In the early morning in Bukhara, a middle-aged man wearing a pointed Sogdian hat hurried out.
He is a carpenter who belongs to the Bukhara Gulam Guards. His specific job is to make saddles and even siege equipment such as rams and catapults.
This is a craft that has been passed down in his family for hundreds of years, and even the neighbors around his house are doing this.
Every morning, they have to go to Dihkan, who is in charge of the carpenter, to have their work done, and then work whenever there is work. The best day is when there is no work, because they can go out and pick up some private work to supplement their family income.
"Hey! Qadir, look, the street is just like usual, nothing has changed.
Didn't Dihekan say that some cannibal Ju'er Khan came into the city? Why didn't they come to kill and rob? Could it be that no one came into the city at all, haha..."
Kadir turned around suddenly and covered the mouth of the neurotic neighbor and colleague who followed him.
Don't say this nonsense. Yesterday, the postal officer 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 be here, because the two daughters of Salman's family were taken away and have not come back yet. They just asked someone to send back four silver dinar coins. It is said that they were drinking and eating with Ju'er Khan's warriors.
The meat is gone!”
The neighbor rolled his eyes when he was covered by Kadir's sweaty and smelly hands. Most people couldn't accept the smell. He screamed and struggled hard, and finally broke Kadir's hand away.
Kadir was afraid that he would continue to talk about some fatal topics, so he had to change the subject. Sure enough, the neighbor was attracted by Kadir's new topic.
"Bah! They don't give up their face for the sake of silver coins. No matter how good-looking they are, it's useless because their hearts are already dirty!"
The neighbor's teeth were so sore that he almost fell out, but he was muttering envy and hatred in his mouth.
Qadir knew that Salman's two daughters were as beautiful as flowers. His neighbor had always been envious of them and even came to propose marriage, but Salman looked down on him.
Hearing that the goddess in his heart was taken by Juerhan's warriors to drink wine, eat meat and do unspeakable things, naturally he was so sour that he almost collapsed.
"I think your chance has come!" Another majestic man, who was also their neighbor and colleague, came over and patted the sour lemon neighbor on the shoulder.
"It is said that Juer Khan's warriors can defeat a hundred of us each. They want someone to sleep with them. Who dares not to go?
But in this case, Salman’s daughter will not be able to marry into a good family. If you go to propose marriage, won’t you be able to get a beautiful woman for nothing?”
At this time, Hezhong, even though it had experienced two waves of impact from the Tang Dynasty culture and the Tianfang Sect culture, still had very loose belts when it came to the issue of men and women.
Hu Ji is mostly a woman from this place, and she is famous in the Tang Dynasty.
In fact, even in the Tang Dynasty and the Tianfang Sect, Ziah's attitude towards the issue of men and women was also very open.
China’s conservatism had to wait until the mid-Southern Song Dynasty when Neo-Confucianism reached its peak.
The conservative nature of the Tianfang Sect is due to the fact that in modern times, the Europeans, who were enemies of the world and believed in Christianity, were bullied miserably.
Christianity and Tianfang Sect have the same origin. If Tianfang Sect continues to remain open, its culture may be completely wiped out by European Christianity.
So they can only be desperately conservative, wrap up the people in conservative fundamentalism, and not give Christianity a chance to brainwash them.
Therefore, in this era, there is not much concept of chastity in the Transoxiana area. It’s just that second-hand ones are definitely not as popular as original ones. But for Qadir, a neurotic neighbor, it is a good idea to marry Salman.
My daughter, even if she is pregnant with a baby, is also very good.
The three of them were laughing and walking. Although the streets were a little deserted, Kadir actually liked this feeling very much.
Ju'er Khan's warriors did not come to harass ordinary people like them. Although from time to time a master and his whole family were taken out and chopped down, it had nothing to do with them. Instead, they felt a little gloating in their hearts.
With Ju'er Khan's warriors present, the dignitary officials Dihkan, who were usually so arrogant and arrogant, also lowered their heads one after another, and everyone was as docile as a sheep.
The prices of couscous and flour bread on the market have not increased much. Generally speaking, they, the lowest level Bukhara people, have no problem adapting to it.
"Kadir, I heard that your ancestors were peach blossom stone people from the east. Maybe this Ju'er Khan is also from the east!" the majestic neighbor suddenly said.
Kadir, who had a typical mixed-race appearance, tilted his head and recalled that there was indeed a legend in his family that their ancestors were peach stone people from the east.
Maybe they were captured, or maybe they settled here. The specific situation is unclear, but their carpentry skills are indeed somewhat different from other people in the local area.
Even the surname Kadir is said to be related to the origin of their ancestors. Kadir means capable and capable person in Bukhara. This is because his ancestors were good at carpentry and were given the gift by the governor.
The surname below.
However, this was just a legend, and the elders in the family did not dare to say that it was true, so Kadir did not take it seriously. He just had some expectations mentally.
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Du Huan, when Zhang Zhao heard this name from a palace poet named Jafar Rudaki of Alka Forbidden City, he was stunned for a long time.
This name can be said to be very unfamiliar to many Chinese people of later generations, but he has a high reputation in the hearts of those who pay attention to the history of the Tang Dynasty.
Du Huan was born during the reign of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty. He came from the Du family in Jingzhao. He joined the Anxi army in his early years and served as a minor civil servant such as secretary-general under the command of Gao Xianzhi, the governor of the Fourth Town of Anxi.
He followed Gao Xianzhi to participate in the Battle of Talas. During the war, Du Huan was captured by the cannibals and taken to places such as the river. He was released a few years later.
But Du Huan did not return directly to China. Instead, he traveled throughout the Tianfang Sect world with the Food Army.
He has been to Mesopotamia, the Mediterranean, Egypt, Tunisia, Ethiopia, Somalia, Turkey and even Greece.
He was the first person from China to reach Africa, and he may also be the first person to reach Europe.
In 762, Du Huan returned to China on a merchant ship after completing his travels. He wrote his experience in the book "Jing Xing Ji".
The book describes in detail the geography, customs and customs of Transoxiana, Persia, Arabia, the Mediterranean, and the east coast of Africa.
There are also detailed records of the Great Food Law (Tianfang Sect) and the Great Qin Law (Christianity), which are much more detailed and credible than Westerners' own accounts.
It is a pity that the "Jing Xing Ji" was later lost, and we can only find a few clues in some articles citing its descriptions.
It can be said that if Du Huan's "Jing Xing Ji" is not lost, it is very likely that much of the history of Central Asia, West Asia and the Byzantine Empire will be rewritten.
Zhang Zhao was in a state of wandering mind, but the Persian, who called himself Jafar Rudaki, was still chatting with Zhang Zhao in Uighur.
Talking about how his great-grandfather once studied under Du Huan and learned the knowledge from peach blossom stone.
Of course, Zhang Zhao didn't know how famous this old man who kept chattering around him and had bad eyesight would be in the five Central Asian countries and even in the world of Tianfang Sect in later generations.
This Jafar was later called 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 Tajikistan Embassy in China has held Jafar Rudaki's birthday commemorations in China many times.
He didn't understand him, so he didn't pay attention to him. Jafar Rudaki felt that Ju'er Khan was actually from Peach Blossom Stone. He was polite and knowledgeable, and he especially respected educated people. He was very happy to chat with him.
Zhang Zhao was chatting while recalling a record written by Du Huan in "Jing Xing Ji".
Du Huan recorded that after the Battle of Talos, 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 Hedong, and Lu Li as a weaver.
Networkers, etc.
This shows that there used to be a large number of Tanger craftsmen in cities such as Bukhara. They were either captured or had no choice but to return to their homeland, but there must be a lot of them.
More than two hundred years have passed, and the descendants of these people must have become locals long ago. Even they themselves don't know these things, but Zhang Zhao doesn't care, these are technical talents!
He was worried that he had no excuse to extort a skilled craftsman from Bukhara, but now he had an excuse.
In this era, craftsmen are the most advanced productive forces.
Therefore, in addition to having to pay every penny of the six million dinars promised by Hamid, Zhang Zhao was also prepared to extort at least two hundred craftsmen from Hamid.
As soon as he said it, Zhang Zhao quickly asked Wang Tongtong, who was serving as his personal guard today, to go out and notify Yin Yaozi, and asked Yin Yaozi to go directly to Prince Hamid to get it.
Blackmail and robbery are actually a kind of knowledge, especially after they rise to the level of state behavior.
Zhang Zhao was chatting with great poets and teasing little Lolita in the Forbidden City of Alka, but Yin Yaozi and others, including Zhang Zhong, Guo Tiance, Zhu Qingquan, Yang Shouli, Guo Guangsheng and others, were exhausted.
Because 4 million of the 6 million dinars Hamid promised to pay to Zhang Zhao would be left in Bukharati.
But if you think that you can simply take away four million silver coins and go back, you are too stupid.
If it were 40,000 silver coins and brought back to Ba Khan, it would be a windfall, but if it was 4 million, it would be troublesome.
Because when they arrived in Bakhna, which only had between a hundred and two hundred thousand people, bringing back four million dinars at once was no different than bringing back four million pebbles.
Currency must be matched with productivity and circulated to be meaningful.
With the small population and property of Bukhan, and the pitiful scale of the Silk Road, four million, no! Taking six million dinars back would directly trigger violent inflation.
Even if Shule and Khotan are included, spending so much money will definitely cause indigestion.
Unless Zhang Zhao has magic to transport these silver coins to the Central Plains, only the Central Plains can absorb six million dinars at once without causing inflation.
So Zhang Zhao established the Taicang Division headed by Yin Yaozi. They hid one million of the four million dinars as Zhang Zhao's personal income, but Zhang Zhao would not let them flow into the market quickly.
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Of the remaining three million dinars, another two million were used to purchase healthy cattle, cattle and sheep skins, beef tendons, chain mail, spices, grains, food rubies, dried fruits, and blankets around Bukhara.
etc. items.
This can promote the prosperity of the Bukhara market and reduce the hostility of the surrounding Samampos Iqta towards Zhang Zhao.
Because these things need to be bought around Bukhara, these Iqtas will not be easily instigated by careerists to go against Zhang Zhao after they have made money.
From the last one million dinars, 500,000 dinars will be used as a reward for this 7,000-strong army.
Yin Yaozi and others spent the remaining 500,000 on purchasing horses.
The area around Bukhara is the hometown of sweat-blooded BMWs. Although purebred sweat-blooded BMWs are a bit delicate and expensive to raise, they are not suitable for large-scale equipment.
But there are many hybrids of this generation, and some of the mature hybrids are already very stable.
There are people with good endurance, good explosive power, and strong enough to pull a cart. Zhang Zhao plans to bring a large number of them back.
In addition, Zhang Zhao also needs to recruit a herdsman here who is good at raising horses, and he also needs to pay some settlement fees.
Under Zhang Zhao's arrangement, the Bukhara he occupied turned out to be beaming and full of vitality.
The merchants and Iqta made money, and the common people's wages increased by 50%, and they still had work to do at any time.
The six thousand troops entering the city were well served by good wine and meat and three thousand young Bukhara ladies, and few of them broke military discipline and went around causing trouble.