Changfeng Thousands of Miles End Han Song

Chapter 880
Gaochang is the richest city in the entire Western Region. Even Bacishagun, the capital of the former Eastern Kara Khanate, is far inferior to it.

Because in the past hundreds of years, it has not only been an important part of the overland Silk Road, but more importantly, it has been stable and peaceful for hundreds of years.

When a commercial powerhouse like Gaochang enjoys stability and peace that lasts for hundreds of years, it is immeasurable how much wealth will be accumulated here.Gaochangbo Bilege was recruited into Yidu three years ago, and later moved to Jinling with Lu Qian. He only reigned for three or two years, but he was already famous for his wealth.

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The wind and snow are blowing, and the winter in the Western Regions is still cold in February.However, at this time, the city of Gaochang was already full of traffic and flowers.

Although the winter here is still cold, it is the end of the battle. For the people living in this land, and for those who are used to the cold winter, this is already the time to start busy.

The entire Western Regions came alive. Caravans and pedestrians appeared on the roads north and south of the Tianshan Mountains.Merchants coming and going from east to west entered Gaochang city in an endless stream, bringing countless commodities. They either came here to wait for business opportunities, or they wanted to go to the land of wealth they wanted to reach through Gaochang.

There are only two native products of the Western Regions that can be famous in the Central Plains. One is the well-deserved top brand-Hetian Meiyu, and the other is wine.

The Lu Qi army swept across the Western Regions, which can be said to have once again opened the eyes of the Central Plains people who had been "closed" for hundreds of years. , Huazizimo, all vulnerable.

Countless people in the Central Plains looked at the map in the "News" and experienced a living "map opening" from beginning to end. It felt like they had experienced a baptism of "hollowing out". The majesty of the Han and Tang Dynasties made people intoxicated and unconsciously time has changed.The wine from the Western Regions has already landed in the Central Plains unconsciously.

Although Zhao Song was very doggy, as a dynasty with an extremely rich economy and as an era that inherited the legacy of Li and Tang, wine was highly praised by countless civil servants and bureaucrats of Zhao Song from the beginning to the end.

A stone of grapes carries wine first, and ten thousand golden valleys bloom orthogonally.The common people and wealthy households around Bianjing are very fond of planting grapes and making wine.Extensive and large-scale grape planting provides more mature conditions for wine making.

Sima Guang, Wang Anshi, Mei Yaochen, Song Xiang, Su Dongpo, all the literati and officials who loved wine died.Maybe they know that they can only feel the pride of the prosperous Tang Dynasty when they are drunk: "The luminous cup of grape wine, I want to drink the pipa immediately, Lord Don't laugh while lying drunk on the battlefield, how many people have fought in ancient times."

Generally speaking, the native products of the Western Regions are very poor, and the "vitality" of the Western Regions really lies in the businessmen who come and go.The Western Regions, that is a big "traffic station".

From time to time in Gaochang City, there will be blond and blue-eyed foreign businessmen who arrive here with the flow of people.

Even sometimes, in Gaochang's market, a large number of coins from distant and unknown countries can appear-coins made of gold or silver, with portraits carved on the front and back.Just like Lu Qichao's gold and silver coins!

Although, most of the Han people in Central Plains are not very clear, what is the point of these barbarians doing such tricks?There is no portrait of Emperor Lu engraved on Chinese gold and silver coins.

In China, everything about the emperor is supreme.Engraving the emperor's head portrait on gold and silver coins, and then let thousands of people caress it?
Just thinking about it makes me tremble.Do you want to die, do you want to die, or do you want to die?
In China under normal circumstances, such gold and silver coins would simply not appear.Looking at Yuan Datou in history, wasn't he born in the early years of the Republic of China, when Chinese civilization reached its lowest ebb?At the end of the Qing Dynasty, even though the Qing Dynasty had fallen into the valley, Zhang Zhidong only cast "Long Yang".

But this did not prevent the Han people from happily accepting these gold coins.

Anyway, it's all real money, right?

The additional effect is to let many people in Gaochang know what the density of gold and silver is.

Today, a caravan came to Gaochang City with cloth towels all wrapped around their heads.As soon as the person is dressed like this, an experienced person will know that he is a believer in heaven.

These people have looks that are very different from those of the Han people.

Although she still has black hair, she has fair skin, brown eyes, high bridge of nose, slightly curved, deep-set eyes, and high brow bone.Wearing a sheep fur coat, the most eye-catching thing under the turban is the full beard.There is a machete at the waist.

This is their closest weapon, and also their primary weapon.Just like the Japanese samurai sword in the future, when later generations mentioned the cold weapon of the ancient Tianfang people, the Tianfang scimitar was the answer of countless people.

Whether it is the historical materials accessible to ordinary people or the daily "common sense", compared with the eighteen kinds of weapons in ancient China, the weapons in the ancient Tianfang world are really lacking.

This point was reflected in the previous "Western Expedition". The most commonly used and popular weapons in Tianfang World were spears, scimitars, bows and arrows.

If the timeline is moved forward by 300 years, during the period of the four major caliphs, the Umayyad dynasty and the early Abbasid dynasty, the Tianfang army used spears, straight knives and bows and arrows.Now it is changed to a scimitar, which can only be said to be the most direct reflection of the Turkicization of Tianfang World.

The Tianfang world conquered Turkic tribes with its own civilization. Aren't the current Seljuk Empire and the later Ottoman Empire established by the descendants of Tianfanghua Turks?
But this does not mean that the Tianfang people's combat effectiveness is poor.You know they also have spears!

The scimitar, which has super cutting ability but poor armor-piercing ability, has become the main configuration of the Tianfang army. In a sense, it is because the spear perfectly complements its characteristics.

Scimitar + spear, plus bow and arrow, this is an effective combat mode, and it is also the most cost-effective combat mode.

"This is Gaochang..."

"Sure enough, it is the largest and most affluent Chinese city in the west, much better than Suiye City and Talas..."

In the very center of the caravan, in a standard four-wheeled carriage, a middle-aged man wearing a decent cashmere coat whispered to the young noble sitting in the middle of the carriage: "As you can see, this city is The heart of China's current Western Regions is said to have a permanent population of 10, and within hundreds of miles around, there are tens of thousands of people farming and grazing for Daqi..."

"Although there are rumors that Wulabo, which we passed by, will be renamed Luntai and restored to the capital of the Western Regions, it is clear that it is still far from being comparable to Gaochang City..."

"10 people?" The young man was a little surprised when he heard this: "Samarkand only had 10 people!" That was still when the Western Kara Khanate was at its peak.

"What makes the Chinese prefer to abandon a city of 10 people and choose another place?" The young nobleman was puzzled.

"It is said that Wulabo City is the capital where the Chinese entered the Western Regions to establish their rule 500 years ago. It was called Luntai at that time. And this name is the name of the capital of the first Chinese dynasty that entered the Western Regions thousands of years ago. That's all The reason. In the eyes of the Chinese, the rich city of Gaochang is nothing compared to their remembrance of their ancestors' past glory..." Cashmere Coat said with emotion.

"Just for such a very ridiculous reason, the Chinese will abandon Gaochang City and build another land?" The young nobleman was very puzzled. He had been to Wulabo, which was just a small dilapidated city.

"Yes. But this is China. The city of Gaochang would be as precious as the Black Stone of the Kaaba if placed in the Hezhong area, but what does it mean if placed in China? It is said that there are hundreds of thousands of people in the cities and towns of Han Dynasty in China. There are hundreds of such rich cities in China..."

The middle-aged man bowed slightly and continued to respect the young nobleman.But a smile flashed across his blue eyes.

(End of this chapter)