Chapter 435: Side Story Extra: Luo Wuji Opens Up the Western Regions 1
The Western Regions.
In the eyes of the people of the Central Plains, this was a barren land.
Even those who had visited the Western Regions said it was extraordinarily beautiful, with towering snowy mountains, murmuring streams, verdant forests, and countless stretches of land suitable for cultivation, but this could not change people's perceptions at all.
They were unwilling even to migrate to the Hexi Corridor, let alone the Western Regions thousands of li away.
The common people in Chang'an City said, "The people of the Western Regions cannot speak the Elegant Language. They have no buildings with carved galleries, painted beams, and soaring eaves, no classical writings of the sages of the Hundred Schools, no majestic temples to the Eight Lords, no sacrifices to the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors. Most importantly, they do not understand what 'the Sage King above' means. There is only darkness and barbarism. That is no place where people can survive."
Only when Emperor Liu Che appointed Luo Wuji, the Marquis of Unshuang, to guard the Western Regions did the world's perceptions change a little.
The emperor and the Luo Clan spread the word among the people together: "The Marquis of Unshuang is the future Duke Zhao, the Household Head of the Luo Clan. If he is willing to go to the Western Regions, then even if they were once desolate and uninhabited, they certainly will not remain wholly dark and barbarous in the future.
"I hear that decades ago, the Marquis of Unshuang's forebears took their clansmen to the Western Regions and left descendants there. Decades have passed, and they are still offering sacrifices to the Sage King Sovereign in that barbarous land."
Naturally, Luo Wuji did not go