Chapter 1461 Timing

  Luoyang, Prince's Mansion of Wu'an County.

  When Qin Xiaozhong saw his grandson Qin Rui, he became very angry.

   Blowing his beard and staring, he shouted, "You beast, what troubles have occurred in Luzon again, and you still dare to come to Luoyang, I will break your dog's legs."

  Qin Yao stood aside in embarrassment, saluted his father, "Aye, Dalang and I went to Beijing to deliver a letter by the order of our great-grandfather."

   "Message delivery?"

   "Azu said to let Dalang and I go to Xindu's new Yangzhou."

   "What are you doing there?"

   “Go exercise for ten years.”

  Hearing the number of ten years, Qin Xiaozhong's heart moved. He suppressed his anger and looked at his children and grandchildren. After a long time, he turned around and sat back, "Where is the letter?"

   After receiving the letter, Qin Xiaozhong didn't rush to read it.

Now he pays more attention to ten years of experience. In fact, the Lusong Qin family has an unwritten tradition, that is, the Qin family has many descendants, but they only cultivate the best children. After all, no matter how good the conditions and resources of the Lusong Qin family, it is impossible for them to Everyone is cultivated vigorously, so those who perform very well in the general family will receive further special training and more resources will be allocated.

One of the most notable features is that Qin Lang will put these good seedlings of the family in the border areas, which are also areas where the Qin family has a strong influence, and put them under the sinister conditions to polish them. However, the Qin family can use family members or It is the relationship between disciples, old in-laws, etc., to ensure that these good seedlings will not have any accidents.

   This kind of training is generally good for ten years.

  Ten years, those who can accept the tempering and still perform well will naturally have a bright future, but if they do not perform well during this process, it will naturally be difficult to have further training in the future.

  When Qin Jun went to the Western Regions, he was the first to develop this kind of experience mode. Later, Qin Xiaozhong, Qin Xia and many others went to the frontier to experience. Qin Xia went to Heishui to experience, and Qin Xiaozhong experienced in the river.

   Now Qin Yao and Qin Rui and his son are going to Xinyangzhou for training. Undoubtedly, grandfather Qin Lang is optimistic about these two, especially Qin Rui, a kid who always likes to cause trouble, but his grandfather said that this kid has a rare energy.

"The imperial court has begun to set up provinces. I originally planned to call you to Luo, and arrange for you to go to Xichang Province to practice. Since grandpa asked you to go to New Yangzhou, then go. But remember, you are in New Yangzhou, and you represent the same The Qin family in Lu Song is the descendant of my Wu'an king, Qin Xiaozhong, don't fall into the Qin family's style."

"Please don't worry, Aye. When we came here, our great-grandfather allocated a lot of manpower to us. He also gave me and A Rui a start-up fund of 10,000 yuan each. If we go to New Yangzhou, we will never leave." Qin Yao said .

Qin Xiaozhong was quite at ease with the eldest son. He was fourteen years old and gave birth to him in the belly of a maidservant. Qin Yao had a low self-esteem when he was young, but his temper was calmer when he grew up, and his talent was good, but he still lacked some experience. I'm sixteen, and I haven't done anything yet.

   It's Qin Rui, who is very similar to him when he was young, showing his sharpness. They are father and son, one is like an iceberg and the other is like a volcano. It would be a good partner to go to New Yangzhou together.

   "You guys stay in Luoyang for a while, and don't rush to New Yangzhou."

  Qin Rui was a little impatient, "Why?"

  Qin Xiaozhong glared at his grandson, "Since grandpa gave you a chance, you should plan it carefully. Besides, the imperial court originally intended to make some adjustments to the Xindu River Basin. This time you have caught up with a good opportunity."

   "I think it should be that Gao Zu in Luzon had already anticipated the adjustment of the court's credibility, and thought that there was a lot to do there, especially the prospect of New Yangzhou, so he asked us to go there." Qin Yao guessed.

  Qin Xiaozhong nodded. His grandfather was indeed a person who had no records. Even if he stayed in Luzon, the Central Plains, and even the affairs of the whole world, never escaped his attention.

The Tang Dynasty has controlled the Hezhong area for a long time, and its control over Tocharo, the south bank of the Caspian Sea, Sistan and other places has become stronger and stronger, especially in the fertile Xindu River Basin, where the imperial court expanded the Silk Road and repaired post roads. , and then used the grounds of protecting merchants and guard posts to build beacon piers, military forts, station soldiers and horses, and send troops to patrol. Then, on the grounds of supporting the garrison, many military settlements were built, and many local natives were absorbed into the city. , sideways.

  Even the new Yangzhou Port is becoming more and more prosperous now. All these have made the imperial court stronger and stronger on the Xindu River.

  On the other hand, the international situation is excellent.

  Since the failure of the second war between Baiyi Dashi and Datang, although there have been several border conflicts since then, they are not even considered temptations.

  Baiyi Dashi pays tribute to Datang year after year, and even gets close to Datang, in exchange for a truce between the two families, and the overall prosperity of the sea and land silk and spice trade, which is also a huge benefit for Dashi.

  Baiyi Dashi has now basically set a national policy, that is, it will no longer expand eastward, but concentrate on eliminating the Shiite opposition in the country, and at the same time focus on expanding westward.

The Umayyad dynasty ordered a large number of ships and weapons from Luzon with the large sums of money they earned from trade, and built many ships themselves, establishing an ever-powerful 'navy'. They conquered Armenia and Asia Minor, Attacked the Byzantine capital Constantinople three times.

  However, the Byzantine emperor also purchased a large number of warships and ordnance from Luzon. Coupled with the natural dangers of Constantinople and their secret weapon, Greek fire, they defeated the attacks of the Umayyad dynasty three times.

   But in the southwest, the expansion of the Arabs went very smoothly.

They wiped out the Byzantine North African garrison and occupied the Maghreb from Tunisia to Morocco. The Arabs imitated the actions of the Tang army in the Western Regions and gave up the attitude of not actively converting the local people to the Crescent religion. Actively forced the conversion of conquered natives to Protestantism.

   And recruited and established new troops locally, with them as the main force to cross the Strait of Gibraltar to attack the Spanish region.

The Spanish area at this time was the Visigoth Kingdom established by the Visigoths. These barbarians were driven by the Huns hundreds of years ago from the Danube and entered the Roman Empire. Settled in Aquitaine as an ally of the Western Roman Empire, established the first Germanic kingdom, and then drove the Vandals and Alans to North Africa, and the Suebi to the remote borders, but more than three hundred years after the founding of the country, Today's Visigothic Kingdom is also in political chaos.

   They opposed Rome, embraced Christianity, and retained elected leaders.

  So these German barbarians established the Visigothic Kingdom on the site of the Western Romans in the past. Although it has developed for hundreds of years and even created a very prosperous economy on the west coast of the Mediterranean Sea, many problems have been bothering them.

  For example, they believed in Christianity, but did not completely abolish or suppress Catholicism. They also started hereditary kings in the later period, but never completely hereditary the throne. All these made the development of the Visigoths worse than the Franks who established the kingdom after them.

  They have changed nine emperors in forty years, each of which came to power through a coup d'état. The kingship weakened, and the kingdom naturally weakened, and even the Ostrogothic king who occupied Italy could only be the regent of the Visigoths.

  Until this time, under the rule of King Vitica, Visigoths have been in the mud pit of religious division, local autonomy, rebellion, and competition for the throne.

  The Umayyad dynasty, which captured North Africa, also saw an opportunity. They could not directly capture Constantinople, but planned to expand from south to north around the Mediterranean Sea.

However, the Visigoths seem to have temporarily united due to the invasion of powerful foreign enemies. They even asked for help from the Frankish Kingdom, the East Gothic Kingdom, and the Eastern Romans who once captured their Gaul region. invasion.

At this time, the forty-third king of the Visigoths, King Vitica, was facing a bad situation. After King Alaric II was beheaded by the Frankish King Clovis I in the Battle of Wuila a hundred years ago, the enthusiasm of the king and the nobles for internal fighting far exceeded the enthusiasm for outward expansion.

  Thirty-one kings in three hundred years, ten of them died unexpectedly, and several short-lived hereditary dynasties in the middle were deposed by nobles after only two or three generations.

By this time, the Visigoths were no different from the Romans they had opposed. Latin replaced Visigoth as the official language, and the orthodox Catholicism even replaced the original Arians as the Visigoths. The religion of the Tetes, and even the most famous bathhouse culture in ancient Rome, have been continued in Visigoths.

  Although the powerful enemy in the north, the Frankish Kingdom, has been evacuated by the palace ministers these years and is no longer a threat, the Arabs expanded too much, destroying Persia Sassan, Egypt, and even the Eastern Romans.

   If you don't rise up to resist, then the Visigothic Kingdom will be over.

  Wittica, while uniting with Western European countries, invited Tang merchants in the Mediterranean to the palace, borrowed money from them, and even sent a mission to the river to meet the Tang people, and hoped to contact Datang Luzon through Tang merchant ships.

Vitica's various positive actions are still effective. The first expedition to the Spanish Legion formed by the locals of North Africa, led by the big cannibal, suffered a major defeat as soon as it landed, and almost the entire army was wiped out. Under the suggestion of Tang mercenary officers, they deliberately lured the enemy into deep, and then ambushed the Arab North African Legion, which had lost their minds, and finally wiped them all out.

It was precisely because of this failure that the fifth caliph of the Umayyad dynasty, Abdul-Malik, became more and more unstable at this time. The Mayan dynasty began to become unstable.

  Regions such as Iraq, Yemen, and Yemai were successively controlled by rebel forces and local separatist forces, and Shiites and Khawalijis frequently staged uprisings.

   Mecca Ibn Zubayr proclaimed himself the caliphate and controlled the Hijaz area, seriously threatening the rule of the dynasty.

  The caliph, who has been on the throne for nine years, can only temporarily stop external expansion. He ordered General Hajaj to lead the Syrian army, and sent troops to suppress the rebellion of Damascus, Iraqi Arab tribes, and Khawaliji, and conquer the separatist forces.

   Even transferred from the Persian region to fight the elite Persian legion civil war.

  These are excellent opportunities for Datang to adjust reliability.

Qin Lang was able to accurately grasp this information because the western countries were fighting in chaos, with constant external and civil wars, and they all scrambled to buy ships, armor and ordnance from the Qin family in Lusong, because the Qin family's ships, armor, knives, etc. Compared with their own manufacturing, the price is more advantageous, and the quality is cheap. The key is fast delivery and large quantities, especially for military purchases. It doesn’t matter if you don’t have money, you can take a loan and directly use mines or raw materials or prisoners of war as collateral.

  In short, there is always a solution.

In the port of San Francisco, there are a lot of Arab princesses, Persian princesses, Visigothic, Ostrogothic princesses, Eastern Roman princesses, Frankish princesses, real and fake princesses, and even the governor’s daughter, anyway. They all want to buy arms with the Qin family, or even directly hire ships and soldiers from the Qin family. First, send a daughter to get closer and act as a liaison.

  (end of this chapter)