One thousand two hundred and ninety-four chapters: barbarians
Barr looked sadly at the endless stream of people outside, and at the carriages coming and going. Haixing was prosperous, more prosperous and richer than the best city in their hometown, but there was no doubt that this city was not so friendly to those of them who traveled across the ocean and crossed thousands of miles to this mysterious country.
They are collectively called barbarians.
It took a long time to come that Barr understood the true meaning of this word. He was very angry, but helpless. For them who were in trouble, it would be great to find such a place to stay.
The money he brought with him was not much left, and every day he stayed here was not enough to make ends meet. When he thought that if he spent the money, he had to leave the city and go to places where people around the beach where people lived, living in those stinky huts and wooden houses, walking on the road with sewage, he couldn't help but shivered.
I don't care, and Kna doesn't care, but Bahravi can't do it.
I have been here for two years. Every day, he is working hard to get a residence in this place and in this city.
Thinking of his days in his hometown, Bar couldn't help but cry.
At that time, they were also decent people. Little Pahlavi was the son of Grand Duke Pahlavi.
But a battle between city-states, Grand Duke Pahlavi failed.
He not only lost his territory, his city-state, but also his life.
After the news came out, as the most loyal servant of Grand Duke Pahlavi, Barr and his wife Kna immediately took Grand Duke Pahlavi's only son to the harbor, found a businessman from the Tang Empire that had done business before, and begged them to save Little Panawi.
Fortunately, the merchants of the Tang Empire were still very moral, hid Bahravi in their cargo ships, and set sail a month later and left their hometown.
After wandering on the sea for half a year, they finally came to this place? Haixing.
But the merchant's help to them ended here. Of course, Barr also paid a considerable price, and the precious treasures and gold coins he carried with him gave half of the merchant.
Bar, who got off the boat, unexpectedly discovered that in Haixing, there are many people in his hometown who speak the same language as him.
This was a very happy thing, but within two days, Barr discovered that these comrades lived a very unsatisfactory life here, and some of them even became criminals. On the deserted mountain by the sea is the settlement of these barbarians? It is also a place where all kinds of sins grow.
He must not let Bahravi live in such a place.
He found the merchant who brought him to Haixing again? He paid another sum of money. With the help of this merchant from the Tang Dynasty, he came to the city, rented a house, and opened a bakery now. Then he used his skills to start brewing beer.
He dared not say that this was wine? Because he did not have a license to make wine. He dared to say that this was a special drink from a foreign country.
He thought that the people of the Tang Empire would like this special drink like the people in his hometown? But he was disappointed, delicious beer? He was denounced as cat urine by the people here. Except for those who have the same skin color as him, he could not sell it at all.
Fortunately, the bakery can still sell a lot of things? This has barely supported it to this day.
Living in the city is indeed very safe and will not be bullied, but the cost is too high. They can hardly afford the rent alone. The property they brought from their hometown is almost sold out. And just this year, after the familiar businessman returned, he brought him even worse news. Their enemies have developed very smoothly, and have now defeated several other grand dukes and become the most powerful and powerful person on the land.
This completely lost Barr's last confidence. Therefore, he also sold the crown of Grand Duke Pahlavi whom he had been reluctant to sell.
But this can only support them until the end of this year.
By the end of the year, they will no longer be able to pay rent, no longer be able to do business in the city, and have no fixed place of residence, no stable income, and cannot pay taxes to the government here. They will be expelled and go to that dirty place to join the bad people.
Bahravi is very smart. In the past two years, he has been able to barely talk to the locals.
And language barriers are the most difficult problem for those outsiders to overcome. The language of the Tang Empire was too difficult to learn.
A few days ago, he found out that it was said that the Tang Empire had some new policies for them. As long as they could live here for five years and pay taxes for five years, they would be able to obtain a household registration for the Tang Dynasty.
This was good news, but Barr didn't know how he could last for the remaining two and a half years.
Both myself and Kna were too old, and the job they could find in the city was coolie. They could not afford it.
As the sun sets, the golden sun shines into the shop, and a familiar sound comes from the street. Those who are almost the same as him who are working in the city have come. Since the establishment of this shop, it has become a gathering place for these people. After all, only he has authentic hometown bread and home-flavored beer, and it is impossible to buy it elsewhere.
But with them, you will never be able to make the money Barr needs.
No matter what, he must find a way to make enough money, stick to this small shop, stay for five years, and make Little Bahravi a commoner in the Tang Dynasty. Barr knew that as long as Little Bahravi became a commoner in the Tang Dynasty, he could study, take the academy here, and become an official. In this way, even if they could never return to their hometown, Barr was worthy of the old Grand Duke Pahravi.
If it really doesn't work, I will go to the merchant's ship to be a navigator. After all, I have been a sailor for decades and are extremely familiar with the sea. I have proved my value to the merchant after half a year of wandering on the sea. I can only hold up this small shop.
Although it is very hard to go to sea, the risk is very high, and you may have a life or not at any time, the salary is also extremely high.
Thinking of all this, Barr suddenly felt relieved.
Just do it like this!
When the businessman came back at the end of the year, he went to find him himself.
Just as he went to sea next year, he would advance his salary to him, so he could keep Bahravi here. Two years later, Bahravi was twelve years old and could officially go to Tangren's school to study. With Bahravi's intelligence, he would definitely be admitted to the best academy here.
Kna was busy cutting bread for people, while Barr filled everyone's pot with his own carefully brewed beer. Unfortunately, his skills in brewing were so pity that even Grand Duke Pahlavi praised him. He only drank the ones he made, but when he arrived here, he could only let these guys drink it. He was disliked by the Tang people. Barr felt very hurt.
The room was very noisy, and it was like this at this time of day. Barr had long been used to it. He just poured wine to others without raising his head, filled one, handed it out, and then took the next one.
The shop suddenly became quiet.
Barr raised his head unexpectedly, but this glance shocked him.
I don’t know when there were a few more people in this shop, and they were people he absolutely could not imagine, and those people he didn’t want to deal with.
One of them was the commander of the Haixing Jing'an Army. Bar had seen this man who had visited their street with a group of Jing'an Army officers. At that time, this man was ashamed of being arrogant and very arrogant, but at this time, he stood beside a man in a black uniform with a very respectful expression.
Behind them were several soldiers from the Jing'an Army. At this moment, the soldiers were rushing these barbarians who bought food to the store.
Kna looked at the group of people anxiously.
Barr's heart jumped up.
Generally speaking, this situation is not a good thing.
Huangxi is from Chang'an. He is a military officer and civilian in the Inner Guard who is responsible for investigation and analysis. This time he came to Haixing, even he was a little confused. Because his purpose was actually a kind of drink sold in this small shop. Moreover, it was the drink that the emperor called for.
Gao Xiangsheng was ordered by Li Ze to investigate the overall situation of the Yi people living around the external port of the Tang Dynasty, and Haixing was the first place to be investigated. A relatively special existence like Barr was naturally written into the report as a typical example. Gao Xiangsheng didn't think anything was wrong with Barr. Unexpectedly, the emperor was very interested after reading the report and called for a name to try the drinks in the Barr shop.
The emperor called it beer.
Since the emperor was interested, Gao Xiangsheng naturally had to investigate in depth. Unexpectedly, after this investigation, there were too many problems. Barr's identity was very suspicious, especially when Grand Duke Pahlavi's golden crown appeared in front of Gao Xiangsheng, he became even more interested.
Obviously, Bar, who owns this thing, has an extraordinary identity in the place called the European continent by the emperor. Out of his professional instinct, Gao Xiangsheng suddenly thought of many possibilities. If everything is really as he guessed, then this matter may have a lot of room for operation.
Even if there isn't now, there may be some in the future.
Even if there is no such thing in the future, it will not take much time and energy to do this.
Chapter completed!