This novel is set in the prosperous Tang Dynasty and revolves around "trade" and "integration". It tells the story of Shen Qingci, Pei Jingyan and others who promoted Silk Road trade and cultural mutual learning. Starting from the rectification of salt affairs in Lingnan, they introduced Champa rice seeds to Mobei, taught iron smelting skills to the Western Regions, and even created "Silk Road combined porcelain" by the collision of Tang Dynasty porcelain and Dashi glaze craftsmanship.
In the story, the Uighur girl Agula traveled across the ocean with wool tassels, the Tubo boy Tenzin mixed mulberry silk brocade with yak down, the great food medical officer Said and the Tang Dynasty imperial physician co-edited the "Han University Medical Code", and the children exchanged milk lumps and peppercorns at the School of All Nations. From Chang'an Zhuque Street to Baghdad Bazaar, from the ships in Quanzhou Port to the iron smelting workshop in Talas, products, skills and children's laughter from different regions are intertwined into a network.
There is no tense conquest, only the vitality of mulberry seedlings breaking ground - when silkworm cocoons are formed in the mulberry gardens in Mobei, when brown sugar is boiled in the Tubo Valley, and when merchant ships in the Persian Gulf set sail carrying the "One Starlight" glass lamp, people finally understand that peace in the world is nothing more than letting ears of rice and spices meet on the same trade road, and allowing children of different languages to count the starry sky.
