Chapter 995: The Byzantines

The city of Turan has regained some of its former bustle. The traces of war remain, but the wounds are healing.

The Seljuks reluctantly accepted the reality, and the arrival of a large number of flower thorn Zim people made Buddhism appear again in Khorasan and Turhuo and even the Persian plateau after hundreds of years.

But that's a clash of ideologies, and survival is a matter that is closer to human beings than beliefs.

The Seljuk natives of the mountains were now accustomed to this kind of trade with the invaders – strictly outside the cities, of course, – and they needed food, cloth, and all kinds of basic necessities. The war had a huge impact on the social formation of the Persian plateau.

Many of the Flower Thorn Zimo people even became 'brokers', and while importing a large number of daily necessities into the indigenous people, they also brought in the will of Lu Qijun.

Full, the craftsmen and even the craftsmen among the Seljuks also began a new life.

They produced combs, buttons, leather goods, pins, horse whips, ironware, barrels, pottery, wooden components, and other gadgets used in daily life, and then traded them with Lu Qijun.

There are so many people in Lu Qi's army, of course there is a need for these small artifacts.

However, these things are not necessary for human survival, and it is too much to transport them from the rear thousands of miles away. It's not worth it!

Buying nearby is the most convenient and labor-saving.

However, the previous Seljuks did not cooperate with Lu Qijun at all, and those craftsmen and the like who were captured were also transported back to the Central Plains as goods from the human trading house, and these items that could be supplied very easily were always in a state of tension.

It is now the attitude of the indigenous craftsmen who have changed their attitudes, and they use their hard work to provide for the daily needs of the Lu Qi army - just to exchange more food, salt, sugar, etc. from the Lu Qi army. The damage to the Persian plateau was enormous, but the bigger problem was the destruction of Persian 'traffic'.

As a huge plateau and mountainous area, the transportation here is not good in the 21st century. Not to mention the moment! The army fought and strangled, which had blocked traffic and cut off contact.

In addition, the harsh geographical environment of the local area has made traffic difficult, and the isolation of several main traffic roads has turned the areas on the Persian plateau into isolated islands.

It's like if the blood circulating in the human body is blocked, and the person can only become a dead person.

Unable to communicate with each other smoothly, a 'food crisis' broke out in many places.

The need for survival, the real problems, force them to compromise.

Of course, they also made a lot of money from this process, as can be seen from the stalls in the market outside Turan one after another, and these people are profitable.

As early as last winter, the five-day 'rally' in Turan City had exceeded 1,000 yuan in transactions between the two sides, and then it increased all the way. Now the monthly trade volume here has climbed to more than 15,000 silver dollars.

Of course, with the influx of more Flowery Zimi, it had a big impact on the business of the Seljuks in Turan City.

However, with the influx of a large number of Uighurs and Uighurs, with the expansion and change of "market" demand, the amount of such bilateral transactions remained at more than 10,000 yuan.

- In the past, it was purely for the army, and it was used by the army of Luqi, vassal army, auxiliary army, Minzhuang, etc., but later it was to be supplied to the Khorzim and Uighurs, as well as the merchants of the Central Plains who came from thousands of miles away.

A true businessman does not give up a single opportunity to make a profit.

Is the Persian plateau at risk? But it couldn't frighten the businessman with a golden eye.

In addition to selling a variety of handmade goods, the Seljuks occasionally brought some livestock (camels, horses), carpets, local specialties such as saffron and pistachios. The Persian Plateau is one of the few places in the world where saffron can be grown on a large scale, and the unique processing technology also keeps the quality of local saffron at a very high level, and the Persians have used saffron for a long time.

It's just that compared to the light goods that Lu Qi bought from them, the goods that the Seljuk natives wanted to buy from Lu Qi were of higher value and technical content. Not to mention food, cotton cloth and hardware tools, as well as soap and iron ingots, are not cheap.

On the southern shore of the Caspian Sea, at the northern foot of the Alborz Mountains, even some merchants from the Caucasus came running. Naturally, they did not come to buy Seljuk carpets, but they were looking for tea bricks, silk, porcelain, and rhubarb from the East......

Without the Seljuk checkpoints, they could get more goods from the Chinese at a lower price.

Lu Qi's horse's hooves had only stepped into the northeast of the Black Sea, far from entering the core area of the Monotheistic Cult, but its influence on the entire Monotheistic Religion was already deep, deep.

The mighty Seljuk Empire was swept away by their expeditionary force. The former invincible Seljuk sultans fled to Asia Minor in disarray, and they dealt a cruel blow to the shepherds, and even the Byzantine Empire had 'heroically' intervened in the war.

All of this shook the whole world of monotheism.

Yes, the Pope of Rome and the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople cannot pee in the same pot, but they are both 'family'.

The truth that "brothers are on the wall, and the outside world is insulted" is not only in China, but also in the West. How else did the Crusaders come about?

Its main forces are all from the territory of the Catholics, and if there is really no harmony between the two sides, it will not be the Seljuk army of the Celestial side who will fight the Crusaders first, but the Byzantines.

Of course, after the decline of the Byzantine Empire, the later crusaders directly broke Constantinople, ransacked it, and almost cut off the national fortunes of the Byzantine Empire from the root, which is also very logical.

Brancomé was a Byzantine who had crossed the Alborz Mountains into the interior of the Persian plateau for the first time in many years.

It had a new owner, a very strange object to him.

Chinese, a word he has known for a long time, but has always stayed in the 'legend'. After all, the distance between the two is too far, isn't it?

But now this legendary being is about to come to them, which is so shocking!

Constantinople sang and danced, and countless people smiled, believing that the Seljuks, an odious enemy, would never again be a threat to the empire after this blow.

The Imperial Ministers proclaimed: the Crusaders were no longer needed.

After all, they came from Catholicism, and the Byzantine Empire would provide them with a lot of military supplies and help. There was no longer a need for crusaders, which was great tidings for the Empire.

However, the happy moment did not last long before the bad news came. The mighty Seljuks were easily defeated, and Sanjar sent waves of envoys to Constantinople. It was as if a beggar knelt before a rich man, begging for His Majesty's mercy.

Blancome had the pleasure of attending a meeting that he will remember forever.

The anxious Seljuks had lost their dignity, and Blancome's heart rose not with joy, but with a lot of worry as he watched his former formidable enemy fall to the point where he is today.

The death of a rabbit and a fox are sad and sad. He did not understand the allusion, but he did not delay the same sorrow.

He was afraid, afraid that an envoy from the Byzantine Empire would send a prayer ......to Innocent II in the same gesture, and he admitted that the Crusaders, Byzantium were still in great need!