With the destruction of the four eastern islands and the fall of the Tang Dynasty, the glory of the Tang Empire once again shone on the earth, and the East, known as the sea of stars, had long been occupied by the fleet of the Tang people.

The construction of Southeast Asia has reached a bottleneck, the Tang army has occupied all the islands that can be explored, and the port of Quanzhou has a huge number of sea ship carriers and the masses of Tang immigrants to the Wa Kingdom, Ryukyu, Luzon, Australia and other places.

The development of mineral resources has also reached the limit, Datang has no place to plunder new labor, and the resource output of the mine has entered a period of steady development.

Judging from the reaction of the people of the Yalu River, they do not seem to have much resistance to the new rulers of the Tang Dynasty, and they seem to have a deep-rooted servility, which makes it very easy for those people to domesticate.

Li Erjia's court has newly introduced a group of students who graduated from Nanshan Academy, as the saying goes, new officials take office with three fires, and after these new officials take office, they all burn their own fires.

The Ministry of Industry held a "Science and Technology Exchange Meeting", the Ministry of Rites held a "Tang Etiquette Popularization Policy Conference", Dali Temple began to revise the "New Tang Dynasty Law" again, and at the same time, these new officials were all supportive of the Tang Dynasty's foreign expansion policy, they did not seem to be as timid as the students of Guozijian, nor as steady and serious as the old and meritorious officials.

They were like a flame full of passion, showing the world the struggle, freedom, and dreams they had learned from the academy, and they never thought that the current territory of the Tang Kingdom was large enough. They are never satisfied with the present. What they want is to ride the wind and waves. Instead of resting on his laurels to defend the frontier, after learning of Li Er's dream of conquering the world, they all wrote together, saying that the Tang Dynasty's rule over Central Asia still needs to be strengthened, and the land after leaving the Western Regions can still become the land of the Tang Dynasty......

Since the beginning of Zhenguan, when Li Shimin ascended the throne, the situation in Central Asia has been very delicate. There are many small countries scattered here. It is sandwiched between four major forces, which are: the Tang Dynasty, the Tibetan Dynasty, the Great Food and the Turks, and each side has super strength. These major forces have launched an open and covert struggle around the Central Asian countries.

This is an era of competition for strength, and future generations may think that the ancients of that era were very warlike, but in that era, only the law of the jungle was the truth. Striking the opponent is the best means of protecting oneself, and once this means of protection is lost. Then disaster will come very quickly, and that is the characteristic of that era.

The Tang Empire actually arrived in Central Asia very early. In the early years of Zhenguan, Xu Yang revealed his identity as Guiguzi to Li Er, and at the same time pointed out to Li Er what the world looked like, Li Er coveted such a rich and vast land in Xu Yang's mouth.

Within a few years after the surrender of the Eastern Turks, Li Er sent no less than 5,000 people to Central Asia to contact the countries and establish diplomatic relations, among which dozens of countries in Central Asia came to depend, including Tocharo, Persia, etc., Li Er also attached great importance to the situation there, and set up eight prefectures in Central Asia to govern it, pointing at Central Asia, showing the appearance of a hegemon in Central Asia.

However, this supremacy is constantly being challenged from all sides.

The Great Food Empire, that is, the Arab Empire, which was founded slightly later than the founding of the Tang Dynasty, under the banner of jihad, fanatical faith, with indomitable courage, wielded the crescent scimitar in his hand to harvest the armies of the three continents of Europe, Asia and Africa, and expanded the power of Islam from the Arabian Peninsula to the whole of West Asia and North Africa, and eastward to the Persian Plateau.

They slaughtered all sides along the way, swept invincible, wherever the iron cavalry went, all the city-states and small countries did not have the slightest resistance, those leaders who were destroyed, they were forced to leave their homes, many of them were along the Silk Road, fled to the powerful Tang Dynasty to seek refuge, and now there are still many small monarchs who have been destroyed in the Honglu Temple.

The Great Food Nation is in full swing, and their next target is the Sassanid Empire of Persia. Although the Sassanid Empire of Persia is an empire with a long history, it is still in a precarious situation in the face of the powerful Iron Eater......

At the same time, there is also a regime on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau that is a powerful opponent of the Tang Dynasty in Central Asia, that is, Tubo, although under the persuasion of Xu Yang, the historical Princess Wencheng into Tibet did not happen, but Songtsen Gampo is a generation of figures after all, without the promotion of Tang science and technology culture, he still brought Tubo into a new era, military, political, cultural aspects have made great progress, historically, Tubo with its neighboring big Bolu and small Bolu as a springboard, all the way to the west, the power of the Syr Darya River in Central Asia.

Under the competition of many forces, it is conceivable that the land of Central Asia will never be calm, and the current calm is the last calm on the eve of the storm......

Compared with the surging vigor of the Tang Dynasty, Xu Yang's mood during this time was a little heavy, that is, a Taidou-level figure in Nanshan Academy passed away.

Mr. Li Gang, one of the founders of Nanshan Academy, died at the age of ninety-three, he lived seven years longer than in history, listening to the servants who have been taking care of Mr. Li Gang said, Mr. Li Gang walked very peacefully, in the afternoon of the sunset, he lay on the recliner of his own courtyard of Nanshan Academy, passed away peacefully, the last words before leaving, "Those boys who graduated from the academy can finally make a difference now, and the old man is relieved even if he leaves now." ”

He did leave with peace of mind, Sun Simiao told Xu Yang that Mr. Li Gang died naturally due to the aging of his body, and he left without a little pain, which was also the last good news in the sadness for Xu Yang.

According to Mr. Li Gang's confession before his death, he will be buried in a bamboo forest not far from the mountain behind Nanshan Academy after his death, and the tomb does not need to be luxurious, but it must have a broad vision, and he wants to be able to watch the academy he created single-handedly for the rest of his life.

Mr. Li Gang had two close friends before his death, one was Lu Deming, the other was Yan Zhitui, after learning the news of Mr. Li Gang's death, these two rushed to the courtyard where Li Gang lived for the first time, Xu Yang heard that when he saw Li Gang's body, the two old people who were over the age were stroking their palms and laughing, but they cried tears when they laughed and laughed, and sighed that the three of them made a bet together to see which guy had the shortest life, and now Lao Li left first, just like when they joked with each other back then.

Nanshan Academy held a grand funeral, even Li Er, who has been the dean of Nanshan Academy, also attended the funeral, and at the funeral, the students were sad and painful, and they all remembered the vice president with a kind face and always answered their questions with a smile.

What is surprising is that at the funeral of Mr. Li Gang in Nanshan Academy this time, a large number of officials in the court came to pay respects, all of them were students of Nanshan Academy, and now they came to see Mr. Li Gang for the last time.

The funeral was very beautiful, Li Er said that a pillar of the country like Li Gang was the pillar of the Tang Dynasty, and announced a three-day boycott to commemorate the ......

In the inheritance of human history, people are constantly leaving, and new characters are constantly appearing.

This is the law of nature, and it is also the law of heaven and earth.

Time flies, the grass grows and the warbler flies in March, the willow branches are green in April, the flowers are red in May, and the time comes to July of the tenth year of Zhenguan, after a long October pregnancy, Liu Mengli and Jin Shengman finally gave birth to the child in their womb.

As soon as the child was born, Xu Yang was overjoyed, Liu Mengli gave birth to a girl, and Jin Shengman gave birth to a boy, and being a father again also made Xu Yang ecstatic.

He regards these two newly-born little lives as the flesh of his heart, and takes care of his parents and children every day, taking care of them in every way, the woman born by Liu Mengli, Xu Yang named her Xu Wanshu, in order to grow up gentle and virtuous, and the boy born by Jin Shengman is called Xu Zhenhua, which means the revitalization of China...... (To be continued......)