Imperial Palace, Yeonyeongjeon.

This is the inner court of the political hall, but there are no guards and court etiquette, it is the palace of the monarch and the ministers, divided into two halls, east and west, all of which are equipped with chairs in the sitting hall, this will sit in the west hall of seven or eight courtiers, swept each other's eyes, and there are doubts in their hearts.

The east seat sits two sorcerers from the Royal Academy of Arts, an academician of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, and two researchers from the Weapons Research Institute, and the west seat sits the two chiefs of the Privy Council's General Staff and the two officers of the Ordnance Supervisor.

The chamberlain announced that the prince had summoned the council - but what was the situation?

Looking at this lineup, it should be related to war and weapons?

But the research direction of the Imperial Academy of Sciences is not war and weapons......

There is also the Royal Academy of Arts, which also rarely participates in the study of weapons, and the weapons policy determined by Emperor Gaowu is to attach importance to science and technology, and not to rely on magic to solve, unless there are difficult magic weapons in the belligerent countries. …… Could it be that there is a moth on Euroton's side? The two chiefs of the Privy Staff shook their heads slightly, not receiving military information in this regard.

I saw Chen Baozhu, the head of the inner chamberlain of the Dongnuan Zichen Palace, enter and preached loudly: "The prince's edict——"

And they stood and listened in silence.

"After watching the movie, we will discuss it again."

There were two palace maids who pushed out the screen with wheels on the base, stood on the south side of the pot door case, hung down the white curtain on the screen, and stepped forward to open the wooden box projector on the pot door case, and the light and shadow were projected.

It is the scene of the battle between the two armies.

- The battle between the Tang army and the Yan and Zhou armies.

Everyone felt that the angle was a little strange, this is ...... Recorded from the air!?

The two sorcerers of the Royal Academy of Martial Arts frowned slightly, and after looking at them for a while, both of them couldn't help leaning forward slightly, and their eyes were scorching—this height? This speed? …… There is also space, which must be embedded with the law of spatial stratification......

The more others watched, the more shocked they became.

The academicians of the Academy of Scientific Research sighed in their hearts, they are far from reaching this technology, and at present, they can only achieve still life photography at most...... This is obviously a means of magic, and the distance between them is really too far.

The faces of the two commanders of the Ordnance Supervisor were grim, as long as there were the means of a magician, no matter how strictly secret weapons were put on the battlefield, it would be really difficult to keep secrets. The two glanced at each other, wondering if it should not be done by the Academy of Arts, it was Oghus? The temple sorcerer's methods are a real toothache.

The two chiefs of the General Staff Department raised their eyebrows, their brains were already running at a high speed, and they wondered if this high-altitude observation method could not be fully applied? What kind of impact will it have on the sentinel and command operations of future wars......

***

When the Yanying Hall was released, Li Yuzhen was listening to the minister's affairs in the East Warm Pavilion of the Zichen Palace.

The two ministers under the imperial couch sat left and right, the minister on the left was wearing a four-grade vermilion official robe, slightly fat, with a tuantuan face, not smiling and amiable, but it was a big mistake to think that he was gentle, this is Liang Quanmo, the general of the Foreign Security Department of the Jing'an Division, who is in charge of foreign affairs, a smiling wolf, kneeling on the brocade cushion at the moment with his eyebrows slightly lowered, and playing the latest summary of the information of the Great Food Country.

"The black rebels in southern Egypt were defeated in the Marisa River, 50,000 were killed, 60,000 were captured, all of them were confiscated into slavery, and the strong and elite were selected into the Mamluk - this is the slave army of the Great Food Country, founded by Caliph Amaia V a hundred years ago, allowing slaves to be freed from slavery with military merits and advanced military attachés with military merits, so these Mamluks are not trained to die, and the battle is very aggressive, and the cavalry and melee combat are quite strong; In the fourteenth year of Changzhi, fighting with our Anxi army, Mamluk's cavalry and melee combat were more than the first line of the Anxi army, especially the madness of not fearing death, which was terrifying, only the Anxi army did not let Mamluk break through the front line with weapons and armor and formation. ”

The Foreign Affairs Department will revise the "Military Intelligence Compendium" of the countries every year and submit it to the imperial review, and the military intelligence compendium of the Great Food Country has the content of Mamluk, but the information of the countries is huge, and Liang Quanmo is not sure whether the prince pays attention to those details after browsing, but as a vassal, the affairs must be detailed and explained clearly, and the sovereign cannot be recalled.

Li Yuzhen hummed lightly and motioned for him to continue.

Liang Quanmo said: "Up to now, the Imma army has occupied the four northern provinces and the two central provinces of Egypt, which is equivalent to half of the territory of the Egyptian provinces; Seven days ago, in Alexandria, the capital of the province, the descendant of the Prophet Muhammad Tulum was enthroned as caliph, titled Tulum I, and proclaimed the establishment of the Tulum dynasty, claiming to have a million troops, but the actual number of troops was about 400,000, half of whom were Egyptians.

"When Tulun I came to the throne, he issued an edict to all the provinces: calling on all believers of Allah to fight against the false dynasty and establish a pure kingdom of Allah." This means "I am the right one."

If the black rebellion in the four southern provinces of Egypt is the "unmasking rebellion" of the middle and lower classes of Egypt, then the title of the six northern provinces is the internal strife of the Great Food - the political split between the two major factions of Allah.

Allah is what the Tang people call the Great Food Religion, all the Great Cannibals are believers in Allah, and the Caliph of the Great Food is the ruler of the unity of church and state, that is, the unity of the Pope and the Emperor, and the current caliph is Amaia IX, belonging to the Amaiya Dynasty, that is, the second dynasty. The First Dynasty was the Orthodox Caliphate, and the House of Aymayyad of the Second Dynasty was descended from the fourth "Orthodox Caliph" Hesb.

The "orthodox caliphate" referred to by the great cannibals refers to the fact that after the death of the Prophet Muhammad, the heirs chosen by Allah in the Church, that is, the four disciples of the Prophet, succeeded the caliphate in order. Hisb was the fourth disciple of the Prophet and the last orthodox caliph. And after the death of Shisb, who will succeed the caliph became a matter of debate, and a disagreement was formed-

The sects believed that only the four disciples of the Prophet were the successors of the Prophet, and that the four orthodox caliphs had died, so they should be chosen from among their descendants, and they supported the succession of the sons of Hesb, the Amayyad dynasty. However, the anti-Imayad faction insisted that the only child of the Prophet, the descendant of his daughter Fayma, should be caliph, in order to return to the Prophet's bloodline.

The opposition between the two factions could not be unified, resulting in political and military divisions, but the power of the sectarian faction was the mainstream, and the Ima faction was suppressed, and finally had to leave the homeland of the Great Eclipse and move north to Egypt, a new territory conquered by the Great Eclipse, and quietly developed in a corner, and after more than 100 years of efforts, the power grew and grew...... Among them, there is also Datang's secret "funding".

It is in the interests of Datang to maintain the split between the two factions.

Li Yuzhen took a sip of the eight-treasure tea, his eyes swept over the golden chrysanthemums on the pastel porcelain bowl, and his eyes were sharp.

Amaiya, Tulum, the two caliphs are the best to fight...... It can weaken the strength of the Great Food Country the fastest.

However, things are not necessarily developing in the direction that Datang wants, and it may also be that under the threat of the westward expansion of the Datang and Oghuz Alliances, the Zongxun faction and the Ima faction temporarily put aside internal strife and unanimously went out to the outside world. This is the worst-case scenario, and Li Yuzhen must also take it into account and arrange it in advance.

While thinking, she listened to Liang Moquan's report.

"The Turkic and Persian forces already occupied five and a half provinces in the north, east, and southeast, about one-third of Persia. The Turkic-Persian alliance claimed to be one million, but it was actually about 500,000, and the Turkic cavalry accounted for about 200,000. ”

This was a "rebellion" in the Persian provinces.

Egypt to the west and Persia to the east, this is the civil strife that caught fire in the east and west of the Great Food Country.

Li Yuzhen put down the teacup and looked at the hanging map for a while.

She said in an indifferent voice: "In other words, if Amaia IX wants to quell the rebellion on both sides, he needs 900,000 troops?" ”

Liang Quanmo replied cautiously: "This is true in terms of the number of soldiers. ”

However, the factors that affect the outcome of a war are not only the number of soldiers, but also the comparison of the overall strength of the two sides, including combat effectiveness, equipment, logistical support, and so on. With these factors in mind, it is estimated that Aymaia IX would have to have at least 600,000 troops to quell the rebellion.

What Li Yuzhen was thinking about was the choice of Amaia IX - war? Or peace talks?

If the Tang Dynasty and Oghuz had not destroyed Yan Zhou, even if a million troops were needed to quell the rebellion, Amaia IX would not hesitate to choose "Annei", and he would not have tolerated the existence of another caliph in the empire. However, the destruction of Yan Zhou - this is a great empire recognized by the world's empires, not a kingdom, and the demise of one empire will undoubtedly cause the greatest vigilance and uneasiness of other empires, and it is not impossible for Amaia IX to consider "going outside". What's more, according to the situation of Jing'an, Emperor Euroton has sent Damas to persuade Aymaia IX to temporarily put aside the "holy war" between the Holy Religion and the Allah Religion, and first join forces to fight against the "most evil Eastern Empire...... This "most evil" Eastern Empire certainly refers to the Tang Dynasty. Li Yuzhen's eyes flashed sharply, and the domestic anti-apocalypse faction also secretly preached the "Tang Dynasty Annihilation Theory" in Damas, when she didn't know?

Another minister in the warm pavilion is Zhou Shihe, the secretary of the Department of Religion, dressed in a purple official robe from the third grade, with fair skin, and the hair under the head is slightly curly, revealing a mixed-race bloodline.

Li Yuzhen's gaze swept over, and he bowed his hand: "Your Highness, the Imag faction established the caliphate dynasty in Egypt, and the provinces of Meroe and Arkham are very likely to fall to the Imag faction. Yesterday the Nestorian Patriarch came to see his ministers and also conveyed the news that Ihd Tulun had sent an envoy to the city of Anka, the capital of Meroe, to promise Archbishop Torteri, the Assyrian patriarch of the two provinces, that if Meroe and Arkham declared to belong to the Tulumnian dynasty, Tulun I would reduce half of the poll tax of all Assyrians in the two provinces. ”

The province of Meroe is located south of the province of Egypt, in the lower reaches of the Nile River, and was formerly known as the Kingdom of Meroe; The province of Akem is located in the southeast of Merrom, formerly known as the Kingdom of Akem, which was once a powerful country in the north and east of Southern Daxi, but later declined one after another, was killed by the Great Eclipse and established a province to rule and promote Allah.

But the Holy Church was founded in Nanda Xizhou 1,200 years ago, and later although the mission center moved to the then rich and powerful North Daxi Continent, the mission of South Daxi Continent did not give up, the believers are extensive, the faith foundation is very deep, although the Great Food Empire conquered by force to become the overlord of South Daxizhou, and promoted Allah, but it is impossible to kill all the infidels - that is, there is empty land, so the pagan poll tax was introduced, and the pagans were forced to convert to Allah with heavy taxes. But the faithful, as well as the wealthy churches and monasteries, defy the poll tax, established themselves under the rule of the Great Cannibals......

In addition to the deep belief foundation of the "native religion" and the strong resistance, there is another important reason: it is the funding of these "pagan religions" by the Tang Dynasty. There are money, materials and weapons, because of these gratuitous and generous support, the Tang Religious Department has a very close connection with these "pagan religions", and a lot of local intelligence is passed on by these pagan religions. Therefore, the Department of Religion is also secretly the Department of Foreign Spies, and many things that make trouble are related to the Department of Religion, and they are often hated and scolded by the Department of Military Intelligence together with the Jing'an Division as "two damn skunk moles!" ”

"Half of the poll tax ......" Li Yuzhen snorted coldly and asked one of the leaders of the "Skunk Mouse", "What did Luo Anse say?" ”

Anser was the patriarch of Nestorianism.

Nestorianism and Assyria are both a sect of the Holy Church, but because the interpretation of the doctrine are judged as heresy by the Holy See, Assyrianism and the Holy See are separated by a continent, and the persecution is not great, and the Nestorian Religion in the same northern Western continent is bad, so it had to escape from the Ibli continent, and finally went to the Persian Empire to preach, becoming one of the state religions of Persia, the Great Food destroyed the Persian Empire, and the Nestorian Religion was forced to move eastward into the Tang Dynasty.

Tulun I sent an envoy to meet the Assyrian Patriarch and promised that it was impossible for the Religious Department to be unaware of such important news in the city of Anka-Patriarch Tuoleri would not hide it from the "friendly sponsoring country", and Zhou Shihe must have received the news earlier than the Nestorian Sect, so when he reported it, he said, "The Patriarch of the Nestorian Religion came to see the ministers, and also conveyed a message" with a "also", which means that he had received the news from the Assyrian Religion first.

Li Yuzhen did not ask what Assyria meant, but asked him, "What did the Patriarch of Nestorian Religion say?" There are also a lot of meanings in this.

It shows that Li Yuzhen agrees with what he said: the two provinces are likely to fall to the Tulum dynasty. Faced with the benefit of a fifty per cent cut in the poll tax, Torrey could not refuse.

Another deeper meaning is to ask the Nestorian Christians for their opinion on the Persian "Restoration Movement".

The Persians want to restore their country, but the Turks are not doing good deeds, so how can they be separated from the Persian army in the territory that has been "recovered"? As one of the state religions of Persia, Nestorianism has a considerable influence on the Persian army, and if the Tang Dynasty wants to intervene in the situation in Persia, it is best to do it through Nestorianism.

Zhou Shihe replied: "Luo Anse said that the Jing Church and the imperial court are consistent. ”

Li Yuzhen stretched out his hand and pointed to the map, and his voice was cold, "South, you can't give it to the Turks." ”

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