Chapter 993: 994 a meeting
Chapter 993 994 A meeting
In Kangrao, the royal city of Shu, in an office on the side of the magnificent parliament hall, a ridiculously beautiful woman sat next to Speaker Liu Jing, and the two were talking and laughing about something.
No one knows the origin of this woman, but she was so beautiful that she left an indelible impression on the waiters.
Many officials who usually boast that they are knowledgeable and have tasted countless beauties, after passing by this woman, frankly accepted the cruel fact that they had no knowledge.
After bringing two cups of black tea, the waiter, who was so excited just because he said thank you, had just walked out of the door, was asked by several people about the woman in the room.
But he didn’t know anything, because he really only dared to take the tea cup in, put it on the coffee table in front of the woman, and then hurriedly backed out after hearing the woman say a nice thank you.
Yes, it sounds nice... He thought about it for a long time, and only came up with this ordinary word in his mind: That woman's voice was really nice, the kind that made him tremble with excitement.
In the room, seeing the dissatisfaction of his men, Liu Jing coughed lightly and started the topic again: "Our interests are the same, at least in terms of hatred towards the Tang Empire. Our interests are the same."
After losing a large amount of land in the north, Shu's national strength must have been greatly reduced. Liu Jing also knew very well that he and those greedy and lustful Shu council members would probably never get back their homeland of Shu in this life.
To be able to serve as the speaker of the Shu Kingdom, Liu Jing is naturally not a fool. Not only is he not a fool, he is also a smart man. Otherwise, he would not have been able to hurriedly plan a visit to the Tang Empire before. If he was really allowed to go to the Tang Empire, the current situation in Shu might be much better.
Since Liu Jing is a smart man, he can certainly analyze what role the Tang Empire played in the recent series of turmoil.
Recently, because Chu State has begun to occupy a large territory in the northern part of Shu State, diplomats from the Tang Empire are also operating in Shu State. Idiots still can’t understand that the whole incident is not only planned by the Datang Empire, but also definitely approved by it. .
As a result, demonstrations against the Tang Empire broke out in the Shu Kingdom - but the results were really mediocre, making the people of Shu themselves feel embarrassed.
That’s right, the people of Shu who took to the streets found that their cars were made of parts from Datang Empire, and their houses were made of cement made by the local cement factory built by Datang Empire Company.
Without the things from the Tang Empire, they would almost have to return to the era of eating raw materials and drinking blood: because their past life has been completely penetrated by the technology of the Tang Empire.
You said you want to live in a wooden house? The logging equipment is all produced by Datang Group. You said you want to eat food from the past, then do you use the MSG soy sauce produced by Datang Group?
The machines used to manufacture domestic products in the factories opened by Shu merchants were all imported from the Tang Empire. They had just been purchased at a high price, and you destroyed them with just one sentence? joke?
What’s more, boycotting products from the Tang Empire is in conflict with the already formed global industrial supply chain. As the world's provider of advanced technology, the Tang Empire resisted the Tang Empire and was basically no different from wielding a sword against the palace.
Sofia came to Shu when Shu was troubled by foreign troubles and suffered successive defeats on the battlefield. She has been working secretly, hoping to promote an anti-Tang alliance on the Western Continent.
However, this kind of activity achieved little results, because the previous anti-Tang alliance itself was defeated, and the Dahua Empire itself was the country that suffered the most losses. Zhao Kai had lost confidence in confronting the Tang Empire head-on.
At the same time, the area that the Tang Empire secretly attacked also happened to be the Great China Empire, so Sophia's activities here have been suppressed by the intelligence department of the Datang Empire. She did not dare to expose it at all, because of the absolute gap in strength. There, she had no way to reverse it.
Subsequently, the civil war broke out in the Great China Empire, and the Qin State invaded the Shu State. The anti-Tang alliance could no longer be implemented and had to be stillborn.
But Sophia still seized the opportunity and came to Shu to seek a more reliable and powerful ally: Shu, who was also placed on the dining table by the Tang Empire!
Sophia heard Liu Jing's words, smiled charmingly, and agreed: "We must unite. All people in the world who oppose Tang Mo and Tang Mo's persecution of the old upper class should unite! We must let Tang Mo Mo saw that our power was enough to swallow his power!"
Of course she knew that many old merchants and old aristocrats in Shu were naturally opposed to the established national policies of the Tang Empire. According to Tang Mo's policy, all the existing old bureaucrats, old aristocrats, old merchants, and all the landlords and gentry in Shu must be eliminated.
This is intolerable to the Shu State, so when Sophia said this, it was tantamount to uniting the forces of the Shu State that were naturally hostile to the Tang State. In order to win over Liu Jing, Sophia even used the title "we": "The expansion of Tang State must be curbed. The more and larger areas Tang Mo rules, the more people will accept his political ideas. It’s bad for us!”
Liu Jing, who was sitting opposite her, also agreed with Sophia's views. He was also very dissatisfied with the behavior of the Tang Empire: "The split of Dahua and the invasion of Shu by Qin. These living examples tell us that, The Tang Empire cannot bring peace, it is chaos and a threat itself!"
From the perspective of the Shu Kingdom, a strong, or at least superficially strong, regional power is a good leader to maintain regional stability.
The Dahua Empire is a very good "sovereign state". This suzerain state only needs to pay some filial piety, and then it can honestly become a heavenly kingdom, mediate the friction between the younger brothers honestly, and be a frightening referee. .
Its existence should not threaten the existence of surrounding small countries, nor should it have territorial or population ambitions.
But the Tang Empire was not like this. Liu Jing could see that the newly rising Tang Empire was completely different from the decaying Great China Empire. The emperor of the Tang Dynasty, Tang Mo, had an almost stubborn instinct for expansion and control. He hoped to obtain larger territory, and the courtiers of the Tang Empire were more willing to use this method to demonstrate their achievements.
Such an empire is dangerous, and Chu's Nanshan Port is an example: the act of replacing the land you want with the territory of other countries is itself a strong demand that makes surrounding countries disgusted and fearful.
Be it Qin or Dahua, no country in the world is afraid of the Tang Empire. It’s just that the Tang Empire was too powerful. It was so powerful that the first anti-Tang War defeated the whole world with the power of one country.
Although the countries in the Eastern Continent made little contribution to that war, the powerful combat power of the Tang Empire did frighten all the participating countries.
As one of the protagonists of the last war, the Dahua Empire directly lost a large area of territory and had its backbone broken. It has not been able to get back on its feet until now.
The whole world has been suffering for a long time, but there is nothing we can do about it. If there was really hope of overthrowing the Tang Empire, I believe everyone would give it a try.
This is also the reason why Liu Jing personally received Sophia: as long as they insist on opposing the Tang Dynasty, everyone is actually a natural ally. Except for people from the Tang Empire, no one in the world likes this country.
In fact, if you think about it, people in other countries may also like the Tang Dynasty - more accurately, they like to be Tang people... This is a bit of a slap in the face, so the nobles, landowners, kings and powerful ministers of various countries will definitely not admit it. .
When the two chatted to this point, Liu Jing shook his head helplessly and sighed: "Its technology is too powerful, and we can't get rid of its influence at all! The Shu Kingdom has been trying to find an independent path, but the greed of the Tang Empire destroyed it. All our hopes."
He thought of the series of farce in Shu Kingdom in the past few days and said with emotion: "The Tang Empire even has many secret weapons that will only be used in war..."
This is also another main reason why the new anti-Tang alliance has been delayed in forming: Especially in the last anti-Tang alliance, the Tang Empire took out submarines and torpedoes, which directly defeated the huge anti-Tang alliance fleet.
At the same time, they took out advanced aircraft and tanks, and pressed the seemingly powerful Dahua Empire to the ground.
Who can guarantee that in the next war, the Tang Empire will not come up with some new gadgets and once again let all the countries in the world taste the taste of failure?
So even if they colluded secretly, an anti-Tang alliance could not be formed openly. Because no one wants to become a tribute to the powerful military strength of the Tang Empire.
After all, many of the recent rumors about the Tang Empire are well-founded: some people heard the sound of dragon roars on the sea near Dragon Island; others claimed that they had seen the Tang Empire in a place far away from the island where airplanes were unlikely to appear. airplane.
In short, many countries have speculated that the Tang Empire is manufacturing new war weapons on Dragon Island, and they do not want to be the first target of these weapons.
How many times have you thought you bought new equipment, thought you had evened the gap, and then were defeated by Tang Mo?
From breech-loading guns to breech-loading cannons, from airships to airplanes, from cars to tanks, the Tang Empire has recently come up with missiles and radar equipment, and even used ultra-long-range missiles to attack the capital of the Dahua Empire...how many times ? I'm afraid even fools no longer believe that the Tang Empire has no hidden tricks.
(End of this chapter)