No matter what happens, there are always good and bad, and there are good things that make people feel good and there are things that make people upset.

According to Lao Luo's many years of battlefield experience, in this era, tens of thousands of horses across the entire Central Asia are actually no essential difference from battlefield breakthroughs, the only difference may be the difference in intensity.

Except for small-scale bandits and robbers, the Turks are currently the main enemies along the way, and rest is only temporary, and vigilance must be maintained.

Here in the city of Rai (Tehran), the soldiers who had worked hard all the way could rest, but their families and craftsmen could not, and they had to make some clothes necessary for the rest of the road and renovate all the various carts used to get on the road.

Lao Luo and the leading generals of the various departments can not rest, the rest after running thousands of miles is the most prone to mistakes, although the Iranians in the city of Rai did not show hostility, but the vigilance must not be lacking, in addition to the soldiers on duty, the guard team to guard against the surprise attack must also take turns on duty.

Therefore, Lao Luo did not stop after inspecting the boys' camp, but immediately continued to walk around the camp, which was comforting and also checked the guards of various departments.

Helton and Li Xuan negotiated with the two officials of the city of Rai, named Bal'ami and Musa respectively, that the supplies to be collected were to be traded at market prices ten miles from the camp, and grain, forage, meat, water bladders, and pack horses of all kinds were all traded, as well as all kinds of locally produced furs.

The items provided by the Donggui team are a lot of agricultural metal tools, hoes, pickaxes, shovels, wooden wheeled carts and various small knives, etc., and the four-wheeled carts and partial vans and floating cars used on the road are impossible to appear on the item list.

Due to the wide range of materials traded, but the time of the trade was very short, the trade could only be carried out in the form of bazaars or bazaars, and the equivalents of the delivery price were gold and silver coins, the gold solidus of the Romans (Byzantium) and the dinar of the Arabs, and the Daric and Siglos of the Persians, all gold and silver coins were calculated in terms of fineness and weight, and there was no one to say anything about taxes, in fact, because the Ghaznavid Turks did not care about it. The Iranians did not have a government of their own (the Samanid dynasty), and the administration here was entirely left to the natives.

On the second day of their arrival in Rai, the bazaar began, and hordes of Iranian merchants and merchants from all walks of life gathered in an open field near the salt lake ten miles away from the camp, where various local languages and sign language were everywhere, and the families and civilians of the returnees were organized in groups to come here to trade.

Lao Luo also took the time to order Helton to buy a large number of lambskins, calfskins, camel skins, wolf skins, deer skins and other skins here, with the purpose of making gloves and hats needed when winter came. Of course, the purchase of the necessary grain, forage and pack horses does not need to be mentioned separately.

As for the defense of the order of the bazaar, it was done by a lieutenant under Cheng Shouru and the soldiers of the Iranian Sastin, involving their own merchants and people, because robbers and thieves were everywhere in this land, and they were as difficult to exterminate as mountain rats in limestone caves.

Just as hard to exterminate are the merchants who traveled from place to place in this land, the western section of the ancient Silk Road to the West, and every year countless merchants walked this road for huge profits - the price of silk from the East to Rome was at least 100 times the purchase price. In addition, tea bricks are also a new commodity on this road, tea bricks first appeared in the Tang Dynasty, and now have become a popular necessity for grassland tribes and the Western Regions - for people who eat meat all day, tea is an indispensable drink to dissolve the fat in the stomach.

In the afternoon of the next day, these merchants who walked the Silk Road became a source of trouble for Lao Luo.

As we all know, merchants can not care about life for profit, and some people compare them with gamblers, and these merchants who walked the Silk Road are the most crazy kind of gamblers.

These merchants had their fate on a long-distance trade, and if they were able to make a successful trip between East and West, the profits they would make would cover at least half of their life's expenses. In addition, they are also the most rampant adventurers, as long as they encounter the bloodiest and murderous races, they dare to approach them.

Lao Luo's team of tens of thousands of people became an object of trade in the eyes of these merchants, and at the same time became a dependency in the eyes of some merchants in the same direction, although the warriors in this huge team were like demons emerging from the dust—earthy yellow robes and black and yellow armor.

Merchants who intend to trade can naturally choose to trade in the bazaar, but the merchants who expect to follow the eastward return team become like they have seen a hornet of honey, and the ten romari of the trading bazaar to the main camp are full of these merchants, which brings great hidden dangers to the safety of the entire camp, because it is likely that it is impossible to distinguish which side is a sneak attacker with the intention of attacking in the dark.

"General Luo, do you need to send someone out to drive them away?" After Cheng Shouru received the sentry's report, he directly approached Lao Luo to get an idea.

"No, it is not responsible for our fighters to travel rashly at night! Spread the order, be wary of anyone who dares to take advantage of the night to approach a place of arrows, first sound a warning with a hammer, guard the bed crossbow, and then dare to act recklessly, all will be shot! "Lao Luo doesn't care if he will be charged with indiscriminate killing, the safety of his own people is the most important thing.

"No!" After the wartime order came down, the subordinates must carry it out, there is no room for bargaining, even Cheng Shouru does not dare to make an exception, this is the rule at this time. There is no such thing as injuring civilians by mistake, and the army itself is a machine of violence, whether it is a thousand years forward or a thousand years back.

That night, at least thirty or fifty unknown people were shot and killed, and the reason why the data is inaccurate is because when the sentry out of the camp in the morning found only thirty-one corpses and two unlucky ghosts who had been pierced through the thighs, and the rest of the place was clearly visible and dragged blood-colored traces, I don't know whether they were rescued by their companions or used as food by wild wolves.

"Lao Cheng, in the morning order someone to gather and drive away all the unknown people from the main camp to the bazaar, ask their intentions, if they wish to follow, order them to swear to each other to form a separate team, and when we go on the road, they can follow outside the five miles (Rome), if they can't tell their identities and speak badly, you know what to do, right?" When it was time to rest, he was troubled by such trivial matters, and Lao Luo was in a very bad mood.

"Understand, if you can't tell your identity and speak badly, you will all be beheaded and hung on a wooden pole!" Cheng Shouru was also a little annoyed, although he was not attacked at night, but the soldiers who kept vigil did not dare to be negligent, and he was also woken up by Ming Di again and again, you must know that the original intention of staying here was to rest and recover his strength.

"That's right, don't worry about who to offend, in this land, only fists and scimitars are the power to speak, and mercy is reserved for one's own people. Remember to choose some soldiers who have never seen blood to open meat, it is no longer useful to always train. Lao Luo's tone softened a little.

Cheng Shouru took someone to take the order, and he was also a little excited to perform this kind of operation-like mission, after all, as a soldier, no one likes to always be on the defensive.

Nuralman, who was behind Lao Luo, recorded his orders one by one as a clerk, and Li Xuan, who came to detect the wind because of the changes in the night, spoke beside him, "General Luo, will this offend the surrounding tribes...... What if some small tribes unite to take revenge on us? ”

"Won't it be clean if you kill them all?" Lao Luo turned his head to look at Li Xuan who was speaking, although this chief manager was young and strong and his strength was not bad, he really did not have the mentality of a soldier, no wonder the wise ancestor of the Li family did not choose him as the manager of the army back then, "We are walking on this land, and it can be said that there is not a single friendly country along the way, even if the Iranians in Rai City, who are trading with us right now, if it is not for our military strength to be far superior to them, do you believe that it is not the Turks who will attack us first, but these Iranians who look friendly?" ”

"How so?" Although Li Xuan was a little shocked by Lao Luo's words at the beginning, the words explained later made him feel even more unacceptable.

"Boss, no, let's call Brother Xuan, it's not official business, this is our private conversation, do you think that the current Donggui team is still trapped in the Tang camp in the Sylvan Plain? No, it's not, the floating car and the van are not only the power to deter them, but also the source of their greed! Once our attitude is weak, these seemingly kind merchants around us will become even more vicious than the steppe wolves! Lao Luo's words are a bit bitter, if he didn't think that the Li family in front of him was quite pragmatic and cooperable, he wouldn't have made such a detailed explanation.

"......" Li Xuan was directly speechless, his mind was a little confused for a while, as the person in charge of internal affairs, he really couldn't understand the rules of conquest.

Lao Luo doesn't care about him anymore, if he can figure it out, this Li Xuan may be able to go to the next level, using the words of the political arena as a metaphor, to become an administrator who can see the grand strategy clearly, if not, at most he is just a diligent county official.

The temperature on the southern shore of the Magyar Sea is really not high, and the sun is not as hot as in the hinterland of Central Asia, but fortunately, it is close to August, and by the time I walk in the Seven Rivers Valley, I believe that I have passed the hottest season, but I don't know if I can cross the Green Ridge (Hindu Kush Mountain) before the first snow falls.

If not, I'm afraid I have to look for a safe haven in Central Asia before the arrival of winter, the winter in Central Asia in this era may be more difficult than in later generations, Lao Luo looked at the red sun gradually rising in the distance and fell into thought.

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