Xu Yang got up early in the morning today, the genius outside had just dawned, Xu Yang yawned, half-squinted and sleepy-eyed under Liu Mengli's clothes, got into the carriage sent to Chang'an, and galloped all the way towards Chang'an City.

Today is the great court meeting in early April, and all the noble and important ministers in Chang'an must attend the court meeting. The counties and counties around Chang'an should also send supervisors to face the saint to report on the various political affairs received in the past month, and summarize the gains and losses of the previous month.

The majestic road of Chang'an City is very long, and the carriage drove for half an hour to the gate of the imperial city, and when Xu Yang checked the fish charm, when he arrived at the large square outside the Liangyi Palace, he found that the square had already been bustling with people, and they gathered together in twos and threes in private, chatting about the novelties of this month.

The atmosphere in the whole white marble square was very warm, Xu Yang didn't think about it, he knew that the foreman of today's court meeting must be Fang Xuanling.

Sure enough, at the front of the civil official queue, Fang Xuanling was standing there chatting with the eldest Sun Wuji and others beside him.

"Fang Xiang, Lord Eldest Sun, good morning, everyone." Xu Yang thought about the spring breeze on his face, and these old people in the court said hello.

"It turned out that Xu Guigu was here, I haven't seen you for a long time." The eldest grandson Wuji said very politely to Xu Yang.

"By the way, Duke Xu, have you heard about the attack on the Anxi Protectorate?" Fang Xuanling said with a worried face towards Xu Yang.

"What?" Xu Yang was stunned for a moment, "Isn't the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate a newly built Metropolitan Protectorate on the Tubo border?" How could it be attacked? ”

Fang Xuanling's face was a little helpless and said: "It seems that Ghost Xu doesn't know about this matter, the old minister heard last night that there were eight hundred miles of urgent military letters sent into the imperial city at night. His Majesty did not sleep all night after learning the news on the military letter. I'm afraid I'll talk about it this early today. ”

"What the hell is going on?" Xu Yang was very puzzled. Now with the military strength of Datang, how can there be such a thing as the attack on the Protectorate, for the military bases outside the territory, Datang's security measures have always been very good, he can't think of anyone who would dare to attack Datang's military bases.

"Xu Guigu didn't know that after occupying Tibet, the Dalai Lama Divine Religion established by Prince Li Ke in Tibet became the state religion of Tubo, and now there are more than 100,000 believers in Lhasa. With the help of the Tang Army, Prince Li Ke also lived in the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate, and built the Divine Cult Headquarters in it, but yesterday it seems that a team of white-clothed cavalry attacked the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate at night, and I heard that the Prince Li Ke was also injured, so His Majesty was furious......"

Before Fang Xuanling finished speaking, a high-pitched eunuch voice came from the high platform of the Liangyi Palace: "Zhenguan has a big court meeting in the fourth month of the tenth year, and the civil and military officials are groomed, and they must not make noise!" ”

This voice was shouted, and everyone in the white marble square was silent. He took small steps to his place and respectfully picked up the board. Bow your head and make a look of readiness to face the saint.

On both sides of the Liangyi Palace, a mighty chanting sound was played, which was a sign that Li Er had entered the Liangyi Palace, and the eunuch who had just shouted continued to shout: "Zhenguan ten years of the fourth month of the first day of the court, Xuan, the audience!" ～”

A 'visit' produced an ethereal echo in the square in front of the Liangyi Palace, and Fang Xuanling led the team and slowly walked towards the beautiful Liangyi Palace.

On both sides of the magnificent Liangyi Hall stood two rows of maids with screens in their hands, under the leadership of Fang Xuanling, hundreds of civil and military officials entered the hall one after another, the line was very long, and when everyone entered, there were even dozens of officials who had to crowd outside the door of the main hall.

Li Er wore the imperial crown on his head, and the hanging jade beads covered his face, so that the civil and military officials could not see his expression clearly, but because of the rumors of Chang'an last night, everyone did not dare to show the slightest disrespect, in case he was not pleasing to the eye, it was really death and did not know how to die.

"Zhenguan ten years of the first day of the fourth month of the first day of the first day of the court, there is something to start, nothing to retreat!" The white-eyed father-in-law stood on the steps and said to the civil and military officials.

"The minister has something to do." Fang Xuanling actually dared to stand up at this time in the face of the world's disapproval, only to see him holding the board in his hand, lying on the ground and saying: "Your Majesty, the minister heard last night that there was an urgent letter of eight hundred miles from the Zuo Sima Imperial City Guard, which caused His Majesty to be angry, I don't know what this urgent letter said?" Will it make His Majesty so angry? ”

After Fang Xuanling asked, the court was suddenly silent, and all the officials pricked up their ears, wanting to hear what His Majesty was angry about yesterday.

"Fang Aiqing learned so quickly." Li Er sat on the high platform and said lightly, "I did receive an eight-hundred-mile expedited from the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate last night, and the letter said that a team of white-robed cavalry from the snow-capped mountains, numbering about 3,000 people, attacked my Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate at night, burned down more than ten military camps, attacked and killed more than 300 of our army, and an arrow hit my son Li Ke's shoulder, and finally took advantage of the darkness to withdraw immediately. ”

Li Er's voice was very flat, but anyone could hear the low and angry tone of this Tyrannosaurus rex, no one dared to provoke the reverse scales of the dragon of Datang for a long time, this time these white-robed cavalrymen of unknown origin can be said to be in trouble, Datang, the awakened oriental dragon, will let these provocateurs know what fear is, and will also make them pay the price of blood.

"Your Majesty, my Tang army has always been mainly to appease the people when it entered Tibet, and it has not offended any Tubo nobles, and has been supporting the operation of the local government agencies in Tibet, where did these white-robed people come from?" Fang Xuanling asked cautiously.

"Fang Aiqing doesn't know, according to the soldiers on the front line from the corpses of some white-robed people killed, these white-robed people have white skin, and the clothes on their bodies are very different from the local people in Tibet, the weapon they use is a scimitar like a crescent moon, and they are used to shouting 'Allah' during the battle" Li Er said in a low tone.

"This ......" Fang Xuanling seemed to be in disbelief, "not from Tubo?" So where do these white-robed traitors come from? ”

Li Er's face was gloomy and he said: "According to the news from Ke'er, those people are big cannibals!" ”……

The Great Cannibals, also known as the Arabs in the narrow sense, are nomadic people who originated in the desert and semi-desert areas of the Arabian Peninsula, and are considered to be related to the Jews according to both the Jewish Bible and the Qur'an of Islam. It turned out to be a family-based tribe scattered throughout the Arabian Peninsula.

Since the beginning of the Four Great Khalifa, the chaos in Egypt and the years of war between Byzantium and Persia made the original Persian Gulf-Red Sea-Nile trade route impassable, and merchants switched to the safer land route to the Arabian Peninsula. Located in the middle of the trade route, the Persian Gulf in the east, the Red Sea in the west, Syria in the north, and Yemen in the south, the commercial city of Mecca has become prosperous.

The prosperity of commerce gave rise to a powerful force that spread Islam in Mecca by the Prophet Muhammad at the behest of Allah. As the preaching became more and more public, the number of Muslims increased first with the poor, and later even with members of some mercantile aristocratic families, until eventually, the entire empire became a fanatical embrace.

The Arab Empire began its expansion of conquest in this way.

Under the leadership of Omar I, known as the "heir of the Messenger of Allah", the Muslims embarked on a journey of conquest with a fanatic devotion to religion.

From his command of generals leading a Bedouin-dominated Muslim army into Syria and defeating the Byzantine army one after another, to the capture of Damascus and the march into Jerusalem two years later; Then divide the troops into the east and the west and launch a full-scale attack. The Eastern Front broke through the Persian defenses one after another, occupying most of Iraq and Iran.

Eventually, his gaze became more greedy, and his desire for land occupation became more and more desired.

Under his leadership, his army defeated Byzantium on the Western Front and occupied Palestine and Egypt. The war of expansion was even more unstoppable, and the Arab armies on the eastern front pursued the defeated Persian Sassanid Empire and marched into Khorasan, where the land was the whole of Europe.

Of course, Omar I did not set his sights on Europe alone, over the mountains of Central Asia, where there was also this rumored country of great wealth, which was called "Tang"

Omar I had heard about the Tang country for a long time, and on European soil, he would often loot many goods from the homes of those European nobles.

Mirrors that reflect faces, transparent glass, and porcelain as delicate as milky white all fascinate the greedy Umar I, who longed to lead his invincible army against the city of Central Asia, plunder their treasures, slaughter their people, occupy their land, and baptize them in Allah.

This was originally a mere plan, but the Sassanid Empire in Europe was much weaker than expected, and the white-robed cavalry of the Arab Empire only needed a small squad of 300 men to capture a small city-state and harvest the lives of the fleeing on the plains.

The weak Sassanid Empire had reached the point where their land was dwindling every day, and with the Arab armies occupying Khorasan, Armenia, and Azerbaijan, the Tang kingdom was no longer far away, and it was only necessary to climb three mountains to reach the legendary country.

Therefore, Umar I heeded the advice of a great witch and sent 3,000 elite crescent knights to harass and attack that country in the Central Plains with the blessings of Allah and the courage of Allah, hoping to gain more information about the Tang Kingdom...... (To be continued......)