《Stories about merchants or cunning merchant》 1 Trading trick number 8 At a time when trade routes connected continents and were of global importance, then rules of conduct appeared among the merchants. In particular, the ability to get away from critical issues, to find beautiful solutions that do not require power actions (they were left to the very last case). This was all done in order to be able to trade effectively, not to waste time on leaving the pressure groups of certain influential forces. And there were many of them from different countries and empires. Therefore, the merchants tried not to be angry, not to push themselves out once more in front of the powerful and in the course it was it! Flattery, it is pleasant when it is little, and any dish, when it begins to taste bitter and becomes a delicacy, a poison but traders were able to serve this food with special chic and in moderation, so that flattery became exquisite food. Of course, to say sweet words is so customary for a merchant person and thus avoid problems. It makes no sense to say the obvious, for sweet words can give halvah, but they can give nothing. But it''s better than getting it in the neck, for the truth. Why try for others, nobody will appreciate it anyway, and even if it does, then so what. Living this will not be easier, but rather more difficult. "The elephant still leads to us" so do wise and cunning people. In Arabian fairy tales or myths of the "Silk Road", "aurchilik" was always appreciated - cunning, strategy, tactics, the ability to decorate things beautifully and without broken noses. Because a big fight inevitably draws attention to itself and as a result, some of them depend on valor, others have a feeling of revenge. A merchant does not need this! How, then, to conduct business, if everywhere there will be bases, obstacles, intrigues. It hurts commerce, money becomes less, the speed of trade deals is lost! Not to mention the increasing risk factor! It''s easier to agree, retaining the face of everyone and at the same time moderating our pride and also honored deception. Strength is everything. If an influential person comes to the interest of a less status person, then the latter will simply say: - do not dig so far, it''s just my master''s will and I''m glad to be his stepping stone to success. Although of course at this moment they think very differently. But the main thing is not to shine, not to resist, and then, big people will not harm personally ... and maybe they will help with some small problem, but they will furnish it with a lot of help. A naive and short-sighted person will not keep his true thoughts, somewhere in a secret corner and say, as he feels, thinks ... and he will get a long-playing problem on his very smart head. And this problem will not be a single one, but will be extended to all its activities, from the financial sphere to the social one, and the loss of its former status. With greater probability and appropriation to him by force, the vow of begging. To others it was dispelled, not to follow the rules of ethics and to keep a high profile in front of those people whom you should not insult There are also moments when the same person, during the day, can show three of his characters at once. In the morning, call in a disgruntled, cold tone, begin to run down and shout or show complete indifference and say that there is no time to discuss the issue. In the afternoon call and in an unctuous voice, with aspiration, gently say, if there are any questions, we will solve them within a minute, just tell us. In the evening, smile broadly, press your right hand to your heart, speak sweet words and then without even walking ten steps away, start weaving intrigues and conspiracies. East pancake. In the morning, a person does not care about his neighbor, he thinks that the question that they want to discuss with him will take his precious time, and maybe he will have to spend it. And a man like that, no one, social status is small, not cool, there are no necessary contacts, and past merits are no longer appreciated. Therefore, it is easier to politely or not to send. In the afternoon, important people call the person and say that they themselves want to help the person who called him in the morning. Why they want to help that person is unclear, maybe to raise their image, maybe some other goals, or maybe for an impulse of the soul, although this seems unlikely and so the person who had previously sent, now begins to rush, thinking: - oh, as I so, goof, sent, the right person turns out to be, you urgently need to make amends for such a school, a ton of flattery and ghostly promises that you don''t have to fulfill. And first see how the wind blows. In the evening, having learned the root cause of the desire to help influential people, to manifest outward flattery and to start putting into practice the instructions received in relation to who needed to resolve the issue. That is, hiding information from him and start taking steps aimed at his deliberate deception. With the advent of the great geographical discoveries and discoveries of the sea route, the importance of land routes began to weaken and over time the value of the great route from the world gained regional status and he remained so until the middle - the end of the last century. Nevertheless, even with the loss of status, first global and then regional, local commercial transactions were still carried out and the rule that arose two thousand years ago remained. Of course, they eventually changed, something went into non-existence, something appeared new, but the base remained unchanged. To be able to find a common language with everyone, trying to do without broken noses. This was precisely the number 8 trade ploy, and there were a lot of them in the supply of the cunning and those who know how to go around the water around many obstacles that the merchants had. 2 Trading trick number 7 Traders guys are cunning and as they say deceivers. Well, it is understandable that they turn over hundreds of thousands of gold tills and ducats, millions of silver tangas, and tens of millions of copper pools. Here you need to keep ears on top. All who are weak and do not have a good roof to crush. Whoever has support but also has an interesting trading business that we, merchants, merchants, and people with cunning strategists will like, leave behind with their noses and without their "roof". But sometimes there are moments in history when time for a moment changes its course and then you need to be able to save face. Somehow a large merchant clan became interested in a new trade business, which was in a neighboring area of ??their kindred community. They established good relations there with Kashgar, Agra, Kabul and Tibet. They exchanged goods, made a profit of six hundred percent, agreed with all the principalities, specific properties and robbers who controlled the trade routes. Profit just started to come and this interested the head of the merchant clan. He once invited to his capital the emirate, his relative from the periphery who had just begun a profitable business. He drank tea, but did not give shurpa food afterwards, even though she was served on dastarkhan, immediately ordered his relative: "Now you will be my servant, your business goes to me, give all your contacts, business contracts, trading houses and I will let you live with me." And I will give 2 gold a month for living and drinking. And if you will be against this idea, blame yourself! Relative, was indignant: - We both come from the same family, our ancestor was a respected aksakal, he was wise and virtuous, famous for good deeds. How can you do that? - After all, you are his offspring, the same as me? - Why do you want to humiliate me? - After all, you and I are engaged in trade, why harm each other? - I do not understand how such a thing could be? To which the head of the merchant clan said: - Why understand? - You''re poorer than me! - So what, you and I are from the same clan, one family, but now I have my own family and you have nothing to do with me, and our ancestor has already died, and therefore I am in charge. "Everybody respects me, but few know you in the capital." - Be a servant with me and you will live well! - You can not, have no right to be independent, it will violate my plans! - I am against the fact that in the emirate there were two independent offspring of our ancestor! - Only I am worthy to represent him! - I am rich, influential, I have great prospects and you in these plans mean only as my subordinate and servant! For all the grace of the ancestor is not enough! The relative was surprised and outraged by this attitude, he did not want to be a servant, to give all his business in which he invested all his soul and strength. He stood up, smiled bitterly, and said: - I''m against! I disagree! I will live my head! And I''m not afraid of your words! And he left. Following him came the words: - Look, you will regret, crawl back on your knees, you will still ask me to take you as a servant! And I''ll see if you take it or not! A large merchant clan has ravaged a smaller kindred, selected the entire matter, exits, connections, all buyers and suppliers. In general, let the world. Time passed, a year, two, three, ten, twenty years ... and then once in the palace of a merchant, who by that time had also become a nobleman, the following dialogue was heard: - Relative, have you heard me sick? - So I will help you! Send to the island uninhabited. We will treat there. The relative grunted and said nothing and left. The faithful servant of the grandee Sardor-jon, asked with astonishment of his master: - Taxi (lord) - Did you really decide to help this beggars? To which the nobleman replied: - You, what a fool! Out of sight, out of mind. And not in public view. And what will be there as the cards will fall. Servant: - But why help them then? - After all, we ourselves brought them to that state. They took away the trading business, froze the flow of finances, poisoned them with dogs, selected any opportunities to get up, start the business again. - They even watched them, cleaned out all their surroundings, made all their friends and acquaintances their enemies! - I now do not understand why, now we have to assist them? Nobleman: - Eh, Sardor-jon you are not too simple. We spread their rot for the fact that they did not want to be our servants, we all showed what would happen if they tried to disobey and try to get away from us. - It was a clear lesson for everyone and you see, after that no one else dared to express their opinion. We have achieved, well, or almost achieved what we wanted. - But it seems overdone! - Now the created legend, began to collapse, and we are to blame for this. The pressure was too great. And the time is not quite right now. - So in order to preserve the legend, to preserve the appearance of the face, we have to show our reaction before the public and that we are ready to help them. - But in fact, as you understand it is not. If it were not for the fact that now this problem is out of place, we would be happy to get rid of them all. 3 Trading trick number 9 Before the trip to Mergen, the head of the guild came in and said that he was restless on the trade routes, so, just to be safe, just in case, let him come to Sardor for horses. And after the trip, do not forget to thank! "Now we have a new roof, so there seems to be no problem ... Nevertheless, you should use the trading trick" 9 "guild on the way back," - said Zafar. In troubled times, the roads always became dangerous for travelers, especially if they were merchants. Although, of course, merchants merchants strife. Mergen Zafar was one of those merchants. He was over fifty years old. Squat, with a beautiful face, an aquiline nose, which gave him a resident of the mountains, pitch black hair and shining eyes. His gaze was full of courage, and at the same time with some sort of cunning thing. He was wearing a double sturdy robe from Kabul, good skin boots from Petersburg itself, a muslin from Agra, and a skullcap from Samarkand. Below him was a fast-footed Akhalteke, with a Damascus steel knife with a rare, carved Chust handle. He carried dried fruit, berry marshmallow, amber sugar, and fox skins in baggage bags. Behind him, followed by a small caravan of five Karabairs, who brought to the market carpets of local craftswomen, and nuts from the mountains. He came from a kind of warriors, in the steppe he was known and respected. The ancestors of Mergen Zafar came a few centuries ago from the great mountains of Altai. Long wandered in different places, until finally settled in a fertile valley between the steppe and high mountains. In order to sell the goods more profitably, the merchant decided to lead his caravan not to the familiar local market, but to the capital. There it would be possible to gain three times more, and buy a new product, which can be profitably sold already in the local market. Navar would be nice. With him followed only two assistants, distant relatives from the mountains, of which he taught the trade business. The caravan slowly moved along the paths known only to a few merchants and bandits, which lay aside from customs posts and zealous guards. The road ran between two mountains, it allowed travelers to cut off the way to the capital''s bazaar and save time. However, with all the obvious advantages, these mountains concealed their disadvantages. Namely, this mountain pass was controlled by a group of robbers. Therefore, these mountains were called none other than the "Mountains of the Robbers". However, Mergen was confident in his strength and cunning! The journey of the small caravan was surprisingly successful, - on the way to the capital they did not meet a single robber. Bargaining was quite successful. Mergen and his assistants spent the night at the metropolitan relatives, who kept their artisan workshops and malls near the main city square. The next day, leaving the horses and purchased a new product, Mergen and his relatives went to the market in the meat line, then jumped into the ranks of oriental sweets. I bought gifts for households: different kinds of halvah, canalodas (caramel), toffee, strange nuts from India itself, spices from Persia. Before leaving, Mergen, having sent out his relatives, began to drown the fat-tailed fat, in the mountains it was considered the most delicious and, at the same time, the surest folk remedy for all ailments. Towards morning the merchant prepared six not very large and not very small jugs with a small one. Joyfully saying goodbye to their relatives, Mergen Zafar and his small caravan went back home. In baggage bags there was a commodity from the capital, as well as hotels - baked fat-tailed fat, a useful and practical gift. On the way back, luck seemed to have left the merchants. In the secret mountain passage was an ambush! The assistants were frightened that these were the guards, but Mergen reassured them: "this can not be! Since the district is under the control of one of the important capital nobles, the khan servicemen would never have dared to go against SUCH MAN!" The leader of the robbers slowly approached Mergen, greeted the merchant, inquired about the weather and the latest news from the capital, learned the course of the silver shadow, at the last auction. Then he offered to drive along with them, drink tea and talk about life ... Sitting on a beautiful carpet, laid out with a no less wonderful silk handkerchief, the leader slowly sipped green Chinese tea and glanced at Mergen, who was sitting a little way off, who also drank himself tea. Scaredly, the assistants huddled their horses away, surrounded by hundreds of brave young men on hot horses with all their ammunition. The conversation turned to who the roof of the merchant is, what guild he is in, who is and what is his name. The robber was with the concepts, he knew that just so you should not run up. In the east, though judged by clothes, but do not forget at the same time inquire about the roof. And then who knows what might happen next ... Finding out what was happening, having checked the goods, the leader of the robbers took his bribe, tied a handkerchief to the bridle of Mergen, shook his hand and said goodbye. A small caravan, rushed unhurriedly trot away. His right hand drove up to the leader, and asked why the merchants were released? After all, it would be possible to take away their horses. And they also gave tamga ?! The leader, replied to his assistant, with a question for a question, did you see on his horse the sign of the guild of long knives and shield? Not?! Nobody gets in touch with them once again, the roof is very good, and ours said that we shouldn''t get into trouble. In addition, the merchant had nothing to take, the goods were not particularly good, they didn''t see fat, and the horses were tagged, no one would buy them, but they could stick out. Why problems out of the blue ... They were stopped three more times, but, seeing a handkerchief, they silently let them go, without requiring a bribe. The caravan of Mergen arrived at his town without incident. Zafar left the goods in the guild, taking the horse by the bridle, he went to Sardor. Thanking for the horses, Mergen presented a present in the form of two not very large and not very small jugs with baked lard. To which the landlord smiled favorably and praised the merchant for his zeal and such a wonderful gift. Said he can continue to count on his patronage. After which Mergen left. Sardor''s young nephew was surprised at how kind his uncle was, that he was content with just two jugs of baked fat ... Meanwhile, in the guild, devoted to the trick "9", hastily, behind closed doors were engaged in kindling of bacon. As all curious merchants were told, Mergen decided to have a little feast in honor of successfully getting rid of the robbers! So it is accepted in the east ... The head was pleased, Mergen brought back from the head center of the guild the much-needed til (gold coins) to solve important trade deals in the north. The sweets were cheered by the household! 4 The Shifu and his cunning method of teaching He lived in the city on the border of two civilizations - nomadic and settled, one apprentice, and he had a master of wisdom. Everyone knew him as a man of crystal honesty, great intelligence, tremendous efficiency and a tough, almost despotic character. At the same time, he was silent and sullen with his acquaintances and cheerful, kind, talkative, responsive for his beloved students. But there were students and not loved ones, he didn''t tell them anything, didn''t teach anything, they only carried out economic assignments. At nights and until dawn, these students themselves tried to cultivate from books, broken manuscripts, separately heard phrases from the mouth of his mouth tongue, which he told his beloved students. Some of the unloved students succeeded in making a breakthrough in their comprehension of the path of enlightenment and get an interesting result, however, when they were tired and fell asleep at the morning dawn, their awards came to them. Carefully read their work, and then took away the results and gave to his beloved students ... Respect for elders, respect for traditions and rituals honoring social status, was higher than justice. And therefore, students who are not close to Shifu , working selflessly, did not receive anything. Over time, after a decade, they realized that they were mistaken ... to work selflessly, if they don''t appreciate it, just to waste their strength and health to the wind. Smarter than these students, they didn''t try very hard, they just fulfilled the necessary minimum and no more. Shifu said that the student should take responsibility for the decisions made on his own development, on the choice of methods and techniques to achieve a new level of cultivation of his talent. To be happy you need to cultivate in yourself - a healthy mind, strong muscles and develop creativity! Do not waste time in vain, and improve the level of skill, rising, higher and higher in the development of new knowledge and methods of self-improvement! Beloved disciples, skillfully flattered ustoza. He is their more appreciated for it and rewarded. Some of them left his school, but successfully advanced in the secular world, of course, did not forget about the teacher. The teacher in public was extremely attentive to them, joked, smiled warmly, did not show rudeness and ironed a real aristocrat who knew etiquette and good manners. Shifu, with his talents and ability to work hard, was messy, so he often picked up all sorts of ailments with which he generously shared with his students. But he showed it only in front of his unloved apprentices, who performed the role of his domestic servants. Unloved disciples saw the reverse of the Shifu. When he was wrong, he never took the blame and responsibility on himself, said: - it is you, careless and stupid students to blame, everything is dirty and dusty, you yourself are poor and do not know how to live! The disciples tenderly listened to the words of their teacher, but, turning on their faces, there were bitter smiles. Shifu was like an "alvasti" demon, for the powerful and beloved disciples, he was a good friend, a wise mentor, for ordinary people - powerful and kind, but unloved disciples saw his true nature. After all, it is difficult to hide all the time its core essence, you need to be able and relax. Unloved disciples thought, perhaps they were an accuser, they thought of us better than of others, because it allows us to see its natural essence, which it does not show to everyone else. He trusts us! However, it is so difficult to live in poverty, to constantly hear screams and swearing, grumbling at the signatum. He reprimands us for everything, for ours and his mistakes, he appropriates our result and gives it to his beloved students, sometimes he starves. Although, of course, you need to recognize his genius and the ability to work hard to comprehend the truth! The first not beloved student said: - Is it you, really, strongly bent, that our stig, comprehends the truth ?! He hurries away from her! - Nevertheless, I admit that he learned a lot, discovered new methods of self-improvement, but he is so two-faced! To which the second student remarked: - And all people are two-faced! The first student answered: - You''re right! However, how offensive it is when your merits are not appreciated and all your efforts go to those who have not worked hard to achieve them! The second said: - The world is not perfect! We are guilty when, when they told the master, they told the truth, we did not flatter him like others, but simply worked honestly! - As can be seen from the actions and not the words of our wickedness, the one who says everything as it is or how he sees, without the shell of a sweet lie, will live like us! - You need to be able to get along with people, walk in front of the rich and influential, lift the head high and poorly speak before the poor, feed the hardworking with sweet words and make them work like oxen. Then you will be happy, full, dressed in a luxurious bathrobe, ride an expensive horse accompanied by nukers. - Otherwise, remaining to comprehend the truth, to be equal in relation to all, people regardless of their social status, becoming enlightened, you will only get shouts, little food and many empty promises. And yes, most likely you will die in poverty without knowing a comfortable and full life! First noticed: - But what about the truth then? Second: - And nothing, she will stand on the sidelines. Most people don''t care about it. Everyone wants to live well and happily. What do you need most? The first answered: - Yes, I strive for the truth. This is a matter of choice. But I realized one thing: words and deeds are two different things. I understood the teacher, he with his behavior like this, wanted to guide us on the enlightened way of knowing ourselves. other world! Search the light, passing through the darkness! - To survive in the world of people and preserve at the same time, understanding the enlightened path, you need to be more flexible and smarter. Therefore, our eastern flattery is precisely the way to reduce resistance and pressure from people ... Shify, standing under the window of a cell of apprentices, smiled sweetly, which means his teaching methods were not in vain. 5 The history of the merchant from the teahouse Once in a teahouse at the crossroads of caravan routes, a good campaign of experienced traders gathered. Each of them had something to tell and something to surprise. A modestly dressed merchant sat apart on the sidelines, savoring tea from an old and almost transparent bowl. The wonderful aroma of the drink eloquently argued that, despite its appearance, this man was not at all as simple as it seemed. In the center of attention of those gathered was a young merchant in luxurious, but tasteless robes, boasting in front of all his exploits and success. His story provoked exclamations of admiration of some and skeptical smiles of others. Suddenly, the general revival was interrupted by the not loud, but clear and clear voice of a modestly dressed merchant. Do not lean out of the trench, or they will kill you, an old, kind saying based on life experience, "he said, addressing his young colleague. I have seen many such naive and young maximalists, heroes with a fiery heart, geniuses of the generation of light and fire, all those who aspired to their truth, despite the formal foundations .. Able to go against the tide, abandon gold and quiet life, honor and glory they all gave to achieve their goals. The truth for them was more expensive. So once happened to meet such a mischievous man from the underworld. True, it was not a man, but a dev, moreover with humor, a real esthete. Such people are not often seen. The find of the century! It is true that he didn''t get much nuts, poets who know how to weave magical matter out of light and darkness, some are showered with money and honor, others wander in scanty lands and gnaw stones. I saw him just in such lands. We are unpretentious merchants, walk-wander, look ... the main thing is that it does not stand idle, money drips, new contacts and contacts are established, ways and markets are opened for the sale of our goods. There was bad weather, I lagged behind the caravan as it sometimes happens. In search of shelter came upon a small cave. There he met him, a poet of the soul, who are also in the underworld. Word for word, he told me his story ... In the underworld, the devas were scholars, it was necessary to pass a poem dedicated to wisdom to assess his abilities. Well, he wrote ... All judged the sage on the throne: "There are no right friends among us, But the good subject of the crown To the right of all but me. We will build a kingdom According to the best samples. I want everyone to believe it Let the nightingale sing the words ... " Obedient thoughts Air palaces spun ... Other thoughts, you know, be superfluous Indeed, in the miracle-distance did not lead. Do not think that the road is fast All the prosperity will lead, First you lose everything Then you grow a soul ... And that, you know, the basis All that is in the world And not having tasted much grief, How to ride more progress ?! After reading, he was summoned to his main dev, praised, and then sent to explore the terrestrial world to study the emotions of people for a period of ten years. And on his return, if he remains alive, of course, he must write a new poem about wisdom. Then for this valiant work he was promised honor, glory and ... forgiveness. On that the merchant finished his story. And as for morality, draw your own conclusions, he remarked and left the teahouse ... 6 Something about Toponymy of the Eas If you look at the topographic map whether it is Central Asia or any other space, you can find a lot of unfamiliar or non-typical names for the modern language. And it is not surprising, it is in the order of things. Since in the vast spaces, millennia, centuries ago, many ethnic groups lived. The history of the area retained the memory of these peoples. Some modern researchers suggest that the ancient and not very toponymic names can be searched for: ancient deposits and mines, places of nomadic tribes of certain genera, key points of migration of particular ethnic groups, etc. Also to clarify some ancient legends and traditions interesting from the historical - archaeological point of view. Indeed, as is well known in the East, there are never random toponymic names. On geographical maps of the Central Asian region, you can sometimes find the names of endings such as "Kon, Madan", "Konkan", "Gugirt", "Surb", "Rohravi con", "Par", "Bakir", "Miskan" and t .d And they are not as simple as it seems at first glance. For example, "Kon, Madan" is translated from force as "a mine, deposit," Konkan "- from force, Rudokop," Gugirt "from force, sulfur, Surb - force, lead," Rohravi con "from force, - adit , "Rag" - with a forsi - vein, "Bakir" - from ancient Turkic - copper, "Miskan" from a more modern Turkic - copper mine. "Nukra, Sim" with forsi - Silver, "Fid-d-atun" from Arabic - Silver. By toponyms, one can also learn about other elements of the anthropogenic infrastructure: "Kala, Hisor, expired, Sangar" with forsy - fortress, "Haroba" - forsy - ruins, "Kharabai kushki kadimi" with forsy - ruins of the old castle, "Romitan" with ancient Sogdian - roadside fortress. "Balik" with forsi - the city, "Katay" - Pecheneg - fortress, fortification, "Katag" Chagatai - fortress, "Hisn" Arab - fort, "Kar" - Finno-Volga - city, fortified place, nest, "Urd" - Mongolian - Khan rate. Sometimes in the expanses of post-Soviet Central Asia there are also Greek names, such as, for example, "Burdagui" which means hotel. There are also toponyms in Sanskrit in this territory, such as, for example, "Arshan" - holy water, mineral water, healing spring, "Arasan" - healing spring. Not to mention purely Mongolian toponyms, such as "Yom, Yam, Pulp, Jam" - the post station, "Lidae" - clean the well, "Sir" - the hill, ridge, "Tolgoi" - the lonely hill, hill, peak, "Bogdo" - divine, holy, holy honored, "Ula, Ola" - mountain, "Olom" - ford, "Kahlanga" - gate, "AmTamchi" - mountain valley, span, "Ar" - north, back, reverse side . There are also Chinese names, but they are already concentrated in the Tien Shan region (from the Chinese. Heavenly mountains), for example, the toponym "Shui" is water, "Shan-shui" is a waterfall. In principle, it is possible to write to infinity, to study toponyms is very fun, interesting, entertaining, you can devote all your life to this topic and learn a lot, but you can''t learn everything until the end ... 7 Trade - Cooking - Medicine From the time of the Silk Road, merchants brought new knowledge about plants, food and medicines. Avicena and Amasiatsi studied the properties of products, minerals and used them to treat people. Some of their knowledge has been tested by modern medicine and they are successfully applied. But here it is necessary to remember, this will help one person, and another may not help and here you need to understand that self-treatment was good in the 12th century, but not 21. Trade, it is also the introduction of new garden crops to new lands. Trade is and new culinary techniques and dishes. Trade is new medicines, traditions, traditional medicine. In particular, from China one tree came to us, 6 meters high. While the fruits were slightly greenish, they were tasty, slightly sour and as they ripened, turned brown, soft, the structure of the fetus changed and looked like cotton. The fruit itself was sweet, tart, astringent. Usually, this fruit was used in traditional medicine to normalize the work of the heart and reduce blood pressure. The tree had several names, we had it known as Unabi. And he was also known by code names - "Zizi; an infusion of power", "Yuyuba Chinese" or colloquially "Chinese date". It appeared in our country only in the 60s of the 20th century. The leaves of this tree have an anesthetic effect. The fruits themselves are used to reduce the effect of the disease with the FLU. Treat bronchi, gastrointestinal tract, insomnia. Here is the culinary traditional food for the 60-80s of the 20th century: ================================================== Black tea is a drink based on black tea brewing, instead of milk, boiling water and melted butter, crackers, and salt. Sweet Yutangza - sweet steam dumplings. Interestingly, 1 kg of flour accounted for 500 grams of powdered sugar, 200 grams of fat cream 50 percent (and you rarely see this now), 30 grams of yeast and 2 cups of water! Milk millet porridge for 1 kg of millet, 2 liters of milk, 100 g of ghee and 2-3 stl. Sahara. Manty with bacon and sugar. Stuffing is curious - 1 kg of fat tail, 300 g of granulated sugar and 1 cup of sour milk to lubricate the finished dish. Balls of dough fried in oil - they have seen the same in India and Turkey. Yupka - pancake cake. Fried sugared noodles (explicit borrowing from the Bashkirs). Samus - layered patties with nut (raisins) filling. Syrups from boiled fruit or berry juices. Molasses from the berries. Liquid halva. Sweetness, prepared from soap root, sugar, protein, vanilla. Oftob hum kand - colloquially, rose water with sugar. Badrok - fried corn in sugar syrup. Oat flour from mulberries (mulberry). Badrok halvah - grilled corn halva with nuts. But the magic drugs of the times of the Silk Road also went: =========================================== Mumiyo volunteer means that came through the millennium or not yet fully studied means? The first does not cancel the second. Numerous studies have been conducted, but there is no definite answer yet. What is a mummy? It is a natural formation, of different colors, from brown to black, with different textures from solid to grainy. It contains vegetable, mineral and animal impurities. It looks like something on the pitch. "Mumiyo", for example, is mined in Central Asia in the mountains, caves. This unprecedented product, of unknown origin, scientists still do not exactly know how "mumiyo" is obtained. And it is mined in Central Asia, Altai, India, Tibet, etc. The composition of "mumiyo" contains a large number of different trace elements. In medieval medicine, Avicenna pointed out in his writings about him. Like the artichoke, mumiyo promotes the regeneration of liver cells. In medical practice, "mumiyo" is used as a means of treatment and the fastest healing of fractures. Each country probably has its own, some special preparations used both in traditional medicine and modern medicine. In the 21st century, relying solely on traditional medicine from the 12th to 16th centuries is somehow doubtful. Anyway, these tools can be used only after consultation with your doctor, and a good one. The second magic tea from the time of the Silk Road (probably will appear in the first and second novels) When traveling in the steppes and mountains, sometimes comes across an amazing, natural, tea. Keyik ut, deer grass in Latin Ziziph; ra (Zesifora). Shepherds and mountain dwellers love her. In pharmacies, it is sold as tea. In the old days, they were treated for heart, bronchitis, toothache, and it was also a sedative and anesthetic. It grows in Central Asia... Tea from it in cold days reminds of the past summer, mountain herbs, free steppe, sun, turquoise sky. Deer say they eat this grass during their illnesses, and that''s the name that comes from it, but whether it is true or fiction is difficult to judge. Maybe just folklore. Somehow I caught a cold, and the work came over the roof, it was necessary to upload a digital map for the reconstruction of a separate section of the Silk Road and a caravanserai of 7-11 centuries. The matter is simple, to get up on your feet in one day, if the cold is mild. The main thing is not to start the disease. Tthen I remembered the tea with which I regaled in a distant mountain village, a forester from the reserve. Tea was made from mint and crystalline sugar. We have such traditional sugar, crystalline. Some authors claim that some spices are added to it, or even it is cooked in grape juice. Probably such sugar exists, but not in the usual sale, but is made to order by restaurants or teahouses. Ordinary crystal sugar is sold in supermarkets and markets. It is made from sugar syrup, tying a lot of cotton strings over the boiler, where sugar then crystallizes. Some people write that this product is environmentally friendly, it''s curious how sugar can be? However, it is this sugar that has some healing properties, for example, it strengthens with diarrhea. Black tea with this sugar well helps or boiling water infused on this sugar with mint or basil, contributes to excessive sweating, which is good for colds. It should be remembered that each person is unique, has its own contraindications, and apply these or other healing properties of products, only after the "approval" of a qualified attending physician. 8 The history of the spread of garden crops in Central Asia Peach comes from North and Central China, where it was grown in the third millennium BC. Celery is the birthplace of Italy, where it was bred in the 16th century. At the same time in Siberia, celery was previously known. From the primitive leaf celery, its root and stalked varieties developed to the beginning of our era. Melons, watermelons, leading forage crops, alfalfa, and clover spread from Turkey, Iran and Central Asia. China is the homeland of tea bushes from South China and Assam (India). Peach, grapes and clover came to China from Persia. In the 4th century, mulberry was brought from China to Central Asia. Central Asia is the birthplace of several types of melon. The center of origin of such crops as apricot, almond, walnut, pistachio, pomegranate, figs, some apples and pears, is located in Central Asia. In Central Asia, the grape culture goes back centuries. From historical sources it is known that the grapes were cultivated here long before the campaigns of A. the Great (4th century BC). During the period of Arab rule (7¨C9 centuries), international relations expanded, and this promoted the introduction of new grape varieties from the East. Middle of 1 thousand BC. - Discovered archaeological finds of seeds - wheat, millet, cotton, grapes, melons, apricot seeds. 2-1 centuries. BC. In Small An, wheat, rice, millet, alfalfa, cotton, grapes, pomegranate, and walnut were grown. 5 in. ne Sogdian written documents in the castle on Mount Mug, contain a lot of information about the cultivation of crops. In the middle of 1 thousand AD wheat, barley, rice, cotton, yellow and white cherries, and peaches were grown. In the castle on Mount Mug, archaeologists have found some remnants of crops planted today, including cherry seeds, cherries, grape tendrils, apple parts, barley grain, beans, millet ears, seeds and apricot seeds, grapes, peach, cotton / 7-8 centuries. The Arabs imported new agricultural and horticultural crops from the Levant - sesame, rice, lemon, melon, apricot, shallot, pomegranate, jasmine, yellow roses from Iran. In the 15-16 centuries. they grew eggplants, onions, carrots, coriander, turnips, peppers, radish ¡ª black, green, white, various types of pumpkin. According to Badriddin Kashmiri, Big Ah had persimmon, lemon and boxwood seedlings. 17th century Small An corn crops have already been distributed. 18 century. In the basin of the river. Yaksart - they grew onions, carrots, peas and pepper. 19th century. 1820 Big An - carnations, sunflowers, cherries, apples, quinces, pears, plums, grapes, pomegranates, peaches, apricots, figs. 1820 In Big An there are many well-known garden plants in Europe, such as swede, beet, cabbage, turnip, short and large carrots, onions, cucumbers and excellent melons with a green surface and white flesh. But there were no potatoes yet 9 Key trade of the Silk Road region Sorry, content is lost, You are reading Novel on Novelhall.COM, we will fix it as soon as possible, thank you 10 Small town or a story from the pas Events took place in the late 19th century and early of the 20th century. --- A small town, but with an ancient history, there are many of them in the east. They have seen warriors and merchants, nomads and farmers, great scholars and poets. In their depths are still kept many secrets of thousands of years, undiscovered by researchers. Many nations passed through them, cities saw the ups and downs of empires, the birth of new states and their disappearance, light and power, a time of crises and hypocrisy, evil and good. In one of these small towns, there was a small but very cozy street, immersed in the green foliage of mighty oaks and plane trees, a few hundred years old. On both sides of the street were one and two-storey houses. Some of them were simple cob bricks whitewashed with lime. Others of burned red brick, some of them even had seals of famous imperial factories of the past centuries, and people all lived from different parts of a large country. There were also professors, workers, mechanics, teachers, nurses, porters and philologists. Everyone lived peacefully and quietly, helping each other in the repair or construction of the khashar method, i.e. the whole world. Then the thought of unity did not soar; everyone was one. But all good things tend to end ... Although residents of the street did not know about this, they didn''t even know that in the future the street would practically become empty, everyone would go away, who would go for the better share, and in their houses, after different people, there would be completely different people who would not even know who neighbors. The old wall, dear to the heart, which in childhood was also an excellent remedy for abrasions and cuts, will be torn down, and in their place high, concrete fences will rise. Earlier, with the whole world, neighbors from all over the street themselves kneaded clay, cut reeds, putting them into special wooden forms, dried them in the sun, and made bricks for duvali. Then they were coated with clay mixed with straw. But all this is already in the distant past. About this only remind yellowed photographs in forgotten all albums. ... Once sitting on a bench near the gate, Yodgor unclewatched the sparrows splashing in a puddle. There was a smile on his face, and his eyes sparkled. It''s good to sit in the sun, enjoy the warmth, nature ... This idyll was broken by a disgruntled cry of a young neighbor. He was annoyed that he would have to turn in an object he disliked that he considered to be nonsense, a waste of time and energy, just nonsense. Yodgor-uncle asked the young applicant, Dara, why he was so indignant about what had happened, he told his story. To which Yodgor-uncle remarked: because of this, are you spoiling your mood and yourself? You see, from your cry and the sparrow, who happily frolicked in a puddle, the frightened flew away. You broke them fun! It''s not worth worrying about because of this, it still does not help. Here I remember the story of his grandfather. He was still a young and naive merchant, together with his uncle they arrived in the capital of the Kingdom, there was a hectic time. In the Kingdom, the interests of the three world powers came together, well, and as usual, the residents got the nuts. There was a big hauling of ropes, as togashka told me. Inside the Kingdom there were various forces, groups that emphasized their future, hoping for the strength of those powers. Well, who won, took everything. Here, you know, the players left very often, then one side took up, then the other. In general, staff turnover was high. Some disappeared in the darkness, others fled, wherever they looked. As a result, there was no one to work. My uncle told me that his grandfather had caught the nukers at the bazaar, because he wanted to see the city, the goods, and moved away from the caravan. I really thought that everything was a pipe, remember what their name was. They will make a slave and sell it somewhere. But my grandfather was brought to the vazir in the "sofa", they put on a new brocade robe and made them an official. He refused, refused, referred to a small experience. But he was not listened to. Wazir dryly threw - no staff, everyone ran away, as they say - if there is no meat, then turnip will fit. So everything, go and work. My advisor will tell you what to do. Now the grandfather is sitting in a small room, they brought him a bunch of papers, he works with them. They feed, they do not water so that they can have exquisite food, but you cannot reach your feet. As a so-called honor, three young men were assigned to the grandfather for protection. Although it was clear, this is so that the grandfather did not run away. Then the rumors on the "sofa" are spread that another official disappeared, came out with a report and did not return ... So imperceptibly flew several months. Little by little, the grandfather poked up in the "couch", heard and saw how things were going, how the officials solved the "problems", how all foreigners appear, and influential and not-so-many people from urban groups turn around. Then he was suddenly appointed vazir, instead of the former. Time passed, the news coming from the outskirts of the Kingdome did not please: now and there, riots and riots arose. It was clear that this was a consequence of the big game, another togashka told about it, he was the head of the emirate''s secret police. Here it is unclean. As popular wisdom says - that honey is not worth these stings ... Well, here somehow there was a big holiday in the palace, the grandfather already proved himself to be good, the wazir was like the third month. Therefore, the security somewhat weakened. He managed to save up money on a dark night, saddling an Arabian horse, he left his post and the Kingdom. In two weeks I was already in my native emirate. My uncle remained alive, but the caravan had to be abandoned. Then he pestered his grandfather for a long time by the fact that he was the first in their family who became a Vazir! ... From what Uncle told me, I learned a lesson for myself that formally everything always looks better than in fact. What is behind each at first glance, a decision designed to make life easier, is a particular customer who pursues his personal interests, as a rule, this is revenge or the ability to deprive someone of power, influence and behind them is another emissary, and he has his own views. It''s not enough to understand the mind ... But most importantly, I understood, even if I''ve got into a showdown, where the price of a question is life or death, don''t forget what wonderful world you live in, don''t cease to admire the beauty of the sky, the rustling of leaves, the little worms ... Dara scratched his head thoughtfully ... nothing has changed, he thought. --- hashar - something like a free work by a group of people for a common cause vazir - minister sofa - cabinet minister nuker - in the story means the guard 11 Old fortress Sorry, content is lost, You are reading Novel on Novelhall.COM, we will fix it as soon as possible, thank you 12 The story of the monk Earlier, when people still knew how to hear, and not sit, buried in a small window, where all their world fit ... I happened to hear a curious story in sartaroshane. An experienced traveler, a researcher slowly knew sartarosh about his adventures. Here I am, along with the thread of his story, going to the world of his wanderings ... In the mountains of Malguzara and Koytash, it was sometimes possible to meet dervishes - wandering monks from various orders. They visited Tibet, the Himalayas, the Pamirs, the Sivalik Hills, and also saw the oceans. Monk walked along trade routes, caravan paths, visited many countries and learned the world. Once I happened to meet a monk in the steppe, he admired the clouds and the turquoise sky. As is customary in the east, he wished me peace, and I told him the same. Then he asked about health, was it my way. It was dinner time and I suggested that he share his meal with me, he agreed and, in order to make it pleasant, told me a curious story. But first I sang poems in a special way: Full moon night owl cry Wading nightmare under the window Just sleepy, someone can hear: sleep ... Falls asleep tired city. Who does not sleep, gives a ridiculous decree. Yes ... this morning they shot, A hand was raised on the trees-houses Little owl quiet gently whispered ... They and the toads gently echoed ... May He takes all his and without demand, Who does not sleep, then he will say, I just did not know ... Including how the roses were painted? This, too, happens, superstitions take up over the enlightened, they do not think that any life is valuable. Be it a toad or a splyushka. - That is, you want to say, dear, that they do not care about the conservation of biodiversity, violate the ecosystem? - I asked, and he answered - they are doing the work of the enemy! Monk said -Do not say that, they do it out of ignorance, whether they are proud, whether desires lead them along this path, who knows? It can be seen that human nature is such, some leave behind them gardens and vineyards, and others only scorched desert. - Or maybe this is just revenge, for something, someone? - Who knows¡­ - Anyone with power, does not think about those who are powerless. Monk being in distant lands, overseas countries have seen a lot of things. Everywhere the scenery is different, but the nature of people is the same. Though they have, even in our kingdom-state. There are people - creators, creators, gardeners, sowers, builders who want to make life easier, to place hope. There are bark beetles ... they are destroyers, lumberjacks, devastaters who can only select, seeking to complicate life, instill despair in the hearts of people. But in one country, an empire far to the east, I met amazing people ... They learned the laws of life and the nature of people, learned how the world works, understood what good and evil are, saw the essence and came to the only truth. These are people walking along the path, and this path is the road of life, the path of the enlightenment of consciousness. Not everyone can achieve it. Sometimes even these best of those living in their souls can have breakdowns, emotions take upwards. But people can be wrong, therefore they are people. Not everyone is strong, stumbled, back on the road. He who says he has reached the path has strayed from him. He who says that he did not reach him approached him. --- Sartoshkhona - hairdresser Sartosh - hairdresser Koytash, Malguzar - mountains Sivalik Hills - Himalayan foothills 13 Eastern aphorisms about the way, trade, human nature - Subjective experience of mistakes ... - For a good career you need to say that everything is just great, great, amazing. In this case, in no case ask questions, of course, if there is no desire to show off wit and ruin your life. - Past merits, achievements, awards mean nothing, they are just pieces of paper, which are usually waved away. - While you are young, they will use it, you will be wiser, you will stuff cones, you will be kept away. - Education is a panacea for idiocy. But is good education - If suddenly, after a ten-year drought, heavy rain begins, it means that the flood is likely to be soon. - If suddenly, after a twenty-year drought, a tap with water opens, this means that the water will soon become invaluable, that is, it will depreciate. - If you donate a house, from generosity, then it seems that there is a ghost in it, because no one takes it, they just give the hut. Not for nothing, in ancient times Argolides and their gifts were so feared. - If suddenly, in the old house, they are doing repairs, then this is a new intrigue. - In the jubilee year, miracles happen, but from them, there is frost on the skin, jubilee years as well as leap years, they expect a lot from them, but everything turns out to be the most unexpected. - If you are in the east, then you shouldn''t be surprised with a wide smile, bright glitter in your eyes, unctuous tone, flattery, like the change of mood, of the same person at the moment. Cold and domineering tone, rage in the eyes, outrageous rudeness, bitter words. It is enough only for this to have a bright and beautiful sun illuminate the person or, on the contrary, go into the shadows. - Glory, prestige, well-being, happiness, influence, etc., are not decided by luck, not by hard work, not by selfless work, but by the click of the fingers of the sun. He was lucky if he had not stepped on a tail or a shadow. Well, if not ... then everything, hello, nothing shines. And the sun here is a big clan boss. - To make it all good, first there must be failures and mistakes! - Flattery and hypocrisy are good for life, but disastrous for the human soul. - The truth is one, but the truth can be much, and each has its own. - Initiative and burning eyes from creativity are good only when there is support. Then even at a young age you can soar like an eagle over the abyss of despair. When there is no support, it only attracts the attention of the tiger and then salvation is only a leap into the unknown or become a snack. - The truth is sometimes very ugly, terrible, terrible, so it is easily replaced with a lie and then everyone is happy. In addition to those who got the nuts and forgot about them to tell the truth. Well, this is nothing ordinary, the right is the one who has the power and money. Why be surprised? If there is only one truth, that there is justice, but it does not act quickly, it may take forty or even a hundred years to put everything in its place. - Paper tiger - Home lion, on the street dog. - Either the immortal Taoist or the traveler, the first wizard, the fabulous hero, the second reckless fool, can tell the truth - Sage in the shoes of a fool, a fool in the shoes of a sage, the first is happy, the second bit - When you eat dinner with a tiger, even a fool becomes a sage. - When a fool dines with a tiger and continues to be a fool, he becomes the main dish at this feast - In the East, revenge is the sweetest dish, it is like honeycomb honey. Teeth stuck in honeycombs, honey glues mouth. Not everyone is ready to refuse such a treat, although he understands 80 percent that this may be a trap. But ambition and desire to feast on honey in honeycombs above caution. - A wide smile in the East means disagreement rather than agreement. - What distinguishes Eastern people for Westerners is the ability to express thoughts in a streamlined, ornate manner; speech is fertilized with abundantly oriental spices such as thin and medium flattery, sweeping smiles, sweet words, although they are not true when Western people have power, power, money. When he loses them, he can also be told what everyone has been thinking about him all this time. - What is the difference between a western person and an eastern person - in that he says what he thinks, and not what he wants to hear. Can not answer beautifully, ornate, with flattery. He says what he sees, feels, experiences, feels with all the fibers of the soul. - "To sogarat purast benushon va nush kun" - While your bowl is full, drink and give to others. - Hamero mor Megazat Moreau Harchasonak" - Everyone is bitten by a snake, and we are a stinky beetle. - "Darin Shak Nist" - Yes, you are absolutely right. - "Onniche be in nish nimi arzat" - That honey is not worth those stings. - "Sir asholi gustrestne habar nadorat" - Fed hunger does not understand. - Who do not know, do not like. -No one realizes his lack. - The truth bends, but does not break. For truth, there is no death. - If you are right, then the conviction will end with an excuse. - Soup from cheap supplies is not tasty. - Do not touch the tired, do not touch the exhausted. Because in such a state people are angry. - When there is gold in the hand, there is no price for it (that is, it doesn''t appreciate good when it owns it). - Hit yourself, if it doesn''t hurt - then hit the other. - For a good cause there is no late. - I did it once - help, I did it twice - it became a habit. - Drunk ayran (sour milk) got rid of, and licked a bucket (in which there was milk) got caught. "If it is time to put up with you, then put up with time." - Drop by drop - the lake will be. - On the words of another, speak - well, but do not lag behind your business. - If you consider yourself a man, then consider another a lion (that is, consider the dignity of others). - I saw it once - knowledge, I saw it twice - acquaintance. - Without labor, the craft does not happen. - To bend an oak means to break it. Among the barley comes across weeds. - Is the soul sweeter? Is halva sweeter? - New jug and water is clean. - Do not sing someone else''s song, sing your song. - And a little stone will break your head. - The grass does not grow on the salt marsh. - For the payer and five a lot, but for the recipient and six a little. - The flour worm and from under the millstone comes out whole. - If you find the money count, if you meet a man try. - Be a companion to a blind man, but do not be a heartless companion" - Hidden blind, will not find sighted. - Do not help the unworthy person. - Speak a word to that, understands. "Ask for advice from someone who has worn your shirt." - A good word is food for the soul, a bad word is a stake for the head. - Talking as a joke, tells what''s on his mind. - Whoever regrets himself, he will regret the other. - Every satellite has an intention. - And free vinegar is sweeter than honey. - When the enemy army withdraws, the number of brave men will increase. - Let it be old clothes, if only it was not dirty. - Do not say useless words, do not refuse to pronounce useful words. - A lot of words - a treasure for an ass. - The wound from the saber heals, there is no wound from the tongue. - From a prickly rose comes out, from a rose - a thorn. - If you go to a feast - go before. Coming early - choose a good place. - Going on a straight road stumbles upon the treasury, going along a curve for trouble. - Where there are a lot of shepherds, there are a lot of sheep disappears. - The dog rushes to the vanquished. - A dog caressing the owner is thrown a bone. "There is no night without a thief; there is no mountain without a wolf." - And a croak frog if you step on it! - A hen that shouts without time is cut off its head. - The trick of a woman luggage for 40 donkeys. "Husband and wife are a pair of oxen joined in a yoke." - Between a husband and wife, only a madman becomes. - A good wife - well-being at home. - Choose a bride looking at her mother. - The old cotton does not go to the canvas, the hardened enemy will not be a friend. - There are few friends and thousands, and one and many enemies. - Silly friends with the enemy and quarrel with a friend. - From a good man will remain the name of the evil slander. - If you have a neighbor curve and you squint eyes. - If you sell a carpet. sell to your neighbor, sit on the tip of that carpet yourself. - If you are calm, then the neighbor is calm. - A clever enemy is better than a stupid friend. If you serve a good person, you will be appreciated; if you serve a bad person, you will not be rated. He said good things - he will judge, he said bad things - he laughs Good people speak with love, angry, saying bite The good knows the price of the good, the bad does not know the price of the good Clever - hint stupid - stick. Don''t be stupid - don''t talk a lot Stupid will forget the place of his homeland Stupid people don''t like to listen to instructions All wealth from consent - and ruin from disagreement There would be food and the boiler there Forty days thank the one who fed you one day Working in the winter - wear sable fur, if you don''t work you''ll tremble all winter If you go to knead raw skin the sole will be, if you restrain your voi of passion - you will become king 14 Something about the history of trade and the Silk Road Trade, attracts merchants, they come from all over the world. This is the road! Ways, directions. They need to be monitored, repaired, laid. Ensure the safety of the path, feed people and animals ... Appear and their trade - transit - centers. Countries get richer. Naturally, someone wants to control everything, control, enrich themselves, give some countries technologies, but not others. Thus, determining the development of some regions and the lag of others. This is already a policy. Where trade, there is money, and therefore the development of medicine, science, culture, art, crafts. In addition to trade roads, military roads are also developing. To make it easier to deploy troops to protect their territory, and the seizure of new lands. For example, the Mongols in the 13th century, built one of these roads, it passed through a mountain gorge in Tien Shan, south of Sairam Lake. All along it had about 50 bridges, two carriages wide. During the decline of the Tang empire, but already at the time when the empire lost its influence on the kingdom of Cao, in Davan, merchants came from Basra, Himyarita (Yemen), Sarandib (Ceylon). Chinese influence has weakened, the Arab has intensified. Everyone wanted to control the Silk Road. In the city of Keder in the 10th century there were 10,000 caravanserais, this suggests that trade flourished. There were merchants from India, China, the Arab Caliphate, Byzantium, Persia, and sometimes even representatives from the countries of Oceania. The mountain fortress of Esh in Afghanistan is one of the hundreds of key strongholds of control on the Silk Road. The second point is the fortress Gardez in Afghanistan, it controlled passes and bridges. The city of Keder, he is Farab, existed from the first century BC to the 16th century of our era. In the 5th - 15th centuries, the strategic trade route from Persia, through Central Asia to Mongolia and China, passed through Keder. The busiest fair in Bolshoi An began from the beginning of January and lasted until the end of May. Where did merchants come from China, India, Persia, Afghanistan, Tibet. In Maloy An, there was a large Sephardic quarter and they had great home libraries with the latest editions from Vienna and London, but this is already the 18th and 19th centuries. The average weight of silver tenga was from 3 to 4 grams, the earlier years from 3 to 3.2 grams. Chemical analysis gave a sample of silver in 80 to 90 percent. Since ancient times, caravan routes connecting the countries of the Far East with the West have crossed the territory of Central Asia. Transit trade was carried out along the Silk Road. Communication (of the West and the East) went through Central Asia, which, due to its geographical position, simply could not be bypassed. Contacts could not affect the nature of the culture of the peoples through whose lands they were carried out. Experiencing the proximity of powerful and highly developed states of the ancient world, Central Asia created a number of cultures in which Chinese, Iranian, Indian and ancient elements, later Arabic, mixed in the most odd way. The constant influx of Turkic and Mongol nomadic tribes gave these cultures even greater uniqueness. It affected everything: in the economic, semi-settled - semi-nomadic structure of the Central Asian states, in painting, sculpture, architecture. It was through Central Asia to the Middle East, and from there paper, ink, and xylographic typography came to Europe. Trade developed cultural and economic relations with various regions and continents. Central Asia was the transmission link for acquiring Chinese, Persian knowledge to Europe. Refinements on Silk: ====================== Silk was paid taxes and tribute, it acts as the equivalent of money in settlements in trade operations. In the 6th - 5th centuries BC silk paid for military services and horse supplies. According to Sogdian sources, one piece of silk was worth 28 dirham, while a pair of working oxen was worth only 12 dirham. Even at the beginning of the 7th century AD one horse cost 4.5 cuts of silk. In the Chinese, the Kingdom of Central Asia adopted the methods of silkworm breeding and the technology of making silk fabrics and paper, and the Chinese borrowed from the peoples of Central Asia the technology of making glass, glaze, fine cloth and cultivating garden and melon crops: grapes, pomegranates, beans, alfalfa. That is, the Silk Road, allowed to engage in the transfer of knowledge, skills, techniques and technologies. Around the 3rd century AD The ancient Sogdian merchants opened a trade route to Semirechye, through the Dzungarian Gate. As it is known at that time the Sogdian merchants held the silk trade in their hands. Dyeing fabric or thread, or rather fixing colors. Having mastered the first two technologies (growing a silk worm, getting a cocoon and unwinding a cocoon, that is, actually extracting a silk thread), the Sogdians began to make silk fabrics. However, their color faded faster than the Tang (ie Chinese) samples. Numerous rock inscriptions and drawings found in the headwaters of the Indus in the Gilgit area by an expedition led by K. Jettmar can deliver valuable information on bilateral traffic along the southern segment of the Great Silk Road. (From Vakhan through the Karakorum Range to Swat) These inscriptions are dated 1-8 centuries AD. and most of them belong to the Kushan time (2-3 centuries). They are made by various Indian scripts, Bactrian, Parthian, Kushan, Sogdian, Chinese. Silk was transported in pieces. The length and width of the pieces was regulated by law. So, for the Han time, the width of silk fabrics was about 0.5 m, and it was 9 m long. Such a piece was enough for making clothes. After China established contacts with Central Asia and the Eastern Mediterranean, a wide variety of wool products began to flow into the country along the Great Silk Road, the names of which used Iranian and Arabic names. These are the taden carpets, bedspreads and curtains-tsuisou, tapestry chi fabrics and palazy pan. These imported products made a great impression on the ancient Chinese, unfamiliar with the technique of processing wool, flax, carpet production and tapestry weaving. In the 3-5th century, Sogdians established constant contact with China. 15 Unique Sites of the Silk Road In the mountains from the time of the 8th century BC, stone dwellings or caves, "the homes of magicians", still remain in Central Asia. Or rather - fire worshipers. In the mountains near Maliy An, there are cave complexes ¡ª orders of traveling monks, their age from the 9th-16th centuries of our era. There are caves with bones, probably prehistoric people, Neanderthals, which the locals worshiped before the arrival of the monotheistic religion. In some places, closer to Dawan, caves were preserved even before the beginning of the 19th century, with runic letters carved out at the entrance, with the designation "Deep Mine". The cave has a long and deep corridor. Underground river. Through which the ancient wooden bridge is thrown. 100 steps from this stretches the stone-lined floor, which breaks off and goes into the abyss. Downstairs which goes rope ladder, which ends after 7 meters. After examining the depth, it turned out that it has about 50 meters. Next are the development of the breed, immediately workshops, in which the slaves worked. According to the archaeological age of 8-9 century AD. In another cave, a man''s mummy was found half buried in the ground. Of course the mountains, in archaeological terms, poorly understood. In Persia, the mountains and steppes, so that merchants did not stray during dust storms or snowstorms, wooden stakes were driven into the ground. As a landmark road. In North Africa, in the swamps, there were also wooden stakes - landmarks. Some roads in the steppe were marked with stone pyramids. They mark the boundaries of territories and crossroads. There are still rocks on the mountains, rock paintings, which depict animals, people and some strange plans. Scientists have learned to recognize them by the style of execution, the drawing application tool used, and from them they can already determine the approximate age of the drawing itself. Usually these drawings were located in places where people used to live or hunt. Sometimes these were borders showing other tribes that it was a foreign territory or providing information that several species of animals live in this area. For example, predators. What is interesting is the glowing patterns were found on all continents of the Earth and at all latitudes. There is a confusion in the names of certain places, such as the same place, but it had different names - "Seven houses", others claimed that this place was "Seven snakes", there were those who said that originally this place was called "Seven eyes". Although the old-timers, over a cup of green fragrant tea, told me that everyone is wrong, and the name is correct "Seven Lambs". What name is correct, I don''t know, but if you believe the old-timers, then "Seven Lambs" will be most likely, since the district is basically a pastoralist. There are a great many such oddities or uniqueness when studying the history of the Silk Road. Not to mention the lost trading cities of the Silk Road, there are about 300 of them only in Central Asia! In the village of "Seven Lambs" there were many rock paintings - wild sheep, goats, horses, deer, even one tiger and about a dozen plans. Interestingly, these drawings were similar to those from the Hindu Kush Pass. In ancient times, a man could walk about 50 km a day, like a horse. As modern people have passed, they have become weaker, but on the other hand, modern people now have cars, helicopters, exoskeletons, and drones. Technology develops, man becomes sick. The range of time, covering the appearance of petroglyphs, as well as cave painting, is extremely wide: from the end of the ice age, when the main game of man was the mammoth and the wild horse, to the next centuries of our era. The image of animals appeared, somewhere 30,000 years ago in the Late Paleolithic, but people in the Mesolithic some 15,000 years ago. There are three main styles of rock art images: 1. The silhouette or shadow style, which refers to the second millennium BC. However, it is possible that such drawings were made much earlier; 2. Contour - in which the figures are not transmitted by continuous embossing, but are limited only by their contours. Sometimes wavy lines were made inside such contours. Such variants of contour images are called openwork; 3. The latest style, more simple, is called skeleton drawing. This is a schematic, geometrical figure. The technique of performing all these images can be dashed or dotted, when the design is knocked out by many strokes with a stone or metal tool. Another method of applying images was scratching them, this is already a carved technique. All these oddities or uniqueness inevitably give rise to the appearance of legends and fairy tales with monks, wizards, monsters, such as dinosaurs or mammoths. Although it is just the natural course of life. But it was possible that the theme and material for legends, myths and fairy tales were born in the Middle Ages and the Late Feudal period. 16 Silk Road and its unique features The Silk Road developed the economy of the countries where it passed, created a new infrastructure and surprisingly created a variety of jobs in both the white and black areas of the economy: In the period from 4th century BC until the end of the 16th century AD A new trading infrastructure has appeared: ? wells ? caravanserai ? guard fortresses ? postal stations ? local bazaars ? regional bazaars ? the emergence of new jobs: - robbers (there were whole settlements) - caravanbashi (guides) - caravan guards - merchants - changed - sale of riding animals - sale of food for riding animals - sale of food for travelers - tax collections - tax specialists - customs officers - repair work (road improvement) - repair and construction of crossings, bridges - secret agents, spies, counterintelligence system Why did this infrastructure appear ?: There is a need to sell your product, exchange it for others, expand your territory, there is a need for new resources, water flows, etc. Consequences of the Silk Road? A dense transport network of both international and regional, local and local nature has arisen in the region. Appeared infrastructure: ? wells ? irrigation and agriculture (steppe, mountain-valley, foothill) ? settlements ? bazaars ? caravanserai ? fortresses, etc. Some agricultural crops began to be cultivated, nut and mulberry plantations appeared, smelting of metals and mining of minerals began to develop more intensively. The emergence of new trading points, the penetration of different cultures, peoples, technologies, the expansion of geographical knowledge of neighboring areas. The emergence of the need to create guides to the trade routes and localities through which they passed. The revival of the economies of countries through which trade routes passed. What changes have occurred and what did it eventually lead to? Increased anthropogenic load on natural ecosystems. They began to change. Soil erosion, salinization, changes in the species composition of the plant world, landscape transformation. Deforestation of the mountain slopes. Creation of explanations near the wells, violation of the soil cover in the places of passage of trade roads. Increase welfare of the population. Creation of cultural centers. The attenuation of the economic growth of regions linked to world trade and the revival of territories linked to regional and subregional trade. Human impact on the natural landscapes of the area: ? mining and smelting of metals ¡ª precious metals, tin, lead ¡ª the result is metal slags on the mountain slopes, cutting trees and shrubs vegetation almost everywhere on the mountain slopes, remnants of ancient mines and workings on the mountain slopes and in the steppe; ? ancient agrocenoses on the plain ? change in the watercourse of mountain rivers, the creation of canals and dams - the result of the transformation of natural landscapes, changes in the local microclimate; ? migration of ethnic groups Since ancient times, along mountain passes and through passes, along river valleys, caravan roads and trails ran, passed the main route of trade caravans, going from one region to another. This most important strategic road in a number of nodal points was reinforced by powerful fortresses. The main places of exchange were established in the border areas with the steppe, where nomads brought their cattle and brought their products, and Sogdian merchants came there for shopping and exchange (7th century AD). At the end of the 7th century, Arabs came to the principality of the Central Asian Region. One of the characteristic signs of the development of human civilization are transport communications that facilitate the integration of states and peoples in international cooperation. In the Kingdom CAO in the period from 103 BC to 1221 AD, several envoys from the Chinese Empires visited: - Chinese monk Zhang Can (about 103 BC) - Chinese traveler Fa Xiang (399-414 AD) - Chinese monk Xuan Zang (630 AD) - Chinese traveler Chan-Chun (1221) Roads - communications between large settlements within certain historical and cultural areas, old paths between villages that no longer exist. In Central Asia, the one-day journey traveled by a caravan in the first centuries BC and the first centuries of our era was about 23-26 km, in the 7-11 centuries the value of the day pass was approximately 25-30 km. In addition to the three main routes (southern sea, southern terrestrial, steppe path) of the Great Silk Road, there were other roads through which all these routes were interconnected. The network of trade roads connected the steppe villages with oases, these roads had many seasonal branches. The main places of exchange were established in the border areas with the steppe, where there was an exchange between nomads and inhabitants of oases. Land transport was mainly packaged. Transport - roads - mail - road improvement. Roads contributed to the growth of foreign trade between countries. Transport interchanges are important. Road junctions - road connections at different levels with congresses to move vehicles from one road to another. T.R. - increase the throughput of roads, ensure safety, uninterrupted operation and speed of movement. Roads (IDPs connecting Europe and Asia) have a profound and many-sided impact on land use, including opening up territories for settlement. Conveniently located points on the trade routes. The key position in the area of ??transport (transit). The toponyms of the East are never random. Properly organized transport system is equally necessary for the distribution of food and for the fuller development of trade, without which it is impossible to improve the welfare of society, as well as throwing the army to protect or vice versa to seize territories. One of the characteristic signs of the development of human civilization are transport communications that facilitate the integration of states and peoples into the international community. Cultural and trade relations. The goods arrived in the large wholesale bazaars of the city, then distributed to small-wholesale local bazaars in the cities. Along the main roads, which led to the depth of new territories for the development of territories, a chain of cities was created, controlling the routes and ensuring the movement of people and goods. The emergence of new roads caused the creation of chains of new urban settlements along them and the decline or disappearance of old cities on the old roads that had lost their significance. Built border lines of the city - the fortress. Roads and settlements (respectively, and their infrastructure) are created when something needs to be transported or exchanged. They actually connect different centers (cultural, agricultural, craft, trade, mining, etc.) with each other, carrying out a trade exchange. Being the epitome of the connection of times is a property which in our time of unprecedented development of tourism is highly valued. Transport networks experienced the emergence, decline, then slow development. The service area of ??the road includes: ? Settlement - economic development or transformation of the economy; ? Settlement - the territorial organization of the population, the network of settlements (defined as ter. Settlement according to the figure); ? Settlement - as a technical infrastructure; ? Localities - production centers and centers for people ? Unified systems of centers - settlements. The importance of such corridors was that when various kinds of problems such as wars arose and ordinary trade transit routes were temporarily blocked, then bypass roads of "risk zones" appeared through various key mountain passes. Trade is always on the same roads. In the modern period, the ancient roads and highways of the Silk Road are quite successfully used for laying new energy wires. It is natural to assume that it is possible in the future (when the development of hydrocarbon deposits will begin) such key corridors can be used for one of the alternative branches of energy pipelines. 17 Poor Arthur Conolly 1 Nobody wanted to give initiative, territories in regions of interests, markets, increasing influence, access to the sea and ports, acquisitions of strategic straits. As well as controlling the transit trade flows of another empire. That is, the poles of power were not interested in other empires or regional powers expanding their overseas or marginal colonies. Conquered territories, new colonies sometimes passed from hand to hand. New technologies were deciding who to break the ladies and who would be left behind. Industrial empire, defeated the feudal powers. At the end of the 19th century, most of the colonies were already divided between major players... ... (Presentation of historical material in the free interpretation of facts and some subjective hypotheses of the development of events). The arrogance of one, the audacity of the other, led to a very interesting but sad story. Skillful operative, solidity of the doctrine, intelligent guy, charismatic handsome, easily disentangled from the most complex, dangerous and intricate adventures. His name was Arthur Conolly. Colonel Charles Stoddart has established himself as a staunch and brave reconnaissance, and he is brash and arrogant. Who thought of sending it on an important mission to the emirate? Where you need tact, compliance with the rules, traditions and your communication ritual ?! Apparently the colonel had enemies in the imperial intelligence itself. Sir John MacNaille probably someone recommended him, but who? It is left overs once again. The manifestation of disrespect in the East, never in vain, does not pass ... In the East, they love the observance of rituals, status and its conformity, equal relations, the position of the younger brother never leads to a good result, especially if it requires weaker positions. The colonel, the colonel, apparently did not know this, relied on the greatness of his empire, and he did not receive confirmation of this. Who same goes without all the necessary papers, but still behaves defiantly? All this against the background of aggravated interests of two great empires. The thirties and forties of the nineteenth century, the period of the application of the two empires on the territory of the Central Asian khanates. Since ancient times, Central Asia has attracted large empires because of its unique geopolitical position. From it opened a great access to large trade and transit centers, regions of producers of special goods. Persia, India, Afghanistan, China and through them access to maritime trade and new regions of Africa and the countries of Oceania. Control over trade routes gave great power to the hands, allowed some regions of the world to flourish, and others to decline. Skipping the goods or not, it was a good argument in resolving political disputes, and it is also economically beneficial. Customs duties for goods substantially replenished the budget of empires. Not to mention the ability to control the transfer of technology, knowledge, etc. At that time, in some parts of the Western world, in particular of England, the USA and France, an economic crisis began. At the same time in the world began the cotton boom. In the heads of politicians, every possible doctrine of interest was rife in the region. The so-called buffer zones, sanitary cordons, which could isolate the borders from potentially dangerous powers. Imperial industrialists, merchants needed new markets for their products. But the merchants were concerned that intermediaries received 300-400 or even 500 percent of the profits from their goods, being engaged only in resale. To trade by changing their rubles or pounds to local tengs or rupees, they received less profit. Numerous expeditions, information from merchants, diplomatic (that is, reconnaissance) missions, moreover, reported rich ore deposits - gold and silver. As well as areas with the extraction of precious stones. There was an idea about monopolizing the world cotton market, and for this we needed territories suitable for growing it. Many factors merged into a single powerful stream. And the empire began its movement to Central Asia ... The British wanted to protect their Indian colony from the possible invasion of the Russian Empire. Therefore, they needed a buffer zone. They wanted to put a single ruler in Afghanistan so that it would be easier to reach an agreement and keep the borders closed. The Russian empire, in the interpretation of the British side, was interested in several weak rulers of Afghanistan. Playing on their contradictions, they are manipulated. The Russian Empire itself wanted to keep the British from the Central Asian khanates, due to the fact that it did not want to lose its buffer zone. Emissaries of Britain offered to the Central Asian rulers * - to stop the slave trade of Russian subjects. Since this is a potential reason to start conquering the khanates. But their warnings were missed. What is the reason for this? Probably, the tsarist government did not particularly care about the fate of its subjects. Yes, and the Russian Empire at that time was the main trading partner of the Central Asian khanates, so the Khans (Khiva and Kokand) were convinced that this would be an excuse and profitable trade relations would not be spoiled. Probably, therefore, they did not even buy new weapons, did not attract European instructors for retraining, did not build new fortifications, etc. How did you manage to do this later by the Japanese Empire and thus avoid colonization. Twenty years later, just one of the reasons for the seizure of the Central Asian khanates and the liberation of slaves served, once and for all, to stop the raids on merchant, imperial caravans. Also to open access to new markets for goods ... But the fact that their prediction came true, the two British, imperial scouts did not see. The trade relations established between Russia and Bukharia since ancient times have taken on a particularly wide scale since the second half of the eighteenth century. At that time, the northern empire sent its weapons and even military advisers to distant lands. There were such times. By the end of one thousand eight hundred and twentieth year, the trade of Bukhara with the Russian Empire occupied the first place. According to Yegor Kazimirovich Meyendorf, one of the participants of the expedition of A.F. Negri to Bukharia. The trade turnover for the year of Bukhara with the Northern Empire was about 3000 camels, with a normal cargo that lifted the camel 18 pounds, that is 288 kg, (according toMeyendorf E.K. Travel from Orenburg to Bukhara. 1824) we can calculate approximately how many tons of goods were transported in those times . That is, in the year the turnover of goods with the Russian Empire was approximately - 864 tons, with Kashgar in 201.6 tons, with Persia in 172.8 tons. The cost of transportation of goods to the Northern Empire was from 99 to 108 rubles and to India through Afghanistan from 108 to 126 rubles. Thus, trade with Russia was economically beneficial both in terms of transportation and in terms of the sale of goods. Bukhara merchants made a profit of 400-500 percent from Russian goods. The following goods were brought from Russia to Bukharia - cloves, sugar, tin, red and blue sandalwood, cloth, leather, wax, honey, iron, copper, steel, gold threads, mirrors, pearls, cast iron boilers, brocade, glass products. Bukhara traded with Hindu merchants mainly from Northern Indostan (Kashmiri shawls, silk fabrics, thin paper sheets, precious stones and a lot of indigo were brought from India. Russian goods were brought to Persia and Afghanistan, coarse shawls were brought from Persian and Afghanistan, carpets and turquoise. That is, trade with the Russian Empire at the beginning of the 20s of the 19th century occupied one of the leading places in Bukhara. Along with the goods, the Russian influence grew, on the merchants, noble officials in the khanates. In 1827, Emir Nasr Ulla Bahadur Khan became the chief in Bukhara. According to separate sources of information, Nasrulla, fearing intrigues from the former loyal people of his predecessors, removed them from their posts. Thus weakening the army and control in the emirate. The new emir of Bukharia, Nasrullah maintained friendly relations with the Russian Empire. ... Arthur Conolly is an amazing man, an explorer of the East, a tireless traveler, a creative person, a writer and a skilled intelligence officer. He was born in London, on the second of July, eight eight hundred and seven. Scouts write books and this also happens, though under pseudonyms. Arthur Conolly was such for travel "Han Ali." The Conolly family was descended from the Irish clan "; Conghalaigh". His cousin was secretary of the political and secret department. That is, it happened, as they say from a good family. At 12 he was left an orphan; he had five more brothers. Two of whom were also scouts and died in the execution of their missions during the implementation of the "Big Game". But about them somehow little material. Of the Conolly family, Arthur is the most famous. In English literature, they write about him as a "self-made man" - as a person who made himself. He began his career as a young cadet with military service in India at the age of 16. Subsequently, the young Arthur served in the Bengal cavalry under the British East India Company with the rank of captain. According to one of the legends, it was Arthur Conolly who coined the term "Big Games", which described the opposition of the British and Russian Empires in Central Asia. He liked to travel frequently in Asia. At the age of twenty-two, he is already a lieutenant. Arthur used his vacation for research - to study the possibility of a campaign of Russian troops on the Central Asian Khanate. From Moscow he went to the Caucasus, then crossed the Karakum to reach Khiva, but he did not succeed. Nevertheless, in September he was already in Herat (Afghanistan). As a result, he published his book, where he described his journey. It was called "Journey to North India by land from Britain through Russia, Persia and Afghanistan." Curious during his visit to Moscow and following the territory of the Russian Empire, was the surveillance service assigned to him? Probably yes. But it''s hard to say for sure. In the period from 1813 to 1842, in transboundary countries with the Central Asian khanates, as well as the camp of the game, a number of significant events took place that were also associated with the "Big Game" and were directly related to the fate of Arthur Conolly. Why did the Emir of Bukhara, Nasrullo, take such a tough and short-sighted decision? Why did he go to the aggravation of the situation, although in the East it is in relation to those who have a roof is not accepted. And even more so if they were representatives of a powerful empire. Since in the East, everyone understands that inadequate actions may be followed by an asymmetrical response ... This is one of the oddities, the sad story of the magnificent Arthur Conolly. Persia - in 1813 ended one of the clashes with the Russian Empire, begun in 1804. Britain and France were friends with Persia against the Northern Empire. In 1813 (the year of the beginning of the "Big Game"), the Gulustan Peace, unprofitable for Persia, was signed. East Georgia, formerly owned by Persia, as well as part of Azerbaijan, became part of the Russian Empire. Plus in the Caspian to keep the navy. Then, an attempt to return the territories turned into another defeat of Persia and a new peace treaty of Turkmanchai was concluded, ending the war with the Russian Empire of 1826-1888. In addition to the empire, the territories of Eastern Armenia, plus trade preferences, a large indemnity, withdrew, all these actions strengthened the position of the Russian Empire in the Caucasus. Alexander Sergeevich Griboedov * actively participated in the drafting of the agreement ... It was rumored that he was in unfriendly relations with Tsar Nicholas 1. Another tragic victim on the altar of the "Big Game". How many were there? Probably no one thought ... The great empires fought among themselves, but at the same time, they tried to limit the ambitions of the regional empires in their territorial claims. As the saying goes, friendship is friendship and a snuff apart ... Great empires always have their own interests and they are many-sided. The British East India Company in 1813 deprived it of the rights of a trade monopoly with India. Another oddity, the year of the beginning of the "Big Game" ... In 1833, the British East India Company completely closed all its agencies and warehouses. From 1838 to 1842 military clashes between Afghans and the British Empire ... In 1822, the "Corps of Surveyors" of the Russian Empire was created under the roof of the "Military Topographical Depot" for the centralized conduct of cartographic surveys on the territory of the metropolis. The Russian Empire in 1813 liberated Germany from Napoleon. At the end of February 1813, the Kalisz Treaty was signed on an offensive and defensive alliance between Russia and Prussia. Including the secret part (that Prussia will receive full compensation for the Polish lands, which were ceded to Russia in the east at the expense of the North Germanic ones). These peace treaties are always in them, there is something not for public voice acting ... Everything is a strange figure of 1813 ... the time of the beginning of the "Big Game". Maybe just a coincidence, but maybe not. 18 Poor Arthur Conolly 2 Recently I watched one very interesting film about the Silk Road, it''s not European, but eastern. It is remarkable context, which says that to live in peace, without conflict, much better than with them. The trade route connecting various cultures and regions with each other must be protected, cherished and nurtured. Here I remembered the Poor or even the Magnificent Arthur Conolly, the events of the middle - the end of the 19th century, one of the dramatic, tragic episodes of the "Big Game". Historical events that have happened, of course, cannot be reversed. However, if we assume that if at that time, another powerful, strong, economically and militarily developed eastern empire existed, then the political picture of the world would most likely be different. Maybe Arthur Conolly would not have disappeared in the vast deserts of Central Asia ... British intelligence has always been famous for its impeccable preparation, the study of the smallest details of the protocol, etiquette, culture and traditions of the regions of interest, which is well described in the novel "Kim" by R. Kipling. In 1838, Lieutenant Colonel Charles Stoddart arrives in the Emirate of Bukhara, who was to become the ambassador of the British Empire. He was promised to send the necessary papers and while he was waiting for the papers he was studying the situation on the spot in order to understand how to act. In the east, a lot means the first meeting, the first impressions of a person as well as the presence of tact and politeness, compliance with established standards of behavior, etiquette. The lieutenant colonel had a secret mission to convince the Emir of Bukhara that the arrival of the British in Afghanistan is not a threat to his plans and territory, if not to achieve approval, then at least achieve neutrality on this issue. Also to warn the Emir from creating precedents that could serve as a good reason to start conquests with the subsequent colonization of the lands of the emirate by the Russian Empire. Of course, this was his intention to weaken the influence of the Northern metropolis, which by that time had successfully advanced in the East, joining more and more marginal colonies to its territory, taking them away from regional powers and other metropolises. On the one hand, the plans of the British Empire were obvious, to create an outpost in the Central Asian khanates to contain the Russian Empire. Buffer zone between their colonies. At the same time, the doctrine of deterrence was already voiced earlier and the Emir of Bukhara, knew what to expect - namely, the unification of the separated khanates in one state with one ruler. And not the fact that he would be it. This doctrine had its advantages for the British Empire, as it allowed to reduce the risk of intrigue on the part of its rival to the Russian Empire. But from the point of view of Eastern leaders, the idea was very doubtful, as it limited their power and influence. Emir and Khans did not want to participate as stones on the Goban board during one of the "Big Game" parties. But their desire was not destined to come true, probably not enough subtlety, plasticity, flexibility, to skillfully avoid broken noses and successfully slip through the "Force" and "Charybdis". It is very likely that other Western powers were to blame for this failure of the British Empire, who feared strengthening their European neighbor. Charles Stoddart allowed disrespect for traditions and rituals, violated the protocol, for which he paid ... The Great Imperial approach was superfluous. He did not respect the Emir, neglected courtesy, the ambassadors did not behave this way, did not bring gifts and a letter from Queen Victoria, did not come down from his horse, but more on that later in the next part of the story ... In principle, it is surprising that a scout of such a rank did not bring up to date how to communicate in the east, or his pride, courage and willpower took up over prudence? Although the lieutenant colonel was a representative of the Great British Empire, so probably he had a different view of the world, to the east, great-power. For the successful fulfillment of the mission entrusted to him, namely to reduce the influence of another, in those days, extremely successful Great Russian Empire, he had to cool his head. After all, the mission above all else! With an ardent heart, daring plans, a haughty character, a brave heart, Stoddart was the least suited for this important task. Apparently, it was a flaw in Sir John MacNeil, who sent him to the Emirate of Bukhara. Or maybe these were intrigues, who stayed behind the scenes of this "Big Game" ... It''s hard to say. To the east, which, as is well known in every region, has its own unique features, it would be better to send a more cautious, intelligent, subtle, intelligence officer who would be able to beautifully solve matters. Approach from the back door, not the main entrance. Masters of carpet intrigue and able to get along with people of different ranks, half a century before Philip Dormer Stenhop Chesterfield wrote in his famous "Letters to his son." Emir of Bukhara, Nasrullo understood very well that the Northern neighbor, near, trade with him is profitable, and he had good relations with the Russian Empire, despite the fact that the serfs were stolen from the Siberian and Orenburg lines. But individual officials from the Northern metropolis participated in this lucrative business. So that hand was washing the hand. Nothing personal, this is business. About ordinary people no one thought. Therefore, the Emir was not particularly pleased with the arrival of the British agent, without even confirming his status as a messenger. Why anger your great neighbor, such dubious meetings. The British agents only spoke without confirming anything - neither with gifts, nor with an official letter from the Queen, nor with finances, nor with their strength, therefore there was no confidence in their words. So, such a rough puncture, with Lieutenant Colonel Charles Stoddart? Hard to believe! The subsequent events connected with the English intelligence officers in the Central Asian region make it necessary to assume the most diverse versions connected with the "conspiracy theory". Almost all those who were connected with the case of Vitkevich somehow disappeared during the "Great Game". But it will be a little later. Two Great Empires fought for the territory, who managed to eat and eat. By the end of the 1930s, the Russian Empire had a sufficient influence on the khanates of Central Asia, so that the British Empire would understand that it should not be missed by Afghanistan. In 1839, the British invaded the region, and the first aglo-Afghan war began. Before turning to the story itself about the last years of Stoddart and Conolly, I would like to draw the reader''s attention to several other circumstances of the Big Game party. Alexander Burns, captain, intelligence officer of the British Empire. Like many scouts, he was both a researcher and traveler and a scientist. He had his nickname in the environment of intelligence "Bukhara Burns." Another English intelligence officer, Lawrence of Arabia, involuntarily recalled. Probably the British had such a habit, to give nicknames to their colleagues at the place of their main actions. It was related to the famous Scottish poet Robert Burns. From adolescence, was already in the service of the East Indies British company, as was Arthur Conolly. In India, by the way, it is still believed that real aristocrats should know Farsi. Young Alexander knew both Persian and Hindi. Who knows a lot of languages ??that already by default can be considered a scout. Young Burns begins to be interested in the geography of India, collects information about the river system. Painfully reminiscent of the action of Russian travelers - intelligence officers to collect similar data on the Central Asian khanates from the 18th to the 19th century. In 1832, Alexander Burns travels along the Silk Road trade route from India, through the Hindu Kush mountains to the Emirate of Bukhara and Persia. The Silk Road is inevitably connected with the "Big Game", because of its passages, the trade and transport infrastructure, the possibilities to secretly move through the strategic mountain gorges - the gates, etc. During the travels, naturally detailed descriptions of locations were compiled, if this was possible, land mapping was conducted. And as a consequence, the publication of books about travel. 1836 - Burns is already in Afghanistan at Dost Muhammad claimant to the throne. Then he ran into Jan Vitkevich, a Polish by birth, but in the service of the Russian Empire. Small nobleman, that is a nobleman. He was also a researcher and traveler, with an officer''s rank. Homebred scout. Knew - several European languages ??as well as Farsi and Turkic. Accidentally or not, the young Pole ran into the German geographer Alexander Humbolt. In the winter of 1836, Vitkevich in Bukhara, collecting intelligence information, communicating with British influence agents. In the middle of 1836, the adjutant was Alexander Perovskiy, Orenburg Governor. A year later, he was already in Persia and Afghanistan with a diplomatic mission, where he allegedly meets in Kabul with British intelligence officer Henry Rawlinson. In Kabul, Witkiewicz meets Alexander Burns, who appeared to be a British resident in Afghanistan. In the beginning, Burns also wanted the British Empire to support Dost Mohammed Shah, but later the authorities replayed everything in their own way, preferring Shah Shuju ... On May 9, 1839, Jan Vitkevich was found dead in his hotel room in St. Petersburg, and the documents and intelligence materials brought from Afghanistan disappeared. On the occasion of death, there were opposing versions - some claimed that he had been cleared by specialists from British intelligence, others from Russia. Ostensibly, Jan Vitkevich could be a double or even a triple agent of empires. His British counterpart, Alexander Burns, did not survive him much. On November 2, 1841, he was torn to pieces in Kabul. During the uprising ... In 1840 - 1842, the first opium war broke out between the British Empire and the Qing Empire, the signing of the "Nanking Treaty", where the British Empire grabbed a decent jackpot. Therefore, the tragedy, played out in Bukhara with Stoddard and Conolly, was left without attention of the Empire. As well as the first Afghan-British war of 1839-1842, with humiliating losses in 1841 and punitive actions in 1842. Yet the British left Afghanistan, with a financial loss of ¡ê 25 million, a terrific figure for that time. In the "Big Game", a breakthrough was made somewhere, but somewhere there was a loss, some scouts won and received awards, others disappeared in turbulent waves ... Great industrial empires were moving to the Middle East and Asia, the era was for those who had new technologies. The emir came to power thanks to the help of Kushbegi, who came from the same kind of mangit. In 1827, Nasrullah became the ruler of the Emirate of Bukhara. The power changes people, the intrigues of the courtiers, led to the fact that a faithful adviser in 1837, a year before Stoddart''s arrival, was first sent to the periphery, and then put in a dungeon. Kushbegi probably understood that a balanced position should be maintained, skillfully tacking between different empires aspiring to the Turkestan region. Apparently he had access to the Russian Empire and the British. As they say was a system-forming factor. Therefore, it was removed, perhaps not without the help of third forces. The Big Game was in full swing. Charles Stoddart appeared in Bukhara in the early winter of 1838. He arrived from the East Indies British Company, without papers from the Queen, they were promised to send them a little later. Emir of Bukhara was not eager to accept an unknown Englishman, because this could lead to an aggravation of relations with the Russian Empire. Emir Nasrulla understood that the Northern neighbor is close, and the British are far away. Then the envoy, Chalz Stoddart, was left without credentials from the Queen of Britain, without appropriate gifts, not to mention a gross violation of etiquette and protocol. Emir Nasr Ulla Bahadur Khan joyful returned after a successful hunt, and now he meets a strange ingly. According to palace etiquette, the ambassador was supposed to dismount from his horse, but instead he followed the British military protocol, namely, he welcomed Emir Nasrullah while sitting on his horse. Nasrallah was struck by the arrogance of the ambassador and looked at him for a long time, without saying anything, departed for the palace. After this incident, the Emir already had his first impression of Stoddard, but this, the lieutenant colonel seemed small and he continued to make mistakes after mistakes. Arriving at the meeting on the presentation of credentials from the East India British Company, Charles Stoddart, despite the persuasive requests of experts from the Bukhara palace protocol, to follow established traditions, he acted in his own way. Instead of entering the throne room, without weapons, accompanied by two nobles holding hands on both sides of the ambassador, the lieutenant colonel entered alone, and with a weapon. He thought that they were going to make an attempt on his life and that is why he snatched the saber from the scabbard and was ready to repel the alleged attack. The sovereign of Bukhara kept his composure, he made conclusions regarding the personality of the newcomer, his lack of tact, respect, and restraint; the new ambassador has already "lost face". Stoddartu was explained that he was wrong, he had sheathed his sword. The Emir, caustically remarked to him - that he alone wanted to speak out against the entire Emirate. What a brave Briton remarked that he wanted to preserve his honor. Nasrullah waited from Charles Stoddart, the promised confirmation of his powers as ambassador, from the Queen of the Great British Empire, but in vain. Cheaters do not like, and especially at such a high level. The lieutenant colonel never received letters from Britain. Probably some agreements that were previously confirmed, they simply outplayed. It happens with powerful people, they have their own game. That is, within intelligence there were their own groups that competed with each other. And the fate of the scout, even with the rank of lieutenant colonel, few people cared. Emir, irritated by deceit, it is not known who, as it turned out in this situation, Stoddart was a man without the necessary papers, ordered to put a strange alien in the "zindan" - a dungeon like a deep well, 20 feet deep with a grate at the top. With a system of sophisticated torture, hordes of bugs settled in the "zindan", who bit the doomed poor and the body turned into a continuous, large, bleeding wound. Despite his courage and courage, unable to endure the torture, Charles Stoddart changed his faith. Most likely, the Bukharians did not believe him, in the sincerity of his intentions. After some time, Stoddart managed to forward the letter from the dungeon to his employers in India. Probably, there was a British intelligence network in Bukhara, there were its own people both in the Emir''s palace and in the dungeon. The Ost-Indian company quickly (and the transition from India to Bukhara took a month of time with the quickest movement) sent a letter to the Emir, in which he kindly informed the ruler of Bukhara that he would release the unfortunate Englishman and give him due respect. Taking into account the good advice with the contextual threat, Emir Nasrallah released Stoddart from the "zindan" when he adopted a different faith. He sighed with relief, thinking that his misfortunes in Bukhara were over. Some historians have noticed inconsistency in his actions. That for the sake of preserving life - the lieutenant colonel abandoned his faith, but for the sake of salvation did not accept the help of his opponent in the game. Probably the point here is that taking a different faith, the intelligence officer was still trying to accomplish the mission, hoping probably for someone ... Maybe influential people in Bukhara related to British intelligence? Perhaps on the efforts undertaken as he thought by the East Indies Company? But somehow, he had to save a life. So, white travelers often came in to penetrate deep into the closed to infidel territories. Stoddart could have been saved if he had received Russian help from Butenev and Khannykov, they were at that time in 1841 in Bukhara. But the proud Englishman refused such an excellent opportunity to avoid such a painful end. But the honor for the lieutenant colonel was above all and he refused. Probably didn''t want Britain to look defeated in the Big Game if he accepted this offer. Yes, and probably by that time he already knew that his possible trump card, namely Kushbegi, was executed a year ago ... Before this, Stoddart had mixed up several times from prison under house arrest in the house of the chief of police of Bukhara and back into the dungeon, but no longer "zindan" ... scout vyvivayuschego weaknesses and bottlenecks in the emirate. The ruler of Bukhara knew that in the lands closest to him there was a constriction between the two empires, and he understood what this all led to. Colonization or annexation of the territory at best. Maybe under the pretext of help, insidious inglises want to invade the Emirate of Bukhara? On the other hand, the Russian Empire took certain steps and became closer and closer to the borders of its possessions. From the letters that Stoddart still managed to send to India, he wrote to his family, hope still lived in him. He thought that for the sake of his salvation, a punitive expeditionary force would be sent to Bukhara ... When Perovsky''s campaign was planned for Khiva, Emir made attempts to come closer to the British, and when he found out about the inglorious end of the Orenburg Governor''s enterprise, relying on nature as a natural barrier to the new campaign of the Russian Empire, he cooled off on this idea. As an example, Persia was before the eyes, the British, there could not cut down the ambitions of the Russian Empire, moreover, they forbade Persia to expand their lands. Why, to burden yourself with such an unprofitable union. After this, the position of poor Lieutenant Colonel Charles Stoddart naturally changed for the worse. There was no active action to release him, not counting the sluggish current diplomatic negotiations ... In the spring of 1840, Lieutenant Sir Richmond Shakespeare arrived in the Khiva khanate, where he had a conversation with the khan. In the autumn of the same year, the lieutenant was already in Orenburg, then after leaving for St. Petersburg, he went to London. In 1840, Arthur Conolly was sent from Kabul to the Khiva Khanate to collect intelligence information and as a cover for the mission, negotiate with Khan to conclude a possible alliance against the expansion of the influence of the Russian Empire. In particular, Conolly persuaded Khan to stop kidnapping and selling slaves from the Russian Empire in the Khanate markets. After that, he went with the same mission in the autumn of 1841 to the Kokand Khanate. But there he was received very cold. At that time, just in time, the Emir of Bukhara was on the outskirts of the Kokand Khanate, he managed to capture the strategic important fortifications of Ura-Tube, Khodzhent. Together with Dzhizak of Bukhara, this triangle allowed controlling trade and transit caravan routes at once into three oases (Tashkent, Fergana and Zarafshan). If desired, it was possible to block access to three of these oases at once and thereby stop the trade. Not without reason, during the colonization of the Bukhara Emirate, in the area of ??the city of Jizzakh, the tsarist government built a fortification with the saying name "Klyuchevoy". And also Zakhamin went to Bukhara - the same important city, on the Silk Road there opened the way to Kashgar. Apparently, the Kokand Khan reasoned so why an extra headache with this inglizi, let the Emir decide his fate. With cunning and threats, he managed to float Arthur Conolly into Bukhara. In the sources of the Russian Empire, the version presented as follows: in Kokand, Arthur Conolly was also placed in a dungeon and later urged to change his faith in order to be saved. But he refused, starting a subtle theological duel in the course by which the Kokand Khan let him go, recognizing Arthur Conolly''s answer worthy of respect. In the historical works of the British Empire, the version is somewhat different, ostensibly the Kokand Khan, did not imprison Arthur Conolly and discourage him from a trip to the Emirate of Bukhara, saying that Emir Nasrallah is very insidious. It is curious that the historical literature of the times of both the Russian and the British Empires represents the image of Emir Nasrullah as a backward, bloodthirsty, almost super villain. But if we imagine a similar situation, for example, with the envoy of Bukhara to the capital of a certain metropolis. If he were like Stoddart, he arrived without credentials from the Emir, but only with letters from some merchant guild. I would violate the palace protocol, did not bring gifts, would snatch out a saber with the crowned persons - the King or the Queen. I do not think that such a messenger would not have appeared in the "Tower" or the prison of the royal "Secret Office". How such a poor thing would be addressed, another question. If at the same time, he would still be engaged in collecting intelligence information. I would like to know the representatives of the metropolis, and that this messenger is hiding and the means of inquiry would be applied to him, probably more modern than at that time in Bukhara. The Emir was still waiting for a whole year and two months ... The situation with the mission of Stoddart and Conolly looks dark, not for nothing many researchers mention this. Only everyone has different guesses. One of the possible options for development could probably be associated with a mole inside British intelligence, who worked for one of the European empires or powers that were not interested in expanding the British Empire. Even the brother of Charles Stoddart was amazed at the fact that they sent such a die-hard and honest person, and not a plastic and cunning one. Why didn''t they immediately give the necessary documents confirming the ambassador''s status? Why not explain the subtleties of etiquette, traditions. Stoddart knew the east, Persia and Afghanistan, but the east is different everywhere. Why did he break the palace protocol, insulted the ruler? Why, already knowing that Charles Stoddart had stepped on the "rake," Arthur Conlli was not given the letter requested by the Emir from the Queen? They just sent him to the slaughter ... Strange, because British intelligence has always been famous for its fine elaboration of all the bottlenecks in the regions of their interests. Then such a puncture? Unclear¡­ No less interesting events in 1841 are visited in Khiva by captain Nikiforov, in the same year the expedition of K.F. Buteneva and N. Hannykova. In 1842, colonel of the Russian Empire GI was sent to Khiva. Danilevsky. There is a close exchange of embassies from the Khiva khanate and Bukhara in the Russian Empire. Although some literary sources say that in 1841, Lieutenant Colonel Charles Stoddart allegedly received permission from Emir Nasrullah to leave Bukhara and already wanted to go to Europe through the Russian Empire with the trade caravan ... But the arrival of Arthur Conolly decided the matter differently. How true is this information? It is difficult to say that the available literature does not confirm this. Probably this is also some assumptions or conjectures. Arthur Conolly was friends with Charles Stoddart, so he received a kind invitation from the Emir of Bukhara, decided to help out an old friend, relying on his mind, logic, convincing arguments in his opinion. Upon arrival in Bukhara in October (in the sources of the Russian Empire) - November (in the sources of the British Empire) in 1841, the Emir politely asked Conolly if he brought the requested letter from the Queen of the Great British Empire. Apparently, the letter should contain information confirming the status of the ambassador in the person of Charles Stoddart. And the Emir perceived a new English guest, as the messenger who would bring such a guarantee. But to his great surprise, Arthur Conolly did not have such a letter ... The ruler of the Bukhara Emirate was furious with such an attitude towards himself, the lord of the world, as he believed. His urgent request was ignored ... And the time was hectic, Britain showed its activity in the Qing Empire, Afghanistan, made strange gestures towards the Khiva and Kokand khanates. The Russian Empire undertook campaigns on Khiva, moving closer and closer to the borders of Bukhara. Naturally, this caused certain fears, even more likely a threat; countries were overrun by spies. Here the counterintelligence service needed to keep an eye on it. Since it would be difficult to resist the two empires at once. Emir did not want to fall under the hand, to be as a pawn and not a player on the geopolitical "Gobane". In view of these reasons, and perhaps also the "unobtrusive" advice from the trade and diplomatic missions of the Russian Empire, about the undesirability of contacts with foreign representatives, Nasrulla considered the most sensible decision to send Arthur Conolly to the dungeon.Then who knows what he could have done, come to an agreement with local influential people ... There was no one to consult on the difficult topic of Emir of Bukhara, since, by that time, he had already cleared Kushbegi, fearing his actions. Those who advised him could easily work for the intelligence of third countries, and did not want to look too clever, the fate of Kushbegi was in sight. In the dungeon, two friends met. What did they think at that moment? It''s hard to imagine, but they still had hope of salvation. With the change of position during the first Afghan-British War, the situation with the two British also deteriorated. They were not allowed to change their underwear, after they were again transferred from the dungeon to a "zindan" (underground prison) filled with bedbugs, stale air, blows to the heels, etc. So they expected their salvation, but their hopes melted away every day. In the meantime, diplomatic efforts were used to save them, letters were written on behalf of the ambassadors of Porta, Emir Khiva asked for the release of the British, the governor-general of India and even the British Queen, but time was lost. Although it is strange why the Emir did not heed the requests of such influential persons! Probably it was not without interests of third forces, empires ... Or maybe it was that in this way, the Emir raised its self-esteem, they asked me, but I would not give them freedom or liberation under such pressure from world powers, would show Bukhara weakness? Who knows? It is possible that all the factors came together and the fate of the two Englishmen was already decided. Expeditions, scientific research, diplomatic missions of the two empires, were perceived, on the alert, as a hidden attempt of possible annexation of the lands. With far-reaching plans ... At the beginning of the 19th century, the Russian Empire wanted to use the territory of the Great Zhus and the Central Asian khanates, as a springboard for moving to Afghanistan and probably to India. This would be the realization of the geostatistical concept of individual political circles of the metropolis ¡ª the natural state borders of the Russian Empire from the oceans to the oceans. From the Arctic to the Indian and from the Pacific to the Atlantic. Then the idea of ??acquiring the necessary straits would have disappeared by itself. At the same time, the British Empire considered the region of interests namely the Central Asian Khanate, apparently, first as a sanitary cordon, then as a buffer zone, then, rejecting this idea, wanted to use it as its springboard. But already in the seizure of the Russian possessions, namely the Volga region, the Caucasus and possibly Siberia, in order to control the transportation of goods along the Silk Road. Naturally, such an alignment would immediately make these two empires super super empires in the world. Other metropolises zealously monitored the preservation of the balance of power and, to the best of their abilities, stopped ambitious plans for world domination. As a result of this activity, it is possible, both of them, for the empires to fail to fully translate their plans into practice. Each got its own piece - the regions of their interests. The fate of British intelligence as well, and the Central Asian khanates at that very time, was actually decided. Charles Stoddart and Arthur Conolly had time less than one and a half hundred days and the khanates were still a couple of decades old ... Perhaps if the story could be reversed, if Nasrulla knew how it would end, he could change the story. However, this is fantastic ... 19 Poor Arthur Conolly 3 After the winter disaster of 1842 by the British troops in Afghanistan, the fate of Stoddart and Conolly was almost decided. The Emir could no longer fear the expeditionary punitive corps from the British Empire. It is curious that in 1842 Emir of Bukhara managed to temporarily seize Kokand and clean out the Khan with his family, later the city was beaten off and all subsequent attempts to seize the Khanate were unsuccessful from Emir Nasrullah. In the same 1842, the British made a punitive expedition to Kabul. Apparently, Stoddardt passed and deliberately, and it is difficult to assume that such a sophisticated Sir John McNeil in the Big Game would have made such an unfortunate mistake by sending the wrong person to an important mission. Emir Nasrullo had a well-developed spy network in transborder states. Therefore, he knew that a British officer, Arthur Conolly, had backstage talks with two Central Asian khans. Having an idea of ??the strategic doctrine of the presence in the regions of interest of the British Empire, the ruler of the emirate, understood that the next step would be an attempt to create a single country from the two khanates and its emirate. Who will be the ruler, Kokand or Khiva Khan? Since, Conolly first visited them, which was definitely worrisome and fully justified. Nasrullo knowing also that there are forces in the Bukhara Emirate from among influential nobles and clans who maintained ties with British intelligence. If the Englishman Stoddart were disregarded, this could lead to sad consequences for him. Then Conolly was spinning around its borders. The lieutenant colonel, being in such unbearable conditions, still managed to write, to send news of his fate both to the East India British Company and to his relatives. Someone passed it. During a search in the "zindan", Charles Stoddart was found a pencil and several pieces of paper. Despite the executions, who did not bring him the accessories. They lasted for several days. Emir was worried about a possible rebellion, and therefore accused two British diplomats of espionage and ordered them to be beheaded. According to various sources, the execution took place on June 17 or 24, 1842 in the city of Bukhara in front of the Arka gate. Closer to dinner, two ragged people were brought to the square, with sores on their bodies, grown hair and long beards with lice, with their hands tied. Before their eyes were dug graves. Two Englishmen put on their knees. According to separate sources, before the execution, Stoddart was allegedly cut off his feet, and after that they cut off his head with a knife, other authors say that they cut off his head with a sword. Stoddart finally cried out about the cruelty of the Emir of Bukhara.Arthur Conollys head was cut off. Other authors argue that Stoddart was stabbed to death in a dungeon at night, along with Arthur Conolly.,, In Britain, the fate of the two scouts learned belatedly. A wave of indignation passed, demanding to punish those responsible for the tragedy. Conduct a series of active events against the Bukhara Emirate. However, the interests of the empire were already in other regions, the party in "IGo" was lost. The stones were removed from the board and showed no interest in them. In 1845, a missionary and probably a British intelligence agent J. Wolf conducted a study on the fate of his countrymen, and then published a book in two parts. 20 Poor Arthur Conolly - Conclusion What are the results of the confrontation in the first half of the two great empires? The Russian Empire was able to gain, if not trust, an understanding of its interests among the Central Asian khanates, which were based either on the fear of a possible military expansion or on economic benefits. Put pressure on Persia, Afghanistan. The British Empire partially secured its Indian colonies, strengthened its influence in the Qing Empire, and influenced the policy of Persia. Failure befell them in Afghanistan and the Central Asian khanates. Her prestige in the Turkestan region was severely damaged. Turkestan region for both great empires was a tasty morsel. Both from the point of view of control of transit and trade routes connecting three continents, and the creation of new routes for the sale of their goods. The development of industry needed new markets. As well as the Turkestan region, having an extremely important geostrategic and geo-economic situation, could serve as a good outpost as well as a springboard for the subsequent development of the colonization of new lands. The Russian Empire planned to seize after the colonization of the Turkestan region, Afghanistan and probably India. Depo Maps military topographers persistently collected data, tied them to the terrain, and plotted new, topographic maps of Afghanistan and parts of North India. And, as is known with the history of the colonization of the Central Asian khanates, when cartographers are taken to study new territories, it smells like kerosene, for those whose territories are mapped. The British Empire wanted to seize - Siberia, the Caucasus, the Volga region, and they also made maps ... The Central Asian khanates were located between two millstones. They had a hard time tacking between them. In many ways, their position depended on the regional political context and not least in peace within their khanates, the creation of a system of containment of forces and balances, both within the region and in the influential clans in their possessions. In view of this, it was necessary to have an effective secret police and counterintelligence, as the empires, as well as other poles of power, actively intervened in politics and economics. However, the feudal era and being in the center of the continent played a cruel joke with these eastern khanates. World empires have already passed into a new era ¡ª industrial capitalism. Having an archaic mentality, the Khanates were unable to modernize their countries, the management system, upgrade the army, introduce new technologies in time and in the shortest possible time. How this was done in feudal Japan, which was able to go over to capitalism in the Meiji era and upgrade the entire system, including the army. In the end, this led to the victory of the Japanese empire over the Russian in the new century. Perhaps the fact is that modernization could be carried out by those countries where there was an imperial spirit. The regional powers, instead of pursuing a policy of friendship with cross-border countries, establishing mutually beneficial political and economic contacts, were engaged in attempts to annex neighboring territories. All this is clearly not conducive to progress, undermined the economic situation, weakened the Khanate. The empires, adhering to the old method - "divide and conquer", played on the contradictions and weaknesses of these seemingly so close, but in fact distant from each other states. Supporting one khanate, against others, in the end, they, the empires achieved their goal. The game of shadows, that is, illegal immigrants, intelligence agents, agents of influence, has been going on for decades. The empires, using unlimited resources, could easily bribe and recruit the right people in all regions of their interests. Introduce their agents into various state structures and control their work. The native police was aware, but sometimes could not do anything. The initiative and then was punishable. Scouts of all stripes had their cover as doctors, travelers, scientists, merchants, sales representatives. They collected information about languages, culture, traditions, ritual, economy, population, trade routes, passes, ferries, mountain passes, etc. The British did not abandon their idea of ??penetrating into Central Asia. Despite the terrible death of British intelligence, after six years, secret talks were held between Emir Nasrullah and the British mission on the conclusion of a new union. Then there was the defeat of the Russian Empire in the Crimean War of 1853-1856, the strengthening of British influence in the Turkestan region, the revenues of the Russian Empire in the conquest of the Central Asian khanates. But more about that later, in the possible continuation. Arthur Conolly and Charles Stoddart were far from being the first and not the last victims of this game. A "Classic Big Game" lasted until 1907, when the two great empires agreed to divide all the borders of their new colonies... After the tragic events with the magnificent Arthur Conolly, the millstones of the "Big Game" continued their unhurried pace, grinding the history into pieces - the fate of people, intelligence agents, and entire countries. The time of acquisition of new land-colonies, empires. At the same time, the colonies were different, some overseas, others marginal. But to those and other empires was carried out, in general, a unified policy of separation of the inhabitants of the metropolis and the natives or aliens, who differed in their status. Forts, railways, ports were built in the new colonies, flotillas were created, schools and hospitals were built. Updated infrastructure, logistics. Paved roads, post office, telegraph appeared. That is, the signs of civilization. New territories were dragged behind the ears to a new social level of development, over the decades, centuries-old frontiers were overcome. From the Middle Ages or feudalism immediately into capitalism. Bypassing the evolutionary path of development, where the transition from one value system to another requires at least a hundred, another. New technologies, methods, formats, investments allowed to change the world. Naturally, such investments were needed to strengthen their presence in the new colony, the operational redeployment of military units. Including for the protection of their territories from a potential adversary, that is, other regional powers and even great empires. As well as the export of natural resources. In the historical sources of the 19th century, two empires - British and Russian officials, scientists, military topographers, military orientalists write directly about the economic development of new colonies, express their attitude to the natives. They talk about future development and what needs to be done for this. Due to the rapid growth of the economy of the new territories, many mistakes were made both in land reclamation and unsystematic cutting down of forest plantations, shooting endemic animals. As a result, over 50-100 years, some species of animals and birds have completely disappeared, some agricultural lands became useless, most of the territories remained without forest and shrub cover. In particular, the structure of the sown area has changed. So much so that the new colonies could no longer independently satisfy domestic demand for certain types of agricultural products. That is, they lost the opportunity to provide themselves with the most basic foodstuffs. The markets for products changed their direction and reoriented from foreign transborder states and empires to the metropolis that conquered them. It is appropriate to note that the dependence on empires was different. Some territories had the status of vassal possessions, after a series of military campaigns were conducted against them, the purpose of which was to force some form of cooperation with the empires. For example, the opening of ports for foreign ships, goods or the seizure of part of the territory with mineral deposits. Something like that. After such campaigns, the vassal territories lost the opportunity to maintain independent diplomatic relations with other countries, the border and customs points were replaced with imperial ones, the national currency disappeared. Over time, part of the territory of the vassal possessions could be transferred to the possessions of another empire. Other lands voluntarily joined the empires in the hope of obtaining protection from other regional powers. Other territories were long-time colonies of third empires or regional powers, with a loss in armed clashes, these lands were left to the winning side. There were also independent states that were simply colonized by military invasion. Not to mention the new lands, where there was no stable statehood. So, in 1850, the two Great Empires competed in their striving to acquire the greatest possible influence on the world. The territories of their overseas and marginal colonies grew. Every three to four years the number of colonies steadily increased. Naturally, this prompted the empire to oppose. ... The influence of the Russian Empire spread in the East - after the lost wars, the loss of territories, many states, in one way or another, were influenced by the Great Northern Metropolis. The Russian Empire slowly but surely absorbed the transborder khanates, realizing the voiced doctrine of the presence in the regions of interests - the borders of the empire should be from ocean to ocean. Persia supported the Russian Empire during the Russian-Turkish war in the late 70s of the 19th century. The Persian Shah Nasser ad-Din Shah Qajar asked the government of the Russian Empire to create a "Persian Cossack Brigade", where instructors and officers with the commander were citizens of the Russian Empire. In the mid-eighties of the nineteenth century, cavalry was replenished with artillery and infantry brigades. This unit performed various security functions, including the head of state. And thus showed the whole world who really stands behind Persia! Not the British Empire and not France, but the Russian Empire. This influence continued until 1916 - 1920 ...interestingly, the army was paid for in Persia in 1917 with silver obtained from the remelting of Bukhara shadows ... The story was simple, after a seven-year interruption, as a result of repeated petitions On the eleventh of May, one thousand nine hundred and one, an imperial decree followed, allowing the emir to mint out of his silver twenty-five million shadows and transfer them, as well as twenty million tenge in the Emir''s treasury to the State Bank nk of the Russian Empire. Three years after that, the chasing of the Bukhara tenge was completely stopped. Gradually, Bukhara coins were withdrawn from circulation at the rate of one tenga - fifteen kopecks and sent to the smelter at the St. Petersburg Mint. After fixing the teng course, a large number of fifteen-pound coins would facilitate trading and settlement. Although in the domestic circulation of Russia in the period of the First World War there is no exchange silver, the St. Petersburg Mint continues to issue a billon coin represented by three denominations [ten, fifteen and twenty kopecks]. When changing political formats - as was the case with the collapse of the Russian Empire, the old military alliances, bases, were not necessary. With the loss of funding, previous agreements were lost ... Now, in 1921, the Persian Cossack brigade or division by that time was no longer disbanded. In Persia, the influence of the British Empire increased. If the 19th century was behind the Russian Empire and its strong influence on the Middle Eastern and Central Asian countries, then the beginning of the 20th century, as well as the expansion of influence in these regions, passed to the British Empire. The world has changed ... - STORY AND BIG GAME- Historical events tend to repeat. Some unresolved or unspoken cases appear again, but in a new context. In historical science, many "white spots", especially when they are somehow connected with the "big game." The meeting place of various ideologies, interests, worldview. These spots are enough in the history of the late Middle Ages, feudalism, and subsequent eras. Some facts are voiced in public literature, but they prefer not to notice, in view of certain preferences. Other information is in the nature of assumptions or hypotheses, like data is enough, like and analysis of them indicates exactly such a decision. However, this is not a fact not confirmed by diverse documentary sources, which means that information processing and, therefore, the conclusion may well be erroneous. Not to mention the deliberate distortion of history. There have been cases in history when certain individuals reached something extremely interesting, quintessence, and ... their arrival on a third planet from the Sun was interrupted. After all, they wondered what could happen to them. One of these strange cases was the departure of Yan Viktorovich Vitkevich, he knew too much and double and triple agents have always been abound. After he left, all interested parties made various assumptions and voiced the options they needed. What actually happened was just another white spot, which guesses are building after a hundred and seventy-five years. Meetings in the east as well as names are never random. Poor Vitkevich did not know this or did not attach any importance to it. The merchants with whom he spoke in search of information appear to have very successfully shared their observations on the high-sounding gold coin with British scouts. For the umpteenth time, the empire, right under the very nose and fiefdom of the British so to speak, deftly fingered the scouts of this empire. Alas, it all came down to an empty air shake, the political dividends of the future turned out to be less than maintaining parity of the forces of the present. The cumbersome management of the empire once again, missed the initiative. This was repeated in the subsequent, at the beginning of the new century, the achievements of the genius commander, were not fully embodied. The history of the "big game" is very interesting and full of amazing surprises, even the events of two hundred years ago are still full of secrets ... Instead of an epilogue - in search of a portrait of Jan Vitkevich, I came across it, not in a turban but in uniform and with epaulets. True it is not clear or not. The Internet in search of data verified, the source is extremely unreliable. Foreign authors believe that Vitkevich worked for the British, for which he paid. In general, the dark story. You can build hypotheses and guesses forever. Once again it is clear that the authors from different countries, differently evaluate those or other historical figures. The truth is somewhere far away, not everyone, it is destined to be seen, and even fewer to share information. So that historians and researchers, so far remains to build only assumptions. 21 5 stages Merchants had an interest in convenient and hidden caravan routes. They examined them and made new maps. These cards are highly appreciated! For them they paid not so much gold, how many new opportunities and the powerful people of the world shared their insider information. It was possible to smuggle along secret routes, carry out secret military operations. The merchants also made maps showing water sources, rivers, lakes, hot springs, mines and mining sites for gold, copper, lead, iron, salt, diamonds, turquoise, garnets, amethysts, rock crystal, sapphires, rubies, emeralds, topaz, onyx, jade. There were maps and places of nomads with their borders of the nomads, who was their chief and from what clans. There were maps of the distribution of fur animals with their habits and methods of trapping. The first maps on which merchants applied information that have come down to our days are the 2nd century BC, the Chinese ambassador Zhang Jiang. He traveled from China to Davan. In the first - second centuries it is a map of the Greeks, the Persians. In the 10th century, there were already Arab maps, where the orientation of the map was not along the north as in modern maps but along the south. Then the Italians took over this style from them and, until the 17th and 18th centuries, the maps sometimes had a south orientation. At the very beginning, merchants collected data on new territories, through conversations with merchants, fishermen, brigands, warriors, wandering monks. These cards helped to determine the value of a new uncharted territory for trade. Than the earth is rich, are there new methods of metal processing? In those days, those who had swords were stronger, he won, like other military ammunition. Also to find out what nations live, what they produce, what they eat, what their culture, traditions, language features are. Who is the main clan or kind, what they need, what are their enemies. All this was a good opportunity to start negotiations. What are the mountain passes, from where and where, how much customs duties are taken, what taxes, how strong is the army, is there any secret police, etc. And already on the basis of this information, decisions were made to trade or go to war. Starting from the 10th century, the merchants began to indicate the location of cities and villages on the maps, what characteristics they possess, the history of settlements, provided reference points for linking information to the map. The data were transmitted both orally and in the form of chronicles, according to stories of wandering singers, monks, travelers. After five centuries, the first information about rivers, mountains of their directions, descriptions of climate, soil, vegetation, wildlife, agriculture, and the number of people in countries and cities began to appear on maps. The cards were already wearing a more modern look ¡ª a view of the drawings. tarting from the 18th century, the maps received their spatial reference - the degree network, the refinement of the terrain, rivers, lakes, wells, water sources, the replenishment of maps with information. Large countries are intensively engaged in the mapping of their neighbors as well as new lands. At that time there was such a proverb, if a large state began to make a map of your principality, then your principality did not have long to be independent. The 19th century is characterized by the refinement of maps of nature, the binding of maps on a network of astronomical sites, the systematization of diverse information in a cartographic form. The main goal of nature research in this period, it seems to me, was the reclamation of transboundary lands in order to identify mineral deposits and the possibility of developing agricultural lands, and the effects of snow cover in the mountains on soil fertility of the nearby lands were studied. 22 Is he a mad scientist or is he lucky? Farshid was a scientist, a bibliophile, well, in that century, such people were valued for sharp mind, encyclopedic knowledge. Now it replaces the "iPhone", provided that the Internet does not hang like an autumn leaf in the wind. Our scientist was also stubborn, thought that only he was able to find the light in a dark room. Rummaged in book dealers, archives looking for something. Dug in old maps and found ... I learned where there is a treasure! He went to make a report! I wrote ... and went to dig myself. In those days, the bowels of the Earth did not belong to the people but to a specific bay. So he went to him, showed the cards, the manuscripts, and they agreed to divide the treasure by 40 by 60! Quite fair. Bai gave him time 10 years! A mad scientist Farshid, plunged into the wilds of the pampas, no, of course not the pampas, but simply began to burst into the old mines and mines. There was a new century in the courtyard, events taking place in Europe did not interest him. With varying success, his investigations were carried out, in the Apple Gorge, in the White Mountain, Farshid, a little - if he had not collapsed, he got off with a knee injury. But I found a diamond tube, though the stones were small. In the middle of the century, they would fit in as industrial diamonds, but then, they were of no value! In the ravine of the gorge "Seven Waters", it was filled up twice with the ground, but he could get out! Littered five kg of gold. In the village "Winter Fortress" in the old ruins of a caravanserai, I found a treasure of gold, silver coins and jewelry, precious stones. Small such a jug, earthen ... While Farshid was digging in the mines of the White Mountain in search of diamonds, he washed gold on the Seven Waters and searched for turquoise in the Sheep Mountains. Months, years, decade passed. The world did not stand still ... it was degraded or, on the contrary, developed. Whack and revolution, one, then the other, the Tsar abdicated the throne, left and then completely ... sorry for the poor fellow. Cousin did not save, although he was kin. Buy fled not be a fool. Immediately after the first, February. But the frenzied Farshid, everything was digging in the ground and disappeared in the mines, where local activists tied him up, after another 15 years, overgrown as a wood goblin or a mountain man. With frenetic eyes that burned with the feverish fire of an adventurer. A pile of gold nuggets, jugs with silver coins, fragments of turquoise, small diamonds were found in the mine, but there were no decorations. Everything naturally nationalized. Farshid, brought to the area ... sat down for a month, checked him, who is he, not from the bourgeois class? Do not grandee? No, it turned out to be the most simple, peasant roots, from the plow. Scientists learned himself. Well, he was released on leave to his native village ... Of course, he was followed. He went to the book in the city and leaked ... No matter how much they looked for, they could not find. But the entrance and exit was one ?! Who would know that the second-hand bookseller had a secret passage and an underground tunnel of the 12th century, for three hundred meters, that went to the Tartar Canal. He didn''t want him to go to the wall, but simply to see how he would behave, then they wanted to use him to help geologists look for the riches of the earth, and he was stupid, picked up and gave a tear. He knew the secret trail secret paths, mountain passes, and so and escaped, reptile. Did not find him. Only in the 50th year in London, one Mr. Farshid Tartarsky published a work in three volumes about the treasures and the method of their search in the mountains and valleys of the glorious Big An. Then the activists learned that Farshid had become a successful trader, apparently he was able to find wealth in India according to his method. But it was only known that he was a great-nephew to a certain, inconspicuous merchant Mergen and nephew of the artisan Batyr. These are the stories were in the last century yet. 23 Stories from Baraz As the candy merchant Baraz used to say, the world does not stand still; it changes, sometimes not for the best. Not only socially and culturally, but also ecologically. The environment is transformed, mutations of organisms occur, new types of viruses and infections appear. The quality of life is deteriorating. Due to air pollution, water, food, etc. The man himself, too, has changed, now he does not ride horses on the steppe, does not walk tens of kilometers around the city, does not wave an ax in the forest, does not stand behind a plow. Progress. Almost everything was automated. People in general began to spend less energy, to spend less energy. They began to eat more. But again, more in terms of calories and not a balanced diet. That is, traditional food, no longer fully ensures health and safety. Previously, people could save on food, in favor of paying for a communal flat, buying clothes, shoes, gadgets, medicines. Now it goes sideways. When only carbohydrates and fats are consumed in the diet, with a small amount of protein and lack of vitamins and trace elements, "good" cholesterol leads inevitably to the loss of some vitamins, such as A and the consequence of anemia, vitamin D and problems with the lungs and bronchi , "K" and "Ca" problems with joints and tendons, etc. As a result, people start to get sick more often. Here it is necessary to take care of yourself in the first place, it will not be possible to save on food. Since medications for treatment and other medical procedures are much more expensive. It''s worth it? It would be good if the methods and recommendations were developed or have already been developed, how can and should we eat in modern, modified environmental conditions? Perhaps it would be worthwhile to introduce new complex dishes for a balanced diet. Well, somehow, thought inspired by the reading of the news, says Baraz. I suppose that he does not know much, they have missed some aspects of healthy eating, but the topic is interesting to discuss. In my not professional opinion. Somehow Baraz caught a cold, working in the wholesale market is not easy, especially in winter. Doors now and then open, the goods are brought, taken away, drafts. The case is simple, to stand up in one day, if the cold is easy. The main thing is not to start the disease. Then I remembered the tea with which I regaled in a distant mountain village, my grandfather Farshid. Tea was made from mint and crystalline sugar. We have such traditional sugar, some spices are added to it, and it is boiled on grape juice. In modern stores, there is already no such sugar, it is crystalline but cooked on regular sugar, although it also helps, but not so quickly and efficiently. However, it is this sugar that has some healing properties, for example, it strengthens with diarrhea. Black tea with navvat helps well or boiling water infused with this sugar with mint or basil, promotes profuse sweating, which is good for colds. Of course, a truly environmentally friendly product could be used instead. For example, amber sugar. But its production is very laborious and most likely 1 kg of such sugar will cost as much as 2-3 kg of good cheese. Here it is, it was just and widely used in traditional medicine. But in the realities of modern life, so far, too, I have never seen it in the markets or in specialized shops of oriental sweets. At hand was the usual crystal sugar and basil, after drinking it, a slight cold passed me. It should be remembered that each person is unique, has its own contraindications, and apply these or other healing properties of products, only after the "approval" of a qualified attending physician. ... One summer came to stay. Charged to monitor the garden. Pumpkin, watermelons, tomatoes, cucumbers and yellow-red flowers of Cardobenedict (Cnicus benedictus). An amazing plant, a substitute for Persian saffron, although how to replace it? Nevertheless, it is also very useful, it is also called Imereti saffron. But here is a collection of his labor-intensive matter, Ba told me not to cut the flowers and pull out the stamens, there were only two square meters of Cardobenedict. It is planted seedlings. After harvesting, the stamens must be decomposed and then dried and only then used as a spice. Ba added to the pilaf and stewed vegetables. The taste is interesting, and so is the color. Much later I learned that this plant also uses leaves for seasoning, they seem to have a lemon flavor. ... I visited relatives in Small An, they were treated to a delicious dish, it was for tourists. But I got a little bit. Expensive it seems to come from the steppe people, others say it from the Mongols. One way or another, they prepare it with us. They say another five hundred years - seven hundred years ago, this food, was prepared only by noble nobles, The camel''s meat is fresh, a sheep is put into it, the inside is fresh and a pheasant is put into it, a pigeon is put into it, and a quail is put into it. Inside the quail lay an egg. A fire was made on the other side, and a pit was dug under it, the fire was removed. The camel is suspended above a pit filled with coals and is covered with coniferous tree branches on top, then a rug or sheep skin is laid, and the ground is covered or stones are placed on top. Prepared within 20 hours. Depending on the rank, everyone got this or that meat. The servants ate stewed camel meat, the guards of the palace ¡ª the ram, the grandees of the palace ¡ª the pheasant, the ministers ¡ª the pigeon, the main minister got the quail. And the king himself drank, quail broth, which was placed in a bowl and ate a quail egg. Previously, rich people for medical purposes ate sparrow soup. A dozen sparrows were feathers cleaned, gutted, salted and left for 10-15 minutes. After the carcass, the sparrows were dipped in cold water and cooked for 1 hour over low heat. Spices were added to the broth. Cooked to separate the meat from the bones, removed the bones. Finely chopped green onions were put into large bowls or braids, the broth was poured. Added a spoon of baked fat tail oil. In Asia, especially the mountaineers and steppe men, they like to add melted, animal fat to all dishes, whether it be dessert or soup or tea. Cooked - broth from quail. The cooking method was different from the passerine in that the gutted carcasses were put in a pot when it was just boiling. And then put the vegetables. Cooked to soften the game. Before the end of cooking, chopped greens were added. Many traditional dishes that were prepared in our city in the middle of the 20th century, says Baraz, are now difficult to meet in the 21st century. So for example, I haven''t seen in the city for a long time - rice soup with dried cherries, - corn cobs soup, - jam sandwiches soup, - corncobs cooked in milk, - flour soup with milk and rice. There are no more simple soups: - dried curd soup, - sour cream soup, with corn and pumpkin. Now many tourists prefer to cook themselves, passing, workshops on cooking traditional food. Others prefer to eat, unusual dishes, photograph them, discuss the texture, taste, aroma, aftertaste of food, its serving and decor. Develop new types of culinary tourism. True, with desserts, we are rather weak with only a few kinds of halvah, sweets, dried fruit and greetings. There are also various beliefs from tomatoes, watermelon peels, grapes, carrots, figs, quinces, rose petals for example. Here earlier in the yards in the old town, right in front of the house, trees grew, 6 meters high. While the fruits were slightly greenish, they were tasty, slightly sour. And as they ripened, turned brown, soft, the structure of the fetus changed and looked like cotton. The fruit itself was sweet, tart, astringent. Usually, this fruit was used in traditional medicine to normalize the work of the heart and reduce blood pressure. The name of the tree is "Zizi; the essence of this; tuschy" or colloquially "Chinese date". The leaves of this tree have an anesthetic effect. The fruits themselves are used to reduce the effect of the disease with the FLU, ARVI. Treat bronchi and insomnia. Koreans love to decorate their desserts with them. The Chinese use fruits, seeds, bark, leaves in their traditional medicine. Well, for me, they are good yet have not become very soft. Interestingly in the principality of Shi at the end of the 18th century, they ate three times a day. In the morning, at 12 o''clock and in the evening. Bread ate every day. There were two categories of food, for every day and festive. Food, for every day -------------------------- - liquid rice cereal soup with milk - liquid soup of fine rice cereal, mixed with sour milk - flour liquid foods like jelly, mixed with milk, butter or lard - Wheat noodles with milk - type of sauce; made from mashed cottage cheese mixed with bacon or butter, bread was dipped into it. Festive - special dishes: ------------------------------------- - dumplings with lamb meat with onions - rice porridge, with lamb, raisins, onions, peppers and carrots; It is prepared mainly on fat tail, and at its high cost in oil ¨Cshashlik made from pieces of lamb meat sprinkled with pepper and salt and roasted on skewers - patties with lamb meat and onions, fried in lard - wheat pancakes - wheat dough, pre-boiled in boiling water, and then finely chopped, like noodles, and mixed with boiled, finely chopped meat mixed with carrots, onions, salt and pepper - soup with lamb or beef, rice, onions, salt, pepper and carrots - pea soup with beef or lamb, with the usual seasoning. Cooked in the evening and is used the very next day, because otherwise the peas would not be boiled ¨C sauce made from water and oil, fried with onions; it crumbles small pieces of tortillas and eats - whole lamb steamed in a preheated pit - scalded liquid wheat porridge, like jelly, used with lard or sour milk. Ah, it would be nice to open such a restaurant and feed tourists. But I am old, said Baraz. so far only on dream. Baraz also composes verses, though he doesn''t really succeed in it, well, at least as: Spicy spirit of Ethiopian foothills In every grain like oil Bottled ... steaming coffee. And you know, in it mint and pepper! In the pepper, the sun and the smells of India, It is warm as a gift for the fall, But a mint is fragrant, you see, She just asks herself in her arms ... This is mint from streams of sonorous mountain, What touched your flower sky And holding the stones by the root, I wanted to be like that too ... Here''s a little bit tart to the touch, He connected in himself many facets ... And autumn again shines with tastes. And you pour a cup too? And a bit of ginger jam Full of happiness ... It is dissolved in the spirit of coffee Fleeting these bad weather. In this case, of course, coffee is not a healthy way of eating. But you can drink a little inula, says Baraz himself. And so he likes to drink Chinese jasmine tea or oolong more. I love just boiling water, a student from Sichuan, said that boiling water is even tastier than tea. 24 Barazs stories about various things and poems Baraz said that his grandmother used to do delicious treats in the city before. In particular, he talked about a certain dessert with the strange name " Yutangza". Shirin Yutangza - sweet steam dumplings. Interestingly, 1 kg of flour accounted for 500 grams of powdered sugar, 200 grams of fat cream 50 percent (and you rarely see this now), 30 grams of yeast and 2 cups of water! Probably, then the time was after the war, people wanted to eat, so the food was very vivid. This then began to appear books about healthy and delicious food. But I noticed for myself that every new decade - the ideas of healthy eating from the doctors changed! If they had started looking at Persian or Chinese food from a samog, they would not have had to wrestle with themselves, choosing or discarding what is true and what is not true. Their food, initially correct, healthy, balanced, healing. Why reinvent the wheel, again and again, when he, the bike, has long been invented. But their cooking, for thousands of years, reliably, proven practice! ... You know, I''m a professional trader. He graduated from a merchant school, then he studied at a vocational technical school for 2 years. He worked first as a salesman, they put me in the most penny position, as a bread seller. There is not much to do. After two years, they were transferred to a pastry shop, although there is delicious, but you can''t do much either. Gold mine was selling juices and water. 3 liter jars of tomato paste were brought to us, and here it was possible to dilute it with water, it was not like instoction 1 to 3, but it was possible to completely beat 1 to 5 and no one would have noticed. But sometimes they brought peach juice or apricot with pulp, the juice was expensive, for one glass for 1 dollar, and here we could dilute it with 1 to 7. The profit was good. After the service, I went to the police ... but retired, I remembered the trade again. He worked in the wholesale market; he took 20 tons of fruit each day, one third of them were rotten. Did sorting. I had three stores. In the general business, it is interesting to engage, if not interfere. Then old age made itself felt, arthrosis began. Not to interest already, health is more important. You remember this for ages! Health can not be bought, and if you do it, it will take a lot of money and not everyone has them. Yes, and good doctors left us, remained mediocre. So you have to be treated by self. By the way, after the arthrosis, I began to write poetry, it seems to be quite good, it turns out to be fun, but look: That autumn ends And the snow is showered Squirrel on the branches Swinging thoughtfully Hawk is called! In my opinion, there with the syllables is not that, rather it is ruby! But a couple of lines, poetry is very cool! What are you not writing? I am not a poet, rather a prose writer ... but my content is higher than the form. But real writers, not authors, but writers, are those who also masterly own the form, control people, play on their emotions, make them laugh or cry, resent or have fun. Well, we are far from them. But, our writing, medicine for us, and this is great! At the same time, we are far from "their excellencies" - GRUPHERS! They must write 20,000 words a day! This is unbearable! I can barely write 5,000 words in one day, in the other barely 2,000 words, in the third and 500 it is difficult, and sometimes there are no thoughts at all and I cannot write. Sometimes as a wave rolls, you put music on YouTube Andy Lau and it is written beautifully, even 7000 words a day! So to write every day, every day, 20,000 words, alas ... which means I''m not a graphomaniac, not their excellency. Can you, Baraz, write 20,000 words a day? NOT! I''m not a robot! Then you still remember about the three laws of robotics Azek Azimov? I like poems, I like to write myself, look for example: Light is the last to go Sun paint golden Reddish and shiny How to fascinate eyes - wait Do not run and do not hide Beyond the cherished trait Do not disappear come back Show off before me Marvelous light distant clouds And blazing foliage The genuine delight What do you bring by yourself. or for example this: A piece of sky See, here''s a piece of sky Dying day The symbol, his last light, The sign, the last line ... Sonnet Day Completion - As a result and as an epiphany Light clear depth Sounds in the shower string ... Childhood Pure Consciousness Come back to us again And hope and love, Rejecting wise knowledge The void of ridiculous dogmas And the formality is a lie. - *** - West quietly burning out - Wipe the smoke Purple soars Over the run - that''s the time Noble clear night Oh fit, happy eyes - See a smooth transition The light of the day in that host of beauty What is the night sky? Fabulous beauty What hides everything by itself - Besides the pale stars of light The warmth of your love And the shining of the moon ... You, here you can, something to brag about? Eh. Dara? Well, what to boast. Somehow on the fifth couple at the university, I wrote poems about students, about the session: Days of lazy succession Young fun And a student at the window Witty laurels Retreat and ring Like a string with a strain Slogan we tear granite All Sciences Session, Session at the threshold Sweet laziness say sorry Oh luck don''t be cruel Student''s memory do not fail Wonderful time for exams A feeling brings the mind sleepy I did not know something but now forever I will remember it forever The fact that the lecture missed I do not understand the outline of rolling But now your spirit has enlightened. And the Holy Session taught I even wish time had passed Exams somehow we all passed We didn''t sleep at nights But for that luck, we suffered a lot So let the tin cups rumble In which beer wasted its time And answers spurs like forget-me-nots Garland will decorate you man. Sea - blue sea boundless How do I want to be with you Watch as the wind slips carelessly. On the waves of your dark foam of the sea As the waves roll on the coast And crashing on the noisy surf Gentle jets of foam Feel your foot barefoot The sea is violent and serene I would like a fresh drink of your breeze See the vastness of your vastness At least from a distance even one eye The combinations of colors are so wonderful Dark waves over the abyss of the sea Lined with snow white foam What the wind pulls, taking with it And the sky above them is bottomless Spinning decorated with radiant clouds It will look out because of them the sleepy sun And decorate the foam with radiance of bubbles And the waves stretch to the horizon Where the firmament will merge with the sky The expanse of the two elements illuminated by the sun Eye enchanting, bringing peace Let all these visions, but they are amazing And though I do not bring waves to spray foamy surf The image of the sea is so amazing Will always be with me. So you can write like me? Dara! Feel the moment! Well, it came to me from this early: The idea of ??writing this verse came while waiting for his colleague around the old institute founded in 1871. In the park of which two or three century oaks and other mighty trees grew, a concrete aryk flowed a meter deep, with slightly turbid water, the sun penetrated through the foliage to the arychnaya water, which was reflected from the water in various fancy glares. The water came from near the canal, which is why small fish frolicked in the aryk. Then a big bumblebee flew in, fumbled a little near the water and flew away. The colleague was somewhat late, so there was enough time to see this picture of everyday life in the urban ecological niche system. --- The jet now muddy runs in the aryk, to her The trees bowed, before the deadline Dropping leaves gold from branches That swim a little bit - under the water Dive rushing out of sight, rather Flowing muddy carried away whirlwinds Amid the unsteady shadows going deep And the shadow of the sun of those rays Fry in which will blithely Muddy waters illuminating the darkness Scales sparkle in the light ... Oh if it would go on like this forever! Near the dam, muddy jet there It murmurs where the waterfall is in silence ... Look, flashed like silver Splashing waves beautifully rowed like ran Fish zhivshilas mosquito The light of the sun on the waves of those trembled In the muddy depths of her glimpse I saw with curiosity Among the lazily sinking foliage The waters of the sun lit the depths. But once - trembled on the water Small ripples, and I hear a buzz And what is this wonderful creation? That bumblebee, he flew all in a fuss Voditsy solar to drink Dust wash your darlings ... A crown golden poplar Twinkle like mysteriously nice Caresses the wind so gentle foliage Whispering her something about his slurred Among the interlacing of branches Autumn gold their land of yellow And I''m glad here she is all and the bumblebee Voditsa that ispiv took off in the hops And I ... and haste to anything Here at the aryk I go for a long time Believe it right how good it is The mind brightens, clearly I judge The world is so beautiful without bad people And the hustle and bustle of empty bad ideas. Yes, Dara, you are definitely a prose writer, you do not have the subtleties of a poet in you! Clouds sailed slowly. Over the turquoise sky Remembering summer Dara, who do you like poets like? Lee Bo! He is undoubtedly a talent! Especially this: "I am looking at a waterfall in the mountains of Lushan" For gray smoke in the distance The sunset is burning I look at the mountain ranges, At the falls. It flies from cloud heights Through the mountain forest - And it seems: the Milky Way Fell from heaven. It''s a pity I don''t know Chinese ... in translation, that subtlety and idea of ??the author is lost, but thanks also to the translator, he seems to be the second author, a new work based on the first original author. I think so, IMHO! Well ... of course it''s a genius! But he composed his own story about tigers: in search of truth.... At that time, when the wolf was a guard, a sparrow informer, a fox clerk, there lived one traveler. Wandered through the mountains and valleys, looking for the truth of life, the truth. Once he came across an amazing mountain valley. Only the righteous lived there, those who knew the path of enlightenment. So read the inscription in front of the entrance to this magical place. The population is all on the selection of wise men, with noble faces and bright eyes, the speeches are weighed and full of hidden meaning. Gait smooth, do not go, but as if floating on the ground. The traveler was delighted that he had finally found the truth! Yes, and remained with the permission of the enlightened to live with them. Mind and mind to recruit, enlighten. A year has passed, the second, third, now and the fifth at the end. The traveler brightened his face, was emaciated, carrying out various orders of the righteous, to whom he would put firewood, to whom he would warm the water, to heat the hut. The great doctrine, knowledge of the world, the essence of things and being was hidden in the work. Once, a follower of a path to an old building wandered in and found an old book there - a story about a truth seeker who found a magical mountain valley with the righteous ... The book seemed quite fascinating, but there was a feeling that he had already read it somewhere. Or are all the stories similar to each other? He did not believe in the veracity of the book, but in the subconscious the information was deposited. Well, it can not be that the enlightened wise men are in fact - age-old tigers, werewolves. Fairy tales for naive simpletons! He, who read the "pocket Oracle", "life experiences", "letters to the sons of the great sages," who knew the secrets of the hidden control of consciousness and the special foundations of psychology, nothing at all. On the fly, he will be able to determine where the falsehood is and where the truth is. He learned a lot, once the old man descended from a cloud and invited him to the heavenly palaces. The elder noticed the traveler''s zeal in comprehending the truth, that is, his efficiency in the household ... Another year has passed. The traveler more and more often found himself thinking that the story that was described in the book for some reason begins to coincide with his life in this place. Once in a sleepy, soft, sweet slumber, the traveler came to the spring of knowledge. There was a fog, in the gazebo near the source there was hardly any vague shadows. Suddenly, under his feet, he felt something. Has come. Once again. There was a feeling that it was some kind of rope. It is curious what makes the rope near the source? There was a terrible roar, then a few more. A gust of wind blew away the fog. The source was enlightened old men, some of them, however, their faces were distorted by anger ... Strange! Something bristled behind their light robes ... Oooh, those were tiger tails !!! The elders noticed the traveler, their eyes sparkled with fire, rage, there was a loud bang, and then he woke up. In the morning the traveler discovered that he was lying in the desert at the bottom of a parched well. Two days later, he was found by caravan, and near the well there were tiger tracks. Last year, the traveler did not understand whether it was a dream, inspired by prolonged dehydration or it was a reality. It seemed to the traveler that he was always followed by someone, sometimes around the house in the morning he would find traces of tigers, but where would they come from in a crowded city? Tigers do not like when they are attacked by tails and the memory on their faces is good. Salvation from the tiger is only a good roof, for example, the guys from the shield and sword guild, where the traveler somehow inadvertently ended up. Probably the whole point of kinship, his great-grandfather was one of this guild. This is the world that seeks enlightenment and truth, where it does not exist - in the tigers'' den, itself finds itself in the cold. And the truth is very simple, you don''t need to look for it, it''s close by, just reach out: help a friend, feed the hungry, remove a branch from the road. That is to be a man and not seek friendship with tigers. Probably something like that. How do you like it? Dara! Powerfully written! Philosophy, East !!! 25 Barazs stories about different things 2 Somehow Baraz asked the question - Is the conversation a poll or a hidden meaning? It is very, very difficult to talk with a specialist who is especially knowledgeable of the subtleties of human psychology, the soul, who is able to covertly control consciousness, to direct the object of study in the right direction. They are guys from the committee, they think very differently. As one of the examples cited in the article "Sly Question" . It seems to be a simple answer. But no, with a tuck. Although, of course, from the point of view of science, it is controversial. Since the second answer is rather a hypothesis, there are different geographical schools that interpret it differently. A man in the street immediately thinks of a simple answer. A specialist asks a question such as to probe a person, to understand how he thinks. The question even requires its answer at all, how much it determines whether the object of research can see cross-border but hidden from the usual view interconnections. Probably, this is done in order to determine whether a person is able to guess the mood, thoughts of his immediate superiors. Here a few require scientific analysis, how much operational thinking, the ability to put separate and seemingly seemingly different fragments into a single map or picture. The answer is not typical, rather leads to the opposite result, than the "examinee" thinks about him. Since very smart or rather even "smart-line" comrades in this work are needed, but not as analysts. Since - the requirements are completely different. Namely, you need a person with an uncluttered mind, that is, without knowledge of special technologies for searching, collecting, processing and analyzing information. "Clean sheet", it is preferable. Too wise, and even having an "operational mind" does not fit the very fine work. After all, then, at the slightest understanding that the situation smells like kerosene, such an employee will begin to ask a written order so that he will not be subsequently drained like ballast. The "white sheet" will take the initiative, try and in the end, it is quite suitable for the role of the sacrificial animal in the worst case, and at best will be the "cat''s paw" collecting hot chestnuts. Conversation is a test, with an attempt at mental suppression of consciousness. And here the questions are rather necessary not only for obtaining specific information, but also interesting from the point of view of what reaction to them follows. In the end, who follows the rules, turns out to be the loser. But in the "tricky question" story, the wrong answer from the point of view of a specialist is still the right one from the point of view of evaluating a potential employee. Naive fools who know how to analyze large amounts of information have always been valued. Their minds lie only in one plane, they can solve the research tasks set, with the backwardness of the "operational mind". At the same time, the "operational mind" requires good intuition, statistics of similar cases, some key information. The history of science, on the one hand, is simple, but on the other, very complicated ... And here the researcher should remember the "tricky question." Sometimes it is better to stop in time so as not to deviate from authenticity and move into the field of artistic fiction and following very interesting, but still hypotheses. Secrets, "white spots", riddles - in fact, long ago were unraveled, studied, investigated and even published. Here is the truth, only not everyone has access level to them. The separate ones are forgotten and not replicable. Therefore, it seems to me that many researchers are rediscovering already open, but observable data. Nevertheless, it is always useful, develops thinking and allows the world to see from different angles. But I remembered the old story, our professor in history told us - "Sign or an enlightened soul?" In the night there was a shout - "Shoo, Shoo!" Then, the question is - the gate was closed on the bolt? Checked out? From the night there was a voice - the owner, everything was checked and closed. At the gate hangs charm, a house under the constant supervision of the guys from the guild "shield and sword." No one will pass! Did you have a dream? Not now, the answer came, at night you can''t tell dreams! Two workers went around the estate again. Everything in its place. Set down by the fireplace ... There was an incomprehensible noise. Send him, turn on the light, but did not find anything. Fear crept into the heart of one of the workers. Early in the morning, someone knocked on the gate three times, opened it, and there was no one there. They went into the kitchen, and there in the evening lay a whole heap of bread, all of a sudden, they saw it, bitten. Workers thought, maybe someone wound up in the house? Rat or brownie what? It is necessary, probably, to conduct a purification ceremony, and for this, the house should be smoked with dry, special grass, expelling the powers of darkness, so that it reaches every corner. The workers cleaned the house, laid out the goods in the store, watered the yard, sat down to rest in the upper room. Suddenly, there was a terrible roar - all night, the serfs did not sleep, or what? In the doorway is sleepy and angry, the owner, says what it smells like? No, your-yours, they slept, a little, so they cleaned up the house, laid out the goods, sat down to translate a little, the workers answered. And it smells like special grass, banishing the forces of darkness! Well, well, stepping heavily, the owner remarked and left to fill his bedchamber. Steps rang out around the house, the owner decided to come back, washed himself, with a heavy look he looked at his workers and said, he had a very interesting dream, but a terrible dream. But there is a sign of such a dream that dreamed at night to tell only in the morning, so that it would not come true. Workers nodded their heads, we know, we know. You can still buy a dream ... I dreamed that I couldn''t close the gate at all, but I couldn''t open it either, and then someone was standing and not saying who? I told him - Kysh, Kysh! And he is worth the infection! So I wanted to open the door, but tap it! The workers asked - the owner, in the kitchen, a loaf bitten off, and before that strange sounds were heard, as if someone was jumping from a rat to a rat. So we thought it might be someone from your dream, a brownie or some kind of rat? The owner, smiling, remarked, this is not a rat and not a brownie, it was me who broke off a piece in the morning. To which the second worker remarked, to himself, who has an enlightened soul, who thanks for all that he has, not to dwell on someone else''s good, the evil who has a clear conscience does not sleep well. By the way, I wrote another verse, listen to me, Dara! You, the beauty who has known life, Dizzy from looking at a flower, Be careful, free scribe, Each flower has its own time. You love these leaves, In them you see the plan of heaven, Go carefully, do not fall, Do you remember, still about the goal? And you will respond to a smile Warm barely noticeable eyes, She could be your daughter You would write a fairy tale for her. That did not work out, there are reasons ... A sad one sees a deeper eye, As usual a good mine Do not end our conversation. Freedom of the heart from the lie of the word, Hands on the web ...! Not becoming part of the deal, Tell me where are you taking the steps? You do not want to share the severity Hardly anyone on the shoulder ... In the war of internecine principalities You want a better country ... Go ... let your step be easy And fast, accurate hand, Breathe a little deeper air into the lungs, And on the run shout - "hurray!" Uh, not a poet, I say, I think it turned out well! Here you would be better, Baraz in cooking, something written or about the garden! We would then place it in an online store! 26 Barazs stories about various things and poems 2 I have composed such verses, how is Dara? As long as your cup is full, drink and give to others. (Persian saying). Saddled the horse fierce, Black clouds dispersed ... So a hero appeared before us, He spoke in a clear voice Light came from his eyes, A scarlet cloak wailing in the wind ... The hero said that soon people will be simple To live - do not grudge, eat black caviar Golden spoons. There will be plenty of food and drink Entertainment ... All will judge, all will reconcile By law ... he''s a genius. He promised the people - all in a coat, Yes, not just, but gold, Only you need patience and work Until the fall of some year, And what ... he did not say. Everyone was waiting for autumn, another one too ... Yes, and forgotten, the gift is gone. Golden rain with frock coats, caviar ... Still happened, but over one hut. The cunning little fellow was a magician - Once or twice and ... ready as in a fairy tale: That hut filled with expensive belongings. The hero only closed his eyes ... But somehow the hero announced What did he find the threats of the century ... The people came to their senses and forgave everything But the hero did nothing Said, you all know Now take care of yourself ... But he promised that prices would not rise, That the rich will help the poor very much, New places for hard workers will appear everywhere. Prices suddenly in the markets began to grow like mushrooms, The rich are rich, and the poor become poor ... The people shouted: oh hero, where are you! Help me, even copper has disappeared in my pockets ... But the hero did not hear the call of the people: Old places for hard workers are an unnecessary crutch, Wait for the new, throw away the eyes, - So he said to all ... and his trace caught a cold. People have a lot of money, prices are high, And the heralds are stately and clear-eyed. Every day they say so zealously: How all is well and beautiful! Glorify the hero - the dragon of the conqueror, A liar sitting on the porch, ate caviar In a gold coat, as if for the viewer, Surprised, happily watched ... and suddenly His scarlet cloak turned black. In general, as always, well-intentioned The road is paved ... by fire. and here''s another one: An old magician lived in the land of the wise men The wizard of strict rules. He wanted to instill them To all the people, the feudal lords, their servants, So that everything will be in the order instituted by him. And people sang songs, drank wine, ate, had fun, They suffered, they chose their way, Suffered adversity, the tests were, The kingdom of the ruins was raised. A little joy fell out, but that was enough for them ... And the wizard suddenly decided to teach everyone to reason, According to his will to live, that the rules were more important, To the treasury was complete ... He did not think about people, only about how to fill the treasury, So that the magicians could live a lot, be kings. Sages disliked, because, where science is, there is no place for magic, Which of the pockets of the people pulls coppers. A couple of runes tracing, sprinkling red blood of innocents ... The sacrifice was brought on a pagan altar, The mind faded, darkness swallowed the heart Against each other went. In an instant, the common house became a stranger, Brothers for a century have become worse enemies Enlightened allowed under the knife. ..... Bloody stone was held in the hands of the magician, He thought now that he would rule the world But the stone was not simple, he took away the energy of the spirit And now the wizard is on his deathbed. I flew in a golden chariot White light hero He raised his palm Yes hit the damned villain on the head. He let out his hated spirit The people rejoice and cheer The old wizard swears He gives glory to the hero of light to the winner! A wise voice announced: Let there be no more repetition When the magician was able to mess things up The kingdom, the people of the world to start! Here I thought about the "window of festivity" ... what do you think, Baraz, what do you say ... - Has the world changed or just changed the scenery? - Feudalism was replaced by capitalism. Socialism as the highest form is lower capitalism. - There is still social feudalism and focal capitalism! - Well, it happens, and the market economy. - True, boutiques stand for years on the most expensive streets, and they are empty, but at the same time, they are always in good shape. - Although, seemingly logically, such shops should be ruined - how to pay high rents, if money is not received? - They thrive! - Strange! - Aah, this is a regular cut. - Then the question arises, is this a market economy? - The answer to the question is no, he is one of those foolish ones, for which they hit the cap along with his head. - I have another question about the history, the sequence of events ... are they related to ideology or are they independent? - The narration of history turns where the wind of ideology is blowing, but you did not know that history is a weather vane? Here is the answer to your next stupid question! - A proverb is known since old times - do not stick out of the trench, it will kill you! - Wanted to get to the lists? - I already in them ... - Well, so will bring from the last to the first! - So what! - Moron! - The scenery has changed, you say? - It''s not me, this is what events are talking about. - Oh, goats all the cabbage in the garden was greased. - Oh, it was Petro who let them through the river. I did not want him to give the cabbage for salting, so he got angry. - What did you give it to him now? - Of course, also carrots, zucchini, dill, garlic. Plus three hundred rubles in addition! - What about you? - Well, what am I ?! Did not stay offended! He took his own from the summer residents, dispersed them, and then he taught the mind. And learning is light, that is, paid is meant. Now, Peter will have enough, and his goats, and I, before the discovery of that most notorious third eye! - Gardeners are not angry? - Me on them ... well, you understand! - Ahaha! But, there is such a delicate moment, the alarm clock is ticking, the time has not been chosen successfully, it''s a landmark! "These signs point to old monuments." - Who pays attention to the old! - Spit! "But don''t you care about the third forces ?!" Why step on the rake of history and create problems out of the blue! - Uh, now it''s not up to it, what to think about opportunities, you don''t have to waste time, make money until the alarm clock rang! - Oh, oh, you''re wrong. Caution above all! It''s like walking on thin ice! - Aah, blow over! - I have a roof, you know what? - Yes I know! But time is changing! - It will never change, you hear! - Similarly, many others said so! And the blow did not come from where they thought, but from the back, not from the face. - These assholes are afraid not to go to the forest! Nothing will get lost! - Do not argue, will be lost, however, remember what it was all over last time and another! - I do not like history, and all the more notations! I am the world, I am the truth! - Wow! Well, you''re a friend, give! It is good to remember the history of those, in order not to allow the predecessors to fail, to be ready for such situations! - Everything is grasped by me, who will twitch once more, regret it! "But you can''t foresee everything ?!" - Why create stress! - Aah, leave me alone! - I do not think so far ahead! Give, catch your breath, Peter will help later! - Peter something ... - All shut up! - Subconscious, wryly grinning, gone. That monstrous window leaflet soon opened ... Pane of happiness One seer, a genius of thought, but, as is known from the Eastern Dane, these comrades are not of this world, they are the creatures of light and fire. Therefore, it means that they know that ordinary people do not know. Here the genius predicted that at the en-ny moment of time, at en-ny hour, not the third eye will open, but the window of the universe and a stream of happiness will rush through it, a real nirvana for orphaned and needy, forgotten and not. Well, some were waiting for her, others doubted, and still others were entering into the jim-jams ... because, like in one fairy tale, the alarm clock beat off its crocodile in its stomach. Forecasters are such gentlemen, a lot of what they say, they say, the trend will come, the comet will zhahnet and that''s it ... or in thirty years new technologies will develop so much that nobody will need hydrocarbons and then just Khan! But they also do not forget about the end of the world, as the new century begins, and the new visionaries promise a speedy end. But right there they predicted the good, the new, the development and nirvana, and not the transformation and adherence to the "dialectical way": first, combine everything small into large, and then divide all large into small. No, they expected a miracle! As long as the court deal ... time went by, the alarm clock ticked, which created a certain jim-jams for those who did not believe, but still were afraid of something. In order not to think about the possible future capitalists, gentlemen, modern millionaires began to quickly withdraw funds, transfer them to foreign currency and send unknown or simply not announced by their big brother to offshore companies. Big money is never superfluous, there is still time, the more of them, the better. And then later it will be impossible to make them out of thin air. this is a miracle! In the wall of a huge building, tightly bricked up with bricks, there appeared ... no, not the third eye, but the very ... long-awaited. The window of the universe. As the prediction said, it had to be open only for a tiny moment of history. Therefore, it was necessary to quickly get to it, then it will pour from it like from a horn of plenty, a great truth, enlightenment, change of formats ... and then, for sure, there will be universal happiness, if not to everyone, so to those for whom it opens. But the genius kept silent about this. Miracle! Real magic! Shaking hands stretch their hands to open ... the window of the new formats, hoping to change their present and future. But disappointment, the seer, could not predict that a simple window leaf is not as simple as everyone else thought! Now it is open !!! The light rushed into it, the tremendous stream of the universe began to flow into the huge house and ... ... there was a crash, noise, then something collapsed. Clouds of dust rose, and then ... silence, terrifying silence. ... I can wrap up Dara more abruptly, look, Baraz said: Farshid was finally able to escape from the dusty city to visit his distant relatives, to the village, to rest. The countryside is a pacifying effect on the soul, in the morning the mooing of cows and the clang of iron buckets were heard, the hubbub of the village, the roar of a tractor ¡ª well! It was possible to do nothing and sleep all day long, walk to the river in the evening, bathe, fish the fish, put the bow on the ear into the fire, and sit on the bank with an interesting book and read while waiting for the preparing dish. In a rush of fees, Farshid forgot to take reading from the city, fortunately on his shelf, his sister Firuzekh had some kind of scientific opus. In the early 90s of the last century, many scholars who had reached print shops were able to publish their research and thoughts. Some were interesting, others just ridiculous and could not withstand any scientific criticism, but just to read in the fresh air. One of the books was called "the great buffer zone or how great nations sought the truth." ... Sometimes great nations like to walk in a circle in search of either the golden fleece, or something so tasty and healthy, and some just try to find the truth where there is none. Everyone has their own motives and aspirations. Most of the great ethnic groups for some reason preferred to go from east to west for the sun, but here one great nation turned out of nowhere to the east. Many scientists broke their heads and spears in scientific battles, but no one was able to fully explain to himself and to each other why this happened ... ... Some researchers suggested that the journey of one great nation to a country of darkness, and not after the sun, was explained as a planned expedition to create a barrage zone on the outskirts of the Continent from nomads from the east. All ambitious and ... objectionable people, who are not very sorry, were sent to the expedition. Having promoted gold mountains to one, all sorts of titles to others, and spreading third on patriotic themes, they set off on one way ... After in the land of darkness a new empire was created, but its status was not real, but so fictitious. It was actually a buffer zone between the departed expedition the size of a whole people and nomads from the east. The main unofficial leitmotif of the new empire was readiness to serve the interests of third countries to the detriment of the interests of its own people. The priority of intensive development over structural. The priority of the seizure of territories over their development. So, it was occupied (colonized) more than this people could master. Although it could be, if not for the control system. For the political system of the empire was inherent fear of the development of its own people and its strengthening in the new lands, the controllability of the population of the metropolis was of higher priority. As a result, the empire''s original lands were emptied. The task of the buffer is to keep a large territory and control its development. To create on it a regime of economic favor for cartridge countries, to ensure their access to resources and to restrict in every possible way the penetration of other countries. Do not allow in their own and captured territories neither economic, nor intellectual and spiritual development beyond what is necessary to fulfill current economic or geopolitical tasks. In addition, the buffer served as a cheap force for resolving military confrontations in favor of cartridge states. It was necessary to pay only to a group of key lobbyists-manipulators. At the same time, relations with the cartridge countries were not immutable. From time to time cartridges changed. The concept of statehood and its character remained unchanged. Formed management tradition has been self-renewed. The worst thing is that there were already objective reasons for this. It''s like drugs. At first they prick because of stupidity, from the lack of thrills, and then without them they can no longer. A rigid control system is possible over a relatively small nation. Each leader can effectively manage a limited number of people due to the limitations of his memory. Therefore, a hierarchy of managers is introduced. But the effectiveness of such a hierarchy is limited by the length of the management chains, the model of the damaged phone works. In addition, the length and inaccessibility of the territory further complicates communication. By the way, here the authors referred to a certain scientific work of foreign experts called "the curse of ice", describing the adverse effect of vast sparsely populated and inaccessible lands on the development of a buffer empire. ... Farshid thought, why not touch upon the question of the curse of sand and stone, and for that matter, the curse of the buffer in general? ... The only way to effectively manage a large population over a long area is developed self-government with minimal vertical intervention. The integrity of such a system, in addition to linguistic community, must be ensured by all understandable and accepted ideas. The only possibility is the unconditional recognition of the dignity of the person and the right to realize it in free labor and creativity. This is the only way to overcome the dominance of crime and corruption. ... With this statement of the authors of the book, Farshid fully agreed. ... But according to the same authors, this is the scarecrow of strategists in the buffer zone. Why then are they needed? Such a nation cannot be driven to an unnecessary war, it will be difficult to lease it ... By the way, at the stages of confrontation with former patrons, strategists of the buffer zone still used the unifying idea, but each time they distorted it for their own needs in a totalitarian style, replacing its essence with emasculated formulations, be it religious, national or social idea. In fact, instead of dignity and trust united only nonsense, fear and its opposite - aggression, buffer pride, skillfully directed in the right direction. ... Fatigue affected, Farshid wanted to sleep, but he could not tear himself away from this book. He skimmed through the pages, skipping unnecessary details, trying to grasp the essence, struggling with the rolling fatigue ... The guys from the buffer zone are imposed the role of heroes and martyrs who are obsessed with pride. As a result, they turned out to be less adapted to survive in their own state as compared to other minorities that do not harbor illusions about the nature of relations in the state of residence. Shadow, and sometimes official ideologues interpreted this fact in a favorable light to them, shifting responsibility for the situation to foreigners. At the same time, the system needed both to solve its problems. And mutual distrust and hostility between foreigners and the main buffer ethnic group was an important element of the control of those and others, an excellent argument for resolving issues of power. But the most important element of control was the humiliation of the dignity of a person to destroy his ability to soberly think in a skillfully maintained atmosphere of mass psychosis. Despite the differences in official status and real situation, a certain common denominator of the attitude of the management system to all groups of population was traced - to use them for their needs one way or another, and then subject them to repression in one form or another. The system was based on a contradiction - on the one hand, it had to uncover the abilities of people to build up their potential in order to raise prices for their services, on the other hand, she was terribly afraid of these people who believed in themselves, and closely followed their fate ... This is confirmed by the cyclical nature of the history of the new empire. In this cyclical development, there were two stages. The stage of serving interests of the cartridges and the stage of confrontation with them (big game). The cyclical development was determined by the connection between these goals. The service of interests stage allowed to receive new technologies of cartridges and create conditions for the stage of opposition. The confrontation stage was used by the elite of the new empire as an opportunity to fill the price with their services. In fairness it should be noted that the selfless actions of the people of the empire to curb aggressive regimes in different historical epochs in general have played a positive role in the development of a democratic model of society in the head empire (ancestor). The official ideologists of the buffer zone and adjoining them used this fact in every way exaggerating the moral duty of the ancient leading empire in front of its buffer. The task of such speculation is to divert the attention of its own population from the responsibility of its own elite for the role that they imposed on the new buffer zone. The tragedy of the situation was that all attempts to get rid of dependence were still directed towards serving the interests of third countries. For the worldview of most of society was subordinated to this goal in its very depth by the idea of ??totalitarianism. It was like in aikido - you can use the power of a large and formidable, but clumsy opponent against him, because the real strength is in the adequacy and speed of reaction ... The situation in the world, and the world itself has changed and, not least because of the role played by the buffer zone. Over the centuries, she has seen how in her oscillating territory one virtual empire replaced another, one ideological landscape replaced another, but the essence has always remained the same. But it seems that now the idea of ??great buffering has gone through itself. In the era of globalism, the unprecedented progress of science and technology, the revolution in information sharing, supported by a system that encourages human thinking and creativity, gives developed countries more effective levers of influence on world politics than playing with a buffer zone. More precisely, with its managers who are snickering and fixating on their "original" ideas. But the post of the buffer elite still continued to play these games with a price stamped for its favor to the old or already new patrons from other parts of the world. However, in the market of political technologies, this service rapidly lost its appeal as the specific policy of the buffer zone led to more catastrophes, a reduction in the population, the degradation of its production and creative forces, and the management system. Even new partners rather viewed the buffer as their zone of influence and future settlement, since they had no problems with the demographic resources. And this means that these games are more likely to be conducted with the population of the buffer zone than with the world powers. The stability of the succession of failures in the buffer zone has long led to a control system by means of nominees. This explains the fact that the governors are almost completely specific ... Or a robber from distant mountains, or his own board and not at all distant, or an old man at death or young and too active, or a complete layman or too narrow a specialist ... and a strange thing during the life of such a ruler was always right, and then it turned out that it was he who was to blame for all the troubles, and everyone else was under hypnosis and could not do anything, even protest. Following the change of ruler, history textbooks also changed, sensible historians and philosophers who witnessed the cyclical nature of development and revealed the secret of the damnation of the buffer, disappeared somewhere ... ... Here Farshid unwittingly remembered a song popular in his youth: The giraffe is big, he knows better ... So who really provides the continuity of this management style, the parrot? Some group of inconspicuous gray experts, for whom there are no unsolvable problems, but not bureaucratic solutions are ready ... But it may be that the king is completely naked, and there are no secret puppeteers, just the monstrous inertia of the established control system reproduces itself, in the old Soviet bike about three envelopes in the safe. So thought Farshid. Having read, he did not notice how the mosquitoes bitten him, completely brutalized in the gentle rays of the setting sun. The fire under the pot long gone out. A cool breeze strolled along the river and tried in vain to rekindle the dead coals. Scratching bite spots and pouring local moonshine into a glass, Farshid thought, and the men wrote nothing, there are a couple of curious thoughts. Having exhaled, he drained his glass in one gulp, sniffing a bunch of meadow grasses, Farshid said loudly and clearly, as if there was someone in the oncoming twilight of the deserted coast who wanted to hear it: did not hesitate to interpret the facts in order to substantiate their conjectures. " Exactly, it is, - exclaimed Farshid, throwing the scribe under the iron with an under-prepared ear and hastily making a fire, Firouzeh would not notice anyway ... Well, you are my friend Baraz bent ... less need to drink juniper tea ... it''s some kind of wild glitches you went ... Lie, lie, do not lie like that ... Eh, but now I will say with my impromptu: If you cannot find a solution to the problem, Just take it and hack it on your nose: Western psycho-technologies do not work here in the east ... We used to have yassa, and after the guild law, Clan abilities, and after the rules of social dormitory: Do not be rude, do not rob your neighbor Do not spit in the well, from which you have to get drunk, Get the branch out of the way, feed the hungry, help the wretched, Do not suffer offenses if you eat and drink yourself, share with others ... And then on the day of the end of the world you will not have to fear that you will fall off the bridge, Which is thinner than hair ... Do not have to worry that someone will hang on you offense And because the entrance will be closed on the other shore, Where in light green gardens one could not be afraid of a change of fate, And few of people could enjoy the dark green ... But who thinks of another world? When status in the neighbor means everything, And humanism is only considered the weakness of fools, Prostakov, who cannot live, sages-beggars! If you are so smart, then why are you so poor? Heard from the windows of black limousines, Only rustling on asphalt rhetorical questions ... Enlightened spirit in antiquity said: If everyone is rich under the sky, it''s embarrassing to be poor If everyone is poor under the sky, it''s embarrassing to be rich ... How poor is a man - is he so generous? How rich a man is, is he so greedy? The answer lies in the heart and soul of everyone ... It is his choice to be generous in heart and soul. Or to acquire wealth with an envious hand, Rob ordinary people, share the human take. Sing songs and dance in ibiza And appearing to the people, radiantly smile Questions about pay raises ... ... To promise sweet cakes, stability, work, flowers, And then gobble it all up, leave without hope And, in addition, say: idlers are not the place with us! Hedonists road: enjoy taking away ... Motivation is very simple The poor have no place in the world of numbers. Work, work, heads do not raise, but there is no money, Prices are rising, quietly timidly, but surely And the salary on the spot quietly stands and smokes on the sidelines, sometimes a little tobacco is thrown ... Yes, a little of it ... the whole smoke goes away In the stomach is mute ... We need to work better ... heard: ... And even more screaming! Right to download! Do not take it into your head, naive fool, step on the tail of a tiger by chance. Desperately get a counter strike, from which you will not immediately recover ... ... The world becomes more interesting: Rich and poor go near And each sing their own songs ... Only the essence is the same everywhere: Everyone wants to live in their own way, everyone wants to have fun ... And the wise man will not knock out a cup of water from another''s hand, To drink only water alone ... After all, the world is so swift. Sometimes it is worth stopping, looking around, Look back, go ahead and think. A little about the soul and peace. The choice is not easy, but it''s golden: To live in two worlds near and far Or choose only one and then regret the soul ... Although some do not believe that there is a soul, but is there a conscience? Maybe this is the case? They strive to live to the fullest in this world, Thinking he is the only one of the worlds? 27 Barazs stories about different things 3 You know, in my time we had a lot of ridiculous laws and fell down. Like for example, "tram law", such as live like everyone else and do not hang out. "The law of three nails". This is when you are assigned to do something, but you do not do it right away. When they speak the second time, you mentally, drive three nails into the wall, and are broadcasting on the last thing you were assigned. ... you don''t do it. When they speak for the third time, you mentally transfer this business to the second nail. You also do nothing. When they talk about it for the fourth time, you transfer the case to the first nail. Usually this ends everything, although it sometimes gives up before. Well, if you get annoying chiefs, nothing remains how to perform the task. We had a different value system, not a capitalist ... Although now it is difficult to call her so ... Well, this is an annoying particular. There was a "TEN law" - Time to Execute Canceled. We often talked to us in a professional technical school - the initiative is punishable, do not lean out of the trenches, kill. This, at the beginning, all the activism was already frozen in us, the young and still students. I, now, kasty, remembered the story that we were told, often by our guild master at the school: In the kingdom where the rules are Darkness, the Dragon left for a while to rest in his mountain residence, to warm bones on warm springs. He was old, lived for thousands of years. Therefore, it was necessary to take care of your health, to the delight of your subjects and slaves. At the time of his absence, he instructed Vassal, one of his three successors, to rule the state. As a joke, he sometimes called him a ram, for his excessive zeal. Monitor lizard was almost that ram, only more ambitions. Thought, he thought. I decided that the natural resources that were sold for export will not be enough. Monitor lizard decided that he needed to show the initiative to his boss, Dragon, that during his absence he was able to raise the royal treasury five times. No sooner said than done. He introduced taxes on laughter, on guests, on friends, on tears, on water, on carriages and carts. People groaned, but nothing to do. The requisitions are still done, who opens the door of pay, closes the door of pay. However, the money added a little bit. All along the way, his faithful servants in his pockets rassovat. Monitor lizard needs to be promoted, to help the Dragon, because the rogue knew that the old dragon was fond of wealth. Saw his future receiver as the boss''s eyes glittered eagerly when he shifted his precious stones and gold bars. Monitor lizard, like a ram, like his boss used to say, overdid it a little. He thought of how to increase the treasury ... The time has come, the Dragon, rejuvenated all joyful and cheerful. Usually his people on the streets met a noisy crowd, threw flowers, smiled. But now the people were not enough, and there were no flowers ... But how pleasantly surprised was the Dragon when he saw that the treasury was full of new jewels,diamonds, rock crystal, rubies and emeralds, not to mention gold and silver, and wondrous decorations. The treasury increased by 7 times, and in just a month of his absence ... Dragon was glad, he wanted Monitor lizard to make his only receiver. Good boy! Two other receivers were not asleep, helpfully placed on the morning table an analytical report on how Varan achieved such results ... The dragon, I read it, frowned ... ordered Varan to send him to goulash, and feed the dish to two receivers ... The old lord, having lived for many millennia, was still very surprised that, as he had not noticed, he even managed to give control of the kingdom to Varan. What he just thought of. ... In the kingdom of the population, after the month of the rule of Monitor lizard, it was 15 times less than it was under the Dragon. The question of filling the treasury was solved simply. The "wise" ruler issued a decree according to which his subjects were equated with resources and they were sold for export as a traction slave force. Having checked the palace ofMonitor lizard, the dragon was told that it was being crammed with gold and precious stones, there were 8 times more than in the royal treasury. Not for nothing, I sent him to goulash flashed into one of the heads of the dragon. Yes, and faithful spies informed that in the vassal provinces of Monitor lizard, his army was ready to come to the capital, and in the kingdom someone began to spread rumors that there was a wind of change, it was time for the Dragon to leave. The dragon smirked ... ... Two receivers of the Dragon, Basilisk and Griffon with pleasure ate fragrant goulash and thought with concern where their enemy Monitor lizard went ... The Dragon, smiling slyly, was flipping through a cookbook ... But I remembered the rassahy of our professor, said Dara. We ourselves took part in expeditions in these stories. "The quest for the old fort" It was getting dark. The professor with interest told the students about the disappeared cities that several centuries ago were important points for trade on the Silk Road. When trade routes passed through them, they flourished, the political situation changed in other regions, other routes were chosen and the cities that previously flourished with time became empty, and then they were completely forgotten. Sometimes natural factors were to blame. Sometimes anthropogenic, such as during invasions. But if you think about how many such cities now lie in oblivion. Here is our task, to look for them. Now, in the 21st century, there are many possibilities for this. However, alas, the inertness of thinking, the system of bans on the use of new technologies, the receipt of a heap of permits stops the whole thing. We can only tell interesting stories about what happened. But to find something new or rather, the forgotten old, until it turns out. After all, you probably do not know how much effort it cost us to take you to the field expedition. You are already fourth-year students, and only left for the first time in the field! It was necessary to knock out funding for the trip, even though it was written in the cost estimate, and later agree with the geologists to rent a car from them, it was lucky that their director was our former graduate, so the price was not too high, but the car threw too much the old one Her running gear is very worn out, no, no, and the motor stalls. What will we do if it stops in the desert ... Yes, and the equipment now also needs to be rented, not to mention the cost of food and additional materials, such as a map based on satellite information of the area. I don''t mention how much time we got all the necessary permissions to leave your group in the field. There, like Arash, he stammered about the possibility of using a metal detector to finally find this old fort, which is still on the 1872 map, and on the 1895 map it is no longer there, only one name, but already later there is no mention. But, we still could more or less calculate the three points where this fort could be. However, today I received a refusal to use this device. We do not have the right to use it in archaeological sites and also important monuments of cultural heritage. I told them that the monument has not yet been discovered, and it''s not even so ancient, just for the whole building of the 17th century. It is not in the electronic catalog. So, I was told that he had already been entered in the registry, so now others will look for him. The materials that we found should be transferred to a group of young scientists from the Institute of Archeology, he is just engaged in fixing old objects and entering them into the electronic register of monuments of cultural heritage. Regarding your attempt to Feruz, to use a remote helicopter with digital cameras installed on it, alas, a refusal was also received. You, your creation, must first be sent to the center of calibration, then get permission from the Ministry of Communications, and also register with the local flying club. and get even before the pile of other permits, find out where some areas for flights and a lot of other information. Not everything is as simple as you thought. Now the guys are trying to just see, on the ground, we can find something, broken ceramics, maybe brickwork, arrowheads ... Professor, and how can we find them? After all, judging by the records of local historian Mas, which we found in the local history museums, since the 60s of the last century, the place where the fort was located was plowed under a sow of adrospan. It was used earlier as one of the components for the treatment of Parkinson''s disease? What to do? Known question, what to do and how to be? Well, since it is impossible to use the rented devices, we will look for how the maps will fall, geographic naturally, you meant topographical, professor. Of course of course. During the search, three places were examined, in none of which nothing was found. With a more detailed inspection and reconciliation of data from topographic maps and maps based on satellite images, we paid attention to the ancient channel. Since then, it has greatly decreased, but precisely in its direction and along the indicated azimuth of local historian Mas, northeast of the third place of the supposed location of the fort, were found fragments of ceramics and several copper coins dating from around the end of the 18th century. Trial pits gave ceramics material of the mid 18th century and the end of the 19th century. Since the field work itself was limited to a time interval of two weeks, the work had to be curtailed ... A month later, after the trip, a request came to the department to transfer all the materials. Time passed, the students ran away in life, the professor went to a distant family on the Fenoskand peninsula. But whether the fort was found or not, it remains unknown ... What do you think Baraz about this is a wonderful world of history ... just like our East is thin. I have heard that in the Kend Badam village of Okhoklo Khotszyan, a high-quality almond was grown, exported to Khorezm and India. During the reign of the emperor Cannes-Xi (1662-1722) during which this village was marked on the maps of the western possessions of China. The Sino-Manchu name is Hojian. No, I have not heard about it! I read somewhere that some golden peaches were brought to Emperor Tan as a gift, but is it strange that China is the birthplace of peaches? How could they bring peaches as a gift if their homeland was in China itself? Unclear?! II remembered another parable here - Wise Lake Turtle Pike grappled with Sudak, Bilim also took part in the fight, for the magic pearls that fulfill desires. Defeated Burbot. Sudak was caught by fishermen when, with a weakened fight, he emerged in shallow water. Pike, while proudly swinging its fins, rushed into the river waters, grumbling under its breath that Nalim could not, not use clever tricks, trying to lure his two opponents into the net. Soon, rumors spread in the pond that the Pike perch was misled by the fishermen, he wanted to lure Pike and Nalim into the net. And when it was opened, I decided to slip away. Crucian, under a snag, reflected on what he saw scenes from underwater life. Previously, he did not understand this, now the scattered pictures of the story began to gather in a bizarre and mosaic picture. True, his neighbor Ersh reasonably noted that they were allowed to see the lake and river inhabitants for seeing just such a picture, and not another one. Of these pictures, apparently, a great many and the Lake Turtle, which has lived for more than one century under this snag, intervening in their conversation, said that it had seen a lot in its centuries and was in no hurry to draw conclusions early. Crucian with Ruff agreed, not knowing the whole scenario, it is difficult to evaluate someone, and it is not enough to play into the hands of fishermen. Everyone knew that the ear is good if you are a fisherman. In the bazaar I often hear the merchants say to the customers - "Be not happy, these fruits haven''t gnawed the mouse" ... This is such a marketing ploy to attract customers to their products, alas, it acts quite the opposite. Involuntarily think, and whether really beets, whether the mouse did not devour? You already look at the tuber more closely. I don''t want to buy at all. Or they say, look, and turnips are not frozen at all. You look at her, and she is so poor, all black, and you can see that her frost has been heavily battered. Yes strong! I just recently became interested in science fiction. I myself even write, so evaluate: 2700 year. After graduating from the Higher Academy of Planetary Construction, graduates faced the choice of their path. From management in administration to security. Others went to science. New generation The research module from orbit descended onto the newly discovered planet. A group of young scientists - Go with us! - Yes, I do not want with you! - Yes, no, let''s go anyway! We know the right way! - I have a bad feeling! And somewhere we are not going there? - The forest becomes thicker, the roots of trees are thicker, the sky can not be seen at all. - And you say that we are going the right way? - Do not hesitate dear! The right way goes and sing songs. - ABOUT! That''s how it is! It seems to me that it is better to turn? - We never turn back! - Hey, hey, stop! Stop! - We do not hear you, for our song! - Oh oh oh! We are all in the swamp now! - Where is the right path? - But grandfather Motvey, knows where he leads us! - A little more, a little more and a passage will be opened, to a magical country where life beats the key, happiness flows like water and we need it there! - Hey, comrades, ladies and gentlemen, dear sirs, it''s time to turn around ... ay-ay-ay ... - What are you shouting, anyway, in this wilderness, there is no one else but us, shout, shout no sense. Eat bye berries and enjoy life. - Oooogoooooo! And in response, silence ... So years have passed, decades, some travelers perished on the way, the rest reached the swamp itself, and at that moment - the light leading them through the quagmire disappeared ... The remaining around looked around, and there ... the grass-ants, the derviyats are stunted, the birds sing sad songs, the shores are neither seen nor seen. Darkness around. Only above the stars are burning. Everything has come ... no longer need heroes, pioneers, seekers, researchers ... So they remained in the swamp, alone among the vast world of unknown nature ... ... - You see, we have cut funding, most research programs froze indefinitely. We have an economic crisis on the planet. Therefore, the directive came, all that can be closed, and with economical means to direct to the patch holes. Something reminds me of it, the last days of the Roman Empire, then they also stopped moving north, built a wall, one, another, a third. Then they began to return to the south, leaving the territory. As you know, after some time, the Roman Empire fell ... - Apparently, you''re right. There is something in it. This is not a policy, it is just someone settling the score. No, both of you are wrong, the researchers are to blame for everything, they believed in formal statements about the need for heroes, about the need to collect new data on uncharted lands. They were thrown when they became a burden. They completed their task for a certain period of time, occupied their minds with a topic. Now, they are not needed, the ballast that is being disposed of. - What are we going to do with the remaining group of researchers? They seem to have gone far in search of the "magic island"? - I''m sorry, what?! Nothing! - No money left! - So we throw them? - Apparently, yes! - We have irreplaceable as you know no! - But following such logic, then you can get to us? - You see, they do not follow the old, wise proverb - While your cup is full, drink and give it to others! - They follow another proverb - well-fed does not hear the hungry. - And when they come to the same rake, their words that they were mistaken, no one will hear. ... 3026 year. Planet in sector Z-090-04. Swamp A-32-in square. Discovered an island. Ruin. No survivors. How are you? What do you think, Baraz? Yes, damn, well, you give, man ... I have no words, just surprise ... Well, what to do, creativity! True, I was not given any money for it ... But once I made up a dictionary of human qualities and their symbols in English phraseology, for example, Diligence, endurance means they have a bird, cruelty is a wolf, stupidity is " goose, mule, cuckoo, "deceit, cunning -" rook, "humility -" dog or cat. " Our trick is "fox, badger," strength, power ¡ª tiger, stubbornness ¡ª donkey, cruelty ¡ª wolf, spy ¡ª sparrow, hard work ¡ª camel. Bazaar was a kind of center of culture. Wholesale trade could be made in the caravanserai. Important information about the passage of the trade routes of Central Asia in the 5-7 centuries. contained in Pei Ju''s biography in the Suishi dynastic history. In the book "Notes and Maps of the Western Territory", which was subsequently lost, only fragments remained from it. Here I''m a little dictionary made up of modern geografic names and how they were reflected in the documents of the Tang Empire. Maybe someone will come in handy? Fulin - Istanbul Gaochana - Turpan Yanci - Karashar Conlin - Pamir Cao - Ustrushana, Mugo - Merv Bosi - Sassanian Iran Shanshan - Lobnor Lake District Yutian-Khotan Zhujuibo - Kargalyk Hebanto - Tashkurgan Humi - Wahan Toholo - Tokharistan Food - Ephtalit State Fangye - Bamiyan Bolomen - North West India Lake Bullet - Barkul Fulin - Byzantium He - Ura-Tyube Shule - Kashgar Yanci - Kashgar Oasis Loulana - Crorain Kantszyu - between the Oks and Yaksart rivers 28 About berries Sorry, content is lost, You are reading Novel on Novelhall.COM, we will fix it as soon as possible, thank you 29 Baraz talks about the clan of merchants The night quietly and imperceptibly descended from the east, the summer heat was replaced by the coolness of the evening, the water flowing in the canals, pleased belated travelers with cheerful talk. In the principality, somewhere in the center of the continent, in the evening life from the streets migrated into small and not very courtyards. It was August ... of the year. In the east, everything is not just like that, any word, deed, event or encounter to something. In the courtyard of a large house gathered at the gathering of the head of one powerful clan. These were experienced old-aged elders. They have seen quite a bit of their lives and knew how real life works - who, where and how much. At that time, the world began to change little by little, new relations based on completely different principles than the old ones began to penetrate the old relationships. The external world was changing, the old value systems were collapsing, regional powers were already on the verge of change, and the world of the small principality on the outskirts of civilization was still living according to the old set of laws of Yass. The Elders, sitting comfortably on a sofa under a spreading plum tree, drank fragrant green tea. It was a big house, with a well-kept garden. He belonged to one of the clan leaders. Thanks to its thick walls and reliable servants in the house, one could calmly discuss various issues without fear of outsiders'' long ears. The elders of the clan thought how, in changing conditions, to keep the family, the clan, so that it could withstand the threats of the new world. After all, if the clan does not unite, do not make it more flexible, then it will not be able to adapt to the upcoming changes. So the elders thought. They leisurely discussed this problem, weighing every word. In the east, nothing stands fuss. The youngsters, meanwhile, frolicked alongside in the clearing. Their parents made kebabs and sometimes screamed at another kid running too close to the barbecue fire. The spirit of carefree fun reigned, but only for the uninitiated. The old people could not come to a common opinion on how to unite the clan, to make it more united, friendly, so that no one from the clan would feel deprived. Who should lead the new wave? A courtier who knows a lot about the movement of heavenly bodies and palace intrigues, or the youngest young gentleman with good connections, or maybe the Third, is a famous merchant who has traveled around many countries and knows the customs and traditions of different cultures. At the meeting there were representatives of the regional branches of the clan, who had their own opinion on this matter, but were tactfully silent. In the midst of discussion, a strange-looking man entered from a beautiful carved gate. Surprisingly, he was missed without further ado. His bathrobe was not new, worn in places, his face expressed fatigue, his boots were worn. Himself hunched, glance at the floor. But the butler who stood guard over the master''s house politely welcomed the newcomer. When approaching the sofa, the new guest stopped slouching and, to the surprise of those present, was transformed. He became taller, his face was lighter and nobler, his gait became confident and his look was imperious. With a casual movement of his shoulders, he threw off his dusty robe into the deft hands of a servant who appeared out of the ground. Then those who were sitting inadvertently saw the magnificent underside of the robe, she was hit by expensive Chinese silk, but bad luck - a corner of the lining lagged behind the edge of the robe. Some of those sitting behind her noticed the dark glitter of the thinnest Damascus chain mail. Who was this strange man? Few in the city could recognize in him the influential and mysterious figure of the chief elder of the clan of magicians. All at once fell silent. He washed his hands and, smiling sweetly, sat down at the table. They greeted him, as is usual in the east. After greetings, the elder casually asked, they say, what was such a lively conversation about? After an awkward pause, the young gentleman, submissively informed that they are discussing the prospects of the clan, questions of optimizing the organizational structure ... The elder clapped his hands twice, a servant appeared - time to eat. From the house hurried swirls of servants, at the table silence prevailed. Soon the servants were gone, and on the tablecloth there was a dish with still steaming pieces of meat burning the fingers and sparking slices of lamb fat attracting the eyes. Crumbly rice was tinted with Persian saffron. Garlic heads, completely abandoned in the pot, absorbed the taste of meat and spices. The hill of amber, almost transparent carrot straw mixed with even more transparent rings of remarkable local onions, a placer of Big AN golden raisins and Kashgar chickpeas, Afghan pomegranate grains, generously sprinkled on a dish before serving, did not leave anyone indifferent. The special flavor of the dish was given by a set of spices: barberry, pods of red and black peas, Indian zira, and much more, which mere mortals have never seen in the pilaf. All gathered ate this amazing treat in an unusual silence. Then came green tea and sweets. Only when the evening meal was completed, the Elder looked around at all the elders again with a cold and intent look. He said that the organizational question regarding the clan requires a very balanced decision. Everyone thought that the best candidate for the post of head of the clan was himself, but they were tactfully silent ... The agony and torment of ambition were short-lived. The astronomer nominated Beck''s candidacy, all the others only agreed. The young Master did not refrain from the flattery, which is so familiar and common in everyday life. The elder took these manifestations of loyalty for granted, gave his tacit consent with a barely perceptible head movement. The principality, having a unique position, was supposedly created for the conduct of transit regional trade. It was conducted mainly with Persia, the Qing Empire, Afghanistan, India, Tibet. The most promising direction in trade was the Volga region and Siberia. In the year, the average cargo turnover was a caravan of 3,000 camels, for comparison, no more than 600 camels went to Persia. One camel could carry about 288 kg of goods, the usual transfer of a caravan took from one to several months, depending on the region of destination. The cost of transporting goods in a caravan depended on many factors such as, for example, payment for security, kickback to the robbers for receiving tamga, that is, guarantees of safe passage through the territory controlled by the group, and services of the caravan guide. He knew all trade routes, wells, reliable caravanserais and key figures on the way from point A to point B. With this method of trading, many commercial risks were reduced several times, because if a small caravan followed, then the likelihood of its robbery increased. It turned out that every such caravan was looked after by someone from an influential clan, and therefore the attacks were fraught with robbers ... Nomads periodically robbed passing caravans. But this happened only when the local rulers refused to hold fairs, where the farmers exchanged their goods at the nomads. The road to Kashgar was more difficult, instead of camels we had to use horses, but the profit from the goods was four times more. Cloth, corals, gold and silver thread, sugar and glass goods were brought to Kashgar. Green jasmine tea, Chinese silk, and porcelain were brought from Kashgar to a young principality. As well as silver Chinese lans, they were very much appreciated in Tibet and were an excellent commodity for the exchange of goat wool. Later, in Kashgar, fine warm shawls were woven from this wool. They could sell very profitable. After some time, the order of the princely court was issued that the shops selling goods from Kashgar should be subject to a triple tax. In this scenario, trading was not profitable, the income barely covered the costs. There was nothing to do, it was necessary to invent new moves. Traders trapped as best they could, they made the purchase of saxaul at wholesale prices and sold it at retail to a local fort, a river flotilla, made furs and leather from hides, sewed boots and fur coats. That is, shifted to the new rails of the trading business. What just does not happen in the east ... As one acquaintance merchant said, it happens when seniors do not want young people to have their own alternative sources of financing. The clan does not need independent people, they must be dependent. Now all the oldest developed a new concept for the development of the clan, the essence of which was to stop dealing with internal disassembly, to unite the efforts of all members of the clan and the top in the same direction of creation. What is meaningless hauling ropes in front of new times, which are already taking leaps and bounds, you need to unite the clan to withstand the impact of the approaching element. Nevertheless, educated people, it is necessary to put friendship, blood ties, trust and forgiveness at the forefront in relations in a clan. But alas ... the factional struggle took up ... A few years later, a small caravan with exhausted travelers left in the direction of the sunset ... The leader of the robbers who saw them, told his desperate heads, do not stop them from going their own ways ... he recognized in one of the travelers that magician from the influential clan. A sudden gust of wind opened the window, and the curtain began to develop in an insane dance. He touched a pile of dusty books on the windowsill at the moment when the merchant was trying to cope with the opened doors. A book fell on his leg. He wanted to read it for a long time on the advice of a wise mentor, but somehow it did not work out. The merchant raised it from the floor and it opened up on some page. In the light of the full moon one could read. He was intrigued by the title of the chapter: "good intentions lead to hell." The book collected life situations that fit this definition. In one of the short parables it was told about a kind person who undertook to help the mentally ill. As a result, he himself almost lost his mind. This parable seemed very familiar to him. Now, in his memory, moments from the past were already flowing in a different light. Incomprehensible details, now clearly indicated that the native heads of the family envied his power and in every way abused his good attitude and love for them. The merchant spent the rest of the night in thought ... One day, crossing the desert, they stumbled upon a fallen camel and a pile of bales near it. Apparently it was a small caravan that sought to leave this area as quickly as possible. This explains why the travelers left the cargo. The expedition guide became interested in bales; suddenly a strange-looking gown caught his attention. From under the gray rags looked through the steel ... In another unknown warm country, on the coast of the ocean, a tall and handsome old man stood, he looked at the principality with a smile, he did it all! The clan has updated, changed, though fewer people, but you can always recruit new ones. Two centuries later, the clan, along with the Elder, that he is two centuries old ?! Flourished, founding a new trading fleet, trading houses were from the Empire of Tan, to the Empire of Bosses. The correct concept of development, gave a chance for the revival of the phoenix! 30 Traders Tricks 3 In the old days, about 200 years old, the "head of the bazaar" walked around the bazaar, he checked every scale of the nezhel, if they had an underweight, then such a merchant led to the main shopping area. There he was punished, depending on the measure of body kit. Beat on bare heels with a stick, 2-5-9 times. It was not so much pain, how much shameful. In modern times, the body kit also takes place ... took place ... before the introduction of electronic scales. Yet new technologies help to heighten trade. Just merchants are starting to apply new tricks. For example, they sell damaged goods under the guise of fresh. Although this is not typical for capitalism, which we read about in Phillip Kotler''s books Economics and Basics of Marketing. This otgloski old social system. Surprisingly, it still exists in a market economy, with separate archaic disputes ... When selling wholesale, in boxes or bags, in the lower layers, farmers enclose - broken, small and sometimes rotten fruit. Percent 20. The same applies to sold electrical goods, you need to look carefully, check before you buy. Modern merchants do not seek to increase the number of services. That is, the goods sold, does not have for the most part a service for the delivery of dimensional goods. After the purchase, the buyer himself has to think how to deliver the goods. In other stores there is a delivery, but it is paid on average 10 km cost from 10 to 20 dollars. Plus, the cost of movers, still throws 10 dollars. As a result, the price increases ... and if you also need to collect some furniture, to install, then another 20 dollars are leaping. There is not much competition in the fight ... A communal economy is generally horror. In addition, the quality of services is not high, and prices are significantly high, tariffs for services grow 2-3 times a year. From them there is no way to refuse. Here and does not smell any service. Replacing meters, checking them in metrology laboratories, everything hangs on the consumer. He has to pay for everything. These are also modern traders'' tricks. Sometimes you can get bills to pay fines and debts, which actually are not ... this is also one of the modern tricks. After installation, the wizards - dismantling and installation, do not clean up after themselves; this remains so. In Japan, the master comes, prepares the workplace. Cover the floor with a special material. Upon completion, the garbage remains on the material, which is wrapped in it and the master is taken out for recycling, this is a service. 31 Terrible tale Green wooden fence, beautifully merged with the virgin northern forest. It was only an hour from the metropolitan capital to "object D09". Wooden gates, opened from them jumped out pitch black cars. At the gate was an "umbrella" with access to the "High Frequency Communication" and under it, almost Santa Claus, the same boots, a huge fur coat, only a Ushanka hat crowned the head, and a holster hung around the waist, a strap around the neck from the landing version and that something weighty ... On the perimeter of a small forest bowl, similar wooden "umbrellas" flocked around the floor, which was covered with oak plates with felt, every 20 meters. The object was a two-storey building with an outbuilding and three doors. Each of which had its post, with strong guys ... Inside, all the walls were covered with wooden panels, the windows were closed with heavy, green curtains. The floor is covered with thick carpets, all the steps drowned out. There were not many rooms, about twelve, but there were much more underground ones, for security and surveillance services, but this time from sevens. At the facility, there lived a Brownie, an influential man of the empire. To get to the coveted forest to the storyteller and sorcerer, you had to go through seven zones, checks, with your magic words, wonderful barriers and ginger men. And also get a blessing from magicians with amazing chopsticks, who, by the way, had notable domestic, iron horses, with forced engines. About the object there were strange rumors that after leaving the world from one world to another Brownie. One overseas prince began to live on the territory, but then he also teleported somewhere to another universe, it was cheaper, and there you wouldn''t chat, it''s far from 3 planets from the sun. ... Wonderful wood panels! Behind them, the thought titans or the clever guys from the headquarters of the study of the soul could be hiding. The world in which the Brownie was spinning was simple and complex at the same time. Heavy and beautiful. Behind the fence, there were many secrets of the whole century. But, the key to the easy gate from them was not for everyone. Only the elect could open this world, there were few of them, but all of them had the status not lower than the column of the imperial service of the head department of soul research with the level of admission - the fourth (although the personnel officers knew only about three). Access to the neck imposed on themselves in addition to the non-proliferation of what was heard and read throughout life, and the service of eagerness, eternal by earthly standards. For everything to be behind a green, wooden fence ... 32 The Legend of the Martians 0 Again disconnected the landline phone. This is a common phenomenon, as the phone is disconnected or games start with it, this means that the clan-men are making their show again, the alien thought. Yes, it means that they still found out that I was from another planet ?! Once a long time, eleven years ago, when I was still working at an astrophysical center, I ran into a corridor with a colleague who said, looking at him: - You, not ours! - I feel that you flew in from another planet, it is hostile to us! - Watch out! Yes, he thought then, he is revealed or does it play envy in his colleague. Recently, he received just a grant for the project, became the supervisor of the topic and he was invited to an internship in Helsinki for a whole year! Less than a month later, they silently fired, they switched the topic to themselves and someone else went to Helsinki. True, he was turned back there, saying that they had invited a specialist from another. He left not so good at it. Grant stalled six months later. But that''s another story. In the hardware store, a dismissed alien noticed, he followed the tail, he was clearly visible. So, again, someone, something is not right, they didn''t think so, he didn''t, somewhere said and again history repeats itself ... It has already been a year, two, three, five, six, ten, fifteen years ago. Nothing has changed, but he thought that he was finally left alone. It seems - not a public person, not a tycoon, not an oligarch, not a politician, not a businessman. And not a certified specialist. Not passed for reasons that he is from another planet. Alien. This catches the eye immediately! He did not know this at first ... Therefore, he was depressed and the topic, direction, business, idea, and life itself. Alien has survived the last fifteen years on planet Earth. He did not live with his whole soul, he hid in the bunker on a bald mountain for the first five years, and he was blown to pieces after a direct hit by a super rocket. After he waited for the frequent attacks of people in gray in DotA, but got to him. Then he went to the bunker ... but as you can guess, he did not last long. In the end, he was forced to go to the people ... and found that the world has changed in the last fifteen, ten, five years ... it is already completely different. But not the one when he crashed on his plate for research on a third planet from the Sun. Too carried away with the research of world change in the last couple of billions of years, he came too close to recent history. And bang flew his engine. He sent the signal "SOS", but no one flew in from his planet. He did not know that she, his planet already as two thousand years ago, was destroyed ... the remnants of the colonists moved to the HZEG planet ... but they could not reach the third planet from the Sun. Financing his galactic center froze, and the staff was sent to the farm. And over time, just forgot about it. Such researchers were hundreds of thousands scattered across different galaxies, which no one remembered. On the third planet from the Sun, for the first time decades of its acclimatization, a surprisingly sublime atmosphere reigned. High culture was in fashion, spiritual values ??were propagated, people did not look at money as an idol. All were educated, had a higher education, could read a thousand poems by various authors of both antiquity and modernity. Showed sensitivity and attention even to strangers. And he is an alien, could very well fit into this world, where researchers could communicate in the same language with the people of Earth. Nobody climbed into the soul, did not want to control the way of thinking, people were given free to express what they thought. But now the world has begun to change ... the modern times have come ... and the people, the society, the world has transformed into an era of savagery and an extreme degree of barbarism. High spiritual values ??went into oblivion, money, power, influence came out on top. He was right the one who is stronger. And indeed, the planet has become hostile not only to aliens, but also to humans themselves. It was difficult to live, to survive too. However, changes were on the horizon and it was already easier to live than to survive. It became easier to breathe, the world changed again, the grayness was leaving, new colors were blossoming. Hope has come! And it means a lot in the world! Nevertheless, he was surprised to find that spying on him only intensified, he thought, I wonder what this is all about? But there was no answer ... Head of the control of aliens. Received a report from the service of surveillance of the object A0010. "From 8:30 to 10:30 I sat in the laboratory, solved the Maxwell equation ... From 10:30 to 11:05 drank tea with the professor, they talked about the history of Europe, in particular about the work of Spengler and Toynbee. From 11:05 to 14:30, I was engaged in writing a technical project on the subject of the grant. From 14:30 to 17:30 I was engaged in sending three of my publications to the electronic archive. At 17:30 I left the laboratory building, went an unusual route. Jumped into the market at 18:00. He stayed there more than usual, at 18:10 an external surveillance officer was sent to his store, he confirmed that the object had not gone through the back door. At 18:25, the object was purchased - two blankets, one spray of building silicone, three meters of white waffle linen, two meters eighty centimeters of colored waffle linen and two meters of super satin. I went on foot, followed by a chain of seven people ... At 19:00 came home. On the way, did not meet with anyone. I went to the minimarket only at 6:45 pm, I left at 6:46 pm. It turned out that the object did not have enough money to buy bread and cheese ... From 19:00 to 02:00 the light in the house was on. " The alien, regretfully looked at the bank card, oh, the professors have not transferred, and I am delaying cash payments. Yes, the bedspreads were too expensive, although I could get a 10 percent discount, but look at the bread was not enough. Well, okay, at home there is an onion, a carrot is one and in the freezer is beef broth. That dinner will prepare. And instead of bread, come and dried loaf. Life on the third planet from the Sun slowly went into hibernation, he went to the side. Meanwhile, a car was on duty under his windows, suddenly an alien would make a breakthrough ?! Need to be on the alert! All his movements were in control. Although, the head of the department was a little concerned, but what if that alien can teleport? What to do then? Such technologies for people, as he was told in the management department, will be available only after 28 years ... The alien could not teleport, his device for this purpose crashed during a forced landing, he was almost like an earthling, only more unfit for life, where all moral values ??were reduced to zero. And he lived well only those who knew how to be "Xi¨£oj¨©n." This is a special gift that was inherited from the inhabitants of the Earth, alas, He was from another planet ... But in this he also found funny moments, good material for exploring the new world in which he now lived ... 1 Strange people are you Earthlings ?! After all, you have such a beautiful planet, how much is tasty and healthy! You mow each other, roll up into concrete, do not allow you to develop useful topics for the economy. It''s like you from Earthlings, there is such a saying - if another gets twice as much, then take out one eye for me! Here is your nature! Nobody thinks about the benefits! Or, here are some, some strange people come across, from your Earthlings, already have a house with a good repair, a car, a yacht, and everyone continues to deceive and try to mislead. Desire, desire above moral qualities. So I remember in the last century, people talked more about the soul, about culture, about language development, and now ... money, money. Hardly anyone will have money, will he repair the trip abroad to the resort, in order to help someone from his family, then the applicants will immediately run in ... help? Where have you been before? When did a person need help himself? They were not there. Everything would be used for free ... Deceive, steal ... What do you have at Earthlings, such strange services in the service, I''m talking about utilities. Once - you can not refuse them! Two - they are dragged to the court for them and withdraw money for non-existent debts! Three - you pay money for public services but it does not reach the organization''s electronic database, and who is to blame? Right or wrong, the client of this "magic" service. Four - still spoils the nerves and time is wasting! And what''s all chic, you have something else and a market economy. So, you want you can choose another service provider and even abandon them ... But no, you can''t do that. Voluntarily - forced monopoly. The client pays a lot of money so that he will be provided with mediocre services and his money was robbed and dismissed. No one even understands that this is a service? !!! And this is what you have on Earth, fill up. Where not to spit, everywhere some thin places. For example, I''m a professor, I should receive my surcharge at the end of the month, but it''s not, because there is no money in the bank ... This is nonsense! There is no money in the Bank! Or here''s another incident, I get my salary on an electronic bank card. I am going to buy a thing, a product, and they tear up money from me more than if I bought for cash. It turns out that they count me not at the state exchange rate, but at the exchange rate! There, it''s like! If you pay cash, then give a discount of fifteen percent! This is my money, my salary! How do I give the employer so I cry! It turns out they heat me up many times. Therefore, I probably do not have enough of my salary for a full and serene life. Although, of course, it all depends on your place of stay ... in some countries this is not, but there is something worse. It is so to say the right to choose. But in the zoo, somewhere in your world, they took a living lion in front of the children and cut it, then repeated the same trick with an elephant. You are wild people, what can I say! These unconventional orientations of something has become much, new formats, soon to be ordinary, traditional will not be normal. You come to the company, you say there is a request, you have done the work just now, and it is done in one place, your masters, their hands grow lower than the back. Need to discuss how to fix. In the office of the company they say - you go ... But what about the contract, the guarantee? What silence ... Is there an e-mail? No, we only have telegrams! Amazing phenomena. The era replaces the gadgets one by one. But what about the high level of service, which was heard in advertising? Aah ... it seems that all the companies on Earth have one taste, the same as public service ... Money tears up, and then they start to scoff. This is a peculiar masochism of Earthlings, to pay money so that they could also be denounced for it. Well, I learned a lot while I lived on Earth. And where better not understand? Where the salary is paid on time, where its electronic or cash form does not affect the quality and value of the goods, where it is more comfortable to live, but there are all sorts of subtle points and limitations, of course unspoken. Or live where everything is difficult in everyday life. Find the right thing, the most simple, such as butter for hair clippers, white sheets, saffron, golden thyme, agar-agar in the supermarket is impossible. Because there is nothing there. It needs to know the places where it can be found. But they are not in one place, but spread all over the city. In general, of course, living on your Earth is much more intriguing and more entertaining than ours in a stable, calm, well-fed planet! Welcome to Earth! Fun and unforgettable impressions of everyday everyday life are provided for you here, my dear aliens! 2 Our environmentalists being under juniper hallucinogenic tincture began to carry complete nonsense, nonsense and nonsense. World anti-environmental backstage, keeps all the media in one hand and therefore they "filter" the news, they create a news feed to their liking. Therefore, these two-faced "they" do not allow information on the global climate crisis to pass on to news broadcasts. There is a world trend, air temperature does not rise by 1.5 degrees, but all 4! This means rising sea levels, decreasing sunny days, changing groundwater levels, breaking cycles in agriculture, economic disasters! You are stupid fool, do not understand anything !!! - Of course, of course, you are absolutely right! Foresters said. Who in their right mind will argue with schizo. The next morning, the sober ecologists, confusedly began to gather quickly, checking the state of the forest, meadows, they decided to do it some other time. It was not convenient for them to stay with the foresters ... One of the environmentalists took a flower out of a bag and gave a goodbye to foresters. Three black jeep quickly drove back to the city. The foresters looked at each other and smiled cheerfully. We drove checking! But the flower was not easy. In addition to the remote transmitter "bugging" color itself had a double meaning. As a positive one, such as "belief in oneself" and a negative "energy vampire", if it dried out, then the person would die in the house. At that, the foresters laughed. Here are these environmentalists - schizo, they believe in all nonsense, black magic, despite the fact that they themselves have the power, influence, money, unlimited. So also believe in every heresy! We have here and cacti dry, and you''re talking about tiny flowers, say something! We drink pure alcohol medical and nothing! All the same, excessive education spoils people, like hedonism, they are in some areas divorced from ordinary people ... Environmentalists ... returning to the spaceship, threw off the human form and turned into a comfortable amebic state of the green little men plunged into a bank of birch brew and sent an autopilot to Mars. The mission of hanging noodles to people and pulling out of them gradually information and vital energy was successfully completed. They are joyful and drunk flew to his home. Foresters removing their human form ... 3 Environmentalists came to check in the reserve, foresters set ... they drank, but not like in the city wisely, set up ... but how they came ... apparently clean air broke all their seals ... they were still juniper tea washed down. Savages !!! They also remembered green men, not those who roam the Path, but those who live on Mars and call them Martians. They love birch sap and after it philosophize on various topics. One has diabetes, blood sugar has 12 units, and he has 200 grams of vodka twice a week to prevent and improve the tone of life. People are all weird on Earth on earth. The other one, an intellectual, all admired the Mercanians, this and that, and now, he writes angry remarks every day, 30-40 at a time, under their magazines about economics and politics. Troll pay? No, he gets paid for it, not so much, but there is enough for cigarettes, bread and butter, and good cheese. And what''s up to admiration, you can not buy cheese on it. Another handsome man - let''s breakthroughs all shouted, well, the men gathered, they thought and came up with a new method of how to drive the moonshine out of thin air. Profit awesome, money can be made out of nothing ... and handsome, now they do not even notice. They, too, do not raise the buzu, as they are constantly kvass and walk under a fly. Eh, Earthlings ... something is wrong with you ... No, to deal with the business, plant the birch trees, drive out of them 75% alcohol, environmentally friendly, moreover! And sell for export to us on Mars. That would be all zashib! And so it is necessary for us, to dangle for you, how much kerosene you burned ... and nowhere to go, without birch alcohol, we can''t begin to philosophize and talk to the stars, but not to squirrels. You are Martians, Martians ... and what will you be? Weakly here to us, dangle every Sunday for a drink? Aah ... People do you hear us ???? ... yes, juniper tea is still a strong thing, look at how unhappy these ecologists are talking to themselves ... about some Martians and earthlings ... ...you should drink less! Then you will be like a frog in the well ... and everybody strives to eat the meat of a swan! Come to your senses, you people! Foresters were shocked! Environmentalists have not recovered. In the morning they were gone, only concentric circles remained in the meadow. 4 Green men once again flew in, left their vessel in a small forest in a clearing, dressed in the form of people. They began to look exactly like environmentalists. And they went to hangover to their eternal "vets .." friends, foresters. Yes, as always, there was enough excess, they were mixed with the truth serum into birch alcohol, and the juniper tincture was dropped. Well, those certainly and unlucky. They began to drive the snowstorm, but to conceal their thoughts, so futile that the foresters had their fists itched. Environmentalists have developed their hails and how they began to explain: - "We" of their excellencies "live in their own world, in the clouds. They control the mortal world. They can give one flow of information, they can limit it. If they have a desire, they can make them wealthy or, on the contrary, plunge them into poverty. mode of "pressure" and may be the mode of "favored". - You say, true, freedom, looking for something where there is none. You all walk like ants under our feet, who we want to crush, and who is interesting to us, we will give them a honey drop. - We are omnipotent! The world is with us, and all the elite of the Earth! And who are you? You are simple people, of whom billions and they are not sorry, can always be replaced by another. Meritocracy is everything, the most intelligent, talented, energetic will control the mass of you, the ants. You are only fit to be led by the masses. And we are hedonists, we are your masters and our world! So work thin sun still high, grow more birch trees, chase more moonshine and give us "! Here are the steel huntsmen: "Hey, why the hell are you ecologists here?" "Drive some kind of snowstorm, eh? What kind of nonsense and nonsense? ... and the three-storey mate went further ... cursing, shouting, strikes rained down. On that and the conversation of two civilizations is over. It is the morning of the next day ... ... The environmentalists flew off to Mars with fagings on the morning sobering up, on ameba-like bodies glowing in green, there were clearly visible some purple stains. Yes, you need to be able to drink, noticed green little men and not to drive a blizzard to everyone, will they not understand? Will definitely not understand! --- deyati - speak 33 Merchants in the clan world It''s very easy to trade in the clan world if there is one simple and very convenient "magic tool". Which is called an administrative resource. Therefore, in the clan world, before you start your own business, you need to purchase a "subscription" for "protection" from a strong clan. So many successful businessmen do ... they live in Europe and their stores in their homeland, money goes to them in the EU ... not life, but a fairy tale. Children from clans with a lot of money due to the percentage of export sales of natural resources have a lot of real estate both in their homeland and in all major countries of the capitalist world. There they simply rent housing for rent to wealthy foreign companies. From one house a year, they make a profit of about $ 60,000 for rent, and they have 10-20 such houses. Since they themselves hold the real estate market, they can bring prices down by 60 percent. within 5-8 years, and then buying a lot of houses on the cheap, raise prices by 80 percent. They invest the received money in stocks and securities abroad or buy shares in foreign companies in their homeland, about 700,000 dollars a year. Moreover, these shares are not in free sale, they cannot be bought on the stock exchange. Babies are sent to the prestigious universities of the world such as Harvard, Stanford, Oxford ... there they get degrees ... they live in their private villas ... they get jobs in private companies and corporations. After they come to teach the mind to reason at home with a clan cover. Immediately getting into control the whole industry or corporation. After 5 years, having received enough practical experience at the top management level, they are safely returning to live in Europe. At the same time, their parents from the clan world, call on all their countrymen to live in their homeland, they say where, was born there and was useful. They say that you can not have dual citizenship. At the same time, their children from clans already have 5-8 citizenships, including Canada, the USA, the EU ... so the clans can speak well of love for their homeland, but their children already live in the developed capitalist countries of the world. As time to retire, the old clan members go from their palaces in their homeland to live in their more luxurious villas in the EU. That''s the way the clan world works. Therefore, being a merchant and not having your own protection from the clan, such a company will not work for a long time. Its subtleties of doing business. The clan world at the slightest dissatisfaction, can easily hack mail servers, social networks ... Who is blacklisted, even when formats change, it remains in it. Clicking fingers and ... the clan can reach everywhere and in another country ... so the clans, live forever. Behind them is power, and whoever stands in their way will be destroyed. Of course, even in other countries, powerful people will be on the side of the clans. With all their words, blah blah blah blah about some mythical values)))) 34 Merchants in the clan world 2 Trading in the clan world is not an easy thing. It''s not enough to have a good business plan, it is not enough to have desires and desires, knowledge and money. The most important thing is to have a good, leak-proof roof "from a reliable clan." Otherwise, your business will be short-term. If he flourishes, he will be killed by some young craftsmen or skilled workers from a large clan. By offering for your business a mixed price of 10 percent of the market value. If a businessman refuses to sell, then his business will simply be demolished and then he will not receive even 10 percent. Well, this was before ... now, they say this no longer exists ... but still going against the will of the clan or group of clans is like trying to pour water from a bucket on a windy day. Sometimes the patriarchs of the clans may succumb to sentimental emotions and say - "let us all live together harmoniously and peacefully." But this does not mean that the previously selected business, health, power will be returned, as well as the exclusion of one or another "object" (merchant, scientist, businessman, etc.) from the "black list". Those who are on this list, they are the first to be checked, controlled, their first in "Hour X" begin to shake, crush, press, to show those around them the strength and power of the clan world. So that other merchants do not even think to contradict the will of the clan world. With one click of the fingers, pressure groups of clans can easily hack accounts on social networks, mail servers, ban any text they don''t like. Naive fools who believe that they can escape the "hands of the clan" in another country. No, do not run away! They will find and apply pressure, they can easily be fired from work in another country. This is done simply. A simple person, he is no one, and call him in any way, and a member of the clan is respected, rich, influential, with opportunities, so that it can satisfy the existing mercantile interest in another country. And who will worry about the unfamiliar poor? Therefore, merchants already knowing the strength of the clan prefer to invest in a new business for a short period of time, usually from 3 to 10 months. Quickly make money and then sell the business and open a new one in another place and with a different name. To protect yourself from the clan filter. If there is a large company with 100-500 people in its state that has been able to work on the market for more than 10 years, this usually means that it had a good "roof" from the clan. But such luck does not last long, usually influential clans have their status from 12 to 20 years, less than 30 ... When status goes to zero, the influence of the clan decreases, then the Roof begins to flow, that is, one hundred percent protection for business goes away . Starting offs of the trading business start ... you need to share ... but sometimes this is not enough ... Of course, they are trying to fight this phenomenon, decisive steps are being taken, but this system is very powerful, so often all the steps taken are not effective. If the merchant does not have any strength at all or the roof is not good enough, then they are just trying to get a little more than they want to give. If this question is not so important or time is tight, and the trader has a leaking clan roof, then the parties can agree on a price of 40 or even 55 percent of the market price. Another thing is, if the merchant has a very weak roof or is it a simple citizen, then he cannot see the compensation as his ears. It was necessary to immediately agree to 10 percent of the market value. If there is no "roof," then life is not reduced to a full life, but simply to survival, because it is also fraught to oppose injustice, then everyone prefers to be silent in order to be more whole. That is why Syma Tsan''s strategy is so popular - that the winner is the one who knows when to do nothing, when to stand and when to go. As well as a popular Chinese aphorism about the river, tea and a traveler who looks at the river, they drink green tea, and waits for the moment when the precursor floats down the river. Life goes on, people need to feed the family, grow, even in such cramped conditions. But the positive changes on the face, now clan attacks are not so outrageous, they are less flashy. It probably takes time for the clans to understand that respecting and respecting private property is profitable for them in the first place. Since it creates a stable foundation so that no one ever encroaches on their money, even when their influence goes away. How is it on the "Princepse Peter" when you go down the stairs below you are waiting for those whom you pushed off this stairs in due time ... 35 Market life hacking In Asia, marching to the market is a whole science, the magic of everyday communication. Those who immediately agree to buy goods for the price mentioned by the merchant do not know the market and do not know how to bargain. So the old men say it with regret. Old people like to go to the markets, even if they do not buy anything with great interest, asking about the prices of vegetables and fruits. Compare them with prices in shopping centers and supermarkets. We have practically no hypermarkets. Compare prices with shops in the city. Something laugh at his mustache ... Usually, the price for small, rooted bazaars in the city center is 30-70 percent higher than wholesale markets. Whereas the price for retail large bazaars differs by 20-30 percent. Only farmer''s vegetables are brought to large retail markets, and fruit is bought from wholesalers in another market. On large grove bazaars, merchants immediately buy goods from farmers, reducing their price by 30 percent. For example, cabbage sold by farmers in cars costs 36 cents, merchants buying wholesale (50-100 pieces at a time) at a price of 25 cents. And sell right there, 100 meters from the farmers already for 59 cents. Profit 34 cents. And for the place (near the market), they give no more than $ 3, often they do not even have permission to trade, there is no certificate from the laboratory that the product has been tested. It remains to hope that farmers have it. In the center of the city, in the small bazaars, the same cauliflower is already worth 71 cents for 1 piece, at the average bazaars there is 1 dollar 31 cents, at large retail bazaars the price may already be 1 dollar 78 cents. But such bazaars after reconstruction, specially made to attract tourists, immediately begin to lose their "spirit of the oriental bazaar". Since in order to recoup the cost of "ethnic flavor" prices for places for merchants increase, and the purchasing power of the citizens is not great. Such large bazaars, usually almost empty, to the bazaar at 190 crowds, a total of 15-30 visitors in 1 hour. While going to a large retail market, where prices are two or even three times lower, people do not overcrowd, a sea of ??people, hundreds of people. Coming to the market, knowledgeable people, it is completely bypassed twice. Everywhere find out the prices, the main thing here is not to forget where the price was good, to go back and buy. But sometimes the shops do not have numbers, it remains only to rely on their own memory. The buyer asks the seller what price he says for example 1 kg of apples costs 65 cents, and the buyer knows that the seller bought these apples on the wholesale market (1 kg 30 cents for 1 box, in a box usually from 12 to 22 kg with small opt or 1 kg of 20 cents with the purchase of 10 boxes). So he says to the seller, what is your real price? Trading says the price is 62 cents! Buyer - are you kidding? Give me the price at which you sell! The merchant says, well I will give a price of 58 cents! The buyer - no, it will not work that way, there through a row, the price is 40 cents, and you are chasing a blizzard (that is, you are talking nonsense). The merchant says where? Which row? Buyer - waving his hand indefinitely, there! Merchant, well, I will sell you for 55 cents! Buyer, no, that won''t do! And leaves! The merchant screams in his back, the price is 50 cents, this is my last price! The buyer comes back and says no, come on 40 cents! Merchant, reluctantly, well, but then you will buy a 22 kg box from me! Buyer, are you crazy! In the wholesale market, I can buy for 30 cents! Merchant, says evil, go and buy there, nothing to waste my time! The buyer leaves. But after a minute comes back, let''s say sell for 42 cents and I''ll buy you a couple of kilos! Merchant, 15 kg! Buyer, no buy only 3 kg! Few! Well, let it be 5 kg! Merchant, well let it be 5 kg 42 cents! Come again! I will sell you at the same price! Buyer, ok, agreed! Everyone is happy. The seller, that amused, the buyer, that benefited a couple of dozen cents. It takes a week. The buyer comes to the seller, he says, remember, I bought apples from you, 42 cents each! Merchant, says I do not remember! I like you in a week are thousands! But you yourself told me! Ah, I think I remember it was you! Yes I ! So sell me 42 cents 5 kg! Not! What are you, prices have risen! Come on! Prices have remained the same! I''m your regular customer! Well, well, good! Let me sell you apples for 45 cents! Not! You said for the same price! You what A word like a man do not hold? Hey, hey, okay, let it be 42 cents! I will not forget you! Come, next time I will sell you 42 cents! Good! Have agreed! This is how the bazaar works in the East. And going to the coolest boutique, where the price for an ordinary long-sleeved office shirt costs $ 62, a discount of 10 percent is possible. The buyer only smiles and leaves. Since he knows that this shirt was bought on the wholesale market, and its price is about 20 dollars. So everywhere in the city, who knows, he buys in the wholesale markets, who does not know (tourists, nonresidents) that overpays 100-200 and sometimes 700 percent of the original price. On the other hand, our goods are 3-4 times more expensive than in neighboring countries. We have high customs duties, almost 100 percent of the original price of the goods. Once in a neighboring town, which lies 150 km from us, in a neighboring state, a leather jacket cost $ 92, and we already have $ 1000. With a salary of $ 150, it is impossible to buy it! On the other hand, a difference of 908 dollars is terrible! The salary of a techie in a neighboring country for the same job is $ 1000, we have 150! They have a jacket of 92 dollars and we have 1000! They have leather shoes worth $ 20 and we have 85! That is, the difference is huge. In this situation, the purchasing power is not very large in our country. Therefore, most buyers think how to save? And not to buy something more expensive and save time and not money. In view of this, new market segments that are oriented towards new European trends are doomed. No one will massively buy the dough for ravioli, stuffing for pies, if the price is higher. Since it is easier to spend more time, but with save more money. 36 The brilliant idea of trading or idiocy works too! For 30 years after the disappearance of the empire, the clan world was able to easily get rid of high technology and production. Having lost space, aircraft, tractor industry. And their development and not a screwdriver line on the assembly. These were their engineers, designers, turners, workers,scientists. It all costs a lot of money. There were those who could design and construct their domestic satellites and create rocket engines for them ... 30 years passed ... and none of them remained ... it needed to be able to destroy not only machine tools, research institutes, factories.In addition, the clans managed to destroy the domestic electronic industry. One click of the clan''s fingers and three industries disappeared, leaving people without work, tens of thousands of people were thrown out onto the street. It was impossible to find a job in the specialty, since there were no high-tech industries left. People were forced to leave for other countries and change citizenship. So Small An lost the highly qualified personnel and professionals. New formats came, specialists became needed ... but they are not there ... now you need to pay $ 6,000 per month for them, and if then, they were not thrown out onto the street, their research institutes, factories would not to be closed, raised if they would have a salary at least up to 600-1000 dollars a month, now there would be both their own planes and satellites, it is possible that they would have rockets for launching satellites into space, their remote tractors ... But a couple of powerful clans could easily destroy the production. On the other hand, the empires has always been wary of small countries with high technology. Since small countries could always share these technologies with others. Like for example, in the period of lack of money and mass closure of thin technological productions, privatization of factories ... people were dispersed, factories closed, high-tech fraser machine-tool. Tthey were sold to other countries where, due to various reasons, it was impossible to buy machines on the world market. For some 5 years, the majority of machine tools from closed plants transferred to other countries. There they established a new production and began to deliver goods to other countries, including Small An and the CAO kingdom ... but the prices for goods were already high. Although Small An itself possessed both specialists and production tools in order to independently create high-tech goods, but for some reason they decided to give up. At the time of the empire, about 65,000 professionals worked in the scientific and technological sphere of production. They spent $ 2.5 billion on science a year, now there are only 28,000 people left in Small An, and spend $ 44 000,000 a year on science. It is necessary to manage, so skip from one economy to another! From a position of a developed economy, this must be managed to jump into the economy of the countries of the third world (already an obsolete term, during the Cold War). To lose for a couple of decades the entire high-tech base, professional and technical personnel. This can only be a fantastic dream. When one world collapses, such as in the short story "A Will Eternal" and then the second one and you have to start from scratch. But one thing is in the fantasy world and another in the fiction of the real. People will not have to sweet. All their savings in banks for 30-40 years become nothing ... they will first be frozen for 15 years ... then they will remove 000 zeros ... then another 00 ... they will be withdrawn in parts of 10 percent, when 75 will remain in the account percent, they will freeze again for 10 years ... and when a person comes to the bank they will be given the balance of his savings, with interest, indexation equal to buy 1 apple ... this is a feast of idiocy! After all, the money was? But somewhere gone? The scam of the century! When millions of people suddenly became beggars ... And pensions? People worked for 50-60 years ... and the pension is less than $ 50. It is necessary to manage so obloposhit all those who destroyed the old world and they moved to a new one without anything ... sleight of hand of merchants, bankers and no fraud. It takes 30 years ... and there is no science, no production, no future. If natural resources run out ... then human resources will remain ... for the clans that is enough. Surprisingly, in 30 years, they failed to establish a public utilities system in the fictional, fantastic, Small An world. It still remains not a quality, sold product, does not meet the stated requirements of the service provider itself, does not meet the quality standard. At the same time, there is neither recalculation nor deduction of payment for the days when the service was not delivered. The purchase of metering counter is done by the consumer, the inspection is paid once every 3 years and is also carried out by the consumer. One counter costs $ 71, for an apartment they need from 2 to 3 only for cold water, there is also for hot water. Central heating can not be abandoned at the legislative level, although it is very expensive. Almost golden, so expensive it turns out. At the same time paying for the service for the year ahead, then you have to pay extra for tariff increases. Tariffs are rising in this fantastic world 3-5 times a year. Each time from 15 to 55 percent. The reason for the increase in tariffs is not explained precisely, it may be for the modernization of the public utilities infrastructure, due to the increase in the dollar exchange rate to the national currency, due to the increase in global oil prices. What is interesting is that when oil prices fall, when the dollar falls to the national currency rate, there is no decrease in utility rates. Given that all national resources belong to the population of the country, but for them it does not receive a single cent from the sale of export, but it must also pay for these resources. Moreover, utility companies explain that consumers do not pay for the resource itself, but for its delivery ... In general, while in a fantastic world, pseudo-realistic, Small An, no one was able to set up a system of public utilities, a golden monument to someone who could solve this problem probably will not be. Not to mention the brilliant idea, the one who came up with this in the §ãommunall organization - to send consumers "non-existent debts and collect pennies and fines from them. Here is where the geniality of ideas, make money out of thin air! Even when all the receipts for payment on hand, after 2-3 months of time and nerves, the communal service can say - this is a computer wrong, no apologies, no compensation ... nothing ... This is how you can skillfully conduct a communal business! This is billions of dollars! Money from nothing. 37 Monopoly as a great way to quickly become very rich In the clan world, almost all big business is a monopoly. Starting from the communal service, where everything is from cold water, hot water, heating, gas, electricity, garbage disposal state monopoly. Moreover, the state one, but at the same time it has shares, which, nevertheless, cannot be bought as in the game "monopoly" on the stock exchange. Communal sphere, as it was already described in the last chapter, is a very profitable business! The consumer pays for the resources, although they already pretend to the population of the country. Pays for their delivery. Pays for measuring counters. He pays for checking in the metrology laboratory of these measuring meters every 3 years. Tariffs for utilities are increased 3-4 times a year, from 15 to 35 percent at a time. Often there are fines for non-existent debts. All modernization of the utilities system is paid by consumers. Salaries of utility workers are $ 300, while the average salary in the city is $ 150. At the end of the year, each monopolist and shareholder gets another $ 10,000. Consumer pays for everything. At the same time, the quality of service is low. The consumer is always guilty, since the utility is a state, it is a monopolist of services. Very profitable business. There are the same monopolies in production - quadcopters, electronic cards, cars - assembly under license. Everywhere monopoly. Any new business, large, immediately wants to become a monopoly. This is not fair, not fair, but it works. Fast money! This is of course talent, for some 30 years to transfer the economy from the developed to the economy of the banana republic. Reduce the GDP from the conventional 500 billion dollars by 45 ... Lose in passing - the electronics industry, space, aviation, tractor ... But some 30 years ago, a fantastic containment space weapon was developed in the fantastic Small An, the development of a gravitational weapon followed. .. so that after 30 years there is no one left to build a jet engine for a satellite ... There are no specialists left. You can only standing to applaud the genius of destruction. This is what happens when one world disappears and a new one appears. The old heritage of the empire, scientific, technological, weapons, knowledge, culture disappears, buried in oblivion ... but someone from the clans makes billions of dollars on this and lives well in gold resorts in Europe. They teach their children from clans in the coolest foreign universities and provides a hedonistic life for his new generations up to the 5th generation. They can simply buy a ready-made business in the West and live well.Them do not care that in their homeland hundreds of thousands of people were left without work, without money, without a future. This is also what happens when one world collapses and a new one appears. And the clans in good standing and in the Western World ... nothing personal is a business .... 38 Scout Traders @@ Merchants at all times served as an excellent source of information. Therefore, some of the bottom were scouts or rather even spies. collecting information during their travels, making geographical maps, putting on them important information. Such as mountain passes, roads, customs posts, bridges, ferries, the location of mountain fortresses and mineral deposits, water sources, mines. Over time, such merchants collected data on ethnography, etymology, culture, traditions and rituals. They built their intelligence networks throughout the journey. Their residence was located in shopping centers, namely, caravanserais. From India to Kashgar, from Yarkand to Tobolsk. And often the merchants, already from the 17th century, living in the Eastern principalities, already worked on the Empire. It was not a betrayal of national interests; it was just a business. That was how long-lasting contacts began to form, first the merchants, then their clans with the imperial intelligence organizations. About such merchants tells in his novel "KIM" Kipling. British scouts in the face of Bengali merchants came to the territory of Asiatic Russia, namely to the Emirate of Bukhara, merchants from Bulgaria applauded to India and Afghanistan under the protectorate of the British Empire. At the same time, beginning in 1874, US military topographers were engaged in mapping the border areas of Asian Russia. In the period from 1861 to 1930, foreign traders, travelers, writers, artists, photographers, scientists, merchants visited these territories ... not the fact that they were not scouts .... For example, in 1940, a map of the Asian part of the Japanese Imperial Army ¡ª was issued ... In general, when new lands appeared on a topographic map of empires, in the period of the 19th century, then literally, after some 30-40 years, these lands became new colonies.@@ 39 Clan business in Small An @@ In Small An, it was still good to be in the construction business. There was no master plan yet. Investors could choose any piece of land in the city center and demolish all the houses, both private and multistory. Acting like a yakuza or a sicilian mafia. Evicting residents of houses on the street. Selecting property, paying ridiculous compensation in the amount of 1-2 percent of the real market value of housing. Evicting tenants from the city center to the outskirts, in their own newly built buildings. whose walls cracked, the gas system worked poorly, the roof leaked after the rains. Instead of concrete lay sand on the floor, jammed doors. On the lands where houses were demolished, investors built new houses in six months, selling them for millions of dollars. You could become rich in a year. A house in the center of the city, bought for almost 2 percent of the market value and sold for 200 percent! So many clans got rich ... 20 years passed, formats changed, clan influence weakened ... then new clans came ... and demolished houses of old clans, paying them the same 2 percent of market value. Therefore, doing business in Small An, was a risky business and it was possible to engage in investments only for the short term. Those who hoped for a calm and sustainable business development for 6-10-20 years, having bitterly paid for their illusions. Their property was nationalized by the clans ... they remained beggars ... respect for private property among the clans in Small An ... was zero! Therefore, the clans quickly grew rich while there was strength and just as quickly became poorer when the strength left. The most cunning of the clan world quickly made money at home, then they transferred money to offshore, bought themselves new citizenship for $ 100 million somewhere in Europe, bought themselves a ready-made business for $ 300 million, and enjoyed having more 20 billion dollars. And at home in the meantime, the standard of living fell ...@@ 40 THIS WORLD DOES NOT EXIST! The fictional country Small AN ... you can write such a world ... the most difficult thing for an author is to write a nonexistent, fantastic world so that the reader can see it with his own eyes ... BUT THIS WORLD DOES NOT EXIST! For example, in order to develop new directions in science, in order to come out later on commercialization, you need to apply for funding. Grant system. Justification, relevance, novelty, getting the final, finished product, benefits for people ... extract from the idea of ??profit. There are a lot of people, a lot of ideas, development is underway, honest co-tourism is being implemented, new start-ups will appear ... new investment projects. New jobs are being created, scientists are introducing their developments into production. Create their own private laboratories and high-tech companies. The enclosed finance in education and in scientific projects, start to bring money. mastered new methods and technologies. New productions are being created, new products are being produced, new market niches are being mastered, and goods are slowly entering the external, world market. Science and production begins to receive foreign recognition and foreign currency. Earned money can be invested in getting a good education, learn new methods and technologies, implement them in a new project. Based on the experience gained, it is possible to create new scientific and educational areas. ON CONDITION and that the competition when submitting applications will be fair. And if not? That grant funding will receive the "one" friend, the clan. Since the money is not very much in the funds for projects. therefore, those who distribute funds can give money to "their" acquaintances. And not to the project that is of interest for the development of science and technology. And without money, what will you do? Sometimes even the topic of new projects is relevant, financial resources are allocated for it, you need to report for them ... but for some reason, are these topics being reduced? In general, such garbage ... and how can we develop science? There is a fund to finance new scientific works, monographs, textbooks ... when the new work is ready, there is no money anymore. And the scientists themselves, pay their money to publish their textbooks or not to publish ... but just to go to another country and do real science there or work as an electrician at a construction site, wash floors ... well, as lucky as anyone ... These are those who have recently been a designer and built satellites and airplanes ... now having lost their qualifications, he can only wash the floors ... whereas ... if ... if only ... there were funding for significant projects, then there would be their companions. And so 40 years have passed ... and of all the high-tech industry with more than 7,000 people, there are only 20 people left in the Small AN ... and then some are already retired ... and others have been disappointed in science ... since the last 15 years on their subject scientific organizations were closed ... and they did not work on specialization ... Clans with connivance can easily destroy the economy, reduce GDP by 10 times and, if desired, 100 times ... And so it looks like spending on science and education is big ... but in reality ... everything is completely different? It is like with the modernization of the utility system, pipes, new technologies, new equipment, new electrical networks and transformers. It seems that they were, during the last 30 years ... it seems to be talking about this every year, raising tariffs by 25-39 percent every year, 2-3-4 times. And there is no modernization as such, in part unless ... 30-40% .... Installation of a resources consumption metering system. turns into a tragedy for the user. Consumers need to pay tariffs, you need to pay for the purchase of a device for the accounting of consumed resources (it costs from 40 to 70 dollars per unit). You need to pay for checking the device, every 3 years ... So the accounting system of this data is far from transparent. Not every day you can enter a payment for them, as the computer often breaks down and the computer program starts to fail. So also the of these organizations go and sometimes make mistakes when writing data from these devices in analog form on paper ... Then fines for non-existent debts come. This is a silent horror! They can''t set up a payment and accounting system for 30 years ... although it seems we can take as an example the work of the same utility service companies in Japan or Germany. Just transfer them to the local soil, taking into account the salaries there in the developed capitalist countries ... But these seemingly simple problems cannot be solved in any way, this is not the first and second decade. All the same, the world is a magical, fantastic, simple things that become complicated, and complex things turn into unresolvable ones. But that you want the same non-existent world, pure profonation, the world of which never existed. But if it were, it would be a quiet horror! Since the consumer would still have to pay, even for the lack of service, for boorish attitude, for stupid limits, for checking, for buying at his own expense gadgets for accounting, for which there were no debts, for raising quotas, for what in the world market oil is growing, for the fact that oil is falling on the world market ... In general, just pay, shut up and say hello to the cat! It would certainly be a complete ass! The Klingon Empire ... well, this is another book and it''s a very good one, although my former sector chief said that these books were written by a smart computer. And the books were written back in 1965 ... I got 16 volumes from a departing colleague in the United States for permanent residence. We had a chief programmer, a system administrator, and there ... for the first 6 years he worked at a construction site, now he has his own company in New Yor, he has a C ++ programmer living well, his house, three cars. Life is a success! He has achieved his American dream. Something like this))) 41 Utopian world in the 21st century Every day, according to the mass media in Small-An , there was a syrup of lies. It was like ideological brainwashing. If you listen and watch what is said formally, you would imagine that you live in a new world. The world of magic, magic, where any desire is fulfilled, where the in city fountains is ambrosia. But it was worth it to go out. to see the opposite. From the world of illusions and magic, the viewer found itself in the harsh reality - neo-feudalism with elements of the slave-owning system Small-An. At the same time outwardly ezdeli cars and flying aircraft. The scenery is easy to change. In these 30 years of history, a fantastic country called Small-An has managed to achieve a lot (or lose?). The country has lost its status as a developed economy, lost $ 550 billion in GDP, highly developed culture, 98% of people with education, and 80 percent with higher education. Lost - industry, electronic, space, aircraft, tractor, agricultural combines, oil refining. Gold and foreign exchange reserves fell from 900 billion dollars to 29 ... External debt of 40 billion dollars appeared. From the good news there was an increase in the population per year by 400 thousand people from 30 years of age, the population increased from 15 million to 45. But there was no work for them. Therefore, they were forced to look for work in other countries, sometimes even illegally ... 8 to 10 million people left the country every year in search of work ... GDP fell to 30-50 billion dollars. 20 billion dollars were allocated for social projects and after that it has become 800 million dollars. For 30 years, Small An have lost - free medicine and higher education. High culture, art, high-quality and affordable higher education, research and production base, highly qualified engineers, scientists, workers, millers, turners, carpenters, drivers, teachers, doctors all there disspeared. Previously, 70 percent of doctors were qualified, now in the cities could barely find 3-4 percent competent doctors, 20 percent below average and the remaining percent ignoramuses!. Wrong diagnoses, wrong treatment, and this is in the 21st century. Therefore, patients changed doctors, moving from one clinic to another and having failed to get quality care ... they found salvation from the charlatans of healers. The illnesses were treated with aviation kerosene! Hello 21st Century and make 18! For centuries, trees, sources of water have been valued ... and for 30 years, all trees in cities were actually cut down ... for free timber ... so that clan factories could produce expensive furniture from these trees. Water sources overlapped, dried out ... public places such as parks and stadiums, were bought by clans ... and access to them was limited only for money ... It seems that decent funds were allocated for education at 800-900 million dollars every year, but for some reason, the educational institutions did not have modern technology, computers, interactive boards. There were not even new tables, chairs, wall boards ... The salary of the professors and lecturers was piecework. They trained students in September and their salary was received in August of the following year. The salary of lecturers at the rate was 130 dollars whereas30 years ago the salary for the same job was 800 dollars. In the modern period Small Ansalary of engineers was 80-100 dollars, the scientists had 150, the PH.D had 200 dollars, and the professors had 250 dollars. The grant was given for three years but in the second year - clans distributing funds could freeze funding for the project or reduce it by 40-60 percent. And to redirect the vacated money to their projects ... the system for allocating money was not transparent. Those who could not tolerate this and who had money they left for other countries and changed their citizenship. But usually, these were people from clans, only they had money, although they had money and their guards, mercenaries, they also had enough money. Expressing dissatisfaction in Small An, it was considered bad form, especially to write about it. For this were their consequences. Could simply turn off from social life, pressure groups of clans could unscrew hands from joints. No one would help ... Therefore, people preferred to remain silent ... and smile broadly. When they were thrown into the street, destroying the houses in which they lived, without giving compensation. Then only people shouted, and then, instead of 2 percent, they were given 6 percent of the real market value. The rights of inviolable private property in Small-An meant nothing. ... Tourist facilities were destroyed ... to achieve a fair payment for the property destroyed by the clans was impossible. Today the person was from the middle class with his home and tomorrow he was already without home... At the same time, people were regarded in Small An only as"rent" is a human potential, a resource in one word! When the natural resources of the clans were almost fully depleted, then they remembered abour of the human resource. If 30 years ago in Small An, there was a rich population, now the population is impoverished, but contrary to this now the clans were hedonists. They had accounts in European banks and the USA, they had their own shopping centers in Europe, a lot of real estate in the developed countries of the world, personal limousines, cars, islands, plane. Their security, their mercenaries, their army, their lawyers, their gardeners, their trolls, their journalists, their poets. Well, somehow, such a utopian world in the 21st century ... 42 Second chance Mergen was experiencing not the best of times. A long time ago, when he was an adviser, an expert who entered into a powerful Olympus, he acted according to his conscience. And not how he was whispered by his inner voice "an employee of the apparatus, an employee of the system, the cog of a huge mechanism of power of the clan world." While he followed the format, he had a chance to become a significant person in the social world. There were every chance. He quickly climbed the career ladder, every year he traveled abroad for business trips. He was supposed to be a deputy deputy director and in six months and a director!. Car with a personal chauffeur. a good salary of 10,000 dollars a month. He was an enviable bridegroom. He became an adviser unexpectedly. After he was invited to give an expert assessment. Mergen knew that almost nothing depends on his opinion whether the project will pass or not. Mergen also knew that the clan promoted him, and he made him an adviser. Mergen guessed that the project was important to the clan and had powerful lobbyists.. Big people, big clans ... and not only in Small An, but also of one western empire ... On the scales of his soul were national interests and his personal. If he had only given his approval, the mechanism would have turned further ... and if he had not, then this decision would be returned to the narrow, purely bureaucratic procedure. The project was crude, financially expensive, put Small An in a subordinate position, the Western empire received a powerful lever of pressure on the country. Mergen did not want this. So he made a decision ... He was summoned for discussion, there were key players ... Mergen voiced his concerns and said that it was better to abandon the project. Suddenly, he was supported by one of the patriarchs of the 5 most influential clans in Small An. The project was wrapped ... it did not work ... someone was very disappointed, angry, indignant ... but Mergen will find out about this later. A month later, Mergen was dismissed from the advisers ... after two, he was no longer the most enviable groom in Small An, after three he was included in the black clan list. After four he was denied the position of deputy director. Five months later he was fired from a prestigious research center. All his applications for new jobs were rejected. After seven months, his neighbors stopped talking to him. A year later, when they met him on the street, they lowered their eyes to the asphalt and crossed to the other side of the street. After a year and a half, an echo was heard on his mobile phone. After a year and seven months, all his mail services and social networks were hacked. Two years later, powerful guys from the pressure groups of clans began to visit him, during the year they came 352 days. This went on for 16 years. All of his friends and acquaintances were recruited; those who did not want to betray him were forced to go to other countries. When Mergen wanted to leave Small An himself, he was not allowed to leave for some reason.. He became restricted to leave. For some reason, all his finances in the banks froze ... He was followed on the street, there was listening equipment in the apartment. The invitations for the work that were sent to him from the USA, Canada and Australia never reached him, Mergen did not even know about them at all ... Invitations to the conference came to him after the deadline. There were figures on post stamps that the letter arrived three months ago and Mergen received it only in the fifth month. The letters sent to them did not reach the addressee. He has become a complete outcast! Outside of society ... for 16 years, pressure groups of the clan pressed it almost every day! It was an exemplary flogging, for all those who decided to make an independent decision against the will of the clans. Formats have changed ... in the blacklist of the ban on work, Mergen remained, but the observation and wiretapping was removed from it. Mergen with difficulty could not get a job in his specialty ... there was simply no other work ... All his projects were taken away by clans ... He could only get a job as a laboratory assistant. Although a couple of years ago, he was a middle manager in a prestigious research center. For 14 years he has lost his qualifications, ambitions, interest in life. Mergen was 55 years old! One night, his blood pressure jumped ... 225 to 155 ... and Mergen turned off ... 2. Mergen woke up in the morning! He was again 28 years old! A week later he was to become the deputy director of science. Tomorrow, that is, already this morning, he should have been invited to give an expert assessment to the project ... He can choose a different fate! He can become cool, powerful, rich, respected! He will have a family, children, grandchildren, the respect of others! And the soul? Oh ny can not think! In addition, the project still later appeared on the horizon. That old man, the patriarch, who supported him in order not to miss the project, suddenly died after that. Literally a year later ... and could still live and live ... Yes, and Small Anhn, five years later, he abruptly changed course and went towards rapprochement with the western empire, soon becoming its new colony ... So the victim, Mergen, was not assessed by anyone except his inner conscience. He received blows of fate and poverty for his decision, becoming lonely and outcast. So was it worth refusing a full and rich life just because of national interests? Mergen decided this time to act differently, according to his inner voice of reason, he drowned out his heart and inner conscience. Speaking to them, here he is Mergen acted according to his conscience, and he was made an outcast! What did he get from his principles? Nothing but poverty! And now there is a second chance to fix it! Need to try! What are we losing? Morning has come. Mergen approved the project. Two months later he became director. He was immediately given three cars with personal chauffeurs. The house is three storey. Salary he began to receive 25,000 dollars a month. A year later, he married the daughter of an influential clan boss. He ate deliciously, everyone respected him, greeted him with wide and joyful smiles. He traveled abroad five times a year with his family. He got kids, three. Then grandchildren. He arranged everything, married, married, to clan offspring. All his children and grandchildren had cars, at home, a good job. Small An has become a well-established new colony, all of its resources belonged to the Western Empire ... new formats came ... clans flourished and ordinary people did not ... they had small wages and taxes and tariffs were high. Those who did not sell to the clans lived in poverty. Mergen was pretty smiling sitting in the sun near the sea and was happy about the choice made right this time! 3. Not! Well, never ever! Sell yor self to ??clans? Western empire? New colony? Yes, they go forest and far! Not! I do not agree! This is not worth it ... Mergen thought ... why I dream about some sort of slime ... It''s all from the crafty whom beaten with stones! The richness bought at the expense of the peace of mind is not worth it! Whether poverty, poverty, but you will not burn in fire, you will not roast in a frying pan. I made the right decision. And the family? If it is bought in this way, the person himself as a person did not take place. He did not fulfill the main task, his life, to check whether he became a man? Does he show humanism? Oh, what just do not dream?! It was not necessary to eat meat with rice in the evening, after 7 pm. This is a violation of the Healthy Nutrition and Healthy Lifestyle! Tomorrow you need to drink gipomerts, walk 7 kilometers on foot, get some fresh air! It is not necessary to despond as Shol Nokhumovich Rabinovich spoke or the writer Scholom Alleykhum. Life is a uniquely complex and not simple thing, it is difficult to live adequately, but you need to be called the best title - a human! Independent country, is better! Down with colnialism! On ne passe pas! ! We ourselves will be able to create something of our own, reach new frontiers, develop the economy, culture, science and technology. A weak man of spirit! But as the Persians say, the more the human soul receives blows, the sweeter it becomes, the more you beat a porcupine, the thicker it becomes. That person''s soul becomes better, stronger! So the let clans go through the forest, together with the imperialists ... Life in the near life is not sugar, but this is not a reason to become a loser in the future! 4. Mergen realized that it was stupid to regret the past ... What you have, you have to be grateful for it. What managed to remain a man. Well, everything else from the evil one. We must be content with less, as his friend did, he said - thanks for what we have and thanks for what we don''t have. Now that Mergen survived the ups and downs of the fall, he did not pursue the success that the clans gave him, he understood how the world works. Therefore, the manipulation of consciousness and its hidden clan control did not inspire confidence. He said often and these clans go forest. The life of an ordinary person is better ... Sometimes he noticed that the clans were bad fishermen ... then he mentioned the book of Mitchell Wilson. "Live with lightning." He laughed.... And his eyes were so calm, a real fisherman ... 43 Methods of merchants - who dress like - simple people and clan masters There is also a "great" way to make quick money. Some dishonest merchants are packing. That is, take packages from under the Italian pasta and stuffed with pasta from another country. Italian weighs 399 grams and costs $ 5, from another country they weigh 900 grams and cost $ 2. The quality of the "falsification" is not so bad, but it does not draw $ 5. The second method is intercepting the shelf life of the product. You do not need to spend money on recycling products, you can also earn money on it. Sometimes "crooks" go through goods, mixing spoiled goods and unspoiled. Cunning traders can buy local textiles and sew supposedly foreign shirts out of it and sell them 5 times more expensive. But it is at least some work. Sometimes this is a more primitive deception - they buy local shirts, sew tags of foreign manufacturers on them and put them in beautiful cardboard boxes. The price of local - 12 dollars for 1 piece, foreign 55 dollars. The same farce and with shoes, produced from local raw materials, use cheap labor, equipment, mini-factory for the production of shoes. Price for a pair of shoes - $ 55. The market is exactly the same shoes worth 12 dollars. There is also speculation, which is called the main tool of the modern market economy. For example, the price of one medic in the suburbs can be $ 11, but in the center there are already $ 27. The shirt of the same manufacturer costs $ 8, and the store already costs $ 70. Sometimes businessmen buy in Italy, for example, the old collection, which is not already bought, it was handed over for recycling. Here it is bought for 20 percent of the price, immediately average wholesale. And then at home in Small-An, they sell for 500 percent of the nominal price, saying that this is the last squeak of European fashion. In the store, Spanish sneakers cost $ 760, and if ordered from the Internet, including shipping, you can buy for $ 360. But with an average salary of 150-200 dollars, who will buy such expensive things? How is the average statistical citizen dressed? Winter: Cap - made in China, price $ 6, jacket - either Turkey or China, price $ 100 and $ 55, vest - Turkey - price $ 40, shirt - Turkey, South Korea, China, price $ 70, $ 87 or Chinese for $ 20. Trousers - Turkey or China. The price is 80 dollars or 15. Shoes or boots - local production of 39 dollars or Turkey - 100 dollars or China - 45 dollars. Summer: - Turkey shirt - $ 28, China trousers - $ 15, shoes Local production Small An, $ 35. The most expensive accessory is an iPhone, usually China, the price is from 250 to 500 dollars, less often smartphones - Finland - the price is 50 dollars. There are also replicants of cellular phones of 2010 - $ 20 each. If in the city you see a person dressed in Swedish or British or Spanish brands. then this is clearly a person who receives a salary of $ 5,000 a month. And this means that in front of you is either a person from an influential clan or his guard or someone from the clan environment - a gardener, a cleaner, a janitor, a cook, a chauffeur, a butler. If there is a Swiss watch and leather shoes from Britain on a man''s hand, then this means you have a young master of a very influential clan. His salary starts at $ 50,000 a month. Usually such ones don''t go ... But those in the city in ordinary places not to meet, except perhaps in the business district. They drive Maybach, Mercedes, BMW, Audi, Lexus latest brands and years of release. Who is easier from their circle goes to South. Korean or Japanese luxury cars. The percentage of those who earn more than $ 5,000 a month for the capital Small An, no more than 2-3 percent of the total population of the city. What is about 2 million people. Some know how to live ... 44 Trade in the era of the Tang Empire in Small An During the rainy season, in the spring from April to May, the river called "bearing gold" in Small An, rose so much that it flooded all the bridges and crossings. Therefore, within 2 months to get from the city "Stone" that was on the right side of the river in the city on the left side, it was impossible to get. It was during these two months that prices soared up 200-300 percent. Some merchants stored goods in advance and then raised prices. Other more entrepreneurial, just skirted the river from the northwest, where it went into the sands. They sold the imported goods at 400 percent, since the goods were fresh and not stale. Especially righteous merchants sold goods with a small profit of 10-20 percent for themselves, but their poor people revered as righteous. It improved the karma of merchants and on the Day of the Last Judgment, it was sharpened by them. Therefore, the markets were mixed with the capital Small An, in the month of May from the city to settlements with the name "Thursday", "Wednesday", "Friday". Where large markets were organized, where farmers, nomads, mountaineers, and merchants from other principalities brought their goods. Farmers sold - grain, vegetables, fruits. Highlanders - mulberry flour, dry fruits, nuts, medicinal herbs, berries, gold nuggets, precious stones, carpets, saddles, arrowheads, chain mail. Nomads - animal skins, felt, camel milk and mares, sheep meat, wool, horses, wild animals, wood. The merchants brought silver coins, needles, threads, dyes for wool, mirrors, clothes, knives, sabers, bows, arrows, shields, sugar, oriental sweets, click, textile material. The merchants made the most profit by buying goods from local suburban and mountain markets, reproducing them in the capital of the CAO kingdom and the Tan empire, the Bosses empire (Iran), made a profit of 300 percent. But the most profitable trade routes were to Afghanistan, Tibet and Northern Europe, Muscovy. Profit reached 500-700 percent. Just reselling Chinese and Persian goods could make a fortune in one trip. And if there were 10 of them! It was a very profitable business. for mercenaries - security guards, for kingdoms, empires and principalities that remove small customs duties for entry and exit, for robbers. They could buy a "subscription" for a month for a safe passage. But sometimes small robber groups, attacked, ignoring the "tamga-subscription", then mercenaries or the protection of the trade route came to the rescue. The fortress-fortified fortresses with security were located every 35 km of the road, every 25 km of caravanserai. and wells every 15 km. The caravanserai could accommodate from 25 to 150 people on the route of the trade caravan. The fortress usually had 100 horse riders, 200 archers and 300 infantry. Sometimes they were more mobile groups of elite, equestrian guards of 100 or 50 people. But there one soldier cost 100 ordinary hastily trained security guards. Usually the "Steep" were not robbed, since the guards "guarding" them could find and cut out the entire village of robbers. But for their services they took a higher payment. Ordinary mercenaries took 70 gold for escorting a caravan. And editnye could take all 300. But their protection was worth it. In fact, the caravan route, fed a lot of people, from the defilers and guards to the poorest segments of the population, not to mention the elite and aristocrats. And where there is trade, there is inevitably politics, and where politics is, there is intelligence, spies, counterintelligence, double and triple agents. But then these names were without precise definitions. The term "Big Game", that is, the intelligence wars appeared only in 1813 ... And the author of this doctrine himself disappeared on this "Big Way", by the way, it is symbolic that he disappeared in the capital Small-An. Trading is a big risk, but also a big profit. 45 Merchant, Researcher, Artisan On the long road met three travelers. The first rich merchant. The second is a researcher, middle peasant. The third is a rich craftsman. The first in the purse had 100 gold, 1 gold was equal to 10 silver coins and 1 silver - 30 copper. The second in the purse was 2 gold and 12 silver and 60 copper. The third in the purse was 4 silver and 70 copper. At the merchant''s house there was a basement in which there were dozens of hooks, which were laden with gold and silver coins. The researcher''s houses had 6 gold, 3 silver and 100 copper coins. The craftsman''s houses had five chests of gold, 10 with silver and 70 with copper coins. A merchant traveled every day around the principality and organized a new business, making a profit. The researcher spent all the money received on the study of science, travel and expeditions. He wrote books, shared knowledge. But periodically starved. Science did not bring profit. The craftsman, every day went on his cart to the market and sold, woolen robes sewn by him, on the way back he brought travelers home for money. On the way, he learned a lot of new information, which he sold, the secret service of the prince. Somehow these three met. Passed the way and went to the market. It became sharply cold, a strong wind blew, this made me want to eat and shelter from the weather ... They sold bread, meat, cooked vegetables. The merchant bought, without bargaining, all food for 90 silver coins at once. And also for 1 golden place on the second floor of the caravan - a barn. For him it was not money. The researcher bargained a little with the owners of the caravanserai on the market and bought food, meat and hot water, with one bread, and a place on the first floor, in tea house, for 36 silver coins. The craftsman bargained in the bitter cold and the wind for one hour, was able to bring down the price for himself to 38 copper coins and get a place in the hayloft. Buying two breads and hot water. Who had a lot of money he did not even bargain. Whoever had little money, he bargained, but threw off not so much. Who had enough money, he bargained with inspiration until he hit the maximum price. Being a whisper means paying more for goods and services that are not worth it. Science for the sake of education, for the sake of research, for the sake of knowledge, which does not bring money, is an impermissible luxury. To overpay for a product that costs 20 coppers, means ... that there is a lot of money and there is no difference how much to pay. And those who are accustomed to save and save ... they find themselves in warmth, fed up and have their own chest with money 46 Merchant- Scientist - Craftsman 2 After spending the night in a caravanserai, the three travelers headed on. The long road grows shorter, if there are good travelers who brighten a long way with wise conversation. The merchant spoke of new opportunities, in connection with his interest in Small An, two great empires - Britain and Russia. The craftsman said that France and the Austro-Hungarian Empire show their interest in our country! New people come, bring new products and technologies. A scientist said that this is all good, but look what the British are doing in the Qing Empire ?! And the Russian Empire has already arrived in Persia. And there the interests of the Bear and the Lion collided, and the Persians do not know whom to be friends with? We are a small country, although 200 years ago, our territory was 7.5 billion mu, and now? Hardly 120 million mu. Why all? And all because we are just interested in the empire of the West! Come on, you are a scientist, a researcher, to induce murk! This is a great achievement, civilization is coming to us! The merchant said enthusiastically! New products, new features, new ideas! New money! I, for example, opened a store where I live the Singer typewriter. Bring them from the Russian Empire from the former Great Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth! The exiled Poles work for me, Dngi, I rowed a shovel! We sew new costumes, from our cotton, textiles I produce Germans ... And I sell costumes in Germany for gold coins! I have a profit of 1000 percent! And you are a village! You do not understand the power of progress! "Eh, merchant, you''re wrong"! "They, foreigners, will come to us!" "Take away our land, our resources, our capabilities"! A worried artisan said! "Yes, that is right"! "Big countries will never just help small ones"! "Yes, and apparently, if you look at our allies, the Han and Persians. They are not sweet right now. We traded with them how much, boiled manti eaten together, we did not share resources, we used each other mutually, and the Europeans think very differently. .. Big game "!" Have you heard about her, something "? Not! I did not hear the merchant said. "And I heard"! A fine craftsman! "So, this is a game, it is on the way, and that way is Silk!" "And this means that spies and scouts will come to us. And after them the merchants, and after the industrialists ... and there hello, independence, sovereignty ..."! Hey, who cares about this? I will have gold and a good life under the new government! and what is sovereignty? He will not give bread with butter and jam? "EEEEEh"! The craftsman and the Researcher (scientist) both, from a distance at the same time an exclamation of surprise! And such people happen happen on light? !!!!! "You''re not a patriot" ?! "How can this be?" Well, what do you want, for me the money is the most important thing. Yes, probably for you too. Without money, do not live ... Frankly speaking ... money decides everything! I will be able to build a new factory, my own processing, my own textile factory, I will open my stores, I will live suits and shirts, dresses and trousers. This is a gold mine! "But what about the city for their homeland, their country"? Well, what, the gold will open the way for me everywhere and a European will smile at both Asian and African and American. "Wow"! Well, what did you want? Money is the basis of life! "And I thought that the basis of life is information"! Well, that too, but money is important! And then their conversation was interrupted ... Rogues ... Trick or beat? The merchant did not want to give money, they beat him, took away the money, took away the beautiful clothes. The craftsman talked with the robbers and found common acquaintances. His sister was married to the cousin of the robber ataman. They took from the artisan only the cost per pass and protection. Only 1 silver coin. Hugged fraternally. The scientist clung to the book and said that he would not give it up for anything! The robbers simply laughed at him, finding him mad. And offend such people sin. Therefore, he was not touched, they even gave him a warm robe and a couple of dried apricots and two breads. For the merchant, gold was more precious than honor and life. For which he was beaten. The artisan relied on his language, ability to communicate, dating and communication. They helped him reduce the price of payment. The scientist was absorbed in his science, knowledge, so that he was divorced from life, from reality. Therefore, for him the book was more expensive than common sense. He was regretted, and what should he take from the wretched one? He needs to be cherished and cherished, then the boomerang will return with a good one, karma will improve. And for the robbers it is extremely important! The battered merchant, having made sure that the robbers were gone ... groaning, took out 20 gold coins from his lining from his lining! We live! And smiled through the grimace of pain! The artisan just grunted and shrugged ... And the scientist was stunned by the generosity of the robbers and could not understand the reason for their kindness to him ?! Well, scientists sometimes get simple things for a long time, whereas in complex they swim like a fish in water. The world has changed ... 47 Merchant- Scientist - Craftsman 3 10 years have passed ... The Empire conquered Small An, the brave warriors of the principality fought off the troops of the empire for 1 week but fell. What could do wick guns and spears with arrows against the guns of the system of Berdan, grapes and 24 pound guns. And also on the side of the empire were traitors from the local elite, who already 5 years before had secretly passed over to the empire. The valiant defenders of the principality fell near the city walls and on the streets of the city. They were quickly forgotten ... Within 10 days, all the city walls were destroyed. Peasants and artisans had to pay an additional tax, in addition to local government, added colonial. Good lands were given to new residents of the empire, the locals were moved to less comfortable ... All customs and border points were replaced with imperial ones, the currency was eliminated and imperial currency was introduced. All the ambassadors were expelled, the principality was forbidden to engage in foreign policy. All mines, mineral deposits, water sources came under the control of the empire. But on the other hand, new schools, medical hospitals, and a railway were built, so that you could quickly transport troops to the borders and take out resources from the new colony. They built new factories, workshops, began to produce new types of heavy and light industry. The irrigated lands were sown with a solid technical crop from which powder and textiles were obtained. And the food, cereals brought from the empire ... And so, new technologies came to the principality ... new streets appeared, gas lanterns, the principality from the Middle Ages immediately jumped into wild capitalism ... but as it turned out not long after 40 years ... ... Another 5 years passed ... The merchant opened a trading house, became even richer, bought a huge five-storey house in a new imperial district. I bought myself European carriages, put servants and guards in European clothes ... As it turned out later, the merchant was an agent of the empire, he worked for the Asian Department. The craftsman moved to Dehra Dun ... on Kalidas Road. He settled in the brigadier general''s outhouse ... bought a trade line at Hatti Barkala bazaar, where he sold his copper and silverware, quilted robes and wadded blankets ... As it turned out later, he was an agent of Etymological Intelligence of the British Empire, deputy chief of 4 divisions Central Asia and the Middle East. And the researcher ... he was engaged in science ... while he was given ... but he wrote something "not that", "not according to the format of the new empire" and he was expelled from the city ... deprived of money, social status. He lived in a cave eroded in a sandy hill near a salt lake ... for 16 years ... Then he returned ... when the old empire collapsed and ... a new one appeared. Sick, poor, but happy ... who was nobody, he became everything ... he was given the opportunity to publish and engage in his research in the newly created university. The researcher became a doctor of sciences, a lecturer, the only academician in the former principality of Small-An and the former colony! I lived for another 20 years ... after I left a scientific school ... 80 years have passed ... his students worked closely with Chinese scientists, created a joint production of new equipment to search for minerals using drones ... but this is another story. As it turned out later - the researcher was a simple man, he was not an agent, a spy, but just an ordinary citizen of Small-An, even during it''s colonization ... 48 Modern methods of business in Small-An To be able to do business! "But as"? It''s simple! You take woodcutters, sawing trees in a city, a village ... no one asks why you are chopping? Then to the woodworking plant ... You get free raw materials ... you saw and make expensive parquet, furniture, and you put money in your pocket. And taxes? Well, you pay at the minimum rate of 11 percent ... "Eeeeee"? "Is it possible"? Of course! There is a simpler way ... you buy pieces from wooden plates, they are cheaper than the plate itself. Cut to size. You collect, from them furniture. Buying parts in bulk, it turns out 300-400 percent cheaper than when buying in retail. The cost of one cabinet in this way is about $ 35, and you sell it for $ 390. The second option, with medical equipment, collects it on the knee, screwdriver assembly, the cost price of 20-30 dollars. And sell to those in need for 500 - 600 dollars. You can donate medical equipment, beds, strollers for $ 150 a month, a gold mine! "But what about conscience"? Ah, bro, in the 21st century there is no such thing as a conscience! There is another option to buy cheap drugs on the wholesale market, to enter into a price deal with competitors, to sell drugs, overestimating their cost 1000 times. Easy Money! You can buy in China, furniture fittings for small wholesale in 3000 pieces conditionally for $ 20 and sell at retail every item for $ 5. Big profit! "Is that what you call a market economy?" Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.comfor visiting. Yes! This is a market! Who had time, he ate! "But now in our markets there are mainly Chinese materials" ... "and, not Beijing - factory, but from technical parks. Villages ... some internal prefectures of China, where the quality leaves much to be desired ... Why, there are Italian materials ... made under a license in China, there are French ... made under a license in China ... but the price, for example, of a measuring meter, from a village in China is 30 cents and under the license is already all 10 dollars. Americans do not want us to be friends with China! But their hands are short ... Why all? Because we have all the processing plants from China, as well as other infrastructure ... For example, the telecommunications sector is all from China, we do not have enough money to buy another. And China has always been our ally. But we are also friends with the United States, a great country, there are many of our guest workers ... according to Green Card ... As in other countries, in Russia, China, they scattered around the world about 10 million people. There are always opportunities to develop business ... "Aha"! "About 30 percent work in the shadows and do not pay taxes" ... but they receive remuneration for their services clean, not $ 150 a month, but the whole 1000. Are they parasites? Partially yes, partly not. On the one hand, they don''t bring money to the budget but earn their living ... In general, this is a delicate question ... 49 The cunning Mergen and his trading ploy 11 @@ Mergen, knew that between April and June, the powerful river "Carrier Gold" becomes crazy and demolishes all bridges, but it is impossible to go through the fords. It''s more expensive to go around this river ... you need to spend two months, and it''s not profitable either. It is necessary to cross a lot of customs barriers, both fogs - districts, and two states. Therefore, all profits from goods will be reduced to some 35 percent! So trading is not profitable! While the river was filled with waters from melting glaciers, cities across the river, merchants raised prices very high, and those who could not cross their goods for nothing sold at three regional bazaars. And then it dawned on Mergen ?! You can cut a good jackpot. Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.comfor visiting. He will buy cheap goods at three bazaars and then sell them on the other side. And how to cross? Very simple ... through a secret passage. He was known only to the elite! Underpass under the river !!! Three carts in height five carts could go wide ... this move has remained since the Mongol conquest in 1224 ... local merchants exported goods, gold and silver under the nose of the invaders to transport it to India ... through secret mountain trails. Only the order of traveling monks, a shield and a sword knew about this road. The Shinobi Order in the service of the Silk Road Trade Guild. 175 Mongol yoke passed, and trade flourished. Since Mergen was a descendant of this order ... he knew about the passage, it was located in the narrowest part of the river, in the foothill plain ... that lay in the far north-east ...@@ 50 Something about the history of the mountains sLIGHTs The first mention in the historical literature of the mountains of light dates back to the 10th century AD. In the writings of Narhashi. Mountains "Light" they got their name in the days of Arab rule. How did the mountains build up before? Nobody remembers. But in the same mountains there are also old extensions, Lake Tangri. But there are many Arabic names in the most remote from the steppe roads, mountain gorges and passes. Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.comfor visiting. One of these names are "Rabaty" spread out over the ridge. In the days of the Arabs, they served as caravanserais and mountain outposts. But he crossed the border between the Arab Caliphate and the steppe. Now for the most part only toponymic names have been preserved from them, but in some places you can still find individual stone ruins. Alas ... no one can seriously take on their restoration, and you could create a good tourist route. But... In the mountains of "Light", rather even the southwestern extremities of the ridge, the graves of Arab soldiers on guard at the border have been preserved. Times 7-8 centuries. There is now a National Park. If we talk about the influence of empires on Small-An, then these were the Persians, Greeks, Chinese, Arabs, Mongols and Russians, Turks. Other great empires of the 19th century only indirectly exerted their influence - the French, Germans, Austrians, Japanese. In the 20th century after the first world war in Small Ahn, there were many foreigners - Belgians, Hungarians, Italians, Austrians, Germans, Poles, Czechs, Slovaks, Japanese. Some left to live in this country. The last descendants of which went into another world in the 80s of the last century. Since the 15th century, there have also been settlements in Small An, including Abisins, Persians, Greeks, earlier even Arabs, Mongols, Chinese, Hindus, Afghans, Bulgarians, Kashgars ... After the Second World War - Japanese, Germans, Italians, Romanians, Americans. There were American professors in mathematics, a boxing trainer who created their own schools, and went into another world in the 70-80s of the last century. Still in the countryside south of the Svet Mountains, Persian and Arab villages have been preserved. True, the Arabic language is very different from modern. Residents of the villages speak old Arabic, which was supplemented by local dialects. According to scientists, the Arabic language that is in those villages corresponds to the language in the 8-11 centuries of our era. And Persian - 16-18 centuries. For example, the Persian word "Darya" is translated from them as a sea and not a river. Trade routes, caravanserais, fortifications, customs points, wells, underground reservoirs are still preserved in places in the form of ruins and place names. This is a very interesting topic that needs research. 51 Curious stories from a scientist from the mountains of Light p.1 @@ In the village of "Life" in the mountains of Light, lived a scientist, Ph.D., historian. Once, in his youth, he mounted a motorcycle with a sidecar, stuffed with groceries, and drove along mountain gorges for 1 month. Mountains of Light, Pistachio Mountains, Mountains of Fish and Mountains of the Robbers, which were part of a single mountain system of Light. Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.comfor visiting. He wrote down stories, stories, collected data, and wrote a brief historian of the mountains of Light with a description of their orography (that is, relief, climate, rivers and lakes). The city itself, even the capital, from a well-known merchant, old family. His clan was known in the 18th century as one of the first merchants who began to work with Europe ... and opened trading houses in Berlin, Vienna, Krakow, Warsaw and Kashgar ... Married local ... for some reason ... love? Who knows. So he told some interesting stories about the past of the mountains of Light ...@@ 52 Curious stories from a scientist from the mountains of Light p.2 The historian said that you need to dig treasures near or along the roads, merchants, merchants, oins, robbers, travelers went along them ... you can find a lot of interesting things. We have almost no forests, but many roads. Since the time of the 8th century BC ... ... now I''ve been living here for 20 years ... and I found a lot of interesting things ... it seems clear why he stayed here in the village, flashed through my head ... Here are my findings and he casually showed his hand on the shelf where some old coins were lying in plastic bottles with ... I found copper coins of Alexander the Great, Chinese coins of the eras of Xia, Sha, Tan, Qing, Han ... and many others, Persian, Turkish, Russian, German, French, 16-19 centuries. There were ours - gold and silver, copper ... imperial, two empires ... I found arrowheads, lead bullets, fragments of swords, and even twice ... an almost complete Lewis machine gun. Visibly remained since the 1920s and 30s of the last century. I found finds in the ruins of old fortresses, caravanserais, abandoned houses on the slopes of the mountains. The finds are different ... from old books written in Arabic, to indications of silver, medals of the tsarist era, World War I ... aluminum spoons, sometimes fragments of sabers, swords ... In general, this is our story ... I''m not a black digger, so I keep everything for the opening of the Light Mountains Museum of Local Lore. I am collecting history piece by piece, both material and non-material. I preserve the cultural heritage that young people so easily sell to foreigners for a penny. Money is not the main thing ?! Money is only a means, you need to be able to maintain your identity, culture, heritage inherited from the ancestors ... What is interesting, the Light mountains were at one time part of the Boss empire, then the Tang empire, after which the border of the Arab caliphate ... the Turkic Khaganate passed ... then the border between the kingdom of Small-An and Tsarist Russia ... and then ... the mountains ceased to play any kind of importance ... they became inland ... for now ... once ... ... they were not found in them again ... forgotten mines ... walled up from the 13th century ... gold, silver ... and ... uranium ... then a second life began at the mountains ... until one day found a more convenient deposit in the desert ... and then the mountains forgot again ... only individual diggers, prospectors worked in mountain gorges ... They remembered the mountains again when they began to think about ecology ... and tourism. These mountains deserve a separate book, encyclopedia, memory ... until now, these mountains remain unexplored until the end ... The "white spot" in history. But for now, we are studying ... looking, finding! And then you can get a great museum of local lore! Showing that these mountains have never been on the outskirts of the world, and in all ages actively participated in the trading life of Asia, Europe and Africa ... Chinese travelers and monks passed through them in the 5th, 6th, 9th, 12th centuries ... they saw Genghis Khan ... maybe Alexander the Great, but not one hundred percent, although legends go about it. But the legends ... they have part of the truth and part of the fiction ... Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.comfor visiting. Some locals pointing to the cave paintings indicate that alien ships landed in the mountains ... and point to strange drawings ... a man in a spacesuit ... although this could be anything ... how to interpret cave paintings ... few know for sure, one hundred percent. One can only guess ... There is a tree that is at least 1500-2000 years old. Since this tree is considered ancient, and among the locals it is holy, because of their mixing of beliefs to monotheistic ... nobody will allow to explore the tree. One can only speculate ... There is also an ancient mountain lake with the name "Tangri" .... there are many ancient ruins of fortresses and there ... how many interesting things are hidden underground? !!!!! It''s a pity that you can''t use drones ... it would be easier, it''s a pity that you can''t use metal detectors ... well, I can, I have permission ... but I haven''t received any drones yet. I sent a request, I''m already waiting for the second year ... 53 Curious stories from a scientist from the mountains of Light p.3 I wonder when we cleaned the old tree ... we decided to dig up the roots, and not just from the burn? Burn? Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.comfor visiting. Well yes! In hemp, make a drill with a nozzle a hole 20 centimeters deep ... and 15 cm wide. I fill it with kerosene or gasoline. Close the hole with a bag. A week later, when gasoline spreads through a still living tree, it is set on fire. This is inhumane ... cruel, inhuman ... but such methods can also sometimes be seen in the city. We just dug a hole near the stump ... took out a stump ... and next to it, to our surprise, we found a small wooden chest. And in it ... old books in Arabic, a parish book, icons and a revolver, with a dozen rounds, several royal medals, a stack of gold coins with the image of the Russian tsar and some kind of decayed piece of paper that, when touched, it disappeared with us in front of my eyes. Apparently it was a treasure, of some tsarist official ... who, when changing formats, decided to bury it all and then come back ... apparently he didn''t come back. We handed over the weapons, called the police ... and the find was placed in the local historical museum ... that was in a provincial town. And then all this disappeared somewhere ... or maybe just transferred to a storeroom ... The historian thoughtfully puffed on a cigarette ... I then looked in the archives and funds ... found data that in this village there was a police officer, foreman ... after the revolution, as a counter-revolutionary, he was taken to an emergency commission to check ... and after he escaped ... he was never found ... although there is a note in the fund''s data that he was seen in Kashgar in 1930 ... he worked as a clerk in the bazaar. Well, somehow the story is formed ... from notes, finds ... studies ... There were also finds of flint flakes, some broken ceramics ... once in a karst cave I found the bones of a cave lion ... passed them to the museum of geology ... On the plain I found petrified shells and black shark teeth, they were 20 centimeters long and 7 centimeters wide .... 54 Curious stories from a scientist from the mountains of Light p.4 Interestingly, I took the old maps, the Arabian paths, and made a map with it, put it on ea satellite images of different years and I got a new map. Map of the ruins and trade roads of the Silk Road period. On them I even found the lost cities and villages that existed in the 7-9 centuries of our era and were in the 10-16 centuries. And then they suddenly disappeared. - Gone? How so? Were and suddenly gone? Everything is simple. The situation changed, copper was no longer needed, in such volumes as was previously required, in other cases, there were gold mines near the settlements ... but then they were canned ... and the merchants stopped coming. Since there was nothing besides gold in these cities ... there were also those cities where roads changed, they began to pass through more convenient places ... Merchants stopped coming ... and people left the cities ... some villages were covered with sand ... some were smelled during the era of total industrialization ... During the race for the USA ... when the task was to get more crops than in the USA. .. And everything that could be smelled and turned into arable land was smelled. During this period of time, many old clay fortresses and caravanserais suffered this fate. Surprisingly then these objects were not even studied by historians ... how many books in Arabic were simply destroyed, as well as in Chinese, in Persian ... Now it''s just that I am doing research ... I learned a lot. China and Persia were much closer to us than described in historical literature. Neither the Greeks nor the Chinese had a greater influence in antiquity. Now the Chinese have come to Small-An again ... they are a deterrent to the neo-colonization ... of large empires. Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.comfor visiting. The Silk Road unites ... as in antiquity ... ... Previously, our mountains of Light ... were closer to Arabistan, Europe, China, Persia than now ... there was trade, caravans arrived every 2-3 months ... brought goods from the East. Bananas, nut nuts ... were known back in the 15-17th centuries ... It was later that, with the advent of the Iron Curtain, all trade relations were broken ... and our mountains simply became a "region forgotten by the world." For example, in the mountains, on the pass, I found an old Arabian caravanserai. Its ruins ... it operated from the 9th century to the 12th century ... when I looked near its walls, at a depth of 40 cm I found a couple of coins ... they were dated to the Tang era and 5 dynasties and 10 kingdoms and the Yuan empire ... So the trade continued ?! There were Arab dinars and Umayyad dinars and dichramas ... Of course, there you need to work with a metal detector and geophysical equipment. But it''s impossible to work with us at such facilities without obtaining special permission from the Committee for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage. Especially if it is not a legal entity. In general, I have filed an application so far, but there is no answer ... I''ve been waiting for the third year already. This is probably why many mountain areas still remain "white spots" in history. There is another interesting object to study, an ancient fortress, on the site of the settlement and the source of water, known since the Neolithic! The fortress appeared later in the 8th-13th centuries and was rebuilt three times in the 14th century, 16th and 19th ... The study of the fortress was ... but superficial in 1946, 1957 and 1976 ... and now there are new tools, new technologies that could give more practical material ... but for some reason everything remains unexplored. History is also part of politics ... some of the data can simply be silent, forget, not say ... here history turned in another direction. Although this is a substitution, falsification of facts, but who cares? History as a science, this is a separate song ... but we will not talk about this sad topic. For example, following a map compiled by myself, I went from a wholesale bazaar where goods were brought from Yarkend, Kashgar and Gaochan ... to the Svet Mountains. Surprisingly, on the way I used a metal detector ... found a lot of interesting material ... can be called cultural heritage monuments ... These are mainly coins and arrowheads ... broken copper jugs, saber remnants, peak tips ... horseshoes ... In the mountains of Light, I also found cartridges, cartridges, a pair of rifles and revolvers and machine guns of the First World War ... Surprisingly, our region of the mountains of Light covers an area of ??40 thousand square kilometers and the history of the eras of various empires, powers and principalities over 60 centuries is concentrated on it !!!! 55 Curious stories from a scientist from the mountains of Light p.5 The search for gold coins or silver or copper or bronze is certainly very exciting. But it''s even more interesting to find old and even ancient Arab travel guides and search for lost cities through them. The times of the Silk Road. You''re walking through the desert ... nothing is visible except the sands, rocks, a dull relief ... and suddenly ... you launch a drone and you see that it''s not dull sands but the city ... the remains of the city. The directions of hydraulic structures, canals, reservoirs, and some structures are being traced. But while you are on earth, you do not see this. Sometimes you go along a ridge ... along a barely noticeable road, rather even a path and here on a ledge of a rock ... you can see the remains of stone ruins. This once in the 14th century was an Arabian caravanserai. To search in the remains of stone ruins in summer is a dangerous business. There snakes chose a place for themselves. Lords of the mountains and steppes. They even eat cobras, other snakes. They do not crawl, but walk like a tractor, an adult snake reaches a length of 3-4 meters. When thrown, it can knock down an adult man. But in December it''s easier to search, but it''s cold. You need to take insurance with you. I found a couple of times in such caravanserais, dried wells and in them old wooden chests and cards. Ancient cards. After all, it is interesting what cards were in Small-An, 600 years ago. These were not familiar maps with a degree grid, with directions to the north. It''s just a map, with a direction to the south ... with reference to some kind of "symbol-labels" then known - mountains or villages that already had other names in the 20th and 21st centuries and sometimes even ceased to exist. So try to find what is indicated on such a map? After all, the relief has changed, and the direction of the rivers, lakes have dried up, the mountains have changed their outlines ... settlements have disappeared. I repeat, this is my mistake. But this is from excitement. Nevertheless, having overlaid with old maps and road builders for 300-400 years, I managed to find these tips in half a year. My path lay from the mountains to the foothill steppe. Parallel to the northern ridge of the Sveta mountains, there was an ancient road known from the 10th century AD, opposite the 2-golden-apple-tree mountain gorge, the map was Chinese ... (here it must be taken into account that it was different in different eras and in length). I went around the remains of the ancient canal that led me to the hill, it already swam strongly, but on its top, the ruins were clearly visible ... It was an Arab fort, a customs post, on the border between the steppe and mountains. This form was mentioned in the Chinese road builder of the sunset of the Tan Empire ... Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.comfor visiting. Armed with geophysical equipment, I found voids there ... Having received permission from the local administration, we drove an excavator ... after two days of searching, in addition to broken ceramics and a handful of silver coins, we found the remains of an ancient map ... The restoration of which took 11 months ... having received a copy in my hands, I spent another 3 years to find another place ... whether it was 55 or so from the original place ... In the desert ... the outlines of salt lakes, two ... were preserved ... and there, near the shore, a preserved entrance to the underground mine was discovered ... ... it was not deep ... 15-17 meters long ... and there, under a treasured stone, there was another card on the skin ... which took another year to restore. And this map pointed to the top of Mount Seven Fingers, which was located on the southern ridge of the Svet Mountains ... a karst cave was discovered there ... and another map ... that led to Keder. But Keder is now in another country ... there local historians have long found her, purely random and she was posted in the electronic archive of the center for the study of the Silk Road. But the cardholders themselves were not aware that this card was a piece of a big puzzle ... Well, I copied it. Using a GIS software product, we performed a layer-by-layer analysis ... and found a hint ... that another map lies with us again. The map was located in the Pistachio mountains ... near the village of Sweet Apricot. I had to search ... found a map in the hollow of an ancient tree, which was already 1200 years old ... - And what''s next? Intrigued? - What were the results of this search ???? - What did you find? Wait, not all at once ... the studies are long, sometimes the research process itself is more exciting than the result itself ?! - What? So you didn''t find anything? But why? Found it! So much so that my eyes bulged out and my tongue fell out of my mouth! Were astounded by this grand find! 56 Curious stories from a scientist from the mountains of Light p.6 - And what was that? Treasure. As usual ... and it was divided into two parts, the big one was hidden, somewhere on the Hindu Kush pass, the smaller one here. Which one is more valuable? Hell knows? And before there, no one in their right mind gets ... the traces of the second part of the puzzle are lost, there ... and not the fact that these cards were saved there ... Probably all these cards have long been in the arsenal of etymological intelligence of the British Empire. Well, our treasure ... these were three large chests of gold coins dating from the 16th century. Although there were gold and silver coins of the 7-15th centuries. Including Arab, Dutch, English ... trade ... silver pieces from China ... copper coins. Silver jewelry was found with turquoise, agate, pomegranate, amethyst, rock crystal, uncut diamonds ... a few rubies and emeralds, just a couple of dozen. Old manuscripts in Farsi and Arabic ... all this was transferred to state museums ... and only specialists have access to them. But hell knows what kind of research they did, because they couldn''t share their articles for the general public ... Maybe they found something ... or maybe not ... But I didn''t see this treasure anymore. - And what about the reward? Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.comfor visiting. Ahahahahhahahahahaha! Well, you made me laugh ?! In Small-An, we still have the old imperial system, based on "that everything found in the land belongs to the state" and "Not to a private person" ... so that they didn''t give a damn except "honorable letters "! Therefore, I said that the search process itself was more exciting than the result itself! Ahahahhahahahhahaa !!!! This is for you baby is not a capitalist relationship! Here in Britain they found a treasure, who found it, divided it 50 into 50 with the owner of the land, a farmer. And then the treasure hunter bought himself a big house, a car and a lot of money left with this money. And the find of the 10th century was bought out by state and private museums. This is how the capitalist system works! And here ... well, let''s not talk about sad things ... There is a second way, or better to say, there are treasures not directly related to coins or jewelry ... but they are connected with the cultural heritage, namely with the ancient gene pool ... ancient plants, garden and garden cultures. 57 Curious stories from a scientist from the mountains of Light p.7 @@ Gold? Silver? Jewelry? Coins? Old manuscripts? Ancient cards? These are of course treasures! This of course is money! But this is not real wealth! Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.comfor visiting. - you, that historian, completely out of your mind survived? This is money!!!! How can this not be real wealth ?? !!!! ????! Well, you are still young, green, do not understand that there is wealth much more valuable than gold! This is information! Information laid down by ancient breeders! From it you can extract a lot of valuable material, knowledge! Yes, and in terms of gaining benefits@@ 58 Curious stories from a scientist from the mountains of Light p.8 And there are more bonuses ... how do they appear? Yes, this is a smart approach, new markets for products ... The world did not stand still, like our Small-An ... did not live 35 years in the groundhog day. The world has developed, all sales markets are already occupied by other countries, contracts are concluded for 15-20 years in advance. And then we appear ?! And hello I am your aunt, we came give us a place in the market ?! Now! Of course, no one will give anything! Especially if the products do not meet very stringent requirements - quality, safety, and the price is already set on the global market. Dumping stocks cannot work in the medium term. In the market, a new player can gain a foothold only by providing exclusive products, and at the same time, he must know "his buyer". All over the world, every year, thousands of experts, chefs of researchers study new and old forgotten varieties of fruits, berries, root crops to find a new and unforgettable taste, texture, aftertaste, aroma, structure, color, etc. Just our, forgotten varieties - nuts, berries, fruits, root crops, can provide these experts with what they are looking for! These are unique fruit samples of the 17-18-19 centuries. Alas, we used to have an institute for the conservation of biodiversity and the gene pool of plants and animals ... BUT, there was not enough money in the budget for this institute, and it was closed ... but the collection disappeared ... it could not contain, many seeds were gone, part dragged away ... so there is nothing left for today. Therefore, my work is all that we have ... I have already talked about this many times! But now it seems we can try to implement this idea. Recently, in March, a young businessman, farmer Dara, came to visit us ... so now we decided to try to grow the varieties I found in my mountains and in his foothills. Let''s see what happens ?! This is not only money, but also the preservation of the cultural heritage of our ancestors! Their respect and reverence for their work! Why can''t this be done on a mass basis? Because modern farmers in our Small-An do not understand the intricacies of doing agribusiness. They want crops to be higher and not their quality and taste. With this approach, their varieties of garden and horticultural crops are lost. More and more dominance of foreign, from Eastern Europe and Western Asia and the Far East. Meanwhile, our unique varieties just disappear. You will not see them in the capital markets, and indeed in large cities. If they are, only in local markets. If 30 years ago we had a wide variety of local varieties of fruits and melons, dozens of varieties, now there are less than 8-9 varieties and that''s all! If this trend continues ... then, with a high degree of probability, it can be argued that in 5 years local varieties will disappear altogether! And so we are now with Dara ... we will be able to preserve the old views in the world market, in particular with our friends from Sichuan, we can sell these products. And they have access to world markets! We are fortunate that, historically, China, Persia and Arabistan were our ally. So with the right approach, we have good prospects. And what can I say, many of our compatriots live in Arabistan, they managed to escape ... before the advent of the empire ... It is amazing that I saw our compatriots from Small-An, in Sweden ... they are really fair-haired, their eyes are blue, but they remember their native language. True ... they changed their faith ... now Protestants. And at the same time, of course, they are not the same as before. It is amazing how many of our compatriots have traveled around the world ... but not everyone has managed to maintain their identity! Well, who lives like that. Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.comfor visiting. Here, Dara and I will turn around! 59 Curious stories from a scientist from the mountains of Light p.9 Interestingly, the taste and aroma, texture of berries, fruits, nuts, edible roots, it is unique. Not only tasty, but also healthy. Persians, for example, often used healthy food as a treatment for diseases. The Chinese used food as an additional treatment. A good, full-fledged dream, the right food is 80 percent health, Dara told me so, and his friend, Fang from Chengdu, told him! And 20 percent of health is achieved with the right medication. I''ll say that we still need a good doctor who will make the correct diagnosis and prescribe the right treatment! Here, just what a person has depends on the person. We can provide people with a healthy line of food. Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.comfor visiting. And to world culinary specialists, new, actually old and well-forgotten tastes. We will sell a little ... but in this way the price will be higher. High-quality, environmentally friendly product, which also gives a healing effect. And for this, we need to interest elite restaurants. How to do it? Find the right people! How to find? Through acquaintances, friends. Foreign tourists often come to our mountains ... scientists, and through them we will make new contacts. Foreign scientists are not simple ... most of them, the elite in their countries. Just recently a German came to us, a scientist so-so, but his uncle was a big shot in Berlin. Or a French woman, a scientist, came in for climate, and she is a countess ... a European, sophisticated aristocracy, among other things, and she is a master of business administration ... that is, she knows a lot about money. She has her own business, restorn! It is through them that we will sell our products! Move to European markets! The main thing is to start, and there the investments will be pulled. Maybe we''ll win some kind of foreign grant to object to the ancient agro-cultures in the highlands ?! Who knows? Need to try?! Indeed, a great potential is laid in these agro-cultures! Then people were not so frail, immunity was higher! And the secret lies precisely in the fact that before the fruits were clean, with great vitality! Just the very thing, for Europeans and Asians with their poor ecology, inherited from the industrial era! And you ask, why is it so clean here? Everything is simple! Very simple! 35 years as we have no industry ... so everything is clean and good. - And the mining industry? It''s not in our mountains ... all the mines have been developed ... only artisanal artels have remained ... so that cleanliness and peace ... "But what about strontium 137?" Does it stay in the soil for a long time? Uh, well, you''ve completely gone already ... we have done research ... everything is clean ... don''t hesitate! So, we started with Dara ... to organize our own eco-store, we will pack and sell our products to Europe and China. So far, only in two small restaurants near Paris and in three restaurants in Chengdu. Well, then we''ll see how things go! The main thing is that we and Dara will have foreign currency! And this means that Dara will be able to buy new technologies for processing berries and nuts! Its cool! And I can finally realize my grandiose project to publish the results about the history of the mountains of Light! It''s worth it! 60 Treasures You can break the jackpot and not only digging in the ground, said the historian. Over the past 35 years, several countries and empires have disappeared from the political map of the world. New states appeared. And they all had coins. They deserve different things, different years of release, different mints of release. Some had a marriage, others in the carelessness of the mint workers were released on a different metal basis. For example, they had to use a copper-aluminum alloy to issue 1 cent coins and issued them on silver-nickel as for 10 cent coins. Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.comfor visiting. Somewhere a spikelet on a coin was shot down, sometimes instead of three spikelets there were four, instead of 15 ribbons 17 and all these mistakes ... this is money for collectors. A coin with a face value of 1 cent can be sold for 100 or even all 1000 dollars. Interestingly, all these coins are in common people''s pantries, they can be found in parks, flea markets. They sell them for 10 cents and they can be sold to collectors for hundreds of dollars and some especially valuable copies for 10,000 - 20,000 dollars. The same applies for example to old manhole covers, sometimes the price can reach $ 550 for a manhole of the end of the 19th - beginning of the 20th centuries. Prices also have old rails, which can sometimes be seen sticking out of the ground in 19th century building sites. Previously, rails served as strengthening the foundation of houses, rafters, fasteners for telegraph poles. The houses were already demolished, but the rails remained. Sometimes you can read them - the Belgian Railway in 1867, sometimes the French Republic of 1888, the Imperial Railway of 1898, the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1878 ... and these rails also cost money, they are bought at auction for $ 400-800 . There are those who understand the old days, in china, German or Austrian ... sometimes in flea markets you can see them. Where are they from? These are trophies from the second world war. Previously, one could meet old German cars, motorcycles and bicycles. But in the 90s, almost all of them were exported abroad and there they were sold for tens of thousands of dollars. Less often, breaking old houses in them find trophies from the Second World War, sometimes from the First World War - pistols, machine guns, cartridges, bayonet-knives, works of art, ancient books in German dating from the 14th to 16th centuries ... Someone brought them from Geramania after war ... and then could not attach. And the veterans of the war did not hand over the weapons to the police, for some reason they left to themselves ... but then their descendants still surrendered these weapons to the police, as the media write. Sometimes at the flea market you can find an icon, a mug, a pen, a watch ... it costs a cent and sell them for hundreds of dollars. It would be nice if these finds were in the museum, we would learn more about our history ... but ... now all finds are on the market ... Also, regarding old stamps ... but I''m not very good at this topic, but for example, in our mountains in the World, sometimes rare stamps can be found on envelopes of the 40-60s. The Germans came to us, scientists, having seen such an envelope, this scientist in exchange gave it to my neighbors - a new digital SLR camera and laptop. Probably those brands were worth it ... 61 The historian’s thoughts on the treasure hunt technique The historian noticed, I decided to make a map of all the ruins, abandoned mines and mines, smelters, caravanserais and fortresses, abandoned villages and temples and clusters of cave paintings It took me 10 years. In total, in the mountains of Light, Fisherman, Pistachios, Robbers, White Mountain Ram, Red Apple and Black Mountains, I found about 350 historical sites. Made a map. Now received permission to use a metal detector and geophysical equipment. It took another 5 years. Now I am combing, square by square, of all these historical artifacts. I enter the information in the database. It may seem boring, not related to trade, but it is not ... I am compiling a map of the trade roads and trade infrastructure of the Silk Road during the period of Imperial Tan and the Arab Caliphate on the territory of our Light Mountains. My findings and research change history, give a better understanding of how the trade was carried out and what they sold and what they bought. According to my information, which I found in a pre-mine mine of the 15th century ... in an old Arabic manuscript ... that it is in these mountains, the Light or the Pistachios, that a part of Mirzo Ulugbek''s library is hidden. And hid her, his faithful disciple Ali Kushchi! I thought it was close to solving the mystery. The faithful student took most of the manuscripts to Istanbul, but he hid some interesting works in one of the buildings, in the old caravanserai. With the name "moonlight path". The difficulty of the search lies in the fact that on the writings of Arab and Persian historians of the 16-18th centuries there are seven names of such caravanserais - three in the Svet mountains and four in the Pistachio mountains. But I found only two caravanserais, their ruins, in those mountains. There are no data on caravanserai on the maps of the 16-17th centuries, and there are names on the maps of the 18-19th centuries, but they are all different. I think this is probably due to the fact that the names of the toponyms of these caravanserais have changed over 300 years ... I would continue to search the collections and archives to narrow the search ... BUT, our smart heads in Small-An decided to update the history of the country, having deleted from it the past connected with the empire ... and most translations of works from Arabic and Farsi was made in imperial times ... Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.comfor visiting. As a result, millions of books from collections and archives were simply ripened ... And what can I say? So can you change the story? Faking her? Only for the young generation ... and the old one will remember ... and there''s not much sense from this ... So I just had to stupidly check all the caravanserais in these two mountains ... and this is not as fast as we would like ... it will take at least 20 more years ... But maybe by that time new technologies will appear that will make it easier to find the hidden underground? 62 The historian’s thoughts on the treasure hunt technique p. 2 "It used to be hard to find places to research, before the Internet." The historian from the mountains of Light sighed heavily. Now it''s easy, once you have picked up a search engine and a miracle, the assistant will immediately give you an answer, you will find a forum, you will receive advice, you will buy a device depending on the thickness of the wallet and go. Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.comfor visiting. And in our time, it was necessary to get permission, a lot of permissions. Permission to read materials from scientific foundations, permission to visit the archive, permission to access handwritten materials. Permission to use old maps, permission to use space and aerial images, not to mention permission to use a metal detector. There were a lot of problems with him. The usual permit usually took time to get from 1 to 3 months. But with a metal detector, it was an ode ... 3-5-7 years old ... just write the rationale and get the refusal. Until one day they allowed ... the truth is only in places not connected with already open historical places. In this regard, I was lucky that I compiled a map of historical artifacts, out of 470 of them, only 15 were included in the register of cultural heritage monuments and the rest were ignored. Well, this is understandable, in order to prove their importance as monuments, it was necessary to conduct research, to obtain evidence of their existence in historical times. But there is no money for these studies. Therefore, I was able to get permission. Having access to information, it was necessary to shovel books, manuscripts, ancient road workers, old topographic maps, new topographic maps for that period of time, space and aerial images. Process them, find "marks" in them, these can be names of geographical places, streams, rivers, mountain gorges, mountain peaks or mountain passes, names of villages. Previously, they existed and now they are no longer in sight. I often repeat myself, but this is in order to better understand myself ... "yeah, yeah, Dara thought!" So ... having gathered all the materials and tools in one place, I proceeded to research. I needed to organize all the data. To break them into eras, to trace trade routes, through which points they went, what these points were called. And here I will allow myself to move away a bit, temporarily from the main topic of our discussion. "Damn it, scientists, they all speak scientific, formal, language ... they confuse, speak simpler, flashed through Dara''s head ..." And to be simpler ... "as if he reads my thoughts thought Dara!" ... then, you need to pay attention to what language the geographical name was ... sometimes it had "Sogdian roots", sometimes "Aramaic", sometimes "Sanskrit", often Mongolian, occasionally Arabic, very rarely Chinese, more common Persian, Bactrian ... Here you need to understand that if there were nearby the same names of geographical objects, in the same language, it was an occasion to think, and not "is it a label"? Then translate the name of the object into a modern language. And here it was still necessary to take into account that the language has changed over the centuries and even millennia. And what used to be the "Sea" is now understood as the "River." So, you need to look for dictionaries of ancient words, ancient languages, consult with linguists, philologists, archaeologists, ethnographers ... this time. The last words they say are etymologists. They are experts in the history of language development. Bored? Yes! Surely! But I, as a researcher, really liked the process itself, communication, I learned new things about my country, about neighboring countries, about how society developed ... "But what about the result?" He asked, Dara. And what is the result? He was! Very interesting! "Interesting"? "And what about the money?" Well ... there was money too ... but this is secondary, we are interested in the scientific result itself! "ahhh, everything is clear with him ... one more nunchy geek" Dara thought with regret ... "damn it and even in these distant mountains, I happened to meet such a geek ..." "Do not shadow the rubber, idiot ... let''s say that I found and how"? !!!!! So, having learned the "Label", I begin to search for data on it, what was mined nearby, what was grown, what was sold, and with whom, in what year. And here the fun begins! "Interesting, how is it ... for you a scientific geek it is interesting, but for ordinary people boring ..." you fool, I ask him about what money can be made for, but he tells me a story for 60 centuries! " !!! Baka !!!! The most interesting ... is the search for trade routes, routes, determining directions and then roads !!! It is on the roads that we can find old coins ... of different eras. Sometimes they just lie in the sand and sometimes you need to dig 20-40 cm ... sometimes the signals come from 80 cm depth. Here, if the terrain allows, you can drive an excavator ... well, if not, dig it yourself ... if the soil is rocky .. then this is generally the work ... Personally, I found the most coins on the roads ... from the Sun empire to the Tang empire, the Bossu empire, and of course, many coins from the first and second empires ... sometimes you can see Arab coins of the Abbasid dynasty era. Less commonly Macedonian coins. Knives, sabers, lead bullets, cartridges, the remains of rifles and double-barreled guns. Last probably The latter probably have a more modern history. It was them who were buried there by poachers who hunt wild boars and wolves at night ... and in the morning they blow electric fish into small ponds. When the guard fish rides, they bury their guns in the sand ... and maybe then they have no way to quickly find and dig them. In those places, and this is the foothill plain, there are often floods of the river, and it fills the ravines and from there spreads through the desert ... therefore, the iron in those places quickly rusts. Mountains of Light, they are located in the south of a large river, they are separated by large ravines, then a foothill plain, in the west there is a "fiery desert", in the east a "Waterless steppe", in the north there is a large river and a boundless steppe and in the south it limits it " gold-bearing river. " The Light Mountains region itself ... "Eeeee, good, here I''ll drive a blizzard, let''s say the methodology and what and where I''ve found, I''m damn not at a scientific congress" !!!! Yelled, Dara, having lost all patience and eastern respect for elders !!!!!! Well, young man, no need to rush ... ... the technique is simple ... but also difficult ... "Damn .... simple and difficult, is it an axymoron?" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 63 The historian’s thoughts on the treasure hunt technique p. 3 "It''s simple, young boor!" The historian said. "You don''t understand the whole story of research, the process of work is interesting and not its final result, it''s just like a cherry on a cake!" "Nothing more"! - Uh, dear! I noticed, Dara, you see, I''m not a student already, I''m a businessman. Farmer, shopkeeper. I have little time. "Well, you yourself, were interested in the history of these mountains, how to look for coins and other precious objects" ?! "This is also work, this is an interesting work, adventure, quest, good luck, sometimes you find trash in general, and sometimes coins for which you can earn some money!" - I understand that, just talk about it, tell me about the method, don''t need a lot of water, I''m not a scientist, I just came here to make easy money to develop my business in the capital! Said, losing his temper, Dara. "I understand that, but you show warmth, you yourself live in the East and must understand how life is arranged here." - Eeeee ... oh well ash stump ... (Local dialect) ... - Okay, let''s say the methodology ... and what did you find, how much and where did you sell it, did you become a millionaire? Said Dara. "Well, you old man, have you read Jack London?" - Ahh, you about the fact that a real treasure hunter or a gold digger will never say that he hit a big jackpot? "About it, dear"! - Hey, sir, historian, do not say this word, they beat us in the face for this! Noticed, Dara. "Why"? "This is such a familiar way of talking in the West!" _ Well, damn it, we are not in the West, we ourselves were talking about the East! - We don''t like familiarity, some kind of horseradish from the mountain (a local dialect came from the second empire) - and says, dear, it smells like bad. - It''s good if they''re just banned in the network, in real life, it''s possible to get a shot in the face! "Ahh, I seem to understand!" "But you also understood where I got this catch phrase" - Sure! This is from the Kinzaza movie! "Intelligent"! "They''re gone." - Yes, but they skillfully hide. Ahahahaahhahaa! Laughed, Dara. "Well, let''s move on to our rams" (local dialect). "So: look for old maps of the 19th century, the 18th century they are not very accurate, you need to mess around there more. Imperial military maps of the second half of the 19th century, tsarist, British, Germanic, Austro-Hungarian, Japanese, are best suited. Well and the USA. Yes, the USA in the late 70s of the 19th century intensively mapped the territory of Asia. Then we need satellite images and aerial photographs, there are archives, they are free, practically. The data that you write out from the ancient road builders are Arabic in the main and the first empire, after information from historical manuscripts of the late 19th century - early 20th centuries. Historical names, the origin of place names, make up the database. You record key data in a table. Unforgettable to look for them on the old map. Prescribe their coordinates. You attach all the cartographic data to the area, for this you will have to use GIS software. Perhaps applications for digital thematic processing of satellite images, software. With an application for processing archaeological data. You find the data from the cards in a satellite image and do their binding. Then you will need to clarify them on the ground and adjust the map. - Christmas tree winders (local dialect) Dara thought, this is too scientific ... but also interesting, to some extent. Then you make up a general idea for yourself where there were some historical events. But they are not in the "red zone", that is, real historical places included in the register of cultural heritage. You can''t search for anything there. Prohibited. But in places that are not listed in the registry, you can try to search. But this is the same as with drones, first you need to register a metal detector, get permission, undergo minimal training. What you can use and sell, and what you need to take to museums and notify the police. These are naturally cultural values, great finds - treasures, old weapons. But coins, single, or a scattering of ten is your business. If you find something interesting, accidentally discovered the archaeological layer, and there, in addition to ceramics, also some remains, you need to notify the historical and local history museums, turn to scientists, archaeologists and ethnographers. All these moves are registered. Well, this is already boring, but necessary knowledge. And then registration as a treasure hunter, tax payment, at the end of the year, on the profit received. About 26 percent. And production can be sold at electronic auctions or delivered to the state reception departments, but there they take 40 percent cheaper than at auction. If you pass it to the museum, you will not see the money at all, but they will write on a copper plate that this or that exhibitor was donated by a treasure hunter. And so, look at the electronic catalog of coins, if they meet the requirements, then put up for auction. Prices are different, from 30 cents to 10,000 dollars. Usually from 100 to 1000 dollars. Well, how lucky. When searching, unforgettable, after the spread of dirt, remove, dig holes. Such a code or ethics of the treasure hunter. Share advice with others. What did I find? Coins are basically, I said earlier. I made a map of the ancient roads, clarified by satellite images, tied them to the terrain ... that is, I specified ... and then just went with a metal detector along the road. Paths, roads, the most interesting in terms of search and in terms of finds, coins. Different cities, countries, eras. You follow it ... and you know that caravans and people of 60 centuries walked along this road in the steppe. They connected the continents! Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.comfor visiting. You read about it in ancient road builders, and now you yourself are walking along this road, the road like a time machine, if you have a good imagination! Coins come across every 100-200 meters. Coins are different, there are modern ones, there are first and second empires. Among them, rare coins sometimes come in that cost $ 100-260 apiece, if they are in good condition. Provided that they are not in the flood zone of the river, it spills and floods the ravines, and then there is only the plain ... and the sands ... Less common are coins of various regional principalities of the 18-17-16 centuries. Most often, copper, after silver, very rarely gold and bronze. On the plain closer to the mountains of Light, you can find Arab coins from the time of the Abbasids and coins of the empire of Ming, Tan, Qing ... In the mountains, sometimes it was possible to meet Macedonian - Greek coins, more of the Arab and local principalities, silver 17-18 centuries. That is, each point, mountains, mountain valleys, passes, foothill plains, deserts, steppe, has different types of coins, the frequency of their meeting ... 64 The historian’s thoughts on the treasure hunt technique p. 4 See the electronic coin catalog. Prices vary from 20 cents per 1872 coin to $ 55,000 per 1873 coin. What is the difference? So it is in the circulation of coins, the mint that issued these coins, printing errors. So, rare coins are expensive, and those coins that have a circulation of 14 million or even all 50 million are worth cents. What do you think, Dara, how many valuable and rare coins can be found on the road? - "Well, probably, the percentage is not very large"? You''re right! Rare coins for three years of searching on the plain and 7 years in the mountains, I just found about 5! Their price was 5000 dollars, some 1000 dollars. One coin was unique ... and if it were intact, it could bring me a fortune! That is about 100 thousand dollars at the auction! However, during the time that it lay in the damp earth, time did not spare the coin, and even when digging it out, I damaged it a bit, the coin with a shovel. They bought it ... but for only $ 1,752, at the price of the weight of gold ... and hello ... disappointment !!! So you find more coins, kopeks, pfenings, and already ten kopeks, or larger finds, are more rare. Basically it is bronze, copper, silver. Gold coins in the steppe and mountains in the year can be found several times, only 5-7 coins. If you are lucky enough to find a treasure or loose coins. If suddenly someone in ancient times had a wallet with a hole in the halt and money spilled out. And so ... more and more a trifle. But it also costs money, and there, with luck, maybe there will be a coin of $ 150, or maybe a cent 3. Once at a time is not necessary. - "And what roads, more boogts to catch, plains or mountains?" Well, you, bro said ?? !!! Mountain roads, it''s hard to actually look at them, you can search for something, you can easily get it. And the highlanders are constantly watching. You found something, dug up coins, then buried. Came the next day and there a big hole was opened. And then the locals begin to visit, asking whether the catch was rich? I have found? Show me a coin? And they say - I definitely saw from that mountain that you found two coins! And before that mountain was 300 meters? !!!! But they see well! That''s what the highlanders are! So some of my finds supplement the budget of a mountain village, a small tax for finds. Well, you can also understand them, they find coins on their land. Some, said the historian, I presented to the museum of local lore. But then they were stolen ... this often happens in museums in the countryside. Well, okay, something remained in the museum ... and then, okay. But treasure hunting is just a hobby for me. And there are those who earn their living from this. Personally, I get half a year to get coins and other scrap metal for 28-34 thousand dollars as lucky, in other years I can only earn 3,000 dollars. It all depends on luck. Sometimes you can find an old blade and earn 5-6 hundred dollars on it, sometimes find an old jug of copper and earn $ 4000. And sometimes the coins of 1954 and immediately get 7800 dollars! This is how lucky! _ "Well, how is the search process itself"? He asked, Dara. And so. In the morning you get up, drink tea, eat Herculean porridge with grated apples and a tortilla, eat two tablespoons of honey with nuts, dry raisins and apricot with wax inside. You drink two glasses of black tea with crystal sugar. This is to ensure that the forces were up to 2 days. Then you pack up your backpack. You put in it, obento, and there horsemeat sausage, dry fruits, and kurt, this is such a local cheese. Cottage cheese with salt and black pepper. You''ll take a good dozen, they are round like dragees. Delicious. Do not forget to take water - 5 liters is enough. Plus a first-aid kit and there are serums from snake bites - cobra, steppe viper, karakurt of such a poisonous spider (but this is only in late winter - in spring, summer and autumn). In winter, you don''t need to take anything from them. Walkie-talkie. Cell phone, not really needed, bad connection. But the radio itself is 300 km away, but you need to register it with the Ministry of Communications and pay a fee of $ 1,500 each year. And so in everything else - beauty! Quadrocopter with high-resolution cameras, laptop fields, sapper shovel, search magnet for detecting objects underwater, search coil, multifunctional soil metal detector, pinpointer. Batteries, and of the body camera, in principle, if you have money, you can take an active action camera. If you are leading your YouTube channel for example ?! - "What is the point of maintaining your channel"? asked Dara. Well, advertising, money, 400 dollars a month, sponsorship, and you need to be in sight to show your activity ... - "aaaaa"? !!! Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.comfor visiting. Well, I''ll go into the intricacies of types and their choice, and types of metal detectors, I will not, said the historian. Now everyone has androids and iPhones, and there''s the Internet, you can find it yourself, everything you need ... said, a historian. - "Well, ash stump (local saying) - now nobody explains, everyone gives a link to the Internet," grunted, Dara to himself. Then I jump on my old 1956 jeep and off. I arrive at the place, deserve my updated map, take the navigator and go to the desired point. From now on I begin my search, I am walking along a road, an ancient road. And looking from her one wayby 10 meters if on the plain, but if in the mountains then by a meter in one direction and if suddenly it doesn''t work out, there''s already a cliff ... on the plain and 10-12 meters in the other direction It takes 300-500 meters to find something. This is usually the garbage of a past life on the plain. Stakes for paddles, bottle caps, old sleeves, some bolts, nails, sockets, coins of the second empire, sometimes fresh coins of our Small-An, sometimes Euro cents or Russian rubles from the 90-00s. Sometimes come across royal coins of 1840-1915. Copper and silver. Buttons of military units, 19th century. In three hours I walk 400 meters. Having left in the search field at 6 a.m. at 9 a.m., I am already tired, but happy if there are finds. I look at the coins quickly, then I will already check their price in the catalog. But before dinner, 2 o''clock in the afternoon I still have time. I am looking further ... rarely when you can find gold coins. But there is no need to talk about treasures. They probably are on the plain, but it''s so easy to not immediately find them. Previously, for example, trees grew on the plain or stones were located that the last glacier brought in during the Holocene, buried their treasures near them ... and then in the 50-60s many lands were plowed on the plain, stones and trees were uprooted .. In those times, the second empire wanted to overtake and overtake the United States ... of course nothing happened ... ... and now there are no such marks, and horseradish you will find such a treasure in the steppe on the plain. If only you are lucky! 65 The historian’s thoughts on the treasure hunt technique p. 5 How to find what was hidden there after 90-200-400 years? There is no tree, there is no that stone, there is no house, and even the ruins are left ... It''s good when there are coordinates ... then you can narrow the search square. - Coordinates? Where do you get it from? Asked, surprised, Dara. Well, you that did not listen, me? I said, I put data from the road builders on old maps of the geographical and topographic of the 19th century. And for this I''m scanning them, then tying them to a modern co-ordination grid, setting the projection, choosing the zone according to Grues Krueger, choosing an ellipsoid ... - And what is so difficult? And you thought it was easy? You are a fool! - Why do you swear right away? Offended noticed, Dara. Well, you understand, before you go with a metal detector, you need to know where to go ?! And for this you need to conduct research. Look for books, maps ... well, I talked about this. After I snap the old map to a modern grid of coordinates. Then I digitize, vectorize the old map. I compose an attribute database, bind it to the map. Then, I apply a vector layer to a raster with a satellite image or aerial photograph ... or a drone image. I am looking for similar shapes on the surface ... I compose an interpretation key, and I create a preliminary version of a map of perspective places for searches. After I leave for a place, with a navigator and a drone, I look for that place, and on the spot I already confirm or deny whether it was a place or not. Sometimes I am mistaken. Then again I look in the archives and funds. But not everything is there ... since in different eras, 1917, 1930, 1950, 1989, and 90-00 of the 20th and 21st centuries, part of the archive and stock data was burned. Corrected the story, in an ideological vein. From the point of view of historical science, this is idiocy, falsification of history. But from the point of view of ideology, this is a very expected move. To form a commonality of lies, simply keeping silent about some facts, entire generations are being formed who do not know the truth and think in a given format. Actually turning into formatted robots. But it is, a fairy tale. Do not get hung up on this. Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.comfor visiting. So you need to look for clues in foreign archives, not all of them are open to foreigners, and even individuals, without legal organization behind their backs. So ... you have to wool collector sites, auctions, a database of photographs, stocks ... second-hand books in Europe and Asia. You find something, something not ... And then by the method of checking on the ground you begin to get to the point. Sometimes in the place where there was a fortress on the map of 1871 and 1897, it is possible to find a handful of tiles and broken bricks ... and sometimes just ceramics of the 18th and 19th centuries. If it was a royal fortress, it was built from burnt bricks, and if the local principality of Small-An was made of adobe, clay bricks burnt in the sun. As I said in the 50 years of the 20th century, the second empire wanted to catch up and overtake the production of agricultural products and US industry. There was a race for the leader. Then the leaders of the empire did not think about ecology, and simply willed decision, sowed the plains and steppes with rural cultures. And to increase the cultivated area, they cut down forests, demolished fortresses, castles, villages ... but of course hell didn''t work. The US eventually won ... anyway. Also a dark story. Either the new leaders of the second empire just bought them and they surrendered their empire. In general, not a damn thing is clear. Although only 35 years have passed. So, returning to our topic, I am looking in such areas for these ruins themselves or what remains of them. I put on the map, and already from this point I begin to conduct my searches. But here, of course, you understand that an error of a couple of mm will be initially laid down, that on the map and on the ground it can become a couple of tens or even hundreds of meters. So you have to comb thoroughly. Drones here provide me with indispensable help. Since they can cover a large area, and have special cameras and scanning equipment. Thanks to applications on archeology and special thematic software products, it is possible to decipher these images. Then, I go to the desk work, in my base camp in the mountains, in the gorge, so as not to be in sight. There already, having a confirmed interpretation key, on the ground, I begin to draw up an updated thematic map, an electronic note. By searching for historical artifacts, I reconstruct old roads of the 9-10th centuries and sometimes 3-4 centuries, and of course the caravan roads of the 14-18th centuries. I am breaking through old points, on such a road at 30 or even 1300 km there are dozens of villages, caravanserais, wells, underground reservoirs, customs points and fortresses. But now, if you go through this map from dozens of villages, only 3-4 of them remain. - Where are the others? Where? Gone. So I need to find them all. When I find their ruins ... - But as? According to knowledge, where were the caravanserais found? Oh, so you are in the subject! Yes, something like that. I know from the days of Persian and Arab sources that the caravanserais were located in the 8-9th century, 30 km from each other and later in the 14-15 centuries in 35-37 km. Now about it is easier for me to search. 66 The historian’s thoughts on the treasure hunt technique p. 6 And so, finding two or three caravanserais on the map, I mark equal distances of 35 and 37 km, then I look at them in a satellite image. They are all digital. Take off the coordinates. I arrive at the place, on the navigators I find these points. I launch the drone, it from a height of 200 meters helps me determine where the remains of the ruins can be located. And when I went to this place with the help of a navigator and a drone shot, I began to comb the area ... for the presence of shards of ceramics, as a rule, they immediately lay on the green. The remains of bricks. Coins, buttons, nails, chains ... Sometimes I find it right away. Sometimes not. Then I plug in the geophysical equipment and look for voids ... I compose a geophysical map ... and after that I raise information from the thematic database. Now it has become easier to work. Since I use satellite Internet, from the antenna, and earlier ... and now the mobile Internet, like the stationary one, works in the areas "below the baseboard" (the local expression for very shitty works). I can immediately go to paid databases in various electronic libraries around the world. Therefore, as a rule, in 8 cases out of 10 I can get information about a particular subject or object. - "Dear, are you just doing this for a hobby or is it your job, you are making money on this"? He asked, intrigued by Dara. Well, what can I tell you. At first I was carried away as a hobby, and now I am making money on it. I''m leading a YouTube channel, I get money from advertising, I sell finds. With advertising, I get 300-500 dollars a month, now I have 400,000 subscribers for my channel. Sometimes manufacturers or online retailers selling search equipment enter into a contract with me for 3-6 months. I advertise equipment on my channel, test it and for this I get another $ 300 a month. Well, sometimes there are valuable finds that can make a profit in 4 days of searching as in 3 years of work. And sometimes weekly finds barely cover the amount spent on gasoline and energy for tools, and sometimes even go to minus. This is when, instead of coins and some ancient and old objects, I raise all trash - like "Fingers" for tractors, some kind of iron scrap. On the collected iron, a lot of money does not make 1 kg costs us 30 cents. The cost of travel will not pay for the transportation of the found iron to a metal collection point. - And what except coins can be sold? asked Dara. Buttons, arrowheads and spears, axes, irons, but this good is not enough on the plain. Sometimes there is an old harness, collectors give good money, especially if it is a clan harness. It was usually made of silver with semi-precious stones, locally produced. Turquoise, carnelian, amethyst, garnet, less often rhinestone and river pearls. Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.comfor visiting. - Yeah, the most expensive pearl, used to be sea, then lake, followed by river, and in the last place cave of the mountain, cave lakes. He said with the air of a connoisseur, Dara. Wow! So you know something too! Joking, the historian remarked! "Yes, no" (a local expression - showing confusion, an excuse) - I just read something about it from Frank Pursel, a French cave explorer. Confusedly answered, Dara. Well, you''re right, Dara, the historian said. So I practically didn''t have any pearls, 2 for several years .. Well, sometimes you can find jewelry, earrings, rings, rings ... and head jewelry. They were usually made of royal silver and less often gold coins. Then consider that you hit the jackpot. Such an decoration in incomplete form costs about 600 dollars, and if complete, then all 5000 dollars. "And what is it all just for the money?" You, as a historian, don''t you want to systematize all this? With the fuse of a young and green (naive) university graduate, Dara said. Why don''t I want to? Want! Yes, and I do! Slowly! I want to make an electronic atlas - reconstruction of roads - Arab time and Chinese, trade roads and trade infrastructure. Completely find all caravanserais, lost cities, bazaars of barter trade. 67 The historian’s thoughts on the treasure hunt technique p. 7 Atlas would have gained my findings at every point, indicating the time, the era from which he was. Who traveled along these roads, what they sold, what things, how much they sold or what they exchanged for. Then, where he sold these goods, what profit he received. To punch all the roads not only in our part of Small-An, but also to enter into cooperation with China, Persia, Arab countries, Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, Japan ... well, this is a fixed idea ... but it would be nice to do this global atlas. Moreover, accessible to the masses of enthusiasts and not just a narrow circle of elite scientists. From such elite studies, there is little sense, no one knows what they are researching there. Scientists boil in their juice, and practical application is almost zero. Sense of such knowledge? But I want this data to be freely available ... so that history buffs can easily get acquainted with them and not rummage through the archives. Everything would be concentrated in one place. - Well, not shit to yourself ?! !!! This is heavy work !!!! I admired Dara !!! Well, this is a dream! And so there was one more ... but I definitely don''t have enough money for it ... this is already connected with paleoecology and the change of biocenoses from the Tertiary period, capturing the Quaternary and ending with the Holocene period. - Of course, for sure, you won''t pull it! Said, maliciously, Dara. Eh, I myself know that I won''t pull it, and it would be interesting to know how the development of mankind went ... well oh well, back to the topic of our discussion. So far, for the sake of example, I want to draw up an electronic thematic map of historical artifacts and cultural heritage sites on an area of ??60,000 square meters. km That is, within our borders, Small-An. And then, go to an international grant, attract foreign scientists and search engines and start searching in neighboring countries for treasures and lost knowledge. The manuscripts, they say that in some caravanserais there were hiding places and in them the scientists who were pissed off for their labors, hid. It was an elite society of scientists on the Silk Road. Their goal was to preserve knowledge, money for them was in second place and knowledge in the first. Unless of course, this is fake, 18th century clerks, they could just laugh at the readers. But believe does not interfere. - Ohhhh, sensei, shifu, taxi (my lord) you are cool in your ambitious plans !!! But this seems to be utopia !!!! This does not raise one person !!! But the idea is just 1000000 percent !!!! Noticed, Dara. Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.comfor visiting. Well ... you''re right about something ... it''s an idea, a thought, a desire, and there of course, at least to fulfill 10 percent of this would be a good start! 68 The historian’s thoughts on the treasure hunt technique p. 8 And so of course, here I am compiling, specifying my map. "What is she like?" He asked, Dara. An electronic map, in GIS format, with attached attribute databases. This is a working version. But now I want to transfer it to the Web Gis platform! And apparently we''ll have to talk with the developers, there were guys in Austria before. They can make a more interesting version than google map. That''s what I need. This map will reflect not only spatial data but also photographs, video, audio ... - Eeee, dear, this is the last century! - The simpler the better, why spend money on such garbage! - Do what you can, start the "first pancake lumpy" - (the local expression, which means first, is difficult, but then it turns out, literally, the pan has not yet warmed up, but the second pancake will already be baked). - Let you have at least a primitive version, but on your hands that you can show investors from scientific funds. And then you get financing for this ?! Yes, you''re right, I seem to have sat up in the mountains, something in my head has stopped thinking soberly! The historian said, embarrassed, but at the same time his eyes burned in them sparks were visible! I have two cards, one electronic and one raster, I work with it. Honestly, historian. - Ahahahahahaha, I thought so, with us and that the technology of the 21st century ... said, laughing Dara. The historian smiled ... well, electronic gadgets also work, but not everywhere and not always. Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.comfor visiting. - And then ???! After all, we still have a law in place to restrict the import of imported laptops with increased capacity, they are not sold to us. Uh, do I hear this for the first time? Why aren''t they selling us? The historian was indignant. "Well, we are, as it were, an ally of the third empire ... therefore, apparently, they are not selling. Said Dara. - That is, the echo of the Cold War is still alive! Well, how could it be otherwise ... in our capital there are still bomb shelters from nuclear weapons ... though they have not been updated for a long time ... but they remain as monuments of the Cold War. But again we slipped into the discussion of the wrong topic ... By the way, I will notice that in addition to the roads themselves, they are the most "Rich" for finds, "crossroads" of ancient roads and places near wells and "sardobes" of underground reservoirs. That''s just on the old maps of the 16-18 centuries there are such crossroads. But when you transfer them to a modern topographic basis, you have to smash your head. Since the cards until the end of the 18th century, royal and Italian were oriented to the "south" as the Arab, and not to the familiar modern "north". - Wow, everywhere its subtleties! Of course, as without them. Like part of the maps of the second empire, there were deliberate errors in order to confuse the potential enemy. In this regard, the royal topographic maps of military topographers of the 19th century are more accurate than maps of the second empire of the 20th century. Everyone is talking about this, not only ours from Small-An, but also French and German scientists. And so I sculpt these crossroads, they usually lie in the steppes, in the mountains they are more difficult to identify ... 69 The historian’s thoughts on the treasure hunt technique p. 9 In the mountains it is difficult to look for intersections, but there are more finds. If there are more small and copper coins on the plain, then in the mountains there are also gold coins. Interestingly, more often finds of small coins and not medium or large. For example, these are coins - pennies, cents, faces - everything, small copper coins *, for which you could have breakfast and lunch well at the time, and there would still be something left for the evening. But it depended on the time when there was peace, the price of a coin was higher, when the war was lower. What is of no less interest is that you mainly find coins either fresh, which are 10-20 years old, then there are coins from the second empire, which are 70-80 years old. Farther away are the coins of the first empire and various small principalities, as well as neighboring countries - Persia, Idnia, the West Indian Company, Afghanistan, age 100-200 years. But coins for 300-400-500 years can be found very rarely. Not to mention coins that are 700 and 1000 years old. But they meet. There are more in the mountains, probably because the mountains are less explored and less exposed to agricultural activity. On the plain, such coins can only be found in ancient ruins that black diggers plundered 200 years ago. In the dumps that they created, then, these black diggers, missed the coins. Sometimes you can find such coins near the roots of trees that are over 1000 years old. Sometimes they lie at the bottom of small mountain streams. Probably the water, once washed them and from some slopes of the mountains ... and transferred to this place. Sometimes when searching for coins in the mountains you can find flakes, flinty times of the Neolithic or Eneolithic ... on the slopes of the mountains or second terraces. In the floodplain of mountain rivers, in addition to fresh coins of 10-40 years ago, one can also meet modern two-trunks or 7 charging carbines. This, the poachers hide them when they see the forester ... then the procedure is very unpleasant. It is necessary to report the findings to the police, then to the forester, to the directorate of the reserve or national park. Then write an act of seizure of two witnesses. And bring weapons to the police station. There, hand over it for painting, write an explanatory. And there, the police are already starting to look for a poacher. So such findings are not very encouraging, search engines. - "Sucks, however!" Hush up, Dara. Not that word! Day then consider spoiled. Therefore, we are afraid in the floodplains of the rivers, with dense vegetation there is nothing to look for. In addition to these troubles, there may also be snakes. Especially in spring and summer. They like to relax in the thickets of nettles or mint. A bite of a steppe viper if you do not have an antidote is fatal. I did not have time to inject two or three antidotes, after 1.5 hours there will be convulsions, and hello ... And the antidote, serum is not sold in pharmacies, just like that. We need the special permission of a doctor, a consultation, issued for signature, numbered, and it costs unmeasured, 1 ampoule of about 55 dollars. If you can find more. Not often brought. In a private pharmacy you can already find for $ 120. But in principle, foresters have them, 5-6 ampoules, but sometimes the expiration date is already expired ... By the way, these snakes still love to sit on the branches of shady trees. And on the slopes of the mountains, in the spring, such spiders of small size crawl "karakurt". Black with red or yellow spots. Their bite is 10 times stronger than that of a cobra. So why are we also not so willing to go to the mountains in spring and summer. And in winter it''s slippery and you can break. So the time for hunting coins mainly falls in the fall. - "I wonder why a lot of small coins are found and not large ones"? He asked, Dara. I think this is due to the fact that in those days, people already switched to canvas wallets and sometimes they carried coins in their pockets. They were full of holes, and smaller coins woke up, while larger ones remained. Or simply larger coins in denominations, people stored more carefully. Or just didn''t carry it with you. "Who were these people who were losing coins?" Asked Dara. Apparently, these were nomads, hunters, collectors of brushwood and dung, fishing, peasants, soldiers, travelers, small traders and merchants. It is also interesting to look for coins, near wells, old wells that are at least 300-500 years old. - "And how do you find them, how do they look in space images?" asked Dara. Wells look like small white dots to which roads go, intersections like stars, with many rays. We find the analysis of old maps. Maps used to be found in archives and funds, but nimble guys dragged them all away in the 90-00s. And what remains, they are not accessible, just like that, to a person from the street. Now all these old cards have passed into the hands of dealers, search engines, collectors. To get a scanned copy, you need to pay money from 10 to 20 dollars apiece, some cards cost more in the range of 100-200 dollars. Although some of them you can find on drains, or old used books in Germany, France, Britain, Spain, Austria. Well, how lucky. They are also in various private research institutes, but there, to get their copies of cards, you need to pay more money and share the result. There are many troubles. But if you write or conduct some kind of research work, you can get funding from the initial fund. If you win some kind of science grant. But it''s too late for me ... Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.comfor visiting. "Why?" Surprised asked, Dara. Well, you see, such grants are easy to get young, and after 50 years nothing shines. Especially if you are just an amateur researcher, a private individual, and not a legal one, if you do not work anywhere at a research institute or university, college. To get financing is not real. --- * 70 faces a copper coin weighing 33 grams, was equal to 1 silver tenge weighing 4 grams, which was equal to 1 gold tilla weighing 15.2 grams. 70 The historian’s thoughts on the treasure hunt technique p. 10 And the finds of coins and sometimes cadads can also be found at the bottom of the wells, so recently found two treasures in the well. At the bottom of one dry well, there was a chest full of Arabic manuscripts from the 17-18th centuries, gold and silver coins, uncut diamonds and silver jewelry. Truth. one human life was lost to find him. The tractor driver and the tractor crashed into the well. The tractor driver died. When they gave his body and tractor, they found a chest at the bottom. It was just in a mountain valley, in the far west of the Light mountains. The second treasure, found a shepherd, a well lined with stones is not typical of a foothill steppe located northwest of the Svet mountains, near the Pistachio mountains. He was interested in it and he went down 15 meters down the rope. And then he began to tap the walls. And at an altitude of 6 meters he discovered a sonorous sound. By pressing on the stone, he managed to pull it out, and there lay a well-preserved leather bag. Having picked up the find, the shepherd found there, 40 silver royal coins, 10 gold and a revolver with 21 rounds. It was probably a cache, one of foreign intelligence agents. Either German or British intelligence. So said a historian from the police, police museum, when he brought the find. Judging by the revolver, these are the weapons used by the Big Game anents. In the 20-30s of the 20th century there were many of them on the territory of Bolshoi-An. An interesting find! So, somewhere in this place there was a cache or maybe a safe house for the agents of the Big Game ... said a historian from the police. In the late 1920s, their activities intensified ... they didn''t succeed, of course, but some of the archives and treasuries of the former princes of Small-An, who were expelled with the advent of the second empire, could be taken to the West. - "It''s interesting what was in these archives and treasuries, what did it take to send agents for this?" asked Dara. You see, there was probably a correspondence between kings and emperors of the West who offered military assistance to Small-An in the fight against the second empire. It may contain secret information about agents left, embedded in the power structures of the second empire. And the treasures were not easy, more and more with secrets, which contained information about other treasures on the Hindu Kush, Lahore, Agra, Delhi, Karachi, Mashhad, Mazar-i-Sharif passes. Which were left by merchants and close princes for 2 centuries. With this money, mission on reconnaissance of cross-border territories from Small-An was carried out later. - "Yes, damn it .... these treasures with history, and what else"? !!!! Noticed, thoughtfully Dara. Well, then there was a time, such - dashing. The redistribution of the world, the sphere of influence, the interests of empires ... But such treasures really, their find, is the opening of the Pandora''s box. We are treasure hunters, we do not like such finds. But the black diggers are delighted with this. But these are two different areas. One is white and the second is gray-black. We are treasure hunters, law-abiding, taxpayers, we abide by the rules, pay duties, taxes, do not go to the "red zones", and we hand over such tricks to museums and the police. And they, black diggers, pay nothing to anyone, dig where they want, sell the finds at black auctions. But they are often caught. The truth and their findings are more amazing. So recently, about 6 years ago, black diggers found three very rich finds! Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.comfor visiting. The first coins of the 4th century AD made of gold, the treasure was valued at 700,000 euros, it was withdrawn in favor of the state, as black diggers, it was found in the "red zone", where archaeological excavations of the ancient settlement were previously carried out. The second find was a fully preserved mammoth, found in a pebble. And just barbaric, they used the technology of washing out, with water. By the way, the mammoth is now in the Museum of Geology in the capital of Small-An. The third find was made in the basement of the 1895 building. The building was in the old town, the capital of Small-An. In the corner, behind a thick layer of plaster, was a secret door. This door led to a staircase that went to an additional underground floor, and there ... lay salaries of icons, documents of imperial time, boxes with cartridges, rifles, two Maxim machine guns, wooden barrels 3-bucket full of gold imperial and Small- An coin, silver rupees, paise, rubles, shilling. Pictures, including Remrent and Caravaggio. And so we, just diggers, find coins and other non-ferrous metals in the earth, our finds are not so stunning, but all honestly. Profit depends on good luck and knowledge of history, ability to navigate the terrain and work with old maps, ancient road builders, be able to read "tags", understand toponymic names. The main thing in our business is self-education. For example, in the wells, we know that the treasures were laid at the bottom, in the walls, and also hid near the wells at a distance of 10 cm to 5 meters. At the bottom of the Sardob underground reservoirs that appeared during the Arab period under the Abbasids, sometimes you can also find treasures or coins from 1500-1700 there. Sometimes you can find finds in hollows or on branches of old trees ... but not in our case. Here in Small An, many trees were cut down in the 19th century, at the beginning and in the middle of the 20th century ... and after that they began to cut down and use the trees in cities and villages. So there are practically no old trees left. Only those who defend the highlanders, villagers or townspeople saw trees unattended. and then they make furniture, parquet or just use food for restaurants for cooking. And hi... In ancient guidebooks they wrote that in pebbles near floodplains of rivers, on islands on rivers you can find old treasures, since there were fortresses there in the 6-8th centuries. But now it''s all in the past, the predatory use of nature leads to the fact that dishonest businessmen simply begin to rake out the gravels of the floodplain, to produce gravel for construction purposes. As a result, ugly floodplains, dirty, without pebbles, during mudflows, this leads to casualties. Since the integrity of the floodplain is violated. With these businessman fight, but without much success. When money matters more than anything else, then money decides everything. So treasure hunters, there are only mountains, steppes, plains, and in the city you can''t really work. Since there are more restrictions and rules that cannot be violated. Is that only in wastelands, which at the end of the 19th century were still residential neighborhoods. In the private sector, in the analysis of houses. There are just interesting finds .... 71 The historian’s thoughts on the treasure hunt technique p. 11 Finds can often be found in old houses built in the 40-50s of the last century. Especially in the city center and not on the outskirts. Since the center of the city, where the original building came from, the cultural layer is richer. Large cities have more ancient history than small ones as a rule. In the center, land has been built up since the 16th century. Then they were rebuilt with buildings ... after that they made gardens on the places of former houses. Which eclipses again gave up for development during the first empire, when Small-An was colonized. Construction was carried out in the middle of the 19th century ... after the house was again dismantled and rebuilt in the late 30-40-50s of the 20th century. Whereas in the suburbs, on the outskirts, until the 50-60s of the 20th century there was agricultural territory and development began only in the mid 60s of the 20th century ... Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.comfor visiting. So when disassembling houses of the 40s of the 20th century, it is worth paying attention to the bricks themselves. Sometimes you can find royal bricks, they are thinner, longer than the usual modern. If you take them in your hand and gently tap your finger, they will ring. Such bricks easily withstand an earthquake of 8 points on the Richter scale. If there is a brand of a plant on such a brick, then it can easily be sold for $ 5 per 1 piece. Usually in a house there are up to 10,000-20000 bricks. Royal bricks without a mark are 5-10 cents per 1 piece. They are bought by wealthy businessmen and built from them, their forks worth $ 200,000 or even all of $ 1.5 million. But this is so particular. Next, pay attention to the roof, namely attics, tai usually hide valuables, gold and silver coins, cutlery, jewelry, paintings, prints, trophies from the Second World War. Some simply old things, originally from the 20-30s of the last century. Old records, wineglasses, porcelain ... and at auctions, antiques, for these finds you can earn from a couple of tens of dollars to a couple of hundred. Some plates or porcelain may still be unique and the price then can be up to 4000-6000 dollars. Also, sometimes in old houses there are beams made of rails. They have hallmarks, usually these are rails of 1858-1898. If you are lucky, it may turn out to be Belgian or French, for 1 rail with a seal and data from the manufacturer, you can easily earn 550 dollars or even all 2500. It is worth paying attention to the floors, if you raise them, then treasures can be found under them, as well as under the steps of the ladder. In addition, there may simply be coins dropped by the builders there ... also applies to places under the windows, there may also be small treasures. In the basement, sometimes they hide treasures in the corners or in the center, walled in the walls. Sometimes in the walls, there are walled up with stucco doors leading to the lower floors of the basement. It also makes sense to check the paths to the house and garden paved with tiles, stones or bricks. There, too, sometimes they find old treasures. Some "especially" advanced peasants hid their money in toilets that were on the street or "garbage pits". But this search is very amateurish. Some peasants living near the forest, hid their money and jewelry in the hollows, tied on high branches or near the roots. Some treasures could be found at the bottom of small rivers or man-made irrigation ditches; in summer, spring and autumn, water flows there in a concrete or stone-lined bed. And in the winter, here ... there is no water ... and the treasure is located under the channel, at the bottom, in a pit 10 cm deep. Few people will guess about such a place for storing jewelry. There are also treasures near pillars or inside mounds of courtyard walls. There were pockets of placers of 10-20 silver kopecks from 1920-1923. As well as two silver rubles in 1920. Not to mention the copper kopeks of 1924-25. If there was a reflink or points on the edge, then such a coin already cost $ 100, whereas a coin without reflex on the edge, it cost only 3 dollars. Everywhere has its own subtleties. 72 The historian’s thoughts on the treasure hunt technique p. 12 When analyzing houses, you should carefully look at the bricks, not only in the presence of brands of manufacturers. But also check each brick with a pointer. Since sometimes in the bricks themselves, coins can be hidden. Inogia was done in factories as a tribute to the master. And sometimes they did it in a brick, the bookmark was gold and silver coins, precious stones. In those days, search technologies were not as advanced as they are now. For example, cameras already exist that allow you to see through walls, iron structures, non-ferrous metal and people. True, so far their cost is about 50-100 thousand. dollars. That is, they are available for specialists from large organizations and not private owners like us. Noticed, historian. Such cameras appeared 10 years ago, probably after another 10 years they will cost a reasonable $ 1,000. In the meantime, we use metal detectors, sometimes geophysical equipment, allowing us to afforestation foundations and fields for the presence of voids beneath them. We rent equipment from geophysicists as business contract work. And they feel good, the money goes to salaries and bonuses and we feel good, we are studying history! Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.comfor visiting. If there is a path in the house, as I said earlier from stone, marble, bricks, granite, do not shed a walk with a metal detector. Sometimes, there you can find coins that once fell from one of the pockets, and sometimes a cache with a treasure of coins. Usually, such caches are small. So that you can quickly get money, the main thing is under your feet, close, but on the other hand there are few who think of looking there. As said earlier, it is worth looking under the wooden floorboards or under the brickwork of the stairs. In Europe, there were generally entrances to secret rooms, and in the East they hid treasures, as well as under the window. They made a recess in the wall, upholstered with boards, wrapped money, jewelry, manuscripts in a rag in it. Especially old-regime when the new regime destroyed the remnants of cultural heritage, be it icons or manuscripts in Latin, Arabic script. In old houses, during their analysis, sometimes such treasures are discovered, their owners either could not return for them or considered it necessary to keep their secret. Keep ignorant of their descendants. So, for example, one incident covered in the press, an old man of about 62, was sorting a house. He wanted to sell a plot in the center of the city, land ... on which stood an old house. It was built by his grandfather, his father lived in it, who was the foreman of the infantry battalion, he fought in World War II, reached Kineksberg, and ended the war there. He returned home in 1947. The old man, his son, was dismantling the house to sell the bricks separately, iron separately ... when I was dismantling the wall, I found there a Walter pistol with three clips of cartridges in an oiled rag. As well as two small paintings by Dutch artists of the 17th century. Can part of the lost world collections of missing after the Second World War, are in old houses? Who knows? The paintings were not so valuable, and time did not spare them ... but the old man handed the gun to the police, and the weapon went to the police museum. Walter was released in 1942. Such finds do not please search engines. Probably, the father of that old man didn''t surrender the captured weapons in time, for some reason left him. It turns out that cars returning from the war, with captured weapons, were not checked by the counterintelligence service and the police. Therefore, the streets of cities and villages from 1945 to 1957 were full of trophy daggers, knives, pistols, rifles, machine guns and even machine guns, grenades, and lemon. Only in 1957, the police began to collect these weapons, surrendered voluntarily. Someone threw him into rivers or lakes, but someone hid the old man like that father. Such finds are sometimes found during the demolition of old buildings built in the 30-50s of the 20th century, in the city center. Also, the attention of search engines should be paid to bridges over rivers, usually under them, inside them old coins can be preserved in walls or wooden decks. And even small treasures. Including it is worth walking a metal detector near bridges of 10 cm and up to 10 meters. Caches were hidden near them. In the channels of small clay city canals between houses on the street, sometimes you can also find coins. These are not treasures, apparently just lost coins. But there are silver ones, 1900 - 1920s. For which you can earn from 5 to 55 dollars per coin. It is very rare to find 10 gold rubles of the tsarist time, if these canals are located on a building street of the late 19th century. 1 such coin costs at least $ 500. And so more new coins of Small-An, or the second empire, bottle caps, nails, tin cans, buttons, spoons, forks, penknives and other rubbish. When searching, 60 percent is iron garbage. About 30 percent are buttons and other interesting metal gizmos, keys, some remnants of mechanisms, pocket and wrist watches, gears. The remaining 10 percent falls on coins. But it all depends on the area of ??search and location, sometimes the percentage ratio gives an advantage in the direction of coins or buttons. By the way, metal buttons also cost money, from 3 cents to 300 dollars. Sometimes there are old - silver or even golden buttons, nobles of the Principality of Small-An, 18-19 centuries. But more often the iron or copper buttons of the regiments and battalions of the first and second empires. Less often, Austria-Hungary, Germany, France, Japan. Since prisoners of war, arrived in the camps from 1915 to 1927 and from 1945 to 1956. The first and second world war. In Small-An, there were several camps for prisoners of war, first Belgians, Poles, Hungarians, Italians, Romanians, Astriaks, Germans. After the Japanese. In the old cemeteries there are even monuments dedicated to deceased prisoners of war in European and Japanese languages. Small-An was already a colony of the first and then the second empires. And in these territories there were also prisoner of war camps. Which participated in the construction of houses and agricultural work. Some of the prisoners of war never returned home. They stayed to live in Small An, and their descendants lived up to the beginning of the 70-80-90s of the last century. And then who remained alive, their grandchildren left for the homeland of their ancestors. We even had a professor in mathematics, An Italian, and a great Boxing coach from the USA, who came to us in the 30s and died in the 70s, 20th centuries. But we are a little off topic. So in our cities, you can meet buttons from other countries. But in the fields, especially in small remnant mountains, near water sources, it is sometimes found to find cartridges of the beginning of the civil war of the 20-30s of the 20th century. As well as coins of the British, German and First Empires of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Sometimes placers of silver rupees or Persian paise. 73 The historian’s thoughts on the treasure hunt technique p. 13 If we talk about local history ... - "Hey, dear historian, why suddenly local history? We were talking about treasures and search work" Dara was indignant. Uh, well, you give, hand-to-face, it''s all fully interconnected. The treasure hunter should have a good knowledge of the history of the region where he will search. The search engine differs from the treasure hunter in that it is configured to lift not only coins and jewelry from the earth and water, but also related metal things - buttons, harness, buttons, sleeves, watches, cutlery, bottles, knives, swords. arrowheads and spears, etc. There are local historians who know where in the city there are interesting and old houses. They help treasure hunters and search engines. They often have copies of old maps, historical materials. Philothelists are also associated with them - those who collect stamps, numismatists - those who collect coins and banknotes. There are also Faleristics - those who collect badges and medals. There are many kinds of collectors - collectors, for example, there is also a philamenist who collects stickers from matchboxes and matches and jars themselves. For all this, you can earn good money if you know where and how much. Everyone has their own communities, forums, auction sites. Sometimes an ordinary can of the mid-19th century, but a limited edition with the stamp of the manufacturer, can be sold for $ 100! And some unique bottles of the late 10th century Taka all 250 dollars! This is in a country where the average salary of a person with higher education is 200 dollars! Can you imagine, Dara, what kind of money is this? For one study, earn as much as 1 month of work in 240 hours! - Eeee, Historian, why do you work like this for 6 days and why for 10 hours, according to the labor law, an 8-hour working day is prescribed! Well, you frame! Who works formally, everyone works in fact! Moreover, 2 hours for processing are not paid. - Here, ass !!! It''s good that I decided to work for myself! Dara said. Well, not the fact that you will work less, maybe more! Sarcastically remarked, Historian. Well, come on, let''s go back to our topic, and so there are unique badges for which you can easily earn $ 20, and if it''s a series and it''s complete, then $ 1,000. Some collect tiles. Sometimes you go into an old house, but you don''t pay attention to the floor and the railing. And there the treasure itself is, right under your feet, no one notices and does not see it. - what is it? What a treasure? How much is it? These are the tiles themselves, they still remain from the time of the king, that is, they are already 150-170 years old. Not all tiles are unique, there are benzyls and on the back there are stamps from factories, some of which can cost up to $ 36- $ 45 per piece! The times of 1917-1940 were turbulent, denunciations, anonymous letters, those who were rich, from the tsarist or princely aristocracy, nobles, they were taken to camps. The property was confiscated in favor of the state. Therefore, they already knowing that they would come to them, hid their wealth, not far ... and this was their house. They lived in three to four story houses. Under the tiles, sometimes you can find small caches, sometimes they are empty and sometimes there are old orders of precious metals, silver and gold coins, precious stones or just some kind of clock, keys ... The second thing you should pay attention to is forged lattices, they are branded, sometimes such lattices - forged lattices can cost up to 2500 dollars, if they are from famous masters. It is worth looking at the top of the buildings, sometimes there may be an old stucco molding with the arms of the previous owners, under it, the master clavs left for luck gold and silver coins, a little 1 or 2. Some houses that are already scrapped or crumbling, they are usually already checked for the presence of treasures ... heaps and pits are visible everywhere. Obviously someone was already digging, looking. Yes, the rule, of good taste, a kind of ethics of treasure hunters and search engines, is to bury pits after finds. Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.comfor visiting. But they sometimes leave the chimneys unnoticed. If you look at them they are made of metal, delicate, delicate, exquisite work and the stove is the same. They cost money, if the condition is working, then you can earn 500-600 dollars. And when analyzing the furnace exhaust system, it is quite possible to find a small cache with silver and copper coins, less often gold. There are among the fraternity of collectors who collect pocket caledari, they are called Filotaimists. Some pocket calendars of 1880 can be sold to connoisseurs for $ 30-100. Of course, cultural heritage should not be valued only with money, but this is the world of the market, without determining the price, its significance will not be understood. Sometimes, for an old and interesting key to a door or a chiffoner, you can earn a couple of tens of dollars, their collectors are called coplephilists. Collectors of the sea ... everything that man created, people collect, some collect mail strains, old radio phones, computers, labels from wine, cognac, cheese ... there are many wonderful people ... but they can also sell all this for good money. Once, in an old house, an abandoned house, we found cheese trio labels, it was from Switzerland, can you imagine this in our country, in a remote area, in the mountains? !!! Labels were dated 1908! Then we looked at the auction site, the price was $ 160 for 1 piece !!! You imagine! In the same place we saw the prices for old labels from 1898 cognac; they cost generally 450 dollars! It''s a pity that we didn''t find such. By the way, there are treasures in the city, these are sewer hatches in our capital, Small-An, the first of them date from 1896. Sometimes they can be sold for 450-700 dollars. Sometimes it''s worth visiting second-hand book dealers ... there ... 74 The historian’s thoughts on the treasure hunt technique p. 14 Books. And they also sometimes have hidden treasures. I''m not talking about primitive hiding places carved inside books. And about the books themselves. Their owners, knowing that they would come from the political police in the mid 10-20-30s of the 20th century, hid their securities, cards indicating where they hid their jewelry, last will, notes on what was happening in the books. The nobles carefully cut off the first page of the "bookend" as well as the "backhand", they fasten the book block with the front and back sides of the binding cover. Then they removed the cardboard and put their documents, card, shares and securities there. And in the spine, on papyrus paper, left their thoughts or notes. They wrote with milk or lemon juice. The naive, aristocrats, although some of them, treated the paper with poisons ... One way or another, this did not help them, none of them came back. What about books? Part of them was taken, part was sold, and the parts were handed over to the public library. In the period of decline, the collapse of the second empire, smart at hand, collectors simply stole a number of valuable books, as well as the workers of these institutions themselves. They stole valuable copies of books, sold them on the black market, and then changed their citizenship and left for other countries. But this is the dark side of gathering. And bright, this is when the find happens by chance. Having bought a country book in a second-hand book dealer, individual bibliophiles want to restore a shabby book. They begin to disassemble it and randomly discover, instead of cardboard in the flyleaf and on the back, some papers or topographic maps with some strange marks. The cards found there ... they are sometimes just with marked crosses or triangles and sometimes with encrypted conventional signs. To find their description, you need to find other books "keys." Which give a hint where to find the main book or geek, where decrypted conventional signs are hidden. In most cases, such a finding of one of the keys is already considered a rarity. And to find the whole chain of books, after 100 or 80 years, is almost impossible. Since both trees and stones, "marks", landmarks have long disappeared, like old houses, and even more so books in public libraries. Since in view of the change in formats, ideology, social system, books from public libraries throughout Small-An were ripened in the 90-00s. These are tens of millions of publications. So apparently, those books in which the data was decrypted have long been lost. Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.comfor visiting. But the search engine stupidly just goes to the places marked on the map and there, surprisingly, they find something, coins or buttons. Some people think that this is a cipher indicating the geographical coordinates, while others think that this is the direction in azimuth and the angle of the points. But both are mistaken. This is a fortune-telling on coffee grounds. Most likely, these nobles were just joking. And they hid the money, somewhere close by. To immediately quickly take the money and run away. But they were out of luck. Sometimes the books themselves are a treasure. Gold coins or precious stones are hidden inside them, inside the binding ... and sometimes it''s completely unbelievable, the books themselves, by their uniqueness of publication, circulation, publishing house, already cost $ 1,000-3,000. In old books of the 1889-1940s, which still remained in public funds, you can sometimes see various entries on the pages of books. In French, Hebrew, German, Arabic. If you don''t know these languages, then you won''t be able to read anything, much less understand it. But some collectors say that sometimes there is some information about the treasures in these briefs. Well, as a historian, it''s hard for me to believe it. Maybe this is another urban legend? Like idle conjectures, old collectors that in the forged railing of old houses, some spans are made of gold or silver, and then simply thickly painted with black oil paint. Hard to believe ?! But the story with postage stamps and stamps is not fiction, since foreigners gave the forester for these envelopes - a digital camera, laptop and iPhone. If it did not cost anything, they would not give such things in exchange. - "Uh, dear, Historian, in Europe - electronics, cheap, the same laptop or camera, maybe they were old, already out of fashion and cost not the full price of a couple thousand dollars. But just a couple of hundred?" Skeptical, said Dara. Well, brother, a couple of hundred dollars for a tattered mail envelope, that''s very good, don''t you? Said the historian. - "Of course it''s very Good!" Said Dara. "In general, it seems to me that if everything is arranged like that, then you don''t need to throw away old things, it all costs money" ?! Noticed, Dara. But, not with us! Officially, you have not sold anything to anyone. For example, I had nickel silver cutlery, on the auction site in the Baltic, they cost $ 250-300. And here in Small-An, I was only offered $ 5! Whereas a set of steel, new only spoons already costs $ 25! Yes, and for some reason we have many restrictions, toughening, you will not be able to conduct business based on prospecting, without obtaining all permissions, approvals, seals, writing reports, paying taxes every month and at the end of the year. This is so tiring. And you can''t even send coins by mail to another country until you receive the assessment of the Small-An Cultural Heritage Center that this coin is not part of the country''s cultural heritage. You can sell it to local collectors, but only for 30 percent of the price in the catalog ... and the prices there are 45 percent lower than the auction percentages ... in short, it''s not so simple as, for example, in the same Baltic States or Europe ... A lot of restrictions, until all permissions are received, it will take 5 years. And of course, this is an exciting lesson to find what was lost, a long time ago. But by the way, I didn''t tell you how I found a couple of interesting gizmos in our many mountains - Pistachkov, Rybny, Sveta, and also the Habitats of the Robbers. What colorful names, toponyms! And they all have their own meaning and are not just named! 75 The historian’s thoughts on the treasure hunt technique p. 15 Pistachio, Fish, Light, and the Habitats of the Robbers. In all the mountains, the first people swarmed at the beginning of the Late Paleolithic. - "Yes, this is something about 48 thousand years ago," Dara proudly remarked. Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.comfor visiting. Well done, what do you know, the history of your region. But let me continue. These people settled in mountain valleys that were free of snow and ice. Then the climate and, accordingly, the relief, the general landscape was different from today. On the wound extended a huge lake, the remains of the Tethys of the Tertiary Sea. In this huge lake, which was about 200 km wide and about 800 km long, from 2-10 meters deep to 60 meters deep. It was salty. Sharks were still swimming in it ... small. But at the time of Tethys there were larger sharks, 60 meters long and 9 meters wide. You can still find all of their teeth, petrified, black at 15-27 centimeters on the slopes of the western tip of the Svet Mountains. People were protected in the mountains from large animals. Such as herds - a primitive bull, a large deer, wild elephants and woolly rhinos. By that time there were not so many of them, but it was quite enough for still weak human tribes. Wolves, bears, cave tigers lived in the mountains, and cave lions have already died out, snow leopards and mountain hyenas have taken their place ... - "and on the cave paintings, these animals are not!" put in, Dara. Cave paintings appeared in that locality only 3,500 years ago, that is, in the Bronze Age, a fool, the historian remarklessly remarked. Do not interrupt my story. "Good". Reluctantly said, Dara. So, in the mountains they began to live, hunt, fish, and slowly developed. In these mountains there are archaeological sites of different times - the Bronze Age, the iron, copper ... The first modern people settled in the mountains at the beginning of 589 BC. They bred in mountain valleys and carried out selection of walnut and berry trees ... - "Uh, dear, Historian, what about treasures and coins?" He asked, Dara. What, you impatient ... will you and treasures, and coins, and precious stones, and even more and more valuable, old manuscripts that have no price and ... ... but about this later, I must tell you about the history of the mountains themselves, so that you can understand what I found in them, more valuable things than gold and precious stones. For you ... as a farmer! - "Ahhhhh, I seem to understand what you mean!" Yelled, Dara ... 76 The historian’s thoughts on the treasure hunt technique p. 16 @@ Yes, the most expensive and valuable is not gold or silver, or even precious stones! - But what ?! If not wealth! He asked, Dara. Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.comfor visiting. - Not really, knowledge! Surprised, noticed Dara. "But they cost nothing to us." For the same work that we do an engineer who receives $ 140 in the United States, he would receive $ 2,800 per month. And what''s the point? Noticed, sarcastically, Dara. Well, you''re exaggerating everything! Knowledge is needed, and it is expensive. But not all knowledge is special, knowledge!@@ 77 The historian’s thoughts on the treasure hunt technique p. 17 Special knowledge ?! This is actually - ancient information about the seeds, about the introduction, about the history of the development of seedlings, as the selection went. Sometimes I find ancient manuscripts in the mountains, in old mines and mines. They are in Arabic, but not modern but old. It is good that at the university, in the 5th year, we were taught ancient Persian and Arabic. - "Is it true that all those who graduated from foreign languages ??and know the languages ??of the East, were freelance employees of the deep drilling complex?" Suddenly asked, Dara. Well, well, you brother, give ?! Where did you get this information, even the Historian choked. "Well, the cousin told me, and they were told to them by the head of the bank''s security service, he worked in the second main security department during the second empire." Said Dara. Eeee ... brother, well, maybe he''s right ... but we had a history department and not a foreign language ... ... so, what am I talking about? Ahh, and so, thanks to this knowledge and my work on dissolution for 17 years, which, by the way, I did not defend. I can read these ancient texts. Approximately they date from 8-9 centuries and 11-12 centuries. They were especially carefully preserved, hidden in the very depths of the passages. The entrances were carefully sealed, first with bricks from adobe, then with stones, then grasses poisonous to horses and shrubs with thorns were planted. This was done in order to preserve the mine and hide knowledge. During the occupation of the Mongols of Genghis Khan, the masters and miners thought that they could return in a year or two ... but apparently they could not ... could not pass on the information about the hiding places to their comrades. So these mines were forgotten, and stood closed for 9 centuries! These manuscripts contain the quintessence (essence) of all knowledge about the nature of that time, selection methods are described in detail, seed samples are left, from where these seeds were obtained. This knowledge is truly invaluable! Since they also contain practical descriptions, from which this or that plant, tree, fruit, root crop heals. Detailed prescriptions for the preparation of medicines and probably the first attempts to prepare a healthy or even more likely medical nutrition have been written! In addition to the fact that these mines contained gold veins or diamond tubes, and sometimes even interspersed with lalas, that is, rubies! From the point of view of the treasure hunter, this is a minus for me, since in our Small-An, any cryptic resource does not belong to the land owner but to the state. In fact, having paper from the cadastre or valuation (for rural areas) - the owner of the land, only rents it, can sell it, but everything that is inside the bowels belongs to the state. So the manuscripts are mine, but I have to hand them after reading and making copies to the museum of manuscripts, I can''t sell them, since this is a cultural heritage. And I must inform the committee of geology about the mines found ... But from this, they will not give me anything. That is, on the one hand, we have a market economy in Small Ahn, but not capitalism, since on the other hand, the old format laws on a planned economy are still in force, which restrict private property rights. But I have the right, as the one who first found these manuscripts, to use this information for themselves. During the time spent in the research, I went around all the mountains, mountain valleys, ridges ... I made a map ... maps ... the location of ancient, relict trees and plant remains. Surprisingly, they survived, in inaccessible or rather hidden from people''s eyes, small mountain gorges, which even the highlanders know little about. And there it was these ancient plants and trees, hazels ... Their fruits really differ from modern ones. They are more full of energy, more refined taste, after eating them I feel a long time after that, a good finish. These nuts not only improve brain function, but also increase a person''s immunity very well! So, why don''t you, Dara, use these plants on your farm ?! Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.comfor visiting. "Oh, but who will check them? Suddenly they have side effects?" Dara answered doubtfully. 78 The historian’s thoughts on the treasure hunt technique p. 18 Who will check the data? Surprisedly asked, Historian. You do not have enough of the names of outstanding physicians of the East, whose yen rattled all over Europe! This is Avicenna - Ibn Sina and Amir Davlat Amasiyatsi! "It''s not enough to tell me that they lived when knowledge was on a completely different level than now," said Dara. - "In addition, do these plants have side effects, contraindications, maybe they are poisonous, they need to be checked for harmful impurities by the presence of heavy metals and radionuclides." - "If there is no laboratory conclusion, then all these plants cannot be used for people, for sales." - "And the study of the content of radionuclides and heavy metals in plants is a black hole, for finance, at least it will take one month, and the price will be about $ 55,000!" "I''ve just started my business, I don''t have that kind of money," here Dara was a little cunning, but who tells the whole truth to a little-known person, albeit a good one. Money generally loves silence. Well, why are you brother? Are you holding me for a village fool? The historian was offended. I also studied at universities. Don''t be afraid, everything is captured from me! We know how many expeditions there were, foreign and our local. These trees and plants, root crops, have already been studied - by geologists and chemists, and pharmacists, by my order. In my hands, everything is paper, certificates, laboratory tests. I didn''t come to you empty-handed. Not only with beautiful stories, but also with data. Together we can stir up a new business. You, Dara, have opportunities, you have your own two shops, your own farm, as you say, everything is fast on it, it is growing very fast. This is a gift! You and I can make good money! - "and I thought you were a" phase-shifted "(local expression for eccentricity) scientist who is alien to the benefits of civilization, and his eyes burn with fever from research, an altruist spirit, the last of the Magikans!" remarked surprised Dara. No, no, why are you ?! Already a cuckoo? I''m not like that?! I also love to bask in comfort, I like to eat well and tasty, enjoy the benefits of civilization. But at the same time, I want to continue my scientific research, the mountains of Light and the small mountains adjoining them, this is a treasure, yes, a real treasure! Knowledge, new, that is, already ancient plants, root crops, fruit and walnut trees. Forgotten by all mines, with gold and precious stones. In these mountains there are three, according to my data, hidden storage of books! This is part of the books left by Ali Kushchi, books of Khan Ulugbek himself! These are the books of the ruler of Big An, the grandson of Emir Nassrula and his part of the treasury, with gold coins and collectible orders. And also two hiding places with gold and weapons of the king - kings, the emperor of Asia, Emir of Iron Will, the era of the 14th century! Can you imagine if I find this, I will enter my name in the history of mankind, the history of science !!! "It''s real"? He asked, Dara. Yes! But I need money! For new devices, gadgets, more powerful quadcopters, software products and the purchase of a mobile station for receiving satellite images with a spatial resolution of 10 cm! "And how much money?" Asked interested, Dara. Well, at least 100 thousand dollars. - "Not bad"! Noticed, Dara. Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.comfor visiting. - "In principle, you can pull, with successful sales!" He laughed, Dara. - "Let''s try"! Well, you see how pleasant it is to deal with an intelligent and thirsty person, the Historian remarked happily. 79 The historian’s thoughts on the treasure hunt technique p. 19 Well, let''s go look for our wealth, but for now we will go to those places, I will tell you about their useful properties. and I''ll continue the story about my findings and subtleties when conducting search operations! - "Wow, and what are the subtleties? Take permission, pay taxes, find old cards, go to a place and get pins from a metal detector, dig and get coins! You don''t have to have a big mind," Dara said cheerfully. No, no, well, brother, why are you already doing that? No? Everywhere has its own subtleties. But you knew, for example, that before starting the search work, you had to pick up old materials, whether there were burial places in those places ... the "Anti-Plague Laboratory". If there were, then it is better not to go to this area. Since there are still burial grounds ... it''s over, no one will tell you the exact place of burial. Since this is closed data, but they can tell if you submit a request that you should not go to the square for example A-320. And this square can occupy an area of ??20 hectares. It is good that such "Unpleasant surprises" are only in the desert and steppes. There is no such thing in the mountains. The second subtlety, if during your search you find weapons or the remains of skeletons, you immediately report this to the local police department. The third subtlety, I already spoke about it, is not to work in the "red zone", that is, places entered in the register of cultural heritage and historical monuments. Well, in small things, before starting the search, you need to get permission from the owner of the land. Agree with him that the amount received from the sale of finds you divide 50 by 50 or 30 by 70, as they say. You have to dig your own holes, these are the rules of good form in our midst of search engines and treasure hunters. Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.comfor visiting. I''ve found coins and hiding places in the mountains in cracks, on ridges, mountain passes, mountain passages, in floodplains of rivers, near the beginning of the river and water sources. It used to be that a source of water was always clean, you need to throw one silver coin into it! Then the source dried up, the water left, they forgot about it, and the coin remained. Sometimes gold coins come across. but very seldom. You can find coins on mountain paths leading from one gorge to another, at peculiar crossroads. As well as small mountain streams, the brook itself is a small total of 35 centimeters wide and 10 gluyins at all, and sometimes the coins on the sun sometimes sparkle like that. It means that the treasure washed some water from somewhere, someone hid it and the water found it and washed it. So, you need to try to go upstream, and look. Sometimes I find something, and sometimes not. Treasures were hidden on the slopes of the mountains under noticeable stones and thorny bushes of bitter almonds or pistachios. But during World War II, there were not enough resources, coal was transported to the front, and there were few trees, so the inhabitants of the mountains cut down tree shrubs for heating and the inhabitants of the steppes and deserts cut down tugai forests and saxaul. And in them there were treasures and hiding places. On the foothill plain, 50 years ago there was litter, such a ravine, 450 km long and 57 km wide. And then people made a lake out of it. At the bottom there were caravanserais, fortresses, villages, sacred tombs, underground reservoirs, there passed three main caravan roads. Sometimes I sail on a rubber boat and throw in the squares - a search magnet, I can pick up from the bottom except debris, some interesting gizmos - old iron keys, locks, axes ... it''s a pity that they do not take coins from copper and silver. Probably a lot of treasures remained to lie at the bottom of this now flooded ravine. But sometimes water leaves during periods of great droughts ... and then you can see the ruins of some buildings on the shallowed bottom. But alas, they cannot be approached, since the soil there is solid sands, it can suck in like a crack. 80 The historian’s thoughts on the treasure hunt technique p. 20 Interestingly, sometimes I find coins that are 200-600 years old in our mountain villages. Their age is at least 1000 years, as I learned from literary sources. Although the first mention of our mountain villages in literature appeared during the time of Avestia, namely in the 8th century BC. That''s how cool! Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.comfor visiting. - "And where do you find these coins, not right on the road"? asked interestedly, Dara. Sometimes on the road, but most of the finds are near the toilets ... they are on the ground, on the street ... sometimes in irrigation ditches, small drainage drains on both sides of the street, there are most of the finds of coins aged 100-200 years. And coins of 16-15 centuries I used to go to the gardens and villages of the countryside. And also in their channels, which pass through their middle of the garden. Typically, houses in mountain villages are located on the second or third terraces, and the gardens in the floodplain. During melting snow and heavy rains, riverbeds may be subject to mudflows. Therefore, the villages are higher, but the gardens sometimes get hard. But on the other hand, then plants grow well there, and there are more finds of coins. What is sometimes interesting in the ruins of old houses that were abandoned by their inhabitants in the 40-60s of the 20th century, I find in their walls - silver jewelry. And sometimes, between the stones of the wall, you can see a walking stone, sometimes under it can be hidden ... a scorpion or ... a piece of mineral wrapped in decaying tissue ... rock crystal, amethyst, garnet, very rarely diamond, they are all faceted. It''s a pity that until they thought of it - a mineral detector, like a metal detector !!!! But you need to be careful, in these ruins, desert vipers like to hide from the summer heat. For 4 years, I was looking for information about the lost treasures of the great Emir, king of Asia, the locals all talk about this treasure for selection. They speak on the northern slopes of the mountains and on the southern and eastern and western. And the distance between them is 500 km. All claim that a fifth of the emir''s treasury of the king of Asia is buried in their mountains of Light. From the beginning I did not believe in these myths. But when last year I found a small cache in a deep cleft, I seemed to believe in these myths .... "What did you find there?" asked interestedly, Dara. I found there .... 81 The historian’s thoughts on the treasure hunt technique p. 21 I found a small wooden chest studded with iron stripes. The strips were made of non-ferrous metal. It was silver! Have you ever seen staples made of silver and not iron ?! Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.comfor visiting. But the main thing is that on the wooden panels of the chest there were inscriptions in Arabic - A chest for letters of his excellency, the king of kings, the moon-like Shah, the Emperor of Asia - the Iron King, the light of the sun and the blue seas, so far 47 nations ... Exactly, they won''t write about such an ordinary person ... I had to tinker with the brackets, since I did not find the key to the lock. Inside were rotten parchments ... unsuccessfully hid a chest ... some gold coins and silver ones, but not simple with some kind of pattern. Apparently, the cipher key to other treasures and a couple of Arabic toponyms on the edge of the coins. "Zahabun-rabbat", "Zahab-Hisn", "Iter-Fundukun", "S-arra-fun". And on silver coins were the following names "Bob al-Hadid", "Ain-akabot", "Sammakun", "Fustukunn-Dubbun". The names as you understand were in Arabic. And some strange names ... either a gold-caravanserai or gold placers fortress. That is, a caravanserai near the gold mine? Or something different? Since I checked the catalog, there were no such coins in the era of the king of Asia ... the coins are clearly not simple, they are a code for a map where the treasures or the archive of the king of Asia are probably hidden? Or maybe part of his camp treasury? But to believe with difficulty, in those days, would have gotten a piece of gold. Maybe they just left faithful vassals, part of the gold, to pass it to the receiver, but for now they rode in the mountains and killed them? There are many options ... but they will definitely say, it certainly will not work ... Hissn? It seems to be a fortress? But it was an old Arabic and not a new language, so now I am not sure of the correct translation. But then I was seized with an impulse and did not pay attention to these subtleties. Probably in those days of the 14th century, the word Hysn could have a different meaning. And this means that you need to look for an Arabist. And they are known to have epaulettes ... well, this is the tenth question. In the meantime, I was busy with a preliminary transcript of the words ... All of them were Arab ... denoted either gold, then precious stones, or some kind of geomorphological names of the terrain and mountain passages. But the two names that attracted my attention most were "Sammakun" and "Fustukunn-Dubbun." Which translates as "fish" and "Pistachio Bear." Where, I already heard it, saw it, and it seems to be a couple of old cards that I found in various places, in mines and ancient mines. I ran to my place ... to look for those cards ... they were jammed in places, but more or less they retained their appearance. - "Eeee, I''ve been tormented by such a question for a long time, but what did these cards look like"? - "Ash stump (the local expression denoting - obvious) that they were different from modern ones, were they really carto schemes?" asked Dara excitedly. Well, you''re right, these were not maps in the modern sense, these were schemes with a direction to the south and not to the north, as we said about this recently. Mountains were marked, similar to the modern Latin letter "M", with inscriptions in Arabic and sometimes Persian but in Arabic letters, lines like snakes were rivers, round marks like the letter "o", lakes, points like wells, and some other crosses that are difficult to decipher. As well as fortresses with the name ... moreover, such marks were also on mountain sais, in particular mountain villages. Of course, there was no indication of the azimuth, let alone the degree grid. But below were the distances from one to another settlement in days. 82 The historian’s thoughts on the treasure hunt technique p. 22 And if you go back to the old maps, I looked at one such 16th century. The Arab map of Small-An, there was the name But the two names that attracted my attention most were "Sammakun" and "Fustukun-Dubbun." The location is "Fishermen" and "Pistachio" mountains ... but where can I find Pistachio Bear? This was not on the map ... on other European maps there was not even the slightest hint of this "Bear Pistachio", nor geographical names, nor village names ... What to do? It is in the same and the clue to the treasure? !!! I turned to our place names, geographers, historians, archaeologists ... no, they could not help with anything, they just looked at me with square eyes. Well, I thought, probably this is a false trail. But somehow I was at a conference in Big An, there one specialist who was fond of cave paintings, remarked to me: "maybe there are cave paintings with bears in those mountains"? "I myself have never found a composition of rock paintings in general in the mountains," "but who knows, maybe they still exist" ?! "Seek and convert!" "As you find, do not forget to tell me, here is my phone number, send a message and a photo via Telegram if we write and publish the joint publication in Germany with you!" But the idea ?! Maybe the landmark was - Between the Fishermen and Pistachkov mountains, and there is some kind of field with bears? The truth is not clear why it was necessary to give so many landmarks? I haven''t figured it out yet, but I''m looking for it! - "And what''s up with that" Sammakun "and" Fustukunn-Dubbun "? He asked, Dara. And what? And take it all off! I have found something. As you know, the mountains of Light ... - "Hey, dear, just do not, now tell me the physical and geographical description of the area, it is tiring!" Said skeptically of Dara. - "If necessary, I''ll look at the topographic map or Google Map." - "no need for extra information." - "essentially give"! He said a little evil Dara. Well, well, that you were not taught at the university, in order to talk about an object, you first need to tell what surrounds it, what are the boundaries, what is there from the orography of the area? - "Hey, old man, quit, don''t drive nonsense, let''s get the point!" Dara began to swear. - "So here I am hanging around with you more than I wanted!" Well, the point is. Near the Fishermen and Pistachio mountains, there are two caves, one in the shape of a bear and the other called the bear in the 16th century. Because it contained rock paintings of bears and their bones. I realized that this is a "label", the key! And he went there with a metal detector and geophysical equipment. One cave was deep, in the Fishermen Mountains ... 50 meters deep, 20 meters wide and 1.5 km long. And the second in the pistachio mountains, small, 14 meters deep, 5 meters wide and 250 meters long. I examined the walls and the floor, the ceiling ... I almost curled my leg, did not crash when the cable broke ... but I stayed alive. Escaped with a couple of scratches and bruises. Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.comfor visiting. So in a cave near Fishermen at a depth of 20 meters I found an old helmet, steel, as well as two copper coins of the 14th century ... at a distance of 900 meters in the wall there was a clear signal, non-ferrous metal. Breaking the stagmites, I found a small brass door ... and there was a room behind it ... and in the outside ... nothing ... just dust from the tree. On the floor I found only one silver coin and a golden button without a stone ... the stone was probably a ruby ??or an emerald. As can be seen on the old frescoes of that period. Sorry! Sorry! But this is already a trace ... that the treasure was here! And someone took it !!! I examined with geophysical equipment but didn''t find anything worthwhile, I was just tired and wasted my time. But what was interesting at the end of the cave was the underground lake and it had an exit to the underground river ... and where it led, I don''t even know! Well, I poured a writing dye into the water to find out, maybe somewhere outside he will show himself ... And for good, he threw a search magnet into the lake ... he fished out a piece of an iron sword, some kind of iron trash, a pair of forged nails and a horseshoe ... in general, nothing interesting. When I left the cave for good luck I spent near the entrance and found there three silver coins of the 18th century and two 20 copper 5 kopecks of the second empire. Alas ... I could not find the treasure! But I found one more confirmation that the treasure or part of it could be hidden in a cave! It was now necessary to check the cave in the pistachio mountains !!! 83 he historian’s thoughts on the treasure hunt technique p. 23 @@ In the mountains of Pistachio, I hardly found the entrance to the cave, it was hidden by dense vegetation. Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.comfor visiting. Skeletons of fish were visible on the cave floor. It turns out during the flood period, part of the cave is flooded with waters from a lake which is poured from near a larger river lying ... ... yes, this will seriously complicate my search, I thought, I said the Historian! On the 50 meter length marks on the floor, I found two coins, but they were from the 1960s and about three corks from vodka ... obviously there were geologists of the second empire. Five rounds from the Mauser rifle were found at 128 meters, they rotted away ... I just found two skeletons from the Nogan system pistols. Water has reached here, I thought. But it''s good that now you don''t need to call the police, since this is rubbish. At a mark of 208 meters at a depth of 8 meters I also found a door in the wall, it was also made of copper ... behind it ... there was a blank wall. But when I tried the geophysical equipment, it discovered a void. Having hit harder with a shovel, I was able to break through the wall. It was made of clay bricks ... in the room I found a small wooden box with a padlock that was easily knocked down. In the box were old cards with new riddles for me and incomprehensible inscriptions. I still had to decipher what kind of language. And also there were two heaps of coins, silver and gold. And two crystals ... rock crystal and pomegranate ... It''s a pity that it''s not a ruby ??!!! So, my assumptions were correct, now it was necessary to check the remaining coins and their names on maps and ancient roads! On the new coins found, there were only strange drawings ... only on two silver letters ... If we assume that these were features of the relief on the map, then write everything was gone, because over the past 700 years the river network has changed a lot ...@@ 83 The historian’s thoughts on the treasure hunt technique p. 23 @@ In the mountains of Pistachio, I hardly found the entrance to the cave, it was hidden by dense vegetation. Skeletons of fish were visible on the cave floor. It turns out during the flood period, part of the cave is flooded with waters from a lake which is poured from near a larger river lying ... Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.comfor visiting. ... yes, this will seriously complicate my search, I thought, I said the Historian! On the 50 meter length marks on the floor, I found two coins, but they were from the 1960s and about three corks from vodka ... obviously there were geologists of the second empire. Five rounds from the Mauser rifle were found at 128 meters, they rotted away ... I just found two skeletons from the Nogan system pistols. Water has reached here, I thought. But it''s good that now you don''t need to call the police, since this is rubbish. At a mark of 208 meters at a depth of 8 meters I also found a door in the wall, it was also made of copper ... behind it ... there was a blank wall. But when I tried the geophysical equipment, it discovered a void. Having hit harder with a shovel, I was able to break through the wall. It was made of clay bricks ... in the room I found a small wooden box with a padlock that was easily knocked down. In the box were old cards with new riddles for me and incomprehensible inscriptions. I still had to decipher what kind of language. And also there were two heaps of coins, silver and gold. And two crystals ... rock crystal and pomegranate ... It''s a pity that it''s not a ruby ??!!! So, my assumptions were correct, now it was necessary to check the remaining coins and their names on maps and ancient roads! On the new coins found, there were only strange drawings ... only on two silver letters ... If we assume that these were features of the relief on the map, then write everything was gone, because over the past 700 years the river network has changed a lot ...@@ 84 The historian’s thoughts on the treasure hunt technique p. 24 And what do I do not know yet? Is it possible to find old maps, find similar angles of rotation of the river network from them, tie them to a modern topographic basis. Then go to the area and check. It is possible that I can find something ... but it takes a lot of time. I hope this technique allows me to find out the rest of the keys to the secret of the King of Asia! And his wealth! Then I will become rich and influential! - "Ohhh, but you are heaven that you will be soaked, erased, taken away and won''t give anything?" asked Dara smiling slyly. Well?! Anything can happen! You are right too! Well, to hell with him, maybe I will not be the richest, but at least famous. I will sacrifice all wealth to the state! And they will give me 25 percent of them! Then I will be just wealthy! - "but do not forget at the end of the year, indicate in the tax dictation about additional sources of income"! Ahhh, I forgot that I''ll have to pay income tax from that ... well, then I''ll just live well, which will work. In the meantime, we are looking for ... this in itself is already interesting. Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.comfor visiting. That is, I realized that the coins give labels, this is the relief, the name of the mountains, and the name is the accumulation of petroglyphs - rock paintings, caves. And they hid in caves or mountain gorges, small, hidden from sight, which only local hunters knew and not even all the village ones. - "Interesting, where else can you find treasures"? Said Dara. Where? Well, in the magpies or crow''s nests, but only if there was an old noble or noble family within a radius of 500 km from the nest, was the treasure buried. These birds love everything brilliant and carry to the nest. Sometimes this hobby is passed down from generation to generation in birds. If the nest is in a hollow or in the masonry of a tower, then in such a nest a researcher can find gold, precious stones, silver, coins, buttons, eyeglass frames ... And in a modern city, it will be just wire, candy wrappers, jewelry, in rare cases, modern coins or coins of the last 70-100 years. So it all depends on the place inhabited by forty and the treasures located in this area. Yet? Maybe in rat or mouse nests, in old houses, they were usually located in the corners of the house, in the vicinity of the pantry or under the floor, less often in the garden or under the stairs in the ground. But rummaging there is not great, you can grab some infection, fleas. Surrendered to hell! But as search engines say, sometimes there they found whole treasures with gold coins and precious treasures in the amount of 50,000 - 700,000 dollars. Or maybe it''s just tales of treasure hunters ?! Who knows? Hmm, the historian wrinkled his forehead, scratched the back of his head, and uttered - yes, I remembered, the treasures can still be along the cliffs of ravines or at their bottom. But I think I already told you about this. But this applies equally to the old riverbeds, in the cliffs of the banks where there were whirlpools, sometimes at the bottom of 30-40 centimeters, one could find wooden boxes or jug ??jugs with coins and precious stones. And, surprisingly, they hid not only gold and silver, but also copper and bronze. Sometimes in a dry source, in addition to coins, I find a bunch of well-preserved flakes and flint knives and arrowheads. Apparently in antiquity, hunters hid in hiding places what they considered to be wealth. Sometimes, you know, it''s worth calling the main road to the village from the plain to the mountains. From the slopes of the mountains, part of the treasures washes away during rains ... and they fall onto the road and the drainage ditch near the roads. So sometimes I go with a metal detector along these roads. The finds are surprisingly not only modern coins but also which are already 300-600 years old. So far, I have never found gold, mainly copper and, less commonly, silver. Under the bridges, the village, they are usually made of wood and clay, sometimes around them or under them you can find coins. Promising places in the city are old city parks, canals, slopes to them, the private sector, since they gave the land for construction from old cemeteries, officer gardens, infantry, arterelia headquarters, Cossack battalions - the first imperial empire. During the demolition of old houses, as usual, 2 meters of land are excavated by an excavator and replaced with new land. And houses are given for analysis, then old bricks are sold to the countryside at one-third of the price, iron is sold in metal, 1 kg costs 37 cents. They buy old porcelain from the house for a cheap price - all for $ 5, steel or nickel silver cutlery for $ 4-7 per set. Crystal in a set - Czech goes for 25-30 dollars. In an average house, there are from 10,000 to 20,000 bricks; they are sold if the usual red or yellow kilns are kilned, 1 kg for 30 cents, but if these are royal bricks, with factory clems, then piece by piece for 1-5 dollars and simple ones without stamps for 30-40 cents for 1 pc. And if it is clay bricks burned in the sun, then 1 kg is valued at 5-9 cents. Namely, at this moment, you need to talk with the owner of the house, and say, come on, 50 to 50, if I find something we will share. Not always, but sometimes there are unexpected finds in these clay bricks, the previous owners hid gold and silver, sometimes diamonds or rubies, emeralds. And sometimes corny cartridges from a rifle or revolver. So, somewhere in the house one could find the weapon itself ... the headache of the finder and the owner himself. Since, according to the law, they must be immediately handed over to the nearest police station, so that they will not be imprisoned for 10 years. Those who voluntarily surrender weapons will not be charged with work. But a lot of fuss over the change. Therefore, search engines really do not like to find weapons. They can simply throw out cartridges ... and if they find a cache of weapons from the civil war of 1920-1929 ... then this is an ass ... the most terrible thing for a search engine, the money from this is zero, and paper fuss and loss of time for at least 1 week . In the land, from the garden and house buildings, there is basically all garbage iron, but sometimes you can find a couple of curious coins or buttons. And since the First World War or even the end of the 19th century. If these were the dachas of officers of the tsarist army, then you can find all sorts of flasks, cartridges, hilt hacks and rapiers. The remains of revolvers and sometimes guns, both hunting and rifles. Golden buttons, knives, forks ... and horseshoes ... On the slopes of the city canals, sometimes there are modern knives, pistols ... the skeletons of burnt cars are a new headache, but who needs it. Therefore, there they are mainly looking for only the most stubborn of the treasure hunters. But fuck it gave up. Modern new buildings mainly in the city center are built on ancient cemeteries. But the roads are asphalt, along the central streets of the city, on the site of the city blocks of the old and new royal cities. That is, at least the 15th century - the middle - the end of the 19th century. So, there at a depth of 2-3 meters, something can be found, including old treasures. In old buildings of the 18-19th century - the beginning of the 20th century and houses built in the 30-40s, the level of treasure finds is high. These are mainly royal and princely coins of silver, copper, less often gold, jewelry, silver plate as well as ... manuscripts, in Arabic, icons, salaries, paintings, paintings ... stocks, securities, sometimes memoirs .. but often they don''t find them. Sometimes you can find manuscripts hidden in hollow beggars in furniture, in secret drawers, in chests, coins and old cards are hidden behind iron decorative upholstery. In the pipes of bicycles and motorcycles. Under the floor, in the ventilation hole, steel Finnish SS, German pistols, limonki, fascist orders and coins, stamps with a swastika, small paintings by European masters, as well as old prayer books of 12-14 centuries in Latin and German can be hidden¡­ these are trophies of the Second World War war, for some reason not given to the state or the police by their masters. Sometimes, behind a simple picture of an unknown artist, famous works of the 15-17th centuries can be hidden. Which are worth millions of dollars. But I heard that, said the historian from the guys on the forum of seekers. Since a simple person does not understand a damn thing about these subtleties. - "And you earn a lot, as a treasure hunter"? asked Dara. In general, as you know ... I make the main money on my YouTube channel. Advertising, for 1 week, 1 month, 3 months. I get $ 500 for 1 month, I can sell lines for $ 35, mentioning the company in the video for $ 50 at the beginning and 15 in the middle. And sales at auction, well, in one month there are finds for 25 dollars in another, so generally for 3 dollars, and sometimes you will tear off the cash of 100-300 dollars. I only once found a treasure worth $ 15,800. Well, probably still to come ... 85 The end of the story about the search for treasures told by the historian p. 25 @@ The history of the mountains "Light", "Pistachio", "Fishermen" and "Place of the robbers" is far from fully understood. And even 10 percent. Search, research are coming. Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.comfor visiting. We need to attract specialists, I would like to say, but where to get so much money, and I''m afraid of information leakage. So you have to learn everything from scratch yourself. And this is philology, etymology, ethnography, toponymy, it''s good that I am a historian, and many of these disciplines are funny from mine. It will be easier for me to master all this. You still need to find old and ancient maps. Unfortunately, we didn''t have this good in Small An, we all sold or exported or burned ... it remains to buy copies on the Internet or look for funds in cross-border countries and former empires. There is a lot of work to be done, so that while I am finishing this topic with you, but when I find something new, I will let you know the first Gift!@@ 86 Time transfer and opening of your own shop @@ Dara, during his stay in the mountains of Light, learned a lot about history and treasure hunting. Mountains of Light had many old names. Why is this all? Thought Dara. On that day, the Moon entered the shadow of Jupiter ... it was the 11th lunar day, the Fountain ... the planets lined up in a row, which was ... necessary to activate the system ... which worked once a century ... In the center of the mountain there was a peak with the name "Beginning of Life" in the ancient Turkic language, it was located in the center of the entire mountain system. The mountains themselves were called "Light" in Arabic. In the far east there was an ancient lake with the name "Sky" in the Aramaic, in the far west there was a tree that was at least 1,500 years old, and for some reason it bore the Chinese name Jin - "Gate", in the far north there is a source on "Arasan "in Sanskrit it means" Holy source. "In the extreme south," Bogdo Agyz, "a mixture of Tibetan and Persian languages ??is the Holy Entrance. Why such strange names? And also mountain gorges with the names "Guess Topmas" and "Godai Topti", which means the beggar will not find and the beggar found. Why is this all? Or am I thinking too much? Thinking about this, Dara did not notice the low beam, in the house where he was staying in a mountain valley, the gorge was called "Mitan" - from Sogdian it meant "fortress". The blow was strong, the beam was made of steel, on it you could see the inscription on the Belgian "Belgian Railway" and "CREUSOT.75" 1875. Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.comfor visiting. The blow of the head on the rail was so noticeable that the Dara fell on the wooden floor, a sheaf of sparks fell from his eyes and he chopped off. Lost consciousness... ...Dara waking up ... found that he was not in the house, but somewhere in the ridge, under a stone, his arms and legs seemed to be intact, but his head is hurt@@ 87 Time transfer and opening of your own shop p.2 Damn, what the hell? Where am I? Why am I even here? Do I have that memory loss started again? Dara, I started talking to myself, with my subconscious. And this is the clinic ... - "Why again? Well, you understand, when I get very nervous or too much new information arrives, I start to forget simple things ... WHAT? What are you doing? Have you completely left the coils? NO ?! I haven''t moved, I guess ... just memory buffer overflow and the cleaning system works in such a way that it removes all unnecessary information "! Ahh, I think I hit my head, I remember, said Dara. And then, what happened then? Maybe I went to aerate? Or went to call? And climbed the mountains to find a signal? Since at an altitude of 900 meters, the signal receives only until 9 am and in the evening you need to rise to a height of 1,500 meters. And I mean went to the mountains? To call? But why am I wearing a backpack, knife, flask? I don''t understand a damn and I don''t remember a fig ????? !!! I kind of hit my head in the afternoon ... and now why the morning? Dara, began to look around ... ... to hell with yourself? Where am I? He looked into the mountain valley "Mitan" and down there ... there was not a single house ... it just flowed more deeply than before, thick pistachio shrubs grew on the mountain slopes, guinea fowls and pheasants ran right under his feet. Yes, so thick and beautiful. Above, somewhere at the peak of the "Five Fingers" of Dara, I distinctly saw a figure of a large cave lion on a water cut ... and then down there in the valley Primitive Bulls, Bos Primegenius, Tur! He is so huge! Pancake! What the hell is going on ?! Tour? And in the 21st century! Yes, this can not be? !!!! I remember that the Tours lived in the late Holocene, then began to die out due to climate change, but some individuals still lived in antiquity ... and lived in 589 BC ... Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.comfor visiting. Such thoughts flashed through Dara''s head ... "oooh! Here you need to collect all the brains in a bunch, think and decide what to do?" "need a plan"! A click of the fingers and the brain process was started. 1. Check what is available? 2. Find out where I am? 3. Find a way to get home 4. Find a doctor and check your head And ticking off done is great! Dara, looked around he had a backpack and he had a standard tourist kit - a bayonet knife with 6 functions, the civilian version, unlike the special forces, had 3 functions more + a built-in gun for 6 rounds. Well, I only have a civilian version. I can: 1. Get fire-flint, 2. bite branches or thick wire, 3. Saw, 4. Hammer, 5. Spear, 6. Ax, 7 and use as a knife. There is a flask with water for 500 ml, biscuits, rations for 10 days, including 300 biscuits Beef Stew 250g Fruit and berry concentrate 75g Natural fruit and berry puree 100g Fruit jam 105g Bitter Chocolate 300g Black long tea 10g Dry cream 2g Instant coffee 20g Edible salt 25g Pepper 1g Sugar 60g Multivitamins, dragees 10pcs Portable Heater 2 Kit Matches waterproof 6pcs Water disinfectant 10 tablets Sublimated products (soups, milk, cocoa, cereals) - 400 g Rusks - 200 g Flashlight with batteries with a beam length of 100 meters. A rocket launcher with 10 missiles, five light-noise grenades from bears, one set of a "bee" of civilian weapons with 50 steel balls in a holder, punches 10 mm steel from 50 meters. Three clips. Walkie-talkie, android 10 Pro with 512 megapixel camera with battery for 5 days, solar panels, 2-seater tent, first-aid kit - broad-spectrum antibiotics, antiviral, antibiotics for food poisoning, immunostimulant, heart drops, blood pressure pills, blood stop medications , remedies for inflammation, bandages. As well as... 88 Time transfer and opening of your own shop p.3 money, coins in 1000, 500, 100 dinars from an alloy of copper and nickel, about 10 and paper notes in 100,000 dichrums. The rate was 300 dichrums for 1 US dollar. A couple of sweets, a pencil, a notebook, a digital action camera. And a portable quadrocopter with a coil for finding metals. The latest development of the Chinese company "Li-Ban Company LTD." A quadcopter equipped with a coil for searching non-ferrous metals and iron was intended for treasure hunting in hard-to-reach areas. And also had a fundamentally new 5D scanner, which allows spectral ranges to find non-ferrous metal in soil and soil under water. Also, the quadcopter could hook search magnets to everything in 160 kg and 300 kg. Using new composite materials and a new generation motor, a small quadcopter could lift the payload to 560 kg and fly without recharging the batteries for 8 hours. The new technology, still being tested, was a test sample. With the self-blowing function, if someone wanted to see his chips and other nodes. The modern world was so simple and complex at the same time! It seems I skidded in the wrong direction, Dara thought. But alright, you need to go down to the valley ... and there, on the ground, find out what and how. I do not believe in all these fantastic nonsense about moving and sliding into parallel universes! And how can I get from the 21st century to hell knows what century and era, it''s just not possible, not scientific, it''s bullshit, that is, frank nonsense! It''s one thing to watch manga, the second to read a short story, but in reality it''s schizoid garbage! This cannot be the point! If you think logically, I just put in my "bowler" well and temporarily chopped off. Maybe fainted or maybe fell asleep. The main thing is to wake up in time! And for this you need to apparently complete some kind of quest in this state! As Carlos Castaneda said, and by the way, you don''t know him? Does he look like Sri Arubindo Ghosh? The same revolutionary who rejected the path of violence and became the founder of Integral Yoga! And who is Castaneda? This is ... Carlos Sesar Salvador Aranya Castaneda - American writer, Ph.D. in anthropology, ethnographer, extract from Wikipedia. Well, his works came to us from the Second Empire, and from a scientific journal ... in short, he said that you can "control your sleep." And indeed it is possible! So, let''s manage this state here too! hey subconscious, where are you? - ahh, I''m here, what do you need older? ABOUT! Are you here system - The system? Now I ran! What the hell system? This is not myths and fiction for you, this is a new universe! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaah! I do not understand anything! "Why understand?" Your head is attached to the magic rail, in other words, you have a concussion! And your mental consciousness is separated from the body. Have you already had the same? Is not it so? In the university years? What about Dara? Do not remember? YES! Are you right or are you right? - Right? Right! I am the mental dryness of your soul. I generally IT! - Well, remember? Ah, said the subconscious tiredly. Yes! I remember! I became interested in the Zen practices of Chan Buddhism, and left during medical treatment for 30 minutes in Nirvana! And it seems that I was first mixed up around the city and then went into a pillar of energy like a space elevator, it pulled me into an unfamiliar universe! But I thought, then, that it''s just stress, fatigue, accumulated after cramming three volumes of the History of the Ancient World, with a total of 5600 pages! And I thought that temporarily, my brain turned off and I fell asleep and I had a wonderful dream! - No, no, you did not disconnect and it was not a dream, you were transported to another world. As you know, there are 22,000 worlds. Just humanity does not have access to them. Yes, I know that there are 22,000 worlds. Interestingly, that is, my mental essence is now right in one of these worlds? - Well, like that ... this one of the worlds, just the Earth, only during the Late Holocene period, its final phase, namely the period of Antiquity! Only not 589 BC, as you thought, but 05 AD ... - So, welcome to the world that you just read about, now you can live and feel it with all the fibers of the soul! And if I step on a butterfly? - Uh, this is not science fiction, this is not Ray Bradbury ... step on, eat tours, make a kebab of pseudopods, endemic of the 21st century, listed in the Red Book, and here you knife to enjoy them, they are teeming with them! This is great, although I don''t really like fish, but if there are a lot of fish, sturgeon, then why not try it ?! By the way, you didn''t answer. Are you in charge here? - No, as in all worlds ... Clear. But can I call for something here? Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.comfor visiting. - Sure! No problem! This is here your only mental essence! In fact, your body is now lying on the carpet, on the floor you are off. So have fun while you have the opportunity! 89 Time transfer and opening of your own shop p.4 @@ Well, let''s go have fun! Are there people here? What language do they have? What money is in use? - Money denarii, gold, silver, copper, bronze. - 1 denarius is equal to 36 dichrums in silver, 1 dichem is 77 tenge in copper, 1 tenge is 109 bronze pools .... well, something like that. - There are people, the society is still slave-owning ... slaves live in higher mountain gorges, the owners are in the deeper inside the "Light" mountain. Language? Well, he looks something like Farsi and Aramaic ... "But you will understand what they say." - Just put on that wool robe on cotton wool, and put on another one under it, the one that is velvet with gold threads, remove the scarf, tie it over the bottom robe. Hang a bayonet knife on it, put a hat with fur on the head that was recently presented to you in the steppe, attach a purse to the belt on the right side, drop your modern coins, and some pebbles if you have sweets and some medicine . - Take the backpack in your right hand ... now go down to the valley .... "So they will take you for a merchant or merchant." Prepare a legend and think about the first time you will trade ... Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.comfor visiting. "Then they will take you for a master and not a slave!" - show your strength! So that they penetrate and respect you! - This is an era when people value strength and not just mind! - The era of status, it shows strength! - The era of the heyday of the clans! -The era of trade!@@ 90 Entrance to the village and spassport controls And Dara went with measured gait down to the valley. The entrance to the mountain valley was blocked by a wooden fence, more likely even resembling a gate. They looked like a modern wooden staircase to which barbed wire was tied ... but instead of jelly, there were tied shrubs of roses and mountain pistachios with thorns. Nearby stood a small hill crowned by a slate fortress. A small fortress for 10 people. Dara, I saw five arrowheads looking at him ... and 20 bright, black, gray and green eyes. "Who are you a stranger"? "The purpose of your visit to the mountain valley"? "Are you there?" "Your name"? "Your kind"? "Your country"? "Do you have a product"? Do you have a weapon? "Present your tamga!" - Both on! Fuck! This is antiquity! And they have their own passport control! What the hell ???? - Well, our improvisation is everything! I thought to myself Dara. - I''m a type of merchant, sent by my clan to study the market, supply and demand. - Came along the trade lapis lazuli route from the country "Light" !, which lies beyond the Tien Shan, Pamir mountains and the city of Gaochan, it is near Mount Olotoo. - Purpose of the visit? Trade! See what you have, show your products, can we trade with you? - My name is Dara Behzod Zadeh, I am one of the merchants, my clan is not big but not small either, it is also known in Eastern Han. "My clan, it comes from two clans of the great Naiman warriors, conquerors of the steppes and mountains, and from the clan of brown horses of the great merchants. Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.comfor visiting. - Our battle cry is "Kara the Rich Man", and tamga is the "inverted head of the bull", my tamga is it ... and Dara showed an android who has seen the species, RedMi 8 Pro, and there the background was just tamga - the inverted head of the bull . And there are our relatives in Keder! - There is a product, Dara immediately showed a set of dry rations, on his palm appeared white salt, sugar ... other products. "What is it"? - Food, salt, sweet salt, spices and spices ... and food ... 91 Joke system - "We need spices, but food? You laugh, there are a lot of it in the mountains!" "What else do you have?" The highlanders asked. Well, salt, pepper, saffron, arrowheads, there is money from my country, some sweets, wonderful cures for many diseases, a magic bug, a miracle stone that can find iron in water, a sword of light, luminous balls, some magic items. - "Ohhh, we just needed medicines and spices, and arrowheads" ... Hey system, can I order arrowheads? Asked Dara with fright, he blurted out about them, but he didn''t have them. "Sure"! "Just imagine them!" Said sleepy system. Damn, it seems, I became the puppet of the author of the novel, flashed into the head of Dara ... why again, as the problem arises, the author helps me, and even in such a clumsy way. "Because you''re the main character, you idiot, isn''t it clear," Evil said the system. "Would you prefer to be thrown into the abyss or fed to a cave lion because you are a liar and a lover of talk a lot and do nothing?" Well ... you''re right, but everything turns out like in a clich¨¦ novel. But I generally can''t imagine what arrows were in the 1st century AD? Stone, bone and first iron, sort of. And for some reason, the heavy arrows of the Mongolian cavalry, armor-piercing ones, which were flying 400 meters according to the stories of historical chronicles, come to my mind. "Urgently drive them off your head ... here''s a fool ... it''s too late ... now they have exactly 45 pieces in your backpack" ... "and what now the poor mountaineers will do with them ... their bows are not adapted for this" ... the system noted sarcastically. Well ... damn you need to come up with something, but presented the image of iron tips that I saw in Robin Hood ... "Well, you Karl, frame, this is a literary hero, not a real one!" Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.comfor visiting. But I remembered, I saw arrowheads from the "iron tree" ... "the system does not accept more and more orders." "get out as you can" "" I''ll throw you another dozen two kittens "" and then how it goes. " Yes ... as in the world, and what will I owe you? "A pair of your teeth!" "And by the way, you can remove your dentures and use them as arrowheads, Ahahahhahahahhahaa!" The system started up! 92 Conversation of Gifts and Systems and the Subconscious Yes! This is of course a way out! Remove a pair of titanium dentures and make arrowheads! But this is an extreme case. And damn it, for some reason you remind me of the system, that same anecdote of the second empire. About the system that helped her master, until she once said she could spit in the face of the leader of the Canals ... "And then what?" With malice, the System noticed. But I don''t remember! But it seems, the System said - well, get out of it yourself! "Ahahahahahhahahahaaaa!" The system began to laugh in a voice that echoed in Dara''s head. Well, brothers, it seems this is another situation where it is better to be silent and offer less than more, Dara thought. Well, and how do we get out of this situation? thought Dara. His subconscious is waking up ... - "Well, you and a fellow ... Captain America"! What? Do not understand Dara, what kind of captain America? - "Well, you Karl, did not read the Marvelian stories about Flash, Spider-Man, Iron Man"? No. I read "Young and Mature Years of Henry 4" and "Sunset of Europe" seem Spengler .... said Dara dejected. - "No, well, you think, normal people watch comics, they know the basic Western cultural values, and you?" sarcastically noticed the subconscious. "What is he?" the system intervened. "He, geek, he is a science, and history," "plus do not forget his main friend, author of history" ... the system said with some fright. - "Yes, I missed this factor, the author is the one who can easily get rid of us," the subconscious remarked dumbly. - "Well, all right, then we won''t try to procrastinate your eyes, just use the arrows you already have, and there, let these mountaineers themselves understand that they have such backward arrow-making techniques." - "By the way, you know, the best Eastern proverb in this situation - Say no, get rid of the problem, say yes, and there will be problems!" The subconscious said. "What do you need most?" Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.comfor visiting. - "I would be in your place, I would find out from them where they get gold, I hid a little gold, and then in the new world, I went and opened it!" - "Or he would have hidden some written sources of a disappeared genus or some tools." - "And then hop-hop, accidentally supposedly dug them when digging worms or a garden, here you have a scientific degree in your pocket!" wisely noticed the subconscious. "And it, the case says, you Dara, don''t catch the flies, let''s act!" said the system. But the truth is, they are saying a thing, the truth it probably looks strange from the side ... when I speak to myself. But I can speak English or the language of the second empire, anyway, no one will understand me in this era. But it will look strange anyway. A strange fear. And in the mountains, this is clearly not a good idea. Being a black sheep is not safe. Thought Dara. Well, okay, we''ll sell what we have, and then we''ll see! Dara decided. 93 Different systems of medicine Part 1 He decided everything for himself, having met with imaginary shoulders, uncertainty, Dara boldly headed for the mountain valley. He was already waiting ... ... well, merchant ... do you have a weapon? asked a tall highlander dressed in a cloak of snow goat fur, belted with a belt on which a small bronze sword and a dagger hung, behind his back hung a bow and quiver with twenty or so arrows. His face was tanned. It betrayed in him an Indo-European and not a representative of the Turkic-speaking tribes. At that moment, Dara was thinking frantically what kind of people they were? Who are they? Obviously not the Mongoloids, but also not the T¨¹rks, not the Huns, not the northern Chinese tribes? Ahh ... this is the first century of our era ... the Turks have not come yet, the Ephtalites - the white Huns came only in the second century of our era ... who is it? Obviously not Greeks ... and not Macedonians, remnants of the garrisons of Macedon ... .... ahh, I think I get it ... ... are Iranian-speaking tribes ... Sakki? Sarmatians? ... no ... but maybe ... yes, I''m sure these are Sogdians ... Well, it seems to have carried ... then there are general topics for discussion ... "Yes, I have weapons; how else would I have passed thousands?" said confidently to Dara. Is it tysch? You look at you, like our relative, but you say that thousands have passed? Are you from Eastern Han? Is your emperor Liu Xiu? the highlander''s face immediately became tense ... Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.com for visiting. "oh, damn it ... but I thought that the Sogdians had good relations with the Chinese ... I read in historical chronicles, damn it ... they didn''t add something to these chronicles ..." Dara thought in dismay. It''s necessary to somehow get out ... ... "no respected, we have a settlement of Sogdians, near Kocho (Gaochan), our ancestors came there from the mountains of the White Deer, which is located in the Fiery Desert, near the mountains of Light ... "Ancestors came a hundred years ago and founded their settlement there, merchants, merchants, warriors." "After they bought the land from the local prince, they stayed there ... from our lands, the status of a city-state under the protectorate of the Western Han Dynasty." "We pay them protection tax before it was 140 grams of gold people, growing in three months (28 grams per 1000 people), but now even the gold of faith is not enough ... therefore we pay 5 Ferghana horses per year or 15,000 sheep that we trade arrowheads and food from the Huns. " With a clever look, Dara said smugly. Wow, so your kind and city, so rich? Where did you get the medicine? are there alchemists? Highlander asked with interest. "Yes, in our family, there are alchemists from the Boss and Western Han empires, they owe us ..." What medicines, what level do they do? Bronze, Copper, Silver, Gold, Jade or Heavenly? "What an ass ... what kind of levels are these, I read something about Taoists, something about Chan Buddhism, but I don''t remember a damn about these levels ... it''s something about the levels of cultivation ..." . Thought otachodeno Dara. "Oh, oh, I didn''t read modern Chinese novels, hell knows what the levels are ... but if you assume that heaven is the coolest, then the rest is easier ...". "No, we have a different gradation!" Insolently said, Dara. "We use the knowledge of our ancestors ..." damn, we have a different standard ... for sure, take Tibetan or Persian, even Persian is better ... What is he like? - Highlander asked with interest. "The first level that cures ... 94 Different systems of medicine Part 2 The system is simple. Total consists of 8 levels. They are not like in your system for minerals and metals, but for types of medicinal plants. The simplest medicines are powders, the middle class is tinctures and balms, the highest class of pills, the elite class is pills. Knowledge came from the BOSS empire. The first level is "fox grass", it is able to treat small cuts, stop blood, relieve mild inflammation. The second level - "mummy" - is able to heal fractures, heal bruises, insert the skin, heal weakness, give strength and restore vitality. The third level is the "soap root" - it is able to renew blood, heal light poisons, grow new hair, restore teeth, and treat purulent ulcers and wounds. The fourth level is "the grass of a black girl," he is able to heal hearing diseases, non-seeing people can begin to see, they have a finer hearing, they can see in the dark, their intuition powers increase, they can predict events that can happen to the place where they stopped, the truth is only for the duration of the boom flight. Fifth level - "Deer grass", he is able to give a feeble old man or old woman to raise two horses, better understand foreign languages, heals almost all diseases. The sixth level - "Purple Flower" - it gives strength to the weak, they can raise three horses and the strength to last three days, they can be cured of all known poisons, all known diseases. This is an elite level. There are two super-elite levels, in the BOSS Empire there are only seven such masters who were able to master these levels of "Golden Saffron", he can heal from all unknown diseases and all types of poisons, gives a person the strength to raise 5 horses and the strength to last 5 days. There is a possibility that anyone can gain the ability to hear better, at a distance of 5 li ... it is better to see at a distance of 10 li, run like a Ferghana horse for 2 days. And the last eighth level is Turquoise Mulberry. It cures all diseases, all poisons, gives the ability to anticipate for three days, it is better to hear for 10 li, it is better to see for 20 li, it allows you to run like a Ferghana horse for 10 days and raise the weight of 7 horses. But I did not master these levels. My level is "Deer Grass", if I could find several medicinal herbs and roots, I could break into a new level of "purple flower"! But alas, I searched for a long time in all the mountains, but so far I have not found them. By the level of preparation, I still occupy the middle class, I can prepare tinctures and balms. If I could ... level up ... "How do you increase your level"? The highlander asked. "It''s not a secret"? The new highlander approached, judging by the appearance of the elder or the magician of the village. Dara, by the appearance of his robe, realized that this was most likely a fire worshiper, a magician, as they were called before. And when actually before? Apparently this was in the 8th century BC, in the "Avesta" and found the mountain "Mug" that is, a magician and there is a cave in the mountains near the "Gold-bearing mountains". But now we have the first century of our era ... then this village is the remains of the previous civilization? I don''t remember exactly, maybe this is part of the Andronovo culture? But not a fact. Well ... it means it''s like a local monk and he has a certain weight in this village. No, dear, this is not a secret, in the BOSS empire, the transfer of knowledge is just welcome, but the problem is to become an alchemist, you need to drink holy water. It is located in special underground reservoirs. They are located in the cities of "Half the World", "Keder", "Light", "Heavenly Palace", "Early Dawn". Three of them are in the BOSS Empire, somewhere in your place ... in the mountains of "Light of Dew", which are in the desert, from here 524 li ... and the second city "Keder" to the north at 1300 li. Although my Shifu, in Goachan, said that there is a mountain village in these mountains, there is a huge spruce tree that is three hundred years old ... and there is a small source of water near it. The water in it is always sweet, tasty, quenches thirst from the first sip, heals snakes and spiders from the poisons, and instantly heals wounds. Do you happen to know such a place? The highlanders were at a loss ... what was this traveler talking about ... even the magician did not hear about it ... how could this alien know this too ... if they could not know? Who are they? The monk asked, "how to determine that place"? On a tree, my shifu, tales, there should be scraps of matter, next to the stones are pyramids that crown the heads of rams with horns. Nearby 3 li from the source is an ancient mound and there are the ruins of a magical fortress of fairies ... the advent of light. And the fortress was called the "Main Fortress". The monk, for a moment there was a shortness in his eyes ... it seems he understood where it could be. "If you drink this water, then anyone can gain knowledge of alchemy"? The monk asked with tension in his voice. No, only comprehends the first level, in order to comprehend all six levels you need to drink water from all the underground sources. Dara said with regret. "But you did not mention the last two?" "What do you need to drink to reach level 7 and 8"? looking thoughtfully into the distance, the monk noticed. I heard from my cipher that in the palace of the emperor BOSS there is a fountain that is connected to the underground vault, it is called "Imperial Saffron". It is possible that after drinking from it, level 7 can be activated, and 8 is achieved as the teacher said, if you bring all 7 types of water in a special vessel hollowed out of soap root and add them together, adding saffron, mint, dew from a camel thorn, three berries of purple grapes, that grows in the courtyard of the emperor''s secret guard, a medicinal herb from the Sveta mountains called "deer grass", as well as a secret component that only the emperor of BOSS knows. "Here it is ... means," the monk said interestedly. "Well, what kind of roots and medicinal plants are you looking for, if you call them to us, maybe we can find them in our mountains," said the monk in a fake voice. Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.com for visiting. 95 System mocks Dara (Meanwhile, they talk to each other telepathically and the monk does not hear them ... therefore, they temporarily lingered in front of the entrance to the mountain village). "Yeah, so tell him the truth ... well, okay, what do we have here?" thought Dara. "And here in our mountains of Light, there is a secondary center for the settlement of Mediterranean vegetation!" "In 2010, there were 66 endemic species," Dara went on to recall. "And maybe let me find the licorice root, burdock root, ginseng root. Probably it was found in these mountains, but if it wasn''t found, then all the better." "All the same, there is little use for these plants, but at least we''ll have some tea ... I wonder if I will taste or not at all?" "Are you the system here?" asked Dara, not really worrying. "Well, well, I''m here, what do you need?" At the expense of taste, of course you will feel it! The system said displeasedly. "And if they hit me with a sword, a snake bites me, then in the real world, I will remain invulnerable" Asked interested Dara. - Of course, that with you you become, only you can start to move a little with your mind, you will become a temporary idiot! The system said without emotion. "hey hey don''t joke like that with me" ?! "Why"? asked Dara concerned. - And what do you want? Though mentally you are here, but everything in a person is interconnected. You''ll become an idiot, only for half a year, they will be recorded in a dispensary for those who are not all right with their heads. - Then you lie down forcibly for two months ... "What a tin!" "What a shit!" said Dara. - Such is life, in the former empires, all the terrible methods of suppressing consciousness remained, they were not removed, there was no time, and then they were forgotten ... - And then a person will be registered with the police and a psychiatric clinic for two years ... they will be checked every six months. All sorts of analyzes ... - "Fuck! What a horror, however!" "What bliss, how can one live like that, with such a treatment system?" trembling in his voice noticed Dara. - Well, what do you want from the dark era, this is not Tao teachings, where you are taught bright wisdom, to sing good songs. This was their approach to people among the Imperials. - So my dear ... do not be sick ... do not let yourself bite, be chopped off with a sword, work your head! "Take me away from here"! Dara yelled into the voice. - Do not worry, we''ll pick up how you will fulfill your mission, you need to complete the quest, the system said sympathetically. What kind of quest? Dara remarked with concern. - Survive! To become rich, to become happy! Find out where the mine is for the extraction of native gold, find out where the diamond tubes are, find out where their archive with records is, find out which garden crops they have, hide a treasure worth 10,000 gold coins. Yes, so that this treasure is not found over the next 20 centuries ... and then, you yourself will find this treasure and ... "... and the state will take it from me," summed up Dara. - No, you didn''t hear that two years ago, according to the amendments, a new law on treasures was adopted ... if you find that 50 percent belongs to you, if there is no real owner ... if it is an ancient treasure ... then 50 percent goes to the state, and 25 percent to the brother. That is 25 percent of the amount of the treasure to the finder and 25 percent to the farmer, the timber industry farm, the ministry to which this territory belongs. Noticed System. - Truth. it is appropriate to note that the state itself chooses the appraiser, therefore they will be evaluated not at market value, but at a lower value. You can''t leave the found treasure, you need to sell it to the state at the appointed price ... so ... with 10,000 gold you can get in the modern equivalent of the 21st century - $ 150,000. But with them you will have to pay a tax, for property, for income, for luxury, so that you get 30 thousand in your hands ... hence the conclusion, put more than 10,000 gold. Skazaoa tedious voice System. "Here''s an ass ... hell knows how much time I will spend here ... so that they don''t bite me, that they don''t hack and probably poison ... and do not get sick from viruses ... and somehow cut 10,000 gold quickly, find out secret information ... ass in one word "philosophically uttered Dara. Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.com for visiting. - Well, at least it''s worth a try! Noticed sacrastically System. "Well, let''s go to the people, you shouldn''t lose heart, we will now gain new experience!" With emphasized bravado, he spit out this speech, Dara. - "What do you need"? What kind of herbs? The cunning monk said. "I need roots ..." 96 In the turn of the big jackpo "Licorice, soap, ginseng, preferably 500 years old, dandelion, camel thorns. All of them should grow on the southern slope, near the source of water and there must grow a hazel tree that is at least 1200 years old!" says Dara. What else do you need? asked the monk. Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.com for visiting. "Damn, Karl, I need money, gold, diamonds, secret knowledge, but you''ll scare it so to speak, and the mountaineers will not let it go later. We''ll ask cleverly. Is it interesting that they understand a lot about diamonds? Probably not? It was discovered by Indians only in the 15th century, for them diamonds are just beautiful crystals, Dara thought mentally. "But I know where in these mountains I can find rock crystal, as I remember from the course of history, that rock crystal was valued above uncut diamonds until the 14th century!" whimpering Dara giggled. "That means we''ll get diamonds!" said mentally to Dara. "Housing, food, drink, protection from animals, medicinal plants, mountain honey, wax, mint, communication with a wise monk!" said Dara loudly. Well, these are all understandable conditions, and what will you give us for this? We are a hospitable people, but now the times are not the same, the plains are restless. The head of the village said. "What should I give them? Dry rations? Gunpowder? A tent? Obviously not. But it''s best to give knowledge, as the leader of the world proletariat taught us. Nobody will steal knowledge, it''s valuable, useful and can bring honor and respect!" Dara thought so. "I will share with you a recipe for preparing a very simple, tasty and long-stored dish. You can carry it with you over long distances, easy to prepare, it is very satisfying. In addition, I will share with you my experience in preparing healing balms, the simplest, not complicated "And I''ll also tell you how to increase the yield of garden crops in your home." Dara said. This is certainly good, but it seems to me that this is small, said the monk. "Well, I will give you the crystals of the spirit, they are able to cleanse the mind, I will give you a drink that can give strength to the hunters, I will give you the miracle of crystals that will make your life sweeter!" Dara said smugly. This is not enough! The highlander said. Do you have money, weapons? asked the chief hunter. "Damn, what greedy highlanders got ... maybe in ancient times they were different than now in the modern world. And ... like I got into the village of the Masters ... and they used to be arrogant ... and the time is now tough , antiquity, slave system and other garbage ... uh, you need to give them money and show your background, "thought Dara feverishly. "Yes, I have money, for one coin of a white alchemical alloy they give 1000 gold coins of the Bossa empire," Dara brazenly lied. There was nowhere to go, he had nothing more than a couple of coins lying in his trouser pocket. "I will give you a miracle powder, it burns itself if you strike it with flint!" said Dara. This is not enough, but you intrigued us, we agree, agreed, the exchange will begin in the evening, come in, said the monk. "Thank you, dear elders, I am so happy with your decision and help, I will be grateful if you would let me eat and drink!" Dara said. "The system noticed with interest, and what will you give them gunpowder?" What kind of dish? And what kind of crystals of the spirit are they, they are capable of purifying the mind, a drink capable of giving strength to hunters, a miracle of crystals that will make your life sweeter? - I was very doubtful about your acting and mental abilities. Giggled System noticed. "Eh, as you press, you come up with on the go, from what is at hand," Dara answered. "The recipe is pasta, the Arabs came up with it only in the 9th century AD, so if I give them this recipe there will be no problems. Spirit crystals are rock crystal. Drink - saffron, amber sugar, imir, mint, licorice root, and you can Nichaldu cook if they have eggs ... gunpowder? No, I will cut sulfur from the matches, plus I will add amber sugar, a little powder from the squib for self-defense "wasp" so that the volume will increase, and by the time they require I hope from here I''ll return to my previous body or find a way to escape. if you use the system, it is amber sugar. This is dew of a camel thorn (yantak), a yellowish sticky liquid appears on the leaves, in the evening it hardens and turns into small grains. Collect amber manna in late August - early September. Syrup is boiled from manna, and this must be done early in the morning so that the manna does not melt. Plus, as you know, it has some still poorly studied properties, but doctors of the 9-11th century wrote that it helps to cleanse and soften the throat and lungs, and also helps with coughing, easily dissolves yellow bile and uto thirsty. Modern chefs prepare this sugar like this: Manna, cleaned of litter, then put in a boiler, pour a small amount of water, put on fire. In another bowl, boil carrots, quinces chopped into small strips, pour dissolved amber sugar, continue to cook until cooked. The finished syrup acquires a dark pink color, and the carrots and quinces in it do not float to the surface and are evenly distributed in the syrup. Before cooking, add vanilla pod or 3-4 saffron stamens to the syrup. " says Dara. "Well, I''ll tell how to make fertilizers in the conditions of the rainfed zone, you can teach them how to make slingshots, and use animal veins as rubber, but you need to think about this ?! And I remember from history, in antiquity, wheat and flour were already in use porridge, porridge from millet, liquid soup and meat broth. Widespread use of milk for cooking porridge is not excluded. " Noticed Dara. "Well, what are we going to trade and get rich"? said in anticipation of Dara. 101 Silk Road miscellaneous information The main postal road of the Arab Caliphate (from the 9th to the 14th centuries): Baghdad-Hulawan mountain pass-highlands Hamadan-Rey-Nishapur-Merv-Big-An-Small-An-Iron gates-Malguzar-Osh-TerekDawan-Kashgar. The progress along this road through the border region between the Kingdom of the CAO and China depended on the extremely unstable security of movement there. Throughout the early era from 4-10 c. the shortest road through Ferghana and the Tarim basin, which is still in the 8th century. AD the Chinese preferred and on which Marco Polo walked, did not like it (probably because of the requisitions of the Tibetans, who owned the region from Altyn to the Tien Shan until the middle of the 9th century AD). In Ferghana, they did not use Alai passages, but walked through the Atbas or Tabas passage, "with a steep ascent, impassable in the snow," to Barskhan, which lies to the south-west of the lake. Issyk-Kul. There ended the Small-An-China road, which led through a stone arc through the Stone City of Taraz and Birki to Barskhan. In the Arab-Persian road builders (7-11 centuries), the distance traveled was estimated at 5-6 farces. Consequently, the daily passage was approximately 25-30 km. In the steppe and desert parts of the region near the Svet Mountains and the Pistachio Mountains, caravanserais were located at a distance of 15 km from each other, and in the mountainous part at a distance of 25-32 km. In antiquity, on the strategically important main trade routes, strong fortified points were created that performed a number of functions: control of transportation, collection of tax transit duties, etc. In the period from the 4th century BC until the end of the 16th century A.D. the emergence of a new trading infrastructure: ? wells Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.com for visiting. ? caravanserais ? watch fortresses ? post stations ? local bazaars ? regional bazaars ? the emergence of new jobs: o robbers (there were entire settlements, which is even reflected in principle in some toponymic names like Karakchitau - Rogue Mountain) o caravan bash (conductors) o caravan guards o merchants o changed o sale of mounts o tax fees o repair work (improvement of roads) Why did this infrastructure appear ?: There was a need to sell your product, exchange it for others, expand your territory, there was a need for new resources, water flows, etc. The consequences of their occurrence? In the area of ??the Silk Road, a dense transport network has arisen, both international and regional, local and local in nature. The infrastructure appeared: ? wells ? irrigation and agriculture (steppe, mountain-valley, foothill) ? settlements ? bazaars ? caravanserais ? fortresses, etc. Some crops began to be cultivated, walnut and mulberry plantations appeared, and the smelting of metals and the extraction of minerals began to develop more intensively. The emergence of new retail outlets, the penetration of different cultures, peoples, technologies, the expansion of geographical knowledge of neighboring areas. The emergence of the need to create guides to trade routes and the areas through which they passed. The revival of the economies of countries through which trade routes passed. The road service area includes: ? Resettlement - economic development or transformation of the economy; ? Resettlement - a territorial organization of the population, a network of settlements (opr. Ter. Resettlement according to the drawing); ? Resettlement - as a technical infrastructure; ? Settlements - production and living centers ? Unified systems of centers - resettlement nodes. 101 Silk Road miscellaneous information The main postal road of the Arab Caliphate (from the 9th to the 14th centuries): Baghdad-Hulawan mountain pass-highlands Hamadan-Rey-Nishapur-Merv-Big-An-Small-An-Iron gates-Malguzar-Osh-TerekDawan-Kashgar. The progress along this road through the border region between the Kingdom of the CAO and China depended on the extremely unstable security of movement there. Throughout the early era from 4-10 c. the shortest road through Ferghana and the Tarim basin, which is still in the 8th century. AD the Chinese preferred and on which Marco Polo walked, did not like it (probably because of the requisitions of the Tibetans, who owned the region from Altyn to the Tien Shan until the middle of the 9th century AD). In Ferghana, they did not use Alai passages, but walked through the Atbas or Tabas passage, "with a steep ascent, impassable in the snow," to Barskhan, which lies to the south-west of the lake. Issyk-Kul. There ended the Small-An-China road, which led through a stone arc through the Stone City of Taraz and Birki to Barskhan. In the Arab-Persian road builders (7-11 centuries), the distance traveled was estimated at 5-6 farces. Consequently, the daily passage was approximately 25-30 km. In the steppe and desert parts of the region near the Svet Mountains and the Pistachio Mountains, caravanserais were located at a distance of 15 km from each other, and in the mountainous part at a distance of 25-32 km. In antiquity, on the strategically important main trade routes, strong fortified points were created that performed a number of functions: control of transportation, collection of tax transit duties, etc. In the period from the 4th century BC until the end of the 16th century A.D. the emergence of a new trading infrastructure: ? wells Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.com for visiting. ? caravanserais ? watch fortresses ? post stations ? local bazaars ? regional bazaars ? the emergence of new jobs: o robbers (there were entire settlements, which is even reflected in principle in some toponymic names like Karakchitau - Rogue Mountain) o caravan bash (conductors) o caravan guards o merchants o changed o sale of mounts o tax fees o repair work (improvement of roads) Why did this infrastructure appear ?: There was a need to sell your product, exchange it for others, expand your territory, there was a need for new resources, water flows, etc. The consequences of their occurrence? In the area of ??the Silk Road, a dense transport network has arisen, both international and regional, local and local in nature. The infrastructure appeared: ? wells ? irrigation and agriculture (steppe, mountain-valley, foothill) ? settlements ? bazaars ? caravanserais ? fortresses, etc. Some crops began to be cultivated, walnut and mulberry plantations appeared, and the smelting of metals and the extraction of minerals began to develop more intensively. The emergence of new retail outlets, the penetration of different cultures, peoples, technologies, the expansion of geographical knowledge of neighboring areas. The emergence of the need to create guides to trade routes and the areas through which they passed. The revival of the economies of countries through which trade routes passed. The road service area includes: ? Resettlement - economic development or transformation of the economy; ? Resettlement - a territorial organization of the population, a network of settlements (opr. Ter. Resettlement according to the drawing); ? Resettlement - as a technical infrastructure; ? Settlements - production and living centers ? Unified systems of centers - resettlement nodes. 102 Oriental Aforzim - In the East, revenge, the sweetest dish, it is like honeycombs with honey. Teeth get stuck in honeycombs, honey glues lips. Not everyone is ready to refuse such a treat, although he understands 80 percent that this can be a trap. But ambition and desire feast on honey in honeycombs higher, caution. - A broad smile in the East is more likely to mean disagreement than consent. - Either the immortal Taoist or the traveler, the first wizard, fairy-tale hero, and the second reckless fool is capable of telling the truth - A sage in the shoes of a fool, a fool in the shoes of a sage, the first is happy, the second bit - When you have lunch with a tiger, even a fool becomes a sage - When a fool dines with a tiger and continues to be a fool, he becomes the main dish at this feast - Every decade, the concept of healthy and proper nutrition is changing. At the same time, people manage to live and be healthy, apparently it is not a matter of nutrition but stresses or their absence Flattery and hypocrisy are good for life, but destructive for the human soul. The truth is one, but there can be many truths and each has its own. there is no person who would be loved, respected and respected or hated by all at once. - In order for everything to work out well, there must first be setbacks and mistakes! Very rarely everything turns out well! - Fearing further is useless - Overcome difficulties and move on - Persistence is helpful - Do not tighten anything - Repetition of the test, in order to learn something new - New ideas require space - Focus on the goal - Maintain a balance between loneliness and addiction - Converting thoughts into finished products Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.com for visiting. - curb impatience - Change yourself before demanding change another - Explore pre-retreat paths - Do not neglect the little things - Fear is like a motor, not like a brake - If you can not hear animals and birds, then the danger is close - Fighting danger is easier than waiting - Hide the true nature of things - Summoning causes fear - People like to earn money for the suffering of others, but then they say we are not to blame, we just obeyed the orders - In order to succeed in life, when society has lost morality, you need to drop your emotions and common sense - It makes no sense to store what you do not use - Gradually, people and traditions change - Nobody has ever seen the future - Sometimes in order to get a more valuable product, you need to buy another for a higher price, so that the seller does not understand that he is selling a very expensive thing, at a ridiculous price - In order to succeed in society, you need to have communication skills, build personal relationships, make the necessary contacts - The truth is told only by idiots and enemies - Surrounding is just one part of the equation - Key phrases for lies "only", "only" - Always perceive information, in parts, each part is connected with its subtle questions or people - Never complain about fate, it can throw more feelings - Do not leave incomprehensible - incomprehensible - Precious pearls can sometimes be found on dusty shelves, and cobblestones in the windows of bookstores - This is idiocy without preliminary reconnaissance, go into the darkness with a cockroach 106 Bargaining and DescriptionSmall-An in the Middle Ages During the Silk Road, in the bazaars for a long time and stubbornly bargained. They didn''t buy the goods immediately. They came to the bazaar and went around it, one, two, three, found out the prices, where the goods were brought from, they brought down prices. Small-An was a kingdom, was an emirate, and now has become an independent strange without an empire for 40 years. Small-An was only once an empire itself for 50 years. Then he was a powerful regional power for 300 years. And so from the beginning of the 10th century BC to the 20th century, in certain periods, the territory of the principality was part of vassal lands - the Persian Empire, the Chinese Empire, the Arab Caliphate, and the Second Northern Empire. The era when Small-An was a colony of different empires lasted from 300 to 800 years. In those days, Small Ahn went to their coins, but they took strangers if it was gold or silver, copper or bronze. The course in the 7-8th century was as follows. 1 arab gold coin = 5 local gold coins 1 gold coin = 40 silver 1 silver = 60 copper 1 copper = 20 bronze Most common copper and silver coins were used by ordinary people, the rich were considered to be those who had tens and hundreds of thousands of gold coins in the basements in chests, both local and Arab. Now, for example, 1 Arab gold coin costs about $ 2,800. 1 gold local coin is valued at $ 1,600. 1 silver coin about 300-400 dollars. 1 copper coin about 150 dollars. 1 bronze coin from 100 to 120 dollars. 1 gold coin of the second empire from 360 to 890 dollars. The weight of ancient coins of 7-8 centuries was about 12 grams of pure gold 999, Arab from 8 to 9 grams. Changed in the market exchanged - foreign gold at the rate of 1 to 3 or 5 to the local. This course was set by the chief minister himself at the beginning of the year, he was responsible for finances, and then the course itself began to play according to the market price. For the exchange, money changers paid a fee every three months, about 5 percent of the turnover. That replenished the treasury. Also, the treasury was replenished by taxes on land, water, property, passages through bridges. Customs duties were removed from merchants at the crossing of each principality, the percentage was small, about 2-3 percent of the cost of goods. Thanks to what merchants tried to get into these principalities, a fee of about 5 percent was charged when the caravan left the principality. Taxes went to about 40 percent of the treasury of the prince, 20 percent to maintain order in settlements, the construction, and maintenance of roads, new wells, repair bridges. 30 percent for the maintenance of troops. Only in some principalities was there a regular army, a prince of 4000-5000 soldiers. Of which 2800 cavalry and 1200 or 2200 infantry. The armament was spades, sabers or swords, daggers, axes, bows, clubs, shields, and armor on horses and warriors. The rich were dressed in chain mail and armor made of steel, the poor in leather armor. The foundations of the economy were traded, which accounted for up to 60 percent of GDP, transit duties of about 10 percent, the production of fabrics, silk, steel weapons, saddles, armor and chain mail, a common wordcraft of about 20 percent and 10 percent of agriculture. All efforts were focused on roads, crossings, wells, construction of caravanserais, there was a lot of money, they went to the development of art, culture, architecture, medicine, science, printing, technology development. The money was due to transit trade, control of goods along the Silk Road, transfer of new technologies and knowledge. At that time, there were many international markets in Small Ahn where you could buy goods from Rome, Greece, Byzantium, Persia, the Arab Caliphate, North, East and South Africa, Oceania and India, Japan, Korea, China, Northern Europe, and Siberia. Since the Central Front of the Great Silk Road passed through the territory of the principality. Those who owned it, incredibly enriched! Tricks of the Merchants -------------------- Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.com for visiting. Buyer. How much is the product? Seller: 1 silver and two copper coins !! Buyer. And if at a real price? Seller. Well then 45 copper coins! Buyer. Brother, you''re lying! I just saw the same product in the third row for 30 coppers! And aren''t you ashamed? Seller. Can it not be? I myself bought it for 30 coppers! Buyer. Yes, you apparently completely lost your conscience! Aren''t you afraid that I will call the head of the market? Seller. No, well, brother, you understand ... well, come on and I''ll sell you 30 coppers each, no need to call anyone ?! Buyer. It''s good that conscience woke up in you! But look, do not cheat with the scales, otherwise, you should be beaten, in the marketplace, with 10 hits on the heels! But the pain of the blows is nothing compared to the shame and the ban on trading again! Seller. Yes, I will not deceive you! Buyer. We will see! Only a fool will believe the word of the merchant! Seller. Don''t offend me, I''m not like that. Buyer. Showtime. The buyer bought overseas berries, came home, and there the top layer is fresh berries, and the second layer is wormy, the third is rotten and in the fourth there are pebbles. Buyer to market. To the governing bazaar. Buyer to market. To the managing bazaar. He looks, it''s not clean. Sends his person to that seller under the guise of a buyer. He deceives him both at the price, and palms of a poor-quality product. Then the manager takes his team of nine big guys, all of them with long white sticks of wood. They are coming. Everyone in the market is silent. The noise stops. The bazaar freezes for a moment. And this moment lasts forever. Then, the seller lies on the market square, he is hit ten times on the heels. Then the judge, he says, is forbidden to sell goods for three months, after he let him sell, he needs to feed his family, he will be noticed again for the same thing, his left hand will be cut off, he will be expelled from the city. Millennia have passed, but the manner of the sellers has not changed. They can weigh 100-200 grams, sell goods at inflated prices from 30 to 300 percent! It can slip and not conditional goods. So the buyer should always be on the alert! 108 Unexpected find During the construction of new complexes of houses, in the area of ??the old city, two tractors suddenly failed. They cleared old dignitaries. This area was built up in the 14th century. But the city grew, expanded. The city authorities decided to demolish the old quarters. The old quarters represented adobe houses of one and two floors. Clay bricks with straw, which were dried in the sun. Dried poplar trunks acted as a carcass for the house. In fact, the wooden frame was filled with bricks and then, clay with chopped straw and water, the structure was covered on top. It turned out like a facade plaster. When everything dried up, the facade clay plaster was whitewashed on top. Over time, the plaster crumbled, but it was updated again. Entire blocks of such houses. With narrow streets. Outside the houses seemed ugly and gray, almost no windows went out onto the street. Gray or white walls. Narrow roads where two riders or one car could barely part. There is no greenery, no water, only dust. But inside such houses there was a real garden, water flowed in a canal that passed through all the courtyards. In these channels, widths of 30-40 cm, fish and frogs swam. Amazing flowers and shrubs bloomed. Fruit trees, sometimes located fountains and small ponds. Life is full of colors and happiness. And from the outside, the house was a fortress. Such was the way during the feudal period. Then this system fell, capitalism came for 50 years, which was again swept away by a new way of life. After decades of civil war, attempts at intervention, the second empire settled well in Small-An. The Principality barely received independence, for 5 years, again for a long 90 years it became a colony. Nevertheless, the inhabitants of the old city were in no hurry to leave their fortresses - palaces. So decades passed. But once, when the whole city was already covered with wide highways, shady gardens for all the townspeople and water canals. New high-rise buildings, a small corner of one of the parts of the old city, impeded the development of the city. Part of the houses was demolished. On what the city hall and the leadership of Small-An, anonymous complaints poured. Nevertheless, the city was being built. For the place of demolished houses, residents were provided with free houses in new buildings. But this is another story of the socialist period. Yes, to the surprise of everyone, the recently feudal principality of Small-An has become a socialist colony of the second empire. The houses were demolished, the tractors failed. Builders crowded around the pit. She went deep down. Construction was suspended. They called specialists. They found two tractors at the bottom of a large opening. They sent them to the hospital. Severe fractures. One died on the way to the hospital. The second remained disabled for life. Meanwhile, the builders gasped, the failure was actually a tunnel. With arches lined with bricks, with old bricks. 60 cm wide, 40 cm long and 8 cm long. The bravest of the workers and builders decided to walk along the two ends of the collapsed tunnel. Some went north, others south. The most interesting thing was that the torches did not go out, the tunnel had air ducts that functioned in the early 50-60s of the 20th century! Those who went north went out in a basement, kicked out the old door and found themselves inside the courtyard of an ancient madrasah, which was built in the 16th century and then reconstructed in 17. The distance from the place of failure to the exit point was 7 km! As they walked through the tunnel, they saw several more branches. A couple of old cabinets of the 18th century, collapsed Arba are such old carts with two wheels. Some peaks, shields, the remains of swords. Several workers responded, but no one returned. Another group was sent for them, but she did not return. Then they called the firemen, they went with gas masks and returned five lifeless bodies. People died from a lack of oxygen. Those tunnels were already with non-working ducts. Three workers were saved. Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.com for visiting. Those who went south went to the bottom of the old well, climbed the top by a stone staircase. We came to the surface near the old bazaar, the distance from the collapse was 12 km. The second branch led another group to the old cemetery and mosque built in the 15th century. The distance from the failure was 18 km. The tunnel width was about 8 meters, height 4 meters. Several branches were visible along the tunnel. Workers walked through some of them, where they found old books, icons, boxes. A few coins - gold and silver. After the moves were examined by archaeologists. Historical artifacts of 15-19 and early 20th centuries were found. Several scores of weapons from sabers, bows, shields, and spades, to revolvers, coils with bayonets of 1899 and 1910, several machine guns "Maxim" with boxes of rotten moisture cartridges. Presumably about these tunnels, the police units of the first empire, which were subsequently used during the civil war, could know. As well as English intelligence officers from 1919 to 1930. Since in the tunnel they found several books in English as well as the official uniform of the captain and major of the British army during the First World War. Several treasures with coins of the 15th and 20th centuries. The total coins were about 70. Silver and gold. The total price at that time was in terms of dollars, about 90 thousand. As usual in socialism, the treasure was seized in state revenue. The tunnels were blocked at first, then the cordon was removed in the morning and heavy trucks arrived at night, overnight, all the entrances were bricked and the openings were cemented. So these tunnels disappeared, remained buried underground. Periodically, with continued construction, the equipment continued to fail here and there underground, but immediately, the rapid response team of the Ministry of State Security came. All passages were cemented. And then they refused to continue construction at all. Time has passed, the second empire has collapsed or it has collapsed, but that''s another story. Small-An, it seems, has become independent, although in reality it has more likely become a neo-colony. Some remembered these tunnels, offering to find, restore and show them to foreign tourists for money. But support from the city government was not found. At the same time, some desperate heads began to look for old maps of the late 19th century and look for passages to those tunnels. In old parks, sometimes they managed to find wells covered with earth, at the bottom of which sometimes passages were seen somewhere deeper. Treasure hunters, armed with oxygen tanks, powerful flashlights, and pickaxes, sought wealth. 109 The sad fate of preserving the cultural heritage of Small-An Sometimes in city chronicles flickered messages about the collapse of underground tunnels, dead treasure hunters. Sometimes these were police reports on the capture of the black market, black diggers who sold gold coins - the first empire of 5 and 10 tugriks. Moreover, the price for 1 coin was from 260 to 470 dollars. As in the old days, the precious metals market has always been under the vigilant control of the security department. Sometimes there was information about treasures worth $ 1-2 million, which contained gold jewelry, precious stones, old books that they wanted to sell abroad, but they were found by the customs service. One had the feeling that the source of the treasures was from underground, from those very tunnels. After they conducted an operation to identify old passages underground and they were all concreted again. About five years of silence reigned. But the treasure hunters did not stop, they searched the archives and scientific foundations, the old road workers and guides of antiquity, which said that the entrances to the tunnels were in the old ravines, where the city channels flowed, in the old buildings of the extension of the late 19th century. Again began to replete with reports and chronicles, with strange reports about the finds of treasures and their seizure. Missing antiques from the 15th and 19th centuries began to appear on flea roaring. They raided again, searches and entrances to the tunnels were sealed. Treasure hunters began to check old houses in the old city, and there they found the entrances to the tunnels. But for 40-50 years, almost all air ducts either collapsed or were closed up with new roads, houses. So there are more accidents. The raids continued. For the time being, the tunnels remained forgotten. City treasure hunters focused on searching for old hatches until the beginning of the 20th century and rails that propped up the city lampposts. Antiquaries paid good money for them. For 500 -1900 dollars. In the 90s in the small towns of Small-An, many of the rails and manhole covers disappeared from them. In the ravines of old canals and rivers, old fragments of 18th-century ceramics, old copper and silver coins are still found. On the hills in the old city, there are still no, no, they find old treasures of the 17-19th century gold and silver. But no one brings the finds to museums. On the other hand, it is understandable that there were reports in the media that in the museums of Small-An there were practically no valuable and original artifacts left. Black treasure hunters in the form of museum employees forged exhibits, and the originals were sold in Europe and the USA. There is practically nothing left in museums. Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.com for visiting. Therefore, ordinary treasure hunters immediately sell their finds in antique stores. Such was the sad fate of the cultural heritage of Small-An. END