Ang Lee is about to leave Córdoba, before leaving, he naturally has to prepare more souvenirs, and the famous local souvenirs are to bring some back, among them, fruits should naturally bring less, because it is easy to spoil, and a lot of delicious food that can be stored for a long time, you have to bring more, and bring it back to Datang as a gift to your favorite person.

Most of the selection of these local specialties are handled by his subordinates, and only a few products are personally selected by Li An, and because the Tang soldiers are strictly disciplined and have no offense against the common people, so after learning that the Tang Dynasty soldiers and horses are leaving, the local people are a little reluctant.

After all, the Datang soldiers were too good to them, not only taking care of the business of the locals, but also showing their various weapons to the people to watch, and even the naughty children climbed to the roof of the ironclad car, the Datang soldiers did not embarrass them, but very politely asked the children to be careful, don't fall and get hurt, this kind of care is no wonder the local people have a good impression of the Datang soldiers.

However, the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty should still leave, and they can't not leave because the local people are reluctant to let them leave, and the soldiers should also return to Datang and reunite with their relatives.

"Li Shilang, you saw it! The people here are extremely polite to the Tang Dynasty soldiers, and I heard that they are reluctant to let the Tang Dynasty soldiers leave, and many people are repeatedly retained! ”

While shopping, his subordinates looked at Li An and spoke.

Li An said with a smile: "Needless to say, our soldiers are a group of God of Wealth, dinner and drink to find a little lady, they don't feel sorry for money at all, is there anyone in the world who hates God of Wealth?" Hahaha! ”

This is the truth, because the treatment of Datang soldiers is better and the salary is relatively high, so there is enough spare money to be chic and happy, and the number of Datang soldiers is also quite large, isn't this just a group of God of Wealth? Moreover, it is still a very high-quality God of Wealth, the local people, especially the businessmen who do business, how can they not like the reason of the Tang Dynasty soldiers, I heard that such a large group of God of Wealth is leaving, of course I am reluctant in my heart.

"What Li Shilang said is that our soldiers, in front of these local people, are not the God of Wealth, hahaha!"

The subordinates laughed as they spoke, and they were in a good mood.

The streets of Córdoba are the largest and best in the entire Rahman Kingdom, the number of merchants and hawkers is relatively concentrated, and all kinds of local products are available, although the scale here is far less than the east and west cities of Chang'an City in the Tang Dynasty, but in the area of Europa, it is still very good, at least it can rank in the top few.

This is the huge gap between the East and the West, in later generations, perhaps the West is synonymous with powerful and advanced science and technology, but in the era of the Tang Dynasty, whether it is science and technology, culture, or economy, military, all of them are the most powerful Tang Dynasty in the East, when it comes to big countries, the first thing that comes to mind is the Tang Empire.

At this time, in Europa, the folk customs are still relatively simple, there are relatively few people who commit adultery, and the common people are still more credible, and they rarely do things that are cheated and abducted, and they will never cheat the Tang Dynasty soldiers, and the goods will be sold for as much as they are worth, and there are even additional discounts.

Beef is a relatively common local food, and the price is not expensive, an ordinary soldier in the Tang Dynasty can buy five catties of beef for a day's military salary, while the local ordinary people who work can buy half a catty of beef for a day's salary, which is a tenfold difference.

Of course, for those wealthy businessmen, it is estimated that it will not be a problem to buy 100 catties of beef with a day's income, but these rich businessmen, after all, are a very small number of people, and the proportion of the population is less than one percent.

Most of the small businessmen and workers have relatively low incomes, that is to say, in the whole of Córdoba, there are not many people who are richer than the Tang Dynasty soldiers, so as to reflect the generous treatment of the Tang Dynasty soldiers.

There are also some bold people who will take the initiative to chat with the Datang soldiers and ask about the income of the Datang soldiers, and when they learned that the income of the most ordinary soldiers in the Datang Dynasty was ten times that of their own, many local workers had to join the Datang army.

It's a pity that Li An has no plans to recruit soldiers locally, otherwise, he can easily recruit tens of thousands, which shows that as long as the salary is high, nothing can be done.

The reason why the treatment of ordinary soldiers in the Tang Dynasty can be so high is inseparable from the huge national strength of the Tang Empire, because the Tang Dynasty is rich enough and has sufficient financial support, which allows the income of ordinary soldiers to reach a high position.

For example, in a certain big country in later generations, the income of ordinary people is about ten times that of China, that is because they have this national strength, so that the reason for their generally high wages is that if the national strength is weak, the economy and science and technology are not developed enough, high wages will not be able to support it in any way.

Therefore, it is very important to develop high-tech industries, and only when we have a huge high-tech industry can we enable the common people to live a better and better life and earn a large amount of wealth for the country.

China has been relatively wealthy since ancient times, that is because we have mastered many core technologies that others have not mastered, such as silk technology and porcelain technology, which are the quintessence of China and a high-tech industry that has surpassed other countries for thousands of years.

Taking silk as an example, this technology has been monopolized by the ancestors of China for thousands of years, and in these thousands of years, all live silkworms and related technologies are strictly forbidden to be exported, otherwise it is a capital crime.

And because the countries in the west have never been able to obtain live silkworms, they have not been able to develop the sericulture industry, and as for the development of silk, it is even more impossible to talk about.

In this way, Chinese silk can be sold to Western countries at a relatively high price, so as to earn enough money for the Tang Dynasty.

It is said that in the ancient Roman era, Chinese silk has spread to the West, at that time, the price of Chinese silk is equivalent to gold, that is, a pound of silk can be exchanged for a pound of gold, which shows how expensive it is.

According to the words of some people in later generations, selling silk is even more enjoyable than selling white powder, and it is too easy to make money.

This involves the technical blockade and commercial monopoly, all the people engaged in the silkworm business in China, must hold a certificate to work, the imperial court is completely in control of the situation of these people, these technical talents, without the permission of the imperial court, can not leave China, in order to avoid these technical talents to the small Western countries after the flow of technology, the technology is also brought over.

In addition, the most important thing in the silk industry is the silkworm baby, without silkworms, the silk industry can not talk about the development, and the dynasties of China are ordered to prohibit the silkworm baby from being taken out of the customs, otherwise it will be a felony

In this way, silk can only be the only industry in China, a profiteering industry that others cannot grasp, so as to drive China to one prosperous era after another.

Silk originated in China, this is an undisputed thing, silkworm naturally also originated in China, it is said that as early as the time of the three emperors and five emperors, silkworm raising has begun to appear, it is the emperor's wife ancestor invented the technology of raising silkworms and taking silk.

As for who invented the finished silk, there has always been controversy, no one can be sure of the inventor of silk, and some people regard the ancestor as the inventor of silk, after all, it was the ancestor who invented the technology of raising silkworms.

But the archaeology of later generations, what can be said for sure, is that silk appeared five or six thousand years ago, that is, the period of the Three Emperors and Five Emperors, and by the Shang and Zhou dynasties, when there are records of civilization, the technology of silk has developed to a considerable level, and even jacquard fabrics with complex technology have appeared.

During the Qin and Han dynasties, the development of silk was even more powerful, and the unification of Qin and the establishment of a centralized system laid the foundation for the strength and prosperity of the Han Dynasty. At the beginning of the Han Dynasty, the policy of cultivating with the people was implemented, which promoted the rapid development of the economy. The large-scale government-run silk industry was established, its products mainly met the needs of the court and the government, the private silk weaving industry also had a great development, some workshops formed their own product characteristics and popularity, the silk production area was developed compared with the Shang and Zhou dynasties, from the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Shu brocade in the southwest region became a well-known silk product in the country.

During the Qin and Han dynasties, the silk weaving industry not only developed greatly, but also with the large-scale expansion of China's foreign influence in the Han Dynasty, the trade and export of silk reached an unprecedented level of prosperity. The promotion of trade led to the further development of economic and cultural exchanges between the Central Plains and the frontiers, China and its eastern and western neighbors, thus forming the famous Silk Road.

The development of silk in Datang is naturally more developed, and it can be said that by the time of Datang, the development of silk has entered its heyday, and the output, quality, and variety have reached an unprecedented level.

Moreover, in order to increase the income of the empire, the passage of the Silk Road has increased to three, and the frequency of trade is also unprecedentedly high, it can even be said that it is the prosperity of the silk trade that has promoted the prosperity of the Tang Empire, and the silk trade has a significant role in the prosperity of the Tang Empire.

Of course, in addition to the monopoly profiteering industry of silk, there are also monopoly industries such as ceramics and papermaking in Huaxia, which can also make a lot of money.

For example, the raw material of ceramics is nothing more than clay, and after being burned with a large fire, it becomes fine porcelain, which can be sold for a very high price, especially delicate ceramics with patterns and ideas, which can be sold for a more expensive value than gold.

Many porcelains from the Tang and Song dynasties unearthed by later archaeologists are still intact, and any one of them is priceless.

The same is true for papermaking, you know, the materials of papermaking are also very buried, such as rotten leaves, rotten fish nets and other materials, these materials are slightly blended, and after processing, exquisite paper can be made, so as to make money for Huaxia.

Of course, in the end, because of the accident, many of Datang's technologies were leaked, such as the silkworm baby is not allowed to go out of the customs, but someone secretly hid the silkworm baby in the wooden crutch, so as to avoid the search of the checkpoint soldiers, and then let the silkworm baby take root in the western country, so that the silk of China has a competitive opponent.

However, due to the water and soil, the quality of the silkworms in Western countries is always not as good as the silkworms in China, and the quality of silk is also very different, so the silk in China is still very popular, but the value is bound to be slightly reduced.

Papermaking has not been leaked in Ang Lee's time, of course, this is entirely because of Ang Lee's arrival, otherwise, it is estimated that it will be leaked.

In history, the leakage of papermaking technology was in the middle of the Tang Dynasty, after the defeat of the Battle of Talas, some of the Tang Dynasty soldiers were captured by the Great Food Country and were escorted to the Western countries.

After all, there is no technology in the world that does not leak, all technologies have the possibility of leakage, and it is not easy for Huaxia technology to maintain the advantage of a thousand years.

In other words, only by maintaining the technological superiority of the monopoly can we live the best life and make the common people of our country rich.

The main reason why China in later generations appeared to be relatively poor was that many high-tech countries were in the hands of other countries, and these countries that had mastered technology naturally did not leak their own technology to Huaxia, and moreover, they would sell their high-tech products at several times the price, so that the ordinary people of China would pay for it.

Because they have high and new technology, they can unscrupulously raise prices to squeeze us, while the prices of the low-end products we produce must be very low, and it is already very good to have a few percent of the profits, let alone several times, or even dozens of times the profits.

If you refuse to buy, then you can't get it, and the enterprise that produces low-end products must sell the product at a very low price, and if the price is high, others will not buy it, anyway, there are many low-end products that can be produced, and there is a lot of room for choice.

In his previous life, Li An felt a little melancholy when he thought that the high-tech was in the hands of other countries, and he would always be unhappy, but after coming to Datang, Li Anxin's resentment was swept away at once.

Even if he doesn't open up industrialization, Datang's existing technology alone surpasses all other countries, and this unique sense of pride makes Li Ang very comfortable.

"The beef in Córdoba is very good, you should buy more and bring it home."

Ang Lee walked to the front of a stall selling beef and spoke.

This is the food that Ang Lee has eaten the most since he came to the local area, so he decided to buy some to take back and let his relatives at home taste it.