The World of Yellow Sky

The night in Chang'an City is still dark, and although there is no curfew, it is already the time of the fourth watch.

Today is the seventh day of the celebration and the last day of the celebration.

After today, everything will be back on track.

Without advanced lighting facilities, lighting alone is a huge expense and expense.

Although there are quite bright street lights on the main roads and main places, and special personnel are dispatched to maintain them, in fact, the main lighting is still relying on ordinary lanterns.

Thanks to the development of papermaking workshops, not only cheap writing paper but also other types of paper have been produced, making the price of lanterns extremely low.

After six consecutive days of carnival, everyone slowly got out of the atmosphere of the celebration.

At this time, only a few people were still strolling in the streets, and most of them had already returned to their homes and fell asleep.

The soldiers on duty on the guard tower were also a little tired, but they did not forget their responsibilities, scanning the dark surroundings and observing every move in the city.

On the street, teams of heavily armed city patrolmen were carrying lanterns and patrolling them in an orderly manner.

A large part of the reason why Chang'an City is in good order and security today is precisely because of the soldiers who patrol the city.

Of course, the Eagle and Wolf Guards and the police also contributed a lot.

At the fourth watch, when the cock crowing.

The sky is not yet clear, and the fourth watch is still night, and it is the time when people sleep the deepest.

So in this night when you can't see your fingers, there are thieves who start to make trouble in this dark night.

Therefore, the fourth watch can also be called the time of "dog thieves".

There are more than [-] squares in Chang'an City. If there is no curfew, the gates between the late night squares and the city are tightly closed and divided into more than [-] areas.

The soldiers patrolling the city patrol the streets, while the police patrol the streets and alleys in the workshop. The division of labor is clear and they do not belong to each other.

Inside the Honglu Division and the Embassy.

Nan Shengmi did not fall asleep.

In the darkness, he stared at the beams above his head with his eyes open. Until now, he was still in shock, he didn't turn around, and he couldn't calm down for a long time.

The things he has seen and seen in the past few years are all refreshing his concepts and changing his cognition.

He was born in the oldest nobleman in the Yamatai Kingdom, and his family experienced the turmoil that lasted for nearly a hundred years in the entire Yamatai.

Under the leadership of Himyhu, they eventually seized power, and his family became a pivotal figure in the country.

He is not ignorant of that powerful country that is far away from the ocean, and his family has also had contact with it.

The country named "Han" has the most prosperous land in the world.

According to rumors, the Han state is thousands of miles in size, and the land is full of gold. A small city has [-] people, and a large city is comparable to a country.

They possess the most precious treasures in the world, the thrones on which the lords sit are all made of gold, the palaces and buildings are all inlaid with gems, and the clothes and badges are all woven with splendid embroidery.

They have the most powerful army in the world, and they are all invincible!
He has always been very fascinated by the Han Kingdom, and has wanted to go to the West countless times to see the most powerful country in the world, and to see its strength with his own eyes.

It's just that the ocean is far away, and there is no chance after all.

However, with the expansion of the Dog Slave Nation, they lost successively on the battlefield, and the country was caught in the wind and rain, and they could only ally with some small countries around them to fight reluctantly.

But the dog slave country is powerful, and forming an alliance to fight the enemy is only an expedient measure. If the war situation cannot be reversed, I am afraid that it will not be long before the country will be destroyed...

There was no foreign aid on the island, so everyone thought of the country called "Han" in the far west.

I heard that I was going overseas, and the yearning for overseas overwhelmed Di Shengmi's rationality.

Finally, he led several domestic warships all the way west.

They encountered a storm, just when Nan Shengmi fell into despair and thought he was going to die at sea.

Amidst the exclamations of the crew, he raised his head and saw a scene he could never forget in his life.

On the incomparably vast sea, densely packed, are one after another incomparably tall warships.

The hundreds of giant ships blocked all his vision.

The entire sea is full of warships, and the ochre-yellow flags almost cover the sky!

Those people told them that the country named "Han" had been defeated by them.

They call themselves "Ming".

He followed these people to a port, where he saw countless soldiers wearing iron armor and holding sharp blades, as well as their monarch.

At last he signed a pact for his country.

He followed the monarch of the Ming Dynasty all the way south, and he witnessed a great battle with his own eyes.

He couldn't use any words to describe that war, and all the words he knew were eclipsed by that war.

The war between them and the dog slave country is as ridiculous as a child's fight, and it doesn't even deserve to be called a war.

In the records of their ancestors, the Han army, which was like a heavenly soldier, was nothing more than a group of remnant soldiers who lost their helmets and abandoned their armor under the Ming army.

What happened after that was more like a dream.

He came with seven or eight small boats, but when he returned, he was escorted by dozens of Ming army warships.

The warships of the Dog Slave Country didn't even have the courage to fight, so they turned their heads and fled.

The Ming army who landed easily defeated the army of the Gou slave country, and in less than a month, swept the entire Gou slave country.

Nan Shengmi still remembers that the monarch of the dog slave country who was once aloof was crawling on the ground tremblingly, just begging to survive.

"Jinghai, Far East..."

Nan Shengmi closed his eyes.

The Jinghai Province includes the territories of the Gounu Kingdom and Yamatai, and it is even wider, while the Far East is the north that they have not even touched.

The more he knew about Ming Kingdom, the more he felt his description and the insignificance of Yamatai.

The "Han" country he once thought was only four or five times the size of Yamatai, but now that he thinks about it, it is a joke.

The Han kingdom that has been destroyed is almost a hundred times larger than Yamatai.

Comparing Yamatai with the Ming Kingdom, it is even more incomparable.

There are more than [-] people in Chang'an City, more than the entire Yamatai Kingdom.

This is just one city.

Daming has ten provinces, fourteen prefectures, one hundred counties and one thousand cities.

There are hundreds of vassal countries like them, like carps crossing the river.

In the embassy, ​​he met messengers from other countries.

The largest vassal state is called "Dawan", with more than [-] large and small cities and a population of several hundred thousand.

The country of Dawan and Yamatai are separated by thousands of miles. If you want to go to Dawan, if you follow the caravan, you will need to walk from Chang'an for several months before you can finally arrive.

It is said that because of his disobedience to the Ming court, he was directly destroyed by the Ming army, and the current lord is the newly appointed lord of the Ming court.

Nan Shengmi broke out in a cold sweat at that time.

If he hadn't signed the document at the beginning, I'm afraid that today's Yamatai may have the same experience as Dawan, or even worse.

It may be that the country will be destroyed by death at that time, and it is not even qualified to change a country lord.

In the past few days in Chang'an City, he saw the twenty-four cauldrons. He knew that each cauldron represented a vast province. At the same time, he also saw hundreds of thousands of people on Chang'an Square. .

He has never seen so many people gathered together, even if he has seen the military might of the Ming army, but the scene on the square is a different scene.

Daming, Daming...

It is no wonder that people in the world call it the Great Ming, and it is no wonder that the envoys of various countries call it the Shang Kingdom.

Wherever the sun and the moon shine, and where the rivers and rivers come, it is the land of light.

Those words that sounded extremely arrogant had their own confidence, not Yelang's arrogant words.

Staring at the roof beams, Nan Shengmi was grateful for the decision he had made.

A crazy idea has been lingering in his mind these past few days, and he can't get rid of it. He tried hard not to think about it, but it was still to no avail.

Along the way, they passed through countless towns, thousands of roads, and witnessed the prosperity of this family.

It turned out that he has always been a ridiculous frog in the bottom of a well, thinking that the world is only Yamatai and the surrounding countries, as well as the big men in the West.

Here, he saw the prosperous Chang'an, and he saw the map of the world.

The world is bigger than he imagined, more magnificent and magnificent than he imagined.

He didn't want to live in Yamatai all his life, he didn't want to live on that small island all his life.

He wanted to ride that tall war horse and gallop on the grassland.

He wanted to board the huge warship and break the waves on the ocean.

He wants to stay here, wants to stay in Daming...

And this is not just a fantasy, something that cannot be realized.

The Ming Dynasty has now set up three new military regions, among which the Anxi and Nanyang military regions are expanding their troops and recruiting troops.

Not only for the people of the Ming Kingdom, but the people of their vassal states can also join the army, and these vassal states are also in the order of conscription.

Having seen the vastness of this world, he was really unwilling to return to that small island again.

Nan Shengmi clenched his fists, got up, and walked to the desk in the room.

He first took the fire fold, lit the lights in the room, and then took out a pale yellow piece of paper from under the paperweight on the desk.

He wants to write a letter to return home and submit his resignation.

He wants to stay in Daming, he wants to go to Nanyang...

Nan Shengmi held the brush in his hand, and by candlelight, stroke by stroke, wrote his resignation letter. He had already made up his mind.

After writing the last stroke, he put down the brush in his hand and looked at the paper on the Android, his eyes changed from initial hesitation to firmness.

Outside the hall, roosters croaked.

At the same time, there was a knock on the door of his room.

"The fourth watch will be halfway through, please get up and gather in the hall of the museum within a quarter of an hour."

Immediately outside the house, the sound of the Honglu Division's announcement was also heard.

Nan Shengmi stood up, showing a solemn expression.

Today is the day when the envoys from the foreign vassal countries enter the audience. They have been practicing etiquette for the past two days. When the sun rises on the fifth day, it is the time to enter Yingtianfu and meet.

Nan Shengmi made up his mind, he did not delay, and immediately got ready.

By the time he changed into his court clothes, and finished tidying up his instruments, he walked into the hall. There were already a hundred people standing in the hall.

The hundreds of people standing in the hall are all messengers. Each of them represents a country or a tribe. They come from east, west, north and south, from all over the world, and their clothes are different.

The officials of the Honglu Division in brocade robes are finally reminding the matters that should be paid attention to.

Seeing this, Nan Shengmi hurriedly walked to the pre-determined position. The country of Yamatai was rated as a prefecture, and it belonged to the second-rank of the fourth-rank. His position was relatively high.

The official of the Nahumus Division just glanced at him and continued to talk about the precautions, without saying anything else.

After a while, an official in a red robe walked into the hall.

All the envoys had solemn expressions, did not dare to neglect, and became more and more respectful.

Only officials above the fourth rank of the Ming court are eligible to wear red robes.

Honglu Division is a fourth-rank government office, and only its chief officer and deputy are above fourth-rank.

This person wearing a red robe must be one of the management. They are under the jurisdiction of the Honglu Division. Even the minor officials of the Honglu Division dare not offend, and how can they dare to offend the chief officer of a division.

The official in the red robe opened the booklet and started the roll call.

Most of the envoys from the four directions lowered their heads to answer, but Nan Shengmi raised his head and looked at the official in the red robe. His eyes were full of longing and eagerness.

If one day, I can wear this red robe, I will have no regrets in this life.

And in the hall, there are not a few people who have similar eyes to Nan Shengmi...

After the roll call was completed, no one was absent, and everyone followed the officials of the Honglu Division and boarded the carriage according to the pre-rehearsal.

The carriage moved forward slowly, the wheels of the four-wheeled carriage ran over Chang'an Avenue and quickly passed through the wide street.

In the carriage, Nan Shengmi sat upright, and his heart was extremely nervous.

Although he was different from other messengers, he had already met Xu An once.

But it was precisely because he had met once that he was even more nervous.

Thinking of the scene of meeting Xu An, Nan Shengmi only felt dry lips, bitter throat, and panic in her heart.

When we arrived outside Chang'an Gate, the sky was brightening.

And Nan Shengmi also saw the scene in front of him clearly.

In front of Chang'an Gate, hundreds of officials stand.

The civil servants in robes stood on the left, while the generals in military uniforms stood on the right. At a glance, there were thousands of people.

In the square, above the towers, one after another stood tall, murderous soldiers with guns, and their stern eyes swept past them like sharp knives.

A tower of arrow towers stands, and a tower of palaces stands.

In front of everyone is the incomparably tall Yingtianfu city wall.

The fire was blazing, and the armor was shining.

The Yingtian Mansion under the night is even more majestic and magnificent.

If there are gods in this world, they must live in Yingtian.

The sky is shining, and the east is turning red.

The dazzling golden light broke through the layers of clouds in an instant, and radiated toward all directions.

The tall city walls of Chang'an City slowly rose with the newly born rising sun.

Just before all the envoys could react, suddenly, the bell of the Daming Bell rang in Yingtian Mansion.

The melodious bells echoed through the heavy palace gates and city walls in Yingtian Mansion, resounding in the ears of everyone.

Above the gate tower, the warriors of the Ming army also sounded the huge yellow-sky war drum.

The Taoist palace gates, with layers of imperial bans, are like the nine-fold heavenly gates, along the central axis of Yingtianfu, from the outside to the inside, from the bottom to the top, and open.

The envoys looked up and saw that the gates of the palace in front of them had all been opened.