Mohist Tang

Yanxing Gate

Yanxing Gate is Chang’an City East City Gate. The official road to Luoyang is from Yanxing Gate to Luoyang. Eight hundred miles, it is the city gate with the most traffic in Chang’an City. There are countless merchants and pedestrians who depart from here every day, and it is extremely prosperous.

Now the Yanxing Gate has been greatly changed. The official roads covered with loess have disappeared, replaced by the new brick road outside the city gate.

According to the news from the brother of Mohist Family Son, the brick road leading to Ch_ng’n and Luoyang, from Chang’an City and Luoyang respectively, has been constructed at two ends. The speed has been greatly accelerated, and it is now more than half completed. This Engineering Project will definitely be completed before the end of the year.

Next to the wide and flat turning road, Carriages leading to Luoyang are ready to go. The new year is approaching. When the official business is busy, outside Yanxing Gate is very lively.

Next to one of the Carriage, the Mo Dun four are seeing off Zu Mingjun and Kong Huisuo. The two of them will rush to Luoyang together. After they break up in Luoyang, Zu Mingjun will return to Fanyangs hometown by boat from the canal, and Kong Huisuo went all the way east and returned to Qufu, Shandong Province along the official road, striving to rush home before the end of the year.

“Take care, everyone!” Zu Mingjun arched his hands with a heavy heart.

In this era, transportation is extremely inconvenient, people’s activities are extremely small, men are okay, and often go to other places for military service, and ordinary women may not have been out of the county in their lives, and they will not even go to the countryside. Many people are there.

In many cases, a goodbye is for many years, or even a goodbye, which makes people boo.

Everyone knows that the probability of reuniting is very low. Unless the two come to Chang’an City to ask for an official, it will be difficult to see each other again. They can’t help but feel very heavy.

Mo Dun suddenly shows his face One said with a smile: “Dont worry, you guys, wait until the ten brick roads of Great Tang are completed in the future. By that time, it will take no more than five days from Shandong Province to Chang’an City. If its day and night, it will only take about three days. Its not difficult to get together in the future.”

“Yes!”

Everyone remembered that the brick road construction has been put on the agenda, once the brick road construction in Chang’an City and Luoyang It is bound to be laid eastward from Luoyang again, and then Radiation will spread across the country.

With the combination of the brick road and the four-wheeled Carriage, the traffic of the entire Great Tang will definitely have a huge leap. The long journey will no longer be bumpy and regardless of weather conditions, and it will never be again by then The current situation of children returning to their eldest sons, even the saying that parents are not traveling far away, will become history.

“Okay, then I’ll just wait for that day!” Suddenly everyone’s worries disappeared a lot.

“Everyone, stay!” Kong Huisuo stepped onto the Carriage Archway.

“Shall not be far away, and a smooth journey!” The Mo Dun four said goodbye.

It wasn’t until the four rounds of Carriage had gone far that the Mo Dun four put away their melancholy and were about to go back.

I only heard a tumult. At the end of the brick road, a long convoy came oncoming. The specs were so impressive that the people on both sides avoided one by one, looking at the long convoy pointing fingers. .

“Who is this! Such a big show?” Chumo said dissatisfied.

Everyone shook their heads, guessing.

I saw the people in the team, all of them were short in stature, dark-skinned, and all dressed in Ge clothes. They were very clever and fierce. At first glance, they were not Han Chinese.

“Southern barbarian?” A merchant walking north and south suddenly exclaimed.

“Nanban? Is such a big show Feng Family?” Qin Huaiyu said suddenly.

“Feng Family? Could it be Feng Ang, the leader of Nanban?” Mo Dun moved in his heart.

Feng Ang is actually a Han Chinese. His ancestor married a local South Vietnamese woman, Madam, and became the leader of South Vietnam. His descendants and grandchildren have managed Lingnan for three generations. Although they are Han, they are stable under the support of the Imperial Court. Sitting in the position of Lingnan Chieftain, although there is no king, but in fact, it is also the king of Lingnan.

In order to appease Lingnan, Li Shimin had to appoint Feng Ang as the upper pillar country. This is a height that none of the chief officials in Xinjiang has reached.

“Who is the newcomer!” The guard of Yanxingmen had already heard the news and hurriedly stepped forward to question.

“I am the director of Gaozhou, and a subordinate of Geng National Duke, this is my token!” The person headed by the team is a black clothed robust man, who quickly took out the token and tested it. Let the city gate guard verify.

“It really is the Lingnan Feng Family!” Mo Dun looked at each other. Feng Ang guarded Lingnan and was named the director of Gaozhou by the Imperial Court. Geng National Duke was extremely honored.

The guard of the city gate carefully checked, and after confirming that it was correct, he put his guard down.

“What is this?” The city gate guard saw the long convoy, each car filled with goods, and was about to undergo a routine inspection.

“Return to the general, this is the birthday gift of Geng National Duke to the Retired Emperor?” the black clothed robust man quickly said.

“Retired Emperor’s birthday gift?”

The city gate guards hearing this, and then it is released.

“Retired Emperor is over?” Mo Dun asked in surprise as the Feng Family’s caravan entered Chang’an City.

“Don’t you know? This incident has already been reported in Chang’an City?” Chumo looked sideways.

Mo Dun shook the head. He has been preparing for the Imperial College of Supreme Learning year-end exam for a while. Where did he care about other things, he really didn’t pay attention to the Retired Emperor’s birthday.

“It is said that the Retired Emperor is very old and his body is not as good as the day. His Imperial Majesty must take this opportunity to show his filial piety and do a big show! Feng Family must be for this! “Qin Huaiyu said in a low voice.

Yuchi Baolin nodded said: “Retired Emperor is Feng Angs nobleman.”

I think that when Li Yuan unified the world, Feng Ang occupied Lingnan, and Li Yuan sent Li Jing went to the conquest, and Lingnan was determined by a piece of essay, but Li Yuan did not treat Feng Ang wrongly and was immediately named a high-ranking official.

“Geng National Duke Feng Ang is indeed a human being, able to stand firm in the dangerous land of Lingnan, but his son may not necessarily be the case.” Qin Huaiyu laughed.

“His son?” Mo Dun was surprised.

“At that time, Feng Ang made a tribute to Ch_ng’n for many years. Entire Court said that Feng Ang had turned against him. Only Wei Zheng said that he sent Emissary to appease Feng Ang. Feng Ang immediately sent his eldest son Feng. Zhidai was sent to Ch_ng’n to reassure the heart of the Imperial Court. Qin Huaiyu explained.

Chumo answered: “Unfortunately, the tiger father and the dog son, Feng Ang has been brave all his life, but Feng Zhidai turned out to be a weak scholar who danced and used ink all day long, reciting poetry and composing right, and became a joke of Chang’an City.”

Mo Dun’s heart suddenly felt that Feng Zhidai came to Chang’an City as a proton, and it was not a means of self-protection to dance and write poetry.

After all, Lingnan is high and far away, and the Imperial Court has very weak control over it. Previously, the Imperial Court had no time to go south and could only re-use Feng Ang, but beware of it. If Feng Zhidai’s performance is brilliant How can you let the Imperial Court rest assured?

For the Feng Family, Mo Dun didnt dare to underestimate it. According to legend, the most maddening thing that later generations Li Bai did was the imperial concubine holding research and the strong man taking off his boots, and the strong man here is Tang Profound Sects cronie Court Eunuch Gao Lux, this person is officially the great-grandson of Feng Ang.

But these have nothing to do with the four of them, and the most important thing at the moment is the Retired Emperor’s longevity.