"What? Are you frightened by your uncle's words? Can't you imagine that the leader of a country is so depressed?"
In the main hall, the two of them were still eating and talking. Li Shengtian saw that Zhang Zhao was silent and frowning, thinking that Zhang Zhao was shocked by the resentment he showed.
With that said, before Zhang Zhao could answer, Li Shengtian shook his head again and started talking to himself.
"It's not that I want three thousand beauties in my harem, or that I have much resentment towards Liu Niang. To be honest, Liu Niang came to Khotan from Dunhuang and helped me a lot, so I can be considered a good match for you.
But I just feel depressed, not because of the lack of wine and beautiful women, but because of the pressure of this place in Anxi.
I wonder when the Central Plains will be revived! The heavenly soldiers will come east as soon as possible. A certain Li Shengtian would rather be like the prince of Wudu and go to Chang'an to become a romantic prince.
Talk poetry with Li Du over wine, taste Li Ping's konghou, and listen to Li Guinian's "Red Bean Born in the South"! Khotan is weak and weak, and a certain person has little talent and virtue. He really can't afford the land of Anxi!"
Speaking of this, Li Shengtian's eyes turned red, and tears just rolled in his eyes!
Zhang Zhao put down the leg of lamb in his hand, and for the first time he looked respectfully at this king, who in his eyes had somewhat complicated senses. In his eyes, Li Shengtian was not a saintly king and wise master. He had many minor problems, liked extravagance, and loved
Beautiful, good face.
But now he discovered that Li Shengtian had a quality that was hard to see in a character like the King, sincerity!
Of course, he is not sincere to everyone, but he is very sincere to people like Zhang Zhao who he recognizes in his heart.
Looking back on the six months from Dunhuang to Khotan, I think about some of my operations, such as sending away Queen Karakhan this time. Let alone Emperor Qin and Han Wu, if it were another emperor like Tang Xuanzong or Ming Xuanzong, he would
Zhang Zhao's head had long since fallen to the ground.
But in Li Shengtian's case, he received the greatest punishment, which was being beaten with several arrows like today.
It's better to say it's punishment than closeness. In this era, this kind of relationship is indeed a blessing.
Reminiscent of the history of Li Shengtian and his descendants, just as Li Shengtian worried, they constantly resisted the invasion from Karakhan, the teaching of Tianfang.
And it was not just the invasion of Kara Khan, but the invasion of the entire Tianfang Sect. In the end, their lives and the country were inevitably destroyed. Along with them, the culture of the Han and Tang Dynasties in the Western Regions that lasted for hundreds of years disappeared with them.
This... all of this should not be Li Shengtian's, nor should it be the historical mission undertaken by this little Yutian!
Zhang Zhao also suddenly understood why Li Shengtian ridiculed him so much when the envoys of the Later Jin Dynasty, Gao Jujie and Zhang Kuangye, came to Khotan to canonize Li Shengtian.
This man who had been waiting for decades for the heavenly soldiers to come east to shoulder his historical mission, but what he was waiting for was Shi Jingtang, who ceded the Sixteenth Prefecture of Youyun and was willing to become the emperor of the Khitan people. How desperate must he be in his heart!
"Don't worry, uncle!" Zhang Zhaogui knelt down opposite Li Shengtian and raised a glass of purple wine.
"If the Yan Han Dynasty is not destroyed today, even if my nephew is here, even if he is shattered to pieces, I will make my uncle sit back and relax, so that the style of the Han and Tang Dynasties will continue to exist in Anxi, and the heavenly soldiers cannot come from the east. Then we are our own heavenly soldiers!"
"What a spirit!" Li Shengtian squinted his eyes and touched a bowl with Zhang Zhao with a red face.
"It is indeed destiny! I never expected that my eldest sister could educate you so well in the solitude of Shazhou. Erlang, do you know how happy my uncle was when he saw you for the first time!"
As he spoke, Li Shengtian poured himself another bowl of purple wine and said, "The eldest sister lost her husband and her son within five years of her marriage. She has lived in Dunhuang for twenty years, and she is depressed and unhappy. She is now only 6 years old."
It’s only about forty!
I thought about it one day and night, but there was nothing I could do, but you are the only one who can save your mother from this boundless sea of suffering!"
Looking at Li Shengtian's appearance, Zhang Zhao suddenly felt that all his questions had answers. Sure enough, there was no such thing as unreasonable hatred and unreasonable love.
Li Shengtian's feelings for him were probably mostly Li Shengtian's admiration for his eldest sister, Princess Fengtian, Zhang Zhao's legitimate mother, projected onto Zhang Zhao.
Indeed, only after Zhang Zhao successfully returned to seize the throne and restored the Zhang family's rebel army, would Li Shengtian's eldest sister, Princess Fengtian, escape from the sea of misery.
However, Zhang Zhao suddenly smiled bitterly. This Li Shengtian is indeed not a real hero!
If he is a promising man, he should ask Zhang Zhao why he can be his own heavenly soldier! What are you talking about, elder sister?
"Uncle, don't worry. If there is a day when the Zhang family can be reopened and return to the rebel army, I will personally escort my mother back to Khotan and reunite my uncle, sister and brother!" Zhang Zhao solemnly made a promise to Li Shengtian.
"Okay! It's hard for you to have such a heart and understand your mother's suffering. After defeating Bugra Khan Saktu, my uncle will not care about anything. He will definitely support you to return to Shazhou and get back the foundation of your Zhang family.
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Li Shengtian seemed to have made up his mind. He raised his neck and drank another bowl of purple wine.
"My uncle actually made the mistake of blaming someone. My nephew asked my mother-in-law to take away the queen of Karakhan, not for beauty, but for this woman. My nephew is really useful!"
Zhang Zhao hesitated for a moment, but decided to tell the truth to Li Shengtian. The leader of a country was in tears and showed his true feelings, but you are still hiding it. This is very easy to attract hatred.
"Okay! Tell me, let me hear Zhang Erlang's reason for doing this!" Li Shengtian put down the wine bowl and nodded to Zhang Zhao.
Zhang Zhao stood up and took a world map from Zeng Saktu Bragg Khan's desk.
This is a real world map. It seems to have been passed down from the Abbasid Dynasty. Although this map makes the country of Dashi too large and the shape of China is a little weird, the general location is still correct.
of.
Zhang Zhao clicked on the westernmost part of Europe on the map, "Uncle, please look, this is Charlemagne's Empire, also called the Kingdom of the Franks, and this is the Eastern Roman Empire, which is what we call the Western Qin."
Li Shengtian also came over curiously. Although he was a monarch, he had no way to access this knowledge.
As an ancient at the end of the tenth century, Li Shengtian's understanding of the world was inferior to that of the primary school students of later generations, because they did not even know that the earth was round.
"The Qin Dynasty is only so big? What is Charlemagne's empire? It's much wider than the Qin Dynasty. Where is this? Is it a big food in black clothes? What are the products of these three places? Which one is a land of plenty?"
Li Shengtian was shocked when he put down his wine bowl. He looked at Zhang Zhao who was constantly revising the map and asked.
Traveler Zhang Da changed the map on the spot, okay! This map, which was originally worth tens of thousands of gold and had great historical value, was changed beyond recognition by him.
"The Qin Dynasty has declined. This is the Eastern Rome established after Yiguan's eastward journey, which is analogous to the Eastern Jin Dynasty of Emperor Jin and Yuan.
Charlemagne's empire has probably been divided now. The largest area is Dashi. They were the ones who defeated Gao Jieshuai in Talas.
If we want to talk about the prosperity of the three regions, Charlemagne's Empire is the best, followed by Eastern Rome and Cannibalism."
"Traveling to the East in attire" is a joke. It originally meant that the Eastern Roman Empire resisted barbarian invasions time and time again and maintained Roman culture. However, Zhang Zhao knew little about this and took the joke as real history.
He didn't understand Charlemagne's empire even more. In fact, it was not very possible, but it had been divided long ago. The Abbasid Empire, a black-clad empire, had long since weakened and no longer had its former glory.
"Hmm! Very interesting! It's hard to imagine how you learned this knowledge in Dunhuang. Even I don't know. Is it true that what Zhang Zhong said about the golden armor given by the Taibao Gong?"
Li Shengtian nodded, "But what does all this have to do with you taking away Saktu's queen?"
This chapter has been completed!