Chapter 52 Journey to the West Password

During the Zhenguan period, there was a monk who set off from Chang'an, the capital of the Tang Dynasty, to Tianzhu, that is, India, to seek the true scriptures.

This is the prototype of Journey to the West in later generations - Grand Master Xuanzang!

In Journey to the West, after clearing a copy, the most important procedure is the king of each country along the way, and the king will press the seal of his country on the passage guide of Tang Sanzang.

In fact, the real Xuanzang Grand Master has no way to guide at all!

Xuanzang hadn't seen Tang Taizong Li Shimin before he set off!

It's not that Xuanzang doesn't want to, but he can't!

After all, as an ordinary monk, Li Shimin is not something that Xuanzang can see if he wants to!

However, Xuanzang still embarked on the road to Tianzhu.

In the way of criminals!

Because of the Tang Law's sloppy discussion, those who leave the customs without permission will be punished for the crime of crossing the customs!

However, Xuanzang, who later returned to Chang'an, was pardoned, and Tang Taizong also built the Temple of Mercy and Grace as a place for Xuanzang to preach the scriptures.

Why did His Majesty Li Er, who has always attached the most importance to the law, be so kind to Xuanzang, is it really because of Li Shimin's simple honesty and worship of the Buddha? !

Li Shimin is the first emperor of the ages, in addition to his own legal system of thought left behind, inherited from other generations, there is another thing that completely changed the life of the Chinese people in the future.

This kind of thing is sugar!

In this Chang'an, get up early in the morning and open the door.

In addition to the twilight and dreary, the fairy spirit of Zhongnan Mountain.

There is also chai, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar tea!

Why is there no sugar?!

Because in this day and age, sugar is a rarity!

Sugar, judging from the way it is written in Chinese characters, is very related to the Tang Dynasty.

For a long time before the Tang Dynasty, people did not consume sweetness through white sugar or rock sugar.

Rather, through honey and maltose.

As a natural dessert, the disadvantages of honey are of course obvious, because even after more than a thousand years, it is still expensive in later generations, and it is impossible for the Tang Dynasty under the productivity to enter thousands of households.

Maltose, on the other hand, costs a lot of food!

In this era, food is a scarce commodity, so naturally it cannot be used too much to make maltose.

Therefore, maltose has become a happy memory of the children's New Year before Tang!

Other times, it's inedible!

In fact, sugar was not called sugar at this time in the Tang Dynasty, it was called stone honey!

Even sugarcane has been recorded since the Zhou Dynasty, and the figure of sugarcane can be seen from "Lisao" and so on.

However, there was still no sugar in the Tang Dynasty!

Because the Tang Dynasty did not have its own white sugar extraction technology!

The technique of making sugar is still in the hands of India, the neighboring countries of Tianzhu, and these countries regard this technology as a secret.

There is a strong difference between the white sugar of today and the white sugar of later generations.

The color is yellowish, and the extraction techniques used are relatively old.

But that's sugar!

People in later generations may think that sugar is nothing, but once it is missing, it will face great problems.

It's like there's no sweetness in your life!

A full mouthful of sweetness can give people a feeling of great physical and mental pleasure.

That's sugar!

It is now the Zhenguan period, and the west market of Chang'an has begun to prosper, and countless Hu people from the Silk Road have earned countless profits from Chang'an with bags of imported products such as stone honey.

Under the huge trade gap, the impression of the Tang people is that the Hu people are very rich!

Why is there money?!

Because of sugar!

Li Shimin, who was in the Taiji Palace, looked at the trade deficit and how to improve the living quality of the Tang people, and began to brush his hair constantly!

At this time, a monk named Xuanzang returned to Chang'an, and said that he had been to Tianzhu, that is, India!

After chatting with Xuanzang for a long time, His Majesty Li Er smiled and made a decree to ask the senior monks such as the debater to assist the inconspicuous monk in front of him and write down what he saw and heard along the way.

What kind of route was taken, and what was the situation in each country along the way!

After doing all this, a general named Wang Xuance set out from Chang'an.

I went to the distant Tianzhu for the kind of thing that could give the people of the Tang Dynasty a sweet feeling!

Stone honey!

Wang Xuance's move is difficult!

It's not much easier than Xuanzang back then!

Because Xuanzang's path of learning scriptures was only taken once, and Wang Xuance's path of learning scriptures was at least four times!

Wang Xuance is not the seventy-two heroes of Lingyan Pavilion, and in history, the name is relatively not too famous.

However, some people are indeed unknown, but their exploits are destined to be passed on forever!

It is this person who has made us more than 1,000 years later, have candy to eat anytime and anywhere!

However, the road to learning from the scriptures is indeed not smooth!

General Wang failed to achieve his mission goal three times.

And so there was the fourth!

General Wang spent almost his entire life on the Silk Road, and at the time of his fourth mission, General Wang's request was still denied.

Seeing that he still couldn't bring back the production method of stone honey, General Wang was silent!

Facing the full yellow sand, General Wang burst into tears, can he only spend his life in such obscurity? !

That's when things took a turn for the worse.

The corpse of King Zhongtianzhu Luo Yi died, and the country was in chaos!

The vizier Navoti Arona usurped the throne.

That Emperor Alona directly did it to Wang Xuance!

Wang Xuance fled to Tibet!

General Wang is a violent temper, how can he tolerate such a provocation from this guy, not to mention, there is a great time in front of him!

As a result, General Wang sent a message in Tibet to recruit troops.

1,200 Tibetan soldiers and 7,000 Nepalese cavalry became General Wang's only hole cards.

Then, with this army of less than 10,000 people, General Wang killed back to Tianzhu!

Even this untrained army, which was less than 10,000 men, killed Nafudi Alona when the strength of the two sides was obviously not proportional.

Fight and win!

Wang Xuance successfully returned to the dynasty and brought back countless trophies.

However, no matter how expensive the ivory is, no matter how beautiful the orchid, it can't compare with the ten people in the team.

Those ten people are artisans who can make sugar!

From now on!

Stone honey is no longer called stone honey!

Sugar is starting to be called sugar!

sugar

This is the password in Journey to the West.

Although the sequel to Journey to the West, the legend of General Wang is not as wonderful as the previous book, its significance to China is even more significant than that of Journey to the West itself.

Because, he gave birth to a new Chinese character.

The rice of the Tang Dynasty is for sugar!

[Therefore, the most valuable plug-in in this era is not anything else, but the method of making sugar!] Because the current time is the first year of Zhenguan, Xuanzang in history crossed the pass to Tianzhu a few years later, not to mention Wang Xuance! 】

The documentary was finished, and the system summed it up on the side.

[However, even if I know how to make sugar, I can't use this plug-in for the time being! Right?! 】

After hearing Ye Xiaoniang finish speaking, the system laughed.

[My cutest host! You're finally starting to look at things with historical dialectics! Yes, this plugin is not that easy to use! 】

The system readily admits it.

[The more common things mean the greater the profits, now if you come up with the production method of white sugar, there are two endings, one is to be killed! The other is imprisoned to death! 】

[Without a little strength, you have such a rich skill! ] This is what people often call the sin of cherishing! 】