Chang'an in May is very hot, and the bright sun hangs in the sky like a white disc mercilessly scorching the earth.

"Dash...... Da ...... Click......". On the official road in the southern suburbs of Chang'an City, there was a sound of weak horses' hooves.

"It's only May, why is it so hot?" Cheng Yanjin's second son, Cheng Chuliang, squinted his eyes.

He glanced up at the bright sun in the sky, stretched out his sleeve to wipe the sweat from his forehead, and couldn't help but complain to everyone.

It turned out to be a group of gentlemen in Chang'an, what is the purpose of going out of the city? Nanshan hunted and went!

"Brother Zheng'er, otherwise let's go back to Chang'an to drink, it's so hot that people can't stand it." Wei Guogong Fang Xuanling's second son, Fang Ai, also retreated when he heard the words.

"Yes, Brother Zheng, in this kind of weather, where is there any prey in the mountains, go back to Chang'an." This time it was Qin Huaiyu, the second eldest of the Qin Qiong family, who spoke in Yiguo.

Seeing that the crowd was already as hot as a dog, he opened his mouth and stuck out his tongue and gulped out, Zhang Zheng, who was the leader, pursed his lips and did not speak.

To be honest, Zhang Zheng couldn't stand the heat, this year's weather was different from previous years, and the heat came exceptionally early.

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On the wide official road, there is not a lot of people coming and going.

In addition to the gentlemen who came from Chang'an City to fight horses, there were also many merchants and merchants from all over the world.

On both sides of the official road, a place has been formed like a market for merchants from the north and south to rest.

The people living in the vicinity of Chang'an set up a simple shed on both sides of the official road to do some melon and fruit snacks business.

"Let's find a place to rest." Finally, Zhang Zheng was too hot to die. He looked up at the sky and said to the crowd.

I found a fairly clean shop next to the official road, saying that it was a shop, but it was actually a thatched roof, and then two small carts were placed.

After all, it is just a place for people to rest, and it is definitely incomparable with the shops in Chang'an City.

He handed over his horses to the tribesmen, and the tribes dispersed, and the crowd walked towards the shop.

"Store, store, don't you see any customers coming?" Cheng Chuliang shouted dissatisfiedly.

The shopkeeper was a middle-aged man in his forties with no palm on one hand.

It looks like it was cut off with a sharp weapon. He was standing behind the wood stove and was busy.

A middle-aged woman with a little girl of about eleven or twelve years old was cleaning up the dishes and chopsticks on the table.

It should be the wife and daughter of the shopkeeper, and the family runs this small stall outside Chang'an City.

Seeing that Zhang Zheng and his party of more than a dozen people each found a table and sat down, the middle-aged man's dark cheeks bloomed with a philistine smile.

"Ouch, here, here! Ladies and gentlemen come to the shop, the shop is really full of splendor......"

This shop is a clever guy.

"If there is anything to relieve the heat and cool off, although the master comes up, there is no shortage of money for you." Cheng Chuliang slapped the table and shouted.

The face of an upstart is extremely hateful, and it seems that it is broken by the heat.

"Well, please wait, the shop just has a freshly cooked mash soup......"

Mash is the most common drink in the village, and it is also called sweet wine in the south, with a faint sweetness.

There is also a faint smell of wine, as long as you add water and boil it to cool, it is a good heatstroke drink.

The man's hands and feet were fast, and after a while, a large bowl was placed in front of all the gentlemen.

After the mother and daughter retreated tremblingly after the mash, Cheng Chuliang couldn't wait to pick up the bowl and take a big sip.

"Poof, this thing is also drunk by people?" Cheng Chuliang smashed the bowl and shouted to the store unhappily. Frightened, the little girl shrank behind the woman's back.

The shopkeeper was calm, thinking that he was used to seeing all kinds of people.

Hearing this, he hurriedly trotted out and made an apology to Cheng Chuliang, with a professional and flattering smile on his dark face, but he was not flustered.

"Okay, you have to shake your majesty and go home to shake it, and scare other people's children." Zhang Zheng said, then picked up the bowl and took a small sip of the mash.

Cheng Chuliang listened to Zhang Zheng's reprimand, but did not refute it, and sat down with a stupid face.

The shopkeeper saw that Zhang Zheng surrounded him, and hurriedly saluted and thanked Zhang Zheng.

Zhang Zheng continued: "Brothers, it's so hot this day, it seems that our hunting plan today can only be declared bankrupt, everyone rests, let's go back to the city in a while." ”

Of course, the gentlemen were busy agreeing, and they also followed Zhang Zheng's example, taking small sips of the mash in the bowl.

Just when Zhang Zheng and the others were silent, a team of people suddenly drove on the official road, about thousands of people.

There were hundreds of people in the front army, pennants were unfurled, horses' hooves were sounding, and in the middle was a rather luxurious carriage, followed by a long convoy.

With such a team, it is difficult for Zhang Zheng and others sitting next to the official road to see it.

"Which general returned to Beijing?" Cheng Chuliang asked.

"I don't know, it's too far away to see clearly. Looking at the military flag system, it doesn't look like the army of Chang'an. Qin Huaiyu replied.

Just as everyone was asking and answering, the team was gradually approaching.

"It's not the army of the Tang Dynasty!" Zhang Zheng's brows furrowed tightly.

"What, it's not the army of the Tang Dynasty", hearing Zhang Zheng say this, everyone was stunned and exclaimed.

"It should be an envoy sent by a state to Chang'an to pay tribute." Zhang Zheng continued.

"Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! The sound of horses' hooves was heard, and as the crowd discussed, the team was getting closer and closer to them

Everyone also saw clearly at this time that there were many sergeants in the team who looked like Tang people.

But there are also many bearded faces with a very different appearance and hair color from the Tang people.

"What is written on the flag?"

"I don't know, I don't understand, it's crooked like a reptile!"

"This is the Turkic text!" Zhang Zheng came to a conclusion.

"Could it be a Turkic envoy?" Cheng Chuliang asked suspiciously.

But then he thought: "But wasn't the Turks wiped out by the Tang Dynasty, and even a large area of the grasslands in the north has been included in the territory of the Tang Dynasty, how can there still be envoys?" ”

Everyone was indeed confused, and last year His Majesty the Emperor sent Li Jing, the Duke of State, as the general manager of the march.

He led an army of 100,000 to the steppe and captured the Eastern Turk lord Jieli Khan.

Hundreds of thousands of cattle and sheep were seized, and a complete victory was won.

When the class returned to the DPRK in April this year, it stands to reason that the Turks should have disappeared from the map forever.

"It's Gao Chang's envoy." Zhang Zheng's coffin is conclusive.

Because he saw clearly, the big flags on both sides of the luxury carriage in the middle were written in the Tang Dynasty characters.

Everyone looked at it and finally saw it clearly.

"Hmph, Gao Chang, the small country of Puer is majestic, and this pomp is boundless." Cheng Chuliang snorted coldly.

"Indeed, this specification has indeed exceeded the system for the envoys of a country." Qin Huaiyu said.

"It's not normal, in the past, the envoys of Fanbang who came to pay tribute were at most a thousand people. And Gao Chang came this time, at least 5,000 people. Fang Yiai muttered.

Fang Xuanling, Fang's beloved father, is the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty, and Shangshu is the left servant.

Therefore, Fang Yiai knows these things better than others.

As soon as Fang Yiai's words came out, it made people even more confused.

Gao Chang came with so many people this time, which is more than five times more than the normal visiting envoys, what is the situation?

Zhang Zheng was relieved, because he suddenly remembered several major events that happened in the fourth year of Zhenguan.

In addition to the extermination of the Turks, Gaochang's visit was also one of them, and there was another, which seemed to be a locust plague.

"Wait,, locust plague?" Zhang Zheng jumped in fright by the memory in his mind.

"Brother Sheng'er, what disaster?" The crowd was stunned by Zhang Zheng's sudden jump, and they didn't hear what Zhang Zheng said, so they asked.

"Nothing, I'll talk about it in a moment. If my guess is correct, it should be Ju Wentai, the lord of Gaochang, who came in person. Zhang Zheng suppressed the shock in his heart and explained to everyone.