Chapter 663

It's rare for people from their hometown to visit Tang Dynasty, let alone to Europe? Zhang Qian, an envoy of the Han Dynasty, only visited the western regions, and brought in blood and sweat, grapes, alfalfa, pomegranate, flax and other species for the Central Plains. He spread the civilization of the Central Plains to the western regions, and opened the "Silk Road" which has been passed down for generations. Wang xuance of the Tang Dynasty only arrived in India. Because of the fate meeting, he was involved in the usurpation of the throne of makada, and his entourage was killed and imprisoned, The aggrieved Wang xuance fled to Nepal and defeated makada with 7000 cavalry troops. In a foreign land, he used one country's troops to face a country with at least 30000 troops. He defeated the strong with the weak. No matter who it is, it is a difficult thing to do, but Wang xuance did it.

However, not counting Zheng He's voyages to the west after the Central Plains Dynasty, the farthest place he reached was only Central Asia. As for Europe, he had never been there at all. Now, in this parallel time and space, the Anxi army in the prosperous Tang Dynasty and the adherents who settled in Anxi capital's mansion were slaves and servants for more than 200 years. Who would have thought that they would establish their country again in Europa? And who would have thought that they would go all the way back to their hometown, fearing no difficulties and dangers? The return visit of Zhao and song envoys is also a coincidence.

In front of the court of Zhao and song, the envoys of the Tang Dynasty boasted about the prosperity of the Tang people. They also said that the good horses in the Tang Dynasty were like cattle hair, while the Song Dynasty was extremely short of war horses. Like the Song Dynasty, it was not only short of war horses, but also faced with the embarrassing situation of no danger to defend. Throughout the five thousand years of China, only the Song Dynasty was like this. The nomadic people have been fighting with the Han people for thousands of years, and they know their own advantages and disadvantages of the farming people. After the sixteen prefectures of Youyun were abandoned, Qidan, the northern overlord, took strict precautions against the flow of horses in order to prevent the Southern Dynasty from owning war horses.

In the face of their own disadvantages, the Song Dynasty has always wanted to turn the situation around. Are they really willing to keep that one acre of land? Such as various reasons, eventually there are reasons for Zhao song envoys to visit the Tang Dynasty.

"The adherents of the prosperous Tang Dynasty were rich in money and silk, rich in corn and corn. Every family had no worries about food and clothing. They liked to practice martial arts, raise livestock, make wine and fish. The country is rich and the people are abundant. The country dominates the sea and overlooks the four foreign countries. Especially, the navy is the most powerful, the ships are as big as rain, the ports are clean and tidy, the merchants gather in the four places, and most of them settle accounts with gold. They sell a wide range of goods, ranging from refined iron horses to oil and rice ingredients, and everyone is rich. "

Lu Duan followed Tang officials in the daytime. They introduced the city to him, explained some of their systems, the taxes available for daily trade, and even the national income. In the daytime, Lu Duan wandered around the city to observe the people's situation. After lunch at noon, he went out of the city to observe the countryside. All he saw was good land everywhere. There were exquisite houses outside the city. There were several strong cattle and horses in the barn. In addition, there were more than a dozen chickens, ducks and pigs. And that's true for every household. Lu Duan had never seen such a rich country in his life. This shocked him. At night, when he fell asleep, he would carefully write down his observations and make comments.

Although he was dissatisfied with the fact that the Tang people changed their writing without permission and had no imperial examination, he was also impressed with the Tang people's country. This corner of the country, with a population of 10 million, is so rich in governance. No wonder it has become a regional overlord.

Lu Duan and his party stayed in the city for seven days. There were always some people in the mission who could not help but stay here. After waiting for all the members of the mission to take good care of themselves, I prepared to meet the emperor of the Tang Dynasty. After seven days' delay, Lu Duan got many stories about the Tang people from the Tang people and many Yi Di merchants. He couldn't have thought that the other lands of Tang Dynasty were so rich just because of this. He got a lot of valuable information from the merchants who traveled south and North. Later, when the delegation went to the capital of the Tang Dynasty, Lu Duan and his party would stop for a while to investigate the cities and villages they passed along the way, and then record them in the books.

As he gradually approached the capital of the Tang Dynasty, what he saw with his own eyes and heard with his own ears satisfied LV Duan, a standard Confucian disciple. Although the people of the Tang Dynasty are different from the people of the Central Plains, the country under the careful management of the Tang people has become a Datong society. Everyone can eat and wear warm, everyone rich, such a society, scholars have been pursuing since ancient times. It can be said that such a country is really prosperous.

"Tiandu?" Looking at the two characters above the gate, Lu Duan knew the meaning of the two characters only after he asked the people of the Tang Dynasty. He inquired, "what does the emperor mean by living in the city?"

The Tang people replied, "no, it means that God will stop in the city."

"Yes?" Lu Duan was a little dissatisfied, "how could he be so arrogant?" He said: "such a meaning, not with Wu Zhou, Yi Luoyang for God meaning, almost similar?"

The Tang people replied with a smile, "Sir, when you stay in Anding for seven days, have you never heard that our royal family has the title of" God descendant "in Europa?"

"The divine race?" Lu Duan said, "isn't it a name coined by a savage to please your monarch in fear of your military power?"

People in the Tang Dynasty shook their heads and said, "although our country is strong and prosperous, it does not have the strength to wipe out the four kingdoms and foreign people. When you meet our monarch, you will naturally know."

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

After entering the city, you can enter the inner city by going through the long and wide gate hole, and then passing through another gate. What you face is the soaring popularity and the noisy sound, which symbolizes prosperity. Lu duanning looked at the beautiful planning of the city. Looking at the four directions, the cross roads were straight and smooth, and the roads under his feet were neither stone roads nor rammed earth roads. Originally, I thought it was just the unique road in Anding city. Who ever thought that the capital city was like this, and so was the "straight road" on the road. After he asked, he realized that the wide, straight and smooth straight road actually looked across the Tang Dynasty. This financial strength moved him.

In front of this capital, the streets are neat, and there are many shops and restaurants on both sides of the road. Most of them are made of boulders and bricks. Roadside trees and fruit trees are planted in the middle of the road. It is said that they are specially used when people are thirsty. For the sake of the people, Lu Duan was greatly shocked and more satisfied. Later, he found that most of the "gardens" (parks) in the city had benches, stone benches and pavilions for people to rest and play. When he knew that the garden was free for people to play, he could not help feeling again. It's no wonder that such a country for the sake of the people is so powerful and rich.