Recreating the prosperous Tang begins with summoning players

Chapter 736
The emissary in black was Sama, a guard officer of the Caliphate. This middle-aged officer has a quarter of Turkic blood and can even speak some Chinese.

However, Sama did not show it all the time, but asked the translator to help with the translation. He silently and secretly observed the whole Datang.

Sama's grandfather was a Turkic aristocrat who moved westward, and after marrying a local Dashi woman, he gradually integrated into the black-clothed Dashi.

The place of black food and food has always been the skin of religion, the bone of Persia, and the spear of Turkic.

Whether it is the current big food in black, or countless dynasties in Central Asia, almost all of them are this template.

The skin of religion is that after the rise of religion, the religious belief in this area has not changed much, and religion has always dominated.

The bone of Persia is because of the great influence of Persian culture. No matter which dynasty, it cannot do without Persian officials. Black Clothes Dashi is no exception. Without the help of Persian officials to govern, the whole country will collapse.

After Alexander conquered Persia that year, he quickly annexed Persia's territory. Persian officials only need to surrender, and Alexander can occupy this area.

But Alexander invaded Tianzhu, and soon he could not go on, because there was no reliable ruler in Tianzhu. Alexander not only wanted to conquer them, but also sent people to manage them, and soon he could not continue.

Persian civilization can be said to be the order territory of Middle Eastern civilization.

The Turkic Spear means that the main military nobles in the entire Central Asian region are all Turkic people or descendants of Turkic people.

For example, this is the case for Sama. His ancestors used to live in the northern grasslands of the Tang Dynasty, and were later expelled to the Western Regions by the Tang Dynasty and the Uyghurs, and then were expelled from the Western Regions to Central Asia.

But these defeated people from the grasslands in northern China started to kill indiscriminately after arriving in Central Asia. They conquered many small countries in Central Asia, and then bumped into the expanding black-clothed big food.

Heiyi Dashi soon discovered that these Turkic army leaders were extremely high-level mercenaries, so he began to try to hire these Turkic people to fight for him or train the army.

Gradually, these Turkic nobles began to integrate into the black food and became specialized military nobles.

For example, General Black Dashi, who led Dashi in Black to win the Battle of Heng Ross, was once a Turkic slave, and Sama's father had served in that army.

Sama had heard many legends about the Central Plains. According to her ancestors, Datang was an unbelievably powerful, impossibly prosperous and wealthy capital, almost a kingdom of gold.

However, in the eyes of Sama's parents, Datang and Heiyi Dashi performed evenly in the battle of Constant Rose, and they could be regarded as respectable opponents.

In the eyes of Sama's generation, Datang is just a cowardly giant, not the powerful dynasty that his father and grandfather said.

Under the dissemination of merchants in the Western Regions, the news of the civil strife in the Tang Dynasty reached Baghdad, and some Turkic nobles who advocated expansion once again sent the issue of eastward expansion to the royal court of the Caliph.

In the battle of Hengluo, although the black-clothed food won the victory, the black-clothed food withdrew from the Western Regions.

The reason for this is also very simple. Although this battle was won, it was also a miserable and narrow victory for the Black Food Food. After realizing that there was a powerful enemy in the East, maintaining the strategic buffer zone of the Western Regions was very important for the Black Clothes Food and Food at that time. Datang has benefits.

For the big food in black, there are more fertile lands in the west, weaker opponents, and Tianzhu in the South Asian subcontinent, which are also good and fertile lands, so why bother to compete with Datang for the Western Regions?
And for the food in black, maintaining Datang's trade is crucial.

As the earliest commercial nation, the Arabs, the rise of black food is related to the East-West trade on the Silk Road.

Relying on the trade between the East and the West, the Prophet can lead the rise of the merchant class. The black-clothed food is now prosperous, and a large part of it depends on the trade between the East and the West.

If Datang, a producer of silk and a consumer of spices, is lost, many merchants in Black Clothes Dashi will go bankrupt.

Therefore, after winning the war, the food in black withdrew from the Western Regions, and consciously defended the Western Regions.

However, upon hearing the news of the civil strife in the Tang Dynasty, the Turkic military aristocrats who advocated the eastward march began to mobilize their forces again, persuading the Caliphate to expand eastward and conquer the Tang Dynasty, the capital of silk and gold.

Sama is one of the supporters of the Eastern Expansion Faction. This time he submitted his credentials to Datang, and his main task was to spy on the situation of Datang.

If Datang is really in a divided war, as those merchants in the Western Regions said, then Sama will immediately persuade the Caliph to launch an Eastern Expedition after returning to the Black Clothes Dashi.

When she just docked at the port of Bao'an County, Sama was quite disapproving.

This is the bustling Datang port that the businessmen said?That's it?

Sama arrogantly met the governor of the port, a Tang official in a silk robe.

The governor of the port left a good impression on Sama, but what surprised Sama even more was that there was an interpreter who could speak Arabic fluently in this small port.

Sama heard that the port he was calling at was a small port under construction, and that the bustling port among the merchants was Quanzhou Port, so he continued to lead the ship southward and soon arrived at Quanzhou Port.

After seeing Quanzhou Port, Sama was completely dumbfounded.

In this huge port, even the outer sea is full of foreign ships waiting to enter the port. Such a huge port has never been seen by Sama along the way!

This huge port can only have an orderly location and order, with a large number of Datang's pilot ships shuttling through it, and any ship that violates Datang's order will be decisively expelled.

Sama's ship was a diplomatic envoy's ship, and under the guidance of the pilot ship, he quickly entered the wharf area where the official ship was berthing.

Quanzhou was the center of the entire southeast trade back then. Sama even saw a whole Sinicized black-clothed cannibal community here. The Datang Yamen also allowed them to build mosques to worship, and earlier they were allowed to preach, but It was later banned by the emperor.

When Sama saw the port of Quanzhou with his own eyes, he was completely overwhelmed by the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty. He saw boxes of silk on the ship, which were comparable to gold when transported to Baghdad!

It's just that after seeing the Quanzhou port, Sama just thinks that Datang is rich, but Tianzhu is still rich, isn't it about to collapse?
Sama stayed in Quanzhou for two days, then completed the supplies non-stop and continued northward. This time he wanted to go to Yangzhou Port in one breath.

However, when heading to Yangzhou Port, Sama encountered some small twists and turns.

(End of this chapter)