Although Asmin got another chance, after all, the sudden change in the middle school and her father and brother were killed, injured and imprisoned were a huge blow.
Therefore, although there was another opportunity to regroup, Asmin always looked depressed, obviously...
Mangbai is a new opportunity, and the port here has excellent natural topography, which can be compared with Hangzhou.
It is also in an extremely dangerous location, at a key point in the Indian Ocean and Persian Gulf routes, so its value can be said to be extremely high.
To be honest, this place has a bright future.
But during this period of time, Asmin always looked absent-minded.
No matter how good it is here, it cannot be compared with the mainland of Persia.
and……
After all, I only have a hundred or so people in my hands. Even if I can make a difference in the future, so what? I can't gather troops, so naturally...
Therefore, it is impossible to be qualified to go back to Persia and talk to that distant sister face to face.
Even if Persia is not as good as the Tang Dynasty, not as good as giants like Rome, and even far worse than the Arabia next door, but... Persia is a complete country after all. No matter how well I manage in this place called Mangbai,
How can it be compared with a complete country with a population of tens of millions?
Persia is only a small country compared to the Tang Empire, but in the entire world, to be honest, it is still a big country!
Compared with Persia, such a wild white land and a hundred people seemed too ridiculous.
The small camps currently established by several ships of people are not comparable to the royal palaces in Persia... Even the houses in Persia are all made of stone... Even if they are made of wood, they are still better than the environment of this place.
The conditions are much better.
Such a comparison will help you understand how cruel reality is.
And for all this...
Occasionally, Asmin looked towards a corner of the camp, at a remote tent... that was Li Sheng's residence!
If Asmin's views and thoughts on the name Li Sheng have gone through two stages: wooing the object of alliance, and being with a powerful official of a big country - a superior person whom she has great respect for, then now...
Asmin knew that this Li Sheng was still the same Li Sheng. It could even be said that... because of the completion of that steel behemoth, Li Sheng's status in the Tang Empire became higher and higher.
But in my current situation, there is no doubt that I am living under someone else's roof - I can't even say that I am living under Li Sheng's fence, because to say that I am living under Li Sheng's fence, I have to be at least at the level of Wu Meiniang.
And I... finally, I am nobody anymore.
Although Asmin wanted to ask Li Sheng for some advice during this period, a question was also lingering in her mind...
After all, I still deserve to talk to Li Sheng? Isn't this a bit...
Asmin has understood that she can no longer face the world like the Asmin she used to be...
However, this idea was quickly interrupted.
It wasn't because someone encouraged her and the little girl cheered up again, but recently... some members discovered that there seemed to be traces of someone coming and going in the old forest in the nearby wilderness - I wasn't sure if it was someone coming or not, anyway.
There were signs of movement of large creatures, or chariots, anything quite big.
This matter is not a trivial matter, because this camp...
Speaking of which, the Tang Dynasty was also a special dynasty. Unlike the soldiers of the Qin and Han Dynasties, its people did not need to protect their homes and country. They all lined up, brought weapons and rushed together, and at the same time...
Unlike the heroic bandits of the Song, Yuan and Ming dynasties in later generations, when the Eight Immortals crossed the sea and showed off their magical powers, the true elements of the heroes at this time were knights——
It's not a romantic term in later generations, it's a knight in heavy armor.
In other words, those who had the conditions to study in the Tang Dynasty were often capable of both literary and military skills, and now... the two colleges have inherited this tradition and still arrange military training.
There are ordinary boatmen and technical backbones who are here with Asmin at the moment, but one common feature is that they all have the ability to be civilized and martial. Otherwise, they will not be qualified for jobs with technical content, and it will be difficult to face the hardships of reclaiming wasteland in foreign countries.
It's just that there are too few people after all. Although reconnaissance can be done, it will take too long to build defenses.
Can't finish!
Therefore, it is very dangerous if there are large beasts or signs of human beings, because the tent cannot block these things.
As soon as this news came out, Asmin had no time to fight against Yuyu Syndrome, and people with Yuyu Syndrome were about to die...
Of course, it would be okay if she was gone, but this group of people were counting on her, let alone Shanak, so Asmin could only immediately summon the entire group to warn them, and provide them with rotating patrols.
The number of people in the investigation team increased, from five to twenty for investigation.
Four times the manpower is needed to conduct reconnaissance, and others have to establish bases and residences, as well as build docks... Such a heavy and obviously long-term work, now more than a dozen people have to be assigned to patrol and protect, which naturally makes the task even heavier and more frustrating.
Suffering.
However, no one raised any objection. After all, if there was really a big problem in this foreign country, there wouldn't even be a corpse collector.
Although Asmin is depressed, she can only try her best to cope with it at this time - a foreign country...
This is a foreign country for the Tang people. For Asmin, the Tang Dynasty and this place are both foreign lands, but they are different. The Tang Dynasty is a developed place after all, and this barbaric country is really different.
It's impossible to cheer up.
but……
Although Asmin arranged four times the manpower for patrols, the construction period of the branch has been delayed a lot. Of course, the preliminary construction of the base cannot be compared with the top shipyards and docks in Hangzhou. It is only used for simple maintenance.
In addition, there is the dock, and a simple dock is not complicated.
The key is that the ship actually carries grain and food, plus this is located on a warm coast, so there is no need to worry about food, and there is no need to consider farming for the time being, so all the people are working on it, and the construction period is relatively fast——
It was planned to be relatively fast, but now it is much slower.
However, the additional manpower that delayed the construction period was patrolling around, but it quickly...
That night, strange traces were discovered again!
This time, Asmin couldn't sit still. Just when it started to get light in the morning, the people who left the camp to patrol came back to report the news.
After reporting the news, Asmin, who had just woken up from her sleep, immediately stood up and summoned all the members of the branch.
This time even Li Sheng was called out, because Asmin also knew that something big might go wrong.
but……
Everyone was called together to brainstorm what went wrong, but... in the end, everyone was talking about it. Some people speculated about lions and tigers, and some speculated that there were hunters nearby. They had everything, but they couldn't get it.