Xue Ping, who was exhausted, looked at the majestic and majestic Chang'an City Tower not far away. Somehow, his nose felt sore and tears flowed down without opening his breath.

More than ten years seemed to be very long, but it seemed to pass in the blink of an eye.

Now that he is back, things have changed.

The beautiful young man who came out of Chang'an in the past has now become a middle-aged uncle with rough skin and a frosty face, and the Chang'an City standing in front of him is still the same as before.

The Tang Dynasty flags are still flying above the city tower, but the Tang Dynasty at this time is completely different from the Tang Dynasty in the past.

After returning from the Western Regions, Xue Ping saw a different Tang Dynasty, a completely different Tang Dynasty from what he imagined. This was a brand new and vibrant new country, although it was still called the Tang Dynasty.

But this Tang Dynasty is no longer the other Tang Dynasty.

The dozens of Western Region representatives following him, except for a few old people, were the only ones who came to the Tang Dynasty for the first time. At this moment, they were shocked by the towering city walls of Chang'an and lost the function of words. They just stared blankly at the giant magnificent standing on the ground.

"Governor Xue, let's get in the car!" The doctor who came to greet Xue Ping bowed and said.

Xue Ping nodded and turned around and was about to get into the car, but there was a rapid sound of horse hooves coming from afar. A team of cavalry rushed towards him. Looking at the flying flag and the person who was heading, Xue Ping stopped with a smile.

With a whistle, Han Qi stopped in front of Xue Ping, turned over and dismounted, and stood in front of Xue Ping.

The two once most stubborn royalists are now important officials on the border of the New Tang Dynasty. They have been looking at each other for a long time but laughing.

"The former young man is already old Luo!" Han Qi threw the horse whip in his hand to a guard and said with a smile.

"Han Gong, your body looks much better than before. Is the water and soil of the Northeast so supportive?" Xue Ping bowed and bowed.

"I am a man, maybe I am born to be a leader. In the past, I walked in Chang'an City, and my body was getting worse every day. When I went to the Northeast, I rode a horse and danced my sword, and felt like I was a little more than a teenager." Han Qi laughed, "It seems that I still have a few decades of life."

"Let's go?" Xue Ping looked at the city gate.

"Let's go!" Han Qi nodded.

Xue Ping turned around and said to the doctor of the concierge department: "I am very familiar with this Chang'an City. You just need to tell us where to live. You can take the others directly. Mr. Han and I want to take a look."

The concierge doctor was a little hesitant, but it was obvious that he could not resist these two important officials from the border. He immediately said, "Then I will transfer a carriage to follow the two governors. When the two are tired of walking, they can get in and go straight to the destination."

"That's fine!" Xue Ping said.

The two, one in their early thirties and the other was already fifty, wearing blue clothes and cloth clothes, walking side by side on the streets of Chang'an, without any conspicuousness. They soon merged into the busy crowds on the streets.

"Chang'an is quite similar to the days when Wuyi had just developed." Xue Ping sighed: "Everyone seems so hurrying, it seems that there is always something waiting for them to complete."

"It's not just them, but every territory of the Tang Dynasty is very busy now." Han Qi said: "It's good to be busy. Being busy means having something to do, having a future, and having hope. I'm afraid of doing nothing."

Xue Ping said: "My teacher told me that the wealth in the world is a day. Some people take too much, and some people take less. But Li Xiang told us that wealth is endless and people can create more wealth. For a long time, I was skeptical about it, but now, I am sure that the wealth in the world can indeed be created. I read the announcement issued by the Ministry of Revenue last year. Although the Tang Dynasty was only half of the country, the total national income in the last year was more than twice that of the prosperous Tang Dynasty, and it was more than ten times that of the year when I left Chang'an."

"Gross Domestic Product!" Han Qi scratched his head: "To be honest, I haven't figured out this concept yet. I don't know how Xia He calculated it."

"When it was still Wuwei Jie Town, Li Xiang and Xia He began to implement new calculation methods. As the area we controlled became larger and larger, it was also scattered across the country. The current college of finance, taxation and finance is being trained in the latest way." Xue Ping said: "I specially made a set of their teaching materials to study. If you want to transfer to a place, you must learn this. Not to mention being proficient, at least you must understand. I have heard that starting this year, an important indicator for measuring the chief executive of a region is the GDP."

"There are too many new things, and it always feels like you are not interested!" Han Qi shook his head and said.

"Big era, great change." Xue Ping stopped and said: "If we want to leave our name in this glorious era, we must keep up with the pace of the times. Otherwise, we will really have to go home to have a warm bed with our wife and children. I am less than 40 years old this year, so I don't want to go home to retire so early."

"Although I know my destiny, I still want to fight. The Northeast is a good place. I have been there for a long time, but I really don't want to come back." Han Qi said: "Do you know that in order to encourage our soldiers to live and work in peace and prosperity, we also wrote a song and sent it to us?"

"The Tang Dynasty Weekly Newspaper has been published." Xue Ping smiled and said, "My home is on the Songhua River in the northeast. There are soybeans and sorghum all over the mountains and fields! I heard that after this song was released, it was widely sung and even caused a wave of going to Kanto!"

"We Li Xiang sometimes think he is really idle." Han Qi shook his head and said, "You said he was lazy in government affairs, but now he is in order all over the country. You say he is diligent, but he still has time to write songs and books. But then again, the theory of the country and the theory of the nation really made me suddenly understand. In the past, I thought about these things too narrowly."

"I'm the same!" Xue Ping pondered. "This is one of the reasons why I completely changed. Li Xiang stood so high that I could only look up at him. In Hetao City, Xu Ziyuan's wake-up call made me feel enlightened. I used to claim to be a good learner, but now it looks more like a joke. Han Gong, do you think this is the case?"

Han Qi nodded: "Natural. The facts are in front of you, and you must accept them even if you don't accept them. The Western Regions that have been lost for decades have all returned. The Northeastern areas that have never been subdued to the royal world are now becoming the inherent territory of our Tang Dynasty step by step. The Tubo people are no longer safe. According to Li Xiang's plan, they will be our treasure in the future. On the sea, the Tang Dynasty merchant ships sailed thousands of miles, bringing back endless wealth to the Tang Dynasty. They even spread my Tang Dynasty civilization to those barbaric places far away in the sky. I think even if Gao Shuai is alive, facing such a Li Xiang, he can only bow his head to face."

"After traveling from the Western Regions, I have seen the paradise I dreamed of in my dreams, one by one, are realizing in front of me." Xue Ping said: "So, what reason do I have not to devote myself to this Tang Dynasty? I feel a little ashamed when I think of the past, so I decided to stay at the edge of the Tang Dynasty's territory in this life and guard the fruitful results of this Tang Dynasty."

"I have a little bit of understanding!" Han Qi laughed: "I think so too. You are in the Western Regions, not without enemies, but I am in Yingzhou, but I also find that it is farther away, not a peaceful place. There are always some evil people who are spying on our land of China all the time. We will live and stay wherever we live in this life!"

Xue Ping smiled and said, "Duke Han, do you think the one in the palace is true or not? Should we come back this time, come to the palace to meet you?"

"What's true? So what's wrong?" Han Qi shook his head and said, "The general trend cannot be changed. Why bother yourself? I won't go to see you anymore, and there is no need to see you. That's it!"

"I'm just thinking that way," Xue Ping said: "But in my opinion, this matter must be resolved before the Yixing Society Congress is held. I'm afraid that many people will watch us. There are many people who want to ask to see you all the way, right?"

"I didn't see you!" Han Qi said. "Since you have made up your mind, you should naturally be clean and neat. Xue Ping, you are a literati, but when you need to make a decision, you must not be indecisive. With your status as you and me, if you hesitate, you will give people room for imagination. At that time, there will be storms on the ground."

"I naturally know this! So along the way, I didn't see anyone who came to see me. I was scolded a lot for this. Some people even wrote poems to mock me on the road I must pass." Xue Ping said.

"Speak and scold!" Han Qi said calmly: "Now what I am loyal to is no longer an emperor. I am loyal to this land and this nation. Since Li Xiang said that, I will practice him to the end. At the same time, I also want to see that Li Xiang is just talking, or do he really think so? Therefore, it is no longer important to sit on the throne."
Chapter completed!