Datang: Li Shimin begged me to rebel

After entering the city gate, there is a straight and wide stone road leading directly to the main building of the Holy Emperor Temple - the Holy Emperor's Hall. On both sides of the stone road there are beautifully carved stone pillars, and these stone pillars divide the square into area after area.

There are different statues in these areas, which should be some characters and events.

Walking to the first area on the left, Li Ke saw seven statues on the square that were slightly bent towards the Holy Emperor's Palace. He walked directly to the front of this group of statues, where there is an introduction.

"The fire bearer: Duoji, who was born as a serf in Tubo... and other statues of seven people. In that dark and ignorant era, the seven people accepted the teachings of the Holy Sect. They carried the thoughts of the Holy Sect and the torch of thought to make a decisive decision. He returned to Tubo and became the preacher of the Holy Sect's thoughts."

"Before Dorje set out, he was determined to never return. He once said that there were millions of serfs and slaves like him in Tubo. Although he had escaped from the life of a serf, there were still countless serfs in Tubo. My brother is in dire straits.”

"So the seven pioneers bravely returned to Tubo. When Songtsen Gampo, the leader of Tubo at that time and later the Duke of Tang Dynasty, led an army to attack the mainland of Tianzhu, Dorji and others spread Li Ke's thoughts among the serfs of Tubo. All over the Qinghai-Tibetan serfs."

"Cooperating with the first batch of agents in history at that time, Li Feng and others once broke into a house, and later set off the famous liberation incident of Tibetan serfs in history."

"This is also the first time in history that Li Ke's thought has bloomed with unconcealable brilliance. And to this day, Li Ke's thought is still the guiding light on the road forward of the Tang Dynasty."

Looking at the seven Dorje people wearing serf clothes, bending slightly, with perseverance, hope and respect on their faces, Li Ke was also in a trance.

Is this what the seven of them looked like when they were young?Li Ke had never seen them young. Although the artist who sketched them was arranged by Li Ke, they were already 60 years old when Li Ke saw them for the first time.

Because they lived as serfs when they were young, they were already very old when they were 60 years old. It can only be said that their eyebrows are somewhat similar to these statues.

Their sketches have always been preserved in the Tang Dynasty, but there were many things about Li Ke, and he had no chance to see them.

After Li Ke looked at these statues, he walked forward silently and came to the second area. The statues of this group of people were the Li Feng and others mentioned earlier. In their introductions, there were figures of the Tang Dynasty The first true intelligence officers, agents.

Moving forward, this time there is a statue of Murong Shun, followed by statues of Ashina Shilu, Jiang Quhu and other 36 kings of the Western Regions. On the other side of them, there are two people holding a sword in their hands. This is a thick book.

The cover of this book is engraved with four words "Yang Luo's Travels". When he saw these four words, Li Ke thought of these two people.

Yang Lin and Luo Bai: Former envoys of the Queen's Kingdom. The tribes belonging to the Queen's Kingdom ignored the dignity of the Tang Dynasty and took the initiative to attack the people on the border of the Tang Dynasty. They were later eliminated by the Holy Sect's troops.

Because the king of the Queen's Kingdom surrendered, these two people stayed in Chang'an as envoys. They finally refused the Holy Sect's offer to stay and chose to return to the Queen's Kingdom. After living in the Queen's Kingdom for five years, the latter two set off together and spent 27 years traveling around the country. For each state in the Tang Dynasty, the famous 210 million-word masterpiece "Yang Luo's Travels" was written.

"Yang Luo's Travels" is the first geographical history book in the history of the Tang Dynasty, and "The Romance of the Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty" written by Chen Xuanzang, a famous diplomat of the Tang Dynasty, has become the most important supplementary part of the history of the Tang Dynasty.

So far, the geographical records and descriptions of some border areas in the Tang Dynasty still come from these two geographical historical books.

This statue was carved based on the portraits left by the two people when they traveled to Qinghai Prefecture to worship at the Shengzong Ancestral Hall at that time.

In addition, there are statues of the Western Turkic Khans, statues of the last Persian princes who later surrendered to the Tang Dynasty, as well as envoys from Arabia, Byzantium and other countries, who took trains from near the Caspian Sea to the Tang Dynasty and passed by Chang'an. Pictures etc. left behind when visiting here.

However, these statues were probably carved together during the reconstruction more than 800 years ago.

Some statues were also damaged and later replaced.

But some of the statues inside have been there for more than 800 years.

Sure enough, any one you pull out here has hundreds of years of history.

Leaving the statue forest, there are two screen walls in front, and the fronts of these screen walls are carved with scenes from when Li Ke implemented new policies in Qinghai, such as providing relief for work, building Chihai City, fishing in Qinghai Lake, and all the herdsmen. Together, we transport ships from Longyang Gorge to Qinghai Lake and other scenes.

Behind the screen wall are the names of some governors and generals of Qinghai Prefecture and the Western Regions, such as Qiao Shiwang, Su Dingfang, Pei Xingjian, Changsun Chong, Du He, etc.

After walking through this, Li Ke saw the main body of the Shenghuang Temple in front of him. Its appearance is the traditional architectural style of the Tang Dynasty, but from the front, strictly speaking, it cannot be regarded as a traditional building of the Tang Dynasty.

Traditional palaces such as Taiji Hall have red pillars in front, but the entire palace cannot be as huge as the building in front of them.

Moreover, traditional palaces use wooden pillars, but here they use stone pillars, and they are huge stone pillars that are thick enough for at least two people to hug. The height of the stone pillars is at least 20 meters. The entire palace has two floors from the outside. The height is probably not close to 50 meters high.

But think about what the assistant said before, its roof is all made of gold-plated tiles, and although the four statues of the Four Sacred Beasts on the four sides of the roof are not big, if they were made of pure gold, they would probably weigh many tons.

As the tourists followed the order, everyone entered the main hall respectfully. There were also huge supporting pillars inside the main hall, and even these stone pillars were taller than the pillars outside.

Li Ke was a little speechless. It looked like a traditional building on the outside, but in fact the inside was more like a Roman or other architectural style.

But think about it, if these buildings want to have a long enough shelf life, they can only use stone columns, not even reinforced concrete.

In the entire hall, there are statues of two people in the main position, Li Ke on the left and Li Yan on the right.

The statue should be carved according to Li Ke's appearance in middle age. Unlike the outside, the statue inside is not gilded. It should be colored clay. At least it looks like a real person.

When it was his turn, he watched a Taoist priest next to him hand over three sticks of incense. Li Ke had no choice but to offer three sticks of incense to himself.