Cangxue Dragon City of Great Qin Dynasty

Chapter 122

In the palace, Yan Zhi piled up a lot of maps, most of which were found from merchants who had been walking outside the pass all year round. Although there were many maps, everyone's drawings were not quite the same.

Different caravans had different travel routes. Putting these many maps together, together with the ones he memorized, he could roughly spell out the map of the Western Regions.

As for the places north of the Xiongnu, he had no choice but to talk about the bitter cold in the north, otherwise the Huns would not have plundered the Great Qin City every year.

For them now, the biggest trouble is the Huns who can't be killed. As for the north, no matter whether there are tribes or not, it is the Huns' business. With the Huns' temperament, how can they tolerate other tribes? They're running wild on their turf.

The territory of Great Qin is still much smaller than that of Great Tang. The Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate is still occupied by Yueshi, Wusun, Loulan, and Qiang people. To the west of Anxi is Persia and the Great Food Kingdom. During the Tang Dynasty, many Chang’an came from there. The businessman, but has not seen it yet.

Picking up a pen to circle the area further west of Yueshi Loulan, Yan Zhi squatted on the ground and squeezed his chin, then looked up at Ying Zheng who was still reviewing the bamboo slips, and saw that there were not many unprocessed bamboo slips at hand. Then tinker with your own stuff.

No caravan can pass through the crisis-ridden Anxi area without sending heavy troops to protect them. They should stabilize for a few years before thinking about expanding their territory.

The Persian Dashi and other countries in his memory will look like hundreds of years later. Who knows what they will look like now. They are also very different from Datang now. It is not a good idea to think about the outside world.

When the bamboo slips on the book table were read, Ying Zheng moved his wrist and walked to Yan Zhi's side, looking at the map he had sorted out, his eyes flashed with interest, "Is this the place outside Daqin?"

"Probably, who knows what those places look like now." Gou Gou Huahua added a few more strokes, Yan Zhi tidied up the scattered parchment and kraft paper, and then asked, "Those prisoners can't speak, what are you going to do?" What to do with them?"

Closing it all the time is not the solution, there must be a charter.

Those captured soldiers are extremely powerful in individual combat, but now they are far away in a foreign country, and they have no idea how to get out. Even if they run out, they don’t know where to go, and they don’t understand what they say. It is safe to be caught again. right.

Knowing that running away is an unwise choice, so after so many days in Xianyang, those people stayed in the big camp honestly, eating and drinking, and seemed quite at ease.

"I have already found someone from the academy to teach them how to speak. When they can understand simple commands, they will be sent directly to repair the canal. I will talk about the rest in a few months."

It is of course impossible to feed them with good food and drink. He Daqin does not raise useless people. He has to work if he wants to have food, especially for prisoners of war. It is already a favor not to kill them.

Not thinking about Ying Zheng's arrangement, Yan Zhi clenched his fist and asked, "What's going on with Meng Tian, ​​do you need reinforcements?"

He thought that if the previous battle continued, the Huns would have to settle down for a while, but he didn't expect to find a group of foolish people who were fooled and killed without knowing anything and came back. It seemed that there was still no pain.

"It's okay, Meng Tian and Li Mu have 30 soldiers and horses. If they need support again, they might as well come back to farm." Ying Zheng's tone was very blunt. Facts have proved that his generals don't need him to be polite.

If you can't stand the frontier when you have enough soldiers and horses, enough food and grass, and the trust of His Majesty the Emperor, you don't need Yingzheng to speak, Meng Tian and others will come back and plead guilty.

"General Mengwu stayed in Lingnan area for such a long time. It is not easy to build a canal, especially in such a difficult situation. I am afraid that it will take many years. The land of Baiyue is not easy to take." He stood up and stood with his hands behind his back. On the side, Ying Zheng sighed in a low voice, "At first, I thought that the unification of the six countries was the biggest thing, but now it seems that my vision is still too small. In the eyes of those living in distant places, we are so happy. Is military affairs no different from cannibalism?"

Resisting the urge to give Bai this man a look, Yan Zhi squinted his eyes when he heard this man's emotion, "Now is not the time to use troops, at least within ten years, before the common people come out of the war, they will go all the way to the Western Regions." Not a good idea."

"It's just a matter of precautions. There are so many tribes outside, but it's not our turn to fight." Ying Zheng explained with a smile. Although he was ambitious, he also had self-knowledge. Will take the initiative to send troops.

The world of law, the enlightenment of Confucianism, Daqin is now the time when laws are spreading all over the world, they are all busy stabilizing the interior, but they don't have so much time to take care of distant affairs.

"There is another group of students from the academy, and they are about to be sent to various counties for training. The people you brought before should be among this group." Looking at the sky outside, Ying Zheng lifted them from the ground. Pull up, "It's still a while before the curfew, go out for a walk."

"Wait a moment." Yan Zhi responded, then sped up the speed in his hands, put all the maps in the box, put the things not far from Yingzheng's case, and clapped his hands to show that he was ready.

He doesn't have a deep impression of the others, but Xiao He and Chen Ping, these two people need to pay attention.

A group of people changed their clothes and appeared on the street. The busy scene was full of traffic and traffic. No matter how chaotic the outside was in these years, Xianyang City was not affected. Merchants can make money here. It's much more convenient,

In this way, they prefer to run to Xianyang.

"If it is always so stable, the world will become like Xianyang in less than ten years." Walking relaxed on the road, Yan Zhi was in a good mood and went to the small vendor next to him to buy some snacks, and then gave them to the people around him Each person shared a portion, "You guys go away, as long as the king has me here."

After accepting this very unintentional "bribe", Zhao Gao looked at their majesty's smiling face, and consciously led the others a few steps behind. Now following them is an eyesore, and they are the ones who are upset by his majesty when he goes back.

Yan Zhi sent the people who followed him away with a few words, stretched his muscles and bones, and then led them to walk in places where there were few people, "There seem to be more people in the city today... Is it the day of the festival?"

She, the owner of the land, cannot be fully respected for the size of the land, so the land is conferred as a community to repay meritorious service. , the god of mountains, forests, rivers and lakes... As long as there is a relationship, the people will never forget to worship.

The folk sacrifices are different from the emperor sacrifices. The grand ceremony requires grandeur, but the folks are different, as long as it is lively, it is enough.

Except for wartime, the community sacrifices are held four times a year, divided into four seasons in spring, summer, autumn and winter. The three seasons of spring, summer and autumn are regular sacrifices, and only the community sacrifices in Mengdongzhiyue are "big cuts".

Contributing meritorious deeds, male and female meritorious deeds, Meng Dongzhiyue's social sacrifice is of much greater significance to the common people than others, if not, the preparations would not have started so many days in advance.

All the social festivals they participated in were well-behaved and under the attention of thousands of people. They had never come out like this before. They felt that they could protect Yingzheng with their own abilities. Yan Zhi blinked and pulled The person walked towards the crowd, "Let's go outside and have a look."

The so-called Zuozu Youshe, the establishment of the Son of Heaven is located on the west side of the road bed, corresponding to the ancestral temple in the east, and the folk society is not so rigid. There are both royal cities and suburbs. If there are houses, they will also be in the deep mountains and old forests. The society that is offering sacrifices appears.

Seeing a familiar figure not far away, Yan Zhi paused, put his index finger on his lips to signal Ying Zheng not to speak, then walked lightly to the man's back and patted him.

Li Xin, who was riding a child on his neck, watched the jugglers in the middle of the crowd carefully. When he turned around, he saw Yan Zhi and Ying Zheng standing behind and almost threw his daughter off, "Your Majesty..."

As soon as the words came out, Ying Zheng waved his hands indifferently, "There is no need to be polite."

Even if His Majesty said that there is no need to be polite, Li Xin did not dare to be impolite. He put the girl on the ground on his neck, and General Li, who didn't know what to say, patted the girl's head to tell the little guy to be more honest.

No, he is taking a rest today, even if His Majesty sees him, nothing will happen.

After reacting, Li Xin straightened his back again, glanced at the two people next to him without any trace, and then thought about the possibility of taking his daughter to the other side now.

The little guy who was looking happy just blinked his eyes and found himself stepping on the ground. There were people in all directions and he couldn't see anything. He was already unhappy, "Father, Father, look at meow!"

The little guy who has just learned to speak can't say anything clearly, and he looks like he will cry when he sees him again. Yan Zhi smiled, rubbed the little guy's head, and put him on Li Xin's shoulder, "You guys Play by yourself, let's go to the other side to see."

Shrugging his shoulders and glanced at Ying Zheng, Yan Zhi, who felt disgusted, consciously didn't disturb the relationship between the father and daughter. Ying Zheng was not angry, and then walked over after laughing, "The eldest son of Chengyu is almost four years old now, and now Is it okay to send people to the palace for education?"

It is very clear what Yingzheng meant by bringing the eldest son of Lord Chang'an to the palace for personal education. In this way, the hearts of the people in the world will be stabilized, and the clan's attention will be diverted from him. It is indeed a plan that serves multiple purposes.

Yan Zhi nodded, and had no objection to these. If Cheng Yu was willing, he would have no objection to bringing all the children in his family to the palace. After all, he didn't teach them himself, so teasing children is quite interesting.

Ying Zheng, who didn't intend to keep too many children by his side, looked at Yan Zhi's expression, shook his head and changed the subject, this person didn't care, he didn't have the courage to separate them out and they didn't get along much time.

"Didn't you say that those people were all sent to repair the canal? Why are they here now?" Yan Zhi raised his eyebrows, looking at the dark-eyed and hooded foreigners in the crowd, wondering why these people would appear here.

"These people hold a very important position in the hearts of those people. After knowing that they are going to work, they have to do the work for them. They don't want to make these people work hard." Ying Zheng hooked the corners of his lips, and then continued, "Fortunately, these few people have learned to speak very quickly. Now they can explain in simple words. If they have this ability, they don't need to serve in the military."

He didn't pay much attention when the people below mentioned it. He didn't expect these foreigners to be so calm in Xianyang. If it wasn't for their appearance, they were so different from ordinary people. No one would doubt that they lived in Xianyang City all year round.

"Okay, Ming...the Persians are in Xianyang...there's nothing strange..." Yan Zhi said vaguely, and looked sideways at Ying Zheng, "The Society Festival Is there anything fun in front of you?"

"Of course there are." Walking side by side with Yan Zhi, Ying Zheng answered unhurriedly. Every year, he is required to come in person for the community sacrifices. Although he has no chance to participate in the sacrifices of the people in the city, he has always heard of it. of.

There was a flash of interest in Yan Zhi's eyes, Yan Zhi blinked, then raised the corners of his lips to invite, "It's already out anyway, why don't you just have fun?"

Ying Zheng took the lead, then rubbed the corners of his raised lips, "Okay, I'll stay with you till the end."

One person took a piece of rice cake and followed at a distance. The guard looked at Zhao Che Fuling who was also holding a rice cake, hesitated for a moment and asked, "My lord, let's..."

Slowly swallowing the pastry in his mouth, Zhao Gao smiled slightly, "Your Majesty has his own measure, this distance is very good, there is no need to follow."

Everywhere in the city is very lively, singing and dancing is peaceful, and who can not like such a prosperous scene?

The foreigner's bad language came faintly, Zhao Gao wiped his hands with a relaxed expression, and led the people to follow behind slowly, looking no different from a real stroll.

What His Majesty the Emperor brought to them was a prosperous age that had never appeared before!