In October of the first year of Daqing in the Tang Dynasty (Li Renxiao's reign title, the first year of Daqing was 1140), the Roman king Alexus and the great wizard of Glu Kingdom, Bagladion, were arranged by Prime Minister Cao of the Tang Dynasty to move into the east city of Western Chang'an Prefecture.

This east city is not within the "Hamburg" style city of West Chang'an Prefecture, but is located on the east side of the city. Therefore, the west Chang'an Prefecture is called the west name, and this mall is called the east city.

The so-called East City is actually the "old city" of Xichang'an City. Of course, it is not old for a long time. In fact, it is an "old city" that has only been built for 10 years. However, due to the emergence of a new castle of "Hamburg", a firearm era, the "old city" of Xichang'an seems very outdated.

So the Western Tang court decided to build a new burger with 6 sides and 12 corners on the open plain west of the old city to serve as a new house for the Tang court. When this new city was completed, the Western Tang court did not abandon the old city that had been used for less than 10 years, but instead built it into a mall.

According to the orders of the Tang Dynasty, the minimum commercial activities could be maintained in Hamburg in Xicheng, so as to prevent the court officials and the children of the court officials and the soldiers who came to the Chang'an Prefecture of Xijing to serve were corrupted by the depraved life provided by the unscrupulous merchants.

The main commercial activities and handicraft production of Chang'an Prefecture in Xijing were concentrated in the old city called Dongshi.

After the Jinxi Road Army conquered the Eighteen Rakshasa princes and entered the Krim Peninsula, the land Silk Road from Chang'an Prefecture to the Krim Peninsula was almost unobstructed! The east city of the West Chang'an Prefecture happened to be in the middle of this land trade road. At the same time, the east city of the West Chang'an Prefecture is also the starting point of the branch of the Silk Road South Line to Baghdad.

Such a city is located at the intersection of two important trade routes, and it is probably impossible not to develop without development.

Moreover, the east city of Chang'an Prefecture in Xijing also gathered skilled craftsmen from all over the Tang Dynasty, who could produce various handicraft products including gunpowder, fried pots, hot pots, barrels, various iron armor and tools, porcelain, paper, and wool fabrics. Although the output is ridiculously low according to the standards of the Song Dynasty, it is already the best in the Western Regions.

Moreover, many of the products are the only ones in the Western Regions, so there is no need to worry about sales!

So when Rome and the Great Master Bagladion entered the East City of Western Chang'an, the commercial city had become very noisy and noisy, with merchants of various ethnic groups intersecting. Teams of camels and teams of carriages and horses kept coming and going. There were grassland merchants wearing bulging leather robes and scimitars on their waists, large food merchants wearing black robes, and Central Plains merchants wearing beautiful silk robes, walking around the market.

In addition to merchants from all over the world, monks and scholars from various sects and sects gathered in the east city of Chang'an Prefecture, Xijing.

There are monks with shaved heads, priests in the church of worshipping God (including Nestorians) wearing black robes and holding the Bible, as well as figures from Manichaeism, Zoroastrianism, and Taoism. Of course, there are also Confucian scholars who spread Confucian nature. These people are the most awesome among all monks and scholars in the Dongshi city, because they have the right to "carry a knife (sword) in the city"!

Other monks and scholars can only hold weapons outside the city, and there are various restrictions, not allowing them to hold weapons with high lethality, nor are they allowed to own weapons. However, Confucian scholars have the privilege to hold weapons and armor, but also bring swords (swords) into the city not only to enter the East City, but also to enter the hamburger of Chang'an Prefecture, the West Beijing!

In addition, monks and scholars from other schools are not allowed to establish temples and schools within the Xicheng City. Only Confucian scholars can run schools and teach in the Xicheng City Hamburg.

All the ministers and nobles of the Western Tang Dynasty also followed these Confucians to learn literature and martial arts, and naturally regarded themselves as Confucians, and they dressed up like Confucians on weekdays.

So in the West Chang'an Prefecture, these Confucians with cloth clothes, horn scarves and long swords hanging on their waists are just walking sideways. No one dares to mess with them. Who knows that such Confucians are "true Confucians"? Or are they a powerful court official?

On the Western Tang Dynasty, it is not uncommon for the "non-Tang people" to kill the powerful people with one sword. Even if the people who were killed are fine, they will just pay some money.

Of course, there is no need to worry about killing people during their stay in the East City of West Chang'an during the time when they were stranded by King Aclatius and the great wizard Bagration. Because the Jinwu Guard was arranged inside and outside the "Waishen Temple" in the east city where they lived. If they were to go out, they would also be accompanied by officials from the Honglu Temple.

It was in the "Worship of God" where he lived that Aclatius had the idea of ​​writing a book called "Journey to the East".

What prompted him to think of "code" was that he was wiping his butt paper in the toilet of "Worshiping God Temple"

"President Li, what is this?"

After just finishing the cottage, the king who was preparing to eat, took toilet paper and entered the canteen of "Worshiping God Temple" and asked the official of the Honglu Temple who could speak Latin.

Although this official had a Hu face, he was an authentic Han from Khotan. He was the same surname as Li Renxiao. He was the descendant of King Li Shengtian of Khotan. He was named Li Chongwen. After he sent Aclaisius and Bagration to the Temple of the God of the East City, he was about to rub supper here. But he saw the king with his butt wiped paper, and was shocked.

Mari Haxiya, the Nestorian master who presided over this worship of God Temple (the Mari Haxiya who sent Nataliel to Linhuang Mansion) responded quickly and hurriedly said to Aclaisius in Latin: "Barcelos, this is paper."

"I know, I've seen paper, and I know it's not papyrus! But why do they appear in the toilet?"

The king of one word, shoulder to shoulder, has seen the world, knows that there is paper and can also distinguish between papyrus and real paper.

Papyrus is not real paper, but something similar to bamboo slips, but it is much more complicated to make. It has to be made with a lot of tedious processes such as peeling, slicing, soaking, hammering, pressing, polishing, and brushing. It is expensive and does not provide much, and only one side can be written. In the Roman Empire, it is not the rich master at home, but this expensive papyrus cannot be used.

As for real paper, it is even more expensive. The Eastern Roman Empire cannot produce it, so it has to be imported from the Sarasen pagans!

So until the 12th century, the Eastern Roman Empire and the Holy See were still heavily used papyrus and equally expensive parchment and kraft paper.

But today, the king of one-way lines actually saw a thick stack of paper in a stinking toilet!

All are blank papers that have never written words!

"Baseles, this is the paper used to wipe the butt," Li Daren stammered, "After the convenience, use this to wipe the butt."

"What?" The king of kings with one word was shocked. "It's so luxurious? I haven't written these papers before!"

Is this a luxury?

Li Daguanren said: "Baseles, the paper used to wipe butt is very cheap, which is much better than this one!"

"Really?" The king of one-word shoulder-to-shoulder could not believe his ears, "Is writing paper expensive?"

"It's not expensive," said Li Daguanren, "In Taohua Stone, paper is the cheapest thing, you have as much as you want."

"real?"

"Of course it's true," said Li Daguan Renren, "If you want, I will send you a thousand pieces of broken leaf paper tomorrow."

Broken leaf paper is not "branch paper", but paper produced in the East City of Chang'an Prefecture, Xijing. The original name of Chang'an Prefecture in Xijing was Broken leaf, so the broken leaf paper was named.

"Okay!" The king of Yizi Side Nodded and smiled, "I just need these papers because I want to write a travel notes so that people in the West can know about the Peach Blossom Stone!"

"That's great," said Mali Haxiya, the great master of Nestorian smirking. "I think you will need a lot of paper because there are so many things to write about! In Dongtu, you will see many jaw-dropping huge cities and countless strange handicrafts, as well as mountain of wealth. Of course, there will be countless peach blossom stone people!"

The king of Yizi Sides and became interested and asked quickly: "Boss-Chancellor, can I see a larger and more prosperous city in Dongtu than Chang'an City?"

"Of course, there are too many such cities!" said Marihaxiya, "In the distant eastern land, cities like Xichang'an City are nothing at all. At least 100 cities are bigger, more prosperous and more magnificent than it!

It is said that Nanjing Yingtian Prefecture, the largest city in the Song Dynasty in Dongtu, has a population of more than 1.5 million! Even the city of Rome at its heyday cannot be compared with it!"

"1.5 million?" The king of Yishou took a breath, "God, so many people live in a city?"

"Yes! Living in a city that is extremely prosperous and prosperous!" said Marihaxiya, "It's a pity that I'm eager to return to the West and have no chance to see its charm. Fortunately, I will accompany you to Dongtu this time. I think I will have a chance to go to Yingtian Prefecture, Nanjing!"

"A city has 1.5 million people, God!" The king of one word opened his mouth wide, "How many people are there in the entire Dongtu?"

"Ten Thousand" King of Sides Sides by One Word is full of surprise, "At least twice as many people as the entire Europe! Dongtu Dasong is too powerful, right?"

Marihaxiya nodded, "That's of course, otherwise how could the Kingdom of Gold be destroyed by the Song Dynasty? I witnessed the destruction of the Kingdom of Gold with my own eyes. In that war, the Song Dynasty of Dongtu invested at least 1 million troops! And many extremely powerful gunpowder weapons were invested! If such an army appeared in Europe, it would probably destroy all Christian countries!"

Destroy all Christian countries? The king's face turned pale, which sounded so terrible!
Chapter completed!