"Exactly! Overseas..."
"To be honest, I'm not from the Tang Dynasty. I'm an envoy from Eastern Island who came to the Tang Dynasty to study. I was originally planning to return to Eastern Island with the envoy delegation today, but this storm came out of nowhere, so it looks like we won't be leaving for the time being."
Seeing that Fu Hua seemed interested in traveling overseas, the man hurriedly introduced himself. He had studied in the Tang Dynasty for several years, and it had just happened to be time for him to return to Eastern Island.
He liked the Tang Dynasty very much, but because of his family circumstances, he could not remain in the Tang Dynasty entirely as Abe no Nakamaro had and become a man of the Tang Dynasty.
"An envoy to Tang..."
Fu Hua looked at the man before her in surprise. She had not expected him to be an envoy from Eastern Island.
Of course, Fu Hua knew about the envoys to Tang. At the height of the Tang Dynasty's prosperity, nations from all over came to pay homage... Many countries sent people to the Tang Dynasty to study and exchange knowledge. Eastern Island in particular had dispatched more than a dozen envoy missions to the Tang Dynasty over roughly 264 years, from the early seventh century to the end of the ninth century, in order to learn Tang culture. Their frequency, scale, duration, and rich content made them an unprecedented undertaking in the history of cultural exchange between the two nations.
The Eastern Island government continuously sent people to study in the Tang Dynasty. Each envoy mission numbered more than a hundred people, and sometimes over five hundred.
Many of the Tang Dynasty's legal codes and institutions, culture and arts, science and technology, as