Chapter 1461 Timing
Luoyang, Wu'an County Prince's Mansion.
When Qin Xiaozhong saw his grandson Qin Rui, he was furious.
He shouted with a stare, "Are you so bad, why are you causing trouble in Luzon again? You dare to come to Luoyang, I will break your leg."
Qin Yao stood aside awkwardly and bowed to his father, "Aye, Dalang and I came to Beijing to deliver a letter on the order of our great-grandfather."
"Send a letter?"
"Azu said that Dalang and I go to Xindu Yangzhou."
"What are you going to do?"
“Go to exercise for ten years.”
Hearing the number of ten years, Qin Xiaozhong moved his heart, put away his anger, looked at his children and grandchildren, and after a long time, he turned around and sat back, "Where is your faith?"
After receiving the letter, Qin Xiaozhong was not in a hurry to read it.
He is now more concerned about the ten years of experience. In fact, the Qin family in Luzon has an unwritten tradition, which is that the Qin family has many descendants but can only cultivate the best children. After all, no matter how good the Qin family in Luzon is, no matter how many resources are, it is impossible for everyone to cultivate them vigorously. Therefore, only those who perform very well in ordinary families will receive further special training and will give more resources.
One of the most prominent features is that Qin Lang will place these good seedlings in the frontier, and it is also a region with a strong influence in the Qin family and put them under dangerous conditions to polish them. However, the Qin family can ensure that these good seedlings will not be affected by family members or prostitutes and relatives.
This kind of cultivation is usually done by ten years.
If you have been able to accept the hardships and still perform well in ten years, you will naturally have a bright future, but if you perform poorly in this process, it will naturally be difficult to have further training.
When Qin Jun went to the Western Regions, he was the first to start this training mode. Later, Qin Xiaozhong, Qin Xia and many others had experienced it in the border areas. Qin Xia went to Hei Shui to train, while Qin Xiaozhong was trained in the river.
Now Qin Yao and Qin Rui are going to New Yangzhou for training. Undoubtedly, grandfather Qin Lang is optimistic about these two people, especially Qin Rui, who always likes to cause trouble, but grandfather said that this kid has a rare momentum.
"The court has begun to set up a province. I originally planned to call you to Luo and arrange for you to go to Xichang to experience. Since my grandfather asked you to go to Xinyangzhou, then go. But remember, you are also representing the Qin family in Luzon, and are the descendants of my King of Wu'an, Qin Xiaozhong. Don't fall into the Qin family's style."
"Please rest assured Aye. When he came, my great-grandfather allocated a lot of staff to us and gave me and Arui 10,000 jin of starting funds each. If you don't make a situation in Xinyangzhou, you will never leave." Qin Yao said.
Qin Xiaozhong was quite at ease with this eldest son. He gave birth to a maid at the age of fourteen. Qin Yao was a little inferior when he was young, but he was calm when he grew up. His talent was still good, but he still lacked some experience, so he was thirty-six and had not yet made any career.
However, Qin Rui, a kid, has a very similar temperament to when he was young, and has a sharp edge. The father and son are two, one is like an iceberg and the other is like a volcano. They are also a good partner when they go to Xinyangzhou together.
"You stay in Luoyang for a while first, and don't rush to Xinyangzhou."
Qin Rui was a little impatient, "Why?"
Qin Xiaozhong glared at his grandson, "Since grandpa gives you a chance, we naturally have to plan it carefully. Besides, the court originally intended to make some adjustments to the Xindu River Basin, and this time you have caught up with a good opportunity."
"I think it must be that Emperor Gaozu in Luzon that the court would make adjustments to his credibility, and believed that there was great potential there, especially the prospects for new Yangzhou, which would be called to us." Qin Yao guessed.
Qin Xiaozhong nodded. His grandfather was indeed a man who had no choice. Even if he stayed in Luzon, the Central Plains and even the whole world could not escape his eyes.
The Tang Dynasty had been controlling the Hezhong area for a long time, and its control over Tochar, the southern coast of the Caspian Sea, Sistan and other places became stronger and stronger, especially in the fertile Xindu River Basin. The imperial court expanded the Silk Road there and built post roads there. Then, on the grounds of protecting merchants and posts, they established beacons, military forts, garrisoned troops, and sent troops to patrol. Then, on the grounds of supporting the garrison, many military garrisons were built, and many local people were attracted to the city and nearby.
Even the new Yangzhou Port is becoming more and more prosperous now. These have made the imperial court stronger and stronger on the front line of the Xindu River. This force has broken the original balance, so the imperial court took advantage of the situation to go further, which is inevitable.
On the other hand, the international situation is very good.
Since the failure of the Second War between Baiqi and Dashi and the Tang Dynasty, although there have been several border conflicts since then, they have not even counted the test.
This year, the white-clothed Dashi paid tribute to the Tang Dynasty and even married the Tang Dynasty. This was the exchange for the two families to quit the war, and the comprehensive prosperity of the trade in sea, land, silk and spices, which also benefited greatly from Dashi.
Nowadays, the national policy has been basically decided, that is, no longer expanding eastward, but instead focus on eliminating the domestic opposition Shiites, and at the same time, focus on expanding westward.
The Umayyadians ordered a large number of ships and weapons from Luzon with the wealth they earned from trade, and built many ships themselves and established a powerful "navy". They conquered Armenia and Asia Minor and attacked the Byzantine capital Constantinople three times.
However, the Byzantine emperors also purchased a large number of warships, weapons, and natural dangers of Constantinople, as well as their secret weapon Greek fire, and defeated the Umayyad attack three times.
However, in the southwest, the Arabs' expansion was very smooth.
They destroyed the North African garrisons of Byzantine and occupied the Maghreb from Tunisia to Morocco. The Arabs followed the Tang army's actions in the Western Regions locally, giving up the attitude of not actively converting the locals to the Crescent Church, but actively forced the conquered natives to convert to the Protestant Church.
And new troops were recruited and established locally, with them as the main force to cross the Strait of Gibraltar to attack the Spanish region.
At this time, the Spanish region was a Visigothic Kingdom established by the Visigoths. These barbarians were driven by the Huns across the Danube and entered the Roman Empire hundreds of years ago. Later, they ransacked the Roman city, then settled in Aquidan as an allies of the Western Roman Empire, established the first Germanic Kingdom, and then drove the Vandals and Alans to North Africa and the Suweihui people to the distant border. However, more than three hundred years after the founding of the country, the current Visigothic Kingdom is also in chaos.
They opposed Rome, believed in Christianity, and retained elected leaders.
Therefore, these Germanic barbarians established Visigothic kingdoms on the territory of the Western Romans in the past. Although they had developed for hundreds of years and even created a very prosperous economy on the western coast of the Mediterranean, many problems have been plaguing them.
For example, they believed in Christianity and did not completely abolish or suppress Catholicism. They also began to be hereditary to the king in the later period, but they never completely hereditary to the throne. These all led to the development of the Visigoths, but were not as good as the Franks who later established the kingdom.
They had changed nine emperors in forty years, and each of them came to power through a coup. The kingdom weakened and the kingdom naturally weakened. Even the Osogothic king who occupied Italy could only be the Visigothic regent.
Until this time, under the rule of King Vitica, Visionoths were in the mud pit of religious division, local autonomy, rebellion, and throne struggle.
The Umayyad dynasty, which captured the land of North Africa, also saw the opportunity. They could not directly capture Constantinople, but planned to expand from south to north around the Mediterranean.
However, the Visigoths seemed to have temporarily united because of the invasion of powerful foreign enemies. They even sought help from the Frank Kingdom, the Oct. Kingdom and the Eastern Romans that once seized their Gaul area, and formed an alliance to fight the invasion of the white-clothed food and food.
At this time, the forty-third king of Vitica, King Vitica, faced a bad situation. After hundreds of years of settlement, the Vitica no longer had the barbarity and courage of his ancestors. Especially since King Alaric II was killed by King Clovi I in the Battle of Vuler nearly two hundred years ago, the king's enthusiasm for fighting with the nobles far exceeded the enthusiasm for expanding outward.
During the three hundred years, ten of the thirty-one kings died of unlawful deaths. Several short-lived hereditary dynasties were all deposed by the nobles for only two or three generations.
By this time, the Visigoths were actually no different from the Romans they had opposed. Latin replaced Visigoths as the official language, and the serious Catholicism even replaced the original Aliuss and became the Visigoth religion. Even the most famous bathhouse culture in ancient Rome was continued in Visigoths.
Although the Frank Kingdom, a powerful enemy in the north, has been undermined by the palace officials over the years and is no longer threatened, the Arabs expanded too hard, destroying the Persian Sassanids, destroying Egypt, and even defeating the Eastern Romans in a mess.
If we don't rise up and resist, the Visigoth Kingdom will be over.
While joining forces with Western European countries, Vitica invited Tang merchants from the Mediterranean to the palace, borrowed money from them, and even sent a delegation to visit the Tang people in the river. He also contacted the Tang Luzon through the Tang merchant ship.
Vitica's various active actions were effective. The first expedition of the Spanish Legion formed by the locals in North Africa, the Great Cannibals suffered a great defeat as soon as they landed, and almost all the troops were lost. At the suggestion of his Tang mercenary officer, Emperor Vitica deliberately lured the enemy into the depths, and then ambushed the Arab North African Legion, which was so taken away, and finally wiped out all of them.
It was also because of this failure that the throne of Abdul Melik, the fifth caliph of the Umayyad Dynasty, became increasingly unstable. Due to the failure of the North African Legion and the previous three campaigns of Constantinople, the Umayyad Dynasty began to become unstable.
Iraq, Yemen, Yemai and other areas were successively controlled by rebel forces and local separatist forces, and Shiites and Havaliji factions frequently held uprisings.
Mecca Ibn Zubair claimed to be a caliph, controlling the Hijaz region, seriously threatening the dynasty's rule.
The Caliph, who had succeeded to the throne for nine years, could only temporarily stop expanding externally. He ordered the general Hajaji to lead the Syrian army and send troops to suppress the rebellions of Damascus, Iraqi Arab tribes and the Havaliji faction, and to conquer the separatist forces.
Even the Persian legion civil war was transferred from the Persian region.
These are all excellent opportunities for the Tang Dynasty to adjust its credibility.
Qin Lang was able to accurately grasp this information because Western countries were in chaos, foreign wars and civil wars continued, and they all rushed to buy ships, armor and weapons from the Qin family in Luzon. Because the Qin family's ships, armor and swords were more advantageous than they made by themselves, and the price was good and cheap. The key was that the supply was fast and the quantity was large, especially the military purchases and borrowed money to buy. In this case, all parties busy with war were of course rushing to the Qin family to place orders. It doesn't matter if they had no money. If you have loans, you can directly use mines, raw materials or prisoners of war as collateral. If it really doesn't work, you can get the tariffs.
In short, there is always a way to solve it.
Chapter completed!