On both sides of the road there are the most shops, blacksmiths, carpenters are the most - this is also the pillar industry of the local area, many nearby tribes would come here to order, of course, this is also the reason why the Persians accepted the Tang people to stay here, in addition to silk shops, garment shops, fur shops, shoes and hats shops, rice shops, fruit shops, butcher shops, carriage and horse shops, and the grocery stores that claim to have everything, as well as women's fat powder shops, and even candle shops from Greece......

These shops are the most basic element of meeting the needs of the locals, and of course they are also the places where the surrounding tribes often come here to buy goods.

As a city, even if it is only a small city, there are hotels that are indispensable, but unfortunately there are no large ones; Restaurants, or wine shops, are also very small, and some of them have obvious Islamic style on their simple signs; Of course, there are also brothels that are not lacking in any era, and such places are often made to be high-sounding - similar to those of later generations, and some even have Persian dancers standing at the door with their bellies bared in the spring cold.

Lao Luo's arm was pinched, and it was Li Ji who secretly reminded him, "Third brother, let's go elsewhere, this street is full of such bad women." ”

"Okay, let's find a blacksmith shop, do you know which one is good after all?" Lao Luo couldn't help but be a little funny, no matter what era the profession of prostitution is indispensable, and no matter what era women don't want their favorite men to pay attention to places like brothels.

"Just go to the blacksmith shop in my house, my Li family's craftsman is the best, and no other family here can compare!" Li Ji excitedly recommended that it is the happiest thing to have Lao Luo to accompany her to go shopping, no matter what era and no place can stop women from shopping - in fact, they don't care whether they buy things or not.

Lao Luo is noncommittal to Li Ji's boasting, although he is not an engineer who is clear about the process of forging, but he is very clear about the entire military industry system, and it can be seen from the craftsman street in Cairo that the level of craftsmanship in this era, even if the descendants of the Tang craftsman battalion have inherited some unique skills, but still don't expect them to have too high a standard.

To get to the Li family's blacksmith shop, you need to cross several streets, their shop is not on the main street, according to Li Ji, their shop area is relatively large, and the small space on the main street cannot be arranged at all.

The streets are full of pedestrians, you can see the Silvan Persians, Arabs, Armenians, and even Kurds with turbans with obvious racial characteristics, of course, the local Tang people are the majority, and the Tang people with their hair buns are dressed up here is very common, even if some people are obviously a Central Asian face, Lao Luo is a little emotional, even after so many years, the name of the Tang Dynasty is still affecting this land.

The women's outfits on the road are colorful, not all of them are right skirts and deep clothes, some are obviously Chinese faces, but they are wearing gorgeous Roman robes, and some even wear conical hats and completely look like Persians, which proves that women like beautiful clothes at all times, Lao Luo thought secretly.

In fact, the most conspicuous thing on the road is not the beautifully dressed women, but the bear children who often shout and scream through the street, the Chinese concept of many people and big strength has been well inherited here, almost every street will always have a few bear children haunted, the big ones with the small ones in groups, occasionally there are young children with drooping hair who fall, and then they will be pulled up by the slightly older horned teenagers, and then go to fight.

Of course, not all children are so useless and careless, and there are many very thin children, wearing thin clothes, gathered in groups under the sunny wall to bask in the sun, their expressions are somewhat sad. Some of these children are obviously of Chinese ancestry at first glance, and of course there are many mixed-race children.

"Isn't there a school here?" Lao Luo was a little curious, and there were always some private schools or family studies in the history books, but he didn't see it.

"School?" Li Ji was a little curious about Lao Luo's word, but she quickly understood, "The third brother is talking about the school, right?" There are several big leaders here who have family schools and a few private schools, but there are not many of them. ”

"Then why don't these kids go to school?" Lao Luo Shun pointed to the children leaning against the wall, "What's the matter with those children?" ”

"Most of those wild children are unattended, and now many of them are like beggars." Li Ji's expression was also a little confused, "The family schools of the major families rarely recruit people with foreign surnames, and the private school is to be handed over for repair, and many of these children are poor in the family or their father died, their mother remarried, or for other reasons, and the clan couldn't take care of it at all, so they had to live on the streets." ”

Lao Luo felt a little incredible, the number of Tang people here was very small, and he didn't know how to take care of his own people? It seems that the contradictions between the descendants of the local Tang people have begun to expand, and they are not even able to take care of their own people. "Siniang, I asked someone to collect these poor children, there shouldn't be any problem, right?"

Lao Luo didn't have a sudden whim, or some kind of compassion, in fact, he had the same idea when he first arrived in Cairo - there were also children living in poor life on the streets there, but at that time he thought that he could not do it, and he had to travel a long way, and now his team is destined to stay here for a long time, and these children in front of him are his own race, and taking in some children is just right for the future to cultivate talents.

"Of course there is no problem," Li Ji replied to Lao Luo Dao very directly, "If those Samanids or Turks come, they will definitely be stopped, and the guards and elders at the gate will suspect that they are here to capture slaves." ”

"Well, then I'll call Cui Shibalang to do this." Of course, Lao Luo knew the precautions here, and to be honest, if Li Ji hadn't been with him, he and Olki would have been stopped and interrogated a long time ago. Asked Cui Shibalang to do this, the most important thing is that the slippery boy is now dressed as a Tang man, although he has not yet been crowned, Cui Shibalang has pulled his hair into a bun according to tradition.

At this time, Alker was taking a few of Helton's men around this small city, and it was definitely not wrong to ask them to cooperate with Cui Shibai to collect the stray children.

"The flamboy?" Of course, Li Ji is familiar with Cui Shibalang, the guy who took the lead in calling her aunt in Athens. "Well, he's a suitable person, he has the most words in his mouth, and it's really suitable to be a child's head."

Lao Luo smiled bitterly with a little headache, Li Ji and Cui Shibalang are of the same age, but they always don't deal with each other, from the first time they met in Athens, a fire girl will always seize the opportunity to teach Cui Shibalang a few words, which is very in line with the reason that the aunt teaches her nephew. He couldn't comment on this, so he had to turn his head and ask Alki to order someone to call Cui Shibai to do something.

While chatting with Li Ji about the situation in this small city, he walked to the Li family's blacksmith shop, and Lao Luo was also checking the environment here left and right. Judging from the basic urban architecture, the manpower here has not been well integrated, the infrastructure is not enough, and the personnel management is not very good, and it can even be seen that there is no good administrative mechanism here, there are no large-scale workshops, and there is no force that can completely protect itself.

By that time, in a few years' time, these people will probably be drowned in the crowds of Central Asia like the Quegasians.

From the mouths of Li Zhan, Zhang Lu and even Li Ji, Lao Luo learned that there has never been an exact count of the population here, that is, the estimated 40,000 or so people, in fact, it may be more than that. With such a large population, in addition to this small town, there are also farmers who farm in the surrounding area, and not far from the Caspian Sea, there are also some fishermen who make a living by fishing, but there is still not enough food.

Even the rich don't eat more than two full meals a day. The shortfall had to be supplied by the Silvan Persians, or sold by Armenian merchants and Georgians from the West. Moreover, the local Silvan Persians did not allow the Tang people to have their own iron-making industry, which means that all the raw materials of the Tang blacksmiths were controlled by the Persians.

The local Tang people could only become vassals of the Persians, and the food was also controlled by the Persians, so there was no potential for development.

Most of the Tang people here were born as craftsmen and did not have much force, but in this place in this era, force is the foundation of survival. Without force, the Tang people here can only be suppressed everywhere, and being able to come up with finding foreign aid is already the limit of what they can do.

When Constantinople first heard about it, he thought it was a barracks-like organization, but now it seems that after 200 years of leaving the army, the group has automatically evolved into a small society. However, at the moment it seems that it is not very sound, at least there is no unified and effective organizational structure, and the elder system here has not fulfilled its function of being able to take care of all the clansmen.

Lao Luo knew about these in advance, and then compared with what he saw on the streets of this small town, he was really helpless but emotional, helpless because of the rigid heads and narrow vision of people in this era, and because of the Tang Dynasty, which had declined to this point.

Later generations always said that they inherited the legacy of the Han and Tang Dynasties, which is all bullshit. In fact, after the fall of the Han Dynasty, the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, and the Wuhu Rebellion in China, the pioneering spirit of the Han nation was suppressed to the limit, and it was not until the Sui and Tang dynasties that the national spirit was condensed again, and there was a situation of attacking Goryeo in the east, conquering the Turks in the west, and Lingnan in the south.

It's a pity that the Tang Dynasty royal family Li Shimin made a bad start, and as a result, generations of Tang emperors stepped on the corpses of their brothers, causing too much internal friction, after the fall of the Tang Dynasty, experienced the war in the Central Plains, the rise of the Zhao family, and the stupid scholars and doctors in order to prevent the situation of separating the feudal towns again, only a policy of restricting military power, and as a result, the fierce generals were raised into pigs, and the soldiers were raised into slaves.

The Khitan leaders in the north are also open-minded, but unfortunately they can't get rid of the narrow-mindedness of the nation, can't forge ahead, and can't suppress the internal ethnic disputes.

In the east of this era, Liao and Song were weaker than whom, like two pigs in the pigsty, fatter than who was closer to the wolf's mouth, but Liao's luck was not good, the wolf who carried the Jurchen first ate it, and when the stupid Song pig also wanted to eat a bite, he was bitten by the wolf fiercely, and the pig's courage was completely frightened, and it shrank directly into the innermost part of the pigsty.

Next, nature is a demonstration of the principle of natural elimination, and until a thousand years later, cowardice is permeated in the bones of officials. Saying that inheriting the legacy of the Han and Tang Dynasties is just a matter of politicians trying to paint their faces.

In the environment of doves in power, hawkish soldiers like Lao Luo had to be excluded as mercenaries.

He sighed a little unexpectedly.

Li Ji's voice came from the side, "Third brother, my family's blacksmith shop has arrived." ”

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