Tang Ping said that the army still had food for more than two months, so the various wealthy families moved very quickly. The food was quickly collected and then transported along the waterway to the East Vietnam seaport.
Naturally, Tang Ping and people from these families were also traveling with him.
When they arrived at the seaport, Tang Ping invited them to board the warship that was escorting the food.
The Wang family elder stood next to the powerful Tang Dynasty cannon on the bow of the ship and said: "Ten years ago, who would have thought that our Tang Dynasty would have such a magical weapon!"
It was the first time for a few of them to approach the Tang Dynasty Divine Cannon at such a close distance.
Tang Ping asked with a smile: "Mr. Wang, would you like to take a photo with this powerful cannon of the Tang Dynasty? When we return to Chang'an, I will ask someone to develop a photo of you that is exactly the same size as yourself. It will definitely look great hanging at home." Have a face!"
When the elder of the Wang family heard this, the wrinkles on his face broke out from laughter.
They knew about photos, but few people could easily get one from Tang Ping.
I heard that His Majesty also had a camera there, but they didn't have the guts to ask Li Shimin to take pictures of them.
There are also some aristocratic families whose elders celebrate their 70th or 80th birthday. If the family has contributed to the court, they can go to the palace and ask the camera to take a photo of the elders in the family.
"How...how do I stand?"
As the elder of the Wang family, he didn't know how long he hadn't been so nervous.
When he thought that such a photo could be passed down to his descendants, possibly for hundreds of years, he didn't know what kind of pose he should take.
"Uh..." Tang Ping is not a professional photographer. His photography skills can only place people in the center and take pictures clearly without blurring.
After thinking for a while, he pointed out: "How about, Mr. Wang, you pat the back of the Tang Shenwei Cannon?"
Yiyan, the elder of the Wang family, put his hand on it, tried to remain serious with a straight face and asked, "How about this?"
Tang Ping clicked and took a picture of him first, and then showed it to him. The Wang family elder asked a little embarrassedly: "It... seems like your eyes are not open enough. Can you take another picture?"
Anyway, it was boring on the boat, so Tang Ping agreed and took another photo of him.
The elder of the Wang family was quite satisfied with this photo. After looking at it, he smiled and said, "Then I will wait until I return to Chang'an to go to Duke Ping to ask for the photo."
After he finished, the elder of the Li family came over shamelessly and said: "Ping Guo Gong, you can't treat one person favorably or another person!"
This Li family is the Li family of Longxi, and Li Shimin and the others are the Li family.
This clan leader is Tang Ping's uncle and grandfather.
So Tang Ping said with a smile: "Cousin, you have spoken, can I disagree?"
Just the word "uncle" made the Li family man straighten his waist.
Although Li Shimin admitted that they were from the Li family in Longxi, he did not let go of the Li family when he suppressed the aristocratic family.
For Li Shimin, the concentration of imperial power was the most important.
Therefore, the Li family usually did not feel superior to others in front of other aristocratic families, but now that Tang Ping personally called him cousin, it made him feel comfortable.
I just feel that the food I donated this time is still a little less.
He asked Tang Ping to wait a moment, then went down and put on his best clothes and came back again.
The patriarchs and elders of other aristocratic families are also lining up behind. Such a good opportunity does not come around all the time.
This can be regarded as Tang Ping's gratitude for their contribution.
So the good inspection group that gathered together to see the Tang Dynasty really seemed to have turned into a tour group, taking photos one by one on the Tang Dynasty battleship.
And unlike Tang Ping who went to sea many times, it was really the first time for many people here to go on a long sea trip, or it was the first time to ride on a warship.
Therefore, everything along the way was fresh. The fleet followed the southeast coast to the Qiongzhou Naval Base.
Tang Ping also took people up for a visit before continuing his journey along the coastline of Southeast Asia.
After arriving in Tianzhu, we took them to the current Tianzhu Free Liberation Army to experience the local customs.
These aristocratic families did not come in vain. Each family had merchant ships, and they soon reached a lot of cooperation with the Tianzhu Free Liberation Army.
For example, exchanging food for the spices they grew and so on.
They all made good calculations. The food they grew in the Nile Plain could be converted into spices when brought here.
Food is not valuable in China, but spices are valuable, especially in neighboring countries.
The nobles and wealthy merchants of Silla and Baekje, including Fuso, particularly liked food made with these spices.
When it comes to the cultivation of spices, the ones grown in the fields here in Tianzhu really taste the best.
Although the Tianzhu Free Liberation Army can also grow food, if they grow spices, the spices grown on one acre of land can be exchanged for seven or eight acres of food. Of course, growing spices is more cost-effective, and everyone is happy.
Then the third stop is sailing along the Red Sea to Egypt.
Upon setting foot here, Li Jing had already sent an army to escort the food, while Tang Ping continued to accompany these aristocratic families to inspect the place they wanted to rent.
This time, Tang Ping brought all his pickup trucks.
The patriarchs of these aristocratic families don't mind sitting in the back compartment, but they think the view is better here.
First they went to the Nile Plain. The land here was indeed as Tang Ping showed them and said, very fertile.
The Nile River floods almost every summer, depositing fertile silt on its valley plains. This accumulation over thousands of years is indeed unmatched by the land in many parts of the country.
Naturally, there were people farming here in the past, but in the past ten years or so, due to the invasion of the Arab Empire, many people here have fled the war.
Not long after the Arabs came to rule here, some people began to return here, and the Tang Dynasty came again.
Although the Tang Dynasty would indeed not take action against the local people, this was a war after all, and coupled with the language barrier, most of the people here ran away again.
Of course, the Tang Dynasty would not be polite to such fertile land. If the Tang government did not have much spare time to develop it, they would not leave such a good thing to these aristocratic families.
This kind of endless plains, coupled with the fertile land, is simply a dreamland for Chinese people who have farming genes engraved in their DNA.
Not to mention that the mechanization of the Tang Dynasty is becoming more and more advanced, and there are already steam engine-driven cultivators.
According to what Tang Ping said, there will be oil-burning cultivators in the future, so farming here doesn't require much manpower at all.
It can even be said to be a good business with huge profits, so the elders of these aristocratic families have been unable to move since they set foot here.
"Ping Guo Gong, tell me, how much can each family rent these lands?"
