Zhenguan Chang'an Xiaofangzheng

Chapter 566 What is Death Without Evidence!
The north wind is blowing, and the dead leaves are rolling.

As long as it doesn't snow, Chang'an City will be as lively as ever, with caravans entering the city against the cold wind.

Among them, some Sogdians traveled as far as Europe and Asia, and took some unique commodities from Fushi, and sold them in Chang'an City.

The trade at this time is mainly some small and luxurious items, and practicality is not considered.

If we have to talk about practicality, the porcelain and colored glaze of the Tang Dynasty can be used as containers, but can't the local clay pottery in the West?

Of course not. The limitation of transportation capacity has limited the varieties that can be exchanged between the East and the West. Of course, merchants choose the most beneficial items to exchange.

Luxury goods naturally have the upper hand.

Who crosses the desert, walks thousands of miles, and fights against bandits from time to time, not for profit?
As for the limited exchange of species, it is just carried along in the trade and cannot become the mainstream.

Otherwise, the tofu plate becomes the price of meat.

With a smug smile on Jing Han's round face, he went to Guangde Square to find Fan Zheng, and presented him with cabbage seeds.

"Sensible!" Fan Zheng accepted with a smile on his face. "In the future, if there are any Western vegetables and medicinal materials, just get them."

"Of course, the staple food is even better."

Jing Han smiled wryly: "Don't drive, it's really not easy. These are some rare things that a group of merchants got after passing through Fufu."

The half-truth and half-false words were intended to make Fan Zheng appreciate it.

Of course, in the future, if Nestorian believers return from afar and can bring some species with them, they will also hand them over to Fan Zheng.

It's just a matter of favor and favor, and it doesn't cost anything.

Fan Zheng distributed some packets of cabbage seeds, and planned to let Fan Laoshi take care of them in his spare time, and let Wang Fujin find a place to grow the rest slowly.

Why not let Yuan Luan and Du Shengxia take care of them?
Come on, let's start with these two, maybe the cabbage seeds can be poured with boiling water, it's not as reliable as the Fan Baili brothers.

Fan Zheng still wanted to eat meat wrapped in cabbage.

At the same time, Nibhara offered pickled vegetables, celery, and scallions to the Tang Dynasty.

As for some sources, it is said that Huqin got its name because it was produced near Huxiangji, it is a matter of course.

It is said that China is the only producer of pickled vegetables. Please check the information before speaking. If you want to say that it is the only producer of pickled vegetables, no one can say anything.

Hunti scallions are onions, which is also quite contradictory to the statement that onions were introduced in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

Kapi offered tulips.

Persia offers live mattress snakes, which can catch mice.

The above information comes from Volume 970 of "Cefu Yuangui".

The only regret is that there are no vegetables, trees or spices, but no staple food.
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Inside the Liangyi Hall, the foot stove warmed the heart, and snacks and tea soup were placed on the table. The Emperor Zhenguan was full of surprise, and looked closely at Fan Zheng who was extremely serious.

"It's okay to ask for some scallion seeds." Li Shimin chuckled. "I just want to know, what do you want this thing to do with a letter from the Xinjiang official?"

"Don't say you planted it yourself. As far as I know, even if you were the director of Jingyuan, you didn't plow a few rows of land."

Fan Zheng laughed and said: "Your Majesty also knows that the whole family of ministers eats well. The onion tastes sweet and delicious when eaten with meat, so I want to plant some in the mansion."

"I'm not going to plant, but Aye is still idle."

Li Zhi was surprised: "Why does Fan Qing know the taste of this thing?"

Aha, I slipped my tongue, Hunti green onions are probably found in the Western Regions, but Chang'an City doesn't have them, and Li Zhi hasn't tasted them either.

But what Li Zhi said had other meanings, Fan Zheng just pretended not to know.

"In the past, when I was drinking tea with Master Popo and discussing Taoism at Shengguang Temple, I heard a little about this thing, and Master Popo also heard others recount it."

Hehe, Hunti scallions are also scallions, so it is inconvenient to talk nonsense that Bo Po broke the precept, it can only be paraphrased.

This patch is solid, and Bopo has passed away, so who can verify it?
Even Zen Master Xuanmo dare not say that Bopo never said this when he was alive.

What is dead without evidence!
Li Zhi was curious: "Does this thing have other characteristics?"

Fan Zheng said with a smile: "There is a popular name for Hunti onion called Liulei onion. Whenever a chef wants to peel off the layers of onion, his eyes will cry because of his bitterness."

Li Zhi narrowed his eyes.

Does this imply that Gu is going to cry?
"If so, what should Shishou do with it?" Even Li Shimin became interested.

Of course, after peeling off one or two pieces of aging green onion, throw it in a water basin and roll it, then directly break it and cut it into strips, and then pass a pass of water.

In this way, you will never choke your eyes again.

Li Shimin laughed loudly: "You greedy mouth! I heard that you also begged for womb seeds from the Persian temple?"

Fan Zheng responded: "Although this thing belongs to the same genus as cabbage, it is born with a heart. It seems that the word "Song" is not appropriate, so I call it a cabbage with a heart. Take some of the seeds home, and let the people try to plant the rest. , and if appropriate, it can be extended.”

Li Shimin nodded silently. This is a cautious person, and he is afraid that what he introduces will cause disaster.

In this regard, water hyacinth and airplane grass are particularly prominent in later generations.

Instead, he clicked on the word "Persian Temple", but it was sounding the alarm, telling Fan Zheng to keep a distance.

Officials, big and small, were already close to Nestorian, and a full-time third-rank official like Fan Zheng shouldn't get too close.

Out of the need to maintain the Silk Road, the Tang Dynasty had to allow the existence of Nestorianism, but it does not mean that the imperial court agreed with the teachings of Nestorianism.

After all, Datang agreed more with Taoism, followed by Buddhism.

Nestorianism, which came from afar, is a branch of Buddhism by default.

This can be verified from the name "Persian Temple".

If it is verified in writing, in "Tang Huiyao", the position of Nestorianism is in a few small lines on the page of Buddhism.

Aroben tried hard, but to no avail.

You say it is not Buddhism, so why do you also shave your head and become a vegetarian?
Say something about the Father and the Son, if you don’t listen or listen, the monks will chant scriptures.

Including the Manichaeism, there are Manichae temples.

Don't be wronged, let's keep each other company.

Before they could distribute the Hunti onion seeds from Sinong Temple in the future, they distributed a small half to Fan Zheng.

After Fan Zheng Xie En withdrew, Li Zhi's smile faded, and there was a trace of chill in his eyes.

"Aye, do you think he really only cares about his appetite?"

On Li Shimin's slightly swollen face, there was a reassuring smile: "He has always been like this. Pheasant slave, the king must be suspicious, and he must not be too suspicious."

Li Zhi showed a cute look: "Aye is right."

Today's memorials are all about father and son, which is very different from the old days when emperors and ministers were called, but father and son have a heart like a mirror, it is really hard to say whether the father is kind and the son is filial or the father is resigned and the son is smiling.

Let's put it this way, there are very few Prince Cheng Ding in history who have no quarrel with the emperor.

Liu Ju worked hard as the prince all his life, but in the end he was forced to turn against him?
Do you really think that without the emperor's acquiescence, Xiao Xiaojiang can move the prince?

So, a lot of bad things, don't just think that the courtiers are responsible.

Courtiers are often just accomplices, and the mastermind is the emperor, understand?

The root cause of Li Zhi's evil thoughts towards Fan Zheng is that the emperor pretended that the prince didn't know about it, and the prince pretended that he didn't know that the emperor knew about it. Everyone was acting.

The capsule is not broken, the awl is not exposed, everyone is wearing a mask.

(End of this chapter)