Testaspas found parchment, and the pen he drew with was a quill pen. This kind of parchment paper is made of sheepskin soaked in lime water, stripped of wool, and then scraped on both sides, stretched and dried, polished, better than the papyrus handed down from ancient Egypt, not easy to mold, suitable for writing with quills. Although the Arabs learned papermaking from China at the end of the 8th century (the Tang army was defeated at the Battle of Hengros in the Tang Dynasty, and the Arabs found paper-making craftsmen from prisoners of war), the paper produced by Chinese papermaking was more suitable for writing with a soft pen. According to the normal course of history, it was not until the fourteenth century that the Chinese method of producing paper gradually replaced the use of parchment and papyrus.

Lao Luo used a quill pen on parchment to draw the production dimensions and specifications of several cold weapons, and he used the three-view drawing method that was very common in later generations.

The long-handled steel double-edged axe, intended for Nagar, had a quadrangular pyramidal tip with a blood groove at the tip, and a slightly shorter bayonet at the bottom, with a widened crescent-shaped blade; Melee combat is a spherical spike ball at the front, interspersed with a one-meter-long steel handle at the back, and the front end is also with a spear spike, but the rear end does not have it, just a ball shank and an inlaid ring.

Mnaki's long-range weapon is a spear with a hook spear, the so-called is to put two symmetrical crescent-shaped barbs at the back of the spear and the front end of the long handle, but the tip of the spear is also a slotted quadrangular pyramid, and the rear end is also the same as the double-edged axe handle of Naga, Mnaqi's melee weapon is simple, thickened Arabic-style scimitar and curved dagger, but this is to be used with a small round shield.

After drawing these, I measured the length of the arms of the two of them, focused on the details and dimensions, and handed it to Testemps to see if there were any problems with the production. After all, I don't know much about the cold weapon process at this time.

"Mr. Bartol, you are truly an excellent weapon master!" Tespass looked at the drawings drooling, "Can I keep a copy of the blueprint?" Rest assured, you can give your customized 7% off, no, 6% off! ”

"Well, for your sake of taking care of my countrymen, yes. But it can only be a copy, which I originally wanted to keep. Lao Luo agreed after a little consideration, "Also, I ask that all weapons should not be decorated with jewelry, and if possible, all the places that can match the color should be black." ”

"As you wish, sir. Are there any other requirements? ”

"Quantity, two parts for long-handled weapons, five parts for short weapons."

"Okay, what else do you need?"

"I also need a large shield, a flis shield, all steel, height...... Lao Luo compared the height of Tespass, "the weight does not matter, according to your habits, well, I also need fifty Damascus knives." ”

"Yes, sir, I've written it all. All these goods will take about a month to be delivered, is that okay? ”

"No problem, you know that I live in Brother Aham's inn, and you can go there to find me if you have something."

"Thank you for your trust, Mr. Bartoll." Tespers had just finished answering when a voice came from outside. "Old Tes, old Tess, are you there?"

"Eighteen, you little bastard, what's your name?" Testaspas hurriedly answered, stopped the eighteen boys from screaming, and commanded the guards next to him, "Maurice, go and invite Mr. Eighteen and Mr. Minduo to come." ”

"Mr. Bartol, it should be your countryman who has come to see you. I need to get this done so that I can complete your task as soon as possible. ”

"Thank you, Boss Talpass, for how hard you worked."

In addition to Eighteen Lang, there was also an old man with a white beard, who seemed to be his grandfather, who was not tall, according to the measurement standard of later generations, was only 1.75 meters, his back was slightly hunched, a pair of thick hands, and his clothes were obviously Hanfu in the Tang Dynasty, and he walked directly towards Lao Luo.

"Mr. Luo, this is the ancestor." Eighteen Lang opened his mouth and said, "As soon as he finished his work, he was busy urging me to come over." ”

Lao Luo hurriedly stood upright, looked at the other party and saluted respectfully, seeing that the other party was also doing the same thing, Lao Luo, who felt that he had done nothing wrong, breathed a sigh of relief, and said with the only knowledge of ancient languages, "A certain Luo Kaixian, a native of Suizhou, Hexi, heard that there are Tang people here, come to visit." ”

Luo Kaixian in the eyes of the old man, there is no doubt that he is Chinese, but this figure is the feeling of a giant-like battlefield general, and then listening to Lao Luo speak, it is really awkward, "Luo family, well, young people of the Luo family, don't speak in elegant language, it's so tiring to listen to, it's too difficult to see hometown people here." ”

"That's right, I don't know how to talk to my fellow villagers, and I'm more relaxed when you talk like this." Lao Luo Xin said that the emotional Tang people usually speak is not much different from that of later generations, and they have spent a long time thinking in vain.

"Hehe, your elegant way of speaking is only known to officials, and people who don't usually have fame don't talk like that." The old man also said happily, "My family's surname is Cui, the old man Cui Zhoushi, this kid has not yet reached the age of crowning, so he is usually only called Eighteen Lang." ”

"It's good to say, my family is the third, and my father always calls me Sanlang, the third." Lao Luo felt that he was almost getting used to this conversation, and it was no different from the future generations when he spoke like this, "Dare to ask Uncle Cui if you know how many Tang people there are here?" I'm here alone, and I haven't seen anyone who speaks Chinese for a long time, so I miss it so much. ”

"Okay, go to my house, a lot of people live in the same place." Lao Cui was very excited, and it was rare to meet someone who could speak his hometown, so he looked left and right, "Let's go, go to my house, this is not the place to talk." ”

Lao Cui's home is a large courtyard, although it is not a traditional Chinese style building, but many places, such as the porch, the orientation of the house, and even the structure of the roof can be seen that Chinese flavor, there are similar courtyards nearby, many courtyards are hung with red lanterns. Lao Cui said to Lao Luo that those were the companions who left their hometown together.

Entered the gate of Lao Cui's house, a side courtyard in the right direction, Lao Cui called a few family members to greet guests, the eighteen boys were arranged to greet Lao Luo's entourage, the black-skinned Maasai people have also been able to speak Chinese plus a few words of Arabic, and the young eighteen Lang is a chicken to duck in general, quite lively.

Lao Luo's affairs were basically arranged, so he simply sat in Lao Cui's courtyard and listened to him talk about the situation of his family. The Cui family is really a big family, according to the introduction of the old Cui, he is the fourth generation of the local Cui family, there are three elder brothers, a younger brother, three sons, eighteen is his youngest grandson, oh, it is said that eighteen is the family generation, the Cui family is not separated, all the children and grandchildren live in a big courtyard. It is said that the ancestor was the late Tang Dynasty Huangchao rebellion, killed many high-ranking dignitaries, and the Cui family was also the first to bear the brunt, and later and the Fan family, the elders of the Lu family arranged to escape from Quanzhou by boat all the way to the current Three Buddhas, and the old Cui, Cui Zhoushi himself was born in the Three Buddhas, at that time coincided with the internal turmoil in the Three Buddhas, the Cui family and the rest of the surnames were transferred to Mombasa with the help of Arab merchants' ships.

Lao Cui sighed when he said, just from Sriwijaya to Mombasa, the family was separated a lot, and there was no strong person to support, although he was only three or five years old at the time, but the later things were all experienced, and the Cui family barely settled in the local area for decades.

Although Cui Zhoushi didn't tell Lao Luo the details, Lao Luo still vaguely guessed that the last branch of several families escaped from the war, fled thousands of miles to Sriwijaya, and then from Sriwijaya to Mombasa, how many ups and downs should there be along the way? This is not a two-month journey from Shanghai to East Africa for the fuel ships of later generations, but a hundred years of travel.

In a hundred years, from the Tang Dynasty to the Song Dynasty, how many families were ruined in that land? How many pavilions were destroyed in the war? The children and grandchildren were crushed by foreigners as food to supplement their stomachs, but the scholars and doctors of the Song generation were enjoying the illusory glory while selling cuteness to foreigners.

Calculate the time, according to the records, the Song State should be Song Zhenzong Zhao Heng as the emperor, the Emperor Li Yuanhao's grandfather Li Jiqian will die next year, Li Jiqian's son Li Deming will succeed to the throne, the Liao State in the north is the reign of Liao Shengzong Yelu Longxu, the Jurchen people in the north are still under the rule of the Khitan people, and the Murowei people are still wandering in the deep mountains and old forests, and Mongolia does not have this title at this time, only the loose tribes in the northern grasslands controlled by the Khitan, and Dali in the south is partial to the south and Dadu Henan, Emperor Duan Suying and Minsheng opened a branch to release Confucianism.

All the temporary pacification is the result of the compromise of some high-ranking people who do not seek progress, and then they are drunk and dreaming of death in singing and dancing, covering up the poverty and helplessness of the bottom. As a result, two hundred years later, the so-called prosperous civilization was crushed from the bones by the ignorance of the north until there was nothing left. It's not that Lao Luo has half of the Mongolian bloodline and will unjustifiably admire his other half of the bloodline, but Temujin and his brothers and children know how to conquer one country after another with force, but they really don't know how to govern a huge land, which cannot but be said to be the biggest regret of the East Asian nation. Defeated civilization with barbarism, but the whole tribe got its own bitter fruit.

Lao Luo thought to himself, and Cui Zhoushi next to him couldn't help but interrupt him after listening to the words of Eighteen and the two Maasai people, "Luo Jia Saburo, I heard that you are good at weapon design?" ”

"Well, it's true that Luo Mouhui has a lot of things, and weapon design is really a small skill of carving insects." Lao Luo is really not modest, in his opinion, the design of cold weapons is a trick.

"This ......" Cui Zhoushi hesitated for a while before he said, "I just heard what Eighteen said, you designed weapons for your entourage, and gave the drawings to Tempas to use?" ”

"Yes, Teespers also gave me a good price for building weapons." Lao Luo looked puzzled and then asked Cui Zhoushi, "What does Cui Lao think is wrong?" ”

"IMHO, there's an old saying. If it is not of my race, its heart will be different. Cui Zhoushi said with some pity and sadness.

"Oh, you mean......" Old Luo thought about the wording, "you mean I shouldn't have given the weapon diagram to Tespass?" ”

"That's right, how can such a precious thing as a blueprint be given to outsiders?"

"Hehe, Cui Lao, you are too worried," Lao Luo actually didn't care about what was passed out, and the reason why he didn't give Tespass the original was just that he didn't want to go back and bother to paint it again. "That kind of weapon blueprint is nothing big, the Romans and even the Greeks have long had something like it."

"Really?" Cui Zhoushi had only heard of the Romans and Greeks, but he didn't know much about them, "I really don't know, I just think it's a pity." ”

Lao Luo still feels cordial to Cui Zhoushi's words, regardless of whether the other party's point of view is appropriate or not, at least the kind of considerate care of the same clan. If you say that you refute what technological progress comes from communication, you can't cherish yourself with a broomstick, etc., you don't know how to elevate it. What's more, there is nothing wrong with Cui Zhoushi's approach, all countries and nations in this era are doing this. For example, even though the method of making glass was discovered in Italy 300 years later, all the craftsmen were locked up on an island for nearly 400 years for the sake of secrecy.

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