"Is this Guangzhou Port?"

The sea boat with spinnakers and with the help of the monsoon at the turn of spring and summer every year, the sailing boat began to approach Guangzhou Port.

This is a sailboat that cannibalism. At this time of year, there are always Dashi and Persians sailing thousands of miles. They bring Dashi, Tianzhu, Nanyang and other places to the Tang Dynasty, and exchange for gorgeous silk, porcelain, white copper, and in recent years, they also have strong and durable ironware, crystal clear glass, and light and soft sweat-absorbing cotton cloth.

"I heard that the people of Tang have not been friendly to us in the past six months." The ship owner Laziz said worriedly.

"It is inevitable that what you did last year..." Abduge, a scholar who came with the ship, shook his head and disagreed with Raziz's statement.

"This time is not a good time to come to Tang State. Last year, they changed the emperor, and the newly appointed queen and his husband, they are not as easy to talk to as the emperors of Tang State in the past. When we do business in Tang State, we have to pay heavy taxes." Laziz was not ashamed of the fact that he took the fire to rob Guangzhou last year: "As for the incident last year, didn't the saint say that taking away the property of those who did not believe, killing them, and plundering their wives and daughters as slaves, that is justice. But scholar, what are you doing in Tang Dynasty at this time?"

"Study, the saint said, even if knowledge is far away in China, we are still seeking it." Abduere said.

Just as he was talking, a small boat approached, and several sailors in military uniforms on the boat, one of whom was holding a compass in his hand, ordered them to stop the boat from afar.

"This is a water diversion officer. All ships entering Guangzhou Port must be guided by their water diversion officers. If they land on the shore without their guidance, the people have the right to arrest the port." Raziz whispered: "Don't mention the matter last year."

Abudu nodded, and saw the water digger climbing onto the boat with a few soldiers, and then asked a few questions. Abudududu only understood a little Tang language, but couldn't understand the water digger's words with a strong accent, so he didn't know what they were saying.

He only saw Raziz saying something carefully to the Tang people, with a flattering look on his face, but the Tang people just sneered. After a while, Tang people spoke, as if they were asking about the identity of the people on the Laziz boat. Raziz's face changed, and he replied a few more words. The man slowly took out a booklet and took a pen to register one by one.

After a series of procedures were completed, they were allowed to approach Guangzhou Port. When the ship slowly entered the port, Abduge noticed that there were several places on the shore high ground, the Tang people were busy, as if they were building some fortifications. He asked Raziz, who shook his head, and he had never seen this fortification before.

"I'll ask the water diversion officer for you," said Raziz.

After talking to the water diverter for a while, Raziz's eyes showed a strange look: "That was used by the Tang people to guard against pirates. It was called a fort, maybe it was to put a catapult and a heavy crossbow on it?"

Last year, the Dashi and the Persians captured Guangzhou, which was a piracy, and Laziz also had a part in it. Therefore, when talking about this, his expression was a bit strange. Abduge's expression was a bit strict. As a Dashi scholar, he had a close relationship with the Abbasid royal family. This time, he came to the east, in addition to hearing about the mathematics and medicine of the Tang Dynasty, he came here to study, and was also responsible for the responsibility of peeking at the virtual and real Tang Dynasty for the Abbasid Dynasty. Now the rule of Mansour of the Abbasid Dynasty has been solid, and the last male of the Umayyad dynasty was also driven to Iberia. Although the war with the Byzantine Empire is still stalemate, the empire can already withdraw some of its strength to look east. The theory of Eastern prosperity that was previously circulated in Dashi naturally aroused the interest of this greedy civilization.

"If the Tang Dynasty is really as rich as you said, then it really needs to be guarded against all kinds of robbers."

"I hope the true God will give us this land." Raziz barely concealed his greed.

After the port, officials first boarded the ship, verified the cargo on the ship in two batches, and then asked Raziz to register and pay taxes. The foreign trade taxes of Datang must have been 15% after the revamp of last year, but at the same time, a sub-book was created. For agricultural products, mineral products and some products that Datang did not have, the tax rate was reduced to 5%. For some pure luxury goods and hobbies, the tax rate may rise to 20 or even 30%. After the calculation is completed, the ship owner can choose whether to directly charge the tax with goods or pay coins.

"Is this the new coins of the Tang people?" Seeing Raziz take out the exquisitely printed paper and handed it to the officials, Abduer said in surprise: "I heard that the Tang people used a special thing as coins... This is the first time I have seen them, and they don't use gold coins?"

"They also use gold coins, silver coins and copper coins, but because the gold and silver are rare, expensive, the copper coins are heavy, and they are not easy to carry, they use flying coins as precious metals. Early flying coins were just a kind of credentials, and they could go to the bank to exchange precious metals at any time. Later, they thought flying coins were troublesome, so they printed this... "

The new currency is a major event hosted by the Ministry of Revenue of the Tang Dynasty. It was issued this year, on the first day of the first lunar month of the second year of Qianyuan in the Tang Dynasty. Speaking of the year name, "Qianyuan" is taken from the sentence "Da Zai Qianyuan" in the "Book of Changes", but it is the same as the original historical name of Li Heng, so Ye Chang has no taboos. This new currency, called the Qianyuan version of paper currency, is not issued too much, because at this time, gold, silver, and copper yuan were also issued, but the old copper coins were required to be exchanged for new coins and gradually withdraw from circulation... Because of the previous flying money of Anton Bank, in places with relatively developed commodity economy, paper currency was easily promoted, while those remote places took a certain amount of time to accept this new thing.

"I really don't know if I don't come... The papermaking technique of the Tang Dynasty is also one of my goals for learning. Unfortunately, I actually captured a group of Tang Dynasty craftsmen, but were rescued..." Abdure tsk a few times.

The cannibal acts as a businessman who communicates with the East and the West, and knows the convenience of this token, which is easy to carry and hide. As long as you pay attention to anti-counterfeiting, these paper money are better than precious metals and gems.

After all the procedures were completed, they were taken to a room where people in white robes took their pulses, touched their foreheads, measured their heartbeat and body temperature, and confirmed whether they were carrying infectious diseases. After the procedure was over, they passed through an iron gate at the dock and finally entered the mainland of Datang.

But as soon as they went out, they were stunned.

When I went out, I was a small square, but in the middle of this small square, a sill cage was set up, and there were a few pigs and a group of people.

"Ah" Raziz initially looked at those people curiously, but found that two of them knew him and immediately changed their color and wanted to cover their faces with a headscarf. But at this moment, one of the two shouted: "Discover one, Raziz, who was also involved in last year's event."

Laziz had previously stopped in Southeast Asia. Before coming, he exchanged for the banknotes of the Tang Dynasty from other merchants. However, he did not expect that in order to revenge the Dashi and Persians' plunder of Guangzhou last year, the local officials of the Tang Dynasty had played new tricks. They tied some of the foreigners who had investigated the minor crimes in the incident, and forced them to announce that they would give up their belief in the evil god of robbery and live with the pig. What they had to do every day was to look wide. If they could recognize other foreigners who participated in the robbery, they would be fined for one month's sentence for each report.

As for committing a serious crime, he would naturally either be executed, his head hung in front of the Guangzhou city gate, or he would be sent to be a slave, and he would be able to live in a dark mine.

When Raziz heard the acquaintance call him, she turned around and wanted to escape. However, after last year, the court abolished the former Lingnan Jiedushi, transferred elite soldiers and generals from the north, and strengthened Guangzhou defense. As soon as the shouted, the people on the other side had already scattered and surrounded him. In a blink of an eye, Raziz and his party surrounded him.

Abduer looked pale and his fingers crossed together: "These savages, these savages"

His eyes were still on those who were locked in cages. These people were actually with pigs. They were all believers of the true God.

When the spear pointed at his neck, he realized what was going on. Under the threat of the weapon, he finally calmed down.

Their group was implicated by Raziz and were all arrested and interrogated. After ten days of identification, Abduge was released after warning because it was his first time to come to China without committing any crime.

But after coming out, he soon realized that without Laziz, a guide who was familiar with the Tang Dynasty, he would have been extremely difficult for him to do anything. For this reason, he made up his mind to stay in Guangzhou first, learn the language and writing of the Tang Dynasty, and then head north toward the capital of the Tang Dynasty, the great food and the extremely glorious city of heaven in the legend of Persians.

"Dear mentor, this is really a tragedy. The language of the Tang people is easy to learn, but their writing is too difficult. I can't understand until now. Why there are no letters in Chinese characters? It took me four months to learn only five hundred characters. Although I have various inconveniences in life, I am still very surprised by the changes in Guangzhou City. I heard that the queen of the Tang Dynasty and her husband, the great sage who is famous for their wisdom, wisdom and courage, intend to build Guangzhou City into a southern part of the Tang Dynasty.

It's a capital, so in the past four months, I have seen buildings rise up with my own eyes. After the streets are leveled, they are paved with building materials called cement, and then they are solidified into stone slabs. On both sides of the street, various trees have been transplanted from the mountains. Even in the midsummer just passed, I don't feel too hot... The only thing that makes me regret is that there are no holy temples here. They do not allow believers of the true gods to build their own evil temples here, but they allow all kinds of pagans to build their own evil temples here."

"Guangzhou is indeed a worthy city. I have seen products from all over the world in the market here, from spices, dyes, silk, tea, to industrial products such as cotton, iron, and glassware. It is very annoying to say. In the past, glassware was an important goods for us to exchange silk and porcelain for Tang, but now Tang has been able to produce glassware that is better than us. We have to use gems, incense and various rare treasures to exchange their glassware. The people of Tang said proudly that their wise ministers would turn Tang into the "world's workshop, all the arts and crafts.

As long as the raw materials are owned by Tang State, they must be able to produce them. If they do not have raw materials, they will import this raw materials. The Tang State merchant who told me about this matter was very firm at the time. He believed that this would become real, and the true god was above. I hope that the wisdom of the saints could inspire me, because I have a terrible idea. If the Tang State people can really produce everything in the world, then do we have a big cannibal need to exist? We can no longer sell any goods to Tang State. Without the profits of the trade route, we only rely on the oasis in the desert and the water dating on the Gobi Desert. Do we have a way out?"

"My worries may not be unnecessary. In the past few days, I have calculated the ships going to sea in the port. In three days, a total of 38 ships went out to sea, twenty-eight of which were Tang's own internal merchant ships and passenger ships. They had to go from Guangzhou to Quanzhou, Huating, Dengzhou and Lushun. I heard that these ports were at least as prosperous as Guangzhou, while Lushun and Dengzhou were even more prosperous than Guangzhou. The other ten ships would sail south in the monsoon. Most of these ships were ours and Persia. Now only four were ours, and the other six were from Tang. The people of Tang had very advanced navigation technology. The compass and star meter they used could help them locate more accurately on the sea. I am afraid that it would not take long for the Tang people's sea ships to penetrate into the Persian Gulf, and our people could only be sailors on the ship."

"I'm going to stay here for another two months. On the one hand, my speaking needs further training, and on the other hand, I can't wait to study in Chang'an City. I heard that they opened a national university called Imperial College there, recruiting international students from surrounding countries. I might be able to go there to try my luck, even if I can't enter it to study. Although Guangzhou is a very prosperous port, the academic atmosphere here is too weak. Maybe it will be better in a few years. I heard that Tang State is planning to build a university here. Perhaps only a country as rich and powerful as Tang State can establish universities in all important cities."

He read the letter to his mentor again. Abduer sealed the envelope, called a carriage outside, and sent himself to the port. Today, a newly-acquainted Dashi merchant was about to set off to return to China, and Abduer wanted to entrust him to bring his letter back to China.

But when he arrived at the port, he saw countless people gathering together, as if watching something.

"What happened?" he asked.

"The fort is going to test the cannon, you a foreigner don't know?" Someone asked with a smile when he saw his beard and his foreigner's clothes.

"Testing the cannon?" Abduge thought of seeing the fortifications under construction when he first came to Guangzhou. At that time, Raziz said that it was the place where he launched the stone-drawing crossbow arrow. Now it seems that this is not the case.

He also looked over there. After waiting for a long time, he suddenly heard a shocking sound, and then a white smoke ball rose up covered the direction of the fort.
Chapter completed!