Ganzhou borders Shaozhou, and Shaozhou is Shaoguan, which is the northern gateway to Guangnan East Road. A few hundred miles south of Shaozhou is Guangzhou.

In later generations, the name Guangxi evolved from the Song Dynasty. Guangnan East Road is Guangdong and Guangnan West Road is Guangxi.

If we talk about the most significant difference between Luo Yongsheng and Jiangnan after entering the territory of Guangdong, the most obvious difference between Luo Yongsheng and Jiangnan is the relaxation.

The environment is relaxed.

The power of the court here is really minimal.

Be able to understand the information in Guangdong and Guangxi, such as "History of Ming and Qing Dynasties", "General History of Guangdong", and "Biography of Liu Rushi". These are basically documents from the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties. Later on, it is modern and modern history. What before?

Records about Guangdong and Guangxi became extremely rare during the Tang and Song dynasties.

This place, called Nanhai County in the pre-Qin period, has been so small in China's territory for more than a thousand years.

If we say that the world is dominated by the people, Guangdong and Guangxi are few and barren, and cannot raise a strong army that unifies the world. As for economic prosperity, Guangdong and Guangxi are now comparable to Central Plains and Jiangsu and Zhejiang, even Fujian, which has just been the "Great Song version of Reform and Opening Up" for a few years.

The only place in Guangdong that deserves attention during this period was Guangzhou.

This is the earliest maritime gateway city in the Song Dynasty or China. According to the records of the "New Book of Tang", there is a special route in Guangzhou called "Guangzhou Tonghaiyi Road", which is also the window for Arabs to land.

"The waves in the sky are quiet and the whales are resting, and the sails reflect the sun are imported from many treasures."

Liu Yuxi described the Guangzhou he saw in his eyes and gave an evaluation that the big ship was towering and thousands of ships were competing for the first place.

As for whether there are some exaggerated literary rhetoric techniques, it is not important, but as far as Luo Yongsheng saw it with his own eyes after entering Guangdong, he actually met many "foreign friends" in Guangdong.

The number is not even smaller than that of later generations.

There is a piece of ink in "Guangdong Sea Defense History", which roughly introduces the situation of the Guangzhou-connected Haiyi Road, which is far less clear than recorded in "New Book of Tang".

If we follow the records of "Geography Volume 7 of the New Book of Tang Dynasty" and "Tanghui Yao Volume 100", this Guangzhou Tonghaiyi Road has already allowed the Tang Dynasty to see how big the world is.

The footprints of the people of the Tang Dynasty have arrived in Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, and some parts of Central and Eastern Europe, and have a history of immigration.

This kind of immigration is not unilateral immigration but bilateral.

Take Luo Yongsheng who saw in Guangzhou for example. There are Arabs, African black millet, Southeast Asians and many mixed-race children.

During the Tang Dynasty, there were corresponding laws on immigration and how to manage these immigrants. For example, the requirement for intermarriage was "Intermarriage in Han and Yi, you can take a concubine, but not marry."

The roughly means that Chinese men can marry these immigrant women as concubines, but cannot marry their daughters to these immigrants, with the purpose of protecting the purity of blood.

However, when the Tang Dynasty fell to the Five Dynasties, the law lost its effectiveness, intermarriage began to become chaotic, and more and more mixed-race children were.

The multi-ethnic group society and the deeply rooted clan-related kinship complex in Guangdong have made the imperial court's control here very little.

The Song Dynasty only cared about one Maritime Bureau and the commercial taxes here, and the rest were basically all based on it.

"Entertainment Father, why do you think there are still such dark things in this world, like the bottom of a pot?"

Luo Yongsheng did not choose to directly drive troops to capture Guangzhou City, but instead put more than 4,000 veterans of the anti-rebellion army into casual clothes and entered the city one after another, temporarily settled down. He took Cheng Ying and some adopted sons, Zhou Bai and Peng Cheng and other generals wandered around after entering the city, just to take it as a traveler to see the customs and customs.

The imperial court was in charge of looseness and the so-called city gate guarding the city gate were useless. Even when he saw Luo Yongsheng and others with a knife, he pretended to turn a blind eye and was too lazy to care.

Anyone who enters Guangzhou will have a few guys who dare not be worthy of self-defense. They will lose their lives if they are careless.

It’s too late to say that Cheng Jie is the first time Zhou Bai, a man who travels around the world, has come to Guangzhou. When he sees African black millet, he still feels very novel and looks at it a lot.

The group found an inn and sat down to ask for some wine and meat. Cheng Ying, who had just touched the stool, opened 100,000 whys, and chased Luo Yongsheng to ask about the origins of those Africans.

"The world is very big. Of course, there are all kinds of people, that is, the skin color and hair are different. They all have two eyes and mouths. If you cut off his head, the blood left is red."

"Oh." Cheng Ying nodded in a vague way, and immediately asked: "What is the world?"

Luo Yongsheng laughed and drew a circle with his hand: "This is the world. Our China is a country in the world, and there are many other countries. The dark things you see now also have their own countries."

"Is the world a ball?"

The few people were chattering, feeling quite incredible: "How is this possible? If the world is a ball, then the people under the ball will fall down."

Luo Yongsheng was just planning to explain to these people what gravity is. A few Arabs sat at the table next to him and burst into laughter.

"The world is a ball, hahahaha, the world is a ball."

Nowadays, the mainstream language in the world is undisputedly Chinese, so in Guangzhou, there are many Arabs who understand Chinese, so it is normal to understand Luo Yongsheng's words.

Seeing Luo Yongsheng being laughed at by a group of barbarians, Zhou Bai looked angry and put his hand on the knife handle.

Luo Yongsheng looked back and smiled at the group of Arabs: "What, is my words funny?"

Several Arabs seemed to have not noticed anything wrong, and just slapped the table and mocked Luo Yongsheng's ignorance: "We have been sailing on the sea for decades, and we have never seen where the end of the world is. If it is a spherical round surface, wouldn't it mean that we can come to your China even if we sail west.

In fact, we sailed westward to the Gibralak Strait, and there was nothing at all. It was all vast oceans and terrifying waves, and there was no end to supply. It ruined many of our excellent crew members and sailors."

Where is the Strait of Gibralic?

Luo Yongsheng was intrigued, so he simply moved his stool and sat near the Arabs at this table to ask.

"Three hundred years ago, our governor of Tangier, Tarik, led 7,000 people to defeat 100,000 Iberians there, so the original Caliph named the Strait Giburtarick."

Although Luo Yongsheng still didn't understand, he analyzed some general analysis from the name of the Iberian race.

The Iberian Peninsula is a place where Spain and Portuguese stay, that is, Western Europe.

Then Gibraltar is probably the Strait of Gibraltar?

Wouldn't that mean that the Arabs began sailing from the Mediterranean Sea three hundred years ago and began to surround the coastline of Europe?

Luo Yongsheng narrowed his eyes. Most of the ancient Europe during this period should have lived a mess of slavery society, and it was not yet time for Mongolian civilization to go to the countryside.

However, this group of Arabs seemed to have developed quite rapidly and have all begun to build sea ships to explore the world.

"Can you build ships?"

Several Arabs looked at each other and shook their heads: "We are just merchants, not ship workers."

"Oh." Luo Yongsheng nodded and asked again: "Do you know Pu Xiangdong?"

Hearing the name Pu Xiangdong, several big bearded men nodded and looked envious: "His family is specialized in trade with you China, and it is rich enough to rival a country."

"In other words, you know, Pu Xiangdong knows it, right?" Luo Yongsheng patted the shoulder of the big beard on the right, and stood up and returned to his seat, while waving at Zhou Bai with a smile on his face.
Chapter completed!