Chapter 955

People who are obsessed with art do not know whether they are born or formed the day after tomorrow. Most people who play art will appear very simple. There is no problem in IQ, but their EQ is frighteningly low.

At present, Wang Xizhi is not only a well-known calligrapher and great poet in China, but also has a very high literary status in future generations. The price of the pen and calligraphy left to future generations is amazing, which is called the calligrapher in the calligraphy circle.

Chen Fei intended to speak more clearly. He hesitated and decided to hide his clumsiness. He is only a subordinate of Wang Xizhi, not a relative, not a friend. It is his duty to remind him. No matter how much, he can't and shouldn't do it.

The ritual Department of the Han Empire was infinitely close to the Honglu hall in the Western Han Dynasty. In addition to receiving foreign officials from various countries, it also undertook the responsibility of intelligence spying and war planning.

If you read the history books, you can find that the Honglu hall in the Western Han Dynasty was a concentration camp for war traffickers, and the most famous was the battle of Mayi. The planner of the battle of Mayi was the great Honglu Wang Hui at that time.

After the battle of Mayi, the Honglu hall in the Western Han Dynasty successively planned wars against South Vietnam, Minyue, Zhen Yue, Yunnan, Ailao, etc., with some successes and some failures. Some wars were even completed independently by the troops under the jurisdiction of the Honglu hall. Therefore, in history, the Honglu Hall and Shaofu in the Western Han Dynasty can actually be called "monster" departments.

The only difference between the ritual Department of the Han Empire and the Honglu Hall of the Western Han Dynasty is that there are no directly affiliated troops. In addition, the military cannot launch a war without the assistance of the ritual department. It can even be said that the ritual Department has a great say in whether to fight against any country.

Liu Yan summoned Wang Xizhi to come and record a famous chapter the next evening. Only then did he know from Wang Xizhi the request of Julian and kexie Yas.

It has always been a taboo to report beyond the level in officialdom. Liu Yan has not learned from LV Yi, the Minister of rites, the request of Rome and sassanne. Wang Xizhi is only the code system of the Ministry of rites, but directly reported it. Moreover, such a thing has not happened for the first time. If Wang Xizhi had not been a doctor, I'm afraid he would not only lose his official position, but also live a better life.

"Hearing that Yishao misses the scenery of Kuaiji?" Liu Yan saved face for the sake of Wang Xizhi's posterity: "I will ask Chang Shilang to grant leave."

Wang Xizhi stopped writing like clouds and water, looked at Liu Yan, and his face was full of puzzlement.

Liu Yan won't explain anything. Saying that means that Wang Xizhi should go back even if he doesn't want to go back to his hometown. As for when Wang Xizhi will return to Chang'an, wait until Liu Yan speaks one day.

There were not many people in the side hall. Liu Yan sat in the right position to review the memorials. Cui Zong stood on the side of the table ready to serve at any time. Wang Xizhi knelt down in the corner and waved his pen. Another female official and maid in waiting stood quietly in the corner.

Cui Cong looked at Wang Xizhi with inexplicable eyes and thought that Wang Xizhi was quite lucky.

In fact, for an official who did not enter Liu Yan's field of vision and repeatedly failed to abide by the rules of officialdom, he not only had a bad reputation, but also could mingle in officialdom. It was also destined to be mediocre at the bottom for a lifetime. Wang Xizhi at least had the opportunity to enter the core circle as a humble official.

The Romans and Persians wanted to see the firearm troops with their own eyes. Liu Yan would not be surprised. If his current status did not allow him, they all wanted to watch the war in person.

Liu Yan's choice was to ignore the procedure.

Julian and keshias were still waiting with expectation. They went to visit Wang Xizhi two days later, but they got the reply that the host's family was packing up their salutes and couldn't meet the guests.

They stood at the door, stunned for more than ten minutes, looked at each other and smiled bitterly.

They had to go to the office of the Ministry of rites outside the palace city again to ask for another code of duty.

"I will tell you the truth." Zhang Qing actually didn't want to see the two crooked nuts. If it weren't for his royal status, he didn't even want to see them: "you two go back to the post house and wait patiently for a reply."

There are almost no secrets in the same office. Julian and keshias have just called on Wang Xizhi, but Wang Xizhi packed up and went back to his hometown. Not everyone knows the real reason, but they don't hinder them from paying tribute to Julian and keshias who let Wang Xizhi lose his official position.

Although it is not to be seen, Zhang Qing needs to record and report.

Two foreign royal families requested to go to northern Xinjiang to watch the war. The paper was sent to the palace city two days later. According to the procedure, it went through Shaodian and Shaojian... And it fell on the waiter's desk two days later.

Shi Lang is the second ranking official of each ministry. The following is Shi Lang in the book of history. There are four chamberlains in the Ministry of rites. Each chamberlain is responsible for different fields.

Chang Wei is a waiter in charge of contacts with various countries. After he got the submission, he glanced at it and put it down.

Wang Xizhi is one of the officials of Chang Wei's authority department. At the level of Shilang, he will know more things. It is clear that Wang Xizhi can be "granted leave" by Liu Yan.

"Record..." what Chang Wei doesn't know is that Liu Yan didn't agree with Wai Guoren's watching the war to let Wang Xizhi go back to his hometown, or simply because Wang Xizhi repeatedly broke the officialdom rules. He pondered for a moment and ordered: "it will be handed over to the minister in three days."

Two days and two days, the Minister of rites was pressed for three more days. It was the seventh day waiting for the Minister of rites, LV Yi, to get the submission.

LV Yi had already received instructions from Liu Yan. Wai Guoren's request to go to northern Xinjiang to watch the actual combat of the firearm forces has been allowed. As for when the etiquette Department replied to Julian and kexie Yas and promised to let them go to watch the combat, everything is still given preferential treatment.

It took as long as twenty days from the formal request to the reply.

"The Emperor Han agreed to our request." Julian was more or less surprised. He thought he would be rejected: "the etiquette department will send a Commissioner to lead us."

They did not get a reply. On the tenth day, they sent people to Beijiang in front of them.

The truth is the same. Even if the Han Empire refused, they would not really give up. Just being able to see it in person is completely different from getting a description from others.

The Ministry of rites delayed for another three days before notifying Julian and kesias that they would leave the next day.

At last, the two people who know the exact date make complaints about how slow the administrative efficiency of the Tucao empire is, until they join the ranks of the rites, and really go to the North Xinjiang.

"The efficiency of the Han Empire in some aspects is amazing." Keshias and Julian rode on a horse drawn rail car with special wheels and walked along the Chi Road: "they began to build this road in the ninth year of Yuanshuo. It is said that most sections from southeast to northwest have been completed? This road from northwest to northeast has also been built to a place called Taiyuan County."

The two national highways that form a cross shape and run through the territory are planned as ordinary pavement and track from the beginning.

The difficulty of road construction of ordinary pavement lies in building a bridge in the face of mountains and rivers. On the premise of having enough manpower and using gunpowder to blow up some sections, it can be repaired much faster than using manpower alone.

It is not a simple thing to build Chi road even on a flat road. How to choose wood and how to make the track spliced firmly, Shaofu spent a lot of energy and thought.

At present, the places with rail connections start from Chang'an. The one leading to Jiankang has only been built for less than 30 miles. The one leading to Liaodong has been built for nearly 100 miles because of the war on Northern Xinjiang.

"Great invention!" Keshias looked at the scenery passing by the window and exclaimed, "how can the Han people have such wonderful ideas!"

To be serious, Persians are really backward in infrastructure. There are no miracle projects and epic buildings, and they have never paid attention to the construction of roads.

There is no reason why the Persians will lag behind in infrastructure. First, they have been on the weak side of the war with the Romans for a long time, and the consumption of national funds is not enough in the military. Where can they spare money for epic projects. Another point is that their geographical environment is quite special. A considerable number of areas are either dangerous mountains or Gobi or desert.

Building roads in dangerous mountains, let alone at present, is not an easy task even in modern times, especially most of the territory of the Persians is on the plateau.

Gobi and desert? Who is wrong will go to build roads in that environment.

Various factors also lead to the inaction of Persians for infrastructure construction, which is not loveless, but unable to love.

Speaking of miraculous projects and epic buildings, Julian had a proud expression on his face.

The Romans' love for infrastructure is beyond imagination. The country is full of roads extending in all directions and has built magnificent arenas several times, but the most obsessed thing is the construction of canals.

The last time Wang Meng led his team to Rome, if you want to say what impressed you most, there is no doubt that the canals that can be seen everywhere, especially some elevated diversion canals.

Don't think that the construction of canals is a simple thing. Without the overall view, even the construction of canals will cause unimaginable damage to the river embankment in addition to the messy layout.

The Romans' extensive construction of canals shows that they attached importance to agriculture. Looking at them, they not only built all kinds of canals, but also built supporting reservoirs. They could see the appearance like that, but they also understood the water pressure and produced the most initial tap water facilities for human beings on earth, so that the Romans could not only take a bath with indoor running water, but also create countless carved fountain buildings.

When Julian arrived in Chang'an, he was most surprised by the scenery. It was definitely the fountain in the parks or squares. He once doubted that he had come to the ancient Roman city, not to the Far East.

In some records, in the heyday of ancient Rome, there were nearly 10000 water fountains in private or public places, and there were tap water facilities every 100 meters on the streets.

The Constantine family moved the capital to Constantinople and tried hard to build a city like ancient Rome, but they seemed to have lost some knowledge in the war, Including how to build a perfect underground water pipeline (canal), let alone reproduce the grand occasion of water fountain everywhere in ancient Rome, that is, the Roman favorite bath can only use the water diversion canal to supply water, and the tap water of pipeline facilities is no longer seen.

"It's not difficult for them to look at the construction..." Julian was only proud for less than three seconds and put on a depressed expression: "Constantinople tried to build according to the drawing, which can only imitate the appearance and can't be put into practical use like the Han people."

If you want to learn how to build Chi Road, you must at least know how to select wood first, and then learn physics assembly, power and so on.

Of course, there will be no clear disciplines now, but the truth that knowing relevant knowledge can do something remains unchanged.

It was the first time they saw what was going on in the north when they took the Mara rail car to the north.

"Han people are very happy." Keshias looked at the green scenery and tried to hide his jealousy: "green mountains and green waters can be seen everywhere. Unlike us, most of them are Gobi or desert."

Julian chose to be silent about this.

The place where the Romans made their fortune is also good. It can even be said that they are much better than the Han people. They made their fortune on the peninsula, and there is no lack of mainland around the peninsula, which makes civilization pay equal attention to land power and sea power from the beginning.

The environment of the Italian peninsula is also green mountains and rivers. The Romans attacked and occupied the territory of the Gauls behind, and then marched into Spain. They occupied western Europe, most of which is flat, and have the foundation to become the overlord of the West.

The Romans were able to have an advantage in the war with the Persians for more than a thousand years. Not only did Western Europe basically have no shortage of crops, but it was also rich in minerals. In addition, as a grain producing area like Egypt, if it could not keep the Persians under pressure for a long time, how could it be incompetent?

"The Han people are indeed a nation loved and blessed by the gods." Julian didn't feel that he was saying something against his heart or complimenting: "they don't lack ideas, and they also have the force to defend their civilization. What I just don't understand is, how did they come to this generation to think of going to the sea?"

Don't say Julian didn't understand. There are many people who don't understand.

Han people only entered the sea in this generation. They think that ah San is the most bitter force.

I don't know how many ah San cried bitterly. They thought that the Han people would march into the sea during the Peacock Dynasty or the kusana empire. The Han people would never achieve the current results.

They took a horse drawn rail car to Pingyang County, changed to an ordinary carriage and continued north.

Julian learned from the etiquette officials of the same team that the firearm troops that had been pulled out earlier were stationed in Yanmen county.

"Long ago, Yanmen county was a barrier to the north of the Han people." Julian really did his best to understand the history of the Han people: "I heard that it was the existence of Yanmen pass that prevented the grassland people from going south?"

"What? Isn't the great wall against the invasion of grassland people?" Kexie Yas didn't understand that Yanmen pass is one of the sections of the Great Wall. He did not intend to tangle with this question: "I heard that the Han Army has entered the stage of war with Rouran people. How could that firearm army stop in Yanmen county?"

Julian can't answer this question.