In the scorching summer, it can't stop the enthusiasm of the noble people of Chang'an City to go out to consume.

Inside Ajinomoto there is a surge of people.

Lu Dongzan was dressed in Tang costume, and the idlers couldn't see that he was from Tubo.

In the past few days, he has been walking around Chang'an City, and when he is hungry, he will find a nearby restaurant to eat.

Only by observing it yourself can you have a more intuitive feeling of Datang's national strength.

"Great Minister, this Ajinomoto is said to be the hottest restaurant in Chang'an City, and it costs more than a silver coin to eat a meal, which can be seen in the wealth of the people of the Tang Dynasty."

Sambuza sat across from Lu Dongzan and quickly glanced around the building.

There are also restaurants in some cities, but the restaurants there are not as good as Ajinomoto, even an ordinary small restaurant next to the official road outside the city that specializes in the business of passers-by.

As for eating, it's even less of a level.

Left and right are just boiling things in a few clay pots, what tricks can be cooked?

It's like Chang'an City, this dish is so delicious that I can't wait to swallow my tongue.

On this mission, Lu Dongzan carried a lot of gold, although all kinds of gifts, but the rest of the money, food and drink are enough.

Although Lu Dongzan loves the Tibetan country deeply, he will not refuse to eat and drink at this kind of public expense.

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"The longer I stay in Chang'an City, the more I understand that Tubo must not go against the Tang Dynasty. Although we are located on the plateau and blessed by the gods, the Han people will be dizzy and weak when they come in, but if our army wants to attack the Tang Dynasty, there is no chance of victory. ”

Lu Dongzan saw the problem very clearly.

In fact, in history, after returning from Chang'an City, he was also dedicated to assisting Songtsen Gampo in developing the level of Tubo in all aspects, and he did not provoke the Tang Dynasty.

The conflict between Tubo and the Tang Dynasty was after Songtsen Gampo and he died.

Of course, Li Kuan will not relax his vigilance against Tibet because of this.

You must know that the Tubo army occupied Chang'an City for more than ten days in history, and also supported a puppet emperor to come out.

"Yes, I went to Guanshishan Academy yesterday, although many places were not allowed to be seen, but just knowing that this academy has more than 2,000 students, this is already a very scary thing."

In Tibet, except for a few tribal leaders, all ordinary herdsmen were illiterate.

As a writer and linguist of the Tibetan State, Sambuza basically created the writing of the Tibetan State, so he has a clear understanding of the education situation of the Tibetan State.

"Yes, look at the Xinhua Bookstore, the Sanwei Bookstore, there is an endless stream of people buying books inside, this kind of grand occasion will never happen in Luoqi City."

Serugun was a little depressed.

"It is said that there are more than one million people in Chang'an City, nearly 10 million people in the entire Guanzhong Dao, and even more in the entire Datang, and it is not surprising that there are many literate people in Chang'an City."

Lu Dongzan could only comfort his partner like this.

"Guest officer, here are the dishes you want!"

Just as Lu Dongzan spoke, the guy had already started to serve the food.

Lu Dongzan's favorite food is mutton.

Now it is the unique dish of Datang, braised lamb chops with laiphane.

With the addition of cinnamon, the dish had almost no fishy smell and was better than any lamb Lu Dongzan had eaten before.

"Daxiang, this spice is really a good thing, but the price is too expensive, this time we only bought a few dozen catties when we went back."

Serugun took a piece of lamb chop and put it in his mouth, and a look of satisfaction appeared on his face.

Sometimes, Serugong really wants to stay in Chang'an City all the time, compared to Luoqi City, this place is simply a paradise.

However, his family was in the city of Luo, and without the order of Songtsen Gampo, if he stayed without permission, he would not be able to pass the pass of Ludongzan alone.

"I have also seen this spice once in Luoqi City, but according to the law, it is a pound of gold to exchange for a pound of spices, relatively speaking, a pound of spices in Chang'an City is very cheap."

Although Lu Dongzan knew that the price difference between Chang'an City and Luo City was huge.

Not to mention the spices just mentioned, even if the tea bricks that have only spread among the nobles in the past two years are placed in Chang'an City, that is, one or two silver coins a catty, but in Luoqi City, they actually have to be exchanged for the same weight of gold.

It's really too far away, even if it's a smooth journey, it will take more than half a year to arrive.

This is still the situation where a flat cement road was built from Chang'an to Liangzhou, otherwise, this time would have been longer.

In this way, it is impossible for things not to be expensive.

On the contrary, the beef that is very common in Luoqi City is difficult to see in Chang'an City.

Even if there are one or two restaurants that occasionally sell dishes made with beef, the prices are very amazing.

This made Lu Dongzan more aware of the importance of trade.

There are some things in the country of Tubo that the Tang Dynasty needs, and there are many things in the Tang Dynasty that the Tang Dynasty also needs.

Being able to exchange useless gold for supplies is much more useful than keeping it in the treasury.

Serugong: "Indeed, when we left Chang'an, I felt that we should exchange all our money for goods, so that the value of what we brought back from this trip alone would be extraordinary." ”

Lu Dongzan: "I hope there will be no more hexagrams, and after a while, we will almost have to return, otherwise it will be too long to walk in the snow by then." ”

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Near the Mingde Gate of Chang'an City, Lu Dongzan squeezed into a public carriage with great difficulty.

This four-wheeled carriage is specially made and slightly more spacious than the average horse-drawn carriage.

There is a row of seats on the left and right sides of the carriage, but it is often difficult to get a seat even at the starting station.

Fortunately, the carriage is designed to be very user-friendly, with two rows of handrails above the roof, and people without seats stand in the middle of the carriage, holding on to the handrails, and it is not easy to fall.

There are two charging modes for a public carriage like this.

One is that the running distance is relatively not so long, and you will be charged a penny when you get on the bus, mainly walking in Chang'an City.

The other is the kind that Lu Dongzan is taking now, according to the distance charge, the lowest price is also a penny, the highest price can go to five cents, from Mingde Gate to the workshop city, nearly half an hour away.

Of course, for example, in the workshops of the Chu Palace, the craftsmen in it took a carriage to and from Chang'an City and the workshop, and it was only a symbolic charge of a penny.

Otherwise, some low-level craftsmen will not be paid enough to ride in the car every month.

Lu Dongzan, Sambuza, and Serugong did not speak, but there were too many people in the carriage, and it was not suitable to say anything.

In fact, they did not have special carriages, but in order to really feel the daily life of the people of the Tang Dynasty and see the most real Chang'an City, they still chose to take a public carriage.

If you let everyone know that you are not from China, you may even be kicked out of the car.

Yesterday they saw with their own eyes that a man who also looked like a Tang man, but was said to be a slave of Silla, was thrown out of the carriage.

"Weishui South Station has arrived, hurry up if you want to get off."

"Weijiazhuang has arrived, hurry up to get off the train."

"The carriage workshop has arrived, hurry up and get off."

In the shouts of the coachman, Lu Dongzan got out of the carriage and came to the vicinity of the door of the four-wheeled carriage workshop in the workshop city.

Naturally, they didn't come to visit the workshop, although Lu Dongzan wanted to visit, but they were rejected without exception.

Today, the main purpose of Lu Dongzan's visit to the workshop city is to find out what the situation is in the most dense area of Chang'an City.

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These various workshops actually represent the national strength of Datang to a certain extent.

Serugong: "Great Minister, I heard that this is the largest carriage workshop in Datang, which can produce more than 100 carriages every day, and in the entire Guanzhong area, sixty or seventy percent of the carriages are now produced here." ”

After getting off the station, they didn't need to deliberately look for it, and the four-wheeled carriage workshop of the Chu Wangfu came into view.

The door to this workshop was ordinary, except for a few guards guarding it, not much different from what they had seen elsewhere.

However, they had only stood at the door for less than a quarter of an hour, and they saw a number of carriages transporting timber or driving horse-drawn carriages that had just come off the line.

Lu Dongzan: "In this Chang'an City, every workshop is a busy scene, no wonder they can buy things much cheaper than us." ”

It is not that there are no workshops in the country of Tubo, but the kind of small cottage workshops are very different from the workshops in Chang'an City that are slowly on the right track.

As for everyone's output, the difference is even greater.

As far as the carriage workshop in Tibet is concerned, let alone a hundred cars per day, there are not a hundred cars a month.

"Yes, the most terrifying thing is that their steel output is very amazing, I see that those Jin Wuwei in Chang'an City are all wearing good steel knives, and in the West Market, the price of a pound of fine steel is less than one percent of our Tubo country, so Datang, it is really not something we can compete with."

The more things Serugong saw in Chang'an City, the more direct he had in his heart about the strength of the Tang Dynasty.

Unless there is internal turmoil in the Tang Dynasty, the Tubo State will never be an opponent.

Lu Dong sighed in admiration: "It's a pity that His Royal Highness the King of Chu didn't agree to let go of the sword trade in the end of the city." ”

Moreover, it was an important border trade port discussed by Li Kuan and Lu Dongzan this time, and it could be regarded as the westernmost point of the Tang Dynasty after Tuyuhun was included in the scope of rule.

The reason why such a border military town was used as a trading port was that Li Kuan also hoped to increase the city's material supply capacity and increase the proportion of Han people in the city by stimulating the flow of merchants to the city.

Otherwise, thousands of miles away from Chang'an, if there is any accident, it will not be able to defend this border city at all.

"Take your time, His Royal Highness the King of Chu is willing to relax the exchange of tea bricks, ceramics, salt, wool thread and other materials on a large scale, which is already a progress."

Sambuza was originally the staunchest supporter of the Tibetan State among the three, otherwise he would not have done the work of creating a text on his own.

Looking around the Tang Dynasty, almost all of them are using Chinese characters as their own words, and now Sambuza has created his own script, which is obviously a big plan.

"Let's go, I heard that near the four-wheeled carriage workshop of the Chu Wangfu is the Jintai Iron Shop, and now thirty percent of the farm tools in Chang'an City are made in this shop, which is very famous, let's see if we can try to buy some farm tools."

Lu Dongzan still didn't give up, and wanted to see if he could find a breakthrough.

When the envoys of the Tubo State came to Chang'an City, the Tang Dynasty did not make any official restrictions.

Whether it's shopping or playing, it's basically no problem.

Of course, for example, the various workshops of the Chu Wangfu do not let you in, so you can't blame the official.

If he really wants to buy farm tools, Lu Dongzan can naturally buy them in the West Market, but he still wants to go to Jintai's iron shop to have a look.

On the one hand, it is to confirm whether this shop is really as big as rumored.

On the other hand, it's also about seeing if there's a chance to learn something.

"This Lang Jun, we are merchants from other places, and we want to buy a large number of farm tools from your workshop, can you meet the shopkeeper of your workshop?"

Lu Dongzan didn't stay long in front of Jin Taida's iron shop, when he found a person who seemed to have a bit of status coming out of the workshop and hurriedly greeted him.

"Out-of-town merchants?"

It was really Ah Niu, Jin Tai's apprentice, who had just come out, and he saw several elegant and extraordinary characters in front of him, and his face showed a puzzled look.

This is obviously not like an ordinary merchant.

"Yes, we came to Chang'an from other places, and we heard that the farm tools produced by Jintai Iron Shop are the best, so we came to visit."

Lu Dongzan didn't dare to mention that he was an envoy of the Tubo State, otherwise there would definitely be no hope of going in to visit.

However, he still underestimated Ah Niu's vigilance.

For all the workshops that moved into the workshop city, Wang Xuance arranged personnel to publicize the importance of confidentiality to each shopkeeper and core candidate.

Besides, Jintai Iron Shop has a shop specializing in selling farm tools in the West Market, and ordinary merchants will find the West Market if they want to find it.

Ah Niu: "Listening to your accent, it looks like it's from Chang'an, but I didn't expect it to be a merchant from other places." ”

Lu Dongzan smiled and did not answer.

"My master is not here, if you want to talk about business, you can go to the West Market, where there is a shop of ours."

Although he didn't see anything wrong with Lu Dongzan, Ah Niu still faintly felt that something was wrong and didn't take them to the workshop.

"We heard that your farm tools are of the best quality, so we wanted to visit the workshop so that we could make a decision on whether to buy it or not."

Seeing that Ah Niu didn't mean to let them in, Serugun couldn't help but add.

However, it's okay if he doesn't say it, after saying this, Ah Niu is even more vigilant in his heart.

When the people from the Chu Wangfu came to train everyone, they specifically said that they should be vigilant against the personnel of the barbarian countries of Fanbang to explore the strength of the workshop and steal the teacher by visiting the purpose of the visit.

The people in front of him, even if they looked very much like the Tang people, couldn't help but make people feel suspicious.

If you really want to confirm the quality of farm tools, you can buy a few to try out, why do you have to come to the workshop to see the production process?

Lu Dongzan and others had no choice but to give up.

Then they went to several workshops and peeked secretly.

However, none of them succeeded, but they attracted the attention of the patrol guards of the workshop city.

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