Sorry. Zhou Shaoyu said so secretly in his heart.

There is no doubt that Ainur is a big beauty, and Zhou Shaoyu has a good impression of her. However, he may be willing to help when he is in trouble, but when the overall interests are on the side, Zhou Shaoyu chooses to take advantage of it.

There is nothing to explain this, treating foreign races, either exterminate or assimilate, there is no other way to go, otherwise even if Ashina Huqin is exterminated now Ainur comes to power, even if it guarantees peace for decades, but what about the future?

Repeated attacks and invasions are repeated in cycles, and it is impossible to maintain long-term peace and stability.

And according to Zhou Shaoyu's plan, even if only part of it can be assimilated, then even if the Turks invade at that time, then the first barrier to face is the Turks' own people, which is nothing bad.

In addition, there is another point that Zhou Shaoyu did not say clearly, that is, about the issue of materials, Ainur is under the fence, so it is naturally impossible to get a series of materials to trade, so he can only rely on Zhou Shaoyu's help. And the money earned, needless to ask, most of it fell into Zhou Shaoyu's pocket.

In this way, Zhou Shaoyu not only made money, but also used it to further contain Ainur, but if Ainur listened to Zhou Shaoyu's ideas and strategies, then he must rely on Zhou Shaoyu to implement it, there is no doubt about it.

And controlling Ainur is equivalent to controlling the banner of Ashid, the former khan, and probing his tentacles into the grassland step by step.

And there is one problem that needs to be cared for, and that is to be in addition to the Turks under the command of Ainul.

The people of the steppe are undoubtedly nomadic people, and all the habits of life that the word nomadism encapsulates are now suddenly changing, and you don't need to think about it to know that it is extremely unsuitable.

Ainul came to solicit troops this time, firstly, because of the idea of strengthening himself, and secondly, it may not mean that he could not suppress the complaints underneath. And once it loses the hearts of the people, then Ainul will naturally become an empty shelf.

In this regard, Zhou Shaoyu pondered carefully and said: "When I find the coal mine and go to the market in person, rest assured, I will rebuild the definition of the market and make it more than a trading center." Not only did it make the existing Turks reluctant to leave, but it could even attract the Turks from the steppe. ”

It turns out that compared to Zhou Shaoyu, the old fox, Ainur is still too tender, and he didn't see through the deep meaning behind Zhou Shaoyu at all, and thought that Zhou Shaoyu was really for her good, after all, the relationship between the two was really a little ambiguous. In this regard, Ainur was very moved, and was about to say something, but saw a personal guard of Zhou Shaoyu suddenly running in front of him.

"Report, young master, a large open-pit coal mine has been found ahead!"

Listening to the title, you know that it is the old man next to Zhou Shaoyu, otherwise how could he be called the young master.

Zhou Shaoyu was overjoyed, and then he was surprised, and said that the people of Xuanyang Mountain in Laoshizi would not be blind, how could they take a look at the topographic map and then calculate the five elements or something, and they could conclude that there might be any mines here.

However, this is really the case, and if you see it with your own eyes, you can't admit it. This location is too good, not far from Cloudsdale, as long as the road is opened, it is really convenient, which is very conducive to the future development of Cloudsdale.

"Good!" Zhou Shaoyu slapped his palms, and he was not too satisfied.

At present, the entire girder is used for coal, except for ironmaking, which is picked up by poor people for winter heating, and it is easy to be poisoned after finishing things. Think about it, in order to keep warm in winter, the doors and windows are naturally closed, and coal is a thing that will have carbon monoxide when burned, and the air is not circulated, so it will not be poisoned.

As for other uses, this is not the afterlife, there are not so many factories, let alone thermal power stations, how can there be any consumption.

Zhou Shaoyu has thought about it, and when the time comes, he will promote honeycomb coal as soon as possible, this thing has a very low technical content, but it is durable after burning, and the price is extremely low, everyone can afford to use it, and it can be used with a coal stove, not only can it keep warm but also can be used for daily boiling water for cooking, and it will not be poisoned.

In short, it is necessary to change the people's habits of chopping wood and burning fires as much as possible, everyone knows that it is easy to cut down a tree, but it is difficult to grow it again.

In fact, many ancient cities were abandoned because of changes in the local environment, which was especially obvious in ancient times and even in the Xia and Shang periods. This shows the importance of maintaining the ecology of a place.

What's more, as a traverser, Zhou Shaoyu certainly knows the importance of the forest, although it is too early for the beam, maybe keep it as much as possible, and there is nothing wrong with burning coal.

Besides, honeycomb coal is cheap, the price is super low, but it can't stand the large amount of use, it has really changed everyone's habits, and I'm afraid that I won't make money? For the country, it is normal for money to circulate, but the current situation is to find a way to make money from other places, and then spend it on the people of Bingzhou, and the people like to save it for simplicity, which is very tangled in the wood, although the honeycomb coal costs very little, it can be regarded as being able to pry open a pocket.

"Okay, I'm in a good mood, it's better to choose a day than to hit the day, since I promised to go to the market if I found a coal mine, then I just went today." Throwing away a briquette in his hand, Zhou Shaoyu clapped his hands, obviously in a good mood.

Ainur naturally had no reason to object, but was very happy, and she was also curious about how Zhou Shaoyu would transform the market into an existence that could attract Turks.

Originally, Shikou was not called Shikou, but it was just a small frontier fortress, mainly to defend against enemies. It's just that after it was divided into Ainur, it was renamed and called Shikou directly, so it was decided.

At present, of course, it is mainly Turkic people, and even a small number of Daliang people are also trying to come here to trade. In any case, the furs and other specialties of the Turkic side are still quite popular in Daliang.

After successive gatherings, the entire city now has nearly 30,000 people, of which women and children are the mainstay, there are very few old people, and the rest are basically young and strong, otherwise the population of nearly 30,000 would not be able to make up a cavalry army of nearly 10,000.

Prior to this, Zhou Shaoyu did not take corresponding measures for assimilation, mainly based on foreshadowing, but there was no big move.

But I didn't notice the problem of discomfort at the time, but fortunately I found it early, otherwise after a while, someone would want to run. Although there are some people who are accustomed to this kind of farming life, it is extremely undesirable for most Turkic peoples.

Originally, living on the grassland, racing, horse racing, wrestling, grazing, and freedom, but now they are confined in one place and cannot move, which is still very different.

Of course, Zhou Shaoyu doesn't have the ability to change their habits in a small way, since this is the case, let's do something else to distract them! Like what......

"The Turks are martial, and the strong are respected, I know that your women do not pay attention to appearance when choosing a mate, and the more powerful they are, the more popular they are." In Ainur's house, Zhou Shaoyu began to make preliminary arrangements.

Hearing this, Ainur chuckled lightly and said with a smile: "I don't think so, with the appearance of Zhou Gongzi, it's not easy to seduce any woman?" ”

Talking! Comfortable! Zhou Shaoyu was very satisfied, but his face should be modest.

"Whereever, don't talk nonsense, don't care about my appearance, because I am more charming on the inside!"

Uh, are you sure it's modesty?

"Alright, let's move on." Zhou Shaoyu waved his hand and continued. "I heard that there are often competitions on your grassland?"

This is for sure, the competition of horse, the competition of horses, the competition of horses, the competition of wrestling, the competition of archery, or the competition within their own tribe, or the comparison of representatives of several tribes together, or it may be that the Khan called on all the tribes to participate, no matter which one it is, it will attract everyone's attention, and the final winner will naturally receive great praise.

"Could it be that we also have a competition?" Ainul guessed.

"Hold a competition, where is it, you have to make the whole big one!" Zhou Shaoyu waved his hand and said proudly: "For example, the King of the Prairie Wrestling Competition!" Spread the invitation, invite the warriors of all tribes to participate, compete in group groups, and then enter the knockout round, and finally decide the first place, which can be crowned as the first warrior of the grassland, and get a lot of financial rewards. Fame, money, all at once!

Another example is the riding and archery competition, the equestrian competition, anyway, as long as the Turks are interested in something, we will do anything, or even directly be violent, directly to a non-rule life and death competition! I don't believe you Turks don't like it! Not only that, we can also open the bank, in short, how to improve the enthusiasm of how to come.

Also, you can't rely on the men's project alone, the prairie women are good at dancing, I know that. Speaking of which, Zhou Shaoyu looked Ainur up and down a few times, this girl danced very temptingly. In this regard, you can also have a competition, I don't believe who doesn't want to see it, as for the final winner, you can have a 'flower of the grassland' or something, and then it can be divided into individual competitions, team competitions, and even clan competitions, all of which are OK.

By the way, we have to build a special place for this, the square in the middle is the test site, and the surrounding stands are full of spectators, just imagine, tens of thousands of people shouting and cheering in the stands, this atmosphere alone, is enough to make people hi. For example, we can also hold a singing contest, people on the grassland, who doesn't know how to sing some songs? And ......"

Zhou Shaoyu gushed endlessly, if these things are done in the realm of Daliang, it is really very likely that they will not be able to do it, because the overall ideological environment is mainly implicit and conservative, at this point, what kind of dancing competition will definitely not be able to be started, this is different from the battle of the Oiran, the latter can be attributed to the elegant thing by those literati, and the former, is it probably corrupt?

As for the non-rule life-and-death competition, it is even more impossible, you just wait for those hypocrites to write and write.

But the Turks are different, how can they have so many rules, and if they really make a big competition, it's too late to rejoice. Maybe it's not big at first, but even if it's just the Turks in the city, it's enough to distract them, so take your time.

If you get it out in time, are you still afraid that the Turks won't come here? As long as they come this way, Zhou Shaoyu will be sure to control some of them. Of course, Ainur's good one-sidedness, of course, will continue to be enveloped, and he must not run!

In short, Shikou should not only become a big trading city, but also a big entertainment city for the Turks, and then use this as a base point to increase cultural output and strengthen assimilation as much as possible, and I don't believe that it will not affect a group of Turkic people.

Just do it, although the first session did not count on those tribes on the grassland, but at least they had to make a name for themselves, and let people know about these things. At the same time, it is also advertised that goods can be traded here. In short, it's just to spread it widely, invite them all, whether they come or not, that's their own business.

Compared with coins or something, for the Turks, cattle and sheep are real things, so the ranking reward is simple, how many cattle and sheep can be obtained in the final ranking, plus how many tea bricks, as long as the number is enough to bluff people, there are definitely people who are tempted.

Considering that this is a relatively formal competition, it is necessary to fully consider the competitive nature, so the content of the competition needs to be further changed, such as horse racing and mounted archery can be combined and modified.

Railings are set up in the field, mud is set up, there are all kinds of obstacles, starting from the starting point, passing through these obstacles, and then setting targets of different distances on the way, requiring archery in the process of riding, and then finally reaching the end point, and then according to the time taken and the number of hits of the riding archery numerical calculation to determine the champion.

Wrestling is a must, Turkic people, how can they not be good at this mouthful, let alone organized large-scale events, even if you hear someone wrestling nearby, you have to go over and take a look. In this way, it can be carried out at the same time as the dance event, and it is a hot dance of blood and beauty, can it not be attractive?

In the end, according to Zhou Shaoyu's idea, it is to build Shikou into an entertainment mecca for the Turks, and then export culture through the stitches. Of course, if you really want to promote the euphemistic and implicit thoughts of the Central Plains people, it must be useless, and people don't like this set at all, and it is inevitable to adapt to the necessary rectification.

It's like the so-called Chinese restaurant in Europe and the United States in later generations, if you really throw an authentic Chinese person who has never been out of the country to eat, you have to be confused, what is this Nima, I haven't eaten it! But this is Chinese food? Yes, it's not to adapt to local tastes. In fact, many popular Chinese foods on other people's turf may not be found in China, or even heard of them.

In any case, Ainul was happy, she could foresee the madness of those Turkic tribes after this matter developed, not to mention the rich reward of the first place in the individual competition, the name of the first warrior of the steppe alone was enough to make people excited. And the tribal team competition will make them even more excited.

On the one hand, he hurriedly asked people to spread invitations everywhere, and on the other hand, he hyped it up at the entrance of the city, and in a few days, everyone knew about it, and they all signed up enthusiastically, who was still uncomfortable? We're all waiting for the tournament to start!

Zhou Shaoyu also thought about it, although some races can only be held once a year or even longer, but for example, horse racing can be retained for a long time, and its rules or something, well, you can refer to Hong Kong Island in the future......

(End of chapter)