The twenty-third day of the twelfth lunar month is the small year.
Annam (now in Vietnam), Champa City, the winter rain is continuous.
In Zhancheng City, which is thousands of miles away from Chang'an City, it is called a good house where the people of the Upper Tang Dynasty lived by the local black and thin aborigines. Jiang Yijun and Bi Qionglan were sitting at the table by the window on the second floor. Sitting opposite each other.
In fact, this so-called good house is just a one- or two-story wooden building. It was built by the Minister of Industry Langguan who followed from Chang'an and his craftsmen.
There is really no shortage of good wood in the mountains here in Champa, and there are really a lot of good beams for two people to hug.
Jiang Yiyun and Bi Qionglan had no idea how much of a disturbance the Zhezi they sent to Chang'an a few months ago would cause in the court.
“The climate here is really suitable for farming. Look, it’s the end of the twelfth lunar month, and it’s only raining a little.”
While talking, Bi Qionglan said Reach out the window to catch the rain from the sky.
The cool rain fell on her palms. Bi Qionglan looked out the window at the greenery that was very different from Chang'an. In such a festive day, she still felt a little homesick. .
Jiang Yijun pushed the cake plate on the table towards Bi Qionglan, "Grandma Bi, I know you are thinking about your family.
No, try it. This is made by a young disciple brought by the master chef from Xiangguiji in Chang'an City. Even if the whole city is full, I can only have a plate like this here.
This is because I have some friendship with Commander Xue, and I asked him to bring a pastry chef with him if he could do it.
Now the pastry chef has entered King Annan's palace. If we want to have such a bite in the future, we don't know when. ”
After persuading him, Jiang Yijun reached out and took out the cake on the plate and started eating it.
Bi Qionglan is so old, it’s just a temporary emotion.
She smiled at Jiang Yiyun and said, "Okay, I have benefited from you.
I think if it weren't for the young age today, you wouldn't be willing to take out this plate, right?"
After the two joked for a while, Bi Qionglan looked at the rain that had become lighter. She turned back to Jiang Yiyun and asked, "I wonder if the two of us will reach Chang'an now?
Does the saint know?
What will the officials above the court think?
Do you support our proposal? Or object? "
After taking a sip of tea soup, Jiang Yiyun looked at the worried Bi Qionglan and replied decisively: "Grandma Bi, do you need to say this?
Not to mention that the saint is one of our own, even the purple- and red-robed officials above the court, how could they possibly object?
Grandma Bi," Jiang Yijun stood up and came to the window and pointed to the land to the south of the wooden building, "our experimental fields were built by you and me.
In the past two years, winter has turned to spring, and there have been three crops a year. We have led them to work hard. You don’t know the results?
If the people take food as their first priority and have enough to eat, how can the world be unstable? "
Turning around, Jiang Yijun sat down with a smile and comforted the anxious Bi Qionglan: "Grandma Bi, don't worry.
For more than a year, do you think that the maritime merchants who came with the fleet are just businessmen? "
Jiang Yijun shook his head and continued confidently: "There are many servants of those purple-robed and red-robed officials there. They only believe in the words of their own people. .
In Champa alone, there are such large fields for cultivation and grain production, minerals that have not yet been explored, timber unique to this area, rare treasures, and many wild-growing herbs. Who knows? Will you be moved?
Not to mention the port.
Grandma Bi, you must have only stayed in this city and never been to the port during your break, right?
Do you know what they use as trading currency there? ”
Bi Qionglan really doesn’t know this. Although she was sent to farm thousands of miles away, Bi Qionglan is still the female official of Sinong Temple. They, the official people of the Tang Dynasty, are here. Bi Qionglan still followed the rules of Chang'an and still took one day off every ten days to bathe. Every time he took a bath, Bi Qionglan could only wander around the city. No one who had seen Chang'an would think that Zhancheng was not good at that time. A small town with only one main street can see it? So, Bi Qionglan stays in her residence most of the time. She really doesn't know what the situation is like in Champa Port.
“Porcelain, silk and medicine.
Of course, gold and silver are also the main monetary payments.
It’s just that those local people and those from Tianzhu (now India) Businessmen from the Dashiyyì (today's Arabian region) still recognize our porcelain
How much money have those people made?
When the banquet is held later, Grandma Bi, you have to take a good look at them. They only flatter us.
Furthermore, their news channels cannot be faster than our official ones. Maybe someone will already get the news before our report is submitted to the saint.
If we hurry up, we should have sent people by boat to come south. "
Before Bi Qionglan could discuss what Jiang Yijun said with her, there was a knock on the door.
"Auntie, General Qian has sent soldiers to pick us up. . ”
In this way, Bi Qionglan and Jiang Yiyun stopped talking, checked each other's official uniforms to see if they were secure, and then went down the wooden building together.
Besides Bi Qionglan's eldest son who has been following her, there is also a female deputy of Jiang Yiyun waiting on the first floor.
The four of them are all wearing standard official robes, but there are some differences in colors and details due to different grades.
The highest-ranking among the four was naturally Jiang Yijunlai, who was wearing a fifth-grade crimson official robe. She looked at the gift that the female officer behind her had already put in her hands, and then she raised her legs and stepped forward to the door. The waiting soldiers greeted him.
The place they were going to was the most prosperous building in Champa at this time, King Annan's palace in Champa.
As for why we went to the banquet?
This first place is naturally because King Annan bowed his head to Emperor Wu of the Tang Dynasty four years ago and paid tribute and silver.
The second thing is that in the past few years, there have been too many people from the Tang Dynasty coming to Annan, especially because of the Champa Port.
Not to mention the large ships equipped with artillery, they are the absolute overlords at sea.
Not only that, the Imperial Guards and Guards that were sent later were able to fight upon landing. A Tang Dao had killed many people at first.
Therefore, even if it was not subtle, it was just to please the Tang people. During this Little New Year Festival, didn't the Annan Palace just hold a banquet to entertain the respectable Tang people in Champa?
Although Bi Qionglan and Jiang Yijun are female officials, one can farm and the other can make fertilizer to increase grain production, but they are more important than the Lang officials sent by Honglu Temple.
That's why General Qian, the Tang garrison who occupied the city, specially sent two teams of soldiers to protect them during their trip.
Of course, in addition to the people from the Tang Dynasty officials, those Tang people who followed the officials, whether they were large merchants or a dozen small chambers of commerce, were also invited.
This banquet was really interesting and tight, because the people in Champa thought that since they invited people from the Tang Dynasty, they might as well invite them all, so there were also people from Tianzhu, Dashiren, and Zhenla. Come.
The most surprising thing is that there are actually several businessmen from Silla and Japan among them.
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The spicy hotpot I had for dinner was so sour and delicious!
The holiday is finally coming, looking forward to it!