Chapter 420
Fortune
Chapter 420 Fortune
Solucan did not go for ten years, because he and his companions stayed in Greece, Persia and Egypt for five years.
In the ten years since his departure from Yunyang, Solucan has received many "nicknames", or titles.
From east to west, and then from west to east, his title is the story of this journey.
Deceitful, unparalleled in eloquence, quick witted, with the elegance of the so-called aristocrats, and the Mohism's closeness to the people, so there is a journey of thousands of miles where each title is a story.
A pot seller in the Central Plains.Because of the iron pot.
Lightning came.Because of gunpowder and tribal superstition.
Those who cherish horses.Because of those horses sent back to the Central Plains.
generous.Because he gave the tribal leader a musket.
Rich merchant of oriental dyes and silks.Because of Qi's purple dye and silk.
Honored guest of Artaxerxes II.Because of the stay in Persepolis.
Guest of Honor of the Governor General of Armenia.Because it was sold to the governor to prepare the musket for Darek gold coins.
Redeemer of Athens Konon.For helping the Athenian naval commander Conon escape from Tilibazor.
Lover of Hephaestus.Because it demonstrates the perfect combination of craftsmanship, fire, and firearm firing.
Messenger of Hermes.Because he began to give lectures in Greece, attracting a large number of low-level craftsmen to listen to the morals of Mohism.
The coach and equipment provider of the No.90 seven Olympic equestrian champions.Because there were horse racing competitions in the No.30 three Olympic Games, but there were no saddles and stirrups at that time, and it was allowed if the order was not prohibited. He persuaded the referee that the stirrups and saddles were not fouled.
The rumored lover of the Olympic equestrian champion.Because the equestrian champion of the No.90 Seventh Olympic Games is the Spartan woman Siniska, as for the accuracy of the lace news, you can laugh it off.
Generous donor to rebuild the port of Piraeus.Because the Great Wall was forced to be demolished after the defeat of Qi State, Athens was also forced to demolish the Great Wall and the port after the defeat, and Solucan provided financial and personnel support for the stonemasons to accumulate experience.
eloquent.Because after he mastered Greek, he began to participate in some social debates.
Heirs of history.Because he provided some paper that was not available in Greece at this time, and provided it to the priests to copy the "History of the Peloponnesian War".
get rich.Because he needed money, and because of the market demand for cultural prosperity brought about by the peace of Greece after the Peloponnesian War, he opened the first papermaking workshop in Europe, got rich quickly, made friends with nobles, and opened a school.
Dean.Because he opened an academy to teach Mohism, and allowed slaves to listen to the lectures.
A lover, a philanthropist.Because the Greek word for charity is human love, the Mohists do not do charity, but the essence of the "benevolence" of the Mohists is love, and he is willing to do good after he has acquired wealth, because he does not need to take these silver coins back. Wealth is those knowledge and books, and making money is just to obtain these things better.
Populist politician.Because he saved Conon, he got closer to the navy, and sailing warships need a large number of civilians as sailors and oarsmen, so there are more political appeals at the bottom, and because of Mohism and his lectures, And before leaving, he donated a three-story sailing warship and named it "Feigong".
... All of these titles aptly demonstrated his "title" in the Central Plains - the giant cunning of the East.
Debate, will of heaven, politics, technology... All of these can only be respected in a civilized country, but they will not be respected by nomadic tribes on the grasslands.
The weak eat the strong, and the strong are respected.
When Suo Lucan knew that the Qin State was at war with the Qiang people and Di Rong, he knew that he had to face these nomadic tribes when he detoured from the Three Jins to return to the Central Plains.
He brought back a lot of people. In fact, he was not afraid at all when he encountered a small tribe, but he had to be cautious when encountering a tribe with thousands of people.
He is not afraid of death, but he is afraid that if he dies, everything that the 300 people have gained in ten years will be wiped out.Everything gained in the past ten years will bring thunderbolt shocks in the Central Plains, but it is just an ordinary story of being slaughtered in the grasslands.
After meeting people in Babylon two years ago, the number has increased from the original 300 to more than [-].
There were Greeks, bought slaves who knew the art, some artisans, some merchants who wanted to go to the East, and even some women and children of mixed blood.
In order to return safely, Solucan also racked his brains.
The papermaking workshop in Athens was left as the property of the academy, and a branch was left for the Mohists in Greece.
In Persia, a city with prosperous culture, he taught the governor of papermaking and spirits distillation, and used it as the governor's private property in exchange for enough money.
I redeemed the musket that I sold to raise money back then, because the person who bought the musket had no gunpowder, and the musket was almost like a fire stick.But Solucan left enough gunpowder to travel far.
Relying on the money obtained from the transfer of technology for the private property of the king and the governor, he prepared carts, horses, gold coins, swords, weapons, and armor.
The Persian Empire has not yet collapsed, and all the way to the east is protected by Xerxes II, and the journey is unimpeded.
After passing through Persia and entering those wastelands, it is considered safe to use the good reputation left before. Until Yu Zhizhi, only 80 to [-] people died, which is already quite difficult.
After hearing the news that Qin State was expanding westward to fight against the nomads, Suo Lucan made a decisive decision. Instead of returning by the same route, he followed the Yellow River and crossed Hetao, intending to return to the Central Plains from the Three Jins.
He didn't know the way, he had never traveled this way, but the Yellow River was there, so he couldn't go wrong.
Relying on the compass, I recorded what I saw and heard along the way, marking simple geographical information, and was surrounded by nomadic tribes only after crossing the Hetao.
There are quite a few tribes surrounding them, and the leader is called Tu Qi by the tribesmen, which is the transliteration of Suolushen, which roughly means a wise and wise person.
If there are 5000 people, Solucan is not afraid. These people form an formation, and it is impossible for these tribes to break through, and they will be annexed by other tribes because of too many casualties in their own tribe.
However, the number of people exceeded the limit that Solucan believed that he could fight a battle, and considering that the first task of these people was to return to the Central Plains, he made a decisive decision. After being surrounded, he and a few warriors with him unloaded their weapons and took the initiative Went to the barbarians' tent.
Inside the tent, the selected warriors showed off their skills and signaled that they should not be insulted.
However, Suo Lucan saw the iron pot in the tent at a glance, and saw the Mo family's goods in the vast grassland. This kind of intimacy was combined 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 valued it quite a lot, so after the exchange, Solucan understands the current situation and the approximate location by insinuating, and makes a request for a deal.
The leader was skeptical, and couldn't believe that these people could persuade those people in the south of the South China Sea to give so many goods, but Suo Lucan persuaded the Hu tribe by relying on his three-inch tongue when he was a fraudster.
He just wanted to trade there, and needed to go to other tribes' pastures. Although the leader of the Hu people was reluctant to share these [-] iron pots, which were called the treasures of the grassland, he still had to cooperate with the other tribes.
After uniting the four tribes and discussing the distribution of benefits, they went all the way east to the north of Gaoliu, and met with several local tribes to explain the situation.
Now people from several tribes gathered on the grassland near the South China Sea. They were all light and strong, with a population of about [-].
People like Suo Lucan lived a pretty good life, but they didn't have much food, and they didn't have much freedom of movement. The gold coins and weapons other than muskets were all given away as bribes.
Hu people have no interest in those books and papers, and they don't even know that in the eyes of Suo Lucan, those papers filled with several carts are the most precious wealth.
He was in the tent, and the few barbarians guarding him were already familiar with him, and sometimes they talked and laughed.
The Hu people who were guarding did not understand the situation. They treated these people according to the rules of the grassland, thinking that Suo Lucan was the leader of these people.
But when they were eating, they realized that these people were not what they understood at all, at least they didn't understand why when they were eating, Solushen took the lead in giving some more easily digestible food to women, children and the weak, and they would eat it by themselves in the end.
At least, the barbarian guards had never seen such a "leader".
Today's Solucan, wearing a short brown shirt of the ink, is borrowing sunlight outside the tent, and is translating a comedy script written by his friend Aristophanes in Athens, which he translated as "Women in the Assembly of the People" .
It is translating to the speech where women disguised themselves as men and mixed into the citizens' assembly, and those short-sighted citizens were instigated by careerists and agitators because they robbed some property and benefits.
Suo Lucan picked up the pen, and wrote some commentaries later in accordance with the reflections of the Mohist people's gathering and some principles in the Mohist "Shang Tong".
Behind him, there are still a few people sitting there, who are also writing there.
There is a thick sheet of paper piled up next to it, the sun is falling on it, and the name written in black ink reveals the content inside the sheet.
"History of the Peloponnesian War", "On Nature", "Atomic Theory", "Prometheus Bound", "On Prognosis", "Treatment of Fractures", "Calculation of the Area of the Bow"...
Some have already been translated, and some still have only a few pages of drafts, and on top of these drafts, there are still a few sheets of paper on which the ink is still wet.
On the front of the paper, "Journey to the West" is written, and on the latest few sheets, the following content is written:
"Crossing the south of the Yellow River to the east, it also belongs to Linhu. It migrates by water and grass, and the city is always in the field of farming, but each has its own land. There are no documents, but words are bound. Children can ride sheep and draw bows. Birds and mice; young and long shoot foxes and rabbits: use them for food. Its custom is to follow the livestock, because shooting and hunting animals is a living business, and when it is urgent, people are used to fighting and attacking to invade. It is also their nature. Their long soldiers use bows and arrows The bone is the arrowhead, it cannot penetrate the armor."
"Eat salty animal meat, wear its leather, and wear fur. The strong eat the fat, and the old eat the rest. The strong and healthy are valued, but the old and weak are cheap. When a father dies, his wife is his stepmother; when a brother dies, he takes his wife..."
The ink is still wet, obviously it was written not long ago.
Solucan turned around and looked at the papers he regarded as life, and then at the silver coin that the barbarian guard was caressing as a treasure, and shook his head with a smile.
Xin said, these things are of great benefit to the world, and they should be brought back no matter what.For us, these papers are priceless treasures.
(End of this chapter)
Solucan did not go for ten years, because he and his companions stayed in Greece, Persia and Egypt for five years.
In the ten years since his departure from Yunyang, Solucan has received many "nicknames", or titles.
From east to west, and then from west to east, his title is the story of this journey.
Deceitful, unparalleled in eloquence, quick witted, with the elegance of the so-called aristocrats, and the Mohism's closeness to the people, so there is a journey of thousands of miles where each title is a story.
A pot seller in the Central Plains.Because of the iron pot.
Lightning came.Because of gunpowder and tribal superstition.
Those who cherish horses.Because of those horses sent back to the Central Plains.
generous.Because he gave the tribal leader a musket.
Rich merchant of oriental dyes and silks.Because of Qi's purple dye and silk.
Honored guest of Artaxerxes II.Because of the stay in Persepolis.
Guest of Honor of the Governor General of Armenia.Because it was sold to the governor to prepare the musket for Darek gold coins.
Redeemer of Athens Konon.For helping the Athenian naval commander Conon escape from Tilibazor.
Lover of Hephaestus.Because it demonstrates the perfect combination of craftsmanship, fire, and firearm firing.
Messenger of Hermes.Because he began to give lectures in Greece, attracting a large number of low-level craftsmen to listen to the morals of Mohism.
The coach and equipment provider of the No.90 seven Olympic equestrian champions.Because there were horse racing competitions in the No.30 three Olympic Games, but there were no saddles and stirrups at that time, and it was allowed if the order was not prohibited. He persuaded the referee that the stirrups and saddles were not fouled.
The rumored lover of the Olympic equestrian champion.Because the equestrian champion of the No.90 Seventh Olympic Games is the Spartan woman Siniska, as for the accuracy of the lace news, you can laugh it off.
Generous donor to rebuild the port of Piraeus.Because the Great Wall was forced to be demolished after the defeat of Qi State, Athens was also forced to demolish the Great Wall and the port after the defeat, and Solucan provided financial and personnel support for the stonemasons to accumulate experience.
eloquent.Because after he mastered Greek, he began to participate in some social debates.
Heirs of history.Because he provided some paper that was not available in Greece at this time, and provided it to the priests to copy the "History of the Peloponnesian War".
get rich.Because he needed money, and because of the market demand for cultural prosperity brought about by the peace of Greece after the Peloponnesian War, he opened the first papermaking workshop in Europe, got rich quickly, made friends with nobles, and opened a school.
Dean.Because he opened an academy to teach Mohism, and allowed slaves to listen to the lectures.
A lover, a philanthropist.Because the Greek word for charity is human love, the Mohists do not do charity, but the essence of the "benevolence" of the Mohists is love, and he is willing to do good after he has acquired wealth, because he does not need to take these silver coins back. Wealth is those knowledge and books, and making money is just to obtain these things better.
Populist politician.Because he saved Conon, he got closer to the navy, and sailing warships need a large number of civilians as sailors and oarsmen, so there are more political appeals at the bottom, and because of Mohism and his lectures, And before leaving, he donated a three-story sailing warship and named it "Feigong".
... All of these titles aptly demonstrated his "title" in the Central Plains - the giant cunning of the East.
Debate, will of heaven, politics, technology... All of these can only be respected in a civilized country, but they will not be respected by nomadic tribes on the grasslands.
The weak eat the strong, and the strong are respected.
When Suo Lucan knew that the Qin State was at war with the Qiang people and Di Rong, he knew that he had to face these nomadic tribes when he detoured from the Three Jins to return to the Central Plains.
He brought back a lot of people. In fact, he was not afraid at all when he encountered a small tribe, but he had to be cautious when encountering a tribe with thousands of people.
He is not afraid of death, but he is afraid that if he dies, everything that the 300 people have gained in ten years will be wiped out.Everything gained in the past ten years will bring thunderbolt shocks in the Central Plains, but it is just an ordinary story of being slaughtered in the grasslands.
After meeting people in Babylon two years ago, the number has increased from the original 300 to more than [-].
There were Greeks, bought slaves who knew the art, some artisans, some merchants who wanted to go to the East, and even some women and children of mixed blood.
In order to return safely, Solucan also racked his brains.
The papermaking workshop in Athens was left as the property of the academy, and a branch was left for the Mohists in Greece.
In Persia, a city with prosperous culture, he taught the governor of papermaking and spirits distillation, and used it as the governor's private property in exchange for enough money.
I redeemed the musket that I sold to raise money back then, because the person who bought the musket had no gunpowder, and the musket was almost like a fire stick.But Solucan left enough gunpowder to travel far.
Relying on the money obtained from the transfer of technology for the private property of the king and the governor, he prepared carts, horses, gold coins, swords, weapons, and armor.
The Persian Empire has not yet collapsed, and all the way to the east is protected by Xerxes II, and the journey is unimpeded.
After passing through Persia and entering those wastelands, it is considered safe to use the good reputation left before. Until Yu Zhizhi, only 80 to [-] people died, which is already quite difficult.
After hearing the news that Qin State was expanding westward to fight against the nomads, Suo Lucan made a decisive decision. Instead of returning by the same route, he followed the Yellow River and crossed Hetao, intending to return to the Central Plains from the Three Jins.
He didn't know the way, he had never traveled this way, but the Yellow River was there, so he couldn't go wrong.
Relying on the compass, I recorded what I saw and heard along the way, marking simple geographical information, and was surrounded by nomadic tribes only after crossing the Hetao.
There are quite a few tribes surrounding them, and the leader is called Tu Qi by the tribesmen, which is the transliteration of Suolushen, which roughly means a wise and wise person.
If there are 5000 people, Solucan is not afraid. These people form an formation, and it is impossible for these tribes to break through, and they will be annexed by other tribes because of too many casualties in their own tribe.
However, the number of people exceeded the limit that Solucan believed that he could fight a battle, and considering that the first task of these people was to return to the Central Plains, he made a decisive decision. After being surrounded, he and a few warriors with him unloaded their weapons and took the initiative Went to the barbarians' tent.
Inside the tent, the selected warriors showed off their skills and signaled that they should not be insulted.
However, Suo Lucan saw the iron pot in the tent at a glance, and saw the Mo family's goods in the vast grassland. This kind of intimacy was combined 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 valued it quite a lot, so after the exchange, Solucan understands the current situation and the approximate location by insinuating, and makes a request for a deal.
The leader was skeptical, and couldn't believe that these people could persuade those people in the south of the South China Sea to give so many goods, but Suo Lucan persuaded the Hu tribe by relying on his three-inch tongue when he was a fraudster.
He just wanted to trade there, and needed to go to other tribes' pastures. Although the leader of the Hu people was reluctant to share these [-] iron pots, which were called the treasures of the grassland, he still had to cooperate with the other tribes.
After uniting the four tribes and discussing the distribution of benefits, they went all the way east to the north of Gaoliu, and met with several local tribes to explain the situation.
Now people from several tribes gathered on the grassland near the South China Sea. They were all light and strong, with a population of about [-].
People like Suo Lucan lived a pretty good life, but they didn't have much food, and they didn't have much freedom of movement. The gold coins and weapons other than muskets were all given away as bribes.
Hu people have no interest in those books and papers, and they don't even know that in the eyes of Suo Lucan, those papers filled with several carts are the most precious wealth.
He was in the tent, and the few barbarians guarding him were already familiar with him, and sometimes they talked and laughed.
The Hu people who were guarding did not understand the situation. They treated these people according to the rules of the grassland, thinking that Suo Lucan was the leader of these people.
But when they were eating, they realized that these people were not what they understood at all, at least they didn't understand why when they were eating, Solushen took the lead in giving some more easily digestible food to women, children and the weak, and they would eat it by themselves in the end.
At least, the barbarian guards had never seen such a "leader".
Today's Solucan, wearing a short brown shirt of the ink, is borrowing sunlight outside the tent, and is translating a comedy script written by his friend Aristophanes in Athens, which he translated as "Women in the Assembly of the People" .
It is translating to the speech where women disguised themselves as men and mixed into the citizens' assembly, and those short-sighted citizens were instigated by careerists and agitators because they robbed some property and benefits.
Suo Lucan picked up the pen, and wrote some commentaries later in accordance with the reflections of the Mohist people's gathering and some principles in the Mohist "Shang Tong".
Behind him, there are still a few people sitting there, who are also writing there.
There is a thick sheet of paper piled up next to it, the sun is falling on it, and the name written in black ink reveals the content inside the sheet.
"History of the Peloponnesian War", "On Nature", "Atomic Theory", "Prometheus Bound", "On Prognosis", "Treatment of Fractures", "Calculation of the Area of the Bow"...
Some have already been translated, and some still have only a few pages of drafts, and on top of these drafts, there are still a few sheets of paper on which the ink is still wet.
On the front of the paper, "Journey to the West" is written, and on the latest few sheets, the following content is written:
"Crossing the south of the Yellow River to the east, it also belongs to Linhu. It migrates by water and grass, and the city is always in the field of farming, but each has its own land. There are no documents, but words are bound. Children can ride sheep and draw bows. Birds and mice; young and long shoot foxes and rabbits: use them for food. Its custom is to follow the livestock, because shooting and hunting animals is a living business, and when it is urgent, people are used to fighting and attacking to invade. It is also their nature. Their long soldiers use bows and arrows The bone is the arrowhead, it cannot penetrate the armor."
"Eat salty animal meat, wear its leather, and wear fur. The strong eat the fat, and the old eat the rest. The strong and healthy are valued, but the old and weak are cheap. When a father dies, his wife is his stepmother; when a brother dies, he takes his wife..."
The ink is still wet, obviously it was written not long ago.
Solucan turned around and looked at the papers he regarded as life, and then at the silver coin that the barbarian guard was caressing as a treasure, and shook his head with a smile.
Xin said, these things are of great benefit to the world, and they should be brought back no matter what.For us, these papers are priceless treasures.
(End of this chapter)