In November of the fourth year of Huichang, Li Chen's Flying Fish followed Suleiman to get two ships and went to sea together. The three ships of the www.biquge.info of their group sailed to Guangzhou first, and after replenishing supplies in Guangzhou, they set sail on the Maritime Silk Road under the courtesy of the city's ship.

For the courtesy of the city envoys, Li Chen was slightly impressed by the officials of the Tang Dynasty, this official of Guangzhou in the Tang Dynasty really has a bit of the style of later generations, does not put on a show, and treats the maritime merchants who can promote local prosperity and increase the revenue of the treasury.

Although the purpose behind it is to hope that the maritime merchants will come to Guangzhou more so that they can collect taxes, it is still commendable for being so faithful.

Haha, how can they be so faithful. For Li Chen's opinion, Suleiman laughed, "Remember, don't be stingy when you register to go to sea in the future." Otherwise, they can get stuck in your life. ’

'Greetings. He's sending his money bag on a voyage. Suleiman was even more disdainful of the courtesy, "If it weren't for a certain family to inquire about the news, Abdullah gave a heavy gift to the city envoy, and to delay the trip of a certain family, a certain family would not have been so polite." ’

The city envoy, for the sake of this, moved his buttocks and came to this dock for a walk. On weekdays, if it weren't for the sea ships entering the port, he wouldn't have come. ’

Li Chen listened to the black lines all over his head, it turned out that this was the case behind the scenes. He also thought that the officials of the Tang Dynasty had this self-consciousness, and it seemed that they still had to wait until the Song Dynasty.

I heard that the Song Dynasty, especially the Southern Song Dynasty, attached great importance to maritime trade, and whenever maritime merchants went out and entered the port, they would set up banquets to entertain and send them off warmly. I thought that the Tang Dynasty also had this set, but it seems that there is still a bit of a gap with the Song Dynasty.

The Tang Dynasty sea trade really didn't pay enough attention, so let's take this city envoy as an example, and the envoy was set up in the Kaiyuan period of Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty. Responsible for the registration of entry and exit and the collection of taxes.

History textbooks say that the first city of the Tang Dynasty was established in Guangzhou, and then in the Song Dynasty, it was set up in several other places, such as Mingzhou, Hangzhou, Quanzhou and other places. When Li Chen arrived in Guangzhou, he learned that there was no city division at all. In the Tang Dynasty, there was no such institution as the City Ship Division, only the City Ship Envoy.

You said, there is the title of city envoy, of course there is an organization. Not necessarily! In the Tang Dynasty, a bunch of envoys hung this kind of envoy to indicate that he was a new post that was not based on the original structure of the government and was added for some purpose.

Like Jiedu, this position was in place in the early Tang Dynasty, but it did not become permanent from temporary as it did later. Originally, it was temporarily established for a certain military need, and then it disappeared. And the same goes for the city envoys.

As mentioned earlier, there were not so many people in the Tang Dynasty who went to the sea to do business, and they still adopted that kind of tributary system. Every year, ships enter in the name of tribute and trade. When he arrived in Xuanzong, he temporarily sent a lieutenant official to manage these matters.

In the Song Dynasty, because there were more people going to sea to do business, the city shipping department was officially established to manage these sea affairs. For example, if you enter the port and go to sea, you must go through the registration of the city shipping department before counting. And there was only one place in Guangzhou in the Tang Dynasty, which gave Li Chen a little idea.

Not to mention any ideas, it was all after coming back, after supplying fresh water from Guangzhou, the three ships officially sailed on the Maritime Silk Road. This article was gradually developed after the Tang Dynasty lost its hegemony in the Western Regions. The whole journey is about more than 10,000 kilometers, passing through more than 30 countries and regions on the way, and the whole voyage takes more than three months from Guangzhou to Tianfang.

I endured hardships along the way, life at sea was very dull, every day was water, every day was the same sea and sky, and it was boring to watch it for a long time. When I first boarded the boat, there were many children who vomited and fainted for several days.

And because of the epidemic brought about by long-term sailing, they didn't encounter any scurvy, but because it was too wet, all athlete's foot and eczema got on their bodies.

Inside the cabin, the air was unbearable, stinking and salty, and I didn't know if there were fish brought into the cabin by sailors, or who was picking Hong Kong's feet.

The only good thing is that there are no storms at this time, and the voyage is relatively smooth. The only hope is to see the port as soon as possible.

On board, everyone is very busy. But in addition to being busy, it also opened Li Chen's eyes, he always thought that today Fang Du has been unified by the ****** religion, but in fact, no, the entire Southeast Asian region, countries are all over the country.

It can't be said that there is no reunification, at least the ****** religion is about to unify here. Many countries, large and small, have converted to the Koran with the sword in the right hand of the ****** and the Koran in the left hand. Buddhism, which was originally prevalent here, has slowly declined, and along the way, you can see that many buildings that were supposed to be Buddhist temples have been added to the emblem of ****** religion. This situation worries Li Chen, but he is powerless to change anything at present.

Three months later, they landed in the country of Tirolu. Its location, judging by the map, is probably at the bottom of today's Persian Gulf, the location of Abadan. They traded and supplied along the way, and landed here to transport porcelain, silk, gold, silver, and bronze handicrafts from China, as well as spices from Southeast Asia, to Basra, a few days away, by camel caravans.

After arriving in Basra, they also had to buy local products here, so Suleiman suggested going further inland to Baghdad, the economic, cultural, political, religious, academic and transportation center of the ****** people.

But after Li Chen considered the distance, he didn't go, and went straight to Basra to buy goods, such as delicate Persian carpets, sharp Damascus swords, and spices such as frankincense and myrrh.

Then, they came back sooner than everyone expected. At the beginning of June, after returning to Guangzhou, after paying the city tax, after seven or eight days, he returned to the sea off Yangzhou, and connected all the commodities to the shore by small boats.

If it weren't for Uncle's delay along the way, we could have come back earlier than the others. Xiaohu said. It took seven months before and after, and when this time was long, Li Chen swore that he would never go to sea in the future, never go to sea again, and even he didn't even want to take a boat.

This time is already shorter than that of other sea vessels, and others will not be able to return until July, and August or even September if they are slower.

And there will be such results, mainly because of the hard work along the way, there are results. When he came, Li Chen followed Suleiman's path, or rather, most of the maritime merchants ran like this. But Li Chen asked Huang Tiansheng and Yixin to take a group of children, diligently measured the latitude and longitude, coastline, and drew a nautical chart.

When they return, they will not be like others at all, they can only walk on the experience, and they don't even know where they are. They can follow the sea breeze and take the shortest or fastest path without worrying about getting lost.

Because of such a background, and after a short rest, they were able to eat the wind in all directions with a hard sail and go to sea in advance, so they were able to return ahead of schedule.

If it weren't for Li Chen's collection of needed seeds on the road, or utensils and the like, the trip would have been delayed. They could have come back another month earlier.

They returned to Mingzhou in June of the fifth year of Huichang, and returned to Yangzhou half a month later. As soon as he returned to Yangzhou, Fubo brought him good news.

Fu Bo told Li Chen that in the first month of spring this year, the emperor built Wangxiantai in the southern suburbs, 'just to build a platform?' Is it necessary to be nervous? Li Chen said strangely.

If it's just an ordinary platform, the question is who let His Majesty build it. Fu Bo said coldly, "It's Zhao Guizhen." ’

'Zhao Guizhen? Twenty years ago, when Emperor Xiao was in and out of the forbidden school. ''And then?'' Twenty years ago, he went in and out of the forbidden middle school to help Emperor Xiao refine the elixir of immortality. ’

Li Chen's brows jumped when he heard this, it was alchemy again, do you want to die, "Wait a minute, this Emperor Xiao seems to have been killed by the eunuch." Emperor Xiaoxiao is Jingzong, the shortest-lived emperor in the history of the Tang Dynasty. Li Chen remembered that he was killed left and right because of his mistreatment of the palace people.

'Zhao Guizhen was recommended by the group of traitors to enter the palace. Fu Bo revealed another secret, "Originally, they wanted to instigate the emperor to make alchemy, and played with fire and set themselves on fire, but as a result, because the emperor was so filial piety..." ’

Speaking of this, Fu Bo didn't know what to say, in fact, he didn't need to say that Li Chen also knew. Her nephew is so good at tossing that he can't wait for him to take pills and commit suicide. They were probably afraid that if they continued to be tortured like this, they would die before the emperor died.

In fact, in May of the third year of Huichang, a temple of Wangxian had already been built in the palace. Fauberd's voice grew colder, 'Do you remember what happened in June of that year?' ', Huichang three years in June? Li Chen thought for a moment and exclaimed, 'Could it be Qiu Shiliang? ’

Fu Bo nodded, Li Chen gritted his teeth, the matter was very clear, Qiu Shiliang was forced to retreat in June, probably because there were rumors before, or rather, Qiu Shiliang probably felt bad. So, he recommended Zhao Guizhen to the emperor...

'These dog eunuchs. Li Chen's face was gloomy, and he scolded the eunuch on the surface, but in fact, he even scolded the emperor in his heart, what are you doing, one is stupid, does the elixir of immortality have this kind of charm? Li Chen remembered that it seemed that nearly half of the emperors of this Tang Dynasty were superstitious about the elixir of immortality, was this a defect in Li Tang's bloodline? So obsessed with this kind of thing.

Don't talk about the current emperor, even the wise and martial arts Tang Taizong was superstitious in his later years. Li Chen really wants to scold people, if there is really an elixir of immortality, I am afraid that Qin Shi Huang is still alive now, and there is a majestic and majestic first emperor, and the Li family is probably still farming, what kind of elixir.

'How much longer?' ''I'm afraid it won't be too far, as short as half a year, as long as a year.'' Li Chen was silent, before he went to sea, Fu Bo predicted to him that the current emperor would not die soon, and he still didn't believe it, but now it seems that this emperor will really die.

'Let's get ready. Li Chen said in a deep voice, "I have gained a lot from coming back this time, and I must digest it well." ’

After he repaired for half a year, Li Chen embarked on the road to Chang'an. Begin his path to the Emperor. (To be continued.) )