Arriving at the sacrificial site in the southern suburbs, the emperor first went to the palace to rest. The book was parked outside the palace. Before the sacrificial ceremony began, the chariot formation alone had already stunned the envoys of various countries. The axe, halberd, and staff are bright and neat; Flags and umbrellas cover the sky and the sun; The horses are fat and strong; What interests them the most is the variety of vehicles. There are dozens of vehicles in the book, each of which is different in size, style, ornamentation, and purpose.

This kind of grand spectacle is rare to see. Shu Yan didn't feel tired, and Biyu, who had always been lazy, couldn't take a break. They walked along the road, admiring and studying as they went. The envoys were even more eager to follow Shu Yan and Biyu all the way to visit, asking this and that.

In front of a strangely shaped car, everyone stopped. The car was not large, but it was pulled by four horses, and the most peculiar thing was that in the center of the car stood a wooden man dressed as an immortal, and this "immortal" stretched out his right hand straight forward, pointing to the south.

Park Hee-kim, the envoy of Chenhan, asked strangely: "This car does not have a carriage for people to ride, and it is certainly not for princes and nobles, but it has to be pulled by four horses, strange, strange!" ”

"You know what, didn't you see this Venerable One standing on the car? Dressed in a feather robe, calm and calm, it must be some immortal who is enshrined. The envoy of the Japanese Kingdom, Kaitogawa, said while respectfully bowing to the "immortals".

"Do!" The envoy Park's eyes widened, and he shouted at this short widow with a headband on his head, a blue tattoo on his face, and a very short stature, "You remote island savage! No matter what, my Chenhan and Dajin are also neighbors, and they naturally have more knowledge than you, so are they not as good as you? What are you pretending to understand here? ”

The envoys of Chenhan and the envoys of the Japanese Kingdom always quarreled with each other, Shu Yan smiled and separated them, and said, "This car is a Sinan car, which is specially used to indicate the direction when traveling. No matter which direction the vehicle turns, the wooden man's finger always points south. This is not an immortal to worship, just because the role of this car is exquisite, so it puts on fairy clothes for the wooden man, which means to guide the immortals. ”

"Is it really that amazing?"

Shu Yan saw that everyone was amazed and seemed to have a trace of suspicion, so he asked the person driving the Sinan car to drive the car in the same place and turn it in the opposite direction twice. Sure enough, no matter how the vehicle turned, the wooden man's finger always pointed south. Everyone was completely convinced and amazed.

The envoy of Chenhan looked at the envoy of the Japanese State with disdain, but the envoy of the Japanese State ignored him, but thought for a moment and muttered: "We Japanese people are on the island of the East China Sea, separated from the Celestial Empire by a heavy sea. Every time my people cross the sea, they often lose their way and wander blindly in the sea when they encounter gloomy and foggy days, and it would be great if we could invite this immortal to the ship......"

Everyone ignored Kaito Kawaichi, who was standing and thinking in front of Sinan's car, and continued to walk forward.

"Ah, what kind of car is this?" The envoys surrounded another strangely shaped car. The cart also carried a wooden man with a wooden hammer in his hand, raised in a shape, and a drum was placed under the hammer.

"It's called a Jili drum car, and it's a car used to calculate the mileage traveled."

"Remember the drum car?" Bai Man, the envoy of Qiuzi, became interested, "How many miles each time you walk, will this wooden man know?" ”

Of course, I know that in the process of the car, this wooden man will silently remember the number of revolutions of the wheels in his heart, and calculate the mileage he walks by the number of revolutions of the wheels. Every mile walked, the wooden man would hit the drum with a hammer, and then the people in the car could determine the mileage traveled by the number of times the drum was beaten. ”

Everyone laughed in amazement: "Wonderful, wonderful! If that's the case, it's clear that this is another immortal. ”

Bai Man also showed Kaitengawa's attitude towards Sinanche: "I am located in the desert, vast and empty, and sparsely populated. Trade with the Great Jin Dynasty, tens of thousands of miles away, although there are many merchant posts along the road, but between the merchant posts are often sparsely populated deserts, there is no boundary plate, no instructions. When I was on the road, I didn't know how far I had walked, and I didn't know how far I was from the next cartel, so I was very confused. Wouldn't it be much more convenient and clear if there could be such a magic car to count the distance? ”

In addition to these unheard of magical cars, what the envoys wanted to see most was the emperor's jade chariot. But the jade chariot is the core of the whole car, it is the emperor's exclusive vehicle, and it is guarded by many military guards with halberds around it. Everyone couldn't get closer, so they had to dispel this idea.

Avoiding the jade chariot, everyone came to the front of the car, another eye-opening car - in front of the elephant car. Biyu looked at the beast, with rough skin like tree bark, thick legs like four pillars, two large teeth like long swords, and a large nose that constantly twisted and curled, and was too frightened to come closer.

Seeing this, Shu Yan stretched out his hand to greet him and said, "Brother Biyu, don't be afraid, this elephant is very docile and won't hurt people, don't believe it." As he spoke, he patted the elephant's neck with his hand, and the elephant immediately made an affectionate gesture and kissed Shu Yan's face with his long trunk.

Biyu wondered: How could an elephant be so close to Shu Yan? He walked forward suspiciously, and Shu Yan motioned for the elephant to say hello to Biyu. The elephant understood, and turned his trunk to Hiyu. Biyu screamed, jumped out of the distance, broke out in a cold sweat, and waved his hand: "I heard that the trunk of an elephant can easily roll a person up, if it is swept up, it falls heavily to the ground, or is sent into its bloody mouth, no one can save it." Not to mention the nose, even if you accidentally step on it with its big feet, you will either die or be disabled! Hehe, so it's better to stay away. ”

Shu Yan saw that he didn't dare to approach, so he didn't care about him anymore. Although the other people were not as scared as Biyu, they had never seen this strange beast, and they didn't dare to get too close to it. Suddenly, a dark-faced envoy stepped forward, not afraid of the elephant's appearance, and reached out and stroked the elephant's neck a few times, and the elephant flapped its fan-like ears twice as a gesture of friendship.

Shu Yan was standing with Ruan Shan, and he was surprised when he saw this scene. Ruan Shan saw that this person's complexion and appearance were similar to his own, and hurriedly asked: "This brother Tai, presumably he is also from South Vietnam?" ”

The man said: "That's right, how does Brother Tai know?" ”

Ruan Shan said: "Anyone who sees an elephant for the first time will never dare to approach it rashly. Judging by what you've just done, I'm guessing you've probably been exposed to it before. And you have a similar appearance and accent to mine, so I conclude that you are from the South Vietnamese area. ”

When Shu Yan heard Ruan Shan say this, he smiled and said, "What Brother Ruan said is true, this person is half of your fellow countryman, the envoy of Linyi. ”

"Yes, under the surname Fan Mingwen, he is an envoy of Lin Yi State. It's just that I, the king of Linyi, have long admired the customs and systems of the Heavenly Dynasty, and specially sent me to study and seek advice. ”

"Lin Yi people?" Ruan Shan immediately smiled and sank his face.

Shu Yan saw it in his eyes, and he didn't understand why Ruan Shan's attitude changed suddenly, but he couldn't say it clearly. After admiring the elephants, everyone turned and walked back. Shu Yan took this opportunity and asked Ruan Shandao: "Brother Ruan is from Jiaozhi County, not far from Linyi. I thought you would feel very cordial when you saw this half of the country, but why did you look unhappy? ”

Ruan Shan sighed and said, "Brother Shu doesn't know, Linyi was originally Xianglin County in the Han Dynasty, and it should be the land of the Great Jin Dynasty like Jiaozhi. But Lin Yi became independent at the end of the Later Han Dynasty, taking advantage of the chaos in the world. Although I have a border with Linyi, it is not a good neighborly relationship. The people of Linyi have always been eyeing Jiaozhi County, and have plundered Jiaozhi many times in history. Ten years ago, if the Great Jin Dynasty had unified Wu State one step later, today's Jiaozhi might have belonged to Lin Yi. ”

"I see. But that is in the past, now that Da Jin is so powerful, Lin Yi has already praised Da Jin, presumably he will never have this thought. ”

"I don't have this mind now, and I won't have it in the future. And when I was in my hometown, I also heard about the reputation of this Fan Wen, who traveled all over the world, saw a lot, and was a very ambitious person......"

Shu Yan listened to Ruan Shan's words, and was very emotional: I couldn't imagine that such an ordinary elephant trainer would have such feelings of worrying about the country and the people.

was sighing, and everyone found that Shu Yan had fallen behind, so they sent an envoy from Qiuzi to find it. Shu Yan said goodbye to Ruan Shan and caught up with everyone.

Moreño, the envoy of the Great Qin State, was admiring as he walked: "I didn't expect the lineup of the Great Jin Emperor to travel so grand. My Great Qin is also one of the largest countries in the West, but when our king travels, he can't put on such a pomp and circumstance at all, and today is really an eye-opener. ”

Biyu listened to this high-nosed, deep-eyed, golden-haired, color-eyed man learn to speak Luoyang Yin, which was both lame and cute, and laughed: "Our Celestial Dynasty has been inherited for thousands of years since the Three Emperors and Five Emperors, and the Halogen Book of the Son of Heaven has evolved for two thousand years, and the scale of the previous dynasties and the composition of each carriage and horse are different, and what you see today is not the grandest in history, and it is far worse than the heyday of the Han Dynasty." ”

"Isn't it?" The envoys exclaimed, "With such a grand scale, it is not even the highest?" ”

Biyu is joking with everyone here, or Shu Yan is more decent: "How can it be compared like that?" The etiquette specifications and even the official settings of the imperial court were to adapt to the national strength and population at that time. The national strength is strong, the population is large, and the scale of officials and the standard of etiquette can be appropriately higher; On the contrary, when the national strength is not strong and the population is not large, the scale of officials and the standard of etiquette must be reduced a little. After the management of several hard-working kings in the early stage of the Han Dynasty, the population had reached nearly 60 million at its peak, and the national strength was also extremely strong; And our Great Jin has just been established, and the population is less than one-third of the heyday of the Han Dynasty, and it is already very luxurious for our Dajia Lu Book to have such a scale. ”

This nerd. I'm just casually bragging about our Celestial Empire, so that these foreigners can admire and admire more, do you need to expose the old truth? It's really not fun. Biyu scolded Shu Yan in his heart, and suddenly remembered the most unusual-looking Moreño, and asked, "You just said that you are from Daqin, where is Daqin?" How far away is that? ”

"Great Qin is in the west of the West Sea, tens of thousands of miles away."

Biyu suddenly became interested: "It is rumored that my Celestial Dynasty lives in the four seas, and it turns out that there is a land beyond the four seas. To the east of the East China Sea there is the Wa Kingdom, and to the west of the West Sea there is Daqin. So what about the east of the Wa Kingdom and the west of Daqin? ”

When the envoy of the Japanese kingdom Hai Fujichuan heard the question, he replied: "The east of my Japanese kingdom is a vast ocean, and there have been ancestors who sailed eastward to find out if there is any other land, but except for some barren small islands, no land has been found, let alone human population, presumably our Japanese country is the easternmost boundary of the world." ”

Moreño, the envoy of Great Qin, said: "We are different in the west, there are many states in the west of Great Qin, but they are not subordinate to the Great Jin. Of all the envoys here, I, Daqin, am the farthest. ”

Suddenly, Fan Wenha, the envoy of Linyi, laughed and said: "You Wa Kingdom and Great Qin, one is the easternmost and the other is far west, but after all, it is still in the north of the sun!" ”

Everyone laughed wildly when they heard this, and Kaito Kawaichi and Moreño said:

"Isn't this nonsense? The sun is always over the south! Do you want to look north at the sun? The people of Linyi turned out to be indistinguishable from the north and the south! ”

"The sun rises in the east and sets in the west, the sun of the Wa Kingdom rises first and sets first, and the sun of Daqin rises and sets later, this is conceivable. In any case, they are always leaning against the southern half of the sky, and the doors and windows of the houses in the world, whether they are temples or huts, are chiseled to the south. This is what children understand, how can there be a truth in the north? ”

After being ridiculed by everyone, Fan Wen laughed and said, "You are not divided between the north and the south!" What I'm saying is true, we are in the far south, the sun is above us, and there are months in the south and some months in the north during the year, so we have to dig the north window to face the sun. If you don't believe me, you can ask the Funan envoy. ”

Kaitogawa and the others then asked the Funan envoy for confirmation, and the Funan envoy confirmed Fan Wen's words.

When Biyu heard these things, he couldn't help but wonder: "The Wa Kingdom is in the extreme east, Daqin is in the extreme west, Linyi is in the extreme south, and Xianbei is in the extreme north. Woohoo, the world is so vast, and I'm in the middle! ”

"If you talk about the distance," Park Hee-Kim said with some pride, "I'm afraid that Chenhan is the closest country to the Great Jin." ”

As soon as these words came out, the envoys of Fuyu, Xiongnu, Murong Xianbei and other countries immediately expressed their dissatisfaction, and they all said that their own state was the closest to the Great Jin. Because it is generally believed that the farther away from the Great Jin, the more it will be considered a barbaric state, so everyone is arguing fiercely. However, many of these countries are located around the Great Jin Dynasty, and they are bordered by zero distance from the Great Jin Dynasty, and it is impossible to tell who is far away and who is close.

Some people died, but not completely......