Chapter 607 Return across a thousand years

The capital of the gods, Luoyang, has been repaired for a year and a half. Although the Ziwei Palace in Luoyang's palace city is still a large construction site, the construction of Luoyang's city has been basically completed.

Although there was no such scenery as the prosperous city of Luoyang, the god capital during the Wuzhou period, it was not the Haoran Shenjing who was connected by the green fields after Huang Chao.

Unexpectedly, Li Shengtian's frame was very simple. Even Li Shengtian threw the king-level frame prepared by Zhang Liu ordered Cao Yuanzhong for him in Tongguan.

He followed him, except for two thousand Khotan warriors and hundreds of accompanying royal families, officials, and merchants, there were no frames or yellow umbrellas.

The only eye-catching thing is a complete set of ceremonial guards of King Khotan that were given to Yuchi Yao by Emperor Suzong of Tang Dynasty by Emperor Sucheng.

Of course, this set of ceremonial wars was not the ones back then, but were imitated after the restoration of Khotan, so some omissions were mixed with some specious things.

Zhang Liu led all the civil and military officials, using the left and right Yulin Guards and the left and right Jinwu Guards as their escorts. More than 7,000 people went north to Jinyong City to welcome Li Shengtian.

Not to mention his uncle Zhang Liu or his help to Zhang Liu, just the two hundred years of loyalty of the Li family in the Khotan was enough to be able to afford such a grand welcome team.

Just outside Jinyong City, thousands of Khotan royal family, civil and military officials and warriors collectively wore cloaks that symbolized obedience to the orders. Everyone wore their heads and their foreheads, looking extremely majestic.

When Li Shengtian was still in Mengjin, he specially sent Li Cunhui as an envoy to inform Li Shengtian that he would not have to kneel down and worship after he arrived.

But after arriving outside Jinyong City, Zhang Liu brought civil and military personnel to greet him. As soon as he saw the team of Khotan, he saw Li Shengtian wearing the prince's robes and kneeling at the front of the team.

Zhang Liu hurriedly met him and was about to help Li Shengtian up, but he didn't expect that before he arrived in front of him, Li Shengtian kowtowed and stuck his head to the ground. When he lifted it up, his forehead was already covered with loess.

Zhang Liu immediately slowed down and showed the majesty that the emperor should have, because he could see that Li Shengtian was saluting him as a minister.

"My Lord Yuchi Seng Wubo, I will pay homage to His Majesty the Emperor of the Great Dynasty.

Since the second year of Zhide, Emperor Dacha Sumiao, Emperor Daxuanxiao, ordered my sixth-generation ancestor, to guard the gate of Anxi Jingtian, and to guard the country.

For hundreds of years, although he was in Tubo, he never lost his loyalty. Fortunately, King Nanta used Emperor Huan Zuding to promote his righteousness in Guasha to expel Tubo, and also contacted the heroes of various tribes of Khotan to raise an army to recover Khotan.

Today, the king of Khotan finally led the three governors' offices of Khotan, twenty-one prefectures, eighty-seven counties, and 470,000 households, and 2.31 million households to the country.

In the past, Emperor Xuan of the Sumiao of the Great Dynasty and the ancestors' orders were never disappointed!"

Zhang Liu was shocked suddenly. He finally knew why Li Shengtian insisted on coming to the Central Plains and why was he so persistent in getting the recognition of the Central Plains dynasty?

Because this is their spiritual belonging to the Li family in Khotan and their choice in civilization.

Since the 16th year of Yongping in the Eastern Han Dynasty and 73 AD, Ban Dingyuan went to Khotan to kill the Xiongnu envoys and helped Khotan restore the country. It has been almost nine hundred years. Except for the conflicts between the Annexation of the Jumi Kingdom and the Eastern Han court during the Eastern Han Dynasty, Khotan has always been the most loyal minister and partner of the Central Plains dynasty in the Western Regions.

Especially during the Sui and Tang Dynasties, since the beginning of the name of Yuchi in the Central Plains, the Kingdom of Khotan and the Yuchi family became part of the Central Plains culture. This was what the court believed, and so did the Kingdom of Khotan.

As a tribe from the west, it is likely that the Scythian people who finally gained a foothold with the help of the Han army. The cultural attributes of Khotan have never been only two lines.

One is Buddhism and the other is Chinese culture.

When Buddhism disappeared in the Indian region and gradually integrated into Han culture, the only thing left in the roots of Khotan was the Han culture.

You should know that the real Khotanites are now a relatively small number of Khotan Jin Kingdom, with only 300,000 or 400,000 people.

To rule the southern Xinjiang in later generations, the entire Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and one-third of Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, as well as a small part of Kazakhstan, can only be achieved if they become completely Han people.

Only by gaining support from the Central Plains dynasty can we maintain the wealth of the Khotan people while achieving complete cultural conversion.

In addition, Zhang Liu also saw Guo Guangwei of the Guo family in the crowd. He is the son of Guo Xuanqing, the current Governor of the Nestorian, and the great Nestorian of Guo Xuanqing.

On the left side of Guo Guangwei, who is a young man with an embarrassment face, not Li Tongqi, the son of Li Guoshou, deputy governor of Talas?

It turned out that Li Shengtian would say that there were more than 2 million people in the third Governor's District. It turned out that he persuaded both the Guo family and the Li family in Talas to come over.

Needless to say, this "persuasion" scene will definitely not be so harmonious.

Zhang Liu walked forward quickly and helped Li Shengtian up. What happened in the two time and space seemed to be constantly intertwined in front of his eyes.

Historically, the Kingdom of Khotan and the Li family of Khotan were the last resounding Han culture on the vast land of Anxi.

Even if the largest convention of the central court was added, since the Li family in Khotan was destroyed, the central court would have to recapture the Western Regions until seven hundred years later, the 22nd year of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty (1757).

At that time, the old man Shiquan sent Cheng Gunzabu to completely defeat Junggar. The three generations of the Qing Dynasty, Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong, almost empty the entire national treasury. Every family of the Beijing Banners beat the mourning family, and the Han soldiers and green camps were useless, so they once again controlled the Western Regions.

The Western Regions eventually stabilized, and Duke Xiang of Zuo Wen led the Huxiang children to defeat the invader Agubai in the fourth year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty, that is, in 1878 AD.

This is why this Han people's homeland has always been the jurisdiction of the Central Plains dynasty, and it is confirmed that it is in the territory of modern and modern China.

And it has been 877 years since the 1001 year when the Khotan destroyed the country. People and things are not the same, not to mention the broken leaves that can never be collected, the Yili River Valley and the Tanguwulianghai.

Thinking of this, Zhang Liu held Li Shengtian's hand and sighed very much, "The loyalty and righteousness of the ancient kings of Khotan are well known to the world. The people of Khotan should be commended for their homeland."

After saying that, Zhang Liu turned around and looked at the civil and military officials, "Today's grand reunion music, I came to beat the drums in person, and everyone can dance to congratulate me!"

The eunuchs sent drums and music, and all the civil officials and military generals also stood up. With a drum sound, thousands of people in Khotan were wearing red croakers, headed by Li Shengtian, and started singing and dancing. The civil officials and military generals on Zhang Liu also danced to return the ceremony.

The drums were heard in unison, and even the people in Jinyong City cheered and started to dance.

Zhang Liu then invited Li Shengtian to get on the imperial carriage and entered Luoyang City with him, with a huge momentum.

Because this is not only the return of Li Shengtian, but also the fact that half of the credit is Zhang Liu.

The more popular Li Shengtian was, the more radiant his face became.

Li Shengtian, who has always liked extravagance and big scenes, will not miss this opportunity. The businessman of Khotan who came with him did this.

So Li Shengtian followed Zhang Liu into the almost-renovated Zhuque Gate, and the merchants of Khotan wore gorgeous silk clothes to buy them in Luoyang, which was like a large construction site.

From coarse cloth and other small items woven by the people themselves to buying a whole neighborhood in the north of the city, it was used as a place where the people of Khotan went to Luoyang to live.

Then we start giving gifts from house to house. The gift is not something else, but pickled mutton shipped from the west.

In today's Luoyang, it's better to give mutton than to give anything.

After Zhang Liu stabilized the situation in the Central Plains and the economy recovered rapidly, although the countryside was not very rich, a large city like Luoyang enriched a large number of people by contracting national projects.

This not only created a large number of wealthy businessmen, but also the people who work are rich. They have daily food and silver. If they know how to order carpenters, stonemasons, etc., the benefits will be even more considerable.

However, when people in Luoyang and other places have money, what follows is that their living standards cannot be improved.

It’s not a big problem to eat enough. If you say that there is still some salt in mutton, millet and rice every day, it will be difficult to upgrade it.

After Zhang Liu issued the official wine order, the wine on the market was really unaffordable.

The so-called official wine order is that it is not allowed to brew one by one private household. The brewing must be reported first. If it is brewed, it must be sold through the government. It is a weakened version of the prohibition order.

You can't help drinking! The food shortage in Henan has not yet passed.

The reason why sheep cannot afford to drink wine is because the population has not yet flourished after the disaster.

At this time, the price of sheep in Luoyang was three times that of Guanzhong and more than ten times that of Hexi.

Wang Sanlang hugged his own child and mingled in the crowd to celebrate.

Two years ago, he was given milk to the emperor to live his child, and was given a gift from the emperor for a year to save Dingkouyin. Wang Sanlang has since become a loyal fan of the emperor.

So when he heard that Luoyang was short of people, he brought his whole family from Tokyo to Luoyang to settle down. Over the years, living conditions gradually improved. Wang Sanlang said to everyone that the emperor was benevolent.

When King Khotan came to the capital to pay his respects, he naturally had to help the emperor support him. He waited until King Khotan entered the palace before Wang Sanlang took the child home.

But it doesn't matter when I get home this time, I saw his family at the door, tugging with a businessman in gorgeous clothes.

Wang Sanlang's heart was tight. His family was a little beautiful. He was often missed by the sluts nearby. He was always worried. Now he actually came to the door. What's wrong?

Wang Sanlang hugged the child and ran to the door of his house almost rushing. When he saw it, he suddenly became angry and one Buddha was born and the other Buddhas ascended to heaven.

In the hands of the merchant, there was a pickled lamb leg wrapped in a circle with red cloth.

The lamb leg is very big, afraid it weighs seven or eight pounds. There is a thick layer of crystal coarse salt on the surface. It can be eaten at home for several days after scraping it off.

Whether it is mutton or salt, it is the most popular product in Luoyang today.

"You are really willing to give up?" Wang Sanlang was so angry that he almost cried.

I just came to the door and gave this big lamb leg. What will happen in the future?

He has to go out to seek life every day. Can the wife withstand this temptation?

When he spoke, the merchant in silk clothes turned around and asked with a archer of his hand: "But the head of the family is back."

When Wang Sanlang saw the businessman, he turned out to be a Hu man's face, and he was so angry that his mouth trembled.

In fact, the wife really wants to steal everyone, but he can't say that he can still be open-minded. Life always needs to be lived!

At this age, it is not easy to find a well-organized family that can manage the family in such an orderly manner.

But, this is a naughty person! That's absolutely not possible!

When the merchant saw that Wang Sanlang didn't speak, he thought he was so happy that he couldn't speak, so he immediately bowed his hand.

"I was in Anxi and have not returned home for 200 years to meet my hometown elders. Today, I am glorious. The king ordered that of course I should bring some gifts to my neighbors. It is not luxurious, but I will definitely be willing to give it."

Wang Sanlang suddenly realized, his face turned red, and his nervousness suddenly disappeared.

At the same time, he suddenly felt that these Hu people looked like they were his neighbors who had gone far away to Anxi.

At this time, the neighbors around came, and everyone received a notice from Fangzheng that every family had pickled mutton, so naturally they came very neatly.

After the crowd arrived, they bowed to the people of Khotan who were surrounded by them and bowed to them first.

The elder bows his hands slightly, the peers stand up to the waist, while the children and younger generations bend over their knees.

After bowing, everyone took a step back. This time, the elders were up to their waists, the peers bent over their knees, and the children were bowing to the ground.

This is called a two-worship ceremony, which is a folk gift for paying homage to parents and elders and relatives who have not seen each other for a long time.
To be continued...