Red cavalry galloped between valleys.

On the banks of the river, tribes either surrender, or evade, or hide in the fort mountain city.

On the banks of rivers, the post station and the fortress are being built.

Above the mountains, the beacon tower was built and red flags were flying.

The fifth year of Kaiyuan.

January.

Luoyang.

The spring is chilly.

In the afternoon, the golden sunlight warmed Luoyang City. With the ringing sounds, a huge team came outside Luoyang City.

The team driving yaks, camels, and horses, looking at the majestic city of Luoyang from afar, constantly exclaiming and praising, although this is not the first time they have seen the capital of the Central Plains.

When they were in Jincheng, they were amazed, and when they arrived in Chang'an, they were even more amazed.

When passing Tongguan, they praised the majestic city of Guancheng. When passing through the Yellow River, they praised the great river, entered the Central Plains, and praised the fertile wilderness here for thousands of miles. However, when they saw Luoyang City, they still couldn't help but be amazed.

Luoyang is particularly grand and lively than Guanzhong cities such as Chang'an.

"The Qin army guarding the gate in Luoyang has such bright armor, and they are all so majestic!"

"These are the imperial guards of the Qin people."

Liu Rengui laughed and said to the Tubo people who were talking about it, "Actually, the gatekeepers you saw are from the inner yamen, belonging to the gate guards' office, and are responsible for guarding the gate city gate and palace gate."

The people from the guards' office saw them coming from afar and did not come to greet them. On the other side, there was a team of soldiers coming, but these people were dressed a little differently. Generally speaking, the soldiers in the three yamen all had red military robes, but the edges of different yamen were inlaid with different colors.

In the different military guards of each yamen, the soldiers under them have different patterns or marks on their robes.

Coupled with the bronze seal on the shoulders and the identity card on the chest, they can quickly judge their identities, but for the Tubo people, this seems a bit complicated. What they are more accustomed to is drawing different pictures with different banners or even riding horses of different colors.

An officer with a head sign on his shoulder came up.

Liu Rengui rode forward and saluted the military salute.

"Yulin Lang Liu Rengui."

The Dutou quickly replied, "Zhao Sheng, the Dutou of the Right Guard, paid a visit to Liu Yulinlang."

"This is a Tubo delegation, who sent Tubo princess to Luoyang to serve the emperor. The delegation also accompanied them with gold, yaks, goats, sheep, and some local products from Weizang that they paid tribute to the saints."

Zhao Sheng, the head of the capital, chuckled, "No wonder I smelled a big fishy smell from afar. It turned out that the Tubo delegation arrived, so please register here."

"I have smelled this all the way. I finally returned to Luoyang, and I can be considered a match." Liu Rengui laughed.

The military academies of the Guardians over there looked at each other, "It's been so lively recently. Which mission is this? With those caravans, there are so many vassals coming to Luoyang this year."

"Yesterday, a caravan from Yaoyuan Fulin (Eastern Rome) came. A few days ago, and those from Persia were all coming to us for the Shangyuan Lantern Festival in Luoyang this year. You must know that this year, Your Majesty has an order. From the first day of the first lunar month to the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Jinwu couldn't help it. During this period, not only the three cities operate day and night, but also the Gelifang was not restricted. You can set up a lantern and set up a stall to trade on the yard."

Although the Qin Dynasty fought a difficult war last year, the Qin Dynasty won.

To the west, the Western Turkic Shkui was defeated and fled to Qianquan. After being defeated by Tiel's army and Mohedu's army, he was forced to continue to move westward. In the Western Turkic land, Mohedu became a great khan.

However, Mo Heduo was not strong enough. After becoming the Khan, he was still very respectful to the Qin Dynasty and did not dare to be arrogant. The Western Regions countries that originally belonged to the Western Turks have now become the prison counties of the Qin Dynasty. Even the ten tribes of the Western Turks have now been established by the court in each place and awarded the title of marquis.

Mo Hedu's Khan is actually a bit unreasonable and has a reputation.

Autumn, General Wang Siye and General Qin Qiong and other heroes and generals were enfeoffed by Yili, which made the current situation in the Western Regions become more and more complicated.

The Great Qin Dynasty had three counties, Yiwu, Gaochang and Yanqi, and the thirty-six princes of Yili were found in the west.

In addition, the twenty-seven states in the Western Regions and the thirteen counties that were granted by the Western Turks, the entire Tianshan Mountains in the Western Regions, to the east and west of the Pamir Mountains. Although the Anxi Road of the Qin Dynasty only cared for the three counties, in fact, all parties now follow the lead of the Qin horse.

There is another huge change in the situation in the Western Regions, that is, during the Sui Dynasty, the Western Turks controlled the Silk Road, which once blocked the exchanges between the Thai merchants and the Central Plains, but now, the Silk Road has finally opened again.

Silk North Road, Silk Road Middle Road, Silk Road South Road.

There are trade routes from Qiemo to Xiangxiong, then directly to the Indian countries, connecting the Persian Sassanida, and directly crossing the Pamirs to pass through Tochar to Persia, and there are trade routes from Kangju or Shuye to go west and directly to Thailand.

There was no more obstacles in the Western Regions, and the Silk Road was reopened.

The envoys of the Qin Dynasty declared all directions, so the Sogdians in the river, Fulin and Persians in the Taisie all rushed to the Central Plains, all wanting to buy beautiful silk and porcelain produced in the Central Plains again, and sell their spices, gold, silver and pearls, etc.

The re-engagement of the Silk Road in the Western Regions brought countless Western Regions merchants, including those Sogdian merchants with blue eyes and curly beards, those Persian merchants with high noses, those blonde merchants with blond hair, and many beautiful orioles.

And now, the Tubo people are here too.

However, the soldiers of the gatekeeper's guards obviously did not like these Tubo people wearing dirty leather robes. They looked far worse than the Hu merchants in Western Regions.

However, when Liu Rengui handed a list to them to register, the captain of the guard's office was shocked.

The Tubo envoy sent Zanpu's biological daughter Princess Saimaga. It was nothing, just a princess from a small country in the southern barbarians, not worth much money.

Nowadays, the vassals around the Qin Dynasty are all competing to send the princess to Luoyang. It seems that if any princess fails to enter the Ziwei Palace, she will be embarrassed and embarrassed among the vassals.

In the past, the vassals compared who could marry the princess of the Central Plains, but now the Qin Dynasty did not marry the princess, so these people could only compete to compete for who could marry their princess to the Qin Palace.

The Khitan, Western Turkic, Tiele, Xi and other countries all sent the princesses to the palace one after another, but it is rare to be as generous as Tubo.

There were 5,000 taels of gold, 10,000 taels of silver, 10,000 yaks, goats, sheep, etc., and the Tubo people also sent more than 10,000 Han people who had fallen to Tubo to return to the Qin Dynasty.

"This is a huge loss for marriage." The captain exclaimed.

Liu Rengui smiled, "What kind of dowry? This is Tubo Zanpu's apologies for his previous entry into Tuyuhun, besieging Dafeiling, and offending me, Daqin. Even that princess is not a dowry."

"All apologies?"

"It's not all. I also brought thousands of camel goods behind them, all of which were merchant goods carried by these Tubo envoys. They were going to Luoyang for private sale and transactions. They had a list and would hand them over to you to register." Liu Rengui smiled.

The captain smiled, "I didn't expect that these barbarian envoys on the plateau are also very smart. They come to marry the princess and know to do some business by the way. Our Luoyang City is the eastern starting point of the Silk Road, and the southern city is an international trading market. All kinds of goods are used everywhere in the world. The Tubo people are right."

"I don't care about what they carry here, but there is one thing that when you enter the city, you have to keep all the weapons you carry in my place, register and hand them over to us for custody. When they leave the city, they will be returned."

Although the Jinwu in Luoyang City was unable to help but during the Spring Festival, these vassal groups and Hu merchant caravans had to be wary of one or two.

The court welcomed them over and was willing to trade with them, but as the lieutenant of the prison guards who guarded the city gate, he had to do his best.

"This is natural, I'll talk to them." Liu Rengui smiled and turned his head, returned to the team, and explained in detail to Gar Dongzan, the leader of the Tubo delegation. Gar Dongzan just nodded. Soon, he ordered the dismantling of his weapons and handed them over to the lieutenant at the city gate.

"My Tubo delegation escorted the princess to come, why didn't the Qin emperor send someone to welcome him?"

Gar Dongzan had never seen Qin Dynasty officials coming to the city gate to greet him, and his brows frowned slightly.

Liu Rengui smiled, "It's the first month of the year, and the vassal envoys from all directions come to pay homage to the emperor. Some vassal kings have come in person. How can His Majesty and the court send people to greet each other? If they all welcome them, there is nothing to do on this day, and the ministers will just stand at the gate of the city to greet them."

Gardongzan's face looked a little ugly, but it was not easy to attack, so he had to keep silent.

"Let's go, after registration, I'll send you to Honglu Temple. They will prepare a rest for you. This year, you have no embassy. This time, you can find a house in the south of Chang'an City when you have time to do so. As your Tubo embassy, ​​there are hundreds of embassies in the south of the city. Many of them have sent people to Luoyang to facilitate contact with my Daqin."

Hearing this, Gar Dongzan was secretly amazed and envious of the power of Qin. Hundreds of vassal states had established embassies in Luoyang City and sent people to stay. It seems that Tubo would have to buy a house for an embassy this time and arrange people to stay.

After the Tubo delegation inspected and registered at the city gate, they began to enter the city. Most of the 10,000 yaks and 50,000 sheep brought by Tubo were actually accepted and resettled directly in Qinghai and Longyou. This time they only brought gold, silver and princesses. Of course, there were also private goods carried by the nobles.

The weapons were handed over to the city gate guards for safekeeping and entered the city. In the distance, Wuhou immediately passed the message upwards: The Tubo delegation had entered the capital.

There are street shops in each street and at the corner of the yard of Luoyang City, with Wuhou stationed there, and the large street shops are 300, and the small ones are 100. There are hundreds of street shops in the entire Luoyang City, and thousands of Wuhou are responsible for the security of the streets. They are the pairs of eyes in Luoyang City, and even if there is a little movement, they cannot escape them.

In addition to the Wuhou in these streets, there are more than 100 large and small buildings in Luoyang City to monitor the whole city. When there is a little movement, they can immediately discover it and quickly use the sound of flag drums to reach Luoyang Prefecture and Jinwu Guard.

In addition to the prison guards at the city gate, Wuhou in the street, the soldiers in the Wanglou, and the Jinwu Guard patrolling the streets, there are many inconspicuous bad people arrested or stumped people in Luoyang City. They are low-level figures such as local gossips and gangsters. After being incorporated by the imperial court, they became the lowest-level auxiliary police. These bad people who are not allowed to enter the table can often master the detailed information of each neighborhood and provide sufficient clues for the government to handle cases.

When the Tubo delegation entered Luoyang, more than a dozen people from the yamen began to stare at them.
Chapter completed!