For Chinese civilization, the Tang-Bo alliance was not a happy memory.
But the Granicas Alliance Monument means that Chinese history has entered a terrible fork in the road.
Li Ning knew how terrifying this fork in the road was - multiple civilizations after the eleventh century had the ability to completely destroy it. If Genghis Khan, Zhu Yuanzhang, Catherine II or the British lobster soldiers walked out of the light curtain, the Song Dynasty would be in danger of rapid destruction.
Therefore, he needs to explore a way to find a way to live in peace with these foreign civilizations.
In terms of how to form alliances with the outside world, the most urgent pursuit is to become stronger.
Therefore, when Alexander's army architect Dinocrates began to build the stele, Li Ning once again found Pang Ji.
"Lord Cao Si, those people recommended before are not all. If possible, I hope that some other people will also appear in front of me."
"besides?"
"Zhang Fangping, Liu Ji, Shi Yannian, Zhang Shouyue, Cai Xiang, Mei Yaochen, Wang Yi, Liu Yong, Cai Ting..."
"Stop!" Pang Ji really couldn't figure out how the names of these officials and the names of those strange people before came to Li Ning's ears. But he knew that getting these people under his account would be far more troublesome than the previous batch.
Fortunately, at this time, an excuse to resolve the embarrassment came to my door.
The Macedonians had driven back the Persian infantry and finished counting the spoils.
At this time, Amintas was walking towards Li Ning with a lot of gold.
"You deserve your share,"
Pang Ji knew that these were the spoils of war given to them by the Greek barbarians. But he didn't expect there to be so many.
"Your Majesty is really polite."
"What did he say?" Amyntas couldn't understand Chinese, so he turned to the speaker.
The speaker immediately translated for him.
However, Amyntas immediately became serious after hearing the translation.
"What is this? Our King has always been generous. This little thing is nothing, not to mention, Li Ning's performance just now was extremely wonderful. In order not to lose to him, our King even planned to charge forward himself. Hehe, the King said , he is a role model for us throughout Macedonia."
Pang Ji didn't expect that the other party would rate Li Ning so highly.
This made him plan to promote Li Ning.
However, at this moment, the engineer who built the stele suddenly came to Li Ning and said that he had something to tell him.
The engineer was very interested in building the city, so he wanted to communicate with Li Ning.
Li Ning was of course very happy and told him about his idea and even drew a simple sketch.
But after the other party read the sketch, he looked shocked and shook his head repeatedly.
"Such a city is too huge. Look, the attached fortress alone is enough to keep us busy for several years. And His Majesty the King's journey is still going on. Where do we have time..."
"You are such a loyal and good man."
"This is my duty. Everyone will want to do something, and the king's job is to assign them suitable jobs based on their hobbies and demands, so that their sense of responsibility will be summoned to complete what the king wants them to do. Mission accomplished.”
"You are right." Li Ning praised, standing on the pillar next to him, quietly watching him polish the stones.
As expected, it didn't take long for the engineer's hands to stop because he saw...certain contents in the terms of the alliance.
"Oh, please forgive me for being disrespectful to the gods of Olympia. They actually created such a rich world. Are you sure you want to sell all these products to us? I have never seen these words before."
"Silk, tea, and porcelain. These are our most distinctive products. I believe you will also like them."
Li Ning spoke softly, as if these things were ordinary.
However, Dinocratis stood up solemnly: "I don't know how precious these goods are, but I know that once they gather here, this mysterious light curtain will be described by everyone. Countless people will want to go to the other side and have a look.”
"We in Heaven don't care about this, but we want them to come to visit and study in an orderly manner, so we need a huge city to maintain order here, not only for visitors, but also for traders. .”
"Order of traders?" Dinocratis slapped his forehead, "How could I forget such an important thing? If there is a regulated market, then there will be reasonable reasons to collect taxes."
"You are right. His Majesty the King is not a multi-millionaire. He naturally needs military expenses. As his chief logistics officer, I can't ignore this."
"It seems that you are also a responsible person, Logistics Officer!"
"I am flattered by your words. Compared with your diligence, my small contribution is not worth mentioning at all."
Li Ning seems to have unknowingly taken on the tone of Bayi Translation Studio.
"Thank you for your admiration for me, but I still want to emphasize that your wisdom is enough to ensure that you can make outstanding contributions to the kingdom in your leisure time. With this, you don't have to worry about diligence. Comments like being diligent.”
"Well, although I don't agree with your point of view, after all, diligence is still extremely important, but I did spend a lot of thought on this covenant. You can continue to read down."
Dinocratis naturally looked down quickly and was shocked by Li Ning's blueprint.
"For God's sake, what is the passport system? Why have I never heard of it? You still need to take exams to obtain a passport, especially language, culture and law exams. Businessmen without passports are not allowed to cross the light curtain to trade on the other side. , their goods can only be handed over to the General Logistics Department of the Kingdom of Macedonia and the Fujian Road Transport Department of the Imperial Song Empire... for sale on their behalf! This... isn't this just cutting off the flesh of the merchant? "
"There is a way to avoid being mutilated. You can read on."
"Ah! School, a school for businessmen! As long as you pay money, you can go in and learn the language, culture and laws of the other country to avoid unnecessary disputes during the trade process. This... this..."
He hesitated for a long time, unable to find the right words.
But Li Ning gently repeated in his heart that this was Alexander's dream. He wanted to promote Greek customs to the entire Asia, not just the small Persian Empire.
Of course, in the early stages of conquest, this idea was unrealistic.
Therefore, retaining the reasonable local system was a choice he had to make.
Of course, this is something that will happen later, and neither Li Ning nor the engineer in front of him need to worry about it prematurely.
In fact, Li Ning will not worry at all, because he knows that Alexander will not succeed.
The group of successors behind him, on the contrary, realized Alexander's idea by mistake during the annual battles and strengthening the rule of the territory.
But by that time, Alexander I, the faithful implementer of this idea, had passed away. But Li Ning knows that his method does not require witnessing the emergence of glory after his death.
But just as he was sighing in his heart, the engineer shouted again in surprise.
"What do these two words mean?"
Li Ning came over and took a look. In the draft he wrote, he later wrote two nouns that did not belong to this time and space.
"Exchange rate regime, banks."
"What do they do?"
"The former one is of no use, because we pursue a floating exchange rate, and it is super free floating. The latter one may bring some changes to the kingdom, but this thing has already appeared in the Song Kingdom. I believe the businessmen there We will make use of it soon. In other words, this kind of thing has little to do with us. It only appears for the convenience of attracting businessmen. On the contrary, these two things deserve your attention."
"Armed Guards and Civilian Camps!"
Neither the Greeks nor the residents of the Song Dynasty realized the importance of these two words at the first time.
But they were eventually engraved on the stone and became famous throughout the ages because of this alliance monument.
Many years later, when people look back on this moment, Li Ning's foresight has spanned endless time and is still shining brightly.
