Fan Xian smiled and shook his head, indicating that he was not unbearable and lonely. He knew that since he often relied in the carriage of the manager, in the eyes of these people, he was afraid that he was only inseparable from the word merry. After pondering for a while, he suddenly asked, "This has been going for many days, and the speed of the official road is extremely fast, it should have exceeded the distance from the border to Kyoto...... This Northern Qi seems to have a very large territory. ”

There was an eerie silence in the carriage.

After a long time, Lin Jingcai said with a smile: "Yes, although the imperial court grabbed a large piece of land from the Northern Qi side last year, if you talk about the territory and population, the Northern Qi is still the largest country in the world, but it is only a perennial civil strife and the people's hearts are separated, so it is not our opponent." ”

Fan Xian frowned slightly, thinking that if this Northern Qi could really be excited, he was afraid that the country where he lived since he was a child would really be a little troublesome. Just as he was thinking about it, he heard Gundam say in a deep voice on the side: "In this way, there is still a huge territory waiting for us people to fight down." ”

Gundam this person rarely speaks, and after he is no longer in charge of escorting Sean in the past few days, he always says short words, but he is extremely ridiculous, and he is full of laughter. Fan Xian couldn't help laughing, thinking that the officials of Qingguo, under the influence of twenty years of victory, had really cultivated an extremely terrifying self-confidence.

On the other side, Wang Qinian smiled bitterly and said, "I said Master Gao, don't give the messenger I was holding away." ”

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Along the way, the missions all stayed in the various post stations of the Northern Qi Kingdom, and rarely stopped in larger towns, although the Qingguo Mission was a little unhappy. But for the sake of the other party's officials being careful and serving diligently, it is difficult to say anything. Everyone knows in their hearts that in this agreement, the Northern Qi Dynasty has lost a big face, and it is naturally embarrassed to let the people of the whole country see the Southern Mission. Swaggering through the city.

But there are always ordinary people on the way. Fan Xian said a question that he had been curious about for a long time one day: "Why don't these Northern Qi people seem to hate us very much, but instead cast a trace of contempt and disdain in their eyes on us, and even some sympathy?"

"In the eyes of the people of Northern Qi. After all, we are still Southern Barbarians, and we belong to the uncivilized objects. Lin Jing smiled and responded: "As for the war between the two countries, it was naturally concealed by the Northern Qi royal family, although the people in the north also know that our Qingguo is now extremely strong, but they still look down on us in their bones." ”

Fan Xian shook his head and sighed: "Covered with a black cloth, you should be afraid of the dark." ”

"After all, the Northern Qi Dynasty is a continuation of the Northern Wei Dynasty. They always think that they are the orthodoxy of the world, and naturally they look down on the countries next to them. ”

This is an honest saying, although the Northern Wei Dynasty had destroyed the country as early as twenty years ago, but at that time that behemoth was entrenched on this continent. Casting a shadow on all the small countries around it is indeed the most powerful state apparatus in the world. The majesty of the four Yi dynasties still stays in the hearts of the people in the north. Therefore, they have always thought that the Northern Qi Dynasty still retains the glory of the past, and they are still the people of the first powerful country in the world, and when they look at other people, they will always habitually raise their chins slightly, their eyes droop slightly, and they are self-conscious, self-pitying, and self-respecting.

People are willing to live in the past. Of course, the officials of the Northern Qi Dynasty naturally knew that the world had changed a long time ago, which can be seen from the etiquette they treated the Qingguo Mission.

"There is another important point. Lin Jing continued to analyze calmly: "The Northern Qi Dynasty inherited most of the territory and officials of the Northern Wei Dynasty, so the scholars in the world basically regard the Northern Qi as orthodox, and the way of literature is in the Northern Qi Dynasty, which is not wrong." Every year in the spring, the imperial examination in the Northern Qi Dynasty is much more lively than our Spring Ceremony, not only the talents of the Northern Qi counties will gather in Beijing, but even the scholars in Dongyi City will travel thousands of miles to go to Beijing. ”

Wang Qinian interjected on the side and said: "Yes, even our Qingguo scholars, a few years ago, there were many people who went to Beijing to participate in the imperial examination. ”

"Ridiculous. Fan Xian scolded with a smile: "Can the people of Qingguo still go to Northern Qi to be officials?"

Lin Jing smiled bitterly: "This naturally can't. It's just that everyone in the world seems to recognize this, so as long as the talents who can enter the top three in the Northern Qi Chunqiu, no matter which country in the world, they are considered to have the qualifications to be officials. This is no exception even for our Qingguo, my lord once served as Taixue Fengzheng, so naturally I know that Shuwu University scholar, right?"

Fan Xian nodded.

Lin Jing sighed and said: "This scholar of Shu University was admitted to the Northern Qi Examination back then, and the teacher was Zhuang Mohan, so he claimed to be a student of Zhuang Mohan in this life...... If you think about it, this scholar of Shu University is obviously the move of the Northern Qi Dynasty, but he can return to Qingguo to be an official, so he knows the prosperity of the literary style of the Northern Qi Dynasty. ”

Fan Xian smiled and shook his head: "No wonder Your Majesty has been vigorously grasping Wenzhi all these years, and probably can't stand this kind of wretchedness." ”

"Yes, when it comes to martial arts, there is no one in the world who can compare with my country. Lin Jing said: "Even in this aspect of literature and Taoism, there have never been a few real talents. ”

"Literature is the last way. Fan Xian said.

Lin Jing thought of something, and laughed: "Of course, Lord Tisi was born out of thin air, and Zhuang Mohan, the master of the Northern Qi Dynasty, vomited blood, and since then, no one dares to say anything to my Qingguo." ”

Wang Qinian even claimed that it was, and Gundam nodded. Fan Xian's rise in Kyoto, although it may not make all forces feel comfortable, but at the level of external affairs, it can have one more talented person to suppress the arrogance of Northern Qi outside the battlefield, which is a situation that all Qingguo people are willing to see.

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This kind of boring journey without the company of beautiful women, Fan Xian hopes to end it early. But the long official road seemed to never end, and the yellow dust brought up by the four wheels of the carriage rose up on the wide road, like a yellow dragon, but it was firmly bound in the middle of the road by the two rows of trees beside the road, unable to leap out, and looked like it was constantly struggling pitifully, twisting and turning.

The leaves of the trees on both sides of the official road are large or small, but on the whole, they are much wider than the leaves of Qingguo. The trunk of the tree is thick, and there is a tree several feet apart. Fan Xian stretched his head out of the carriage window, squinted his eyes, and watched the wind as the trees flashed past his eyes, somehow, remembering the world that he hadn't remembered for a long time. He still remembers when he was on the train many years ago, sitting on the train bound for Beijing, passing through Hebei, when the sides of the tracks, that is, this kind of tree, also kept smashing backwards in such a boring way.

There was no ash next to the window, because Fan Xian, as a righteous envoy, was in the first carriage, and it was naturally those poor subordinates and the reception officials of Northern Qi who ate the ashes.

Without warning, a black shadow appeared at the end of the road, abruptly piled directly above the thinning trees, looking a little terrifying.

Fan Xian thought it was a dark cloud, and couldn't help but smile, although he was not ready to call everyone to collect his clothes like he did on the roof of Lanzhou, but he was ready to remind the driver who was driving the car to put on the rain.

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The carriage gradually moved forward, and everyone finally saw the dark shadow clearly, and at this time the clouds of the world suddenly dispersed, as if to welcome the guests from afar, casting the warm light of spring on the shadow.

Originally...... It's a huge city.

This castle is even taller and more majestic than that of Gyeongkook Kyoto, made of large blocks of bluestone, and the walls are slightly inclined to a height of three zhang, but it still gives everyone who comes from afar, an indescribable sense of oppression, as if the wall may press you down at any time. There are still heavy eaves and pavilions in the city, perhaps used as corner towers, and soldiers are patrolling the high walls.

A sense of majesty emanates from the massive city walls.

The city gate had already been cleared, and there were no idle people staying here, and the relevant officials of the Northern Qi Dynasty were waiting for the arrival of the Nanqing delegation in that square.

On the official road, the speed of the carriage gradually slowed down, and Fan Xian squinted his eyes and retracted his head from the window. He didn't expect that this capital would appear in front of him in such a stunned way, so that he was not mentally prepared at all.

Northern Qi Shangjing arrived.

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The officials of the Northern Qi Dynasty were dressed brightly and were very luxurious, but the Qingguo mission was tired of carriages and horses, which inevitably seemed a little committed, and compared with the two, it was very obvious.

Fan Xian calmly looked at all these cumbersome procedures in front of him, but when he introduced himself, he bowed his head slightly. In the eyes of the Northern Qi people, this handsome young official was a swaggering villain, but Fan Xian didn't care at all about leaving the other party with any impression.

His attention was all on the architecture of Shangjing in the Northern Qi Dynasty. This huge city, I don't know how many years it has stood on this land, how many winds and rains it has experienced, and the outer edge of the huge bluestone has been somewhat weathered, but it still stubbornly remains hard.

Fan Xian was a little emotional, his feelings were different from all travelers, he just felt that after seventeen or eighteen years of coming to this world, it seemed that he could finally touch the history of this world, although it was only some remnants of history. Although the Kyoto of Qingguo is also extremely grand, everything seems to have some kind of fresh taste, and Fan Xian knows that the taste is left by his mother, so he can see the buildings from a long time ago today, and he feels a little inexplicable.