Journey of the Infinite Wizard

It is an unprecedented rare event for people from their homeland to visit the Tang Dynasty, let alone traveling thousands of miles to Europe? Zhang Qian, the envoy of the Han Dynasty, only visited the Western Regions, and brought sweaty horses, grapes, alfalfa, pomegranates, flax and other species to the Central Plains, and spread the civilization of the Central Plains to the Western Regions, opening the famous "Silk Road". The acting king Xuance only arrived in India, and was involved in the throne usurpation incident of the Makada kingdom by chance. His entourage was killed and imprisoned. The aggrieved Wang Xuance fled to Nepal and defeated the Makada kingdom with 7,000 cavalry. , In a foreign land, with the strength of a country, facing a country with at least 30,000 troops, defeat the strong with the weak, and win in battle. 【】No matter who it is on, it is a difficult thing to do, but Wang Xuance did it.

However, the Central Plains Dynasty did not include Zheng He's voyages to the West, and the farthest place he traveled was only Central Asia, and he never went to Europe. But now, in this parallel time and space, the Anxi army in the heyday of the Tang Dynasty and the survivors who settled in the Anxi Dufu Mansion have been slaves for more than two hundred years. Who would have thought that they would establish a country again in the Europa continent? And who would have thought that they would travel thousands of miles and return to their homeland despite the hardships and dangers of the road? The return visit of the envoys of Zhao Song can also be called a coincidence.

Geyin envoys of the Tang Dynasty boasted about the wealth of the Tang people in front of the courts of the Zhao and Song Dynasties, and also said that the good horses in the country were like the hair of a cow, while the Song Dynasty was extremely short of war horses. Like the Song Dynasty, not only lacked war horses, but also faced the embarrassing situation of no danger to defend. Throughout the five thousand years of China, only the Song Dynasty was like this. The nomads have fought against the Han people for thousands of years, and they are well aware of their own advantages and the disadvantages of farming peoples. After the Sixteen States of Youyun were abandoned, Khitan, the overlord of the north, strictly guarded against the flow of horses, in order to prevent the Southern Dynasty from possessing war horses.

Faced with their own disadvantages, the Song Dynasty has always wanted to reverse the situation. Are they really willing to guard that one-acre three-point land? For various reasons, there was finally the reason why Zhao Song envoys visited Tang.

"The remnants of the prosperous Tang Dynasty were rich in wealth and millet, and every family had no worries about food and clothing. They liked to practice martial arts, raise livestock, brew wine and fish. It is really a country rich and full of people. It is the most powerful, with large and small ships like rain, the port is clean and tidy, merchants from all over the world gather, and most of them settle transactions in red gold. There are many commodities sold, ranging from fine iron and good horses to oil, rice and food materials. Everyone is rich..."

Lu Duan followed Tang Guan during the day, and they introduced him to the city, explained to him some of their systems, the taxes that could be obtained from daily trade, and even the national income. During the day, Lu Duan wandered around the city to observe the people's conditions. After lunch at noon, he went out of the city to observe the countryside. As far as he could see, there were fertile fields everywhere, exquisite houses gathered outside the city, several robust cattle and horses were raised in the barn, and there were more than a dozen chickens, ducks and pigs. Moreover, every household is like this. Lu Duan has never seen such a rich country in his life. This shocked him so much that at night, as he fell asleep, he carefully wrote down his observations and made evaluations.

Although he was dissatisfied with the Tang people's unauthorized modification of the text, Wu Ke was dissatisfied with the imperial examinations, other than that, he was mostly admiring the Tang people's country. This corner of the land, with tens of millions of people, is managed so richly, no wonder it will become the overlord of the region.

Lu Duan and his party stayed in this city for seven days.

There will always be people in the mission who are unavoidably unacceptable, and Lu Duan can only stay here as a last resort. After waiting for the members of the mission to take good care of their bodies, they will prepare to meet the Tang emperor. After seven full days of delay, Lu Duan got a lot of stories about the Tang people from the Tang people and many Yidi merchants. It is impossible for him to think that other lands of the Tang people are so rich just because one place is like this. He obtained a lot of precious information from those merchants who traveled north and south. Later, when the mission team went to the capital of the Tang Dynasty, Lu Duan and his party would stop temporarily and inspect the cities and mountain villages they passed along the way, and then recorded in within the booklet.

As he gradually approached the capital of the Tang Dynasty, what he saw and heard along the way satisfied Lu Duan, a standard Confucian disciple. Although the Tang people are different from the people of the Central Plains, the country under the careful governance of the Tang people is already like a Datong society. A society where everyone can eat and wear warmth, and everyone is rich, is an ideal that literati have been pursuing since ancient times. It can be said that such a country is the real prosperity.

"Tiandu?" Looking at the two big characters above the city gate, Lu Duan didn't know the meaning of these two big characters until he asked the Tang people. He asked, "What does it mean that the Son of Heaven lives in the city?"

Tang Ren replied, "No, it means, the city where the sky will also stop."

"En?" Lu Duan was a little dissatisfied, "So arrogant?" He said, "Such a meaning is almost similar to the meaning of Wu Zhou and Yi Luoyang being the capital of gods?"

Tang Ren replied with a smile, "Sir, you stayed in Anding City for seven days. Haven't you heard that the royal family of our country has the title of 'Descendants of God' in the land of Europa?"

"Descendants of the gods?" Lu Duan said, "Isn't it a savage who is afraid of your military power and usurps the name to please the monarch of your country?"

The Tang man shook his head and said: "Although our country is strong, it doesn't have the strength to wipe out the aliens from all corners of the world. The title of descendant of the gods will naturally be known when the master meets our king."

Lu Duan became curious, scratching like a cat's paw in his heart, "I'll wait and see."

After entering the city, pass through the long and wide city gate, and then pass through another city gate to enter the inner city. What you will be greeted with is the soaring popularity and the noisy sound that symbolizes prosperity. Lu Duan stared and saw that the city was beautifully planned, and the cross avenues in all directions were straight and flat, and the roads under his feet were neither stone roads nor rammed earth roads. At first, he thought it was just a unique road in Anding City. Who would have thought that this is the case in Gyeonggi, and so is the 'straight road' on the road. After he inquired, he realized that this wide, straight and flat straight road can look across the Tang Dynasty. This wealth moved him.

And in the capital city in front of you, the square streets are neat, and there are many shops and restaurants on both sides of the road, most of which are built of huge stones and bricks. There are street trees and fruit trees planted in the middle of the road, which are said to be specially used for people when they are thirsty. This consideration for the people shocked Lu Duan and made him even more satisfied. Later, he discovered that in the city, benches, stone benches and pavilions were set up in various "gardens" (parks) for people to rest and play. There was another emotion in my heart. It is no wonder that a country that cares about the people is so strong and rich. .

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