drew a giant cake for Li Lao Er, and even the way to eat the cake was roughly explained to him, whether he can eat it, and then it depends on whether Li Lao Er has this good appetite.

Xia Hongsheng's giving the world map to Li Lao Er was not an impulsive move, nor was it out of place. It's just the right time.

First of all, there is no longer a threat to Datang around Datang. Secondly, although geographically Japan is not far from the Tang Dynasty, closer than many countries in the Western Regions or other countries on the Silk Road, but in terms of concept, it is an overseas country, and from the concept of the Tang people, it is the farthest country that Li Shimin actually and personally contacted. In some ways, this can be regarded as Li Tang's first step to "open his eyes to the world". Thirdly, Datang's main goal now has shifted from consolidating national security and eliminating national threats to developing people's livelihood and economy. This goal is easy for people to ignore military development for the time being, and it is also easy to nourish Li Shimin's arrogance and conceit, and it is precisely in need of a stimulus to remind him at all times that he should not limit his vision to this, in fact, there is a broader field. In addition, knowing that the world is very big, you will not become a frog at the bottom of the well, so that you will not be confused by some small interests in front of you.

How would the bird care about the bird? Because they have more ambitious ambitions. Xia Hongsheng intends to broaden Li Shimin's horizons and take a long-term view, rather than just focusing on the immediate and the surrounding areas of Datang.

For example, Datang and Goryeo. In Li Shimin's view, Goryeo is the territory of the Han Dynasty, and now it must be recovered, and recovering Goryeo is his ultimate goal. But in Xia Hongsheng's view, Li Shimin's concept should not be limited to this, but should be: the world is the goal of the Tang Dynasty's hegemony, and Goryeo is just a small one, far from the end.

Datang's vision should be in the whole world, Datang's starting from the overall situation, this "overall situation" should be the overall situation on the map, not just a circle around Datang.

All in all, Xia Hongsheng chose to hand over the world map to Li Shimin at this time, and the most fundamental purpose was that one: to let Li Shimin open his eyes to the world and tell Li Shimin that the revolution had not yet succeeded, and comrades still needed to work hard.

Looking at the world with open eyes, Xia Hongsheng is full of confidence in this. After all, the strong and the weak open their eyes to see the world from different angles, and if they see different things from different angles, they will have different ideas, and the final result will be different.

Master Yi's long skills to control it? Hehe, it's time for me to grow my skills to conquer it!

Xia Hongsheng had a dream, in which Li Shimin unified the seven continents and four oceans, and included the entire earth into the territory of Datang, and then respectfully gave himself tea, saying that it was thanks to his diligent teaching that Datang could have today, so he respected himself as the teacher of Datang, hahahaha, this doesn't feel too cool!

"Childe? …… Son? ”

Xia Hongsheng, who was just cool and couldn't do it, suddenly heard someone shouting about himself, and couldn't help but be startled, and opened his eyes suddenly.

"Childe, that Hu man has been waiting for Childe for a long time, it seems that there is an emergency, and the slave family saw that Childe had not woken up for a long time, so he dared to wake up Childe." Yuexian sat on the edge of the bed and said to Xia Hongsheng.

Xia Hongsheng nodded and sat up, shook his head, and Yuexian handed over the half-wet towel.

Wiping his face, Xia Hongsheng went out of the house with Yuexian and went to the outer court.

"Arhan meets the Hou Ye!" As soon as he saw Xia Hongsheng appear, Arhan immediately stepped forward to salute Xia Hongsheng.

"What's wrong, what's the matter?" Xia Hongsheng waved his hand, asked Arhan to sit down, and asked.

"Qiqi Hou Ye, another caravan has returned, they have brought back a few people, saying that they are scholars who were hunted down by the Holy See, and Arhan feels that this matter should be decided by Hou Ye." Arhan said to Xia Hongsheng: "Our caravan knows that Hou Ye is interested in Daqin's knowledge, and I heard that they are scholars, so I moved my mind and took care of them and brought them back to Hou Ye." ”

Xia Hongsheng was stunned for a moment, and then stood up violently: "The scholar who was hunted down by the Holy See?!" ”

"Hou Ye Xu doesn't know, there is a Christianity in the west, and Christianity also has an emperor in charge of its own religion, called the Pope, and the power is greater, even greater than the emperor of Daqin......" Alhan thought that Xia Hongsheng didn't know, so he explained to Xia Hongsheng, but was interrupted by Xia Hongsheng.

"Benhou knows." Xia Hongsheng waved his hand and said, "Where are those people, quickly bring them and tell them that Benhou will protect them, and in this realm, there is no need to worry about the Holy See anymore." ”

"Yes, Arhan is going to bring the people!" Arhan nodded, got up and immediately took his leave, and went to take the scholars with him.

Xia Hongsheng was very surprised. Since the beginning of supporting the westbound caravans, due to the terrible profits, more and more caravans have joined in, and now the caravans have reached ten, becoming a caravan alliance, all arranged by Arhan. Every time each caravan returned, it would bring back a large number of various books and codex for Xia Hongsheng. Merchants don't understand these things, there are many things in those books that are not useful, and naturally, there are quite a few useful things. Xia Hongsheng opened up a courtyard behind the printing house, and put all the books brought back by the caravan there, and then translated them by people who knew Chinese and Greek, and some scholars revised and polished the translated things in writing to make them easier to understand by the Tang people -- it is not possible to do secondary processing, and those translators are not professional literati, and after the translation is completed, there are many errors in grammar and sentence formation, which must be corrected by people who are proficient in Chinese and ink. in order to become an article that can be read by the Tang people. Because of this, the translated articles are all in the vernacular, which is easier to understand, and the literati who reprocessed it are less troublesome.

However, the progress of translation was very slow due to the small number of people who knew both Chinese and Greek, and the need for literati to revise and improve their translated manuscripts and organize the language.

This is the first time I have brought someone back.

Xia Hongsheng frowned slightly, thinking in his heart that this year is the fourth year of Zhenguan, that is, 630 AD. The year 630 A.D., about the beginning of the Middle Ages in Europe, was the beginning of a period of history in which religious madness persecuted scientists—and was it not called the Dark Ages?

What an opportunity! (To be continued.) )