Li Shimin looked at the letter handed over by Su Chen, and his face became increasingly gloomy.
With a snap, His Majesty Li Er slapped the letter on the table:
"The prime minister of this big food country is so brave!"
Fang Xuanling and others also circulated the letter.
"It's really a big cannibal who colludes with the remnants of the family to create mischief behind the scenes!"
Su Chen had already reported that the real culprit behind the locust plague in the North was cannibalism, but there was no evidence, so everyone was still half-convinced.
After Bacher and Arud were arrested this time, they summoned everything: they personally admitted to Liu Mo that the prime minister of the Dashi Kingdom sent them to do it.
"According to the confessions of these two cannibals, their prime minister sent them to transport locust eggs from the desert thousands of miles to Northern Sanzhou."
"But why do they do this?"
"My country, the Tang Dynasty, is thousands of miles away from Dashi, and there are many countries in between. Even if my country, the Tang Dynasty, suffers some losses, his country, Dashi, will not gain anything."
"Besides, my soldiers from the Tang Dynasty shouldn't be able to reach Dashi, right?"
Fang Xuanling and others were very puzzled by the great efforts of the Shiguo to deal with the Tang Dynasty.
"Hmph! If my army of the Tang Dynasty wants to reach Dashi, even if we just rush, I'm afraid it won't be possible for half a year, not to mention there are so many countries intercepting us on the way."
His Majesty Li Er is angry, but there is nothing he can do about the Dashi Kingdom, it is too far away!
Su Chen sighed: "This is also what puzzles me."
"Ordinarily, the Great Cannibals should be fighting with Byzantium or the Sasanian Dynasty now. They are close neighbors and have been fighting each other for many years."
As Su Chen said, he suddenly asked Fang Xuanling and others: "How much do you know about Dashi?"
Changsun Wuji smiled bitterly: "I'm ashamed to say that we only got a little bit of information from merchants in the Western Regions. Regarding Dashi, I can't even tell its specific location, let alone its population and how many troops it has.
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Fang Xuanling and others also nodded helplessly, while Li Er remained silent.
"That's it. I, the Tang Dynasty, don't know anything about the enemies who come to bully me. This is too ridiculous!"
"Everyone, wait a minute. I still have some news about the cannibals. Wait for me to find out."
Su Chen said, leaving Li Er and others, and went to the study.
After a while, Su Chen brought over a few simple maps, as well as some information he had collected recently about the Big Food Country.
The map was spread out on the table, and everyone gathered around and pointed.
Changsun Wuji kept pointing with his fingers:
"This area is the territory of the original Western Turks."
"Countries in the Western Regions."
"Is this the land of the river?"
Su Chen nodded: "The Amu Darya region in Central Asia was called the Transoxian Land in the Han Dynasty and is the crossroads of Eurasia."
"This is Byzantium,"
"Persia"
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"Where is that big food?"
Wei Zheng asked, he knew the least about foreign countries.
"It's really hard to say this right now."
Su Chen pointed to the Arabian Peninsula and said: "Dashi was founded only twenty years ago, and this is where the people of Dashi started."
"This peninsula was originally the place where the Persian Sasanian Dynasty and the Byzantine Empire fought repeatedly. There were many tribes on the peninsula, and each tribe fought for years."
"But according to the latest information I collected, the Food Empire has not only unified the peninsula, but also defeated Byzantium in the north and Sasanian Empire in the east, and captured a large amount of their land. I heard that Shashan
The dynasty was almost destroyed by it."
"As for how big the Dashi Empire is now, I don't know."
Su Chen pointed to a pile of papers on the table: "All the intelligence I have collected recently is here."
According to Su Chen's memory, the current Dashi Empire probably hasn't left the Arabian Peninsula yet.
Su Chen just said that Dashi was founded more than 20 years ago, which is not accurate. It should be said that it was only more than 20 years ago when Muhammad started preaching.
But the information he recently received from businessmen in the Western Regions was not like this.
Intelligence showed that the cannibals were almost reaching Syria in the north and Ctesiphon, the capital of the Sassanid Dynasty in the east. This was intelligence brought by Persian businessmen half a year ago!
This history is obviously not just the Tang Dynasty that is driving fast. The Food Empire did not lag behind the Tang Dynasty at all.
This surprised Su Chen very much!
He wanted to know what happened there.
Li Shimin flipped through the information collected by Su Chen on the table, frowned and said:
"Judging from this information, this cannibal is very warlike, and its empire is extremely expandable!"
Su Chen pointed out: "Wei Chen thinks so too."
Su Chen remembered that the food empire in history expanded all the way and almost never stopped.
At its peak, the Great Food Empire stretched from the Indus River Basin and the western border of China's Tang Dynasty in the east, to the Atlantic coast in the west, to the African Sultanate of Mozambique in the south, and to the Caspian Sea and southern France in the north. It was a huge empire spanning Asia, Europe and Africa.
In the history of the world, apart from Mongolia, there is really no one more expansionist than him.
Wei Zheng frowned and said, "Your Majesty, even if the Great Eclipse were to expand, it would not be able to expand as much as the Tang Dynasty."
Li Er said angrily: "Huh, it's still thousands of miles away from our country, the Tang Dynasty, and it has already begun to plot to destroy our country, the Tang Dynasty!"
"If this locust plague spreads, the harm to our Datang City will be immeasurable!"
"I will never tolerate such an ambitious enemy!"
His Majesty Li Er has already regarded Dashi as his enemy!
In the past few years, the Tang Dynasty had been invincible and invincible, and His Majesty Li Er's confidence had also grown.
The Great Eater dared to travel thousands of miles to play tricks on the Tang Dynasty. This made His Majesty Li Er very angry!
Seeing Li Er getting angry, Fang Xuanling and others hurriedly tried to persuade him:
"Your Majesty, calm down. After all, the Great Eclipse is still far away, and some conspiracies and tricks can't do anything to me, the Tang Dynasty."
"Your Majesty, the great cannibal conspiracy has been exposed this time. After seeing how powerful the Tang Dynasty is, I understand that it will not dare to have any more evil calculations."
"After all, Dashi is too far away from me, the Tang Dynasty. Your Majesty, there is no need to cause trouble to yourself and vent your anger on him."
Li Er had no choice but to slap the table in frustration.
However, Su Chen said to Wei Zheng: "Wei Gong just said that the expansion of the Great Eclipse cannot come to our Tang Dynasty. This boy cannot agree with it."
Are you kidding? In history, the Tang Dynasty and the Dashi Empire lost miserably in the Talas War!
The main force of the Anxi Protectorate was basically wiped out, and countless Tang people and craftsmen were captured and sent to the West as slaves.
It is said that this is how gunpowder was first spread to the West!
Wei Zheng pointed to the intelligence on the table: "These are all collected by you, Lord Protector. A newly unified empire continues to launch wars against powerful enemies around it. Even if such an empire can defeat powerful enemies, its national power will be exhausted."
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"Besides, Dashi is so far away from the Tang Dynasty. It will take half a year for my army from the Tang Dynasty to go to the Dashi. Isn't it the same for them to go to the Tang Dynasty?
