The Journey of the Infinite Wizard

Afterwards, the monarchs and ministers of Zhao and Song conversed with the Tang envoy for a few words and hosted a banquet. The Tang envoy left, and within a few days, he came to ask for his resignation and return to the country. The monarchs and ministers of Zhao and Song were polite and courteous. After all, this is a fundamentally

After knowing in detail the history and geography of the founding of the Tang Dynasty, the 'brothers' who share the blood of the Han family and are separated by thousands of miles, how can the kings and ministers of Zhao and Song Dynasty treat these survivors of the prosperous Tang Dynasty?

It's not like guarding against thieves. They don't worry at all, and don't think about the fact that the Tang people will give up their family business that has lasted for hundreds of years and return to the Central Plains to compete for hegemony again. Because that is impossible, and they would not give up the business that their ancestors had run for hundreds of years.

Years of foundation, regardless of abandonment. However, the kings and ministers of Zhao and Song were very interested in the country of the Tang Dynasty, so they sent a mission of the same size to visit the country of the Tang Dynasty.

After bidding farewell to the emperors and ministers of Zhao and Song, the envoys of the Tang Dynasty took the Zhao and Song envoys all the way back to Suzhou, the original landing place, and then took a boat to sea and embarked on their way home. After sailing for a year, the Tang fleet

Returned to the Red Sea again. Later, he contacted the wizards in his country and worked together to cross the Red Sea and return to the Mediterranean.

.As soon as they stepped into the calm Mediterranean Sea, far away from the rolling ocean outside the territory, the Tang Dynasty mission's homesickness suddenly burst out. Afterwards, after sailing for a few more days, a rolling "green line" finally appeared in front of them.

People know that this is their country and land, and they are finally going home.

"Master Lu, the land in front of us is our country of the Tang people." The Tang envoy explained to Lu Duan, who was standing next to him, that he was the envoy representing Zhao Song this time. Not only did he want to inspect the country of the survivors of the prosperous Tang Dynasty, but also

It is also intended to test the national strength of the Tang Dynasty.

Thinking. Because the kings and ministers of Zhao and Song Dynasties heard too many praises from the Tang envoys, they always felt disapproving of them, so they wanted to take a test. In addition, they also wanted to see if the country of the Tang Dynasty was as the Tang envoy said, with many good horses in the country.

, almost like the stars in the sky.

After hearing this, Lu Duan put up a pergola with his hands and looked into the distance, looking at the undulating green line in front of him. He knew that they were about to reach the country of the Tang Dynasty. Then he remained silent and just nodded slightly to the Tang envoy's explanation.

Because he didn't understand, he didn't say anything directly. Everything should be demonstrated after seeing is believing. Specific things still need to be witnessed by the emperor of the Tang Dynasty before he can calculate them.

Seeing that Lu Duan didn't speak, the Tang envoy didn't say much either. He stood quietly with him at the bow of the ship and looked at the mainland line in the distance.

Not long after, the huge fleet slowly approached the port, and Lu Duan was able to clearly see the whole view of the port. Let’s not talk about anything else, but the scale and prosperity of the port are not inferior to them. On the berth of the pier

It is full of ships of various sizes, and ships are constantly being loaded and unloaded.

Before the goods even approached the port, he could already hear the bustling noise. This made Lu Duan secretly nod. Regardless of anything else, just the bustling scene showed that this small country that relied on trade was not as good as them.

Wealth cannot be underestimated in this foreign land.

As the huge fleet approached, the tax officials at the port naturally recognized the royal flag hanging above the flagship, so the tax officials quickly called the port police department and asked people to sort out the berths. At the same time, unified regulations were implemented for the ships entering and leaving the port.

Arrangement. In short, the royal ships cannot be delayed from entering the port.

Under the arrangements of the Police Department and the Port Tax Department, businessmen from various countries and their own countries were not surprised by this. Those who wanted to leave the port stopped their movements, and those who wanted to enter the port also stayed away from the direction of the royal fleet.

.And as the huge fleet gradually docked in the port, the port gradually began to return to normal.

The envoys sent to the Song Dynasty returned again, not only bringing rich national gifts and various commodities when they visited Zhao Song Dynasty. When they returned home, they also brought a cargo hold full of goods, including gifts from the Zhao and Song Dynasty court and purchases from the nearby Central Plains.

commodities. And silk has always been the bulk of trade between the East and the West, and it is an absolute profit-making commodity.

When ships of exquisite silk were shipped down, the eyes of merchants from various countries, including those from their own country, became red. Obviously, they knew this product and what its value was. It is no exaggeration to purchase it from China.

It is not difficult to transport silk to Europe and its price can increase hundreds of times. Who said that only China can produce this kind of product? And China has silk as a gold-absorbing tool, and has been earning huge profits from the trade between the East and the West.

Huge profits.

Merchants from various countries also resold silk and made sky-high profits.

Therefore, when the silk was delivered, all the merchants were jealous. They all rushed to buy the silk, but the officers and officials of the Port Police Department, with their unsheathed swords, had murderous looks on their faces.

His demeanor stopped businessmen from all over the world. However, there were still countless businessmen who stared at the pieces of exquisite and smooth silk with their eyes widened and gasping for breath. The desire in their eyes was as real as substance.

When Lu Duan saw this, his heart was full of contempt and pride, "The Yi and Di people are really vulgar and ignorant of etiquette." However, he was very interested in the horizontal swords in the hands of the Tang officials and asked hesitantly, "This is, Sheng

The horizontal sword, one of the four systems of the Tang Dynasty?" Lu

Duan asked uncertainly, because in the Central Plains, the steel smelting method of the Tang Dynasty had long been lost. Later dynasties could no longer reproduce the knives of the Tang Dynasty. Even in the Ming Dynasty, they had to learn from Japan and had to

Said, this is a pity.

"That's right, it's Hengdao!" Although the tax officer didn't know Lu Duan, but since he came here with the ship, he still didn't dare to speak scornfully. Besides, Lu Duan's voice and appearance looked very much like a native of his hometown, and his clothes were also very similar.

Being similar to them made him very fond of them. "There are not only Heng Dao, but also Mo Dao, Yi Dao and Zhan Dao."

"Why, you still retain the smelting method of weapons from the prosperous Tang Dynasty?" Lu Duan's eyes widened. They were really weapons from the prosperous Tang Dynasty. They could only learn about them from books. How to smelt them was no longer known. Because in the future,

During the wars of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, many technologies were lost. For example, the assembly line from the Qin Dynasty was long lost by the Han Dynasty.

The envoy of the Tang Dynasty explained to him, "We also lost a lot of the smelting methods in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. However, we made up for it in the end. Compared with the smelting methods back then, it is still worse."

"I never thought that such skills would be seen again one day." Lu Duan was quite emotional about this. Later, the news of the visit of the envoys of Zhao and Song was brought to the capital to inform them. Zhao, who had traveled a long distance to come here,

Each of the Song envoys was exhausted. Accompanied by officials, a resting place was arranged for them to rest. During the day, government officials led them to visit the entire city and the rural scenery in the suburbs.

Lu Duan looked here one by one and saw that although the language of the survivors of the prosperous Tang Dynasty here was very different from that of the Central Plains, they could still understand it after getting familiar with it. It was like the dialect of a certain place in the Central Plains, but their writing had been improved.

.Although it is not similar to Chinese characters, it is

The writing is quite beautiful. However, Lu Duan is still a little dissatisfied with the remnants of the prosperous Tang Dynasty who changed their characters without authorization. Isn't this not forgetting their ancestors? However, after they have been away from foreign lands for hundreds of years, the language and characters have changed, which is also emotional.

Something good happened. Then

, Lu Duan visited the city during the day and wrote "A Brief Journey to the Tang Dynasty" in his room at night, "...the people of the prosperous Tang Dynasty have been away from their homeland in the Central Plains for hundreds of years. Although they still maintain their Chinese clothes, their language and writing are contrary to our Chinese.

Very different...

The remnants of this place are all dressed in gorgeous clothes, and everyone is outstanding, which is quite a legacy of the prosperous Tang Dynasty... There are overflowing warehouses everywhere, and they like to breed livestock and make wine... The martial arts are especially strong, almost like the violent Qin... Nian is in a foreign land, especially

Forgive me... the country of the remnants seems to have reappeared like the prosperous Tang Dynasty."