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Kublai Khan, who held sway over this great and peaceful empire, was one of
the wisest and noblest of all rulers. He was greatly admired by Marco Polo,
the legendary Italian traveller, who tells us much about Kublai Khan’s
greatness. By means of a postal system, using relays of messengers and
horses at regular intervals along all the main roads of the country, The Khan
kept himself well informed of all that went on in his dominions. All the
rivers, too, were linked by canals. Paper money was used as well as metal
coinage. The Khan’s court was at Peking, but at Shandu he had a summer
palace, built of marble and surrounded by beautiful woods and gardens.
In the service of the great King Marco travelled far and wide and to parts of
the world never yet visited by Europeans. Besides his journeys in the
provinces of Shansi and Shensi in Cathay or Northern China, he also
travelled into Mongolia, the wild mountains of Tibet, the southern province
of Yunnan, North Burma, and the great trading cities of the Malabar coast.
No man had ever travelled as much as Marco Polo.
After seventeen years in China, the Polos desired to return to their native city
once more. But Kublai Khan had no wish to lose his favourites, and refused
to hear of their leaving. At last, when as experienced travellers they were
asked to escort the Mongolian bride of the Khan of Persia from Peking to her
husband’s court, he reluctantly allowed them to go. For greater safety they
went by sea, and the voyage took two years.
A legend has it that when the three Polos returned to Venice, so strange did
they look in their queer Tartar dress, and so long had they been away, that no
one would believe they were really those Polos who had left Venice so many
years before. It was not until they gave a great banquet and displayed all the
precious stones and beautiful clothes they had brought back from China, that
their friends and relatives recognized them.
By the time Marco died in 1324, traders and merchants were thronging the
roads to China. Eventually, the story of Marco Polo’s travels became no more
than a legend. Yet there was one great man who found them valuable, for it
was while reading of the marvellous wealth and cities of China that
Christopher Columbus had the idea that the lands visited by Marco Polo
might be reached by sailing towards the west.
Show how Kublai Khan’s China was a well-connected empire. (2)
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