Section 43 Observations (1)

Analia is really a very learned woman, and she doesn't need to let more than the people of later generations, at least that's what Lao Luo sees. She is proficient in almost all Western languages, and she also has a lot of knowledge in military affairs, at least she can understand the hedgehog-like facilities that Lao Luo arranged around the camp, you must know that many of the things that Lao Luo arranged are not the standard of combat in this era.

Many of the arrangements at night, such as the black four-legged nails, such as the improvised bed crossbow used to fire spears, these things will be put away during the day, but they will inevitably show some flaws.

Fortunately, this lady with an extraordinary background just came to meet Li Ji, the student's sweetheart, and by the way, she put a little pressure on Lao Luo, told Li Ji a few words, and then pointed out more than a dozen people as language teachers, and then left with the maid Shi Shiran.

The people in charge of teaching the language are not all Tang Chinese, and many of them have Tang hair in a bun, but there are still Cypriot or Semitic or even typical Mediterranean blood characteristics between the eyebrows. When they spoke in different Western languages, Lao Luo's soldiers couldn't help but smile with curiosity or surprise.

This is rare, because Lao Luo's warriors are all from the bottom of the gladiators, and most of them are losers from different nationalities, and suddenly seeing a guy who speaks his own national language but is dressed as a foreign race, it can't help but be said to be a kind of touch.

Lao Luo turned a blind eye to this phenomenon, and although these warriors decided to follow in his footsteps, they were still in a vague concept of the East, and it was better to use people who spoke their native dialect to express something than Lao Luo himself to speak thousands of words.

Li Ji was not good at this kind of thing, but walked beside Lao Luo and looked at him thoughtfully, "The third brother thinks that the teacher is a little ...... Troublesome? ”

"Siniang, what did you say?" It took Lao Luo a long time to react, "Oh, you mean Ms. Analia?" She's very nice, at least you can see that she cares about you. ”

"Yes, the teacher is just like my mother." Li Ji's eyes were crooked like crescent moons, and she touched her ears with her hands with a smile.

"But, Siniang," looking at this fire girl's expression, Lao Luo couldn't help but have some playful thoughts, "Speaking of which, many of your habits are also learned from your teacher, right?" ”

"What?" Li Ji was stunned for a moment, looked at Lao Luo's somewhat mocking expression, and immediately reacted, "Third brother, you make fun of me, where can I have a teacher so tricky!" ”

"Hehe, I'm joking, Siniang is hearty and open-minded, and she is a good lady." Lao Luo accepted it when he saw it, and said in his heart, you are not tricky, but you will ask from beginning to end when you encounter problems, but this is not easy to say, otherwise Li Ji will definitely look like Hua Biao when she was crazy, "But the relationship between you and your teacher looks really good." ”

"Well, Teacher Analia has a very strong personality, and she is very knowledgeable, and the ancestors of the family sometimes can't talk about her." Li Ji really admired her teacher Analia, her father was taciturn, and her mother died very early, she continued with some feelings, "The teacher is like my mother, and many things support me, just like going to Constantinople, the family does not agree with me going, they think that women should stay at home, saying that it is an ancestral rule." Third brother, is this the case in my hometown? ”

Lao Luo was also a little speechless, although he didn't know the real homeland at this time, but there would be no big mistake in thinking about the patriarchy of thousands of years. But saying these things was inevitably a blow to this simple girl, so he said a little perfunctorily: "Siniang, in fact, this is almost the same in both the East and the West, remember that in Athens, women there are not allowed to do many things?" The Turks still treat women as goods! ”

"Hmph, Turks are barbarians! Teachers have said it! Li Ji wrinkled her nose and said in a vicious voice.

"Okay, Siniang will accompany me to the craftsman's camp for a walk, I haven't had time to walk around here." Lao Luo looked at the annoyed girl with some amusement and interrupted her complaining. This topic is not clear for a while, and it is an idea he has long had to go to the Tang camp of this era to see, anyway, his own camp does not need him to spend too much energy, and the soldiers under his command are very worry-free, and they are by no means as casual as the recruits of later generations.

Since the first night, Lao Luo told everyone about his plans for the future, and almost all over the camp, and the soldiers were also full of enthusiasm for the sake of it, otherwise where would these guys who are used to fighting would be enthusiastic to learn a new language?

According to Stan's big guy, the guy is also very positive, and Corn Philo, who was captured as a slave, is no longer so listless.

Lao Luo was noncommittal about the latter, and the people of this era did not have an accurate understanding of the country and the nation, whether it was the East or the West, and even more so on the grassland. Slavery is actually not an unacceptable thing, there is a Shahail Suikili in the Arab world who became a general from a slave, and even the founder of the Fatimid kingdom, and the Mamluks are a myth in reality.

Although the Qarluq people are the hated enemies of the Tang people, Lao Luo does not exclude the promotion of capable people from slaves, as long as they can benefit their own future, not to mention that more than 200 years have passed since the Battle of Henglus, and many things have been covered up in the fog of history, and the parties at that time have long become underground loess.

Lao Luo thought leisurely, while listening to the beautiful voice introduced by Li Ji beside him, as for Olki, who insisted on following Lao Luo's left and right, he was always silent, he was a good assistant, never said much, and the things he explained could always be conveyed on time, and the force was not bad, at least his physical strength could ensure that he followed Lao Luo and maintained combat effectiveness at all times.

The outer defense of the artisan battalion, that is, the Tang battalion, is not bad, at least not a place where dozens of cavalry can charge the city, you must know that in the land of the Sylvan Plain, many villages do not even have defensive walls at all.

Of course, this is not to say that it is safer than those Western-style castles, but this place is more inherited from the Eastern wisdom of protecting the people - the lords of the West live in the castles, and the commoners or serfs are very poor, and thieves or robbers will not visit them.

The highest part of the city wall here is four to five meters high, the bottom is made of stone, the upper part is made of blue and red bricks, the thickness is about less than four meters, Lao Luo guessed that there may be a place like a hidden soldier hole in the city wall, but most of the part should be filled with loess, and there are several huge Tang flags on the city wall, indicating that this is still continuing the oriental culture.

There are no tall buildings in the city, there are low houses everywhere, and it is said to be low, but from Lao Luo's eyes. Most of the houses are made of stone, the roofs are made of thatch or leaves and clay, only a few houses are made of bricks, and the roads in the city are only compacted except for the main roads with stones and sand, and a lot of unmelted snow can be seen on the side of the road.

Lao Luo didn't see the nullah used to drain sewage, and when he was about to ask Li Ji, he suddenly smelled a pungent stench, and when he looked along the direction, he found that it was a dirty water truck used to dispose of dirt.

Li Ji wrinkled her nose and complained viciously, "Damn the Wei family, they all said that they were arranged to deal with this thing every morning, but they were always so lazy that they only ...... it in the afternoon."

"It seems that the management in the camp is not in place, Siniang, why don't you build a drainage culvert here?" Lao Luo had not seen such a scene at least in Cairo, nor did Constantinople, and it is only known in historical sources that there were such urban tools in the Ming and Qing dynasties.

"Culvert?" Li Ji knows this thing, as a descendant of the craftsman battalion, how can he not know a little bit about urban construction, "It's not that the people above are not in harmony, the ancestors of the family can't convince the Pei family and the Wei family, Grandpa said that when he first moved here, he wanted to build a city seriously, but the people of the Pei family and the Wei family felt that they would not stay here for too long, so they delayed the matter, if it wasn't for my ancestor who insisted on building the city wall, I am afraid that the clan would have been robbed by robbers." ”

Li Ji's complaint made Lao Luo have a general understanding of the upper echelons of this group, that is, this is an inefficient and uneven team, the Li family and the Zhang family may represent the positive side, but the Pei family and the Wei family are the other side of greed and conservatism, and these people are still very short-sighted. Seeing small profits and forgetting the great righteousness, this kind of person is basically an unstable element in a team, and it doesn't matter if the small team is small, but expanding to a group of tens of thousands of people is a hidden danger that must be solved.

Although Li Ji's words can only be used as a reference, Lao Luo knows that this little woman is not quite unreasonable, that is to say, her words will be basically objective, so it is necessary to eliminate or exclude the influence of the two surnames Pei and Wei in a short period of time.

Of course, this news is actually not very important, it can be heard through the guys in Alke, earlier in Constantinople, Lao Luo had heard Li Ji's general introduction, and he had expected it for a long time. The reason why he wants to visit this Tang town, Lao Luo's main purpose is to understand the living conditions of the people here, and how to integrate into the national system of this era in the future, he needs to find an entry point, and at the same time have the most direct impression of these people.

As a soldier, well, as a former professional soldier, plus the role of the leader that Lao Luo needs to play now, this is something he needs to think about carefully.

There are three main streets in the town, the most important of which is the one that runs through the north and south gates, the road is about eleven or twelve meters wide, and can accommodate four simple horse-drawn carriages on both sides of the road, if you do not consider the influence of the signboards and the like on both sides of the road. In Lao Luo's view, this is the width of a small city pedestrian street in later generations, of course, far less gorgeous than later generations, well, similar to the ancient township roads in Europe in later generations, but not so tortuous.

The original plan can be clearly seen in the streets of the whole town, but unfortunately it can also be clearly seen that the implementation of the later plan is not rigorous, according to the words of later generations, the illegal occupation seriously affects the cleanliness of the streets.