Recreating the prosperous Tang begins with summoning players

Chapter 176 Achievement System, Natural Wonders!
The four members of the eastbound group did not stay in Jiuquan for a long time, but continued eastward to Zhangye.

The news that Fang Guan, the former prime minister, was transferred to be the Jiedu envoy of Hexi quickly spread in the player forum.

Sure enough, the four members of the Dongxing regiment received a blue mission to inquire about the news.

However, the Hexi Jiedu envoy was stationed in Wuwei City, so the group of four rushed to Wuwei without stopping.

Zhang Duanyang was riding a horse, Zhou Shi followed behind the teacher, the two rode one after the other, Zhou Shi kept shouting: "Teacher, slow down!"

The last time Zhang Duanyang galloped outside Yumen Pass, he fell in love with drag racing completely.

Near Zhangye in the Hexi Corridor, there happened to be a flat valley. Zhang Duanyang kept waving his whip, urging the horse under his crotch to speed up.

Zhou Shi was also speechless. Riding a horse is much more dangerous than driving a car. In the accidental death list of players on the forum, the most likely way of death is falling from a horse.

If Zhang Duanyang fell off his horse and died, Zhou Shi would have to spend his contribution points to redeem his test qualifications.

For his own contribution, oh not for the safety of the teacher, Zhou Shi had to follow behind Zhang Duanyang like an old woman, for fear that he would get hurt while riding a horse.

Li Daoyuan and Yu Xiaoxiao followed behind slowly on horseback. Yu Xiaoxiao followed Li Daoyuan's horse with a piece of alfalfa bored in his mouth.

"Captain, when will you arrive in Zhangye!"

Li Daoyuan took out the map, looked at the trend of the mountains on both sides, and said: "After walking for an hour, you can see Zhangye City."

Yu Xiaoxiao lifted her spirits and said, "Captain, what interesting attractions are there in Zhangye?"

Li Daoyuan looked at Yu Xiaoxiao and said, "Do you know Zhangye Danxia?"

Yu Xiaoxiao shook her head, how could she be the up master of the dance area, how could she understand this thing!
Li Daoyuan said: "Danxia refers to the isolated peaks and steep strange rocks formed by the red sandy conglomerate after long-term weathering, stripping and water erosion. In our era, many photographers would come to Zhangye to take pictures of Danxia."

Yu Xiaoxiao said with bright eyes: "Is it beautiful?"

Li Daoyuan nodded and said: "Of course, Zhangye Danxia is the most beautiful Danxia!"

Yu Xiaoxiao became excited, since she left Yumen Pass, she also recorded a dance in Jiuquan.

However, the sword dance outside Yumen Pass was too shocking. After the sword dance in Jiuquan was updated, Yu Xiaoxiao was complained by netizens that her performance had dropped. Not to mention the fact that the video failed to become popular, she also lost many fans for no reason!
Are these fans just looking at the scenery?I, a beautiful girl, don't watch dancing, but just watch the scenery?

Holding her stomach full of anger, Yu Xiaoxiao vowed to find a shocking place to shoot the video this time.

But walking east from Jiuquan, the scenery is indeed much better.

"Golden Zhangye, Silver Wuwei", Zhangye is the place with the best natural environment among the four counties in the Hexi Corridor.

Even Wuwei, where the Hexi Jiedu envoy was stationed, could not compare to Zhangye's geographical advantages.

Zhangye is located between two mountains, one in the south and one in the north. Ganjun Mountain in the north blocks the cold wind of the Mongolian plateau.

The Qilian Mountains in the south also block the cold wind of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, which also makes this valley unique.

Not only the climate is pleasant, but also the rainfall is abundant.

There are stretches of oases near Jiuquan, and deserts can be seen occasionally.

When you arrive in Zhangye, there is a large area of ​​fertile land, with rice paddies intersecting and water networks densely covered.

If it wasn't for the grasslands that could still be seen, Yu Xiaoxiao would have thought that she had come to Jiangnan.

"It's so beautiful, I didn't expect Longyou Dao to be such a beautiful place?" Yu Xiaoxiao couldn't help admiring Zhangye's rich beauty.

Li Daoyuan said: "Zhangye is known as the frontier of Jiangnan, and it has been a very prosperous area since the Han Dynasty."

"This is much richer than Shazhou and Guazhou!"

Yu Xiaoxiao has traveled so many places, and she also has an understanding of the Tang Dynasty in this era.

In this era dominated by agriculture, more fertile land and more livestock is a symbol of a place's prosperity.

"But why are there so many pastures? Why don't they turn them into farmlands?" Yu Xiaoxiao saw a lot of deserted pastures besides the contiguous farmlands.

The farmland in Zhangye is full of dense crops. It is obvious that the land here is fertile, and every piece of land is very precious.

However, what is clearly separated from these fields are stretches of deserted pastures.

The grass in these meadows has grown to the height of half a person, not only has no one harvested it, there are not even traces of trampling on it.

Yu Xiaoxiao was very puzzled by the split between the fields that were fully utilized on one side and the large deserted but uncultivated pastures on the other.

At this time, Zhang Duanyang finally rode his horse and galloped to an end. He rode back and heard Yu Xiaoxiao's question.

The old professor who returned to his youth in the game said: "These pastures are the court's horse farms, and they cannot grow food."

"Racecourse?"

Zhang Duanyang nodded and said: "Yes, these deserted pastures are actually horse farms. Datang has an official position in Zhangye, the herd supervisor, who is responsible for the horse administration in Zhangye area."

"There are still only scattered pastures here. After passing Zhangye City and heading east, the Shandan Ranch is the largest pasture in the entire Hexi Corridor. That place is still the largest military horse farm in China."

Yu Xiaoxiao looked at these racecourses, but did not see a single horse, she asked suspiciously: "Why are there no horses?"

Zhang Duanyang sighed and said, "They were all transferred away. After the emperor ascended the throne in Lingwu, all the horses in Hexi were transferred away. Not only the horses, but even the herdsmen who raised the horses were transferred into the customs."

Zhang Duanyang said with a little dejection: "There used to be no shortage of horses in the Tang Dynasty. During the Kaiyuan period, there were 30 war horses in Longyou alone. Although this number is watery, it can also show that the Tang Dynasty has a lot of war horses. "

"But the emperor exhausted his resources for fishing. He not only took away all the war horses in Zhangye, but also took all the horse herdsmen who raised them into Guanzhong. As a result, Zhangye's horse farms were abandoned, and there was no way to recover them in the next few years."

"In the history of the real world, when Tubo came to fight, the dignified Hexi Jiedu's mansion could not gather cavalry to fight. After the fall of Hexi, Datang completely lost the largest horse farm."

Everyone was a little melancholy. In the textbooks, the Anshi Rebellion was the turning point of the Tang Dynasty from prosperity to decline. Everyone knows this sentence.

But in the game Datang Fengyun, Yu Xiaoxiao only understood the meaning of this short sentence.

The decline of the Tang Dynasty was all-round, and it was definitely not because of the loss of many troops and food for the Tang court due to the Anshi Rebellion.

In addition to these direct losses, losses like Zhangye Mazheng's are even more deadly.

The biggest loss of the Anshi Rebellion was that the vigorous momentum of the entire Tang Dynasty was interrupted. After the mid-Tang Dynasty, neither the emperor nor the people had the spirit of a prosperous Tang Dynasty anymore.

Yu Xiaoxiao said: "Now that there is King Jianning in the game and our players, the four towns in Hexi will never be taken by the Tibetans!"

Li Daoyuan also said: "If we can occupy Zhangye, we should be able to restore Zhangye's horse administration."

But Zhang Duanyang said: "Yes, only by occupying Zhangye as soon as possible can Zhangye's horse administration be restored as soon as possible."

Zhang Duanyang looked in the direction of Zhangye City and said, "And Zhangye still has a very important resource."

"What resource?"

Zhang Duanyang didn't sell Guanzi, he said directly: "Zhangye has a huge thenardite mine. Since the Han Dynasty, Zhangye's thenardite has been a high-quality medicinal material, and it was sent as a tribute to the court of the Great Khan."

"This thenardite mine is very rich in reserves. In the real world, it has not been exhausted after 2000 years of mining."

Everyone's eyes lit up when they heard Glauber's salt.

Even Yu Xiaoxiao knows that black powder is the player's biggest secret weapon!

The three materials needed for black powder are sulfur, charcoal and nitrate.

Charcoal can be fired with wood. Sulfur is a kind of medicinal material. There are many in the Western Regions, but Glauber's salt is very scarce.

Zhangye has Glauber's salt!
Yu Xiaoxiao said excitedly: "Zhangye is really a good place!"

At this moment, Zhou Shi suddenly pointed to the front and said, "Look! What's ahead!?"

I only saw that the top of the mountain in front turned crimson, and the mountain below the top of the mountain was shining in colorful light under the sunlight!
Some of the tops of the mountains were still covered with white snow, and some plants were faintly scattered among them. The colorful mountains stretched endlessly. Everyone stopped their horses and held their breath to appreciate the beautiful scenery.

Yu Xiaoxiao said infatuatedly, "It's so beautiful!"

Li Daoyuan also turned on the video recording function in the game, and he also said: "Any language is lacking in front of such a shocking scenery. It is indeed a natural miracle!"

As expected of a professor, Zhang Duanyang is naturally more educated than these two people, he murmured: "Dan, Chishi also, multicolored rays of light, how appropriate is the word Danxia!"

At this moment, the four of them sounded the game's notification tone.

[Congratulations to players Li Daoyuan, Zhang Duanyang, Zhou Shi, and Yu Xiaoxiao for discovering the natural wonder - "Zhangye Danxia", 20 contribution points for the event! 】

[The achievement system is activated, discovering natural wonders, climbing the technology tree, conducting ideological enlightenment, and completing political reforms can all get contribution points! 】

[The players who have completed the achievements will be recorded forever in the "Memorabilia of Players". 】

【Players please work hard!Explore more achievements!]

Achievement system!

Li Daoyuan looked at the system prompt excitedly, and now he found that natural wonders can also get contribution points?
Isn't this the good news for scenery party players like him?
And this message is swiping the screen among players, and the new achievement system has also greatly encouraged non-mainstream players such as technology players, not only rewards for contribution points, but these "achievements" will be recorded in the player's memorabilia, Be the glory that all players can see!

Photos and videos of Li Daoyuan and Zhangye Danxia were posted on the forum, which once again aroused players' enthusiasm for exploring the world.

And all of this is what Li Yan wants. This newly launched achievement system is a new system that he plagiarized, oh, not "referring" to many game developments.

I don't know what surprises the players can bring to Li Yan?
(End of this chapter)