Li An personally handed over the pork belly stone in his hand to Yun'er's hand, and smiled faintly at the corner of her mouth, this maid herself is her own, give her the stone, and the final result is still her own, anyway, this girl can't run, no matter how you calculate it, she won't suffer.

"Ah Lang, I want a strange stone like this too."

The corners of the beauty's mouth twitched, obviously jealous.

Li An smiled and said, "Isn't it just a broken stone?" What do you have to argue, it's still early, maybe there is a better stone in this brook? Let's find out! Don't be stunned, find a good stone, and the official will be rewarded. ”

"Yes."

More than a dozen guards, except for the two who were in charge of guarding, took off their shoes and searched in the creek, and the two guides were also busy in the creek.

The creek is one step at its narrowest, but it is five or six steps wider, and the depth varies, from the shallowest to cover the foot, and the deeper to submerge the knee.

No one wants to get their pants wet, so Yuna and the beauty are always looking for them in the shallow water, and the guards are more willing to go to the deep water to explore for the reward promised by Ang Lee, because they understand that the stones in the deep water area must be less likely to be searched for, so the probability of finding strange stones is much greater.

Ang Lee didn't care if he could find the strange stone, because as long as he wanted, he could go to the market at any time to buy it, or ask the Lion Kingdom to pay tribute, and now he personally brought people to find the gem, purely for fun, and had no other ideas.

For example, if you get rich food through your own efforts, you will be very excited, and if you put these things directly in front of you and let yourself get them immediately, then it will become meaningless at all.

It's like playing a game, passing the level again and again, and finally winning, which will make people very excited, but if you take cheating measures, you can get the final victory in an instant, but the feeling in your heart is not so exciting, because this is a direct victory, not through hard work, and the sense of achievement and happiness is almost completely absent.

In order to get happiness and a sense of achievement, only through their own unremitting efforts, so that it is more interesting, therefore, the game of the future generations will be so pitiful, it always takes great effort to make people get some better equipment, and finally consume all people's energy and money, and in the end what they get is just a series of virtual symbols.

Ang Lee also played games a lot in his previous life, often played all night, what did he get, Ang Lee himself thought about it, he really didn't get anything, and in the end he made his body pay a huge price, which was too much to lose.

However, playing in the wild is never lost, not only cultivating a good mood, but also exercising the body and breathing fresh air.

From time to time, Ang Lee just bent down to pick up some stones that he was interested in, and when he found that there was nothing special, he would throw them away, and most of the time he watched everyone searching for treasures in the stream.

"Li Shilang, what do you think of this stone?"

One of the guards asked, picking up a black stone.

"Hey, eagle, this stone looks like an eagle, it's good, it's very collectible, it's rewarded."

Ang Lee said very happily.

In Li Anxin, the so-called gems are not comparable to strange stones at all, and the standard of strange stones is to be like something in life, whether it is an animal, a plant, or something else, as long as it can be associated with the objects in life, and the more realistic the better.

Of course, the reason why these strange stones are very valuable is because these strange stones are naturally formed, not artificially carved, and the probability of being like items in life is very low, so they are naturally very valuable.

And how much these strange-looking stones can be worth depends on how many people are there, if there are many people who like to collect strange stones, and they are all very rich people, then these stones are very valuable, if no one is interested in these stones, then no matter how strange the stone is, it is just a piece of garbage.

This involves a problem of the number of fans, anyone who wants to become rich must have a certain number of fans, otherwise, everyone can only be poor.

The emperor has the support of a large group of people, so that he can reign over the world and obtain all the good things of the entire empire, money is not a problem, the products produced by entrepreneurs, with the support of a large number of people, can make profits, and finally develop well, actors can only get good development if they are recognized by the audience, and let themselves gain fame and fortune, any thing, only by gaining the recognition of many people, can it finally become valuable.

The people of the Tang Dynasty are getting richer and richer, especially the aristocracy, and there will be more and more spare money in their hands, in this case, people's needs will naturally change, and the pursuit of rare items will become a fashion.

In troubled times, the common people are hungry, people pay more attention to practical value, and anything virtual is not valuable.

For example, in the era of war in the Republic of China, only grain and gold and silver are hard currency, food can fill people's stomachs, gold and silver can buy materials and weapons from abroad, and the rest of the things are not very valuable, not to mention the house, a war may turn the house into waste, antique calligraphy and painting are still worth a little money, but its value is far less than that of later generations.

The development of the entertainment industry has also been strictly inhibited, and the drama has to work very hard, but the income is pitiful, which is called a cheap industry, and the drama of later generations has made a fortune, that is because after the people are full of food and drink, the demand for entertainment will be much greater, and the income will naturally skyrocket.

Especially after the development of technology, one person's performance can be seen by all the people in the country, but in the backward era, it is impossible for one person to perform, and the audience can have thousands of people in the audience, and if there are more, the audience in the distance will not see anything.

Datang does not yet have the technology of television, but newspapers and periodicals have appeared, and in the process of improving step by step, in the future, playthings such as strange stones can also appear in newspapers and periodicals, thus leading a fashion.

"Alang, I found a particularly good stone, you see."

Yuna ran over happily.

Li An glanced at it and said happily: "It's so rare, this is a newly hatched chick, and it is still connected to the eggshell?" It's so rare, it's worth at least 10,000 gold! ”

"Oh, really? What I found out, it was mine. ”

Yun'er was so happy, he had just gotten a pork belly, and now he had got a more expensive chicken shell stone, which naturally made him quite excited.

There was no one in the beauty, so she was naturally quite disappointed, and her small mouth was longer than anything else.

"Beauty, this eagle is given to you, okay?"

Li Ang picked up the eagle stone found by the guards and prepared to give it to the beautiful woman.

"It's not good-looking, it's not good to have Sister Yun'er's pork belly and chicks out of the shell."

The beautiful woman was quite dissatisfied.

Li An smiled: "Then what's the way, who let you find a good strange stone by yourself, continue to work hard to find it!" You will definitely find a better looking stone. ”

The corners of the beauty's mouth twitched, and she continued to look for strange stones in the water with her head down.

More than a dozen people, in the not too deep stream, searched back and forth for all kinds of strange small stones, and after a few hours, at least dozens of strange stones were harvested.

All these strange stones are neatly placed on the shore, and it is a beautiful scenery at a glance.

"This red one is a bit like an apple, this is a crow looking back, this is a dog, no, it's a lion, or a poodle is more appropriate, this one is like a landscape painting, this one is a human face, and this one is better, there is a pine tree pattern on it, it's amazing."

Ang Lee looked at these strange patterns and commented one by one.

Some of these strange stones are very similar to something, and some are just a little similar, the more similar the stones, the more valuable they are, and the less similar they are, the less valuable they are.

As for the other more round stones, I also picked up a lot, all together, enough to weigh hundreds of catties, fortunately, there are more guards, and it is enough for one person to share a little.

With a full harvest, Li An and his party returned to Tanar Harbor with satisfaction, and all the stones were handed over to Yun'er and the beauty to manage, Li Ang was not too interested in these things, and when he saw them for the first time, he might be more excited, but after a few more glances, he felt that it was like that, and he couldn't arouse his interest.

Although the new regime of the Lion Country is facing various practical challenges, it is supported by the soldiers and horses of the Tang Dynasty, so it has gradually stabilized, and the people have gradually felt at ease, as for the power of the old king, it is compressed in the southern mountains, and it will be difficult to clear it for a while and a half, or in other words, it will not be able to be cleared at all.

After learning that Datang was willing to pay in installments, Ma Teqin was very happy, and immediately sent one-third of the compensation to Tanar, and he promised to pay off the rest of the compensation within five years, and he would never be in arrears.

The arrival of this money has allowed Li An to have sufficient funds to develop various industries and promote local development, and the construction of the port can be carried out in an orderly manner.

In order to allow Datang to permanently occupy overseas areas, there are many ways, maintaining a strong army is the most reliable method, in addition, you can also immigrate from Datang itself, so that the overseas land is full of Datang people, of course, integrating the local people is also a very good way.

And the fusion of a different race, is not so simple as words, you need to work on many aspects such as language, clothing and living habits, only the language and other aspects are the same as Datang, the integration is perfect.

If you have completely different living habits and do not speak the same language, then the degree of integration will become very low.

In order for the local people to be able to use the Datang language on a large scale and get used to the living habits of the Tang Dynasty, systematic education must be carried out.

Only by educating the children of the local people can learn the language of the Tang Dynasty and know the thousand-year-old cultural knowledge of the Tang Dynasty, can they cultivate their identification with the Tang Dynasty in all aspects, so that they can consider themselves to be the people of the Tang Dynasty.

To put it simply, education is to run schools and let children learn knowledge in schools, and in order to smoothly promote local children to study in schools opened by Datang, Datang must make a big investment.

Tuition and fees must be waived, otherwise the majority of the poor people in the area will not be willing to let their children spend money to go to school.

There is a lot of money in compensation in the Lion Country, and the amount of compensation will be sent one after another, and the pressure on funds is not very great, but it is not enough to run a school with money, but also to have teachers, if there is no sufficient number of teachers, who will educate the children of the local people?

The Datang language is different from the local language, which puts forward higher requirements for teachers, especially language teachers, who must be proficient in both Datang and local languages, otherwise, there is no way to educate at all.

The lack of teachers is obvious, there are not many people who can find people who are proficient in the Tang language, it is estimated that there are not even a hundred people, and a large number of subordinates brought by Li An, almost no one understands the local language, and many translations are sandwiched into a lot of processes, for example, the Tang officials communicate with Nan Tianzhu, and the people of Nan Tianzhu communicate with the locals, so as to achieve smooth language exchanges.

There are no qualified teachers, this is a big problem, so in a short period of time, it is unlikely that the children of the local people can learn the Datang language, and it is estimated that it will take at least thirty or fifty years to achieve that all the local people can speak the Datang language.

Restricted by the constraints of the actual situation, the early investment in the school must not be too large, Li An personally chose three locations, first opened three Datang schools, recruited a certain number of local children, carried out the first batch of education, and then, after the teachers were guaranteed, a larger scale of school construction was carried out.

These three Datang schools, the first and the largest one, are near the port of Tanar, covering an area of more than 100 acres, and it is a school with a decent scale.

Because the purpose of opening the school is to integrate the local people and make them recognize the Tang Empire, there is no need to teach too esoteric knowledge in the early stage, and it is enough to arrange three subjects first.

The first subject is naturally the Datang language, which is the most core subject, which must be strictly taught, and the second subject is arithmetic, as a cultured person, arithmetic must be taught to them, and it can also make their families understand the useful things that Datang has given to their children.

The third subject is the history of the Tang Dynasty, so that local children can understand the history of the Tang Dynasty for thousands of years of splendid civilization, so that they can have a yearning for the Tang Dynasty and be proud of being a Tang people.

Ang Lee believes that by opening the Datang Academy, he will be able to assimilate the local people well, and in a few decades, this area will truly become a stable overseas territory of the Tang Dynasty.