The 208th chapter lays down a land with both hands
"Wow~" Li Yan lifted the red cloth on the sphere, revealing a strange sphere supported by a shelf below. The ball was blue all over, but on the blue, there were irregular yellows distributed, which looked like patches, and was not beautiful at all.
"Brother Six, what... is this?" Li Zhi looked at the strange ball, although not beautiful, but it was made very exquisitely. Whether it was a bracket or a ball, it seemed that it was carefully crafted by a master craftsman. Therefore, he was curious and leaned over and touched it with his hand, but Li Yan glared back fiercely.
Others such as Li Ke, Princess Changle and others were also very curious. They just saw that Li Yan's anger had not yet subsided, so they didn't dare to ask more. Li Chengqian and Li Tai were blocked at the gate of the hall, and they couldn't go out and came back, so they were too embarrassed to move forward and retreat for a while, so they had to stare at Li Yan coldly.
"I'm not convinced, right? OK! I have backbone, so I will only talk to other brothers and sisters today, why does the father value my son so much, not only increase the guards around me, but also allow me to recruit private soldiers?" Li Yan looked at the two people in front of the palace gate and spoke with a sneer.
As soon as Li Yan said that, Li Chengqian and Li Tai's expressions changed drastically. They knew that the number of King Qi's guards exceeded, but they did not expect that the father actually allowed Li Yan to recruit private soldiers. This was so indulgent for a prince! However, this sentence just hit the itch in their hearts, so although they were full of displeasure, they still shook their sleeves and came back with a thick face.
It was the first time Li Ke knew about this. He seemed hesitant at the moment. He really couldn't believe that the always-savvy father would agree to this kind of thing? As for Princess Changle next to him, he looked unbelievable, and his eyes looked at Li Yan as if he was looking at a monster. With her understanding of her father, the other party would never allow her son to have too much military power!
Although Li Chengqian and Li Tai both came back obediently, Li Yan did not intend to let them go like this, but snorted coldly and said again: "A real man should be born in the world, just like the father, carry a three-foot sword. He will make a fortune in the world. He will fight to the death of his family all day long, what real man is he?"
Li Yan's repeated and repeated sarcasm finally made Li Tai, who had always been arrogant, angrily shouted at Li Yan and said, "Li Yan, what are you? What are you qualified to teach me a lesson? If we are not real men, then what are you? Don't you still want the throne of your father like us in the end?"
Compared to Li Tai, Li Chengqian was very calm. Although he was very angry by Li Yan's words, he could still remain calm and look at the other person with a calm face.
"What qualifications do I have?" Li Yan looked at Li Tai and Li Chengqian with a sneer. Then he looked around at several brothers and sisters, especially at Li Ke, Li Zhi and Princess Changle, and then he said, "Then I will tell you clearly today that I will not be the emperor of the Tang Dynasty. If I really want to be the emperor, I will build a country with my own hands like my father!"
As soon as Li Yan's bold words came out, he thought they would attract everyone's praise. Unexpectedly, Li Zhi jumped up in fear and pointed at Li Yan and said in a panic: "Sixth Brother, are you going to rebel?"
"Get out, you're rebelling!" Li Yan was almost angry to death by Li Zhi's words. In fact, it's not a mistake for Li Zhi to misunderstand. Li Yan said he wanted to conquer a country, but he didn't specify where to fight. Li Zhi's understanding of geography was all within the Central Plains, and at most it was within the scope of the Tang Dynasty. Therefore, when he heard Li Yan's words, his first reaction was that his sixth brother wanted to rebel.
"Liulang, what do you mean? The Central Plains are all under the rule of my Tang Dynasty. Where do you want to build a country?" Li Ke was the same as Li Zhi's reaction at the beginning, but he was calm and immediately dispelled this speculation after a little thought. However, his cognitive scope was also within the Tang Dynasty. Naturally, he couldn't understand what Li Yan meant in his words?
"The world we live in is very big, not just the Central Plains. There are Western Regions, Turks, Tubo, Liuzhao, Linyi and other countries in the south, Silla, Baekje and even Japan in the east, and there are even many tribes in the northern grassland. There are no kings in these places, so why bother to live and die in this area of the Central Plains?" Li Yan said with a bold face. He felt a little helpless about the idea that the Central Plains was equivalent to the whole world. Fortunately, he had himself now, and one day he could turn their arrogance around.
When Li Yan said the last sentence, his eyes turned to Li Chengqian and Li Tai, but the bold words he said did not resonate with them at all. In particular, Li Tai said with a sneering voice: "How can the land of the wilderness in the outer world be as rich as the upper Central Plains?"
"The Wild Land?" Li Yan said with a sneer after hearing this, "Fourth Brother, I have to say that you are indeed very ignorant. Do you know how many resources we, the Tang Dynasty needs in the Wild Land you mentioned?"
"you……"
Hearing Li Yan targeting him again, Li Tai was about to get angry, but he didn't expect that Li Yan would not give him a chance to speak at all. He grabbed the globe on the table and interrupted him, "You may not know this thing, but I believe that all the brothers and sisters here should know what Huntian is. According to the explanation of Huntian, we are in a huge sphere. I temporarily named this sphere as the earth, and the thing in my hand is a model made according to the earth, so it is named the globe..."
When everyone on the field was quiet when they heard that Li Yan finally began to explain this strange sphere, even Li Tai and Li Chengqian suppressed their anger, wanting to see what tricks Li Yan wanted to play?
Li Yan showed the globe to everyone, and then pointed to the location of the Tang Dynasty and said: "Please see, this is the Tang Dynasty where we live. Although our Tang Dynasty claims to be vast in size, it actually accounts for only one-tenth of the entire land area of the earth!"
"Wow~, Brother Liu, according to your meaning, all the yellow places on this globe are land, and the blue parts are oceans?" Li Zhi was very smart. When he saw Li Yan pointing to a yellow area and saying that it was the Tang Dynasty. When he recalled the territory of the Tang Dynasty in his memory, he immediately understood the meaning of the color of the globe's surface.
"My ninth brother is right. Although I just named the ball under our feet the earth, the area occupied by land is not large, even less than 30%, and the remaining 70% are all oceans. So, in fact, the territory of our Tang Dynasty is only one tenth of a dozen compared to the earth, and it is inconspicuous at all!" Li Yan continued to mercilessly attack everyone present, allowing them to recognize the insignificance of the Tang Dynasty compared to the earth.
"What can we do if it's big outside? Our Tang Dynasty is the real country of the Celestial Empire. All the countries around us submit to the majesty of our Tang Dynasty. Can there be a country more powerful than our Tang Dynasty in the world?" Li Tai read too many sages and was so stupid that he still insisted on reporting the theory of the Celestial Empire.
However, his words are right, because in the Tang Dynasty, both Rome, Persian and Arabs were several points worse than those of the Tang Dynasty. Li Yan really couldn't think of any refutation to this, but he had not answered another question raised by Li Tai just now, and now he just happened to follow it.
"Hmph, I guess in your eyes, the land outside the Tang Dynasty is all wilderness!" Li Yan said as he raised the globe in his hand, and pointed out with another hand, "This is Goguryeo that our Tang Dynasty had just captured. It is rich in iron ore and coal mines. Now someone is developing it. This is Japan, and it is rich in silver ore in China. This is Linyi. Although the place seems to be small, the rice produced in China is higher in the year than the total rice output of our Tang Dynasty in the year."
Li Yan introduced several countries in the southeast of the Tang Dynasty in one breath, then pointed to a distance and pointed to an island and said, "This is Java above the South China Sea, which is more suitable for cultivation than Linyi. It is rich in gold, copper, iron and other minerals in China. If the copper mines in its territory are mined, then our Tang Dynasty will never have the problem of insufficient copper coins. The two islands below have no names for the time being, but the islands are rich in carbonite, and most of them are open-pit mines, with amazing reserves. In addition, like Java, it is also very suitable for agricultural cultivation."
After talking about Southeast Asia, Li Yan dragged his fingers along the island chain to the southeast, and finally designated a very huge yellow area. Then he said solemnly: "This is a large island, or a continent. Its area is only a little smaller than our Tang Dynasty. The minerals on it are very rich, especially gold, silver, iron, carbon, etc., most of which are richer than our Tang Dynasty. In addition, this continent is very suitable for grazing. It can be said to be an extremely rich island!"
Li Yan's series of introductions shocked everyone present. They did not expect that there were so many extremely rich places outside the Tang Dynasty. Not to mention the rest, the only thing that produces food in Linyi, Java and other places was enough to make countless people feel moved. After all, most of the countless unrest in the Central Plains dynasty were caused by food problems, so the Central Plains dynasty, from emperors and ministers to the people, regarded food as life.
Li Yan has already introduced that he has become addicted and ignores the shocked expressions of these brothers and sisters. After leaving Australia, his fingers have been going east, and finally stopped on the new world that he was obsessed with...)
Chapter completed!