Chapter 8 Wealth

Solushen did not travel for ten years, for he and his companions stayed in Greece, Persia, and Egypt for another five years.

In the ten years since he set out from Yunyangyi, Suolushen has received a lot of "nicknames", or titles.

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

Even deceived and deceived, eloquent, impatient and invincible, with the elegance of the so-called aristocracy, and the market of the Mo family close to the people, so there is a journey of thousands of miles in one way or another, where each title is a story.

Pot sellers in the Central Plains. Because of the iron pot.

Lightning struck. Because of gunpowder and tribal superstitions.

Horse cherishers. Because of the horses that were sent back to the Central Plains.

The generous. Because the tribal leader was given a musket.

Wealthy merchants of oriental dyes and silks. Because of the purple dyes and silk of the Qi country.

Honored guest of Artaxerxes II. Because of the stay in Persepolis.

Guest of honour of the Governor of Armenia. Because the musket that was sold to the governor to prepare the gold coins of Dariuk.

The Redeemer of Conon in Athens. For helping the Athenian naval commander Conon escape from Tilibazzo.

Lovers of Hephaestus. Because it shows the perfect combination of craftsmanship and fire skills to fire the musket fire.

Hermes's messenger. Because in Greece he began to give lectures, attracting a large number of low-level craftsmen to listen to the morality of the Mohists.

Coach and equipment provider for the 97th Olympic Equestrian Champion. Because there was a horse race in the XXXIII Olympic Games, but at that time there were no saddles and stirrups, and it was permissible to prohibit them, and he persuaded the referees to not foul the stirrups and saddles with his eloquence.

The scandalous lover of the Olympic equestrian champion. Because the equestrian champion of the 97th Olympic Games is the Spartan woman Siniska, as for the accuracy of the lace news, it can be laughed off.

Generous donors for the reconstruction of the port of Piraeus. Because just as the Great Wall was forcibly demolished after the defeat of the Qi State, the Great Wall and the port were also forcibly demolished after the defeat of Athens, and Solushen provided financial and personnel support in order to accumulate experience for the stonemasons.

Eloquent. As soon as he mastered Greek, he began to participate in some social debates.

The inheritor of history. For he provided some papers, which were not available in Greece at this time, and provided them to the priests to copy the History of the Peloponnesian War.

The one who gets rich. Because he needed money, and because of the market demand for cultural prosperity caused by the peace of Greece after the Peloponnesian War, he opened the first paper mill in Europe, got rich quickly, befriended the aristocracy, and opened a school garden.

Dean. Because he opened a school to teach Mohist doctrine and allowed slaves to listen to it.

A lover of others, a philanthropist. Because the Greek word for charity is human love, the Mo family is not charitable, but the essence of the Mo family's "benevolence" is love, and he is willing to give after obtaining wealth, because he does not need to bring these silver coins back, the wealth in his eyes is those knowledge and books, and making money is just to better obtain these things.

Commoner politicians. Because he saved Conon, he got closer to the navy, and the sail batters needed a large number of civilians as sailors and oarsmen, so there were more political demands at the bottom, plus the Mohist doctrine and his lectures, and before leaving, he donated a three-layer sail paddle warship named "Non-Attack".

…… The title of all this aptly shows his "title" in the Central Plains - the great cunning of the East.

Dialectic, Celestialism, Politics, Technology...... All this can only be respected in a civilized country, but all this is not respected by the nomadic tribes of the steppe.

The weak eat the strong, and the strong are respected.

When Suo Lushen knew that the Qin State was at war with the Qiang people and Zhai Rong, he understood that he would have to face these nomadic tribes if he made a detour back to the Central Plains from the Three Jin Dynasty.

He brought back a lot of people, in fact, he was not afraid of a small tribe at all, but when he encountered a tribe of thousands of people, he had to be cautious.

He is not afraid of death, but he is afraid that if he dies, everything that three hundred people have gained for ten years will be in vain. Everything gained in the past ten years will bring a thunderbolt shock in the Central Plains, but in the grasslands it is just an ordinary story of slaughter.

After the rendezvous at Babylon two years ago, the number had increased from 300 to 600.

There were Greeks, there were skilled slaves who were bought, there were craftsmen, there were merchants who wanted to visit the East, and even some women and children of mixed race.

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

The paper-making workshop in Athens was left as the property of the school garden, leaving one for the Mohists in Greece.

In Persia, a city with a thriving culture, he taught the art of papermaking and the distillation of spirits to the governors as their private property in exchange for enough money.

The musket that had been sold for money was redeemed, because the person who bought the musket did not have gunpowder, and the musket was almost like a burning stick. But Solushen still had enough gunpowder in his hand to travel far enough.

With the money obtained from the transfer of technology for the private property of kings and governors, he prepared carts, horses, gold coins, swords, weapons, and armor.

The Persian Empire had not yet collapsed, and all the way to the east was under the protection of Xerxes II, and it traveled unhindered.

After passing through Persia and entering those wastelands, it was safe to take advantage of the good reputation left before, and it was not easy until Yu knew that seventy or eighty people had died, which was already quite difficult.

After learning the news of Qin's westward expansion against the nomads, Suo Lushen immediately decided not to return by the same route, but along the Yellow River, crossed the loop, and wanted to return to the Central Plains from the Three Jin Dynasty.

He doesn't know the road, this road has never been walked, but the Yellow River is there, and it can't be wrong.

Relying on the compass, he recorded his sights and hears along the way, marked with simple geographical information, and was surrounded by nomadic tribes after crossing the loop.

The tribe that surrounded them was quite numerous, and the leader was called Tu Qi by the tribesmen, which is the transliteration of Solu Shen, which basically means a wise and virtuous person.

If there are three or five thousand people, Solushen is not afraid, these people are in formation, it is impossible for these tribes to break through, and they will be swallowed up by other tribes because their own tribe has too many casualties.

However, the number of people exceeded the limit of what Solushen thought could be fought, and considering that the first task of these people was to return to the Central Plains, he immediately decided, and after being surrounded, he and a few warriors with him unloaded their weapons and took the initiative to go to the tent of the Hu people.

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

Suo Lushen saw the iron pot in the tent at a glance, and saw the Mo family's goods in the vast grassland, this intimacy blended with ten years of parting, but it did not disturb his thoughts, almost instantly, he roughly guessed the situation.

There was an iron pot here, and it seemed that the leader was quite important, so after the exchange, Solushen knocked on the side to understand the current situation and the approximate location, and made a request for a trade.

The chief was skeptical, and he couldn't believe that these people could say that those people south of the South China Sea would give so many goods, but Solushen relied on the incorruptible tongue of the fraudsters back then, and moved the Hu tribe.

Just want to trade there, you need to go to the territory and pasture of other tribes, although the leader of the Hu people is reluctant to share these five hundred iron pots that can be called the treasure of the grassland with others, but he still has to cooperate with the rest of the tribes.

After uniting the four tribes and discussing the distribution of benefits, they went all the way east to the north of Takayanagi, and met with several local tribes to explain the situation.

Now the people of several tribes have gathered in the grasslands near the South China Sea, and they are all light and strong, numbering about fifteen thousand.

Solushen and his men had a decent life, but they had little to eat, no freedom of movement, and the gold coins and weapons they had with them were given out as bribes.

Those books and papers, Hu Ren had no interest, and they didn't know that in the eyes of Suo Lushen, those papers filled with several carts were the most valuable treasures.

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

The Hu people who guarded it never figured out the situation, and they treated these people according to the rules of the grassland, thinking that Suo Lu Shen was the leader of these people.

But when eating, they found that these people were not at all what they understood, at least not why when eating, Solu took the lead in giving some more digestible food to women and children, and finally ate it themselves.

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

Today, Solushen, dressed in a short brown of an inker, is translating a comedy play by his friend Aristophanes in Athens, which he translated as "Women in the Assembly of the Nations."

It is translated into the speech where women disguise themselves as men and mingle in the citizens' assembly, and the short-sighted citizens are instigated by careerists and demagogues because they have stolen some possessions and benefits.

Solushen picked up his pen and wrote some commentaries in the back according to the reflection of the Mohist people's assembly and some of the truths in the Mohist "Shangtong" chapter.

Behind him, there were several people sitting, also working hard there.

There was a thick pile of paper next to it, and the sunlight fell on it, and the name written in black ink revealed the contents of the paper.

History of the Peloponnesian War, On Nature, Atomism, Prometheus in Bondage, On Prognosis, Treatment of Fractures, Calculation of Arch Area......

Some have already been translated, others have only a few pages of drafts, and at the top of these drafts there are still a few sheets of paper pressed on them, and the ink on them has not yet dried.

On the front of the paper, "Journey to the West" is written, and on the latest sheets of paper, the following is written:

"Crossing the south bend of the Yellow River to the east, it also belongs to Linhu. Migrating from water to grass, the city is often in the field of farming, but each has its own land. No paperwork, no words. The child can ride a sheep and shoot birds and mice with a bow; If you are young, you will shoot a fox rabbit: use it for food. Its customs, wide with the animal, because of the shooting of birds and beasts for a living, urgent people practice war to invade, its nature also. Its long soldiers are bows and arrows, and they use bones as arrowheads, and cannot penetrate armor. ”

"Salty eating of animal meat, clothed in leather, covered with fur. The strong eat fat, and the old eat the rest. Noble and strong, cheap and old. When his father dies, his wife dies and his mother dies; When a brother dies, he takes the ...... of his wife."

The ink had not yet dried, apparently just written.

Solushen turned around and looked at the paper that he regarded as life, and then at the silver coin that was being rubbed as a treasure in the hand of the Hu guard, and shook his head with a smile.

The heart said, these things are of great benefit to the world, and they must be brought back no matter what. For us, these papers are priceless treasures.