"Dao Chief...... Looking for me? Nalan Yu stopped at the door of the shop suspiciously, and bowed his hand politely to Li Yuan.

The noisy Chang'an West City is full of people, and the caravan of Nalan Ao is blocked in the middle of the road, which has long made pedestrians dissatisfied, and some of them are already abusing at the end of the caravan......

Two Wuhou with whistle sticks also walked over, driving the caravan's camels and reprimanding the caravan's pedestrians to hurry up.

Marquis Wu is not a title, but a position in the Tang Dynasty.

In the Tang Dynasty, Chang'an, the capital teacher, built a public security and fire protection organization of "Wuhou Shop", which was distributed in various cities and fangli.

This kind of "Wuhou Shop", 100 people in Dachengmen and 30 people in Dafang; There are 20 people in the small city gate and 5 people in the small square. Under the leadership of the left and right Yifu subordinate to the left and right Jinwu, it is similar to the current collection of police, urban management, and fire protection.

"Dao Chief, if there is nothing to do, Shu Nalan Yu will not be able to stay for a long time, so I will leave." Nalan said anxiously.

Li Yuan pressed the mutton-stuffed bun with his hand, let its juice seep out of the dough, took a small bite, and then smiled slowly: "Su Meng, you go and communicate with those martial marquis for a few ...... Poor Dao wants to talk to him. ”

Su Meng clenched his fists and led the order to walk out of the store with a few capable guards, walked in front of Wuhou, who was shouting loudly, and grinned: "Brother, don't shout, look at this ......"

"What are you doing?" Wuhou is an impatient position, not to mention that Datang does not have the humanized governance of later generations, and naturally he will not have good intentions towards caravans that obstruct traffic, not to mention that he heard that the person in charge is a Hu man, which makes him even more disdainful.

The fighting officials who live under the roots of the imperial city will inevitably have this kind of pride.

"Look at this!" Su Meng frowned, took out the tooth card from his arms and shook it in front of the two martial marquis.

The two Wuhou stared at the handwriting on it, and their legs were a little bent. They have seen many high-ranking officials in Chang'an City, up to the first-grade prime minister, down to the six-grade county order, and the school captain or something is thrown on the street, and he can't even make a wave.

But the most important thing is that Su Meng is a captain in the royal guard, naturally with a shining aura, equivalent to a Zhongnanhai bodyguard, even if he is just a bodyguard, but which high-ranking official dares to underestimate him?

"What scolding? There is a kind of going back to the mother's womb to shout, is it so loud that Ben Wuhou can't hear it?

What the? Delay your old man's grocery shopping, eat more and eat less, and you won't lose weight!

You shout again? Beware of labor and management locking you in the yamen, don't you believe it!

……”

Since ancient times, the people have not fought with the officials, and the small people of Shengdou only dare to scold at the caravan, but when the Wuhou of the West City came over, they were like soft eggs, and they couldn't squeeze two taels of water.

"What's the name of the Taoist? Those Wuhou are usually the most annoying, but when they see us and other merchants, they will be scolded, but when they get to the Taoist Chief, they ......"

Nalan Yi sat on the straw mat five steps away from Li Yuan, he licked Hu Ren's bright thick lips, and observed Li Yuan with a bit of scrutiny.

This is a Taoist.

He is a Taoist who dresses luxuriously.

It must be a Taoist who has been trusted by His Majesty.

Guanzhong has a very strong religious culture since ancient times, Zhongnan Mountain is the ancestral garden of Taoism, there are countless Taoist places of interest in all kinds of Taoism, Huashan also has Taoist ancestors living in seclusion, and later in the Northern Song Dynasty, there was a person called Chen Tuan ancestor who won the whole Huashan......

And Buddhism is more prosperous than Taoism, only Chang'an has one hundred and twelve Buddhist temples of all sizes, and later the eight ancestral courts of Xi'an Buddhism, it accounts for six!

Emperor Wen of Sui, Yang Jian's nickname, Pu Liuru, is the meaning of Buddhist wrestler. In the Northern Zhou Dynasty, the Chang'an aristocracy often had a Buddhist temple in front of it, and the backyard was a place to rest......

How can someone who can stay by the side of a court lady be an ordinary Taoist?

Hearing Nalan Yan's question, the painting screen was about to answer, but was immediately stopped by Li Yuan, he was sitting in a precarious position, made a joke, and said with a smile: "The poor Dao is called Lei Qiangdong, you can call a certain Lei Dao Chief......

"Lei Qiangdong? What an imposing name! Nalan Yu clapped his hands and praised.

The ancients often chose names more arbitrarily, such as Huo Quai, so he named himself to go to the disease, Li Bai, this product is too white, and he dislikes himself for not being white enough......

As for the ordinary people, they are even more casual, there are cats and dogs, and they also pay a little attention to the names of the nobles, men take poetry, and women take Chu Ci.

Let's look at the name Lei Qiangdong, strong is an adjective, dong is equal to dong, a strong thunder knock, and Nezha's zha is the same!

"Dare to ask Daoist Lei to find ...... What's the matter with me? Nalan Yu asked.

"It's just some trivial things, Poor Dao heard that the fruits and vegetables in the Western Regions are different from those in the Central Plains, and he has always been curious and can't see them...... I wonder if your caravan can carry vegetables and fruits and seeds from the Western Regions? Poor Dao is willing to buy it with a lot of money. Li Yuan said.

The abundance of fruits and vegetables in later generations is due to generations of previous pioneers who brought their seeds back to China from the Western Regions or the South Seas.

For example, alfalfa, grapes, walnuts (walnuts), pomegranates, flax (sesame), beans (broad beans), cucumbers, garlic, carrots and other things with Hu characters came from the Western Regions, and those sweet potatoes with the characters came to China from the South Seas......

However, most of these seeds are brought back to China with them, not on their own initiative. For example, the main purpose of Zhang Qian's envoy was to explore the route to the Dayue clan and unite the Dayue clan to flank the Xiongnu, rather than bring back seeds.

For example, watermelon is a typical example, it is said that it followed Zhang Qian's mission to the Western Regions to come back, but it was not until the Southern Song Dynasty that it really appeared on the table of the Central Plains.

At present, the earliest area where watermelons can be cultivated is Egypt, and then, along the Mediterranean Sea to Greece and other European countries, about the 4th century BC, with the expedition of European armies, watermelons were brought to India, from India to West Asia, along the Silk Road, watermelons finally came to China.

However, in the long seven or eight hundred years since then, watermelons have not gone out of the northwest, and are mainly cultivated in Xinjiang. It wasn't until Zhao Gou returned to the Song Dynasty from Jinying that Hong Hao, an official who was entourage at that time, brought back watermelon seeds from the Jin-ruled area, and it was truly popularized.

Therefore, when he heard that Nalan Yu was a merchant on the Silk Road, the emperor was moved.

Spring has arrived, summer is coming, and in his opinion, no summer is complete without watermelon, and it cannot be called a summer without chilled watermelon.

"So that's it." Nalan Yu breathed a sigh of relief, and then said with a smile: "Daoist Lei Dao, you made me worry about death, and I thought that I had done something unseemly to let Daoist Lei stop me." ”

"This time back to Chang'an, the caravan under did not take the seeds of the melon fruit of the Western Regions, if the Lei Dao Chang is patient, after this shipment, this autumn, probably in October, I will set foot on the Western Regions again, when the time comes, what does the Lei Dao Chang want, although the order is in the next voice."