I am Da Song

Chapter 549 Song Fu Shock
In addition to Manlajia, Ming's Old Port Xuanwei Division also has a very important military town in Nanyang, and that is Sumatra.

These two military towns became the military pillars of the Xuanwei Division of the Old Port of the Ming Dynasty in Nanyang.

Zhao Huan ordered the Privy Council to guard the palace and ordered Shi to push the map over, and asked Yue Fei: "The Old Port Propaganda Department does not only consider economics, but military significance is also very important. What does the Privy Council think about setting up a military town?"

When it comes to military towns, people in the Central Plains inevitably think of the Six Towns Uprising in the Northern Wei Dynasty.

This tragic and mighty mutiny directly shook the rule of the Northern Wei Dynasty and dealt a painful blow to the dynasty.

Therefore, Da Song is very cautious about setting up military towns in Nanyang.

Yue Fei said: "I suggest that the generals spread out and not gather in one place. Nanyang is different from the northern border. It has a vast land and the armed forces of each country are relatively weak."

"Compared to the military situation in northern Xinjiang, what Nanyang needs is the rapid arrival of troops, not the combination of troops to ensure victory in the war."

Then Yue Fei pointed to the map and said: "The opinion of the Privy Council is that the general towns are set up in Maraka, Sumatra, Java, Ceylon and Nanpi."

These places are actually important places in Nanyang that the Central Plains is more familiar with. Needless to say, the first three are strategic places to control Nanyang.

Ceylon is Sri Lanka, and it was later called Guli Kingdom in the south. It is the most important port on the west side of Indy.

These five military towns are strung on the Silk Road like pearls, and the navy can reach any place along the familiar route.

When they are loyal to the king, the imperial court will increase their local influence and radiation range several times through the navy.

But in the event of a mutiny, their route would be cut off and they would not be able to threaten the Central Plains.

Zhao Huan looked at the captains and asked, "Have you been to these places?"

With a proud expression on his face, Han Sui said: "I have been to some places, and some places have been visited by my caravan. They are all places that are backward and barbaric."

Zhao Huan leaned on the soft couch and calmly commented: "Of course they are lagging behind, otherwise Master Wang would not have stationed there to maintain trade routes. What I want to know is, how are the local customs?"

Regarding this question, Han Sui thought about it seriously, and said, "There are probably two aspects to this."

Zhao Huan found a comfortable position on the soft couch, and said with a smile, "Very good. I have time and patience, and I don't have any important and trivial matters to worry about. I can listen to you break it down in detail."

Han Sui said: "These five cities are all familiar places in the Central Plains. The court may think that the customs here are strange and different from those in China."

"But it's actually far from that simple. There are indeed large-scale vassals in the local area. They conform to the impression of the imperial court. They don't understand etiquette and use Hu language. These people are far from the Central Plains, but the localities are opening schools of economics and history. People try their best to learn the culture of the Central Plains.”

"Moreover, due to the developed textile industry in the Central Plains and the beauty of clothing, all kinds of exquisite clothing have greatly impacted the customs of all the countries. Tusi nobles, foreign tycoons, wealthy merchants, and tribal chiefs all flock to the exquisite and comfortable Chinese clothes."

"According to my many years of experience in traveling all over the world, the clothes of the Song Dynasty are high-end, luxurious, elegant and noble in any foreign country."

Everyone in the hall couldn't help nodding their heads at this point.

Even Zhao Huan has no doubts about this.

You must know that since the Han Dynasty, the Huns have been obsessed with silk clothes from the Central Plains.

The material of silk is unmatched by any other country's cloth.

The Zhuang Brocade, Yun Brocade, and Song Brocade are even more luxurious among the high-end luxury goods, and they are the top of the era.

More importantly, only Da Song can produce this kind of high-end luxury goods.

Regardless of its preciousness, uniqueness, softness, and exquisiteness, it is destined that the silk and satin of the Song Dynasty is a symbol of high-end in the market.

But if the cloth is only exquisite, there is actually no way to promote the promotion of Chinese clothing.

Tusi and Fanbang can buy the cloth back to make costumes with national characteristics, such as Nanyang barbarian clothes, Persian robes, and Western dresses.

Therefore, there must be a strong and incomparable soft power.

And at this point, Da Song is at its peak.

The aesthetics of the Song Dynasty is simply the acme of the Central Plains for 5000 years.

In particular, the most popular "minimalist aesthetics" in the Song Dynasty is recognized by the world and is thousands of years ahead of the world.

Every time Zhao Huan sees the ice cracks in Song porcelain, Zhao Huan always has a thrilling feeling of beauty. It is simply the sublimation of art, the beauty of the world, and a visual feast. Even after a thousand years, there are endless copies and studies of it.

Song clothing is also known as "the rhyme, the most beautiful".As a result, later generations reproduced the TV series of Song Dynasty costumes, which sparked a discussion on Song Dynasty aesthetics in an era thousands of years later.

Song style and elegant rhyme, poetic and scholarly, it is as beautiful as poetry and picturesque.

Let’s not mention the military strength of the Song Dynasty. It was caused by the emperor’s soft knees, but the cultural soft power was really strong to the extreme.

Therefore, later generations commented: "The culture of Zhuxia has evolved for thousands of years, and it was created in the Zhao and Song Dynasties."

During the Jingkang period, this was the peak of the Song Dynasty culture, and the Song clothing was developed to the extreme, with a quiet color, the overall light, soft, and elegant, giving people a kind of dignified beauty.

However, Zhao Huan's time-traveling made this elegant literary and artistic atmosphere not broken. After the continuous exaggeration of the prosperity of the Jianye period, Song clothing has completely reached an unprecedented level.

It must be admitted that all civilizations will learn from each other's appreciation of aesthetics.

Due to the exchange of civilizations, many of the aesthetics of the Song Dynasty borrowed certain symbols from the Arabs.

Absorbing the nutrients of civilization is never a shameful thing.Taking its essence is the most confident embodiment of an open civilization.

Even the aesthetics of the Arabs can influence the Song Dynasty, so it can be deduced how the aesthetics of the Song Dynasty will affect other nations in the outward communication.

To put it mildly, it had far-reaching consequences.To be more precise, it has completely impacted all the local folk customs.

Many foreign countries simply gave up their own national costumes, and the whole people flocked to change into Song costumes.

This scene was staged once in the Liao Dynasty, in the Jin Dynasty, in Koryo, and in Vietnam on a large scale. They all gradually abandoned their own ethnic costumes in batches during the exchanges with the Song Dynasty.

This is not a mandatory thing, it means that people feel that their neighbors are wearing beautiful Song Dynasty costumes, and when they look at their own ugly clothes, they will change into Song Dynasty costumes the next time they cut cloth.

Heart of beauty in everyone.This is the universal truth that applies everywhere.

Therefore, the scene that once happened around the Central Plains quickly followed the increase of Song Dynasty's influence and continued to spread to the periphery.

This has led to the fact that the people in many foreign countries dress exactly like the Central Plains.

(End of this chapter)