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Outside Chang'an City, Ten Mile Pavilion. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

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 the receiving ambassador, Du He led a ticket from the Ministry of Rites and waited for the messenger.

The envoys who came with them had already lined up to greet them, and they were in full order. Du He 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.

Du He didn't eat this, he pretended to be a freshman, didn't 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, Du He belonged to the youngest, but no one said anything about his intervention. Just because the Ministry of Rites Shangshu is Du He's quasi-father-in-law, Li Daozong, the king of Jiangxia County, and the people behind him are all shrimp soldiers and crab generals under Li Daozong. In the face of the son-in-law of the top boss, who will make a small report without fun.

Du He is lazy, and he also steals without fear.

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

When Du He 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 very large.

His eyesight is much better than ordinary people, and he has already found Zhao Hui, Li Yi, Wang Xuance and others walking in front of the crowd, and there are many characters dressed in different races following behind.

He came to the front of the army and pretended to have been 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.

When the other party came closer, Du He greeted him.

"On the orders of my Tang Emperor, Duhe hereby greets distinguished guests from afar." Du He has made up for this kind of etiquette more and more these days, and his 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 Du He is relatively young, they have already suffered a loss, and they dare not take anything lightly: when they were in Jiangnan, they disliked Li Ke for being too young, and felt that the Tang Dynasty had underestimated them, and they were a little displeased. After the introduction, he found out that the other party was actually the emperor's son, and he made a big red face.

Although Du He is young, his bearing is not inferior to Li Ke at all, how dare he take anything lightly?

The messenger of the Great Food Country, Ouster, was even more changed, and stepped forward in surprise, and came to Du He, and with admiration, he said a lot of things in a mumbled voice, very excited.

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

Ouster spoke Arabic, and Du He was confused, but he vaguely heard a few words of the word "Du He", and looked at the unusually tall "yellow orangutan" in front of him in confusion and yelled, looking at Zhao Hui, Li Yi, and Wang Xuance who came together.

Li Yi, who had the highest status, gave a look to a person from the Western Regions beside him.

This is far away from the Tang Dynasty and sent to other countries, and the language barrier is the biggest problem.

Li Yi and Wang Xuance have already hired a group of translators who are proficient in Chinese and Arabic.

After explanation, it was understood.

It turned out that the name of Duhe had spread to the Arab Empire and the Byzantine Empire.

It's not because of his brilliant military exploits, but when he first established diplomatic relations with Da Shiguo, that is, when Li Shimin was born, he fought lions.

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.

Spartacus was the champion of the Colosseum, killing the liger with his bare hands, and looking at the West, there are very few who can do this.

In their West, the lion is a symbol of bravery and bravery, but Duhe has played with the fierce lion and his feet, and the name of bravery has long been spread throughout the West.

Spartacus also frankly admitted that in terms of martial arts, it was not as good as Du He.

Spartacus is not the strongest in the West, but it is also in the top 10. Doesn't it mean that the West is invincible?

Therefore, Du He'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 man is Duhe.

Du He's self-reported name, those messengers who have heard of the name for a long time are naturally very excited, and they can't imagine that before they arrived in Chang'an, they met this legendary character, and naturally they want to show their admiration.

When Du He 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.

Entering Chang'an City, Du He's face twitched stiffly, and he had the feeling of leading Grandma Liu into the Grand View Garden.

Compared with the royal cities of the Arab Empire and the Byzantine Empire, Chang'an, the largest metropolis in the world, is really amazing.

The envoy of the Great Food Country, Oster, is the caliph of the Great Food Country, that is, the younger brother of the Emperor Umar, the messenger of the Byzantine Empire, and the second son of their emperor, called Valens, they are all big people who have seen the world, but at this moment, like the hillbillies who entered the city, the scale of Chang'an City was stunned and speechless.

"It's great, it's a miracle for Allah......" Oster exclaimed as he walked down the busy street.

"No, it's a gift from God, only God has such power......" Valence had the same expression, but refuted Oster's words.

"You are right to Allah, the greatest insult ......" Oster's eyes reddened.

Valence also rolled up his sleeves and said, "You are the greatest disrespect to God......

The two are like children, talking and touching each other's bottom line.

The Arab Empire and the Byzantine Empire are adjacent to each other, of which the Arab Empire believes in Islam, while the Byzantine Empire is the most religious religion. Relations between the two countries are also not good, because the Arab Empire is strong, which has occupied Syria and Palestine in the Byzantine Empire, and is on the opposite side.

It's just that the caliph of the Arab Empire, Umar, wants to deal with the Sassanid Empire, and it will not invade the Byzantine Empire. But the hatred between them did not stop because of this. Along the way, they mocked each other a lot.

Du He understood what had happened from the translator's mouth, laughed again, and a sense of absurdity rose in his heart again. There is indeed an essential difference between the East and the West, especially in terms of faith. Since ancient times, there has been no shortage of spiritual leaders in China, such as Taoist Lao Tzu, Buddhist Bodhisattva, Rulai, etc., but these beliefs are not blind.

However, the West is different, they have a blind mood for faith, and in the hearts of the vast majority of people, their faith is even higher than that of the emperor, and the power of religion is more sovereign than that of an emperor.

This is the key to Duhe's thoughts, as an Oriental, that he can't figure out.

Regarding the dispute between the two, Du He said proudly: "It is not Allah of Islam who created this miracle, let alone the God of the world, but my Chinese people." ”

After the translation conveyed, Oster and Valence stopped the "Allah and God" argument, and they were even more amazed.

The Tang Dynasty as they know it is just a mysterious country, rich and powerful. They don't know the greatness of Li Shimin, they don't know the history of China, and they don't know that the Tang Dynasty has today, and the time is not the work of one generation of dynasties, but more of the accumulation of thousand-year-old culture. I only feel that the Tang Dynasty is great, amazing, and I admire it even more in my heart.

Du He introduced Chang'an City to them, but when they heard that the population of Chang'an City was as high as one million, they were all speechless in shock.

The biggest feature of the West is that it is vast and sparsely populated, and this kind of city with a population of one million seems to them to be like a dream. When Rome was at its peak, the royal city was far behind.

Hillbillies came into town, and it was far more than Oster and Valens.

Xuanyuantian, who came all the way from Goguryeo, is also one of them.

Goguryeo is far inferior to the Arab Empire and the Byzantine Empire, but their arrogant temperament is like Yelang back then, no one is in their eyes, and Xuanyuan Tian is also slightly affected, thinking that although the Tang Dynasty is stronger than Goguryeo, it will not be so strong.

It wasn't until I went south and saw it with my own eyes that I understood the gap, and I said: "The royal city of Goguryeo, compared with the royal city of the Tang Dynasty, is the distance between the toad and the swan...... Those toads often thought of killing Liaodong, invading the Central Plains, competing with the Tang Dynasty, and taking the fertile land of the south as their own. My mother, it takes a lot of courage and stupid brains to shout this slogan. ”

As Xuanyuan Tian, who has been instilled with the idea of Han supremacy since childhood, he is also proud of his country being so strong at this moment.

Walking on Suzaku Street, Xuanyuan Tian thought about how he should meet the Tang Emperor. Although he didn't know much about the system of the Tang Dynasty, he also knew that the emperor who was high above was not his identity, and he could see it whenever he wanted. I had to think of a way, my mind was racing, and suddenly I noticed that there was some commotion behind me, so I paused, and looked back, a column of soldiers separated from the people in the middle of the road, escorting a group of Westerners in different costumes towards the palace.

Chang'an extends in all directions, and the flow of information is rapid. When the Western envoys such as Auster and Valence forced into Chang'an, the news spread.

There is a lot of talk about what you know and what you don't know.

Xuanyuan Tian listened to a footman beside him: "Those are the envoys of the Great Food Country and the Great Qin Kingdom, they are really different from us, look at that block, and that golden retriever, just like a monkey." Or our Central Plains people are good-looking, chic and dignified, especially General Du, who is a model among men, if there is him, I don't have to worry about finding my mother-in-law. "He felt a little self-pitying.

Xuanyuan Tian's heart moved, and he said secretly: "General Du, is it the Du He who defeated Hou Junji?" His gaze fell on Duhe's back, thoughtful.