Great Tang Southern Emperor

After meeting with everyone, it was almost time, and the prisoner offering ceremony was about to begin.

"Play music~"

Li Daozong presided over the prisoner presentation ceremony. He was not only a county king, but also a famous general of the Tang Dynasty. More importantly, he was also the Zongzheng of the royal institution of the Tang Dynasty, the Zongren Mansion.

This official position is useless in normal times, and the power is not too great, nor is it too small.

It is said that Zongzheng has little power because Zongzheng doesn't care about people's livelihood, and he doesn't care about the people. He only has one role, which is to manage the royal family. He has a higher status in the clan, and he doesn't have much power other than that.

It is said that he has a lot of power because Zongzheng can manage the children of the royal family, master the roster of the royal family, distinguish their status as concubines or their blood relationship with the emperor, and list the genealogy of princes and kings with the same surname every year.That is to say, Zongzheng can manage the royal families all over the world. As long as the names are left on the genealogy, they are all within the scope of Zongzheng's management. Even the emperor, in a sense, must be under Zongzheng's jurisdiction.

Moreover, Zongzheng has another function, that is, he can convict his clan relatives.You must know that any matter involving the royal family is not a trivial matter, and ordinary government offices are not qualified to hear it.

At this time, Zong Zhengfu needs to come forward. After investigation, if

In other words, Zong can convict the royal family, even the prince can't avoid it—it's like when Li Zhen and Li Yuanchang had a conflict more than ten years ago, Li Zhen blew up many people in Li Yuanchang with a grenade. The matter of stripping him and tying him to the street in a carriage was handled by the Clan House.It's just that Li Zhen was young (only three years old) at that time, and Li Yuanchang was an adult, but he was beaten and tricked by a child.

However, considering that Li Zhen is a child and has a bright future (the book is in hand, I have the world), Li Zhen was not severely punished, but was fined a little salary symbolically, and then was exiled to Li Yuan to serve Li Yuan He went there, and got his first force there - the Blood Dragon Guard.

On the contrary, Li Yuanchang, the elder who was the victim, was cut off two ranks of titles because he took the initiative to provoke Li Zhen. ), and was put in confinement, which can be described as extremely aggrieved.

This is the frightening thing about Zongzheng. No matter whether it is cutting the title or confinement, it is Zongzheng's punishment method - of course, Zongzheng does not punish whoever he wants to punish.

If you want to punish a clan member, you must first confirm that you are also guilty, and secondly, after you have settled your opinion, you need to report to the emperor and ask for the emperor's opinion. If the emperor thinks it is inappropriate, Zongzheng's punishment method cannot be implemented-so God The land is big, and the emperor is the biggest. Although the emperor is under the jurisdiction of Zongzheng in name, in fact the relationship between the two is reversed.

In addition to rewarding and punishing the royal family, Zongzheng also held another great power over sacrifices—there was no doubt that the prisoner offering ceremony was a kind of sacrifice, because since it was a sacrifice of prisoners, it was natural to go to the Taimiao.

"Beep beep..."

"Tick tock..."

"Clearly..."

"Dong dong dong..."

"..."

Following Li Daozong's order, all kinds of musical instruments rang out immediately, and the piece they played was very famous, called "The Music of the King of Qin Breaking the Array" - the whole piece was mighty and majestic, with extraordinary momentum, which made the listeners feel full of energy. Even Li Zhen, who used to listen to it often, felt his blood boil, not to mention those foreign envoys, and what's more, they even danced to the dance music, which shows that it is deeply affected.

This song was originally a military song of the Tang Dynasty. In 620 AD, Qin Wang Li Shimin defeated the rebel Liu Wuzhou and consolidated the newly established Tang regime.Therefore, his soldiers filled in new lyrics with old songs, and sang a song of praise for Li Shimin: "The head of state is subject to the law, and the general will punish the traitors. The salty song "Broken Array Music" is for the people of Taiping." , Thousands of years of virtue and water are clear; the uniforms are not worn, and today is the success." "The lord opened the Changli calendar, and the ministers are loyal to Dayou; after you see Yange, it will be Taipingqiu."

Chapter 735 The Powerful Food Empire

Chapter 98 The Powerful Food Empire

Later, after Li Shimin ascended the throne, he personally choreographed the song "The Music of the King of Qin Breaking the Array" into a dance, and then processed and organized it by court artists to form a huge and magnificent large-scale music and dance.The tone of Kucha has been mixed into the original tune, which is tactful and pleasant, high-spirited and very appealing.At the same time, there is a large palace band accompaniment, the big drum is loud, and the sound can be heard for hundreds of miles. It is powerful and moving.

The onlookers were even more shocked.

"It's really majestic music. It's even more exciting than what I heard yesterday." Among the crowd gathered by foreign businessmen, a merchant from the Western Regions asked: "It's just that I seem to hear our Kucha in this music." The style of the music, could it be that "Qin Wang Breaking the Array" borrowed from the characteristics of Kucha musical instruments?"

"It's not just the Kucha style, it seems to have the characteristics of our Dashi music, and I also heard the grassland style." A big eater who wrapped himself tightly explained after hearing this: "Da Tang Inclusive of all rivers, absorbing the essence of the four directions, and absorbing everything, this "Qin Wang Breaking the Array" appeared just now."

"It makes sense, this is Datang, this is Huaxia... It is indeed a place that everyone dreams of." A Persian merchant also sighed: "In our place, there is a saying among Zoroastrian believers that there are three things in a person's life. There are two places that must be visited, one is chak chak (one of the holy places of Zoroastrianism, according to legend, in 637 AD, the Arab army came, and the last princess of the Sasanian dynasty, Nikbanuh, fled to the cliff, looking desperately at the approaching mountain. The chasing soldiers, implore Ahura Mazda, the god of light, to open the mountain for protection. When the mountain opened, nikbanuh felt that he was covered in dirt and dared not step in, and the high stones dripped down, making the sound of chak chak, washing the princess clean , and quenched her thirst. Of course, this is a legend. The real situation is that the Dashi army climbed up the cliff and killed the princess), because salvation can be obtained here; the other is Yazd (another holy place of Zoroastrianism, the desert The pearl in the world), where you can cleanse your soul, and the third is Datang, because here, you can find all the knowledge in the world."

The big eater also nodded and said: "Our Prophet also once said that 'although learning is far away in China, we should seek it'. Datang is indeed blessed, and the people here are as hardworking as us—it's a pity , Such a treasure land has already become the site of Buddhism and Taoism, I am afraid that it will not be able to carry forward the ideas of the holy religion, let alone spread the glory of the Prophet."

"This may be nonsense here, so are you going to tell your caliphate to go to war with Tang?" The Persian businessman sneered, not at all interested in Dashi merchants.

If anyone in this world hates big cannibals the most, it must be the Persians. How powerful was the Second Persian Empire?Rule the roost in West Asia, across Asia, Europe and Africa, a proper overlord.

However, the status of this overlord is now being challenged by the cannibal. More importantly, Persia is not the opponent of this lunatic armed with religion. After many wars, the former Persian Empire has long since lost its former glory. , was beaten by the Dashi Empire, his head was covered with blood, and more than half of his land was lost, so he could only linger in his old den, feeling very aggrieved.

Because of the relationship between the two countries, the Persians and the big cannibals have long been fierce enemies. This is just a matter of restraint on the territory of the Tang Dynasty. Swords facing each other?

However, although it is impossible to fight in the land of Datang, it is okay to quarrel. In fact, in Datang, whether it is Persia or Dashi, they all support and have their own spokespersons in secret. The two sides fight openly and secretly. He is doing everything he can to smear the other party, in order to lower the other party's status in Datang's mind and completely smear the other party.

So quarrels and the like are actually commonplace in the struggle between the two sides. It is strange that the Persians and the big cannibals do not quarrel when they meet together.

"Do you want to die?" The Dashi merchant immediately felt provoked: "A subjugated slave who is about to lose his country, what qualifications do you have to provoke the great Dashi Empire? Just rely on your vulnerable army? Don't Just kidding. If it weren’t for our Dashi Empire’s wars in other places, if we only attack one place with all our heart, do you think you can survive to this day? No matter which enemy is, it has long been drowned by the iron hooves of the Dashi Empire warriors below."

"..." The face of the Byzantine businessman next to him turned dark immediately. The other battlefield that the food businessman mentioned was Byzantium. He scolded everyone.

But he has nothing to say, because the Dashi Empire is indeed very fierce at this time.

The Great Food Empire rose on the Arabian Peninsula, and Muhammad's thoughts armed the brains of the Arabs, making them full of aggression. After unifying the Arabian Peninsula, the Arab Empire took shape.

After the formation of the Arab Empire, the caliphs, the successors of the prophets, set off an expansion movement that lasted more than 100 years in order to consolidate their rule and meet the Arabs' demands for trade routes and land.Under the banner of the Eagle Banner, the nomads in the desert began to conquer the world, first of all to unify the Arabian Peninsula.

Arabia is a peninsula, facing the sea on three sides. After being conquered here, the big cannibal will have no enemies on the east, west, south, and east sides.At this time, if you want to expand outward, you can only go north.

So after resolving the short-term internal chaos, the first caliph Bakr immediately launched an expansion war against Syria and easily occupied it.Strongly stimulated by the huge victory, the second caliph Umar Umar launched an unprecedented conquest campaign in Arab history, but the small countries in West Asia were almost conquered by the big cannibals at this time, and they would have to expand if they wanted to expand. Only two goals remain.

At this time, there were two huge empires in northern Arabia, one was called Sasanian Persia, also known as the Second Persian Empire, and the other was called Byzantium, which was the Eastern Roman Empire.

These two empires were giants at the time, and their status in Europe and West Asia was no less than that of Tang in the eyes of East Asians.

I will not talk about Byzantium. It has been introduced before. This is an old empire that has been passed down for thousands of years.

As for the Sasanian Empire, this is also known as the Second Persian Empire. Although it is not as powerful as the First Empire, it has also eliminated many powerful enemies. It has been established for more than 400 years. The absolute king of Megatron Central Asia is also not a big cannibal. provoking.

Chapter 736 The Powerful Food Empire (2)

Chapter 99 The Powerful Food Empire (2)

However, just when everyone wanted to see which country the Great Food Empire was going to choose as its opponent, the Great Food Empire made a move that shocked everyone—the Great Food Empire chose to compete with the two major countries at the same time. Empire at war.

In 635, the caliph's army attacked both Byzantium and Sasanian Persia.General Khalid ibn al-Walid, known as the "Sword of Allah", led the Arabs quickly through the inaccessible Syrian desert, annihilated 5 Byzantine troops on the banks of the Yarmouk River, and occupied Damascus, the capital of Syria.Successive victories of the caliphate forced Jerusalem, which had been besieged for two years, to surrender in 638.Facing the violent attack of the Arabs, the emperor of the Byzantine Empire said sadly: "Syria, such a beautiful and beautiful river and mountain, still belongs to the enemy!"

The Arabs rose with astonishing speed on the southern frontiers of Byzantium and Persia.They marched, they fought, they conquered. Through blood and fire, he established a huge empire spanning Asia, Europe, and Africa. From the border of Central Asia and Tang Dynasty to the west of Africa, they were all territories.At its peak, its territory reached 1339 million square kilometers.It is the empire with the longest east-west span in human history, second only to the Mongol Empire.

Of course, this is the Dashi Empire in the future. The Dashi Empire is still competing with the two empires. Although some victories have been achieved, there is no overwhelming situation. Everyone is still coming and going, winning and losing each other. , no one can do anything.

This would continue until around AD 651, eight years later.

In this year, Sassanid Persia will be completely wiped out by the Dashi Empire (in fact, when the Persian Empire was wiped out has always been controversial, some say it is 637, some say it is 641, and some say it is 651 In [-], let’s count according to the last one) The Dashi Empire won Khorasan, Armenia, Azerbaijan and other places, bordering Datang, and the East has been completely stable since then.

It was only at this time that the Dashi Empire had the energy to look around. However, as the saying goes, good luck is followed by misfortune, and misfortune is followed by good fortune. This is too good to say, and the next end of the Dashi Empire will be very good This statement is confirmed.

Just when the Great Food Empire was about to go all out and continue to expand and destroy the Byzantine Empire, a split occurred within the Great Food Empire.Headed by Ali ibn Abi Talib, some pro-Ali members of the Hashemite family questioned the legitimacy of Othman, who was born in the Umayyad family, as the Caliph, and formed the Shia sect. Opposed to the Sunnis who generally accepted Ottoman's succession, the first internal division began, and it never reunited—until the 21st century, the struggle between Shiites and Sunnis was still the mainstream of the Arab world. Before the two factions have no winner, the Arab world will no longer have the possibility of unification.

In 656, with the unfortunate assassination of Osman to death (before that, his previous caliph, the father of Berkel in this book, and the last caliph of the era of the four caliphs were also assassinated to death, the four caliphs Three of them were assassinated and died. It seems that this democratic system cannot be completed by ordinary people), and Ali ibn Abi Talib succeeded as the caliph.But at this time, the Umayyad family headed by the governor of Syria, Mu'awiyah, refused to recognize Ali's regime.The two sides fought several times, but there was no winner and a stalemate.Soon, there was another split within the Shia sect, and some radicals who were dissatisfied with Ali formed a "military democratic faction" (Hawariji faction). In 661, the faction assassinated Ali. During the orthodox caliphate period (also known as The era of theocratic republic, because the first four caliphs were negotiated and elected by the commune) ended, and the Dashi Empire entered the ruling period of the Umayyad dynasty (that is, the white-clothed Dashi), which was also the most powerful in history One of the most powerful dynasties, stronger than the Black Clothes Dashi.

However, the split of the Great Food is a good thing for another country——the Byzantine Empire escaped a catastrophe...

In any case, the Dashi Empire at this time is the little pepper in West Asia, hitting Persia in the east and Rome in the west, and it is a mess of toughness.

Of course, Datang will not be afraid in the face of Dashi. Whether it is now or in history, the Dashi Empire will not be the opponent of Datang in terms of national strength. There are many reasons why the battle of Talas was defeated. ,it's complicated.