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Leaving Agoura and Wang Liu, after the others left, Qin Dong said: "You two are in charge of logistics, we still lack something, you have to go into the city tomorrow to buy everything, at least to ensure that we can use Saidika, and leave the procurement to Agoura!" Agoura, can it work? ”

Agoura saluted and said, "My lord, I can't fight, but I can still be competent in this aspect, please rest assured!" ”

"Okay, there's nothing to do with you, you can go get busy first!"

"Then I'll go first!"

After Agoura left, Qin Dong said to Wang Liu: "Sixth uncle, tomorrow you will also enter the city, go to the city to set up a platform to recruit blacksmiths, carpenters, tailors, archers, and also recruit scholars who can read and write Greek and Latin, as long as they are willing to come, we can hire them at a high price, they can bring their families, and we promise to protect the safety of their lives and property!" ”

Wang Liu was puzzled and said: "Young Master, you want to recruit blacksmiths, carpenters, tailors, and masters who make bows and arrows, I know that these are necessary, soldiers' scimitars need to be repaired and polished, and arrows also need to be manufactured, but what are you recruiting those scholars for?" They can't do anything, isn't it a waste of food and money to raise them? ”

Qin Dong said with a smile: "Sixth uncle, although you and I can both speak Greek, but we can only speak and not write, in the future, we will definitely have to deal with the Eastern Romans and Western Romans, it is very troublesome to not be able to write, you were not my father's account office before?" You can teach those scholars to write Chinese characters and speak Chinese, and then those scholars will teach our soldiers and officers to speak Chinese and write Chinese characters, and carry forward our Chinese characters in Europa, what do you think? ”

When Wang Liu heard Qin Dong's words, his expression was immediately very excited, and he immediately grabbed Qin Dong's arm and said, "Young Master, what you said is true, do you really want me to teach Chinese characters?" ”

"Of course it's true!"

After getting Qin Dong's affirmative reply, Wang Liu immediately felt a lot more energetic, a little eager to try, maybe everyone has a little bit of a good side of being a teacher, he happily promised Qin Dong to promise to teach Chinese characters to everyone. You must know that it is too awkward to speak Greek, Xiongnu, Latin, and Barbarian languages every day in this West, and now there is an opportunity for everyone around him to speak Chinese, Wang Liu really doesn't want to let go of this opportunity.

During this period, Europe was mainly the civilization of the Roman Empire, and the other barbarians basically did not have their own scripts, and if they wanted to write in writing, they could generally only write Greek and Latin, both of which belonged to the Indo-European language family, most of the Eastern Romans spoke Greek, and the Western Romans spoke Latin, but the Eastern Roman officials and royalty spoke Latin.

After the explanation, Qin Dong was about to take people into the city to find the government in the city to exchange money, and tomorrow morning he would pay the military salary, he only had gold bars and gold bricks, gold coins, no silver coins and copper plates, and the military salary must be used in silver coins, according to his regulations, the military salary of an ordinary cavalry is one gold coin and ten silver coins per month, which can feed a family of four, and the gold and silver content of these money is full, not the kind of coins with insufficient gold and silver content.

At the end of the Roman Empire, the gold and silver content in the coins was much less than the coins of the early Roman Empire, according to the research statistics of later scholars, from 138 to 301 A.D., the price of Roman soldiers' clothing rose 166 times, from the middle of the 2nd century to the end of the 3rd century, the price of wheat rose 200 times, according to compound interest, the price increase rate during this period was 5% ~ 6% per year. Inflation under metal money happened like this.

And now in 453 A.D., prices are higher than before, and the rulers are issuing a large number of cheap coins, adding lead and other metals to dilute the gold content, and the old gold and silver coins are gradually withdrawn from circulation and recycled and melted down, and more cheap coins are made. This is known in the financial world as "Gresham's Law", which means that bad money drives out good money. Currency depreciation leads to a low transaction rate and economic decline, which in turn requires the government to continue to invest in more depreciated currency, and this vicious circle leads to a gradual decline in the government's credibility and ability to govern.

In fact, with the large number of silver coins issued, if they were issued at full value, the Roman Empire would have run out of silver mines to dig up. Nero began with the beginning, and the Roman emperors after him followed the rules and concocted the same method. At this time, Roman silver coins, like today's paper money, had only a promise of credit and a symbol of wealth.

The rise and fall of a dynasty is not only about politics, but also on the economy, and if there is a vicious circle of inflation on a large scale, it will inevitably lead to disorder, and the rule of the ruling class will be shaken until it finally dies and is replaced by a new regime.

Qin Dong is now a small centurion, and he can only feed his soldiers and officers, but he can't do anything about others.

Just as he was about to walk out of the big tent, he heard Batu come in and report: "My lord, Zemon, the lord of Belgrade, heard that our army has arrived outside the city, and he has organized some people to send us labor army supplies, and now it has arrived outside the camp!" ”

Qin Dong snorted coldly: "This old boy is also the master of the Wind Envoy, he must have seen two thousand people from Doarik go out, but only a few hundred people came back, so he was frightened, so he hurriedly prepared grain and grass to come over to work for the army, otherwise why didn't we see him bring people out of the city to greet us when we first arrived?" Let's go with me and see what this old guy has brought us. ”

The two of them immediately got out of the big tent, and walked to the gate of the camp under the escort of several soldiers, and sure enough, they saw an old man with a white beard waiting at the gate of the camp with a group of people, and behind them were a dozen carts, on which were some millet and wheat bran, and wheat straw.

Seeing these things, Qin Dong's face suddenly became gloomy, and he walked over and asked, "You are Zemeng?" ”

The old man nodded with a smile on his face and said, "Yes, my lord, the villain Zemon is the city lord of Belgrade!" Your Excellency, you and your knights have been driving and riding all the way, and the little old man has prepared some grain and grass to comfort the warriors, talk about the wishes of the villain and the residents of the city, please don't refuse! ”

Qin Dong didn't speak, walked around Zemeng to the side of the cart, took out a scimitar and inserted it into a bag, reached in and grabbed a handful of grain, sure enough, it was millet, and checked it again on several other cars, it was all wheat bran and wheat stalks, not even a grain of wheat, let alone any meat!

Qin Dong's face was very ugly, and he turned around and asked, "Lord Zemeng, these are the intentions of you and the residents in the city?" These things are for animals, right? So what do we eat? You wouldn't say all these things are for people, would you? ”

The old man saw that Qin Dong's face had changed, and he immediately trembled and said: "Yes, yes, my lord, the population of the small town is small, the residents are poor, and there are really no good things, these are still scraped together by the little old man, please forgive me!" ”

Qin Dong looked back at Belgrade City in the distance, although the city wall cannot be compared with the Chinese city wall, but it is very strong, the area is not small, and the city can accommodate at least 300,000 people, this is definitely the largest city in Serbia, and it is actually taking such a little thing out to work for the army?

Qin Dong walked back and grabbed the placket of this stingy old man's clothes, lifted him up, and said angrily: "Old man, don't fool me like a child, you are such a big city and use these things to feed animals to send us away?" Do you think my bow and arrow are not good? Do you think my scimitar can't keep cutting your neck? Either you don't send anything, and I won't trouble you, but if you bring these things here, you will insult me, or insult my warriors, take them back at once, and send two hundred sheep, a hundred pounds of wheat, a thousand pounds of salt, five thousand feet of cloth, ten thousand pounds of pig iron, and a hundred thousand silver coins tomorrow morning, and if I don't see them by noon, my warriors will go into the city and get them themselves! Get out".

The old man's face turned pale with fright, and after he was pushed to the ground by Qin Dong, he quickly got up and dragged the cart with his subordinates, lest Qin Dong regret cutting off his head.

Now it's okay, Qin Dong doesn't have to go into the city to exchange for silver coins, this old man's stinginess made him find a sufficient excuse to extort him, although this is the governance of the Skir people, but he doesn't need to worry about anything after he has this excuse, the Hun warriors can't be insulted, and after being insulted, they have to use blood to get it back! The Xiongnu court would even support him in this way.