In the eighteenth year of Kaiyuan, the Great Sui Emperor issued an edict to canonize Yang Jing, the eldest son of the emperor, as the crown prince, and divided the remaining eight eldest sons as kings, and feudalized in the northern frontier of Liao. Each of them gave the eight sons a county to build a state, gave the sons a population of 10,000 households, an army of 1,000, and sent craftsmen to build a royal city for each of the eight kings in their feudal countries. The king's cities were built, and the emperor decreed that the kings should be made into vassal states.

In the Kaiyuan Palace, Yi Feng personally set up a banquet to see off the princes, the eight princes were twenty years old, and the younger ones were sixteen, and now they will all be divided into the country and become the screen of the Great Sui.

It has been 19 years since he became the emperor, and Yang Lin, the son of heaven who is nearly 40 years old, now has more than 20 princes and more than a dozen princesses, but only nine are over 16 years old. Through years of observation, the eldest son Yang Jing has indeed been very good, smart and wise, Yunwen Yunwu, young, has already shown the demeanor of a king, under the continuous progress of the rulers, Yi Feng finally decided to canonize him as the prince. The crown prince is established, so there is no reason for the rest of the older princes to continue to stay in Beijing, according to the system set that year, the princes will feudal frontiers and establish a country.

"You don't have to worry about being sad, the eagles will always leave the nest when they grow up, and they will have their own piece of blue sky. If you miss them, you can go and live in their feudal kingdoms when you have time. Yi Feng said to Gao Qianxue, Murong Qiang, Rose and Chen Wan and the other concubines, their son is about to leave the country of Beijing, and there is nothing to worry about as a mother.

"But they are still so young, they are far away from Jingshi, and they go to such a distant place, not only to Liao** North, but also to the northernmost frontier of Liaobei, which is simply a wild place." Murong Rose couldn't help but say.

"What are you worried about, they are royal children, and they are born with wealth that others can't imagine. Naturally, there is also responsibility. They had to defend the frontier for the Great Sui Domain. However, although the feudal country is far away, it is a little more remote. But I also gave them 10,000 families and 1,000 sergeants. In addition, he also helped them build a royal city, which is a unique treatment for the emperor's son, and none of the other kings in feudal southern Xinjiang had such good treatment. Like Yang Liang, the king of Rinan, is in Yuzhou, and he is at the border with Linyi. As a result, he did not want to forge ahead and did not know how to govern the feudal country, which led to a surprise attack on the Linyi Kingdom in the sixth year of the Kaiyuan Dynasty, and was captured and killed by the Linyi army, not only losing his life. I also lost the face of my Great Sui's national prestige. Although in the end, the imperial court soldiers destroyed the Linyi Kingdom in one fell swoop, but the people could not be resurrected, and the Ninan Kingdom did not die. ”

"It's cold in that place in northern Liao, Your Majesty, it's okay if you just seal them to go to southern Xinjiang, after the imperial court destroyed the Linyi country, didn't you take advantage of the situation and destroy some southwestern barbarian states such as Zhenla who did not obey the Great Sui, there is a large area of newly expanded territory, and you can divide it into a few pieces at will and give it to the princes. Although southern Xinjiang is hotter, it is much better than northern Liaoning. Although the princes are in northern Liaobei. But it is thousands of miles away from the provincial capital of Liaobei, and it has been freezing and snowy all year round, is that place a place for people? ”

Chen Wan also said on the side, "Sister Murong said yes. Your Majesty, even if you don't seal the princes to southern Xinjiang, you can go to the Samhan Peninsula and Fusang Island. A few years ago, the Imperial Court had just pacified the Samhan Peninsula and Fusang Island. Isn't there a shortage of people to help the court guard, isn't it just right for the princes? ”

Yi Feng shook his head. "Don't think so badly about the princes, they have suffered a lot over the years. Not only grew up in the deep palace, but also seen the world everywhere. When Qin Qiong, Lai Cheng and other generals went south to conquer Linyi and Zhenla countries, they used to help transport logistics, although they did not enter the enemy's territory, they also went to the south of the Yangtze River. Later, Wei Chigong, Cheng Yanjin, Xu Shiji, Su Dingfang, Cheng Mingzhen and other generals Ping Goguryeo, Dingsanhan, Dongying, and several older princes hid their identities as staff officers to accompany the army to the east. Later, the imperial court pacified the rebellion of the party, pacified the invasion of Tibet, and then pacified the rebellion of the Western Regions, all the kings also participated, although it was not the commander of the army, not the battle formation to kill, but also went deep into the front line, showing commendable courage. In recent years, after the fall of Tiele in Mobei, the Wei Su people rose again, and the imperial court repeatedly transferred the grassland princes to attack the Wei Su people, but they always retreated to the far north every time, and then after we withdrew our troops, they made a comeback. These Wei Su people are destroying the Great Sui's control of the grassland, and those grassland princes have been raised by the imperial court for many years, relying on the income of trade and territory to become rich and noble marshals one by one, and they have long lost their original fighting power. Although this is also a good thing for the imperial court, since the Second Northern Expedition, it has been nearly 20 years now, and there are no grassland people in the northern Xinjiang to invade the territory, and the northern part of the imperial court enjoys peace. These stubborn rebels cannot be taken lightly, and they must be taken precautions as early as possible. This time, the Eight Kings feudal northern frontier is also intended to refine them, so that they can have the imperial court to guard the frontier and defeat these diehards. The stronger the ability, the greater the responsibility, the history of the north is the trouble of the Central Plains, after the submission of the grassland tribes, the more recalcitrant tribes in the ice and snow in the north have to be guarded against. Once they are allowed to sit on the throne, maybe today's good situation will be completely lost. ”

"But it's hard for these children." Gao Qianxue sighed.

"How do you know they'll be unhappy, but I've divided each of them into a thousand miles of feudal kingdoms."

"What is the country closed for thousands of miles, you should be Mobei is the Central Plains, there are no people in the place for thousands of miles, no matter how big the land is, there are not many people."

"Okay, let's not talk about this, today is a send-off banquet, be happy."

After sending off the eight kings to the vassal, Yi Feng sat in the Kaiyuan Hall and talked with Taibao Li Jing.

"The Fifth War between Persia and Rome was now inextricably fought, and Khusru II took advantage of the civil strife of the Eastern Romans to lead a large army to the west in the fifth year of the Kaiyuan Dynasty, and the Persian army captured the city of Dara after nine months of fighting. In the eighth year of the Kaiyuan Dynasty, Persia marched westward in two routes, one capturing Cappadocia, Bessinia and Karachia, and the other capturing the city of Chalcedon, and united with the Avars and Slavs to threaten Constantinople. At this time, the Eastern Romans were still in a civil war, and the war was endless. The Persian army marched straight in, and in the ninth year of Kaiyuan, it conquered Syria. In the eleventh year he went down to Antioch, and in the thirteenth year he took the city of Jerusalem. Sixteen years, Pasha. Barz led a large Persian army into Egypt. Capture of Alexandria. At the same time, another large army marched into Asia Minor, reaching the Bosphorus, again threatening Constantinople. Just this year, the Persian army once again captured the city of Chalcedon and united the barbarians to attack Constantinople. ”

"Yes, the Sassanid Empire of Persia has reached its extreme point of power, and its power has reached its peak like never before. Their strength has also made us extremely threatened in the Western Regions. ”

Li Jing said. "The Roman Emperor Heraclius sent three waves of envoys to Luoyang this year, asking my Great Sui to send troops to rescue Rome and attack Persia together. Isn't Your Majesty ready to promise them? ”

The Byzantines themselves never recognized themselves as Byzantines, they always insisted that they were the Roman Empire, the Eastern Roman Empire. However, after the death of Justinian the Great, the empire began to decline. In the third year of the Great Sui Dynasty, under the leadership of the centurion Phocas, an army rebelled and openly rioted. Advance to Constantinople and attack the Emperor. With the support of the people of Constantinople, the rebel army quickly captured the capital, guillotining Emperor Maurice and his children, as well as representatives of the government who were hostile to the army. Centurion Phocas rose to the throne as the new emperor of the empire, but the new emperor brought eight years of bloody civil war to the Eastern Roman emperor. From the very beginning, the unjustifiable Phocas was fiercely opposed by the Imperial Senate, the great aristocracy and the administrative bureaucracy. They quickly provoked civil wars in the eastern provinces, including Syria, Palestine, Silesia, Asia Minor, Egypt, etc.

And the old rival of the empire for many years, the Sassanid Persian Emperor Kuslao II, took advantage of the maneuver to fight the war against the Eastern Romans.

And it was at this time, in the tenth year of the Great Sui Dynasty, that Heraclius, the son of the governor of Africa at that time, stood up. He revolted against Phocas and raised his arms. They were well received and soon gained the support of the Elders and the Greens. In the eleventh year of Kaiyuan, he successfully marched into the imperial capital, seized the crown, and sent Phocas to the guillotine, and in the same year Heraclius ascended the throne as emperor, established the Heraclius dynasty, and sent envoys to establish diplomacy with the Great Sui in the same year.

However, the new emperor did not have a good time, and by the time he ascended the throne, the Persians had already conquered Syria, Palestine, Egypt, Armenia, Iberia, and the valley of the two rivers, and had invaded the hinterland of the Byzantine Empire from Asia Minor. In the sixteenth year of the Sui Kaiyuan Dynasty, the Persian general Shahin captured Kalsedon on the Bosphorus and directly threatened the Byzantine capital Constantinople on the other side of the strait. At this time, the Slavs and Avars began to attack Byzantium from the northwest. The Byzantine country was in chaos, and Heraclius was in a difficult situation, and his envoy to Kuslao was denied. The new emperor was in a hurry, and he was now in a hurry to seek medical treatment, and finally pinned his hopes on the powerful and incomparable Sui Empire in the east.

Three waves of emissaries sent Heraclius a letter asking for help, asking the Sui Empire to send troops to rescue and attack Persia.

Persia is now almost beating the Eastern Romans, and its power is so strong that even the Great Sui, which controls the Western Regions, also deeply feels it. And just like the Persian Empire, many people in the country are now recalling an old thing, that is, they joined forces with the Turks to destroy the Hatda, but in the end the Turks turned around and seized half of the land that belonged to them, and later provoked Rome to fight against them, and the wars between Persia and Rome have been going on for decades, and it can be said that the Turks have a great responsibility. Although the Turks had long since been destroyed by the Sui Empire in the east, the Western Regions were now also controlled by the Sui Empire. However, many of the Persians, who were in a state of pride, suggested that it was time for them to reclaim the lands that had been pitted down in the first place. Some people even shouted even more simply to occupy and seize all the rivers.

And this has already threatened the Great Sui.

However, Yi Feng was thinking about some things farther, knowing some of the original history, he remembered that the Persians did reach their peak during this period, but they were quickly defeated by Heraclius' counterattack, and even the emperor was killed and captured by Lacros in the end. This Heraclius was indeed very good, not only revolted and seized the throne, but also blocked the siege of the capital by Persia and barbarians in a terrible situation, and finally defeated the enemy to lift the siege, and also recaptured all the lost territory seized by the Persians, and finally led the army to Persia and captured the Persian emperor. However, this great hero in history is also quite regrettable, because he encountered the rise of another dynasty.

This year is 619 A.D. Nine years ago, Muhammad founded Islam in Mecca. And when he died in 632. A unified Arab state with Islam as a common faith, theocracy, and a united Arab state emerged in the Arabian Peninsula. It was later met by Muhammad's friend Abu Abu. Bakr became the leader of the Muslims, known as Hari. By 634, when the two empires of Persia and Eastern Rome were exhausted by long-term conquest and war-weary, Umar I was elected the second Hari, known as the "heir of the Messenger of Allah", and from then on he became the commander-in-chief of the Muslim army. He commanded his generals to lead a predominantly Bedouin Muslim army into Syria, defeating the Byzantine army one after another, and capturing Damascus in 636. Two years later, they marched into the Jerusalem area; Then divide the troops into the east and the west and launch a full-scale attack. The Eastern Front successively broke through the Persian defenses and occupied most of Iraq and Iran; The Western Front continued its successive defeats against Byzantium and occupied Palestine and Egypt. From the assassination of Omar to the reign of the third Harry Osman, the war of imperial expansion was unstoppable. The Arab armies on the Eastern Front pursued the defeated Sassanid Persian Empire and marched into Khorasan. In 651, the Sassanid Empire fell, and the Arab Empire captured Khorasan, Armenia, and Azerbaijan. The Imperial Army on the Western Front continued to invade Cyrenaica in Libya, North Africa.

By 661 C.E., Mu'awiyah, the Syrian governor of the Umayyad family, ascended the throne of Hari. With Damascus as its capital, the Umayyad dynasty was established. He changed Hari to hereditary and effectively became the monarch of the empire, while the military expansion of the Arabs also entered the second **. At the beginning of the century. After the consolidation of the Umayyad regime, the Arabs began to engage in large-scale foreign wars. On the Eastern Front, Arab armies invaded Central Asia and occupied vast areas such as Kabul, Bukhara, Samarkand and Khorezm. Up to the Pamirs, it confronted the Tang Dynasty of China. Another Eastern Front army marched south to the northern end of the South Asian sub-6. Occupy the Sindh area. On the northern front, the Umayyad dynasty fought three times. Siege of Constantinople, the capital of Byzantium. The Western Front was the most violent, occupying not only the Maghreb region from Tunisia and Algeria to Morocco, but also crossed the Strait of Gibraltar and invaded the Iberian Peninsula in Western Europe in 711 with the main force of the newly converted North African indigenous Berbers.

As a Chinese, a Chinese who is familiar with history, he will definitely remember the great battle between the Tang Dynasty army and the Arab imperial ** team in the Western Regions during the ancient Tang Dynasty in China, and the result of the war was the defeat of the ** team.

Shi Zai: All the Hu are angry, and they lure the big appetite to attack the four towns. When Xianzhi heard this, he hit the big food with 30,000 people from the Fan and Han dynasties, and went deep into more than 700 miles to Hengluo City to meet the big food. After holding each other for five days, the Glolu tribe rebelled, and attacked the Tang army with Da Shi, Xianzhi was defeated, and the soldiers died slightly, and there were only thousands of people left.

In the face of 200,000 Arab coalition troops, the Tang army calmly responded to the battle, causing heavy losses to the Arab coalition forces, and about 10,000 of the 20,000 Anxi elite troops lost more than 10,000 people, of which nearly half were killed and captured. After this battle, the Arab army was victorious, but because it was busy quelling the rebellion, it was unable to expand further eastward. The Tang Dynasty also withdrew from Central Asia because of the Anshi Rebellion that broke out later, and since then it has lost control of the Western Regions, and the Arabs have since seized the hegemony of Central Asia that originally belonged to the Tang Dynasty.

The course of history is clear, the Persians who are now proud will be killed by Heraclius of Rome, and then the Eastern Romans are rejoicing, and suddenly the Arabs rise up, and then they pluck the fruit of Persia, which is already the result of the Romans. Since then, the Tang Dynasty, Rome, and the Great Food have become the world's top three empires, and eventually a war broke out between Rome and the Tang Dynasty in Central Asia. The Tang Dynasty was defeated, and because of the Anshi Rebellion, the opportunity to win it back was forever lost. The expansion frenzy of the Arabs lasted for hundreds of years, spanning Asia, Africa and Europe, and although Byzantium had been beaten by the Arabs, it had been holding on to it until 1453, becoming a veritable thousand-year-old empire. The more powerful Arab Empire, in the end, could not compare to the Eastern Romans, they perished a few hundred years earlier, only lasted more than 600 years, in 1258, Baghdad was captured by Hulegu, the commander of the Western Expedition of the Great Mongols, and the Arab Empire perished.

However, the Tang Dynasty in the East, which was once one of the three major empires, died earlier, in 907 AD.

Back in 619 A.D., the three major empires in the world did not yet have Arab names, namely the Great Sui, Persia and Rome.

Rome had just experienced eight years of civil war, and the Great Sui had just experienced twenty years of continuous expansion, unifying the Northeast, the Samhan Peninsula, Dongying Island, as well as the South China Sea countries and the southwest barbarians.

In the eighteenth year of Kaiyuan, the territory of the Great Sui Empire reached more than 16 million households, and the population exceeded 100 million.

Faced with the bitter pleas of the Romans, the arrogance of the Persians, and the imminent rise of Arabia in his memory, Yi Feng finally decided to strike first.

Historically, China has lost its hegemony over Central Asia once and did not return to the region until nearly a millennium later.

Now, there's no reason to back down.

Yi Feng looked at Li Jing, who was gradually born, "Duke Wei, I plan to agree to Rome's request, send troops to the west, unite Rome to destroy Persia, and stabilize the control of the Transoxiana region." I plan to let you lead the troops, and now I want to ask, Lian Po is old, can you still eat? ”

"The minister is only forty-eight years old now, he has not yet known the mandate of heaven, and he can still open a three-stone bow, drink two catties of wine, ride a fierce horse, open a strong bow, and command the army to fight, there is no problem."

"Okay, those times will be up to your old commander to go out and lead the army west!"

(End of the book!) (To be continued......)