Talas, many people don't know what to say at first sight, let alone this event. The Battle of Talas was a military conflict between the two most powerful empires in the world at that time, the Tang Dynasty and the Arabs, and the battlefield situation was reversed several times, and finally ended in the crushing defeat of the Tang Empire. In this battle, the 20,000 elite troops of the Tang army were annihilated, and only a few thousand fled back to Chang'an, most of whom were captured. Men have innate emotional genes for military and history, and I am no exception. But there is another important reason why I paid special attention to this incident, and he was the captured secretary of the Tang Army: Du Huan.

The first person who knew Du Huan was in a history textbook in high school, when he talked about China's four major inventions, he mentioned him, saying that he traveled to Central Asia, West Asia and North Africa, and was the first Chinese in history to visit Morocco. There are not many descriptions in the textbook, and it is not the focus of the exam, so the average person will not pay attention to this character who lives in the gap between the textbooks. I don't really care about Du Huan's connection with papermaking and gunpowder to the west, anyway, I won't take the college entrance examination, but I feel that this person has a lot of experience, and I wonder how he managed to travel to so many places at that time when there was no international common language, and there was not even a rudimentary form of English. Later, after the college entrance examination, I went online all day, and occasionally remembered that there was such a person in the history textbook, so I checked it on the Internet, and found that there was such a big incident behind him.

In the Northwest Wasteland, the soldiers of the two empires lined up and faced each other. On one side is a soldier of the Tang Empire wearing Mingguang armor and holding a Mo sword, showing off the flag with the word "high" fluttering in the wind with the yellow sand. On the other side were the soldiers of the Allah Empire dressed in black robes, with black veils on their heads and scimitars in their hands, the armor on their camels shining in the sunlight. The morale of both sides reached its peak after the mobilization of their respective generals in front of the formation, and their eyes were full of murderous energy. At the sound of an order, red and black were intertwined, and in an instant, the sword light and sword shadow, and the sound of killing shook the sky.

At sunset, groups of unkempt Tang soldiers, dressed in tattered armor and with their hands tied, marched westward under the watchful eye of Arab soldiers. The blood on the faces and bodies of these soldiers had long since been dried by the wind and sand, and some of them looked back at the east behind them from time to time, knowing that this would be a farewell to their homeland. Among them, there was a young man who stared in the direction of his hometown for a long time, causing the whole team to stagnate. The soldiers on guard were a little angry when they found out, and while whipping the young man with a whip, they cursed in their language, and asked him to go on. Under the persuasion of his comrades-in-arms, the young man took another step to the west......

As a prisoner, Du Huan was escorted to the Black Clothes Food along with the other captured Tang soldiers, which was full of exotic buildings, and people's costumes were very different from those of Tang Tu. I thought that foreign countries were all foreign vassals, but I didn't expect Du Huan to see many oriental faces here, and even his own fellow villagers. These Tang people still lived and worked here, adapted to foreign life, and became highly respected figures in the local area with their superb papermaking and textile skills. Seeing so many compatriots coming from their homeland, they were naturally a little happy, and soon became friends with these captured Tang Jun, and even helped them get preferential treatment as much as possible through layers of relationships. With his status as a clerk and profound knowledge, coupled with the protection of the Tang people, Du Huan not only removed the status of a slave, but also became the guest of honor of the local consul.

If you have the opportunity to traverse this foreign country, it must be more meaningful than Zhang Qian's "hollowing" trip. At a regular banquet, Du Huan presented his ideas to the consuls. The consul was very happy to hear the request of the Tang people, and specially sent someone to take him around the Great Food Empire, and later allowed him to join the Great Food Empire's mission, and began his journey to Asia and Africa......

An Oriental face, dressed in exotic costumes, mingled with a group of Arab missions, rode a camel from city to city......

Images lingered in my mind, and I couldn't sleep for several nights. When I was a sophomore, I felt that I had some free time, so I thought about writing down all the images in my mind. So I deliberately bought a notebook and a pen, and planned to write a few sentences by the bedside every night, and I should be able to publish a book after graduation, and then if it is favored by any producer, it can be made into a movie. But the end result is that I didn't want to write after copying a piece of the background of the incident on the Internet, or games, movies, TV series, and anime!

How can I not be thrilled to be able to play such a game with such a similar background now? Following in the footsteps of the protagonist Seth, I sailed from Venice to Damascus, then followed the Silk Road across the desert to Baghdad, and then to Talas. In order to be able to see the battle between the two empires as soon as possible, I did not hesitate to skip many side plots,

However, the depiction of this battle was far from what I had imagined before, and I was even a little disappointed that the Q version of the soldiers on both sides of the war made the battle look a little cute, and did not show the cruelty of the battlefield and the iron blood of the soldiers. But after all, it's only a 1999 RPG, and the name of the game isn't called "Battle of Talas", so I don't have to complain too much, it's rare to be able to write this battle into the game in such a grand context, and I, who only wrote a few lines of fiction, am not qualified to comment anyway.

"The undefeated method of war" is the clue that connects all the plots of the game, and it is also the purpose of the protagonist's trip to the East. As the game progressed, I also learned that this "undefeated war" is the "royal way". Kingcraft? Isn't this what Mencius mentioned to King Liang Hui? That's right! Confucianism's "benevolence and righteousness" is the royal road, and the Confucian classics are "benevolence and righteousness"! I have a vague idea of the final assignment for a class like "Introduction to Confucian Classics".

I was supposed to start writing my homework as soon as I was inspired, but the game was already in play, and I couldn't stop abruptly, especially in a situation where there were no classes and there were still some days before the final exam. However, the later games are getting more and more difficult, and if you want to clear the level normally, it is really time-consuming, and I can't grind that patience, so I finally chose to open the hanging. With cheats, all enemies have become paper tigers, all the main plots can be smoothly advanced, and my game has also become an "interactive cartoon", and the game is quickly cleared.

The game was over, and I was finally able to do my homework with peace of mind, so in order to prevent myself from becoming addicted again, I deliberately uninstalled the game and deleted the installation package.

As the saying goes, half of the essay is good, this is the writing skills taught to us by our Chinese teachers since childhood. Although the final estimate of my article this time is a "shallow analysis", the title must not be popularized, and after thinking for a long time, I finally decided to use Du Fu's "To Jun Yao Shun, and then make the people pure" (the first half of the sentence Brother Zhou always mentioned in class, I also indirectly slapped his ass). The main theme of the article is naturally "the royal road", and when translated into popular political language, it is Xiaokang and Datong. With such a clear political stance, presumably the score will not be lower. As for the content of the article, because Brother Zhou gave us a large range, I also decided to give him back a "gift package", and forcibly interpreted the Four Books and Five Classics one by one in accordance with "benevolence and righteousness" and "royal road", and each classic only needs about 200 words to basically make up the number of words, if you really want to let go of "", maybe you can write an extra 2,000 words. After writing the article on the computer, I looked at it twice, and I felt that I should be able to get a high score, and after confirming that there were no typos, I passed it to the school committee, and then treated myself to the movie on PPTV.

A few days later, the results came out, and after comparing with other classmates, I found that I was not particularly outstanding, at most I was at an upper middle level, and it seemed that Brother Zhou was not very satisfied with my "gift package".