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foreword

The Ice Empire has ended and no postscript has been written. I will simply present it with this book.

When a time traveler has the entire northern and southern Moon, the history of the time traveler is basically clear, and it is boring to continue writing. Unlike some authors, who can write millions of words in a small base and have not unified China yet. When I write things, I have a mood and force myself to write things that go against my will. If I have ideal grades, it is naturally impossible, but doing that under the premise of poor grades is simply against my life.

Even if you don’t have money to pay, don’t worry. The author is very stubborn and firmly sticks to this point.

The author has not been exposed to time travel novels for a long time, at most five years. I remember that after reading a biographical novel introducing Zhang Juzheng, I felt that I was uneasy and wanted to figure out what happened to the Ming Dynasty after Zhang Juzheng's death. As a result, most of this search was time travel novels.

So, it was out of control.

After seeing too much, I became a little swelling and wanted to try my skills. The result... can naturally be imagined.

Back to the topic, it is the main theme of this book.

For the Tang Dynasty, most people viewed it with admiration, because it was the second strong dynasty in the history of the Chinese dynasty with Confucian civilization as the core. But for me, the Tang Dynasty was indeed considered a sensation when Emperor Taizong and Emperor Gaozong of the reign of Emperor Taizong, but all this changed after the arrival of the Wuzhou Dynasty.

As a woman, Wu Zetian ascended the throne in a noble manner. Needless to say, she was uneasy. With her knowledge, this pattern naturally became too big.

So, from her perspective, no one is unsuspecting. In fact, even if a man is in a wrong position and has mediocre qualifications, just like most of us, sitting in that position, it is almost the case.

So, she pioneered the cruel era of spy politics, allowing the open confidence in the early Tang Dynasty to disappear from then on. From then on, please let alone the Tang Dynasty. The Tang Kingdom can barely be regarded as a matter of the prosperity of Kaiyuan.

After the Anshi Rebellion, Li Heng, who had the genes of mutual distrust, did not trust anyone but only trusted eunuchs, so the second eunuch era was created (Bai Yang's words). Unlike the eunuch era in the Han Dynasty and Ming Dynasty, eunuchs in the Middle and Later Tang Dynasty could still kill and replace emperors, which was naturally the most intense eunuch era.

This cannot be entirely blamed by the eunuchs. Starting from Li Heng's borrowing troops from the Uighurs, the three generations of ancestors and grandchildren borrowed troops from the Uighur Khanate and the Tubo Empire four times, on the condition that they could "pocket" in Chang'an and Luoyang for a few days. They were naturally happy. When the Emperor of Tang came back, all they left was an empty city filled with blood.

In order not to let the subjects get the news and escape early, the emperors strictly blocked the news.

So, a miserable scene appeared.

The "King Master" that the people in the city are looking forward to is indeed here, but what the "King Master" brings them is just the demon nightmare...

From this perspective, the Tang Kingdom was not even as weak as the Song Dynasty. The weak Song Dynasty could still give Liao Kingdom and the Western Xia Dynasty to provide annual monies to ensure peace. The Tang Kingdom in the middle and late period could not even do this, let alone the Ming Dynasty where "the emperor guarded the country's gate".

But there is one thing that the Tang Dynasty is much stronger than the Song Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty, that is, the status of the military men is much stronger than these two dynasties. Military men can participate in the military rituals, and they can also become generals and prime ministers when they are engaged in military positions. In the Tang Dynasty, no matter at any stage, there are many military magistrates who are appointed as military magistrates. If this is in the Song Dynasty, it would be unimaginable in the Ming Dynasty.

After the Anshi Rebellion, the entire Tang Empire actually fell into the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and was still a Spring and Autumn Period and Warring States Period with a strong eunuch mark. The Emperor of Tang was actually a pitiful existence like the Emperor of Zhou, but no matter when, a group of outstanding generals could emerge.

As a time traveler, it would be difficult to take advantage of the Anshi Rebellion and take advantage of the troubled waters.

A large number of outstanding generals represented by Guo Ziyi and Li Guangbi are waiting for them. It is conceivable how difficult it is to defeat these people in the Tang Dynasty.

There was a Tang Dynasty, and there were many outstanding generals, including Han generals and Hu generals. Not to mention anything else, just before and after the Anshi Rebellion, Gao Xianzhi, Feng Qinghui shone in the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains. Gao Xianzhi was even a great cannibal. The Tubo people called the "King of Mountains". Such titles were recorded in historical records of Arabs and Tubo people.

In Tubo, Wang Zhongsi and Geshuhan also shone together.

During the Anshi Rebellion, Guo Ziyi and Li Guangbi, Pu Gu Huai'en was in a flash.

What I want to talk about here is Li Guangbi, who is a Khitan and has a certain connection with the protagonist of this book. In my opinion, his ability is still above Guo Ziyi. At least he has suffered fewer defeats than Guo Ziyi because he has strict control over the army, while Guo Ziyi is known for his lenient military rule. On the battlefield, occasional incidents emerge one after another, and a unit with strict military discipline naturally has fewer chances of defeating the war.

And Li Guangbi, he was a Chinese Khitan.

During the Tianbao period, it was indeed a turbulent era in the world. In the only empire in Europe, the Constantine Empire, the Arab Empire, was facing a change of dynasty. Although the former was still the Eastern Roman Empire in history, its lineage had completely changed, and the Arab Empire was about to go from being a big meal in white to being a big meal in black.

At this time, the Khitan was naturally very weak. There were three tribes outside the Great Wall, Khitan, Jun, Xi, and the core tribes all came from Wuheng → Yuwen Xianbei. Judging from the Khitan rebellion that could defeat the more than 100,000 famous general Wang Xiaojie, it is estimated that Dingkou would not be less, but it would definitely be much smaller than two hundred years later, because "Yelu" had not yet become the surname of the Diela tribe. The ancestor of Yelu Abaoji broke the tradition of the Dahe clan and the Yaonian clan always dominated the tribes. Although he was not called Khan, Niri, who had long served as the most important position in the tribe, (will evolve into Yelu and become the surname of the Diela nobles) had already made his mark.

During the Sui Dynasty, a large number of people had moved to Youzhou. These people were already called "familiar Khitans" by this time, and Li Guangbi was one of them. His Chinese level was no worse than Guo Ziyi. Another point was that when Li Heng borrowed troops from the Uighur Khanate, he received Guo Ziyi's consent.

It can be seen that the aristocratic class at that time did not care about the lives and death of ordinary people at all.

I only have deep contempt for them.

At this time, after the rise of the Black-clothed Food Festival, it gradually abandoned the prevalence of Christianity, Nestorianism, Zorosa and Manichaeism in the past, and instead adopted heavy taxes on them. Because there were too few Arabs, they used a large number of Persians and Turks, especially the latter, to serve in the army. The Turkic Tianfang Cult was the most prosperous era of Tianfang Cult. For these reasons, the Black-clothed Food Festival had much more military strength than the previous White-clothed Food Festival.

But even so, Gao Xianzhi's impact on the Tang Dynasty after the failure of Talas was still minimal, because under the leadership of famous generals Xue Rengui and Wang Xiaojie, the Tang army suffered more than 100,000 troops in Qinghai and Liaodong, but the country soon recovered, let alone the 20,000 people in the Battle of Talas?

Also, when I mentioned the Uighurs, I called it the Khanate, but the name Tubo was the empire because they were indeed worthy of it. They had their own writings. When Princess Wencheng entered Tibet, she brought a large number of books and technicians, which allowed the Tubo people to learn to refine steel and papermaking. Especially the latter had a profound impact on the Tubo people, just like the papermaking technique of the captured Tang army after the Battle of Talas, the profound impact on West Asia and Europe.

Here readers are going to ask why the captured Tang army still knows papermaking?

Here we will talk about the system of government troops that still existed at this time. Each government soldier must not only bring his own horses, light weapons, light armor, and grain, but also carry carpenters, stonemasons, and blacksmiths (a few). Each government soldier is a compound talent. He can not only farm, fight in the future, but also set up camps (carpenters), pound rice (carrying corresponding utensils, stonemasons), and repair weapons (blacksmiths). He has never been less practiced during the slack farming period. It is simply a walking "civilization", and naturally there are many talents who are possessed of some special skills.

It was because of Princess Wencheng that the Tubo people became stronger and had a big meal in black. Europe gradually showed signs of "revival". Because there was paper at this time, civilization could be passed on. Otherwise, it would be entirely up to "narrative poetry" and word of mouth. No matter how high the civilization is, it would be nowhere to be.

(I despise the Greek "civilization" with "Homerician epic" as the core carrier)

After the Battle of Talas, papermaking workshops appeared in Samarkand and Baghdad one after another, which is a clear proof.

With paper, there are books. With books, civilization has the possibility of inheritance and development.

China is the source of civilization, how faithful it is!

With words, books, and strong slavery, and Buddhism has not yet penetrated into every mind, the inertia of Bon religion is still huge (the warriors are not afraid of death, and they advocate death), and Tubo naturally became a powerful country. At this time, they not only occupied Tibet, Qinghai, but also in the future, Hexi and Anxi towns, but also firmly occupied Nepal (the Tubo royal family has always served as kings) and the vast area north of the Ganges. In addition, almost the entire Kashmir and the Dingkou tens of millions, which naturally rivaled the great empires of the Tang Dynasty, the Great Food, and the Eastern Roman Empire.

It is not surprising that it is defeated once or twice in the hands of such a country. Don’t regard it as a nomadic tribe in a corner of Tibet.

The Khitan is similar. From the eight tribes headed by Siwandan (the name of the Khitan) at the beginning to the new eight tribes, I don’t know how many fusions have been experienced, but judging from the fact that it can defeat the powerful Wang Xiaojie legion, its powerful strength has begun to show signs. At this time, the eight tribes of Khitan had at least 30,000 entries, and the Xi tribes and the Wu tribes were not many.

Jun, a strange tribe, was eventually assimilated by the Xi tribe (the Chahar area in later generations) and the Khitan (the Chifeng area in later generations). Of course, these three pieces all originated from Wuheng and Yuwen Xianbei, and it is not surprising that they merged into these two pieces.

The turtle occupies the Wuzhumuqin and Xilingol areas of later generations. There are very little historical records in later generations and are very mysterious, but in my writing, it will occupy a considerable amount of weight.

After the Yuwen Xianbei was destroyed by the Murong Xianbei, in addition to the few left in the place, another one went north to retreat to the Erguna River Basin. During the Tianbao period, it became the "Yujueshiwei". In fact, it was the "Wugu tribe" in the Liao Dynasty. In the Liao Dynasty, it was established in its old place, and the "Wugu enemy Lie Army Command" was always the leader of the military command. The leader of the military command always served as the King of the North Court. It can be imagined that the extraordinary part of this department is.

By the way, readers probably noticed that both "南" and "南" have a word "南". The author believes that these two must be related (Yuwen, Yuwen, is said to be descendants of the royal family of Liu in the Han Dynasty)

According to my estimate, the so-called "Epi Lie" tribe is actually divided into the core tribe of the Khitan "Dela tribe", which shows the origin of the Yujue tribe and the Khitan.

I will also have a lot of writing about this work. The place this work now occupies is in the area of ​​Nebuchu. Readers who are familiar with this book will naturally understand the key points.

At this time, the Orthodox Church in the west, the Tianfang Church in the middle, and the Zoroastrianism were facing a great crisis for thousands of years. The former was deeply involved in the era of "idol worship", and the successive kings spared no effort to crack down on "holy icon worship". For the Tianfang Church, since the current black food and food rely on the people of Khorasan, Eastern Iran, the Shiites began to emerge.

But this is not the most important one.

Zorozoicism was born in centuries BC and was the most important religion between Eurasia before the birth of Christianity. It is said to be the "maternal body" of Christianity and Buddhism.

In the Zha Cult, the Venerable of Light and the Dark Demon Lord have always existed for a long time. The entire Zha Cult is the reincarnation in which light continues to overcome the darkness. The reincarnation is divided into four stages, a total of 12,000 years, and reincarnation every three thousand years. At this time, Persia, as the entire land was occupied by the Arabs, there was a new and highly aggressive Tianfang Sect, which means that a new reincarnation began for the Pope (the envoy of Light) of the Zha Cult.

He needs to find a loyal believer of the Zorozoic religion among the people as his representative to defeat the dark demon king in the world. This representative is most likely to be a big meal in black, but it is not accurate.

Nowadays, the place that believes in the most Zorozoic religion is in Central Asia, that is, the Sogdian region of the nine surnames of Zhaowu. If the envoy of Light wants to find a representative, he can only find it here, because now most of Central Asia, all West Asia and North Africa are occupied by the Tianfang Sect, and you will definitely not be able to find powerful believers.

The improved version of the Zoroastrianism seemed to have found a great carrier at this time - the Uighur Khanate.

As for Nestorianism, it was widely spread in Central Asia, West Asia and the Tang Dynasty at this time, but compared with other religions, it declined after all, and most of these people hid their identities, which was very mysterious.

For the Chinese, they are actually figures of the trinity of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, and they are much more clever than the trinity of Christianity that is strongly combined.

The author agrees with a certain professor. For Chinese people, they use Buddhism to deal with their own hearts, Confucianism to deal with their relationship with others, and Taoism to deal with their relationship with nature.

The Trinity is so depressing!

But this also made the Chinese people "introverts". They had almost no expansionism and expanded to Anxi because they wanted to restrain their biggest opponents. For the Han Dynasty, they were the Huns, and for the Tang Dynasty, they were the Turks first and then Tubo.

This shows Wu Zetian's small pattern. She can't see the effect of the four Anxi towns on the powerful Tubo at all. What she sees is "not to interrupt the cause created by Taizong from her." In fact, the four Anxi towns are like Dongjiang Town in the late Ming Dynasty, and even have a greater effect.

Here we will mention another character, Li Mi.

This person's age seems to be the protagonist at this time. Speaking of which, the Emperor Constantine V of the Eastern Roman Empire, the Caliph Mansour, the protagonist and Li Mi are all the same age, and it is really a match.

Li Mi and Bai Yi served three kings of Li Heng, Li Yu and Li Shi. It is rare in history. This is not counting. He first proposed the grand strategy of "stabilizing Anxi" and "connecting with Dashi, and Nanzhao to jointly deal with Tubo."

Remember, at this time, Li Mi actually knew that the territory of Tubo had expanded to a vast area south of the Himalayas, as well as his ability to elusively deal with the three generations of kings, forced me to suspect that he was a time traveler.

He appeared as a hermit, representing the "Taoism" in Middle Earth.

As the protagonist, he is naturally a natural Trinity belief holder with enhanced concepts.

Peach Blossom Stone appeared in historical records of the Han Dynasty. In the eyes of the Roman Empire, peach Blossom Stone and its corresponding transliteration are representatives of China. Some people say that he is the "Tuoba clan", some people say that he is the "Qin Qin", and some people say that he is the "Tungus" (the original Slavs called the tribe with Eastern Confucius in the forests of Eastern Europe, which was later passed to the Roman Empire).

The author agrees with the statement of "Da Qin". In the pre-Qin period, the Da Yuezhi lived in the Hexi Corridor area and must have had contact with the Qin State. Later, after it moved to Central Asia, it was estimated that the "Da Qin" would be transmitted to Europe.

The Tang Dynasty during the Tang Dynasty and Emperor Gaozong of Tang Dynasty were indeed very similar to the Qin Dynasty during the unified six kingdoms. Its inclusiveness of talents, a complete military merit system, etc.

The era of Emperor Taizong of Tang was one of the best eras in China. He himself had a strong ability, broad mind, and was good at sympathizing with his subjects. The author believes that such a leader is the representative of the Chinese leader and the representative of the Peach Blossom Stone.

The protagonist naturally wants to be a character like him, even beyond him.

Of course, the best person is someone of the descendants, so I won’t go into details here.

As mentioned above, the trinity of the Chinese is the best, which is that it lacks pioneering spirit. Even if you take over the land of Anxi, it is to restrain it and there is no idea of ​​being the fundamental land of the Chinese.

However, the prosperity and change of dynasties was not subject to the will of the Chinese. A great man in later generations thought about this and took a series of measures, but naturally failed.

His realm is too high, and the people around him cannot keep up with him, or they have their own selfish intentions.

In fact, the author has always believed that before the industrial age, due to the ceiling constraints of grain output (the core is breeding, which can only be the product of the industrial age), occupying as much space as possible when the earth's population is not large.

This is what the protagonist has done all the time, including in the previous book.

Territory, war, religion/martial arts, conspiracy, tribes, the development of this book will be more exciting than the Ice Empire, so collect it now.
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