Shengzhou? Why do I feel a little strange? ”

In Shengzhou City, more than ten people from Sugawara Michizane and Sanzen Qingxing were wandering around the Qinhuai River, but in order to prevent these people from running around, the Yangtze River Sailor sent someone to monitor them.

Shengzhou is Jinling, also known as Jiankang and Jiangning, is a famous city in the Tang Dynasty, once the capital of the Tang people in the Wu, Jin, Song, Qi, Liang, Chen six dynasties, also has the title of the ancient capital of the six dynasties.

It's just that this Shengzhou City is several times the size of Heianjing, and this is not the largest city in Datang. Sanshan Qingxing reminded lightly beside him.

Sanshan Qingxing is very yearning for Datang, and has read a lot of books about Datang and the history of Datang since he was a child, and he still has a good understanding of some of the situation in Datang.

"What is the largest city in Datang?" A member of the mission asked.

"Naturally, it's Chang'an. According to the records of the books brought back by the successive envoys to the Tang Dynasty, Chang'an is the largest city in the Tang Dynasty, with a population of more than one million, and the Vermilion Bird Street is dozens of zhang wide, which is very spectacular. "The three good deeds are a little yearning.

"Didn't you say that the Tang people's Chang'an was broken and burned by the rebels?" Some of Sugawara Michizane's subordinates questioned, "Is it because Chang'an was destroyed, so the Tang let us go to Luoyang?" ”

"This..." Sanshan Qingxing was also a little hesitant, after all, he didn't know whether Chang'an was destroyed or not.

Sugawara Michizane actually had some doubts in his heart, he wanted to ask the accompanying Tang soldiers, but the other party didn't pay attention to them at all, and he didn't know how to ask if he wanted to.

Soon, the group came to the front of a bookstore and found that the bookstore was crowded and very lively.

"Why are there so many people in this Li bookstore?"

"The saint has a new collection of poems!"

"Really?"

"What are you lying about? It is said that there are only 1,000 copies in the entire Shengju, and if you don't hurry up, you won't be able to buy them. ”

Hearing the news, those young men who looked like scholars couldn't wait to rush in and grab a copy directly, and there was a queue outside the bookstore for a while.

"A collection of sage poems? What do you mean? "Sugawara Michizan was a little confused.

Just when he was a little flustered, Sanzen Kiyoyuki lined up, and Sugawara Michizane saw that there were too many people here, so he didn't go in, but continued to wander around Shengzhou City.

Although he didn't finish visiting Shengzhou City, he was deeply touched on both sides of the Qinhuai River alone, because he was shocked by the degree of prosperity, and he didn't look like he had been war-torn at all.

Sugawara Michizane also inquired about some things, but he didn't have a satisfactory answer, because there was no one from the Tang Dynasty Mansion to receive them, and they were like headless flies in Shengzhou City.

However, when Sugawara Michizane returned to the mission station, Sanzen Kiyoyuki did not return, and the other party only came back before dinner, and his entourage brought a lot of books, at least hundreds, which surprised the other members of the mission.

"Deputy Envoy of Sanshan, why did you buy so many books? Where did you get all this money? "In Sugawara Michizane's impression, books are very valuable, and ordinary people can't touch books at all, and only powerful or wealthy families can access books.

This is the case in the Wa Kingdom, so Sugawara Michizane subconsciously thinks that Datang is also like this.

"These more than 100 books are only more than 20 books, which is not expensive." Sanshan Qingxing said lightly.

"No, books are very precious!" Sugawara was a little skeptical.

"Minister Right, the lower official didn't want to refute your face before, but after today's trip, the lower official hopes that the right minister can officially become the current Tang Dynasty. The entire kingdom has a misunderstanding about the Tang Dynasty. Sanzen Kiyoyuki asked people to put those books away, and then said to Sugawara Michizane with a serious expression.

"Misunderstanding? What misunderstanding? Sugawara Michizane also thought it was a little interesting, and sat there, drinking tea and smiling.

"Today's Datang is not the Datang that we think is still in civil strife, but extremely powerful." The three good deeds are serious.

"How powerful?" Sugawara Michizane asked.

"Let's just say that this Shengzhou, even the top three cities in the Tang Dynasty do not enter, according to the lower officials, in addition to Chang'an, Luoyang, Chengdu, Xingyuan, Hangzhou, Dengzhou, Taiyuan several cities are more prosperous than Shengzhou, the scale is even worse."

Although I don't know where Sanshan Qingxing learned about this news, he is not wrong.

Not to mention Chang'an and Luoyang, one is an official capital, the other is the eastern capital, and it is difficult to prosper.

Chengdu Mansion, Xingyuan Mansion and Taiyuan Mansion do not need to be explained, after all, it has been peaceful for so long; Dengzhou relies on sea transportation; Hangzhou has the credit of Qian Biao, and also has the credit of shipping.

In fact, Yuezhou, Mingzhou, and Gangneung are no worse than Shengzhou.

It's not that the location of Shengzhou is not good, it is the same as Yangzhou, it was ravaged by war before, and it was only a few years after the end of the war, and the recovery was not so fast.

From a long-term point of view, the prospects of Shengzhou and Yangzhou are definitely stronger than those of Taiyuan and Xingyuan, but if you want to surpass, it will take at least ten years or more, after all, the population is the hard wound of the two places.

"Where did the Deputy Envoy of the Three Senses learn about this?" Sugawara Michichi was really curious.

"Xia Guan learned about it in that Li bookstore in the first hundred days, and chatted with several Tang students."

After hearing this, Sugawara nodded his head, in fact, from what he saw and heard in Shengzhou, he also guessed that the news about Datang might be misinformation.

He was able to move step by step to the position of the right minister, and his own strength was also a very important reason, not just by the family's Yu Yin and the promotion of Emperor Uta. You must know that he is also known as the god of learning in the Wa Kingdom, and he is also very good at Chinese poetry.

"It seems that we may be a little behind in understanding the Tang people!" Sugawara Michizane had already made a decision in his heart, and if he had gained a lot from this trip, he could suggest that the emperor agree to continue to send envoys to the Tang Dynasty at a fixed time after he returned.

In the midst of a rather pleasant conversation between the two, a member of the mission was hurrying in.

"Minister Qiqi, there is movement on the dock, the big one!"

"There's a lot of movement? What's going on? ”

With curiosity, Sugawara Michizane and the others hurried to the dock.

They lived not far from the docks, and most of them lived outside the mansion, while some stayed on the boats. After all, for such a long voyage at sea, the ship also needs to be repaired and replenished, and the ship needs to be guarded.

However, when the group came to the dock, the dock was already crowded, because they were all frightened by the movement on the river.

On the Yangtze River in front of them, a large number of warships were setting sail, some of which were much larger than the warships of the Japanese Kingdom.

There were still quite a few soldiers on the ship, and it was clear that they were going to fight.

"Who are you going to fight? So many people? Someone in the mission wondered.

Sugawara Michizane didn't know what was going on, but the Tang people next to him were talking.

"It's going to be war again, and I don't know who I'm going to fight!"

"Who else can there be, it must be Yang Xingmibei. He seized Huainan and refused to obey the edict, and the imperial court would definitely solve this last feudal town! ”

"It's actually Yang Xingmi, during his tenure in Huainan, it can be regarded as okay!"

"What can be? Don't you see that the official ships go to Chang'an from the Yangtze River upstream? Don't take the canal at all. If Huainan is finished, it will be much more convenient to go to Luoyang or the north to do business in the future. ”

These people have different identities because they have different positions and different views.

Ordinary people are just worried about causing war and affecting themselves; Merchants hoped to pacify Huainan and let the canal flow smoothly.

Scholars are divided into camps.

Some stubborn scholars think that the imperial court is adding to the war and making the people of the country miserable, and they are also critical of those foreign wars, believing that they are hurting the people by labor and money; The neutral ones don't have much to say except for a sigh; As for the young scholars, they think that the imperial court's move is correct, and it is what Zhongxing Datang must do.

In the middle of the crowd, Sugawara Michizane also found it interesting to hear these voices. He now understood why the Tang people let them stop at Shengzhou, it turned out that the canal was going to break out into war and could not be navigated.

He didn't expect that he would encounter war as soon as he came, but he just hoped that it wouldn't last too long and affect his mission.