Chapter 598: The Greedy Arab Empire
Fan Lihua never thought that she could be so valued by the king of a country in her life, when she was in the Western Turks, she had always been unable to be reused because she was a daughter, but she had no chance to fight in any major war, which made Fan Lihua, who was a great talent, very depressed.
However, the monarch in front of him is different, this is the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, known as the Heavenly Khan, among all the monarchs in the world, he is the largest, he has the most powerful empire in the world, and he also has the broadest mind in the world, uses people only in talent, and personally sends herself on the expedition, she has the feeling of BMW meeting Bole.
She finally knew why there were so many virtuous ministers and good generals in Datang, why Datang could become the largest country in the world, and why Li Shimin was respected as the Khan of Heaven.
Fan Lihua looked at Li Shimin excitedly, and said in the loudest voice: "The last general will definitely live up to the holy order!" After saying that, he raised his head, drank all the wine in the cup, and turned the wine glass upside down on the table to show that the wine in the glass was drunk.
Li Shimin smiled when he saw this, followed the same example, and also put the wine glass upside down on the table, and the rest of the ministers saw that Li Shimin did this, and they did the same.
Li Shimin looked at Fan Lihua and said slowly: "General Fan, you must say goodbye to you for a thousand miles, it's not too early, let's set off as soon as possible." ”
"Yes!" Fan Lihua clenched her fists hard, turned around and led the generals to the army, and when she arrived in front of the army, she was only heard shouting, "The whole army listens to the order and goes!" ”
"Wow!" All the armies turned around in unison, and the sound of armor clashing was uniform, like a muffled thunder rolling, and the people were thrilled to hear it.
Looking at the army moving forward slowly, Li Shimin's eyes narrowed slightly, there was no sadness or joy on his face, and no one knew what he was thinking at the moment.
Li Hao didn't come to send Fan Lihua today, after all, he and Fan Lihua had a quarrel like that in the hall, how could he come to send her, as soon as he sent it, he hid at home to practice martial arts, and on a cold day, he actually practiced knives bare-chested, steaming hot and sweating.
Ye Mengqiu stood aside with a sword and watched quietly, with no expression on his face.
After a long time, Li Hao threw the knife into the air violently, and at the same time held the scabbard in his left hand, and went upward, and with a bang, the knife fell steadily into the scabbard, and it was tightly sealed.
"Papapa...... Ye Mengqiu applauded slowly, stepped forward with a smile and said, "Lord Wang, if you continue to practice like this, Ye will not be your opponent sooner or later." ”
"Really." Li Hao grinned and said, "Then you will accompany me to practice at noon." ”
"Why is that?" Ye Mengqiu asked puzzled.
Li Hao smiled and said: "Because you are not my opponent sooner or later, but you are still my opponent at noon, so you can only practice with me at noon." ”
"This ......," Ye Mengqiu smiled helplessly when he heard this, "The humor of the prince...... It's really out of the ordinary. ”
Li Hao just wanted to speak, a special soldier suddenly walked into the courtyard, saluted Li Hao, and said, "Lord Wang, someone outside the door asks to see him, saying that it is a subordinate of the prince, this is a post." ”
Li Hao stepped forward to take the post, unfolded it, and immediately smiled, and said, "Bring him here." ”
"Yes!" The special forces took the order and left.
After a while, a young man in a white robe and a white cloak walked into the courtyard under the guidance of the special forces, and this person was Wu Lei.
I haven't seen each other for a few years, Wu Lei has matured a lot, and he has grown a beard, and he looks very stable.
Wu Lei saluted when he met: "Wu Lei greets the prince." ”
"Don't be polite." Li Hao stepped forward and grabbed his hands, and said with a smile, "Yo, I have grown a beard." ”
Wu Lei smiled awkwardly and said, "No way, I look too young without a beard, there are always people who disagree with me." ”
"Yes!" Li Hao pretended to be surprised, and said seriously, "You are now the king's sea manager, whoever disobeys you will disobey me, and directly throw it into the sea to feed the fish, even if Lu Yun's son disobeys you, it will be right." ”
"This ......" Wu Lei looked embarrassed, he didn't know how to answer, Lu Yun was also his introducer, he was very respectful to Lu Yun, throwing Lu Yun's son, is it appropriate.
Li Hao saw that he was so embarrassed that he was speechless, and immediately grinned: "Just kidding, why are you so serious." ”
Wu Lei directly broke out in a cold sweat, he raised his sleeve to wipe the sweat on his forehead, and said: "Lord Wang, you have to take care of your body, although it is February, but the weather is still cold and evil, you will catch a cold if you are naked like this." ”
"Xiao Wu has a heart, haha." Li Hao smiled and said, "Don't worry, it's okay, this king has divine skills to protect his body, it's so cold, it's drizzling, by the way, this king just practiced martial arts and sweated, I want to take a bath, Meng Qiu, Xiao Wu, let's go together." ”
"Huh?" Wu Lei was shocked when he heard this, and said in panic, "How dare the villain bathe with the prince!" ”
Ye Mengqiu nodded with a smile and said, "Okay, let's go together." ”
Wu Lei looked at Ye Mengqiu in shock, secretly thinking in his heart that Ye Mengqiu was also bold, and he actually dared to bathe with the prince.
However, when Li Hao took Wu Lei to his bathhouse, Wu Lei was shocked, Wu Lei is a person who has seen the world, he has seen gold and silver, but he has never seen a bathhouse, although there are some bathhouses in Chang'an now, but they have not yet been popularized, Wu Lei has just come to Chang'an, and he has never been there.
"This ...... Such a big pool of water...... For bathing? Wu Lei looked at Li Hao in disbelief.
"Or else?" Li Hao raised his eyebrows and said, "If you don't use it to take a bath, do you use it to drink?" ”
"Subordinate...... What an eye-opener! Wu Lei was telling the truth, he really opened his eyes.
"By the way, Xiao Wu, are you married?" Li Hao suddenly asked.
Wu Lei was stunned, and hurriedly shook his head: "Back to the prince, my subordinates have been busy with the business and fleet at sea for the prince, and they have not yet married." ”
"Oh, take off your clothes, wash them quickly, and then open your eyes when you're done." Li Hao said that he began to undress.
Wu Lei and Ye Mengqiu immediately began to undress, something strange happened, Ye Mengqiu finished taking off his clothes, and put his iron sword on his back, so he went down to the pool to take a bath with the iron sword on his back, Wu Lei was dumbfounded.
Li Hao saw Wu Lei's surprised eyes, and explained with a smile: "That's his baby, and his sword is not far from his body." ”
"Oh." Wu Lei nodded apprehensively, feeling that he had seen it again.
The three of them rubbed each other's backs, full of affection, and after washing, Li Hao took two big pants and handed them to Wu Lei and Ye Mengqiu, Ye Mengqiu was not the first time to take a bath with Li Hao, and put them on very skillfully.
Wu Lei's eyes lit up when he saw this, and he hurriedly put it on, and then said in surprise: "Lord Wang, what is this?" Much more comfortable than a crotch cloth. ”
"It's called panties, but it's a good thing." Li Hao smiled proudly, put on a big pair of pants himself, and then led them out of the bathroom and walked to the private room.
There are not many private rooms, only three, Li Hao took them to the three-bed private room, and then lay down on the middle bunk.
Wu Lei looked around in surprise, feeling that the decoration style here was so strange, completely subverting his cognition.
"Don't look at it, no matter how you say it now, you're also a big man, don't look like you've never seen the world, lie down and rest."
"Yes!" Wu Lei hurriedly lay down when he heard this, feeling that the bed was very reasonably designed and comfortable to lie down.
"How does it feel?" Li Hao asked.
"Comfortable." Wu Lei couldn't help but answer.
Li Hao smiled and said, "There will be more comfortable later, but before that, let's talk about the business first, you must have something to report to me when you come this time." ”
"Back to the prince, yes." Wu Lei said, "At the beginning, the prince ordered his subordinates to sail, and at the same time drew a map of the distribution of power in European countries, and his subordinates have completed it, so I took the opportunity to come to Chang'an to send silver, meet the prince, and hand over this map to the prince." ”
"Where's the map?"
Wu Lei said: "In the clothes, the clothes are still outside." ”
"Go get it."
"Yes!" Wu Lei hurriedly went out to get the map.
Soon, the map was taken, Li Hao sat up and looked at it carefully, nodded slowly: "Well, this map is well drawn, very standard, and the distribution of cities in each country is also very detailed." ”
"The things that the prince explained, his subordinates didn't dare to be sloppy."
"You've done a great job, and I'll give you a special reward later." Li Hao smiled very cheaply, rolled up the map and put it on the bedside table, and asked, "You have been sailing for a few years, what is the attitude of those countries in the West towards my Datang?" ”
Wu Lei thought for a while and said: "My Datang is now far away, those small countries in the West either admire or respect my Datang, and they are extremely fond of my Datang's things, every time the subordinate fleet goes, it is warmly welcomed by many countries, but the big food country is very hostile to my Datang, every time our fleet passes, they have to collect huge taxes, and the most one is as high as 80,000 taels of gold." ”
"What, eighty thousand taels of gold?" Li Hao's eyes widened sharply when he heard this, and he snorted coldly, "These Arabs really dare to speak, 80,000 taels of gold is 800,000 yuan, why don't they rob it?" ”
Wu Lei continued: "That time, we sent more ships, there were eighty big ships, and the big cannibals collected taxes on us according to the number of ships, one big ship was 10,000 taels of gold, and a small ship was 5,000 taels of gold. ”
Ye Mengqiu suddenly asked, "What if you don't give it to them?" ”
Li Hao also asked, "Yes, what if you don't give it to them?" What will they do? ”
"If we don't, they will send troops to fight us and not let us land." Wu Lei said, "The subordinates took the fleet to sea four times, the first two times paid taxes, the last time because 80,000 taels of gold was too much, the subordinates refused to give it, and Da Shi sent tens of thousands of soldiers and horses to fight us, drove us with bows and arrows, and robbed us of a lot of things, so the fourth time, the subordinates did not go to Da Shi, and they will not go in the future." ”
"Good, good Arab Empire." Li Hao raised the corners of his mouth lightly when he heard this, and said coldly, "The Arab Empire is indeed a rare dynasty in history, which lasted for more than 600 years, and the land area reached 13.4 million square kilometers in its heyday, no wonder they are so arrogant, presumably they are also eyeing our Tang Dynasty, if the Western Turks are destroyed, they should stretch their claws to our Tang Dynasty." ”
Ye Mengqiu smiled indifferently when he heard this, and asked, "Then how is the prince going to deal with it?" ”
"How to deal with it? Hehe......" Li Hao smiled coldly and said, "Chop off his claws first, and then cut them to death with a knife, it's not that I'm alarmist, this Arab Empire's threat to my Tang Dynasty is no less than that of Tibet, and even surpasses it, they will eventually become a disaster for the Tang Dynasty and must be destroyed!" ”