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Volume 1: Who Rides the Star to Break through the Void Chapter 518: Unparalleled Holy Hands Weave Brocade

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    In the twelfth year of Emperor Qianyuan of the Tang Dynasty, Abdure, who had stayed in Chang'an for ten years, was finally on his way back home. Wearing a Confucian robe, Abdure had changed his name to Airen as early as five years ago and officially broke away from the religion and began to  Accept Chinese Confucianism.  Compared with his original religion, which often threatened hell and death, the Confucian benevolence and forgiveness, the Taoist inaction, and the theory of tolerance and consideration that pervaded all the schools of the Tang Dynasty were the real wisdom.  "It's not enough to go too far, so I abandon it." When other big cannibals asked him why he broke the door and apostatized, Ai Ren answered like this.  The identity of the person bidding farewell to him was also somewhat special. He was Jin Xianying, the old king of Silla.  "Compared with ten years ago, Jin Xianying looks whiter and fatter, and has obviously gained weight.  "This trip is a turbulent one and takes a lot of time. I forgive you, but you must take care of yourself. I heard that in your hometown, the people are fierce and the teachings are strict. You must not leave the Tang Dynasty sergeants to guard you." "Your Highness, just don't worry, I will accompany you on this trip."  Honglu served as the envoy's advisor, and he was accompanied by eight gunboats, twelve warships, and ten supply ships, carrying a total of five thousand soldiers - enough to destroy a country. My hometown, Dashi, is also a big country, but I dare not  It is difficult for me to control the power of the Tang Dynasty. "Jin Xianying smiled. As the leader of a country, he did not agree with this.  At the beginning, he also knew clearly about the power of Tang Dynasty, but he was still guilty of Tang Dynasty.  Turning his eyes, he saw that the envoy of this trip, Du Fu, who was over sixty years old, was saying goodbye to someone.  Ten years ago, Du Fu left the "Min Bao" and was recruited by Ye Chang to enter the officialdom.  In ten years, he rose from a small official to Hongluqing, one of the nine ministers. He took over Li Bai's position and was responsible for foreign affairs. A young man named Gu Kuang began to take charge of the chief writer of Minbao.  This trip to Dashi was not only to promote the country's prestige, but also to open up the trade route to Europe. It was of great importance, so he personally asked for permission to go. Ye Chang originally refused because of his age, but he insisted on asking for it, and the doctor  The physical examination for him also said that he was in very good health, so he agreed.  The person who saw him off was Li Bai, who was over seventy years old.  An old friend of the time, Li Qi, died young. Gao Shi suddenly died of illness when he was serving as the Minister of the Ministry of War.  The only one who saw him off was Li Bai.  "It's a pity, it's a pity. Ye Gong advised me to become an official earlier, otherwise, I will have to compete with you for this mission." Li Bai raised his wine glass and wished Du Fu a happy journey, but he still felt uneasy.  Li Bai was in good spirits and health, but he was over seventy years old after all, so Ye Chang persuaded him and Wei Jiansu to resign last year. According to Ye Chang, the person who served as the chief official was over seventy years old.  After five years, he was invited to serve as an official to support himself.  In fact, it is the personnel system reform introduced by Ye Chang, which includes both the retirement system and the tenure system, as well as the normal promotion and promotion evaluation system.  However, for these retired officials, Ye Chang did not hesitate to reward them in terms of titles. For example, Li Bai retired from the second rank of Honglu Temple Minister, and he was given the title of Duke of Founding County, also from the second rank, as a counselor.  Zhengyuan Zhuguo - In recent years, Ye Chang has made drastic changes in the personnel system. He has increased the number of ministers from twelve to fifteen, and raised their rank to the second rank. The number of nine ministers has remained unchanged, and their rank has been from second rank.  Taste.  Serving officials are not given titles. Only after retirement can they be given titles.  In fact, it is to allow retired senior officials to still enjoy some of the benefits they received while in office, such as honors and salaries, so as to reduce their resistance to the tenure system and retirement system, and at the same time to prevent them from doing crazy things before retirement.  You should know that official positions are not hereditary, but titles can be hereditary for three generations, but the title is reduced by one level for each generation. Like Li Bai's founding county Duke, his son can be a county marquis, and his grandson can be a county uncle.  Anyone with a title can obtain an income from the court that is no less than his salary while in office.  "Taibaigong, now I have achieved great success and fame, but I am not the same. It is always a regret in my life that I have no experience in local office. Now I can only think of ways to achieve fame and success." Du Fu said with a smile: "I heard that Yunnan Taoist Master thought of Taibai Gong.  "What about the favorable policies?" The population of the Tang Dynasty has grown rapidly in the past ten years, now exceeding 10 million, and Yunnan is one of the places with the fastest population growth.  Li Bai once took charge of the civil affairs of Yunnan after Gao Shi was promoted to the central government. The local people remembered his actions of persuading farmers and caring for orphans.  Nowadays, Yunnan's population is booming, and the local barbarians have been naturalized and registered. Together with the immigrants who have moved here to open pepper, sugar cane, cotton and other plantations, the population has exceeded three million. Therefore, Ye Chang created a separate road for Yunnan Road.  .  This is also thanks to the promotion of corn and potatoes. In the past ten years, the Tang Dynasty was not free from natural disasters. However, famine did not occur and food prices were cheap. Even places in Yunnan and central Guizhou Province that were not suitable for planting rice, wheat, millet and beams could be grown.  , the output is large, and Wang Changling's name is passed down in history just because of this, and he is considered to be the second person after Shennong.  "Previous achievements and posthumous fame are what scholars attach great importance to, and this is what they value."  When Ye Chang inspected the Imperial College, he wrote the inscriptions to establish the mind, establish the destiny, continue the unique learning, and create peace. It can be said that it has become the ambition of every literati in this era.  "If you are willing to take charge of a party, go to the place earlier and become a leader."?How can it be lower than me?  "When Li Bai said this, he suddenly saw the guard of honor coming over. He smiled and said: "King Wei is here." Ye Chang also looked a bit old, but when he walked, he still walked like a tiger and a dragon. Du Fu looked at him.  Looking at it, Li Bai chuckled: "Have you seen the young man led by King Wei?  " Traveling with Ye Chang was a young man who was handsome and strong. Du Fu had naturally seen him before. This man was wearing a uniform of the Forbidden Army and was only about twenty years old. Du Fu remembered that he was one of the guards arranged for this mission.  General: ¡°What¡¯s wrong?  " "That's an old friend. Do you still remember that savage woman who was not inferior to her husband?  " "Prince of Dali County?  Du Fu thought for a while, and then said in surprise: "This Mu Xun is her son. Isn't it because he has never heard of her getting married? Could it be that he is an heir?"  ¡± The Prince of Dali County was the barbarian girl Ashima. After the Glorious Revolution, in order to set an example of naturalization, she was named the Prince of Dali County by Shouan. Of course, this is a false title, and it has no practical significance.  Power. This woman has not been married for many years, and given her status, it is not easy to get married. Du Fu had very little interaction with her at Honglu Temple. If it weren't for Mu Xun's appearance, he would not have guessed it.  His identity is: "Of course he is his biological son. In short, you should take care of this boy. He is ambitious. I brought him to Chang'an originally, and he never showed off his mother's merit.  " Li Bai kept asking, but Du Fu became more and more surprised. The prince of Dali County has not officially married. If this boy is his biological son, who is his biological father? " His eyes turned to Li Bai and Mu Xun, Li Bai looked at Li Bai and Mu Xun.  I have been in Yunnan for many years and have a good relationship with the Prince of Dali. Could it be this guy? It seems a bit similar But when I saw Ye Chang coming with Mu Xun, his eldest son stood beside Ye Chang.  , the appearance of the eldest son and Mu Xun were very similar, and Du Fu's heart skipped a beat The relationship between Ashima and Ye Chang was also very good at the beginning, and Ye Chang was holding Mu Xun's hand like this, could it be that Ye Chang was his?  Biological father? Du Fu felt as if there was a little mouse tickling him in his heart. He really wanted to know the answer to this question, but he also understood that knowing the answer might not be of any benefit. He could only suppress his curiosity and, together with Li Bai,  Greeting Ye Chang: "Zimei, many things on this trip depend on you. I'm not worried about your knowledge and courage. However, there are mostly young people among the entourage this time, and they are prone to causing trouble.  They need you to hold the rudder for them and not to make too much trouble.  "Letting go of Mu Xun's hand, Ye Chang said to Du Fu with a smile. Du Fu understood what he meant and responded with a smile: "Don't worry, Your Highness, I will be careful when I'm here.  " "The train is about to leave, I won't delay you, Mu Xun, Mr. Du is an old friend of mine in my early years. In the subsequent major events, Mr. Du did not care about his own safety to help me. You must respect him as an elder.  "    "yes.  "Mu Xun responded briefly. "While you are young, you can see more of the outside world. One day, you will go outside to expand territory for the Tang Dynasty.  "After giving instructions to Mu Xun, Ye Chang turned to the other young sergeants. He raised his voice and said, just a simple word, which made everyone's blood boil. "Your Highness is late.  "After Du Fu and others boarded the car, Li Bai took Ye Chang's hand and said with a smile. This guy has a bold and unrestrained temperament. He has been an official for many years and still looks like this. Ye Chang smiled bitterly and said: "Do you think I want to be late?  This time, two groups of people were sent out at the same time. Zimei's side is better. After exploring the sea route to Dashi for so many years, there has been no problem for a long time. But those going east are in a lot of trouble." Li Bai naturally knows this, and this time  Du Fu and his party were not the only ones sent by this special train. It has been twelve years since Shou'an ascended the throne, and it has been ten years since the train appeared in Datang. Datang is now an extremely mercantilist country, and businessmen are very keen to open up new markets.  , looking for new raw materials and crop origins. The legend of Wang Yuanbao's fleet and the popularity of corn and potatoes made these merchants realize that there is a vast and fertile continent on the other side of the sea, to the east of the ocean.  The most important thing is that the mainland has the markets and products that Datang needs. The imperial court and Ye Chang himself have never given up on exploring that continent. Ye Chang even offered a reward of one million coins for successfully reaching that continent.  This reward has been offered to anyone who can find a safe route to a continent, and it has been endorsed by the imperial court. Only the stupidest liars dare to make up lies and try to defraud the reward.  The merchants were moved by the millions of gold rewards and the huge profits that could be expected after the discovery of the new route. They bought ships and hired people to start looking for the eastern land. Li Bai once heard Liu Yan commenting with a smile that King Wei's million gold.  The reward had not been issued, but the profit from the shipbuilding orders received by Lushun Shipyard from these businessmen had already exceeded 1 million yuan. This reward was not ignored after it was proposed once. Since then, Ye Chang has repeatedly expressed it in public.  Repeating this reward, the amount was also increased from one million to three million, and the example of corn and potatoes becoming popular in the world was also.??The insightful people of the Tang Dynasty realized what benefits it could bring to the Tang Dynasty if they could find comparable crops, so no one thought that this was a waste of money and people.  After the failure of their initial eastward voyage, these merchants began to study other routes, especially the routes taken by the late Wang Yuanbao and his fleet.  Since there is no way to repeat their journey to the east, it is also a way to find ways to find answers from their return journey.  Therefore, starting from the fifth year of Qianyuan, a series of important navigation achievements began to emerge. First, a fleet of three sea-going ships went south. Although they failed to continue eastward, they brought rich products from Nanyang.  Spices, precious wood, ivory, rhinoceros horns and other items made the shipowners very rich.  Then, from the Nanyang Islands to the east and south, islands were discovered one after another. In the seventh year of Qianyuan, Wang Qinian's fleet discovered a piece of land further south in Nanyang, and it took more than a month to circumnavigate it.  Later, they judged that this land was not an island, but a continent, and Wang Qinian obtained the right to name this continent.  He named it after the word "Qi" in his name and called it Nanqizhou.  In the tenth year of Qianyuan, a fleet finally set off from the easternmost point of the Nanyang Islands. With the help of ocean currents and westerly winds, it sailed for forty days across the ocean and arrived at the place where Ye Chang offered the reward.  When the fleet returned, it brought with it the local natives and even a sailor left behind by Wang Yuanbao's ship.  As promised, Ye Chang issued a reward of three million guan to the ship owner on the day he arrived in Chang'an, and the ship owner did not hesitate to use 2 million guan to book a new ship - it is said that he was on that new land.  , discovered a very shallow gold mine. After confirming the route, Ye Chang began to prepare an expedition team organized by the imperial court. In name, it was to declare national prestige and make profits from trade, but in fact it was to go into production.  After preliminary investigation, some properties that may be useful to Datang were introduced or purchased.  The leader of this expedition team was Lu Yu, who used to be a small tea shop clerk but now became one of the most famous naturalists in the Tang Dynasty. He traveled around the country for nearly twenty years, allowing him to accumulate a wealth of natural history knowledge.  Compared with Du Fu and his party, what Lu Yu and his party did was more worrying, so Ye Chang saw them off first, and then came to see off Du Fu.  Seeing Du Fu and others boarding the train, sticking their heads out of the windows and waving goodbye to the officials and relatives seeing them off, Ye Chang suddenly felt a little disappointed.  "This train is really a good thing. Although it has been around for ten years, I still feel like a dream" Li Bai said beside him: "Two thousand miles of railway track in ten years Tsk, now it only takes three to five days to go to Beihai.  "That's it." "Compared with the trains of later generations, the trains at this time had a lighter load and lighter weight, so it was easier to lay the tracks. In just ten years, based on the original tracks, the tracks were laid from Chang'an to  North Sea.  "Yeah, haha, I think Brother Taibai, you are in good health, and you can take the train for more walks in the past few years." Ye Chang suppressed the loss in his heart, turned around, and looked at this great poet:  "Then we will go back to Beijing to have a good rest. Let's try to live a few more years and see what this world will look like. "It would be great if Dafu and the others are still alive" Li Bai looked into the distance, the train was already there  He sighed as he started to move. He had a feeling in his heart that Ye Chang was the locomotive of the train, and Datang was the carriage of the train. No matter where it was pulled, it would be the same one.  Even if he used poetry, he could not describe the prosperous Tang Dynasty
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