass the Chinese level 6 test, unless he can successfully pursue your Aunt Xiaomei." ”

Lu Xiaomei is He Keer's side, who specializes in taking care of Xiao Jingyan's personal maid, and Jack is the son of a big lord in the Frankish Kingdom, the young man is very handsome, he somehow met Lu Xiaomei, and launched a passionate pursuit of her, and sometimes he was allowed to enter the dream manor, and he met Xiao Jingyan after coming and going.

Xiao Jingyan turned around and looked at He Ke'er, wondering, "Why is this?" ”

He Ke'er said with a smile: "I want to ask your father, he doesn't like too many people to go to Datang." It's all stipulated by him. ”

Xiao Jingyan pulled Xiao Quai's hair: "Then why didn't Daddy let them go to Datang?" ”

Speaking of which. Xiao was very happy when he was sick. Now Datang dialect is already the lingua franca of places with Tang people in the world, Tang people can go anywhere in the world without a pass, Datang has become a holy place that everyone in the world yearns for, a paradise on earth, but how is Datang so easy to go?

"Because, Datang is so beautiful and so good, naturally everyone wants to go, but if people from all over the world go to Datang. Isn't Datang unable to fit it? Datang's park is full of people from all over the world, and Datang's own children can't go to play inside, don't you say? ”

"Oh......" Xiao Jingyan tilted his head and thought for a while, but he still couldn't figure it out.

"Besides, if Datang can go if he wants to, then Datang's green card is not worth much?"

But on the other side, Xiao Quzhi suddenly became happy, and asked with great interest: "Jing Yan, do you know what Daddy is the happiest?" ”

Xiao Jingyan happily patted Xiao Quai's head. said loudly: "I don't know, what is Daddy's happiest?" ”

Xiao Quzhi pulled his little ankle. smiled and said: "Daddy is the happiest, we Tang people don't have to learn any foreign language anymore, but all countries come to learn Chinese with us." In their aristocratic school, they can't pass the fourth level of Chinese, and they can't get a graduation certificate. Cool! ”

"Cool!" Xiao Jingyan rode on Xiao Quai's neck and laughed happily with Xiao Quai.

Xiao Quzhi held Xiao Jingyan's two arms and lifted him up: "Do you know, your father, just use our various good things and a green card to drive all the people and everything in the world to be used by us!" It's fun to think about, hahaha......"

Xiao Jingyan waved his two little hands and shouted happily: "It's fun to think about it, hahaha......"

He Ke'er on the side looked at the living treasure father and son with a smile, especially Xiao Quai, who was in his eighties, and was still like a child, still as hot and gentle as he was in the newlywed every night, and couldn't help laughing and sprinkled a silver bell.

When the family of three was silly together, Li Qi ran over, and when he saw Xiao Quai's short hair being grabbed by Xiao Jingyan like a messy grass, he couldn't help laughing, and then quickly dimmed.

Xiao Quzhi put Xiao Jingyan down and handed it to He Ke'er, and asked Li Qi, "What's wrong?" ”

Li Qi said eagerly: "Chang'an sent a telegram, saying that the emperor's grandfather had died of a serious illness recently, and he couldn't afford it, so he summoned us to hurry back to Chang'an to see the last one." ”

Xiao Quzhi and He Ke'er's faces changed suddenly, and Xiao Quzhi said: "Got it, send a telegram to call the Sea Freedom in Denmark to pick us up." ”

"The telegram has been sent, and it will arrive in Provence in seven days," he said. ”

Seven days later, the Governor of Tang Provence, Marseille.

Provence at the beginning of July is the hottest time of the year, so at this time, most of the Tang people who come to Provence choose to go to the beach to cool off and play on the beach.

The massive hull of the Freedom of the Seas is like a giant moored in the harbor, and the dock is full of people and traffic, and everyone is attracted to this big ship.

The hull of the Freedom of the Seas is like a mountain in front of them, blocking the sea and covering the sky, and everyone can't help but marvel in front of the largest passenger ship ever built.

"The ship is so big!"

"Oh my God, this ship is too big!"

"This is a miracle that only God can do!" Several Frankish nobles knelt down before the Freedom of the Seas and bowed.

"Stupid Franks, this ship has nothing to do with your God, this is a miracle created by our Datang people, and it is our Lanling King of Datang who designed and built this Ocean Freedom!" Several young Tang crew members looked at them with a look of disdain.

At this moment, Xiao Jingxi, the king of Lanling, was standing on the bridge with the Freedom of the Seas, looking at the people on the deck and on the dock with Xiao Quai, Li Qi, Xiao Jingyan, Mo Qiufeng, the governor of Provence, and others.

Xiao Jingyan was having a good time with his nephew Xiao Junze, who was more than thirty years older, and Mo Qiufeng reported to Xiao Quai: "King Qin, Supreme Emperor, King Louis I of the Franks wants to see you, I listen to him, it seems that he wants the Frankish Kingdom to join our Tang Empire. I beg you two to say a few kind words to His Majesty the Emperor. It is said that there is a generous gift. ”

Xiao Quai, Li Qi, Xiao Jingxi and others laughed at once. The king of Franks naturally would not have thought that these two Tang nobles who were vacationing in the dream manor, one was the grandfather of the current Tang Dynasty, and the other was his grandfather.

After laughing, Xiao Quzhi said: "How did this Louis I become so smart all of a sudden." If you want to join Datang, okay. Wait a minute, I'll let Dai Xiaoyao talk to him and find out what he does. As for the reply, just tell him that we are too unequal to him. ”

Dai Xiaoyao is Dai Siqing's grandson, after Dai Siqing's serious injury was cured, he was lame and his health was not as good as before, but he won the first-class Warrior Medal, and his son also entered the martyr's class. was personally passed on by Xiao Quai, and became the commander of the Qin King's personal guard.

on the pier. The Frankish nobles waited for the person to wait, it was Jack who had been to the Dream Manor more than a dozen times, after knowing that the two families of the Dream Manor were going to return to Datang, Jack only left a message to the family, and immediately chased to Marseille, at the last moment last night, he finally courted Lu Xiaomei successfully, and Lu Xiaomei promised to take him on the boat to Datang.

At this moment, Jack's mother was holding him tightly and weeping, holding his hand and refusing to let him go; His father also had tears in the corners of his eyes, constantly telling him to make a name for himself in Datang.

Jack was also sad when his mother cried, he held back his tears and said: "Mother, father, don't cry anymore, the child is going to Datang, it is to Datang, which is full of gold, when I mix over there, I will come to pick you up." ”

After saying goodbye, Jack said goodbye to his parents, took the gold coins his father brought him, and walked slowly to the boarding board, and waited for him to step on the deck of the Freedom of the Seas, looking at the long gray smoke and white steam coming from the four tall and thick chimneys, and watching the cool sea breeze blowing on the dock densely packed with passers-off.

Jack couldn't help but close his eyes and open his arms, as if embracing the whole blue sky, he excitedly shouted in Frankish: "Go to Datang!" I'm going to be developed, I'm going to enjoy paradise on earth, I'm going to Datang to break out of the world! ”

Twenty-five days later, when Jack stepped on the pier of Canton, he could barely breathe with joy, and he was dazzled by the high-rise buildings and huge buildings everywhere, as well as the garden parks everywhere; When he saw the train, although he had heard Lu Xiaomei say it many times, he still knelt down and trembled with excitement.

Like many noble children from all over the world who have come to Datang through hard study, various efforts and means, with great ideals and desires, Jack began his Datang dream.

Not far from Jack, in the first-class carriage of this train, the "sinister and cunning" Xiao Qubing and Li Qi are giving lectures to the crown prince of the Tang Dynasty, the emperor's think tank, and people who specialize in formulating national strategies.

The content of the lecture was about the fact that the Frankish king personally went to Chang'an to meet the Tang Emperor and ask to join the Tang Dynasty.

The Franks are willing to sincerely and fully submit to the Tang Dynasty, hoping to become a princely state of the Tang Dynasty, as long as the throne of the Frankish king is maintained, the local government can let the Tang Dynasty send officials to govern; And I hope that Datang can build all the factories in the past, and the Franks will provide land and cheap labor for free, and they will not collect taxes;

At the same time, they also admired the advanced culture of the Tang Dynasty very much, and were ready to abandon Catholicism and learn from the Tang Dynasty in an all-round way, hoping that the Tang Dynasty would send a large number of teachers to give them lectures, and the treatment would be extremely generous.

The crown prince and some people in the think tank were tempted, but many still felt that they should stick to the established policy, and they couldn't argue, so they came to ask the opinions of the two chief helmsmen.

Li Qi said: "Why did we only occupy a few excellent ports as treaty ports and bridgeheads, and so many other places that we could occupy but did not occupy them? It's because they can't be occupied, and the Tang Dynasty and the newly occupied territories can't be built and governed, so how can they still have the energy to take care of them!

Wouldn't it be nice to be like that now? We taught the Frankish barbarians how to bathe and hygiene, and brought them silk, tea, sugar, porcelain, and all kinds of daily necessities, so that their quality of life was greatly improved; We intimidated them with great force, and at the same time conquered them with advanced technology and culture; We make them realize how ignorant and backward they are, and we pour our advanced and broad culture and all kinds of art on them.

Now the Frankish aristocracy eats and wears everything produced by the Tang Dynasty. Our culture and art are compulsory subjects for these nobles since childhood. All of Datang's products are extremely popular in the Franks; Datang's medium-sized consumer goods and luxury goods were frantically pursued by this barbarian. Rush.

In this way, we just need to keep dumping our goods on them, our culture will be fine, save time and effort but get huge benefits, why take over and covet their little deal? ”

Seeing that some people still didn't understand, Xiao Quzhi on the side continued to speak: "To put it simply, they are used to using our Datang's good things." It's already inseparable, but I can't produce it myself, so I can only ask us to buy it.

Then the money they have in their hands, and all their human resources, is used to buy the daily necessities that we dump at them.

And in order to enjoy more good things in the Tang Dynasty, these Frankish aristocrats can only take various means to squeeze them internally, and then their internal affairs will be in chaos, so that they will never be able to develop their own basic economy and basic industry!

In this way, they will never pose a threat to Datang at all, and they will also become a dumping ground for Datang's goods. Other than that. We can ask them to help us grow grapes, lavender. Produce some handmade products and let them be our slaves forever.

And once we promise to let them join us in Datang and become one of our princely states, and build factories like steel factories and cement factories, and send teachers to teach them various technologies, they will easily develop their own basic industries and basic economies.

At that time, it will become a potential threat to Datang, at least not in Datang's interests for now. ”

Li Qi also said: "That's what it means, at present, we should mainly focus on the internal construction of Datang and improve the living standards of the people of Datang." My Master's opinion is that it should not change for at least fifty years! ”

Including the crown prince, a group of people immediately expressed their joy and convincing, or these two ancestors thought far-reachingly.

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The imperial capital of the Tang Dynasty, Chang'an Xingqing Palace.

In the bright dormitory, Xiao Quzhi and Li Qi sat on the edge of the bed, Li Longji on the bed was already dying, and his qi and blood were weakened to the extreme.

Li Longji took Xiao Quai's hand, just saying that he has been dreaming about it from time to time recently, dreaming of Queen Wang, Concubine Wu Hui, three sons who were killed by himself, and the previous emperors, he knew that his days were numbered, and he just wanted to see Xiao Qubing and Li Qi again before leaving, and he had something to say to Xiao Quai.

Li Longji said with a faint breath: "At the beginning, you said that you wanted the Tang Dynasty to be passed on for thousands of generations and be prosperous and strong forever, but now it seems that it may really be done."

The imperial power has now been cut and cut by you, Datang has a constitution, a special legislative body, an independent supervisory body, and more than half of the administrative power has been given to Shang Shuling, leaving only the right to pardon ~ exempt ~ , veto power and the power to command the army.

After Li Qi took the initiative to take the throne for 20 years, and made the Zen position an iron law, it was really difficult for the imperial power to endanger the country, but in exchange for the stability of the imperial power.

Nowadays, the laws and management systems of Datang are becoming more and more perfect, the people's lives are becoming richer and richer, and the economy is getting better day by day; Technology is getting better day by day, the more railways are being built, the trains are running faster and faster, and I heard that cars are still being studied...... The whole Datang is thriving.

I just want to know how you came up with all these things; You have such a strong ability, you never thought about turning this Li family into the Xiao family? ”

Xiao Quzhi said softly: "These things are all from the dream country I said before...... Isn't the current power of the Xiao family with the country? Aren't the descendants of the Xiao family, like the Li family, holding the lifeblood of the Tang Dynasty together?

Besides, I have made such a great contribution to Datang, our Xiao family has no two hearts, how dare others have such thoughts, how much trouble Datang has less! ”

Li Longji lay on the bed and thought for a while, his breath became more and more dispersed, he frowned for a while, and laughed happily for a while, and then suddenly his face began to have a hint of red, and his eyes became a little clearer, he grabbed Xiao Quzhi's hand, looked straight at Xiao Quzhi and asked: "I'm very curious, where are you from, why can't you find the immortal mountain you said, I'm leaving, don't lie to me!" ”

Xiao Quzhi sighed, and then his voice sounded slowly, and after a long time, Li Longji's breath became weaker and weaker, and he spit out a sentence with difficulty: "God bless the Tang Dynasty......"

By the time Xiao Quzhi and Li Qi looked over again, the one hundred and thirty-year-old man had already closed his eyes with a relieved smile on his face.

Xiao Quzhi and Li Qi glanced at each other, there were already tears in the corners of Li Qi's eyes, and the two said almost in unison: "God bless Datang!" ”

End of full text. (Ahh!!h (To be continued.) )