Chapter 0543. Central Asia is in turmoil

Anna was convicted of treason and imprisoned at Fort Galata, a Byzantine naval base on the Golden Horn across the Sea of Marmara. [Eye-fast reading book new domain name., initials, previously registered accounts can still be used]

However, after vetoing the path of vassal to the Min State, the Senate has always hesitated to move the capital, and has settled in Constantinople for more than 400 years, where they have fallen and taken root, and the nearby is full of the property of the senators, and they are reluctant.

In particular, Rome at this time is very different from Rome hundreds of years ago.

With the westward advance of Attila, the Hun king, countless barbarians poured into the kingdom of the Romans under the drive of the Huns, and the province of Britain has been occupied by the Anglo-Saxons, the province of Gaul has now become the territory of the Frankish kingdom established by the Franks, and the rich Spanish province was occupied by the Visigoths, and the Visigothic kingdom was established, which extended to northern Italy, close to the Byzantine Viceroyalty of Ravenna.

Less than 200 miles down is the city of Rome!

Not to mention the equally severe alien threat around it, in the great catastrophe of the fall of the Western Roman Empire, most of the city of Rome has been destroyed, and the dilapidated city cannot support the heavy responsibility of a national capital.

What's more, there's the Pope there!

At this time, the Roman archbishop actually did not call the pope in Latin, because the emperor in the Western world was only the Roman emperor, and the Roman bishop only belonged to the archbishop of one of the seven major dioceses.

However, with the fall of the Western Roman Empire, the out-of-control Holy See developed into an independent political force of its own for a few hundred years, until the Byzantine Empire Justinian I recaptured Italy, and the Pope was already more authoritative than the Byzantine Emperor among the people living in the vicinity of Italy.

Where to relocate? Maybe there will be some kind of power struggle with the poor Holy See in the ruins.

In the hesitation of the Byzantine Senate, months passed, and for the first time, the god of fate, or Christ himself, finally opened his eyes and favored the suffering Byzantine Empire for once.

Ruler of the Arab caliphate, the third caliph Uthman. Ibn. Your Majesty, Avan is dead!

It doesn't matter if it is a normal death, the problem is that the caliph was stabbed and killed by his opponents while reading the Qur'an in his own house in Medina.

This entails a series of internal struggles within Islam itself, as Uthman was a member of the famous Umayyad family in Mecca, the holy city of the Islamic world.

When Muhammad first revived Islam, he was unanimously opposed by the Meccan nobility, and Muhammad himself had to flee with his disciples and flee to Medina, where the first Muslim regime, the Umah commune, was established several times by external forces, the most famous of which was the battle with the Umayyad family, 300 Muslim warriors shouted the slogan of the Prophet's incarnation and defeated the escort of more than 1,000 Umayyad caravans, which was hailed as a miracle.

However, there is another outlier among the descendants of this sworn and Islamic opposition family, that is, His Majesty the Uthman Caliph, when Muhammad left, Uthman has always followed him and served with all his heart, and later Islam spread farther and farther, and when the powerful Islam pressed back to Mecca, it was because of his existence that the Umayyads who "abandoned the darkness and turned to the light" turned around and occupied a high position in the Islamic regime.

The teachings of Islam are like an invincible holy sword, leading the Arabs out of the barren desert, gnawing Syria, Mesopotamia, Egypt, Bocilia, Posis and other large areas of fertile land in Central Asia, and the Umayyad family has grown bigger and bigger, from a regional aristocracy to a large territory of the ruling family.

The golden age of the Umayyad family was the reign of the third caliph Uthman, during which he was most criticized for his two most criticized policies, the appointment of a large number of Umayyad members as governors and important generals in the army, the most famous of which was the Syrian governor Mu'awiyah. The Qur'an was greatly altered, and many passages of Muhammad's adopted son Ali were removed.

Despite the great achievements of the Umayyad family during the period of Muslim expansion, most people still remember that the Umayyad family was once the most vicious enemy of the Prophet Muhammad, and upon the death of the Uthman Caliph, the ascending caliph Ali immediately removed most of the Ottoman-appointed governors and generals, and demanded that all Muslim governors swear allegiance to him.

On the other hand, Muawiyah, the current leader of the Umayyad family, refused to surrender the governorship's power, refused to recognize Ali's caliphate status after showing the Ottomans in Syria, and demanded a new election of the caliphate and punishment of the murderers.

Constantinople finally got a little respite.

It is worth mentioning that after the negotiations with the Min State were completed, Khalid returned directly to Mu'awiyah after the death of another Khalid of Allah's sword.

Within the Arab Empire, a second civil war seemed to be on the horizon.

However, the ups and downs of the situation in Central Asia have not affected the stability of the Fujian country in Tianzhu, and in the past few months, the Fujian country is still **** The wound of the rebellion.

The first is the restoration of the fields, the precursor of the decline of the Chinese dynasties are the displaced people, Liu Baotao Palawa's civil strife affected the richest central area of the Ganges Plain, at least a million people were killed in the civil strife and foreign invasions, millions of people abandoned the land and displaced, which was a destabilizing factor for the Fujian state, but also an opportunity.

In the past, the land book of the Fujian State was left by the Ring Sun Dynasty, which did not know how much land was hidden by the local Brahmins, a large number of people became hidden households, sheltered under the temple, and all the order of the rebellion was broken, and these **** lands had nothing to hide, and it took several months for the household officials of the Fujian State to go all over every inch of land in North Tianzhu and re-measure the new field book.

It is as high as more than 4 million hectares, which is double the original increase, and this is only half of Tianzhu, and the fertile Ganges Plain and the Punjab River Basin can even be regarded as Li Jie's laying down another Central Plains in terms of arable land resources.

In terms of population, although Fujian has made continuous efforts to transport the population of Tianzhu to Southeast Asia, the population of Fujian itself and Lingnan is still as high as more than 15 million, of which the Tang people finally account for one-tenth, 1.5 million, and the rest of the Koreans, Japanese people, Southeast Asian blacks, Malays and many ethnic minorities in Lingnan together have as much as 500,000.

The reason why so many Tang people are willing to come to Tianzhu to settle down is very simple, Fujian does not collect land tax, and even the Central Plains does not collect people's tax.

With the annexation of land, the more powerful the landlords evaded taxes, and the court had to raise taxes in order to maintain stability under the decrease in revenue, and the heavier the taxes forced the peasants to give up their land to join the displaced people, and the court taxes were reduced even more, and the court had to continue to raise taxes in order to suppress these rebels.

The most typical example is the Ming Dynasty, and in this regard, Fujian seems to be nervous, in addition to the territory of the Central Plains in order to encourage the people to immigrate and collect less than the Central Plains three molecules of the tax, Southeast Asia, Linyi, Tianzhu, Tang people are all exempt from tax, it seems that Fujian seems to have suffered a big loss, in fact, the profits made by Fujian are not a lot at all.

After the tax exemption decree, there was also a clause that once the farmer sold the grain, he must sell it to the Fujian official.

controlled the sales of bulk grains, and made a few more money by raising prices a little.

It was another warm afternoon, almost a year's time, the city wall around the city of Beijing has been almost built, and the backyard of the Min Wanggong Palace, which was finally started, has also been scattered with a lot of buildings.

But behind him, there was a troublesome beauty.

The king of Fujian is a thousand years old, the minister Yang Xiong is ashamed of the mission, the rescue of the Byzantine princess Anna has made no progress, the Byzantine magnates are secretive about this matter, and the Arab emperor * team retreated, the Byzantines reoccupied the province of Ancatolia, regained the lost territory and built fortresses along the way, the battle line has been pushed back to the Armenian border, and the ministers are afraid that the Byzantine ministers are like the moon in the water, and the flowers in the mirror have been.

After reading a large piece of music for the dead ghost Yang Xiong, Li Jie couldn't help but sigh helplessly, although he guessed this result, but it was still very disappointing for Li Jie to let the dignified Roman Empire fail to claim the vassal position, and he wrote a reply with a pen in his hand.

"Take care of Princess Anna, rely on the wealth of the mission, and wait for the opportunity."

Thinking of that strange elf Greek girl, Li Jie shook his head in distress, hey, I can only do so much for you.

"Hmph, my father must be thinking about which vixen again, what the mother concubine said is absolutely right."

The immature voice sounded under the table in front of him, and once again Li Jie almost didn't squirt out, and the black line in his head jumped straight down the notebook, and he took out a little guy from the desk depressedly.

The second prince Li Jin.

"Stinky boy, why are you not going to school and running here?" Gritting his teeth and glaring at this kid, Li Jie was full of his father's majestic reprimand, but unfortunately, he was a year older, and Li Jin was much bolder, so he didn't care about pulling Li Jie's beard that he had finally grown and replied slyly.

"My father is willing to cultivate himself, just grasp the main righteousness, there is no need to pick out the words word by word, learn to be a nerd, I understand what Grandpa Yang taught."

Seeing that this kid was confident, Li Jie patted his head with a headache again, it seemed that the majesty could not be put on again, just in Li Jie's distress, Li Jin climbed on Li Jie's lap with a sly smile.

"Father, can you order the cessation of arms exports to the Arabs of Uzi steel, yesterday on the street, Xiu Shen met an Arab boy, but he was crazy, saying that the army of their country is equipped with Uzi steel weapons, and they actually look down on our Fujian country."

"Stinky boy, what do you know!" Li Jie slapped it casually, and it happened to be slapped on the bun that Li Jin had just tied up at the back of his head, and the angry kid grinned again.

"Father, don't shoot people's heads, my son has grown up and is not a child!"