The capital of the Tang Empire, in the imperial palace of Jinling City, Chengtian Mansion.

The room's large floor-to-ceiling glass windows are blocked by thick curtains, allowing sunlight to penetrate only occasionally through the cracks.

The conference room was full of stars, and the generals from the army, navy, and guards were sitting on huge rectangular tables, but unlike the previous military strategy meetings, this time, there were several soldiers wearing special military uniforms.

The color of their uniforms is not the dark blue uniform of the army or the dark blue of the navy, well, both colors actually look the same.

The color of the military uniforms on these people is pure black, and the style of the military uniforms is also different from the military uniforms of the army and navy, and the style of their military uniforms is more inclined to the professional clothes that business people like to wear.

These few people are generals from the fleet of the Tang Western Trading Company, no, it should be said that they are the senior managers of the company.

Although the fleet of the Tang Western Trading Company is a legal armed force within the Tang Empire because of the existence of the Western Trade License, it is not an official armed force in the end, so the armed personnel in their company fleet are not soldiers, but armed employees.

Although its rank also adopts the military's rank system, the title is naturally different, and the senior generals of the company's fleet are also senior managers of the company.

However, the senior armed managers of these companies' fleets are not much different from the other soldiers present except for their clothing, and their words and deeds, and even their sitting posture, are the same as those of the army and navy.

Because the armed employees in the fleet of the Datang Western Trading Company are all retired military personnel, and some high-level positions are naturally held by middle and senior retired generals of the military, but in fact, in many cases, the military is directly transferred to the active generals to serve in the past.

It's just to avoid suspicion, before being transferred to the post, he will retire first and serve as a retired soldier.

But after the expiration of the term, they are often transferred back to serve in the military, well, in the name of calling retired personnel to serve again!

Therefore, in the fleet of the Datang Western Trading Company, although the ordinary soldiers and middle and low-level officers are all real retired soldiers, the senior generals are actually just active soldiers wearing the skin of retired soldiers.

In other words, in fact, the fleet of the Datang Western Trading Company is also under the control of the military of the Datang Empire.

Otherwise, do you think the army and navy would really let a so-called trading company control such a large armed force?

Impossible!

The company fleet is just hanging the skin of the company fleet, and more often, you can see it as the fourth official armed force of Datang.

There were more than 20 high-ranking generals sitting in this conference room, but it still made this conference room quite empty, and this conference room was really big.

At the same time, these people also closed their eyes and recuperated their minds, and did not talk to each other, but waited for the arrival of the Holy Son of Heaven!

According to the usual practice, the Son of Heaven will come in at any time at this time, which is also the reason why many generals are sitting upright and closing their eyes at this time, they don't want the Son of Heaven to come in and see that they are chatting with their colleagues.

It's just that after a quarter of an hour, many generals couldn't help it, because the clock in the corner was already pointing to 10:20 in the morning, and according to the previous notice, the meeting should have started at 10 o'clock, for this reason, most of them, in fact, had already entered the palace at 9 o'clock, and began to wait for the meeting to be held.

And Li Xuan, the Son of Heaven, has always been a very punctual person, or simply a person who says the same, when he says that the meeting will be held at ten o'clock, it will be held at ten o'clock, and there are rarely cases of advance or postponement.

But now, the Holy Son Li Xuan has not yet arrived in the conference room!

Many people began to look around, but they did not get any answers from others.

After about ten minutes, when the hands on the clock pointed to 10:30, there was finally a sound of footsteps at the door, and then a second secretary of the Hanlin Academy walked in briskly and said, "Your Majesty is about to arrive, please take your seat to take over!" ”

It's finally here!

This made many generals who thought that something unexpected had happened and that the meeting might be canceled breathed a sigh of relief, and they immediately stood up one by one and stood in line at the door.

They are sorted according to their military ranks and positions, and there is no chaos at all!

About two minutes later, with a chant: "Your Majesty has arrived!" ”

All the generals raised their heads and chests in unison, stood with their legs together, their hands hanging down, their fingers together, and their eyes at the door at the same time!

At this time, everyone saw Li Xuan, the Son of Heaven, who had a light beard on the corner of his mouth, walking in slowly!

Today's Son of Heaven Li Xuan did not wear civilian clothes like usual, but wore a very special military uniform, which belonged to Li Xuan's nine-dragon pattern military uniform.

This kind of dressed Li Xuan was very common more than ten years ago, especially during the Unification War, Li Xuan often went out to lead the army to fight in person, and he was naturally dressed in military uniform when he went out.

But in the past ten years, Li Xuan has rarely worn it like this, whether it is in private or in public, Li Xuan is either in casual clothes or a dragon robe dress, and pure military uniforms are rarely worn anymore.

When everyone saw the military uniform of the Holy Son of Heaven Li Xuan, they felt that the Holy Son Li Xuan attached great importance to today's imperial military strategic meeting, the Battle of Malacca and the Indian Ocean Raiders.

But to their surprise, Li Xuan was followed by a person!

As the emperor, Li Xuan naturally follows a large group of people wherever he goes, and when he was in the front hall, most of these people who often accompanied him were important ministers in the court, such as the minister on duty in the imperial study, the minister on duty, the minister on duty, and the special imperial secretaries in the secretariat of the Hanlin Academy and the imperial guards in the guard office of the Hanlin Academy.

However, today, the ministers of the DPRK and China did not see it, because today is a military strategy meeting, and those civilian officials will naturally not come to get involved!

In addition to the two special people of the imperial secretary and the imperial guard, everyone still saw a familiar and unfamiliar figure!

This figure is very young, it looks like he is only fifteen or sixteen years old, and he is not too tall, he can only be said to be of medium stature, and even slightly thinner, and his face is five or six points similar to Li Xuan in front of him.

This son is also wearing a military uniform, but the military uniform on his body is not an ordinary military uniform, but the same as the military uniform on Li Xuan's body, the same placket military uniform, this style of military uniform, in the entire Tang Empire, only Li Xuan wore it like this before, because this is Li Xuan's own design, referring to the military uniform established by the modern military uniform of later generations, which is very different from the traditional clothing.

The military uniform on this person's body is the same as the military uniform on Li Xuan's body, but there are differences in the texture and other details, Li Xuan's military uniform has a nine-dragon pattern embroidered with gold wire, and the second son has four dragons, but it is also a five-clawed golden dragon.

With only this military uniform, especially the four five-clawed golden dragons on it, anyone who knows a little about the clothing etiquette of the Tang Dynasty can know that this is none other than His Royal Highness Li Wei (hao), the crown prince of the Tang Empire.

The reason why everyone feels strange and familiar at first glance is because although most of them have seen the crown prince Li Wei, but the number of times they have seen it is definitely not much, most of them have seen it once, at most it is only two or three times, because the prince Li Wei has always lived in a simple place, and although he also studied in the royal school, but since he was made the prince of the empire, he is alone in a class, without any classmates!

Those noble children who also went to the royal school basically didn't see him, let alone those foreign ministers.

But although he has only met once or twice, in view of Li Wei's importance, almost every courtier will try their best to imprint his appearance in their minds, so as to avoid the embarrassment of seeing the prince but not recognizing people.

When these generals saw that the crown prince Li Wei was also following Li Xuan, and he was wearing a special military uniform like Li Xuan, many people were a little stunned.

The Son of Heaven actually brought the crown prince to attend the military strategy meeting in front of the emperor, this is the first time in the world!

No, this is not just a military strategy meeting in front of the Imperial Palace, but even a morning meeting held every day, a small court meeting held once every three or five days, and any other formal meeting occasion.

Prince Li Wei has never appeared!

The only few public appearances in formal occasions were at the Spring Festival state banquet, and on weekdays, it was difficult for the courtiers, even Liu Bagou, to see the crown prince Li Wei.

But today, the crown prince Li Wei is attending this imperial military strategy meeting with Li Xuan, and the political implications here are definitely not small.

Could it be that His Majesty intends to involve the crown prince in government affairs?

This is the speculation of many generals present!

However, Li Xuan naturally didn't know about the speculation of these courtiers, and he didn't care, he just took the crown prince Li Wei to the meeting according to his established plan, this meeting was just the beginning, and Li Xuan would make a series of special arrangements for Li Wei's cultivation in the future.

Li Wei, who was following Li Xuan, although he looked as plain as water on the surface, and only showed a very professional smile in the face of the courtiers' eyes, he was still a little nervous in his heart.

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