Three days passed in a flash, and the envoys of various countries gathered together and came to Chang'an City, the capital of the Tang Dynasty, the metropolis of the world. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Outside Chang'an City, Ten Mile Pavilion.

Ten miles to greet each other, this is the highest greeting etiquette in ancient times.

In ancient times, basically every large city ten miles away would have a monument-like pavilion to sign.

As an envoy to greet him, Qin Feng is not a novice on the road, before, he also had an experience of greeting him, and he will not be ignorant of everything, anyway, he is just going through the motions, and the etiquette in all aspects is naturally arranged properly by the Ministry of Etiquette.

Qin Feng, as the reception ambassador, led a ticket from the Ministry of Rites, waiting for the envoy. The envoys who came with them had already lined up to greet them, and they were in full order. Qin Feng pried Erlang's legs, sat in the pavilion, humming a little song idlely, polishing time. According to common sense, he, the receiving ambassador, should play an exemplary role, lead the welcoming army, and respectfully wait for the envoy to come.

Qin Feng didn't eat this, he pretended not to understand the rules, sat and waited leisurely, planning to wait for the other party to arrive, and then get up and make a show. Among the messengers who greeted him, Qin Feng belonged to the youngest, but no one said anything gossip about his intervention. Just because Qin Feng is a saint, he is not only the youngest general in the Tang Dynasty, but also the double horse of today's saints, isn't it looking for a draw to sue him? Besides, Qin Feng's eloquence is notoriously powerful, if he is targeted, it is estimated that there will be no good life to live. Therefore, everyone turned a blind eye to Qin Feng's informality.

With the "connivance" of his colleagues, Qin Feng is lazy, and he is also fearless.

"Coming, coming......" The sharp-eyed official of the Ministry of Rites noticed that a very large team was slowly approaching from afar.

When Qin Feng heard the situation, he raised his eyes and looked, and sure enough, there was a large group of people riding horses, and the scale was extremely large. His eyesight was much better than that of ordinary people, and he came to the front of the army at the speed of a flying man, pretending to be waiting for a long time. The ministers who stood behind him with numb feet all rolled their eyes, with a little envy in their slander.

After the other party came closer, Qin Feng greeted him.

"On the orders of my Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, Qin Feng hereby greets the distinguished guests from afar." Qin Feng's every move is natural, neither humble nor arrogant, which shows the hospitable side of the Tang Dynasty and the bearing and demeanor of the Tang Dynasty.

Even the ministers of the Ministry of Rites, who were used to doing this kind of thing, were secretly surprised.

Seeing that he was so honored, he also felt faced.

Although Qin Feng was relatively young, they didn't dare to underestimate it.

Although Qin Feng is young, his bearing, completely surpassing the princes and princes of various countries, how dare he take anything lightly?

When Qin Feng finished introducing himself, the faces of some envoys from the Western Regions changed even more, and they all stepped forward in surprise and came to Qin Feng.

The envoys of the Arab Empire and the Byzantine Empire also changed color and stepped forward to express their friendship.

Muhammad Abedd Aruf Arafat, the envoy of the Arab Empire, spoke in ancient Arabic, Qin Feng only heard it in a daze, and only vaguely heard a few words such as "Qin Feng", "Hero" and "Lightning God", and looked at the unusually tall and yelling bearded man in front of him in puzzlement, and looked at the Datang greeters who came together.

The highest-ranking greeter gave a look to a Westerner beside him. For this visiting foreign guest, Datang, who is preparing to restart the Silk Road after the year, attaches great importance to communicating with foreign people, and words are the biggest obstacle.

In order to avoid unnecessary trouble, the Ministry of Rites has already hired a large number of translators who are proficient in Chinese, ancient Greek, Arabic, Turkic, Tibetan and other languages.

It took the translator's explanation to understand.

It turned out that after the glorious achievements of the Turks, the name of Qin Feng had spread to the Arab Empire and the Byzantine Empire.

Before the Eastern Turks were destroyed, they could be called the first power in ancient Asia, and the Western Turks, which were established by another branch of them, under the leadership of their most outstanding Great Khan Ye Hu, extended their reach to the Arab world. But when the Western Turks were at their strongest, they were still not the opponents of the Eastern Turks, and their fear of the Eastern Turks was well known, otherwise, they would not have thought of uniting the Western Regions to jointly attack the Eastern Turks with the Tang Dynasty at the beginning. But at the beginning, people were different, and everyone regarded the Eastern Turks as beasts, and in the end, under the threat of the Eastern Turks, the alliance was stillborn before it was realized. However, the prestige of the Eastern Turks also grew.

But it was this behemoth that made Datang easily annihilated, and what was even more shocking was that this battle to destroy the country, Datang took less than two months, and the strength of Datang can be imagined.

Under the prestige of the Tang Dynasty, all the countries trembled, and they sent envoys to explore the reality of the Tang Dynasty in the name of worship and tribute, to explore the national policy of the Tang Dynasty, and to find out which unlucky ghost the next target of the Tang Dynasty was.

In the battle of annihilation of the Turks, Li Jing, the commander of the three armies, and Li Ji, the commander of the Right Route Army, were not well-known in the grassland, although they performed extremely well in the war to destroy the Turks, they did not attract much attention from the steppe people. {

Although the major states have been more or less influenced by the culture of the Central Plains and the Western Regions, they have opened up wisdom and know the importance of knowledge. But the brave and ruthless blood in their bones still exists. It is their habit to emphasize warriors and ignore scribes, and Li Jing and Li Jizhan are beautiful, but not happy. Qin Feng's style of play won their hearts, and Qin Feng's prestige on the grassland was far superior to Li Jing and Li Ji.

Therefore, when the envoys of various countries knew that the handsome civil official in front of them was the famous Qin Feng, they were shocked one after another.

They stared at Qin Feng one by one with round eyes, and it was really hard to believe that such a seemingly weak character could be the legendary evil star, the figure who could not find the north of the Turks. And when some people who knew Achilles saw him standing on Qin Feng's side as a guard, they were even more shocked.

Although the Great Food Country is the strongest in the West, it still belongs to a slave society, advocating fists and strength. This was especially true of the Byzantine Empire, which inherited the customs of the Roman Empire and was most fond of the barbaric sport of beasts.

Achilles was the champion of the Colosseum, killing the lion and tiger with his bare hands, and looking at the West, there are very few who can do this. However, the legend says that Achilles made an Oriental named Qin Feng surrender, and when everyone came to their senses, their eyes were even more full of awe when they looked at Qin Feng. Achilles may be the strongest in the West, but he can also make it into the top 10. Such a warrior made Qin Feng easily submit, doesn't it mean that there is no one in the West who is invincible?

Therefore, Qin Feng's fame is even greater, in the eyes of Westerners, they don't know that the Tang Dynasty has a great emperor, but they know that the Tang Dynasty has an incomparably brave warrior.

This person is Qin Feng.

Qin Feng reported to his home, and those messengers who had heard of the name for a long time were naturally very excited, and they didn't expect that before they arrived in Chang'an, they met this legendary character, and naturally they wanted to show their admiration.

When Qin Feng heard this explanation, he couldn't help but laugh dumbly, he didn't expect that his fame had spread to the West, so he smiled politely and dealt with a few words, and led everyone to Chang'an to meet Li Shimin.

The welcome envoys of the Tang Dynasty glanced at each other, and admired Li Shimin's foresight, they were civil officials, and they were not provoked by these barbarians along the way, and now as soon as Qin Feng came forward, he made these barbarians as obedient as kittens. While everyone breathed a sigh of relief, they also held their heads high, and they were also honored to have such a heroic figure in Datang.

Entering Chang'an City, the envoys from various countries were like hillbillies entering the city, and the scale of Chang'an City was shocked and speechless.

"It's great...... the envoys looked at the magnificent Chang'an and the streets where people came and went, and they were all impressed.

Qin Feng, like a tour guide, proudly introduced: "We have a long history, about 4,000 years ago, with the Central Plains as the center, settlement organizations began to appear and then form a country, and then went through many ethnic blends and dynastic changes, until the formation of a multi-ethnic state of unification. China's territory is vast and there are many ethnic groups, the Chinese people in the pre-Qin period multiplied in the Central Plains, and in the Han Dynasty, the Han nationality was formally formed through cultural integration, laying the foundation of China's main ethnic group. Later, through the integration with the surrounding ethnic groups, a unified multi-ethnic state was gradually formed, and the population continued to rise, and the national population exceeded more than 50 million in the previous dynasties. ”

After the interpreter translated, the envoys were amazed and surprised, and the population of 50 million was an astronomical number that was unattainable for their states.

"Among the 50 million people, excluding the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled, women and children, there are more than 20 million young and strong people, and these young and strong people go to the fields to work in the fields when they are busy with farming, and carry out military training when they are not working, that is to say, in the event of a war, we can raise an army of more than 20 million people at any time, and we can go to the battlefield to fight without deliberate training." Comprehensive national strength is the most important indicator to measure a country's basic national conditions and basic resources, and it is also a comprehensive index to measure a country's economic, political, military, cultural, scientific, technological, educational, human resources, and other strengths.

In the era of cold weapons, human resources are the core of the core, and the large population is the advantage of the Chinese nation since ancient times. A large population means that a large army can be formed, and the sheer number can be daunting.

Sure enough, after listening to Qin I's words, one by one the envoys were only frightened, if an army of more than 20 million people swarmed up, wouldn't it be like locusts crossing the border? Barren? With such a huge number, who would dare to be the enemy of Datang?

The officials of the Tang Dynasty were very impressed by Qin Feng, this seemingly casual introduction, but it reached an unexpected deterrent, just look at the pale faces of the envoys of various countries, you can know the power of these words. However, while everyone is proud to be born in this country, they can't help but feel heartache.

Qin Feng is not wrong in saying the number of people, it is just the statistics of the five years of Emperor Yang of Sui, but Yang Guang was defeated, and the resulting chaos at the end of the Sui Dynasty was too great. Originally, China had a population of 8.9 million households. Because of this turmoil, the number of households in the early Tang Dynasty dropped sharply to more than two million, a full decrease of six or seven million households.

There is no shortage of wise monarchs in the Tang Dynasty, and there are no generals in the Tang Dynasty, and there are thousands of people who can fight alone, but the Tang Dynasty has its own shortcomings. That is, the economic base is poor, and the scarce people are not enough to supply a strong army for a long time.

Also because of the small number of people, the biggest drawback of the early Tang Dynasty was that the economy and agriculture could not come.

This is the biggest problem that restricts the development of Datang. If Li Shimin had gotten along with Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty in front of him would have developed into a terrifying power.