Recreating the prosperous Tang begins with summoning players

Chapter 718

Fuso, Nara.

Compared with Datang, today's Fusang is a backward village.

Li Daoyuan walked all the way from Zhuzi to Nara, and all the Fusang people he saw were short and thin, with yellow and thin faces.

Li Daoyuan even encountered bandits once. Those skinny monkeys rushed over with bamboo poles. After Li Daoyuan chopped off the bamboo poles with his sword, the bandit leader immediately knelt down and begged for mercy.

This kind of Fusang really has no tourist value.

Li Daoyuan felt a little regretful, he would not have gone to sea if he had known earlier.

Although these Fusang people were not fully clothed, Li Daoyuan could still see the village at any rate. Occasionally, there were a few "nobles" in clothes who brought food and clean water to Li Daoyuan.

Su Xing simply entered the primitive society.

Some Ainu tribes don't even have a language, and communication depends entirely on gestures.

There were even reckless Ainu people rushing over to rob Su Xing, but An Chengxian who was beside Su Xing destroyed the entire tribe by himself.

Maybe Ahn Sung-hyun can also leave behind the title of a sword master who has been killed by a hundred people in later generations.

Although Li Daoyuan and Su Xing regretted coming to Fusang, the video of them chopping monkeys in Fusang was still played a huge amount, and instead they earned a lot of traffic.

At the same time, a series of major events also took place in the west of Datang.

Guo Ziyi's nephew, Guo Xin, the protector of the Western Regions appointed by Datang, got in touch with Longyou, and sent a letter to Longyou for help.

After Li Tan entered Longyou, he once wrote a letter to Guo Xin, an old childhood friend, asking him about the situation in the Western Regions.

However, the letter written by Li Tan fell into disrepair, and Guo Xin never got a reply.

After the failure of the merchant player's westward expansion plan, Longyou lost interest in the Western Regions.

After receiving Guo Xin's reply, Li Tan found out that some time ago, Guo Xin led the army of the Protectorate of the Western Regions to go on an expedition.

The Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty were very vast. On the Silk Road, a business route that spans Asia and Europe, there are countless small countries.

Guo Xin, the chief protector of the Western Regions, also worked very hard. He encountered rebellions in several small countries in the western regions just after he took office, and Yushi Guo Xin hurriedly led the army to put down the rebellion.

In the real timeline, after the Anshi Rebellion, Tubo and the Uighurs divided up Longyou Hexi, and Guo Xin in the Western Regions severed his connection with the Tang Dynasty.

In the absence of any support from the Tang Dynasty, Guo Xin still led the surviving army of the Western Regions Protectorate, persisted in fighting against the Tubo Uighurs in the Western Regions for more than ten years, and even maintained Datang's rule in the Western Regions.

Guo Xin was later conferred the title of County King by the Tang court, and later generations called him the Jagged County King.

However, in this world now, Tubo and Uyghur were both feared by Li Tan, and Longyou was still firmly in the hands of Datang. Got in touch.

According to news from the Western Regions, there was a rebellion in Shule some time ago, and Guo Xin just led the army to put down the rebellion in Shule.

However, from the letter Guo Xin wrote to the King of Yue, we also know that the situation in the Western Regions is not optimistic.

Since the Battle of Hengluo, Datang was defeated. Although the final result was that both Datang and Heiyi Dashi retreated, the influence of Datang has weakened, and the countries in the Western Regions are ready to move.

The Western Regions is vast and full of small countries, but four of them are the largest and are also the four strategic nodes that Datang attaches the most importance to. They are called the Four Towns of the Western Regions.

Shule Town, Khotan Town, Qiuci Town, and Yanqi Town, these are the four largest countries in the Western Regions, and they are also key sections of the Silk Road.

At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, these small countries in the Western Regions were actually conquered by the Tang Dynasty.

However, after the fall of the generation of military gods in the early Tang Dynasty, Datang really could no longer continue to promote counties in the Western Regions, so it could only restore these small countries.

However, the Protectorate of the Western Regions set up guardian envoys in the four towns and stationed troops in these countries to keep the Silk Road open.

Control other small countries in the Western Regions through the garrisons in the Western Regions and these big countries that are inclined to the Tang Dynasty.

When the Tang Dynasty was strong, this set of order was maintained very well, and all the countries in the Western Regions expressed their surrender to the Tang Dynasty.

But after the influence of the Tang Dynasty declined, some of these small countries in the Western Regions had different ideas. The Protectorate of the Western Regions was busy suppressing those rebellious small countries, and the four towns of the Western Regions also had different ideas.

Among these four towns, Shule Town and Khotan Town are the farthest, and they are separated from the Western Regions Protectorate by the desert. Moreover, these two towns have received the greatest cultural and religious influence from the Black Clothes Dashi, and have the strongest centrifugal force on Datang.

The country of Kucha has the strongest national power and is also the wealthiest among the countries in the Western Regions, and the Protectorate of the Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty is near the country of Kucha, and has close trade with the Tang Dynasty, and is also the most respectful to the Tang Dynasty.

The situation of the Western Regions was sent to the Political Affairs Hall, and the prime ministers had the same view on the Western Regions. Datang must not abandon the Western Regions, and must strengthen the control of the four towns in the Western Regions.

But how to manage the Western Regions, the prime ministers have different opinions.

The last time Heng Ross was defeated, it had a huge impact on Datang's western business strategy.

Most of the prime ministers, headed by Pei Mian, believed that maintaining the status quo was enough, and even Datang could take the initiative to shrink part of the military force to ensure the control of Kucha.

Obviously, now that the world has just settled down, it is not suitable to launch an expedition to the Western Regions.

Moreover, Dashi in Black is powerful. If Datang reaches out to the Western Regions, it will also arouse the vigilance of the other party, thus provoking terrifying opponents.

A small number of other prime ministers, headed by Li Mi, felt that the position of the Western Regions was very important, and they had to send more troops to the Western Regions to completely control the towns of Shule and Khotan.

Only by controlling these small countries in the Western Regions at both ends of the first mouse can they establish a strategic buffer zone in the Western Regions and cut off the attempts of the black-clothed food to invade the Western Regions.

The Zhengshitang is arguing over whether to strengthen the Western Regions, but the focus of the debate on the player forum is not whether to support the Western Regions, but whether to send troops to Tianzhu immediately!
Tianzhu, known as Shendu in ancient times, and later called India, before contacting Guo Xin, the player almost gave up the plan to go west.

But now news of the Western Regions came, and some players proposed a new westward expansion plan.

Completely occupy the Western Regions, control Tianzhu, and occupy the entire South Asian subcontinent, and then fight for hegemony with the black food!

If the player proposed this plan before entering Chang'an, then Li Tan probably laughed it off.

But the plan proposed by the player now seems to be somewhat feasible.

Nowadays, when India is mentioned on the Internet, it is all kinds of disgust. Most of them have the impression that it is a densely populated place with scarce resources.

But in fact, Tianzhu is also a unique land.

After the opening of the colonial era, Tianzhu was called the jewel in the crown of the empire by the English. The title of the King of England has the title of Emperor of the Indian Empire.

Tianzhu brought low-priced grain, a huge amount of raw materials, and a vast commodity export market to England.

The huge plains in the entire Ganges River Basin are high-quality land suitable for farming. Tianzhu was able to become an ancient civilization because of its favorable geographical conditions.

When Li Mi was called into the palace by the King of Yue, a doctor of geography from the Imperial College was writing and drawing on a blackboard.

Li Mi, a Ph.D. who was given to King Jingyan of Yue, also knew him. He is now the subject leader of the Geography Department of the Guozijian, and his name is Wei Ming.

In reality, Wei Ming is a former practitioner of geographic surveying and mapping. This is a hard job, requiring frequent surveying and mapping in the field.

After the child was born, Wei Ming gave up his job in geographic surveying and mapping in order to take care of his family nearby, and found a job as a clerk locally.

However, Wei Ming didn't like this [-]-to-[-] job where he could see everything at a glance. He discovered the game Datang Fengyun in his spare time.

After entering the game, Wei Ming was naturally out of control and completely addicted to it.

Today's Tang Dynasty is in the eighth century A.D., and the great geographical discovery has not yet begun. For geographers like Wei Ming, this is a blank piece of paper that can be drawn at will!

Wei Ming's biggest goal is to save enough money and experience points, and then measure the world like Li Daoyuan!

But until he has accumulated enough experience points, he can only teach in the Imperial College.

In addition to teaching at the Imperial College, Wei Ming also contributed articles to Chang'an Daily and set up a column. He wrote many professional geography popular articles, which also caused some controversy in Chang'an.

Li Mi knew Wei Ming because of some of his "explosive comments" in the Imperial College.

It is not uncommon to say that this kind of thing is round. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, Zhang Heng "The Illustration of the Armillary Sphere": The armillary sphere is like a chicken.The celestial body is round like a bullet, and the earth is like a yellow chicken, living alone inside, the sky is big and the earth is small.There is water in the sky.The sky and the earth are like the yellow shell.

Zhang Heng pointed out that the heaven and the earth are egg-like structures, and the earth we live in is spherical.

The circle of the earth is acceptable to Li Mi, but Wei Ming's "floating plate theory" cannot be understood by Li Mi.

Wei Ming said that originally all the continents in the world were gathered together, and the whole world was a Pangea continent. These islands in Fusang Nanyang were originally connected to the mainland, and the entire continent was floating on the mantle, and it was still in constant motion. middle.

The reason for earthquakes and other phenomena is not the sin of the heavens, but the collisions caused by the movement and extrusion between the various plates.

Wei Ming even said that the high mountains were formed by the extrusion of the plate movement, which made Li Mi think it was a fantasy.

If you don't talk about these outrageous theories, Wei Ming's geography attainments are quite powerful, and he knows the geography of mountains and rivers in various states and counties like the back of his hand, and he is also a strange person who amazes Li Mi.

When Li Bi entered the palace, Wei Ming was telling the king of Yue about the geography of Tianzhu.

"Your Highness, when talking about the geography of Tianzhu's mountains and rivers, I have to talk about the Khyber Pass."

(End of this chapter)