Datang: Li Shimin begged me to rebel

"Liu Kelang-jun, how is your research going?" Ashil looked at the craftsman in front of him and asked.

"No problem, we can mint them. If we add some ingredients, the purity of these silver and gold coins will be reduced by about 5% without being discovered. Compared with the cost of casting, the profit is not high, but it is worth selling." Liu Ke said. road.

He is a craftsman, and he only puts forward his own opinions based on his profession, and it is not up to him to decide what to do.

Ashil was a little hesitant. They encountered some problems in the process of exchanging silver coins. For example, Sasanian Persia mainly used silver coins, and there was not much silver that was not minted into silver coins, while their gold was purely smelted. of gold bars.

According to the calculations of these craftsmen, the purity of Persian gold coins is about 96%, which is slightly lower than the gold bars in their hands.

However, they don't plan to ask for gold for the time being anyway, so the purity of the gold coins naturally doesn't matter, but the purity of their silver coins contains a little less silver, so if the silver coins are imitated, it is also possible.

"Ashilu, according to the latest news, His Highness has arrived at the Jieri Dynasty." This is a small city located in the Kamalupo Kingdom near Sasan Persia, and a person quickly rushed into the courtyard to report.

"Great! Send a ship to send His Excellency Wang Zheng down to see His Highness, explain the situation here to His Highness, and ask about our next move." Ashil asked.

"Yes!"

Their small city is also a port city, but it is not on the trade route, and the port is not big.

It is not far from the Baling Peninsula. If you take a boat, you can see His Highness in about five days.

Li Ke didn't really know the location of Ashilu. The original plan Li Ke gave him was to carry out the exchange plan in the inland, that is, the small town on the border between Western Turks and Sasanian Persia. .

Communication in this era is almost impossible, but Ashil and the others have [-] elite cavalry. Under the situation of internal and external difficulties in Sassanid Persia and constant civil strife in various tribes in Western Turks, these [-] elite cavalry are absolutely Currently the greatest strength.

No one can shake it at all.

What's more, no one knew how many cavalry Ashilu had.

When he saw Wang Zheng, Li Ke was also a little surprised. Although he also sent people to inform Ashilu, in Li Ke's opinion, it would take at least 20 days to contact Ashilu. Who knew that Wang Zheng would come over so soon. , if calculated according to this time.

"Are you in a seaside city?" Li Ke was a little stunned.

"Yes, Your Highness, at the beginning, we were in the border city between West Turkic and Sasanian Persia, as your Highness said, but the current domestic situation in Sasanian Persia is complicated, and many rich people dare not trade in this place, especially land transportation It was more dangerous, so we started to head towards the sea later." Wang Zheng took out a map and introduced it to Li Ke.

"We found that this area is not controlled by the state. It is all small tribes. As we advanced, these small tribes directly joined us after seeing us until we advanced to this river. upstream of the inlet of the bay."

"Originally this was a small country with a small lord, but after the other party saw our army, they thought we were Western Turks, so they retreated decisively and ruled across the river from us. At present, we are in this port city. trade with Persian merchants."

As Wang Zheng spoke, he introduced the general situation to Li Ke.

Listening to Wang Zheng's words, Li Ke was speechless.

This nima...Although I know that the third brother's place is all kinds of bad, after all, Wang Xuance can destroy the country with a thousand soldiers, and the strength here can be imagined, but this is too bad.

What did Wang Zheng mean?Regardless of the territory of Persia, there are no countries in the later generations of Afghanistan, and almost all of them exist in the form of tribes. Because of the barren land, these places are mainly nomadic and sparsely populated in this era.

When their army came, these tribes would naturally submit directly without any hesitation. This is the normal state of most grassland peoples, and this is one of the reasons why Western Turks have such a large land area.

More importantly, they continued to go south. That is to say, there was a small country of Faith in Pakistan in later generations. To be precise, this small country was originally a big nobleman in the Kamaluva Kingdom. This great aristocrat basically established a country by himself.

Then when Ashilu and the others came over, they didn't even fight, and directly drew half of the land to Ashilu and the others. Because Ashilu and the others' purpose was not to fight, they simply took over all these places.

And the river ruled across the river in Wang Zheng's mouth is the Indus River in later generations, which is the largest river in Pakistan.

At present, the land on the west bank of this river belongs to Ashilu, uh... nominally it belongs to the West Turks, but in fact... it belongs to the fucking Tang Dynasty.

Everyone in Li Ke is stupid. Although he knows that the West Turks and the third brother are bad at this time, but this is too bad, just like a joke.

No wonder the Anxi Protectorate of later generations can control such a large area, the people here don't want to fight at all.

Seeing Wangzheng circle most of Afghanistan and half of Pakistan in the future on the map, which is currently the territory they control, Li Ke is a little speechless.

Your map is going to be updated again?

"Your Highness, should we return these lands?" Wang Zheng was a little confused, mainly because he felt that these lands were picked for nothing.

"Why do you have to return what you got with your strength?" Li Ke rolled his eyes speechlessly.

"But although we own this place in name, in fact, our control over this place is very weak. If we take these places, we will distract your energy, Your Highness. Those people are not familiar with them." Wang Zheng looked at His Highness and said. , "Unless you put in a lot of energy, these people always feel unworthy of your energy, Your Highness."

Li Ke pondered for a while. To be honest, this situation was somewhat beyond Li Ke's expectations, but the problem was not a big one, and it was still within his control. The main reason was that there were only [-] elite cavalry, and as long as there was food, they could afford it.

And next to it is an important grain-producing area. There is no shortage of food. With the current shipping power, it is not a problem to feed more than 1 elite soldiers.

"That is to say, to the outside world, this place belongs to the Western Turks?" Li Ke asked looking at the large area.

"Yes." Wang Zheng nodded.