If there is a paradise on earth,

That paradise is built on sass.

Ha, if you compare it to Barryhei,

Can bitter and sweet be the same as each other?

Its air is soft, its springs are caressed by the north wind, and its soil is like wine and fire because of its cheerfulness.

In this country, the stone is pearl, and the earth is musk,

Rain is a spirit.

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In the tenth year of the Tang Dynasty, in September 751, in the middle of the river, it was built in a sassy manner.

Ma Ling looked at a few sturdy Xizhou men skillfully carrying out the paper-making process, nodded slightly, and Kang Wan, a wealthy Sogdian merchant standing beside him, was already smiling so much that he couldn't open his eyes.

"General Ma, the paper produced in our workshop is better than the one shipped from Anxi! The first batch of paper has been shipped to catch drink, and it is in short supply at all, and I am going to transport the second batch of paper to Mulu, and when the green ridge is calm, I am also ready to sell our paper to Anxi! Maybe it can be sold to Chang'an! When the time comes, your Tang Dynasty may be able to use the good paper produced in our workshop, haha! ”

The purple-haired Kang Million also traveled to Anxi when he was young and worked as a translator in the Anxi Army, and he spoke the official language quite fluently.

Ma Lan smiled faintly.

As a visitor after a thousand years, it is not difficult to make better paper than Tang paper.

"Lao Kang, this Sa Mojian is also under the jurisdiction of my Datang Anxi, don't forget."

"That's, that's! Is this the Tang Kangju Governor's Mansion? Speaking of which, my Lao Kang is also a Tang person, and everyone is their own family. General Ma, the big cannibal is becoming more and more arrogant in the river, and we have been looking forward to Wang Shi. The purple-haired fat man said, the look on his face looked quite real.

The fat man's words are just a fart, and the Sogdians in the river are sandwiched between the Tang Dynasty and the Great Food, so they can only be left and right, and now they say it nicely, and I'm afraid they will have to pat the Abbasids later. This is also the way to survive, no wonder he.

Wang Shi? Wang Shi is here, Anxi deputy capital protector Gao Xianzhi led tens of thousands of Hu Hanjian'er out of the green ridge in the west, Talas killed a big cannibal blood in a battle, the Anxi army was as brave as ever, killing tens of thousands of enemy troops, but after all, it was outnumbered, plus the Gelulu servants fled in the middle of the army, and the elite and unparalleled Anxi army was defeated!

If it weren't for that, I wouldn't be in this place.

It's really unlucky to cross over, and go directly to the battlefield of the Battle of Talas. If it weren't for his own crossing, according to the original historical trend, this guy named Ma Lan would not have become a prisoner of war in the Battle of Talas at all. He should have made a name for himself in the Anshi Rebellion, and became the famous king of Fufeng County with his military exploits, a very popular minister, and was nicknamed "Wu" after his death.

If you come, you will be safe, and you will not care about the tribulations of your previous life, since you are in a great calamity, you will not die, and you will travel to this guy with the same name and surname thousands of years ago, there is no reason not to live well.

Compared with his own frail and sickly body in his previous life, this Guanzhong man from a thousand years ago was too much stronger, just like a brute bull, and he had no reason to be dissatisfied.

"Lao Kang, let's talk about good things, don't forget."

Kang Million laughed and took out a thick stack of contracts from his arms: "That's nature." General Ma, this is a slave contract for ten people, and from today onwards, you will be free people in Samojian. However, these days, after knowing that there are many craftsmen in it, the price of prisoners of war in the Anxi Army is getting more and more expensive, and it may not be possible to buy one for a thousand dirkhan silver coins! ”

Under the cauldron where the pulp was boiling, Ma Lan took the contract and threw it into the flames: "Lao Kang, if you want to expand the scale of the paper workshop, you must buy Tang prisoners of war, and you must also remove their slavery, otherwise everything will not be discussed." Remember, Tang people, never slaves! ”

"Yes, yes, General Ma, do as you say! The Tang people are never slaves, my Lao Kang is also a Tang person, and he is a citizen of the Tang Kangju Governor's Mansion, haha! Kang Million nodded again and again, smiling from ear to ear.

Looking at it like this, this General Ma has no intention of leaving Sa Mojian for the time being. That's fine, and you have to wait until you learn his paper-making skills before letting him go. As for how many Tang prisoners of war escaped back to Anxi in the end, that was something that the Abbasids had to worry about, and it had nothing to do with them.

Ma Ling smiled, they are all smart people, he naturally knows what Kang Million thinks, and he doesn't break it. Now that you are in an enemy country, the most important thing is to think of returning to Anxi safely.

One person's strength is limited, and there must be enough manpower to return to Anxi. Without the Umayyad silver coins in Kang Million's hand, he would not have been able to free more Anxi men who were captured and brought to Samojian in Talas. Kang Million is a little greedy, but he is a real villain, and he has a bit of a contract spirit, so it is a good choice to choose to cooperate with him.

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In the battle of Talas, the Anxi army suffered heavy losses, and more than 10,000 Anxi Han troops were captured. Neither the black-clothed or the white-clothed eaters had the habit of slaughtering captives, so these Han sons and daughters were still alive, but they were all reduced to slaves. According to the Sogdian merchant Kang Wanwan, at least 5,000 Han Chinese prisoners of war were brought to Sa Mojian by Ziad's army.

In this battle, the Anxi army paid a great price, but the losses in the black clothes were even greater, and the number of casualties in the battle was definitely five times that of the Anxi army. If it weren't for the large number of the Great Food Army, the Anxi Army would never have been defeated. General Gao took advantage of the night to escape, and there were countless dragons in the group, otherwise how could the Anxi athletes who had survived a hundred battles lay down their weapons.

The victory in the Battle of Talas was completely unexpected by the Abbasids, who were preceded by the pressure of the Ansey Army. Posilin was originally building a long wall to defend against the attack of the tall general, but now he is full of ambition and is preparing to attack Anxi.

A large number of prisoners of war of the Anxi Army were concentrated here by Bo Silin, and in addition to preparing for sale, it also meant boasting of force to the nine Sogdians. It has been decades since Qudibo passed through the Luohe River, and the Sogdians with the nine surnames are still oscillating between the Tang Dynasty and the Great Eclipse, and the sacred fire in the Zoroastrian is still unextinguished, which is naturally unbearable for the extremely devout Persian Posilin.

The wheels of history rolled forward, and Ma Ling did not think that his arrival would change much, so Posilin's plan to attack Anxi would not be realized, and he could not escape the end of being cooked by the dead rabbit of Caliph al-Mansour. All I have to do now is to bring more people back to Anxi safely. Now that he is here, as a son of the Han family, he can't do nothing.

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Ma Luan, who is the owner of An Lushan, really doesn't have a good impression of it, even if he has just released his slave status, so Ma Lan directly drove this fat guy out of the paper workshop.

Kang million was not angry either, as long as there were enough benefits, Sogdian merchants would never be angry. The papermaking technology in Ma Lan's hands can bring him much benefit, Kang Million knows very well, so he was still smiling when he was kicked out of the workshop by Ma Lan.

Kang Million is an authentic Sogdian, and the surname Kang is also the surname of Wang in Samojian. After Qu Dibo marched into the river, like many wealthy Sogdian merchants in Samojian, he and his entire family were forced to move outside the city of Samojian and live in their own settlements and forts. After the Abbasid Revolution, the status of Sogdian merchants was restored due to their support for the Abbasids, and after spending a lot of Umayyad silver coins, Kang Million moved back to his former residence in the city.

Ma Luan's paper-making workshop is located in the depths of Kang Million's mansion, and now there are more than 60 people in it, all of whom are Anxi men with big shoulders and round waists. According to the agreement with Kang Million, after creating a few more batches of Chengxintang paper, these people will be relieved of their status as slaves.

When Kang Million bought Ma Lan as a slave, it only cost 300 dirkhans, and the most expensive one in the back actually cost 800 dirkhans, and the price outside actually exceeded 1,000 dirkhans.

The question is whether the hand that has put down the horizontal knife can pick it up again. However, this matter is not difficult for Ma Lan at all, the most important thing now is the number of people, as long as there are enough Tang people gathered together, I believe they will have the courage to take up arms again.

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"General Ma, I didn't expect you to have such skills. I hadn't heard of it when I was in Anzai. ”

The young man who spoke was thin and fair-skinned, and at a glance he knew that he was a child of the scholar clan. This time General Gao Xianzhi went west, everyone thought that he would be as invincible as before, and there were many children of the family who temporarily joined the army and wanted to gain fame, and this Du Huan was one of them. General Gao would actually be defeated, and he himself would become a prisoner, which Du Huan definitely did not expect.

Ma Lan smiled: "Before joining the army, I also wandered in Beijing for many years, and I knew how to use such a small skill, what is it." ”

"But the paper of Jingshi is not as good as the ...... we make now."

Ma Lan waved his hand, ignored him, and walked out of the hot and humid paper workshop. At this time, Du Huan was just a young child of a family, and he was not the Du Huan who wrote "Jing Xingji", so he didn't need to look up to him.

Of course, I met myself, Du Huan's fate has changed, and soon he will take them on the way home, Du Huan will either die on the way back to Anxi, or return to Anxi alive, I am afraid that he will never have the opportunity to wander around the food and write "Jing Xingji......

It's not that it discriminates against the children of the family, but it really doesn't have much in common with people thousands of years ago. Samarkand also came back then, when it was just to visit the mountains and rivers to see what the Muslims called paradise on earth like, but after seeing it back then, I felt that it was nothing more than that, and now I look at it again, it is the same.

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Sweet, greasy dates are really nothing to eat. The Sogdian beauty with clear and clean eyes is not bad, but when she thought that it was sent by Fat Kang to get the recipe of Chengxintang paper, she immediately felt interested.

He took two dates at random and motioned for the little Sogdian beauty to leave. Looking at the shy, timidly swaying figure of the little beauty, Ma Ling shook her head. Sogdians are Sogdians, and in order to get the formula as soon as possible, Kang Million was willing to take out even his own daughter.

"The sky is low and ...... the sky is low," Ma Lan suddenly remembered a poem by Cen Shen.

In September, the sky is indeed hanging low above the oasis. Cen Shen also participated in this expedition, and he had already escaped back to Anxi safely at this time.

Anthy ......

In fact, he has not been to Anxi, but it is the original Ma Lan who has been to Anxi. He inherited Ma Lan's body and also inherited Ma Lan's memory.

The land in the river originally belonged to the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate. The current Samojian, where it is located, has become the Kangju Governor's Mansion of the Tang Dynasty since the beginning of the Gaozong Dynasty.

After the First Battle of Talas, the Tang Dynasty's sphere of influence no longer went out of the Green Mountains. A few years later, the Anshi Rebellion broke out, and the Tang Dynasty completely abandoned the entire Western Regions.

This renunciation is forever. Thousands of years later, the east of the Green Mountain is still the land of China, but the west of the Green Mountain is no longer owned by China!

I just sighed in my heart, Ma Lan didn't think he could change anything. In his previous life, he was just an ordinary person, but now he has two more strengths, and everything else is the same.

All I can do is survive in this troubled world. Since you didn't die, let's live well.

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Note: Samarkand, a famous city in Central Asia, is now the second largest city in Uzbekistan.