Chapter 642: The Golden Ship
In contrast to the image of closed ignorance that was common in later generations, the Arab world showed the splendor and openness of civilization in its heyday after its rise.
Not to mention the core areas of the Fertile Crescent and Egypt, even the Arab-occupied Iberian Peninsula was far ahead of Europe in terms of navigation, trade, technology, and culture. Therefore, after the Iberian Peninsula was finally recovered by the Europeans, and the two countries of Spain and Portugal were born, they were able to use the civilization legacy left by the Arabs to open the prelude to the Age of Discovery.
At that time, the Arab dynasties had the same commercial attributes, whether it was the first dynasty of white food or the second dynasty of black food, because of the occupation of West Asia and Egypt, with the main passage of the trade routes between the east and the west, it was not so much a nomadic kingdom and an agricultural kingdom as a commercial kingdom.
Around the first millennium of the Common Era, the emergence of the Green Clothes was the first dynasty established by a minority sect outside of the Orthodox sect. Although at this time, the Caliph of the Black Eater still occupied the two river valleys, and the descendants of the White Eater also controlled the Iberian Peninsula, but both sides of the Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea were owned by the Green Eater, so the main interests of the East-West trade went to the Green Eater, and he became the natural protagonist of the Arab world in this era.
As the protagonist of the era, the green-clothed food is naturally full of ambition, thinking that he will soon be able to enter Baghdad and capture the caliph alive. To this end, they also built a special palace in Egypt to house the caliphate as captives.
In addition to the unification of the country, the green clothes and big food also consider the issue of long-term peace and stability. Due to the long-term cultivation of business civilization and the thinking summary of the business model. In particular, after seeing the means of controlling the liquidity of money by the Venetian merchants on the other side of the Mediterranean, the insightful people at the top of the green-clothed food gradually felt it. Financial control is a very important thing, and the establishment of a national bank is very necessary.
Banks were established in this era. It is impossible to meet the conditions for the issuance of banknotes, and it must be secured by precious metals as currency reserves. Green Eaters intends to use gold as the ballast of the currency, but after trying to collect it in various ways, it is found that it is still far from enough to meet the needs of establishing a bank.
Therefore, the master of the green clothes and food came out and used all kinds of holy weapons to carry out a grand and mysterious prayer ceremony, hoping to give gold from heaven.
Originally, this kind of superstitious activity that was close to asking the dragon lord for rain should have been enthusiastically carried out for ten days and a half months, and then ended in vain. Do whatever you want. However, the master who presided over the ceremony claimed with great confidence that a golden ship would definitely appear on the Red Sea, based on the feedback from the prayer. But these ships of gold are very powerful, and they must mobilize their armies for hard battles in order to obtain an innumerable amount of gold.
"......" Ji Lingxing was so embarrassed that he didn't know what to say, "So this is the result of your investigation?"
Ji Aojian nodded seriously, "Although I don't know all the causes and consequences of the captives I caught, according to my speculation, it should be roughly like this." ”
"So we're the prey of these guys who want to set up a bank?"
"We've got 1,200 tons of ballast. Ji Aojian said with emotion. "In the 10th century, there were only a few thousand tons of gold in the world, how much did we account for? ”
Ji Lingxing was speechless for a while, "You say that." I feel like we're a big sheep. ”
"yes. Ji Aojian sighed, "And I also understand why we are in this era. ”
Ji Lingxing said in surprise, "You know all this?"
"It's because those green men who are well-versed in food summon with holy weapons. It resonates with our time and space travel, interfering with our coordinates. We jumped on the Red Sea to the 10th century AD. Ji Aojian said solemnly, "So." All this is not the fault of the third sister. ”
Ji Shengdian smiled bitterly, "Little sword, you don't have to comfort me. ”
"I think what Xiaojian said makes a lot of sense. Ji Lingxing said, "Third sister, don't you still blame yourself." ”
"Let's think deeper. Ji Aojian continued, "Because gold is needed, even if this world doesn't have it, it can be summoned from other planes and planes. Then, with such an earth-shattering power, it should have reached the point where heaven and man are connected. ”
"It's a possibility. Ji Lingxing asked worriedly, "Then did you ask, how many masters did they preside over the ceremony?"
"It is said that there are as many as three. ”
"Three great grandmasters!" Ji Lingxing shouted, "And there are only three of them in green clothes and food, and there must be more than a dozen of them in the entire Arab world?"
Ji Ao Kendao, "It's the tenth century AD, and the power that can unite heaven and man abounds, so it's not abnormal." ”
Ji Lingxing muttered, "This is normal, we are not good." ”
"We're three of us, what are we afraid of?"
"I can't count. Ji Lingxing looked very self-aware, "Little sword, you may be able to count half of it." ”
"The third sister can be one of the top three. ”
Ji Lingxing shook his head, "The third sister could have topped three at a time, but in her current situation, I think the top one is hanging." ”
"I won't hide it from you. Ji Shengdian's face was still pale, "My Lingtai has not recovered from the damage, and now I only have a maximum of thirty percent of my combat power." ”
"Look. Ji Lingxing said with annoyance, "Originally, the third sister was equivalent to being so powerful on Avalon Island in this era, just carry a cannon and smash people." Now that she can't hit people with a cannon, we're in trouble. ”
Ji Ao Kendao, "Third sister, can we go back to our era now?"
"This conch alone can only go five hundred years at most. Ji Shengdian sighed, "We must fight a battle and get the holy weapon that the opponent prayed for, so that we can hope to go back." ”
"Can't you go five hundred years later, and then four hundred years later?"
"The artifact is not infinitely usable, this conch can only be used three times, and now there is one last chance to use it, so it must be jumped back at once. ”
"That means we must win, right?" Ji Aojian said confidently. "Then let me beat them to the ground. ”
Ji Lingxing was stunned, "Little sword." You're just getting started, where does this self-confidence come from?"
"Ninth sister. Didn't we participate in a fighting tournament?" Ji Aojian said with a succinct voice, "According to my experience in the competition, a master who has reached the realm of the unity of heaven and man is not necessarily a martial arts grandmaster. It's only the 10th century AD, and those who can unite heaven and man should only be priests like sacrifices, and they won't be proficient in the art of fighting. ”
"Little sword, don't underestimate the heroes of the world. ”
Ji Shengdian Zhengse said, "Around the tenth century AD. It is the stage when the world's major sects gradually combine the method of cultivation with martial arts, and the originators of martial arts emerge in endlessly. ”
"yes. Ji Lingxing recalled, "According to the history of the development of martial arts, our China has now entered the Song Dynasty, isn't that the era when the outer kung fu began to transform into the inner kung fu?"
Ji Aojian thought for a while and said, "But I don't seem to have heard of any martial arts school in the green-clothed food. ”
"Why not?" Ji Shengdian said, "You know that the Green Clothes and Great Food are pursued. Which denomination?"
"This knows, it's a minority in Islam, the Shia. ”
Ji Shengdian said, "Which sect of Shia is that?"
Ji Aojian was a little embarrassed. "I don't know how to divide it below. ”
"Specifically, the Immam sect, a minority among Shiites. ”
"Oh. It turned out to be an Imam. ”
"That's not all, the Green Eaters are still in the minority of the Imam. Yi Sima Yi faction. ”
"It turned out to be a minority within a minority. Ji Aojian felt dizzy.
Ji Shengdian said, a little panting. "As for the Yi Sima Yi faction, there will be another minority faction in the future, the Assasin faction, which is a martial arts sect that has a profound impact on history. ”
Ji Aojian asked curiously, "What is the martial arts of the Assasin faction?"
"The Way of the Assassins. ”
"I don't understand. ”
Ji Shengdian said, "There is a member of the Yi Sima Yi sect known as the old man in the mountain, who founded a sect that uses the means of assassinating me, that is, the Assasin sect. ”
"The old man in the mountain!" Ji Aojian seemed to understand everything at once, "Isn't that the martial arts of the Ming Sect?"
"Mingjiao, why did you suddenly jump to a certain sect in China?"
"That, Mingjiao originated from Persia, in fact, it is Manichaeism. ”
"What are you talking about?" Ji Lingxing was also puzzled after listening, "Although the old man in the mountain is a minority of the minority of the I'slan sect, you can't say that he is a Manichaean. ”
"It seems like I'm misremembering. Ji Aojian changed his words, "But the old man in the mountain is also a Persian, and it is said that his martial arts were stolen by the Manichaean religion of Persia for his own use." ”
"In the time of the old man in the mountain, Manichaeism in Persia would have been extinct long ago. ”
"Really?" Ji Aojian said with a snort, "Even if Manichaeism is extinct in Persia, Mingjiao in China will still flourish, and at the end of the Ming Dynasty, it was the main force that launched an uprising against the Yuan bottom." ”
"The Ming Sect had an official status in the Yuan Dynasty and could be a legal missionary, so why did it cause an incident?" Ji Shengdian looked at him strangely, "As for the Red Turban Army launched by the low-level sect at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, it was the White Lotus Sect that was active, you wouldn't think it was the Ming Sect because you heard that there was a slogan 'King Ming was born' at that time, right?"
“...... Third sister, let's talk about the old man in the mountains. ”
"The old man in the mountain is called Hassan al-Sabah, and the Assasin sect, who founded the mountain by his own name, is both a missionary group and an assassination kingdom. Their assassination skills were so terrifying and infamous that they spread so far in history that later the word assassin was assassin."
"I see. "As a young man who had some knowledge of the popular profession of fantasy games, Ji Aojian now knew the origin of the name of the assassin, which was actually a Persian name.
The way of the old man in the mountain can be remembered in history as a proper noun, and this influence is almost as influential as that of the great scientists who use "Newton" and "Volt" as the naming units. And the more sophisticated and profound the martial arts, the more extensive and long the inheritance, then as the source of the Assasin faction, the Yi Sima Yi faction, the great masters of the green clothes and food, may not just communicate with the natural sacrifice, it is very likely that they are already experts in martial arts. (To be continued.) )