Chapter 688

It is almost a matter of course that foreign envoys kneel down to the son of heaven of the central kingdom in the years when the self-confidence of the Central Plains Dynasty has not been destroyed. No one will have any special ideas about such a thing. On the contrary, if the foreign envoys did not act in accordance with the rites of the Xia Dynasty, it would be a clamor for war. (this is no nonsense)

The Persians on the pool platform were still far from the throne. They heard a loud but obviously plain voice after a little while. After listening to the translation, they knew it was to let them get up.

It is a custom that the political hall has a pool from the Qin Empire. The palace city built after the completion of Xianyang city is much larger than the small palace city of previous Qin kings. After the rise of the Western Qin Dynasty, the scale of the political hall has been expanded again and again. The standard of the political hall is the highest in the period of the first emperor. The reason why there is a pool is that the first emperor often enjoys with the ministers.

The specification of the pool with water was abolished by the Han Empire and changed the political discussion hall to semi open air. The reason is that Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty was very frugal. It was changed to semi open air to reduce the use of candles and increase the light of the political discussion hall.

Many people think that candles were introduced by foreigners in modern times. In fact, candles were made in the Han Dynasty. At that time, candles were made of beeswax, so they are also called "yellow wax". They are absolute luxuries. Even aristocrats may not be able to afford them. After the Tang Dynasty, candles made from the secretion of ash insects living on ash trees were developed. Because they are white, they are also called "white wax". They began to be cultured on a large scale in the Song Dynasty, so candles have become cheaper since the Song Dynasty.

It should be said that the war lost the inheritance of many creations of Zhuxia civilization, including many processes. For example, the production method of hundred steelmaking in the first Han Dynasty was lost after the five random Hua. The manufacturing method of candles was also unknown after the disaster of the Mongol and Yuan Dynasties. It was not until the Ming Dynasty that they were developed again, but the price of candles was much more expensive than that of the Song Dynasty. As for why we had to buy Candles from foreigners in the "I Qing Dynasty", it was the price crush (trade war) caused by the fall of manufacturing technology.

Kianush stood up Alta Aldasher looked ahead. It was dark. He could vaguely see some steps. Above it was a man sitting in a wide seat. Because the light was too dark, he couldn't see more.

"Only on behalf of the emperor, I would like to express my most sincere greetings to you." Kianush Alta Aldasher bent down and made a breast caressing salute. He stood up and continued, "please allow foreign ministers to present gifts from my emperor."

This time, the Persians brought a lot of goods. They tried to sell them in Jiankang, a prosperous commercial area. Unfortunately, most of the Han people were not interested in those goods. They only sold a lot of ivory products, and some beautiful gem carvings were also sold. No one appreciated and bought the fist product Persian blanket.

Kianush Alta Aldasher said that the gifts were packed and brought together, but they were not brought into the hall at the first time, left outside for detailed inspection, and were carried in by the sergeant when he said he would give gifts.

There is a patio above the pool. Under the sunshine, the light is very abundant. When boxes are opened one after another, the Persians carry out the gifts themselves.

First of all, some blankets are moved out. Each blanket has its own characteristics, but there must be very complex patterns, some are animal graphics, more are some character graphics, and the character graphics should be the myth describing them.

Under the sun, an open blanket was glittering with gold. Some colors could see the obvious figure shape, kianush Alta Aldasher said that it was a picture of royal family members, especially pointing to one of the characters and saying that he was himself.

Persian blankets are usually made of wool, cotton, silk, gold and silver Alta The blanket that aldasher introduced obviously uses a lot of gold wire. It is more a work of art made of a lot of gold than a blanket.

"What do they mean?" Cai you turned to look at Tian Shuo on his side: "is he saying that his identity is very noble?"

Tian Shuo shook his head and said, "I've never seen such a person."

In the eyes of the people of the Han Dynasty, kyanoush Alta Aldasher's behavior is indeed very strange. I didn't expect that the Persians would take out a "painting" drawing including Sassanian contemporary kings and royal family members as a gift. Anyway, Zhuxia civilization can't do such a thing.

In Zhuxia civilization, painting to show people can only happen on some special occasions, such as wanted, such as matchmaking, marriage leave, noble figures are placed in the family temple after painting, and not everyone is qualified to paint.

There are a lot of people talking about it. No matter how small everyone's voice is, it will form a "buzzing" when it comes together.

At the beginning of the design of the hall of political discussion, sound transmission was considered. For example, the king's position can make his voice heard clearly everywhere in the hall without talking loudly. When the minister arrives at the starting position, he can spread his voice to the greatest extent. Otherwise, he can only roar if he wants people to understand what he is saying.

Blankets are really a specialty of Persia, kianush Alta Aldasher kept showing blankets one after another. There were not many animals introduced. The most was Persian mythology, and the other was some pure symmetrical grid diagrams.

Today's Liu Yan is wearing the crown of the son of heaven.

The coronal dress is the one made in the Han Dynasty and the Qin Dynasty. The upper body is black, the lower body is red, and the hem is soap, with some very special patterns.

The full set of crown clothes is not simple. It is based on the difference of Miandiao according to quantity and material. It is an important symbol to distinguish between high and low.

In the Han Dynasty, The emperor's crown is made of twelve diaos (i.e. twelve rows), which are made of jade. The color of the crown is mainly black. There is a hole on both sides of the crown to insert jade hairpins to tie with the bun. Silk ribbons are tied on both sides of the hairpins and under the jaw. There is also a pearl jade hanging from each ear on the silk ribbon, called "Yun ear" 。 Don't put it in your ear, just hang it next to your ear to remind those wearing the crown not to listen to slander. The phrase "allow ears not to hear" in later generations comes from this.

According to the regulations, everyone who wears a crown must wear a crown. The crown dress is made of a black coat and a vermilion lower garment, with chapter patterns painted on the top and bottom. In addition, there are knee covering, ribbon wearing and Chixi, which form a complete set of clothes. It must be said that this service began in the Zhou Dynasty. In addition, there was absolutely no dragon pattern in the coronal clothes of the Han Dynasty, which was made of Xuanniao.

As the system became more and more formal, all officials in the Han Dynasty also had their own imperial clothes. Liu Yan originally wanted to distinguish the official levels according to the color in the Tang Dynasty, but later he continued the black style of the former Han Dynasty (the Han Dynasty inherited the Qin system). The Imperial clothes of all officials were black and had red badges to distinguish the levels.

Kianush Alta Aldasher continued to introduce all kinds of blankets, and no one came out to interrupt.

Liu Yan is not actually listening to kianush Alta What exactly is aldasher talking about? He heard the material cotton while listening to the interpreter, thinking about how to get the cotton.

The cotton in the Central Plains got its seeds only in the Yang Sui period. It was an extension of Pei Ju's division of Turks. It obtained seeds from the western regions, but it was regarded as an ornamental, and the actual value of cotton was not found and developed.

At present, the main force to keep out the cold in the Han Dynasty is wool products. Because there is no mature technology, it can only make some simple fur coats, which can keep warm in bitter and cold places, but it usually looks very swollen and fat. In fact, it is really not suitable for military clothes.

When Liu Yan was thinking of falling in love, he suddenly heard a "meow", which made him look over, but he saw kianush Alta Aldasher held a ball of snow-white hair.

It was a fat Persian cat with white fur and an embarrassing face. It was rolled up into a ball by kianush Alta Aldasher held it, wagging his tail and singing.

The cat was introduced into the Central Plains through the western regions in the Western Han Dynasty. Before that, there was no cat in all kinds of written records, murals, totems and other images. During the Western Han Dynasty, there were cats in the Central Plains, but the number was very rare and the variety was relatively single. It was recorded that they were brought by Persian merchants as gifts to a dignitary, but they were not really introduced into the people.

In fact, there are local cats in Zhuxia, mainly in Lingnan. It takes cats to enter thousands of families in the 18th century. By the 19th century, raising cats has become a very common phenomenon. A cat called cihuamao has the strongest ability to catch rats.

Liu Yan used to have a cat. He didn't know the specific technical name of the cat. One of the female cats had been kept for 17 years. Later, the female cat ran to the road and was crushed to death by a motorcycle. The other was a single white bellied male born of the female cat. He loved it very much because of her cleverness. However, after returning from a trip, he learned that the cat who had lived for 14 years had been tortured to death by the bear children of neighbors and relatives, He wanted to throw the bear child into the pond.

Kianush Alta Aldasher said that he had brought a pair of cats, one male and one female, which were still the most noble cats of blood and breed. He also told a story about a country that had a war with Persia in order to obtain similar cats.

Liu Yan was stunned. He seemed to have heard the story. It said that the Greeks wanted to get Persian cats and fought with Persia. Unexpectedly, it really happened.

In fact, the Greeks had cats, which were introduced from Egypt, because cats broke out in war, which is one reason. There are other excuses for war without cats.

Kianush Alta Aldasher's offering the cat is just an episode. What he didn't expect is that Liu Yan can't wait to let people hold the cat on the throne, and Liu Yan is very familiar with all kinds of teasing. He saw that Liu Yan could play with the cat's chin and knew how to carry the cat's back neck. He could see that Liu Yan was no stranger to cats.

When Liu Yan ordered people to hold the cat, some officials actually wanted to advise. They had never seen the cat. Jun Wang Anwei was related to guozuo. Before standing up to stop, they had seen Liu Yan teasing and showed extreme love. Seeing that there was no danger, they put out the idea of advice.

Next, kianush Alta Aldasher began to show all kinds of carvings, most of which are ivory and gem carvings. However, they are all carvings of Zhuxia civilization, which will not have any aesthetic carvings. It was not until he demonstrated the sharpness of an ivory knife that he attracted public attention, that is, the eyes of all officials and the guards in the temple were not good.

Outside the hall, the captain holding the hall was taken away with a pale face. It was his negligence that foreign envoys brought sharp weapons into the hall, and he had checked it in great detail, that is, he didn't find or hide sharp weapons in a large number of sculptures with very complex division.

All officials and guards just stare with bad eyes. If Liu Yan makes a sound, the next moment it will be the Persian on the pool who is shot into a hedgehog by a sharp arrow, but Liu Yan has no instructions.

In fact, Liu Yan still knows something about tooth knives. Because of the material, it can only be used in the composition room. He was curious about what the Persians had done. An ivory knife was processed into a blanket that could be easily cut. As for the Persians who came in with sharp weapons, he really wanted to investigate without prior notice. The outbreak of a war was also a reason.

The Persians brought far fewer carvings than blankets. Strangely, they also brought a box of coins, kianush Alta Aldasher's introduction is that the coins of gold, silver and copper are the history of Persia.

Central Asia and Europa have a feature, that is, when making coins, they prefer the head of contemporary kings, which will be engraved with the year of making. Sometimes they will make coins for some major events and depict the pattern background of major events. Therefore, they can really understand history from coins.

Then again, apart from the fact that modern warlords would put their heads on coins, the earlier Zhuxia civilization did not depict the heads of kings on coins, and did not mark the production year, but only the year. It was a taboo, even so serious that the "characters" used in the king's name could not continue to be used. In order not to cause trouble for folk characters, the Zhu royal family of the Ming Dynasty chose rare characters as much as possible.

Kianush Alta Aldasher's exhibition continues. While displaying, he will also introduce what places of interest there are in the Sassanian Dynasty. Basically, it is not a place with huge carved walls, or a place where huge statues are erected. He also said in a flaunting tone how many Greek sculptures have been robbed, and he also said that he plundered many busts of Roman nobles.

Liu Yan had a smile after listening to the words behind him. Before, he looked at kianush Alta Aldasher took out some things that did not belong to Persian civilization at all, and thought they wanted to confuse fish with pearls.

Towards the end, kianush Alta After asking for instructions, aldasher clapped his hands. The unwitting officials were stunned when they saw several Persians wearing cloaks lift their cloaks. They were several extremely enchanting Persians