Chapter 250: The Silk Road

The TV series "Tang Dujun" was really badly filmed, and there were many complaints on the Internet, Tang Xuanzong and Yang Guifei were scolded as dogs, known as the king of bad movies in 2018.

Of course, this is not what Li Ji cares about, what he cares about most is Boya International. Seeing on the Internet that the industrial and commercial registration information is very complete, and there are also several successful cases of bidding in China, Li Ji is a lot relieved.

Li Yi took the jade pendant and left, and went to Boya International Auction House. Li Ji gained a lot this time, first of all, he got all the information of the steam engine, and he searched a lot of information for hydroelectric power, metallurgy, mining, hardware production, and even daily necessities, which was enough to pack a large box.

"Wanxi, it's time for us to go back." Li Ji patted the box and said, "With these treasures, let's go back and let Datang enter the industrial age."

There was no one to serve here, and there was no hug from front to back, Zhang Wanxi was reluctant to give up: "Your Majesty, life here is so good." It's just that you're so smart, you learned it from here. I, I ......"

"Say whatever you want."

Zhang Wanxi raised her head: "Can you bring Chang'an over and let her go to school here and learn her skills?"

Li Ji's eyes lit up suddenly, why didn't he think of this problem. That's right, get Princess Chang'an to modern times, let her come here to go to school, send her back to Datang when she grows up, and her own son in the future, you can go to school in modern times and receive civilized education.

Just like yourself, get a modern education, and then go back to ancient times and do whatever you want.

"Okay, I not only let Chang'an come over, but our children will let them come to school in the future."

Zhang Wanxi was overjoyed, in this way, Datang can guarantee the foundation of the world is really not a dream.

Back in the Tang Dynasty, Wanxi in the Lizheng Hall had recovered, and Li Ji brought a lot of research materials. What's worse is that these materials are all simplified, so there will be another problem, how to change these simplified Chinese materials to traditional Chinese.

"Youwei, go and call Li Baoguo to me." Li Ji, who returned to the Ming'an Palace, looked at this large box of information and was worried.

At noon, Li Baoguo entered the palace with excitement on his face. Before Li Ji could speak, he said excitedly: "Your Majesty, Guangyuanzi has good news from Liuli Factory. Our fountain pen ink has been successfully developed, that is to say, in addition to the pencil, we also have this fountain pen ink can be used for writing. ”

The success of the manufacture of fountain pens and pencils seems to be an inconspicuous little thing, but it is quietly changing the life of Datang.

First of all, pens and pencils are easy to carry and easier to write, and secondly, they can save paper.

You must know that the writing speed of the brush is not only slow, but also the font is large, which is not better than calligraphy. Scientific research, sketches, and records are inseparable from writing, and the portability of the pen and the practicality of the pencil greatly solve this problem.

"Okay, I'll use a pen to review and read in the future. Baoguo, I have obtained some books and materials, which are all treasures of my Tang Dynasty. It covers everything from metallurgy, iron and steel, papermaking, winemaking, mining, power generation, agriculture, and even astronomy and geography. It's just that these things are all from overseas, and the characters of small overseas countries are different from my Datang. Fortunately, there are similarities, but their words are more brief, so protect the country. I've asked you to find some interpreters and tell me all about the information. Li Ji pointed to the box of various materials and said.

Li Baoguo was taken aback: "Your Majesty, there are so many materials, and the minister doesn't understand this overseas language, how can he translate it?"

Li Ji smiled slightly: "It doesn't matter, this country is because in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, in order to escape the war, the coastal people took a boat to go to sea and live on an overseas island. I don't know the reason and chance to get this heavenly book, and this is the only way to study various advanced civilizations. Their writing comes from the Central Plains, which is much the same as ours. I'll give you another dictionary for words you don't understand. ”

Fortunately, there is also a Xinhua dictionary in the box, with simplified and traditional annotations written on it. Li Ji taught Li Baoguo how to use this dictionary, and then according to the font on the dictionary, he could translate all these materials into traditional Chinese characters of the Tang Dynasty.

With these materials, all the problems encountered by Datang will be solved.

Hanyuan Palace, Li Ji has not been to the court for a long time, and today's morning events are one after another.

"Your Majesty, the imperial examination system has been perfected, and the students selected from all over the country will soon enter Beijing. In addition, this scientific examination is mainly based on arithmetic, supplemented by Mingke, and science halls have also been opened in various places. ”

"Your Majesty, as well as all the schools in the capital, have also added arithmetic to the main curriculum. It's just that these teaching gentlemen themselves don't know much about arithmetic, but fortunately, the Printing Department has printed a lot of arithmetic books, and these gentlemen are also teaching students while learning. This is also thanks to His Majesty's protégés of the Son of Heaven, and the teaching gentlemen will go to consult those protégés of the Son of Heaven when they encounter problems that they don't understand. ”

"Also, Your Majesty, the kings and tribal leaders of the Western Regions have written to the Tang Dynasty to rebuild the capital in the Western Regions, and the Tang Dynasty will come forward to resolve the disputes between the tribes. In this way, our Datang can reproduce the glory of Zhenguan Kaiyuan. ”

"Your Majesty, the minister also has a plan to play. Nowadays, Luoyang City has begun to pour into a large number of Hu merchants, and there are a few more orchid restaurants in the capital, which is said to be doing good business. Your Majesty, we should establish the Quartet Pavilion as soon as possible. The staff of this Sifang Pavilion used the "Yonghui Law" as a benchmark to restrain these foreigners. ”

Qunchen, every word you say to me is a happy event, the more Li Ji listens, the happier he becomes, and Datang finally began to recover slowly.

First of all, this arithmetic subject has received unprecedented attention, similar to modern science. Arithmetic is a talent of Datang science and technology, and then it is the annexation of the countries of the Western Regions.

The countries of the Western Regions are now scattered and fighting each other. They urgently need a strong force to balance the forces of all parties, and now they are respected by the Tang Dynasty. If the Tang Dynasty established the Protectorate in the Western Regions, these tribes of various ethnic groups would take the Tang Dynasty as their head and avoid fighting each other.

In addition, many Hu people came to the capital, and even Persians and West Asians began to trade in the capital. At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty used the "Yonghui Law" to restrain these foreigners.

Datang is a country that never admires foreigners and will never tolerate foreigners breaking the law. The formulation of the "Yonghui Law" made these foreigners respectful and respectful in the Tang Dynasty.

There is also the Sikakan, which is set up in the capital to deal with various disputes between foreign merchants. The Sifang Pavilion belongs to the Honglu Temple and is a yamen for foreigners.

Datang prohibits the outflow of talent, but vigorously attracts foreigners to settle down. All foreigners who enter our Tang Dynasty are exempted from paying taxes for ten years, which has been started since the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, so there will be a large number of foreigners who choose to settle down. And if you want to go abroad, without the consent of the government, you are smuggling, and when Tang Sanzang went to India, it was in the nature of smuggling.

Li Ji was very happy, and this happy event was one after another: "Okay, I have decided to reopen the Silk Road and trade with other countries. Leave this matter to Pei Shu to deal with, I want Datang to reappear the glory of Kaiyuan! ”

The traditional Silk Road, starting from Chang'an, the ancient capital of China, reaches the Mediterranean Sea through Central Asian countries, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Syria, etc., and ends in Rome, with a total length of 6,440 kilometers. This road is considered to be the intersection of ancient Eastern and Western civilizations connecting Eurasia, and silk is the most representative cargo. For thousands of years, nomads or tribes, traders, believers, diplomats, soldiers, and scholars traveled along the Silk Roads.

There were a number of Chinese government checkpoints along the Silk Road that checked travel permits to enter the Tang Empire. furthermore

Soon, the government issued a proclamation encouraging private businessmen to reopen the Silk Road. Anyone who does business through the Silk Road, Kaiyuan Cabinet Workshop has low-interest loans, you can carry tea, porcelain, silk and other trade with various countries through the Silk Road, and the official also sends its own horse team.

The official horse team sent by Li Ji on the Silk Road was led by Xu Yijing, and the horse team was mighty, carrying a large number of porcelain, tea, jade, silk, etc. all the way to the west.

Xu Yijing, the former colonel of the forbidden army. His ancestors had walked the Silk Road, and in his generation, he was full of illusions about re-walking the Silk Road. Therefore, as soon as Li Ji's announcement came out, he moved around and wrote a letter to take the initiative to take people there.

Through land trade along the Silk Roads and maritime trade by sea voyages, the Tang people were able to acquire and acquire many new technologies, cultural practices, rare luxury goods, and contemporary items.

From Europe, the Middle East, Central Asia, and South Asia, the Tang dynasty acquired new ideas for fashion, new types of ceramics, and improved silversmithing techniques. The Tang people also gradually adopted foreign concepts of stools and chairs as seats, while the Chinese always sat on cushions on the floor beforehand.

In the Middle East, the world is obsessed with and buys Chinese goods in large quantities, such as silk, lacquerware, and porcelain. During the Tang Dynasty, Chinese songs, dances, and musical instruments became popular in China. These instruments include oboe, flute, small lacquered drums. At the imperial court there were nine musical ensembles representing the music of the whole of Asia.

Li Ji not only opened the Silk Road, but also continued to open up the Maritime Silk Road. Nowadays, Datang's economic strength is strong, so Li Ji wants to build ships and go to the West to carry out economic and cultural exchanges with coastal countries.

Li Ji also continued that the agency established in the early Tang Dynasty to manage foreign trade was the Municipal Shipping Division.

During the Tang Dynasty, the Municipal Department was the earliest official office set up in the history of our country to manage foreign trade.

The city is managed by the sea route, and the Sifang Pavilion is managed by the Silk Road, and Li Ji wants to spread the glory of the Tang Dynasty all over the world.

Half a year has passed in a blink of an eye, and everything is as expected, Datang's economy is taking off and its population is developing.

At this time, the door of the Lizheng Hall was closed, Zhang Mao led a team of guards with loaded guns and live ammunition to guard outside the hall, and those palace maids and doctors were anxiously waiting outside the hall, because Li Ji had an order, no one was allowed to trespass, otherwise they would be killed.

In fact, Li Ji had already escaped with Zhang Wanxi, Jiangcheng Maternal and Child Health Hospital. Li Ji is here again, and this time the attending doctor is still the same person.

The doctor was startled when he saw Li Ji, Li Ji is a scumbag, how long has it been, and he has brought another woman to give birth. Today's young people really don't understand self-love, and then look at this beautiful pregnant woman, the doctor is really sorry for her, but it's a pity that such a good girl, how did she meet such a scumbag.

Last time Li Ji brought Du Fangying here, the doctors thought that Du Fangying was Li Fangying's wife. It didn't take long for Li Ji to bring Zhang Wanxi to give birth to a child, this is not what scum.

But the doctor's professional ethics made him unable to care about other people's lives, and the doctor could only sigh and go to the delivery room to deliver Zhang Wanxi.

Unlike in the past, this time Li Ji came as a local tyrant. Because he auctioned Li Yi's jade pendant for a sky-high price of 26 million, it can be said that Li Ji is now a local tyrant, worth tens of millions of local tyrants.

The single room has already been booked, and this time Zhang Wanxi's birth was really safe, and the nurse came out soon after entering the delivery room.

Li Ji meditated in his heart about all the immortals he could think of, Guanyin Bodhisattva, Da Luo Jin Xian, Jade Emperor, Rulai, Dragon King, Lei Gong, Electric Mother, Sun Wukong, Jesus Amen, bless me to have a son this time to inherit my Tang foundation.

I was really afraid of something, and the nurse came out and said, "Li Ji, congratulations on your wife giving birth to a daughter."

Li Ji's head 'buzzed', it's a daughter again!

He was not patriarchal, but he didn't have a son, who would inherit his future good foundation.

and Zhang Wanxi, she is looking forward to giving birth to a son day and night. Coincidentally, this time it's a daughter again, not to mention those ministers, I'm afraid the Queen Mother will force Concubine Li Ji again.

Who knew that the nurse hurriedly said next: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Mr. Li Ji, your wife gave birth to a son, I just made a mistake." Son, it's a son! ”

"What!" Li Ji was taken aback: "You can't be wrong, right?"

He has read reports that many hospitals have precedents of holding children by mistake.

The nurse apologized vigorously: "I'm really sorry, your wife is alone in this delivery room, and she will never be wrong." It's a son, I was wrong just now. ”

Then Zhang Wanxi was pushed out, and as soon as she came out, Zhang Wanxi looked at Li Ji with a smile: "It's a son."

Li Ji hurriedly picked up the child, only to see that the child had thick eyebrows and big eyes, especially the contour line of the child's ears was flattened, which was exactly the same as Li Ji. Although it is said that he was just born, his nose and eyes are very similar to Li Ji, even if he holds the wrong one, he can see at a glance that it is Li Ji's child.

"Son, haha, it's my son! Grandpa, I have a son! ”

Li Yi's face was even more happy: "Okay, great-grandson, my great-grandson."

The happiest should be Zhang Wanxi, mothers are expensive with sons, if there is no son, she, the queen, will not be practical after all. Now that there is a prince, he will naturally be a candidate for the crown prince. The most important thing is that those nasty stinky ministers will no longer let Concubine Li Ji endlessly.

Although Zhang Wanxi does not object to Concubine Li Ji, who doesn't want only two people to grow old together. She also began to understand why Li Ji refused to accept a concubine, it turned out that this era is monogamous.

Because it was a smooth birth, Zhang Wanxi recovered quickly, and she lived in a good single room. Li Ji also hired a three-month sister-in-law, who took turns to serve 24 hours a day. It's just that he hasn't thought about what name the child will give yet, and this time Li Ji decided to ask his grandfather to give him a name.

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