Although today's court meeting is only a small court meeting, it has a certain significance, because today, the courtiers in the Tang Dynasty are divided into two major schools, the Li Hao faction and the Changsun faction.

Li Shimin is very disgusted with private parties, but they don't form private parties, they don't meet privately, they don't mess with the court, they just silently and tacitly support their respective leaders, the goal of the Changsun faction is to defeat Li Hao, and Li Hao's code of conduct is to support Li Hao's decisions without violating morality, in comparison, Li Hao's side of the people are a little more disciplined.

But Li Hao is notoriously undisciplined, and now he is taking a group of disciplined old cadres to do things, and the picture is very weird just to imagine.

There is infighting in the court on the Tang side, but Medina, the capital of the Arab Empire, is discussing the matter of sending troops, first of all, someone proposed to send troops to attack the Tang Dynasty, this person is Yang Fan, who has just joined the black-clothed food (Arab Empire), he is very dissatisfied with losing to Fan Lihua, he doesn't even know why he lost, why there are nearly a thousand Tang troops in the royal court, he can't figure it out.

The king of the black food is not called the king, but called the caliph, the collection of divine power and imperial power and one, very awesome, after all, the national conditions of the black food and the Tang Dynasty are different, the black food is a religious country, with the first religion as the state religion, there are many other religions in the country, and the ruler does not force all people to believe in the true God Allah, but do not believe in the true God Allah, the tax will be heavier, and the taxes paid by these people every year support the economy of the whole country.

The caliph has the highest decision-making power in the Great Food Country, which is equivalent to a god-like existence, and whatever he says is what he says, no one can question it, if Li Shimin knows this, he doesn't know how envious he should be.

The current caliph of the Black Eater is called Osman Ben Afan and has been in office for six or seven years, this Osman is a very wise leader, because he is wise and has absolute power, so in the past few years, the Black Eater has gradually grown and annexed many surrounding countries, and at present, there are only two old enemies around their country, the first is naturally Byzantium, also known as the Eastern Roman Empire, and the second is Persia, originally the Western Turks were the third enemy of the Black Eaters, but now the Western Turks have been destroyed by the Tang Dynasty, Become history.

Osman is a very ambitious hero, he served as a caliph for several years, carefully studied the general trend of the world, he clearly realized that now the most powerful country in the world, is the Tang Dynasty, this is beyond doubt, since he has the ambition to dominate the world, naturally the most powerful Tang Dynasty has no good feelings, the Tang Dynasty used to be far away from them, but now it is different, the Tang Dynasty destroyed the Western Turks, bordering them, although the border is not very large, but this makes him very uneasy.

Yang Fan suddenly proposed to send troops to attack Fan Lihua and rob the land that originally belonged to the Western Turks, how much could be robbed, but the Ottomans refused, because he knew that this would only expose the hostility of the Great Food Kingdom to the Tang Dynasty, and it was very likely to anger the Tang Dynasty, he was not afraid of the Western Turks, but he was afraid of the Tang Dynasty, and he could not offend such a powerful enemy for such a little territory, the gains outweighed the losses.

Ottoman has his own plan, the first thing he wants to solve is Byzantium, and then Persia, but over the years, Persia and Byzantium have formed an alliance and joined forces to deal with him, and there is a Western Turk next to him who is constantly harassing and basically in a state of one-on-three, so he has not been able to defeat Byzantium, and now that the Western Turks are extinct, and the opportunity comes, how can he be stupid to provoke the Tang Dynasty, isn't this looking for trouble for himself.

Although Osman did not accept Yang Fan's proposal, Osman did not blame Yang Fan, on the contrary, he valued Yang Fan very much, because the black-clothed food has been at war with the Western Turks for many years, and has not suffered much loss, but in the hands of Yang Fan, he has suffered losses repeatedly, repeatedly defeated, and how many generals have been replaced, all of them have been defeated by Yang Fan one by one, Osman has a broad mind, and when Yang Fan was cornered, he took Yang Fan in regardless of his previous suspicions, that is, he took Yang Fan's unparalleled military talent, he appointed Yang Fan as a general, and led the army to attack Byzantium, At the same time, the famous general Harris was sent to lead the navy from the Mediterranean Sea to the rear of Byzantium, and fought with Yang Fan's army in front and rear.

Although Yang was depressed that the Ottomans did not accept his proposal, the Ottomans entrusted him with such an important task, he was still very excited, and immediately set out with an army of 60,000 to attack Byzantium.

In the Eastern World, Li Hao and Di Renjie had already taken people and horses to escort Sheng Guolan back to Nanzhao.

Further east, because of the support of the Tang Dynasty materials and weapons, the civil strife was finally suppressed, but the population of the country fell to 480,000, more than half of the previous shrunk, and the cultivated fields were all barren, only one-tenth of the twelve remained, although the Japanese State could not talk about ten rooms and nine emptiness, but there were still ten rooms and six or seven empty, a large number of people starved to death every day, mourning all over the wilderness, a miserable scene, the Emperor of the Japanese Kingdom was so worried that he couldn't sleep all night, and sent envoys to Tang again, asking the Tang Dynasty to sell grain to them for them to survive the crisis.

In mid-June, Li Hao and they had just left Chang'an a few days ago, the envoy of the Japanese State came to Chang'an, asking to meet Li Shimin, Li Shimin was overflowing with sympathy, and when he saw that his son was so miserable, he immediately ordered the whole country to collect grain and sell grain to the Japanese State, but Li Shimin is not stupid, the grain can be sold to you, don't want the seeds, in order to prevent the outflow of rice seeds, Li Shimin has already issued a strict order, only rice is allowed to be sold in the country, and it is strictly forbidden to sell rice, sell a grain of rice, cut a pound of meat on his body, ten grains, cut ten catties, it is so cruel, Grain exports are subject to stricter inspections.

At the same time, on the border of Liaodong in the Tang Dynasty, a team returned to Silla, and this team was the envoy team of Silla, but now there are three Tang people in it, namely Liu Xuanji and Wang Shi and Wang Lei.

Liu Xuanji and they followed Park Myung-soon's envoy team back to the capital of Silla-Jincheng, and Liu Xuanji's first feeling about Jincheng was: Poor!

People who are used to living in Chang'an naturally have a very high vision, but Liu Xuanji has also lived in the Wa Kingdom for several years, in contrast, he feels that the Wa State before the civil strife is much stronger than Silla, and this Silla State is really small and weak, he can't understand why Li Hao attaches so much importance to such a weak country, and specially sent him to stir up the wind and rain.

With countless questions, Liu Xuanji lived in Park Myung-soon's house, how can Park Myung-soon say that he is also a senior official of Silla, but the mansion is a little bigger, and it is also an imitation of the style of the Tang Dynasty.

Park Mingshun arranged rooms for Liu Xuanji and Wang Shi and Wang Lei's master and apprentice, originally Park Mingshun was going to arrange three rooms for them, but Liu Xuanji was very polite, as long as there was one room, three people squeezed together, there was no bed in the Silla family's house, they all slept on the ground, the floor was so big, not to mention three people, ten people could sleep.

Since Liu Xuanji insisted, Park Myung-soon also agreed, telling Liu Xuanji that he was going to meet the king tomorrow and would take him to see his cousin Park Ji-yong tomorrow afternoon.

That night, two black figures flashed out of Liu Xuanji's room, and with the help of the night, he escaped the guards in the courtyard and climbed over the wall to get out of the courtyard, and when it was almost dawn the next morning, the two figures came back and returned to Liu Xuanji's room.

Liu Xuanji was sleeping, heard the sound of pushing the door, hurriedly got up, saw the two of them, and asked, "How is it?" ”

The two untied the black scarves covering their faces, and they turned out to be Wang Shi and Wang Lei.

"It went well." Wang Shi nodded, and then handed a note to Liu Xuanji.

Liu Xuanji took it and looked at it, looked up and asked, "There won't be a fake, right?" ”

"It can't be fake." Wang Lei smiled, "You know our methods best." ”

"That's good." Liu Xuanji nodded reassuringly, took the note and read it carefully.

In the afternoon, Park Myung-shun came back from the palace to meet Liu Xuanji, and wanted to take Liu Xuanji to meet Prime Minister Park Ji-yong.

Jincheng is not big, and soon arrived at Park Zhiyong's prime minister's mansion, Park Zhiyong is worthy of being the prime minister, the mansion is much larger than Park Mingshun's mansion, looking at the entire Jincheng, it is estimated to be the largest mansion in addition to the palace, in fact, it is the level of the mansion of some large families in Chang'an.

Entering the Prime Minister's Mansion, Park Mingshun took Liu Xuanji to wait in the living room, and the two brothers Wang Shi and Wang Lei knelt behind Liu Xuanji, like bodyguards.

After a while, the door was opened, Park Zhiyong walked in in civilian clothes, Liu Xuanji saw Park Zhiyong, he was shocked, he was shocked by Park Zhiyong's face, it was really ugly, ugly, it looks like a joke, the resolution is extremely low, and anyone who kneades with dough looks better than him.

Although Liu Xuanji has seen the surprisingly ugly appearance style of the Silla people, this Park Ji-yong is definitely ugly to a new height, Liu Xuanji had to be shocked, and he secretly thought in his heart: "If I look so ugly, I'm afraid that every time I look in the mirror, I will want to strangle myself." ”

Seeing Park Ji-yong coming in, Park Myung-soon immediately got up and saluted: "Myung-soon has seen my brother." ”

Park Ji-yong smiled and said, "Mingshun, sit down, I didn't expect you to come to see me so soon, you are really a good brother." ”

He used to have small eyes, but now that he smiled, he felt that his two eyes could not be seen at all, and all that was left of his flattened face was a flat nose and a large mouth, oh, and two sparse eyebrows.

Park Myung-soon and Park Ji-yong both knelt down and sat down, and Park Myung-shun said: "Myung-soon has always respected his brother the most, and the first one he wants to see when he comes back is the king, and the second one he wants to see is his brother." ”

Everyone else sat on their knees, but Liu Xuanji sat cross-legged, because he was a Taoist priest, and when Park Zhiyong sat down, Liu Xuanji didn't get up, but just raised his right palm on his chest and performed a Taoist ceremony.

Only then did Park Zhiyong notice Liu Xuanji, seeing that Liu Xuanji's sideburns were white, his black beard was swinging his chest, and he was very surprised, and asked in Tang dialect: "Are you from Tang?" ”

Liu Xuanji raised his eyebrows slightly, and asked with a smile: "How does Master Pu know that Poor Dao is a Tang person?" ”

Park Ji-yong said: "Looking at your appearance, it doesn't look like we are from Silla. ”

Liu Xuanji laughed dryly, but did not answer, but secretly thought in his heart: "Indeed, with my appearance, if I am a teenager younger, I am afraid that he will be the most beautiful man in Silla." ”

At this time, Park Mingshun hurriedly introduced: "Brother, this Mr. Liu Xuanji in front of me is a rare strange person in the Tang Dynasty in a hundred years, and I specially brought him back to help my brother conspire for a great cause." ”

Park Ji-yong was shocked when he heard this, and asked, "Strange people? How is a strange method? ”