Sweep the World

Chapter 693: It's time to show off in Persia

It’s almost a matter of course that foreign races come to worship the emperor of the Central Kingdom’s emperor. In the years when the Central Plains dynasty’s self-confidence was not destroyed, it was almost taken for granted. No one would have anything special because of such a thing. idea. On the contrary, if a foreign race does not act according to the courtesy of Zhu Xia, it should be a voice clamoring for war. (This is not nonsense)

   The Persian people on the pool stand were still far away from the throne. It took a short while before they heard a loud but apparently flat voice. After listening to the interpreter, they knew they were letting go.

It is a habit left from the Qin Dynasty in the Yezheng Hall. The palace city built after the completion of Xianyang City is much larger than the small palaces of the previous Qin kings. After the rise of the Western Qin Dynasty, it has repeatedly expanded in scale. The Yezheng Hall is It changed again and again, until the first emperor had the highest standard of Yeejeongjeon. The reason why there was a pool was that the first emperor often had fun with all the officials.

  The specification of the pond was abolished by the Han Empire, and the Yeejeong Hall was changed to a semi-open air. The reason was that Emperor Wen was very frugal. The change to semi-open air was to reduce the use of candles, and the semi-open air increased the light in the Yeejeongjeon.

Many people think that candles were introduced by foreigners in modern times. In fact, candles were already made in the Han Dynasty. At that time, candles were made of beeswax, so it was also called "yellow wax". It was an absolute luxury. , Even the nobles may not be able to afford it. After the Tang Dynasty, candles made from the secretions of the white wax worm living on the ash tree were studied. Because it is white, it is also called "white wax". Large-scale cultivation began in the Song Dynasty, so candles have gradually become cheaper since the Song Dynasty.

   What I want to say is that the war caused many creations of the Zhuxia civilization to lose their inheritance, and many of the craftsmanship were lost. For example, the Xianhan’s hundred steel making methods were lost after the Five Wushuanghua. The method of making candles has gone through the catastrophe of the Yuan Dynasty and few people know it. It was only in the Ming Dynasty that it was re-developed, but the price of candles was much more expensive than in the Song Dynasty. As for the "I Daqing", why did you buy candles from foreigners? That is purely price rolling (trade war) caused by backward production technology.

   Chianush Alta Aldahir, who stood up, looked forward. It was dim, and some steps could be seen vaguely. Above it was a person sitting in a large seat. Because the light was too dim, he couldn't observe more.

"Only our emperor’s sincere greetings to you." Kianusz Alta Aldahir bent over his chest and stood on his own to continue saying: "Please allow foreign ministers to offer from my emperor gift."

This time the Persians brought a lot of goods. They tried to sell them in the prosperous Jiankang. Unfortunately, most of the Han people were not interested in those goods. They only sold a lot of ivory products, some of which were beautiful. Some of Huan’s gemstone carvings are also sold, but no one appreciates and buys Persian blankets, a fist product.

The gift that Kiyanush Alta Aldahir said was brought over together in a box, but it was not brought into the temple at the first time, and stayed outside to be inspected in detail, waiting for the time when he said he wanted to offer a gift. It was carried inside by the sergeant.

   There is a patio above the pool, and there is plenty of light under the sun. When one box after another is opened, the Persians personally carry out the presents.

The first to be moved out are some blankets. Each blanket has its own characteristics, but there are bound to be very complicated patterns. Some are animal graphics, and more are some character graphics, and the character graphics should describe their myths. .

Under the sunlight, an unfolded blanket was actually a piece of gold, some of the colors can see the obvious shape of the figure, Kianusz Alta Aldahir introduced that it was a picture of a royal family member. Pointing to one of the characters in particular, he said it was himself.

Persian blankets usually incorporate various materials such as wool, cotton, real silk, gold silk and silver silk. The blanket introduced by Kianusz Alta Aldahir obviously uses a lot of gold silk. It's better to say that a blanket is a work of art made with a lot of gold.

   "What do they mean?" Cai You turned his head to look at Tian Shuo who was to his side: "Are you saying that you are a distinguished person?"

  Saku Tian shook his head: "I have never seen anyone who acts like this."

In the eyes of everyone in the Han country, Kiyanus Alta Aldahir’s behavior would indeed be weird, and they did not expect that the Persians would come up with a "painting" that included contemporary Sassanian kings and members of the royal family. Come as a gift, Zhu Xia Civilization absolutely can't do such a thing anyway.

  In Zhuxia Civilization, the use of paintings to show people will only happen on some special occasions, such as wanted, such as matchmaking leave. After paintings of distinguished figures, they are placed in the family temple, and not everyone is eligible to paint full-length portraits.

   There are a lot of people talking, no matter how small everyone speaks, they will form a "buzz" together.

At the beginning of the design of the Yeejeongjeon Hall, sound transmission was considered. For example, the position of the king can be heard clearly without speaking loudly, and the minister can spread his own voice to the greatest extent when he reaches the position of initiation. I want people to understand what I'm talking about so far away, I can only rely on yelling.

The blanket is really a specialty of Persia. Kianus Arta Aldahir keeps showing one blanket after another, introducing various animals not many, most of them are Persian myths, and the other is pure The symmetrical lattice diagram too.

   Today's Liu Yan is wearing a suit of the emperor.

   Mianfu is the one made by the Han Dynasty and the Qin Dynasty. The upper body is mainly black, but the lower body is red, and the lower hem is soapy, with some very special patterns.

  The full set of Mianqi suits does not seem simple, so Mianqi is an important sign of distinguishing high and low according to the difference in quantity and material.

  The Han Dynasty stipulated that the emperor's crown was twelve scorpions (that is, twelve rows), made of jade. The color of the crown is mainly black. On both sides of the crown, there is a hole on each side for inserting the jade 第 to tie the hair bun. And tie ribbons on both sides of the 笄, and tie the knot under the jaw. On the two ears of the ribbon, there is also a jade pendant called "Yun Er". It is not stuffed into the ear, but hung around the ear to remind the wearer not to listen to slander. This is how the term "keep the ears unheard" in later generations comes from.

   According to regulations, anyone who wears a diadem must wear a diadem suit. The mianfu has a black blouse and a vermilion skirt with a pattern on the top and bottom. In addition, there are covering knees, wearing ribbons, red robbers, etc., forming a complete set of costumes. It must be said that this service system began in the Zhou Dynasty. In addition, the Mianfu of the Han Dynasty definitely does not have a dragon pattern, and it uses a black bird.

  As the system became more and more formal, the hundred officials of the Han country also had their own court attire. Liu Yan originally wanted to distinguish the ranks of officials by color according to the Tang Dynasty. Later, he continued the Shanghei of the pre-Han (Han inherited the Qin system). The court clothes of Baiguan are all black, with crimson emblems to distinguish the ranks.

   Kiyanush Alta Aldahir continued to introduce all kinds of blankets, and no one came out to interrupt.

   Liu Yan was not actually listening to what Kiyanush Alta Aldahir was talking about. He heard the material of cotton while listening to the translation, and he was thinking about how to get the cotton.

  The cotton of the Central Plains only got its seeds during the Yang Sui period. It was an extension of the Pei Ju splitting the Turks. It was obtained from the Western Regions, but it was regarded as an ornamental. The actual value of cotton was not discovered and developed.

The main force in Han's cold protection is wool products, and because there is no mature technology, it can only make some simple leather jackets, which can keep warm in the bitter cold places, but they usually appear very swollen, in fact, it is really not suitable for use. Military uniform.

   Liu Yanzheng suddenly heard a "meow" when he was thinking of getting into his mind. It made him look over, but he saw Kiyanush Alta Aldahir holding a ball of white hair.

It was a Persian cat looking obese. Its fur was all white, and its face looked a little embarrassed. It was curled up in a fluffy ball and was held by Kianusz Alta Aldasil, while shaking its tail. Tweeting.

   The cat was introduced into the Central Plains via the Western Regions during the Western Han Dynasty. Before that, no cat was found in various written records, murals, totems and other images. During the Western Han Dynasty, there were cats in the Central Plains, but the number was very rare, and the species was relatively single. There are written records that they were brought by Persian merchants as gifts to a high-ranking official, and they were not really introduced to the people.

In fact, there are local cats in the land of the summers, mainly distributed in the land of Lingnan. It takes until the 18th century for cats to truly enter thousands of households. By the 19th century, raising cats has become an extremely common phenomenon. The cat that calls the tabby cat has the strongest ability to catch mice.

Liu Yan used to raise cats. He didn’t know the specific names of cats. One of the female cats had been kept for 17 years, and the female cat ran to the road and was crushed to death by a motorcycle. The other was a female cat’s. The single-born white-bellied male cat was very well-behaved and made him extremely fond of him. However, after returning from a certain trip, he learned that the fourteen-year-old cat was tortured to death by a neighbor’s relative’s bear child. He hated it so much. The bear child throws into the pond.

   Kiyanush Alta Aldahir said that he brought a male and a female pair of cats, which are the most noble cats in bloodlines and breeds. He also told a story. The story is probably that a certain country had a war with Persia in order to obtain similar cats.

   Liu Yan was a little stunned. He seemed to have heard the story, saying that the Greeks wanted to obtain Persian cats and war with Persia, but he didn't expect it to happen.

  Actually, the Greeks had cats, which were imported from Egypt, because cats broke out in wars and other reasons, and there were other excuses for wars without cats.

   Kiyanush Alta Aldahir’s cat offering was just an episode. What he didn’t expect was that Liu Yan could not wait for people to hold the cat on the throne, and Liu Yan was very familiar with all kinds of teasing. He saw that Liu Yan could play with a cat's chin and knew how to carry a cat by the back of his neck. He could see that Liu Yan was no stranger to cats.

When Baiguan ordered people to hug the cat, they were actually trying to persuade them. None of them had seen cats. The emperor’s consolation was related to Guozuo. He didn’t wait to stand up to stop him but he saw Liu Yan teasing. Showing extreme affection, seeing that there is no danger, it extinguishes the idea of ​​persuasion.

In the following, Kianusz Alta Aldahir began to display various carvings, with the most ivory and gem carvings, but the sculptures of Zhu Xia civilization did not have any aesthetics, until he Demonstrating the sharpness of an ivory knife is what attracts everyone's attention. It's just that the eyes of Baiguan and the guards in the palace are very bad.

Outside the temple, the lieutenant was taken away with a pale face. It was his negligence that the foreign envoys carried sharp weapons into the temple, and he had checked in quite detail, but he did not find it among the numerous and very complicated carvings. Also hide the weapon.

   Baiguan and the guard just stared at them with bad eyes. If Liu Yan made a sound, the next moment it would be the Persian on the pool being shot into a hedgehog by a sharp arrow, but Liu Yan gave no instructions.

   In fact, Liu Yan still knows a little bit about tooth knives and the like. That thing is not hard enough because of the material, so it can only be used as a stationery. He was curious about what the Persians had done, and even an ivory knife was processed into a blanket that could easily be cut through. As for the Persian coming in with a sharp weapon, he really wanted to investigate it without prior notice. A war broke out as a reason.

The number of carvings brought by the Persians is far less than that of blankets. What’s strange is that they also brought a box of coins. Silver and copper coins are the history of Persia.

Central Asia and Europa have a special feature, that is, when making coins, the heads of contemporary kings are preferred. The year of making will be engraved. Sometimes coins will be made for some big events, and the background of big events will be depicted, so it is really true. Can understand history from coins.

   Then again, apart from the modern warlords who put their heads on the coins, the earlier Zhu Xia civilization did not depict the king's heads on the coins, and did not mark the production year, only the year. It was a taboo, and it was so serious that the "characters" used in the names of the kings could not be used any more. Until the Ming Dynasty, Zhu's royal family chose uncommon words as much as possible in order not to cause trouble to the folk use of words.

The exhibition of Kianus Alta Aldahir is still going on. While the exhibition will also introduce where the Sassanid dynasty is famous, it is basically either a place with a huge carved wall, or a huge statue erected. Location, in a bragging tone, said how many Greek sculptures were robbed, and talked about the looting of busts of many Roman nobles.

   Liu Yan only smiled after hearing the following words. Before he watched Kiyanush Arta Ardashir bring out something that was not part of Persian civilization at all, and thought it was going to be a fisheye.

Towards the end, Kianusz Alta Aldahir patted his palms after asking for instructions. Unknowingly, the Baiguan saw several Persians wearing cloaks lifted their cloaks and was stunned. An extremely enchanting Bosque...

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