After roughly determining the dry information of the water conservancy facilities in Titus' mind, Li Su was basically relieved.

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After all, the purpose of Li Suxiu New City is to "make easier for the future reunification of the world, and allow the capital to mobilize economic resources in the North China Plain and the Jianghuai region more efficiently."

Now, the North China Plain and the Jianghuai Plain are still enemy-occupied areas! Li Su moved the new city as an economic zone, and there was no Guandong material to be absorbed by the canal.

On the contrary, the transportation mileage of the materials that originally needed to be supplied by Guanzhong and Jingzhou will be extended, which will be a loss.

As long as Li Su knows the shortcomings laid down in his current plan, he can make up for it with confidence in the future, and he will not feel panic.

The "Luoyang Gongyuan" that imitates Kalakara Bathroom can be gradually built this year. There is no need to pursue the completion of the building immediately. You can first circle the required land and then build it in zones.

Anyway, a bathhouse doesn’t take much land, and the historical Kalakara only covers an area of ​​more than 20 hectares and has a construction area of ​​16 hectares. The Biguiyuan Ruins area that Li Su can use to renovate has the potential for renovation. It is far more than this one, at least several times larger.

Within one and a half years, you can get to the point where you can take the imperial examination. Then look at the world pattern and the emperor's tendency, whether to move the imperial examination in the Beichang to Luoyang first.

Of course, this means that "the imperial court still stayed in Chang'an and just moved the examination room for talent selection" and will not involve moving the capital for the time being.

The benefits of doing this are also very obvious, because the imperial examination system has been implemented for two years. Based on the experience of the past two years, the imperial examination in the South Court may be further moved to Wuchang in the future, so the exiled northern scholars and Bingong science candidates have been absorbed.

(Note that "Tongbingongke" is not "Bingongke". Bingongke is for foreigners, and Tongbingongke is "temporarily compared with Bingongke's treatment" and is for the people of the occupied areas. They are all great men and cannot be regarded as foreigners.)

In Chang'an, Beichang was mainly used as a reference by locals under Liu Bei's rule in the past two years. Moreover, through the operation of "controlling the candidates and tying the bids" that Li Su had previously acquiesced, there were not many real talents and scholars.

There is no way to do this. In order to allow them to accept the imperial examinations, Li Su could only collapse step by step in order to avoid the internal rebound of reforms and progress step by step.

In addition, Chang'an is long and talents from the enemy-occupied areas in Kanto have to pass through the huhan to take the exam. It is too difficult, so even Tongbin Gongke cannot be opened.

If you move to Luoyang, it already belongs to the Kanto region in a broad sense. Not only are there convenient transportation for outsiders to take the exam, but there is no need to bear the despise chain of bureaucratic scholars in Kanto since the end of the Han Dynasty, "respecting Yongliang as a barbarian" deduction. There will definitely be more and more people willing to come.

With the people from Tongbingongke to mix up the water and realize the catfish effect, it can also make the "battle" of Guanzhong and Yizhou families more restrained. Otherwise, if the people who are referring to the occupied areas have much better grades than them, they will be embarrassed.

Although this embarrassment does not have the legal binding force, at least it has the binding force of moral condemnation, which can more or less improve the government affairs, "Don't do things less and do not do anything."

Li Su made a decision on the project of the "Gongyuan Bathroom" and asked Titus to cooperate with Ma Jun to modify the previous design drawings of the "Kalakala Bathroom" and integrate them in accordance with the requirements of Party A. After the design is completed, we will strive to officially start construction this summer.

Then the canal and new city planning cannot be stopped. The plan must be participated immediately and the canal can be taken slowly. In short, within the next three to five years, the work of these engineering and technical personnel will be fully arranged, with priority and orderly.

Li Su didn't let him work for nothing. He first paid a reward of 100 kilograms of gold that day, and gave Titus for 40 kilograms, Ma Jun 30 kilograms, and the Parthian nobleman Man Duo who led the way to organize a caravan to the Han Dynasty, also received ten kilograms. The last twenty kilograms were rewarded with the meritorious personnel in other caravan mission groups, including other technicians and translators.

At the same time, he also rewarded two people with positions.

Needless to say, Ma Jun directly asked him to be a grassroots subordinate under the Sikong Mansion's worker, that is, to do things under Huan Jie - after all, although Ma Jun is skilled, he is too young and has not achieved great success in technology. Without official resume, he can only start with a "clear officer". Ma Jun is also very grateful for this treatment and has no greed at all.

As for Titus, as a foreigner, whether to stay or become an official needs to be careful. Li Su gave him a grassroots position as a supervisor. He worked under Zhang Yi and his annual salary was not easy to be specialized. So, compared to the normal 600,000 shi, he would give him 600,000 yuan a year.

But Li Su also knew that with a skilled technician, he would probably not be too hard to work with this little salary alone. So Li Su said openly that if he works under his hands and technicians have technological innovations, they can get commission rewards.

He also told him that there is a "patent law" here. The two ministers of the Ministry of Civil Affairs sitting next to him, Yin's family in Henan, are the biggest beneficiaries of the patent law. Even Li Su himself is the beneficiary of the patent law. He relies on new technology to accumulate wealth for hundreds of billions. As long as he works hard, the government will protect the patent commission.

The final condition really made Titus completely break the defense. After all, there was no patent protection system elsewhere on Earth in the second century AD. This thing was too tempting for engineering and technical personnel. Titus had long thrown the idea of ​​"Can you still return to Rome in this life" out of the blue.

He thanked him incoherently: "Oh, the great Sikong, the laws of the Han Dynasty were as wise as the sun and the white clouds. I originally thought that in terms of the law, only the "twelve bronzes" and other laws of our Romans were the peak of human civilization.

Other great powers that I have traveled before, at least in terms of law, are barbaric compared to Rome, and many empires are still using customary law and tribal precepts. The Parthians only slightly borrowed the punishment rules of Persian and Babylonian civilizations, and most of them are still customary law.

Until today, I realized that in the east of the world, the laws were so strict! They even stipulated details that were not specified in Rome! I am willing to serve the Han Dynasty."

As for the last Valerieus who lies and brags about his origin, of course, he will not receive a reward of one pound of gold, and he will not be given to the official. He must also deduct it first to further understand his situation, so that foreigners can know the price of lying to Li Sikong in the future.

What Li Su cares about is not punishing such a down-and-out nobleman. What he wants is to promote it so that all foreign businessmen who come to China know that the court rewards and punishments are clear, and the court's senior officials are not unaware of things far away, so please be more honest in doing things in the future.

This will generally reduce the transaction costs of international trade and deter the fraud.

...

After all the future and tasks of Ma Jun and Titus were arranged, the talks that day should be almost over.

Li Su asked the others to retreat first, and finally had nothing to do when they were idle to follow the Parthian nobleman Manduo who led the team, and then learn about some political and military news, and find out the current situation in the West.

By the way, Man Duo was given a dinner party and asked him to watch the lanterns on the Lantern Festival tomorrow.

Because it is not intended, the atmosphere between both sides is even easier. After Valerieus's lesson, they dare not hide anything and have questions and answers.

While drinking, Li Su also remembered another suspicious point. He asked: "Do you Parthian nobles have many surnames pronounced by Man or something, and then add a Greek name in front of it?

The deposed prince An Shigao, you mentioned before, was called Manshi, forty years ago. Then you should be a great nobleman, right? Why did you personally lead a team to do business in the Han Dynasty? Did you also lead it in previous years?"

Man Duo put down his wine glass and responded respectfully through the translation: "I dare not deceive Sikong. In our Parthia, the Man family is indeed a very high-ranking nobleman. Although I have been branched into three generations, I would not have led the caravan to travel thousands of miles to do business.

In fact, our country had a bloody battle with the Romans this year, and the capital was defeated by the Romans. Moreover, the Romans did not plan to leave this time, so I, Parthia, had to move the capital.

All the real estate of my family fell into the hands of the Romans, and only some of the property that could be transported away, so I gathered some people who also had a grudge against the current ruling faction of Rome and went east to find another way out.

Sikong, you know everything, so I dare not hide these major bad news. However, we Parthians will not have the country destroyed. The Roman Emperor Seviru just completely annexed Mesopotamia this time, and we still have the former land of the Persian plateau to stick to."

After Li Su heard this, he suddenly realized that Zhuge Jin and Zhuge Liang were shocked.

It turned out that after Severu ascended the throne in 194, he did not immediately complete the internal affairs. In 194, he only managed to obtain the power of the core Roman ruling area, but the Governor of the Outer Town continued to admit that the late emperor opposed him, mainly the Governor of the British region across the strait.

So from 195 to 197, Severu was reconquering the Governor of Britain for three years. This situation was similar to that after Liu Bei had just succeeded in the Northern Expedition to Rescue the King. Liu Bei only managed the Guanzhong Plain in the first year, but did not recapture Xiliang. Later, he fought with Guo Si and Qiang for so long. Severu also had separatist forces in the Governor of Britain in the northwest of the core ruling area.

Until 198, because Britain was pacified and the rear of the Northwest Greater Greater was stable, Severu launched an expedition against his old enemy Parthia in order to further prove his orthodox character, and in early 199, it officially captured the Parthian capital Tessifon-

After Liu Bei settled the rear, he fought against Yuan Shao in the east for a time. When Liu Bei revived Luoyang, the Roman emperor almost won the Taixifeng (ancient Babylon, now Baghdad).

In this way, it is not surprising that these Parthian nobles from the upper branches all took Xiaoruo to exile eastward to do business. In previous years, if the capital had not been occupied, Man Duo would not have gone abroad in person.

He also knew that Li Su had no ambition to travel thousands of miles away, and he knew that Li Su knew everything that he had told him completely. He believed that the news that the Parthian capital was occupied by Rome would definitely come in a few months at most. As long as Li Su was willing to hide it, it would be better to take the initiative to confess and leave a personal favor.

Man Duo also offered advice and said, "Dear Sikong, I am bluntly speaking, an economic city without a wall will be too fragile once it encounters war.

Our Parthian capital was captured by the Romans three times in history, this time it was the third time. The first time was when Emperor Trajan was eighty years ago, and the second time was when Emperor Aurelius was thirty years ago.

Because Taixifeng is a trading port between the two rivers, without a city wall, it cannot build a city wall - its city is divided into two parts, half by the Tigris River and half by the Euphrates River. As long as the army cannot defeat the Romans in field battles, the city will inevitably be lost.

It was just because Taixifeng was a commercial port, and the construction was not valuable and the goods could be transported away as much as possible. The Romans did not intend to occupy them for a long time in the first two times, so they snatched all the property they could rob and withdrew their troops.

This time Severu doesn't plan to withdraw. In my opinion, you want to build another new city outside Luoyang, but you don't pay attention to city defense, I'm afraid..."

Li Su raised his hand: "Thank you for your kindness. We have considered these things. The old city of Luoyang will continue to be used, and no officials from the palace or the court will move them.

Besides, don’t use your Parthians’ guarding ability to speculate on us Han people. We Han people are a nation that is good at building passes based on mountains and rivers.”

It’s not that Li Su looked down on the Parthians, but the Parthians really did not fight against the attack and defense city. In the records of the Han Dynasty, the "Biographies of the Western Regions" were clearly written. Anxiong Kingdom had a tactic of "rest and return to the horse arrow" and fought all over the world with this move.

The so-called "rest and return to the horse arrow" is the famous "Pathian tactic" in the game of the Empire Age/Roman War, which surrounds the enemy in circles and rides and shoots kites. However, the official term vocabulary recorded in "Han Shu/Later Han Shu" is "rest and return to the horse arrow".

This kind of nation that consumes the enemy by riding and shooting is of course not good at defending the city and being able to build a city wall.

At the end of the talks, Li Su accidentally asked the last question, asking Man Duo if there was a woman named Man Yan in their royal family, who was a member of their Parthia royal family.

Man Duo also told the truth, saying that their king had such a young daughter from a nanny, but he was just a girl under ten years old. However, when the city of Taixi was blocked, many prominent families probably did not throw it out.

In addition to answering, Man Duo was also very shocked at how Li Su knew such a guy who had never left the house.

Of course, Li Su had no intention, but just confirmed it in the end - mainly because Parthia was not a civilization with a lot of historical materials, and he would not have learned more in his previous life.

After recalling it, Li Su found that there were only two Parthians who could name them in this era. One was Man Yan and the other was her future son Mani - mainly Li Su studied diplomacy in his previous life, and needed to learn the origin of the main global beliefs to avoid trampling on tricks when engaging in international relations.

Manyan's son Mani was the one who improved the traditional Zoroastrianism of Persia for nine hundred years before Persia and transformed into "Manichi". However, Mani's father was a Roman Greek. It was probably this time that the capital of Parthia was captured and all the royal women were abducted.

Manduo admitted openly that a group of Parthian royals were kidnapped by Emperor Severu's army, and it seemed that what he said was true. He admitted all such embarrassment, and what else is worth lying?

At the end of the banquet, Li Su finally encouraged the other party: "You are very honest, I have made a friend. In the future, as long as we abide by the laws of the great Han Dynasty, we always welcome the Parthian nobles to do business in person and protect their dignity.

But I also hope that you will bring more classics that record Western civilization to communicate, and we will introduce to us excellent engineers like Mr. Titus today. Not only those who build roads, canals and cities, but those who are good at building ships, cars, and production in all walks of life, as long as we don’t have one, they will be welcomed and rewarded."
Chapter completed!