Datang Nongsheng

Chapter 764
Qin Wang Yingzheng unified the six countries and was called Shihuang.

Li Shimin, Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, unified the Eurasian continent and all mankind, and was called the Human Emperor.

This can be regarded as a merit that is two levels higher than that of Qin Shihuang, and it is not in vain at all.

Because, in the past ten years, the overseas exploration fleet has not rested, and has long set up South America, North America, and the African continent, where people live, on the boundary markers declaring the inherent territory of the Tang Dynasty. The fleet and ocean-going navy will let them know what power is.

Even in the North Pole and the South Pole, there are many flags they planted and boundary markers carved. In the entire earth, there is no independent regime that is not under the rule of the Tang Dynasty.

Therefore, the grand ceremony of Li Shimin's honorary title must be the grandest and most unique in human history. He has set the time for next year, which is the ninth day of August in the 23rd year of Zhenguan, and it will be held in Chang'an. This day will be the 23rd year of his reign. day.

In fact, someone earlier proposed to let him go to Taishan to enshrine Zen. However, this kind of project that the ancients played, Li Shimin felt that the structure is still too small. He has made unprecedented achievements, so he should create a more grand ceremony. , Let the descendants of later generations follow and imitate, this is the kindness that the Tang Dynasty who ruled the world should have.

Therefore, Chang'an began to build the Temple of Heaven, a large open-air worship place occupying [-] square meters in the north of the city.

And Sun Xiangfu, who was in Medina, soon received an imperial decree for him to return to the pilgrimage.

Of course, even if it is fast, the people who came to declare the decree and hand over the errands only arrived in Medina in November.

Because starting from Chang'an City, even if you use a steam ship to go by sea, after refueling and some repairs along the way, you will land on the Arabian Peninsula, and then go to Medina by land, it will take more than two months at the fastest.

There were a lot of people who came to pick Sun Xiangfu back, at least some of his grown-up sons were there. As for the official who succeeded him, it was Ping Zhang Shi Shang Guanyi from Zhengshitang. Divide it into several provinces for governance, and then return to Chang'an.

Before leaving, Sun Xiangfu had a lot of communication with Shang Guanyi about the religious beliefs of the local people. The Tang Dynasty did not completely prohibit religion, but all religions must be under the control of the court.

Whether it is Christians or Christians, their missionary sites will be the same as Buddhist temples or Taoist temples, belonging to the imperial court, and all members have a fixed establishment. They will be supported by the court for food and clothing, and they cannot accept donations from believers.

That is to say, the imperial court allows the people to believe in Buddhism, Taoism, or other religions recognized by the imperial court, but does not allow the people to become a part of the religion at will, and the person who founded the religion cannot obtain any benefits from the religion. It is illegal and will be punished.

In fact, after those fanatics were slaughtered by the Ottomans, the local area is still well managed. Many areas in the Arabian Peninsula are desert areas, and the agricultural output is less. People must rely on the supplies of the Tang Dynasty if they want to survive. In the current era when oil is not very valuable, they can't get rich suddenly.

"Father, at the beginning of the year, you were already a grandfather." After Sun Xiangfu and Shangguanyi finished talking about serious matters, Sun Jing stepped forward impatiently.

"Really, is it grandson or granddaughter?" Sun Xiangfu said happily when he heard the words.

"Both! I got a son, and Sun Feng got a daughter." Sun Jing replied happily.

"Well, our family is getting more and more prosperous. What about your eldest sister! Didn't she give dad a grandson?" Sun Xiangfu said with a smile.

"She, she's not married yet!" After Sun Jing finished speaking, she realized that she had made a slip of the tongue, and hurriedly covered her mouth with her hand, as if she had caused a catastrophe.

"Not married? How is it possible? When she was in Suiye City a few years ago, didn't she just say that she fell in love with a barbarian kid?" Sun Xiangfu wondered, if she really didn't get married, she would be 21 this year.

"At that time, she really fell in love with a barbarian boy! But then she fell in love with a captain of the Imperial Army, and then she fell in love with a male artist from an art troupe, and then..."

"Wait, your mother allowed her to mess around like this?" Sun Xiangfu's face became more and more black.

Hearing this, Sun Jing seemed to have thought of a very bad scene, and shivered, "You can't mention her in front of your mother, and you can't mention your mother in front of her. A girl like her likes this kind of thing, likes to come, like to go, and change things that different people like."

Hearing this, Sun Xiangfu raised his head and looked up at the sky, feeling like he wanted to cover his forehead. This feeling of liking to come and go is called falling in love.

Unexpectedly, in just over 20 years, the atmosphere of the Tang Dynasty has become like this, and even free love has become popular in Chang'an.

However, looking back, it seems that this is also a very normal thing, because their generation grew up in a free and open atmosphere. If he knew that it was his apprentice Wu Meiniang who created Without this kind of free love atmosphere, he will definitely regret teaching her. In later generations, many single dogs in our country have lost to free love. Arranged marriage is the most popular way for the majority of compatriots.

Of course, the evolution of the atmosphere like free love is only a little bit. When Sun Xiangfu returns to Chang'an, he will find out how much the Tang Dynasty has changed.

Now, people have begun to get used to dealing with all kinds of Hu people, because the real Han people in Datang are only more than 3000 million at present, but the total population exceeds [-] million, accounting for only about [-]% of the proportion. , With the needs of political and military management, a high proportion of these Han people are engaged in politics and the army, and they are scattered all over the country, and there are a large number of people of other ethnicities throughout the country, filling the Central Plains.

Just the Mayans transported back from South America by Zhao Long these years, and the blacks transported back from Africa by Zhao Gang, are in the hundreds of thousands.The Turkic race in the Middle East, the white-skinned Europa race, Persia, and several large races in India all started with a population of tens of millions. They are now flooding the streets and alleys of Chang'an. Perhaps their Chinese is still relatively poor, but The aborigines in Chang'an are already used to this poor Chinese, but their next generation can basically speak pure Chinese, because they have been educated in Chinese and Chinese culture since childhood.

After tidying up, Sun Xiangfu opened the farewell ceremony with the local people, and introduced the new chief official, Shangguanyi, to the people. He was not worried that Shangguanyi would not manage the place well, and he was also an official of the Tang Dynasty. Among them, the expert-type officials who manage issues in minority areas.

As for the officials that Sun Xiangfu's subordinates brought over, and the new officials brought by Shangguanyi, most of them knew that if they wanted to make political achievements, they had to develop the local economy and people's livelihood well. With such a goal, coupled with The focus of the imperial court's governance is in these remote areas. I believe that in the next three to five years, it should not be difficult to help them achieve prosperity.

After all, an earth that can feed more than 70 billion people in future generations can only feed more than 2 million people now, so there are quite a lot of resources.

A few days later, Sun Xiangfu boarded the ship and set sail. Being bored, the children explained to him many things that happened in Chang'an in recent years.

For example, more than half of the [-]-ton cargo ship has been built, and it is powered by a steam turbine. The railway tracks from Chang'an, Shanyang, and Dingxiang have been laid. , Realized a rapid progress.

The car factory has produced a large tractor that can pull more than 1 kilograms of cargo. At the same time, a bus shuttle that can carry dozens of people and steer with a roulette has been launched in Chang'an City. Now all the main roads are open to traffic.

After all, the current Chang'an City is too big, and it would take a day to walk around the inner city's old city on foot, let alone go to the new city outside the old city wall, which is the territory of several counties.

Not only that, the car factory is also planning to use a steam turbine to build a new type of car that is faster, less bumpy, and more comfortable to ride. It also applies several ways of using electricity to the car. At present, the design drawings It's all out.

As for electricity, it is the most widely used thing in the past few years. All the rich and powerful families have installed generators in their homes, which has led to a series of new products such as rubber, copper wire, tungsten light bulbs, gasoline, etc. , the demand in Chang'an is increasing day by day, and many new industries have been formed.

From these aspects, Sun Xiangfu can roughly imagine that Datang has spared no effort to develop industry in the past 20 years, which has made the level of science and technology in this period, at least reaching the level of my country's late Qing Dynasty, comparable to that of the early eighteenth century. Comparing the level of science and technology around the world, maybe in Sun Xiangfu's lifetime, he can still see the level of science and technology of Datang, reaching the level of World War I or the period of the Republic of China.

"People in the research team, have you made any research progress on some of the ideas I provided in the past two years?"

On the ship, Sun Xiangfu asked after hearing some children chirping.

"Dad is talking about a machine that uses wires to spread messages?" Sun Jing seemed to remember something, and asked back.

"It's not just this, there's also a voice-retaining machine. This is a gift I want to give your mother." Sun Xiangfu smiled and said.

"I heard that the machine that uses wires to transmit messages is already being tested for application, but it seems that there is no progress in the machine that retains the sound."

"Once the telegraph is produced, the phonograph should be there soon. I believe that your mother will definitely want your own voice to be heard by all future generations."

"What's so magical about the gramophone?"

"Of course, we can not only keep the voice, but we can also keep our own portrait. There is something called a camera. In fact, it is not difficult to make it under our current conditions. When we find photosensitive materials, we can use it as a camera. People, or images of scenery, are recorded as they are.”

"camera?"

"Yes, not only cameras, but also many things we can do to help people realize their imaginations. These things will change our lives in the future."

With the steam engine and electricity, the Tang Dynasty has already entered a period of the Great Industrial Revolution. In the eighteenth century, when my country was still in the period of Emperor Qianlong’s policy of sealing off the country, the West entered an era of great invention. All kinds of things that were unimaginable to human beings were concentrated in just a few decades and were invented and manufactured by talents in various fields, which caused a huge gap between the West and our country. It's steam engine and electricity.

Now, these things are bound to be created by the inventors of Datang, making Datang's rule over the entire world stronger, because Datang's industrial foundation has been established, and it will soon enter the process of development and strengthening.

(End of this chapter)