The Tang Dynasty was not given by various tribes, and the rooster maps of later generations in China were not sent for phone bills. Although there are many records of invasion by surrounding ethnic groups in the historical records of various dynasties in China, there are very few records of conquering the surrounding areas.

But this is actually just a selective record.

On the contrary, the ancient history of China is actually not a history of backwardness and beating, but a history of foreign conquests of the Chinese nation that continues to pioneer and enterprisingly.

From the small area of ​​the middle and upper reaches of the Yellow River basin where the earliest Chinese tribes were located, to the continuous conquest of the four barbarians and occupying both sides of the Yellow River. Later, it expanded southward to the south of the Huai River, to the south of the Han River, to Bashu, to Jiangnan, and to Lingnan...

The Chinese nation has never stopped, and the descendants of Yan and Huang have been making progress.

The Qin Empire conquered Lingnan, and the Han Dynasty opened up the Western Regions...

A small landlord dared to organize a slave-catching team to go to other countries to capture slaves, which was indeed very bold. But Zhao Chiman, the captain of the landlord's family, was very excited. He seemed to have found a goal in life again. People like him were born for fighting, so letting him stay by the landlord as a coachman, which was really aggrieved him.

"Give me a boat, and give me another hundred people. No, fifty people are enough. Equipped with simple weapons such as bows and arrows, horizontal swords, etc., I can travel across Baekje. I will bring me a ship of Baekje slaves back, and I will never let you down."

Zhao Chiman was already murderous.

When Taizong personally conquered Goguryeo, Zhao Chiman was a guard of the imperial guards and once followed the emperor. Unfortunately, he protected the emperor at that time and did not have much chance to make contributions in battles, so he was not as good as Xue Rengui, a small soldier in the army. At that time, Xue Rengui wore a white robe among his troops and rushed straight to the enemy's formation and killed Goguryeo generals. His style was indeed exciting.

He witnessed Xue Rengui's success as a fifth-rank general from a small soldier, which was a legend.

But there is never a shortage of such passionate legends in the Tang army.

He has been sold as a slave and has no chance to return to the battlefield and can no longer ride a horse, but now Li Xiao has given him a chance.

"I know there are many idle men and rogues in Chang'an. As long as you reward them with a heavy reward, there will be brave men. Fifty people are easy to recruit." Zhao Chiman said.

There are not only rogues in Chang'an City, but also idle men and rogues.

The idle man is actually not just a little gangster. This kind of person is more similar to a desperate person. He lives in Chang'an for various reasons, including fugitives from the Tang Dynasty and those stranded and unrestless Hu people.

These people are fierce, ruthless, and bold, wandering between black and white. As long as they have money, they dare to do anything.

Killing people or robbing goods is fine.

Some people are even willing to be jailed for others or even die, as long as they give a satisfactory price.

In fact, no matter what era or where there are, there is always no shortage of such people.

For example, the bad people who were recruited by the government in Chang'an were actually bad people. Every time there was a mutiny or rebellion in Chang'an, many desperate people would join in.

"I'll send a letter to Brother Wang San first and ask about the situation on Hai. If he thinks it's feasible, then we'll do it." Li Xiao had a sudden idea, but after talking to Zhao Chiman, he was really eager to try it.

"Okay, I can try to contact some idle and evil guys first." As a former Chang'an idol, Zhao Chiman still has some ideas on Chang'an Street.

Seeing him hurrying out, Li Xiao smiled and couldn't wait for a moment.

After returning to the study and writing a letter to Wang Fangyi and the others, Li Xiao returned to the yard for a walk again.

As a Beijing official, one advantage is that he only spends half a day working day, and he can go home to rest in the morning when he is in the yamen. This is much more comfortable than local officials.

There is still one day of rest in ten days, and including various holidays, it is actually very comfortable to be a civil servant in the Tang Dynasty.

Not to mention Li Xiao’s yamen set up specifically for him, no one interferes in and controls him, and his life is even more relaxed.

Anyway, he just needs to plant the corn well, and there is nothing else to do.

Walking along the lotus pond covering an area of ​​several acres, there are many flowers planted by the lotus pond. This season, many flowers have withered.

Peony, rose...

Li Xiao imagined the scene when these flowers bloomed, and suddenly a flower came into Li Xiao's eyes.

It grows like a fruit tree, with very thin branches on its stems and green leaves look like goose's palms. There are no flowers at this time, but they bear fruit.

After taking a closer look, Li Xiao couldn't help but widen his eyes.

Like a peach, isn't this a cotton boa?

He squatted down, looked carefully, observed for a long time, and then picked a cotton lily and found the white cotton inside.

"Damn, cotton."

"Alang, this is not a cotton flower, it is a white flower." A gardener who cared for the garden whispered.

White stacked flowers? No, this is obviously cotton, how could it be wrong? This is a cotton boulder, and there is also cotton wool inside.

However, the gardener insisted that this was not cotton. After talking for a long time, Li Xiao understood it. It turned out that this person was talking about cotton flowers, that is, wooden cotton flowers.

At this time, there was no word cotton, only cotton, and there was no cotton, only cotton. Wooden cotton was not cotton that could weave cloth as quilts, but could only be used to fill the quilt pillows.

The Tang people called cotton white laminated flowers.

According to the gardener's explanation, the white laminated flowers were from Gaochang, the Western Regions.

Gaochang, that was in the Western Regions.

It is said that in Linyi, there are also white bundles of flowers, and the Zhenla king often wears white bundles of clothes woven with white bundles of flowers.

White stacks of flowers can weave cloth, and the gardener also knows that.

But Li Xiao was a little confused. He had been in the Tang Dynasty for a long time, but he seemed to have never seen cotton. And he remembered that it seemed that cotton did not appear in China until the Song Dynasty, or even large-scale planting in the Ming Dynasty?

Why did the Tang Dynasty have it?

After asking more details, I realized that although white flowers were planted in this garden, they were planted as ornamental flowers. Moreover, few people in the Central Plains planted white flowers, which means they can only be seen in the royal gardens and in the back gardens of some princes and nobles.

As for the white stacked cloth woven with white stacked flowers, it is a technology that only Gaochang people have. In fact, the white stacked cloth is sold to Chang'an by Gaochang people, but the price is extremely high.

In Gaochang Country, a piece of white cloth is worth 45 cents, while a piece of cloth is forty feet. After a piece of cotton cloth is converted into 1,800 cents, it is sold at the place of origin. After the merchants from the Western Regions traveled thousands of miles to Chang'an, the price increased several times.

A piece of white cloth is often sold for thousands of yuan, and the price is even more expensive than silk made of silk.
Chapter completed!