There have been many great emperors in Western history, but among them, the most commendable is the one that has been surpassed by any emperor in later generations.

Alexander the Great.

The twenty-one-year-old young Macedonian king set out from his hometown, with his childhood companions, only tens of thousands of heavy infantry and dreams of the unknown world, defeated the million-strong army of the Central Asian "Both" Empire, millions of other peoples, and took Egypt, Syria, Ancatolia, the east all the way to the Indus Valley.

The influence of Alexander, Li Jie can still see it today, such as Buddhism, the Buddha statues, gods, and murals carved by the "Jing" heart of the Brahmanic "sect", in fact, to a large extent, the inheritance of Greek culture, Greek philosophical thoughts, and world view also had a great impact on the Indian religion in later generations.

However, Li Jie didn't want to be the next Alexander the Great, conquered the world for more than ten years, and seemed to leave a huge empire, but in fact, it was more appropriate for Alexander to leave a mess, and the Macedonian army continued to overthrow the old regime along the way, but did not build a new political model in the vast territory, so Alexander's empire was 'chaotic' and 'chaotic' from the beginning.

In particular, inheriting his father's poor internal affairs, Alexander's many policies in addition to war were still based on 'sex', the most notable example being Alexandria in Egypt.

The famous port was a world famous city until the 21st century, and the Alexandria Lighthouse, which belongs to the city, has stood as one of the Eight Wonders of the World for more than a thousand years.

Egypt's hot desert climate, water is more precious, but Alexandria is more than 20 kilometers away from the nearest water source, the Nile, the early days of the city's construction of drinking water suffering day and night all troubled the immigration of 150,000 Greeks and local Egyptians, and the east coast of Egypt is not suitable for the establishment of a port at all, here are full of reefs, the ships of that era are easy to go 'lost' on the reef and hit their heads and break the bloodstream.

Therefore, although Alexander the Great is worthy of praise, later generations of scholars still respect the people who inherited his legacy, the Diadochi kings, although they tore Alexander's empire into pieces, but spread culture and civilization further, and established effective rule in the conquered lands, such as inheriting Ptolemy in Egypt, he built the lighthouse of Alexandria, which solved the problem of shipping, and he built twenty kilometers of underground water diversion channels to bring in the water of the Nile, so that the thirsty cities could be liberated.

It can be said that Ptolemy was the real architect of the remaining Alexandria.

Now Li Jie is doing the same as these Diadochi, consolidating his rule.

Entering from Bangladesh, the reason why the Tang army advanced so rapidly, the advantage was actually just a surprise, Tianzhu people did not expect that across the narrow Indochina Peninsula and the sea, the Fujian ** team could really fight, Tianzhu's key defense is still in Nepal and the western area, where is the entrance to Central Asia since ancient times, the 'gate' household, the heavy troops are not there, and the local soldiers have not been assembled, of course, the big ones are handy.

Bengal half of Capricorn, a land of one and a half provinces, thousands of miles of supply lines are still loyal to the local lords of Tianzhu, the Brahmans and the local governor 'Mon' Sata are still constantly 'disturbing' the supply lines of the Tang army, and the war ahead is becoming more and more difficult to fight.

Li Jie, who was responsible for how Alexander the Great maintained the supply line, didn't know how to maintain the supply line back then, anyway, he knew that his army needed food and pay, and it was the best choice to garrison the city and then withdraw his troops.

However, going back is not a big stride meteor walking back, Li Jie's army is fighting and then fighting back.

Compared with the great unification of China, the feudal system of Tianzhu was really thorough, with the local governors controlling the cities, and the vast countryside being ruled by canonized Brahmans, who managed the local land, finances and taxes, and even the thoughts of the people in the controlled areas.

In addition, the feudalization of Tianzhu has just begun, and there are still a large number of jungle tribes in the tropical rainforest, which are similar to the black tribes on Luzon, which are completely primitive tribal feudalism, but these people are numerous and brave, especially in their hands, there are powerful weapons of war, war elephants.

Even the Aryan princes of Tianzhu need to appease these people and coax these tribes to come out in time of war, and for the Tang army, the jungle tribes are even less convinced.

This time, it was more difficult to fight back than to fight, and won the support of the monks of Wangshecheng, Li Jie implemented a two-handed plan for the local Brahma 'gate', and was willing to lay down his arms and defect to the Brahma 'gate' of Fujian under the persuasion of the monks sent by Wangshecheng, and Min also retained his rights and status, and granted the official post of township chief or Li Zheng to continue to rule the place.

This war was fought extremely cruelly, not only for the Tianzhu indigenous tribes, but also for the Tang army, which often needed to go deep into the rainforest to attack the indigenous tribes hidden in the depths of the rainforest, and also experienced the test of war elephants and ambushes in the shadows.

After a battlefield New Year, in March of the following year, Li Jie led the army back to Sudagang in the Bay of Bengal, at this time the rule of the Min State in the northeast of Tianzhu was basically established, half of the local village community and township chiefs were replaced by Tang people, and almost all the lords of the Jieri Dynasty were pulled out.

And what made Li Jie most proud was that he finally built the first road in Tianzhu, and in the course of the campaign, the Tang army successively swept dozens of jungle tribes and the territory of 'Meng' Sata, captured nearly 200,000 prisoners, and dug mountains along the way to build a big road, along the Wangshe City all the way to connect the cities captured by the Tang army, all the way to Sudagang.

With this lifeline, the Tang army's rule in Northeast India was immediately smooth, and a steady stream of wealth began to flow to Sudagang, and the Tang army's counterinsurgency was much faster after the rebellion in various places.

Not everyone did not welcome the arrival of the Tang army, in March of the second year of Yonghui, when Li Jie was in Sudagang, he was welcomed by the Tianzhu people here.

First of all, the Buddhists, even if Buddhism had a dominant position in Tianzhu, the original Brahmanic religion of the Aryans still had a natural political advantage, occupying a large amount of land, constantly accepting land gifts from the nobles and Kshatriyas, and attacking Buddhism in doctrine.

The reason why Buddhism is popular in Tianzhu is that on the one hand, his philosophical outlook and the idea of reincarnation give the vast number of suffering people a direction of liberation, and on the other hand, Buddha Choda. Mosiddhartha was also born into the Kshatriya class, and naturally, the caste order of Buddhism was Kshatriya, Brahma, Vishya, and Shudra, and the posture was very low, and of course it was popular with the Kshatriya king warriors.

Now that Li Jie has eradicated the power of the Brahmana 'Gate' by force along the way, and built many Buddhist temples, the Buddhas of Wangshecheng have begun to strongly respect Li Jie's rule.

On the other hand, Fujian also had one of the earliest supporters in Tianzhu, the great merchants of India.

Since ancient times, India's great merchants have been involved in international trade, from the Bronze Age with Babylon, Egypt's trade to the present, especially after the rise of Fujian, in the past two years, there have been more and more Tianzhu merchants who have taken the maritime Silk Road, and more and more have made a fortune.

With moonstone, blue 'color' gemstones, pearl agate, 'Bo's lapis lazuli and other jewelry, cardamom, cloves, sandalwood, camphor and other spices, horses, elephants to the East in exchange for silk, porcelain, tea and other specialties have become the main livelihood of many merchants, especially the Fujian Governor's Mansion is more similar to a collection of big merchants, the same kind of blind date, Tianzhu merchants are more welcome Li Jie's arrival.

After Sudagang was set up as a free trade port by Fujian, several major Tianzhu guilds that originally existed on the southern coast because of the suppression of the northern regime of Tianzhu actually moved their families to Sudagang.

"King Min is broken, broken, and old!"

On the fifth day of the first month of March, as soon as the Fujian army entered Sudagang, it was immediately surrounded by a welcoming procession, and the civilians and businessmen scrambled to stuff the pastries and 'chicken' eggs in their hands into the hands of the soldiers in the Tang army, while frantically shouting the Tang language salutation that made Li Jie's egg hurt.

Sitting on the back of the elephant, listening to such enthusiastic cheers from the people in the foreign lands, the eldest grandson weaves a few girls with a small face that is 'excited' red, and frequently waves their little hands below, and their beautiful appearance attracts more 'fierce' cheers every time.

"Okay, Langjun, this is also a piece of people's mind, don't put on a stinky face." After a while, the eldest grandson Zhicai shook his sleeves with a smile like a 'flower' and stabbed Li Jie, but unfortunately he still had a bitter face, shaking his head with the bump of the elephant, and Li Jie shrugged his shoulders helplessly.

"A piece of mind? It's not cheap. ”

Li Jie is really right, the army showed off its might and patrolled around and stationed back in the barracks by the port, Li Jie just returned to the original city lord's mansion to rebuild the palace of King Min, a large group of monks, Tianzhu businessmen have found the 'door', the stability of the region is always the first place in the dynasty, before he had time to change a set of clothes, Li Jie hurriedly received several monks.

"Your Highness is kind and charitable, and the Buddha will definitely bless Your Highness!"

After half an hour of secret talking, a few Tianzhu monks really went out of the 'door' with a smile on their faces, and sent sincere blessings before leaving, but the few princesses of Min who were still smiling like 'flowers' on the elephant just now were not in such a good mood.

"This is blackmail!" A large number of land deeds were slammed on the table, and Qin Qing, who was the most knowledgeable about finance, pouted angrily, on the title deed, from Sudagang to Wangshe City, a series of lands were closed by several monks' upper and lower lips, and they were gone, and the distressed little girl's hands trembled.

"Yes, Lang Jun, is this a bit too much? Especially the Wangshe City, which is equivalent to giving it all to those monks, the cost of attacking the city is not small, is it worth it? "The eldest grandson weaves from a family, and his understanding of the land is even deeper than Qin Qing's, the eldest grandson's family is rich and the land is vast, but the land that Li Jie granted to the temple just now is more than the fief that the eldest grandson Wuji has earned in his life, no wonder she can't help frowning.

This time Li Jie is a lot more open-minded, although a young handsome face is still the old man, but he is not sad anymore, sighing, Li Jie shook his head: "Send it, send it, break the wealth and avoid disasters, anyway, these lands are also taken, and now the remnants of the Brahman 'gate' in various places are still resisting, with these big monks lobbying, the Tianzhu people around the country honestly 'pay' taxes and pay grain, it is better than anything else." ”

"Besides, lonely things are not so easy to take, Tianzhu Buddhism is also divided into Theravada Buddhism, Mahayana Buddhism, Hinayana Buddhism, Yuan Tiangang Daoist in China, Li Chunfeng and Xiao Ling Daoist have rushed to Tianzhu as soon as possible to preach, and several Jain monks will soon feel that Su Dagang, when the time comes, there will be more cards, and these great monks will naturally not be arrogant."

Although Li Jie's face was 'exposed' and 'yin' ruthless when he said this, the 'flesh' and 'flesh' pain couldn't be erased, and the few girls who watched it also shook their heads funny.

"Your Highness, a few of the great merchants of the guild have asked to see you again."

"It's hard to fight the world, and it's even harder to defend the world, so choose them in." Full of helplessness, Li Jie waved his hand, and after a while, several dark-skinned, chubby guys squeezed into Li Jie's study like turtles laying eggs.

The great monk just now fell in love with Li Jie's land, but this group of people is the one who fell in love with Li Jie......