"Books, I've already shipped them away."

As soon as Zhao Weiji's words came out, Abdul-Jabbar was stunned, he never dreamed that Zhao Weiji had actually loaded the book and shipped it away.

However, because Zhao Weiji used Chinese, few scholars present understood his words, but they felt a slight difference in Jabbar's expression, so they began to exchange ears.

After seeing the reactions of the others, Jabbar also realized something, so he immediately pulled Zhao Weiji aside and whispered, "Lord Wang, how could you transport the book away in advance?" ”

"Why not, those books were mine. Besides, if I don't quietly transport it away in advance, can you guarantee that our group of people, with their treasures and books, will reach Khomeini safely? Do you need to be reminded of the current state of your empire? ”

Zhao Weiji was dumbfounded by two sentences, indeed, as Zhao Weiji asked, the current situation of the empire does not guarantee that these treasures, books, and people can reach Khomeini Port completely safely.

Now that the empire is in a state of disarray, there are spies of others in every territory, and the whole city knows about such a grand ceremony today, and naturally the spies also know about it.

"Also, what about you? You're doing such a big ritual for fear that your opponent won't know that you've found another batch of valuable books and treasures? ”

"But those books and treasures are yours."

"Of course I know it's mine, and you know it, but does your opponent know?"

Abdul-Jabbar shook his head.

"Even if they knew, what would it be? What is the difference between those who rob me and those who rob you? I guess the only difference is that the risk of robbing me is lower. You bunch of pig brains.

Forget it, I won't bother with you, hurry up and sign a contract, and then we can get on the road quickly. ”

Saying that, Zhao Weiji turned around and called Wang Dayuan up: "Huanzhang, come over and help me read the agreement, I can't understand the big food text." ”

With Zhao Weiji's shout, Wang Dayuan ran up to the stage, and then took the agreement and looked at it carefully.

And Jabbar was also caught by Zhao Weiji's series of questions just now, so he didn't mention the need to check those books anymore.

When Wang Dayuan finished reading the agreement, he turned to Zhao Weiji and said: "There is no problem with the agreement, all the terms are the same as what we negotiated at the beginning." ”

In this way, both parties sign the agreement, and then the matter is over.

However, the matter on their side came to an end, but the matter also leaked out as suspected, and later in the day the imams of the Kalmat-ruled districts received a message from a spy they had sent to Baghdad.

The Kalmatist sect was one of the internal divisions of the Arab Empire at that time due to the split of the sect, although it was still nominally part of the Arab Empire, but in fact the degree of autonomy was quite high, and there was an ambition to replace the empire. The location of this sect's territory is about two-fifths of the size of the peninsula in the eastern part of the peninsula, not far from Baghdad and Khomeini.

Their imam learned of the incident after receiving the news from the flying pigeon, but he didn't know that the gold and books had been transported away by Zhao Weiji in advance.

Upon learning of this, the imam's first instinct was to snatch these things and people, whether it was people, books or other treasures.

It just so happens that Baghdad and Khomeini are not far from their sphere of rule, and they can organize their men to attack on the road between the two cities.

As long as the disguise is grabbed and there are no flaws, they can't do anything on the side of the basic imperial royal family, so they mobilize manpower and start acting.

At the same time, Zhao Weiji's side, of course, has to go on the road as soon as possible after signing the agreement, so as not to have too many dreams at night. But the problem is that when they came there were only about 20 people, and when they returned, they became a huge team of nearly 100 people, although the two ships could carry so many people, but there was still a long road journey before they got on the ship, and the huge team would inevitably slow down the journey.

And it wasn't just these people who were walking by land together, after Zhao Weiji's last reminder, Jabbar also remembered that there was such a thing as a hostile force, so he suggested to the royal family to send troops to escort their group of people to Khomeini Harbor.

This meant that 500 soldiers were on the road with them.

By the time the 600 or so people officially set off on the road, another three days had passed from the day the agreement was signed.

And these three days gave the Kamal sect enough time to prepare, and the thousand-strong "bandit" regiment over there was also ready.

On the first day they were on the road, Zhao Weiji pulled Wang Dayuan aside and said, "This time, I'm sure that the hostile forces of their royal family will attack, are there any factions of hostile forces around here?" ”

"When I think about it," Wang Dayuan said after a moment of thought, "there is a sect called the Kalmat sect that seems to rule a certain territory in the west. ”

"Karthima." Although Zhao Weiji knew that the Arab Empire was actually divided at this time, he didn't know more details, so he couldn't figure out what this Kalmatist sect was.

"Huanzhang, do you know anything about this sect?"

"I don't know much about it, but it seems like there are a lot of dark-skinned people in their sect?"

"Dark-skinned? How dark is it, is it darker than their big cannibals? ”

"It's much darker, I've seen one or two people over there, and their skin is as black as carbon."

Hearing Wang Dayuan say this, Zhao Weiji understood who these people were, these blacks were all from Africa. The trade in black slaves is not the patent of Europeans, in the Sui and Tang dynasties, there were so-called Kunlun slaves into the Central Plains, this kind of Kunlun slaves are black slaves.

The Arab Empire, because it straddled Asia and Africa, made it easier for it to come into contact with black Africans, and it was easier for them to engage in large-scale slave trafficking.

"I suspect that if we are attacked, nine times out of ten, it will be the Kalmat sect that did it."

"So what do we do? Is there a need to raise your mind to see if there are any blacks around? ”

"No, I think it's not the blacks who came to attack us, but the big cannibals."

"Why?"

"The blacks are too conspicuous, and if they are captured, they will know that they are from Kalmat without trial, so they will definitely send big cannibals to pretend to be robbers."

"Then do we need to warn those Big Food Soldiers?"

"No, we will act at our own pace, you send someone to quietly go out every day to reconnoiter with a telescope, but don't let the big food soldiers see the telescope."

"Okay, no problem."

So Wang Dayuan sent a person out every day to reconnoiter the enemy's situation, but nothing was detected for three consecutive days.

The reason why this is so large is that the three-day journey is not as good as the two-day trip when they were in a small group.

It was precisely for this reason that Kalmat's side also miscalculated the progress of Zhao Weiji's trip, and they were ambushed farther away.

……

"Boss, the news of the Imam is accurate, why haven't you seen anyone for three days?"

The soldiers of the Kalmat faction, who had waited for three days without a fart, were a little impatient.

However, instead of receiving a positive answer from their leader, his question was given in the face.

"You dare to question the Imam?"

The soldier covered his face and said, "Don't dare, don't dare." ”

At this time, a slightly older veteran next to him walked over, and then said: "Let me tell you why, it's not that the information of the Imam is inaccurate, but that the personnel of that group of people are too complicated.

Didn't you listen to the Imam's order that there were a large number of scholars from the Hall of Wisdom in that group? These scholars are usually pampered, but they must be slow to act, so wait. ”

After the old soldier's words, all the impatient soldiers fell silent, and by this time no one was restless, and began to prepare for the battle that would soon come.

And Zhao Weiji's side, as the old man analyzed, that group of scholars was really dragging down the team, although everyone was riding camels, but that group of people could always find other excuses to rest.

So the whole team was like a turtle crawling, slowly and leisurely rubbing for two more days.

On the fifth day after hitting the road, the people who Zhao Weiji secretly sent out to investigate every day finally made a profit.

"Lord Wang, my lord, I found a suspicious person investigating in front."

"Did he find out you didn't?"

"Back to the prince, no, I used a telescope, he can't see that far."

"That's good, wait for you to inform all our people, load your guns and get ready, but everyone is not allowed to move at the first time when the enemy attacks, let those big food soldiers go to deal with the enemy first, and everyone is ready for battle."

After receiving the order, the sailor went down, but Wang Dayuan on the side felt very strange, why Zhao Weiji would give such an incredible order, this order was tantamount to keeping their own people on the alert and standing by.

"Lord Wang, why did you give such a ...... Weird commands? ”

"I'm only so close to you that you want to describe this order in cold blood, but there's no way around it, what if we come forward with muskets and kill a group of enemies at the first moment of attack?"

"Won't the result be fewer casualties?"

"As a result, we don't even want to leave."

"Why is this happening?"

"Because the musket is so powerful, it is impossible for any country not to be impressed by such a weapon. While it is possible that these people here can guess that we are carrying a weapon, they cannot imagine how powerful it is.

But as soon as we show the power of the muskets, the army that escorted us will surely become the army that captures us. And with the few guns and bullets we have, do you think we can hold off the attack of this group of people at close range? ”

Wang Dayuan shook his head.

"So we have to stand by and watch, if the army escorting us can repel the enemy, it is good, even if it can't, I think when the army escorting us is exhausted, the enemy will not be too many, but then we will not attract too much danger if we expose the muskets."

Zhao Weiji's words, as soon as he said this, a wild sand rose in the distance, and people from the Larmat faction appeared.