Jeju, Donga.

The hometown of Prince Cheng Yaojin, the prince of Lu, is adjacent to the Yellow River in the north and the Ji River in the south.

Emperor Li Shimin was visiting Cheng Yaojin's hometown, which was also the last few stops before heading to Mount Tai.

Chengfu.

During the Sui Dynasty, the Cheng family was just a landlord and powerful mansion in Dong'a, but now the Cheng family's mansion is brilliant.

"This Li Chao is simply a fool." Li Shimin rushed in angrily.

Fang Xuanling immediately smiled and said, "What other things did Li Sanlang do that are angry and resentful?"

Li Shimin threw Du Yan's report in front of him, "As soon as I left, he was causing trouble in Hanjing. He had already taken one of the four auxiliary ministers I arranged for Chengqian."

"I actually said that Yang Gongren cannot take matters under the influence of old age, so I let Yang Gongren go home to recuperate."

Fang Xuanling picked up the memorial and read it, and smiled, "Yang Xiang is indeed old. When the prince was discussing affairs, Yang Xiang often dozed off and even fell asleep. Then, he fainted in the East Palace a few days ago, and Your Highness was also polite to Yang Xiang." In fact, Fang Xuanling had received several reports on the prince's request for Yang Gongren to go home, including those written by the prince himself, those written by Li Chao, and those written by other left-behind officials.

Comparing a few things, it is easy to figure out the whole story.

"I think Li Chao is excluding the differences."

"Your Majesty, it's not that serious. I said before that Li Chao was not doing his job properly and was not in charge of affairs at all. Once he went to court for five days, he would be pushed to Yang Xiang and Du Xiang. Why did he suddenly eliminate the strange mountain again?"

Li Shimin said angrily, "Li Chao is like this, and he is unpredictable."

"Your Majesty, don't be angry. Yang Gao has been in the court for more than ten years and has been the prime minister of two dynasties. He has worked hard for more than ten years. Now that he is old, it's great to rest at home."

Li Shimin sighed, "Yang Gongren is only in his sixties, so why can't he say it doesn't work?" He couldn't help but think of Du Ruhui, who was younger.

Yang Gongren's prime ministers of the two dynasties, especially during the Wude Dynasty, helped him a lot, and Li Shimin was still nostalgic. "I send an envoy back to express my condolences and let him take care of his health."

"Xuanling, you said Yang Qing is back home now, should I send another prime minister back?"

Fang Xuanling thought for a while, "I don't think this is necessary. Isn't Hanjing quite good now?"

"How does Xuanling think of the agreement signed by Li Chao with the Roman prince and the boundary drawn?" Li Shimin sat down and asked.

"Good thing." Fang Xuanling said that Rome was also a Western superpower. Now that he recognized the status and territory of the Tang Dynasty in the Western Regions, this is naturally a good thing.

"I also think this is done well. Hanjing wants to recruit 30,000 new recruits, and draw graduates from martial arts lecture halls and some officers of the imperial guards to the Western Regions. This method is good. But I think it is not enough. There are too few 30,000 people. Hanjing requested to set up three more roads north of Tianshan Mountain. I think four roads can be set up. Set up one more road to the west of Turchar and south of Wuhu River, which is called the Kushan Road."

"The court has added eight military towns to Kushan, rest in peace, fire search, branch, thin willow, Kunxu, Persia, and the West Sea."

"If you want to recruit soldiers, recruit more and directly recruit 80,000 new government soldiers. The equipment of this batch of government soldiers can be produced by the court."

Fang Xuanling couldn't help but be shocked by the emperor's big moves and recruited 80,000 soldiers at once.

And it also needs to provide a set of equipment for 80,000 new soldiers, which costs a lot. Even if a soldier spends dozens of traffic, it will cost millions.

Hanjing.

The emperor's envoy quickly returned to Hanjing with the convenience of the Western Canal. The envoy first went to Yang Gongren's mansion to comfort him. The emperor gave Yang Gongren many ginseng and other supplements, and also gave Yang Gongren many gold and silver pearls, and even gave Yang Gongren a son to the throne.

Then the envoy read out the emperor's oral order, asking Yang Gongren to rest at home without having to take charge of political affairs.

After receiving this order, Yang Gongren sighed and would not go to court again.

Although the emperor did not remove Yang Gongren from his post, the regent and prime minister were no longer in charge. The Right Prime Minister of the Shangshu Yu Zhining acted as the Right Pushe Service, while Cui Gan took over the position of the Minister of Revenue.

With the emperor's will, the newly appointed Cui Gan was very involved in the process of asking for money and grain. Weiwei Temple and the Ordnance Supervisor cooperated more, and weapons and equipment could be handed over at any time.

So.

In March.

The Tang Dynasty recruited 80,000 new soldiers from the world, and the newspaper published detailed recruitment details.

All states have also set up recruitment registration points.

The middle and senior generals who had nothing to do in the martial arts lecture hall, the Nanya and the Beiya also received orders to participate in the selection of the Western Regions Legion.

The Roman prince who was still in Hanjing was very shocked and happy about the rapid action of the Tang Dynasty. Eighty thousand soldiers were far beyond his expectations. With these 80,000 troops expeditions to Persia, the pressure on Rome to attack Persia would be greatly reduced. With the Tang army restrained some Persians, Rome would definitely defeat Persia again, regain the territory stolen by the Persians, and even restore the hegemony around the Mediterranean.

Li Chao invited the Roman prince to watch the football in the suburbs.

At the end of last year, the Li family's Bashang Bailu team finally defeated the Qin Qiong family's Huangju team and won the fifth championship trophy.

Now is the preseason, and it is also a period when various teams recruit new players and then let new players get in. The games they play are also some warm-up matches and exhibition matches, and they even compete with some teams of low-level levels.

Prince Heraclos has never seen such a wonderful performance, especially since this polo game has formed such a large scale and a commercial atmosphere.

A town with tens of thousands of people is actually born around polo.

Although Constantinople is also extremely lively, it is far less than Hanjing, let alone a very distinctive commercial town like the Footh Town.

The Heraclio Dynasty should actually be regarded as the fifth dynasty of the Eastern Roman Empire, but after the strongest period of Justin's dynasty, Eastern Rome has become much weaker. Even though it is now strong in his father's hands, it is still incomparable to those days.

The mortal rivals of Rome and Persia have fought for so many years and more than four hundred years of war, but these two powerful empires have been constantly bleeding and weakening, and no one has died.

This is historical experience. Emperor Chiraclio knew very well, and the Persians were also very clear, so they tried their best to win over the Western Turks.

There is a more powerful Tang Empire in the East, and it is easy to destroy the once extremely powerful Western Turks in their eyes.

"This competition is really exciting!" the prince exclaimed.

Today's game is an All-Star Exhibition Tournament, and all the players are the most dazzling stars in the entire Super League. Although such a game is less confrontational, it is indeed highly entertaining.

The Li family's star rode his horse into the field and circled around the field for three laps. He kept waving his moon stick, which attracted countless audiences to shout. The scene of the All-Star Game was no worse than the atmosphere in the finals.

"What is he going to do?" The prince was surprised to see the hugely popular player who walked around the field for three weeks, and then came to the center of the court, then dismounted and placed a stack of copper coins on the ground.

Li Chao introduced with a smile, "The next one will be a wonderful performance. The star stacks ten copper coins on the ground, and then he will ride a horse and swing his staff in the Mercedes-Benz and hit the copper coins one by one."

The goal of polo is much smaller than that of football. It stands on both sides of the court, with only a hole as big as a bowl.

When running at high speed, hitting one copper coin at a time will not only hit the goal, but also not touching the copper coin below. This is very difficult. It is even more difficult to hit the copper coin ten times in a row.

Copper coins are so thin that they are harder to play than polo.

This is the player's specialty.

Sure enough, the performance began, ten consecutive times. In Mercedes-Benz, he hit the goal with all ten copper coins.

There was a thunderous cheer on the scene.

Prince Heraclonas also tried his best to clap his hands.

"After I go back, I will also build a polo team to make Rome popular."

"The Tang Dynasty was also very willing to strengthen cultural and economic exchanges with Rome. Unfortunately, Egypt is now in the hands of the Persians. Otherwise, the prince would not have to work so hard to take the land route when he returned to Rome. He could take a boat from Hanjing to the east, and then take a sea boat to the Red Sea and enter the Mediterranean."

There is a canal between the Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea, which is the Suez Canal in later generations.

Although this canal was built by the French in modern times, in fact, this canal was excavated in BC. Later generations have been continuously abandoned and unblocked, making the canal intermittently used.

Now, although this canal is not very smooth, it can still be accessed by merchant ships.

However, in the early years, the Romans lost Egypt, and now Egypt is controlled by the Persians.

Therefore, it was not so easy for the Tang Dynasty merchant ships to enter the Mediterranean from the Red Sea, and there would be intercepts from Persians.

"Rome will take back Egypt soon!" the prince said, clenching his fist.

Li Chao said with a smile, "The Tang Dynasty is willing to contribute some efforts to Rome's regaining Egypt. We can sell you some weapons."

"Are good equipment like Tang Dao and Mingguang Jia?" The Roman prince's eyes shined.

"Well, both Tang Dao and Mingguang Armor can be sold to Rome, and we can even sell plate armor to Rome." Li Chao showed a charming smile on his face.

"Really? Datang is willing to sell these to us?"

"Of course, we are already allies now." Selling arms has always made money, especially the Tang Dynasty's steel smelting technology and weapon manufacturing and processing technology far exceed that of the Romans and Persians. The Tang Dynasty's military industry is the world's first unattainable.

It is extremely profitable to sell their weapons while the Romans and Persians are fighting.

“How much can we buy, what price?”

"As for this, we will talk about it slowly. In terms of trade between the Tang Dynasty and the Roman sea and land, we can discuss in detail. Weapons and armor are just a kind of commodity traded by both sides, and we have more commodities that can be traded with each other."
Chapter completed!