Late Tang Dynasty Floating Life

"The king Li Xun pays homage to His Majesty." In the Wenshan Hall of Linshuo Palace, Li Xun, a scholar from Zizhou, saluted respectfully.

"Tang Tianyou two years ago (900), Mr. Li was called Bingong. I don't know if he got the honor?" Shao Shude looked at the Persian young man in front of him and asked curiously.

Li Xun is about 20 years old. He was only 15 years old five years ago, and he was elected as a guest tribute. It can be seen that he was famous in the countryside when he was young-I heard that he wrote excellent poems and was very famous in Sichuan.

"No." Li Xun said in shame, "I'm going to take the Daxia Jinshi exam."

"Do you know why I brought you here?" Shao Shude stretched out his hand and said, "Sit down."

"Your Majesty has an order, and you can follow it." Li Xun sat down on a chair under the guidance of the palace staff, and said.

He originally lived in Zizhou.After the fall of Li Maozhen's forces, because their family had something to do with Maozhen and had a lot of wealth, they were regarded as bandits and taken to Beiping Mansion - the family wealth was naturally confiscated, and a considerable part of it was sent to Luoyang with the car.

"I heard that your father went to Sichuan with Emperor Xizong of the former Tang Dynasty?" Shao Shude asked.

"It's true." Li Xun replied.

"After entering Shu, what does your family do for a living?"

Anguo, Shiguo, and Sogdian were all nine surnames of Zhaowu in Tang Dynasty, probably in Uzbekistan and Afghanistan.

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Kang Nuzi sat down without being pretentious.

Shao Shude leveled Helong in his early years and stabilized the local order.

At the same time, he was also very curious about the group of Zhaowu nine surnames.

Li Xun's brothers and sisters are all native Persians.

"I still want to send someone to Fusu, but is it possible?" Shao Shude said, "It would be nice if we can touch the old land of Yanqi right now. Take it step by step, don't rush. Pay attention to drawing maps along the way, marking the pastures and water sources. Return to the rebels The ones stored in the archives may not be accurate and need to be redrawn, understand?"

Of course, the Sogdians were mainly distributed in the Tang Dynasty, and they were deeply involved in local politics, military affairs, commerce and even cultural undertakings, and their numbers were extremely large.

"I obey the order." Kang Nuzi had no doubts, and immediately complied.

"That's good." Shao Shude said happily: "I will give you the post of ninth-rank secretary of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. You will go to meet the officials of the Ministry of Internal Affairs later, and they will contact you. Don't worry, it's a good thing. You will know when you go .”

"Understand."

"Give me a seat." Shao Shude stretched out his hand.

"That's all. I might as well manage the Qinan Grassland more and attract all the caravans." Shao Shude smiled and asked again: "Would you like to join the Ministry of Internal Affairs?"

"No! Who did Gao Silun kill for?"

After Li Xun retreated, Shao Shude spread out the map in his hand, thinking silently.

He also has a younger sister, Li Shunxian, who is five years old this year. In history, she was the Zhaoyi of Wang Yan, who was nicknamed "Stupid Boy".

"I heard that there are many businessmen who go to the grasslands to trade in Tatar, Khitan, Bohai, and Silla. Maybe they will be stopped?" Shao Shude asked.

"You can translate this map for me." Shao Shude waved his hand, and the palace servant handed over the map.

This map is really not easy.Shao Shude didn't find any obvious mistakes, so it can be seen that the person who drew the picture had put a lot of thought into it.

"The concubine is serving the official family."

"Okay!" Shao Shude said joyfully, "I will give you the post of Chief Registrar of the Seventh Rank House of Internal Affairs, and form a caravan as soon as possible."

At the turn of Tang and Xia, it has long been taken for granted that the soldiers and generals of the Tibetan army were taken for granted.Even in Tang Xuanzong and Tang Wuzong meetings, there was a miracle that several prime ministers were all Tibetans.

"Your Majesty wants to do business in the Western Regions?" Kang Nuzi asked in surprise.

The rest are all in the territory of later generations of China, and he probably knows it well.

Tocharo is in what is now northern Afghanistan.

When Shao Shude pardoned Li Xun's family, he mainly considered continuing to maintain and even thicken the Persian trade line.

A faint voice came from the hall:

"Let Kang Nuzi come in." Shao Shude put down the map and ordered.

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"Kang Nuzi, the king of Shazhou, pays homage to His Majesty." Similar to Li Xun, a foreigner with a high nose and deep eyes came in and paid homage.

Shao Shude listened carefully, then asked one by one, and compared with his own geography knowledge, he probably figured it out.

"I obey the order." Li Xun was a little dizzy.

Kang Nuzi took it over and saw it clearly, and said: "Your Majesty, this is a map of commercial roads, and there are many countries in the letter. From west to east, they are Fushi, Tomakory, Persia, Anguo (Bukhara), and Tuzhou. Huola, Shiguo (Tashkent), Sogdia (between the Amu Darya River and the Syr Darya River), Bahana, Pantuo (Tashkurgan), Kasha (Kashgar), Khotan (Hotian), Kucha ( Kuqa), Yanqi, Gaochang, Sabi (along the Altun Mountains), Tubo, Tuhun, Miyao (Dangxiang boundary), Bogulu (Lingzhou), etc.

The sage wants the Fushu alchemist to come, is it because he is refining the elixir of life?Most of the kings died suddenly of this kind of medicine in the Central Plains. Did the saint want to change the taste of other places?
Monks and nobles understand better. They generally know a lot. After learning Mandarin, they can communicate, which is much more valuable than Tianshefu who can't speak fluently.

Now that 20 years have passed, more and more merchants from the Western Regions have passed through Helong.Especially the Qingtang-Qinzhou line, more and more people are walking, and it is expected to gradually recover to the prosperity of the former Tang Dynasty.

"I understand." Kang Nuzi suddenly realized.

"Before the city of Zizhou was destroyed, we still bought goods from there. Thanks to His Majesty, there is nothing wrong with Longyou. Now the caravan can go to Qingtang, Fenglin Pass, and Qinzhou to enter Guanzhong, or go south to Shuzhong, which is much more convenient. It is." Li Xun said.

A moment ago, he was still a "thief party" with ties behind him.After face-to-face once, I actually have a ninth-rank official body. Life is impermanent, but that's it.

"This... His Majesty will send troops to wipe out the Tatars." Kang Nuzi said.

Mrs. Xie blushed when she heard this, and thought to herself that Yu Lu was really shameless when he saw Gu Gu, why did he dare to say anything?Still so good at acting, the officials will be exhausted sooner or later on her belly.

"Go quickly and do your best." Shao Shude waved his hand and said.

Liu Yu, the queen master of the Southern Han Dynasty, also took a Persian woman as his concubine. "Liu Yu got a Persian woman. She was young, black and beautiful, and she was good at prostitution, and her music was perfect. She was named Meizhu."——Liu There are also beauties such as Mei Niu, Mei Hu and Mei Yang in the harem.

"What are you doing?"

They're so fucking good at running!They are almost scattered throughout the territory of the Tang Dynasty, and even Lingnan has their settlements.If the Arabs came to do business from the sea, the Sogdians ran around from the land.They even went to Khitan, Balhae, and Silla, and they didn't know where the enthusiasm came from.

Of course, it is also essential to give the Ministry of Internal Affairs more money-making deals.

"I heard that you are Kang Fujin's grandnephew, and you were also a general?" Shao Shude asked.

"Selling jewelry, spices, medicinal materials, rhinoceros as a business."

"Your Majesty..." Li Xun was startled.

"who are you?"

His younger brother, Li Xuan, is still selling Persian fragrant medicine, and his business is doing very well.

"The concubine is being humiliated by the officials..." After finishing speaking, the sound of mournful weeping resounded throughout the palace.

"I used to be. I studied essays in my early years, and later joined the army. Now I can do business." Kang Nuzi replied.

"...The concubine is Shi Lu's wife, Yu Lu Jiangu."

He still knows about Li Xun, and his erotic poems are well written, which suits his LSP taste very well.Of course, at this time his focus is not on this aspect.

******
He met a lot of people in the morning, and his work efficiency was extremely high. Shao Shude was delighted. After returning to the Jiaotai Hall, he ordered Shanggong Xie to get the gift list presented by the envoys, and planned to meet a few in the afternoon.

Li Xunzu came to the Central Plains when he was in the Sui Dynasty, and has been running around doing business.Later, he gradually settled down, and in his father's generation, he was considered to have a small fortune in Chang'an.When the nest was chaotic, when many officials had no time to escape, Li's father managed to escape with his family. He followed Emperor Xizong into Shu, and later settled in Zizhou.

"...Gao Silun was ordered by the officials to kill Xiao Shilu."

"Can you understand Sogdian?" Shao Shude asked again.

The goods that Wu Fu swallowed, but also brought out?
"What is supposed to be yours is yours. I am not a bandit, why are you greedy for your money?" Shao Shude said with a smile: "The business over there in Persia has not been terminated, has it?"

"Do you know this thing?" Shao Shude asked to send the gold coin to Kang Nuzi.

During the Five Dynasties, the ruler of the country loved Napersian women.Wang Yan was one of them, but later he favored Yan Shi, the wife of the eunuch Wang Chengxiu, and neglected the Persian beauty.

"It seems that Futu is much closer than I imagined." Shao Shude said happily: "Try to find a way to contact some Sogdian merchants. If anyone can get Futu's books back, I will give you a hundred pieces of silk for each. I will never break my promise. If There will be great rewards for alchemists, monks, and dignitaries who come here."

Trade not only brings profits, but also cultural exchanges, and the latter is even more important than the former.

In history, Li Maozhen was beaten like a dog by Li Keyong and Zhu Quanzhong, and the army almost dispersed.However, relying on the Western Region trade, he soon made a comeback.

Kang Nuzi hesitated for a moment, but finally responded: "I just obey the orders of the Holy Spirit."

"No wonder." Shao Shude said: "Master Wang robbed your family's property, I have already sent someone to buy it."

Seeing that there was still time, he hugged Yu Lu and Jiangu again.

Of course, the most famous thing in the Southern Han Dynasty is the rule that one must first leave the palace to become an official, so that there is a stunned poem like "When the gold list is inscribed every day, there will be no wedding night in the bridal chamber" and has been passed down through the ages.

"This is Fushu gold coin, which can be seen in Dunhuang." Kang Nuzi said: "Actually, there are quite a few in the Central Plains. Many nobles like to bring some Fushu gold coins when they are buried. It is rare."

"How did Xiao Shilu die?"

Fu Su knew without asking him that it meant Byzantium.

Tomakura is actually Syria.

After a long time, the sage summoned, and Mrs. Xie hurried in.

"Killed by Gao Silun."

"In the Tang Dynasty, from Dazhong to Xiantong, Baizhong ordered to pay homage to Prime Minister. Bi Xiangxian, Cao Xiangzhen, Luo Xiangshaoquan, and envoy Xiangye, Jisheng Yanlang, Cui Xiangshenyou said: "It can be returned. Recently, there are all Chinese books. Fan people'."——This Bai Zhongling is Bai Minzhong, Bai Juyi's cousin.Cui Shenyou believed that he, like Bai Xiaode, a famous general in the middle Tang Dynasty, was born in the Bai family of Kucha and was a Tibetan.

"No! Repeat!"

Xie moved quickly, and when he returned to the Jiaotai Hall, he was stopped by Pugu Cheng'en.

"Your Majesty, the gift list has been brought." Mrs. Xie held up both hands and presented it high.

Shao Shude sat on the dragon chair, patted Yu Lujiangu's fat buttocks, and the woman stepped aside with a whimper.

Shao Shude glanced roughly, and said, "Let Qian Chuanjue come in to have an audience before he arrives."

I kindly recommend "The Book of Chaos" by the great god Ji Cha, and interested readers can read it.

Everyone knows his book.