Later in the day, it was getting dark, and the siege was over. The outer city of Rahuo was also captured by the cathars. Seeing that the rout had been exhausted, the governor of Sindh, Egnaqi, led the defeated army into the inner city in time. And before the cathars arrived, they closed the gates of the city and guarded them heavily.

Taking advantage of the great victory, the cathars attacked several times. However, under the personal supervision of Egnazi, the defenders repelled the attacks of the cathars several times. At this point, the cathars temporarily halted their offensive.

In the end, the inner city is no better than the outer city! Not only are the walls taller, but the fortifications are also more complete. And the area of the inner city is only one-third of the outer city, and the walls that need to be guarded are much less. As a result, each section of the wall was garrisoned with one or two as many soldiers as the outer city.

In addition, the siege lasted so long, and the soldiers of the cathar army were also tired. The vast outer city is not all under the control of the cathars. It takes a certain amount of energy to clean it up.

On top of that, it's already getting dark. The siege of the city at night was quite restrictive. Therefore, after some consideration, the cathar army, under the order of Li Gao, made every effort to clear the outer city. Many of the defeated troops who fled to the people's homes were also captured in groups. There were also mobs from other sects instigated by Egnazi who tried to break the net with the cathars. As a result, only a few more corpses were added to the mass graves outside the city.

This clean-up lasted until the second half of the night. The whole city is in fear, and it is impossible to live all day. Many people who were hiding inside the city also listened to the shouts outside the city, tossing and turning.

At dawn the next day, the cathars went from house to house to 'invite' the people out of their homes. On the surface, the cathars need their help with chores. But in fact, it was to prevent them from making trouble, and they were deliberately gathered.

For the land of faith is not the same as the Gur. It is separated from Khorasan by high mountains, so the two sides do not have close contacts. The local believers also had a lot of misunderstandings about the Puritanism of the cathars. This can be seen from the endless riots and civil unrest that erupted last night.

Therefore, in order to prevent future troubles, we can only gather them together to take care of them first. In this way, under the noses of the cathars, I am not afraid of any misdeeds from them.

But the process did not go smoothly. Because there are countless massacres in this era! When the city of Rahuor was captured by the Gur, it was experienced. At that time, they were also gathered by force and then massacred.

Therefore, the actions of the cathars immediately terrified the people. As a result, when the cathars arrived, many people closed their doors and hid in their homes. It wasn't until the cathars set fire to a few houses that some lucky people had to do what they were told.

But there are still people who are not afraid of death, and avoid the cathars in various ways. Some of them were also detrimental to the cathars, causing a small number of soldiers to be injured. Two soldiers were also killed by the people who disobeyed the order.

In this regard, the cathars are directly killing people and destroying people.

After all, troubled times use heavy codes! At this juncture, it is undoubtedly asking for trouble.

At the same time, on the inner city side, the cathars did not pull down. Although the siege battle was not launched again, all kinds of siege equipment were delivered. Some houses around the inner city have also been demolished on a large scale by the cathars.

It didn't take long for a circle of open space with a radius of more than ten zhang to form around the inner city. And two artillery pieces, also every once in a while, bombarded the city walls.

Although judging by the hardness of the wall, the threat of artillery to the wall is not high. But the roaring momentum kept beating in the hearts of the defenders. After each round of bombardment, the defenders' defensive spirit will also be weakened.

The situation on the battlefield is also becoming more and more favorable to the cathars. But it didn't last long! Because of the arrival of reinforcements from Delhi, it added a bit of a boost to the defenders of the inner city.

In the big tent, Li Chengji sat on a chair covered with silver rat skin. This was brought from Khorezm, along with sable skins, weasel skins, beeswax, arrows, high fur caps, fish gelatin, castor oil, amber, and so on.

It was also Mahamat who led the army to move north, which weakened the control of Yulong Jiechi and other places. Even if Khorezm cleared the border with vertical walls, the profit-seeking nature of the merchants could not be stopped.

As a result, the local smuggling trade has become more rampant than ever before. Many products native to Khorazm and the Kipchak steppes in the north poured into Khorasan on a large scale through smugglers. After a certain amount of processing, it is sold to the surrounding places at a high price.

The types of commerce in Khorasan have also been enriched a lot. Malu and Puhua, the two most important cities in Khorasan, have become veritable commodity processing factories in Eastern Persia and Hezhong. In addition to farming, many people went to the city to work. There are also many herders who have a certain amount of spare time through the livestock captive methods taught by the Department of Agriculture. So he also went into the city to find some workshops and work as workers.

But more often than not, it was the slaves that the workshop owners bought from the various tooth men. Because with the strong rise of Khorasan, many surrounding forces do not dare to fight with Khorasan for the time being. In addition, Li Chengji also sent envoys to lobby various forces. Coercion and inducement were used to induce these forces to accept the goods of Khorasan.

We also opened trading houses and expanded our trading bases. As a result, Khorasan's commercial influence has expanded several times on the original basis.

And because of the wide variety of commercial goods in Khorasan, the price is high-quality and low. A lot of things, even more ahead of the times. In particular, the workshops under the government and the workshops with obvious official colors produce even better things.

Take the salt of Khorasan, for example! It is fine and cheap, and even though it will be taxed very high outside of Khorasan, it is still more cost-effective than locally produced salt. And a lot of salt is imported through smugglers.

The soldiers and officials who were guarding the pass were also bought by them. So on the market, the price is lower.

Now those salt pans and salt factories have basically closed down. There are still those who are barely able to maintain, and they are also in the last years of the wind and candles, and there is only one breath left.

Therefore, the boundaries of East Persia and the river are basically the world of Khorasan salt.

As for other goods, it is no worse than table salt. Commercially, therefore, Khorasan can be said to have unified Eastern Persia and Transoxiana.

It was this commercial stimulus that led to a fiery 'boom in construction' in Khorasan. Anyone who has a little financial resources invests in the workshop. The Department of Commerce also strongly supported this, so some less important methods of producing commodities were transferred in the form of selling patents.

And the workshop needs people!

Later, during the Industrial Revolution in Britain, the enclosure movement was also implemented. As a result, the people at that time compared it to 'sheep eating people'.

Therefore, the large-scale construction of the workshop requires a large number of workers. However, the policy of 'land reform' was implemented in Khorasan, so that those who farmed land had fields, and those who raised cattle and sheep had pastures. In the case of their own dependence, the people do not have such an urgent need for workmanship. In addition, the workshops under the government and the workshops run by big families are large in scale and have high salaries. As a result, many people, even if they work, look down on those small workshops.

As a result, the attention of the workshop owners naturally shifted overseas.

Many people from foreign powers such as Khorezm, the Western Qarakhanid, the Persian homeland, the Great Liao, and the Gur were lured to the workshops in Khorasan by slave traders entrusted by the workshop owners in various ways. And because most of the slaves in the surrounding lands already knew about the abolition of the slave policy in Khorasan, the slave merchants had to look further.

The Eastern Kharat Khanate, Mongolia, Kipchak, Iraq, Syria, Byzantium, and other places became important sources of slave purchases.

Compared with the Kipchaks, Mongols and other steppe peoples, the workshop owners preferred slaves from Byzantium, Iraq, Syria and the Eastern Qala Khanate. Because these places have entered the agricultural civilization, the social division of labor is relatively detailed. The degree of civilization is also higher than that of the steppe people.

Entering the workshop, it is not as clumsy as the steppe people, and it takes a long period of adaptation.

This led to a rapid growth of Byzantium, Iraqi, and Syrian populations in Khorasan.

Although the slave trade was abolished, Khorasan also understood that there was a shortage of people. Therefore, they also turn a blind eye to the behavior of the workshop owners. However, the status of 'slave' is never allowed to exist in Khorasan. Therefore, those slaves bought by the workshop owners will be ordered by the slave merchants to sign employment contracts before entering the country.

The above is based on the minimum salary in Khorasan, and the employment contract is signed for a maximum of ten years. Originally, Khorasan stipulated that the employment contract could not exceed three years. At the end of the period, you must continue to renew your contract with the Commercial Division.

Just to buy these slaves, the workshop owners did spend a lot of money. In addition, this also increased the population and taxes of Khorasan, enriching the treasury. Taking into account their enthusiasm, we issued targeted regulations on employment contracts for overseas people.

This period was extended to 10 years.

In the case of domestic, the three-year period remains unchanged. In order to effectively distinguish between them, there are staff from the Department of Commerce at each port of entry. Specially stamped the employment contracts of the workshop owners, which can be regarded as an endorsement for them.

This has led to long queues at various ports of entry. In particular, Tus County and Puhua County have the largest number of people entering the country. In some cases, at night, there was a long line of people waiting to enter the country.

But that's all for later! The most important thing at the moment is the war of Rahuo'er. In particular, the arrival of reinforcements from Delhi could easily make the cathars vulnerable to the enemy. Therefore, how to retreat from the enemy has become a matter that the generals present urgently need to consider.

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