The Tang Dynasty was not given by the tribes, and the rooster territory of later generations in China was not sent with phone bills, although in the historical records of various Chinese dynasties, there are many records of being invaded by the surrounding peoples, and there are few records of the conquest of the surrounding areas.

But this is really just a selective record.

On the contrary, China's ancient history is not actually a history of backwardness and beating, but a history of the Chinese nation's continuous pioneering and enterprising conquest of foreign countries.

From a small piece of land in the middle and upper reaches of the Yellow River where the earliest Chinese tribes were located, to the later continuous conquest of Siyi and occupation of both sides of the Yellow River. Later, it expanded south to the south of the Huai River, then to the south of the Han River, then to Bashu, then to Jiangnan, and then to Lingnan······

The footsteps of the Chinese nation have never stopped, and the descendants of Yan and Huang have also been forging ahead.

The Qin Empire conquered Lingnan, and the Han Dynasty opened up the Western Regions·······

It is indeed very bold for a small landowner to organize a slave hunting team to go to other countries to hunt slaves. But Zhao Zhiman, the captain of the landlord's family, was very excited, he seemed to have found the purpose of life again, a person like him was born to fight, and let him nest beside the landlord as a coachman, which was really wronged him.

"Give me a boat, give me another hundred people, no, fifty people is enough, equipped with simple weapons such as bows and arrows, horizontal knives, etc., I can cross Baekje, bring me a boatload of Baekje slaves, and I will definitely not let you down."

Zhao Zhiman was already murderous.

At that time, Taizong personally conquered Goguryeo, and Zhao Zhiman was a janissary, and he once accompanied the emperor. It's a pity that he was by the emperor's side at that time, and he didn't have many opportunities to make meritorious contributions in battle, but he was not as good as Xue Rengui, a pawn in the army. Back then, Xue Rengui was in a white robe and rushed straight to the enemy to kill the Goguryeo generals, and that style really made people's blood boil.

He witnessed Xue Rengui's rise from a small soldier to a general of the fifth grade, which was a legend.

But in the Tang Army, there is never a shortage of such bloody legends.

He has been sold into slavery and has no chance to return to the battlefield, and can no longer ride a horse, but now Li Xiao has given him a chance.

"I know that there are many idlers and scoundrels in Chang'an, as long as there are brave men under the heavy reward. Fifty people, very easy to recruit. Zhao Zhiman said.

There are not only rangers in Chang'an City, but also idlers and scoundrels.

In fact, idlers are not just small ruffians, this kind of people are more similar to outlaws, living in Chang'an for various reasons, including fugitives from the Tang Dynasty and those Hu people who are stranded and do not return.

These people are fierce and bold, and they walk between black and white. As long as they have money, they dare to do anything.

Murder, robbery, you can do it.

There are even people who are willing to go to prison for others, or even die, as long as they give a satisfactory price.

In fact, no matter what era or place, there is always no shortage of such people.

For example, the bad people in Chang'an who were co-opted by the government, these bad people who caught thieves were actually bad people themselves. And every time there is a mutiny or rebellion in Chang'an, there will always be many outlaws to join it.

"I'll send a letter to Third Brother Wang first, and ask about the situation on the other side of the sea, if he thinks it's feasible, then we'll do it." Li Xiao suddenly had an idea, but when he told Zhao Zhiman, he was really eager to try.

"Okay, I can try to contact some idlers first." As a former idol of Chang'an, Zhao Zhiman still has some ways on Chang'an Street.

Seeing him go out in a hurry, Li Xiao smiled, he really couldn't wait for a moment.

After returning to the study and writing a letter to Wang Fangyi, Li Xiao went back to the courtyard for a walk again.

As a Beijing official, one of the advantages is that you only have half a day's work a day, you can go home to rest in the morning when you are in the yamen, and you can go home to rest in the afternoon, which is much more comfortable than local officials.

Ten days can still have one day off, and counting all kinds of holidays, in fact, Datang's civil servants are still very comfortable.

Not to mention Li Xiao's yamen specially set up for him, and no one interfered with him, and his life became more chic.

Anyway, he just had to plant the corn and nothing else.

Stroll along the lotus pond, which covers an area of several acres, and there are many flowers planted on the side of the lotus pond, many of which have withered this season.

Peony, rose······

Li Xiao imagined the scene when these flowers were in full bloom, and suddenly a flower came into Li Xiao's eyes.

It looks like a fruit tree, with very thin branches on its stems and green leaves like goose paws. There are no flowers at this time, but they bear fruit.

Looking closely, Li Xiao's eyes couldn't help but widen.

A fruit like a peach, isn't this a cotton peach?

He squatted down, looked carefully, observed for a long time, and deliberately picked a cotton peach petal, and sure enough, he found the white cotton inside.

"Damn, cotton."

"Ah Lang, this is not a cotton flower, it is a white stacked flower." A gardener tending to the garden reminded me in a whisper.

White stacked flowers? No, this is obviously cotton, how can it be wrong, this is a cotton peach, and there is cotton wool in it.

However, the gardener insisted that this was not cotton, and after talking for a long time, Li Xiao understood that this person was talking about cotton flowers, that is, cotton flowers.

At this time, there was no word for cotton, only cotton. There is no cotton either, only cotton. Cotton is not cotton that can be woven into quilts, but can only be used to fill quilt pillows.

The Tang people called cotton white stacked flowers.

According to the gardener's explanation, this white stacked flower came from the Gaochang Kingdom in the Western Regions.

Gaochang, that was in the Western Regions.

It is said that in Linyi, there are also white stacked flowers, and the king of Zhenla often wears white folded cloth clothes woven from white stacked flowers.

White stacked flowers can weave cloth, and this gardener knows it.

But Li Xiao was a little puzzled, he had been in the Tang Dynasty for a long time, but he didn't seem to have seen cotton, and he remembered that cotton didn't appear in China until the Song Dynasty, and even when it was planted on a large scale in the Ming Dynasty?

How did the Tang Dynasty come into existence?

After careful questioning, I found out that although there were white stacked flowers in this garden, they were planted as ornamental flowers. Moreover, there are few people in the Central Plains who plant white stacked flowers, that is, they can only be seen in the royal gardens and in the back gardens of some princes and nobles.

As for the white stacked cloth woven from white stacked flowers, that is the technology that only Gaochang people have, and the white stacked cloth is actually sold by Gaochang people to Chang'an, but the price is extremely high.

In Gaochang Country, a foot of white cloth is worth 45 yuan, and a piece of cloth is 40 feet, and a piece of cotton cloth is sold for 1,800 yuan in the place of origin, and after those merchants from the Western Regions traveled thousands of miles to Chang'an, the price has increased several times.

Often a piece of white cloth is sold for thousands of dollars, and the price is more expensive than silk silk made of silk.

Therefore, in Chang'an City, those who wear cotton clothes are actually richer and more powerful than those who wear silk clothes, and ordinary people really can't afford to wear cotton clothes.