Gaochang is the richest city in the entire Western Regions, and it is the capital of the former Eastern Karakhanid, and it is far inferior to it.

Because in the past hundreds of years, it has not only been an important link on the land Silk Road, but more importantly, it has had stability and peace that has lasted for hundreds of years.

When a commercial powerhouse like Gaochang has a stable peace that lasts for hundreds of years, the amount of wealth that can be accumulated here is immeasurable. Gaochang Bobilge was recruited into Yidu as early as three years ago, and later moved to Jinling with Lu Qian, and he was only three or two years old, but he was already known for his wealth.

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The wind and snow are blowing, and the cold winter in the Western Regions in February is still there. However, at this time, the city of Gaochang was already full of traffic and flowers.

Although the winter here is still cold, but in the end, it is the end of the crossbow, for the people living in this land, for the people who have become accustomed to the cold winter, this is already the beginning of the busy time.

The entire Western Regions came to life, and caravans appeared on the roads north and south of the Tianshan Mountains, and pedestrians appeared. Merchants from east to west entered the city in an endless stream, carrying countless goods, either waiting for business opportunities or going to the land of wealth they wanted to reach through Gaochang.

There are only two local specialties in the Western Regions that can be called loud in the Central Plains today, one of which is the well-deserved number one brand - Hetian Meiyu, and the other is wine.

Lu Qi's army swept through the Western Regions, which can be said to have opened the 'eyes' of the Central Plains people who had been 'closed' for hundreds of years.

Countless people in the Central Plains looked at the map on the "News", and experienced a living 'map frontier' from beginning to end. The wine of the Western Regions has unconsciously landed in the Central Plains.

Although the Zhao and Song dynasties were very reluctant, as an extremely wealthy dynasty and an era that inherited the customs of Li and Tang, wine was respected by countless civil officials and doctors of the Zhao and Song dynasties from beginning to end.

One stone grape carries wine first, and 10,000 golden valley orthogonal flowers. The wealthy people around Bianjing were very fond of growing grapes and making wine. Extensive viticulture on a large scale provides the conditions for wine to mature.

Sima Guang, Wang Anshi, Mei Yaochen, Song Zhen, Su Dongpo, literati and doctors who love wine went to the sea. Maybe they know that they can only feel it when they are drunk: "Grape wine glow-in-the-dark cup, if you want to drink the pipa, urge immediately, drunk and lying on the battlefield, don't smile, and a few people will come back to fight in ancient times." The pride of the Tang Dynasty.

In general, the local products of the Western Regions are very poor, and the 'vitality' of the Western Regions really lies in the merchants who come and go. The Western Regions is a big "traffic station".

From time to time, there will be blonde and blue-eyed exotic merchants in Gaochang City, who arrive here with the flow of people.

Sometimes, in the market of Gaochang, there are still large numbers of coins from distant and unknown lands - coins minted in gold or silver, with human figures carved on the front and back. Just like the gold and silver coins of the Lu Qi Dynasty!

Although, most of the Han people in the Central Plains don't know very well, what's the point of these barbarians engaging in this kind of trick? There is no portrait of Emperor Lu on Chinese gold and silver coins.

In China, everything about the emperor is supreme. Engrave the emperor's head on gold and silver coins, and then let millions of people rub it?

Just thinking about it makes people feel excited. Is that a desire to die or a desire to die, or a desire to die?

Under normal circumstances, such gold and silver coins would not have been possible in China. Look at the historical Yuan Datou, wasn't it born in the early years of the Republic of China, when Chinese civilization fell into the lowest ebb. At the end of the Qing Dynasty before, even if the Manchu Qing Dynasty had fallen into the valley, Zhang Zhidong only cast "Long Yang".

But this did not prevent the Han Chinese from happily accepting these gold coins.

Anyway, it's all real money, right?

The external additional effect is to let many people in Gaochang City know what is the density of gold and silver.

Today, a caravan with cloth toveins wrapped around its head came to Gaochang City. As soon as you look at the person's dress, the experienced person will know that this is a person who believes in heaven.

These people have a very different appearance from the Han people.

Although he still has black hair, he has white skin, brown eyes, a high nose bridge, a slightly curved nose, deep sunken eyes, and a high brow bone. Wearing a sheep's fur coat, the most striking thing under the turban is the full beard. A scimitar is tied around the waist.

This is their most intimate weapon, and it is also the main one. Just like the Dongying katana in the future, when the cold weapons of the ancient Tianfang people were mentioned in later generations, the Tianfang scimitar was the answer of countless people in unison.

Whether it is the historical materials that ordinary people can come into contact with, or the daily 'common sense', compared with the eighteen kinds of weapons in ancient China, the weapons of the ancient heavenly world are really a little lacking.

This was reflected in the previous 'Western Expeditions', where the most commonly used and popular weapons in the Celestial World were spears, scimitars, and bows and arrows.

If you turn the timeline forward two or three hundred years, during the four caliphs, the Umayyad dynasty and the early Abbasid dynasty, the celestial armies used spears, straight knives and bows and arrows. Now it has been changed to a scimitar, which can only be said to be the most direct reflection of the Turkization of the Celestial World.

The Celestial World used its own civilization to conquer one Turkic tribe after another, and the current Seljuk Empire and later the Ottoman Empire were not all established by the descendants of the Celestial Turks?

But this does not mean that the combat effectiveness of the Celestial people is poor. You know, they still have spears!

The scimitar, which has super cutting ability and poor armor-piercing ability, has become the main configuration of the Celestial Army, in a sense, because the spear perfectly compensates for its characteristics.

Scimitar + spear, plus bow and arrow, this is an effective battle mode, and it is also the most economical battle mode.

"This is Gaochang......"

"Sure enough, it is the largest and richest city in the west of Chinese, much stronger than Shattered Leaf City and Talas......

At the center of the caravan, in a standard four-wheeled carriage, a middle-aged man in a decent cashmere coat whispered to the young nobleman sitting in the middle of the carriage: "As you can see, this city is the heart of China's current Western Regions, it is said that there are 100,000 permanent residents, and there are hundreds of thousands of people who cultivate and graze for the Great Qi within hundreds of miles around......"

"Although there are rumors that Wulabo we once passed by will be renamed Luntai and become the capital of the Western Regions, it is obvious that it is still far from being comparable to Gaochang City......"

"100,000?" When the young man heard this, he was slightly surprised: "Samarkand is only 100,000 people!" "That was at the height of the Western Karakhanid.

"What makes the Chinese prefer to abandon a city of 100,000 people in favor of another place?" The young nobleman was puzzled.

"It is said that the city of Wulabo was the capital of the Western Regions where the Chinese entered the Western Regions to establish their rule five hundred years ago, and it was called Luntai at that time. This name is the name of the capital of the first Chinese dynasty to enter the Western Regions thousands of years ago. That's the whole reason. In the eyes of Chinese, the rich city of Gaochang is no match for their remembrance of the past glory of their ancestors...... "Cashmere Coat sighed.

"Just for such a ridiculous reason, the Chinese want to abandon Gaochang City and set up another place?" The young nobleman did not understand that he had been to Ulabo, which was only a small ruined earthen city.

"yes. But this is China. Gaochang City would be as precious as the white and black stones of Kerr in the middle of the river, but what would it be if it was placed in China? It is said that there are more than 100,000 people in the state cities of Han China, and there are hundreds of such rich cities in China......"

The middle-aged man bowed slightly and continued to be respectful to the young nobleman. But a smile flashed in his blue eyes.

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