Chapter 135 Trade Routes and Trade
Steel is still too expensive these days.
After thinking for a moment, Garris noticed that Marwan was hesitant to speak. Now, the young man who had been treated for snake venom by Garris was almost on his own.
"If you have any ideas, just say so."
After listening to this, Marwan organized his words and said: "I think if you only consider cost and profit, sandwich steel farm tools are definitely not suitable."
"But the problem is that harvesting will start in two months. If a new batch of high-quality agricultural tools cannot be supplied, it will obviously affect this year's spring harvest."
"And..." When he said this, Marwan paused, a little timidly, and looked at Knight Walter again.
At this, Walter frowned and said, "Just tell me, it's okay."
"And this year is different from the past. The prophet's sermon also emphasized that a war will break out this year. I think that preparing food reserves is more important than temporary cost and profit issues."
"If we want to promote new agricultural tools, we can do it on credit or without profit."
Marwan's speech made Garris subconsciously applaud a few times.
Garris holds [Sunday Worship] every weekend. This is not only a religious ceremony, but also equivalent to taking everyone together to hold a meeting, allowing believers to understand the important events of the moment, and making everyone understand their close relationship with the church.
Marwan's ability to grasp the key points of work in 1187 means that he really listened and thought with his heart.
Later, he proposed that if he wanted to promote new farmers, he could do it on credit or not at a profit, which meant that he was already able to think about the problem from an overall perspective.
It is quite outstanding to be able to disregard temporary gains and losses, jump out of personal immediate interests, and look at problems dialectically.
In this regard, Knight Walter actually has his own opinion: "When I say that the cost of sandwich steel is high, I don't mean that it is expensive, but it is precisely because war will break out this year. If we expand the army, we need more high-quality weapons. …”
After hearing this, Garris nodded.
Compared with arriving at a fixed answer, the process of continuous thinking and debate is actually more important.
There is only one person in Gairis, and sooner or later he will leave the territory of Transjordan and go to other places. By then, those who are far away from Gairis will need to use their own wisdom to come up with the answer.
And an atmosphere in which discussions can begin is much better than a slap-on-the-head order mode.
After all, three cobblers are the equal of Zhuge Liang.
Marwan and Walter argued for a long time, but they were still restrained and did not go too far.
After listening for a long time, Garris felt that the fire was almost ready.
"Indeed, I didn't think it through well, but we can also change our thinking. Since the cost of using steel is high, and we are in a hurry to harvest it now."
"We could think about it first and produce cheaper alternatives that are less durable."
Immediately afterwards, Garris proposed a plan to win Xixi's money, which made Marwan and Walter look quite uncomfortable.
"If you think steel is expensive, then use pig iron. If you think sandwich steel is troublesome, then use cast iron."
"Use wrought iron directly to make iron tires, and then pour pig iron juice on the iron tires as the outer layer."
“This leaves the pig iron as the outer layer providing hardness and sharpness, while the wrought iron core provides toughness and strength.”
"It saves costs and shortens working hours."
Garris said it lightly, but Marwan and Walter's expressions changed, because they actually understood this technology as soon as they heard it, but if the casting technology is not up to standard...
Then the durability of this thing is much worse than that of sandwich steel, and the outer layer of pig iron is actually relatively easy to break, but it is indeed much better than pure pig iron or wrought iron agricultural tools.
Is this the wisdom of the prophet?
In a time when everyone is looking for durability and a family heirloom is passed down for three generations, the prophet can always come up with some technology that is of lower quality but more cost-effective.
Cheap version of Damascus steel, cheap version of Syrian Aleppo soap, cheap version of "sandwich steel" farm tools...
I have to say that this is indeed a kind of wisdom.
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The prototype of the "Roman Avenue" in the article is the real-life Avenue of the Kings. The protagonist is currently located east of the Dead Sea. The town of Alhadi is located in the original picture. The two tributaries in the north and south of the original are the river valleys in the book and in reality. Arnon River.
This map is a major trade route and can be described as a real "junction"
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It is trade that maintains this borderland.
Different from the East and the West, in the center of this world island, each human settlement is like an isolated island, placed on this ocean of loess.
For the residents on the oasis island, trade is a natural necessity. If there is no trade, how can food be turned into clothing? So how do figs and vines produce wheat? Where do salt and iron come from?
The trade routes are no different from shipping routes, and the camel merchants who come and go are like ships, constantly visiting the isolated islands on the oasis.
It is the camel traders who connect this oasis island, constantly bring goods to the residents, and take away the produced goods.
Along with it, there are also anecdotes and legends from foreign countries.
The trade route from Damascus to Cairo is about 900 kilometers, and a single trade trip takes about two months.
The journey from Baghdad to Damascus is almost more than a thousand kilometers, and it would also take two months to do business. But if the messenger were to rush on horseback, he would have to cover the distance of more than a thousand kilometers in ten days at most.
When a letter was sent from Damascus to Baghdad, and then a letter was sent from Baghdad back to Damascus.
That big city with a population of hundreds of thousands was boiling again.
The content of the letter was also spread to all directions along with the caravan.
When another caravan from Damascus to Cairo stopped at Alhadi, they brought news from Damascus.
"The Nasri Caliph of the Abbasid Dynasty recognized the jihad of Sultan Saladin and gave Saladin the curtain on Kal's white chamber as a military standard."
"Did you foresee this?"
Zaid, who came all the way from Damascus, met Gehrys at the entrance of the hospital. He couldn't wait to share the news he had brought. Now he has established a close relationship with Gehrys.
The so-called Abbasid Dynasty is actually a black-clad empire, which can also be understood as the Second Arab Empire.
It was founded in 750, but from the middle of the 9th century, local forces gradually began to break away from the control of the central government.
As a theocratic dynasty, although the Abbasid caliphate lost control of the local area, it was still the highest religious leader of Sunni Islam.
In other words, the caliphate of the Abbasid Dynasty was in a state similar to the Emperor of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty or the Emperor of the Shogunate.
As for Sultan Saladin of the Ayyubid Dynasty, he had the demeanor of a Spring and Autumn Overlord or a general who conquered barbarians.
Now that the Middle East overlord Saladin and the Islamic emperor Nasri have joined forces, a wave of jihad that will spread to the Islamic world can't wait.
But Zaid still has some doubts in his heart, because overall, he personally participated in and witnessed this prophecy...
Rather than saying that it was God's will to let Jerusalem be captured, it was better to say that it was man's will, the people in history, that made the era move towards a future that had been anticipated.
Garris and Zaid stood side by side. They were walking through the streets and were going to see the goods that Zaid had brought.
On the way, Zaid asked the questions in his heart. It was difficult for him to understand why the prophet's prediction, so simple and unpretentious, was about to come true.
In this regard, Gareth also chatted a few words.
"Zaid, I don't know if you have ever known my brother, or if you have ever known the Messiah who claims to be the Lord."
"But I want to tell you, my brother who gave the commandment on Mount Sinai is a man in history, and I am also a man in history. The so-called future is shaped by my father through our mutual hands. ”
"He is my Father and your Father."
Zaid paused. What Garris said was an extreme violation of Islamic teachings.
Because God is the Lord, He will not marry, He will not have children, He is natural and eternal, and He has planned all processes from above...
But the God in Qairis's mouth seems to be different. This prophet who claims to be the son of God, in his narrative, God seems to be so kind?
If you follow Gairis's meaning, it will be as if God is beside you, walking with you, and not so high above.
Garris did not explain much to Zaid.
Although from the perspective of the world's perception, whether it is Christianity, Islam, or Judaism, they all believe in the supreme and unique Lord.
But on the issue of how to know the Lord, various religions are not only at odds with each other, they may even be completely unrelated to each other.
This set of things by Gehlis combines Münzer's thoughts during the German Peasants' War, concepts of natural theology, and liberation theology from Latin America. It can be said to be quite messy.
Many of these views, in today's era, can no longer be described as apostasy. After listening to it, the vast majority of people simply cannot understand it, as if they were listening to a book from heaven.
Zaid paused and asked again: "Prophet, according to what you said, doesn't it mean that everyone should be brothers and sisters? Even slaves?"
"Yes, yes."
Garris replied in the affirmative, but his words were so heavy that he had to repeat them twice.
Because the goods he entrusted Zaid to purchase from Damascus last time were not dead objects, animals, cattle or horses, but living people.
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Those people were tied together, some were wearing shabby cloth, and some were just wrapped in a piece of cloth. They were tied into a string with hemp ropes or shackles.
In these March days, although spring has ushered in on the plateau with an altitude of 600 meters, these people are still trembling, because not only have their clothes been stripped off, but their souls have also been taken away, so that Just like a zombie.
The setting sun stretched their shadows extremely long, almost swallowing their figures.
The pale sky has never been so low, as if the whole world is pressed into this small station.
Just looking at them, Garris felt that the surroundings were so quiet that it was suffocating, with only the breeze blowing, bringing a bit of chill.
“There is no longer either Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. 】
——"Galatians" 3:28
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