Chapter 36 The Spoils of War
In Woshi City, there are joyful scenes of cooking cows and slaughtering sheep everywhere.
After winning the battle, we naturally have to reward us. The cattle and sheep that the man who could not bear to eat was pulled up, washed, slaughtered, and kept busy.
The most amazing thing is that the people who do this work are the people who are caught from the city.
They frowned and looked reluctantly at the livestock they raised since childhood, and then made up their minds to give it a pleasure.
A little girl was crying loudly in her arms while holding her sheep, and was quickly pulled aside. The adult covered her eyes, and another man stabbed her with a sharp knife. The sheep swept her hooves wildly, and soon there was no movement.
The Khotan infantry guarding outside the door laughed, perhaps laughing at the funny face of the people who were reluctant to let go of their pain, or perhaps laughing at the pitiful appearance of these prisoners.
On the grassland, the winner has no mercy on the losers, but only endless humiliation.
The only chance for a loser to turn around is to participate in the war as a slave, and gain freedom after making meritorious service. He can have houses, wealth, women seized from the enemy, and then humiliate the new loser to the fullest.
This is the survival philosophy of grassland.
Cruel and coldness give you a front-line opportunity to rise, but this opportunity is based on the suffering of another group of people.
There were endless crying sounds in the Creator's temple diagonally opposite.
Everyone subconsciously turned their heads and couldn't bear to listen and watch more.
They just noticed that many soldiers and officials' families were taken in and rewarded to soldiers who had recently surrendered to the Xia people. Some soldiers couldn't wait and started to get it started. The wives and wives of wealthy families had never experienced such a situation. It would be better not to be scared crazy.
Some people showed envy on their faces.
Humiliation of a noble man who was still high and superior the moment before, will become addicted to this feeling once you have done it. In normal times, they are only worthy of kneeling on the ground and kissing the noble man's boots - not even this qualification.
But now? You can cut off their heads with one knife, or even torture them before killing them. Then pull off their wife and daughter's clothes and humiliate them wantonly.
That white and tender body is much better than the wrinkled yellow-faced woman at home!
A team of carriages passed outside the door, and the carriages were filled with corpses. Looking at the young face, they should be students from the School of Jing, right?
The people who were responsible for pulling the corpse looked at each other and saw the deep sadness in the other's eyes.
The priest, the students have a very good image everywhere, this is true.
In the early days, the Creator believers had to pay only a very light tax: zakat.
But believers of non-creator have to pay heavy count taxes, and the commercial tax is twice as much as possible, not to mention the numerous labor services, and they are simply overwhelmed.
In such a situation, the priests encouraged people to join the church and relaxed restrictions on joining the church, making a large number of people become believers of the Creator.
But the officials and Dihkans were very dissatisfied. They quoted the ancient proverb, "Taxes are sent by the Creator's power", and stipulated that those who paid taxes in the past should continue, regardless of your incarnation.
Or, the threshold for entry into the religion is greatly increased, and only Protestants who receive circumcision, perform all ordinances and can read a chapter of the scriptures can be exempted from taxes.
In response to this, the priests responded: the indigenous people had indeed converted to the sect and began to build temples, and everyone became great cannibals and no longer had tax targets.
Conflicts suddenly broke out, and many priests were arrested for encouraging the people to resist taxes.
They accused the Caliph of being treasonable and for many people who were angrily withdrawing from their education because they could not be exempted from tax. They expressed their understanding and support, even if their interests were damaged.
The priests also actively worked for the serfs who made contributions to them, allowing them to gain free status and deserved land rewards.
There is not without reason for the rapid rise of the Creator. His shepherd was not corrupt, but maintained strong beliefs and enthusiasm, which allowed many tribes in the bottom of slave society to gain a path to ascendance.
Religious schools not only recruit aristocrats. They used good educational resources to accumulate a large group of young priests from poor families, allowing them to leap in class.
For ordinary people who are bakhan, they do not exclude the Creator. On the contrary, the Creator's shepherd can limit Dihekan, who is increasingly unscrupulous. Although now, the priests and nobles have shown signs of convergence.
Most of the young students were massacred by foreign conquerors.
Good people will not be rewarded!
The carriage that pulled the body passed through the entire market and walked out of the city.
The merchants in Bazari were crying without tears.
The Hanwai region (the place east of the Amu River is called "Hanwai") was originally an area with extremely developed handicrafts. They made various goods, traded in the Great Khorasan province, and even sold them to Baghdad further west.
The conquerors were very greedy for money and took away almost everything they saw.
Carpets, copper lamps, tin products, felt cloaks, fur, amber, honey, scissors, needles, tables, sofas (the word sofa originally comes from Arabic), branch lamp holders, vases, ceramics, kitchenware, sches, swords, bows, etc. - there are also a small number of Turkic slaves and Slavic slaves.
Of course, what was most loved by the Supreme Khan was not the sword or the slave, but the soap...
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"Collection of all the craftsmen who can make soap, pardon their crimes, send them to Luoyang, and hand them over to the Ministry of Internal Affairs." In the castle, Shao Shude held a piece of soap in his hand and couldn't let go of it.
Last night, he took the soap in his own hands, held Satuk's wife and two daughters, and washed them all over.
This should be traditional Aleppo soap.
Heat the olive oil, lye and water together until it boils to turn into a viscous liquid soap. Then add the laurel oil and mix, pour out, wait for it to cool, harden, and finally cut into pieces.
The soap is light golden on the outside, and green on the inside, with a faint fragrance.
In fact, Arabs have obtained different types of soap by adding different things into it, such as laurel oil, taro, musk, etc., and the sales are very good.
Olive trees are native to the Mediterranean Sea and were introduced to China by Persian merchants during the Tang Dynasty. They are currently only planted sporadically, mainly in the Helong area, and are called "Zipodun Tree". The Tang Dynasty used them to extract oil and make medicine to remove scabies.
The laurel tree was about to be modern, and was introduced to China by foreign missionaries and began to be planted in the south. This laurel is not the laurel in ancient books, but was just introduced. When this tree was introduced, in the late Qing Dynasty, literati of the Republic of China searched the name laurel from ancient books and gave it a title.
The ancient Romans brought laurel trees native to the Mediterranean to Central Asia, and it seemed to have been spread to Xinjiang sporadically.
But Shao Shude was too lazy to find it in Xinjiang, so Fergana had a ready-made one and brought it back to China to find land in the south to introduce it.
Of course, soap does not necessarily require olive oil or laurel oil, but it is rare to come here and not get more things back, so the ticket price is not worth the price.
It is too slow to rely on monks and merchants to actively or passively spread animal and plant resources!
Zhang Qian went on a mission to the Western Regions and brought back varieties of alfalfa, garlic, cucumber, broad beans, lettuce and other varieties to China.
During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, walnuts, sesame, cotton, eggplant, etc. were introduced into China from Central Asia.
During the Tang Dynasty, there were spinach and watermelon.
If Lao Shao comes to the west once, he has to get some things back, right?
In his life, he has already developed carrots, chickpeas, beets, rye and other varieties, but it is not enough. The more valuable species, the better.
After giving the order, Shao Shude sat down and looked at the plate in front of him.
There were some fruits on the plate. Shao Shude could see that these were pistachios and dates, which he had eaten in later generations.
During the Tang Dynasty, pistachios were sent to Chang'an as tribute and were enjoyed by princes and nobles, but there was no record of planting. The environment may be inappropriate, but it can be grown in the Western Regions.
The date palm is probably obtained from Persia, but China is really not suitable for the growth of this plant. In later generations, only a few areas such as Yunnan, Guangxi, and Hainan were introduced and planted, but it is likely that it cannot match the original version in terms of sweetness and yield.
However, this thing is very drought-resistant. It can live in places with rainfall of dozens of millimeters a year. It is also resistant to salt and alkali, and has a barren content of 70%. Each tree produces more than 100 kilograms per year and has a fruit production period of more than a hundred years. Persia is its origin and is regarded as a spare grain by the locals. It has many advantages.
As a climate museum, Yunnan should be able to find some dry and hot valleys that are suitable for planting.
Of course, for the whole country, this is not very meaningful. But for Shao Shude, isn’t it appropriate to give his son some more good things?
In fact, he had planned to divide a batch of soap-making craftsmen to Liulang and let him plant olives and laurel trees in the Tonghai Governor's Office to enhance his economic strength.
In addition to these two things, Shao Shude also wanted to make some coffee seeds, but unfortunately he didn't see them in Fergana.
This crop can be refreshing like tea, and can be planted on a large scale in Yunnan and Annan, greatly deepening the economic and trade ties between the two places and the Central Plains.
It’s a pity that I have to find a big cannibal to do this. He had asked the maritime merchant before, but it has not been successful yet. This time he searched on the land to see if he could contact him.
"Your Majesty, the horse has been brought over, please move to the backyard." Han Quanhui walked over and reported in a low voice.
Shao Shude looked at his white hair and sighed: "You are not young anymore, don't be too busy. If the nephew of the Han family has talent, please report it to me directly and can only hire it as much as possible."
After saying that, he walked backwards.
Han Quanhui hurriedly followed, his face smiling like a chrysanthemum, and all the old folds were opened.
Shao Shude came to the backyard and saw seven or eight horses.
He walked forward and pulled one.
The horse raised his head, a little irritable.
Shao Shude glared at the beast and comforted it gently. After a while, the horse calmed down again.
"Your Majesty's divine power is even afraid of the sky horse." Han Quanhui immediately slapped the rainbow fart.
Shao Shude laughed, turned over the horse, and walked two steps in the wide courtyard.
"In the past, Li Guangli brought back ten sweat-blooded BMWs, and Han Wu was ecstatic." Shao Shude smiled and said, "Now the King's Army has invaded Dayuan, isn't the BMW still asking for me?"
"Your Majesty is unmatched by anyone." The palace guards also made fun of each other and said loudly.
"This is the beginning." After riding for two more laps, Shao Shude dismounted and said, "Let's find more horses and send them all to Sinong Temple to cultivate new horses."
After saying that, he threw the reins of the horse and said, "Happy riding Satuk's horse during the day and her wife at night! Summon the generals to come and discuss the matter."
"Your Majesty, what should Satuk deal with it?" asked the commander of Yinan Shizhi, Zhong Yanyou.
"For the sake of his 'promoting horse', I will give him a good meal tonight and behead him tomorrow." Shao Shude said.
"Abide by the order."
Chapter completed!