My personal opinion on Gensokyo

"Miss Ai, please keep the hair tie. Girls with long hair need to tie their hair up like this when eating foods like ramen."

While sitting back in his seat, the young man explained to the black-haired girl who was curious about her new hairstyle.

"I just forgot. Sorry. Miss Ai should have learned it by now. It's not difficult."

"Ah? Ah, yes, I have learned how to pierce it. Thank you, Shang Jun."

The black-haired girl with a ponytail, who had been a little distracted by shyness, came to her senses and immediately thanked the young man shyly.

Afterwards, the young man, who had no awareness of his behavior, and the shy and silent girl each finished a large bowl of pork bone ramen in silence.

After that, whether it was because she ate some new and delicious food or for some other reason, the black-haired girl seemed very happy throughout the rest of the day. She seemed to have completely forgotten some of the awkwardness with the young man in the morning. She kept asking the young man to share the various Tang Dynasty books that she had collected in her bookcase with her all day long.

At the same time, Ai Luo listed a lot of questions about the contents of the Tang Dynasty book that she had been puzzled about but no one could answer for her, and asked Shang Yang about them.

Of course, this completely exposes the fact that the young man's knowledge of ancient literature is insufficient. Some of the problems in the ancient books have been concluded in the future, and the young man only needs to copy them, but more ancient books contain ancient literature content that will be lost in the future, and many problems still require Miss Ai to explain to the young man.

Although the young man had previously thought that one day in the future he would need to learn ancient Chinese literature from love, he never expected that this prophecy would come true so soon.

Therefore, Shang Yang could only endure Miss Ai's confused gaze while listening attentively to her explanation of ancient Chinese literature from the Tang Dynasty books she had collected...

In this way, time passed quickly. Except for the maids bringing the afternoon meal again, Shang Yang and Ai did not realize that the rising sun had quietly crossed the sky and sank into the mountains in the west, and the sky gradually darkened.

2疑③五?七镹（六）三尔W The time had come for the young man and the girl to go to the Central Plains Tang Kingdom as agreed.

PS1: It has completely become a late night update, I will adjust it later.

PS2: The name of Japan appeared after the Taika Reform, so Shang Yang subconsciously said Japan here, while Xiao Ai said Yamato. There was no misunderstanding between the two because Miss Lord God's powerful translation function translated the two words into their respective corresponding words. In the future, this issue will no longer be explained and will be uniformly referred to as Japan.

PS3: Why is Shang Yang so skilled at tying girls' hair? (Yuanmu)

Volume 1: Heian Tales of the Past and Present: Chapter 13: Journey to Tang (Part 1)

The night falls very early in winter. After Youshi (6 pm), the dim night has dominated the entire sky, which is also the best cover to conceal the traces of Shang Yang and Ai Chuxing.

"Shang Jun, is it okay for me to do this?"

The black-haired girl put on the light red dress and turned around. When she felt that the dress fit her well, she looked up and asked the young man who was adjusting his shirt beside her with some uneasiness.

In preparation for her trip to Tang that evening, the black-haired girl had taken out her most expensive dress from her wardrobe. It was a Tang Dynasty dress made by the Fujiwara no Miyabi textile department, imitating the Tang Dynasty court's dianchai garb.

Of course, allowing the black-haired girl to travel to the Tang Kingdom in this complicated, wide-sleeved Tang Dynasty clothing would greatly hinder her mobility, so the young man who stopped the girl in time prepared the light red shirt and skirt she is wearing now. Tang Dynasty shirts and skirts absorbed many of the characteristics of Hu clothing, such as tailoring and ease of movement, allowing the girl to easily explore the streets of the Tang Kingdom.

"Of course it fits, it's beautiful."

The young man, who was also adjusting his clothes and putting on half-sleeves, changing his original modern clothes into Tang Dynasty aristocratic clothes, turned around and looked at the black-haired girl in a light red shirt and skirt who looked a little uneasy, and immediately praised the girl's current outfit.

"Taking clothes to measure really enhances beauty. Miss Ai looks great this way."

The girl's anxiety was relieved a little by the young man's praise, and she nodded a little embarrassedly.

"Ah That's good."

Feeling a little uneasy, Miss Ai looked out the window, confirmed that there was no one around, and turned sideways to ask Shang Yang curiously.

"Then, Shang Jun, can you tell me what kind of magic you will use to travel to the Tang Kingdom?"

"Well, of course I can tell you now."

Shang Yang thought for a moment and then turned to Ai for advice.

"But this spell won't work in the house. Let's just go out."

After walking out of the palace with the girl, the young man confirmed that there was no one around, then turned around, closed the door of the small palace, and called out to the Lord Goddess.

"Miss Lord God, please set up some restrictions to avoid causing a disturbance."

[good. ]

The crimson ruby ​​pendant flashed a red light, and the Lady Goddess cast a special barrier on the small palace. The effect of this barrier would make people who approached intentionally or unintentionally leave the place unconsciously, which could ensure to the greatest extent that Miss Ai would not be discovered and cause a commotion.

"Well, Miss Ai, I will now cast a spell and take you to Tang Country."

Turning around, the young man explained this to the black-haired girl.

"Hmm, what kind of spell is this...eh?!"

Before the girl could observe curiously, the young man's action made the black-haired girl cry out subconsciously.

The young man took a step forward and, in front of the black-haired girl's surprised gaze, picked her up horizontally.

"Shang, Shang Jun, what are you doing?"

The black-haired girl was startled when the young man suddenly picked her up sideways, and subconsciously reached out to grab the young man's collar.

The young man, who found the black-haired girl's panicked expression extremely interesting, explained to her calmly.

"My spell is called flying."

"Let's just fly to Tang Kingdom."

"Fly?! Wait, wait a minute... ah?!"

Before the frightened Miss Ai could make any comments, the young man suddenly rose from the ground like an arrow, drew a graceful arc in the night sky, and flew to the southwest.

The ability to fly is a basic ability of fantasy life, and Shang Yang naturally has this ability. At this time, he hugged the black-haired girl who buried her little head in the young man's arms in fear. The young man determined the direction and, under the guidance of the Miss God's navigation APP, quickly flew away from Nara where Fujiwara Kyo was.

During the flight, Shang Yang's magic power formed a conical barrier in front of the young man, eliminating resistance and wind pressure, allowing Shang Yang's flying speed at high altitude to quickly approach the speed of sound. The main goddess also opened a barrier for Shang Yang and Ai to isolate the acceleration pressure, so that the two did not feel any discomfort of flying at high altitude and high speed.

"Miss Ai, it's okay, you can look down."

The young man's calm voice sounded beside Ai's ear, who buried her head in fear.

"Hmm...really, is it really okay..."

The black-haired girl straightened up slightly in fear, and looked down cautiously from the side.

Although it was night and it was pitch black both in the sky and on the ground, let alone seeing the scenery on the ground, Ai could barely see that the earth shrouded in darkness was quickly moving away from her.

"Okay, so awesome..."

The black-haired girl let out a sound of surprise. This unprecedented novel flying experience made the girl gradually put aside her fear and replaced it with inexplicable excitement.

"We are leaving Honshu Island now, and the Seto Inland Sea is ahead."

Shang Yang explained to Miss Ai their current location. As Shang Yang finished speaking, Ai could vaguely see that the land in front of her was blocked by a narrow strait. Seto Inland Sea means a narrow strait. In the Nara period, there was a certain degree of developed shipbuilding industry here. Most of the Japanese envoys to the Tang Dynasty also transferred from here to the Central Plains Tang Dynasty. With the frequent exchanges and trade with the Tang Dynasty, the unique shipping advantages have gradually made the Seto Inland Sea an important trade route.

"It would be better if we came during the day..."

Miss Ai, who was inexplicably excited, also felt it was a pity. If she had looked from the sky during the day, she would definitely have seen an extremely beautiful scenery.

Thinking of this, the black-haired girl's eyes, as clear as a spring, once again looked at the young man in front of her who was paying serious attention, and a light flashed in her eyes.

It's great, Shang Jun, you can go wherever you want...

Noticing the black-haired girl's yearning gaze, the young man wanted to play a joke on her and spoke to her mysteriously.

"Miss Ai, did you know there are techniques to flying?"

"The... technique of flying?"

The girl's voice was extremely confused.

"Yes, for example... like this!"

As the young man's tone suddenly became heavier, the young man holding the girl suddenly lowered his body and dived down suddenly!

"Shang, Shang Jun! No, stop playing! Ah!!!"

Watching the young man holding her, as if he was going to rush directly to the strait of the Seto Inland Sea, the girl, frightened by this sudden change and pale, subconsciously hugged the young man with her arms, buried her little head in the young man's arms again, and let out a very high-decibel scream.

The young man naturally would not use his head to hit the rocks in the strait. After approaching the maximum distance, the young man jumped up again into the sky.

Then, just when the black-haired girl wanted to breathe a sigh of relief, the young man started playing again, performing various maneuvers of future military fighter jets in the sky, large spins, defensive rollers, offensive rollers, and Immelmann spins...

Of course, all the maneuvers were completed with Miss Ai's screams getting louder and louder, and she was terrified...

Finally, the young man, having completed a cobra maneuver, finally returned to horizontal flight. At this time, the black-haired girl had already buried her head in the young man's arms, no longer willing to look out.

[…You think you’re a fighter.]

Miss Lord God was very dissatisfied.

[You're such a badass for scaring a girl! Are you an elementary school student?]

"cough……"

After hearing what Miss God said, the young man felt that he was a bit childish just now. What's more, he was still holding Miss Ai. Although there was no danger, Miss Ai, who was experiencing flying for the first time, was scared enough. Maybe it even left a psychological trauma on the girl.

You won't be completely angry and ignore me, right?

Glancing at the black-haired girl who was tightly buried in his arms, the young man felt a little worried and decided to apologize first.

"Uh, sorry, Miss Ai, I was having too much fun just now. Actually, I don't fly very often. I was too excited just now...hiss?!"

As he was apologizing, a sudden pain shot from his waist to his brain, causing him to gasp. He almost dropped the black-haired girl into the sea...

The black-haired girl, with her soft, boneless white right hand, touched the young man's waist. Without any instruction, she mercilessly pinched a part of the young man's waist, 360 degrees, 720 degrees...

“…It’s going to fall, it’s going to fall!”

The pain from Ai twisting his waist was like a tide, hitting Shang Yang's sense of pain in waves. With his facial features distorted by the pain, Shang Yang immediately put aside his dignity and begged for mercy from Miss Ai.

"I'm sorry, I was wrong! I won't do it again! Miss Ai, please let go!"

PS1: Tang Banbi is a sleeveless jacket somewhat similar to a vest.

PS2: Guys who scare girls will also get hammered. By the way, have you ever been hit by someone twisting your waist?

Volume 1: Heian Tales of the Past and Present: Chapter 14: Journey to Tang (Part 2)

"Humph……"

The black-haired girl being held by the young man groaned softly, loosened her hands, and mumbled vaguely.

"You scared me..."

While the young man and the girl were "playing around", the young man's flight path had already crossed the land of Shikoku Island and Kyushu Island, crossed the Tsushima Strait, and entered the airspace over the East China Sea.

With the help of Miss Lord God's navigation again, he corrected the flight route and set his destination at Luoyang, the eastern capital of the Tang Dynasty. Then the young man used his magic power once again to increase his flight speed, breaking through the sound barrier in an instant and drawing an arc-shaped sound barrier cloud in the night sky over the sea.

In less than an hour, Shang Yang and Ai flew over the East China Sea and entered the territory of the Tang Dynasty from the sky above Dengzhou Prefecture in Henan Province.

Central Plains, the divine capital Luoyang.

Luoyang is located on the south bank of the Luo River. It was named Luoyang because it was built on the sunny side (north bank) of the ancient Luo River.

In the early Western Zhou Dynasty, 1,700 years before the Tang Dynasty, Duke Zhou Ji Dan, who assisted the government, built the royal city and Chengzhou city on the north bank of the ancient Luo River in order to strengthen the Zhou Dynasty's control over the ancient Shang Dynasty in the east. He moved the remnants of the Shang Dynasty here and established the Chengzhou Eight Divisions to monitor the remnants of the Shang Dynasty. It was called Luoyi.

Since then, Luoyang has become the center of the Central Plains, and many dynasties have established their capitals here.

In the second year of Emperor Gaozong of Tang's Xianqing reign (657 AD), Emperor Gaozong Li Zhi issued the "Edict on the Establishment of the Eastern Capital", praising Luoyang for being "the center of the universe, receiving tributes from all directions, interacting with wind and rain, and receiving tributes from all nations". He then changed Luoyang to the Eastern Capital of the Tang Dynasty. From then on, the Tang Empire officially implemented the two-capital system.

On the ninth day of the ninth month in the first year of Zaichu (690 AD), Wu Zetian, the sage empress of the Tang Dynasty, ascended the throne in Luoyang Palace in the eastern capital and proclaimed herself saint. She abolished the Tang Dynasty and established the Zhou Dynasty, changed the era name to the first year of Tianshou, renamed the eastern capital Shendu, and made Shendu Luoyang the capital of the Wu Zhou Dynasty.

This year marked the fifth year of the Empress's reign. Since establishing the capital and proclaiming her empire, she had mobilized her subjects throughout the land to dig the Luo River, connecting it to the Grand Canal of the Sui and Tang Dynasties. Luoyang, the Divine Capital, became a hub for water transport, with ships plying the waters daily. She then expanded the outer city walls, significantly improving the short walls, limited scale, and poor defenses of the Sui and Tang dynasties. She transformed Luoyang, the Divine Capital, into an unrivaled fortress, adding to its magnificent beauty.

At the same time, in accordance with her ideals, the empress built a magnificent Mingtang in the center of the sacred capital Luoyang, called the Wanxiang Palace, and on the north side of the Mingtang, she built a magnificent Buddhist hall over 300 meters high, called "Heaven".

The Empress allowed the people of Luoyang to visit these two spectacular buildings. Every Luoyang subject who entered the Vientiane Temple and Heaven was amazed and praised the magnificent imagination and creativity of the Queen of Heaven and the Holy Mother.

It was approaching the hour of Xu, and the dark night had enveloped the entire territory of the Tang Dynasty. However, in the sacred capital of Luoyang, this was the beginning of a city-wide carnival.

Thousands of lights lit up the huge city of Luoyang. Whether on the city walls or in the markets within the city, lights of various colors were lit. In many wide streets, bonfires several feet high were even lit, illuminating the entire street.

The Luoyang government lifted the usual curfew, and all the shops in the streets lit up huge lanterns, with vendors hawking their wares in the streets. The people of Luoyang also went out in groups to stroll along the streets, making the place bustling and noisy.

The open-minded women of the Tang Dynasty also dressed up in their best and continuously scattered beautiful petals from the flower towers on both sides of the streets of the sacred capital Luoyang. For a moment, the bright Luoyang became a sea of ​​flowers.

Unintentionally, the nobles and common people of Luoyang, the capital of the gods, continuously released Kongming lanterns, which were exquisitely crafted and embroidered with lotus flowers of different sizes, images of Buddha, and scriptures, and rose into the night sky, like dots of stars and the shining Milky Way.

Countless fireworks rose into the night sky from all over the sacred city of Luoyang, and burst into life under the sea of ​​stars and the Milky Way. The fireworks bloomed, reflecting the Milky Way in the sky and the brilliant sea of ​​stars and the Milky Way, creating a magnificent and prosperous scene of fireworks and flowers on earth.

Tonight is the fifth birthday of the Holy Queen of Heaven, the Holy Mother and Divine Emperor since the reign of the Empress.

The Queen issued an edict and the whole world celebrated.

Ever since the black-haired girl entered the divine capital of Luoyang and saw the streets filled with flowers, the hustle and bustle, the endless excitement, and the flourishing world of thousands of fireworks, she has been left stunned and at a loss.

The bustling and prosperous world before her eyes was a magnificent scene that the girl could never have imagined. Even if she had read many books about the Tang Dynasty, everything before her eyes surpassed all the girl's perfect and beautiful imaginations of the Tang Dynasty.

With prolonged peace, the population flourishes. Children, even those with long hair, learn only to dance and drum, while the elderly, even those with white hair, know no war. Each season offers its own delights. On moonlit nights, when snow and flowers bloom, people pray for wisdom and ascend the heights, and explore the gardens. Everywhere one looks, one sees brothels and painted pavilions, embroidered curtains hanging from windows. Carved carriages vie for position on the streets, while fine horses race along the imperial roads. Gold and jade dazzle, while the fragrance of silk and satin wafts through the air. New sounds and charming laughter fill the willow-lined alleys and flower-filled streets, while pipes and strings are tuned in teahouses and taverns. The world gathers, and all nations are connected. Treasures from all corners of the globe gather in the marketplace, and the world's most exotic flavors gather in the kitchens. Flowers shimmer along the streets, offering endless spring outings. Flutes and drums fill the air, as families feast at night.

The descriptions and praises of the Tang Dynasty's prosperity in the books the girl had read were transformed into an incomparably real world of prosperity in the bustling streets, the lights of thousands of houses, and the sea of ​​flowers before her eyes. The girl could not help but be intoxicated.