Seeing this, Li Keyi sighed and said, "I'm afraid that time is running out, if you have time, he wants to meet and chat with you." ”

Li Zuo frowned when he heard this, and hurriedly asked, "What's the matter?" Wasn't the first two days okay? Why did you ...... all of a sudden?"

Although Li Zuo felt a little headache for Li Mingwu, he still treated the other party as an elder, and for more than three years, Li Mingwu had helped him a lot, although the two did not meet many times, but that kind of kinship Li Zuo could always feel.

Now that he suddenly heard that Limingwu's time was running out, Li Zuo's heart was suddenly a little panicked.

"When he is older, he is actually not physically able to do well in the early years, but he has been holding on for the past two years." Li Keyi shook her head when she heard this, and replied with a wry smile: "If it weren't for your appearance, the old man would probably have left two years ago." ”

Li Zuo also sighed when he heard this, looked up at the sky and then said, "It's too late today, so let's go see the old man tomorrow." ”

The old man was called out by Li Zuo when he first saw Li Mingwu, and later he called it more often, and the others followed suit.

"Okay, I'll go back and tell the old man, and I won't bother." Li Keyi nodded when he heard this, and left after saying goodbye.

Li Zuo sat there silently and pondered, his expression a little sad.

Seeing this, Shi Shoudao hurriedly comforted: "King Ming doesn't have to grieve, birth, old age, sickness and death have been around since ancient times, and Li Weng has also passed his prime, and he is already a long life." ”

"I know." Hearing this, Li Zuo nodded and sighed, "It's just that, I always feel panicked in my heart." ”

"Forget it, don't talk about it, the old man is still there after all, how to see it tomorrow, let's get down to business now."

As he spoke, Li Zuo looked at Zhang Guibo, he remembered that he was about to say something before Li Keyi came.

Seeing this, Zhang Guibo hurriedly arched his hand and said: "King Yuming, there is news from Chang'an, Your Majesty has been in trouble since the beginning of the year after Famen Temple welcomed the Buddha's bones, and now the officials of the court are fighting for the establishment of the prince. ”

"Has it started?" Li Zuo frowned when he heard this, and pondered while raising his hand and tapping on the table, it is already almost June in May, and in more than a month, Tang Xizong should succeed to the throne.

Seeing that Li Zuo didn't speak, Zhang Guibo continued: "In addition, there are already signs of a major drought in Kanto this year, and Wang Xianzhi, a Puzhou native who you have asked your subordinates to pay attention to, has also had news. ”

Li Zuo nodded when he heard this, and said, "Let's talk about it." ”

"Wang Xianzhi, a native of Puzhou, traveled all over the country when selling smuggled salt, was good at making friends, in order to resist the government's investigation, practiced martial arts, according to our investigation, this person has now gathered thousands of people in Puyang, Puzhou."

After a pause, Zhang Guibo continued: "In addition, Huang Chao, the leader of the Salt Gang in Caozhou, and his nephews Huang Cun, Huang Kui, Huang Ye and nephew Lin Yan have also gathered thousands of people around them, and there have been many conflicts with the government. ”

As soon as Zhang Guibo's words fell, Shi Shoudao frowned and said: "King Ming, there are only thousands of people, why do you pay attention to these two people, could it be that there is something special about these two people?" ”

Li Zuo smiled when he heard this, and said: "Military advisor, many things often start to break out from inconspicuous small places, you look at it, early next year, this world will become very lively." ”

Hearing Li Zuo's words, Shi Shoudao was stunned for a moment, then nodded with deep understanding and sighed: "Yes, Dapeng spreads its wings for nine thousand miles, and it can't see the ants on the ground, but often, the embankment of a thousand miles is destroyed in the anthill." ”

"Haha, military advisor, you value it, starting next year, those mud legs that those people in the DPRK and China don't look down on will give them a hard blow." Li Zuo didn't say much, and after mentioning it, he changed the topic and asked Zhang Guibo: "Can the news from Lingnan be found?" ”

"King Hui Ming, I have already found a preliminary investigation." When Zhang Guibo heard this, he hurriedly replied: "It is reported that there are nearly 200,000 Semu people plus Kunlun Nu in and outside Guangzhou alone, and in addition, there are also tens of thousands of Semu and Kunlun Nu in Fuzhou, Quanzhou and other places in Jiangnan East Province. ”

Hearing this, Li Zuo immediately gasped, so it seems that some historical records are indeed true.

In addition to the Silk Road during the Han Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty also opened a shipping department in Guangzhou to manage foreign trade, opened the "Maritime Silk Road", and expanded trade with neighboring countries.

As the only "port city" in the Tang Dynasty, Guangzhou was the main port of trade to the sea, and a large number of foreign fleets came and went every day, among which Arab and Persian merchants were the majority, and they were also the main trading partners.

Over time, some foreigners settled in Guangzhou, and more and more of them even exceeded the local residents. These foreign residents who were doing business in a foreign country hired black armed forces to protect their property, and no one could have imagined that this intricate armed force would form a force that threatened local security, so much so that it led to the tragedy that followed......

At the beginning of trade, the Tang Dynasty did not pay attention to this phenomenon. At this time, the Tang Dynasty was strong and open to the outside world, so as long as these foreign powers did not exceed the rules, they would not pay attention to them.

After the outbreak of the Anshi Rebellion, in order to quell the rebellion, Tang Suzong couldn't care so much, so he made a wrong decision: borrowing troops from abroad.

The cavalry of the Hui were notoriously strong in the Tang Dynasty, and the Tang Dynasty was kind to them, and the Hui Hui at that time also knew how to repay the kindness. Therefore, Tang Suzong borrowed 150,000 troops from Hui and 10,000 troops from Arabia (Great Food), combined with a total of 200,000 soldiers and horses from Shuofang's army.

Unable to pay the money borrowed from the soldiers, he agreed to a humiliating treaty: "On the day of Kecheng, the land and shishu will be returned to the Tang Dynasty, and the gold silk and women will be returned to the Tang Dynasty."

The coalition army broke the rebels before Chang'an Xi, and was ready to loot as agreed, but was persuaded by Li Yu, the king of Guangping, until the coalition army conquered Luoyang, the Hui army and the Arab army in the Western Regions could not wait to begin to fulfill the agreement, and burned and looted in Luoyang, and Luoyang fell into chaos.

At this time, the soldiers of the Western Regions completely ignored the previous agreement, wantonly burned and looted, so that the prosperous Luoyang City was reduced to a ruin, and later the Tang Dynasty took out 10,000 horses of Luo Jin to Hui Hui, and Hui Hui stopped looting.

After that, the Arab side did not withdraw its troops by land, but demanded to return by water.

The Arabs originally came by land, but they naturally had their own small abacus by water, and their goal was Guangzhou.

The Arab soldiers and the Arab merchants in the city should cooperate with the outside to break through Guangzhou, burn and loot in Guangzhou, loot Guangzhou, and escape by boat after the sack.

But the Tang Dynasty court did not hold these Arab merchants responsible, first, these Arabs are big tax payers, and there are quite a large black army, the black armed is the Kunlun slave recorded in the history books, the upper class of the Tang Dynasty is very popular to hire black people as helpers, and the Kunlun slave is sold by Arab merchants.

Another is that the Tang Dynasty had just put down the rebellion at that time, and it was unable to send troops south.

This stain was one of the main reasons why Li Zuo hated the middle and late Tang Dynasty.

And the reason why Li Zuo paid attention to the coastal people was mainly to prepare for the cleansing of them in the future, either he would capture Guangzhou and other places before Huangchao and slaughter the foreigners there, or he would slaughter them again after Huangchao was slaughtered, in short, he had to be slaughtered.

Otherwise, what happened in the last years of the Southern Song Dynasty in history would still have happened in Chinese history.

At the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, Pu Shougeng, a descendant of Arab merchants in the Tang Dynasty, was appointed by the Southern Song Dynasty as the Bo Si of Quanzhou City, specializing in foreign trade.

But it was such a person who received a lot of favors from China, when the Mongols attacked the Southern Song Dynasty, he took the initiative to send Quanzhou, the largest port in the East, to Mongolia, and personally killed all the Southern Song royal clans in Quanzhou, and organized Arab descendants to fight with the Chinese soldiers and civilians to attack the remnants of the Southern Song Dynasty.

The great man said that it is necessary to distinguish who is the enemy and who is the friend, and some things cannot be said clearly, but we must also know it in our hearts.

"Hiss~" Shi Shoudao gasped when he heard this, frowned and said: "It's really a shame that there are so many foreigners gathered in my Huaxia land!" ”

Li Zuo just smiled when he heard this, and then he found the map and began to study it.

The south was the region with the least and weakest military deployment in the Tang Dynasty, and when its own strength was not strong enough, it was also a strategy to control Bashu and then capture the area south of the Yangtze River as a large rear.

Thinking of this, Li Zuo immediately analyzed the feasibility of this strategy.

First of all, almost all the soldiers under his command are southerners, and there will be no situation in history where most of the soldiers in Guangzhou captured by Huangchao are not adaptable.

Another is that the Tang Dynasty did not have many troops in the south, and after he controlled Bashu, with the background and population of Bashu, he could quickly recruit and form hundreds of thousands of troops.

The historical Huangchao can rampage through the south with more than 100,000 remnants, and if he quickly dispatches troops when the war in the Central Plains is in full swing, there is no reason why he can't do what the historical Huangchao is.

The last point is that although Shu is easy to defend and difficult to attack, such terrain and blocking the enemy is also equivalent to trapping oneself.

If you are partial to Shu, when the enemy will place heavy troops in the north and east, your own outward expansion will be restricted.

And if you take the entire south as the backing, you will have more choices, cripple the southern edict, and then capture the entire south, then you will have no worries, and you can still have multiple strategic directions for attacking.

Thinking of this, Li Zuo squinted his eyes and raised his hand to tap on the table and carefully calculated.

Seeing this, Shi Shoudao hurriedly beckoned Zhang Guibo to light the candle and then stepped forward to observe the map in front of Li Zuo.

At this moment, Li Zuo's eyes suddenly lit up, and he said to Shi Shoudao with a smile: "Strategist, our strategy has to be changed. ”