As soon as Li Mao's words came out, it seemed that Zhang Jiuling and others were instantly dialed, so a noisy discussion immediately sounded in the imperial study, and many people were excited to immediately take out the small notebook they had with them and record it, especially Wang Siyuan, who was in charge of Datang commerce and trade, and Yuyang En, who was in charge of natural residence, were surrounded in the middle for a while and asked.

"Lord Wang, Lord Yu, I don't know what else this America is besides the rubber trees, sweet potatoes, and potatoes that we know?" "This? I don't know much about the two of us, but the merchant ships returning from the first two voyages still brought back some gold, silver and copper pieces dug up by the local natives, and the local minerals seem to be extremely rich, as long as we teach them to mine properly, it may be ......."

After Wang Siyuan said this, he took out a nautical chart, and on it was the land where Australia was located that Li Mao had drawn earlier. "Ladies and gentlemen, this big island is a passing place on the way to the Americas, through the exploration of our naval officers, we know that there are many strange animals on it, and the soil is very suitable for rice cultivation, so this official thinks that since the saint is going to send thousands of warships to the Americas, it is better to send some people here to take root and work, so that ten years later, this place will also be the overseas territory of my Datang......"

Li Mao didn't expect Wang Siyuan, the rich second generation, to be so flexible, and he included the treasure land of Australia into the Tang Dynasty without chatting a few words, so he pretended not to hear it and let him play freely, and for what to transport on the return journey of thousands of warships, in fact, it seems to be less important to Li Mao, nothing more than grain, ore, gold and silver, but at present, as long as Li Mao is willing, even the whole earth can go around.

In the next half a month, the loyal ministers at both ends of Chang'an City, who built a bridge on Li Mao's front line, also saw Li Longji, the emperor.

However, to Li Mao's surprise, when Li Longji vaguely proposed that he was going to leave Datang to re-establish a country overseas and wanted to take them with him, there were no less than tens of thousands of people who followed him, of course, Li Mao also knew that most of the reason was that they were old bastards who ordered the house slaves to rebel in front, knowing that their family would have no future if they stayed in Datang anymore.

But even so, Li Mao still admires their trust and loyalty to Li Longji, after all, not everyone has the courage to leave their homeland with their families and start over in a wild place.

Based on this, after Li Mao determined the list of those who were willing to follow Li Longji, he also gave them special arrangements accordingly, and even acquiesced in the sale of their fields and family properties under the conditions allowed by the laws of the Tang Dynasty. And after all these were done, Li Mao took Li Longji and others to Jiangnan to deal with his third brother Li Heng in person.

Of course, in the more than a month that Li Mao sent people to the Americas, Li Heng, who was shrinking in Fuyang Town, also heard some news more or less, but after he learned that Li Mao made such an amazing decision, he also tossed and turned all night long, and he still pinned his hope on his wise and martial old father Li Longji, because he knew that as long as Li Longji promised to protect himself, then Li Mao would not be able to play any more powerful means.

So during the time when Li Mao's holy car came to Jiangnan, Li Heng's 300,000 army and Xiao Tiancheng and Zhang Xiaojing's 500,000 army both tacitly stopped attacking each other.

"Brother Xiao, sage, does he really plan to let go of Li Heng's kid?" "Perhaps, I also received the sage's will to cease the war before I roughly deduced it, after all, the sage still attaches more importance to the love between brothers, in addition, the sage also has his own difficulties, as you said before, the army directly attacked Fuyang Town and slashed Li Heng in the chaos of the army, but after doing so, how will the people of the world view the sage! Originally, the saint was enthroned......"

"Huh...... I also understand the truth, but after doing this, it would be really too cheap Li Heng's kid, if it weren't for him, our brothers might be the main speaker of the Western Expedition Army, where is it Guo Ziyi's turn, that kid goes, his life is really good on the dog day, and Wang Sizhong's kid didn't say that he was close to Li Heng when he urinated? Why did the saint make him the commander of the Western Expedition to Europe this time, can that kid be able to suppress Nazayi, Agul's Turkic barbarians? If you want me to say that the commander of this Western Expedition should be Brother Xiao, you should be the leader? ”

"Okay, Xiao Jing, if you say too much, you will lose, Ben Shuai knows that you are for my good, but the sage's mind is not something you and I can figure out, you and I are the most trusted people of the sage, and he only has his plan to arrange it like this, if it is peaceful today, if Ben Shuai sees it, this westward expedition to Europe is not seen is a great achievement! Even though the main purpose of the saints is to reduce the military strength of the Turks, Tibet, Silla and other places, they go to war namelessly, and what they do is to kill and loot, in exchange for you and I may not be able to do it! ”

Xiao Tiancheng couldn't help but pick up the map of Europe drawn by himself, and then carefully studied it against the candle, and Zhang Xiaojing immediately nodded and leaned over. In fact, both of them were equally puzzled in their hearts as to why Li Mao did that, even in order to kill people with a knife to eliminate the hidden danger of hundreds of thousands of Turkic cavalry, with the current military strength of the Tang Dynasty, there are completely other relatively moderate means to exercise, such as directly ordering the disarmament of the Turkic Taoist government and letting them enter the economic construction.

But Li Mao chose the most difficult method to do it, attacking Rakshasa and even hundreds of principalities in Europe with the power of one country, is it really as easy as imagined? In case the war fell into an unfavorable state, could the central court of the Tang Dynasty still watch the Turkic cavalry fall into a desperate situation and not rescue them?

Of course, these bright ideas are only available to the Tang Dynasty, and the reason why Li Mao did that may only be understood by later generations, because Li Mao has always believed in the supreme concept of taking advantage of your illness to kill you, after all, throughout the thousands of years of history in China, there is strength, opportunity, and it is also a dynasty dominated by the Han people, and it may be a little possible to sweep the entire Eurasian continent during the Kaiyuan period of our Tang Dynasty, because the peak moment of his feudal society is not to talk about jokes.

Therefore, although there are thousands of ways to eliminate the hidden dangers of the Turkic steppe peoples as Xiao Tiancheng and Zhang Xiaojing think, he Li Mao still feels that he should choose this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to deal a heavy blow to those barbarians in Europe, even if the consequences of this will have a great impact on the form in front of the Tang Dynasty, he still does not hesitate to do it.

It is best to beat the whole of Europe back to the Stone Age for thousands of years through this war, and Li Mao will feel relieved, because the resources he has now are more than a hundred times stronger than those of the Great Yuan Dynasty. What the sun never sets, what sea coachman, fuck the hell. In the future, the overlord of the sea will only be the Tang Empire.

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