Since arriving in this time and space and confirming the exact time and place, Lao Luo's subconscious is hoping to make a difference, and the so-called desire to return to his hometown is just to find or create a better entry point.

He began his long journey in East Africa, and he was always subconsciously accumulating strength, whether it would be useful in the future or not.

Yes, subconsciously, or subconsciously.

Lao Luo didn't want to have an army all the time from the beginning.

In some of the time-traveling stories depicted in some books, those who wanted to be the king of the world or the head of the earth in the first place are either idiots or madmen.

As a flesh-and-blood person, as early as in East Africa, Lao Luo just wanted to survive simply, and then he wanted to return to his hometown in a series of strange inferences. The next thought, either passive or active, pushed him to the position of the leader of an army.

By this time, he had to think about more than just an army. The crowd behind the army is the greater support, and it is not Lao Luo's habit to be passively pushed by the world.

Therefore, after the war in Herat, when he returned to the camp, Lao Luo thought more about what he could do and what he should do in the future.

To be a pure soldier, or to be a king who leads a race?

This is a complex issue.

As a soldier who has received a complete education in later generations, Lao Rob knows to everyone in this era that in this era, manpower is the greatest wealth, as for the land is just a bonus to control an era, and food is the most critical factor to stabilize people's hearts, as for other things such as steel, wood, cloth, etc., are auxiliary factors with advantages, and finally there are things like gold and silver treasures, which are just symbols used to mark the value of a group or a country. In particular, gold and silver were only used as ornaments until they were used for the industrial purposes of their precious metals, and the same is true for precious stones.

Therefore, as the leader of a group, the pursuit of wealth and harvest and the like are secondary, and understanding human nature and controlling people's hearts are the most basic skills, no matter what era.

Although he has never served as a political commissar or instructor, he has been a military commander more than once, and it is still possible to grasp the movements of some people's hearts, at least Lao Luo has this self-confidence.

This self-confidence is not only for the military, but also for civilians, craftsmen...... Everyone, too.

The warriors around Lao Luo are not soulless clones, and the crowd around him is not a virtual NPC with data flow, and the world in this era is not a different world such as magic and fantasy for him, but just another fruit of reality on the river section of different times that is the same as that of later generations, and the different places that distinguish it from later generations are just the food, clothing, housing and transportation of people in this era.

That's what makes him confident.

In which direction will this self-confidence take Lao Luo? Maybe it's the King's Road.

Although he once complained about being stranded thousands of miles away from his home country, Lao Luo is now even more glad that he has arrived in Africa.

The long overland distance between East Africa and East Asia gave him the opportunity to observe the world carefully, and the time spent on the road also allowed him to constantly organize his thoughts, and the greatest credit of this time was that it allowed him to settle down and fully adapt to the rhythm of this era.

Rather than being trapped in the fence of East Asia and fighting to the death with boring officials, such a conflict would be inevitable according to Lao Luo's character and the contempt for martial arts of Confucian-born officials.

Now, after experiencing the journey from Sylvan to Wuhushui, Lao Luo is excited to reach this era, not for anything else, but for the sake of these martial Han people around him. Although it had only been a few months since they had come out of Sylvan, these people—not just soldiers—had already shown a martial spirit, not the weak, mediocre, powerless sissy of some of the materials that Lao Luo had seen.

Yes, the word sissy is not good, but it is a portrayal of Eastern civilization after the Song Dynasty.

At least in Lao Luo's opinion.

From the beginning of the Shang and Zhou dynasties (needless to say in the Xia, because there is no way to verify it), until the Qin, Han, Sui and Tang dynasties, the national character of the East was masculine, and after the Song Dynasty, the literati and doctors occupied the officialdom and began to try to convince people with their mouths, but this skill was either internal or possible, and externally it was a mess. Supposedly, such a thing should not be sustained in a masculine country for long, but in reality, this situation continued until the CHN period a thousand years later. This can't help but make people complain, is Confucianism's brainwashing function on the people too powerful?

When he was still serving in the army in later generations, in the face of dovish political views, Lao Luo occasionally talked nonsense with his comrades-in-arms, would it be better to change a high-ranking official with a full face and beard to dominate CHN politics?

Of course, Hu Kan can only be Hu Kan.

But in this era, Lao Luo found that his bearded man might actually change the fate of a land, how could he not be excited?

This kind of ideological transformation makes Lao Luo's thoughts clearer, at least in the short term, and he will not be at a loss.

That's why Lao Luo said when he left Mashhad, "Maybe one day, we will come back".

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It's not just Lao Luo himself who is transforming, the former gladiators who follow him are transforming, and the people of the original Tang Battalion are also transforming......

It took only four hours for the eastbound team to cross the Wuhu River and then march in the direction of Bukhara.

The merchant-turned-Tahoda Dingan was in a squad of civilians (one floating car, four standard four-wheeled carriages, thirty horses, ten camels, a total of fifty people), and he was in charge of cooking food in the squad, which seemed to him to be a rare beauty, and the leader of the squad was Du Ping, a distant nephew of the former civilian elder Du Ne.

The team continued to move forward, and Tian Bao, because of his poor riding skills, both legs were worn out, so he had to sit on the edge of the carriage of the four-wheeled carriage, next to Du Ping, who was firmly sitting on horseback.

"Brother Du, last time you said that the big guy was also built by General Luo?" Tian Bao pointed to the floating car floating in the air not far in front of him, being dragged by horses. A businessman-born guy is always good at dealing with people, originally Tian Bao also respectfully called Captain Du, but within a few days, Brother Du changed his title.

"That's right! As long as it's not a windy day, that big guy can float in mid-air all the time without any bumps. "Du Ping is indeed not very old, only thirty-two years old, and he was promoted to captain because he is young and energetic and can adapt to the fast-paced road. By the way, in this era, the father of the baby in his thirties can immediately call himself an old man, and those younger than him have entered the army.

“…… Oh, the general is really powerful, I don't know what this thing will be like when it is sold to the Great Song Dynasty...... "In the end, it is the true nature of a businessman, and after sighing for a long time, Tian Bao's first thought was to sell this thing. He didn't notice it, and unconsciously began to directly remove a word from the title of Lao Luo.

"Sell? How dare you think that the blue-eyed devil will skin you! Du Ping stared at this guy for a long time, and found that this guy didn't have the ability to steal secrets at all, so he said leisurely, "Do you know how many guys who snooped on floating cars caught along the way?" ”

"God, don't scare me!" Tian Bao looked around, and didn't find the guy with the red armband in the Judge Advocate General's Office, so he breathed a sigh of relief, "I'm just talking, you know that I was originally a businessman......"

"I didn't report you when I knew you were a businessman, otherwise you would have been arrested and brought to the military justice department by the court-martial. You know? Coming out of Sylvan, there were at least three hundred sneaky people caught along the way, all of whom had their heads cut off, not counting the fraction of the cavalry school's people killed in the periphery...... "Du Ping, as an "old man" who came all the way from Sylvan, naturally has channels to know the situation of the war on the periphery.

"......" Tian Bao was directly speechless, he was just a businessman from Fengxiang Mansion, who ventured to partner with others to do business in the Western Regions, but fell into the hands of the Turks and worked as a slave for three years, where have you heard of such a record? The Song army, which had suffered defeats at the hands of the Liao people for many years, could not do it, and the Liao people, who often fought grass valleys on the border, probably did not have this ability.

Seeing that Tian Bao was speechless, Du Ping didn't think much of himself, "So, Brother Tian, you can be your cook with peace of mind, don't eat secretly, don't think about it, when you go to the East, you will have arrangements for the general." ”

"Okay, listen to you, Brother Du. But, don't think I understand, don't steal it? What's going on? Tian Bao honestly promised, but the words behind him made him scratch his head.

"Haha, look at your body, you've only been in the camp for a few days, and it's not much better than the skins of those rafts!" Anyway, it's just chatting when you're in a hurry, and Du Ping has nothing to avoid, so he directly jokes about Tian Bao's figure.

"I, I...... My body is born, and the villagers still think that I am blessed, originally I just couldn't eat enough, this is not ......" Tian Bao is a little crying without tears, what is this called? I've just eaten a full meal for a few days, but can't I go on a diet?

"Okay, Brother Tian, I'm just reminding you that the general doesn't seem to like people to be lazy, and there were a few fat people in the camp who were punished for being lazy, but now they are all thin people." Du Ping said with a forced smile.

This is actually a wonderful misunderstanding, Lao Luo really doesn't like lazy people, but more because he wants to improve the survivability of the whole team - not everyone is required to be able to wield a knife to cut people, but at least there must be the ability to escape.

There is more than one conversation like this between Tian Bao and Du Ping, everything is evolving and metamorphosing imperceptibly, and what it will become after all may only rely on speculation......