The bad emperor of Tang Dynasty

It is said that Guo Nuan and his party walked more than [-] miles outside the city along the south direction, and then arrived at Changping Cang Wharf. After abandoning their cars and taking a boat, they went eastward along the Wei River and took a boat for four days. Then it merged into the Yangtze River, and then arrived at Xuanzhou in Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

After staying in Xuanzhou for two days, the four of them took a tour of the beautiful water towns in the south of the Yangtze River with great interest. Ah Fu has always been fascinated by the Hujialuo ancient paper made in Xuanzhou. Full, he talked about Lingnan, his young master had a lot of places where he needed paper in the yamen, and if he didn't buy such good paper in Xuanzhou, he would not have this paper to buy elsewhere.

The itinerary was not in a hurry, the cheap father-in-law Daizong only said in the imperial decree that he would leave Chang'an within three days, but he didn't say how many days to take up the post in Leizhou, so Guo Nuan leisurely took the three of them around.

Fatty Zhang loves to eat the most. Xuanzhou’s exquisite boat dishes make him salivate. In addition to eight-treasure duck, fish belly, cold turtle skirt, ham, there are also unique crabs and shrimps in freshwater lakes. The taste is sweet and tender. , no earthy smell yet.

Guo Nuan, who has always been a glutton, has tasted delicacies from all over the world in Chang'an, and he is full of praise for this authentic steamed crab dish.Fatty didn't forget the river crabs from Jiangsu and Zhejiang before he left, and after he left Xuanzhou, he was still muttering about them. Guo Nuan laughed and scolded him for being a foodie.

After hearing about the Longxi Pagoda located in Xuanzhou during the Three Kingdoms period, as well as the magnificent and magical natural creations, Longquan Bailong and other karst landscapes, Yan Zhuang specially invited everyone to visit.

The two days were very tight. After crossing the Yangtze River, there was no waterway. I bought a carriage from Xuanzhou. After the four of them passed by Hangzhou, they couldn't help but play for another day.

Uncle Yan Zhuang said cheerfully that he had visited Hangzhou once when he was young, and there were so many beauties there, and he could still imagine the countless gentle and beautiful women in Hangzhou back then.

Holding an oil-paper umbrella in the misty rain, walking slowly in the ancient bluestone lanes of the Jiangnan water town, the beauty has a faint and elegant smile on her mouth, and a sweet scent of lilac flowers from her body. ． ．

Before arriving in Hangzhou, Guo Nuan was fascinated by Uncle Yan Zhuang's vivid description of the beauties in Hangzhou. There was still a trace of saliva drooling from the corner of his mouth.

Guo Nuan hurried on the road impatiently, and soon arrived in Hangzhou.Yan Zhuang's praise really didn't tarnish Guo Nuan's beautiful imagination. Looking at the group of singing, swallows, dancing and laughing water town beauties by the Hangzhou Lake, he sighed a lot.

Of course, there is also a beautiful wife at home. These beautiful women dressed in rouge and gouache, Guo Nuan, only occasionally have a fresh picture, and soon corrected their thoughts, waved to the three companions, and drove south.

The itinerary of Guo Nuan and his group is to go south along the eastern coastal cities. The world has not been peaceful in recent years, and the roads in the inland mountains are bumpy. Although it is faster to go directly south, there are many roadblocks and robbers along the thousands of miles of post roads going south. For horse thieves and bandits occupying the mountain as king, Guo Nuan would rather spend more than a month detouring southward through coastal towns for the sake of safety.

Stopping and stopping, 20 days passed, and after traveling thousands of miles in a blink of an eye, Guo Nuan and his party arrived in Quanzhou, Fujian.Quanzhou is a port city and was known as the largest port in the East in the Song Dynasty. After the famous European traveler Marco Polo visited Quanzhou, he lamented that only Alexandria, the most magnificent port in Europe, could be compared with it.

But now it is the Tang Dynasty. Although the Maritime Silk Road of the Tang Dynasty limited its shipping development due to the limitations of shipbuilding technology in this era, the port of Quanzhou was not fully prosperous at this time, but looking at the dozens of wharfs on the coast of Quanzhou There are no less than tens of thousands of ships moored to sea.

Wooden pulp boats, sailboats, tank boats, and sampans carried bulk commodities such as timber produced in the Tang Dynasty, soybeans, silk, rice paper, medicinal materials, carved jade, and lacquered woodware to sea, as well as foreign countries that arrived from distant seas in Europe. The boat, carrying a boat full of spices, ivory, rhino horn, and pearls, came to Datang. ． ．

Guo Nuan can generally see that Quanzhou's port trade is booming and prosperous. It is estimated that within a few decades, it will become the largest port in the East.

We boarded an exquisite and gorgeous two-story sailing boat from Quanzhou, and the four of them packed it. Guo Nuan was generous and handed the captain 500 taels of silver, which was worth three times the usual boat fare. The captain who got a fortune happily told the sailors to work quickly and go to sea. All the boatmen worked extremely hard after getting the reward. Following the southerly wind in autumn, the ship set off happily and briskly on a sunny day.

The ship is 170 feet long and 21 and a half feet wide. It is a wooden masted sailboat of medium to upper size. There are bathrooms and several bedrooms in the boat. The first floor on the main deck is a deckhouse, and there are two poop buildings. Strong, fast, windproof on all sides, chopping waves all the way, very flexible and fast.

Standing on the tip of the boat and leaning on the railing, looking at the red sunset glowing in the distance where the azure sea water meets the boundless sky, it is unavoidable to be dazzled.

"Luoxia and Lonely fly together, and the autumn waters are the same color as the sky."

Guo Nuan couldn't help feeling poetic, and then he recited a line of the most famous poem in Wang Bo's "Preface to the Pavilion of King Teng" loudly to the vast sea.When the thought came out, Yan Zhuang behind him immediately clapped his hands excitedly.

Time passed, and seven or eight days later, along the southern seashore, the boats sailed with the wind.The captain has been in the sea for more than [-] years. He is a dark and strong middle-aged man with a beard. He always likes to laugh when he is free from sailing.

He especially likes to gather with sailors and passengers on the deck. Taking advantage of the bright night with bright moon and few stars, he sets up a few big tables, lights up a few big ship lights, and brings the mellow rice wine and dried meat from his hometown. Eating and drinking noisy.

Every time the captain took the lead in opening the chatter box, drank too much, and babbled about the thrilling stories he encountered in sailing when he was young, and promoted his brave and fearless image by the way.

"Hehe, do you know that when I was young, my brother was a sailor on an official grain tanker, and when he transported grain from Korea to the Bohai Sea, it was a thrilling experience." The captain looked around with his big eyes wide open Everyone, You Qi said something to Guo Nuan, which seemed very tantalizing.

"What's wrong?" Guo Nuan suddenly became curious, drank a plate of sake, wiped his mouth, and stretched his neck to ask.

"Hey, the boss of the boat always brags back and forth to the boat passengers. Since I came here as a sailor, he has told a story at least a thousand times, and his ears can hear calluses."

One of the sailors suddenly laughed and took away the captain's confession. Several sailors laughed suddenly. It could be seen that the captain of the ship had indeed told the old-fashioned story many times. Before he could say it, everyone laughed.

"Go, brother, this young man is very interested in the story of that incident. Little guys, don't keep making noises." The boss of the boat blushed and waved his hand in embarrassment, and then attracted the sailors funny.

"You don't know. Speaking of the trip to the Bohai Sea... My brother met pirates, Japanese pirates, from that Japanese island... These thieves are all crooked, wretched and short, and they are wearing a suit at the waist. Wooden armor in a round barrel, just looking at it is very funny. Guess, what did the master of the transshipment department of the tanker see when he saw a hundred or so Japanese pirates surrounding his tanker, how did he react?"

"How is the transfer department?" Ah Fu also came over and asked.

"The transshipment envoy burst into laughter when he saw the funny Japanese pirates. He comforted everyone on the boat and said not to be afraid. My lord alone is enough to single out these Japanese devils, and then he was killed by Japanese pirates three times..."

A young sailor cheerfully accepted the words, and was about to continue when the boss of the ship stared at him fiercely with cowbell-like eyes, a little annoyed that the sailor rushed to talk.

"No, it's four knives, who told you that it's one knives! Lao Xi, tomorrow I'll punish you for cleaning the toilet bowl for everyone. It's been a long time since I cleaned it..."

The boss of the boat glanced at the sailor in that corner, and grunted. The sailor who answered the conversation pouted, with a look of grievance on his face, and he murmured in a low voice, quite dissatisfied: "I heard you give the boat passengers the last time. It is said that it is three swords, why is the boss lying like this?"

Immediately, five or six sailors clapped their hands and applauded the boss's punishment, and shouted that the boss of his ship was wise, because it meant that the sailors would not have to wash their urinals tomorrow.

"Ahem, it is said that dozens of Japanese pirates quickly climbed onto the ship's plank with flying lock claws, and the leader of the bandits held a thin machete, then flipped onto the deck, slashed on the neck of the transshipment department, and then flew out. The blood, the official's head left his neck and flew into the sea to feed the fish, the bright red human blood completely stained the entire deck."

The boss of the boat replied angrily like a child, and at the same time, he deliberately emphasized his tone, trying to describe the horrible scene at that time, but the simple and honest man was obviously not very good at language organization, and his exaggerated gestures attracted everyone's attention from time to time He laughed and told stories all night long, and at last even the captain was amused by his poor story. ． ．