Han Hai Tang Ergui

Chapter 226 Why is it still prosperous?

Early in the morning in Bukhara, a middle-aged man wearing a Sogdian hat hurried out.

He is a carpenter in the Bukhara Gulam Guards. His specific job is to build saddles and even siege equipment such as rams and catapults.

This is a handicraft handed down by their family for hundreds of years, and even the neighbors around his house are all doing this.

Every morning, they need to go to Dihkan, who is in charge of the carpenter, to work, and then work when there is work. If there is no work, it is the best day, because they can go out to do some private work to subsidize their families.

"Hey! Kadir, look, the streets are just as they always have been, nothing has changed.

Didn't Dihkan say that some man-eating Ju'erhan entered the city?Why don't they come to kill and rob?Could it be that no one enters the city at all, that is. "

Kadir turned around sharply and covered the mouth of the nervous neighbor and colleague who followed him.

You can’t say this nonsense. Yesterday, the postman in a block to the west said that Prince Hamid had killed the emir. In the end, the whole family was dragged out and never came back.

"Someone must have come, because the two daughters of Salman's family were taken away, and they haven't come back yet. They just asked someone to send back four silver dinars. It is said that they drank and ate with Ju Erhan's warriors. The meat is gone!"

The neighbor rolled his eyes when Kadir's sweaty big hand covered it. The smell was unacceptable to most people. He screamed and struggled, and finally broke Kadir's hand.

Kadir was afraid that he would continue to talk about some terrible topics, so he could only start to change the topic by himself. Sure enough, the neighbors were attracted by Kadir's new topic.

"Bah! It's useless to look good for silver coins, because their hearts are already dirty!"

The neighbor's sour teeth were about to fall out, but his mouth was full of envious and jealous curses.

Kadir knew that Salman's two daughters looked like flowers. His neighbor had always been greedy and even came to propose a marriage, but Salman looked down on him.

Hearing that the goddess in my heart was taken to drink, eat meat and do some indescribable things by the warriors of Ju'er Khan, I was so sour that I was about to collapse.

"I think your chance has come!" Another big man walked over, who was also their neighbor and colleague, and the big man patted the shoulder of Lime's neighbor.

"Ju'erhan's warriors are said to be able to beat a hundred of us, they want someone to sleep with them, who dare not go?
But in this way, Salman's daughter will not be able to marry any good family. If you go to propose marriage again, won't you just get a beautiful woman for nothing? "

At this time in Hezhong, even though he had experienced two waves of shocks from the culture of the Tang Dynasty and the culture of Tianfangjiao, his trouser belt was still very loose when it came to the issue of men and women.

Orchids are probably women from this place, and they are famous for burning in Tang Dynasty.

In fact, Datang and Tianfangjiao, Zi ah, are also very open about the issue of men and women.

China's conservatism must wait until the middle of the Southern Song Dynasty when Neo Confucianism was brought into full play

Therefore, in this era, there are not many concepts of chastity in the Hezhong area. It’s just that second-hand ones are definitely not as popular as original ones. But for Kadir, a neurotic neighbor, he can marry Salman His daughter, even if she is pregnant with cubs, is also very good.

The three walked while laughing. Although the street was a little deserted, Kadir actually liked the feeling now.

Ju'erhan's warriors didn't come to harass ordinary people like them. Although some old master's family was dragged out and chopped up from time to time, it had nothing to do with them.

With the warriors of Ju'er Khan present, the dignitary officials Dihkan, who were so ostentatious on weekdays, also lowered their heads one after another, and everyone was as docile as a sheep.

The couscous and bread on the market didn't rise much either. Generally speaking, they, the bottom Bukhara people, didn't feel uncomfortable.

"Kadir, I heard that your ancestors were peach-blossom people from the east, maybe this Juerhan came from the east too!" the majestic neighbor said suddenly.

Kadir, who looked like a typical mixed race, tilted his head and recalled. There is indeed a legend in their family, saying that their ancestors were peach blossom stone people from the east.

Maybe they were captured here, or maybe they settled here. The specific situation is unclear, but their carpentry skills are indeed somewhat different from those of other local people.

Even the surname Kadir is said to have something to do with the origins of their ancestors. Kadir in Bukhara means capable and capable people. This is when his ancestors were good at carpentry and were bestowed by the governor. next surname.

However, this is just a legend, and the elders in the family dare not say that it is true, so Kadir did not take it seriously, but had some expectations in his mind.

. . . .

Du Huan, when Zhang Zhao heard this name from a court poet named Jafar Rudaki in the Forbidden City of Arka, he was in a daze for a long time.

This name can be said to be very unfamiliar to many Chinese in later generations, but he has a high reputation in the hearts of those who follow the history of the Tang Dynasty.

Du Huan, a native of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, came from the Du clan of Jingzhao. He was born in a famous family and joined the Anxi Army in his early years.

He followed Gao Xianzhi to participate in the Battle of Talas. During the war, Du Huan was captured by the big cannibal, and he was taken captive to the middle of the river, and was released a few years later.

But Du Huan didn't go back to China directly, but traveled the whole Tianfangjiao world with the Great Food Army.

He has been to Mesopotamia, the Mediterranean, Egypt, Tunisia, Ethiopia, Somalia, Turkey and even Greece.

It was the first person from China to reach Africa, and possibly the first person to reach Europe.

In 762, Du Huan returned to China on a merchant ship after his travels. He wrote his experience in the book "Jing Xing Ji".

The book describes in detail the geography and customs of Hezhong, Persia, the Arabian region, the Mediterranean region, and the east coast of Africa.

There are also detailed records of the Great Food Law (Tianfangjiao) and the Great Qin Law (Christianity), which are much more detailed and credible than the Westerners' own records.

It's just a pity that "Jing Xing Ji" was lost later, and we can only find a little bit of clues in some articles citing its description.

It can be said that if Du Huan's "Jing Xing Ji" is not lost, it is very likely that many histories of Central Asia, West Asia and the Byzantine Empire will be rewritten.

Zhang Zhao was wandering in the sky, but this Persian who called himself Jafar Rudaki was still chatting with Zhang Zhao in Uighur.

Talk about his great-grandfather who once worshiped under Du Huan's door and learned things from peach blossom stone knowledge.

Of course, Zhang Zhao didn't know how well-known this old man with bad eyesight was in the five Central Asian countries and even the world of Tianfang Sect.

This descendant of Jafar is known as the father of Persian poetry, the soul of desert poetry, a star in the history of Persian literature, and the founder of Persian classical literature.

Because of this connection, the Tajik embassy in China has held Jafar Rudaki's birthday in China many times.

I don’t understand, so I don’t pay much attention to it. Jafar Rudaki thinks that Ju’er Khan is from Peach Blossom Stone. He is polite and knowledgeable, especially respects cultural people. It’s a pleasure chatting with him.

Zhang Zhao was chatting while recalling a record of Du Huan in "Jing Xing Ji".

Du Huan recorded that after the Battle of Talas, a large number of craftsmen were captured by the Abbasid Dynasty. In Bukhara, he had seen Fan Shu from Jingzhao as a Han craftsman, Leling from Dongdong, and Lu Li as weavers. contactor etc.

This shows that in Bukhara and other cities, there were a large number of Tanger craftsmen. They were either captured or unable to return to their homeland, but the number must be quite large.

It has been more than [-] years, and the descendants of these people must have become locals long ago, and even they themselves don't know about these things, but Zhang Zhao doesn't care, these are technical talents!

He was worried that he had no excuse to blackmail a skilled craftsman from Bukhara, and now he had an excuse.

In this era, craftsmen are the most advanced productivity.

So in addition to the 6 million dinar promised by Hamid, Zhang Zhao also planned to extort at least 200 people of various craftsmen from Hamid.

Just do what you say, Zhang Zhao hurriedly asked Wang Xinxun, who was serving as a personal guard by his side today, to go out and inform Yin Yaozi, and let Yin Yaozi go directly to Prince Hamid to ask for it.

Extortion and robbery are actually a science, especially after rising to state behavior.

Zhang Zhao was chatting with great poets in the Forbidden City of Alka, teasing little loli, but led by Yin Yaozi, including Zhang Zhong, Guo Tiance, Zhu Qingquan, Yang Shouli, Guo Guangsheng and others, they were exhausted to death.

Because Hamid promised to pay 6 million of the 4 million dinars to Zhang Zhao, and he would take it away in Bukhara.

But if you think that you are simply taking 4 million silver coins back, then you are too stupid.

If it was 4 silver coins brought back to Bahan, it would be a windfall, but if it was [-] million, it would be troublesome.

Because there are only hundreds of thousands of people and less than 200,000 people in the Khanna, bringing back 4 million dinars at one time is no different from bringing back 4 million small stones.

Currency is a thing that must be matched with productivity and must be circulated to be meaningful.

With the small population and property of Bahan, and the small and pitiful scale of the Silk Road, 4 million, no! Bringing 6 million dinars back will directly trigger severe inflation.

Even with the addition of Shule and Khotan, spending so much money will definitely cause indigestion.

Unless Zhang Zhao has a magic method to transport these silver coins to the Central Plains, only the Central Plains can digest 6 million dinars at one time without causing inflation.

So Zhang Zhao established the Taicang Division headed by Yin Yaozi. They sealed up 4 million of the 1 million dinars as Zhang Zhao's personal income, and Zhang Zhao would not let them flow into the market soon.

For the remaining 3 million dinars, take out 2 million to purchase cattle, cattle and sheep hides, tendons, chain mail, spices, grains, rubies, dried fruits, blankets and other items around Bukhara .

This can promote the prosperity of the Bukhara market, and can also reduce the hostility towards Zhang Zhao from the surrounding Saman Persian Ikta.

Because these things need to be bought around Bukhara, these Iqtas will not be easily incited by careerists to fight against Zhang Zhao after they have made money.

For the final 1 million dinars, 500,000 dinars will be used as a reward for the [-] troops.

The remaining 500,000 was used by Yin Yaozi and others to purchase horses.

Bukhara to Juzhanti area is the hometown of sweat-blooded BMWs. Although purebred sweat-blooded BMWs are a bit delicate and costly to raise, they are not suitable for large-scale equipment.

But this generation has a lot of crossbreds, and some of the mature crossbreeds have been very stable.

Those with good stamina, good explosive power, and strong strength can be used to pull carts. Zhang Zhao is going to take a large number of them back.

In addition, Zhang Zhao also wanted to recruit a group of herdsmen who were good at raising horses here, and he also needed to give some settling money.

Under Zhang Zhao's arrangement, the Bukhara he occupied seemed beaming and full of vitality.

The merchants and Ikta made money, and the wages of the civilians were increased by [-]%, and they still had jobs at any time.

The [-] troops who entered the city were served with good wine and meat and [-] Bukhara girls, and few of them violated military discipline and caused trouble everywhere.

What a prosperous look!

(End of this chapter)