In the twelfth year of the Tang Dynasty, Abdure, who had stayed in Chang'an for ten years, was finally about to embark on the journey back to his hometown.

Dressed in a Confucian robe, Abdul Re changed his name to Ai Ren five years earlier, officially broke the door and apostasy, and began to accept the Confucian doctrine of China. Compared with his original religion, which was often threatened with fire and death, the Confucian benevolence, Taoist inaction, and the theory of tolerance and balance throughout the Tang Dynasty's schools of thought are the real wisdom.

"It's too much, so it's abandoned." When other cannibals asked him why he had broken the door and apostasy, Ai Ren replied.

The identity of the person who said goodbye to him is also a little special, it is Kim Heon-young, the old king of Silla.

Compared with ten years ago, Jin Xianying's whole person looks white and fat, and she is obviously blessed.

"This has taken countless times, forgive me, you have to take care. I heard that in your hometown, the people are fierce and the teachings are strict, you must not leave the Tang Dynasty sergeant guard! ”

"Your Highness, just rest assured, I am accompanied by Du Honglu as an envoy adviser on this trip, accompanied by eight gunboats, twelve warships, and ten cargo ships, with a total of 5,000 soldiers - enough to destroy a country, my hometown is a big food, although it is also a big country, but I dare not fight the Tang Dynasty, it is difficult for me."

Jin Xianying smiled, as the head of a country, he was a little unimpressed by this. At the beginning, he also knew about Datang Tianwei, but wasn't he convicted of Datang.

looked around, and saw that the envoy of this trip, Du Fu, who was over sixty years old, was saying goodbye to a person.

Ten years ago, Du Fu left the "Minbao", was recruited by Ye Chang, and entered the officialdom. In ten years, he rose from a small Lang official to Hongluqing, one of the nine secretaries today, taking over Li Bai's position and taking charge of diplomatic affairs, and a young man named Gu Gu began to take charge of the chief writer of the Minbao. This trip to Dashi is not only to promote the prestige of the country, but also to open up the trade route to Europa, which is very important, so he personally asked for his life, Ye Chang originally thought that he was not allowed to be old, but he insisted on asking him, and the doctor also said for him that he was in very good health, so he agreed.

The one who saw him off was Li Bai, who was already in his prime.

Old friend of the year, Li Ji died early, Gao Shi died suddenly when he was the secretary of the Ministry of War, died in office, Wang Changling was old and bad at walking, Cen Shen was in the prime of life, and now he is serving as the secretary of the Ministry of War, and is accompanying Ye Chang, so only Li Bai came to see Du Fu off.

"It's a pity, it's a pity, Gong Ye advised me to go to the office earlier, otherwise, I would have to rob you of this envoy position!" Li Bai raised his wine glass, wishing Du Fu a smooth journey, while still feeling unfair.

Li Bai is mentally and physically fine, but after all, he is over seventy years old, so Ye Chang persuaded him and Wei Jiansu to retire last year. In fact, it is the reform of the personnel system launched by Ye Chang, including the retirement system, the tenure system, and the normal promotion and evaluation system.

However, for these retired officials, Ye Chang did not hesitate to reward them in the title, for example, Li Bai retired from the second grade of Honglu Siqing, and then took the founding county duke who also came from the second grade as the knight, and specially advanced as the pillar of the Advisory Yuan - in the past few years, in the personnel system, Ye Chang is drastic, increasing the twelve Shangshu to fifteen, and his rank is raised to the second grade, and the number of Jiuqing remains unchanged, and the rank is from the second grade. None of the incumbent officials will be given knighthoods, and only after retirement will they be given knighthoods. In fact, it is to allow those retired senior officials to still enjoy some of the benefits they received when they were in office, such as honor guards and salaries, so as to reduce their resistance to the tenure system and the retirement system, and also to prevent them from going crazy before retirement.

To know that the official position is not hereditary, the title can be hereditary for three generations, but each generation is reduced by one grade, like Li Bai's founding county duke, when his son can be the county marquis, and his grandson is the county uncle. Whoever has a knighthood can receive an income from the imperial court that is not inferior to the hourly salary of the office.

"Taibai Gong, now that I am famous, I am not, I have no experience in the local office, it is always a regret of my life, and now I only have ideas to make meritorious contributions." Du Fu said with a smile: "I heard that Yunnan Dao is still thinking about the benefit of Taibai Gong!" ”

In the past ten years, the population of Datang has grown rapidly, and now it has exceeded 10,000, and Yunnan is one of the fastest growing places in terms of population. Li Bai was in charge of Yunnan's civil affairs after Gao Shi was promoted to the center, and the local people remembered his move to persuade farmers to help orphans. Nowadays, the population of Yunnan is breeding, the local barbarians have been naturalized and registered, plus the immigrants who moved here to open up plantations such as pepper, sugarcane, cotton, etc., the population has exceeded three million, so Ye Chang will create a unique one, for Yunnan Province.

This is also thanks to the promotion of corn and potatoes, the Tang Dynasty is not without natural disasters in the past ten years, but there is no famine, the price of grain is cheap, even in Yunnan, Qianzhong Road is not suitable for planting rice, wheat and sorghum, can also be planted, and the yield is large, Wang Changling only with this work, the name of the history, is considered to be the second person after Shennong.

The merit in front of him, the name behind him, and the importance of the literati lie in this. The inscription written by Ye Chang when he inspected Guozijian can be said to have become the ambition of every literati in this era.

"If you are willing to take charge of the ruling side and go to the place earlier, will your achievements be lower than mine?" When Li Bai said this, he suddenly saw the honor guard of the brigade coming, and immediately smiled: "King Wei is here!" ”

Ye Chang was already a little old, but when he walked, he was still walking with a tiger, Du Fu looked at him, Li Bai smiled: "Do you see the young man led by King Wei?" ”

Walking with Ye Chang was a young man, who was very strong and vigorous, and Du Fu had naturally seen it. This person was wearing the uniform of the forbidden army, but he was about twenty years old, and Du Fu remembered that he was a general of the guard arranged for the mission.

"What's wrong?"

"That's the old man, do you remember the barbarian girl who didn't let her eyebrows go?"

"The King of Dali?" Du Fu thought for a while, and then said in surprise: "This Mu Xun is her son, isn't it that he has never heard her marry, is he an heir?" ”

The king of Dali is the barbarian girl Ashima of the year, after the glorious Ding Ge, in order to establish a model of naturalization, she was named the king of Dali by Shou'an. Of course, this is a hypocrisy, and in fact there is no power to interfere with practice. This woman has not been married for many years, and with her identity, it is not easy to marry. Du Fu is in Honglu Temple, and he has very little intersection with her, if it weren't for the fact that this Mu Xun looks quite similar to his mother, I'm afraid I won't be able to guess his identity.

"Naturally, he is his own son, in short, you take care of this kid, he is an ambitious person, I originally brought it into Chang'an, and he never used his mother's merit to swagger."

Li Bai babbled and instructed, but Du Fu was more and more surprised in his heart, the king of Dali County was not officially married, if this kid is his biological son, who will his biological father be?

looked at Li Bai and Mu Xun, Li Bai has been in Yunnan for many years, and his relationship with the king of Dali is quite good, could it be this? It looks a bit like that......

But seeing Ye Chang leading Mu Xun over, and his eldest son standing on the other side of Ye Chang, the eldest son and Mu Xun's appearance were also similar, Du Fu's heart jumped suddenly...... At the beginning, the relationship between Ashima and Ye Chang was also very good, Ye Chang held Mu Xun's hand like this, could it be that Ye Chang was his biological father?

Du Fu felt like a little mouse scratching in his heart, and he wanted to know the answer to this question very much, but he also understood that the answer to Zhilu Dao might not be beneficial, so he could only forcibly suppress his curiosity and face Ye Chang with Li Bai.

"Zimei, many things on this trip depend on you to preside, and I don't worry about your insight and courage, but this time there are mostly young people in the entourage, and they are prone to causing trouble, and you need to hold the rudder for them, don't make too much trouble." Letting go of Mu Xun's hand, Ye Chang said to Du Fu with a smile.

Du Fu understood what he meant, and responded with a smile: "Your Highness, rest assured, the lower officials must be careful." ”

"The train is about to leave, I won't delay you, Mu Xun, Du Gong is my old friend in my early years, and in the next few major events, Du Gong did not care about his safety and contributed to me, you have to respect him like an elder."

"Yes." That Mu Xun replied briefly.

"Take advantage of your youth, see more and see the outside, one day, you will go outside for Datang to open up the territory." After instructing Mu Xun, Ye Chang turned to the rest of the young sergeants, and he raised his voice and said, just a simple sentence made everyone's blood boil.

"Your Highness is late." After Du Fu and the others boarded the car, Li Bai took Ye Chang's hand and said with a smile.

This guy has a bold and uninhibited temperament, and he has been an official for many years, and he is still like this. Ye Chang smiled bitterly: "Do you think I want to be late, this time I sent two batches of people at the same time, Zimei's side is better, I have been groping for so many years on the sea route of Dashi, there is no problem for a long time, but if I go to the east, there will be a lot of trouble!" ”

Li Bai naturally knew about this matter, and the people sent by this special train were not only Du Fu and his party.

It has been 12 years since Shou'an ascended to the throne, and it has been 10 years since the train appeared in Datang, which is now a country of extreme mercantilism, and merchants are very keen to open up new markets and find new raw materials and crop production areas. The legend of Wang Yuanbao's subordinate fleet, the popularity of corn and potatoes, made these merchants realize that on the other side of the sea, to the east of the ocean, there was a vast and fertile continent. The most important thing is that that continent has the market and products that Datang needs.

The imperial court and Ye Chang himself have never given up the exploration of that continent, and Ye Chang has even offered a reward of one million yuan to reward those who can successfully reach that continent and find a safe route. This bounty has been hung up since ten years ago, because it is endorsed by the imperial court, and only the most stupid liars dare to make up lies in an attempt to cheat the bounty, and more importantly, the merchants who were impressed by the million-dollar bounty and the huge benefits that could be foreseen after the discovery of the new route, they bought ships and hired people, and began to look for the land of the East.

Li Bai once heard Liu Yan comment with a smile that the reward of one million guan for King Wei had not been issued, and the profit of the shipbuilding orders received by Lushun Shipyard from these merchants had already exceeded one million guan.

This reward was not taken lightly after being proposed once, and since then, Ye Chang has repeatedly repeated this reward in public, and its amount has also increased from one million guan to three million guan later. The example of corn and potatoes in the world has also made people of insight in Datang realize what kind of benefits can be brought to Datang if they can find crops that are comparable, so no one thinks that this is a waste of money and labor.

After the failure of the initial voyage to the east, the merchants began to study other routes, especially the routes of the late Wang Yuanbao and his fleet. Since there is no way to repeat their journey eastward, it is also a way to find the answer from their way back. Thus, from the fifth year of the Qianyuan Dynasty, a series of important seafaring achievements began to emerge, first a fleet of three seagoing ships went south, although they were not able to continue eastward, but brought with them the spices, precious wood, ivory and rhino horn of the South Seas, and other goods, and the owners of the ships made a fortune. Then, from the Nanyang Islands to the east, to the south, islands were discovered, in the seventh year of the Qianyuan Dynasty, Wang Qinian's fleet found a land in the Nanyang further south, after spending more than a month and failing to circle it for a week, they judged that this land was not an island, but a continent, and Wang Qinian got the right to name this continent. He named it after him with the word "Qi" in his name, calling it Nan Qizhou. In the tenth year of the Qianyuan Dynasty, a fleet finally set off from the easternmost tip of the Nanyang Islands, and with the help of ocean currents and west winds, after sailing for forty days, crossed the ocean and arrived at the place where Ye Chang was rewarded.

When the fleet returned, it brought with them the local natives, and even a sailor left behind from Wang Yuanbao's ship. As promised, Ye Chang issued a reward of 3 million guan on the day the ship's owner arrived in Chang'an, and the shipowner did not hesitate to use 2 million guan to book a new ship - it is said that he found a very shallow gold mine on that new land!

After confirming the route, Ye Chang began to prepare an expedition organized by the imperial court, nominally to proclaim the prestige of the country and make trade profits, but in fact to do a preliminary investigation of the property, and introduce or buy some of the products that might be useful to the Tang Dynasty. The leader of this expedition team is Lu Yu - a small tea shop guy at the beginning, and now he has become a naturalist in the Tang Dynasty, who has traveled south and north for nearly 20 years, allowing him to accumulate rich knowledge of naturalism.

Compared with Du Fu and his party, what Lu Yu and they did was more worrying, so Ye Chang saw them off first, and then came to see Du Fu off.

Seeing that Du Fu and the others boarded the train, sticking their heads out of the window, and waving goodbye to the officials and relatives who saw them off, Ye Chang suddenly felt a little lost in his heart.

"This train is really a good thing, although it has been around for ten years, I still feel like a dream...... Li Bai said beside him: "Ten years and two thousand miles of rails...... Tsk, now it only takes three or five days to go to Beihai! ”

At this time, the train, compared with the later generations of trains, the load is light, the weight is also light, so its track laying is easier, only ten years, on the basis of the original track track, the track was laid from Chang'an to Beihai.

"Yes, Ha Luha, I think Brother Taibai, you are still in good health, and you can take the train more in the past few years." Ye Chang held back the trace of loss in his heart, turned his face, and looked at this great poet: "Then go back to Beijing to recuperate, let's strive to live a few more years, and see what this world will become!" ”

"It would be nice if Duff and they were still alive......" Li Bai looked into the distance, the train had already started, and he sighed with emotion.

He had a feeling in his heart that Ye Chang was the locomotive of the train, and Datang was the carriage of the train.

Where will this car pull the car?

No matter where he pulls it, it must be a prosperous Tang Dynasty that he can't depict even if he uses poetry!