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Chapter 8 Wealth

Solusan did not leave for ten years because he and his fellow travelers stayed in Greece, Persia and Egypt for five years.

In the past ten years after leaving Yunyangyi, Solusan received many "nicknames" or titles.

From east to west, and then from west to east, his title is the story of the journey.

He was fooled and deceived, and had no choice but to be able to compete with his wise mind. He had both the elegance of the so-called aristocratic and the market that was friendly to the Mohist family. So there was a journey of thousands of miles in which each title was a story.

The pot seller in the Central Plains. Because of the iron pot.

Lightning came because of gunpowder and tribe superstition.

Those who cherish horses are because of the horses sent back to the Central Plains.

The generous one gave the tribe leader a musket.

Rich merchants of Oriental dyes and silk. Because of the purple dyes and silk of Qi.

The distinguished guest of Artaxerxes II. Because of his stay in Persepolis.

The Guardian of Armenia was sold to the Governor to prepare the muskets of Dalioke gold coins.

The Redeemer of Athenian Connon, for helping Athenian Navy commander Connon escape from Tilibazo.

Hephaestus's beloved. Because it demonstrated the craftsman, the technique of flame perfectly combined with the musket firing.

The messenger of Hermes. Because he began to give lectures in Greece, he attracted a large number of low-level handicraftsmen to listen to the morality of the Mohist school.

The coach and equipment provider of the 97th Olympic Games equestrian champion. Because there were horse racing competitions in the 33rd Olympic Games, there were no saddles and stirrups at that time, so it was allowed to be allowed if it was not prohibited. He used his defense to convince the referee that the stirrups and saddles did not foul.

The rumored lover of the Olympic equestrian champion. Because the equestrian champion of the 97th Olympic Games is Spartan woman Siniska, as for the accuracy of gossip news, you can just laugh it off.

The generous donors of the reconstruction of Piraeus Port. Because just like Qi State was defeated and forced to demolish the Great Wall, the Great Wall and the port were also forced to demolish the Great Wall and the port after the defeat in Athens. Solusan provided financial and personnel support in order to allow stonemasons to accumulate experience.

The Eloquent. After he mastered Greek, he began to participate in some social debates.

The inheritor of history. Because he provided some paper that Greece did not have at this time, he provided the priests with copying the "History of the Peloponnese War".

The rich man. Because he needed money and the market demand for cultural prosperity caused by the peace in Greece after the Peloponnese War, he opened the first paper workshop in Europe, got rich quickly, made friends with nobles, and opened a school.

Dean. Because he opened a school that taught the Mohist teachings and allowed slaves to listen.

The lover is a charitable person. Because the Greek word for charity is human love, the Mohist family is not charity, but the essence of the "benevolence" of the Mohist family is love. He is generous after obtaining wealth, because he does not need to bring these silver coins back. The wealth in his eyes is knowledge and books, and making money is just to get these things better.

The civilian politician. Because he saved Connon, he got closer to the navy. The sailing warships required a large number of civilians as sailors and paddlers, so the lower class also had more political demands. In addition, the Mohist theory and his lectures, and before leaving, he donated a search of three layers of sailing warships named "Non-attack".

...The titles of all these appropriately show his "title" in the Central Plains - the great cunning of the East.

Debate, heavenly ambition, politics, technology... all of this can only be respected in a country with civilization, but all of this will not be respected in the nomadic tribes of the grassland.

The strong prey on the weak, and the strong are respected.

When Solusan knew about the Qin and Qiang people and Zhai Rong started the war, he realized that he had to face these nomadic tribes when he took a detour to return to the Central Plains from the Three Jins.

He brought back many people, but in fact, he was not afraid of a smaller tribe, but when he encountered a tribe with thousands of people, he had to be careful.

He was not afraid of death, but was afraid that when he died, everything that three hundred people had gained in ten years would be gone. Everything that had gained in these ten years would bring a thunderous shock in the Central Plains, but in the grassland it was just an ordinary story of being slaughtered.

After joining the people in Babylon two years ago, the number of people has increased from the original three hundred to more than six hundred.

There were Greeks, technical slaves who bought redemptions, some craftsmen, some merchants who wanted to visit the East, and even some women and mixed-race children.

In order to return safely, Solusan also racked his brains.

In Athens, the papermaking workshop was left as the property of the school and left one for the Mohist family in Greece.

In Persia, a city with a prosperous culture, he taught papermaking and spirit distillation to the Governor, in exchange for enough money as the Governor's private property.

The muskets sold to raise money were redeemed because the person who bought the musket had no gunpowder, and the musket was almost the same as the fire stick. But Solusan also left enough gunpowder to travel far.

By relying on the money transferred to the king and the governor's private property, he prepared a large cart, horse, gold coins, swords, weapons, and armor.

The Persian Empire has not yet collapsed, and he is protected by Xerxes II all the way east, and he travels unimpededly.

After passing Persia and entering those wastelands, it was safe to use the good reputation left before. It was only 70 or 80 people died until Yu Zhi. This was quite difficult.

After learning about the news that Qin State had expanded to the west and started a war against nomads, Solusan made a quick decision and did not return from the original route, but followed the Yellow River and crossed the Hetao, wanting to return to the Central Plains from the Three Jins.

He didn't recognize the road either. He had never walked this road, but the Yellow River was there, so he would never be wrong.

Relying on the compass, I recorded my own experiences and heard all the way, marked with simple geographical news, and was surrounded by nomadic tribes after passing Hetao.

There were quite a few people surrounding them, and the leader was called Tu Qi by the tribe. This is the transliteration of Solusan, which means smart and wise people.

If there were three or five thousand people, Solusan was not afraid. These people formed a formation to defend them, it would be impossible for these tribes to break through, and they would be annexed by other tribes because there were too many people in their own tribes.

However, the number of people exceeded the limit that Solusan thought he could fight a war, and considered that the primary task of these people was to return to the Central Plains, so he made a quick decision. After being surrounded, he and several warriors who were traveling with him unloaded their weapons and took the initiative to go to the Hu people's tent.

In the tent, the selected warriors showed their skills and signaled that they should not be insulted.

Solu Chan saw the iron pot in the tent at a glance, and saw the Mo family's goods in the vast grassland. This sense of intimacy was integrated into the separation of ten years, but it did not disturb his thoughts. Almost instantly, he guessed the situation.

Iron pot appeared here, and it seemed that the leader attached great importance to it. So after the exchange, Solusan indirectly understood the current situation and general position and made a transaction requirement.

The leader was skeptical and could not believe that these people could have persuaded those people south of the South China Sea to give so much goods, but Solusan relied on his fair share of the scammers that year to motivate the Hu tribe.

Just want to go there to trade, and need to go to the territory and pastures of other tribes. Although the Hu leader was reluctant to share these five hundred iron pots that could be called grassland treasures with others, he still had to cooperate with the other tribes.

After joining forces with four tribes, discussing the distribution of interests, we arrived eastward to the north of Gaoliu, and then joined several local tribes to explain the situation.

Nowadays, people from several tribes gather on the grasslands near the South China Sea. They are all light and strong, with a population of about 15,000.

Soluzan and others lived a pretty good life, but they had a little food and had no freedom of movement. The gold coins and weapons they carried with them were sent out as bribes.

The Hu people had no interest in those books and papers, nor did they know that in Soluchan's eyes, those papers filled with several large trucks were the most precious wealth.

He was in the tent, and the few Hu people who were guarding him were already familiar with him, and sometimes they talked and laughed.

The Hu people who were guarding never understood the situation. They treated these people according to the rules of the grassland, thinking that Solusan was the leader of these people.

But when eating, I found that these people were not what they understood at least, and at least I didn’t understand why when eating, Soluzan took the lead in giving women and children some easier to digest food, and finally ate it by themselves.

At least, the Hu people guarding had never seen such a "leader".

Today's Solusan, wearing a short brown in the ink, was translating a comedy script by his friend Aristophane in Athens, who translated it as "Women in Chinese Rally".

It was translated into the speech in which women pretended to be men and mingled into the citizen assembly, and those short-sighted citizens were incited by ambitious people and inciteers because they had seized some property and interests.

Soluchan took the pen and wrote some comments later according to the reflection of the Chinese gatherings of the Mohist Chinese, and according to some principles in the Mohist "Shangtong" chapter.

Behind him were there a few people sitting, and they were also working hard to write.

There was a thick piece of paper piled up next to it, and the sunlight fell on it, and the title written in the black ink revealed the contents of the paper.

"History of the Peloponnese War", "On Nature", "On Atomic Theory", "Binding Prometheus", "On Prognosis", "Treatment of Fractures", "Calculation of Arch Area"...

Some have been translated, while others have only a few pages of drafts. On the top of these drafts, there are still a few sheets of paper pressed on them, and the ink marks on them are not dry.

The front of the paper reads "The Journey to the West", while the latest sheets of paper read the following content:

"When the south of the Yellow River is located eastward, it is also a forest and Hu. It is not a place to migrate water and plants. It does not always have lands when the city is planted, but it also has its own land. It does not contain documents and words. Children can ride sheep, draw bows and shoot birds and rats; when they are young, they shoot foxes and rabbits: use them for food. If they are more customary, they follow animals. If they are hunting animals for life, they will be hunting animals for life. If they are anxious, they will be accustomed to attack and attack, and their nature is. If they are long, they will be bowed and arrows, and their bones will be used as arrows, and they will not be able to penetrate armor."

"Salty eats meat, wears leather, and is furnished. The strong eats fat, the old eats the rest. They are strong and healthy, and they are weak. The old and weak. The father dies and his wife will be the descendants of his wife. When his brother dies, they will take their wife and wife..."

The ink trace has not dried, it is obviously just written not long ago.

Soluchan turned around and looked at the papers he regarded as life, then looked at a silver coin that the Hu guard regarded as treasures in his hands, and shook his head with a smile.
Chapter completed!
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