The wheel of history is constantly advancing, in 1090 AD, the Great Xia Empire assimilated for 28 years, after three consecutive years of recuperation, the Great Xia Empire has gradually recovered, and the territory newly incorporated into the empire three years ago also began to pay taxes, so that the financial income of the Great Xia Empire has increased greatly, and the entire Great Xia Empire is thriving.
In particular, the place of the relationship between the Anxi Protectorate, those Song army captives who were migrated to the Western Regions at the beginning, re-established a new home here, under Li Yi's preferential policies and care, they have regarded themselves as the people of Great Xia, and some of their families have also moved from the Great Song Dynasty, and now the Great Xia Empire is no longer a loose feudal rule over the Western Regions, but has truly established the same local government and county governance system as the Central Plains.
Some tribes even abandoned nomadism and settled down to learn farming.
Of course, there are also those who resist, for those tribes who dare to resist, Li Yi wantonly suppressed, under the high-pressure policy of the Great Xia Empire, these aborigines had to obey, these tribes were constantly broken up and mixed with the Xia people, and in the long run, they would be assimilated by the Xia people and become the real people of the Great Xia Empire; Although the Central Plains Dynasty began to rule the Western Regions since the Western Han Dynasty, the rule at that time was very weak, and the Western Regions were in chaos, until the Tang Dynasty established the same ruling policy as the Central Plains in the Western Regions, which is also the reason why the Central Plains Dynasty sometimes owned the Western Regions and sometimes lost the Western Regions.
But starting from the Great Xia Empire, the Western Regions will completely belong to the Central Plains Dynasty, when the people of the Western Regions are the same as the people of the Central Plains, speaking Han dialect and living Han festivals, accepting the influence of Han culture, and slowly making them forget the nature of their own nation, they will become Han people, and the land they live in will naturally become an inseparable part of the Chinese territory, which is the essence of Li Liangzuo's assimilation policy; Today's Western Regions is not only self-sufficient, but also able to pay a part of the taxes to the imperial court, which is inseparable from Li Yi's efforts.
At Tiemen Pass, the southernmost point of the Western Regions, a caravan was slowly coming north, the leader of this caravan was a young man named Yang Kai, although on the surface this was a caravan, but in fact, in addition to selling goods, they also had great political and military tasks; Yang Kai is not an ordinary businessman, Yang Kai is the eldest son of Yang Shousu, Yang Kai has been very smart since he was a child, and he also got the true inheritance from his father, so he is also very handy in foreign affairs.
"Yang, how long do we have before we can reach your Great Xia Empire," a blonde-haired and blue-eyed foreigner asked Yang Kai.
This foreigner, named Long Weiping, came from Rome in the Papal States, and was a Catholic missionary; Long Weiping was named after the current Pope Urban II of Rome, followed Yang Kai to the East to promote Catholicism, and attached great importance to the Eastern Roman Pope, because at this time all the luxury goods among the Europa nobles were basically from the East, and all the Western nobles were full of infinite love for items from the East, and in their eyes, the East was full of gold.
Yang Kai rode on a camel and pointed to the pass in front of him and said, "Do you see the pass in front of you, and after that pass, it is the territory of my Great Xia Empire." ” "Oh my God, it's amazing, I'm finally in the magical world of the East."
Long Weiping said excitedly.
Today's Tiemen Pass is very lively, it is an important trade center between the Great Xia Empire and the Seljuk Empire, and it is very prosperous; What he saw and heard along the way made Lang Weiping a long insight, but Yang Kai was very excited, it has been four years since Yang Kai left the Great Xia Empire, and Yang Kai has finally completed the mission given by Li Liangzuo after all the hardships and hardships, Yang Kai has compiled all the business routes along the way into a map, marking the important cities and villages along the way, and also continued to improve this map from the mouths of other merchants, this should be the earliest map of the East and West in the world, and its preciousness can not be measured by money.
At night, Yang Kai and his entourage stayed at the post station of Tiemen Pass, and after entering the pass, Yang Kai showed his identity Honglu Temple Shaoqing, which was from the Beijing official of the fourth grade, and the general who guarded the pass personally set up a banquet to entertain, and arranged the best room for Yang Kai, after dinner, Lang Weiping came to Yang Kai's room and asked: "Yang, how long will it take for us to meet your Emperor Majesty." ” "If you go fast, it will take more than a month, and if you go slowly, it will take at least three months."
"How can it be so long, Yang, you must be joking with me."
Long Weiping said in disbelief.
"I'm not joking with you, what I said is all true, Xingqing Mansion, the capital of my Great Xia Empire, is in the eastern part of the empire, and this is the westernmost territory of the empire, and the two places are thousands of miles apart, do you understand?"
"Oh my God, how big is your Great Xia Empire," Lang Weiping asked in surprise.
"Have a good rest tonight, tomorrow we will set off on horseback, those goods will be transported by special people, we will first go to Hu Si to meet Lord Li of Anxi Dadu."
"Who is the Anxi Metropolitan Protector," Lang Weiping asked puzzled.
"The Protector of Anxi is an official position, responsible for all important military and political affairs in the territory of the Metropolitan Protectorate of Anxi, just like your Catholic bishop, except that he has more power than your bishop."
"Then how big is this Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate, and is there our Pope's Congress?"
"You'll know this soon, it will take about half a month from here to Hu Sihu's ears, and then you'll know how big the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate is."
Long Weiping was shocked, this missionary from the West had not yet completely believed Yang Kai's words; Back in his room, Long wrote in his diary; "After a long journey, I finally came to this magical land of the East, and learned from the mouths of the local people that this is located in the western frontier of the Great Xia Empire, where there is an endless stream of merchants, although it is only a border city, but it is an important city above the silk, and the silk from the East has to enter the Seljuk Empire, pass through the peninsula of Asia Minor, cross the Mediterranean Sea and finally reach Rome; In my free time I wandered around here, where the price of silk was much cheaper than in Rome, and the wealth here was enough to drive the Eastern Roman Emperor crazy; Yang, who was traveling with me today, told me that he was going to take me to meet the Great Protector of Anxi of the Great Xia Empire, he is the supreme ruler of the Great Xia Empire here, and has supreme rights, I am very surprised that the people here do not believe in God, this is an opportunity for me, I am confident that I will persuade this supreme ruler of Anxi to believe in Catholicism and become a believer in the Lord."
After Lang Weiping left, Yang Kai wrote a letter in which Yang Kai wrote: "Yang Kai, the young secretary of Honglu Temple, has paid a hundred respects to His Majesty, Wechen has been going to the Great Qin Roman Empire for four years, and finally lived up to His Majesty's expectations and successfully returned, this time Wechen came with a missionary from Rome, Lang Weiping, who came to preach their Catholicism to His Majesty" Thanks to the master's three recommendations, Tianyu is grateful, and please support everyone: