Xue Ping, who was in the dust, looked at the majestic and majestic Chang'an City Tower not far away, and somehow, his nose was sore, and tears flowed down his breath.

More than ten years seem to be a long, long time, and it seems to have passed in the blink of an eye.

Now he's back, but it's not the same.

The beautiful young man who came out of Chang'an in the past has now become a middle-aged uncle with rough skin and a weathered face, and Chang'an City, which stands in front of him, is still the same as in the past.

The banner of the Tang Dynasty is still fluttering above the city tower, but the Tang Dynasty at this time is completely different from the Tang Dynasty in the past.

All the way back from the Western Regions, Xue Ping saw a different Datang, a completely different Datang from his imagination. This is a new, vibrant and new country, although she is still called Datang.

But this Datang is no longer the other Datang.

The dozens of representatives of the Western Regions who followed him, except for a few old people, the rest were coming to Datang for the first time, and at this moment they were so shocked by the towering city walls of Chang'an that they lost their ability to speak, and just stared blankly at this behemoth standing on the ground.

"Governor Xue, let's get in the car!" Lang Zhong, who came to greet Xue Ping, bowed.

Xue Ping nodded, turned around and was about to get into the car, but there was a rapid sound of horses' hooves in the distance, and a team of cavalry came galloping, looking at the fluttering flag, looking at the person who hit the head, Xue Ping stopped with a smile.

With a shout, Han Qi stopped in front of Xue Ping, turned over and dismounted, and stood in front of Xue Ping.

The two former most stubborn royalists are now both important ministers on the border of the New Tang Dynasty, and they have looked at each other for a long time, but they are both smiling.

"The old boy is also Lao Luo!" Han Qi casually threw the horsewhip in his hand to a guard and said with a smile.

"Han Gong, your body looks much better than before, is the water and soil in the Northeast so nourishing?" Xue Ping bowed.

"I'm a person, Xu is born to lead the life of a soldier, I used to be in Chang'an City, every day at home, the ministry and the government walked in two places, and the body and bones were not as good as a day, this time I went to the northeast, rode a horse, danced a knife, and felt that the whole person was alive, as if I was more than ten years younger." Han Qi laughed and said, "It looks like there are still decades to live." ”

"Let's go?" Xue Ping looked at the city gate.

"Let's go!" Han Qi nodded.

Xue Ping turned to Lang Zhong of the Protocol Department and said: "This Chang'an City, I am very familiar with it, you just need to tell us where you live, the others, you can take them directly, Han Gong and I, I want to take a walk casually and take a look." ”

The concierge hesitated slightly, but it was obvious that he couldn't resist these two important feudal ministers, and immediately said: "Then I will transfer a carriage to follow the two governors, and when the two of them are tired, they can get in the car and go straight to their destination." ”

"That's fine!" Xue Ping said.

Two people, one in his early thirties and the other over fifty, wearing green clothes and cloth shirts, walked side by side on the streets of Chang'an at will, not at all inconspicuous. Soon it blended into the busy crowd on the streets.

"The current Chang'an is quite like the days when Wuyi was just developed." Xue Ping said with emotion: "Everyone seems to be in such a hurry, it seems that there is always something waiting for them to complete in front of them. ”

"It's not just them, every territory of Datang is very busy now." Han Qi said: "It's good to be busy, being busy means having something to do, it means having a head, it means having hope, and I'm afraid of having nothing to do." ”

Xue Ping said: "My teacher told me in the past that the wealth of the world is a day, some people take more, and some people will take less. But Li Xiang told us that wealth is endless, people can create more wealth, for a long time, I was skeptical about it, but now, I am convinced, the world's wealth, can indeed be created, I read the announcement issued by the Ministry of Household last year, although the Tang Dynasty is still only half of the country, but last year's total national income, has been more than twice the Tang Dynasty, but is more than ten times the year I left Chang'an. ”

"GDP!" Han Qi scratched his head: "To be honest, I haven't figured out this concept until now, and what else is the per capita GDP, I really don't know how Xia He calculated it." ”

"When it was still Wuwei Festival Town, Li Xiang and Xia He began to implement new calculation methods, and Xia He trained a batch of new financial and taxation personnel, as the area under our control became larger and larger, and also dispersed to all parts of the country, and the current School of Finance, Taxation and Finance is cultivating in the latest way." Xue Ping said: "I specially got a set of their textbooks to study, Han Gong, if you want to transfer to a place, then you must learn this, not to mention proficient, at least understand." But I've heard that starting this year, an important indicator for measuring the chief executive of a region is the gross national product. ”

"There are so many new things, and it's always a bit overwhelming!" Han Qi shook his head and said.

"Great times, great changes." Xue Ping stood still and said, "If we want to leave our name in this glorious era, we must keep up with the pace of the times. Otherwise, I really have to go home to my wife and children, I am not yet forty this year, and I don't want to go home so early to retire. ”

"Even though I know my destiny, I still want to fight. The Northeast is a good place, where I stayed for a long time, and I really don't want to come back. Han Qi said: "Do you know that our Li Xiang, in order to encourage our soldiers, lived and worked in peace and contentment, and took root, and wrote a song to send to us?" ”

"Datang Weekly has been published." Xue Ping said with a smile: "My home is on the Songhua River in Northeast China, where there are soybeans and sorghum all over the mountains!" I heard that after this song was released, it was widely sung, and it even caused a wave of craze to go to Kanto! ”

"Our Li Xiang, sometimes thinks he is really idle." Han Qi shook his head and said: "You say that he is slacking off in government affairs, but now he is in order everywhere in the country, you say that he is diligent, but he still has time to write songs and books." But then again, the theory of the state, the theory of the nation, did make my mouth open. Before, I thought of this too narrowly. ”

"Me too!" Xue Ping groaned. "That's one of the reasons why I've completely transformed. Li Xiang stood too high, so that I could only look up at him, when I was in Hetao City, Xu Ziyuan's head drink, let me feel like an initiation, I used to boast that I was rich and rich, but now it looks more like a joke. Han Gong, do you want to come too? ”

Han Qi nodded: "Naturally." The facts are in front of you, and you have to accept them if you don't accept them. The Western Regions, which have been lost for decades, have all returned, and the northeastern lands that have never served the king are now becoming the inherent territory of my Tang Dynasty step by step, and the Tubo people are already precarious, according to Li Xiang's plan, the future is also in our bag, on the sea, the Tang merchant ships sailed thousands of miles, bringing back an endless stream of wealth for the Tang Dynasty. It also spread my Tang civilization to those wild places far away in the sky, I think, even if Gao Shuai is alive, in the face of such a Li Xiang, he can only bow his head. ”

"All the way from the Western Regions, the paradise that I have seen in books and that I have dreamed of in my dreams is being realized one by one in front of me." Xue Ping said: "So, what reason do I have not to do my best for this Datang?" Thinking of the past, I am quite ashamed, so in this life, I decided to stay at the very edge of the Tang Dynasty territory and guard this fruitful achievement for the Tang Dynasty. ”

"It's easy to understand the heart!" Han Qi laughed: "I think so too. You are not without enemies in the Western Regions, but I am in Yingzhou, but I also found that it is farther away, and it is not a peaceful place. There are always some bad people watching our land of China all the time, in our lives, where we live, where we stay! ”

Xue Ping smiled and said, "Gong Han, you say, is the one in the palace right now true or false?" Let's come back this time, do you want to go into the palace to meet us? ”

"Really? What about fake? Han Qi shook his head and said, "The general trend is irreversible." Why bother yourself, I won't see it, and there's no need to see it. So be it! ”

"That's what I mean." Xue Ping said: "But in my opinion, before the Yixing Society Congress is held, this matter must be resolved." The two of us, I'm afraid there will still be a lot of people watching. Along the way, there are not a few people who want to ask to see you, right? ”

"I haven't seen any of them!" Han Qi said. "Now that you've made up your mind, it's time to be clean. Xue Ping, you are a literati, but when it is time to make a decision, you must not be indecisive, with the status of you and me, a little hesitation will give people room for imagination, and when the time comes, there will be storms on the ground. ”

"Of course I know this! So along the way, I didn't meet anyone who came to see me. For this, I received a lot of scolding. There were even people who wrote poems that mocked me on the path I had to go. Xue Ping said.

"Scold, scold!" Han Qi said indifferently: "Now I am no longer loyal to a certain emperor. My allegiance is to this land, to this people. Since Li Xiang said so, then I will practice him to the end. At the same time, I also want to take a look, is Li Xiang just talking, or is he really thinking so? Therefore, it is not so important which one sits on the throne. ”

"The two of us, we don't have to think about ruling the world in this life, no matter what kind of selection method we take, it will not be the two of us, so we might as well be a practitioner." Xue Ping laughed and said: "Like you, I will only be loyal to this land and this nation in the future, anyway, we have been Li Xiang's opponents in the past, this time, how about we be an overseer again?" ”