What will happen to Edward in the future is still unknown, but the current Edward has already undergone obvious changes.
One month after arriving in Datang, Edward's whole person looked very different from when he first came to Datang.
This difference is not in appearance or clothing. In fact, Edward still has red hair and still wears professional attire. His changes are more about changes in behavior.
This mental change also relieved Norris a lot.
From the beginning, everyone could tell that Edward had just come to the Tang Dynasty, and his whole body exuded the aura of aboriginal barbarians. Now if you look carefully, it is difficult to find that Edward has only been in the Tang Dynasty for only a month.
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This is also related to the fact that Edward received Tang language education from an early age.
After all, he was born into a noble family and had been able to receive normal education in the Tang language since he was a child. Now that he has practiced it after arriving in the Tang Dynasty, everything will naturally be on the right track.
Outside the embassy area, Norris was once again wearing formal clothes and sitting in a carriage preparing to go out, while Edward was driving outside the car.
Edward, who was driving the carriage, was dressed in standard black professional attire, with black gloves on his hands holding the reins and whip, and a round top hat on his head, covering his red hair.
From a distance, it is difficult to tell that Edward is an Englishman, because his clothes are no different from ordinary Tang Dynasty professionals, and his red hair is also covered. Only when you look closer can you find this person.
The eyes are blue, the skin is slightly pale, and the nose is slightly high and slightly curved.
This was not the first time that Edward went out with Norris, but when he went out again and walked on the bustling streets of Datang, he still couldn't help but feel nervous.
Even though he looked extremely calm on the surface, even looking straight ahead, he was still extremely calm in his heart, and he frequently looked at everyone or things on the street from the corner of his eye.
This street is very spacious, very clean, and the road surface is extremely smooth. It is said that it is paved with a kind of asphalt.
There were many shops on both sides of the street, and most of them used bright glass, but these were normal things, and Edward didn't think it was that strange.
But the people he picked up surprised him. At first glance, they seemed to be ordinary people, nothing special. The people on the street were all ordinary people from the Tang Dynasty, and their clothes were ordinary.
But these people still made Edward feel strange.
how to say.
These people are different from ordinary people, civilians, or free people in their own minds.
Their clothes are too clean, their steps on the road are too steady, and even the expressions on their faces are too natural. And most importantly, they are generally too tall and too strong.
Just the physique of these people does not look like ordinary civilians, but more like a group of knights or warriors.
Because it is impossible for ordinary people to be so tall and strong.
Edward was born into a noble family and had eaten well since he was a child. He was quite tall, about 1.72 meters tall and weighed 60 kilograms. He had been trained as a knight since he was a child, so his body was still very strong.
But his physique is among the minority in England, and even in Europe as a whole.
Due to the limited food production of contemporary indigenous people, in fact, except for the Tang people, it is very difficult for indigenous people in other countries to eat enough. This means that contemporary indigenous people generally have nutritional deficiencies.
It's a deficiency problem, and it's not just malnutrition from generation to generation.
When you are malnourished, don't expect how tall ordinary people are!
Among ordinary indigenous people everywhere, adult men are generally 1.4 meters tall, 1.5 meters tall, and not many 1.6 meters tall. Women are even lower.
Well, this is talking about ordinary people. The powerful people like Edward are not included in this. The nobles for generations have no worries about eating and drinking, and they are well-nourished. It is normal to be 1.78 meters tall or even taller.
As for height, if you are well-nourished, you will grow taller, and if you are malnourished, you will grow short.
So don’t take the individual cases of a certain ancient Chinese general who was eight feet tall, a certain European lord who was 1.8 meters tall, and a certain Fusang lord who was 1.6 meters tall as a general rule.
However, the ordinary Tang Dynasty people Edward saw now were generally over 1.65 meters tall, and quite a few were over 1.7 meters tall, and quite a few were 1.8 meters tall.
And each of them looks very strong, not skinny and skinny.
This kind of situation cannot be seen in London or even anywhere in Europe.
Little did Edward know that the average height of people in the Tang Dynasty had increased rapidly in the past forty years, and the height of the younger generation had increased even more astonishingly.
When the Tang Dynasty recruited new soldiers forty years ago, what was the height requirement for recruits? 1.55 meters!
Later, the military of the Tang Dynasty gradually raised the height standard for recruits. When Xuanping was ten years old, it was 1.58 meters, and when Xuanping was twenty years old, it was 1.6 meters.
In the thirty-fifth year of Xuanping, the minimum height requirement for new recruits of the Tang Dynasty was 1.62 meters.
This only refers to the minimum standard for military recruits, and this standard is actually lower than the average height of the current generation of young people in the Tang Dynasty.
The current average height of the Tang Dynasty is not very high, only about 1.65 meters. However, this data includes everyone, especially a large number of middle-aged and elderly people who were born in the Ming Dynasty and the Unification War period. These people have lowered the height.
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If we only count the younger generation born ten years after Xuan Ping, their average height is very high, almost reaching 1.7 meters.
And this data is still growing. According to statistics from the Royal Institute of Technology, the Royal Institute of Technology, the Ministry of Household Affairs and other institutions, the average height of the younger generation is rising. The average height of young people fifty years from now will be
The height can even reach 1.75 meters.
Why was Edward shocked by the heights of the ordinary people of Tang Dynasty in front of him? Why did many institutions such as Royal Institute of Technology of Tang Dynasty, Taiyuan Hospital, and the Ministry of Household Affairs pay attention to the average height, especially the average height of the younger generation?
Because this data can directly reflect the living standards of ordinary people in Datang.
It is impossible to increase the average height of the younger generation without eating enough.
However, Edward could hardly imagine how much food would be needed to feed hundreds of millions of people.
In the past, I had heard from countless sources how powerful the Tang Dynasty was, and I had also seen the proof of its power with my own eyes.
However, those 10,000-ton battleships, rushing trains, and countless high-rise buildings are only the most superficial things.
In Edward's view, the most terrifying thing about the Tang Empire is that it was able to feed hundreds of millions of people under its rule!
Moreover, this terrifying empire is still working on some kind of economic development plan, trying to further improve the people's quality of life, reduce the food index, and strive to bring the food index to less than 40%.
what does that mean?
This means that every person in Tang Dynasty will live a prosperous life by then!
This surprised Edward and he couldn't understand it at the same time!
He was not shocked whether Datang could do it. In fact, he completely believed that Datang could do it. What he couldn't understand was:
Why does the great Holy Emperor, who is greater than the sun, care about the lives of those untouchables?