"Great Qin?" Li Shimin muttered in his mouth and said, "This country is even farther away from our Tang Dynasty than Persia, can it be such a big threat to us?" ”

Li Shimin still can't believe that there is still an existence in this world that can compete with Datang.

However, in Li Yuanba's understanding of the Byzantine Empire, that is, the Eastern Roman Empire, he clearly knew that this was an imperial state that believed in Orthodox Christianity.

Although the core area is still far away from the Tang Dynasty, but at its peak, the territory once included western Asia and northern Africa, if the Tang Dynasty captured Persia and Tianzhu, it would definitely be against Daqin at that time, rather than having a headache at that time, it is better to start preparing for a rainy day now.

"It's nature!"

Li Yuanba nodded, and said to Li Shimin with a serious expression: "When my Tang Dynasty was still in the Qin Dynasty, Great Qin was already prosperous, but fortunately, later Great Qin was divided into two countries, one called the Eastern Roman Empire, and the other called the Western Roman Empire. ”

"What, there are two countries here?" Li Shimin's voice was full of surprise.

Li Yuanba shook his head and said, "Right now, the Western Roman Empire has been annexed by the Eastern Roman Empire, and this Eastern Roman Empire is called the Byzantine Empire!" ”

"Then what kind of Byzantine Empire can really compete with our Tang Dynasty?" Li Shimin said.

Li Yuanba thought for a while and said: "The reason why I say that it can compete with my Datang is not how strong they are, but their vast territory, with our Datang's current manpower, they still can't catch it!" Therefore, the subordinate brother suggested that the army be expanded! ”

"In addition to the soldiers of various places who must be stationed in the city and maintain local law and order, the army that can be mobilized at will is only more than 500,000, and these 500,000 alone...... No. With an army of 200,000, it should not be a problem to capture Byzantium, but the question is how to occupy it! ”

Li Yuanba spread his hands a little helplessly, and said: "Byzantium has a vast territory and rich resources, if you want to defend this place, it is impossible to achieve it just by relying on war to feed the war, and it is better to send us Tang people over and establish an administrative management system on our own!" ”

"You understand everything, but now I, the Tang Dynasty, have already taken action against two big countries at the same time, if we add a Byzantium. I'm afraid I can't catch it! ”

There was hesitation in Li Shimin's words, pulling such a long front and dispersing the troops was indeed not in line with Li Shimin's character.

"Brother Huang, we don't have to worry about this!" Li Yuanba laughed, laughing treacherously.

"Judging by your kid's expression, eighty percent has already thought of a strategy for attacking Byzantium, right?"

Every time he saw Li Yuanba's expression, Li Shimin knew that someone was going to be unlucky again.

?“ Imperial brother, you are still worried about the capture of Byzantium. That's because you don't know the internal situation in Byzantium, if you do, you will know that if you want to make Byzantium chaotic, you don't need our Datang to contribute for the time being! ”

Li Yuanba smiled like a little fox.

"You kid. I'm still sloppy! Li Shimin glared at Li Yuanba angrily and said, "Let's talk about it, what is the situation inside Byzantium?" ”

Li Yuanba didn't dare to provoke Li Shimin anymore, and when the time came, he would make Li Shimin angry. Smoke him again, why suffer this sin!

"Brother Huang, I just said it. The predecessor of the Byzantine Empire was the Eastern Roman Empire, and the Eastern Roman Empire was formed after the division of the Great Qin, and the Western Roman Empire was the opposite of the Eastern Rome! ”

Li Yuanba is like a strange Shu millet who fools little Lori, and he is trying his best to induce Li Shimin with a lollipop:

"With the strength of the Eastern Roman Empire back then, it was impossible to completely destroy the Western Roman Empire, so they could only choose a two-tier strategy of gradual encroachment, bribery, and head-on hard shock......"

When he said this, Li Yuanba glanced at Li Shimin, and after seeing that he was showing an expression of listening attentively, he continued:

"The result of this is that when the Byzantine Empire was established, there were many officials of the Western Roman Empire at the top of Byzantium, although many of them did not hold real power, but there were many people, if they were in chaos, the Byzantine Empire would lose at least forty or fifty percent of its strength!"

Speaking of this, even if Li Yuanba doesn't say his strategy, with Li Shimin's ingenuity, he can understand that dealing with Byzantium is nothing more than four words: "sow discord"!

Now that you know the situation in Byzantium at the moment, now is not a good time to attack them, so you can only make a fuss within Byzantium itself.

Thinking about it, the easiest way is to let them mess up internally, themselves.

"However, Yuanba, if you want to provoke relations within Byzantium, you must have someone to provoke. At the moment, we don't have much information about Byzantium, and our Datang and Byzantium are thousands of miles apart, even if we send a small work there, it is quite difficult to send the news back! ”

Li Shimin is worthy of being a saint today, and he always thinks about many issues.

"You don't have to worry about this, if you can trust your brother, everything will be arranged by your brother, how about it?"

Li Yuanba understood Li Shimin's consideration, anyway, when the Byzantine Empire and the Tang Dynasty took the initiative to contact, it might be the Year of the Monkey.

"Well, you'll take care of everything!" Li Shimin slowly exhaled a breath of turbidity, looked at Li Yuanba, and said: "For the expansion of the army, I will also arrange it, and the newly recruited soldiers, I will re-establish a guard, and then give you the command, how about it?" ”

Li Yuanba nodded in agreement, and then continued: "Imperial Brother, the original 10,000 Divine Martial Guards have been cultivated, whether it is for them to train soldiers or lead troops to fight, they are all good hands. ”

Li Shimin raised his eyebrows and said, "What do you think about letting me promote them?" ”

Li Yuanba shook his head and nodded again, and said, "Promotion is inevitable, after all, with their military exploits in the past two years, they are enough to assume a higher position." I think, after the establishment of the new guard, how do you think about the recruitment of the first 10,000 Shenwu guard generals as senior officers of the new guard? ”

"Yes!" Li Shimin said: "If it weren't for the initial establishment of Shenwuwei, and the limited number of senior officers in our Datang, it would not have allowed these heroes of my Datang to be ordinary soldiers for more than a year!" ”

Li Yuanba was immediately overjoyed, and at the same time stood up and bowed to Li Shimin, and said, "Then the younger brother will be the brothers of the Shenwuwei, thank you to the imperial brother!" ”

Li Shimin shook his head and said: "If I say thank you, I should thank you, if it weren't for you, I would never have been able to wipe out all the small countries around me in such a short period of time!" I owe you so much! ”

"Okay, let's not be hypocritical here, no one will thank anyone, it's all for our Datang!"

Li Yuanba has always firmly believed in a sentence, that is, "a slut is hypocrisy", and his brothers are still grinding and grinding, what does it look like. (To be continued.) )